Titanium Series
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The Titanium Series is a Hasbro toyline of partially die-cast toys produced by their Galoob branch. Originally consisting entirely of Star Wars vehicles of various sizes, it has since expanded into Battlestar Galactica vehicles, Marvel Comics characters and Transformers.
Transformers Titaniums are produced in two size classes:
- Robot Masters are 7.6cm (3-inch), non-transformable, die-cast figurines of Transformers characters from various past and present toy lines.
- Cybertron Heroes are 15cm (6-inch), transformable, partially die-cast toys, representing both pre-existing toy designs as well as all-new models by Don Figueroa.
It is worth noting that since the Titaniums are developed by a separate branch of Hasbro from the normal Transformers team (who only has some input into character choices and looks), they do not take away "slots" from other Transformers lines. They are also not engineered or "mech-designed" by Takara.
They are also not actually made of titanium.
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[edit] Cancellation and loose ends
In July of 2007, Hasbro announced that no new Titanium figures would be produced, and that the line would end after the upcoming release of figures already completed: Primal Prime, Soundblaster, Skywarp, War Within Grimlock, and War Within Prowl. But shortly thereafter, Hasbro said they no longer had plans to mass-produce or release any of those figures, and there was no further news for one year.
At BotCon 2008, Hasbro revealed they had successfully "found homes" for several of those designs: Skywarp would be an exclusive at the summer 2008 San Diego Comic-Con and shortly thereafter would be put up for sale on HasbroToyShop.com; War Within Grimlock and Prowl would be exclusives to Toys R Us released in September 2008. Primal Prime and Soundblaster remain in limbo.
Several other 15cm figures were canceled at much earlier stages in development: in 2007, Hasbro showed resin prototypes of Arcee, Cosmos, Shockwave and War Within Bumblebee (with an additional Cliffjumper head). This was purely for informational purposes, as they were very clear that the creation of metal tooling--the most expensive part of Transformer toy manufacture and thus the "threshold" step required for market release--had not been and would not be completed. The Transformers Collectors Club roundtable has suggested there "may still be hope" for these figures to be produced in some form as part of other toylines, and Hasbro has said they would particularly like to use something akin to their Cosmos design in an upcoming line.
[edit] Releases
[edit] 7.6cm (3") Robot Masters
- The Ark (Autobot Shuttle)
- Movie Blackout
- Generation 1 Bumblebee
- Generation 1 Bumblebee (Super metal finish; packaged with Optimus Prime); exclusive to Toys-R-Us.
- Movie Bumblebee ('74 Camaro body)
- Generation 1 Galvatron
- Generation 1 Grimlock
- Movie Ironhide
- Alternators Jazz
- Movie Jazz
- Beast Wars Megatron (Ultra body)
- Cybertron Megatron
- Movie Megatron
- Optimus Primal (Ultra body)
- Generation 1 Optimus Prime
- Generation 1 Optimus Prime (battle-damaged redeco)
- Generation 1 Optimus Prime (super metal finish; packaged with Bumblebee); exclusive to Toys-R-Us.
- The War Within Optimus Prime
- Movie Optimus Prime
- Movie Optimus Prime, triple-packed with his truck mode and protoform mode; exclusive to Target.
- Predaking
- Generation 1 Rodimus
- Energon Scorponok
- Alternators Sideswipe
- Alternators Smokescreen
- Generation 1 Starscream
- Generation 1 Thundercracker (redeco of Starscream)
- Unicron (holding a moon of Cybertron)
[edit] 15cm (6") Cybertron Heroes
[edit] Mainstream Releases
Wave 1
- Transformers/G.I. Joe/Generation 2 Megatron (re-imagined design)
- The War Within Optimus Prime
Wave 2
- The War Within Jetfire
- The War Within Thundercracker
Wave 3
- Optimal Optimus
- Generation 1 Scourge
Wave 4
- Generation 1 Rodimus Prime
- Generation 1 Soundwave with Laserbeak
Wave 5
- Beast Machines Cheetor
- "War Within" Fallen
Wave 6
- Robots in Disguise Optimus Prime
- The War Within Starscream (redeco of Thundercracker)
Wave 7
- The War Within Megatron
- Generation 1 Ultra Magnus
Wave 8
- The War Within Sunstorm (redeco of Thundercracker)
- The War Within Ultra Magnus (redeco of Optimus Prime)
[edit] Exclusives
- Toys R Us exclusive 2-pack of The War Within Megatron and Optimus Prime with exclusive The War Within #1 variant-cover comic.
- San Diego Comicon exclusive Generation 1 Menasor (redeco of Rodimus Prime)
[edit] Unreleased
[edit] Robot Masters
[edit] Pictured
- Generation 1 Cliffjumper (redeco of Bumblebee)
- The War Within Nemesis Prime (redeco of The War Within Optimus Prime)
- Alternators Sunstreaker (redeco of Sideswipe)
- Generation 1 Soundwave (new mold)
[edit] Solicited only
- War Within Megatron (probably a new mold)
- Jetfire (probably a new mold, version unknown)
- Soundblaster (probably a redeco of Soundwave)
- Skywarp (probably a redeco of Starscream)
- Silverstreak (probably a redeco of Alternators Smokescreen)
- Black RODIMUS (probably a redeco of Rodimus; this might have been renamed Menasor — see above.)
- Shockwave (probably a new mold)
- Ultra Magnus (unknown — could have been an Optimus Prime redeco OR a new mold)
- Grimlock (unknown — could have been a G2-themed repaint of the original mold, or a new mold entirely)
[edit] Cybertron Heroes
[edit] Solicited/Pictured
- The War Within Grimlock (new mold) (recently announced as a Toys R Us exclusive for September 2008)
- Primal Prime (redeco of Optimal Optimus)
- The War Within Prowl (new mold) (recently announced as a Toys R Us exclusive for September 2008)
- The War Within Skywarp (redeco of The War Within Thundercracker) (recently announced as a Comic-Con/HTS exclusive)
- Soundblaster with Ravage (redeco of Soundwave with new-mold Ravage)
[edit] Resin hardcopies only
- Arcee
- The War Within Bumblebee (with an additional Cliffjumper head, perhaps a planned retool?)
- Cosmos
- Shockwave
