Thanks to Neurie for sending through news and images of sightings for the Transformers Universe Cheetor, Starscream and some Mighty Muggs in the Entertainer.  Cheetor and Starscream where priced at £14.00 with the Mighty Mugs priced at £10. Neurie also points out that Hamleys are stocking the Might Mugs as well, but for £13.  You can view some images below.

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New Transformers Archive have posted some high resolution image gallery of the currently unknown cargo plane Transformer from Revenge of the Fallen as well as Breakaway which you can view here and here.

Credit to Seibertron.com for the news

TheTransformers.net have posted an interview with Auto Assembly organiser Simes which covers some of the events you can look forward to for this years UK Transformers convention.

You can read the full interview on their message board.

Unicron.com has had a chance to sit down with Transformers Animated lead charcter designed Derrick Wyatt to perform an interview with him.  In the interview he talks about Season 3, some of the new characters as well as teases of a Fortress Maximus appearance.

TFWiki has posted a translation of the story and profile for Transformers Alternity Convoy.

“From Here to Alternity”

[World ID: Primax 109.0 Beta]

The time is 2009. The place is another Earth. There, the robot life forms called Cybertrons and humanity live peacefully together. However, a quarter century after they first met, an unknown threat endangers the world. On the four outer planets of the solar system, large marks resembling the claws of a beast have simultaneously appeared.

On Earth, following the appearance of the marks, a mysterious ring of light appeared in the skies above Vancouver, America. When the Cybertron army deployed there, the ring of light floated above their heads in the shape of a closed racetrack, and around it was racing something that appeared to be a silver sports car. When Commander Convoy saw this strange sight, he whispered, “The promised time has arrived,” and he stopped his compatriots as they prepared for battle. “That visitor is our friend. To be more precise, that is the me of another world. It is Convoy.”

Two years before, he had met a messenger from another world and made a secret promise. In the year 2009, the evil Megatron would bring the terrifying Beast of Time and come to destroy the Earth. The beast “Hytherion” was a super-dimensional life form and a powerful enemy that those on Earth could not even touch. The only thing that could act against this threat was the power of the multi-dimensional space protectors called “Alternity.” Convoy agreed that when the danger appeared, he would become a member of Alternity and fight alongside them.

In the center of the ring, a spacetime window opened and a shining metallic frame appeared from within. Convoy fused with the frame, and before the Cybertrons’ eyes, he was reshaped and transformed into a form matching that of the silver visitor. In that instant, he was reborn as a manifestation of the Alternity super-beings. As Convoy raised his hand into the skies and cast aside the veil of the dimensions, the row of Hytherion’s giant fangs became visible covering the heavens. And so, with modern Earth as its stage, an unimaginable battle began.


Higher Definition

Biology: Alternity is a future form of the Transformers which, after 900,000 years, have evolved into a celestial being. Their bodies are made of a higher-dimensional material called Alternium, and they have huge forms that straddle multiple parallel worlds. As a result, it is impossible for terrestrial beings to comprehend the entirety of their appearance. Each individual fuses with their selves of countless parallel worlds to make up a giant manifold being. The word Alternity, referring to their multi-dimensional nature, has become the name for the entire species.

Abilities: They are able to “reach out their hand” to various time periods and dimensional worlds, and they can use their powers to manipulate reality and duplicate timelines. Furthermore, when taking individual action on the mortal plane, they use Transformer bodies called “Auto-Avatars.” Each avatar’s mechanical function is about the same as that of a modern Transformer, but various high functions have been added through the technology of the Alternity. The Auto-Avatars normally transform into the form of a sports car, which is the most efficient method of transportation for using the super-dimensional locomotion of the Timaeus Drive.

Weaknesses: The Alternity are experts on dealing with multiple dimensions, but they are not omnipotent in the matter of time travel. Their greatest weakness is that they cannot move under their own power to any time prior to when Alternium was first created; that is, Earth date 2007. This often works to their disadvantage when battling Hytherion. For missions that go past this barrier, they must use long-range time-space weapons, or the aid of non-Alternity agents called “Protectors.”


A-01 Masterlord Convoy

Alternity Grand Commander Convoy

Alt-mode: Nissan GT-R

Convoy’s new form, which transforms into a GT-R sports car, is a very unusual transformation in which he uses the super-material frame built into his body to link with the hyper-being from the future, “Alternity.” This body, which is known as the “Auto-Avatar,” is in a way an avatar of Convoy that has evolved into a higher form. Alternity includes a collective of many Convoys from different dimensions, and each of them can have its own avatar. So far, the two Auto-Avatars that are known to exist are the silver one known as “Vector 01” that was created in the “BT World” from which Alternity originates, and the red traditionally-colored “Vector 109.” Each has ranged space-time weapons on both arms called “tachyon blasters,” and in car mode, they can activate the Timaeus Drive that opens the super-dimensional portal. With these new abilities, Convoy will continue his mission to protect peace on Earth and defend freedom, and will thus challenge Megatron’s ambitions.

