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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
Category: Transformers Toy News
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on: Monday, 30th May 2011 at 10:01:58 BST
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Category: Transformers Toy News
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on: Monday, 30th May 2011 at 09:53:56 BST
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I have added another Japanese Hobby Magazine gallery to the magazine section of the website. Today's update is a gallery featuring scans from the latest issue of Hyper Hobby Magazine, the June 2011 issue.
The scans come courtesy of ModXToys.com
Category: Transformers Interviews and Articles
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on: Sunday, 29th May 2011 at 19:28:16 BST
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Our thanks go to Neurie for letting us know that
Toys R Us UK have increased the price of
Leader Class Transformers from £40 to £45.
Category: Transformers Toy News
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on: Sunday, 29th May 2011 at 15:24:56 BST
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In a strange turn of events, which will no doubt turn out not to be true, Michael Bay's message board administrator Nelson posted the following comment on on ShootForTheEdit.com when asked about who the red robot in Transformers: Dark of the Moon was following on from a post by him that it was not Mirage.
I have embolden Nelson's posts below to help distinguish them from the questions that prompted the answers.
"All I will say is that he speaks with an Italian accent and is named after a famous Italian."
This was followed by the posts
"That doesn't mean s**t. In the comic and novels the twins are still in it." in response to a post by Jason Gould where Jason posted "Come on guys it's Mirage, his name is already in the toys, books, and Novelization.". Nelson then went on to quote Plague1980 wh posted "Are
we talking about two different red robots here? In the children's books
besides Sentinel, the only other red Autobot is the Ferrari which we
all know is Mirage. Now if you are talking about another bot that we
dont know about and trying to hint at it, the first famous Italian name
that comes to mind is "COSIMO" as in Cosmos lol" following up with the response "Don't act dumb. You know I'm talking about the red Ferrari."
This mean that Paramount must have had to hired a new voice actor to record all of Mirage's lines and also have re-recorded any dialogue that names the character, though going by the first two movies this is also feasible. It must have happened fairly recently as not only does the novelisation of the film refers to the character as Mirage but so does the toys and the prequel video game by Activision in which he speaks with an Arabian-based accent. All of the other characters within the video game are voiced by the same voice actors as the Dark of the Moon movie.
We will keep you up-to-date on this story as it develops
Update:
When we posed the following over on ShootForTheEdit "This is very interesting . I know you won't want to give out the new
name for the character but I was wondering when this change took place.", Nelson simply replied with "In the movie script, he was never called Mirage to begin with.".
I have since replied to clarify my question and I will let you all know if Nelson replies to that.
Update 2:
Nevermore complied a great lists of quotes that Nelson posted on TFW2005.com over on the ShootForTheEdit thread linked to that the start of this article that go some way to explain what went down with the character.
"Think about it.Mattel owns the toy merchandising rights to Ferrari. Why would Ferrari allow one of their flagship car to be named after a
Hasbro property name (Mirage) in one of the biggest movies this
year––thus undermining Mattel and possibly creating a huge clusterhug? And before you say "Well the toy is not named Mirage," look again, that's no Ferrari.
BTW, I've been known in extremely rare cases to be wrong."
"In all the treatments and scripts all the way up to the post
production of the DOTM movie, the Ferrari was never referred to as
Mirage. He was referred to by other names such as Rush & Enzo, but
never as Mirage.Capisce?"
"
The point is the Ferrari in the film can't be named after any Hasbro TF name. Period.
1.- Because the movie is not a Hasbro property per se.
2.- The terms of use stated that Ferrari was going to have approval of name, voice, etc."
So, as Nevermore himself put it over on ShootForTheEdit, Dark of the Moon is "a movie based on Hasbro's Transformers property includes a
character as a Transformer who must not be named after one of Hasbro's
Transformers characters. I guess that shows how little say Hasbro has in
these movies."
