Its time for us to bring you the latest UK toy sales charts from the NPD.  Again we would like to point out that these charts are for UK sales only as in the past other websites have republished the charts without making that clear and so causing many people to become confused and assume that they are North American sales charts.

UK Feb 2010 (£­ Sales - Value)­

1 Go Go Hamster Packs Assortment  - CHARACTER OPTIONS
2 Star Wars Rebel Trooper & Snow Trooper Battlepack  - LEGO
3 Kidzoom Digital Camera - VTECH
4 Star Wars Lukes Landspeeder - LEGO
5 Ben 10 Alien Force 10cm Figures - BANDAI
6 Bionicle Stars 2010 - LEGO
7 Bakugan Starter Pack - SPIN MASTER
8 TRANSFORMERS MOVIE DELUXE FIGURES - HASBRO
9 Ben 10 Alien Force 15cm, DNA Figures - BANDAI
10 First Steps Babywalker - VTECH

UK Feb 2010 (Unit Sales - Volume)

1 Match Attax Cards - TOPPS
2 Hot Wheels Basic Car Assortment - MATTEL
3 Gogo’s Crazy Bones III Explorer Pack - MAGIC BOX
4 Ben 10 Alien Force10cm Figures - BANDAI
5 TRANSFORMERS MOVIE LEGENDS ASSORTMENT - HASBRO
6 Play Doh Single Tub Assortment - HASBRO
7 Go Go Hamster Packs Assortment - CHARACTER OPTIONS
8 Plasticine 8 Pack - FLAIR
9 Gormitti Figure Foilbag Assortment - FLAIR
10 Bakugan Booster Pack - SPIN MASTER

S250 has "tweeted" another rumour, this time that a new Unicron repaint will be released by Takara Tomy in September  2010.  S250 goes on to speculate that the figure may be released as part of the "Welcome to Transformers 2010" theme of TakaraTomy releases.

Again, this should be considered a rumour, but S250 does have a good record for these things hence this rumour report.

Our thanks go out out ninja_autobot for letting us know that hs has subtitled the full JAM Project theme for Transformers Animated now.  You may remember that he recently subtitled the TV version well now you can enjoy the full track which you can see here or by using the plug-in below.

Paramount Pictures Japan have teamed up with Pepsi Nex (Pepsi Max) to run a promotion of Paramount Pictures themes Be@rbrick figures which includes a Transformers Movie Bumblebee.  You can see an image of all of the Be@rbrick's below.

Credit to Snakas for the report.

S250 have posted a Twitter update stating that he had "just heard some rumor about Giant character of coming transformers series".  This was then followed by the tweat "something like giant arachnida and dinosaur......".  Now some of you may remember that towards the end of last year we broke news the Hasbro Inc had submitted a Trademark application to the USPTO for the mark Airachinid could this be the name of this giant character that S250 has heard about?

Its possible, though its also possible that it is in no way related to what he has heard or that what he has heard is simple wrong. Time will tell but you can be sure we will update you if this story develops into anything more concrete, so for now keep it as a rumour.­

Update: We asked S250 if they could have meant Airachinid to which he replied "What I heard is belong to Arthropoda-Arachricla-Scorpionida", so basically the rumour specifically relates to a Chelicerata which is the group of Athropods that includes scorpions and spiders.  This makes it less likely to be Airachinid, who's name suggests flight as well as being an arachnid, though not impossible.

Update 2:S250 has posted in a thread over on TFW2005.com that he's now been told that it is not a spider but a scorpiones, the class of arachnida to which scorpions belong.  So its more likely that it will not be related to Airachinid, but remember that this news article is only a rumour and, as such, should be treated as speculation only.

TFClub.com have posted images of the upcoming Transformers War for Cybertron Optimus Prime figure which they have recently acquired.  The toy will be released under the Transformers Generations banner to coincide with the release of the video game.

Credit to Seibertron.com for the report.

Thanks to Shadowdancer for submitting the following story:

"Just to let you all know The Entertainer toy store is now doing the Universe figure Optimus prime G1 reissue for £19.99 from £39.99.So grab em while you can .I brought mine online."

In a follow up to our previous story, The Cyber-Gundam Blog has posted a scan from this months Dengeki Hobby Magazine which contains half a page on Masterpiece Convoy Sleep Mode, including a new image.  As reported here earlier, the new MP Convoy will cost you 21,000 yen plus 4 robot points and is the first of four (most likely quarterly) special released that TakaraTomy will be releasing this year as part of their celebration of the 2010 series (Headmasters) .

­TakaraTomy have updated their website with information on more Japanese exclusive campaigns figures.

First up they have a page dedicated to the Transformers Animated EZ Collection "Crystal" figures.  These are clear recolours of Transformers Animated EZ Optimus Prime, Prowl, Bumblebee and Starscream.  The figures are Toys R Us Japan exclusives and are due in stores towards the end of this month starting from tomorrow.  You can view images of the toys ­below.

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Next up Takara have updated their "Welcome to Transformers 2010" sub-section which is an area that will contain information on four other exclusives which will be available by using a "robot-points" style stystem.  First up is MP-4S, Masterpiece Convoy "Sleep Mode" an all black and grey version of the Masterpiece toy depicting Convoy/ Optimus Prime from his death scene in the original 1986 film, Transformers: The Movie.  The toy is not cheap, costing­ 21,000 yen (that's ­£146 or $224) and 4 robot points and comes with his trailer, light up Matrix and recoloured weapons.  The toy is different to the recent e-Hobby's MP Convoy Black Edition for tohse wondering.  You can view all the images in our gallery here.

The Botcon website has under-gone a Generation 2 style facelift over night with a new theme including a poster image showing a Clench to be a recolour of Transformers Universe Onslaught but with a new head.

After their update of Streetwise was leaked (that's what happens when you give images a uniform name on websites), the BotCon team decided to play a joke on anyone scrapping for Clench by uploading poorly digitally doctored images of Universe Tankor recoloured as Clench which fooled several US based sites.  For those wanting to see the spoofed images you can find them here and here.