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12 years ago today, 29th October 1999, Transformers At The Moon was first launched. The website, at that time, operated from the domain www.transformers.themoon.co.uk which was based from the email address transformers@themoon. It was by registering this email account that we decided to settle on the name for the site. Whilst both the email address and the domain have since moved to domains owned by us and to better reflect the focus of the website, Transformers toys, the site has continued to be maintained by the two brothers who first launched it.
We had hoped to launch the 9th version of the website to coincide with the anniversary of the site, however due to my computer at home failing, that project is still outstanding.
We will, however, still run the 12th anniversary celebrations, in terms of new special content and announcements, just as soon as wee are able to. But in the mean time we would like to express our thanks to all of you who have visited the website over the last 12 years, joined the message board, Facebook group or follow us on Twitter. So on behalf of thhe pair of us, THANK YOU.
Steve and Dave AKA Transformers At The Moon
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gameinformer has posted the latest article in their month long Transformers: Fall of Cybertron coverage. This article titled "True To Form: Safeguarding The Transformers License"
focuses on intellectual property development and licensing. High Moon
game director Matt Tieger and Hasbro vice president of intellectual
property development Aaron Archer cover the following:
Following up from the recent announcement of the Dream Toys 2011, the British Toy Retailers Association has now listed their category specific top tops which includes Transformers in the Boys Toys. You can view the list below
Bakugan Dragonoid Collossus - Spin Master - £39.99 Ben 10 Ultimate Alien - Ultimate Ultimatrix - Bandai - £19.99 Cars 2 Fully Secret Spy Attack Finn McMissile - Mattel - £30.99 Doctor Who Personalise Your Own Sonic Screwdriver Set - Character - £19.99 Hot Wheels Wall Tracks - Mattel - £29.99 Nerf N-Strike Barricade RV-10 Blaster - Hasbro - £17.99 Nerf Vortex Nitron Blaster - Hasbro - £44.99 Star Wars Ultimate Force Tech Lightsaber Asst - Hasbro - £39.99 Toy Story Turbo Glow Buzz Lightyear - Mattel - £41.99 Transformers Ultimate Optimus Prime - Hasbro - £69.99
Category: Transformers Toy News
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AsiaOne.com are reporting that Transformers: The Ride will open in Singapore on December the third.
Here is a copy of the announcement
Come 3 December, Universal Studios Singapore (USS) will launch the world's first theme park attraction based on Hasbro's iconic Transformers brand.
Planning for this ride had started even before Resorts World Sentosa was built. From conceptualisation to construction, the latest theme park ride of USS took over four years to complete.
This motion thrill ride will showcase the most advanced evolution of immersive theme park entertainment.
The attraction will feature 12 scenes, comprising sets blended seamlessly with hyper-realistic 3-D digital media and special effects to bring tactile realism to every moment.
A spokesperson from Resorts World Singapore told AsiaOne that the ride duration is approximately four minutes, and that the ride is currently in a testing phase where it is put through thousands of hours of test cycles.
In this latest ride at USS, guests will be transported onboard advanced motion-based ride vehicles into the Transformers universe, and partake in the ultimate 3D battle against the Decepticons right alongside the Autobots.
Enlisted as NEST recruits, guests are tasked to help the Autobots protect a remaining shard of the ALLSPARK – a powerful energy cube that gives life to the Transformers. As the Decepticons attack the facility in a bid to obtain the shard, guests will be introduced to a new Autobot – EVAC – created exclusively for the ride.
EVAC is a stealth transportation Autobot stationed on Earth designed to transport personnel and classified materials at hyper speeds. For the ride, park guests will board EVAC and zip through subway tunnels, down city streets and across rooftops, with the Decepticons hot on their heels.
Park guests, especially fans of Transformers, will be thrilled as they come face-to-face – and be transported – by an Autobot. This epic ride experience will allow guests the opportunity to truly "Ride The Movie".
Special year-end holiday packages for Universal Studios Singapore will be rolled out through the Resorts World Sentosa website and authorized travel agents.
Guests signing up for these special packages will receive a Transformers The Ride commemorative souvenir and express entry to the attraction. More details will be available at www.rwsentosa.com.
Transformers movie director Michael Bay will be in S'pore for launch party
Transformers The Ride will celebrate its world premier at an exclusive evening event on December 2.
