Transformers: Generations (toyline)

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Transformers: Generations is a line of figures launched in 2010. Like the earlier 2006 Classics and 2008 Universe lines, along with much of the 2010 Transformers line, it aims to recreate older Transformers characters as new toys and celebrate the history of the brand. Unlike Universe, there are no series or other indications on the toys' packaging regarding which continuity the characters hail from. This seems to follow Hasbro's recent trend of leaving as much of that kind of information as possible up to the imagination of the purchaser.

The range includes designs from the video game War for Cybertron with the ambiguous prefix "Cybertronian". However, the toys for the sequel, Fall of Cybertron, lacked this prefix.

Early releases advertised for The Hub.

Toys

General retail

Deluxe Class

Wave 1
RETRIBUTION!
Toys R Us and online retailers like Entertainment Earth and BigBadToyStore received special cases containing only Cybertronian Optimus Prime and Cybertronian Bumblebee as a promotional tie in for the release of the War for Cybertron video game before the general release of the Generations toyline.
Wave 2
I'm just a miner.
Wave 3
Wave 4
  • Blurr (retool/redeco of Drift)
  • Dirge (redeco of Gentei! Gentei! Dirge)
Wave 5
And that's when Hasbro ran out of movie-era Decepticons.
Wave 6
Wave 7
That's it, we're done!
Wave 8
Wave 9


2012 Wave 1

Series 01

Generations requires constant infusion of video games to survive.
2012 Wave 2

Series 01

2013 Wave 1


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Voyager Class

Future Waves (2012)


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Other

The Ultimate Gift Set is an online retailer exclusive in the United States, but is available at general retail in Asia.

Convention exclusives

San Diego Comic-Con

Asian retail exclusives

The following toys introduced the first non-Deluxe toys in the line. They were originally released only in China and other Hasbro Asia markets. However, ToysЯUs picked up most of these toys as part of a massive group of Transformers exclusives for US and Canadian market releases, just in time for the 2012 holiday shopping season.

Legends Class toys

Scout Class toys

Deluxe

Voyager

Brawn is the only toy in this group not scheduled to be released by ToysЯUs in the United States.

Notes

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  • Clicking "War for Cybertron Toys" on Hasbro's War For Cybertron webpage brings up the whole "Generations" toyline. Looking for War for Cybertron toys? Here you go.
  • Since the toys in the Generations toyline were initially all Deluxe-sized, the Difficulty Level bar on the front packaging (which indicates how hard it is to convert a toy from mode to mode) now denotes each individual toy's challenge level (Cybertronian Bumblebee, for example, is a Level 4, while Thrust is a Level 2).
  • The plastic-coated wire twist-ties, which were normally used to secure a toy in its packaging in past toylines, have been replaced with rattan tie-downs. The paper-based tie-downs are also used in the 2010 Transformers toy line and subsequent toy lines moving forward.
  • The 2010 Transformers toy line, particularly the Reveal the Shield subline imprint, contains several toys with a design aesthetic similar to the Generations line. This led to confusion when fan expectations were contradicted by official Hasbro announcements. In fact, Generations Wheeljack is a retool of Reveal the Shield Turbo Tracks, and Generations Junkheap is a retool of Reveal the Shield Wreck-Gar.
  • Most of the Generations toys (along with several from the 2010 Transformers toy line), were released by TakaraTomy in their Transformers United toyline. The toys representing characters who appeared Transformers: War for Cybertron (which is part of the Aligned continuity family), were released as their Generation 1 counterparts.

Footnotes

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