By Sol Fury from
TFW2005:
Here's something very cool that you might enjoy taking a look at. South Carolina news program
Carolina Camera recently did a segment on the Transformers collection of 2005's very own Flywheels! Check out this very cool video, showcasing Flywheel's very awesome collection that spans the generations, American, European and Japanese releases.
Want to show off your collection? Check out our
Transformers Collection Showcase section of the boards!
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By ORIO from
TFW2005:
Feeling a little down now that TFC Toys' Hercules project has been completed? Are you feeling a loss that can only be filled by another 3rd party Devastator project? Don't worry, TFW has you covered. The first two components from Giant, a 3rd party Devastator custom project from Maketoys, have started arriving at the front doors of fans. Thanks to several 2005 Board members,
ACToys, and
livedoor we have a ton of images to take a look at!
We've got it all!
Pictures showing off articulation (Check out the ankle rocking joints!)
Comparison pics with TFC Toys Hercules figures and Fansproject Bruticus
In package and out of package pics
Robot mode, vehicle mode, and limb mode pictures
Teasing from 2005 Board member Drillbit on a possible interative feature with Maketoys' upcoming Not-Fallen figure. (Take this as a rumor for now!)
Be sure to discuss this project in our
Maketoys Giant thread in our new
3rd Party Forum and share your thoughts!
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By ORIO from
TFW2005:
The Official
Transformers Collectors' Club has
Tweeted a new image of their upcoming exclusives Runamuck and Over-Run. Seen here together for the first time, the two partners are giving eachother a high five.
Runamuck will be available with from the Collector's Club for free with a paid subscription by March 16th. Over-Run will be for sale via the Club's store with preorders going live early next week.
The Collectors' club has also tweeted that the final preview of Shattered Glass Drift, the other store exclusive for 2012, will be posted on Monday.
Check out the image after the break.
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By Sol Fury from
TFW2005:
Bad news reaches us from our sponsors, Big Bad Toy Store and TFSource. The
Transformers Prime First Edition toy line, which contains amongst others a very sharp screen accurate Optimus Prime and Bulkhead, plus Cliffjumper with show-accurate arm cannons, have been officially canceled for US distribution. A very small few made it to Toys R Us, along with a partial release of the line in Asia and Canada. Although it was always intended to be a limited run line, it looks now like that many preorders may simply not be filled.
Earlier today, Big Bad Toy Store began sending out the following email:
We apologize that we have learned that Hasbro has canceled these [Transformers Prime First Edition] figures. We will be listing new TF Prime preorders on Wednesday 2/1. Some of these may convert to new listings and some will be canceled. We will email you with updates between now and Wednesday. TFSource also posted the following on Twitter and Facebook:
Unfortunately we have some bad news, we didn't want to call it until Hasbro confirmed, but the rest of the Transformers Prime First Edition series figures will not hit the US. New Prime preorders will be up next week, if you already have placed an order you can opt to convert to the new product (RID) or cancel your order if you no longer want the RID piece. Once we have more news and the new preorders up next week we'll reach out directly to all customers that preordered.Unfortunately it seems likely that the line will at this point never see a full, mainstream US release. However, hope is not completely lost - this may be like previous occasions where items that seemed to be canceled eventually turned up in discount stores such as Ross, as was the case with the Reveal the Shield Voyager assortment, Power Core Combiners or Windcharger.
We live in the hope.
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By Secretcode from
TFW2005:
A bit of news today from Transformers Collector's Club regarding the toy formerly known as Runabout. Full robot mode pictures will be up later today, but the TFCC has announced that the name is no longer available for use and will instead be called "Over-Run" because "
from a product standpoint we had to go with the name "Over-Run"... We could have searched out other names CLOSER to Runabout BUT that would have delayed us getting this guy to you all SOONER rather than later. Just all the way the schedule worked out."
From a name copyright standpoint, this naming issue is either due to Star Trek or
a little red wagon.
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By Tony_Bacala from
TFW2005:
Jeff Anderson, an interior artist for some of the Transformers Generation 1 Marvel comic books from the 80s currently has some of his original pages online for sale at eBay -
Original Transformers G1 Comic Art. These include some pages from Target 2006, among others.
Check out all the pages by
here.
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By ORIO from
TFW2005:
Third party group, Igear, has updated their
Facebook page with a new prototype image of what appears to be their take on Generation 1 Cliffjumper. As with other Igear figures, this guy looks like he will be carrying quite an arsenal with him.
Check out the image after the break and head over to our new
3rd Party Discussion forum to discuss this and all things 3rd party!
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By Secretcode from
TFW2005:
A few days ago
we posted a story regarding some updates to the Takara-Tomy website, and today we'll be posting an update to THAT update, as thanks to
GunJap.net we have some clarifications regarding what we speculated to be a stage based upon Optimus Prime for the Asahikawa Winter Festival, revealing that the project is in reality a giant 16 Meter (Or 52 1/2 feet) statue of
Transformers: Prime Optimus Prime made entirely out of snow. We'll keep you posted on this chilling story as time goes on.
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By ORIO from
TFW2005:
More news out of The Transformers Collectors' Club. The club has updated their
Facebook page with an image of the upcoming store exclusive
Runabout's vehicle mode. This is the first we've seen of this figure in all of it's plastic glory. The Club also states that Runabout's robot mode will be revealed tomorrow. Runabout will be available for preorder sometime next week, according to the Club, along with
Shattered Glass Drift. Runabout's partner,
Runamuck, will be available as the free figure for signing up for the Transformers Collectors' Club Magazine.
Keep watching for more images here on TFW!
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