Michael Bay, director and executive producer of the Transformers blockbuster movies who also served as the attraction's creative consultant, will be in attendance to help commemorate the occasion.
Mr. Michael Bay said: "I am very excited about the debut of this attraction at Universal Studios Singapore. Finally, Transformers fans will not only have the chance to watch the Autobots battle the Decepticons on screen; they will actually be part of the action."
Category: Transformers Movie News
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on: Thursday, 27th October 2011 at 08:37:26 BST
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Jim Sorenson has posted a new additional to his Ark Addendum yesterday called Mircobots Part 1 . Here's Jim to tell you all about it, though remember to click the link to view the character model.
"This week in The Ark Addendum... MICROBOTS! Part 1. No, it's not a
two-part episode, I just have some more designs from the episode.
Unusual ones... but we'll get to that next week.
This week's installment is the backgrounds and props from the episode.
As we all remember, the Decepticons discover the remains of their
as-yet-unnamed starship, which Beast Wars would dub Nemesis. Inside is
the Heart of Cybertron, which powers up Megatron and prompts the
Autobots to shrink down, Fantastic Voyage style, and infiltrate
Megatron's body.
To me, the stand-out models here are Floro Dery's take on Megatron's
insides. He reused some of this imagery for the inside of Unicron a
little later. It's just a lovely alien landscape, bizarre and
compelling. Hats off to you, sir, hats off."
Category: Transformers Cartoons
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on: Wednesday, 26th October 2011 at 08:53:10 BST
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The British Toy Retailers Association have now named their top 12 toys Christmas 2011. The list, shown below in alphabetical order, are the associations predicted top sellers and will/have featured in national press and news outlets this weel:
Doggie Doo, John Adams, RRP £22.99
Fijit Friends, Mattel, RRP £54.99
Fireman Sam Pontypandy Rescue Set, Character, RRP £29.99
Kidizoom Twist, VTech, RRP £49.99
LeapPad Explorer, Leapfrog Toys, RRP £79.99
Lets Rock Elmo, Hasbro, RRP £69.99
Milky the Bunny, Flair, £59.99
Monster High Lagoona’s Hydration Station, Mattel, £39.99
Moshling Tree House, Vivid, RRP £18.99
Nerf Vortex Nitron Blaster, Hasbro, RRP £44.99
Ninjago Fire Temple, Lego, RRP £91.99
Star Wars Ultimate Force Tech Lightsaber, Hasbro, RRP £39.99
Category: Toy Industry News
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on: Wednesday, 26th October 2011 at 08:50:59 BST
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Toy-Hobby-World have posted three scans from the latest issue of Dengeki Hobby Magazine. The scans have another look at the next Japanese Luck Draw figure, Sentinel Prime, as well as showing some new images of the upcoming DA-28 Striker Optimus Prime and Human Alliance Soundwave toy. Check out the mirrored scans below.
Los Angeles Times have posted a video with British model turned actress Rosie Huntington-Whiteley regarding the chances of Transformers 4 and whether she thinks that Shia LaBeouf could be pursuaded to return.
"We'll see about that," Huntington-Whiteley told Los Angeles Times, Monday at the Hollywood Awards, seemingly doubtful about LaBeouf's statement. Asked if the actor could be persuaded to return for another "Transformers," she replied: "I think so. He'll kill me for saying that."
You can view the video below.
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on: Wednesday, 26th October 2011 at 08:39:36 BST
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As you have no doubt notice the number of updates to this website, including news stories, has gradualy become less and less over recent weeks and so I thought I would take the time to update you all as to why this is the case.
For those of you who do not know this website was set-up and run by some twins 12 years ago. In fact the site first launched on the 29th October 1999. However, for the last few years, as we have gotten older, both of our professional careers have taken up more and more of our free time. Its fairly common for both of us to work 12-16 hour days and personally I have worked 37 hours straight only a few months ago. Because of this the time we get to maintain the website code, add new galleries and launch new features has dwindled. The last year has been especially difficult for us as my brother, who you may know as Moonbug, no longer lives in the same town as myself and he use to maintain a lot of the content whilst I was working on the code. During this time, and indeed the year prior, I have been re-writing the whole website from the ground up. What was suppose to have been a 6-8 month project has slipped to 2 years. I was hoping to launch the website this month as a part of ther 12th year anniversary celebrations, however as of last night my the motherboard on my main computer has died. The machine has been on its last legs for a while with both the graphics card and soundcard failing and finally the fan on the northbridge has once again packed in causing the board to overheat and fry.
