2016

«	2016	»

The year 2016 (MMXVI) is the 33rd year since the Transformers brand began.

For further information, see: Transformers timeline

Events

Fiction

2005 IDW continuity

• Rom arrives on Earth. Revolutionaries #1 timeline
• Optimus Prime annexes Earth into the Council of Worlds. Perihelion
• Ian Noble becomes the new Action Man. Revolutionaries #1 timeline
• The Revolution incident: the allied forces of Miles Mayhem and the Dire Wraiths attempt to steal the cache of Ore-13 underneath Autobot City at Monument Valley, and in the ensuing clash, Mayhem summons Baron Karza as well. Optimus Prime's Autobots, the Micronauts, Rom, Action Man, M.A.S.K., and G.I. Joe team up to vanquish the threat. The New Colossus Valley Forge

Non-fiction

Conventions

• BotCon 2016: April 7–10

• B.O.T.S. 2016: June 5
• Cybfest NW 2016: August 20
• C.O.N.S. 2016: October 9
• Dairycon 2016: April 1 and 2
• TFcon 2016: July 15–17
• TFcon USA 2016: October 21–23
• TFExpo 2016: August 5–6
• TFNation 2016: August 19–21

Deaths

• January 21 — Marc Cassot
• January 27 — Bill Martin
• February 9 — Vittorio Di Prima
• February 18 — Paul Gordon
• April 3 — Kōji Wada
• September 2 — John Hostetter
• September 18 — C. Martin Croker

Print

Comics

Fun Publications

• "Dawn of the Predacus"
• Transformers Timelines #11 — "Cybertron's Most Wanted" (retail version)

IDW

• More than Meets the Eye #49–57 (of 57) + Revolution one-shot
• The Transformers (vol 2) #49–57 (of 57) + Revolution one-shot
• The Transformers: Sins of the Wreckers #3–5 (of 5)
• The Transformers: Till All Are One #1–6 (ongoing) + Revolution one-shot
• Titans Return one-shot
• Transformers: Robots in Disguise #6 (of 6)
• Transformers: Deviations one-shot
• Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #11–13 (of 13)
• Revolution: The Road To Revolution 100-Page Special (one-shot)
• Revolution #1–5 (of 5) + one shots with various properties. See article for details.
• Optimus Prime #1 (ongoing)
• Lost Light #1 (ongoing)
• G.I. Joe #1 (ongoing)

Books

Robots in Disguise chapter books

• The Trials of Optimus Prime
• Autobot World Tour

Collections

Comics

Hachette Partworks

• Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection Volume 6: Target: 2006

IDW

• Transformers/G.I. Joe: Tyrants Rise, Heroes are Born TPB (reprint)
• Armada Omnibus TPB (reprint)
• Transformers: Robots in Disguise TPB
• Distant Stars TPB
• Deviations TPB
• Transformers: War Within Omnibus TPB (reprint)
• Sins of the Wreckers TPB
• The IDW Collection Phase Two: Volume 3 HC
• The IDW Collection Phase Two: Volume 4 HC
• More than Meets the Eye Vol 9 TPB
• More than Meets the Eye Vol 10 TPB
• The Transformers (vol.2) Vol 8 TPB
• The Transformers (vol.2) Vol 9 TPB
• The Transformers (vol.2) Vol 10 TPB

Media

Television

• Transformers: Robots in Disguise Season 2-2½
• Transformers: Rescue Bots Season 4
• Transformers: Combiner Wars

Video

Shout! Factory

• Transformers: Rescue Bots: Adventures in Time and Space
• Transformers: Rescue Bots: Heroes of Tech
• Transformers: Rescue Bots: Bots' Battle for Justice

Video Games

• Transformers: Earth Wars (Spring 2016)
• Transformers: Battle Tactics is shut down

Music

• Transformers Roll Out

Toys

Hasbro

Generations

Combiner Wars

Legends Class

Wave 5 Buzzsaw Decepticon Chop Shop Autobot Pipes Decepticon Shockwave

Wave 6 Wreck-Gar

Deluxe Class

Wave 5 Decepticon Blast Off Brawl Swindle Decepticon Vortex

Wave 6 Wheeljack Autobot Hound Smokescreen Trailbreaker

Voyager Class

Wave 5 Onslaught Scattershot

Wave 6 Sky Lynx

Leader Class

Wave 5 Skywarp

Exclusives

"May Mayhem"

