Transformers: The Last Knight (toyline)

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The Transformers: The Last Knight toyline coincides with the fifth film in Michael Bay's live-action film series.

The toyline follows the same basis as the previous film's layout, with the majority of figures falling into two sublines:

• Turbo Changers, which encompasses most of the simple-to-transform toys aimed towards younger children.
• Premier Edition, encompassing the "traditional" Deluxe, Voyager and Leader pricepoints, for older children and adult fans.

Along with the standard The Last Knight toys, Takara also released a toyline called Movie The Best to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the live action film series.

Toys

Turbo Changers

Tiny Turbo Changers

Tiny transforming figures based on characters from the entire live-action film series, packaged in blind bags. The reverse of the bags feature both a small clear window on the lower right and an embossed letter on the lower left, allowing easy identification of which figure you're getting.

Series 1 Grimlock (A) Shadow Armor Grimlock (B) Lockdown (C) Autobot Hound (D) Bumblebee (E) Crosshairs (F) Decepticon Blackout (G) Soundwave (H) Optimus Prime (I) Starscream (J) Sideswipe (K) Knight Strike Bumblebee (L)

Series 2 Shockwave (A) Megatron (B) Decepticon Berserker (C) Cogman (D) Bumblebee (re-release) (E) Autobot Sqweeks (F) Chopter (G) Barricade (H) Optimus Prime (re-release) (I) Sky Camo Starscream (J) Autobot Drift (N) Autobot Hot Rod (P)

Wave 2 Tiny Turbo Changer Hot Rod

1-Step Turbo Changers

A slightly different name for prior lines' One-Step Changers, with several molds reused from the Age of Extinction line. All of the figures feature flame deco printed in UV-reactive invisible ink, which can be revealed with the UV "Cyberfire" light in the large Mega 1-Step Turbo Changer Dragonstorm figure. Despite appearing as prefixes in several online retailers' listings for the wave 1 figures, the term "Cyberfire" doesn't actually appear as a gimmick call-out on the toys' packaging until wave 3, including packaging variants for additional shipments of figures that debuted in earlier waves.

Wave 1 Autobot Hound Barricade Bumblebee Optimus Prime

Wave 2 Decepticon Berserker Grimlock Megatron

Wave 3 Autobot Drift Cogman Scorn

Mega 1-Step Turbo Changer Dragonstorm

Wave 3 1-Step Turbo Changer Scorn

Knight Armor Turbo Changers

Broadly similar to the Three-Step Changers of Robots in Disguise, these larger figures feature a unified "Knight Armor" gimmick with spring-loaded deployable helmets.

Wave 1 Bumblebee Grimlock Optimus Prime

Wave 2 Megatron

Wave 3 Autobot Hound

Wave 1 Knight Armor Turbo Changer Bumblebee

Premier Edition

The Generations-type figures for The Last Knight are collected under the Premier Edition banner, explicitly marketed to the adult collector as well as older children. As part of this approach, Deluxe figures are packaged in window boxes, akin to Hasbro's other collector-oriented lines Marvel Legends and Star Wars: The Black Series.

Several molds for all size classes are reused from the Age of Extinction line.

Deluxe Class

Wave 1 Barricade Bumblebee Decepticon Berserker Dinobot Slash

Wave 2 Autobot Drift Autobot Sqweeks Dinobot Slug Steelbane

Wave 3 Bumblebee (new mold) Crosshairs Strafe

Wave 4 Cogman

Wave 5 Autobot Hot Rod

Wave 1 Deluxe Slash

Voyager Class

Wave 1 Grimlock Optimus Prime

Wave 2 Autobot Hound Megatron

Wave 3 Decepticon Nitro Scorn

Wave 1 Voyager Optimus Prime

Leader Class

Wave 1 Optimus Prime Megatron

Wave 2 Dragonstorm (Dragonicus and Stormreign)

Wave 2 Leader Class Dragonstorm

Other

Legion Class

Taking a cue from the 2008 Universe line, wave 1 features redecos of sculpts from Revenge of the Fallen, Dark of the Moon, and Beast Hunters Cyberverse while subsequent waves feature entirely new sculpts.