* Ten-Dimensional Processor Block [head]: The brain-part that controls multi-dimensional thinking and consciousness.

* Timaeus Powertrack Generator [chest]: Generates the racetrack for the super-dimensional-locomotion Timaeus Drive.

* Universal Emulation Engine [waist]: Universal mechanism that replicates all mechanical devices.

* Phasic Isolation Shield Emitter [knee]: Shield emitter that erases one’s presence and offers total protection.

* Timestorm Detector Array [door-wing]: Able to remotely detect the generation of changes in time-space and immediately calculate their coordinates.

* Alternium Hyper-Frame [clavicle]: Higher-dimensional-material receiver that physically links the Auto-Avatar and the true Alternity.

* Anti-Hytherion Spacetime-Piercing Tachyon Blasters [forearm]: Super-long-range armaments that can strike targets existing in the past, the future or in other dimensions.

* Planet Force Storage Reactors [lower leg]: Where the vibrational energy of the planets is gathered as backup energy storage.

Michael Bay has has told MTV.com what is in store for one of the characters from the second live action Transformers Movie, Transformers Revenge of the Fallen.  Is the story true or not, well you'll have to wait to find out.

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Michael Bay explains that he didn't like the development of Arcee's charcter during the movie and so she is killed off.

HerosToyMaker has placed an auction for a custom Chrome Silver Big Convoy for sale on eBay.  The auction has a rather high starting price and is probably one of at least 5 of the toys Hero would have had commissioned.

Botcon.com has been updated with news of the first guest, who will be Gregg Berger the voice of Generation One Grimlock. Here is a copy of the announcement

"He is best known to TF fans as the Generation ONE voice of Grimlock, Longhaul, Skyfire, and Outback. He also originated the voices of Spirit, Firefly, Cutter and Ripcord on G.I. Joe.

He remains as busy as ever and his recent credits include voicing Captain Cutter on Halo Wars, Kingpin on Spiderman Web of Shadows, Sir Jecht on Final Fantasy X, X-2, and Final Fantasy Dissidia. Gregg Berger is also the voice of The Pain on Metal Gear Solid 3, Eeyore on Kingdom Hearts, Fred Dukes aka The Blob on X-Men Origins: Wolverine and many many more.

His animated series regular voices include Cornfed on Duckman, Agent K on Men In Black, Odie and others on Garfield (new episodes now recording!), The Gromble on Ahhhh! Real Monsters!!!, Orson Pig on US Acres, and more... as well as numerous featured and guest starring roles on countless other animated series and features.

His on camera work includes co-starring as Klembecker in Spaced Invaders and as Yuri Talinsky in Police Academy: Mission To Moscow (filmed entirely on location in Russia!). He has starred in three pilots for CBS and has made numerous guest starring appearances on television. He currently narrates the series Shadow Force for The History Channel and is the voice of a PBS affiliate in Florida. His first book/audiobook is titled: Think Globally... Act VOCALLY! (and Voice Virtue).

His complete credits can be found by searching his name at www.imdb.com. His fan friendly online homes are his website: www.greggberger.com and his myspace at www.myspace.com/voicevirtue!"

One of the biggest news stories going around at the moment covers the Transformers Revenge of the Fallen character information which was appeared on Michael Bay's blog, on USA Today and on Yahoo Movies.  All three posts were made on April Fools Day, 1st April, so it could be that some of the information contained within in is just a well put together April Fools joke.

Read on to see the information and make up your own minds.

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Yahoo Movies

Michael Bay's Blog

By Anthony Breznican, USA TODAY

It's always the quiet ones you need to fear.

Ninjas. Serial killers. Boba Fett. Gastrointestinal functions.

In Transformers lore, the mechanical jaguar Ravage has been a villain favorite since the 1980s for his stealthy tactics and deadly force. Ever since a four-legged mechanical beast prowled through the trailer for summer's sequel, Revenge of The Fallen, fans have been awaiting more word about the feline-ish Decepticon. As more robots in the June 24 movie are revealed, Ravage comes into focus.

"In the spirit of 'more than meets the eye,' Ravage isn't just lethal because of his sharp teeth," says screenwriter Alex Kurtzman. "There's actually another skill set Ravage has that didn't exist before, so there's going to be a surprise for fans."

This version of the cat already looks far different from the original, with a single glowing red eye and a swinging, mace-like tail, but his role will be similar to the 1980s cartoon and Hasbro toy — the ultimate spy.

Ravage often was dispatched to monitor the heroic Autobots and their human allies, reporting back to the Decepticons by transforming into a cassette tape and replaying his recordings through the larger robot master Soundwave, who switched into a Walkman-sized tape deck. (How a giant robot became a small piece of sound equipment was a comical hole in logic never fully explained.)