Protectobot Groove

Conventions

Victorion Dust Up Jumpstream Pyra Magna Rust Dust Skyburst Stormclash

Bruticus (G2 deco) Blast Off Brawl Onslaught Shockwave Swindle Vortex

Computron Afterbreaker Cybaxx Lightsteed Nosecone Scattershot Scrounge Strafe

Liokaiser Dezarus Drillhorn Fellbat Guyhawk Ion Scythe Ironbison

Titans Return

Titan Masters

Wave 1 Crashbash Loudmouth Nightbeat Terri-Bull

Wave 2 Apeface Brawn Clobber Skytread

Wave 3 Decepticon Fangry Overboard Autobot Ptero Sawback

Legends Class

Wave 1 Autobot Rewind Autobot Stripes Autobot Wheelie

Wave 2 Laserbeak Ravage Decepticon Rumble

Wave 3 Bumblebee Gnaw Kickback

Deluxe Class

Wave 1 Hyperfire & Blurr Furos & Hardhead Fracas & Scourge Grax & Skullsmasher

Wave 2 Autobot Stylor & Chromedome Xort & Highbrow Vorath & Mindwipe Monxo & Wolfwire

Wave 3 Autobot Throttle & Autobot Breakaway Firedrive & Autobot Hot Rod Blowpipe & Triggerhappy Daburu & Autobot Twinferno

Voyager Class

Wave 1 Nucleon & Galvatron Autobot Infinitus & Sentinel Prime

Wave 2 Autobot Sovereign & Alpha Trion Darkmoon & Astrotrain

Wave 3 Doomshot & Megatron Diac & Optimus Prime

Leader Class

Wave 1 Twin Cast & Autobot Blaster Autobot Apex & Powermaster Optimus Prime

Wave 2 Soundblaster & Soundwave

Wave 3 Decepticon Revolver & Six Shot

Titan Class

• Emissary & Cerebros & Fortress Maximus

Exclusives

Summer convention exclusives

Titan Force Autobot Infinitus & Sentinel Prime Windblade Brainstorm & Autobot Teslor

Fortress Maximus Convention Edition Emissary & Cerebros & Fortress Maximus

Store exclusives

Walgreens Autobot Teslor & Brainstorm

Toys"R"Us Fortress Maximus Master Sword (promotional giveaway item in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore only)

Alt-Modes

2016's releases were in 3 "collections", with collections 2 and 3 containing many reissues. Only original figures are listed here.

Collection 1 Megatron Nemesis Prime	Optimus Prime Prowl	Skywarp Starscream	Thundercracker Ultra Magnus
Collection 2? Bumblebee Cliffjumper
Collection 3? Acid Storm Smokescreen Sunstorm

Platinum Edition

Year of the Monkey Optimus Primal Bumblebee and Grimlock Planet of Junk Clash (Autobot Hot Rod, Wreck-Gar, Junkion Scrapheap)

One Shall Stand, One Shall Fall (Optimus Prime, Megatron) Armada of Cyclonus (Cyclonus, Scourge, Decepticon Sweeps) Autobot Heroes (Ultra Magnus with Minimus Ambus, Autobot Springer, Arcee, Sergeant Kup, Blurr)

Rise of Rodimus Prime (Rodimus Prime, Galvatron) Combiner Wars Liokaiser (Dezarus, Guyhawk, Fellbat, Ironbison, Drillhorn, Ion Scythe) Unicron (W/ Kranix)

Masterpiece

• MP-08 Bumblebee & Exosuit Spike Witwicky
• Shattered Glass Optimus Prime

Kre-O

"Budget store" releases

Wave 2 Beast Hunter Optimus Prime Combiner Robot Mega Pack (Bruticus, Menasor & Superion sets)

