It's been confirmed by both his wife and daugher, on Facebook, that Dick Gautier passed away on Jan 13th 2017. Dick is best known by Transformers fans for voicing Rodimus Prime in Season 3 of Generation One. He was also well known for voicing Serpentor.

We have recieved a list of some of the upcoming 2017 Transformers releases for the UK.  Some of the informastion included release dates (months), where as others just stated a 2017 release. The list includes the fan choice winner Trypticon!

Again, these are all currently due for release within the UK.

Due January 2017

1. Transformers Rescue Bots Rescan Assorted 
2. Transformers Robots in Disguise Legion Assorted 
3. Transformers Robots in Disguise 3 Step Changers
4. Transformers Robots in Disguise One Step Changers Assorted 
5. Transformers Robots in Disguise Warriors Assorted 
6. Transformer Robots in Disguise Warrior Bumblebee
7. Transformer Generations Legends Class Assorted 
8. Transformers Generations Titan Masters Assorted 
9. Transformers Minicon Battle Pack Assorted 
10. Transformers Recue Bots Mini Con Assorted 
11. Transformers Recue Bots Adventure Assorted 
12. Transformers Recue Bots Bot Headquarters
13. Transformers Generations Deluxe Titans Return Assorted 
14. Transformers Generations Voyager Titans Return Assorted 
15. Transformers Generations Legends Titans Return Assorted 
16. Transformers Generations Leader Titans Return Assorted 
17. Transformers Recue Bots Team Assortment
18. Transformers Robots in Disguise Team Combiners
19. Transformers Robots in Disguise Crash Combiners
20. Transformers Robots in Disguise Activator Combiner Pack

No Release Month Stated

Some of the figures with no release dates against them mirror the listings of the January releases.  We are unsure why. 

1. Transformer Robots in Disguise Warrior Bumblebee
2. Transformer Generations Legends Class Assorted 
3. Transformers Generations Titan MAssorted ers Assorted 
4. Transformers Minicon Battle Pack Assorted 
5. Transformers Recue Bots Mini Con Assorted 
6. Transformers Recue Bots Adventure Assorted 
7. Transformers Recue Bots Bot Headquarters
8. Transformers Generations Deluxe Titans Return Assorted 
9. Transformers Generations Voyager Titans Return Assorted 
10. Transformers Generations Legends Titans Return Assorted 
11. Transformers Generations Leader Titans Return Assorted 
12. Transformers Recue Bots Team Assortment
13. Transformers Robots in Disguise Team Combiners
14. Transformers Robots in Disguise Crash Combiners
15. Transformers Robots in Disguise Activator Combiner Pack
16. Transformers Collector 7 Pck
17. Transformers Character N Vehicle Assorted
18. Transformers Recue Bots Bot Tango Bumblebee
19. Transformers Generations Trypticon
20. Transformers Optimus Peek A Bot Rollin Rig
21. Transformers Rubiks 

April 2017

1. Transformers Recue Bots Bot Tango Bumblebee
2. Transformers Movie 5 First Edition Helmet
3. Transformers Movie 5 Turbo Changer Blind Bag
4. Transformers Movie 5 Turbo Changer
5. Transformers Movie 5 3 Step Turbo Changer
6. Transformers Movie 5 Deluxe
7. Transformers Movie 5 Role Play Helmet
8. Transformers Movie 5 Legion Figure Assorted 
9. Transformers Movie 5 Voyager
10. Transformers Movie 5 Leader
11. Transformers Movie 5 Turbo Changer Feature
12. Transformers Movie 5 RC Earth
13. Transformers Movie 5 Power Cube Figures
14. Transformers Movie 5 Power Cube Starter Kit

This list confirms some details which have been previously been announced, as well as including other items which have not.  The list also confirms that the Genertions Trypticon figure will indeed see a UK release and there there is an RC (Radio Controlled)? Earth planned as part of the Last Knight toys.

With the UK Toy Fair just around the corner more information may be available soon. 

This video contains the cut and altered studio audio from the Transformers Generations One cartoon episode Fire In The Sky. The audio is from an original slugged cassette and if from the sessions when Skyfire was still referred to as Jetfire. This audio was never used in the final released version.

You can download the script - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BwBhmf92x_UES01QTFNRS1RwSnc

Please find the transcript of the audio below.

#### Extended Scene ####

SKYWARP: We... we found something!

MEGATRON: So you did. Starscream, I want a clearer look.

STARSCREAM: You shall have it, leader.

MEGATRON: It appears to be a robot of unknown classification.

