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This area of the website is dedicated to Transformers news. Currently this website contains 11223 news stories divided over 749 pages. You can submit a news story by using our news submission page.

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  1. AFA Graded Transformers - AFA graded Transformers related news and information. For more details regarding AFA Transformers including the latest ratings, going prices and how to get your figure rated, please visit www.afatransformers.com.
  2. G.I. Joe - We are also fans of G.I-Joe and so on occasionally we run news stories related to that Hasbro line, primarily related to the live action films.
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  7. Toy Industry News - This section contains toy industry related news stories, including press releases, NPD sales charts and other events that may have a knock on affect to Hasbro Inc, TakaraTomy or Transformers in general.
  8. Trans-Europe Express Group News - The Trans-Europe Express was a Yahoo! Group where a few people collaboration to share information on what was going in within Europe relating to Transformers as well as promoting a united European fan community.
  9. Transformer Toy Sightings - This is where you will find toy sighting related news stories.
  10. Transformers Animated - Transformers Animated was the cartoon / comic / toy form that the Transformers took from late 2007 until 2010. These news stories are published on Transformers Animated.com as well as on Transformers At The Moon
  11. Transformers Cartoons
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  13. Transformers Convention News
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  17. Transformers Power Core Combiners - News related to the 2010 Transformers subline known as the Power Core Combiners. These news stories are published both on Transformers At The Moon as well as Transformers Power Core Combiners.com.
  18. Transformers Product Listings
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  21. Transformers Trademark News - News stories relating to trademark applications that Hasbro Inc have made with the USPTO. These stories are always broken here first.
  22. Transformers: Prime - Transformers: Prime is the name of the 2010 CGI Transformers cartoon which aired on the Hasbro-Discovery joint TV channel The Hub in the fall of 2010 within the US.
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Transformers Convention News

BotCon 2011 Experience
Day 1 - Thursday 2nd of June 2011

Having set my phone to go off at 05:00 the previous night, I found myself awake at 01:30, 02:30, 03:30 and 04:30. I finally got up at 05:15, jump in the shower and got ready for the trip to the airport. Terminal 5 was 15 minutes drive away, but I had to go into work prior to heading to the airport to pick up the BotCon invoices, in order for us to pick up our exclusive toys, as Steve had forgotten to print it out. By 6:30 Clare (my girlfriend) was ready take me to work, so a quick text to Steve and I was on my way. The building at work was locked at the front door, but luckily a colleague had already arrived (it was coming up to 07:00 now). I picked the printouts up, that I had printed the previous night from home, and headed to Terminal 5 to wait for Steve. After a quick goodbye Steve turned up about 5 minutes after I had arrived.

Outgoing flight
We made our way to the baggage drop (10kilos for, Steve, 15.5 for me due to the equipment I had for work in my bag) .. we pondered what the weight would be for the return leg before heading through Customs. After that it was a nice Full English Breakfast, as neither Steve or I are that keen on aircraft food, a quick look around the shops before we decided to sit down and check the Internet for news on the work's Samsung Tablet. We soon discovered a BotCon news story Steve had worked on at 6:30 hadn't be put live, good thing I had the wireless dongle so a quick change of Sim Card and I was online on my laptop approving the story. By that time the gate was announced so we made our way to the international terminal. Within five minutes of arriving there boarding started, seats 49A and 49B .. that was us ... so we boarded pretty quick. Just before takeoff the guy next to me decided to change seats to the middle row, giving us a spare seat next to us, which was nice. Now it was the 10 and 1/2 hour flight left to go (down from 11 hours).

We flew out east, then looped around north, heading towards Cambridge before turning west towards Manchester, up through Iceland, Greenland and into Canada. We decided to take some picture during take-off, on my phone, then some in the air over Greenland and NewFoundLand. It was after this point I decided to create a diary, or log, of the trip.

The chose of movies wasn't great, and for some reason didn't actually match up with those listed in the InFlight Magazine. Steve watched an Ashton Kutcher flick and I decided to catch up and watch Mastermind ... that was pretty good. We skipped in flight lunch, eating the Mikado I had picked up for the flight - the breakfast had covered us for most of the flight.
There appeared to be a rather excessive number of Germans on the flight, and women .. which is odd, usually its American school or colleague goers coming back from a trip to Europe.

