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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[1] and given a full reveal at Cybertron Con later that year,[2] Age of the Primes revolves around the mythical Thirteen Primes and their descendants.[3] 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. 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 Deluxe Class toys can attach to.
| “ | AWAKEN THE THIRTEEN | ” |
—Official tagline | ||
Toys
Deluxe Class
| Wave 1 | Wave 2 | Wave 3 | Wave 4 |  |
Voyager Class
| Wave 1 | Wave 2 | Wave 3 | Wave 4 |
Leader Class
| Wave 1 | Wave 2 | Wave 3 |  |
Big ticket items
| Commander Class | Titan Class |  |
Exclusives
- Age of the Primes continues Legacy's trend of "capsule" lines exclusive to various retailers, beginning 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. Each set includes a mold from Titans Return. This year's Walmart line is 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 | Amazon Wreck 'n Doom Collection
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Generations Selects | Target
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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)
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Wave 2 (2025 July 26)
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Wave 3 (2025 August 30)
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Wave 4 (2025 September 27)
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Wave 5 (2025 October 25)
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Wave 6 (2025 December 27)
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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 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.
- 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.[3][4] Also unlike those lines, it will not be rebranded with a new name for the second year.[5]
- 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.
- 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[6], leaving the first year of Age of the Primes without a HasLab.
- Due to Studio Series taking the Titan Class slot, 2026 is the first year since the inception of the price point where the main Generations imprint has gone without a Titan Class figure.
References
- ↑ Transformers panel at Hasbro Pulse Con 2024 on the Hasbro Pulse YouTube channel, with Ben MacCrae, Evan Brooks, Mark Maher, Marcelo Matere, and Nate Purswell
- ↑ Age of the Primes reveal panel from Cybertron Con 2024 on the Hasbro Pulse YouTube channel, with Mark Maher.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "The best part of the next 2 years is, you’ll not only collect the 13 primes but theres an amazing plethora of bots that are all descendents of the primes, you can collect them all, finish mini collections, and guess their energon bloodline."—Mark Maher, Instagram, 2024/11/26
- ↑ "2026 and 2025 are linked together, I can say that, and if you can believe it we’re already starting to think a little bit about 2027."—John Warden, TFW2005, "SDCC 2024 Hasbro Interview – John Warden’s Return, Generations, Studio Series, Combiners, More!", 2024/08/03
- ↑ "Yes, 2026 will also be Age of the Primes."—Evan Brooks, Instagram, 2025/01/04
- ↑ "We decided to make Liokaiser part of Legacy mainly for branding reasons. With HasLabs, a lot of fans tend to keep those figures in the box, which is a bit different from how most people collect the mainline figures. Since Victory Saber and Deathsaurus were both released under Legacy—and all three are from the same series—it just made sense to keep that consistency. We really wanted them to feel like they’re part of the same world!"—Mark Maher, TFW2005, 2025/06/06
External links
- Transformers: Age of the Primes at the TakaraTomy website
