Not only content with updating his blog with his own material Jim Sorenson has posted a blog letting everyone know that his "esteemed colleague" and quite frankly all-round "awesome dude" (ask anyone that met the pair of them at Auto Assembly 2010) Bill Forster has updated his Deviant Art gallery with yet more of his original artwork from The AllSpark Almanac II.    Here's the low-down from Jim on the updates that Bill posted

This time around, he's uploaded our Reverse-Pretender alter-egos, Octus and Megadeath, some heads from the Great War like Moonradar and Gigatron (a.k.a. RID Megatron, Animated style), some Maccadam's heads like the adorable Clipper, and more. 

I think my favorite might be Skids.  While, obviously, it was movie-style Skids that inspired the design, the idea that he'd be infested with brain parasites came from G1 Skids, where he spent well over 100 UK issues in limbo after Galvatron time-displaced him there.  I thought it funny to include this element, but with the much uglier RotF Skids. 

Swing by, let Bill know what you think of his work!

As well as updating their Transformers website with the September and October 2010 items, TakaraTomy have also announced their latest Lucky Draw campign.   The campaign will run from the 18th September until 31st October 2010 at the Bic Camera Store & Edeon Group stores. to enter the campaign you need to make a purchase of Transformers figures (except EZ Collection figures) of more thaN 3000 Yen 3000.   The winners, 20 from each chain, will receive a silver chrome Transformers Animated Bumblebee.

­We are auctionin off our remaining Toy Hobby Market ExclusiveSleep Mode Convoys on ebay.  There is one auction up at the moment and we have another to place once it sells.

The figure is limited to 2010 pieces world wide, this is in hand in the UK, brand new still sealed in the original mailer box.

The toy has a starting price of £200, less then what it cost us to bring into the UK, and a BIN of £250.00.  We are offering free recorded delivery in the UK on the item as well.

You can see a full gallery of Sleep Mode Convoy on Transformers At The Moon's toy gallery section.  If you are after the toy then please check our auction.
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Ken Christiansen has updated his blog with some designed of Transformers Bumblebee, Jazz and Inferno which are alternative ideas from Transformers Prime,

Mr Christiansen is working as a concept artist on Transformers Primeand has previously worked on Activisions Transformers: The Game and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen computer games.

"Yes I did work on Transformers : Prime. No, these images (Click on the Title Bar to see) are NOT from that work. You have to wait until October to see those...

But, now that some of those images are starting to come out, I wanted to try to do some studies to match the official style. Just really rough at this point, trying to find some of the basics.

Obviously, TFP Bumblebee is based on the movie Camaro, so I wanted to try a pass with him as the Beetle, and how that old vehicle form could break up in new ways. Then I took a crack at Jazz (I don't know if there's any TF/Prime images of him out, and I honestly don't know if he's in the lineup for the show - I didn't work on him, in any case) and based him on more of the TF:Animated styling. And then for fun, I just picked a random Autobot, and did Inferno. He was the last one I did, and I think I started to capture some of the TFP looks...

Tomorrow, some Decepts..."

We are now taking orders for the Toy Hobby Market exclusive 2010 Unicron.  The toy is currently priced at £120 including recorded delivery but if they cost us less to import we will refund the difference.

For more details please read this thread on our message board.

­A japanese blog has been updated with a scan from Hobby Magazine with an image of the upcoming Transformers Masterpiece Rodimus Convoy

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We've updated our huge Transformers Toy Gallery area with three new Custom Transformer Toys galleries, which consist of our prototype AA-01 Plush Swindle figure (the final version of which was given to Derrick Wyatt as a birthday present at Auto Assembly 2010).  Plush Swindle has removeable weapons which are held by velcro

The next customs are by Hamstar Customs, and were two of the popular custom Mighty Muggs shown at Auto Assembly 2010.  These Custom Mighty Muggs include Mighty Muggs Swindleand Mighty Muggs Angry Archer

Due to the recent buzz surrounding Hasbro's instruction sheet archive we have decided to port a feature of the next incarnation of Transformers At The Moon, what will be version 9) into the current live site.  The feature is the "Hasbro Instruction Sheet Area".  This area is very similar to our Hasbro Trademark area in as much as the information is a mirror of external data but in a format that makes it much easier to navigate.  We rigorously check for both new trademark applications as well as Hasbro instruction sheets, though until now this project has been under-wraps, meaning that Transformers At The Moon will be able to bring you not only the latest trademark application first but also the latest Transformers Instruction Sheet news first as well.

You can browse the PDF files based on their Hasbro given names as well as by the publication date, meaning its even easier to find out when Hasbro publish new entries.  Any new entries will also be covered as news stories to ensure that everyone is made aware.

Currently the section contains 711 pdf instruction sheets.

Mike from KO Toys has updated his website with images of the upcoming Transformers Generations Blurr figure, along with comparisons to Transformers Generations Drift.

We forgot to post a news story on this a few days ago after Auto Assembly organiser Simon Plumbe posting the video on YouTube, but I guess it's better late than never.

Below you will see the special tribute videos which were recorded for Auto Assembly 2010 by various Transformers related voice actors.

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Following on from our Generation One Japanese Exclusive Transformers Toy gallery at Auto Assembly 2010, we thought we'd point you in the direction of eBay to help pick up one of the more popular items we were asked about, Black Zarak.

Loose Black Zarak
­Boxed Uncomplete Black Zarak
MIB Black Zarak

Hello TF@TM!

Another batch of sightings from the wonderful Toymaster store in Exeter:

H.F.T.D Wave 1 Deluxes, @ £9.99. That's Ironhide, BB Bumblebee, SA Ravage and Jetblade.
H.F.T.D Wave 1 Voyagers, @ £19.99. Seaspray, Ratchet and the Long Haul repaint.
Restock of Wave 1 Generations, still @ £9.99.
Plenty of Power Core Combiner 5-Packs, too.

It's good to see the prices stabilising. I'm not sure if this store-specific, or a new RRP from Hasbro, but I for one hope that it stays this way.

All the best,

- Adam

Jim Sorenson, writer of both Allspark Almanacs, the Ark books and all round "awesome dude" has posted his thoughts on Auto Assembly 2010 where, amongst other things, Jim discovered that he can pull off wearing a fez pretty well.

If you attended the event I urge you to read Jim's thoughts and if you did not I also urge you to read his blog and find out more about Auto Assembly.