The cassette tape transformation is gone, of course; Ravage doesn't turn into anything. But Soundwave will appear, again serving as an evil communications expert but this time in the form of an orbiting space satellite.

"They are still connected," fellow screenwriter Roberto Orci says of Soundwave and his pet. "But rather than trying to hold onto a notion as antiquated as an audiotape, which some members of our audience have maybe never laid eyes on, we wanted to go a new way."

And Ravage, as before, won't speak like the other Transformers.

"We wanted to stay true to the idea that Decepticons who take visual clues from beasts maintain that," says Orci. "It would be strange to have a talking jaguar, or a scorpion with an English accent."

Filmmaker Michael Bay has ensured that Ravage has lots of company, including many redesigned favorite robots from the original 1980s incarnation, in the new film.

"We have big guys, some little guys. We have a lot of littler ones, too. Little weirder ones," Bay says. Like the Insecticons, which were giant bugs in the original series and Hasbro toy line, but are now tiny creepy-crawly infiltrators.

Bay, who collects the Vanguard Award Thursday night at ShoWest, offers a peek at others joining Optimus Prime and Bumblebee for another rock-'em, sock-'em robo-brawl.

AUTOBOTS (the good guys)

Jetfire:

As in the original, this fighter plane crash-landed on Earth a long time ago, and he will become a reformed Decepticon now fighting for the humans. His alternate form is the SR-71 Blackbird, the outdated but still-sleek Cold War spy plane.

"He's old, craggy, forgetful ... doesn't work very well. Can't transform very well, because he's very geriatric. They get stuck with him a lot," Bay says. "He knows the plan of the bad guys, but he forgets all the good parts of the plan."

New recruits:

Sideswipe, a candy-apple red Lamborghini in the original, joins the cast this time as General Motor's silver Corvette Stingray concept car. Jolt is a new foot soldier, played in four-wheel form by the Volt, a forthcoming Chevy hybrid plug-in. Two of GM's other concept cars (the Trax and Beat) play The Twins, nicknamed Skids and Mudflap.

"Some of the junior Transformers are just dumb," Bay says with a laugh. "But it's great for kids because they're like the Little Engine That Could. They're (screw)-ups, but they get really heroic at the end."

For the gals:

Arcee is the only female and turns up as Megan Fox's hot-pink motorcycle. Co-screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci say she was in an early draft of the first movie. "But we felt we needed to win the audience over before asking for that suspension of disbelief: a feminine alien robot," Kurtzman says.

DECEPTICONS (the bad guys)

The title character:

The Fallen is an ancient robot, sort of the Transformers' version of Lucifer. He's one of the original robot aliens, and his defiance and arrogance led to his banishment into another dimension.

The screenwriters say that The Fallen holds the key to life on both Earth and Cybertron, the Transformers' home planet.

Other troublemakers:

A smaller, but no less malevolent Decepticon is known as The Doctor — a spider-like droid that transforms into various implements of torture and has a not-so-nice encounter with star Shia LaBeouf.

Then there's a giant one called Demolishor, and another tinier one with the sportier name of Wheelie.

Constructicons:

These seven robots — Scavenger, Scrapper, Hightower, Longhaul, Rampage, Overload and Mixmaster — transform into construction machinery, but also link up with one another to form one gigantic robot stomper named Devastator.

"He's made of vehicles designed to build, and he turns into is someone who loves to destroy," Orci says. "He is an agent of absolute chaos."

Bay says Devastator is the crème de la smash and got a uncharacteristic reaction out of the film's executive producer already.

"Spielberg saw it and said, 'This is (expletive) awesome!' " Bay says, and adds: "It's always nice when you can make him swear."

Source: USAToday

Not booked your tickets yet for Auto Assembly 2009, Europe's largest Transformers convention? Well you now have just FIVE DAYS to get your bookings in and take advantage of our great "early bird" discount rates run out before the tickets rise to their full price.

If you book online by MINDNIGHT (GMT) on Tuesday 7th April 2009 (or postal bookings are postmarked by this date) then you can get weekend tickets for just £40 for adults, £30 for children / students / senior citizens and under 5s are free. Family tickets, which cover two adults and two children are just £125. These rates will be increasing to £45, £35, and £145 from 8th April 2009.

For full details on Auto Assembly 2009 and to book your tickets, visit the website at www.autoassembly.org.uk

Simon and Sven
Auto Assembly

Auto Assembly 2009 is a non-profit making convention for fans of Transformers and is being held on 15th - 16th August 2009 (with a bonus evening programme on 14th August 2009 for weekend attendees) at the Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Birmingham, England.

web: www.autoassembly.org.uk
forum: http://autoassembly.proboards7.com
email: autoassembly@aol.com
tel: +44 (0)7804 951406

Thanks to King Grimlock for sending through this link to Toys R Us UK who have a current sale on Universe deluxe figures which are reduced to £7.49.  You can view the listings here.