KalelPrime has dropped by our message board to talk about the "Team Quiz" that will take part at this years Auto Assembly, here is what he had to say:

"This year at Auto Assembly we will be hosting our own team quiz that will be running all weekend.

If anyone is interested and will be attending the convention this year then below is what we are looking for.

1) Teams of four are required to enter.
2) All team members must be available all weekend.
3) We require that you submit your team name and list of all four members in advance with your registration numbers to moonbase2cast@googlemail.com

May the best team win"

In a Tweet Tyrese Gibson has stated that he will return as Sgt Epps in Transformers 3.

"Yes I will for sure be in Transformers 3.. Get Ready!! Epps is here to STAY!! "

Whilst we wait for Yokobarion, we have updated our Winter Wonderfest 2010 gallery with more images showing the Transformers Animated, Transformers Revenge, Transformers Disney Label and Transformers Device Label (including Blaster, who once again we want to reitterate was never cancelled - only delayed).

The Japanese release of Transformers Animated was shown off at the recent Winter Wonderfestival event in Japan.  The toys show off the new metallic paint apps as well as the Japanese packaging and new Transformers Animated logo.

Both the packaging and logo have similarities to the Transformers Movie releases in Japan, as a lot of the text is in English rather than Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana.

We hope to have more images from the 2010 Winter Wonderfestival later.

News has filtered in from the Nuremberg Toy Fair, which was pretty much the same as the UK toyfair, only now some more names have popped up on the Transformers Power Core Combiners line.

- Scout class figure Hubcap, who transforms into a red muscle car
- Scout class figure Brimstone, who transforms into a blue motorbike
- Power Core combiner Team "Aerialbots", consisting of a leader figure just below Deluxe size and four team members just below Scout size.

Jim Sorenson has confirmed that the Allspark Almanac II will be released consisting of a 220 page book covering Season 3 of Transformers Animated­

He is how Gamestop word the announcement.

"Reserve Transformers: War for Cybertron and gain access to the GameStop Exclusive multiplayer character SHOCKWAVE. Serving as the Decepticon’s military operations commander, SHOCKWAVE is 2nd in power only to MEGATRON, and is playable only in Escalation mode in Multiplayer mode. Available online and in-store while supplies last."

Great news for fans of Headmasters as HeadRobots.com have now announced that they will be releasing a brand new head master figure which is based on the Generation One concept art for a Headmaster snake figure.  The toys are $18 dollars and they will be distributed to Japan, the US, Canada and the Europe.  You can view plenty of images and read more about this project by visiting the HeadRobots.com website.  They are already working on the 2nd release in the series

Remember that these are non-Hasbro products.

Livejournal user torikai has posted on details of the Japanese voice cast over on the Transformers Animated LJ community.

Optimus Prime will be voiced by Hiroki Takahashi (Beast Wars II Starscream/Hellscream, Mantis, Autolauncher and Car Robots Guildo and Build Hurricane.
Bumblebee will be voiced by Daisuke Kishio (Chad in Super Link [Kicker to Western viewers]
Sari will be voiced by Satomi Akesaka
Megatron will be voiced by Norio Wakamoto (Flame Convoy in Galaxy Force)

It's also worth noting that JAM Project will be performing the opening themesong.­

Many thanks go to Minion (Adam May) for his patients with us finally getting his galleries of several of the Transformers Mighty Muggs figures online.  Thanks to his hard work you can now find images of :-

• Mighty Muggs Grimlock
• Mighty Muggs Jazz
• Mighty Muggs San Diego Comic-Con Exclusive Optimus Prime
• Mighty Muggs Shockwave
• Mighty Muggs Starscream
  

S250 has posted four new images of the upcoming Transformers War for CybertronOptimus Prime figure, which shows the toy along side Transformers Universe Optimus Prime.

The figure of WfC Optimus Prime is mnissing the head, along with some other parts.

Actor Jeffery Combs has announced on his website that he will be voicing Ratchet in the next Transformers cartoon series Transformers: Prime.  According to Jeffery, the series will consist of 26 episodes and will air on the new Hasbro-Discovery channel The Hub in the Autumn.

TRANSFORMERS: PRIME

Debuting later this fall Hasbro in conjunction with Discovery Communications Inc will release a new Transformers cartoon on a new TV channel currently called Discovery Kids called Transformers: Prime.

Jeffrey Combs will be the voice of Ratchet, a very well known character in the Transformers world. There are 26 episodes scheduled for the first season. Exact details of the show are currently unavailable but will be posted here as soon as they are made available.

Jeffrey is quite thrilled with the opportunity to be cast in the role of Ratchet. He's not able to talk too much about the show this early in the production but did have this quote: "What I can say is that it is an honor and a privilege to be a part of such a prestigious project."