Transformers WFC Kingdom Poster shows an Abundance of Beast Wars Characters

Great for beast wars inclusions... and sounds like they thought of a narrative to make it work...

Hope that’s not a new prime...

Well well well...if they can actually do the Beast Wars Characters some justice, then I might just forgive John Warden for his GEEWUN assery.

Congrats to Beast Wars fans! I know it has been a long wait.

So I'm curious about the fact that rodimus prime was supposed to be up front and centre yet there's prime Still things are looking good but let's bring on the toys!

I love how the art has a literal Galvatron\Megatron. no bw megs or roddy though...

Who's the bot in between Blackarachnia and Dinobot?

Beast Wars Megatron is also on the poster above Blackarachnia’s head. He’s in Tyrannosaurus rex mode with his head turned to the right.

Scorponok!

Autobot N wrote:Who's the bot in between Blackarachnia and Dinobot?

Scorponok!

Tempering my expectations until I see some actual figures, but, I must say, seeing this, it does feel good

Well, my wallet's going to be hurting. Nostalgia for the win!


Also, just mentioned it to the hubby, and I think I've just got the begrudging permission to break my annual "please don't buy anymore" amount.

BEASTBROS RISE UP

OUR TIME IS NOW

Couldn't tell what this was at first, but looking at it from a distance, it's definitely Megatron in T-Rex mode.

Autobot N wrote:

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Couldn't tell what this was at first, but looking at it from a distance, it's definitely Megatron in T-Rex mode.

hard to be sure, zooming in ot it, it looks like cyclonus in jet mode, but looking at it zoomed out, it does look like a purple t-rex. Either would make me a happy pappy.

william-james88 wrote:The beasts are taking over! An image of the poster from the third part of the Transformers War for Cybertron trilogy has been found on Facebook. It further confirms the name Kingdom along with showing us loads of Beast Wars characters next to G1 mainstays Optimus Prime, Megatron and Bumblebee. All the Beast Wars characters are in their season 1 form adn include:

Optimus Primal
Cheetor
Airazor
Tigatron
Dinobot
Blackarachnia
Scorponok
Rattrap

A few people brought this up and sent us the info such as Stargrave, Sabrblade and Verno. Let us know what you think!

The one on the left side of the poster next to the golden disc looks like Rhinox.
And "Airazor's" beast head looks pretty bright to me even kind of white. So this character looks more like BW Silverbolt to me but Airazor of course makes way more sense. But maybe they changed her beast form.

Lunatic Prime wrote:The one on the left side of the poster next to the golden disc looks like Rhinox.
And "Airazor's" beast head looks pretty bright to me even kind of white. So this character looks more like BW Silverbolt to me but Airazor of course makes way more sense. But maybe they changed her beast form.

I didnt realize just how down I was for a new magnaboss or tripredicus until you said this.

I'm down for a better Black Arachnia than the Legends version. The one I bought broke at the elbow. And the replacement figure I bought had a crack in the exact same place. Jury's out on everyone else, really.

This is very exciting!
Can't wait to see how they pull off these designs with today's technology.

Day 198 of waiting for Transformers Armada Masterpiece news.

TulioDude wrote:This is very exciting!
Can't wait to see how they pull off these designs with today's technology.

As the MP series covers the animation designs of the shows now I hope they make them as realistic as possible in the Generations line in contrary.

Day 198 of waiting for Transformers Armada Masterpiece news.

We already saw a greymodel of an Armada Optimus Prime Standing right next to the greymodel of the Selects Star Convoy when they revealed the latter at Wonderfestival ?2018?

Tigatron looks to be a sabertooth now. Cool.

Dr. Caelus wrote:Tigatron looks to be a sabertooth now. Cool.

That would be awesome and make me way more interested in his toy.
Maybe they do some alterations in this line and that's why Airazor is a bald eagle now.

Lunatic Prime wrote:As the MP series covers the animation designs of the shows now I hope they make them as realistic as possible in the Generations line in contrary.

I hope they don't need fake kibble.

We already saw a greymodel of an Armada Optimus Prime Standing right next to the greymodel of the Selects Star Convoy when they revealed the latter at Wonderfestival ?2018?

But we haven't heard from him since,yes?And it was a Leader Class toy.

