TRANSFORMERS 'Prime Wars Trilogy' Will be Told With Comics, Toys and Video Games Over Next 3-4 Years
Hasbro has taken note of the massive cohesive universe Marvel Studios created. Warner Bros. / DC Entertainment is doing the same and Disney brought that plan over to Lucasfilm for Star Wars. Many more studios and companies are sure to follow.
TRANSFORMERS are the next franchise to follow these footsteps. First with their planned cohesive movie universe (see post link at the end of this post) and now with a planned comics/video games/toys cohesive trilogy called the 'Prime Wars Trilogy' which will last the next 3-4 years.
"We decided to initiate the creation of a bigger deeper worlds," said Hasbro's Transformers story team head David Erwin via The Hollywood Reporter. "The fan reaction was really good. And that’s when we decided we wanted to make this a trilogy and really make this immersive. And when we say immersive, that means to create that experience across all different platforms, to take it across everything that we do."
Currently, the story arc of 'The Combiner Wars' is in place and it will end in 2016. Then it will be followed by the second part of the trilogy story arc that's being called 'Titans Return.'
THR writes:
"[Titans Return] storyline will feature the biggest Transformers robots in existence, fan-favorite Sentinel Prime and the return of a beloved action feature from the '80s: robots that convert into heads for bigger robots. It will play out across the entire Transformers Generations toyline and in IDW Publishing’s line of comics, as well as digital gaming.
"Following 'Titans Return,' the trilogy will conclude in late 2017 or early 2018 with the third chapter."
Quick side note: I've been a Transformers fan since they first were a thing in the 80s and I've never known Sentinel Prime to be a "fan-favorite" so this is news to me.
Anyway, this planned cohesiveness is a good thing because it generates revenue across multiple mediums even though the Transformers franchise is a cash juggernaut as is. So this is only a good thing for profits, and hopefully it will be a good thing for story telling as well.
