Tonights update takes the place of the FA Cup 1st Round football match between one of our local clubs (next town over) which has just been called off. The update includes 24 new Transformers toy image galleries, as well as updates to another 7 toys.

The majority of the site updates focus on the Transformers Armada toyline, with one from Generation One and three from Transformers Micron Legend. 

We've also finally fixed the confussion between the Land Military Team members, Bonecrusher, Knock-Out and Wreckage.

Here are all the details covering the 600+ new images.

New Transformers Toy Image Galleries now online

• Transformers Micron Legend - X-Dimension Destruction Team - Crush
• Transformers Micron Legend - X-Dimension Destruction Team - Duster
• Transformers Micron Legend - X-Dimension Destruction Team - Wheel
• Transformers Armada - Adventure Team - Ransack
• Transformers Armada - Adventure Team - Dune Runner
• Transformers Armada - Adventure Team - Iceberg
• Transformers Armada - Destruction Team - Dualor
• Transformers Armada - Destruction Team - Drillbit
• Transformers Armada - Destruction Team - Buzzsaw
• Transformers Armada - Emergency Team - Makeshift
• Transformers Armada - Emergency Team - Prowl
• Transformers Armada - Emergency Team - Firebot
• Transformers Armada - Night Attack Team - Fetch
• Transformers Armada - Night Attack Team - Scattor
• Transformers Armada - Night Attack Team - Broadside
• Transformers Armada - Space Team - Astroscope
• Transformers Armada - Space Team - Sky Blast
• Transformers Armada - Space Team - Payload
• Transformers Armada - Sea Team - Waterlog
• Transformers Armada - Sea Team - Ocean Glide
• Transformers Armada - Sea Team - Stormcloud
• Transformers Armada - Street Action Team - Perceptor
  
• Non-Official Super Sized Transformers Armada - Space Team - Astroscope
• Non-Official Super Sized Transformers Armada - Space Team - Sky Blast
• Non-Official Super Sized Transformers Armada - Space Team - Payload

Updated Transformers Toy image galleries

• Japanese Exclusive Transformers Generation One - Grand Maximus (15 new images)
• Transformers Armada - Street Action Team - Grindor
• Transformers Armada - Street Action Team - High Wire
• Transformers Armada - Street Action Team - Sureshock
• Transformers Armada - Land Military Team - Bonecrusher
• Transformers Armada - Land Military Team - Wreckage
• Transformers Armada - Land Military Team - Knock- Out
  

This time up it’s the turn of Transformers Devastation #6, the wrap-up of this the third ‘-ion’ arc (and as ever, I’ll try and make this more of a tease than a spoiler). And boy what an arc this has been! Big stuff happening!

That tired old phrase ‘things will never be the same again’ is wholly and justifiably applicable here. Stuff is revealed! Stuff is tied up! Other stuff kicks off! It’s a packed old end of arc issue, with Reapers versus Decepticons (to a shattering conclusion!), Hot Rod versus Headmasters (to a turbo-charged conclusion… of sorts) and Hunter/Sunstreaker versus the head of the Machination (to a point where we absolutely know who is who and what is what, but with a distinct ‘To be continued…’). Oh yeah! Plus, (much) more on the Dead Universe cast, with Galvatron making his first Earthbound moves, and first full appearances for Jhiaxus and ‘the Transformer formerly known as Nova Prime.’ The main focus, though, falls on our second fully fledged no-holds-barred (devastating) battle of this arc, this time between the catastrophic Reapers and the Ore-13 charged Decepticons.

Expect casualties! Carnage! Shocks! Last issue saw Starscream back in the fray, strutting his stuff, but this issue has him fighting (once again) side-by-side with Megatron (who isn’t exactly chuffed to see him!). Fallout/repercussions for sure. Hot Rod makes a shocking decision (kind of prompted by Optimus Prime’s equally momentous decision last issue) and Skywatch prepare to kick back before things get even more out of hand. And if you think that maybe feeds into a certain upcoming Spotlight, well, you’d be right on the money. Oh, and don’t think I’ve forgotten about Sixshot. He too has a part to play. All I can say is… phew! This one has it all! Really.

Devastation #6 hits stores in February 08. Art by EJ Su.

We've finally noticed, and fixed, the bug with the Transformers Armada Mini-cons Bonecrusher and Knock Out. Each toy now has a corrected image gallery within our Transformers Toy Gallery section.

We have corrected the image galleries that were linked to the Japanese Victory series stars, the Brestforce, as they were linking to the Trainbot image galleries. So you can now view the correct galleries for Leozak, Gaihawk, Hellbat, Jaguar, Killbison, Drillhorn and Lio Kaiser.

As a follow-up of our Tranformers Collection gallery posted this week, you can now find a gallery featuring our entire Lucky Draw Transformers toy collection (minus Black Tracks which we do not count) and a toy which is still in transit to us.

There are 31 Lucky Draw Transformers toys in total in our possession and this is the first time since Auto Assembly in which we have got them all out. There are more toys then where on display at AA06, so if you saw our collection then you may still want to have a look.

Great news for UK Transfans, as the date for Auto Assembly 2008 should be announced in the next day or two, according to organiser Simon Plumbe. The event will take place around July / August next year at the Clarendon Suites, where Auto Assembly 2005 and Auto Assembly 2006 took place.

Expect more word as its announced.

talk.transformers, the Hong Kong Transformers newsgroup, has posted images of the Transformer sMovie Trans-Scanning Bumblebee and Optimus Prime figures.

Both Bumblebee, here ,and Prime, here, share the same protoform robot mode, but with attachable pieces that form the vehicle and earth robot modes.

Simon Furman has updated his blog with an entry entitled Cougar Coverage in which he gives a breif update on the current state of the Cougar comic.

Okay, first things first. The comic is still a long way off. Though Cougar #1 is written (and pencilled, largely), there’s a whole lot more needs to be done before there’s a locked in on sale date. Studio Cougar remain committed to the character/project, but the logistics of getting the comic out there and in the hands of general comics buyers need more looking at. Stuff is happening but slowly. I remain hopeful that sometime in 08 there’ll be an actual, physical comic. In the meantime, here’s a look at a brand spanking new poster/litho featuring Cougar, Kickstart and the bad guys by Jeremey Tiongson (art) and Jukka Issakainen (colour). Click on the thumbnail to enlarge (a bit). Oh, and one more update, due to work committments(and stuff) I won’t be at Collectormania Manchester this coming weekend. Apologies to anyone who was banking on my being there.

It's been a while since we did one of these, so I've taken a few images of our Transformers collection. Not everything is included, as you can't see the bits in the Stack and Store boxes, but that is mainly prototypes, testshots, lunchtime specials, McDonalds' toys and Action Master / Micromaster bases. Oh, some Lucky Draw toys also can't be seen.

If you head over to our Transformers Groupshots section of our Miscellaneous Transformers Image gallery, you can see the new pictures in the gallery called November 2007. There are 57 images in total, and you can count the toys if you like :-)

We have uploaded 81 new images consisting of updates for a few toys and a new Transformers toy gallery. Here are the details.

• Generation One Horri-bull - two new images
• Japanese Exclusive Generation One - Black Zarak - 8 new images
• Japanese Exclusive Ranger - new gallery

The new images are due to requests by Madman Entertainment, and lead to an accident with our Black Zarak toy. We, well Dave, broke one of the gold parts on the toy's tale. As the figure now retails for over 4 times what we paid several years ago, we decided we needed to fix it. The work took a little whole but seems to have worked well, with a new gold copper piece replacing the small gold plastic joint.

Although site updates have been rare, I'm planning on taking a few days off soon to kick through some more galleries.