Toy Fair 2015

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Date	February 14–17, 2015
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

Venue and showroom

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Rescue Bots

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Robots in Disguise (2015)

1-Step Changers

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  Fracture! Thunderhoof!

Warriors

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  Jazz! Sideswipe!

Mini-Cons

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  RATBAT!

• 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 (Decepticon humanoid), Dragonus (Decepticon dragon), Sawback (Autobot wolf), and Slipstream (Autobot humanoid), and will hit retail in the fall of 2015. Wave 2 consists of Beastbox (Autobot gorilla), Ratbat (Decepticon bat), Sandsting (Decepticon scorpion), and Velocirazor (Autobot dinosaur). Future waves include Sliver (Decepticon humanoid).
• The "wave 1 Mini-Con wolf" was referred to as Wolfwire by one presenter, which was apparently Sawback's working name.
• 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 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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• The Deployers and their Mini-Cons were stated as being modeled specifically on the play pattern of the original Soundwave.

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

Legends

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• Viper was said to be a "generic" style Transformer – not technically a drone, but a design a lot of different, independently-sentient guys share, like the Omnicons in the Energon cartoon. This characterization is intended to facilitate fans army-building Viper, recalling the Cobra Viper that is his namesake.

Deluxe Class

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  Blades!
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  Protectobots!
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  First Aid!
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  Rook!
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  Rook bio!
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  Streetwise!

• The "brand-new Prototectobot" Rook was said to be a "toolbox," with fists that can manipulate and use different types of weapons.
• Rook's deco was said to be the work of Joe Kyde. It was kept similar to the pre-existing Protectobots to maintain visual consistency in Defensor's combined mode.
• Because Rook's fists end in 5mm holes, and Titan-class Devastator's combined mode fists use posts of the same scale, designer John Warden has received some late-night photos of Rook using Devastator's giant fists like "Hulk Hands" from his TakaraTomy teammates. This is both ridiculous and awesome.

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 couldn't be revealed because the on-hand figures were hand-painted samples.

Leader Class

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Titan Class

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• Each of Titan Devastator's components is roughly the size of the original Devastator toy.

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Notes

• Presenting for the Transformers team were Jerry Jivoin and John Warden. Also at the event were Generations senior brand manager Sarah Carroll and TakaraTomy designer Hisao Nishimoto, plus former Transformers marketing team members Greg Lombardo (representing Play-Doh) and Mike Verret (presenting for Jurassic World).
  • The Playskool Heroes component of the Jurassic World line will include redecos of several early Rescue Bots human figures, including Walker Cleveland, Sawyer Storm, Jack Tracker, and the original Charlie Burns.
  • 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.
  • During the Generations portion of the presentation, the audience was polled to add a vote for the Fan-Built Combiner's location of origin. The Sea of Rust won overwhelmingly over Iacon and Kaon.
  • Following the location vote, Jerry Jivoin said that he'd love to see the first-ever female combiner, and heavily hinted that fans may be able to vote for the gender of the Fan-Built Combiner in the near future.
• On the showroom floor, Jivoin clarified that the Tiny Titans line is in fact a mix of characters from different universes, despite the packaging being Robots in Disguise-themed. This was done to both draw in fans of other Transformers series and to beef up the character assortment.
• John Warden confirmed that Combiner Wars Blackjack was originally designed as Runabout; that Offroad was originally designed as Ruckus, but they both couldn't get the name and decided it didn't make sense for Ruckus to be a Stunticon anyway; and that Rook was designed as an entirely original character, whose head is based on the crown of the actual rook/"castle" chess piece.