By Tim Formas from
TFW2005:
TFW2005's early Transformers comic reviews continue! Today, we review
Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters #4!
Beast Hunters #4 is out tomorrow - Wednesday, August 28th - from IDW Publishing. Check out the review and a seven-page preview on our
RoboBeast Hunters #4 page of our Comics Resource Section!
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By ORIO from
TFW2005:
Fans of black Prime repaints rejoice!
Hobby Ark Toy Story on Facebook has listed a new preorder for an upcoming Black version of Arms Micron 28, Lio Convoy. This figure has been made available previously as
Transformers Prime Thundertron and as the previously mentioned
Arms Micron Lio Convoy. The figure is listed for a December 2013 release. Interestingly, for an Arms Micron release, the listing mentions it will not require stickers and will come fully painted. No mention in the listing on the figures Micron figure, or if it will even include one.
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By ORIO from
TFW2005:
Fans of black Prime repaints rejoice!
Hobby Ark Toy Story on Facebook has listed a new preorder for an upcoming Black version of Arms Micron 28, Lio Convoy. This figure has been made available previously as
Transformers Prime Thundertron and as the previously mentioned
Arms Micron Lio Convoy. The figure is listed for a December 2013 release. Interestingly, for an Arms Micron release, the listing mentions it will not require stickers and will come fully painted. No mention in the listing on the figures Micron figure, or if it will even include one.
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By NIBMRatchet from
TFW2005:
Few months ago the production studio of Transformers 4 including producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura
initiated a Reality TV Show in China to select new actors for Transformers 4. Now, they have selected four artists for the movie after four months (wait-a-minute… Transformers 4, Four Actors, Four Months!?! Oh, I see what they did there!).
"I want everybody to have fun," Lorenzo di Bonaventura, the film's producer who has produced all the Transformers movies, told China.org.cn about the producers' decision to recruit actors through a TV contest aired on the China Movie Channel. "We are always looking for different ways to learn about other cultures. This is a great way to see people's passion and excitement. It allows for everybody to have fun together," he added.
Byron Li, Austin Lin, Candice Zhao, Teresa Daley eventually won the much-coveted movie parts Sunday night on the "'Transformers 4 Chinese Actors Talent Search Reality Show," launched by Paramount Pictures in cooperation with Jiaflix and the China Movie Channel in April. The contest was open to both professional and amateur actors, attracting more than 70,000 contestants.
You can read more thanks to the lengthy article by
China.org.
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By Sol Fury from
TFW2005:
Keith's Fantasy Club teamed up with
Auto Assembly to bring fans the Auto Assembly 2013 custom figure kit -
Bad Cop! Based on the concepts for Transformers Universe Barricade, this kit includes everything you need to customize a First Edition Transformers Prime Vehicon into a Transformers Prime Barricade.
The kit is nice and easy to do - all you need is a little superglue to fix on the lightbar, and a careful hand to apply the stickers. Since the head is on a balljoint you can just pop the Vehicon's head off and plug in the Barricade head, though I found I needed to just gently shave a little plastic off the socket for the ball joint for the best fit.
The final effect is excellent - the new head perfectly captures the look and feel of a Transformers Prime character, and the half a dozen main stickers - two for the doors, two for the rear wheel arches and a two-part one for the roof - help to complete the look. In vehicle mode, Bad Cop looks very cool and dynamic, with the additional details added by the stickers complementing the existing look of the Vehicon's vehicle mode nicely. In robot mode, some of the new details are hidden but the stickers on the vehicle's sides are now on the arms, which together with the new head gives the robot mode its own identity.
Bad Cop was produced in very limited quantities for Auto Assembly. If you were able to get your hands on one of these kits, congratulations, you own one of the cooler third party "garage kit" sets on the market. If you are a fan of Transformers Prime and get a chance to pick up this kit, I recommend you go for it - it is a great complement to any Transformers Prime collection.
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By Tony_Bacala from
TFW2005:
Takara extended their fan's choice voting for the next Masterpiece figure by a week. Looks like they are extending it from 8/31 to 9/6 so that the points from a figure releasing at the end of August can be used in the voting process.
Right now, they are allowing fans to vote for a new Masterpiece version of:
Fortress Maximus
Powermaster Optimus Prime
Star Saber
Dia Atlas
Optimus Primal (1st Formatting)
Lio Convoy (Lion)
Big Convoy (Elephant)
RID Optimus Prime
Armada Optimus Prime
Energon Optimus Prime
Cybertron Optimus Prime
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By Sol Fury from
TFW2005:
For our next gallery update, we wish to draw your attention to the sterling work that 2005 photo staff member SydneyY has been doing on the latest all-new Transformers molds to come out of Japan, the Transformers Go! Samurai Swordbots. Named
Kenzan,
Jinbu and
Ganoh, these three Autobots were awakened when Budora and Gaidora of the Predacon Oni Team attempted to seize an artifact known as "Legendisc". Armed with weapons befitting their samurai backstory, the trio also possess a special combination ability to allow the three to merge into three distinct combined forms, emphasizing and powering up each Autobot's unique skills and abilities.
