By Sol Fury from
TFW2005:
Auto Assembly have released the third preview for their convention exclusive comic Iacon Independent. This 22 page comic created by fans and pro artists alike features a selection of short stories across all generations of Transformers. Todays update is from an 8-page story set in the Generation 1 continuity. Titled Promise of Peace it features Targetmasters Srueshot and Misfire, who have found themselves as captives - with the only hope of escape lying in working together! The story is written by Bruce Bridges with artwork by Jimmy Brogan.
Iacon Independent is free for all attendees and non-attendees of Auto Assembly 2012. Find out more and pre-register at the
Auto Assembly homepage!
Auto Assembly 2012 is taking place over the weekend of 3-5 August at the Hilton Metropole Hotel in Birmingham, England.
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By Superquad7 from
TFW2005:
TFW2005.com board member TCracker stopped by and posted pictorial reviews of two Transformers figures that recently popped up in Malaysia - deluxe versions of Generations "Fall of Cybertron" Jazz and Shockwave! You can jump to his review of Jazz
by clicking here and his review of Shockwave
by clicking here.
You can see all of the photos shared with us after the jump in addition to checking out each of the reviews!
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By Sol Fury from
TFW2005:
Auto Assembly have sent us the second preview for their convention exclusive comic this year. This second story is set during the fan-favorite Beast Wars series! Titled "A Hard Life", it features Cheetor looking back on his experiences in the Beast Wars. The story is penned by Simon Plumbe with artwork by Paul Vromen and featuring colours Liam Shalloo and letters by Andrew Turnbull.
The comic, titled "Iacon Independent", will be given away free to all attendees of the convention and will also be in the non-attendee packages. That's right, not only are Auto Assembly pulling out all the stops to make a great comic that features short stories from every era of Transformers, but they are also doing it for free!
Did we mention that Auto Assembly intends to make Iacon Independent a new yearly feature of the convention? Long may it continue!
Auto Assembly 2012 is taking place over the weekend of 3-5 August at the Hilton Metropole Hotel in Birmingham, England. Find out more and pre-register at the
Auto Assembly homepage - remember, pre-registered guests for the whole weekend along with non-attendees get entered into a draw for two free tickets and three nights free accommodation for Auto Assembly 2013!
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By Sol Fury from
TFW2005:
By way of
Planet Iacon on Facebook, we have a great bit of news for all those looking forward to the new Fall of Cybertron toys - they are now out in Malaysia! Yes indeed folks, the goodness that is the new Fall of Cybertron Optimus Prime, Jazz and Shockwave are out in Asia, and hopefully a US release will follow soon.
More good news follows - Curt from
TFSource dropped us a line to state that their stock of these great toys will soon be arriving from their supplier, possibly as early as next week! So for those of you who ordered these new toys from TFSource, you do not have long to wait at all!
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By Sol Fury from
TFW2005:
By way of an official Hasbro Malaysia catalog, we have got a look at some upcoming Transformers Prime Voyager Class toys. This catalog shows Voyager Waves 3 and 4 (and beyond...?)
On show here, and confirmed to be getting a release in Hasbro's Transformers Prime line outside Japan are:
Ultra Magnus - big blue truck like the Cyberverse toy. He has a cannon emplacement on the rear of the truck near his tow hitch which is his MechTech weapon. It converts into a gigantic hammer.
Thundertron - Blue wolf / liger that transforms into a peg-legged robot mode. His MechTech is some kind of claw weapon which transforms into a sword. He is being marketed as a part of the new third faction, the Star Seekers, which he was introduced as the leader of in the Transformers Exiles novel.
And as a shock reveal, Skyquake - the Decepticon sleeper from episode 6, Masters and Students, killed in his first appearance, is getting a toy. He's a straight-up redeco of Dreadwing but has a modified MechTech weapon to represent his show model's different weapon.
Speaking of Dreadwing, he is also shown, and like all these others his toy bio and tech specs is revealed in these images.
Notable by his absense is Breakdown - so if you are worried this one might be passed over for a US release you might want to jump on a Japanese release of this one when it comes out later this week. I personally would not worry too much because even with a two-episode wonder like Skyquake getting the toy treatment, all odds are Breakdown is simply in a future assortment. I'd still recommend investing in the Japanese one if you "must own" a version of the character though.
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By Tim Formas from
TFW2005:
TFW2005's early Transformers comic reviews continue! Today, we review
More Than Meets The Eye #6!
More Than Meets The Eye #6 is out tomorrow - Wednesday, May 27th - from IDW Publishing. Check out the review on our
More Than Meets The Eye #6 page of our Comics Resource Section!
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By Sol Fury from
TFW2005:
Good news everyone! Zap2it has updated with the descriptions for two of the upcoming episodes of Transformers Rescue Bots, giving us a tease at what is to come in these new episodes. We have spoiler tagged the descriptions for those who would prefer a surprise - but we finally have a clue what "Squilshed" means! It might well be a new Kremzeek in the making!
Transformers Rescue Bots Episode 19 - You've Been Squilshed!The Bots and Burns must stop a giant glob of space slime before it consumes the town
Transformers Rescue Bots Episode 20 - CountdownCody and the Rescue Bots try to solve the vanishing mystery when the residents of Griffin Rock start disappearing.
Don't forget to check out all-new episodes of Transformers Rescue Bots every Saturday at 11:30am ET on The Hub, including on 7 July an episode guest starring Bumblebee!