Steve decided to spend some time working on a new version of The Visionaries.net on his Samsung Net book (though not that powerful, it's light small design is good for trips. He'd actually installed Apache, MYSQL and PHP onto the machine he actually code up the site during the flights. I decided to mock up some layouts for another project, Plastic Coke, before getting on with the start of this article. Up to this point the flight had been pretty calm, with only a slight amount of turbulence, though as I write that sentence the plane starts to rock sideways and up and down .... classic me. I was trying to avoid the temptation to start working on my day job. My BotCon trip had been extended by my work so I could stay in Los Angeles allowing me to visit a customer in San Francisco. This meant that my work ended up paying for my flights, which was a great result for me .... not so much for Clare, as it meant I'd miss her birthday ... actually I was due to land on Gareth (The Great Destroyer's) birthday on the following Friday, at mid-day, and go straight into work that afternoon from the airport (as the office is just around the corner, and Gareth was off).

Landed in Los Angeles, and travelling up to Pasadena
We had decided to pre-book a return trip using the Shuttle Bus service in LAX, rather than having to worry about getting a cab. The only problem was that of all the information I had kept, I hadn't kept the time of the pickup for the return leg ... whoops.

Getting through customs took ages , first part took 15 minutes, getting bags probably 20, then there was an amazing queue, for over an hour, to get past the second part of customs.  We managed to find att small queue out the way, which took 15 mins to get through.

From there was aa 45 minute drive, roughly, to Pasadena ... with the driver of the SuperShuttle wanting money, though I'd paid onlline.  The Super Suttle website is meant to give you a reference number, which I didn't get, so that took 15 minutes to work out.  Finally we were checked in.

The BotCon check-in
BotCon 2011 was our third BotCon in the US, well technically the first was OTFCC 2003 - as it had changed names days before, after Glen Hallet had taken full control of the event. That time it was in Rosemont in Chicago, we had gone with Gareth and had thoroughly enjoyed the weekend. Out second Botcon experience in the US, we had attended BotCon Europe 1999 and then OTFCC Europe, was in Rhode Island in 2007. BotCon had an early charity screening of the first Transformers movie, where most people in attendance got to see the film for the first time before it came out in cinemas. By that time we had already seen it twice (well I had, Steve only once as he couldn't make it to the FDA screening in London earlier that week). BotCon 2011 was going to be the first BotCon that we had gone to that we hadn't attended with Gareth, which felt a little odd ... but he was busy at work ... as I'm typing this!!

We were dreading the mess that would be the BotCon check-in ... 2003 was so easy. Arrive, get pass - no real queues. Then during the event, at any time go and pick up the toys. We also had Gold Passes for that event, first 50 people to register, so we were allowed to "jump queues".

­So, we arrived at the convention centre, locatuion for BotCon 2011 just under 2 hours before the doors opened, to queue for the registration queues. By the time we had arrived there was already over 100 people queuing, and more coming all the time. We were spotted by some Moonbase2'ers, or Full Metal Hero'ers, or whatever you want to call them as we made our way to queue up. I was pimping out my Auto Assembly committe shirt, for some shameless advertisement.

It was around 18:20 by the time we could get in the hall, then another 30 minute queue for the Boxset and attendee package (Karl Hartman servered us, but couldn't find out order of toys first of all).  From there we moved to the next collection point, non-box figures (limited to 1 per badge - with attendees allowed to pick up more the following day).  Steve queued in the "convention exclusive line" to pickup or loose toys and litho.  I queued in the cash "everything" line, so I could pick up another set plus the BotCon 2009 comic we are missing and the TFCC Cheetor for Dean (Big D's Toy Chest).  It took over 40 minutes for Steve to get server, probably nearer an hour.  I was queing for over 90 miniutes.

I finally got back to the hotel at 21:00, after some 5 hours of queing.  We then went to have dinner with Jim Sorenson and Bill Forester, along with a few people they had gathered together, only to get a little lost.  The next day we found the restrauant on a map I had printed out, and yeah we'd gone no-where near it.