I wonder what they’re going to call Scorponok because I doubt they’ll reuse the name so quickly after it was used on a high profile titan class figure.

TulioDude wrote:

Lunatic Prime wrote:We already saw a greymodel of an Armada Optimus Prime Standing right next to the greymodel of the Selects Star Convoy when they revealed the latter at Wonderfestival ?2018?

But we haven't heard from him since,yes?And it was a Leader Class toy.

Nope, we haven't. But it looked more like a Voyager next to Star Convoy. Might be a Leader with Armada Prime's trailer.

The Beast Wars are back. Hopefully (futile, i know) all the G1 crying can stop.

ebo716 wrote:I wonder what they’re going to call Scorponok because I doubt they’ll reuse the name so quickly after it was used on a high profile titan class figure.

"Predacon Scorponok"

Immortal Starscream wrote:I love how the art has a literal Galvatron\Megatron. no bw megs or roddy though...

Indeed. Weird that no one else has noted Galvatron .
Also I can't place who/what that is between Tigatron and Bumblebee?

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:

Immortal Starscream wrote:I love how the art has a literal Galvatron\Megatron. no bw megs or roddy though...

Indeed. Weird that no one else has noted Galvatron .
Also I can't place who/what that is between Tigatron and Bumblebee?

Looks pink and white. maybe arcee or elita-1. Trying to clean it up in ye olde photoshop but cant get a good image.

I thought it might be one of them. Potentially a Blackarachnia redeco (a nice nod to the original Arcee release, perhaps?).






I've tried to look up bigger and clearer versions of the image online also. No such luck.

Immortal Starscream wrote:

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:

Immortal Starscream wrote:I love how the art has a literal Galvatron\Megatron. no bw megs or roddy though...

Indeed. Weird that no one else has noted Galvatron .
Also I can't place who/what that is between Tigatron and Bumblebee?

Looks pink and white. maybe arcee or elita-1. Trying to clean it up in ye olde photoshop but cant get a good image.

Could be Elita-1 as there were rumors that she would be apart of the Walmart exclusive Netflix line. Based on what they're currently using for that line, namely repaints of Siege figures, I don't see them trying to pass off the POTP Elita for that nor make one mold for one exclusive line and not reuse it.

Nice to see the BW Characters, even though I would have preferred they get their own trilogy after this one was done....I'll definitely be getting Tigatron as he was my favorite character in the series. I'm sad though it looks like we wont be getting Starsaber or Deszaurus. I guess it's up to , to see if we will ever get Selects of those characters. Speaking of which, I wonder how this is going to go over in Japan where BW was not nearly as popular.

Beast Wars is the final chapter of G1, so in a way it makes sense. Although, thematically, Chapter Two should have been Head/Targetmasters into Starsaber and the others. As the three specific points in time.

o.supreme wrote:Nice to see the BW Characters, even though I would have preferred they get their own trilogy after this one was done....I'll definitely be getting Tigatron as he was my favorite character in the series. I'm sad though it looks like we wont be getting Starsaber or Deszaurus. I guess it's up to , to see if we will ever get Selects of those characters. Speaking of which, I wonder how this is going to go over in Japan where BW was not nearly as popular.

Beast wars was VERY popular in japan, with its own spin off series for all the toys that didn't appear in the cgi show, which is why BW megatron and Optimus re-appeared in later lines like robot masters.

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Beast Wars is the final chapter of G1, so in a way it makes sense. Although, thematically, Chapter Two should have been Head/Targetmasters into Starsaber and the others. As the three specific points in time.

Problem being is we very recently gotten updated versions of the characters from these lines (and still getting) I imagine that is why the skip to beast wars. though we are still missing some seriously key players there. gimme my starsaber and deathsaurus dagnabbit

Yes, there is a distinction to be made. Season One Beast Wars was popular in Japan. Metals/Transmetals, was not.

I'm quite familiar with BWII and BW Neo, I was at Botcon 1998 when the first 4 episodes of BWII were screened for audiences, and have since owned them on VHS, DVD imports from japan etc...

I enjoyed those shows, but in Japan they took a the original BW that was dramatically written and made it more for smaller children through their dub. It may have grown in appeal somewhat in the last 20 years, but I know for a fact it was not popular when it was airing.

