Transformers: Age of the Primes
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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<ref>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</ref> and given a full reveal at Cybertron Con later that year,<ref name = "CyCon25">Age of the Primes reveal panel from Cybertron Con 2024 on the Hasbro Pulse YouTube channel, with Mark Maher.</ref> Age of the Primes revolves around the mythical Thirteen Primes and their descendants.<ref name=usedtwice>{{#if: 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. |"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."—|}}{{#if: https://www.instagram.com/p/DC2tKXARTg3/ |Mark Maher|Mark Maher}}{{#if: Instagram |, Instagram|}}{{#if: |, ""|}}{{#if: 2024 |, 2024{{#if: 11 |/{{#switch:{{#len:11}}|1=011|11}}{{#if: 26|/{{#switch:{{#len:26}}|1=026|26}}|}}}}|}}{{#if: https://www.instagram.com/p/DC2tKXARTg3/ ||}}{{#switch:{{#sub:https://www.instagram.com/p/DC2tKXARTg3/%7C7%7C11}}%7Cweb.archive= (archive link)|}}{{#switch:{{#sub:https://www.instagram.com/p/DC2tKXARTg3/%7C8%7C11}}%7Cweb.archive= (archive link)|}}{{#switch:{{#sub:https://www.instagram.com/p/DC2tKXARTg3/%7C7%7C10}}%7Carchive.is= (archive link)|}}{{#switch:{{#sub:https://www.instagram.com/p/DC2tKXARTg3/%7C8%7C10}}%7Carchive.is= (archive link)|}}{{#if: | (dead link)}}</ref> 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.
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 smaller toys can attach to.
The line makes pretty significant changes to the smallest and largest of the size classes that have been standards over many prior years. The Core Class assortment was completely discontinued (hard to make bigger changes than that), while the Titan Class toys were decreased in size, and thankfully, price. Unfortunately some size class prices went up in certain markets – most notably the Voyager Class toys.
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Toys
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Voyager Class
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| Wave 4 (2026) | Wave 5 (2026) | Wave 6 (2026) |
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Leader Class
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Big ticket items
[edit]Due to Studio Series taking the Titan Class slot for the first time, 2026 is the first year since the inception of the price point where the main Generations imprint has gone without a Titan Class figure. As a trade-off, Age of the Primes would instead receive two Commander classes for that year.
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Exclusives
[edit]Age of the Primes continues Legacy's trend of themed "capsule" lines exclusive to various retailers, beginning in 2025 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. That same year, Walmart had an (incredibly small) line 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.
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Age of the Primes (TakaraTomy)
[edit]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
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Exclusives
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Notes
[edit]- 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.
- 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.
- The Thirteen's boxes feature subtly distinct livery from the "mortal" figures in the line: their names and transformation step callouts are rendered in gold rather than the usual white, and their personal sigils developed for 2018's Power of the Primes take the place of faction symbols.
- 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.<ref name=usedtwice /><ref>{{#if: 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. |"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."—|}}{{#if: https://news.tfw2005.com/2024/08/03/sdcc-2024-hasbro-interview-john-wardens-return-generations-studio-series-combiners-more-513802 |John Warden|John Warden}}{{#if: TFW2005 |, TFW2005|}}{{#if: SDCC 2024 Hasbro Interview – John Warden’s Return, Generations, Studio Series, Combiners, More! |, "SDCC 2024 Hasbro Interview – John Warden’s Return, Generations, Studio Series, Combiners, More!"|}}{{#if: 2024 |, 2024{{#if: 08 |/{{#switch:{{#len:08}}|1=008|08}}{{#if: 03|/{{#switch:{{#len:03}}|1=003|03}}|}}}}|}}{{#if: https://news.tfw2005.com/2024/08/03/sdcc-2024-hasbro-interview-john-wardens-return-generations-studio-series-combiners-more-513802 ||}}{{#switch:{{#sub:https://news.tfw2005.com/2024/08/03/sdcc-2024-hasbro-interview-john-wardens-return-generations-studio-series-combiners-more-513802%7C7%7C11}}%7Cweb.archive= (archive link)|}}{{#switch:{{#sub:https://news.tfw2005.com/2024/08/03/sdcc-2024-hasbro-interview-john-wardens-return-generations-studio-series-combiners-more-513802%7C8%7C11}}%7Cweb.archive= (archive link)|}}{{#switch:{{#sub:https://news.tfw2005.com/2024/08/03/sdcc-2024-hasbro-interview-john-wardens-return-generations-studio-series-combiners-more-513802%7C7%7C10}}%7Carchive.is= (archive link)|}}{{#switch:{{#sub:https://news.tfw2005.com/2024/08/03/sdcc-2024-hasbro-interview-john-wardens-return-generations-studio-series-combiners-more-513802%7C8%7C10}}%7Carchive.is= (archive link)|}}{{#if: | (dead link)}}</ref> Also unlike those lines, it was not rebranded with a new name for its second year.
- 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<ref>{{#if: 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! |"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!"—|}}{{#if: https://news.tfw2005.com/2025/06/06/tfw-x-mark-maher-qa-aotp-haslabs-commanders-more-539034 |Mark Maher|Mark Maher}}{{#if: TFW2005 |, TFW2005|}}{{#if: |, ""|}}{{#if: 2025 |, 2025{{#if: 06 |/{{#switch:{{#len:06}}|1=006|06}}{{#if: 06|/{{#switch:{{#len:06}}|1=006|06}}|}}}}|}}{{#if: https://news.tfw2005.com/2025/06/06/tfw-x-mark-maher-qa-aotp-haslabs-commanders-more-539034 ||}}{{#switch:{{#sub:https://news.tfw2005.com/2025/06/06/tfw-x-mark-maher-qa-aotp-haslabs-commanders-more-539034%7C7%7C11}}%7Cweb.archive= (archive link)|}}{{#switch:{{#sub:https://news.tfw2005.com/2025/06/06/tfw-x-mark-maher-qa-aotp-haslabs-commanders-more-539034%7C8%7C11}}%7Cweb.archive= (archive link)|}}{{#switch:{{#sub:https://news.tfw2005.com/2025/06/06/tfw-x-mark-maher-qa-aotp-haslabs-commanders-more-539034%7C7%7C10}}%7Carchive.is= (archive link)|}}{{#switch:{{#sub:https://news.tfw2005.com/2025/06/06/tfw-x-mark-maher-qa-aotp-haslabs-commanders-more-539034%7C8%7C10}}%7Carchive.is= (archive link)|}}{{#if: | (dead link)}}</ref>, leaving the first year of Age of the Primes without a HasLab.
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- Transformers: Age of the Primes at the TakaraTomy website