The good news is that when the issues stared all of the data was backed up onto an external hard disk so I have, at most, lost about a few days worth of coding and 2 months worth of emails to an old email address.
I will continue to update the news from work, when I can as well as from home via my phone or this extremely low powered netbook whilst I order and re-build a new computer.
My brother is currently out of the country on holiday but once he is back I am sure that he will try to update the site as much as he can whilst I am unable to add new galleries, yes this netbook is that low powered it can't handle high res image editing.
I will continue to try to complete the last 3% of the website re-write as well as things are so close to launch but I wanted to let you all know that if things seem quiet around here for the next week or so it is not because the website has stopped, on the contrary, we have a lot of unique content that we have been preparing to add to the website from hard copies and testshots through cartoon models and behind the scenes Sunbow documents as well as general toy galleries.
What it does mean though, is the big celebration I was hoping to have to commemorate the 12th aniversary of the website will be delayed, perhaps to the 12th anniversary of the official launch of the site which was the 11th November 1999.
Thanks,
Steve AKA Quartz
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TakaraTomy have announced, via their website, their latest prize campaign within Japan, also known as the lucky draw campaigns, with the top prize this time being a gold chrome Transformers: Dark Side Moon Sentinel Prime. Dark Side Moon being the Japanese name for the 3rd live action Transformers movie.
The figure will be limited to 10 pieces with collectors able to enter the competition by collecting the serial codes from the Transformers Dark Side Moon toys. Other then the 10 Voyager Sentinel Primes other prizes include 10 special edition Transformers web cameras and 100 new gold Mech
Tech weapon.
ACToyshave posted some new images of their prototype Dinosaur combiner. The toys are shown in their individual Dinosaur modes as well as the combined form. You can view the mirrored images below.
In a guest post over on Jim Sorenson's blog, Disciples of Boltax, Monzo has posted an article reference and re-producing some storyboards from the first ever cartoon episode of Transformers, More Than Meets The Eye, that were sold on Heritage Auctions way back in 2002. The images show some high resolution scans of ten pages of storyboards which make some interesting analysis.
Our thanks go out to Neurie for tweeting us confirmation and images that Cyberverse Guzzle (£6.49), MechTech Cyberfire Bumblebee (£9.49), Mech-Tech Specialist Ratchet (£9.49) and the Battle Hooks Optimus Prime with Comettor (£19.99) are all now available at Smyths stores across the country. You can view images of these toys on the shelf below.
Category: Transformers Toy News
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on: Friday, 21st October 2011 at 20:06:14 BST
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A quick heads up. A few people including Neurie, Matt Marshall and Simon Williams have all let us know via one medium of another that this week's issue of Doctor Who Adventures (#240,
pollybagged with Silent mask) comes completed with a Kreon Optimus Prime mini-figure. The toy is the same figure that was given away at Botcon so it is not normally available. The magazine costs £2.99 http://www.dwamag.com/this-week%27s-issue.aspx
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on: Friday, 21st October 2011 at 19:59:45 BST
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TFW2005.com were invited to a webinar with Hasbro and IDW comics to cover a bit on the close future of the Transformers Comics
After the Death of Optimus Prime
(IDW #125, due in December), the "War for Cybertron" is officially
over. The Autobots have won and took control of the planet. They are
starting to rebuild. There is a choice though - stay or go. This is
where the split into 2 books will happen. More Than Meets The Eye will
follow Rodimus and his team, as they choose to leave Cybertron. Robots
In Disguise will focus on the new leader, Bumblebee, and how he leads
the remaining Autobots (and Decepticons, all Transformers for that
matter), on Cybertron. Two books, one universe.
In More Than Meets The Eye, Rodimus will lead at least the
following bots - Ultra Magnus, Drift, Ratchet (they are seen on the
multi cover images). We will follow them and whomever goes with them in
space as they search for the "Knights of Cybertron" a legendary band of
bots. They are not even sure if they are real. They supposedly have
the power to return Cybertron to the "Golden Age" before the war. This
group will run into remnants of the Great War on planets and locations
that aren't yet aware it is over, as well as other conflicts. So even
though the war is over, it is still an action book.
