By Shin Densetsu from
TFW2005:
Wondering if you should pick up the recently released
Arms Micron Nemesis Prime With Giza? Well our very own SydneyY has posted a pictorial review of this repaint of Arms Micron Optimus! It even comes with stickers to make it look like past Nemesis Prime's...or even...
RID Scourge!
Read on to see how this figure turned out!
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By Shin Densetsu from
TFW2005:
Thanks to IDW Publishing we have a preview for the long awaited and oft-delayed,
The Art Of Transformers Fall Of Cybertron!
The Art Of Transformers Fall Of CybertronThe curtain is raised on the biggest and best TRANSFORMERS game in history! See never-before-revealed art from the genre-smashing TRANSFORMERS: FALL OF CYBERTRON! Watch as OPTIMUS PRIME, GRIMLOCK, BUMBLEBEE, and SHOCKWAVE grow from conceptual sketches into finished, fully-realized characters; witness the development of CYBERTRON into the most detailed renderings of the planet that have ever existed; learn the behind-the-scenes secrets from the visionary artists at Activision and High Moon Studios! THE ART OF TRANSFORMERS: FALL OF CYBERTRON is a must-have for any fan of Transformers, gaming, or great art!
Read on to preview this highly anticipated Transformers art book!
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By Superquad7 from
TFW2005:
For those of you looking to spice up some of your Transformers toys,
Reprolabels.com comes through for you once again with their latest update:
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We've got more excellent sticker sets for you this month, starting with new sets for Prime Kup...
http://www.reprolabels.com/Prime/p9.php
..and AM Ironhide:
http://www.reprolabels.com/Prime/p8.php
In addition to those, Craig has also created the first of three sets for Maketoys Green Giant. Specifically, this one's for Not-Mixmaster and Not-Scrapper:
http://www.reprolabels.com/Classics/devastatora.php
And Mike continues his Third Party Minibot sets with something for the new iGear toys, Brawn...
http://www.reprolabels.com/Classics/brawn.php
...and Cosmos:
http://www.reprolabels.com/Classics/cosmos-seaspray.php
We're continuing on with the free Autobot symbol promo, where you receive a free set of Bot symbols with every $20 you spend, but anyone ordering on November 26 or 27 (Cyber Monday and Tuesday), will also receive a free set of Decepticon symbols with every $20 spent! If that's not enough for you, make sure you keep an eye out in
our own Radicons Customs forums, as often times the designers (or even Delta Star himself) will post some of their preliminary work for our members to post feedback to Reprolabels for their cool sets!
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By Sol Fury from
TFW2005:
We've got another Transformers toy gallery to round out your weekend now. Today's new gallery, fresh from the Japanese Transformers Prime Arms Micron series, is the Deluxe Class
Smokescreen!
Smokescreen is a remolded version of Transformers Prime
Knock Out. This presents an immediate issue with show accuracy, because even with remolding, Smokescreen lacks a few design elements from his CG model on the show - the most notable being the door wings on his back. But let's not linger on the negatives - Smokescreen does manage to look different from Knock Out with his stickers,
remolded rear end in vehicle mode and his
new head. The head sculpt captures the character well - I'd have personally given him a smirk rather than a serious determined look - but it goes a good way to giving Smokescreen his own identity. The head is spot-on to the look of the character in the show. Stickers give Smokescreen the rest of his deco.
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By Sol Fury from
TFW2005:
It's time once again to share some new Transformers Toy gallery love with all of you! I've had quite an impressive little haul the last few days with loads of great toys I'm looking forward to sharing some pictures of with all of you. First up is
Ultra Magnus from the Generations Fall of Cybertron series.
Ultra Magnus is a straight-up recolor of Optimus Prime, with a new head. He manages to buck the trend of being a "white Optimus" by being based on the armored Ultra Magnus, and amazingly thanks to the body type of the Fall of Cybertron Optimus Prime toy and a clever deco, he pulls it off. Everything - good and bad - about the Fall of Cybertron Optimus Prime toy is therefore naturally present in this toy. There's still a decent range of poseability, still some good movement in the legs allowing for some nice wide stances and action poses, and the new head retains the ability to look up and down as well as side to side. The stacks on the shoulders, which you flip down on Optimus Prime, are best left flipped up to distinguish the two designs (Ultra Magnus is packaged with them in the "up" position).
Ultra Magnus includes Optimus Prime's original gun accessory and then goes one better with a decent sized sword accessory. The gun is unpainted, the sword meanwhile is fully painted (although thinly so and a little chipped in one or two spots on the red on mine). Ultra Magnus' arms though limit the amount of sword poses you can put him in a little. The sword in a cool move can also break down and combine with the gun to form a larger sword weapon (almost as long as Ultra Magnus is tall) which is very impressive, although the extra weight on the blade makes balancing an issue. The look of the two different sword configurations is suitably different so it does feel like the sword has transformed, rather than just got a bit longer.
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By Sol Fury from
TFW2005:
For those following our feed you'll see we just reported that the second assortment of Kre-O Microchangers (confusingly officially known as wave 1) has just been released in Singapore. These are blind-bagged so you'll need a bit of luck getting them all. Or you can use this handy identification guide provided to us by Griffin-of-oz and 0JazzMeister0.
On the back of each blind-bagged Kreon there is a red bar at the top of the packaging (12 to collect in the top-left, "2 in 1" graphic at top-right). Printed in the top right, between the peg-hole and "2 in 1" graphic is a number. That number matches up to the Kreon in the bag - check out the list below to see which one is which:
22981 40 - Singe (Turbomaster Scorch)
22981 41 - Inferno
22981 42 - Autobot Springer
22981 43 - Warpath
22981 44 - Quickslinger (Slingshot)
22981 45 - Rampage
22981 46 - Insecticon
22981 47 - Blast Off
22981 48 - Decepticon Hook
22981 49 - Dirge
22981 50 - Airachnid
22981 51 - Decepticon Bludgeon
Like the first assortment, it is the last two numbers that are the important part. By using this, you can identify all the Kreons in the assortment and add them all to your collection without acquiring too many doubles.
Also, check out
Griffin's post over on Ozformers for some in-hand pictures of this assortment of Kre-O Microchangers.
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By NIBMRatchet from
TFW2005:
We have another preview for a comic book based on Transformers: Prime.
Amazon has
posted some preview pages of Transformers: Prime Season 2 - Orion Pax Saga. The book will also be
available for Kindle devices.
We have mirrored the preview pages with this news post. Transformers: Prime Season 2 - Orion Pax Saga will be available 1st of January, 2013.
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