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Takara Tomy Launch THS-03 Competition

Date: Tuesday, May 23rd 2006 1:02am CDT
Categories: Site News, Company News
Posted by: Alex Kingdom | Credit(s): TakaraTomy.co.jp, Jelze GoldRabbit, TFW2005

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Takara Tomy have launched a competition to decide the next figure in the THS Hybrid Style line and who should design it.

The lucky 10 winners will receive one of the following:

- Gold Galaxy Convoy
- Silver Galaxy Convoy
- Gold Master Galvatron
- Gold Meglo-Convoy
- Black Superlink Galvatron
- Gold Superlink Std Convoy
- Black & Clear Hot Roddimus Set
- Convention Exclusive Re-Issue Inferno and Grapple
- A Galaxy Force T-shirt
- Mousepads
- Pencil boards
- Stickers, Badges and other merchandise

Not to mention maybe see their choice become the next Hybrid Style figure! See the campaign page with pictures of the prizes here.

Let it Storm on Your Desktop!

Date: Tuesday, May 16th 2006 8:17pm CDT
Categories: Comic Book News, Company News
Posted by: Hotrod | Credit(s): Idwpublishing.com

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Let it Storm on your desktop! IDW has updated their Wallpaper Gallery. This time they have added some of Don Figueroa's art from Transformers: Stormbringer. The Transformers: Stormbringer comic by Simon Furman and Don Figueroa is due out in July. Go to IDW's Wallpaper Gallery to download this awesome wallpaper now!

Hasbro Abandons Cybertron Trademark

Date: Tuesday, May 16th 2006 12:11pm CDT
Categories: Toy News, Company News
Posted by: Hotrod | Credit(s): Transformers @ The Moon

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Transformers @ The Moon has reported that Hasbro has abandoned the trademark for Cybertron. Hasbro did not file a statement of use after a notice of allowance was issued. Therefore they have abandoned the trademark for Cybertron. There is no word yet if Hasbro plans to renew their trademark or if this abandonment will have any affect on Transformers.

Hasbro Updates Transformers Website

Date: Thursday, May 4th 2006 11:49pm CDT
Categories: Toy News, Company News
Posted by: Hotrod | Credit(s): Hasbro.com and T.Man of TFans.com, TFW2005, Pretender Skywarp

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Hasbro has updated their Ofiicial Transfomers Wesite. Firstly they have finally added profiles and artwork for Beast Wars 10th Anniversary Optimus Primal and Megatron to thier Beast Wars subsite.

In addition they have also added listings and details for Alternators Optimus Prime, Alternators Mirage, and Cybertron Metroplex.

Entertainment Rights and Magic Lantern To Join Forces

Date: Friday, April 28th 2006 7:13pm CDT
Category: Company News
Posted by: Raymond T. | Credit(s): www.awn.com

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Animation World Network announces that Entertainment Rights has appointed award-winning, interactive media company, Magic Lantern, to develop new media content.

Entertainment Rights currently hold all the UK based media rights to the newer series of Transformers, including Armada, Energon and Cybertron. Magic Lantern posted the following on their site, regarding the future coöperation with Entertainment Rights.

"We're delighted to announce that Magic Lantern and Entertainment Rights plc have signed a deal to work together to create interactive media properties across Entertainment Right's portfolio and to explore opportunities to develop new projects together. The team have already started work on a great new website for Postman Pat with lots more to follow!"

Revoltech Convoy

Date: Wednesday, April 26th 2006 6:20pm CDT
Categories: Toy News, Company News
Posted by: Hotrod | Credit(s): Down_Shift and Tformers.com

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Our own Down_Shift has brought us news about a new Convoy figure. The figure will be produced by Kaiyodo and will be part of their Revoltech line. This figure will not transform but will be very poseable. This is what Down_Shift reported:

"Last year Figure Ou! released images of three great looking Non-transforming figures, G1 Convoy, G1 Megatron and SL Grand Convoy.

According to the new issue of Figure OU! Tranformers' Convoy will be included in Kaiyodo's new Revoltech super poseable action figure line.

You can view a pic of the '04 picture over at Tformers Here:
TFormers.com

From what little I do know about Revoltech all of there figure boast more articulation and cleaner paint aps then what is shown. I would guess that far more is to be added to each figure as it looks like all three are still in the prototype phase."

First Club Exclusive figure officially announced: ASTROTRAIN (remolded Armada Jetfire)!

Date: Wednesday, April 26th 2006 4:18pm CDT
Categories: Toy News, Company News, Collector's Club News
Posted by: Raymond T. | Credit(s): www.transformersclub.com

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The official Transformers Collectors' Club has updated their homepage. The following message has been posted.

