It’s an odd decision for Hasbro and online animation group Machinima to do a series promoting a toyline on their way out, but that’s how they’ve been handling the Prime Wars Trilogy, the grown-up collector line featuring new takes on the classic characters. (Robots In Disguise is for the original kid target demographic, and that promotional cartoon only gets a poor showing because Cartoon Network’s scheduling is garbage. Meanwhile Discovery Family is still airing it’s predecessor, Transformers Prime, and the preschool-targeted Rescue Bots at decent times, and those lines are pretty much done. Rescue Bots is getting a spinoff line and tie-in cartoon…in TWO YEARS!) It wasn’t until the end of the first leg of the Prime Wars Trilogy, Combiner Wars, that we got an animated series of 5 minute shorts, and now they’re waiting pretty much before the start of the final chapter in the toyline, Power Of The Primes, before Titans Return, the second part, finally got released, coming next week.

The Titans Return toyline is basically “everyone are Headmasters now”, with some of the classic Headmaster characters not even getting to have their bodies, while figures who were never Headmasters now becoming them, even if they had originally been Targetmasters (the little guy turns into a gun instead of their head) or Powermasters (turning into the engine…for some reason) or if they hadn’t been any kind of “Master” but were just the popular characters. A plot to keep the copyrights perhaps? However, you won’t see any sign of that in the trailer that was just released on Hasbro’s YouTube channel.

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