Comixfans have an interview with IDW staff member Shane McCarthy, where he discusses various comic items including Transformers.

Follow the link above to have a read.

Chriss Ryall has updated his blog with a list of the IDW releases scheduled for tomorrow.

Okay, the first issue of our TRANSFORMERS movie sequel is out this week. No, really. No more delays, shipping errors, hold-ups, acts of God, none of that. It'll be in stores this week, really, along with these other titles (5-page previews of each of these should be up at Newsarama.com, too):

Angel: After the Fall #7
Doctor Who #4
Don Pendelton's The Executioner: #2
The Mummy: The Rise & Fall of Xango's Ax #1
Rogue Angel #3
Silent Hill #3
Transformers Movie Sequel: The Reign of Starscream #1
Transformers: Best of UK Dinobots TPB
Tiny-Rannosaurus (a children's picture book)

Along with an auction on ebay for the Transformers Collectors Club Seacons, Talk Transformers (the Hong Kong Transformers message board) has also been updated with more images of the toy.

You can also find a few images of the original unreleased Transformers Universe Seasons toys in our Kabaya Seacons Transformers Toy galleries, thanks to Minion.

BTFA have posted a short list of the upcomming Transformers Animated toys which are scheduled to be released in Holland.

Animated activator ------------- autumn
Animated Deluxe ----------------- end april
Animated bumper autumn battler ------
Animated Voyager --------------- mid-May
Animated Battle Pack ----------- autumn
animated power bots (cyber stomping) - mid-August
Animated leader ---------------- end of August
Animated Supreme ------------- autumn

TransFan2, who won the recent eBay auction for the loose G2 Motormaster, has posted an image gallery of the toy on photobucket.

The figure is one of 10 unreleased Generation Two combiner Transformers figures, and was recently named as a possible future Transformers Collectors Club figure.

You will now find two new Transformers Encore galleries in our extensive Transformers toy gallery area. The galleries are both limited edition toys, in the form of Black Ironhide and Green Ratchet. We bought two versions of both toys, and will be selling the others as a set on ebay in the next few days.

• Transformers Encore - Visual Artbook Exclusive - Green Emergency Ratchet
• Transformers Encore - e-Hobby Shop Exclusive - Black Protect Ironhide

TFW2005 board member Magmatron has taken some screen grabs and another low quality video from Transformers Animated episode 23 A Fist Full Of Energon. The episode will air in Canada in 3 weeks and in the US in 4 weeks. Dubai will show the end of Transformers Animated season two at the start of next week.

You can view the video below.

For those interested in the Dubai schedule, here is a break down

• Tuesday 6th May - Episode 24: S.U.V - Society Of Ultimate Villainy
• Wednesday 7th May -Episode 25: Autobot Camp
• Thursday 8th May - Episode 26: Black Friday (shown at Botcon 2008)
  
• Friday 9th May - Ep 27: Sari, No One's Home
• Monday 12th May - Ep 28: A Bridge Too Close, Part One
• Tuesday 13th May - Ep 29: A Bridge Too Close, Part Two (Season 2 ends)

The episode features Starscream, Lockdown and Prowl. If you do not wish to read any spoilers, then stop reading here.

1. Starscream escapes and goes to the Nemesis, the Decepticon ship, with Prowl in pursuit. Prowl takes Ratchet's EMP generator with him.
2. Lockdown appears after Prowl captures Starscream using the stasis shackles. Whilst Lockdown and Prowl fight, Starscream escapes.
3. Starscream destroys Prowl's ship and heads back to Earth. Lockdown and Prowl are forced to work together to return to the Earth with Lockdown giving Prowl his new Samurai Armour
4. Upon reaching Earth, they paid find and capture Starscream only for Lockdown to double cross Prowl and take Starscream to Megatron. The other Autobots arrive to free Prowl, and then head out in pursuit of Lockdown
5. Another Starscream arrives on Earth, with a new color scheme, and after a battle with Prowl is captured by the Autobot's and bought to Lockdown's ship.
6. When the two Starscreams are bought together, they both open their Spark chambers to reveal activated bombs.
7. The Decepticons flee but in order to protect the city Prowl attaches his new armor to the two Starscream's using it to blast them into space where they explode.
8. The scene then shifts and the real Starscream is shown playing with the shackles while viewing a recording of Megatron in front of a monitor. He then looks back to reveal an army of clones.