Wave 3 Predacon Attack Optimus Prime Dino Hauler

Brick Box

Wave 2 Bumblebee Megatron

Wave 3 Optimus Prime

Micro Changers

Collection 1 Airachnid (50) Blast Off (47) Decepticon Bludgeon (51) Dirge (49) Decepticon Hook (48) Inferno (41) Insecticon (46) Quickslinger (44) Decepticon Rampage (45) Singe (40) Autobot Springer (42) Warpath (43)

Collection 2 Acid Wing (70) Arcee (69) Blight (68) Bulkhead (66) Autobot Groove (77) Hardshell (67) Hoist (76) Lugnut (75) Perceptor (74) Powerglide (73) Scourge (72) Vehicon (71)

Rescue Bots

Rescan

Wave 9 Medix Boulder (bulldozer)

Wave 11 Hoist

Wave 12 MorBot Quickshadow

Waves 10 and 13 contained no new figures.

Rescue Rigs

• Capture Claw Chase
• Hook & Ladder Heatwave

Superchargers

• Bumblebee
• Sideswipe

Griffin Rock Rescue Team

• Blades
• Boulder
• Chase
• Heatwave

Mini-Cons

Wave 1 Drake the Dragon-Bot (red) Servo

Wave 2 Valor the Lion-Bot

Wave 3 Fireplug Swift the Cheetah-Bot

Playsets

• Griffin Rock Firehouse Headquarters (with Cody Burns)
• Griffin Rock Garage (with Kade Burns & Fireplug the Dalmatian-Bot)
• Griffin Rock Police Station (with Chief Charlie Burns & Growl the K-9 Bot)
• Optimus Prime Racing Trailer (with Optimus Prime & Blurr)
• Optimus Prime Rescue Trailer (redeco of 2013 release without Energize patterns)

Megabots

Wave 1 Deep Water Rescue High Tide Optimus Prime

Wave 2 Night Rescue Heatwave

Wave 3 Copter Crane Blades

Epic Figures

Wave 3 Bumblebee High Tide

Robots in Disguise

Legions

Wave 5 Patrol Mode Strongarm Ultra Magnus		Wave 6 Clampdown Autobot Drift Thunderhoof Windblade		Wave 7 Blizzard Strike Optimus Prime Autobot Ratchet		Wave 8 Blizzard Strike Autobot Drift Decepticon Groundbuster
Wave 9 Bisk		Wave 10 Springload Starscream

One-Step Changers

Wave 6 Bumblebee (new tooling) Quillfire Sideswipe (new tooling) Springload

Wave 7 Optimus Prime (new tooling) Blizzard Strike Sideswipe Strongarm (new tooling)

Wave 8 Bisk Energon Boost Bumblebee Autobot Ratchet

Warriors

Wave 5 Night Strike Bumblebee Fracture Megatronus Blizzard Strike Optimus Prime		Wave 6 Blizzard Strike Autobot Drift Quillfire Thunderhoof		Wave 7 Power Surge Optimus Prime Scorponok Windblade		Wave 8 Bisk Autobot Ratchet Scatterspike
Wave 9 Blastwave Alpine Strike Autobot Drift Starscream Stormshot

Three-Step Changers

Wave 6 Blizzard Strike Autobot Drift Thunderhoof

Wave 7 Stealthasaurus Rex Grimlock

Wave 8 Autobot Drift Energon Boost Bumblebee

Wave 9 Bisk

Activator Combiners

Wave 1 Stuntwing & Bumblebee Trickout & Strongarm

Mini-Cons

Wave 3 Decepticon Back / Decepticon Forth Decepticon Hammer Blizzard Strike Slipstream Swelter

Wave 4 Glacius Scorch Strike Jetstorm Ransack

Weaponizer Wave 1 Bashbreaker Lord Doomitron Slipstream Tricerashot

Weaponizer Wave 2 Decepticon Dragonus Lancelon Sawtooth Windstrike

Mini-Con Deployers

Wave 2 Blizzard Strike Autobot Drift & Jetstorm Overload & Backtrack

Wave 3 Crazybolt & Decepticon Hammer

Mini-Con Battle Packs

Wave 1 Decepticon Hunter Optimus Prime vs. Decepticon Bludgeon Decepticon Hunter Sideswipe vs. Decepticon Anvil

Wave 2 Decepticon Hunter Bumblebee vs. Major Mayhem Decepticon Hunter Grimlock vs. Decepticon Back

