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Feeling creative? Why not submit some work to
Transforce 2007's Kitbash competition or the Fan Cinema? If we had any artistic flair we'd do both, but the only flair we have is a 6" WWE toy. Here's Paul Canon's lowdown :-
OK, so who out there want to make something for the fan cinema or kitbash competition? It's time to start getting organised.
Need a bit of inspiration, then check out the new events section of the Transforce web site http://www.transforce.org.uk/2007events.htm
Paul.
Category: Transformers Convention News
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on: Monday, 9th October 2006 at 20:59:31 BST
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Seibertron have a translation of the interview with Shoji Kawamori featured in the lastest edition of Hobby Magazine in Japan. The interview covers Masterpiece Starscream and the Kiss-Play toys. Some of the key points are:
Kiss_Play
Tomy-Takara plans to market Transformers to adults for a while and not
to children. We've been witnessing this already as Takara created the
Binaltechs, Binaltech Astericks, Masterpieces, and now KISS Players.
Female figurines are popular in Japan among male adults. Tomy-Takara
jumped on the bandwagon and included them in their KISS products. A
radio show of KISS now airs in Japan.
Takara did not mention how long they will continue this campaign, but
hinted that we will see other KISS Transformers released in the near
future. Takara revealed that both the KISS and Masterpiece series are
doing very well.
It is not known whether Tomy-Takara plans to release additional series in the near future.
Starscream:
Takara pretty much gave Shoji the reigns to make changes where he saw
fit. The mold changes were made (as you can guess) to make the jet mode
more complete. Some of these include (as you know) part of the fuselage
on Starscream's arms, shoulders, and hips.
The tail stabilizers were moved from his legs to his hips to create the appearance of a samurai wearing two swords.
Shoji originally wanted to make the robot parts completely hidden on
the undercarriage of the jet. He was not happy that the forearms and
chest were visible during the alt mode. He also was not satisfied with
the head. He played around with designs to cover these parts up but
then scrapped the idea because it would have sacrificed the robot mode
too much.
Category: Older News
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on: Monday, 9th October 2006 at 14:48:43 BST
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Long time site member Starscream's Ghost sent us an update on the Transformers: Classics situation in the UK.
new assortment has been sent through my wholesaler for Dec '06 Release
wave 1 special assortment
Rodimus (1)
Astrotrain (1)
Grimlock (1)
Bumblebee (2)
Starscream (1)
Mirage (2)
At last the UK has Astrotrain confirmed for release!!
these are again available for pre-order at £14.99 including 1st Class Recorded Delivery in the UK e-mail me at jokerstoybox@btconnect.com for details
Category: Older News
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on: Monday, 9th October 2006 at 11:57:33 BST
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Australian Transformers fan website
They Are Among Us.com has a report that the Transformers: Classics line have now been released in Australia.
Category: Older News
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on: Saturday, 7th October 2006 at 10:50:26 BST
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Thanks to Cyke for lettings the Trans-Europe Express Group know that
Override GTS and Excellion are out in the Netherlands priced at 10.99. You can view the original report on BTFA.info.
Category: Trans-Europe Express Group News
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on: Friday, 6th October 2006 at 13:04:35 BST
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In there last Quarterly Report (released in August so this news story is a bit late I know), Activision stated that their upcoming Transformers Movie is still on course for a concurrent release with the July 2007 film. They also re-confirmed that they have global rights, excluding Japan, to develop console, hand-held and PC games on the Transformers brand, not just the Movie and that the Movie tie in will be the first game.
Here is an extract :-
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we signed an agreement with Hasbro Properties Group granting us
the global rights, excluding Japan, to develop console, hand-held, and PC games
based on Hasbro's "Transformers" brand. We anticipate releasing the first game
concurrently with the July 2007 movie release of the live action "Transformers"
film from DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures."
Category: Transformers Movie News
| Submitted by: quartz -
on: Thursday, 5th October 2006 at 14:14:35 BST
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Flickr member
MH.2 has uploaded several photographs of the set of the Transformers Movie. The images are very simliar to the others you would have seen this week.