Category: Transformers Convention News | Submitted by: Moonbug - on: Friday, 3rd June 2011 at 01:03:20 BST | Share: | Discuss: Read on

Transformers Animated

TFW2005.com are reporting the name and character for te 2nd previously un-anounced Botcon 2011 exclusive figure.  Who is the toy? Transformers Animated Fisitron.  The toy is a recoloured Transformers Animated Ironhide with a new head with the character being based off the fan-favorite Ironfist seen in the IDW comics "Last Stand of the Wreckers".  It is expected that this mold and head sculpt will be re-used in an army builder 3-pack of Autotroopers.­

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Category: Transformers Animated | Submitted by: quartz - on: Thursday, 2nd June 2011 at 06:40:27 BST | Share: | Discuss: Read on

Transformers Convention News

As always Transformers At The Moon will do our best to bring you the important coverage from this years Botcon. We will be in attendance at Botcon 2011 ourselves, so we will look to update the website with galleries and news from our travels as well as bringing you live news throughout the day using our own auto-updating scripts so you can just bookmark a news story and read all of the updates as they happen.

Like our coverage of other conventions in the past, we will also look to bring you round-ups of articles from around the world, ensuring that you can read all of the coverage from the event from as many sources and views as possible. 

Our non-competitive approach to news is something we have become well known for over the last 12 years and is something we are very proud of and, as such, we would like to remind you all that you can keep up-to-date by following our exclusive In The News section of the website that brings you the very latest headlines from many official and fan sites from around the world.   You may well find those sites report different news from areas of Botcon before us as this site is maintained by two people as a hobby as oppose to the staff that run most "fan sites" these days, so we can not cover everything that will be going on at once.

If you are attending Botcon yourself and you would like to say hello, we will not be difficult to spot. During the convention just look for a pair of mirror twins, if that is not enough of a give away, at some point we will both be wearing Auto Assembly committee T-shirts, which will be even more of a clue.

Category: Transformers Convention News | Submitted by: quartz - on: Wednesday, 1st June 2011 at 22:53:52 BST | Share: | Discuss: Read on

Transformers Convention News

­The first Botcon exclusive is now officially in the hands of attendees with the release of the Botcon 2011 Customising Class Minerva figure.  The figure is a recolour of the Arcee toy but remolded with new "ears".  You can see the images and the official design from Derrick J Wyatt below.

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Category: Transformers Convention News | Submitted by: quartz - on: Wednesday, 1st June 2011 at 21:56:30 BST | Share: | Discuss: Read on

Transformers Toy News

Toycollectors.com.au have posted the first image of the Hasbro release of Masterpiece Rodimus Prime. The toy comes packaged in robot mode, is recoloured and comes with an exclusive Targetmaster figure.  The trailer for the toy is not shown, which is interesting considering that he his marked up as Rodimus Prime and not Hot Rod.  The image also confirms what was long expected, that the toy will be a Toys R Us exclusive.


Category: Transformers Toy News | Submitted by: quartz - on: Tuesday, 31st May 2011 at 20:54:05 BST | Share: | Discuss: Read on

Transformers Convention News

BotCon have tweeted that their coverage of BotCon 2011 will start tonight wth sneak peaks at the event.

coverage starts today! Sneak peaks and updates will begin this evening. What an event!!! BotCon add ons are TOP NOTCH!

We'll be at BotCon this year, so if you see us say hi.

Category: Transformers Convention News | Submitted by: Moonbug - on: Tuesday, 31st May 2011 at 15:46:40 BST | Share: | Discuss: Read on

Transformers Movie News

Paramount Pictures have produced some more teaser images from Transformers: Dark of the Moon which you can view below.

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Category: Transformers Movie News | Submitted by: quartz - on: Monday, 30th May 2011 at 18:26:11 BST | Share: | Discuss: Read on

Transformers Animated

Josh Perez is the second artist from this years Artists' Alley at Botcon 2011 to publish some of his prints over on his DeviantArt page. The images, which have been mirrored below, feature the Botcon Transformers Animated Stunticon set, Rosanna and Shatter Glass Ravage.

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Category: Transformers Animated | Submitted by: quartz - on: Monday, 30th May 2011 at 14:23:39 BST | Share: | Discuss: Read on

Transformers Movie News

TakaraTomy have published the below adverts for their Transformers: DarkSide Moon Heat Scramble card game.  If that fails to load you can view the video ­here.

