By SilverOptimus from
TFW2005:
Every year when SDCC is just around the corner, there is another main Event which Hasbro and Paramount participates. That event is the Licensing Expo.
Unlike the other events, Licensing Expo is kept away from the public and is mostly for the Investors. But we've had plenty of leaks from the expo grounds before. In the past there were leaked Transformers Movie Teaser Posters, toys and many other things. Hasbro is there this year with Transformers content too.
"Licensing Expo is a tent pole event in our annual entertainment and licensing plan that provides a terrific platform to*showcase Hasbro’s storied portfolio of lifestyle brands including Transformers, My Little Pony, Nerf, Jem and more, to key players in the industry," says Simon Waters, general manager, senior vice president, entertainment and licensing, Hasbro. "We’re delighted this year to spotlight the new and innovative programs, relationships and products that bring our properties to life, from immersive storytelling and engaging content to merchandise at a wide range of retail channels, from drug and value all the way through to high-end fashion."New business partnerships for this year:
Freeze for Transformers T-Shirts
Sakar for Transformers: Robots In Disguise electronic accessories including Headphones and Digital Cameras
Planet Sox for Transformers Footwear
In addition to that, Hasbro shot us a Press Release with new Transformers partnerships with China and Germany.
"In China, TRANSFORMERS fans can fuel up with branded gas cards distributed through CNPC (China National Petroleum Corporation), which operates more than 20,000 gas service stations throughout the country.
Acclaimed German designer Philipp Plein debuts eye-catching, high fashion TRANSFORMERS branded shirts for men at Philipp Plein luxury stores worldwide, bringing the iconic AUTOBOTS characters into a fresh new fashion dimension."<
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By SilverOptimus from
TFW2005:
Forbes Magazine had the privilege to visit Paramount's Transformers; story room today and is bringing the news that at least 12 movies are penned for the Transformers Cinematic Universe.
Monday, June 8th is the first official day of operations at Paramount’s Transformers’ story room, where almost a dozen writers will steep their collective heads in franchise lore before churning out the next decades worth of stories for movies and television."We've got a work space that is beautifully production designed to be immersive with a strong sense of the franchise history…We will look at the toys, the TV shows, the merchandise, everything that has been generated by Hasbro, from popular to forgotten iterations, and establish a mythological time line. It has been designed with a lot of visual help, toys, robots, sketches and writers and artists. After that super saturation, the writers will figure out not one, but numerous films that will extend the universe.""All of the writers will come away with this exercise with a movie treatment to write, including Goldsman. Those writers will then have first crack at writing the scripts for treatment that meet the approval of Paramount, Bay, [Steven] Spielberg, Hasbro and the producers."If Goldsman is also making a treatment to add to the pile made by his 11 writers, that’s a total of 12 new Transformers movies that will be pitched to Paramount in the first round, and all of them will be capable of interconnecting with each other. There’s no telling how many of the pitches will be green-lit or how many stories will be kicked down to Transformers TV or video games, but the amount of output expected is impressive.You can read the full report at
Forbes.
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By SilverOptimus from
TFW2005:
Forbes Magazine had the privilege to visit Paramount's Transformers; story room today and is bringing the news that at least 12 movies are planned for the Transformers Cinematic Universe.
Monday, June 8th is the first official day of operations at Paramount’s Transformers’ story room, where almost a dozen writers will steep their collective heads in franchise lore before churning out the next decades worth of stories for movies and television."We've got a work space that is beautifully production designed to be immersive with a strong sense of the franchise history…We will look at the toys, the TV shows, the merchandise, everything that has been generated by Hasbro, from popular to forgotten iterations, and establish a mythological time line. It has been designed with a lot of visual help, toys, robots, sketches and writers and artists. After that super saturation, the writers will figure out not one, but numerous films that will extend the universe.""All of the writers will come away with this exercise with a movie treatment to write, including Goldsman. Those writers will then have first crack at writing the scripts for treatment that meet the approval of Paramount, Bay, [Steven] Spielberg, Hasbro and the producers."If Goldsman is also making a treatment to add to the pile made by his 11 writers, that’s a total of 12 new Transformers movies that will be pitched to Paramount in the first round, and all of them will be capable of interconnecting with each other. There’s no telling how many of the pitches will be green-lit or how many stories will be kicked down to Transformers TV or video games, but the amount of output expected is impressive.You can read the full report at
Forbes.
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By C310 Ginrai from
TFW2005:
Maketoys
announced on twitter the next figure in their RE:Master Series will be MTRM-04 Iron Will, Masterpiece inspired G1 Headmaster Hardhead. The figure stands at about 23 cm (just over 9 inches) tall, and it appears to feature a fully transformable headmaster, as well as rubber treads and rotating turret in vehicle mode.
Along with their
early preorder alert of their MTRM-01 Cupola figure, Maketoys appear to be going full force with their RE:Master Series. What are your thoughts of this figure? Check out the images and let us know on the boards!
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By Sol Fury from
TFW2005:
France's Canal J is going to be airing episodes 25 and 26 of Robots in Disguise on July 1st. What we are looking at is a payoff to several running plots of the season, as Bumblebee and the team have to pull together against their toughest opponent yet! Spoilers aplenty to be had here, so highlight the text below to view at your peril!
#25: Le retour d'Optimus (The Return of Optimus)
The threat to the Earth becomes clearer and the Primes decide to send Optimus, although his training is not yet complete. Meanwhile Steeljaw's gang allows a particularly formidable opponent to arrive on Earth: Megatronus.