*NEW* RUMBLE: Look out -- You'll damage him! Let me do it ..

*NEW* STARSCREAM: Stay back! I've had enough of your bungling today! Wha---?!

*NEW* MEGATRON: Rumble's right -- I don't want the creature damaged. We may be able to revive him!

MEGATRON: With his size and probable strength, he will make an excellent Decepticon!

#### Extended Scene with switched audio ####

THUNDERCRACKER: Whatever it is, being on ice kept it fresh.

SKYWARP: But not perfect. Info center's down.

SOUNDWAVE: Also, cybermotor relays are useless **MOVED IN FINAL VERSION** 

STARSCREAM: Then give him 50.000 volts to activate his memory monitor!

MEGATRON: Starscream, why are you so concerned about this creature?

STARSCREAM: Because I knew him once, a long time ago on Cybertron. Again! This time a million volts!

*NEW* THUNDERCRACKER: Converting wrist unit to nuclear-fusion cannon ... and ... firing!

STARSCREAM: Memory monitor activating!

MEGATRON: You knew him?

STARSCREAM: His name is Jetfire.

#### Extended Scene ####

STARSCREAM: Jetfire and I were both explorers from Cybertron.

MEGATRON:That must have been shortly before our final falling-out with the Autobots. 

*NEW* MEGATRON: They refused to join us in our conquest of the universe so we declared war on them and all their weakling breed.

STARSCREAM: Yes. Skyfire and I were exploring what was an uncharted planet at that time. This one. Earth.

#### Extended Scene ####

JETFIRE: Aaahh... aahh... What happened? Starscream... it's you. You have... rescued me. But where am I? This is not Cybertron.

STARSCREAM: No. This is Earth, where you crashed many years ago.

*NEW* JETFIRE: How long have I been ... dysfunctional?

*NEW* STARSCREAM: Too long! Much has changed Jetfire.

*NEW* JETFIRE: But I will soon be operational again and we will resume our scientific explorations!

MEGATRON: I am Megatron, Jetfire.

#### Extended Scene ####

SKYFIRE: Destruction to all Autobots!

*NEW* IRONHIDE: He's a Decepticon!

*NEW* PRIME: Seek cover and return fire!

*NEW* IRONHIDE: You can dish it out, big fellah, but can you take it?!

SPARKPLUG WITWICKY: Hit the ice, Spike! He's gonna fire again!

SPIKE WITWICKY: Dad, help!!

#### Extended Scene ####

OPTIMUS PRIME:Possibly. There are hundreds of tunnels down here!

SPIKE WITWICKY: Please, help!

*NEW* SPARKPLUG: Can you hear us!

CLIFFJUMPER: Spike and Sparkplug!

OPTIMUS PRIME: Cliffjumper, be cautious!

TFNation have issued the following release regarding ticket prices for their 2017 convention

Dear attendees,

On 21st December 2016 we provided an outline for future important updates. This is the first important piece of information you will need before tickets go on sale on 1st February 2017.

We're back with the next episode in our series looking at missing and altered scenes from the Transformers Generation One cartoon series. 

This video primarily covers Episode 8 - S.O.S Dinobots and is taken from an unslugged tape of a recording where both Ken Samson and Casey Kasem were not present. However it starts with a single quote from a slugged tape of Fire in the Sky where you shall hear Starscream, voiced by Chris Latta, refer to Skyfire as Jetfire! Your ears are not deceiving you, the tape that we own is from a session that was recorded before Jetfire was renamed as Skyfire. We do not, at the time of this videos publication, own and unslugged audio from this episode and so we shall not be producing a dedicated video for that episode.

You can download the full episode script from https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwBh... thanks to Jim Sorenson and Chris McFeely and can view a transcript of the audio below the video.

TRANSCRIPT:

===========

WALLY BURR: This is Transformers 700-05 from the top

==== Extended Scene ====

IRONHIDE: No Decepti-creeps, but there is somethin' weird in there.

*NEW* PRIME: Danger! Rock fracture imminent!

*NEW* SPIKE: Thanks, Optimus!

## Brawns dialogue changes order ##

BRAWN: Hey, there's a cavern in there!

BRAWN: Get your pistons pumping, Sideswipe!

BRAWN: Let's clean up this mess.

*NEW* SIDESWIPE: *grumbles* ... the greatest fighting machine in the universe and they make me a janitor!

SIDESIPE: Well, I'll be a cybertronic boltbat! What are they?

WHEELJACK: Feels like stone, but they look like the bones of some giant creature.

