Hasbro SDCC Panel

Hasbro conducted its Transformers panel and sadly no movies news or footage was shown. What was shown though was the next 6 months or so of toy line plans for Transformers: Animated, Universe and the 25th Anniversary line which celebrates the various "eras" of Transformers. No movie related toys where presented. TFormers has a gallery of the presentation here.

Transformers: Animated
- Next wave will start coming out in Sepember and another will follow in December.
- September wave is Deluxe Sentinel Prime, Deluxe Swoop, Elite Guard Bumblebee, Leader Ultra Magnus, Acitvator Cliffjumper (BB repaint), and Deluxe Blurr
- December was includes Deluxe Swindle, Voyager Longarm, Voyager Shockwave and Leader Shadow Blade Megatron

Transformers Classic / Universe
- More re-designs of G1 characters, new ones will start hitting shelves in the fall
- Includes Deluxe Ironhide, Deluxe Sideswipe, Ultra Silverbolt, Ultra Storm Cloud, Legends Megatron, Legends Jazz
- Also have Robot Heroes G1 assortment of Megatron/Silverbolt, Ironhide/Kickback, and Thrust/Blaster

Transformers Titanium 6''- Three more toys for the line, exclusive to Toys R Us
- War Within Skywarp, War Within Prowl, and War Within Grimlock

Transformers 25th Anniversary 1984-2009
- Re-lease of G1 Optimus Prime with Marvel's Transformers #1 and "More then Meets the Eye" DVD which was the first story arc of the '84 cartoon series.
- Line includes what really is more Classics type toys with Hound & Ravage (alt mode a cassette), Deluxe Cyclonus & Nightstick Target Master, Legends Brawn, Legends Beachcomber, Voyager Inferno, Legends Bumblebee, and Legends Cosmos.
- Beast Wars represented with re-issue of Deluxe Cheetor


Update: Via TFW2005, is the below YouTube video of the panel.

Transformers 2 Toys in Production

According to "Pascal" on the Cybertron Canada's forums, one toy for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen are now in production.

My source told me production for TF2 toys has just started! Only one toy for now, and it's leader class. Prime? Fallen? Starscream? Megatron? He doesn't know yet. The first few samples should surface sometimes in August he said... That's so early. He also said TF2 toys will be extremely difficult to obtain. We'll see, Animated samples seem to be harder and harder to find too

It is my understanding that for toys to make it to the shelves on time, they actually have to be at the production stage at least a year in advance. The final designs probably where decided a few months before so the production molds (which are expensive) can be created. In other words, not only are the toys probably in production, it wouldn't surprise me if they have been for a few weeks now as to make a May/June 2009 release date. What this means for us is possibility of design leaks in a few months to help us in figuring out what the official Transformers cast is and their alt modes are. Thanks to Kenneth for the link.