Botcon.com have announced the initial details for their 2011 convention.  The event will take place in Pasadena, California within the United States (a popular location for Botcon) and will take place between June 2nd and June 5th.  Check out the Botcon 2011 website here.

Both tfw2005.com and seibertron.com have continued coverage from BotCon 2010 day 2

From TFW

1) Botcon 2010 Activision Panel
2) Botcon 2010 Hasbro Panel Coverage
3) Botcon 2010 Transformers Prime Panel Coverage
4) TFW2005 BotCon 2010 Coverage : Real Life Motormaster At BotCon 2010

From Seibertron

1) Notes from Hasbro's Marketing Review panel (aka Hasbro Toy panel)
2) Notes from Hasbro's Transformers: PRIME CG cartoon panel (updated during panel) Welker and Cullen reprise roles, Soundwave ...
3) BotCon 2010 Gallery - Hunt For The Decepticons Toys Revealed

Yahoo! Japan Auctions seller Air Wonder Stories is selling a Micron Legend Green Unicron figure at the moment on the Japanese auction site.  Currently the toy is priced at just over £350­ which is 14% of the normal price this figure goes for.

With a lot of Transformers fans now at Botcon, it could be the time to try to pick up this figure using one of many bidding services.

For more images of the figure why not check out our extensive gallery at LuckyDrawTransformers.com

­In a follow-up to the news we reported on Thursday regarding the contents of this months Figure King magazine (often incorrectly translated as Figure Oh), we can now bring you four images from the issue thanks to Hong Kong T­oy World.

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Thanks Mr Neurie for sending in the following update to the UK stock of Transformers War For Cybertron.

"Been trying to get War For Cybertron at retail today and found you can't find it at Game, Gamestation, HMV or at a large supermarket? Well according to the manager at the local Gamestation there's a reason and it's not that it's sold out.

Apparantly activision only sent out enough stock to cover preorders and nothing for the rest of people who waned to get the product. The only store I could find with copiesfor sale was Smyths who had 2 copies of the game for each of the systems. The manger of Gamestation also said they were not expecting any more stock either.

Good luck finding it at retail."

We received our copy of the game yesterday from Play.com and a word of warning for those who have bought it and are yet to play it, at least on the PS3, it will be a good 20-30 minutes from inserting the disc until you can actually get to the main menu due to the update that is instantly required and the 5GB install.

The various US based sites have published reports from day 1 of Botcon 2010 and so to help you quickly find them here is a list of the main players.

TFW2005

Takara Tomy Panel - Not much to talk about from this, some history of the diaclones and a few questions on the Masterpiece figures

General Images -Animated Ironhide, some movie recolours and the G1 Seacon reissues

Bob Budiansky panel - some details on alternative names for some of the G1 figures

Seibertron.com

Bob Budiansky panel

TFormers

TakaraTomy Panel

Bod Budiansky panel

General Images.

AutoRobot.IT has confirmed that the Transformers Generations toys have already been released in Italy.

Thrust, Drift and War For Cybertron Optimus Prime are the three which have ­photographed­ as proof.

Are Hasbro Inc about to be bought out and go private?  Well yes they are is you listen to reports coming out of the US.  The reports say that Hasbro are in talks with Providence Equity Partners to take the company private in a leveraged buy-out.

 The New York Times report that a buy-out fell through a few weeks ago but its quiet possible talks have restarted.  When asked to comment on the story Hasbro Inc refused to deny the report stating "There are always rumours and speculation about public companies and we just don't comment on that"

We received our copy of Transformers War For Cybertron today from Play.com (though without and unlock codes sadly).  Have you received your copy of the game yet? What do you think? 

Use this news story and message board thread to discuss your first thoughts and share your gamer IDs so you can play multi-player with fellow members / visitors

­e-Hobby have updated their website with a listing and new images of the exclusive Transformers Animated Elite Guard Prowl figure.  The toy are will be released at the Tokyo To­y Show in limited numbers with some more being sold via the e-Hobby store.

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­e-Hobby have updated their website with a listing and new images of the exclusive Dreadwind and Smokescreen figures, recolours of RotF Mindwipe and Skystalker.  The toys are will be released at the Tokyo Toy Show in limited numbers with some more being sold via the e-Hobby store.

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The July releases for Transformers Animated were shown.
The figures include Leader Class Ultra Magnus and Megatron and will come with cards for use with Sega's Transformers Animated card game.

The magazine takes a look over the episodes of Transformers Animated that will air over July as well as looking at Volume 1 of the Animated DVD and the Sega games.

Images were published of variou EZ Collection figures including Skywarp and Sunstorm.

From the Transformers 2010 Campaign the Classics "Sons of Cybertron" Optimus Prime and Rodimus were shown.  The figures are exactly the same as the ones from the Philippines and will be sold in limited quantites over two days in Japan.

Human Alliance Jazz with Agent Lennox isshown in detail.

Finally the article contains a mention to the "Cybertron Con" a Transformers event that will take place in Shanghai between the 30th Jult and the 3rd August.  The event will see the sale of the clear Sons of Cybertron Classics set, Alternity Ultra Magnus as well as showing all seven exclusives from the 2010 campaign

Credit to Snakas for the news

The official website for Takara's 2010 Campaign has been updated with a new page for the recently announced Toy Hobby Market exclusive Primus figure, an image of the Transformers Henkei 'Sons of Cy­bertron' Optimus Prime and Rodimus set as well as an image of the Transformers Animated 'Sons of Cybertron­' set (again Optimus Prime and Rodimus but using the Transformers Animated molds), finally they have also added a new piece of merchandise the  Masterpiece Sound Stage which appears to be a large plastic stand which will most likely containing sound bites from various characters. You can find images of the sound stage as well as the Transformers Animated Sons of Cybertron crystal Optimus Prime and Rodimus below.

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Thanks to Sven Harvey for sending through the following update on Gamestations stock of Transformers War For Cybertron

Hi all

Just so everyone knows who may be after the Autobot Jazz unlock on Transformers War For Cybertron on XBox 360 and PS3 - initial stocks of the game that have arrived at Gamestation stores include the unlock - however stock appears to be limited so you might want to call your local store or pop in to try and secure your copy!