2016

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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 4 — Hasso Zorn
• February 9 — Vittorio Di Prima
• February 16 — Jesús Barrero
• February 18 — Paul Gordon
• March 5 — Domício Costa
• April 3 — Kōji Wada
• May 6 — Miguel Rosenberg
• June 20 — Gerald Paradies
• July 29 — Sílvio Navas
• September 2 — John Hostetter
• September 18 — C. Martin Croker
• October 10 — Kazunari Tanaka
• October 30 — Imre Józsa
• November 20 — Ulf Jürgen Söhmisch
• ???? — Bonecrusher

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
• Predacon Tarantulas
• General Ramhorn
• General Cicadacon
• General Sea Clamp

At Show Souvenir Figures

• Megatron
• Airazor
• Tigatron
• Unit-3
• Reflector 3-Pack

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 Exclusive

• Terrorsaur

Golden Ticket Exclusive

• Flash Sentry

Transformers Collectors' Club

Subscription figure

• Ramjet

Additional figures

• Skywarp

Club Crossovers

• Synthoid Rodimus and Arcee
• Scarlett, Cobra Commander, Sidney Biggles-Jones, Ratbat, and Megatron

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

San Diego Comic-Con International 2016

• Fortress Maximus Convention Edition

• Titan Force gift set:

Brainstorm

Sentinel Prime

Windblade

• Transformers Evolution Soundwave

TakaraTomy

Adventure Series

Wave 11 (January 30) TAV 36 Fracture		Wave 12 (February 27) TAV 37 Megatronus		Wave 13 (March 19) TAV 38 Thunderhoof TAV 39 Quillfire		Wave 14 (April 23) TAV 40 Ironjam & Bumblebee Iron Armor TAV 41 Gravity & Optimus Prime Gravity Armor TAV 42 Volcano & Grimlock Volcano Armor TAV 43 Barithunder & Sideswipe Thunder Armor TAV 44 Sideswipe & Bumblebee - Supreme Armor Set TAV 45 Optimus Prime & Grimlock - Supreme Armor Set
Micron Series (April 29) TMC01 Jetstorm TMC02 Slipstream TMC03 Divebomb TMC04 Airazor TMC05 Windra TMC06 Psychobat		Wave 15 (May 28) TAV 46 Overload (w/ Backtrack) TAV 47 Crazybolt (w/ Ransack) TAV 48 Team Bumblebee VS Thunderhoof Set (Bumblebee, Fixit, Thunderhoof, Windblade) TAV 49 Autobots VS Clampdown (Clampdown, Drift, Optimus Prime, Ratchet)		Wave 16 (June 25) TAV 50 Hyper Surge Optimus Prime		Wave 17 (July 23) TAV 51 Hyper Surge Bumblebee TAV 52 Sawtooth & Strongarm Torrent Armor
Wave 18 (August 28) TAV 53 Hyper Surge Sideswipe TAV 54 Scorponok		Wave 19 (September 24) TAV 55 Windblade TAV 56 Nemesis Prime		Wave 20 (October 29) TAV 57 Hyper Surge Starscream TAV 58 Windstrike & Sideswipe Wind Armor TAV 59 Ratchet TAV 60 Bisk		Wave 21 (November 26) TAV 61 God Optimus Prime Micron Set TAV 62 Starscream

Exclusives

Retail/online

Toys"R"Us Burn Ink TAV EX Jeffrey Prime

Multiple outlets Rain Sting

Media mail-aways

Transformers Generations 2015 TAV VS-SP Dogfight vs Decepticon Runamuck

Easy Dynamic Series

Wave 10 (January 30) TED-16 Big Thunderhoof TED-17 Quick Bumblebee

Wave 11 (February 27) TED-18 Big Drift TED-19 Springload

Legends

Wave 9 (January 30) LG18 Armada Starscream Super Mode		Wave 10 (February 29) LG19 Sprung		Wave 11 (May 28) LG20 Skids		Wave 12 (July 23) LG21 Hardhead (w/ Tankette) LG22 Skull (w/ Butla) LG23 Galvatron
Wave 13 (August 27) LG24 Shockwave & Cancer LG25 Blurr LG26 Scourge		Wave 14 (September 24) LG27 Broadcast LG28 Rewind & Nightbeat LG29 Wheelie & Goshooter LG30 Weirdwolf (w/ Rarigo) LG31 Fortress Maximus		Wave 15 (November 26) LG32 Chromedome (w/ Moguru) LG33 Highbrow (w/ Cargot) LG34 Wipe (w/ Servant)		Wave 16 (December 28) LG35 Super Ginrai LG36 Soundwave LG37 Jaguar & Bullhorn LG38 Condor & Apeface LG39 Brainstorm (w/ Synapse)

Exclusives

e-HOBBY LG-EX Deadlock LG-EX Convobat (w/ Megalligator and Ape X Arms)

Transformers Fes2016 (May 7) 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

figures in italics are reissues from QT series with a new ID number.

Wave 1 (January 30) QTFS-01 Anime Protagonists 3-Figure Set (Bumblebee, Lockdown, Optimus Prime) QTF-01 Optimus Prime QTF-02 Bumblebee QTF-03 Lockdown

QTF-04 Convoy QTF-05 Ultra Magnus QTF-06 Arcee QTF-07 Ironhide QTF-08 Jetfire

Wave 2 (March 19) QTFS-02 Decepticons 3-Figure Set (Megatron, Shockwave, Soundwave) QTF-09 Ratchet

Q-Collaboration

Wave 6 (January 18) QTC-06 My Melody

Wave 7 (January 30) QTC-07 Evangelion Unit-01 Awakened Ver.

Exclusives

Toys"R"Us Clear Starscream

Unite Warriors

Wave 4 (June 25) UW-07 Bruticus (Blast Off, Brawl, Onslaught, Swindle, Vorter)

Wave 5 (August 27) UW-08 Computicon (Afterburner, Lightspeed, Nosecone, Scattershot, Strafe)

Exclusives

Wave 2 (February 27) UW-05 Convoy Grand Prime (Convoy, Ironhide, Ligier, Prowl, Sunstreaker)

Wave 3 (April 30) UW-06 Grand Galvatron (Zombie War Breakdown, Tactician Cyclonus, Wandering Roller, Ghost Starscream, Curse Armada Thrust)

Wave 4 (October 29) UW-EX Lynxmaster (Hound, Ratchet, Sky Lynx, Trailbreaker, Wheeljack)

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