By Sol Fury from
TFW2005:
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation has an auction running on Ebay at the moment for something rather cool - a poster showcasing the Transformers Prime cast, signed by the 12 main voice actors from the series. It's an extremely limited edition piece, with less than 25 made, and 100% of the proceeds will benefit the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation.
The poster is signed by Peter Cullen, Frank Welker, Steve Blum, Jeffrey Combs, Sumalee Montano, Kevin Michael Richardson, Daran Norris, Tony Todd, Tania Gunadi, Josh Keaton, Andy Pessoa and a mystery 12th person whose character has yet to debut on the show.
Click here to check out the auction.
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By Sol Fury from
TFW2005:
The Transformers Collectors Club have released a couple of new pictures of their Subscription Service Scourge figure on
Twitter. One of the two pictures shows a nice closeup on Scourge brandishing his Sword of Fury in a recreation of one of his iconic poses from Robots in Disguise. The second picture is a comparison with the other two recent uses of the mold, the Botcon 2012 Shattered Glass Optimus Prime and Shattered Glass Ultra Magnus. The picture gives you an idea of how the paint applications have been varied up a bit to give this iteration of the mold a new, fresh feeling.
You've got until 12 September to get your subscription in for this figure and the other five in the Subscription Service set (Animated Jackpot, Prime Slipstream, Classics Breakdown, Classics Circuit and Beast Wars Ultra Mammoth are the other five). Find out more at the
Transformers Collectors Club homepage.
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By Sol Fury from
TFW2005:
There's been some buzz around lately - with auctions for purported leaked toys on Taobao and assumed early releases - that Takara-Tomy was revisiting Transformers Henkei one more time to release the Classics Ultra Magnus for its market complete with full white legs like the Generation 1 toy. The more skeptical of us were, well, skeptical.
Here's the reality though. Transformers Henkei Ultra Magnus is for real. It's coming out as a new Asia exclusive release, due out late September / early October 2012 - in other words, it's not a revival of the Henkei line by Takara-Tomy but an Asian market exclusive, like a growing number of items recently.
If you would like a Generation 1 accurate version of Classics Ultra Magnus,
it's up for preorder now at Robot Kingdom.
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By Sol Fury from
TFW2005:
To finish up the week, we're bringing you a gallery of the
Transformers Prime Arms Micron Terrorcon Bumblebee figure. Terrorcon Bumblebee here was an Aeon stores exclusive in Japan and by accounts a relatively harder to find Japanese store exclusive owing to the smaller numbers of stores compared to Toys R Us Japan. He's a fantastic black redeco of Bumblebee who looks great with or without his stickers. The head sculpt looks particularly great in this deco with the black and the purple eyes giving the toy a really evil feel. He also comes with a different Micron to the initial release, Terrorcon Zori, a clear purple version of Soundwave's Arms Micron partner. It's a cool addition and I like the clear purple, though the size of the tentacle whip mode is a bit cumbersome in my view.
All in all, Terrorcon Bumblebee is a very cool little recolor. The black deco looks extremely sharp, and the inclusion of a new Arms Micron sets him apart from the first version. He's only a straight redeco of the regular Bumblebee though, so all the pros and cons of that toy carry over to this exclusive version.
That's enough out of me though, open the link below and check out the gallery!
Transformers Prime Arms Micron Terrorcon Bumblebee with Terrorcon Zori GalleryAlso check out our gallery update from earlier this week for more Transformers Prime Arms Micron goodness!Read Replies (0)
By Sol Fury from
TFW2005:
Hobbybase on Facebook has posted some in-hand images of the single carded retail release versions of the Fall of Cybertron Combaticons, who have just recently been released at Asian retail. The five Combaticons -
Onslaught,
Swindle,
Vortex,
Blast Off and
Brawl - are all being shipped one per case in the second assortment of Generations Fall of Cybertron Deluxe Class figures, and naturally, by collecting all five you can combine them into the gigantic
Decepticon Bruticus. There's pictures of all five Combaticons here for you in bot modes as well as one of the combined form - check them out and enjoy!
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By Secretcode from
TFW2005:
Thanks to Higekuma Toy Blog, we now have in-hand galleries of Arms Micron
Swerve (who is a retool of the Takara-exclusive Voyager Breakdown mold) and
Airachnid, as well as their Micron/Minicon companions.
Check out the galleries by taking the jump, and decide for yourself if you want to pick the toys up.
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By Secretcode from
TFW2005:
And now for something completely different.
Earlier this month,
we ran a story about a promotion that High Moon Studios and Ford Australia ran on their Facebook page, asking fans to help create the first Australian-created Transformer.
And now, the result of the promotion has been revealed, via the gaming website
Player Attack, with art of the Australian Autobot known as Falcatron, who turns into a Cybertron-inspired Falcon XR6 Turbo Sedan. As announced and confirmed in the prior news story, this will be only a piece of concept art and there no plans to add this to the game through DLC.
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By ORIO from
TFW2005:
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Bigbadtoystore.com has added a new 3rd party item to their preorders menu. From BTS Toys, we have pictures of their next release which will be the Sunbite and Solar Flare figures. They are reuses of their
Nightfang and the
Tremor/Frequenzy molds with clear color changing plastic. Check out the description from BBTS' website:
Left indoors for long period of time, Clear changes to “Gold” Orange.
Exposed to Sunlight again, depending on intensity and time, changes to Purple again.Have fun and Create your own COLOR COMBINATIONS !Read Replies (0)
By ORIO from
TFW2005:
3rd party group, Perfect Effect have updated their
blog with teases for two upcoming products. The first, a remold release of their popular Scouting Force X. This time around, the three camera-bots will be given a Generation 1 toy color scheme and new parts such as the chests and heads. The figures also get new names; Vanguard, Sniper and Cannonier . So far, it seems that these may be a Japanese fan convention,
transfunket, exclusive, but that's not confirmed just yet. We'll update as more info becomes available.
Also teased is PE-DEX02 shown in cycle mode. This upcoming figure will be a Black Arachnia inspired motorcycle bot and may be an extensive remold of their PE-DX01 Motobot. This figure has been
previously teased before, but hopefully new images and information will be available shortly.
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By Secretcode from
TFW2005:
The
Official Transformers Collectors Club has posted a new image of the upcoming deluxe Breakdown toy
on their Twitter page, showing off this upcoming Subscription Service figure with the original Generation 1 Breakdown and the BotCon 2011 exclusive Animated Breakdown, as well as a close-up shot of the headsculpt on this exclusive.
For more information on the Transformers Collector's Club Subscription Service, head on over
to their website.
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