Robots In Disguise
will focus on Bumblebee and his attempts to rebuild Cybertron's
society. Bots staying with 'Bee will include at least Ironhide, Prowl
and Wheeljack. Thousands of neutral Transformers are returning home
knowing the war is over. Cybertronians that fled the planet eons ago
without choosing sides. Left over Decepticons are also present and need
to be dealt with, re-integrated. Bumblebee doesn't want to return to
the past; rather, he wants to forge a new future for their race. Here
and now, moving forward. Managing all these factions and points of view
is hard and we will follow his journey through that.
So basically - it is a philosophical difference between groups of
Autobots after the war. Do they look to the past and try to rediscover
it, or move away from it look to the future. We follow each view point
in the 2 books.
At first, there will be some cross over in the books. But after the
"split" officially happens (I assume Rodimus rolls out with his crew to
go planet hopping), the books will be relatively independent of
each other. There will be themes that may cross over, and Rodimus' crew
members may "call home" every so often. But otherwise, independent.
The way this is being pushed is that if you are new to the IDW universe, new to Transformers, or just want to jump back in, this is a good point to do so. It's a reboot without losing the rich continuity they have built over the last 3 years.
Each issue ships with 5 variant covers, each shows the major
players in each group, connected art covers. Will have Auto/Decept
tattoos as well when they ship. 4 variants and one by series artist.
With that general back-story, I'll post brief QnA info from the event below. All paraphrased.
MTME/RID Questions
RE: Talent
No set time for arcs, writers, artists. Ongoing. Alex Milne, Guido,
Roche, Wildman, Furman, all involved in something right now.
RE: Reading CHAOS first
Chaos - don't need to have read it, but reading Chaos will enhance the RID/MTMTE experience.
RE: Underused characters
Yes. Name tossed out - Metalhawk. Will still continue with core recognizable characters, but secondary guys will be worked in.
RE: Profile books (IDW Verse)
Chance.
RE: Decepticons
Starscream role in RID. Cyclonus even though in IDW not a Decept.
RE: Mini Series
Mini series to spin out from these series like Ironhide or Drift - not
right now. Infestation and Original G1 are secondary books right now.
Possible down the road.
RE: Furman on main continuity books
Loves work, but for now, he's on original and main is staffed well.
RE: Switching artists every 6 months
Not exact, but switch outs will happen.
RE: Cybertron modes
Wait and see.
RE: Decepticons
Play role - yes. Population of Decepticons in RID. Finding a place for
Decepts in new world is a difficult challenge to overcome. Different
way in MTMTE.
Non MTMTE/RID Questions:
RE: Last Stand of the Wreckers
Plans to continue - no chance right now.
RE: Legacy of Rust
Looking into it.
RE: Autoacrity
Expect announcement later. Set in past. Part of universe. Surprising revelations. Print/Digital - talk later.
Re: Prime Comic
No comment right now.
RE: Writing
Easier to write for these characters? - Always a challenge, but no different than other properties.
RE: G1 Collections
Will IDW continue to release G1 Marvel, collect full series, and will they do G2 in same way?
- Moving ahead, more coming, wait and see on where it goes. Not his personal dept so not 100% sure.
RE: Animated Comics
Not at the moment.
RE: Joe/TF Crossover
Not planned, but Infestation 2 is coming out.
RE: Release schedule
MTMTE week 1, RID week 3, etc - At first yes. Eventually, could change
due to overall IDW scheduling. Also will try not to do 2/3 books of a
single series in a row etc.
RE: Toys
Not his dept. :).
RE: Vetoing IDW ideas
Veto not a good word. Like to see all ideas, go nuts. If Hasbro needs
to, will reel back in. With 1/2 exceptions, never vetoed idea. More of
a collab, try to go back and forth until ideas work for everyone.
RE: Exodus/Exiles
More Novels? Stay tuned.
RE: Killing more characters
Not for an event just to sell books, but otherwise, no one is safe.
RE: Universes
Novels fall into current Prime Universe, Movie is own verse, and then IDW "G1" is another one.
RE: Other continuities
Right now - no plans to expand other continuities.
RE: War for Cybertron
Are the WFC games considered part of Prime continuity - YES. Quick and decisive answer.
RE: War for Cybertron Comics
WFC comics - no comment, don't read too much into that. Focus of this event is MTMTE/RID.
More Than Meets The Eye and Robots In Disguise Issue #1's and their respective 5 covers each go on pre-order this Friday, make sure to add them to your pull lists or grab subscriptions how you normally do. They should be in stores this January.
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