Life's rich pageant continues as I ascend to the heavens of the San Diego Convention Center to enter a room of men about my age - 30s, maybe a few 40s - ready to look at the upcoming Robots in Disguise. There are a few kids. There's a few moms and others too, but you can probably spot men of my age who are me as the panel begins and the wild applause starts. Well, as our people go. We get quiet fast. Ben Montano introduces the crew which includes Lenny Panzika, John Fraser, John Warden, Ashley Creden, Matt Clarke, and non-Hasbro's Machinima series FJ Desanto. I have no idea if any of those names are spelled right as a clip is shown with a Decepticon panel and talking Megatron. It's a different voice. He explained how he dispatched the deployers to wait in line to get exclusives. Which I think is admission of guilt of how the process goes at this point. First up, The Last Knight. The Mega 1 Step Turbo Changer Dragonstorm is shown, which I believe is the biggest toy in the line. Hasbro developed the robot mode since there was nothing in the movie, and the design sketches shown here look pretty cool. He can also "breathe fire" on the Turbo Changers, which is what appears under black light on the simpler, smaller toys. Neat idea. Dragonstorm is in leader wave 2, and he's two robots in a dragon. And another Megatron video. Megatron lets us know he has more toys than Starscream... accurate. Leader Megatron now shown, and I know you know it's great. Voyager Nitro, also out now, also awesome. The robot mode came from the movie, but Hasbro made up the jet mode. I love this one, the review is coming up shortly and it's a wonderful toy. Cogman is due in Wave 4, which means wave 3 is going to be light on freshness. The car seats 2 figures and is compatible with Generations toys. Bumblebee for wave 3 got more applause than Cogman! It's described as a movie-accurate 2017 Camaro, and it does look sharp. They boast a complex transformation and the sketches for the instructions called "conversion sketches" look complicated. I'm into it. They're saying this will be on Hasbro Pulse, the theoretically fantastic but lightly updated official fan site. Movie Masterpiece - Optimus Prime and Bumblebee are coming, but you knew that. Looking at the stage, Optimus MP is about the same size as TLK Leader Megatron. Hasbro and TakaraTomy will be selling the same version. "The most accurate version of the 2007 Optimus Prime ever created," said Warden. He also said it takes him 40 minutes to transform... which sounds like a bit of a time filler. And that's movie. 2018 will be the last and final chapter of the Prime Wars Trilogy, said Creden, which is actually kind of disappointing given how great those lines were. Hopefully there will be an encore. They say we'll see them take over the Transformers Gods, and we're seeing a poster with Optimus Primal on it. He won the fan vote as "the next Prime." The poster shows a bunch of engines. These artifacts look a lot like Titan Masters with a symbol rather than a face plate. Hey, that seems clever. They're called Prime Masters. Liege Maximo is a tiny purple and grey robot that, apparently, comes with Dreadwind. Dreadwind is a Combiner Wars Air Raid retool. There are 12 cards so that means variants - you won't know which card you'll get until you open it, each has a unique story, so prepare to be angry completists. Prime Masters come with Decoy Suits, like Pretenders but tiny. I like these. Skullgrin Decoy Armor will be about $5, and can turn into a claw weapon. Hasbro once again promotes Pulse. Legends Beachcomber is also coming, and it does have Legends-scale Titan Master (or Prime Master) compatibility in the driver seat. Cool. Dreadwind looks a lot like Fireflight from Combiner Wars, and Blackwing is his renamed partner. They join together in jet mode to become Dreadwing, but if you look at them you can see Combiner Wars bits. This was not addressed. Jazz is also new and looks great. Voyager Starscream looks like a combiner - he's weirdly fat and chunky, IDW-based but it's strange enough that something is up with it. "He has some secret powers." Sure. Rodimus Prime is the Leader-class toy. This one looked cool up close - the toy evolves from Hot Rod to Rodiums Prime. It's a 1986 Hot Rod that merges with the trailer to upgrade, and he has a Matrix of Leadership with a connection for a Prime Master. The packaging sports a Zodiac of the Primes as a background element. Titans Return - the animation - is now coming up. A trailer using footage from Combiner Wars teases the next thing. This hits Go90 in November. It's 10 11-minute episodes. Trypticon's Titan Master Crunch was shown at the Titan Master cereal box thing in a Megatron spot. It's a poster giveaway. Neat! Folds into a cereal box. Hall of Fame voting is on now, with results that actually make a lot of sense. Convention Exclusives - Primitive Optimus Prime, Optimus Prime Burning Rubber Edition (with tire fragment), and... another Megatron interruption. Show's over. Q&A! Where's Headmaster Arcee? "Hold tight." Where's Elita-1? "Stay tuned on that." US release of MP Dinobot? "Stay tuned." New Decepticon Bludgeon? "Stay tuned." Bludgeon was a Pretender, says Warden, so maybe Prime Masters. Also RID. Favorite toy from the new line? "Cogman." Also Trypticon, Warden says. MP movie Decepticons? Blackout? "Great things in store." Movieverse toys with G1 Deco? "No plans at this time." "New Combiners?" Well, look at the toys you saw today says me. Sarcastic answers from the panel and "Stay tuned." Yeah, we're getting more combiners. No plans for a new Nautica. What do you have planned for that Starscream mold? "...neeext?" More Siege on Cybertron? "Another order is in." Trypticon hip problems? "We're looking into it." Overlord any time soon? "Yes." They also said they worked with fans to color match the new one to a G1 original MISB sample to get it right.