Transformers 4 has been officially confirmed

Paramount Pictures has now issued a press release officially announcing Michael Bay's involvement:

Paramount Pictures announced today that director Michael Bay has signed a two-picture deal with the studio, which will commence this spring with the filming of Pain and Gain, and will be followed by the next installment in the hit Transformers franchise.

Based on a true story, Pain and Gain follows a group of bodybuilders who engaged in a campaign of kidnapping, extortion and murder in Florida. First told in an article from the Miami New Times, Pain and Gain, will be directed by Bay and will star Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. Expected to begin production in early spring, the movie's producers include Bay, Donald De Line and Ian Bryce.

Following Pain and Gain, Bay will bring audiences a new take on the Transformers franchise as he begins production on the fourth installment in the hit series of movies based on the best-selling Hasbro toyline. The third, and most recent installment of the franchise, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Is the fourth highest global grossing film of all time with 1.124 billion dollars of worldwide box office success. Directed by Bay, the movie will re-unite the filmmaking team from the hit franchise, including producers Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Don Murphy, Tom DeSanto and Ian Bryce; and executive producers Steven Spielberg, Bay, Brian Goldner and Mark Vahradian. Paramount Pictures will release the film on June 29th, 2014.

"Michael has been working on PAIN AND GAIN for a number of years but has patiently waited for the perfect casting to trigger a start," said Adam Goodman, President of Paramount's Film Group. "Clearly his patience has paid off as we couldn't be more excited about this combo. His passion for this project is just awesome."

Autobase Aichi has posted the new prototype image of Transformers Prime Arms Micron - Optimus Prime & Bumblebee.

This image was taken from Takara Tomy booth at 2012 Winter Wonderfest at Japan. They are part of the upcoming "Gachapon" capsule toys.

The Transformers official facebook page has revealed the official shot of Transformers Fall of Cybertron Bruticus

Hello TF@The Moon,

Toys R Us no longer list Masterpiece Rodimus on their website. It seems odd, the toy was released only six months ago, and there are still plenty on shelves. Down here in Exeter, they've always had between 4 and 6 on the shelf - if anything, I would guess they are overstocked.

Perhaps people who were waiting for a price cut or online offer should act quickly to get one while they can!

- Adam

We have updated our extensive Japanese Collectors Magazine area with eight more magazines from 2011 and 2012.

• New Type Magazine February 2012 issue
• TV Boy Magazine December 2011 issue
• TV Boy Magazine February 2012 issue
• Hyper Hobby Magazine September 2011 issue
• Hyper Hobby Magazine December 2012 issue
• Hyper Hobby Magazine January 2012 issue
• Hyper Hobby Magazine February 2012 issue
• Dengeki Hobby Magazine February 2012 issue

Rather than posting several stories we have decide to post one simple story containing all of the official Transformers images of Transformers toys which were shown off at the New York Toy Fair.  The lines include Transformers Prime and Transformers Generations (which includes figures from the highly anticipated Transformers Fall of Cybertron game).

For us, the biggest news from the Toy Fair was the annoucement of the Marvel Universe Death's Head figure schedule for release in 2013.

More news in from the Winter Wonderfestival is that a new Transformers related Revoltech toy is in the works.  This time it is Transformers Movie Bumblebee.  Click the full story for images

Images from the 2012 Winter Wonderfestival have started to come in.  Since Tomy (TakaraTomy) are not in attendance it was thought that Transformers images would be thin on the ground. 

CMS Corphave filled the gap by showing of a resin prototype Ginrai and (a possible final version) Minerva, as well as an upcoming "Minerva Special Edition" figure based on the colors of Nightbeat (and the Minerva Night Beat special release in Japan.) Also shown off on the Minerva Special poster is an extra head based on Hi-Q from the Marvel Comics Transformers run that can be attached to the Gutto Kuru Ginrai's body.

Hasbro has annouced in the last hour that 2013 will see the release of Deaths Head in the Marvel Universe toyline.

This will be the first action figure based on Deaths Head who debuted in the Transformers comics back in the 80's as has crossed through mulitple lines such as Dr Who and the Marvel comic universe.

Only a CGI render was shown during a panel which allowed no photography.

The official Transformers facebook page has released it's latest Transformers Prime update.

Toy Fair is this weekend in New York, and we’re counting down with images of 2012 Transformers toys! Check out this Transformers Prime Cyberverse Energon Driller vehicle with Knockout!

TakaraTomy has tweeted a few additional images from the Asahikawa Winter Festival. In addition to the giant Optimus Prime snow sculpture there is also a sculpture of Transformers Prime Bumblebee to greet guest. We also see a coupled of illuminated images of the Optimus Prime sculpture.

Optibotimus has uploaded his latest video review which is none other than the upcoming Headrobots Centurion upgrade kit for G1 Fortress Maximus.

Yesterday Hasbro updated their Facebook page with the latest Transformers Prime Tuesday.

Jim Sorenson has updated his blog, Diciples of Boltax, with the news that he will be working on a new GI Joe Animation model book along with Bill Forster.  Transformers fans will know that Jim and Bill released two Transformers Ark books covering the animation art from the original Transformers series and Japanese Transformers series.

Jim has posted the following.

Yo Joe!  The time has come for much rejoicing and cavorting.  I can now officially announce what many of you have guessed... my next book is going to be an Ark-style book of G.I. Joe animation models, out this summer.

(Nice Snake Eyes model courtesy of a frequent contributor to the model book, Tim Finn of A Real American Book.)

It's going to be pretty spectacular.  For some reason I've been able to find WAY more material than I have for Transformers.  As the illustration to the right jokingly illustrates, I'm going to be taking a few thousand model sheets and condensing the very best and most interesting of them down into one volume of a few hundred pages. I'm really stoked at my first work in this new and glorious arena.  I've come across some amazingly cool rare stuff, plus most of what you'd expect for a book about the Sunbow animation models. I'm still looking for more material, too, so if you're a collector of such things drop me a line.  I'm especially interested in material from the movie and the commercials beyond, as well as incidental characters.

So you see, my Roll Out Roll Call appearance is doubly fortuitous!  I can show off some early sneak-peaks of the book there.  Definitely swing by if you're in the UK.

Now you know the significance of Jim and Bill's appearance at Roll Out Roll Call 2012, and as we all know Knowing is Half the Battle

HK-TF.com have posted images of the free figure people will get when they go on Transformrt: The Ride when it opens in Singapore and then latter in Hollywood.  The toy, named Evac, can be viewed below.

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