Cyberverse (toyline)
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This article is about the 2011-2014 play pattern. For the 2018 toyline, see Transformers: Cyberverse (toyline). |
Cyberverse was the encompassing name for the "micro play" play pattern starting with the Dark of the Moon toyline. It replaced the Legends Class (the size class had been absorbed into Cyberverse under the new name "Legion Class") and, to a lesser extent, the Scout Class (replaced by the slightly smaller Cyberverse "Commander Class", which took its name from the Power Core Combiners line). The Cyberverse toys were roughly in relative scale with each other (though there were still scale problems; Bumblebee, a Chevrolet Camaro, and Starscream, an F-22 Raptor, were the same size). Cyberverse figures were designed to interact with various transforming battle vehicles and playsets, creating a unified "world" children (or childish adults) can collect. While most were brand new sculpts, some figures were retools/redecos of Legends Class releases from previous lines, but the vast majority are tooled to accommodate 3mm weapon pegs and/or C joints. The entire gimmick of a small, compatible toy line with transformable, connectible bases seems to call back to the old Micromaster play pattern.
The Cyberverse play pattern continued with Transformers: Prime toys and ended with the Beast Hunters subline imprint. Its Japanese counterpart, just as with the Legends Class, was EZ Collection.
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Toys
Series 1
"Series 1" was the Cyberverse portion of the Transformers: Dark of the Moon line, and was therefore co-branded "Dark of the Moon" and "Cyberverse".
Legion Class
Wave 1
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Wave 2
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Wave 3
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Wave 4
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Commander Class
Preview wave
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Wave 1
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Wave 4
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Action Set
Wave 1 | Wave 2 | Wave 3
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Playsets
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Store exclusives
Target
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Toys"R"Us | Walmart
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Series 2
The vast majority of "Series 2" was the Cyberverse portion of the Prime line, and was therefore co-branded "Transformers Prime" and "Cyberverse". An unusual exception were three figures from wave 2 of the Legion Class assortment, which represent characters from the live-action film franchise, and thus lack the "Prime" title branding on their North American packages despite still depicting Prime characters as part of a uniform packaging design (their European versions do sport the "Prime" title on their packaging, however, incidentally creating separate characters).
“ | Command Your World | ” |
—Cyberverse Series 2 slogan |
Legion Class
Wave 1
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Wave 2 | Wave 3
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Wave 4
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Commander Class
Commander class figures all come with translucent weaponry, and feature some amount of translucent plastic in their bodies (blue for Autobots, but a variety of colors for Decepticons), a feature designed around interacting with the line's vehicles (see below). Each vehicle is equipped with an "Energon Booster", a light-up accessory that can plug into the Commanders' weapons or into the posts and ports on the figures' backs to illuminate them with glowing energon power.
DVD Edition
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Wave 1
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Wave 2 | Wave 3
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Wave 4
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Vehicles
Wave 1
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Wave 2
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Optimus Maximus
Universal Studios
- Evac (Transformers: The Ride)
Series 3
"Series 3" is the Cyberverse portion of the Beast Hunters subline imprint of the Prime line, and is therefore co-branded "Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters" and "Cyberverse", although the latter logo only appears on the back of the toys' packaging (it's even completely missing from the European packaging). The new gimmick for Commander Class figures and Vehicles is pressure-launched missiles. The light gimmick, meanwhile, has been completely dropped: All the weapons accessories (with the exception of Breakdown's) are cast in opaque plastic, the Commander Class figures don't feature any translucent plastic parts anymore either, and none of the Vehicles feature any electronics, even going so far as to retool redecos of Series 2 Vehicles to remove existing electronics.
Legion Class
Wave 1
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Wave 2 | Wave 3
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Wave 4
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Wave 5
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Commander Class
Wave 1
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Wave 2
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Wave 3
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Wave 4
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Wave 5
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Beast Tracker Vehicles
Wave 1
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Wave 2
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Store exclusives
Redecos of various Beast Hunters Cyberverse Legion and Commander Class figures were sold under the "Predacons Rising" banner. For some reason, all of them lack the "Cyberverse" logo on their packaging. This subline was officially announced to be exclusive to Target in the United States, and to Tesco and Carrefour in Europe; it has thus far been found in its entirety at Target stores in the US, the first wave of each size class has been found at Target stores in Canada, at Tesco stores in the United Kingdom and at Ripley stores in Chile; and some figures have also been found at Target stores in Australia (and others at BigW and Toys"R"Us stores much later, in mid to late 2014), at Rossmann drug stores in Germany and, finally, at Carrefour stores in France. No wave 2 figures have been found at retail outside the United States.
Notes
- The working name for this line was "Megaverse" (with the MechTech subline originally having been "Cybertech"), which could be seen on receipts for Dark of the Moon toys purchased at retailers, in the name of some exclusives on retailer web sites, and on the shipping cases for the products themselves. The reason for the change is unknown.