Unreleased toy

For every Transformer that makes it to store shelves, there are always some that fall by the way. Lines get canceled, retailers back off on exclusives, designs go over budget, focus groups pass on a concept, or maybe they just weren't cool enough. Regardless of the whys and wherefores, this article aims to document the unreleased toys that never quite saw retail.

Note that this list will likely never be "complete," as for every concept design that makes it into collectors' hands, a countless number wind up in the garbage can.

(Quick! Get to the landfill outside Providence and START DIGGING.)

Generation One

Concepts

These never made it past the drawing board.

Yup, they wanted to make me, but oh well.

• Headmaster Arcee

• New Rodimus

• A strange Skywarp/Megatron triplechanger.

• A strange Megatron/Galvatron triplechanger.

• Big Bang

Prototypes

These never made it past prototype stage.

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• The G1 Unicron toy

• A Diaclone Triplechanger (whose design was later used for Dropshot).

• A Spider double pretender

• A Ape double pretender

G1.5

(This section is about the line between the US G1 and G2.)

Concepts

These never made it past the drawing board.

"Hi, I'm the Bonecrusher-Bonecrusher fuzor!

• Buffalo Dump

• Hyperdrive

Prototypes

These never made it past prototype stage.

Generation 2

Concepts

These never made it past the drawing board.

Prototypes

These never made it past prototype stage.

• General Optimus Prime

• Sgt. Hound

• Greasepit

• G.I. Joe Transformer

• Unproduced Block town sets

• Jungle Camouflage Starscream

• Arctic Camouflage Ramjet

• Jungle Camouflage Megatron

Beast Wars

Concepts

These never made it past the drawing board.

• Albitron

Prototypes

These never made it past prototype stage.

• Beast Wars Neo Unicron

• Beast Wars Halloween Blackaracnia and Waspinator set

• Beast Wars Halloween Cheetor and
  
  
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