... Honestly I'm speechless. I literally woke up and thought about which figures on my current Beast Wars shelf I thought could do with updates before remembering that it was just a leak, then I check here and see it's either someone going all out on a joke, or it's actually happening. And given this poster (which I kinda want to actually get as a real poster because of how good it looks ) leaked the day before Fans First Friday, I think we might get the reveal of the line tomorrow! Probably not, but a guy can dream, right?

Calling it now, the new Titan will be a Metroplex redo.

Immortal Starscream wrote:

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Beast Wars is the final chapter of G1, so in a way it makes sense. Although, thematically, Chapter Two should have been Head/Targetmasters into Starsaber and the others. As the three specific points in time.

Problem being is we very recently gotten updated versions of the characters from these lines (and still getting) I imagine that is why the skip to beast wars. though we are still missing some seriously key players there. gimme my starsaber and deathsaurus dagnabbit

Exactly. This comes back to the point I made earlier, about cherry-picking characters. When a line such as this one is more appropriate to give context to that theme, it is obstructed from doing so. Fort Max was the only really worthwhile figure to come from Titans Return in the long term. Whereas Head/Targetmasters, represent a defining chapter of the G1 mythos. As such they would have been ideal for this trilogy.

Sigh...

Maybe someday we might even get a new Blue Bacchus to go with Black Shadow

Autobot N wrote:Calling it now, the new Titan will be a Metroplex redo.

I did recall the quote saying that both the Commander Class and Titan Class would not be based on BW. I'm honestly glad we are still getting one for next year, I thought we might not. There are still a few big guys out there before we go back to Metroplex, but it wouldn't surprise me.

As for the Commander Class...this could be our one hope. It would be cool to get Victory Saber (Basically a leader Star Saber (based on unused designs from the Throne of the Primes fanvote), and Leader Victory Leo together). Of course, some might be thinking that selling 2 leaders for only $80 isn't possible, and that may be true, but when you look at TR/Legends God Ginrai (Made of Super Ginrai and God Bomber together) he stands basically the same size as Siege Jetfire. Of course parts count and mass may come into play. I know some people wouldn't mind a CC Star Saber by himself, but without the prospect of a Victory leo, it just doesn't seem as satisfying.

o.supreme wrote:

Autobot N wrote:Calling it now, the new Titan will be a Metroplex redo.

I did recall the quote saying that both the Commander Class and Titan Class would not be based on BW. I'm honestly glad we are still getting one for next year, I thought we might not. There are still a few big guys out there before we go back to Metroplex, but it wouldn't surprise me.

As for the Commander Class...this could be our one hope. It would be cool to get Victory Saber (Basically a leader Star Saber (based on unused designs from the Throne of the Primes fanvote), and Leader Victory Leo together). Of course, some might be thinking that selling 2 leaders for only $80 isn't possible, and that may be true, but when you look at TR/Legends God Ginrai (Made of Super Ginrai and God Bomber together) he stands basically the same size as Siege Jetfire. Of course parts count and mass may come into play. I know some people wouldn't mind a CC Star Saber by himself, but without the prospect of a Victory leo, it just doesn't seem as satisfying.

To be fair, if they only do Star Saber and Victory Leo as a set, then they would be able to minimize the amount of molds required by combining different sections of the figures on one set, rather than making twice as many for two Leader class figures, which would probably cut the cost down to $80. Only issue is that people would complain about it not being in scale because Star Saber's supposed to be combiner sized

o.supreme wrote:

Autobot N wrote:Calling it now, the new Titan will be a Metroplex redo.

I did recall the quote saying that both the Commander Class and Titan Class would not be based on BW. I'm honestly glad we are still getting one for next year, I thought we might not. There are still a few big guys out there before we go back to Metroplex, but it wouldn't surprise me.

As for the Commander Class...this could be our one hope. It would be cool to get Victory Saber (Basically a leader Star Saber (based on unused designs from the Throne of the Primes fanvote), and Leader Victory Leo together). Of course, some might be thinking that selling 2 leaders for only $80 isn't possible, and that may be true, but when you look at TR/Legends God Ginrai (Made of Super Ginrai and God Bomber together) he stands basically the same size as Siege Jetfire. Of course parts count and mass may come into play. I know some people wouldn't mind a CC Star Saber by himself, but without the prospect of a Victory leo, it just doesn't seem as satisfying.

