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TvNihon have the next episode of Galaxy Force (47) up for downloading at their site. They also have TF:Victory episode one, up for download too.
Category: Older News
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on: Tuesday, 29th November 2005 at 04:08:55 GMT
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Don Murphy posted his Sunday update on the progress of the Transformers Movie on Saturday. You can read this weeks thread
here and last weeks
here.
Category: Transformers Movie News
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on: Monday, 28th November 2005 at 11:20:33 GMT
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godsenddeath has posted an interesting topic over on the
TFW2005 Boards regarding a possible Janurary release of the Cybertron toys with the UK. Here is what he had to say...
Apparently, a UK comic called Toxic is running a comp to win the full Cybertron line
"When it's released in January"
Since Megatron is specifically mentioned, it seems that it will be released in the UK market whereas some European countries
have (thus far at least) missed out on it.
No confirmation on what the 'full' UK line will be, but the time lapse follows the general lag that there was with Armada and Energon.
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on: Sunday, 27th November 2005 at 10:40:05 GMT
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on: Friday, 25th November 2005 at 17:09:50 GMT
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TFW2005 report,
here, that the CyberKey information for several Transformers (Brushguard (s0u6), Backstop (stw7), Wreckloose (su39), Runamuck (dw3a), Longrack (d48m), Blurr (d0y2) and Buzzsaw (df58)) has now been added to
Transformers.com.
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on: Thursday, 24th November 2005 at 08:22:09 GMT
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Cybertron Evac (Galaxy Force Live (Life) Convoy), has been release in Australia, report
TAAU.com. The toy has, thus far, been spotted in Toys R Us, although he is not yet registered in their computer system. Click the link to TAAU.com for the full report.
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on: Thursday, 24th November 2005 at 08:20:04 GMT
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TvNihon have the next episode of Galaxy Force (46) up for downloading.
Credit goes to sideways..
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on: Wednesday, 23rd November 2005 at 14:48:49 GMT
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Fan to Fan updated their site yesterday with updates from Figure Oh, Dengeki Hobby Magazine and Hobby Japan magazines. The updates include a Spotlight on T.H.S - 02 G1 Convoy, Re-Issue Galvatron final pictures / boxart (which was shown off earlier in the week on TFWorld via an auction picture, and various other bits.
They also have a nice gallery of
Galaxy Force DVD Special Red Exhillion to look at as well.
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on: Wednesday, 23rd November 2005 at 08:29:10 GMT
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We will stop taking
pre-orders for the
e-Hobby Exclusive Galvtron II tomorrow evening at 18:00GMT. This is because e-Hobby only have a limited supply left to allocate and have asked us to finalise our orders for those ASAP.
If you are interested in ordering one via us, then please stop by the
Moon Store, and place your pre-order.
We have also decide that we will
not be placing orders for Pepsi-Convoy, as he works out at about £10 more via e-Hobby (with shipping to the UK, in the UK, customs, Japanese sales tax etc etc) than some of the UK based importers.
For those interested in placing an order for the e-Hobby exclusive re-issue of Twincast, then we will continue to take pre-orders until early December.
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on: Tuesday, 22nd November 2005 at 22:28:37 GMT
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ChrisMcFeely posted the following on
TF @ The Moon - Sake CommentsThere's not a huge amount to actually tell about this release yet, as it's still some way off. However, I'm sure that most people are aware of the issues there were with the subtitles for Headmasters, so first off, I'll allay fears with this bit of news:
The DVD will be using subtitle scripts written by Jordan L. Derber (Buster Darkwings), as seen on TVNihon's fansub releases. This basically elminates the possibilty of TF-specific errors that burdened the Headmasters release.
That said, there are some things in the subtitles which still need to be discussed. Firstly, there's the business of names - for Headmasters, the characters were referred to in the subs by their Western names. This just really doesn't work for the majority of Masterforce, and as such, I, personally, am behind keeping all the characters' Japanese names (and I was an advocate of American names for HM, just to give that context). The Godmasters and Headmasters, specifically, are just entirely too different from their Western counterparts for it to work, and characters like Sixknight don't visually jive with their Western selves also. The only characters I can conceivably see the idea working with are the Seacons and the Pretenders, but I feel that they, too, have some differences, and it all gets very picky-choosey, so, yeah. Japanese names. In the same vein, I feel "Godmasters" ought to be used instead of Powermasters (assuming that there is no active desire NOT to use a term involving "god" - I could see that happening quite readily in the US, but I wouldn't be too sure about over here).
However, purely in the name of consistency with other releases, I DO feel that "Autobot" and "Decepticon" ought to be used in place of "Cybertron" and "Destron." In fact, there's even one scene of a scrapbook in which the evil 'bots are referred to as both "Destrons" AND "Decepticons" in written text.
Outside of the show and characters itself, there is also the way that Jordan has chosen to translate the scripts, often using untranslated Japanese swear words. He's said himself that he sees why some people would find this less than desirable, and although I agree with him that it can be more colourful, I often found it distracting, and I feel that for a full DVD release, the subs should be fully anglicized.
Similarly, the fansubs also contain frequent cultural notes and explanations at the top of the screen. If the DVD were to contain a third pop-up track - in the vein of ADV's "ADVid-Notes," as seen on releases like "Excel Saga" - I would be behind including them, but as that seems unlikely, I generally believe that most of them should be dropped, as they are generally inessential lessons in the Japanese language (many of which will be rendered pointless by the anglicization of the swears) and occasionally distracted me, or required me to pause or rewind so I could read them and the dialogue subtitle that was on the screen at the same time. There are SOME which I feel can - nay, NEED - to say - for example, there's a scene in which Cab sings a traditional Japanese chlidren's song, and one has to understand that to appreciate the scene, so that one could stay.
Okay, so... discuss. No polls or anything yet, just talk about it, what your views are, whether your agree or disagree with me, etc.
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on: Tuesday, 22nd November 2005 at 18:36:00 GMT
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TFW2005 are reporting that Transformers: Cybertron has now been released in Peru. Spotted so far are various toys from Waves 1 and 2.
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on: Tuesday, 22nd November 2005 at 18:35:05 GMT
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Transformers G1 Voice Director, Mr Wally Burr, has sent out an email distribution regarding
Burr's Blurb on Transformers!. What exactly is it about, well we'll leave the man himself to explain
Howdy!
... soon, an excitingly entitled email --
"Burr's Blurb on Transformers!"
will be showing up at a computer near you! The plot...?
"Transformers: The Movie!" -- Collectibles!
Many of these have not seen the light of day since they
were committed to "dead storage" at my recording studio
some 20 years ago! But, now hear this! They're coming
back! Alive! And for sale! Keep an eye on your e-mail!
Thank you!
Wally Burr -- (Transformers G1 Voice Director)
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on: Tuesday, 22nd November 2005 at 18:33:47 GMT
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Fan2Fan have updated their website with some information and images from the latest batch of Hobby Magazines in Japan. You can read what's new and see some of the images,
here.
Category: Older News
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on: Tuesday, 22nd November 2005 at 15:26:23 GMT
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16bit.com have profiles of the upcoming Cybertron 2 packs (a Basic Cybertron toy with Tiny-Tin (Armada minicon) set)
The toys are not re-coloured just re-package for the "completist collector". You can see the profiles at
16bit.com or alternatively TF World 2005 have copied them
here
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on: Tuesday, 22nd November 2005 at 08:31:02 GMT
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TFWorld 2005 have a picture of the re-issue Galvatron in it's box, taken from what looks like an auction picture of a leaked toy.
You can see the full image
here
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on: Monday, 21st November 2005 at 14:17:10 GMT
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