Following on from their new product listings for Masterpiece TigerTracks, Big Bad Toy Store have posted two pre-order pages for more Masterpiece figures.  The first is MP-17 Prowl who is due out in July with MP-18 being a recolour / remould into Smokescreen who is due out in August.  Surely this means that it is only time until Bluestreak is confirmed as well which opens up a whole host of potential recolours including the fabled "blue" Bluestreak.  You can view the listings here and here

Yesterday we tweeted regarding the upcoming e-Hobby announcement which Andrew Hall AKA Hydra teased the world with recently (well he said that there was going to be an announcement) that it could be a recolour of either Fortress Maximus (unlikely due to the size, but with their deal with Fun Publications the distribution network would be large enough) or a Masterpiece Tigertrack.  Well the latter may well be looking more likely after Big Bad Toy Store posted a listing for a limited edition Masterpiece Tigertrack numbered MP-12T with a July 2013 release.  Tiger Track was a Figure King mailaway exclusive figure back during the Collections Edition releases in Japan. You can view our gallery of the original toy here.

This is still a rumour at this stage but some Asian stores have been placing listings for a 6,000yen (£42 / $68) figure recently something is certainly looking possible.

We expect this to be confirmed in the next week.

The Hong Kong Toy fair has now finished and whilst Hasbro were reportedly not at the event, there were some Transformers licensed products on display.  One of these products were licensed replica polyresin (ABS) statues of Transformers Movie Optimus Prime and Bumblebee along with a prop-replica of the Allspark from FMC. Atamaii TV Blog were in attendance with their reporter Stu Carter recording a video introduction by FMC representative Mike.

The statues are Asian exclusives, are articulated and come with interchangable accessories.  Mike explains in the video that the Bumblebee figure is to scale with the Optimus Prime statue which is why he is smaller with Prime standing at 20" tall and Bumblebee who is 14" tall.

The figures are on the expensive side with Optimus Prime retailing at $1,699 (that is USD not HKD) with Bumblebee being $1,399.

The Allspark cube is made to scale for the film and costs $299.

The first run of both the Optimus Prime and the Bumblebee statues have now sold out within Asia with FMC looking to produce a second run.  You can view a video below.

An auction has been posted on TaoBao which shows off the scale of Mastermind Creations upcoming Hexatron figure.  Hexatron is better known as Not-Sixshot and will also be released in the colour scheme of Greatshot and Shadow Maru from Brave.  You can view the images below.

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. Transformers Rescue Bots Bumblebee Rescue Repair Station A2111 Instructions

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

Unique Toys have posted the first images of their grey prototype of War Rhino (Tantrum) from their upcoming Beasticon set.  The Beasticon will comibine into War Lord AKA Predaking.

With both Unique Toys and Mastermind Creations both releasing third party Predaking figures which will you decide to get?

YouTuber thielmj1 has posted a video review of the upcoming Transformers Masterpiece Soundwave figure. The toy, which is due out on general release on the 26th January 2013, is the latest release in the Masterpiece series. You can watch the video review using the plug-in below.

Unique Toys have updated their Facebook page with some new colour images of the prototype of their upcoming third party Divebomb figure.  The toy, known as War Lord Hawk, is not the only 3rd party Predaking figure being released as Masrtermind Creations recently showed off the first image of the 2nd figure from their own set Not-Divebomb (Ferocicons). You can compare the images after the jump.

Unique Toys - War Lord - Hawk

Mastermind Creations - Ferocicons - Not-Divebomb

This is just a quick reminder to UK Transformers fans that the new Argos catalogue will be out tomorrow. Stores already have the catalogue in but they are not unpacking them until tomorrow morning (at least they shouldn't).  If your local branch does put them out early, let us know what Transformers listings have been added.

The thought to be cancelled, Transformers Generations GDO Brawn figure, which is a remould of the First Edition Transformers Prime Voyager Bulkhead toy, looks like it may well be getting a release after all as some new images have been posted over on  78dm BBS by spyder. You can view the images below.

The Hobby Ark Toy Store have posted some new pre-orders listing on Facebook for some for upcoming Transformers Prime Beast Hunters figures from Takara Tomy. The figures include the first listing for Shockwave as well as stating that Optimus Prime will have a different deco to the Hasbro version and will feature a blue sword.  Here are the details

Pre-order open for Takara Transformers Prime Beast Hunters toys is open:

1) G11 Hunter optimus prime, voyager class, price=sgd$60, eta=april

*blue color packaging, paint different from Hasbro. Blue sword & green window.

2) G12 dragotron (predaking), voyager class, price=sgd$60, eta=april

3) G13 shockwave, voyager class, price=sgd$60, eta=april

4) G14, Hunter Bumblebee, deluxe class, price=sgd$35, eta= April

No photos at the moment

YouTuber The7thParallel has posted a video review of Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Voyager Class Predaking, who has been released in his native Canada. You can view the review below.

e-Hobby have updated their product listings with some new, clear, official stock images of the upcoming Takara-Tomy Transformers Generations TG-19 Grimlock and TG-20 Ratbat figures.  As expected from Japanese releases, the toys have metallic paint with Grimlock also having a a more accurate red abdomen where as Ratbat has been given a new head which appears inspired by the IDW Comics Senator Ratbat which was first "leaked" via the instruction sheet which came with Transformers Generations Scourge.  The head will no doubt be reused for future recolours and we could image that these may include some of the Brestmasters.  You can view the images below.

How better to start the morning than some Transformers video reviews.  To start with Peaugh has posted reviews of Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Optimus Prime as well as Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Bulkhead (Deluxe Version). You can view the videos below.

Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Optimus Prime Video Review

Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Bulkhead Video Review

Several auctions have been posted on TaoBao which show some new Transformers Bot-Shot figures, in packaging. Below is a list of all of the characters and auctions with the images mirrored after the jump

• Cliffjumper, Dirt Boss and Brawl 3-Pack
• Shockwave, Bumblebee and Skyquake 3-Pack
• Autobot Air Force (aka the Aerialbots) 5-Pack
• Decepticon Fire Assault Team
• Sunstorm, Single
• Ironhide, Single
• Shockwave, Single
• Bumblebee, Flip Shot