Auto Assembly have announced two more guests, Jason Cardy and Kat Nicholson.

Comic colourists Jason Cardy and, Kat Nicholson will be joining the likes of G1 voice actor Dan Gilvezan, TF comics legends Simon Furman, Geoff Senior and Andrew Wildman and 'Combat Colin' and 'Robocapers' creator Lew Stringer at this year's convention at the Clarendon Suites, Birmingham on Saturday 2nd August.

We have added seven new galleries to Transformers At The Moon containing all six members of the original Japanese release of Six Wing, number TF-02. That means that you can now find galleries of the original versions of Six Wing, Six Builder, Six Train, Six Turbo and Six Liner along side their recoloured reissues and the chase variants in our Transformers Toy Gallery section of the website. But here are direct links to the new seven galleries.

1. Chain Gun
2. Falcon
3. Flanker
4. Missile Run
5. Raker
6. Super Sonic
7. Six Wing
   

Seibertron are reporting that Transformers Animated toys have started to pop-up in New Zealand. Spotted at the Warehouse in Auckland were deluxe sized Prowl, Bumblebee, Cybertronian Mode Optimus Prime, Blackarachnia and Lockdown, voyager sized Bulkhead, Cybertronian Mode Megatron and Starscream as well as the Battle in a Box double set of Battle Damaged Optimus Prime and Battle Damaged Megatron.

Meanwhile we were also passed a message by Break (Matt Dallas) letting us know that the Transformers Animated toys should be placed on Toys R Us shelves very soon .. looks like some store may have already done so. as in the same report as the New Zealand story, Seibertron state the same toys have also been spotted in the UK in Toys R Us in Milton Keynes.

TFWorld2005 have reports that Transformers Animated will be starting on two South American Cartoon Network stations, Carton Network LA (Spanish) and Cartoon Network Brazil (Portuguese).

The premier, Transform and Roll Out, is set to debut on 7th July at 13:00, except in Venezuela, when it will air the same day but at 12:30pm and at 13:30 in Brazil.

Transformers fan Fatguy was lucky enough to attend Transfunket 8, a Transformers convention (of sorts) which took place in Japan. He's uploaded lots of images to a share as well as to his site, as posting some information on his blog.

Some of those customs look amazing.

You can now find three exclusive video clips from Episode 23 of Transformers Animated, A Fist Full of Energon, at Transformers Animated.com as well as on Transformers At The Moon.

The three videos are titled.

1. Arise Samurai Prowl
2. Fight! Samurai Prowl
3. Starscream's Plan

TFWorld2005 Boards Member Kenucme reports that he has received the latest edition of the Transformers Collector's Club magazine featuring a Botcon roundup issue, and also looks forward to next year's 25th anniversary convention and the release of Transformers 2.

Topspin makes his debut in the Transformers Comic but the magazine announces that the exclusive Topspin figure (based on the Energon Storm Cloud mold) will not be delivered now until late July as they did not arrive with the Botcon exclusives as previously hoped.

This is made worse with the latest eBay auction under Transformers Prototypes which is a finalised, bagged, Transformers Collectors Club Topsin toy.

As promised you can now find a full episode summary for Transformers Animated episode 23, A Fist Full of Energon, at Transformers Animated.com and Transformers At The Moon.

If you're after anything else Transformers Animated related, character profiles, episode listings, videos, wallpapers, toy images, then check out Transformers Animated.com, the premier Transformers Animated resource and un-official official home to Transformers Animated (as per the UK Transformers Comic) .

Transformers Animated.com has been updated with a large image gallery from the latest Transformers Animated episode to be shown in Canada on YTV. The episode, number 23, is called A Fist Full of Energon and includes the dramatic return of Lockdown (everyone's favorite bounty hunter) as well as introducing Prowl's samurai armour and an army of clones.

The gallery can also be found on Transformers At The Moon as part of the Transformers In The Media section.

Ozformers member Paulbot has reported the first sightings of Transformers Animated figures in Australian stores over on the Ozformers message board. The figures he saw were Deluxe Prime, Prowl, Bumblebee and Lockdown for $27.95, Voyager Bulkhead, Starscream and Megatron at $44.95

Fun Publications have updated the Transformers Collectors Club website with the following announcement.

"We are excited to announce that the pre-order page for the TCC Club Exclusive Seacons and Nightbeat will be going up here in the next 7-10 days. We are getting everything set up and will be taking orders then. We will be sending an email out to all club members notifying everyone of when the pre-order page is up.

The prices for each are as follows:
Nightbeat with exclusive Transformers Timelines Digest Comic - $48 plus s/h
Seacons gift set - $119 plus s/h

Each item will need to be pre-ordered separately as they will not be shipped together. Also, over the next couple of weeks we will be putting up some preview pages of the Timelines Nightbeat Comic that will come with the toy as well as some profile art that will only be able to be seen on the "Members Only" page for now."

The BBFC have released their ratings for the Easter Egg special features on the 2nd disc of Paramount Pictures Blu Ray release of Transformers. Not only is this the first confirmation that Transformers will be released on Blu Ray, but means that it is quiet likely that it will be released here within the next 2 months as the BBFC tend to cut their rating close to the deadline time.

Credit to Seibertron.com for the report.

Part One Ltd's e-Hobby Shop website has been updated with more information and images of the Transparent Transformers Henkei Convoy toy.

This figure will be offered at the International Tokyo Toy Show from June 19th – 22nd for Y3500. A small quantity of the figures will be available through e-Hobby after the show on a lottery basis, and as usual is only open to Japanese residents.