Japanese online retailer BO-YA has announced the first line-up of Japanese figures for 2008. First up are listings for Trans-Scanning Optimus Prime and Trans-Scanning Bumblebee. No pictures are available at present by the figures will cost 4410 and 3900 respectively. These toys will be released in March. The Allspark power figures will also be released in Japan

MA-19 Landmine 2625 yen, release in Jan 2008
MA-20 Black Arcee 2625 yen, released in Feb 2008
MD-22 Incinerator 3990 yen, released in Jan 2008
MD-23 Stockade 2625 yen, released in Feb 2008

The double packs will also be released in Jan and Feb
SB-01 First Encounter
SB-02 Final Stand
SB-03 Desert Attack
SB-04 Capture of Bumblebee
Finally there are four listings for the Transformers Classics
C-01 Convoy 3675 yen
C-02 Megatron3675 yen
C-03 Bumble 2310 yen
C-04 Starscream 2310 yen

Japanese chain Lawsons will be offering a recolour of Transformers Movie Voyager Class Blackout, entitled Version 4500X. The figure is repainted with a metallic colour scheme and will be come with the Transformers Movie DVD, priced at 8990 yen (about £40). You can see the listing here.

Credit to Snakas for the report.

Thanks to TFWorld2005 for pointing out that Entertainment Earth have updated their website with an image of some Cyber Slammers including Jazz and Cliffjumper

You can see the image here.

I've corrected the bug with the Transformers Robots in Disguise Dredwind and Smokejumper toy galleries. You can now find various images of these toys in their associated toy galleries.

• Click here for RID Dreadwind
• Click here for RID Smokejumper

The latest two Lucky Draw Transformers toy galleries have been update for you tonight. You can now find lots of images of the following Lucky Draw Beast Wars Neo Transformers toys.

1. Blue Big Convoy - possibly a testshot
2. Black Magmatron

As we continue month long celebration of the 8th Anniversary of Transformers At The Moon which recently included the revamp of Lucky Draw Transformers.com, images of the Unreleased Generation Two Groove toy that we own (our 3rd Generation 2 Protectobot), followed by what was probably the worlds first galleries of the Unreleased Generation Two Megatron ATB and Unreleased Starscream toys and finally what we believe is the first image of the extremely rare Lucky Draw Beast Wars Neo Gold Big Convoy, we have updated both Transformers At The Moon and Lucky Draw Transformers with three images of the highly disputed Lucky Draw Black God Magnus figure. The images include robot mode, vehicle mode and Black Super God Fire Convoy mode. You can view the images here, at Transformers At The Moon, or here at Lucky Draw Transformers.com

The celebrations will continue, with two full Lucky Draw galleries, so stay with Transformers At The Moon and Lucky Draw Transformers for those

A little update for you today, in the form of photographs of the Unreleased Generation Two Megatron and Starscream ATB toys.

Included are comparisons with our five other versions of this mold, from Generation Two, Beast Wars II, Robots in Disguise, Robot Masters and Beast Wars II Testshot.

So have a look at Megatron ATB and Starscream, to see the colouring, mold and sticker differences between them and the Beast Wars II BB and Starscream figures which you may not have realised that there were.

For a while there has been some confusion regarding the identity of the Bom-Bom Magazine Lucky Draw Black Lio Convoy figure. We ourselves had been some what confused with the different reports and information we had heard over the years. Finally we can bring a conclusion to the story, something we should have done years ago.

The Lucky Draw Black Lio Convoy toy is limited to 10 pcs. It features Blue Claws and can be clearly identified by the white writing on it's backside (bottom), in robot mode. The writing states the number the toy is (BL00 through BL09).

There are two known variations of the Toys R Us version of the Black Lio Convoy, limited to 5000. Blue claws (no writing on the toy) and Gold claws (no writing on the toy).

There have been rumours and listings of a Silver Clawed version, said to be the Lucky Draw version of the toy. This is false, the actual Lucky Draw version has blue claws. As yet we have found no evidence to show the Silver Clawed version of the Black Lio Convoy toy exists. If the figure does exist, then it will be yet another store exclusive version. as such we have removed the listing for this toy from our Transformers toy gallery area.

If you own a Silver Clawed Black Lio Convoy, please send us images.

The last few weeks have certainly been busy in the world of Lucky Draw Transformers. First came a few images of Blue Big Convoy and Black Magmatron at TFWorld2005 and Transformers At The Moon. Following this was the re-launch of the Lucky Draw Transformers website, and in the last few days various toy information pages have been added to that site, including some of the first images of a certain Beast Wars Neo Lucky Draw toy.

Now Day366 has listed two more Lucky Draw Transformers auctions on ebay, Blue Big Convoy (here) and Black Magmatron (here). Both toys are extremely limited, and hard to get. This may well be your only chance to own two of the Beast Wars Neo Lucky Draw Transformers toys.

If you're still undecided on these toys, then keep your eyes peeled for some timely new galleries due to hit Lucky Draw Transformers this week (tomorrow if I get the chance).

The Paramount Japan website has been updated with more details on the Japanese DVD release of the live action Transformers movie.

The Transformers Movie will be released in hour different version in Japan. They are :-

1. The regular DVD release - 2 disc collectors set priced at 4,179 yen
2. The Optimus Prime Transforming DVD boxset, limited to 10,000 and priced at 5,670 yen
3. The HD-DVD two disc version, priced at 4,935 yen.
4. A, "to be specified" Special Edition set

By pre-ordering the DVDs, you will receive a Japanese exclusive recolour of the Spychanger Scourge figure into Transformers Movie Optimus Prime, whilst stocks last.

Thanks to Snakas for the link.

Lucky Draw Transformers has been updated once again with more images and information pages for some of the Beast Wars II Lucky Draw Transformers figures. This leaves just one toy ,Black Lio Convoy (Silver Claws), from that series to be featured.

You can find some cool images of a Shockwave custom repaint of the Transformers Movie Swindle toy over at Talk Transformers at the moment.

To see the images, including a small animated gif, have a look here.

TFWorld2005 member Ages3AndUp has posted a thread stating that the Transformers Classics line will be released in Japan.

It looks like Japan is offering it customers the Classics line. It will consist of 4 figures at first, Optimus, Megatron, Starscream and Bumblebee. They will be priced at Japanese prices like $35 for Voyager size and $25 for Deluxe but for those who missed these figures, that seems like a small price to pay for them to be available again.

They will just have the C designation.
C-01 - Optimus (Convoy)
C-02 - Megatron
C-03 - Bumblebee (Bumble)
C-04 - Starscream