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![Transformers Animated](http://www.transformertoys.co.uk/images/news/category/transformersanimated.png)
Thanks to
The Allspark for pointing out an
Amazon.com listing![](http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=transthemoon&l=ur2&o=1)
for part two of a Transformers Animated trade-paperback featuring Megatron and a watermark of the Sumdac Tower in the background.
The image of Megatron is the first colour picture to be released.
![](http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51sMRg8S5sL._SS500_.jpg)
Category: Transformers Animated
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on: Sunday, 19th August 2007 at 09:50:00 BST
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TFWorld2005 have images, mirrored from Taobao auctions, of an in packaging Star Wars Transformers Darth Vader Death Star toy.
You can see the images
here.
Category: Transformers Toy News
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on: Sunday, 19th August 2007 at 09:49:08 BST
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Following up from the last news story a few moments ago, you will now find a whopping 487 images from the
Japanese Chara-Hobby 2007 convention which took place in Japan today.
The images include various Transformers, including Nike Free Convoy Marine Edition, the clear Re-Entry Protoforms from the Transformers Movie, MP6 Masterpiece Skywarp and an concept of Transformers Movie Leaderclass Optimus Prime. It's an awesome mockup and has to be seen.
![Concept Mockup of Transformers Movie Optimus Prime](/img/news/200708/movie-prime-concept.jpg)
Category: Transformers Convention News
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on: Saturday, 18th August 2007 at 20:31:51 BST
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As promised, we're bringing you more information from the Chara-Hobby 2007 convention, as well as on Nike Free Marie Convoy, which many fans are calling Ultra Magnus.
At the Chara-Hobby convention, a finalised version of the Transformers Sports Label Convoy Marine edition was shown. Both the plaque and the box which the toy comes in clearly names the figure as Convoy and not Ultra Magnus. This is final confirmation of the toys name.
Also the plaque on Sly Lynx does mention that it is part of a Takara project, which would add to speculation that they are working on a re-issue, rather than simply displaying the toy.
Speaking of the Chara-Hobby event, stay tuned as we'll be bring you a huge gallery of images, as we always do from the Japanese collectors events.
Category: Transformers Convention News
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on: Saturday, 18th August 2007 at 20:14:29 BST
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If you'd thought the Transformers Movie was already big, then you ain't seen nothing yet. Nelson, admin of
Shoot for the Edit (Michael Bay's blog)' has let the world know that Transformers is heading for the Imax cinema's in the US. We can only hope that it makes it's way to Imax's in the UK, as I'd personally love to see it on the stupidly-big screen.
Coming Soon.net tease that the film will contain "more footage" and will start on September 21st
Category: Transformers Movie News
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on: Saturday, 18th August 2007 at 14:45:43 BST
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News in from the USPTO is that
Hasbro trademark for Snarl has been accepted for another 6 year renewal. Just in time for Transformers Animated! Let's all hope that Snarl can become the fourth member of the Dinobots in the 2008 Transformers Cartoon series.
Category: Transformers Trademark News
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on: Saturday, 18th August 2007 at 14:44:05 BST
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Many thanks to Gaokaiser for
pointing everyone to an ImageShack gallery taken from Chara-Hobby in Japan. The images include in and out of packaging pictures of the clear plastic Transformers Movie protoforms as well as MP Skywarp, Marine Convoy (Transformers Sports Label),
CM's Dai Atlas and finally
Sky Lynx.
Why was Sky Lynx on display? Will he be re-issued or was their some other significance. We wait to find out. In the mean time, here are the links.
ImageShack1 -
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ImageShack3
Category: Transformers Convention News
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on: Saturday, 18th August 2007 at 14:43:11 BST
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Marcelo Matere has updated his website,
Deviant Art, with the original concept art for the Transformers Movie Robot Heroes (recently released in the US) . The artwork is incredibly detailed, and you can see it
here.