"From the far reaches of space comes a deadly new foe on the side of evil. Loyal to no one but himself, this insidious bounty hunter has joined the Decepticons to further his own power. Armed with a vast array of weaponry including his powerful Ionic Pulse Blaster, he and his loyal following tear through space as he transports Decepticons and Mini-Cons on their galactic hunt for the mythical Cyber Planet Keys. As a force to be reckoned with, no Autobot is safe as long as this Decepticon warrior is loose!

Featuring a stunning new head sculpt from original designs by Dan Khanna, Hasbro's Transformers Collectors' Club is proud to present the first club exclusive figure reborn from a Hasbro design that never came to fruition. This fall, make Astrotrain part of your Decepticon army, only from the Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club!

Pictured here is Hasbro's original design concept along with sketches of the new head. Watch transformersclub.com for updates this summer on the new deco and ordering information. Pricing has not been determined at this time".

Let the Beast Wars Begin; On Your Desktop!

Date: Wednesday, April 26th 2006 11:40am CDT
Categories: Comic Book News, Company News
Posted by: Hotrod | Credit(s): Idwpublishing.com

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Let the Beast Wars begin; on your desktop. IDW has updated their Wallpaper Gallery on their website. They have added some wallpaper from Beast Wars which features the art of Guido Guidi. So if your a fan of Beast Wars and your looking to change the wallpaper on your desktop, head over to IDW's Wallpaper Gallery now!

Picture of Soundwave Wall Statue with Laserbeak, Ravage, & Rumble

Date: Tuesday, April 25th 2006 9:43pm CDT
Categories: Sponsor News, Company News, Collectables
Posted by: Hotrod | Credit(s): Big Bad Toy Store

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Last week the news crew reported here that Big Bad Toy Store posted a pre-order for a new Diamond Select Toys Soundwave Wall Statue. Now Big Bad Toy Store has posted an image of Soundwave Wall Statue. Head over to Big Bad Toy Store to check out the statue.

The Super God Master Force Update from Metrodome (UK)

Date: Tuesday, April 25th 2006 2:37pm CDT
Categories: Cartoon News, Company News, Digital Media News
Posted by: Raymond T. | Credit(s): www.metrodomegroup.com, Jezz Vernon

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An update from Metrodome's Jezz Vernon has arrived at our news room today. After much waiting and speculation, Jezz has taken the time and given us the lowdown on what has been going on with the release for the Master Force DVD box, that was supposed to have been released this week. The following has been taken from Jezz Vernon's E-mail.

We've had all kinds of delays caused by the BBFC - the UK censor, not that they're disputing any aspect, merely that it's been a long time being passed through due to the length of the series. We've all put long hours in on this, it's proved to be an extreme challenge to keep 100% quality control on almost 16 hours of material, the whole purpose of changing the way we did the subtitling was to avoid some of the mistakes in Headmasters.

So hard drives, DVDRS, subtitle tiffs and frantic emails have been flying between myself in London, Chris McFeely in Northern Ireland and Jordan Derber in Tokyo. Chris and Jordan are the two stars of the piece, they've both put in late nights and early mornings to get the subtitles in perfect form for the release. Chris even had to watch the entire series in something like 3 days flat, working around his day job - and we're just about to send check discs over to him to watch the whole series again for a final QC.

So the new release date is set for May 29th, the title should be a PG, it'll be 5 discs and the RRP is £34.99

Chris has provided an excellent commentary on 3 of the episodes and once again written a booklet with episode guide, background and a translation chart for the names.

For anyone that hasn't seen Masterforce I can confirm that it's a very special series indeed, my personal favourite so far.

The only sad news is that due to the costs we were incurring we had to make the decison to leave off the English dub. For those of you that know it, it's a pretty poor affair, fairly laughable in places and really not of the expected quality. Done with ahandful of actors, limited budget and appalling translation - we know it's a curio, but we just weren't in a position to use it.

As far as we know there is no disc set in the world where the english Star TV dub and the Japanese audio exist on the same edition. So when it came down to it we naturally had to choose the Japanese dub, otherwise what would be the point of the whole exercise.

Of course this will put some people off, we're genuinely sorry we couldn't include it - but it just wasn't an option eventually.

News on the 20th Anniversary release of Transformers: the movie -well the main news is that i'm trying to clear the decks and get my arse into gear. It's still on the cards and we may even be a few inches closer to including Scramble City and Zone on the edition - so more news to come!

cheers

Jezz