Earth has risen, and so has the amount of reused parts and engineering!
War For Cybertron: Earthrise is a subline imprint of the Generations toyline, and the second portion of the War for Cybertron Trilogy.
First revealed in late-2019 at New York Comic Con, War for Cybertron: Earthrise is a direct continuation of Siege, carrying over the C.O.M.B.A.T. System. Most toys are once again covered in 3 mm and 5 mm posts to accommodate the previous effect parts from Siege and the Deluxe Class range from Cyberverse. Continuing in Earthrise are the Micromasters and Battle Masters. Battle Masters (which now primarily turn into shields/ramps) still include additional effect pieces that can be placed onto other weapons included with other size classes, as well as hardpoints on the figures themselves to simulate being 'shot' or on the back of vehicles to simulate "rocket boosters" or "speed", depending on the effect part. Micromasters also feature these additions and retain their weapon mode combinations. Another carryover from Siege is relative robot mode scale, with the Leader Class figures being smaller, Voyager Class-sized figures that come with additional parts to beef up the price (except for Doubledealer). Heck, some Siege figures even got re-released in this line!
The new primary gimmick of the toyline is the "A.I.R. Lock System" (Adaptable Interconnection Retrofitter) that involves ramps that can hook up to various toys and connect them to each other, forming a giant battle station. This is supplemented with certain Deluxe Class Modulators, that can break down and form armor or weapons, and add on to other stations using the modular system, effectively replacing the Weaponizers of Siege. Earthrise also returns to traditional Earth vehicle modes, rather than the Cybertronian vehicle modes of Siege, and few of these releases feature battle-damage style paint.
Inside the package for every toy in Earthrise, in the middle of the cardboard backdrop, is a clip-and-save piece of the "Transformers Universe Map", following the Ark's journey to Earth. These pieces can be cut out with scissors and combined to form a larger map, depicting many of the familiar planets and other interstellar locations from the history of Transformers fiction. Larger figures (Deluxe, Voyager, Leader) include a translucent red decoder to view the map's labels and hidden paths. The Voyager, Micromaster, Battle Master, and a few other backdrops contain map segments that help to complete paths, but they lack labeled locations. Unfortunately for some Siege fans, Earthrise figures that are re-releases from Siege do now include unique exclusive map pieces in their new Earthrise packages.
Unusually for a Generations toyline, the mass-retail portion of Earthrise ran for less than a full year, beginning in each assortment's second wave of 2020 product and running through to the end of the same year. Additionally, the worldwide coronavirus pandemic saw an atypically long gap of roughly nine months between the line's debut and the next round of releases.
Toys
Battle Masters
Micromasters
Deluxe Class
Voyager Class
Leader Class
Commander Class
Titan Class
Exclusives
Store exclusives
Please note that the exclusivity listed below applies to the United States. The Hasbro Deluxe Centurion Drone is not branded or marketed as part of Earthrise, but is nonetheless registered on this wiki page due to having an Earthrise ID number. Cybertronian Villains was a brief subline carried over from the 2018 Cyberverse toyline focusing on villains, exclusive to Target in the United States (Team: Seeker Elite was later made available on BigBadToyStore and Entertainment Earth).
The Galactic Odyssey Collection was a subline unveiled late into Earthrise, employing Generations Selects-style packaging, with unique symbol replacing the faction logo, and exclusive to Amazon in the U.S. market (Micron Micromasters and Dominus Criminal Pursuit was later made available on Hasbro Pulse). Focusing on the other-worldly adventures of both factions, the Amazon listings for each set featured a short story about the adventure taken on its respective planet, and the toys feature a planet card for info regarding their world.
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 "Galactic Odyssey Collection" artwork  Decepticon Pounce and Wingspan |
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Target Cybertronian Villains
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Generations Selects
Continuing on from Siege, the special edition Generations Selects line offers redecos catering to fans, sold through online retailers in the US and Canada. Unlike with Power of the Primes and Siege, the Selects add-ons to Earthrise are not branded with the Earthrise logo (except for Hot House's instructions), but are nonetheless registered on this wiki page for convenience. The same applies to the first two Selects offerings in 2021, which packaging-wise, is synonymous with Kingdom, but utilize Earthrise instruction graphics.
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 Selects Soundwave Spy Patrol 3rd Unit |
Earthrise (TakaraTomy)
TakaraTomy's Transformers Earthrise (トランスフォーマー アースライズ) toyline sees the "brand unification" strategy from 2017 continue: the toys in TakaraTomy's version of the line are identical to their Hasbro counterparts with the exception of having the clip out maps and red decoders included in the package, just released in different waves and given new "ID" numbers with lightly-altered packaging.
TakaraTomy's regular retail lineup is smaller than Hasbro's, with about two-thirds of the line being sold as TakaraTomy Mall exclusives.
General retail
Exclusives
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 Deluxe Class Bug Bite, released by TakaraTomy in the Earthrise toyline as opposed to Generations Selects |
Notes
- Each portion of the War for Cybertron Trilogy has a hidden number picked out in the word War in the toyline's logo that indicates which section of the trilogy it is. For Earthrise the letter A has the number 2.
- The first figure announced to be a part of Earthrise was Runamuck, the winner of the second 2019 fan poll.
- Most figures released in Earthrise have almost entirely abandoned the use of metal screws to secure parts, having changed to mostly using metal pins to secure parts into place. This makes it considerably more difficult for aspiring customizers to disassemble their figures for painting or modification. However, one can use a pin knocking rig, examples of such included in some third party customisation kits, to remove and reinsert pins.
- Many figures with car-based alternate modes in the line are largely not molded in their actual colors, but instead cast in translucent plastic (to provide windows) or black plastic and painted to match the parts that are. This unfortunately leads to many instances of color discontinuity between the painted and non-painted parts, as well as translucent plastic being used for hinges that require a significant amount of force, which can lead to fractures and breakage.
- On the side-of-box art for Earthrise, Trailbreaker and Megatron are depicted in the bodies of their Thrilling 30 and Siege toys, respectively. Unicron, Bumblebee, Hound, Sideswipe, and Shockwave, despite having other toys in the War for Cybertron Trilogy, do not have Earthrise toys, with the latter three using art based on their Siege toys.
- Despite being advertised as Mercenaries during the New York Toy Fair 2020 presentation, both Snapdragon and Doubledealer were eventually released in Decepticon-themed packaging. The latter features the Mercenary insignia on the box insert and instructions.
- The majority of Wave 2 figures have misprints on their map pieces. Only Airwave does not have some kind of misprint, and the reason for this is unknown. The Quintesson Judge, who was originally part of Wave 2, also includes a misprint, while Megatron does not, indicating that the error is exclusive to said wave. Thankfully, people are working out which parts of the pieces to ignore while completing the map.
- Hasbro ID number WFC-E28 is never used in the toyline within its range of E1 to E41. Alternate Universe Optimus Prime is the only non-Galactic Odyssey Collection toy without an ID number, lending to the possibility that WFC-E28 was intended to be his.