Wave 3 Strongarm & Sawtooth Sideswipe & Windstrike

Mini-Con 4-Packs

Mini-Con 4-Pack (2) Decepticon Anvil Decepticon Hammer Slipstream (Weaponizer) Undertone		Mini-Con 4-Pack (3) Bashbreaker Autobot Dragonus Lancelon Lord Doomitron
Mini-Con Mega-Pack Decepticon Anvil Bashbreaker Beastbox Divebomb Decepticon Forth		Decepticon Hammer Lord Doomitron Ratbat Sandsting Sawback		Swelter Tricerashot Undertone Velocirazor Windstrike

Large-scale figures

Power Surge Power Surge Bumblebee (w/ Buzzstrike) Power Surge Sideswipe (w/ Windstrike) Power Surge Optimus Prime (w/ Aerobolt)

Titan Changers (Wave 2) Sideswipe

BotCon 2016

Dawn of the Predacus box set

• Ravage, a retool of Generations Combiner Wars Breakdown.
• Predacon Tarantulas, a retool of Generations Combiner Wars Protectobot Rook.
• General Ramhorn, a retool of Generations Combiner Wars Brawl.
• General Cicadacon, a redeco of Generations Combiner Wars Skydive.
• General Sea Clamp, a retool of Generations Combiner Wars Scattershot.

At show souvenir figures

• Megatron, a retool of Robots in Disguise Megatron.
• Airazor, a redeco of Legends Slipstream
• Tigatron, a redeco of box set Ravage.
• Unit-3, a redeco of Generations Combiner Wars Protectobot Streetwise.
• Reflector 3-Pack, retools of Generations Combiner Wars Shockwave.

Customization exclusive

• A redeco/retool of Generations Combiner Wars First Aid as the assembler's choice of:
  • Autobot Ratchet (Marvel Comics)
  • Autobot Ratchet (G1 cartoon)
  • Autobot Ratchet (Generation 2)
  • Autobot Ratchet (Shattered Glass)
  • Medix

Attendee-only bonus figure

• Terrorsaur, a retool of Generations Combiner Wars Air Raid without the combiner fist/foot weapon.

Golden Ticket exclusive

• Flash Sentry, a redeco of 3-Pack Reflector.

Figure Subscription Service

Series 4.0

• 1: Needlenose (with Sunbeam and Zputty)
• 2: Grabuge
• 3: Spinister (with Shrute and Singe)
• 4: Windsweeper
• 5: Bludgeon
• 6: Impactor
• 7: Bluestreak

TakaraTomy

Adventure Series

• TAV 36 Fracture (redeco of Warrior Fracture)
• TAV 37 Megatronus (redeco of Warrior Megatronus)
• TAV 38 Thunderhoof (redeco of Warrior Thunderhoof)
• TAV 39 Quillfire (redeco of Warrior Quillfire)
• TAV 40 Ironjam & Bumblebee Iron Armor (redeco of Mini-Con Battle Pack Bumblebee vs Decepticon Major Mayhem)
• TAV 41 Gravity & Optimus Prime Gravity Armor (redeco of Mini-Con Battle Pack Optimus Prime vs Decepticon Bludgeon)
• TAV 42 Volcano & Grimlock Volcano Armor (redeco of Mini-Con Battle Pack Grimlock vs Decepticon Back)
• TAV 43 Barithunder & Sideswipe Thunder Armor (redeco of Mini-Con Battle Pack Sideswipe vs Decepticon Anvil)
• TAV 44 Sideswipe and Bumblebee - Supreme Armor set
• TAV 45 Optimus Prime and Grimlock - Supreme Armor set
• TAV 46 Overload (redeco of Mini-Con Deployer Overload and Backtrack)
• TAV 47 Crazybolt (redeco of Mini-Con Deployer Crazybolt and Ransack)
• TAV 48 EZ Collection Team Bumblebee vs Thunderhoof Set (redecoes of Legion Class Bumblebee, Fixit, Windblade and Thunderhoof)
• TAV 49 EZ Collection Autobots vs Clampdown (redecoes of Legion Class Optimus Prime, Drift, Ratchet and Clampdown)

