FantoFan.jp have updated their website with some new images of upcoming TakaraTomy Transformers: Darkside Moon toys. The images include DA3-4 Leadfoot, DA-28 Striker Optimus Prime, DA-31 Autobot Que, DD-09 Soundwave and Mr.Cruel, DD-13 Soundwave, and CV-26 Soundwave.

The images are in a very low resolutions but can be foudn on their early bird page.

The Transformers Collectors Club have tweeted out the following announcement

"NEWS TIME! This November- Timelines Issue 6 hits newsstands. This 48 page offering will feature 16 page of Allspark Almanac Addendum content"

What will this content consist of? Well since the last Allspark Almanac was printed we have had more Japanese exclusive recolours, Transformers Animated: The Cool and, of course, this years Botcon set with the comic that featured more characters from the Transformers series.

The Allspark Almanacs were created by the "most excellent" Jim Sorenson and Bill Forster so you know that these additional pages are going to be awesome and contain lots of in-jokes and hidden messages.

We have updated theTransformers toys instruction sheets section of the website with some new PDF instructon sheets entries.

Of the updates, the following new entries were added into the database:

1. Transformers DOTM Ultimate Optimus Prime Comic Con37161 Instructions
2. Transformers Prime Optimus Prime Comic Con 37162 Instructions

You can download copies of the instruction sheets from our Transformers toys instruction sheets section of the website.

Hasbro UK are recruiting for a telesales staff at Stockley Park.  If you think you may be interested get in touch with them, and let them know who referred you :-)

Here is the job description

Hasbro is looking to recruit a Telesales Executive at the Stockley Park offices.

The position is a 12-month fixed term contract and the main purpose of role is to take ownership (under direction GSM) of the full Hasbro toy and game product portfolio in designated Orders Direct account base to achieve company set sales and profit targets.

Specific responsibilities/tasks:

• Work with GSM to create, implement and monitor full year account business plans
• Manage 100 accounts with T/O of £5k - £15k.
• Create a call plan and complete daily / weekly sales reports to highlight productivity.
• Maintain the Orders Direct base and keep track of all call backs and telephone appointments and agreed actions.
• Execute and monitor agreed promotions within the business plan
• Attend trade shows in the UK and Ireland where appropriate
• Conduct data analysis to support business planning
• Monitors, record and reports back on key competitive activity with recommendations as necessary
• Build an effective business partner relationship with key Orders Direct accounts
• Fully network across internal customers, e.g. Operations, Marketing and Finance to maximise account serviceability and growth opportunities.·    Monitor stock availability and take initiative to address any issues
• Handle day to day routine account requests and follow up

Knowledge and Skills required

1. Evidence of influencing and negotiating skills to achieve results (both internally and externally)·
2. Good communicator (written and verbal) including active listening ability and presentation skills·
3. Numerate, ability to analyse data and sales information
4. Results oriented
5. Good prioritisation skills
6. Adaptable and demonstrates flexibility
7. Shows enthusiasm and passion for sales Experience
8. Graduate calibre
9. Up to two years exposure in sales environment
10. Minimum of Intermediate level working knowledge of MS Office including Outlook
11. Excellent excel skills
12. Ability to drive and travel in the UK/Ireland

Behaviours/Competencies required

Desirable:

• Degree (preferably business related)
• Commercial background with sales exposure·
• Working knowledge of SAP

If you would like to apply for this position please send your CV to careers@hasbro.co.uk 

We have updated theTransformers toys instruction sheets section of the website with some new PDF instructon sheets entries.

Of the updates, the following new entries were added into the database:

1. Transformers DOTM Cyberfire Bumblebee 32348 Instructions
2. Transformers DOTM Wheeljack 32364 Instructions
3. Transformers Reveal the Shield 25957 Instructions

You can download copies of the instruction sheets from our Transformers toys instruction sheets section of the website.

An advert is running on Cartoon Network here in the UK advertising the debut of Transformers Prime on the 5th September 2011, so in two weeks time.  Transformers Prime currently airs within the US, where the first 20 episodes have been shown, and in Canada where the first 23 episodes have aired.

Credit to FullMetalHero for spotting the advert.

A new 3rd-party Transformers add-on company has recently popped up called SideFX who have announced, via Twitter, that they will be releasing an upgrade kit for the Transformers Generayion Blurr figure.  The add-on kit will come with a new head, gun, sword, and shield. The have posted an preview image which you can view below and plan to release additional upgrade kits for other toys in the future.

Credit to Seibertron.com for the news.

Kate from KOToys, has updated their message board with some new images of their upcoming knock-off Shattered Glass Rodimus figure.  you can view the images of the fake toy below and can compare them to the original toy within our image gallery here.

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Leading 3rd Party non-official Transformers maker ­TFC Toys (AKA Transformers Club out of China) have ­revealed several new images of their upcoming figures including the next part of their Hercules (Devastator) combiner team.  The figure they have shown off is called Neck Breaker and is their versi­on of B­onecrus­her.  The g­roup have also posted mock-up image of what Hercules will look like when he is fully combined.  The image is a combination of grey-resin prototypes and a CGI outline of the yet-to-be-produced figures.

As well as showing of their Devastator toy, TFC have also posted new images of the DSLR camera team (Reflector­), as well as Junkion Blacksmith Headmasters and Infinity Warfare 2.  The images have been mirrored below but were originally posted on their weibo page.­

Following on from the recent announcement of the Japanese release of Beast Wars II, the box art has now been released, and can be viewed below.  Beast Wars II was a Japanese exclusive series that was produced to fill the gap between Japanese dubs of Beast Wars and led on to the follow-up series Beast Wars Neo.  There has been no official word on whether Beast Wars Neo will be released on DVD though, personally, we are expecting that announcement shortly after the release of Beast Wars II.  It is also our prediction that the series will be subbed into English and released via Shout Factory in either late 2012 or during 2013.  Again there is no official confirmation of this yet, it is purely a prediction by Transformers At The Moon.

If you like Beast Wars II or want to find out more then why not check out our Toy Gallery where we have photographed many of the figures or our Prototype section that contains some pages from the animations sheets and character designs.  You'll be seeing more behind the scenes details from Beast Wars II over the coming months here at Transformers At The Moon as we own hundreds of pages of character models from the show as well as some original scripts.

We have started on our next batch of Japanese magazine scans, this time the focus will be on TV Boy.  Before we get onto that though we thought we'd upload two of the recent Japanese hobby magazines, August 2011 issue of Dengeki Hobby and August 2011 TV Magazine.

There are 50 pages scanned from the Dengeki Hobby managzine and 13 from TV Magazine.

Remember to check out the hundreds of other Japanese magazine scans which we have in our Transformers In The Media section.

I have uploaded the photographs that we took whilst at Auto Assembly 2011 here in the UK.  The convention took place last week end in Birmingham and was another outstanding success.

We'd once again like to thank everyone who attended the event from the guests, the dealers, the volunteers, the committee, the hotel staff and, of course, Simon and Trish for all their work throughout the year

Hong Kong fashion magazine Milk have announced that to celebrate their 10th anniversary they are teaming up with Hasbro to release two exclusive Transformers Dark of the Moon Optimus Prime repaints.  The toys will be a black deluxe figure as well as an hand-painted "premium" release, basically they will be painting no additional details.  No details on how to obtain the toys have been released at this time.

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Credit to weibo.com/tktf for the news and image.­