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The first
images of the latest e-Hobby Shop exclusive toy, T.H.S-02-B Black Convoy have just appeared on TFclub's discusison board. Our Black Convoy shipped from e-Hobby today, and we're hoping it will arrive next week.
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on: Friday, 16th February 2007 at 20:44:48 GMT
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Hasbro has reported the highest net earnings in its history for its full year 2006 buoyed by the growth of its core brands.
That's the focus of the story on
ToyNews today, which reports that the US toy giant made a record $230.1 Million Dollars.
"The company recorded net earnings of $230.1 million, making 2006
Hasbro's sixth consecutive year of earnings growth. Net revenues also
rose, up 2.1 per cent - or $63.9 million - to $3.2 billion.
Strong
performances from Transformers - which will receive a further boost
with the release of the movie in May - Monopoly, Playskool and Littlest
Pet Shop helped drive up the earnings. And, despite there being no new
film, Star Wars continued to perform well, contributing a massive
$284.9 million in revenue for the year.
"2006 was another good
year for Hasbro, we achieved the highest net earnings in the history of
the company," said Alfred J Verrecchia, president and CEO. "Our
performance for both the quarter and the year is a solid indication of
the success we have had in growing our core brands.
"Given the
exceptional performance of Star Wars in 2005, it is particularly
meaningful to have grown revenue 2.1 per cent for the year and 4.1 per
cent for the quarter.
"As we look ahead, we have momentum in our
core brands and commitment to continued innovation," Verrecchia
continued. "With the richest and most diversified toy and game product
line in the industry, including product tied to upcoming releases of
the Transformers and Spiderman 3 movies, we're very excited about the
opportunities for 2007."
International segment revenues for the
year were $959.3 million compared to $988.6 million a year ago.
Operating profit was $90.9 million for the year compared to $106.4m in
2005, as adjusted to include the impact of stock-based compensation
expense."
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on: Friday, 16th February 2007 at 13:28:57 GMT
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MTV.com has a
video interview with Michael Bay covering the making of the Transformers Movie as well as discussing future sequel possibilities and the input from fans among other things. If you don't want to watch there is a
text version as well.
Thanks to Seibertron for the original report.
Category: Transformers Movie News
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on: Friday, 16th February 2007 at 08:31:59 GMT
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The Allspark have received
full details of Activisions Transformers The Game based on the Transformers Movie due out later this year.
TRANSFORMERS: THE GAME Based on TRANSFORMERS, DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures' upcoming live-action feature film due out July 4th, and produced in association with Hasbro, TRANSFORMERS: The Game
lets gamers control the outcome in the battle for Earth as they choose
to protect it as AUTOBOTS or destroy it as DECEPTICONS. Players will
also experience the unstoppable power and massive scale of their
favorite ROBOTS IN DISGUISE such as BUMBLEBEE, BARRICADE and others. KEY FEATURES: - Protect Or Destroy The Earth
As the TRANSFORMERS robot's war comes to Earth, gamers make the
choice to join the AUTOBOTS in protecting our planet or to join the
DECEPTICONS in destroying it. With dual campaigns, the fate of the
world is in players' hands.
- MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE
Instantly change from a larger than life robot to a high-powered
vehicle such as a sports car, fighter jet or helicopter. Seamless
transformations leave enemies in the dust or enhance players' combat
strategy with a range of options in both vehicle and robot modes that
take full advantage of the characters' dual forms.
- The World Is Your Playground Players crush,
topple and wreck every object, including buildings and vehicles, in
their path or use the objects as weapons. It is up to the gamer to
decide how best to use their surrounding environment.
- Freedom of Choice An unprecedented line-up lets gamers experience the massive scale, unique abilities and sheer strength of an
army of characters from the TRANSFORMERS universe when they choose to
play as OPTIMUS PRIME, MEGATRON, IRONHIDE, STARSCREAM, BUMBLEBEE and
more.
- Variety of Combat For
head-to-head battles, fans engage in melee combat that reflects each
TRANSFORMERS robot's character, scale, weight and power along with
melee weapons and special moves unique to each character. The game's
ranged combat offers a wide array of projective weapons designed to
take out enemies from afar.
