Amazon.com have updated their product listings for volume 5 and 6 of the Transformers Animated paperback series with the covers of each volume. Vol 5 features Bulkhead on the cover, with Vol 6 featuring Ratchet. Both covers can be seen below.

Bad news for UK toy collectors, though not really surprising, toy retail forecasters have been predicting that the UK retail prices will rise in the 2nd half of this year, blaming rising costs in manufacturing, raw materials and currency appreciation. The latest forecast comes from the head of Mattel UK, David Allmark. David has warned that UK prices are likely to rises by around eight per cent in the second half of the year.

Not all toy manufactures are predicting increased prizes, Vivid Imaginations recently announced that increased manufacturing prices in China would be absorbed by the company and not passed to retailers.

Hasbro Inc are yet to comment, but you can be sure we'll be keeping a close eye on this story over the rest of the year.

Seibertron are reporting that IDW have annouced that they will be reprinting the Titan UK Transformers Movie comic stories from July.

Originally Posted by STL
Hopefully IDW reprint the inside stuff later on.

We will be, starting this July.

The Transformers Animated cartoon series made its Malaysian debut on Sunday 2nd March at 11am. The show, which is airing weekly, runs on TV3 who have also launched a Transformers Animated themed mini-site.

The TV schedule has been added to the Showtimes page on TransformersAnimated.com, though the episodes are still TBC at this stage.

You can view the promotion video used to advertise the show in the Videos section of the site.

Don't forget that the UK debut of the show is only a few weeks away. 

Thanks to ACToys.net we can bring you the first true image of the Transformers Animated Grimlock figure. The image has been added into the Grimlock Toy Images at TransformersAnimated.com and can also be viewed below. Expect this figure to turn up on ebay within the week.

You will now find an additional two video clips from Transformers Animated Episode 12, Survival of the Fittest, is now available on Transformers Animated.com and Transformers At The Moon.

The first is titled "Fanzone" and a comic scene with the Captain of the Detroit Police Detective. The second video titled "Bombburst and Submarauder" features the fight between Prowl, Captain Fanzone and the two mutants. This video combines three scenes into one video file.

The first video, which is actually the third clip we have for you, from Transformers Animated Episode 12, Survival of the Fittest, is now available on Transformers Animated.com and Transformers At The Moon.

This video clip is at the end of the episode when the Dinobots, Grimlock, Snarl and Swoop transform. You can also see the Decepticon Pretenders, Bombburst and Submarauder's guest appearances, though remember they are actually just mutated humans.

You will now find a full episode guide for Transformers Animated episode 12, Survival of the Fittest, to go with the 242 images posted yesterday. Not mentioned, and featured only in a few images, are Bomburst and Submaraurder ... well those aren't their names, but they are two creature created by Meltdown which are based on the Generation One Pretenders.

Expect some video clips later today.

You will now find a full image gallery from Transformers Animated episode 12, Survival of the Fittest, on-line at Transformers Animated .com The episode features the return of the super-villain Meltdown as well as the Dinobots, Grimlock, Snarl and Swoop.

Thanks to David Chan of Kidi Toys Inc (AKA Newtoy Toys Factory) for letting us know that their reproduction Metrotitan is now complete and that they are taking orders. Below you will find some images of the toy, though the boxed version is believed to be the original and not the reproduction. Don't forget that you can view our Metrotitan galleries by simply going to metrotitan.transformertoys.co.uk

Sean Galloway has updated his blog with information and images on the Transformers Animated Dinobots, including a previously unmentioned Sludge.

Heya, gang! Here's some earlier concepts, out of a batch, I did for the new Transformers Animated. Basically I was brought onto the project to show some new organic shapes for the classic robots, Dinobots, and others.

I tell ya.... robots are tough as heck to draw. The technicality of things was pretty difficult. It was fun, but very challenging none the less.

My goal was to make them feel as if they had some Japanese aspects in them. For Sludge, I wasn't sure if 4 arms would work on him, but I figured what the heck, ya know? For Swoop I wanted to make him more ninja-esque.... Grimlock more Samurai-esque, and finally Snarl as more of a bruiser or a grunt from the bunch.