#26: La vengeance de Megatronus (The Revenge of Megatronus)
Megatronus is preparing to reduce the Earth dust, but Bumblebee strategic skills, courage and loyalty of his team, assisted by a particularly powerful Optimus, will get the better of him!
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By C310 Ginrai from
TFW2005:
Maketoys
announced on twitter the next figure in their RE:Master Series will be MTRM-04 Iron Will, Masterpiece inspired G1 Head Master Hardhead. The figure appears to feature a fully transformable head master, and also rubber treads and rotating turret in vehicle mode.
Along with their
early preorder alert of their Cupola figure, Maketoys appear to be going full force with their RE:Master Series. What are your thoughts of this figure? Check out the images and let us know on the boards!
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By Sol Fury from
TFW2005:
Via
Jedi Temple Archives, we have learned that among other items, the Hasbro version of Masterpiece Bluestreak is set to debut at the San Diego Comic Con 2015, this July. He'll be sold at the Toys R Us booth at the show, which is a part of the Entertainment Earth booth.
However, fans may wish to take note that other than the con, the only way this piece appears to be available, according to Jedi Temple's information, is as an online exclusive - they are saying that Masterpiece Bluestreak will not be available in store.
This would be a turn-up for the books, given all previous Masterpieces have been mass-retail releases at brick-and-mortar. Time will tell if this truly comes to pass - and if it may be a harbinger of more Transformers exclusives being offered as online exclusives, or the Masterpiece line moving to online exclusivity VS chain retail exclusivity in the US.
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By Sol Fury from
TFW2005:
For our next Transformers toy gallery, we bring you a look at the Duly Appointed Enforcer of the Tyrest Accord,
Ultra Magnus! The new Generations Ultra Magnus is based on the IDW design of the character featured in More than Meets the Eye, which lends him a nicely stylized look, as well as a new little guy within the armor - white Optimus Prime is out, and Minimus Ambus is in!
While no more perfect than any other mass retail, non-Masterpiece Transformer, this Leader class offering gives us a whole lot of nice and cool things. The foremost is Minimus Ambus, a Mini-Con sized partner figure who clips into the chest of Ultra Magnus in robot mode to "wear" the Magnus armor. The weapons - a pair of missile pods and a pair of rifles - can be used individually to arm Magnus, or combined into a large hammer in homage of Transformers Animated Ultra Magnus' signature hammer. To top it all off, Ultra Magnus sports a good range of articulation and nice big feet to help him hold some solid action poses, though ankle tilts would certainly have been welcomed.
Combiner Wars Ultra Magnus is one of the best offerings to come from Hasbro in a line crammed full of great releases. As well as finally giving us a true Classics Ultra Magnus, we get one with the sharp look of the current IDW comic design, which looks amazing as a display piece and is every bit as fun to pick up and play with. We have over 200 photos of this one to share with you - check them out at the link below:
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By Sentinel from
TFW2005:
Well we have a new entry into the ever expanding world of 3rd-Party masterpiece-styled figures. A few days ago, brand new third-party company Transform and Rollout released some renders of their first project TR-01 Masterpiece-styled Jazz on their
Facebook page and have now followed up with the first images of their prototype in bot mode.
This figure appears to scale with the current run of Masterpiece figures and features everything you would expect from Jazz, including his blaster, grappling hook and speakers.
There isn't a release date or price point announced for this figure, but feel free to jump over to the boards to let us know what you think of it.
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By Sentinel from
TFW2005:
Well we have a new entry into the ever expanding world of 3rd-Party masterpiece-styled figures. A few days ago, brand new third-party company Transform and Rollout released some renders of their first project TR-01 Masterpiece-styled Jazz on their
Facebook page and have now followed up with the first images of their prototype in bot mode.
This figure appears to scale with the current run of Masterpiece figures and features everything you would expect from Jazz, including his blaster, grappling hook and speakers.
There isn't a release date set or price point set for this figure, but feel free to jump over to the boards to let us know what you think of it.
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By SilverOptimus from
TFW2005:
Bumblebee will be making a Cameo appearance on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2.
Thanks to onlookers on the set of TMNT 2, we have several footage of what appears to be the Turtle brothers attending a Halloween Parade (as themselves probably) being greeted by another participant of the parade, dressed as Bumblebee. The person then proceeds to high five Michelangelo.
You can check out
ComicBook.com for the full report and videos.
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By SilverOptimus from
TFW2005:
Earlier this week TFW2005 sister site HISSTANK
reviewed G. I. Joe: Strike Mobile Game by Backflip Studios. Now, the studio has hinted that they are in development of mobile games based on other famous Hasbro properties including Transformers.
Back in 2013 Hasbro acquired this famous Mobile Game Development Company and Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner announced to the Hasbro Investors that the game studio is now in development of several games based on Hasbro IPs, during past financial calls. Pretty soon games based on Nerf and G. I. Joe franchises arrived to mobile devices.
Following the Soft Launch of G. I. Joe: Strike on the Android Platform last month and the expansion of their famous game; DragonVale, Backflip Studios spoke to the media last week and stated:
"We plan on supporting DragonVale for a long time. Thanks to our arrangement with Hasbro, we plan on working with smaller but proven studios to bring their IP to life without stretching our core resources that focus on the DragonVale brand. Expect to see many of Hasbro's favorite brands in mobile very soon!"February last year, the
company first hinted that they are in development of several games for Hasbro. Back then, Transformers, G. I. Joe and Monopoly were announced as planned games. One of the three games is already out with the other two possibly down the pipeline.
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