Category: Transformers Movie News
| Submitted by: quartz -
on: Thursday, 5th October 2006 at 08:31:30 BST
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The Transformers Movie website,
transformersmovie.com, has once again been updated, this time with a `
fader` that shows some of the latest entries to the `Make Prime Talk` competition (only available to residents of the United States).
Category: Transformers Movie News
| Submitted by: quartz -
on: Thursday, 5th October 2006 at 08:27:15 BST
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Nelson has updated
MichaelBay.com with images and an article from the Detroit set of the Transformers Movie.
Don't forget to visit the Movie website at
www.transformersmovie.com and to stay up-to-date with the latest news and images about the Transformers Movie, then stop by our
Movie News area.
Category: Transformers Movie News
| Submitted by: quartz -
on: Thursday, 5th October 2006 at 08:22:12 BST
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Walmart.com have added a product listing for the Transformers Cyberton Ultra figure, Cyro Scourge, priced at 26.47 USD
Credit to pmoverlord-1972 of the
TFWBoards for the initial report.
Category: Older News
| Submitted by: quartz -
on: Wednesday, 4th October 2006 at 16:51:14 BST
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Toys R Us have
once again updated their UK website new listings of
Transformers products. The listings are of :-
- Transformers Cybertron Voyager - Soundwave - (24524006) - £19.99 (Stock: Out of stock)
- Transformers Cybertron Voyager - Nemesis Breaker - (24524007) - £19.99 (Stock: Out of stock)
Category: Older News
| Submitted by: quartz -
on: Wednesday, 4th October 2006 at 16:38:28 BST
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The Jay.com has an article with images and videos from the LA set of next years
Transformers Movie, for those who just can't get enough. Credit to
Seibertron for the link.
Don't forget the official movie website is
www.transformersmovie.com where you can enter the Make Prime Talk contest, well only if you are a US resident that is.
Category: Transformers Movie News
| Submitted by: quartz -
on: Wednesday, 4th October 2006 at 13:53:12 BST
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As you've probably noticed,
Transformers have gained much more main stream coverage in the last 9 months than for many years. This coverage and the anticipation for next years
Transformers film is starting to show when you look at google trends. A quick comparison of
Transformers to Star Trek and CSI over the last year, shows that the TFs have seen a substantial rise in searches, especially between July and August where it passed both those other search terms. The trend ends with Transformer searches in decline, but still significantly higher than in the
last two years. If the pattern for the year so far continues, and taking into account the expected surge of searches as the Movies release date gets closer, then by the time it hits the big screen, Transformers my well have over taken Star Trek
Category: Older News
| Submitted by: quartz -
on: Wednesday, 4th October 2006 at 11:49:03 BST
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The AllSpark report that the following items hare listed in Target computers. The products are from the company Kid Designs so they will be Transformer branded versions of items they produce for other popular toy lines such as Barbie.
* 087-06-1036 Transformers Desktop PC $69.99
* 087-06-1179 Transformers Walkie Talkies $19.99
* 087-06-1218 Transformers Light Up Assortment $16.99
Category: Older News
| Submitted by: quartz -
on: Wednesday, 4th October 2006 at 08:29:18 BST
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Looking over the legal information connected with the Make Prime Speak contest over at
transformersmovie.com, I noticed the following under the eligibility section
"The
Contest is open only to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States and
D.C. who are 18 years of age or older. Sponsor and its respective parent,
subsidiaries, affiliates, distributors, retailers, sales representatives,
advertising and promotion agencies and each of their respective officers,
directors and employees (collectively, the "Promotion Entities"),
and members of the immediate families and/or persons living in the same
household as such persons, are ineligible to enter the Contest or win a prize."So if you are a non-US resident, don't even bother entering.
Category: Older News
| Submitted by: quartz -
on: Tuesday, 3rd October 2006 at 16:11:56 BST
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