Transformers: Age of the Primes

"Age of the Primes" redirects here. For the fictional historical era, see Age of Primes.

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. Additionally, the Core Class assortment was discontinued and the Titan Class toys were decreased in size and luckily, price.

Much like Power of the Primes, a substantial part of the toyline is also dedicated to the combiner teams: the Aerialbots and the Combaticons. The Aerialbots 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 Deluxe Class toys can attach to.

“	AWAKEN THE THIRTEEN	”
—Official tagline

Toys

Deluxe Class

Wave 1 Aerialbot Air Raid Aerialbot Slingshot The Thirteen Solus Prime Fugitive Waspinator

Wave 2 Decepticon Crasher (package refresh from Legacy) Decepticon Vortex

Deluxe Class Solus Prime

Voyager Class

Wave 1 The Thirteen Prima Prime Autobot Red Alert

Wave 2 Rescue Bot Heatwave Sky-Byte

File:AOPtoy-VoyagerPrimaPrime.jpg Voyager Class Prima Prime

Leader Class

Wave 1 G2 Universe Grimlock / Autobot Wheelie The Thirteen Megatronus the Fallen

Wave 2 The Thirteen Onyx Prime

Leader Class Megatronus the Fallen

Big ticket items

Commander Class Aerialbot Silverbolt

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

Titan Class Star Optimus Prime

Exclusives

Age of the Primes continues Legacy's trend of "capsule" lines exclusive to various retailers, beginning with the Amazon-exclusive "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. Generations Selects also keeps on truckin', now with a packaging design refresh that brings its look in step with that of the main line.

Amazon Wreck 'n Doom Collection Spinister vs. Topspin (w/ Hairsplitter, Singe, and Headmaster Freezeout) Sandstorm vs. Slugslinger Fistiron vs. Carnivac

Deluxe Class Sideways Excellion

Generations Selects (multiple outlets) Trypticon (w/ Full-Tilt and Necro)

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 (2025 June 28) AOTP-01 Silverbolt AOTP-02 Solus Prime ATOP-03 Waspinator (Animated)

Wave 2 (2025 July 26) AOTP-04 Air Raid AOTP-05 Slingshot AOTP-06 Megatronus the Fallen AOTP-07 Prima Prime

Notes

• 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 members of the Thirteen (and many of their designs and artifacts) are based on The Covenant of Primus, with Optimus Prime represented by his Star Convoy form.
• 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 will not be rebranded with a new name for the second year.
• Age of the Primes was previously teased with the release of Legacy Vector Prime and Malleus Minotaurus, the former of whom was later featured on official art for the toyline.
• 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.
• Several figures in the toyline are identified as direct descendants of one of the Thirteen. As there is currently no unified fiction for the toyline, this is largely done through the toys' retailer product descriptions and media promotions. The known descendants are as follows:
  • Prima Prime: Autobot Red Alert
  • Alpha Trion: Aerialbot Slingshot, G2 Universe Grimlock
  • Micronus Prime: Fugitive Waspinator
  • Nexus Prime: Aerialbot Silverbolt
  • Star Optimus Prime: Rescue Bot Heatwave
  • Amalgamous Prime: Aerialbot Air Raid
• For reasons unknown, the Liokaiser box set that constituted the 2025 HasLab campaign was branded as part of the prior Legacy line, leaving Age of the Primes year one without a HasLab.