­­Amazon.com have added two new Transformers Animated related listing as well as updating the product page­ for Transformers Animated: The Allspark Almanac, Vol. 2 ­ with t­he cover art.  The two new listings are for the ­Transformers Animated Omnibus Volume 1 and Transformers Animated: The Adventure Continues! Vol. 1 .  The later being Season 3 of the cartoon but in a book.

Credit to TFW2005.com for the news

We have updated our Japanese Magazine Scan area of Transformers At The Moon with new galleries for the April 2010 releases.  The new updates consists of Hobby Japan April 2010, Figure King 145, TV Boy April 2010 and TV Magazine April 2010.

The galleries include all the pages with Transformers toys on them as well as some other random nice toy images.

TakaraTomy have updated their website with the Nest Online videos previously available by Hasbro, only this time with Japanese subtitles.

The second episode is available on the 19th of March.

Thanks to Snakas for the spot.

Taobao seller bleach_???? has listed an auction on the Chinese auction site for a the TakaraTomy version of Transformers Animated Shockwave.  You can view the auction here and see the mirrored image below.

The latest issue of TV-Boy (Terebi-kun) contained an article about Transformers An­imated and confirmed that the show will start airing in Japan in April (the usual time for new anime series) on TV Aichi.  The issue of TV-Boy also came with a DVD where Optimus Prime, voiced by Jiroki Takahashi, gives an introduction to the series.

The magazine once again talks about how the show will be set within the Movie Universe (something it seems that a lot of people missed despite it being reported several months ago, at least it was right here), which is why Bulkhead's name was changed to Ironhide (again this was explained in months ago).

You can view some images of the magazine below, expect a full gallery of this and other Japanese hobby magazines later this evening.

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Kotaku.com have recently interview Matt Tieger of High Moon Studios who is the lead designer on the upcoming Transformers: War For Cybertron video game.  The interview was primarily based on whether the multi-player mode would enable players to combine into Devastator.  The answer was no, "The guy who is the kneecap, what does he do?" Matt replied when asked the question.  Kotaku.com was also told that they would "only include robots that turn into a vehicle", which isn't really surprising.

Credit to The Allspark.com for the report.

TakaraTomy have updated their Transformers Animated website with toy pages for the main cast including character biographies for the Autobots.

CSToys have published a YouTube video demonstration of the Transformers Dinsey Label Donald Duck figure which you can view below.

The Auto Assembly team have issued the following press release

Auto Assembly 2009 Script Reading On YoutubeAnd More...

For those of you who attended Auto Assembly 2009, you've been waitng for months for the chance to see it again, and for those of you who couldn't make it, you've been wondering what all the fuss was about, but we are now proud to announce that we are releasing the footage of our live script reading from Auto Assembly 2009 on the official Auto Assembly channel on Youtube!

For those of you who don't know, the script reading took place on the Saturday evening of the convention and featured a brand new 25 minute Beast Wars script written exclusively for the convention and was performed by Gregg Berger, Ian James Corlett, comic artists Simon Williams, Nick Roche, and a number of fans who auditioned for additional roles.

Over the coming weeks we will be uploading the Script Reading and a whole host of other clips from Auto Assembly 2009 - interviews, general footage, guest panels and much much more. As well as this, we be be uploading Highlight Reels from our archives from past events dating back to the very first Auto Assembly event in 2000!

The first videos from this archive are online NOW and new videos will be added every day or two so keep coming back to see all the latest updates. Footage from Auto Assembly 2000, 2001 and the first interview from Auto Assembly 2009 are online NOW and Part One of the Script Reading will be available by the time most of you read this! To see these, just visit the channel at www.youtube.com/autoassembly and if you want to know about the videos as they become available, why not subscribe to us?!

The channel will also bring you the latest news and developments on Auto Assembly 2010 which is going to be our biggest and best yet. We want to celebrate Auto Assembly's 10th Anniversary in style and give you the best Transformers convention that Europe has ever seen. Over the weekend of Friday 13th - Sunday 15th August 2010 we will be bringing you AT LEAST three guests of honour (Garry Chalk and Derrick J Wyatt are already confirmed), a massive Saturday evening programme with a party, live band, costume competition and loads more, toy and art displays, dealers, comic guests, free autograph sessions, video games area, workshops, dedicated childrens programming, video screenings and so much more!

All this will be taking place at the The Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Birmingham, England. Tickets for the weekend are on sale now through the website for for the weekend for adults and for children, students and senior citizens, with under 5s admitted free. Single day passes will be made available for sale closer to the convention.

For more details on the convention, to see a full list of all the guests and activities taking place over the weekend, or to book your tickets, visit the website at www.autoassembly.org.uk

We hope to see you all in August 2010.

The Auto Assembly 2010 Team

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email: autoassembly@aol.com
tel: +44 (0)7860 948296 

TFWiki have now scanned and posted 1986 Hasbro Toy Fair Catalogue which was recently purchased in a charity drive between TFWiki and the Allspark where as well as raising almost $400 for the book (a overpriced fee it should be noted) they did raise $2340 for Hasbro Children's Hospital.

The scans show some of the early prototypes of the 1986 Transformers lineup, including a Galvatron with larger weapons, a yellow Tailgate, a white Hub Cap, a grey Runamuck, a different head for Hot Spot, different coloured parts for Superion, a different head for Kup and various alternative sticker sheets.

Kotaku has posted up an article describing a first hand, hands on look at Transformers War for Cybertron for the Nintendo DS.

The War for Cybertron goes portable in this title developed by Vicarious Visions, and includes a "partner" system where players can select two characters and are encouraged to switch between them to progress through the game.

The screen shots show images of Jetfire and Grimlock appearing on this version of the game.

Titan Publications have issues the following press release regarding the launch of their Transformers comic iPhone app.

Titan Publishing launches TRANSFORMERS Comic on iPhone!

Following the global success of the Wallace & Gromit iPhone comic app, Titan Publishing is proud to announce the arrival of its first TRANSFORMERS iPhone comic.

Launching today, 26 February, and based on Hasbro¹s TRANSFORMERS brand, each TRANSFORMERS comic download includes an awesome action packed story and is bursting with fun facts and trivia about the characters, movies and comics!

The digital comic is free and can be downloaded for iPhone by visiting www.titanpublishing.com/digital or the app store (comics are available in the UK and EIRE only.)

The first download includes ŒOPTIMUS PRIME¹, a story written by TRANSFORMERS
legend Simon Furman and featuring artwork by fan favourite Geoff Senior (Judge Dredd, 2000AD, Dr Who and Dragons Claws).

TRANSFORMERS Comic writer, Simon Furman said "TRANSFORMERS on your iPhone - wow! It's a simply incredible chance for fans of the warring 'ROBOTS IN
DISGUSE' to experience incredible stories that expand upon and underpin the incredible movie universe. The stories, written by me and drawn by a host of
old and new TRANSFORMERS artists, bring the movie characters to life as never before, and now they can be seen as never before! So get ready for
tales of CYBERTRON and Earth that spotlight your favourite characters... and probably a few you know only by name... beamed direct to your iPhone."

TRANSFORMERS Comic #1 is available to download for FREE on iPhone via www.titanpublishing.com/digital.There¹ll be more TRANSFORMERS comic stories released over the coming weeks
so check back soon!

Find out more at www.titanpublishing.com/digital­

The first issue of the comic features a story about Optimus Prime trying to survive an assassination attempt aftre he tries to send the Allspark into space.­

As promised the first in-game trailer for the upcoming Transformers: War For Cybertron video game has now been released.  You can view the trailer below.­

Credit to Game Trailers­ for the video