Wave 16 (June 2016)

• TAV 50 Hyper Surge Optimus Prime (redeco of Power Surge Optimus Prime)

Wave 17 (July 2016)

• TAV 51 Hyper Surge Bumblebee (redeco of Power Surge Bumblebee)
• TAV 52 Sawtooth & Strongarm Gekiryū Armor (redeco of Mini-Con Battle Pack Strongarm with Mini-Con Sawtooth)

Wave 18 (August 2016)

• TAV 53 Hyper Surge Sideswipe (redeco of Power Surge Sideswipe)
• TAV 54 Scorponok (redeco of Warrior Scorponok)

Wave 19 (September 2016)

• TAV 55 Windblade (redeco of Warrior Windblade)
• TAV 56 Nemesis Prime (redeco of Warrior Power Surge Optimus Prime)

Easy Dynamic Series

• TED-16 Big Thunderhoof (redeco of Three-Step Changer Sideswipe)
• TED-17 Quick Bumblebee (redeco of One-Step Changer Patrol Mode Bumblebee)
• TED-18 Big Drift (redeco of Three-Step Changer Artic Strike Drift)
• TED-19 Springload (redeco of One-Step Changer Springload)

Mini-Con Series

• TMC 01 Jetstorm (redeco of Mini-Con Jetstorm)
• TMC 02 Slipstream (redeco of Mini-Con Slipstream)
• TMC 03 Divebomb (redeco of Mini-Con Airazor)
• TMC 04 Airazor (redeco of Mini-Con Divebomb)
• TMC 05 Windra (redeco of Mini-Con Dragonus)
• TMC 06 Psychobat (redeco of Mini-Con Ratbat)

Exclusives

Other

Transformers Generations 2015

• TAV VS-SP Dogfight vs Decepticon Runamuck

Legends

• LG18 Armada Starscream Super Mode
• LG19 Sprung (Autobot Springer)
• LG20 Skids
• LG21 Hardhead
• LG22 Skull
• LG23 Galvatron
• LG24 Shockwave & Cancer
• LG25 Blurr
• LG26 Scourge
• LG27 Broadcast
• LG28 Rewind & Nightbeat
• LG29 Wheelie & Goshooter
• LG30 Weirdwolf
• LG31 Fortress Maximus

Exclusives

e-HOBBY

• LG EX Deadlock

Transformers Fes2016

• LG-EX Rattle
• LG-EX Rhinox
• LG-EX Waspeeter

Masterpiece

• MP-27 Ironhide
• MP-28 Hot Rodimus
• MP-11NR Ramjet
• MP-29 Destron Laserwave
• MP-30 Ratchet
• MP-25L Loudpedal
• MP-31 Delta Magnus
• MP-14+ Alert Anime Color Edition
• MP-32 Convoy (Beast Wars)
• MP-11NT Thrust
• MP-33 Inferno

Q-Transformers

QTF series

• QTFS-01 Anime Protagonists 3-Figure Set (contains re-releases of QT-23 Optimus Prime, QT-24 Bumblebee and QT-25 Lockdown)
• QTF-01 Optimus Prime (re-release of QT-23 Optimus Prime)
• QTF-02 Bumblebee (re-release of QT-24 Bumblebee)
• QTF-03 Lockdown (re-release of QT-25 Lockdown)
• QTF-04 Convoy (re-release of QT-19 Convoy)
• QTF-05 Ultra Magnus (retool of QT-19 Convoy)
• QTF-06 Arcee (Toyota Crown Athlete S21; retool of QT-26 Shockwave)
• QTF-07 Ironhide (Toyota HiAce)
• QTF-08 Jetfire (retool of QT-29 Starscream)
• QTFS-02 Decepticons 3-Figure Set (contains re-releases of QT-20 Megatron, QT-26 Shockwave and QT-27 Soundwave)
• QTF-09 Ratchet (Toyota HiAce; retool of QTF-07 Ironhide)

Q-Collaboration

• QTC-06 My Melody (retool of QTC-01 Hello Kitty)
• QTC-07 Evangelion Unit-01 Awakened Ver. (redeco of QTC-02 Evangelion Unit-01)