The 22nd episode of Transformers Animated, entitled Rise of the Constructicons, aired today on MBC-3 in Dubai. Transformers Animated airs everyday in Dubai other than weekends and has been dubbed into the Arabic language. TFW2005 member Magmatron has recorded a small clip using his mobile phone and has posted it on YouTube. The video is a very poor quality and has no sound, but can be viewed below.

We have also mirrored some cleaner images of the characters.

The Transformers Videos section of the website has been updated with four videos from the latest episode of Transformers Animated. That episode is episode 20: Garbage In, Garbage Out. The four videos focus on Wreck-Gar. You can view all of the videos within the video section on both TransformersAnimated.com and Transformers At The Moon.

The videos can be found directly on TransformersAnimated.com at by using the links below.

Video 1: Arise Wreck-Gar

Video 2: Wreck-Gar gets a name

Video 3: Universal greeting

Video 4: Dare to be stupid

We have updated TransformersAnimated.com to fix a bug that was causing the video links on the animated character pages to display all of the videos and not just the videos that featured that selected character. The character videos have also been updated.

We have updated our review and image gallery for Transformers Animated Episode 20, Garbage In, Garbage Out, which aired yesterday in Canada on YTV, at Transformers Animated.com and Transformers At The Moon with a full review of the episode.

The episode included the debut of Wreck-Gar as well as the return of the Angry Archer, and will not aired in the US until next week.

Rumours are flying around the web regarding possible cast members for Transformers 2. Two of the names in the list are Teresa Palmer and Jonah Hill.

Jonah's role is said to be a comical sidekick to Sam Witwicky named Sam (from the Transformers 2 cast list, which Michael Bay said was fake).

You will now find a full image gallery for Transformers Animated Episode 20, Garbage In, Garbage Out, which aired earlier today in Canada on YTV, at Transformers Animated.com and Transformers At The Moon.

The episode includes the debut of Wreck-Gar as well as the return of the Angry Archer, and will not aired in the US until next week (still no word on when the UK will get Season 2).

It's been a while since we featured some new wallpapers on Transformers Animated, but that comes to an end with the introduction of the first Transformers Animated Ultra Magnus wallpaper.

This wallpaper, available in three sizes, is based on a scene from Transformers Animated episode 19, called Mission Accomplished.

Transformers Animated made its long awaited German debut today on Super TRL at 15:49 with the first part of Transform and Rollout. The episode was completed dubbed into German where its official title was Transformieren und Abfahrt - Teil 1.

TransformersAnimated.com has since been updated to include the German showtimes, using an official RTL feed for the details, on both its main page and on the dedicated Transformers Animated showtimes pages. TransformersAnimated.com now displays the official showtimes for the US (Cartoon Network), Canada (YTV), the UK (NickToons), Australia (Cartoon Network) and Germany (Super RTL) allowing fans from all over the world to find out when the next episode of will air.

Unfortunately, Nick UK have not updated their feed for some time, so there is not much information for UK fans. We have bought this up several times with Nick, and will try to push them to get this corrected.

The Transformers Animated The Battle Begins double set, that was first spotted by our message board member Luffy yesterday, appears to be across the country, and not just restricted to one area. Our nearest Toys R Us, Woking, also had set for sale, and are normally a few weeks to a month behind stores further north when it comes to releases. As reported yesterday, the set is not yet listed on the Toys R Us website. You can find your nearest Toys R Us store by visting the Store Locator page at Transformers At The Moon. You can also view all of the current Toys R Us website listing on the Toys R Us store listings page.

It should be noted that the set is not a US import but is still a single language box. The bottom of the box gives Hasbro details for the UK, Australia and New Zealand.