The second bit of news is in from BotCon, thanks to Seiberton, TFWorld2005 and TFormers

TFormers have images of the Club exclusives display, including the upcoming Seacons and Nightbeats figures, along with posters and more posters of the Convention figures

Shattered Glass Litho images are available at TFormers, and agian here.

TFWorld2005 has images of the convention figures.

And Seibertron has their Bios, as well as a set of the toys for sale on eBay.

Snakas has posted a report on the contents of this months Dengeki Hobby Magazine. Here is a basic summary.

Transformers Movie Battle Damaged Optimus Prime was shown. The information on the figure was the same as this months Figure King, but the photograph was larger.

The Transformers Binaltech BT-19 and BT-20 figures were featured in an article.

On the Henkei front, the Japanese Hot Rodimus figure was shown as were the western releases of Jetfire and Ramjet. Snakas notes that Figure King has much more information on the figures.

Encore Omega Supreme and the Mini-bot set were featured with the same information as Figure King.

A "correction article" was published on the downsizing of Transformers in Japan which also covered the revival of the Binaltech line. Snakas publishes a quote from the article which talks about quality over quantity, and how the line (Transformers) is now becoming more popular again.

Finally there is an article discussing the relationship / connection between Zoids and Transformers. The article talks about how in trying to get everything ready for the Transformers Movie in 2007, the developement of Zoids was put on the backfoot.

Hasbro have posted on their Transformers page with a brief update from Cincinnati. The news post gives a little more information about the Transformers Animated toyline as well as some more images.

Pictured are Supreme Optimus Prime, Leader Megatron, Deluxe Soundwave, Voyager Grimlock, Battle Begins 2-pk, Optimus Prime Shift Tech Game, Power Bots Bumblebee (Similar to Cyber Stompers), Activators Lockdown, Optimus Battle Blaster, and Bumper Battlers Jazz (similar to Cyber Slammers).

They also say they plan G1 homages in the toyline's future.

Seibertron has been given the following warning from Fun Publications.

Hey guys this is just a heads up warning. There have been a few instances of Botcon Sets missing a Cyberkey and missile pack, that should be located under the foam on the bottom of the box. The staff of Botcon is ready to give you a replacement if this has happened, so go ahead and make sure to double check. You should have 3 Cyberkey and missile packs total.

So if you're getting the toys, you'd better check them. This isn't the first time there have been problems with the BotCon toys and their accessories.

You will find three new image galleries in the Transformers In The Media section of Transformers At The Moon which include images from our Beast Wars II book which show the Gold Convoy and Red Convoy Lucky Draw Transformers toys. We've shown these images before, on LuckyDrawTransformers.com, but they were lost during it's migration to the current look.

• Beast Wars II Book - Lucky Draws from Beast Wars and Beast Wars II
• Hyper Hobby Magazine Issue 43 - Scans showing the Clear Sixshot draw
• Transformers Movie Newspaper articles

The Yahoo Japan auction for the Lucky Draw Custom Colour Robotmaster Generation One Convoy has now ended in Japan. The auction closed at 191,000 yen, around $1900 and went to what appears to be a proxy bidding service. Sadly, for us, we did not win the auction, as the figure would have made a wonderful part of our Lucky Draw collection. It will be interesting to see who actually won the item, and whether further images of this rare piece are made public.

e-Hobby have placed a listing for their latest exclusive a recolour of the Encore Omega Supreme but into the Guardian Robot colour schemes.

You can view the listing and images on the e-Hobby website.

Ozformers member Griffin has posted the first images of the full contents Botcon 2008 box set including all the techspec cards over on the Ozformers message board.

Click the link to jump directly to the post with the images

Fan to Fan have a new scan of the upcoming Transformers Binaltech Arcee toy, from one of the Japanese magazines (they've not said the source) showing a photoshopped image of the toy with different colours then the original image.

The toy's colour scheme may change again, from these early concepts, so we'll let you know more new when we have it.

You will now find a new gallery of Transformers Henkei Astrotrain, which was recently recently in Japan, and is a recoloured version of the Transformers Classics Astrotrain toy.

The figure is one of over 2,000 Transformers toys featured in our Transformers toy image gallery. The images come thanks to Talk Transformers.

TFW2005 member Sidecutter has texted in that the figure being used for todays Botcon 2008 Customising Class figure is none other than the Transformers Collectors Club Exclusive figure Nightbeat! In the class, the participants will be transforming the figure into an Evil Autobot in keeping with this years main BotCon set.

Simon Furman has updated his blog with information on Transformers UK Comic issue 11.

Also out this week, but only in the UK, on Thursday 24th, is issue #11 of Titan’s Transformers comic/magazine, featuring (in amongst more comic strip, features and competitions) the third part of the apocalyptic Twilight’s Last Gleaming. If you remember, TLG takes an alternate look at post live-action movie events, exploring a near-future in the which Decepticons are the victors and Autobots are an endangered species. Starscream continues his machinations this episode, throwing a spanner in the Autobots’ carefully laid plans to further his own diabolical agenda.

Forced into desperate action the moon-based Autobots head for Earth and their respective dates with destiny. And Bumblebee takes on Megatron (no prizes for guessing how that one turns out) and Mikaela takes on Frenzy (not as one-sided as you might think) and Ironhide and Ratchet come up against… well, that’d be telling!

FatGuy has updated his blog with several pictures of the just released Transformers Movie TransScanning Bumblebee. The figure is the second in the TS line, after Optimus Prime, and can be displayed in base robot form, protoform form and final Earth form.

Stay with us here at Transformers At The Moon, as we will soon be publishing our own gallery of TransScanning Optimus Prime whom we picked up from Japan where we were there at the start of the month

Australian Transformers fans will be pleased to know that Transformers Animated will be debuting on Cartoon Network Australia next month!

Though the details of the showtimes are not yet available, TransformersAnimated.com has been updated with direct access to the official showtimes, the details of which will appear on the Transformers Animated Showtimes page as soon as they are sent to us.

Credit to TFW2005 for the news.