Toys R Us Canada has posted up listings for some up coming Transformers Toys showing the Canadian Dollar price point of the figures.

Masterpiece Soundwave SKU043130 - $119.99
Masterpiece Acid Storm SKU043128 - $69.99
Generations Titan Metroplex SKU043106 - $99.99
Prime Plat. Ed Ultra Magnus SKU038196 - $69.99
Prime Ultimate Dragon SKU043112 - $59.99
Prime 16'' Figure SKU038183 - $29.99

That means Soundwave, with all 5 cassettes, retails at around £77, with Metroplex being $64.  If these figures are released in the UK you can expect their prices to be more likely around the £120 and £99 range (due to shipping and customs costs)

UK Transformers dealer Kapow Toys has posted up the first listings for some exclusive toys in Japan, a combiner, in the series called Transformers Go! (The Japanese Release of Transformers Beast Hunters)

The first releases are

G01 Kenzan Samurai - Police Car
G02 Jinbu Samurai - Jet
G03 Genoh Samurai - Fire Truck
G04 Gaidora

EDIT:

Corrected the listing of Transformers Go as Beast Hunters, as per information on TFW2005.com.  Sorry for that, I've been out of the TF News frame for several months - Dave

Good news for non-US / Japanese residents as the e-Hobby and TFCC Solar Requiem sets are now arriving to members around the world. We received our set yesterday as you can see below,

Planet Iacon has updated it's facebook page with some nice imagse ot Takara-Tomy TF TG-20 Ratbat.  The toy, a repaint of Generations Scourge, features a new headsculpt, one that would make a nice head for a new Brestforce toy.

You can see the images on their page

Mastermind Creations have posted colour images of their upcoming Not Divebomb Ferricicon

Facebook member Famicon has posted a list of potential Asia Exclusive Transformers, though there is no word on where this list is from.  The list include G1 Star Saber and G1 Dai Atlas, you can see it on this Facebook link

Fun Publications US release of the e-Hobby Shattered Glass G1 Blaster and Soundwave set, which also comes with Slugfest, Ratbat, Ramhorn, Eject and Solarbot is now starting to arrive at doors in the US.  There is no word on when the international orders will be released, but given surface mail times we should get them by May.

The E-Hobby sets have been arriving since late January / early February.

The official Botcon Twitter account brings us some more Botcon 2013 news - they have posted an image of the Botcon 2013 baseball cap. The Botcon 2013 Baseball cap features the Megaplex version of the Decepticon symbol with Fun Publication's take on Machine Wars Thundercracker in front of it. Like in the original line, their illustration of Machine Wars Thundercracker is a redeco of Skywarp - in other words, it is based upon the Revenge of the Fallen Dirge mold.

An illustration does not a toy make, however you might be interested in an exchange of tweets between one Twitter user and Botcon:


- From Twitter user Emerald Beacon - so you're basically confirming MW Thundercracker with this hat, right?

-Response from Botcon - Basically...

The BotCon 2013 website has now been updated with a photo of Megaplex' jet mode.

Ater several months of waiting, official images of the Takara-Tomy Masterpiece Prowl and Masterpiece Streak (Bluestreak) have finallky been revealed.  The vehicle modes appears to be very G1 accurate to the original toys.

Hasbro's official images of Acid Storm and Soundwave have now been released. Acid Storm is a bright green and black redeco of the second Starscream mould, whilst the US Soundwave comes with all five of his Masterpiece Cassettes, Buzzsaw, Laserbeak, Ravage, Rumble and Frenzy.

To celebrate hitting 500 likes, Paul has updated The Space-Bridge's new Facebook page with a look at the history of Octane.  The images include some concept artwork from the TakaraTomy archives, as well as another image from their archive of an early figure which has significant design differences to the final product and finally a couple of images of the released toy along side one of the prototypes Paul has or the originally planned "chrome fist" version.  Check them out by clicking the link above

We have updated the Transformers toys instruction sheets section of the website with some new PDF instructon sheets entries.

Of the updates, the following new entries were added into the database:

1. Connect 4 Cut the Rope A2083 Instructions

You can download copies of the instruction sheets from our Transformers toys instruction sheets section of the website.

Paul Hitchens has updated The Spacebridge's Facebook page with another reconstructed deleted scene from the 1986 Transformers: The Movie animated feature film.  This latest video is the original sequence which was planned for Ultra Magnus' death.  Readers of the Marvel comics adaptation will recognise the way Magnus meets his end but this confirms that it was the original way in which he was going to be killed.

If you would like to see further recreations like this then we encourage you to head over to the Space-Bridge page on Facebook and like it to help show Paul your appreciation of the material he is sharing.

TFCC have revealed the bio for their 2013 Subscription figure Depth Charge. The profile, which can be viewed below, reads as:

Strength: 9
Intelligence: 10
Speed: 8
Endurance: 9
Rank: 7
Courage: 10
Fireblast: 6
Skill: 9

"It's not revenge I'm looking for. It's justice."

Magnificently sweeping through the darkness with regal silence, a hunter trails his prey.  Defender, pursuer, and if need be, judge; DEPTH CHARGE acts swiftly and with unquestioning resolve. He holds tightly to a desire for justice, even if he despenses that justice himself.

After tracking down and incarcerating the murderous Protofom X, DEPTH CHARGE returned to a CYBERTRON torn apart by war. Aging masters forced the next generation of soldiers into battle, in the name of "The Cause".  Death haunted every street. Injustice was abound. Depth Charge was tasked with a mission to hunt down two deserters from the MAXIMAL ranks who had dispatched their commanding officer, and consorted with the enemy in an attempt to use experimental transwarp drive technology to flee the planet. Retracing their steps with his own transwarp device, the MAXIMAL soon found their escape route. It was not to another planet, but to another Universe: one which the Transtech call home