=== Extended Scene ====

VISITOR: As long as the water goes over the great falls, the generators will keep producing electrical energy.

*NEW* SOUNDWAVE: Lazerbeak return!

*NEW* Lazerbeak: 

SOUNDWAVE: Data gathering complete, Reflector.

REFLECTOR: Then let's go, Soundwave. Megatron awaits our report.

==== Wally Covers Hound ====

*NEW* WALLY BURR: This is exciting Spike et cetera, go to Spike at 21 and eerrrr errr coming up the steps, going into the museum, go Spike take 1

==== The word "Hound" is cut badly from the episode ===

*Altered* SPIKE WITWICKY: Careful Hound, don't bump your head.

==== EXTENDED SCENE WITH WALLY ====

SPIKE WITWICKY: There. Why don't you get some holograms of those babies? The Brontosaurus, the Triceratops, and finally the Tyrannosaurus Rex!

*NEW* WALLY: Now that's good that's got a shiny little, ah we skip Hound and we go onto the top of the next page and Prime kinda of scratches his chin and says ..

OPTIMUS PRIME: Very impressive.

*NEW* HUFFER: hmmmphf, they look pretty stupid to me.

*NEW* SPIKE: We also recorded a cassette from the museum's film library with some fantastic special effects. Ok Hound, change the channel.

SPIKE WITWICKY: There they are guys. Dinosaurs

==== EXTENDED DINOBOT SFX WITH WALLY ====

*NEW* WALLY: Good, very good, cut for a second. Now its [snip]b[snip] uhhh ... Dinobots roaring, Slag first, take one and I'll keep it going, break it up so I can get uh razorblade into it occasionally and it's take one

SLAG: *roars* x2

*NEW* WALLY: Wouldn't it have been better if it worked .. give me a sample of it first

SLAG: *roar*

*NEW* WALLY: two, this is two, go!

SLAG: *roars* x17

*NEW* WALLY: and this is Grimlock. Same routine, vary it in pace, some kind of little inquisitory things, some little startles, some backoffs, some question marks over your head, all sorts of little things, Grimlock take one

GRIMLOCK: *sfx* x15

*NEW* WALLY: And this is Sludge, same variety of stuff and ...

SLUDGE: *sfx* x17

==== EXTENDED SCENE ====

SIDESWIPE: Yahh!

*NEW* WALLY: Bluestreak will be done later, it's Casey, Prowl take one!

*NEW* Prowl: Woah!

==== EXTENDED SCENE ====

*NEW* LITTLE BOY: Mommy, look! Spacemen!

*NEW* MOTHER: Oh, you've been seeing too many monster movies lately

SKYWARP: You wanna fight us, you germs?

==== WALLY SITS IN ====

SPIKE WITWICKY: Until Teletraan 1's operational again, it's up to us to check on Decepticon activity, Hound.

*NEW* WALLY: "I enjoy it" he says and he comes down and we have Optimus Prime coming up with a speech at 88 and its take one, I've just called in and I've said "Hound calling Optimus Prime. Enemy sighted."

OPTIMUS PRIME: Acknowledged, Hound. We'll meet you at the falls in 8,000 astroseconds.

==== WALLY COVERS HOUND AND BLUESTREAK ====

*NEW* WALLY: and we skip .. err .. and we go to 95 here on Optimus Primo and take one

OPTIMUS PRIME: I don't detect any Decepticons.

*NEW* WALLY: "Hound's got glitch" that takes us into Hound "No, we're in the right place. Those electronic signals are stronger than ever."

MEGATRON: Right you are, Autobot! Forward, warriors! Take them!

==== EXTENDED SCENE ====

STARSCREAM: You're too slow, rusty pants!

IRONHIDE: Aw, shut up and fight!

*NEW* TRAILBREAKER: C'mon, guys -- let's mash these trash cans!

*NEW* THUNDERCRACKER: You were saying, metal mouth?

*NEW* PRIME: Spike -- take cover!

*NEW* SUNSTREAKER: Keep blasting, brother. We're up to our relays in Decepticons.

RUMBLE: Nice shootin', if you were aimin' for the sky!

==== EXTENDED SCENE ====

STARSCREAM: What now, Megatron? Surely a little bath hasn't ended our Autobot problem.

*NEW* MEGATRON: Hardly, but the water has weakend them enough to make them powerless to resist.

MEGATRON: We shall retrieve their short-circuited carcasses and prepare them for permanent disfunction.

STARSCREAM: What now, Megatron? Surely a little bath hasn't ended our Autobot problem.