As toys, the trio hark back to the Transformers Galaxy Force / Transformers Cybertron line of big and chunky toys with futuristic alternate modes and simpler transformations, but cool and playable gimmicks to go with it. Of the three Kenzan is a bit of an all-rounder with a cool (and refreshingly big) car mode. He's nicely proportioned and poseable in robot mode, and a nice detail is a topknot on the back of his head. Jinbu has a slender build to emphasize that he's all about speed - though this makes him the weakest of the three, with overlong legs. Lastly Ganoh is a big, chunky robot with a nice heft to him, who fights with a drill-tipped spear. He turns into a nice, big fire rescue vehicle, and is the most solidly built of the three.
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By Sol Fury from
TFW2005:
TFW2005 member Sam Nickelson has shared this on-set picture from Chicago with the rest of us in the fandom. This latest set picture shows a wall of propaganda posters which tells us something about the tone of the next installment of the Transformers Movie series and how humanity are going to be viewing Cybertronians. Among the posters we can see:
A city skyline with an American flag, on both black and white backgrounds. The text reads "Remember Chicago. Report Alien Activity"
Posters of Optimus Prime and Bumblebee in the style of the 2008 Barack Obama "Hope" campaign posters by Shepard Fairey. A large number of them say "Hate" but one Optimus Prime poster at left and four Bumblebee ones at right say "Hope"
At least three different styles of poster depict other Transformers, potentially Decepticons given their more alien appearance. The text on these say "It's watching you"
A fourth poster features a human eye, with text too indistinct to properly make out. We would imagine though that it will be a similar vein of "they are among us. Keep your eyes open and report suspicious activity"
The general atmosphere these posters are creating is one of fear and paranoia among the human populace - it seems that following Transformers Dark of the Moon, humanity is seeing all Transformers, good, evil and neutral, as a potential threat. It sounds as though Transformers 4 will be putting an almost X-Men type spin on the concept of "Robots in Disguise" - hiding from a populace that fears and hates them, that they are still honor-bound to protect and defend.
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By NIBMRatchet from
TFW2005:
There's quite a lot of hidden gems on the
recently leaked Transformers 4 Call Sheet.
On the list, if you look very carefully, you'll notice a familiar name from the Transformers Franchise. That name is the legendary voice of Optimus Prime; Mr. Peter Cullen. Strangely enough, he is listed as a "
Stunt Driver".
Since the first Michael Bay Transformers Live Action Movie, fans were demanding a cameo appearance of Mr. Cullen. Specifically, as a Holodriver for Optimus Prime's Vehicle Mode. Listening to the fans, IDW incorporated this into their Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen prequel comic book; Transformers: Alliance. However, we were left waiting to see this to happen on the big screen.
Now however, it seems as though fans are finally getting their wish come true. But, only time can tell the legitimacy of this recent development. Keep it under "Rumor" category until proven correct.
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By Sol Fury from
TFW2005:
By way of this post on Reddit, we have a potential motherlode of Transformers 4 casting news for you! What you can find at Reddit is
a Transformers 4 casting sheet distributed to extras which gives lots of character names - including confirmation that yes, Dinobots of some description are in Transformers 4! The casting sheet details over a dozen stunt experts being assigned to "Dinobot stunts" which, assuming this casting sheet is genuine and not a hoax, confirms Dinobots for Transformers 4 and also seemingly confirms they will be involved in some kind of major set piece.
That is not all that this sheet reveals though - there are lots of character names listed, including a group of robots! The robots are listed under Pic Cars and include:
New Optimus, Bumblebee, Crosshairs, Drift, Hound, Lambo, Pagani, Cyclonus
Two new names jump right out at us there - Crosshairs and Cyclonus are new to us. Crosshairs might be a new name for Slingshot
who was previously rumored here. Cyclonus is completely new to us, but if his inclusion follows the original character's associations, then it might support the rumors of Galvatron appearing in Transformers 4 (although as the Movie series does its own thing, this is entirely conjecture on our part).
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By NIBMRatchet from
TFW2005:
Chicago Tribune has
posted some pics of Transformers 4 filming over at Chicago. It seems as though even the city of Chicago is a stand-in for China just as Detroit was.
During the early days of Transformers 4 filming, there were some rumors of Dinobots maybe appearing in Hong Kong. With the
latest rumor of Dinobots scene may be filmed for Transformers 4 at Chicago today, there’s now more fuel for this fire.
The images also reveal the new Camera Crane which actor Mark Wahlberg
spoke about recently.
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