Transformers: Age of the Primes toyline discussion || update: Gen Selects Trypticon Reissue

[PrimalxConvoy]

Huh. I figured the Convoys would be descended from Convoy, since Convoy is a Convoy in the Age of the Convoys.



Doctor!

I thought they were referring to this YouTuber's obsession with Doctor Wu Transformers (see timestamped video below).

Doctor Wu Wu Wu!

(For some reason, timestamped videos don't seem to play correctly at this site these days, so I've linked to the video directly in the hope that it will play at the 1 minute mark).

 

[Sabrblade]

Somebody whose posts he can see please inform him about Armada Red Alert's original toy sound effects gimmick that has become a meme in the years since then.

 

[Sabrblade]

Back on December 5, the BotCon Facebook made the following post in light of the reveal of AOTP Solus Prime's packaging art:

The next big thing coming to store shelves by way of Hasbro are none other than the Thirteen Primes! Within the Transformers mythos, these individuals have been kept largely to obscure fiction and brief appearances, maintaining a veil of mystery tight around them. This past summer, however, the Thirteen were revealed to the world. In a big way! Alpha Trion, Prima, Megatronus, Micronus, Solus Prime, and the whole crew showed up in the Transformers One movie in theaters (and now streaming), making their grand introduction to Transformers enthusiasts outside the hardest of hardcore fans.

We mentioned "obscure fiction", well, we're proud to say some of those pages were from BotCon and the Transformers Collectors Club! Getting to write (and release the first toy!) Nexus Prime and use him as the entry point to the realm of the Thirteen, BotCon cracked the door slightly to let fans see inside what and who these Primes were. The door was then propped open further by Transformers greats like Aaron Archer and Simon Furman, who named and fleshed out the backstories for all Thirteen members of the first Primes to step foot on Cybertron.

Packaging artwork for Solus Prime and Prima were just today posted online in relation to the upcoming Cybertron Con convention in China. Fans are clambering to see how these Primes will be translated into plastic... the majority for the first time as a full transforming action figure.

We wanted to briefly take a look back to the time that BotCon and the TCC had considered creating their own Solus Prime action figure, and the path taken from initial concept to the final proposal made to Hasbro. Nothing came from this endeavor, but it's fun to see the evolution from limited exclusive concept to fully dedicated retail product.

What are your thoughts on what has been revealed for the 2025 Age Of The Prime's toyline? What other Primes are you looking forward to see the most?

Of the four different concepts shown above, the first one has been seen previously, first shown off at a panel held back at RoboCon 2018, while the latter three have never been shown until this Facebook post.

These Solus Prime concepts were from a rejected proposal for a 2017 Figure Subscription Service featuring all Primes, which would have also featured Alchemist Prime/Maccadam from Reveal the Shield Perceptor, Liege Maximo from Generations Skullgrin (the Straxus/Darkmount retool), the original unreleased blue deco of Generation 2 Combat Hero Optimus Prime (the KB Toys exclusive RID 2001 Destructicon Scourge use of the mold back in 2003 would have potentially allowed for use of that mold), SG Rodimus Prime from Generations Thrilling 30 Springer, and I can't remember what the others from this specific set might have been (the 2017 FSS had a lot of proposals before the final one we got). Hasbro rejected this proposal because they already had the Power of the Primes line in the works at the time.

 

[lastmaximal]

I actually like the colors on that Arcee mold in the first one. Maybe make the legs more purple as well.

 

[Steadfast]

Can I just say, that IMO "Maccadam is a Prime/Ancient/quasi-deity" only really *works* as a rumor-slash-gag, not as an established fact?

The hyper-literalness sometimes gets out of control. It gets out of control and we're lucky to survive it.

(Along the sane lines, wasn't Logos Prime kinda-supposed to be an impostor, or Soundwave undercover or something? IMO that's interesting, but of course *eventually* you have to resolve it, otherwise it's The Twelve and Maybe This Guy, Or Maybe Not? Don't Worry About It, Even Though We Built It Up and Everything.)

 

[Haywire]

The hyper-literalness sometimes gets out of control. It gets out of control and we're lucky to survive it.

kudos on the Red October reference!

 

[Sabrblade]

(Along the sane lines, wasn't Logos Prime kinda-supposed to be an impostor, or Soundwave undercover or something?

No. He was always his own dude, using the alias of "Soundblaster".

IMO that's interesting, but of course *eventually* you have to resolve it, otherwise it's The Twelve and Maybe This Guy, Or Maybe Not? Don't Worry About It, Even Though We Built It Up and Everything.)

Logos Prime was never supposed to be one of the Thirteen. We fans thought he was because of a misunderstanding that Hirofumi Ichikawa wouldn't clear up until 2023 when he was asked directly about it on Twitter.

 

[unluckiness]

Can I just say, that IMO "Maccadam is a Prime/Ancient/quasi-deity" only really *works* as a rumor-slash-gag, not as an established fact?