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By Shin Densetsu from
TFW2005:
Cybergundam Blog has posted new scans from the August 2012 issue of Hobby Japan featuring the following:
MP12 Sideswipe
MP13 Soundwave
MP14 Red Alert
In addition we get an up close look at the Amazon.jp exclusive piledrivers and energon cubes, to come with Sideswipe and Soundwave respectively. Check out the high res scans after the jump!
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By Super_Megatron from
TFW2005:
TFcon is pleased to welcome back Matt Moylan to the convention this year. He is best known to Transformers fans as the man behind
LilFormers. You can meet him in the TFcon 2012 artist alley all weekend long.
You can reserve the TFcon exclusive Shafter and
register for TFcon 2012 via the online registration page.
TFcon 2012 features Canada's largest dealer room for Transformers merchandise, question and answer panels and autograph sessions with many special guests including Transformers Creator Bob Budiansky, Transformers voice actors Scott McNeil and Neil Ross, artists Alex Milne and Silas Zee plus Hasbro Canada, Chris Ho (Vangelus) and Ben Dolle (Peaugh) with more to be announced.
TFcon - Canada's 11th Annual Transformers Collectors Convention is July 27th to 29th, 2012 at the Delta Meadowvale Resort and Conference Centre in Mississauga, Ontario.
The TFcon 2012 hotel block is now available.
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By Sol Fury from
TFW2005:
Japanese site Higekuma Toy Blog aka Alfes2000 has posted some most excellent in-hand images of the CM's Corp Guttu Kuru Minerva figure. This fully licensed poseable figure depicts the heroine of the Transformers Masterforce series in her human form wearing her power armor. She comes with three different faces for different expressions, a detachable backpack which transforms into the face of her larger robot mode, and tons of personality. It's a really cool depiction of the young Autobot medic that is fully screen accurate and capable of striking lots of great poses.
Check out a selection of my favorite images from the two galleries that Alfes posted attached to this story - or go
here and
here to check out the full galleries for lots more pictures.
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By Sol Fury from
TFW2005:
Auto Assembly has sent us a preview panel from the convention comic this year. This year's convention will feature a full 22 page comic, given free to everyone as a part of the convention goodie bags. The comic, Iacon Independent, will feature work from a range of talented writers and artists and will feature 22 pages of short stories and single page strips spanning G1, Beast Wars, Beast Machines and Transformers: Animated. It boasts it will have something for everyone and will feature a stunning cover illustrated by Marvel G1 artist Jeff Anderson.
First up in the previews of the comic is "Youth of Experience", a tale set during the "War Within" era before the Transformers left Cybertron. It will be written by Peter Williams featuring art by Rui Onishi, colours by Kal Kyle and letters by Andy Turnbull.
Stay tuned for more previews and updates! Auto Assembly 2012 is taking place over the weekend of 3-5 August at the Hilton Metropole in Birmingham in the UK. Head over to the
Auto Assembly homepage to pre-register for this year's convention.
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By Sol Fury from
TFW2005:
In an interesting turn of events, the existance of a United Artfire, a mass release version of the Million Publishing exclusive Classics-style Artfire, has been denied by both Takara-Tomy and by Hydra, who works with E-Hobby.
Posting on the
Allspark forums, Hydra stated that:
I don't know who decided that the supposed regular release of Artfire would only have one Targetmaster, but there is no regular release of Artfire coming. Million posted it on their Twitter account on the 21st, calling it out as a false rumor. I heard the same thing directly from TT staff, so you can safely assume that there is no normal version of Artfire on the way.Takara-Tomy also tweeted a similar denial on their own
Twitter account (translation by 2005 Boards member Ricochet):
There's no domestic/foreign release of UN Artfire except TF Generations 2012 book exclusive, I heardBy all accounts it is beginning to sound like the reports of a UN-32 Artfire might be a phantom listing. Keep it TFW2005 for more updates on this bizarre turn of events as the situation unravels further.
Picture attached to this story - a rather painful looking alternate Targetmaster configuration for the Million Publishing Artfire, shared on the Planet Iacon Facebook group.
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By Sol Fury from
TFW2005:
Hasbro have updated their pages for the Transformers Prime toyline with official photos and bios for the third wave of Cyberverse toys. On the side of the Legion class toys, we have bios and pictures for
Quickblade Bumblebee,
Hyperspeed Wheeljack and
Decepticon Flamewar. On the Commander front we now have a bio for
Nightwatch Optimus Prime along with pictures of him and his recently-released wavemate
Ultra Magnus. Check out all the bios by reading on in this story.
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By Superquad7 from
TFW2005:
Hot on the tail of
their last update, Atomic Laser provides an update for their 2012 product offerings, this time for a storage option. Check out the update below:
"Hello all!,
We received our first batch of storage pages this week and wanted to share the first pic with everyone as this has been a much anticipated item over the last year. They fit both our reproduction cards as well as original G1 cards too. Sheets are double sided and hold 10 cards each. [These are] to be offered bundled with a spec card storage binder and in separate sheet packs. Available in Third Quarter 2012 from Atomic Laser!
Thanks,
Atomic Laser Customer Service
www.atomiclaser.com"
For those of you who are unfamiliar with Atomic Laser, they are noteworthy for creating the reproduction Generation One Technical Specification Cards, or Tech Specs as they are more commonly known.
TFW2005.com would like to remind all once again that these products are not official Hasbro products.Atomic Laser actively contributes in our very own
TFW2005.com Fan Art Forum with some tweaking of Generation One Tech Specs artwork of a few characters for differing reasons. You can check the most recent work
by clicking here.
Keep a watch out for this and other upcoming creative endeavors from our own artists in
our Creative Forums. More updates as we have them!
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