Category: Transformers Movie News
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on: Thursday, 15th February 2007 at 19:26:00 GMT
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We've just received an email from Ueno at Part One Ltd, who run e-Hobby shop, letting us know that the Black THS Convoys will start shipping from tomorrow.
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on: Thursday, 15th February 2007 at 18:34:03 GMT
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Toys R Us have
updated their UK website with the following new
Transformers products.
- Transformers Cybertron Voyager - Quickmix - (24524008) - £19.99 (Stock: Out of stock)
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on: Thursday, 15th February 2007 at 12:37:15 GMT
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on: Thursday, 15th February 2007 at 09:42:01 GMT
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Both Michael Bay's blog, Shoot for the Edit, Playthings.com and WNED.org have information on the Transformers Movie preview event held at the US Toyfair in New York. Where as previous reports have been from the fans, this gives Mr Bay's views on how the event went.
From
Shoot for the Edit
Toy Fair screens 25 minutes of 'Transformers'
By DADE HAYES
The invitation at first sounded too wacky to be believed. At
Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater, hallowed province of
Fassbinder and Truffaut, footage from Paramount and DreamWorks'
Michael Bay pic "Transformers" would be shown to a crowd of toy
enthusiasts.
But so it went Tuesday night for an audience stocked with
consumer-product execs, toy collectors and general robot
evangelists in Gotham for the American Intl. Toy Fair. The footage
totaled 25 minutes from the film based on Hasbro's revived 1980s
toy line -- "not necessarily the best scenes, but some of the
scenes that were finished," cautioned Bay.
Ecstatic applause greeted each of the four long sequences.
The last time Bay took a high-octane passion project into a
high-end setting, he presided over a similar screening for "The
Island" at the Academy theater in Beverly Hills. That spring 2005
event began an anxious couple of months leading to one of the most
troubled releases of recent summers.
This time, Bay seemed gratified to be playing to an inherently more
sympathetic crowd. "You guys aren't really the target audience," he
joked.
The footage contained plenty of what producer Jerry Bruckheimer has
termed "Bay-os" -- automatic weapon fire, rumbling car engines,
sweaty military dialogue ("Bogey in the weeds and he's not
squawking!"
. But the scenes were spiked with
wit and exuberant popcorn energy. In one scene, John Turturro,
appearing as a mysterious, "Men in Black"-esque agent, savors the
line "Bingo! Take him and bake him!"
A brief panel session preceded the footage. Bay was joined by
DreamWorks production chief Adam Goodman and Brian Goldner, chief
operating officer of Hasbro and an exec producer on the pic. "It
reminds me of 'Back to the Future' or 'Close Encounters' -- real
Amblin film from back in the day," Goodman said.
Beyond the trio onstage Tuesday, the film is exec produced by
Steven Spielberg and produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Don
Murphy. None of the latter three was in Gotham for Tuesday's
event.
But another producer who did attend, Tom DeSanto, compared the
experience to the way "X-Men," which he exec produced, first snuck
up on audiences in 2000. "People were really going to give that one
the smell test," he said. "And it was a real surprise."
From
WNED To drum up excitement for DreamWorks' and Paramount Pictures'
"Transformers" ahead of its July 4 bow, Hasbro hosted an event Tuesday
night with director Michael Bay, screening four scenes and 22 minutes
of footage for a packed theater of Toy Fair attendees. "I
thought if I could make this totally real, it could be a really fun
movie," Bay said of turning the top-selling action toy line into a
film. The Transformers and its back story of the Autobots and the
Decepticons have already been turned into a comic book, nine different
animated series and an animated movie in 1986. "It is the first
time ever that you will see the Transformers characters as real," said
Hasbro chief operating officer Brian Goldner, who is an executive
producer on the film. "We believe this movie will take the Transformers
brand to the next level. 'Transformers' is the first of its kind in a
summer where there are many movie sequels."From
Playthings:-
Goodman, president of production for Dreamworks at a sneak peak of
the film last night, the company is dedicated to supporting retailers
with this film and the product tied to it. "For Dreamworks and
Paramount, it's the single biggest initiative we've ever had,
globally," says Goodman. "Our effort in marketing is something we're
putting together." He adds, "We don't have a Die Hard franchise or a
Lethal Weapon sitting on our shelves, so we're always looking for the
freshest, newest idea. When it started with the idea of Robots in
Disguise, we had to do it. It's the first major franchise for
Dreamworks."