Sources of the quotes:
http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers...tml#post6103423
http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers...tml#post6103518
http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers...tml#post6103534
http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers...tml#post6103650
Category: Transformers Movie News
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on: Sunday, 29th May 2011 at 14:45:57 BST
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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:
- Transformers Crossovers SW At-Te Captain Rex 97567 Instructions
You can download copies of the instruction sheets from our Transformers toys instruction sheets section of the website.
Category: Transformers Movie News
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on: Sunday, 29th May 2011 at 03:00:09 BST
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A picture, and caption posted on Facebook has revealed that not only will Wheeljack be a recurring character later in Transformers Prime but also that Tony Todd, voice of The Fallen from Transformers Revenge of the Fallen, will also voice Dredwing in the Transformers Prime cartoon series.
"Tony Todd, Bob Orci, and me at a party in Hollywood 5/24 to
celebrate the Daytime Emmy nominations for the animated series,
TRANSFORMERS PRIME. I'm recurring as the voice of "Wheeljack", Tony is
the voice of "Dreadwing", and Bob is exec. producing, along with partner
Alex Kurtzman. This is the team that also gave us the newest TREK
movie, and is currently working on the second!"
Category: Transformers: Prime
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on: Saturday, 28th May 2011 at 21:57:21 BST
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The titles for episoedes 18, 19 and 20 of Transformers Prime have now been annouced.
#18. Metal Attraction
#19. Rock Bottom
#20. Partners
Category: Transformers: Prime
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on: Saturday, 28th May 2011 at 21:53:41 BST
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As of yesterday (Friday 27th May 2011) two of Hasbro's trademarks have been cancelled under section 8 the 6-year license. The trademarks that have expired were Tigertron and Ultra Jet
Category: Transformers Trademark News
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on: Saturday, 28th May 2011 at 19:29:56 BST
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I have added a new image gallery into the Magazine resource section of the website that contains scans from the
latest issue of TV Boy. You can find the scans
here.
Category: Transformers Interviews and Articles
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on: Saturday, 28th May 2011 at 19:25:55 BST
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We have just published our review and image gallery of the just released
Transformers: Vault book from Abram. This coffee-table book is available right now from Amazon and other stockists. The book covers the history of the toys, comics, cartoon, live action movies, video games and also includes several images of prototypes, unreleased toys including a 25th Anniversary Unicron (a recolour of the Japanese 2010 Unicron), concept artwork and pull out extras.
Category: Transformers Interviews and Articles
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on: Friday, 27th May 2011 at 23:08:05 BST
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The latest edition of the Transformers Collectors Club Magazine has started arriving in US mail boxes, ours will take a long time to come via seafreight.
The magazine includes a picture of a Transformers Animated version of a popular Transformers character, from a popular Transformers range.
I won't say anymore, other than The Great Destroyer may want another Transformers Animated toy.
Or you could highlight this ....oh and we have some original artwork of the Transformers Animated character which we won in the Auto Assembly 2010 auction
Sideswipe
Category: Transformers Convention News
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on: Friday, 27th May 2011 at 08:51:11 BST
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Following up from our report yesterday about the early release of Transformers: Vault our copy of the book arrived today and it was well worth picking up. Though far from a "complete" the book covers the whole history of the line including some great looks at early prototypes, unreleased figures, concept artwork and much more.
We'll create a gallery and review of the book over the coming days, but I encourage you to pick up a copy whilst you can.
Category: Transformers Merchandise
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on: Thursday, 26th May 2011 at 20:57:23 BST
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BotCon have
tweeted that Hasbro will be making some tickets for the
Transformers Hall of Fame 2011 available to the general public. What does this mean .. well basically the event hasn't sold that well through BotCon.
Category: Transformers Convention News
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on: Thursday, 26th May 2011 at 16:42:32 BST
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Toy-World.com.hk has posted some scans from issue 160 of Figure King . This issue includes several
Transformers: Dark of the Moon toys ranging from the Dual Model kits and Heat Scramble trading
card game through to the Tokyo Toy Show figures of United Dark Side Megatron
and Optimus Prime. Click the link to take a look at the issues.
Category: Transformers Toy News
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on: Thursday, 26th May 2011 at 08:52:07 BST
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