Toy Fair 2015

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Date	February 14–17, 2014
City	New York, NY
Venue	The Times Center

Toy Fair 2015, hosted in New York City from February 14–17, boasts "over 25,000 attendees, 345,500 square feet of exhibit space, 100,000 products with over 7,000 never before seen in the world, 1200+ exhibitors, [and] 1000 global media representatives."

MediaWiki was invited to Hasbro's 2015 Collector-Fan Media Day 2015 Entertainment Brand Preview Event at The Times Center on Saturday, February 14, and wiki contributors Matt Karpowich and David Willis attended. Following a presentation starting at 1pm, fan representatives were allowed into Hasbro's product showroom.

Coverage

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Robots in Disguise (2015)

1-Step Changers

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Warriors

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Mini-Cons

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• The alternate forms of the Mini-Cons were called out as being either "buzzsaws" (Autobots) or "torpedos" (Decepticons).
• The first wave of Mini-Cons consists of Divebomb, Dragonus, Sawback, and Slipstream, and will hit retail in the fall of 2015. Wave 2 consists of Beastbox (Autobot), Ratbat and Sandsting (Decepticons), and Velocirazor (???). Future waves include Buzzsaw (Autobot) and Sliver (Decepticon).
• The "wave 1 Mini-Con wolf" was referred to as Wolfwire by one presenter. Whether that's the same toy as Sawback is currently uncertain.
• Each wave of Mini-Cons will come with parts that, when assembled, create a "bonus" Mini-Con made out of clear plastic pieces. At present, these "bonus" Mini-Cons are unnamed, and it was uncertain how the the information about them would be relayed to the general public, as the feature is not called out on the packaging. One wave's parts will create a shark, and another a wolf.

Deployers

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Mega Optimus Prime

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• Mega Optimus Prime is capable of carrying up to ten Mini-Cons.

Super Bumblebee

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• Super Bumblebee can carry as many Mini-Cons as he friggin' wants.

Generations

Deluxe Class

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Voyager Class

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• Cyclonus's combined form was said to be called "Galvatronus" (with a long "o"), but his super robot head wasn't ready yet to be revealed.

Leader Class

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Titan Class

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Notes

• Presenting for the Transformers team were Jerry Jivoin and John Warden. Also at the event were TakaraTomy designer Hisao Nishimoto, plus former Transformers marketing team members Greg Lombardo (representing Play-Doh) and Mike Verret (presenting for Jurassic World).
  • Clips from upcoming Rescue Bots episodes introduced Blurr, High Tide, and Salvage, the "Rescue Force recruits".
  • One of the Robots in Disguise slides revealed that the franchise will receive a McDonald's promotion. This will presumably be done in conjunction with My Little Pony, as their presentation also referenced the chain.
  • The Deployers and their Mini-Cons were stated as being modeled specifically on the play pattern of the original Soundwave.