Director Michael Bay, who was also on hand to discuss the film and
told some of the property's inherent challenges, like how to make live
actors look like they were interacting convincingly with something that
is 35 feet tall. "It was a fun movie to do," he said. "And it has four
quadrant appeal.
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on: Thursday, 15th February 2007 at 08:36:35 GMT
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Altered States Magazine have images of the upcoming Transformers Chess set, based on G1 Transformers characters. The Decepticons consist of Megatron, Galvatron, Starscream,
Soundwave, Kickback, and Shockwave, while the Autobots include Optimus
Prime, Ultra Magnus, Bumblebee, Hot Rod, Jazz and Grimlock. The photographs were taken at the New York Toyfair
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on: Wednesday, 14th February 2007 at 21:28:41 GMT
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It was reported a while back that Hasbro had added a
Transformers Time-Line to their website. Well now Seibertron.com have
spotted another addition to their site in the form of a
Transformers Vocabulary entitled
"TRANSFORMERS: LEARN TO SPEAK THE VOCABULARY OF CYBERTRON, HOME PLANET OF TRANSFORMERS.
As the updates are on Hasbro.com, we the links above do not suffer from the "regional barring" that the Transformers.com website often does (redirecting you to the UK site).
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on: Wednesday, 14th February 2007 at 20:28:00 GMT
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TFW2005 have
mirrored images from Talk Transformers of a testshot of the upcoming Transformers Titanum G1 Ultra Magnus toy. The toy, the first Ultra Magnus toy for a long time not to be a straight re-paint of an Optimus Prime toy, looks pretty nice.
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on: Wednesday, 14th February 2007 at 20:24:11 GMT
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Primal-Prime has posted some
infomation on TFormers regarding the Transformers Movie coverage at the Tokyo International Gift show :-
According to a close Japanese contact who recently visited the "Tokyo International Gift Show", (a trade-only show for shops, stores and retailers in Japan and abroad) at Tokyo's "Big Sight" in Japan; Takara were on-hand to offer some tit-bits of info to those interested.
1. The Movie will be out in AUGUST, due to the "General Japanese public having little or no knowledge or exposure to Transformers or specifically the MOVIE brand of Transformers robots, unlike the USA/Europe general public, which has already seen pictures of Transformers robots in magazines, TV show previews, etc".
2. No robot pictures were shown at the event, only pictures of the human characters, due to the same reasons mentioned above. It would seem that the Japanese side of things wants to keep the movie bots a secret for as long as possible with the general Japanese public in order to create more of a shock-value with them perhaps.
3. There will be a premier of sorts (known in Japan under the Japanese-English term "roadshow") on 4th of August, 2007.
4. The only robots at the small Takara booth were old G1 bots up to present day Binaltech bots.
5. For more info, please check out the pics (at TFormers) to glean what you can from the Japanese language printed on the flyer.
Category: Transformers Movie News
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on: Wednesday, 14th February 2007 at 20:22:21 GMT
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Hasbro submitted a
new trademark application to the USPTO on the 7th Feb for the mark of
INCINERATOR, serial number 76672326. The mark has been submitted under the category of "toy action figures, toy vehicles and toy robots convertible into other visual toy forms". You can view the application in our
Transformer Trademark area.
Category: Transformers Trademark News
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on: Wednesday, 14th February 2007 at 18:33:54 GMT
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Alex Weiner, webmaster of TFW2005, attended the Hasbro, Paramount and Dreamworks sponsored event, about
20 minutes of
Transformers Movie footage was shown. The event was mainly studio executives but a few US TF fan sites were in attendance. He has written a
summary of what he saw at the event, including a few spoilers. Seibertron and the Official Transformers Club were also in attendance. You can read the Official Transformers Club's review, along with an interview with Michael Bay at
their site.
Category: Transformers Movie News
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on: Wednesday, 14th February 2007 at 09:09:34 GMT
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BoardGames.com has the first
image of the Transformers Monopoloy board game, due out later this year from Parker Brothers. The image states "Prototype subject to change", and as the artwork featured is Pat Lee's from the now defunct Dreamwave, it's more than likely that they will have to change it.
Thanks to Seibertron for the original spot.
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on: Tuesday, 13th February 2007 at 21:59:48 GMT
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