The next issue of the TCC Magazine will begin shipping in the next couple of days, but the cover can be seen right now! Click the story thumbnail to see the incredible cover done by Matt Frank (the artist behind this years Hall of Fame Waspinator profile art). In this great scene created just for the TCC Magazine, we can see there is a bit of a disagreement between Beast Wars Waspinator and Animated Waspinator as to whom actually receives the trophy for "Waspinator's" induction in to the Transformers Hall of Fame!

The Transformers Collectors Club has been updated with information on the September issue

Issue 40 will give club members a detailed look at BotCon 2011 and the Transformers Hall of Fame as well as ALL-NEW MTMTE character profiles, an interview with Transformers Prime Voice Actor Steven Blum, Part 4 of the ongoing comic "Transformers: Battle Lines" and more!

Also, stay tuned to the TCC as there will be a sneak peak at next year's FREE Membership Incentive Figure Runamuck in the next couple of weeks. Not a member yet? Check out the Benefits tab and then be sure to Join Now!

Images from Figure King 162 have appeared (we did a text summary recently).  What we noticed was the images of the Lucky Draw Transformers Dark of the Moon toys, including the previously seen ­Gold Optimus Prime, Gold Bumblebee and Gold Megatron - noticeable by his absence is Gold Sentinel Prime.

iGear toys have updated their Facebook page today with several new images of their upcoming products.  The prod­ucts shown were the Mini-figures of Rager (Huffer) and Spray (Seaspray) along with the PP05M Medical Specialist (Ratchet) figure.  You can view the images below.

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New images of Bathing Ape Optimus Prime have been posted over at ACToys by maxidea. This Transformers toy is a limited run cross-promotional Transformers Encore Optimus Prime figure in green, with a camo trailer.

Reports are that the figure was made in lower numbers then original planned, 24 per store, so the demand is high and some US collectors stores are having to cut back on their pre-orders.

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Its that time of year for the Summer Wonderfest in Tokyo and the first "licensed for the day" products have been revealed by as Ginrai, the Godmaster figure who was released as Hi-Q in the west, and Minerva, again the human form.  The garage kits are made by Sea CM's Corporation and are a part of the Va-Voom Figure Collection can be seen below.

Thanks to Snakas for pointing out that Amazon Japan has a listing for Figure King 162.  The issue inludes interviews with developers at Tomy, information on the Mech Tech toys as well as information on MP-10 Convoy, Starscream MIX Technology, Ultimate Optimus Prime, Revoltech Movie Optimus Prime and more.  The magazine comes with a special card which is part of the iheat scramble card game that is set to be released in Japan

Below is a partial translation of the Amazon page.

Figure King Issue 162 includes interviewes with developers at Tomy.  The interview covers information and concept imaes from the Microman, Daiclone and Micto-TD series along with other area.

There is an area talking about the impast of the Transformers Movies in Japan, and the impact on the Transformers brand.

Transformers toy wise, the Transformers Dark of the Moon Mech Tech lines are shown (set for release in August), along with Ultimate Optimus Prime (release planned for Autumn), Starscream MIX Technology, MP-10 Convoy (introduction, images of accessories, details on gimmicks.  The images also include picture of the Spike and Roller toys that come with the figure.

HK-TF board member ????­ has posted some images of some unofficial Transformers products on their message board.  Its unclear whether the products will be released as garage kits or whether they will be finalised items but they include Kup, Scourage and Steeljaw.  You can view the mirrored images below.

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Credit to FullMetalHero.com for the link.

The true legendary scribe of Transformers, Simon Furman, have updated his blog with a small entry regarding the SDCC announcement by IDW that Transformers #81 will indeed be published with a special 20 part run (issue 80.5 through 100) with the original Generation One crew of Simon Furman and Andrew Wildman back on board.  Here is Simon's post

"Announced live yesterday at San Diego Comicon — the original Marvel Transformers comic series (cancelled back in 1991 at issue #80) is being continued by IDW Publishing, thanks in large part to an online fan petition (big shouts for Luke and Ron of the IDW forums) and the tireless efforts of IDW EiC Chris Ryall. Transformers (‘classic’) will (re-) launch in Spring 2012 with issue 80 and a half, and reunites the previous writer/artist team of myself and Andrew Wildman. The reinvigorated run will build to a monumental 100th issue conclusion, pulling together and tying up every dangling plotline you can think of and a whole lot you can’t! What else can I tell you about the series? Nada. Niente. Zilch. So don’t ask. For the time being anyway we’re keeping this tightly under wraps. But it is going to shatter your trousers! Guaranteed! "

Do not forget that Simon Furman and Andrew Wildman will both be in attendance at Auto Assembly next month in Birmingham where you can give them your reactions in person

Here is a round-up of some of links to some of the important panels and good image galleries from SDCC

TFW2005.com have posted some detailed images of the Transformers: Dark of the Moon Human Alliance Soundwave toy that you can find here.

TFW2005.com also have an image gallery of the red recolour of Dark of the Moon Ironhide.  You can find it here.

The Allspark have a great summary of the panel Shout!/Hasbro - "Evolution of Transformers Animation" Panel Report in which it was confirmed that the Brestforce will be renamed Chestforce on the US subtitle track for Victory as they could not get away with using Brestforce. You can read the summary here.

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. Marvel Super Hero ABC and 123 Spanish Instructions
2. Transforemrs DOTM Track Battle Roadbuster 36341 Instructions
3. Transformers Activators Megatron 98470 Instructions
4. Transformers DOTM Comettor 32095 Instructions
5. Transformers DOTM Comettor 32095 Instructions
6. Transformers DOTM Crankcase 28744 Instructions
7. Transformers DOTM Decepticon Hatchet 29684 Instructions
8. Transformers DOTM Ironhide 32138 Instructions
9. Transformers DOTM Lunarfire Optimus Prime 35808 Instructions
10. Transformers DOTM Optimus Prime 32095 Instructions
11. Transformers DOTM Optimus Prime Playset w/ Ratchet & Creakcase 34080 Instructions
12. Transformers DOTM Sideswipe 32118 Instructions
13. Transformers Rescue Bots Bumblebee 33071 Instructions
14. Transformers Rescue Bots Heatwave The Fire-Bot 33076 Instructions
15. Transformers Rescue Bots Optimus Prime 33074 Instructions
16. Transformers Star Wars Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader 32248 Instructions

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

Robert Orci has confirmed three new characters will appear in Transformers Prime.  There are Combiners, Dinobots and Unicron (the last was obvious).

IGN have the original interview.

The Allspark have posted a good round-up of the IDW panel from this years SDCC.  You can find the article here. Which included the news that Simon Furman and Andrew Wildman will be back to write Transformers issues 81 to 100 in 2012 that will indeed continue on from the end of the Generation One series. So a 19 part mini-series, you can be sure that there will be more on this over the coming weeks especially since both parties will be at Auto Assembly next month