Category: Transformers Toy News
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on: Saturday, 18th August 2007 at 14:35:35 BST
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Another ebay auction for the recolours of the Sports Label Convoy toy (often referred to as Marine Convoy or Ultra Magnus), this time with a slightly different colour scheme. The toy is also picture in mock-up packaging (notice part of the box refers to the toy as Convoy and others as Megatron), despite reports to the contrary on some other sites. You can view the auction
here. The final colours of the toy made still change,the box certainly will, and as such their is still no official word on its final name.
Category: Transformers Toy News
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on: Saturday, 18th August 2007 at 13:28:51 BST
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Issue 2 of Titan's Transformers comic is now out in the UK. The story consists of a Spotlight story on Transformers Movie Megatron as well as part two of the IDW Transformers Movie Prequal story and Beast Wars comics.
You can post your thoughts on the issue on our
Transformers Forum.
Category: Transformers Comic News
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on: Friday, 17th August 2007 at 22:22:08 BST
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Category: Transformer Toy Sightings
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on: Friday, 17th August 2007 at 20:18:55 BST
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Category: Transformer Toy Sightings
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on: Friday, 17th August 2007 at 18:33:25 BST
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Category: Transformers Trademark News
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on: Friday, 17th August 2007 at 10:39:01 BST
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The Indian premier of the live action Transformers movie takes place tonight, August 17th 2007. To help promote the film, GM India is running major print advertisements in Mumbai, New Delhi, Bangalore and other major cities as well as online at
www.chevroletautobot.com, a website where users can test the various combat skills of various GM themed Transformers created for the site based on the GM Avalanche, Aveo, cobalt, Equinox, HHR, Impala and Silverado.
You can see images of these Transformers in our new
India GM Website image gallery in our
Transformers Movie area.
GM
India vice president marketing Ankush Arora said,
"Our
collaboration represents the perfect merging of synergies
between GM, Dreamworks and Paramount Pictures. The GM vehicles
in the movie are a natural fit with the storyline due to their
robust features, styling and design. This is enabling us to
reach out to movie buffs worldwide while subtly highlighting
the attributes of GM products".
Transformers is being released in English, Hindi, Tamil and Telegu in metros and mini-metros across India.
Category: Transformers Movie News
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on: Friday, 17th August 2007 at 08:51:12 BST
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With Mattel featuring a backlash due to safety concerns on various of their products, Hasbro are now stepping up testing in their Chinese factories.
Here's a snippet of a story currently running on
Yahoo Business News
Hasbro does not own any toy plants in China and relies entirely on contractors for its production there. Mattel owns five Chinese toy factories, but not Lee Der Industrial Co., which made the 1.5 million preschool toys that were recalled across the globe earlier this month.
Most of Hasbro's toys are made in China; Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Sean McGowan said this fact may actually help the maker of Transformers and Star Wars action figures prevent tainted toys from ever reaching a child's hands.
"Knowing that they are more vulnerable, they have put in layers of testing that they might not have if they weren't using contract manufacturers," McGowan said.
"It may happen at some point that Hasbro or some other company winds up with a manufacturing issue, but they feel pretty confident that they've got the kinds of systems in place that would catch anything."
Under its new "three-point" check system, Mattel said it would require every batch of paint at each of its vendors to be tested and said it would increase the number of random inspections of its factories. The toy maker also said it would test each production run of its toys.
Jim Silver, editor-in-chief of Toy Wishes magazine, said every major toy company is taking a hard look its manufacturing to ensure there are no problems for the holiday season, the most crucial selling period for toy companies.
"All the major companies are overseas right now looking at their factories and literally testing like they've never tested before," Silver said. "Everybody is over there checking. Nobody really wants an issue for the fourth quarter and they realize the importance of meeting all safety standards."
Shares of Hasbro rose 32 cents to close at $27.61 a share on the New York Stock Exchange, while Mattel slipped 45 cents to $22.55 following the recall.
An interesting side-note on this story is that some companies / stores are already starting to look at European made products as a replacement for Far Eastern goods.
Naplenews suggests that as all European toys are stamped with the CE sticker, proving they have past stringent safety tests in Europe (which are far stricter than it's US counterparts), the shops / manufacturers feel safe that these goods would not have a similar problem.
Category: Toy Industry News
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on: Friday, 17th August 2007 at 08:26:00 BST
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