Wave 1 Barricade Bumblebee Grimlock Optimus Prime

Wave 2 Crosshairs Autobot Drift Megatron

Wave 3 Autobot Hound Dragonstorm

Wave 3 Legion Hound

Titan Changers

Wave 1 Optimus Prime Bumblebee

Wave 2 Megatron

Wave 2 Titan Changer Megatron

AllSpark Tech figures

Figures able to house an AllSpark Tech Cube (included in separately available starter packs) in their chest, activating lights and sounds.

Wave 1 Autobot Drift Barricade Autobot Hound Bumblebee

Wave 2 Megatron

Wave 1 AllSpark Tech Drift

AllSpark Tech Starter Packs

Starter Packs include an AllSpark Tech Cube and a USB charging lead plus a figure.

Wave 1 Optimus Prime Shadow Spark Optimus Prime

Wave 2 Autobot Sqweeks

Wave 1 Shadow Spark Optimus Prime

Autobot Sqweeks RC

A remote-controlled version of Sqweeks featuring lights and sounds.

RC Autobot Sqweeks RC

Autobot Sqweeks RC

Exclusives

Similar to Age of Extinction before it, The Last Knight had different "themes" assigned to different chains in the United States, this time with each of them being turned into its own decicated subline imprint complete with their own logos and unique packaging designs. And then a lot of these figures were also offered to different retailers in other international markets.

In theory, that is. The execution differed drastically in some instances, with some toys only being available online, and others ending up in different venues than originally intended. In more than one instance, international releases were easier to find than the "main" US release, despite receiving little to no advertising.

Mission to Cybertron

A Cybertron-themed exclusive subline, with figure decoes featuring Cyberglyphics writing and cards that form a bigger picture of Megatron and Optimus fighting on Cybertron, with Cyberglyphics on the back. Mission to Cybertron was the only subline imprint that proceeded more or less as planned, being officially made available as Toys"R"Us exclusives in the United States, Canada, Australia and Hasbro's Asian markets. For the Christmas 2017 season, the figures were also made available at Toys"R"Us stores in European markets such as the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Spain.

Autobots Unite

An exclusive subline primarily themed around Hot Rod, and to a lesser extent his partnership with Bumblebee. Originally, these figures were solicited as Walmart exclusives, but ultimately, only the Flip & Change figures were actually been found in stores, while Legion and Deluxe Class Hot Rod, the 1-Step 2-pack and the Legion 2-packs have only been available via Walmart's website. Instead, the latter three have been found at discounter Ross.

Other international venues include: General retail in (at least some of) Hasbro's Asian markets, Walmart in Canada, Asda in the United Kingdom, Dráčik in Slovakia and the Czech Republic, Walmart and its subsidiary Bodega Aurrera in Mexico, Prisma supermarkets in Finland, Líder supermarkets in Chile, Tottus in Peru and ICA Hemma in Sweden. In the Netherlands, Deluxe Hot Rod was available at Otto Simon and its subsidiary Top1Toys, while the 2-packs were available from Bart Smit and Intertoys (both owned by Blokker Holding at the time). In June 2018 the Legion Class figures began appearing in B&M Bargains stores and the Flip & Change figures in Home Bargains stores in the UK.

And to make matters even more confusing, general retail versions of both Legion and Deluxe Hot Rod in standard, non-"Autobots Unite" packaging were listed by several US-based online retailers, including Walmart, with the Deluxe figure eventually being released in China.

