Transformers: Prime Wars Trilogy | |
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Original work | Transformers: Generation 1 by Tomy and Hasbro |
Owner | Hasbro |
Print publications | |
Book(s) | Titans Return - The Power of the Titan Masters |
Comics | Transformers: Windblade - Combiner Wars Transformers: Combiner Hunters Transformers: Titans Return |
Games | |
Video game(s) | Transformers: Battle Tactics Transformers: Devastation |
Miscellaneous | |
Toy(s) | Transformers: Generations |
Web series | Transformers: Combiner Wars Transformers: Titans Return Transformers: Power of the Primes |
Official website | |
Hasbro official website |
Transformers: Prime Wars Trilogy is a toyline and transmedia series that is part of the Transformers franchise by Hasbro.
The main story line is set in an alternate Transformers: Generation 1 continuity.
Forty years after the Great War between the Autobots and the Decepticons on Earth, the two factions returned to Cybertron, where Optimus Prime defeated Megatron in a final duel, ending their war permanently. A Council of Worlds was forged, consisting of Rodimus Prime, Starscream and the Mistress of Flame, ruling Cybertron and Caminus in an uneasy peace. However, the rise of the Combiners caused destruction and death on Caminus, setting Windblade, the Cityspeaker of the Titans, on a quest for vengeance. Meanwhile, the Combiner Victorion is on her own mission to find the Enigma of Combination.
Following the end of the Combiner Wars, the Titans are awakened and Trypticon begins to wreak havoc on Cybertron. To combat Trypticon, Windblade gathers up a ragtag team of Transformers to resurrect an "ancient ally". And while some may be forever changed by the events, others may not emerge with their sparks intact.
Following the death of Optimus Prime, the rest of the Transformers must band together to survive before Megatronus / The Fallen can wipe out their species forever. [1] [2]
Title | Developer(s) / Publisher(s) | Platform(s) | Release date(s) |
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Transformers: Battle Tactics | DeNA | Android and iOS | January 30, 2015[ citation needed ] |
Transformers: Devastation | PlatinumGames and Activision | Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One | [3] |
Transformers: Earth Wars | Backflip Studios | Android and iOS | June 2, 2016 [4] |
Various comic book issues from The Transformers by IDW Publishing make reference to the Prime Wars Trilogy.
Title | Issue(s) | Writer(s) | Artist(s) | Premiere date | Finale date |
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"Combiner Wars" | |||||
The Transformers: Robots in Disguise | #39-42 | John Barber | Livio Ramondelli | March 18, 2015 [5] | June 17, 2015 [6] |
The Transformers: Windblade Vol. 2 | #1-4 | Mairghread Scott | Sarah Stone | March 25, 2015 [7] | June 24, 2015 [8] |
Transformers: Combiner Hunters | One-shot | Mairghread Scott | Sara Pitre-Durocher | July 29, 2015 [9] | |
"Titans Return" | |||||
Transformers: Titans Return | One-shot | Mairghread Scott James Roberts John Barber | Livio Ramondelli | July 27, 2016 [10] | |
The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye | #56-57 | James Roberts | Priscilla Tramontano | August 17, 2016 [11] | September 28, 2016 [12] |
The Transformers: Robots in Disguise | #56-57 | John Barber | Livio Ramondelli | August 31, 2016 [13] | September 28, 2016 (digital) October 5, 2016 (print) [14] |
In July 2016, the Hasbro Pulse website published a book titled The Power of the Titan Masters to promote the Titans Return toyline. [15]
On 2016, Machinima Inc. and Hasbro Studios created an animated web series titled Transformers: Combiner Wars which started airing from August 2 to September 20 for Verizon's go90 streaming media format. [16] Prior to the premiere on go90, a set of four prelude videos was released that detailed some of the events which had transpired in this continuity prior to the start of the series. [17] The second season titled Transformers: Titans Return was released for November 2017. [18] The third and final web season was titled Transformers: Power of the Primes and was announced for May 1, 2018. [19] Rooster Teeth is streaming the complete Prime Wars Trilogy on their website for audiences in the US & internationally. [20]
Hasbro and Machinima announced a new trilogy of web series titled Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy , which is not related to the video game of the same name. [21] The first installment is titled Transformers: Siege and was scheduled for 2019. [22]
After Machinima closed down in February 2019, [23] Hasbro Studios and Netflix closed a deal for War for Cybertron Trilogy animated series, produced by Allspark Animation, Rooster Teeth and Polygon Pictures for 2020. [24] F. J. DeSanto returned as showrunner while George Krstic, Gavin Hignight and Brandon M. Easton contributed as writers. [24]
This is a list of the characters from the Transformers: Prime Wars Trilogy. [25] [26] [27] [28]
Megatron is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the Transformers media franchise produced by American toy company Hasbro and Japanese toy company Takara Tomy. Megatron is the cruel and tyrannical leader of the Decepticons, a faction of sentient, war-mongering robotic lifeforms that seeks to conquer their home planet of Cybertron and the rest of the known universe. He serves as the archenemy of Optimus Prime, the leader of the rival Autobot faction. As with all Cybertronians, Megatron has the ability to transform between his robot form and various vehicles or weapons. His alternate modes have ranged from a Walther P38 handgun, a particle-beam weapon, a telescopic laser cannon, and a Cybertronian jet, depending on which continuity he is depicted in.
Unicron is a fictional villain from the Transformers media franchise. Designed by Floro Dery, he was introduced in the 1986 animated film The Transformers: The Movie and has since reappeared in Transformers: Armada, Transformers: Energon, Transformers: Cybertron, Transformers: Prime, Transformers: The Last Knight and Atari's 2004 Transformers video game. Unicron is a prodigiously large robot whose scale reaches planetary proportions, and he is also able to transform into a giant planet. Unicron's origin has expanded over the years from simply being a large robot to being a god of chaos who devours realities. He often employs the help of Decepticons in his work, and in some stories is considered part of the origin of the Decepticon forces.
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