While the figures and sets listed above were all Hasbro-initiated releases, Hasbro licensee Fun Publications also branded their BotCon 2016 exclusives and the Transformers Figure Subscription Service 4.0 and 5.0 figures as part of the Combiner Wars line (including figures that weren't part of the "combiner" concept), as opposed to the usual Timelines branding for previous FunPub exclusives.
Official tagline for the Combiner Wars line The Japanese version of this line, Unite Warriors, was considerably smaller, being almost entirely boxed sets released on a very staggered schedule. Those sets were typically "shared exclusives" between online retailers and the online storefronts of "big box" retailers, though they were also available at brick and mortar retail in several non-U.S.
Not only did availability and distribution improve tremendously across the board-the Combiner Wars figures were even released in European markets where Generations figures had previously never been available at all! At the same time, European packaging reduced the number of languages from thirteen to a mere four (English, French, German, and Spanish), resulting in a less cluttered packaging design.Īfter the general retail assortments had run their course, the line was extended for several months via giftsets of complete teams featuring redecos and retools, referred to as "Collection Packs" in official promotional materials. Meanwhile, Combiner Wars marked the end of the Toys"R"Us exclusivity for Generations figures that had been in effect in several European markets since the launch of the original line in 2010 (which had usually resulted in only one wave per assortment ever being released in Europe). The sole exception to this was the Deluxe figures packaged with comic books, which retained English-only packaging. Along with the concurrently released Robots in Disguise line, Combiner Wars also heralded the return of multilingual packaging to the United States market, now in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. release featured the collector cards in lieu of comics. However, due to production schedule problems, Deluxe wave 1's initial U.S. Each pack-in comic also included an expanded profile for the toy written by Mark Weber. Deluxes gained collector cards featuring art taken either from the Transformers Legends mobile game, or simply the toy's package art (which doubles as the comic book cover for the U.S. Deluxes (started by the Thrilling 30 segment) continued, whilst Legends, Voyagers, and non-U.S. The tradition of including IDW comic books with U.S. The format for Legends Class was changed once again, dropping the small partner figures of the Thrilling 30 line. The possibilities are almost endless! Sadly, the selection of unique figures is not.Ĭombiner Wars is a subline imprint of the Generations toyline, constituting the first portion of the Prime Wars Trilogy.ĭebuting at the very end of 2014, it saw Deluxe, Voyager, and some Legends Class figures able to form Combiner robots, primarily of the Scramble City variety that allows the Deluxe figures to be either an arm or a leg, and allowing mix-and-match combinations.
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