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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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IGN has a 5 page
preview on IDW's latest Beast Wars comic, a series we can't wait to get.
Spiraling out of the events in Beast Wars: The Gathering!Magmatron, now
a disembodied entity, existing out of time and space, is witness to
Cybertron's unchecked descent into chaos and madness, all of which is a
prelude to its complete and utter destruction!
Powerless to directly affect this terrifying apocalypse, Magmatron's
last desperate recourse is to try and bring his greatest enemy,
Razorbeast, together with fellow Maximals: Lio Convoy and The Pack!
The comic features art by Don Figueroa, colors by Josh Burcham, and story by Simon
Furman.
Category: Transformers Comic News
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on: Friday, 17th August 2007 at 08:23:29 BST
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If you cast your eyes over to the
Hasbro toyshop, you'll find a complete listing of the Transformers Robot Heroes toys, including Generation One and Transformers Movie characters.
I'm not sure when they were added, but I'd not seen them listed there before.
Category: Transformers Toy News
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on: Thursday, 16th August 2007 at 22:40:34 BST
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We've fixed the bug with the navigation menu which was linking
Lucky Draw Transformers.com to the incorrect domain.
We appologise for any inconvenience caused.
We've also correct the navigation menu positioning problem caused buy the file getting corrupted during upload.
Category: Lucky Draw Transformers
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on: Thursday, 16th August 2007 at 20:43:02 BST
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Many thanks go to veteran Transformers magazine article writer, and Auto Assembly organiser, Sven Harvey for sending us some information on the September issue of
TV Film Memorabilia magazine. The magazine went on sale today priced at £3, and features Sven's Masterpiece Optimus Prime on the cover as well as a brief article by Sven. If the issue is successful, then the magazine may run further Transformers related articles and features in the future. You can visit the magazines website at
www.tvfilmmemorabilia.com
Category: Transformers Interviews and Articles
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on: Thursday, 16th August 2007 at 18:36:37 BST
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A correction has been made to the Lucky Draw section of Transformers At The Moon with the addition of
Beast Wars Neo Gold Magmatron.
We apologise for not adding the toy to this section earlier.
Category: Lucky Draw Transformers
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on: Thursday, 16th August 2007 at 09:52:32 BST
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Thanks to
Talk Transformers, the Chinese Transformers discussion forum ,you can now find three images of the new Transformers Movie Metallic Megatron and Transformers Movie Metallic Ratchet toys in our Transformers Website Mirror area.
Category: Transformers Toy News
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on: Thursday, 16th August 2007 at 08:37:45 BST
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Ain't it cool news have an
interview with both Simon Furman, Steve White and Geoff Senior, covering the new UK Transformers comic by Titan Books. In the article, Mr Furman goes on to explain how non-Transformers Movie appearing Transformers Movie characters will also appear in the comics
Category: Transformers Interviews and Articles
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on: Thursday, 16th August 2007 at 08:35:25 BST
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TFWorld2005 are reporting that the Transformers Movie Bumblebee Camaro 08 toy has been spotted in Brent Cross in John Lewis.
You can see the original post
here.
Category: Transformer Toy Sightings
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on: Wednesday, 15th August 2007 at 20:21:06 BST
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Issue 2 of Titan Magazines Transformers comic is out this week, featuring the second part of the IDW Beast Wars and Transformers Movie Preview story (that's the second half of the first US Comic) as well as an all new story written by Simon Furman and drawn by Nich Roche featuring Transformers Movie Megatron, as a Spotlight story.
Speaking of the comic, Simon Furman has updated his blog with an
image from the issue,as well as
comments.
Category: Transformers Comic News
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on: Wednesday, 15th August 2007 at 15:22:32 BST
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In the first of two updated to his blog, Simon Furman speaks about his scheduled appearance at the London Film and Comic-con as well as at Sub-Con, in Ireland, later in September.
You can read Simon's full post
here on his blog.
Category: Transformers Convention News
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on: Wednesday, 15th August 2007 at 15:18:49 BST
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AcToys have a nice discussion going concerning the Transformers Energon Arcee toy, and all the various recoloured versions of the toys mold. You can see the images
here.
Category: Transformers Toy News
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on: Wednesday, 15th August 2007 at 15:15:03 BST
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The Allspark have an interesting
thread detailing the differences found on the Transformers Encore figures compared to the original toys. Transformers Encore is the latest re-issue line from Takaratomy which was released earlier in the month in Japan.
Category: Transformers Toy News
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on: Wednesday, 15th August 2007 at 08:55:28 BST
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Several American Transformers fan websites are reporting that Recon Barricade, the recoloured version of the deluxe Transformers Movie toy has not found it's way onto US shelves.
Category: Transformer Toy Sightings
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on: Wednesday, 15th August 2007 at 08:32:43 BST
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