Generation One

Earlier today Hasbro Pulse held a live stream featuring official reveals of several upcoming releases.  At the end of the video were a series of "Space Bridge" Reveals!  For those unfamiliar, Space Bridge reveals show generic images of a character representing an upcoming toy release (set against a beautiful graphic of a Space Bridge, of course!).   Today's reveals were (in order):

In celebration of the 40th anniversary of Transformers, a special event will be held in movie theaters on May 15, 18 & 19 2024!  Tickets will be going on sale April 10.  Today the official site for this event launched with the following synopsis and one sheet:

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General Information:
Price: $49.97
Retailer: Walmart Exclusive in North America
Release Date: January 2019
Accessories: Rifles x 2, Fists x 2

The folks at Vice Press have announced that they will be selling an extremely limited run of remastered posters from the 1986 animated Transformers film!  From their web site:

There are some toy reveals that make fans eager for a toy's release.  Then there are others that make fans go "How is this real?!" and today's reveal is one of those.  Amazon Japan has posted listings for the long rumored Missing Link Convoy.  Missing Link features the design of the G1 Optimus Prime/Convoy figure featuring modern day articulation.  This has been a dream of many fans for years and Takara Tomy has finally decided to answer the call!  There will be two versions of this figure: a "toy based" deco that will include a trailer and then an "animation deco

In the waning days of the Generation One era, the budget allocated to entertainment had been severely cut by Hasbro management.  To keep the cartoon going into a fifth season it was decided to repackage old episodes with bookends featuring a live action puppet of Powermaster Optimus Prime interacting with a character named Tommy Kennedy (played by actor Jason Jankowski aka Jason Jansen).  The writers of these segments used these intros and outros to name drop figures that were current at the time including the Pretender, Landmine and Quickswitch bu

Hasbro Pulse and Walmart have posted official images and product information for the next wave of Retro G1 figures featuring G1 sculpts with decos inspired by the 1986 animated film.  This wave is particularly exciting as it features Hound, a G1 sculpt that has only seen limited reissues in the past couple decades.

The HasLab campaign for Deathsaurus continues to move forward.  Up until now we have only seen grey model images of the Destron leader.  Now thanks to Hasbro Pulse on Facebook we have our first look at digitally colored renders!  These images give us an idea of the deco and tampos that will be applied to the figure for its final release.  Check them out in the gallery below and if you haven't funded Deathsaurus yet, you can do so on Has