Reveal the Shield

An exclusive subline with a unified gimmick of "hidden image" decoes, revealed by using clear red plastic weapons as filters in the manner of the original Generation 1 Tech Specs. Unlike "Mission to Cybertron" and "Autobots Unite", "Reveal the Shield" was never officially announced by Hasbro, but early information via Asian sources indicated the subline would be exclusive to _target stores in the United States, which is where the Tiny Turbo Changer 3-pack and the 1-Step Turbo Changer 6-pack actually ended up. Voyager Class Optimus Prime, meanwhile, ended up as a Toys"R"Us exclusive in the United States instead, and even lacks the "Reveal the Shield" logo from the packaging for his US, Asian and Latin American release.

In the United Kingdom, the entire subline was exclusive to Argos stores, including Voyager Class Optimus Prime (complete with the "Reveal the Shield" logo on his packaging) and the role-play masks; in France, it was exclusive to Carrefour (again including the role-play masks); and in Australia, the 1-Step Turbo Changer 6-pack was exclusive to BigW stores. The 3-pack was also released in Hong Kong and Peru, the 6-pack was released in Chile, and Voyager Optimus Prime was available in several Asian markets and at Falabella stores in Colombia.

Valvoline

Valvotron action figure

San Diego Comic-Con 2017 / Hasbro Toy Shop

Tsim Sha Tsui (Hong Kong) Toys"R"Us

Taiwan Toys"R"Us

Special promotion from 28 – 30 April:

Asian market exclusives

Post-The Last Knight releases

Studio Series

Generations franchise « Studio Series Bumblebee Rise of the Beasts Studio Series '86 Premium Finish Gamer Edition Transformers One

Core Class

Deluxe Class

Exclusives

TakaraTomy toylines

Movie The Best

Main article: Transformers Movie The Best

The Last Knight

Main Toyline

Japanese The Last Knight Blu-Ray Promo

• Clear Voyager The Last Knight Optimus Prime (with purchase of The Last Knight on Blu-Ray, including collections)

Exclusives

Turbo Change Series

Promotional campaigns

Quad Barrel Shotgun promotional item

• Quad Barrel Shotgun (with 4000 yen purchases from select stores starting April 21)

Merchandise

Voice Changer Masks

Premier Edition Voice Changer Helmet

Notes

• A well-known problem occurred again: Various retailers around the world keep listing some of the price points under older working names. Since not all of the price points explicitly identify their respective assortment names on the toys' packaging, this once again resulted in some confusion as to what exactly the price points and gimmicks' correct, final, official names are:
  • The "Knight Armor Turbo Changers" are also referred to as "Armor Up Turbo Changers" by some retailers around the world, even though all multilingual packaging variants call out the "Knight Armor" gimmick in several languages (even spelled "Armour" for the United Kingdom) in addition to the general sub-line name "Turbo Changer".
  • On a similar note, some retailers' listings for the 1-Step Turbo Changers also give the individual figures' names "Cyberfire" prefixes, referring to the gimmick mentioned above, although that prefix doesn't appear anywhere on the packaging. It does finally appear (in the form of a separate logo) on the packaging for the third wave of 1-Step Turbo Changers.
• Similar to the previous film's toy line, Hasbro assigned code names to the toys, which were used by online retailers around the world, sometimes even after official photos depicting the toys in their packaging had been added to those listings, and sometimes even persisting long after the toys had been released at retail. Whereas the Age of Extinction line had used names related to the Rocky film series as code names for the various characters, The Last Knight has two known sets of code names:
  • One of them (presumably the earlier one) simply numbers all figures from the various general retail assortments in sequence, ranging from "TRA 1" (Knight Armor Turbo Changer Optimus Prime) up to at least "TRA 28" (Deluxe Class Dinobot Slash), although the corresponding code names for some of the later figures are currently unknown so it's likely the numbers go even higher than that.
  • The other set (presumably the later one) assigns each character a name derived from a celestial body (in a very broad meaning of the term), with three characters even being assigned two different names each, depending on whether the toy was a new sculpt or redecoed from a previous line: