By Shin Densetsu from
TFW2005:
Earlier this month we showed you
Amazon's "Look Inside" preview of Transformers The Art Of Prime. Now we have the extended preview from IDW.
Transformers The Art Of PrimeExplore the rich world of Transformers Prime! Loaded with character animation models, concept art, interviews with the creators and more, Transformers: The Art of Prime provides and unprecendented look behind the scenes of bringing the TF Prime universe to television audiences. Jim Sorenson (Transformers The Ark, Transformers AllSpark Almanac) brings this deep, vivid world into focus!
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By Shin Densetsu from
TFW2005:
Another issue of IDW's
Transformers Robots In Disguise arrives tomorrow and we've got the preview!
Transformers Robots In Disguise #24UNDER FIRE! AUTOBOTS and DECEPTICONS unite to battle a common foeÖ but will it be enough to stop the DARK CYBERTRON prophecy from coming true?
SHOCKWAVE's plan reaches fruition-while in the Dead Universe, secrets are revealed!
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By NIBMRatchet from
TFW2005:
Here's a bit of a surprise. It seems as though the school children of Durfee Elementary-Middle School were lucky enough to catch a 3 Minute footage from the upcoming Transformers: Age Of Extinction. The footage was revealed by one of the movie's co-producers; Allegra Clegg during her visit to the school as a promotion campaign by Paramount to encourage school attendance.
According to a report by
The Detroit Hub:
That gave them the chance to have Clegg come to the school, talk about how the film was made, career options in the film industry, as well as giving the kids a first look at the next installment in the Transformers franchise, due in theaters June 27, 2014.
The Durfee students were some of the first to check out a three-minute extended clip of the film before anyone, anywhere on the planet. Seeing the clip and talking with the producer was even more special because much of the movie was filmed in Detroit.Allegra Clegg also gave away Transformers 4 merchandise such as Caps as well.
"It takes thousands of people to make a movie like Transformers. The entire community has to come together to make it a success," said Clegg. "Detroit and Michigan are great places to shoot a project."When it came time for questions, the kids started out a little shy, but warmed up quickly. They grilled Clegg on everything from how the film’s robots were named to how she got into the business to how they could get a job in Hollywood and what they needed to study now as elementary and middle schoolers to someday do what she is doing.So, what do you think that was shown? Was it the same as what was shown at the Hasbro Investor Event? Or was it new footage? Speculate at the thread associated with this news post.
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By Shin Densetsu from
TFW2005:
Ready for another issue of
Transformers Regeneration One by IDW? Another issue is on the way tomorrow and we've got the preview!
Transformers Regeneration One #97DARK FORCES RISE! JHIAXUS-the mysterious senator who deleted himself from Cybertronian history-is backÖ but as friend or foe?
RODIMUS PRIME is forced to question the motives of Primus himself-does he drag the AUTOBOTS into a war they can't winÖ or side with an 'enemy' who seeks only one thing: universal order?
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By Sol Fury from
TFW2005:
The latest Transformers Collectors Club magazine has started to hit mailboxes,
and as previously reported, the issue shows off the Transformers Generations 2014 Deluxe Wave 3. On show are Rattrap (pictured from the front cover image), Tankor and Crosscut.
Rattrap is as you can see in the image based on his season 1 beast mode. The image in the magazine shows Rattrap comes with two guns, most likely they combine to make the larger gun shown on the cover. His beast mode is an organic rat, nicely detailed but it seems to lack some poseability.
Tankor is likely to be the star of this assortment, for those wanting show-accurate Beast Machines toys. His robot form is nearly spot-on to how the character looked in the Beast Machines series, with the tank mode sporting the semi-exposed head which was something of a trademark for Tankor. Plus he sports a Vehicon faction symbol - making the Vehicons the sixth faction represented in the current Transformers Generations series.
Crosscut is as some anticipated a silver redeco of Skids, with a new head. The new head seems to be based on the original alternate head design of Diaclone Skids, later used on the exclusive E-Hobby Crosscut and Generations book Screech figures.
The collector's club magazine also gives some news on Botcon 2014. The anniversary blow-out show's location and dates are now set, and an announcement is coming soon, pending a rewrite of the registration software to make sure the registration process is as smooth as possible for everyone. Here's hoping that Fun Publications don't keep us hanging on that one too long!
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By StayingInTheBox from
TFW2005:
Thanks to the Facebook page of
Autobase Aichi, we have some more in-hand images of upcoming Generations releases. This time around we have some great shots of
Generations Scoop with Targetmasters Caliburst and Holepunch! Like our earlier report of
Generations Armada Starscream indicated,
Scoop will be a part of the 2nd wave of IDW Deluxes. Check out the in-hand images after the jump!
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By Sol Fury from
TFW2005:
Stan Bush has released a new remix of his classic rock anthem, The Touch, which since 1986 has been synonymous with Transformers. This new remix, The Touch: Power Mix was featured in Transformers Fall of Cybertron where it played during the game's credits.
The Touch: Power Mix is now available to purchase from iTunes along with the "Epic Guitar Mix" which was featured in the second half of the Fall of Cybertron credits -
click here to buy it and support Stan Bush.
A music video featuring footage from Fall of Cybertron has also been posted on Youtube - for those that have not played the game, there are a couple of spoilers in here:
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By Secretcode from
TFW2005:
Courtesy of the
Snakas Toy Blog via
Autobase Aichi, we now have some in-hand photos of Generations Armada Starscream, and the Minicon Assault Team (aka, Centuritron.) These in-hand photos compare the various toys with other Unicron Trilogy era releases, such as Armada + Energon Starscream and Armada/Energon Perceptor.
Armada Starscream and Centuritron are part of the
Generations 2014 Wave 2 Deluxe assortment (or IDW Wave 4) alongside Fall of Cybertron Skywarp and Scoop.
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By NIBMRatchet from
TFW2005:
When it comes to Transformers action figures, one of the most important things is the Packaging Art. Some may be good and some bad, but as with any other thing, the packaging gives us our first impression. And "first impressions" are important. So, why not take a trip down memory lane to remember the moment when you first saw your favorite Transformers toy? And that's exactly what IDW Publishing is planning as a way to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the Transformers Franchise next year.
There is a new Amazon
listing for a book named "
Transformers Legacy: A Celebration of Transformers Package Art". Set to release May next year, the official description is as follows:
"Remember the thrill of tearing open a gift on Christmas morning, discovering a brand-new Transformer in a shiny new box? While the toys were amazing in their own right, what made the packages stand head-and-shoulders above the myriad competing action figures on shelves was the stunning box art. Transformers: Legacy collects hundreds of beautifully airbrushed paintings from the iconic first decade of The Transformers. Hasbro, Takara, and private collectors opened their archives, yielding an unparalled level of quality. Essays and interviews from the original illustrators give unprecedented insight into the process behind the art. This book is chock-full of extras, including never-before-seen artwork from toys that never were, original design sketches, catalog artwork, and more."Book cover art is unavailable at the moment, but you can find the product details below:
Hardcover: 300 pages
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1613779437
ISBN-13: 978-1613779439
Price: $34.80
The image for this News Post is from our
Resources Section. You can check out some really cool G1 stuff there.
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By Sol Fury from
TFW2005:
Next up in our series of new Transformers Generations toy galleries we have a look at
Rhinox's casemate,
Doubledealer! Doubledealer is a mercenary, a Transformer who is amoral enough to belong to neither Autobot nor Decepticon, and skilled enough to be approached by bidders from both sides seeking his skills, according to his bio.
This version of Doubledealer is a redeco of the earlier Generations
Blitzwing with a new head sculpt. The new head sculpt is pretty cool, and is based on how Doubledealer's head was drawn in his two major IDW comics appearances, Spotlight Hot Rod and Spotlight Doubledealer, where he was a double agent, playing the role of Hot Rod's ally while actually working for the Decepticon Banzai-Tron. Doubledealer has a nice sharp deco, which brings out a lot of details in the mold and manages to recall a whole lot of the style of the Generation 1 version of the character. A nice nod to the original is the use of both Autobot and Decepticon symbols on the alternate modes, with the jet mode being used as the Decepticon mode in lieu of a bird mode like the original Doubledealer had (Hasbro has met us halfway, though, by painting a suitably fierce looking face on the jet mode).
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By Sol Fury from
TFW2005:
By way of
Deadline, we are able to confirm the length of the Transformers 4 Age of Extinction trailer. The trailer is, in fact, more of a TV spot, lasting just 30 seconds in length.
According to Deadline, the spots carry the staggering cost of $4 million or more for each 30 second spot - but with 108 million viewers tuning in to the Superbowl last year, there are huge audiences to be reach out to.
The trailers typically also go up online after the game, so if you miss the 30 second slice of mechanical mayhem from Paramount and Michael Bay, you'll be able to catch it online and watch it again and again.
Our thanks to the
Transformers Live Action Movie Blog for bringing this to our attention.
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By Super_Megatron from
TFW2005:
Previews reveals IDW's plans to reboot the Transformers Vs. GIJoe comic book series with a free offering Saturday, May 3rd, 2014 at participating comic book shops.
Previous Transformers vs GIJOE stories date back to the
Marvel series of the 80s and more recently the
Dreamwave and
Devil's Due stories.
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By Secretcode from
TFW2005:
Our friends and sponsors over at
Robot Kingdom have posted some in-hand packaging images of the (now in-stock on their site but otherwise) upcoming Generations 2014 Deluxe Wave 2 on their
Facebook page.
This wave contains Generations releases of Armada Starscream, Fall of Cybertron Skywarp (A redeco of the prior
FoC Starscream and
Thundercracker), Scoop and his two Targetmasters Caliburst and Holepunch, and the Minicon Assault Team (Whose names are confirmed to be
Heavytread, Runway, and Windshear in their individual forms, and also go by the name
Centuritron in their combined form.)
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By Secretcode from
TFW2005:
Looking forward to completing your collection of the Masterpiece Fairlady Trio? Can't wait to see what MP-19 Smokescreen looks like in-hand?
Good news! In-hand photos of MP-19 Smokescreen have popped up in a multitude of various places in the last 24 hours (Including the Twitter accounts of
Alfes2010 and
Takara Tomy Designer Shogo Hasui, as well as ACToys) and while we haven't mirrored every single photo of the toy, we've mirrored a selection of photos and attached them to this story. Check out even more photos by either
hitting up the thread, or clicking on the two Twitter links above.
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