Not as sure about the Commander as I am about Metroplex, but my first guess would be Broadside (the leaker on TFW implied it wasn't Star Saber or Deathsaurus), since he's pretty big.

What about instead of broadside it's...tidal wave. Bout time the cons had a go at the commander class

Sentinel_Primal wrote:because Star Saber's supposed to be combiner sized

Honestly, this is why I really wish Star Saber had won the POTP fan vote. I know that him being combiner height is the correct scale, but I'm not a fan of it. I would have much rather had him at Prime Wars Leader size than a towering Commander.

Autobot N wrote:

Sentinel_Primal wrote:because Star Saber's supposed to be combiner sized

Honestly, this is why I really wish Star Saber had won the POTP fan vote. I know that him being combiner height is the correct scale, but I'm not a fan of it. I would have much rather had him at Prime Wars Leader size than a towering Commander.

agreed. I love primal mind you, but him being voted prime to me was a cop out. gimmer star saber and desaurus~

Serious question: how did Japanese exclusive toys become so popular? Did it happen early on in the fandom? Was it driven by the original toys, a TFWiki entry, how did it happen??

ZeroWolf wrote:What about instead of broadside it's...tidal wave. Bout time the cons had a go at the commander class

not sure if they would, but there is definitely some demand for armada love. and honestly, there's not a whole lot of other non combiner "commander" scale characters I can think of of the top of my head. At least not ones I can envision hasbro re-making so soon.

AcademyofDrX wrote:Serious question: how did Japanese exclusive toys become so popular? Did it happen early on in the fandom? Was it driven by the original toys, a TFWiki entry, how did it happen??

I cant speak for others, but my enjoyment goes all the way back to when they were actually airing. I had a friend in the 5th grade (would have been 87-88) who moved to my neighborhood from Japan. He had cool things like the original Famicom, and Super Mario 2 (not the version we got, the one later named "lost levels"). He had family members also send him VHS tapes with the japanese TF series taped from TV broadcasts, I saw a couple Masterforce episodes, and to me that was the "season 5" we should have got but didn't (didn't know about headmasters until a few years later). I even wrote letters to hasbro asking why these episodes weren't airing in the United States...never got a reply, go figure. I learned about the toys from the commercials on the tapes, and other anime in magazines in the early 90's. Since to ME these are the true continuation of the Sunbow series, My enjoyment of these characters grew. Not sure when the overall acceptance came, because I remember meeting much resistance, even as recent as 10 years ago, so many saying "That's not G1, its just random japanese crap..." In hindsight, I wish I could have used Luke's line from TLJ "Amazing...everything you just said is wrong"

Autobot N wrote:

Sentinel_Primal wrote:because Star Saber's supposed to be combiner sized

Honestly, this is why I really wish Star Saber had won the POTP fan vote. I know that him being combiner height is the correct scale, but I'm not a fan of it. I would have much rather had him at Prime Wars Leader size than a towering Commander.

Oh, trust me, I hate that height too. Part of the reason I didn't pick up Siege Jetfire despite all the good reviews and such was that I felt he was too big. Titan class figures for some reason occupy this space in my mind where they're allowed to dwarf everything, but when a character is combiner sized, I take an issue with it. Only reason I'd pick up a "proper scale" Star Saber would be because I can justify the Star Saber unit as a sort of Hyperdrive unit that also gives Saber a boost in power in robot mode. I hope we get both Star Saber and Victory Leo as Prime War sized leaders for the Commander for next year, especially because I feel like Victory Leo's beast mode would allow him to "bridge the gap" between the G1 and Beast Wars figures

AcademyofDrX wrote:Serious question: how did Japanese exclusive toys become so popular? Did it happen early on in the fandom? Was it driven by the original toys, a TFWiki entry, how did it happen??

A mix of things really, part of the allure is they were toys that never appeared, how they were used in fiction etc. It's the same with Guiltor (or how ever his name is spelt) and a whole host of others. Overlord and Black Shadow managed to get further then most.