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.

­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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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.

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

@BotCon 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.

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

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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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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.

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

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
   

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

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.

LethalFarce.com have posted an official Hasbro stock image of the upcoming Transformers Star Wars Cross Over Quad Changer toy.The figure, which can be seen below, transforms from Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader into two vehicles, the Republic Attack Cruiser or a Star Destroyer

­KOToys have posted more images of their upcoming releases that we have been recently covering.  First up GenZhao posted some more images of the final samples of Ghost Thundercracker and Ghost Skywarp.  These toys are knock-offs of the Transformers Classics Starscream figure, made up to look like Thundercracker and Skywarp but with transparent plastic.

This was followed by more images of the boxes and cards for their upcoming combiner Cassette knock-offs.  These include the first two of the rare and high-priced Japanese dinosaur cassettes.  The boxes and inserts are made up to look as close to the originals as they could, which means you must take care when seeing these figures for sale.  Though you will note that at the moment both of the Japanese Dinosaur cassettes have the same numbered instructions. This will probably change come the final release, but if not it will be the best way to tell the figures apart.

This was then followed up by more images of their upcoming Death Starscream figure.  This toy is based on the e-Hobby Black Starscream that was released during the Collectors Edition years.

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