The hyper-literalness sometimes gets out of control. It gets out of control and we're lucky to survive it.

(Along the sane lines, wasn't Logos Prime kinda-supposed to be an impostor, or Soundwave undercover or something? IMO that's interesting, but of course *eventually* you have to resolve it, otherwise it's The Twelve and Maybe This Guy, Or Maybe Not? Don't Worry About It, Even Though We Built It Up and Everything.)

This is the fandom that named a ship because of a 5 second gag of an idiot being dramatic.

 

[Sabrblade]

This is the fandom that named a ship because of a 5 second gag of an idiot being dramatic.

It would have been funnier if the fandom had leaned into the name that Larry DiTillio had once used to refer to it...

"The... other ship."

Spoiler

We could have had "The Axalon and the Othership", instead.

 

[Cybersnark]

See, I like Logos Prime as one of the Thirteen because he's at least interesting, with his "mysterious and unknowable motives" (compared to guys like Megatronus or Liege Maximo, whose motives seem all too knowable).

Logos Prime, with his visor and mask-like face, feels most like a remote and arcane god that would be worshipped by competing sects and cults (Autobot and Decepticon alike), all of them claiming some knowledge of his plans while attacking the others as heretics.

 

[Undead Scottsman]

This is the fandom that named a ship because of a 5 second gag of an idiot being dramatic.

In lieu of being given an actual name, Darksyde is as good as any for the Predacon ship.

I wouldn't even put it in the same classification of turning the Macaddam rumor into a hard and fast fact.

 

[Steadfast]

No. He was always his own dude, using the alias of "Soundblaster".


Logos Prime was never supposed to be one of the Thirteen. We fans thought he was because of a misunderstanding that Hirofumi Ichikawa wouldn't clear up until 2023 when he was asked directly about it on Twitter.

Ok, I was close-ish.

(Someone going undercover and pretending to be one of The Thirteen is such a fun idea, though. I mean, he wouldn't fool the actual Other Twelve, but how do you check an ancient demigod's ID?)

 

[Sabrblade]

See, I like Logos Prime as one of the Thirteen because he's at least interesting, with his "mysterious and unknowable motives" (compared to guys like Megatronus or Liege Maximo, whose motives seem all too knowable).

Yeah, well, the mystery behind his motives got revealed in the fourth chapter of Beast Wars Reborn. It just took years and years for it to get translated into English.

The reason behind his snatching Optimus Primal and Megatron from beyond the grave, bringing them to the distant past of the Galaxy Force universe, and testing them to see if either was worthy of wielding the power of the relic that Vector Prime would later use as his Cyber Key... was because Logos Prime had encountered something so horrifying that it drove him completely insane. That something was the Beast of Time, later revealed in Alternity to be the Hytherion.

In other words, Ichikawa had used Beast Wars Reborn to foreshadow his then-upcoming Alternity storyline. We English-speakers didn't know this because we didn't get the final BWR chapter in English until 2020, a whole decade after Alternity (and the English fan translations of its stories) had already come and gone.

 

[Agent X]

(Someone going undercover and pretending to be one of The Thirteen is such a fun idea, though. I mean, he wouldn't fool the actual Other Twelve, but how do you check an ancient demigod's ID?)

Shockwave says "Hi".

 

[PrimalxConvoy]

 

[Undead Scottsman]

Man, given the size and bulkiness of the figure, and all of the accessories, I'm surprised they crammed that into leader-class.

 

[TriBlurr]

TRANSFORMERS on Instagram: "End your year with an exciting look forward, here’s your first peak at the updated Age of the Primes G1 Trypticon, pre-ordering in early 2025. Stay tuned for more info soon!"

4,992 likes, 111 comments - transformersofficial on December 28, 2024: "End your year with an exciting look forward, here’s your first peak at the updated Age of the Primes G1 Trypticon, pre-ordering in early 2025. Stay tuned for more info soon!".

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Age of the Primes - Generations Selects - Trypticon (Animation Deco)

 

[Shadewing]

TRANSFORMERS on Instagram: "End your year with an exciting look forward, here’s your first peak at the updated Age of the Primes G1 Trypticon, pre-ordering in early 2025. Stay tuned for more info soon!"

4,992 likes, 111 comments - transformersofficial on December 28, 2024: "End your year with an exciting look forward, here’s your first peak at the updated Age of the Primes G1 Trypticon, pre-ordering in early 2025. Stay tuned for more info soon!".

www.instagram.com

Age of the Primes - Generations Selects - Trypticon (Animation Deco)

hug, I want that that. I got the original release, but the black looks SO MUCH nicer imo... Hopefully they've fixed the spring issue.

 

[Sabrblade]

I think I need to get that. I mentioned before in another thread that my TR Trypticon broke and I still haven't found a way to repair him (his arm disconnected from the torso), so this sticker-less, darker version might be right up my alley.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

Looks great, but Titans are way too expensive to double-dip for me.