The latest in the Fan Made Devastator inspired toys, Maketoy's Build Giant, has been shown off against the Fans Project Crossfire two to show of it's size.

Click the link to fullmetalhero.com for the image

Today, the 7th July 2011, marks not only the 6th anniversary of the infamous 7/7 terrorist attacks on London but it is also the 5th year anniversary of the passing of a good friend to this website Brett Reynolds who was better known on our forums as Toughboot.  Our thoughts go out to all of those who lost family and friends on the 7th July 2005 as well as to Brett's family.  I remember both events quite clearly myself and I still find myself often wondering what Brett would make of the state of Transformers today.

Gone but never forgotten my friend.

Steve

We still aren't finsihed with our BotCon 2011 haul galleries, as you will now find three more entires in our Transformers Toy Gallery and Resource area

• Transformers Dark of the Moon - Optimus Prime 3D Mask
• Transformers Power Core Combiners - HeavyTread
• Transformers Power Core Combiners - Skyhammer

So Transformers Dark of the Moon has done pretty well, though not passing Revenge of the Fallen in the US on the opening week, it's done OK.  Here's a few stats for you (thanks to BoxOfficeMojo)

Domestic (US) Alltime Rankings

11 - Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen -  $402,111,870
24 - Transformers - $319,246,193
140 - Transformers: Dark of the Moon - $180,651,397

So that's $902,009,560.00 so far taken in the US for the Live Action Transformers franchise

WorldWide

25 - Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - $836,600,000 (rounded)
43 - Transformes - $709,700.00 (rounded)
xx - Transformers: Dark of the Moon - $418,011,064

So that's $1,764,311,064 in total.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Transformers Dark of the Moon had a budget of $190 million dollars, and has taken $180 million, so it has another 10 million to go to break even domestically.

"What happens next? Certainly not a reboot. We haven't lost the Transformers. They didn't grow up or become expensive like Toby Maguire. I don't know what happens next. I'm pretty sure there will be a second trilogy. I am pretty sure it will kick ass. And I am pretty sure some of you will hate it because it wasn't all bots."

That is what Don Murphy had to say when asked "what happens now with the Transformers franchise.  You can read the post here, but you have to log in.

KOToys.com have published more images of their upcoming knock-off cassette combiners. The images, which were first published on Monday, show the boxes of the Japanese Dinosaur cassettes as well their sticker sheets and cardboard b­acking for Grandslam and Raindance and Beastbox and Squawktalk.  You can view the mirrored images below.

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Our thanks go to Lucy from NTF-Archive.de for sending in the following story:

"On the last visit at Burger King in germany we saw the new DotM figures and bought them all to make much new images.

We find also a small quiz letter, here are the images:

Source: NTF-Archive.de & Burger King Germany"

BoxOfficeMojo have published an article in which they report that Transformers: Dark of the Moon too $97.5 million over the weekend ­within the US on roughly 9,300 screens, taking the opening 4-day weekend gross to $116.4 million.  This figure means that the 3rd live action Transformers film has passed the total of $88.2 million that Spider-man 2 gross as well as passing the latest Pirate of the Carribean as the top-grossing weekend of 2011.

As of their latest update the film had grossed $399,125,000 with 218 million from non-US sales and $181 from domestic gross.  The film has now taken twice as much as it cost putting it at profit of over $190 million.

e-Hobby have updated their website with a product page for an exclusive black repaint of Masterpiece Rodimus Convoy.  The figure, whi­ch was highly speculated, is going to be a Decepticon and will be released in November.

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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. KRE-O TRANSFORMERS OPTIMUS PRIME Construction Set 31143 Instructions

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

­ Artist, Guido Guidi, has updated his ­deviantART page with a preview image that is from the comic story that will be included in Million Publishing's Transformers Generations 2011 Volume 2 book.  The image features Headmasters Chromedome and Highbrow along with Transformers United Stepper and Kup.  You can view the image by clicking the link above.

Here is how Guido described the piece:

"Courtesy of Million Publishing, here's a sneak peek preview of the comic that will be included in the Vol.2 of Transformers Generations 2011!

In this panel: United Stepper (the new exclusive targetmaster toy), United Sergeant Kup and... Headmasters Chromedome & Highbrow "old marvel" style...
Looks like the United continuity in Japan recovered old paths
Stay tuned for more!

Story by Simon Furman
Art by Guido Guidi
Published by Million Publishing"

?I thought I would bring you a random Saturday afternoon update since its a warm day here in London and I've been chilling out after a 17 hour grind in the office yes?terday. As such I have uploaded only our 4th video to our YouTube ?account ­which consists of a random montage of footage we recorded from the dealer room at Botcon 2011. The footage is available in HD format down and is the the second video we have uploaded to YouTube from our library of convention footage that we have recorded over the past ten years. At somepoint we hope to share all of thhe videos with you which include videos from Japanese Winter Wonderfests, Botcons, Auto Assembly, Transforce as well as other conventions. We must have something like 40 or 50 hours worth of convention footage that we have never made public before but always planned to release when we found time. Anyway, you can find the video footage below.