Twitch are reporting that Brenton Thwaites and Nicola Peltz have joined the Mark Wahlberg as members of the cast for Transformers 4. Nicola Peltz will play "Marky Marks" daughter in the film whilst Brenton Thwaites will play her boyfriend.

The 23 year old Australian born Brenton Thwaites, is best known for portraying Luke Gallagher in the Fox8 teendrama series SLiDE as well as the Home and Away character Stu Henderson, whilst 17 year old Nicola Peltz is best known for her role as Katara in the The Last Airbender.

Update: In an update on ShootForTheEdit.com, Michael Bay's site admin posted that the story reported by Twitch is false. However, Twitch were the first site to report Mark Wahlberg joining the franchise and S4tE have been wrong in the past. So for now, this story should be treated as a  40/60 chance of being true

FansProject have posted some teaser images of their upcoming Function X project which is really a third party Headmaster release. The figures featured within the preview images are Chromedome, Brainstorm, Mindwipe, Minerva, Weirdwolf and Skullcruncher but repainted as Optimus Prime from the Generation One episiode "City of Steel".  Does this mean that there will also be an "Arcee" repaint of Chromedome? Time will tell.

The group behind the "not-Predaking" figure has been revealed as the new Singapore based 3rd party group "Unique Toys". According to UT's facebook page, the official name of the figure will be War Lord - Beasticon and they have announced that the first figure to be released will be Hawk (Divebomb). To accompany the announcement, the group have posted some line-art of what will be box-art for the figure which you can view below.

Are you on Google+? Then why not join our new Transformers At The Moon community page which we have created this morning.  The community page, which can be found here, will run along side our dedicated Google+ Transformers At The Moon page where you will find copies of the news stories as well as some image galleries of our collection.

We will be looking to add new, and sometimes exclusive, content to both of these social pages, along with our Facebook and Twitter feeds, though the Google+ Community page may eventually replace our own out-dated message board as it will allow us all to share our thoughts, images, videos as well as participate in video Hangouts and Hangouts on Air.

A new card art from the upcoming mobile game from Mobage called Transformers: Legends has been revealed over on the official Transformers facebook page.  The image, which can be found below, was posted with the following comment:

TRANSFORMERS: Legends is coming soon! Can you guess who this character is? One hint: it's a Decepticon! Find out more at: http://www.transformers-legends.com/

If anyone has a spare $24,000 laying around, I want one of these for Christmas

Planet Iacon have posted four new images of the Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Cyberverse Optimus Prime figure onto their Facebook page.  You do not need an account to view the images, which can be found here.

Seibertron.com have posted a interview they have held with Botcon Organiser Pete Sinclair regarding the choice for next years convention to have a Machine Wars Theme.

What was the inspiration for a Machine Wars theme?
Pete Sinclair wrote:The inspiration here is a basically a "Machine Wars: Series 2." The 2013 BotCon offerings will work both as a stand alone AND as a continuation of the Machine Wars line. Once people read the fiction fans will see each toy from both series 1 and series 2 work as their own individual character.

Also, even if you did not grow up collecting Machine Wars, this set is going to be very appealing for many reasons and we anticipate that a wide range of collectors' will want to add these toys to their collections. They look really sharp!

You can read the interview in full here.

e-Hobby have updated their wbesite with a preview of the comic which will come with their forthcoming Solar Requiem set which is being produced in conjunction with the Transformers Collector's Club.  The set, for those who have forgotten, is the Shattered Glass repaints of Generation One Blaster, Soundwave, Ratbat, Slugfest, Rewind and the new character, Solar. The preview is the cover of the 10-page comic along with a a glimpse of one of the inside pages.  From the preview, which shows a normal characters mixing with the Shattered Glass universe characters it can be deduced that the events of the comic will take place after the events of this years Botcon Comic, Invasion. You can view the preview below.

Thanks to Yomiru online for the quiet awesome looking Japanese prototype of a working mech-suit.

Though not Transformers related, i'm sure you'll agree this is quite awesome.

New third party Facebook page Meteor Operation posted two images last night of a new third party Predaking release which had previously not been seen.  The figure is apparently from an unknown third party figure with an early prototype being shown (seen below).  The information which accompanied the images was "

War Lord- Beasticons ~~ From an reliable source we get an very big info ,that one of the unknown third party company will be releasing this War Lord,the G1 NOT-PREDAKING conbiner, consist of five members. And the releaseing date yet to be confirmed.

Update: Thanks to Mark Brady for pointing out that this figure is either the same one as, or based on, the scratch built custom by rosedjs over on TFW2005.com.  You can view his finished painted figure here.

The Bic Camera Nagoya Station store recently held a Transformers fan event which included showing the public various 2013 Takara Tomy releases including the Bic Camera Lucky Draw Chrome Blue Transformers Prime Arcee figure.  If you click on the news headline to virew the full story, you will be greeted with a gallery containing 65 images taken from the event by Snakas / Autobase Aichi, @Dragon_526 and @robo_z.  The figures shown in store were:

• A test shot of Transformers core Fortress Maximus complete with his Master Sword.
• The upcoming Masterpiece series Soundwave and Red Alert figures including prototypes for the Masterpiece cassettes Ravage and Rumble.
• Upcoming releases from the Transformers Generations Japan line, including the five Combaticons and their combined form, Bruticus, Soundwave and Soundblaster, plus the Autobot and Decepticon Data Disks
• This months Transformers Prime Arms Micron figures were showm the toys being Ultra Magnus, Shockwave and Leo Prime
• We also had the first public showing of the AMW-13 Advanced Star Saber and AMW-14 Gravity Planet Bow-Gun sets.
• The Generation 2013 Combaticon figures (the Fall of Cybertron series) were shown and there were also displays dedicated to both the Transformers GT and BeCool series.

Again, click on the headline to view all of the images

Thanks to Big Bad Toy Store, we can now share two new images of the upcoming Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Predaking figure which includes a first-look at the toys robot form.  The images, which can be viewed below, confirm that the toy is also a homage to the Transformers Cybertron Scourge figure, or as he was known in Japan?Transformers Galaxy Force Flame Convoy?

The robot mode has a head sculpt which fits in very well with the recent Transformers Prime designs, though for a voyager class figure, he almost looks as if he has been scaled down.  The final version of the toy we expect to see paint-application changes, especially on the silver dragon heads, though Hasbro have designed to figure to not require that many paint applications to help keep down the cost.

Peaugh has uploaded his 1000th video review to YouTube with this landmark review covering Mech Ideas Geminus and Apex ("Not" TopSpin and "not" TwinTwist). You can view the review below/

Following from last week’s announcement of Simon Furman returning to Auto Assembly next August, we can now proudly confirm that Simon’s co-consiprator on Regeneration One, Andrew Wildman, will also be making a return to the convention! As always, Andrew will be on hand to meet fans, sign autographs, sketch and will take to the stage for a Q&A Panel at some point during the weekend!

This will be the tenth anniversary of Simon and Andrew’s first ever appearance at Auto Assembly so we hope you’ll all make them both feel extra special next year!