Transformers: Age of the Primes

The name or term "Age of Primes" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Age of Primes (disambiguation).

Generations franchise « Age of the Primes Toyline

2024: "The Age of Primes has ended! No more false prophets!"
2025:

Transformers: Age of the Primes is a subline imprint of the Generations toyline, and the successor to Transformers: Legacy.

First teased at Hasbro Pulse Con 2024 and given a full reveal at Cybertron Con later that year, Age of the Primes revolves around the mythical Thirteen Primes and their descendants. Unlike the Thirteen's diminutive toys in the 2018 Power of the Primes line, these are standard-sized figures, drawing from multiple designs, and each including their artifact. Age of the Primes also continues the standard of scale, articulation, and compatibility for 3 mm effects and 5 mm weapons/armor set by the War for Cybertron Trilogy. The "descendants" of the Primes, much like Legacy, are based on characters from multiple Transformers series.

Much like Power of the Primes, a substantial part of the toyline is also dedicated to the combiner teams: the Aerialbots and the Combaticons. Both subgroups utilize a similar system to the Legacy Stunticons, with a Commander Class toy transforming into the torso and combining with an included frame that four smaller toys can attach to.

The line makes pretty significant changes to the smallest and largest of the size classes that have been standards over many prior years. The Core Class assortment was completely discontinued (hard to make bigger changes than that), while the Titan Class toys were decreased in size, and thankfully, price. Unfortunately some size class prices went up in certain markets – most notably the Voyager Class toys.

“	AWAKEN THE THIRTEEN	”
—Official tagline

Toys

Deluxe Class

Wave 1 (2025) Aerialbot Air Raid Aerialbot Slingshot The Thirteen Solus Prime Fugitive Waspinator		Wave 2 (2025) The Thirteen Alchemist Prime Decepticon Crasher (package refresh from Legacy) Combaticon Vortex		Wave 3 (2025) Aerialbot Fireflight The Thirteen Micronus Prime Aerialbot Skydive Venin		Solus Prime Quintus Prime
Wave 4 (2026) Combaticon Blast Off Junkion Jalopy Quickstrike The Thirteen Quintus Prime Targetmaster Sureshot (w/ Spoilsport)		Wave 5 (2026) Cliffjumper (package refresh from Legacy: United) Autobot Powerglide Autobot Ratchet Smokescreen Swerve

Voyager Class

Wave 1 (2025) The Thirteen Prima Prime Autobot Red Alert		Wave 2 (2025) Rescue Bot Heatwave Sky-Byte		Wave 3 (2025) The Thirteen Alpha Trion Flatline		Amalgamous Prime
Wave 4 (2026) The Thirteen Amalgamous Prime Combaticon Brawl Junkion Wreck-Gar		Wave 5 (2026) The Thirteen Nexus Prime Sideways (w/ Rook and Mini-Con Crosswise)		Wave 6 (2026) Combaticon Swindle

Leader Class

Wave 1 (2025) G2 Universe Grimlock / Autobot Wheelie The Thirteen Megatronus the Fallen		Wave 2 (2025) The Thirteen Onyx Prime		Wave 3 (2026) Maximal Big Convoy Razorclaw		Megatronus the Fallen
Wave 4 (2026) The Thirteen Liege Maximo

Big ticket items

Due to Studio Series taking the Titan Class slot for the first time, 2026 is the first year since the inception of the price point where the main Generations imprint has gone without a Titan Class figure. As a trade-off, Age of the Primes would instead receive two Commander classes for that year.

Commander Class Aerialbot Silverbolt (2025) Combaticon Onslaught (2026) Armada Jetfire (2026) (w/ Mini-Con Astroscope, Mini-Con Sky Blast, and Mini-Con Payload)

Titan Class The Thirteen Star Optimus Prime (w/ Micromaster Autobot Hot Rod) (2025)

Star Optimus Prime

Exclusives

Age of the Primes continues Legacy's trend of themed "capsule" lines exclusive to various retailers, beginning in 2025 with the "Wreck 'n Doom Collection", a Wreckers vs. Mayhem Attack Squad-themed line continuing on from the previous "Wreck 'n Rule" and "Doom 'n Destruction" collections, exclusive to Amazon in North America. That same year, Walmart had an (incredibly small) line themed around Cybertron in celebration of its 20th anniversary. The Generations Selects assortment from previous lines remains, with a new packaging design based on the other Age of the Primes toys.

