News from Hasbro. Over the weekend I attended the Toronto TFCon, which for the first time ever, had a panel from Hasbro.

They weren’t allowed to slightly discuses Transformers 2, thought it made sense why, I was disappointed.

Not a whole lot of news. However there were a few little gems.

First off, this fall kicks off the 25^th anniversary of Transformers. So what’s that mean? Well releasing lots of G1 toys of course. First release of the series is this November/December they will be releasing a replica to the original Optimus Prime. People yelled with glee, not to gloat but I already own a G1 Optimus.

From there on out they stopped telling dates, so my best guess is sometime early in the New Year. Next toy we have is a Hound packaged with Ravage. Ravage transforms nicely and mounts on Hounds trunk. Excuse my ignorance but why he is packaged with Hound is beyond me.

The last 25^th anniversary toy that they mentioned was a Cyclonus and Nightstick. There is little else I can remember about this toy package.

Other toy series that were mentioned was the Titanium series. The series will not be coming back; however there were a few molds created that were never released. Those may go into development, but no new molds will be made. Personally I could care less, I hated the series. Optimus looked like Blaster, and my Soundwaves’ legs collapse into his legs always making him look stumpy.

The only other tidbit of information that I have is that Canada will begin to receive 90-95% of the exclusives that are only available in US stores. This will begin with the Mini-Con set, to be sold at Zellers in the near future.

Only other convention highlights that do not have to do with toys are that Gregg Berger was in attendance. He was the voice of Grimlock, Long Haul, and Skyfire in the G1 series. The man is hilarious, and hearing him yell “ME GRIMLOCK LOVE TORONTO” as Grimlock will be a memory that will probably last a lifetime.

That is all I have to say, that I and I spend a lot of money on G1 Devastator. Curse me weakness for G1 toys.

Unfortunately, I was lazy and didn’t write this sooner hence me forgetting a good chunk of other news. I’ll try to add some images later on.

EDIT: Maybe I won’t add the images, two reasons. One Photoshop is being a bitch and keeps quitting. Second, the only good photo I have is a prototype of Jetfire. Any one want to see it just say so in the comments. And you will have it as soon as photoshop is up and running.