The Transformers War For Cybertron Comic that was report back on the 22nd May as available as a pre-order bonus in Australia for those ordering the game via JB Hi-Fi now appears to have become an exclusive for two chains within the United States.  Both Sears and Kmart have updated their pre-order pages saying that pre-order with them will also receive a comic. No word on a UK store that has signed up for this deal yet though Argos have released KMart exclusives in the past.

Auto Assembly have released a preview image of this year's  convention magazine cover which is drawn by Guido Guidi

Auto Assembly 2010 takes place between the 13th and 15th August 2010 at The Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Birmingham, England

www.autoassembly.org.uk - official Auto Assembly website
http://autoassembly.proboards.com - official Auto Assembly forum­­

Here are the latest UK Toy Sale Charts courtesy of the NPD.

UK Top 5 Toy Properties
1. Ben 10
2. Star Wars
3. Lego City
4. Thomas and Friends
5. Toy Story

UK March 2010 (GBP Sales - Value)
1. Zhu Zhu Hamster Packs - Character Options
2. Ben 10 Alien Force 10cm Figures - Bandai
3. Kidizoom Digital Cameta - VTech
4. Star Wars Rebel Trooper and Snow Trooper Battlepack - Lego
5. Bionicle Stars 2010 - Lego
6. Smart Trike Plus Girls - Mookie
7. Star Wars Lukes Landspeeder - Lego
8. First Steps Babywalke - VTech
9. Bakugan Starter Pack - Spin Master
10. Ben 10 Alien Force 15-cm DNA Figures - Bandai

UK March 2010 (Unit Sales - Volume)
1. Hot Wheels Basic Car Assortment - Mattel
2. Match Attax Cards - Topps
3. Ben 10 Alien Force Ten-CM Figures - Bandai
4. Gogo's III Explorer Pack - Magic Box
5. Zhu Zhu Hamster Pack - Magic Box
6. Transformers MV2 Movie Legends Assortment - Hasbro
7. Play-Doh Single Tub - Hasbro
8. Cars Character Assortment - Mattel
9. Bionicle Stars 2010 - Leo
10. Littlest Pet Shop Get The Pets - Hasbro

We have created a new mirror gallery containing 122 scans of the June 2010 issue of Hyper Hobby Magazine which included four pages of Transformers related content which you can below.

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Dengeki Online have posted some news images of the Transformers Animated Plushes of Optimus Prime, Starscream and Megatron. Click on the thumbnails below to view the full size images.

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NTF-Archive.de found today two new pictures of War for Cybertron Megatron and Soundwave at RumbleFrenzy Facebook Blog.

Enjoy the pictures:

Hasbro have issued the following press release regarding the naming of Simon Waters as their Senior Vice President of Global Licensing

Hasbro names global licensing chief
Hasbro hires former Disney executive as global licensing executive

Toy maker Hasbro Inc. named Simon Waters, a former executive at The Walt Disney Co., as senior vice president of global licensing.

Waters was most recently vice president, global franchise development and strategic marketing, at The Walt Disney Co.

At Hasbro, he will head licensing initiatives for Hasbro, whose brands include Nerf, Transformers and PlaySkool.

Shares rose $1.17, or 3 percent, to $40.11 during afternoon trading. The stock has traded between $22.66 and $42.59 over the past year.

Credit to the Associated Press for the news

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With a new gallery for Brakedown.

BotCon 2010 has annouced that Stan Bush will be a guest at this years event.  Mr Bush has appeared at BotCon before and has performed in 2007 and 2009.  His relationship with the Transformers brand stems from the original 1986 animated Transformers movie.

If you can't make it to BotCon in Florida, or even if you can, remember there is another Transformers Convention which is a must attend this year Auto Assembly 2010.  Auto Assembly has three special guests flying over this year, Garry Chalk, Scott McNeil and Derrick Wyatt (the latter sponsored by ourselves)

TFW2005.com member locustreign has posted images of the 2010 BotCon Gnaw, Sky-Byte and Breakdown figures.  You can see his mini gallery of the figures here, here and here.

You've probably been wondering why there has been a distinct lack of non-news related updates on this website over the last year to 24 months.  Sadly real-life commitments have gotten in the way of our usual gallery and code updates and though we have been working on a coding re-vamp offline for the last 6 months, its still some way off from being completed.  Don't fear as we will have some new toy galleries for you soon, we have over 3,000 images we have taken from 2005 that we have still not sorted out and cut down, as well as having another 1000 toys (estimate) to get around to photographing, not to mention magazines and other weird and wonderful stuff.  This is something we hope to address over the coming months when hopefully we can catch up and finish off some heavy work commitments and put more time into maintaining and updating our fleet of websites.

Steve aka Quartz
Transformers At The Moon