*NEW* MEGATRON: They're finished! *laughs*

==== EXTENDED SCENE ====

GRIMLOCK: We do as told ... for now.

*NEW* WHEELJACK: Ok so they're not neat.

*NEW RATCHET: Wheeljack, wait! Give the Dinobot these powerpacks.

==== BODY ENGLISH ====

* Comes after Prime*

*NEW* WALLY: and, er, Ironhide, same stuff, 138 take one.

IRONHIDE: *groans*

*NEW* WALLY: And, er, third character, er for 138 and go!

==== CLEAN SFX ====

SLAG: *roars*

GRIMLOCK: *roars*

SLUDGE: *roars*

==== EXTENDED SCENE ====

SKYWARP: Heat-seeking missiles, seek heat!

*NEW* SKYWARP: Guess that'll show 'em. Uggh, urrhj

SKYWARP: Yaaaaahh!

==== EXTENDED SCENE ====

*NEW* SOUNDWAVE: Not funny Skywarp.

*NEW* SKYWARP: D' you see me laughing?

*NEW* REFELCTOR: Confused dum-dum, let me add to your confusion! ha-ha

MEGATRON: We must keep fighting at all costs! I will lead us to victory yet!

Hasbro has release two new adverts for Transformers toys with the first being for Titans Return and the 2nd for Robots In Disguise Combiner Force. You can watch the videos below

Thanks to the Facebook group Cybertron Philippines and Toy Kingdom, we are able share some more images of the Titans Return wave 4 figures in their packaging including Shuffler, Quake, Skyshadow, Krok and TopSpin.

Thanks to TFND on Facebook we have new images of Titans Returns Wave 4 Krok, Quake and Topspin which you can view below.

TFNation have kicked off the New Year by announcing their first Voice Actor / Actor guest as Venus Terzo! Venus is best known to Transformers fans for voicing Blackarachnia in Beast Wars and Beast Machines though she is also well known as the voice fo Rainbow Dash in My Little Pony, Girl-Type Ranma in Ramna 1/2, Jean Grey, the Sorceress, Jinx, Princess Lana and on-screen roles including Arrow, Minority Report, Supernatural, Stargate SG-1, Blackstone and the Da Vinici's Inquest. You can read the rull press release below. 

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With the eHobby Convoy Bat (Bat Optimus Primal) figure starting to shop @tagoal has tweeted out new images of the figure along with its packaging. You can view the images after the jump

Takara Tomy Mall have released a product listing, with plenty of images, of their next Masterpiece exclusive, MP-11ND Dirge! With the listing of Masterpiece MP-11ND Dirge, third and final Masterpiece Conehead and eighth character to be made from the Masterpiece Seeker mold, it now means that all of the G1 seekers have been released as Masterpiece toys.

Takara-Tomy are continuing their partnership with A Bathing Ape (BAPE) with a January release of a new redeco of the MP-10 mold called “MP-10K Convoy Black Camo Version“. The figure is a black and grey Masterpiece Optimus Prime and is almost a "sleep mode" version of MP-10.  BAPE Transformers crossover merchandise are alwaysy limited editions with drawings taking place on January 2nd at 9:30 am in various Japanese BAPE stores. Full details and information on participating stores may be found on the campaign’s webpage.

It has been announced that Cartoon Network (Germany) shall be airing Season 3 of Transformers Robots In Disguise (2015) next month (January 2017) airing at 6:40am on both Saturday and Sundays.

Statement from January 2017 Program Highlights Sheet:

Sender premiere neuer Folgen der dritten Staffel immer samstags und sonntags um 06:40 Uhr

Als der cybertronische Gefangenentransporter Alchemor auf der Erde abstürzt, werden gefährliche Decepticons auf freien Fuß gesetzt. Bumblebee soll nach Anweisung vom Optimus Prime ein kleines Team zusammenstellen, um diese erneute Gefahr durch die Decepticons auf der Erde aufzuhalten. Doch die Menschen dürfen keinerlei Verdacht schöpfen.

Credit to TFW2005.com

We have found some new trademarks filed with the USPTO by Hasbro Inc. The trademarks are:

1. COOL CREW

You can view all of the details of these and other trademarks within our exclusive Trademark Application area of the website which features trademark applications from 1984 through until the present day.

We have found some new trademarks filed with the USPTO by Hasbro Inc. The trademarks are:

1. ELITA-1

You can view all of the details of these and other trademarks within our exclusive Trademark Application area of the website which features trademark applications from 1984 through until the present day.