Our Transformers Forum, powered by Proboards, is currently offline due to a fire at their facility. They are working on restoring the data to various servers, they had over 100 and we were on their first server, so it may take them a while to get the message board back working.

Hopefully the service will be restored over the next few days.

TransformersAnimated.com has been updated with an image gallery from the latest Transformers Animated episode to air in Canada, Episode 24 - SUV Society of Ultimate Villainy.

The episode introduces two new characters, Slow-Mo and Swindle, and is due to air in the UK on Monday on NickToons.

There are 269 images for you to look at and a full episode summary will be added shortly.

Thanks to Nic Hughes for letting us know that Hamelys have Transformers Animated toys in stock. They join ToysRUs which also have wave 1 figures available.

Not sure if this has been reported, but I saw animated toys on the shelves in Hamelys yesterday.

They had Dueluxs (£12) , and Voyagers (£25) and the 2 pack (£25)

I have pictutres as well if you want them.

Nic hughes

TFW2005 are reporting that the Pontiac Solstice vehicle prop and Darius McCrary, the voice of Jazz in the first live action movie, have arrived at the set of the second Transformers Movie. This had led to speculation that Jazz may be set to return in the second film, though why a voice actor would be needed on set at this stage is not known.

TFW2005 have also received some images from the set showing a Chinese police car patrolling the streets. Already some fans are expecting this to be Prowl, though it could simply turn out to be a police car on patrol.

You can see the comic preview on the eHobby pre-order page here.

Transformers Hispanos have posted an interview with IDW Publishing Editor Denton J. Tipton. Denton talks about a variety of subjects including Transformers Animated, featuring a Dinobot story (from Simon Furman and Nick Roche).

To view the complete interview, click here.

Thanks to Seibertron for the spot

In an updated to yesterdays news story, Hasbro filed for 2 other Transformers related trademarks as well as four G.I-Joe related trademarks with the USPTO on the 20th May.

1. MATRIX OF LEADERSHIP
2. REVENGE OF THE FALLEN

The G.I-Joe marks were for

1. THE REVENGE OF COBRA
2. RETURN OF COBRA
3. COBRA RISES
4. THE RISE OF COBRA
   

You can view all of the details of the Transformers related marks in our Transformers Trademark area which is updated every few hours.

Credit to Monzo for spotting the two other Transformers marks, you can read his post over at the Allspark

Images of the upcoming Convention Exclusive (not as most western Transformers sites are reporting as an e-Hobby Exclusive) Transformers Henkei Clear Convoy have appear on an ebay auction, which was spotted by a TFW2005 member.

You can see the images and his post here at TFW.

The toy will also be available or one day, only to Japanese residents, in limited quantities from the e-Hobby Shop which is run by Part One Ltd.

Thanks to Simes for posting the following news on our Transformers Forum regarding the Auto Assembly charity event.

As usual, Auto Assembly 2008 is holding one of it's now traditional charity auctions to raise money for it's nominated charity, Help A Local Child, and this year we're hoping that it will be our best yet!

Help a Local Child was launched in 1994 with a commitment to helping the children and young people of the West Midlands, who experience the negative effects of poverty, abuse, neglect, homelessness, violence, crime, illness and disability. There are many children in and around the Birmingham area who are carers for their own parents or who are indirect victims of domestic violence or suffer daily pain due to illness. In this world of glamour and gain, these are the children that BRMB want to help. Their focus is local fundraising, with all money raised being awarded locally and really benefiting our community. With the help and support of their listeners, local celebrities, corporate partners, volunteers, and their employees, the fundraising year on year will help more and more children in the area, enabling them to achieve dreams and ambitions they would never have thought possible.

Last time we managed to raise just over £1,000 (almost $2,000) for our nominated charity from our auction and raffle thanks to many generous donations and support from those attending and we are hoping to beat this figure from Auto Assembly 2008 and we are already off to a flying start with donated and pledged items including the following:-

Auto Assembly 2004 RiD Sideburn/Mirage postcard - signed by Wally Wingert
Auto Assembly 2005 RiD Optimus Prime postcard - signed by Neil Kaplan
Auto Assembly 2006 Beast Wars Megatron postcard - signed by David Kaye
Signed photo of Neil Ross (G1 - Slag, Springer, Hook, Bonecrusher...)
Auto Assembly 2008 postcard original artwork - Simon Williams
Auto Assembly 2008 original artwork - Mike Collins
Auto Assembly 2008 original artwork - artist TBC
Signed photo - Wankus (RiD - Prowl)
Signed "something" - David Sobolov (Beast Wars - Depth Charge)

We are waiting for a lot more items as well so it's shaping up to be a great auction this time around but we want more and this time we're asking for YOUR help! If any of you have any items that you would like to donate we'd love to hear from you!

The sort of things we are looking for are items that are a little bit different, rare, more collectible or unique, so we're not looking for more modern items really. The convention itself is going to have more of a focus on G1 although we are still going to be open to donations of almost anything. If you can send items to us in advance that would be great but if not, if you can let us know in advance (and ideally send us a photo or two) and then make sure we have them on the night before the convention then that will be fine!

The best things we are looking for would be signed items, original comic artwork, convention exclusive toys, old mint boxed G1 toys, toy prototypes, limited edition comics, toys and similar items that are hard to find - that sort of thing. If in doubt, get in touch!

If any of you can help, it would be greatly appreciated and we're sure it would help us to smash our previous fundraising efforts. If you could help, our postal address for all donations is:-

Auto Assembly 2008 Charity Auction
PO Box 8966
Great Barr
Birmingham
B43 5ST
England

As well as the auction, we will be holding a raffle so if you have any regular items you may wish to donate as prizes for this, please feel free to send anything or bring these along on the Friday evening and again, funds raised from this will go to Help A Local Child.

Many thanks and we look forward to seeing you all on 2nd August!

Simon and Sven
Auto Assembly 2008

email: enquiries@autoassembly.org.uk
web: www.autoassembly.org.uk
forum: http://autoassembly.proboards7.com

tel. +44 (0)7860 948296 / +44 (0)7804 951406

1. RETURN OF THE DECEPTICONS
2. REVENGE OF THE DECEPTICONS
3. RETURN TO CYBERTRON
4. REVENGE OF UNICRON
   

We have added an additional 15 galleries, and over 440 images, of the BotCon 2008 Shattered Glass Transformers Timeline toys. The new galleries include.

1. Optimus Prime
2. Grimlock
3. Goldbug
4. Autobot Jazz
5. Starscream
6. Razorclaw
7. Blurr
8. Rampage
9. Sideswipe
10. Whisper
11. Rodimus
12. Divebomb
13. Megatron
14. Meister

The fan run transformerslive.blogspot.com blog has been updated with a post claiming to contain information and images from the pre-production wokr being done at a Bethlehem steel factory to Transform it into a Chinese city. The article claims thgat the source who sent through the images also said that filming would begin during the first week of June and sent htrough te following notes

• The east side of the site is being re-developed so most of the shooting will take place on the west side.
• A new concept car not used in the first movie will be used there
• Two Blackhawk helicopters will be used
• The area will be patrolled by the site security and Bethlehem City Police who will also and close streets for the shoot.

You can view the mirrored images below.

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