Walmart Cybertron Deluxes Excellion Sideways

Amazon Wreck 'n Doom Collection Carnivac vs. Fisitron (w/ Decepticon Survivor) Autobot Sandstorm vs. Slugslinger (w/ Caliburst) Spinister vs. Topspin (w/ Hairsplitter, Singe, and Freezeout)

Generations Selects Trypticon (w/ Full-Tilt and Necro) G2 Universe Dinobot Snarl / G2 Universe Dinobot Slug G2 Dinobot Swoop / G2 Dinobot Sludge Decepticon Monstructor (Monster Icepick, Monster Birdbrain, Monster Bristleback, Monster Scowl, Decepticon Slog, Monster Wildfly)

Target Ultra Magnus, Autobot Bumper vs. Horri-Bull, Nemesis Prime (w/ Kreb)

Walmart exclusive Sideways

Age of the Primes (TakaraTomy)

TakaraTomy's normal-retail Transformers Age of the Primes (トランスフォーマー エイジ・オブ・ザ・プライム Toransufōmā Eiji obu za Puraimu) toyline is largely the same as Hasbro's, with no notable changes to the toys proper (other than the omission of the tampographed Hasbro product code numbers); the one "big" change is that the packaging adds ID numbers for each item.

General retail

Wave 1 (June 28, 2025) AOTP-01 Silverbolt AOTP-02 Solus Prime AOTP-03 Waspinator (Animated)		Wave 2 (July 26, 2025) AOTP-04 Air Raid AOTP-05 Slingshot AOTP-06 Megatronus the Fallen AOTP-07 Prima Prime		Wave 3 (August 30, 2025) AOTP-08 Red Alert (Armada Universe) AOTP-09 Grimlock (G2 Universe) & Wheelie AOTP-10 Star Optimus Prime		Wave 4 (September 27, 2025) AOTP-11 Alchemist Prime AOTP-12 Rescue Bots Heatwave AOTP-13 Decepticon Trypticon		Rescue Bot Heatwave Venin
Wave 5 (October 25, 2025) AOTP-14 Decepticon Vortex AOTP-15 Sky-Byte (RID 2001 Universe)		Wave 6 (December 27, 2025) AOTP-16 Micronus Prime AOTP-17 Venin AOTP-18 Skydive AOTP-19 Fireflight AOTP-20 Alpha Trion		Wave 7 (January 31, 2026) AOTP-21 Decepticon Flatline AOTP-22 Onyx Prime		Wave 8 (March 28, 2026) AOTP-23 Quintus Prime AOTP-24 Blast Off AOTP-25 Sureshot AOTP-26 Quickstrike AOTP-27 Junkion Jalopy AOTP-28 Sideways
Wave 9 (April 25, 2026) AOTP-29 Amalgamous Prime AOTP-30 Brawl AOTP-31 Junkion Wreck-Gar		Wave 10 (May 30, 2026) AOTP-32 Maximal Big Convoy AOTP-33 Razorclaw		Wave 11 (June 2026) AOTP-34 Onslaught AOTP-35 Sideways (Armada Universe)		Wave 12 (September 2026) AOTP-36 Nexus Prime AOTP-37 Powerglide AOTP-38 Ratchet (Animated) AOTP-39 Swerve AOTP-40 Smokescreen (Prime Universe) AOTP-41 Cliffjumper (Prime Universe) AOTP-42 Liege Maximo

Exclusives

TakaraTomy Mall AOTP-EX Autobot Sandstorm vs. Slugslinger (w/ Caliburst) AOTP-EX Carnivac vs. Fisitron (w/ Decepticon Survivor) AOTP-EX Spinister vs. Autobot Topspin (w/ Hairsplitter, Singe, and Freezeout)

Fisitron

Notes

• Age of the Primes was previously teased with the releases of Legacy Vector Prime and Malleus Minotaurus, the former of whom was later featured on official art for the toyline.
• Concurrently with 2025’s Studio Series assortment, the toyline sees a return to the plastic windows not seen on Transformers packaging since War for Cybertron: Kingdom. Also like Studio Series, the boxes are now less decorated than their predecessors, replacing the full package artwork with an all-black design that has art of the figure’s robot and alternate forms on one side of the window, with the robot form on the left side of the box and the toyline’s poster on the right, and little graphics on the front showing the toy’s step count.
• The Thirteen’s roster (and many of their designs and artifacts) are pulled from 2013’s The Covenant of Primus, with the Thirteenth Prime represented by Optimus Prime in his Star Convoy form.
• The Thirteen's boxes feature subtly distinct livery from the "mortal" figures in the line: their names and transformation step callouts are rendered in gold rather than the usual white, and their personal sigils developed for 2018's Power of the Primes take the place of faction symbols.
• Age of the Primes coincides with the Thirteen's major role in the theatrical film Transformers One.
• Unlike the War for Cybertron Trilogy and Legacy toylines, which were each three years long, Age of the Primes is only two years. Also unlike those lines, it was not rebranded with a new name for its second year.
• Though it continues to include characters from all parts of the brand’s history, Age of the Primes mostly drops the universe designations from their names.
• The majority of the figures in the toyline are identified as direct descendants of one of the Thirteen through something referred to as an "Energon bloodline" in another element derived from the Covenant, though use of the phrase "bloodline" for the concept raises some serious questions.
• The Liokaiser box set that constituted the 2025 HasLab campaign was branded as part of the prior Legacy line to maintain consistency with the previous Victory-based Haslab Transformers, leaving the first year of Age of the Primes without a HasLab.

External links

• Transformers: Age of the Primes at the TakaraTomy website