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Stay with Transformers At The Moon for the latest Japanese Transformers news

Category: Transformers Movie News | Submitted by: quartz - on: Monday, 30th May 2011 at 13:07:43 BST | Share: | Discuss: Read on

Transformers Merchandise­A new Transformers Novel has been listed over on Amazon.com called Transformers Classified: Switching Gears. The book is written by Ryder Windham (Star Wars, Indiana Jones) with a release date of October 2011. Here's the information that has been pubilshed on Amazon.com

An original Transformers novel series! Secrets are uncovered in the Nevada desert when a boy witnesses two Transformers arrive on Earth.
Reading level: Young Adult
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (October 31, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316186333
ISBN-13: 978-0316186339
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You can place an order for the book using the link below.
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Credit to King Grimlock of ­­FullMetalHero.com for the spot

Category: Transformers Merchandise | Submitted by: quartz - on: Monday, 30th May 2011 at 13:02:21 BST | Share: | Discuss: Read on

Lucky Draw Transformers

The last of our exclusive TV Magazine updates are now online, featuring Lucky Draw toys from Beast Wars Neo, Micron Legend and Galaxy Force, as well as image Beast Wars Neo, Micron Legend, Galaxy Force, Dinozone, Robo Machines, Microman and various other series.

  1. TV Magazine July 1999 - 38 scans
  2. TV Magazine August 1999 - 62 scans
  3. TV Magazine October 1999 - 37­ scans
  4. TV Magazine June 2003 - ­ 42 scans
  5. TV Magazine December 2003 - 29 scans
  6. TV Magazine December 2005 - 34 scans

Category: Lucky Draw Transformers | Submitted by: Moonbug - on: Monday, 30th May 2011 at 13:00:55 BST | Share: | Discuss: Read on

Transformers Toy NewsTransmasters UK are reporting the a UK sighting of Transformers Dark of the Moon Cyberverse Powerglide and Blackout Asda in Falkirk yesterday.  So keep an eye on your local stores as the strange UK release schedule continues

Category: Transformers Toy News | Submitted by: quartz - on: Monday, 30th May 2011 at 12:56:31 BST | Share: | Discuss: Read on

Transformers Animated

A new Transformers: Dark of the Moon spot has been posted over on YouTube.  You can view it below.

Category: Transformers Animated | Submitted by: quartz - on: Monday, 30th May 2011 at 12:53:11 BST | Share: | Discuss: Read on

Transformers Animated

Marcelo Matere has posted some artwork over on his Deviant Art page that was drawn by himself and then coloured by Priscilla Tramentano that will be a print that is available at Botcon 2011.  The artwork features the Transformers Animated seekers and can be seen below.

Category: Transformers Animated | Submitted by: quartz - on: Monday, 30th May 2011 at 12:52:03 BST | Share: | Discuss: Read on

Transformers CartoonsFirst I would like to say sorry to Jim Sorenson for posting this news story almost a week after the event, but better late than never I suppose.  Last Tuesday Jim updated his blog Disciples of Boltax, with the latest Ark Addendum which was entitled Enter the Nightbird (part 2).  As the name suggests this entry follows on from a previous Ark Addendum, one that was posted by in Feb before Jim started to focus on the Ron Friedman auctions.  The post continues with some character models from the episode and includes a bonus download of the Partial Script for Enter the Nightbird: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5BWK6K3U

Category: Transformers Cartoons | Submitted by: quartz - on: Monday, 30th May 2011 at 10:10:00 BST | Share: | Discuss: Read on

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Transformers related trademarks filed with the USPTO
Hasbro Inc submitted a trademark application for COMBATICONS with the USPTO on the Tuesday, 1st July 2008. The mark was submitted within the category Toy action figures, toy vehicles and toy robots convertible into other visual toy forms and currently has as status of Registration cancelled because registrant did not file an acceptable declaration under Section 8. To view all documents in this file, click on the Trademark Document Retrieval link at the top of this page..
Transformers Cartoon Series
Transformers Comics
Choose Your Fate Choose Your Fate
We loved the Transformers Choose Your Fate books as kids, and even wrote a text adventure in their style for an old version of Transformers At The Moon. Here you can find images from these puzzle-books, both UK and US ....
Transformers Videos
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The opening scene from Transformers Animated Season 3 as a team of Autobots, lead by Rodimus, defends of Stryka's crew ....
Transformers Conventions and Events
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Transformers Toysheets
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The scans contained within this gallery are taken from our own Transformers toysheet collection. This is the first US Transformers toysheet. ....
Transformers Instructions
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The instruction scans contained within this gallery with the TF08.net watermark were originally from the Chinese TF08 website. They have been added here as a mirror. ....
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