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Full Metal Hero have a look at Issue 1 of Transformers: Prime - Rage of the Dinobots! which you can see by following the link
Summary
Leading into the third season of Transformers: Prime and tying into Fall of Cybertron, it sees Grimlock and his cohorts charging into Prime like no-one's business. Head out to your local comic shop on Wednesday, or downloaded it to your preferred digital device.
Full Metal Hero have some nice images of Transformers Prime Arms Micron Nemesis Prime
Summary
An underrated figure gets even better with a new black deco and massive Arms Micron blade! Powerizer Optimus didn't set the world alight due to a number of things, 1) Megatron looked better 2) The First Edition kicked butt 3) He had that hideous weapon and loads of horrible grey visible on him, but he was still a good toy that a lot of folks missed out on, hopefully this will rectify things with Nemesis reaching a wider audience. Coming with the obligatory sticker sheet Nemesis is primarily black and dark charcoal grey with the chest being broken up via the red windows and light grey border. It works very well, so well that you may chose not to apply your stickers, I prefer them applied as they add a little more detail and help bring out the red on his forearms more.
Articulation wise Nemesis is very capable with lots of ball joints allowing him to twist and turn into a variety of poses, he is also very well balanced which might come a surprise due to the large back pack made up of the trucks side panels. The Micron is makes a very cool weapon but not such a cool Micron looking a little like a pelican in its robot mode but I'm not displaying him that way and the blade mode is pure win!
Truck mode again can either have stickers on or off and it looks great, I've taken some pics with and without so you can check it out and make your mind up. I personally like the stickers on as it gives it that higher level of detail and contrasts well with the black, a really nice touch by Takara is the inclusion of 5 M.E.C.H stickers which you can place on Nemesis to your hearts content giving him that nice link to the TV show.
Overall he is a repaint so automatically becomes less desirable for some but he is Nemesis Prime, a character thats always been popular, we score him 8/10
TFW2005 have a review of Transformers Prime Arms Micron Smokesceen and S2 which you can read by following the link
Summary
Smokescreen is a remolded version of Transformers Prime Knock Out. This presents an immediate issue with show accuracy, because even with remolding, Smokescreen lacks a few design elements from his CG model on the show - the most notable being the door wings on his back. But let's not linger on the negatives - Smokescreen does manage to look different from Knock Out with his stickers, remolded rear end in vehicle mode and his new head. The head sculpt captures the character well - I'd have personally given him a smirk rather than a serious determined look - but it goes a good way to giving Smokescreen his own identity. The head is spot-on to the look of the character in the show. Stickers give Smokescreen the rest of his deco.
Smokescreen comes with Arms Micron S2, a Micron with a slender and "ornate" look. He's only poseable in the arms, but that seems to be average for the Arms Microns. S2 turns into a high-tech bow weapon for Smokescreen, which I don't recall ever seeing used in the show - yet - but if you fold S2's "wings" in you get a laser weapon that looks like an arm cannon that Smokescreen might equip for battle. In any event, the option to make it into a "gun" or "bow" lends a bit of appeal to the character.
Overall, Smokescreen is an alright release. If you disliked the design on Knock Out there is not a lot here that will change your mind, and the lack of show accuracy is a detractor. However it could be far worse, and as of the moment, this is the only Smokescreen toy available outside the upcoming Legends class in Beast Hunters.
Auto Assembly have posted the following press release regarding the 2013 Convention exclusive T-Shirts
As well as our convention magazine, comic and postcards that will be forming part of the Auto Assembly 2013 goodie bag, there are going to be several other convention exclusives available to accompany next year’s event! We are proud to be able to announce the first of these today which is the first in a series of t-shirts being produced for us by Big Ds Toy Chest. Featuring several different designs and coming in a range of sizes, they are available now to pre-order and will be available for collection when you arrive at the convention.
If you’re not too sure about ordering in advance, there will be limited quantities available at the convention itself but we’re expecting these to be very popular so we’d strongly recommend you get your orders in sooner rather than later. There will be four different designs in total, all illustrated by Auto Assembly artist Ed Pirrie, and will be just £14.99 each irrespective of the size or t-shirt colour you order.
You can see the first t-shirt featuring Generation One Bumblebee on the Auto Assembly website
We are pleased to announce that we has finished revamping our Hasbro Instruction Sheet archive so that you can now view just the instruction sheets belonging to the Transformers series, just the G.I.Joe instruction sheets or, if you wish, you can browse through all of the Hasbro Instruction sheets which we have to offer.
The search functionality has also been fixed, which will help you find the sheets you are looking for.
We currently have 1040 Transformers instructions, 308 G.I.Joe Instructions and a grand total of 3019 overall Hasbro Instruction sheets from a variety of toy and game lines. This number will expand to over 6000 by the end of the day
Enjoy!
We have updated the G.I. Joe 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:
You can download copies of the instruction sheets from our Hasbro Toy Instruction Sheets section of the website.
We have updated the Transformers toys instruction sheets section of the website with some new PDF instructon sheets entries.
Of the updates, the following newentries were added into the database:
You can download copies of the instruction sheets from our Transformers toys instruction sheets section of the website.
Kapow Toys have received, and shared, official images of the upcoming Transformers Alternity Super GTR Prime and Star Saber figures via their Facebook and Twitter accounts. The images, which have been mirrored below, give us the first good look at how the final versions of these toys appear, especially for Star Saber
Auto Assembly 2013 Major Updates
We've been quiet for a little while here at Auto Assembly. We've spent the last few months trying to recover from Auto Assembly 2012 and making plenty of plans for next year's convention, and taking a look back at some of the things we did this year so we can make 2013 the best convention we have ever organised.
Anyway, onto Auto Assembly 2013 and we have some fantastic things lined up for all of you. As you may know, back in August we confirmed our three voice actors who are joining us - Dan Gilvezan (G1 Bumblebee), Neil Kaplan (RiD Prime) and Steve Blum (TF: Prime Starscream), but since then we've been fairly quiet. Until now...
Over on our website, we've been busy making a lot of announcements about the convention and this is going to continue for the next few months with something new coming from us every few days!
One Day Passes
Until now, we have only been selling full weekend tickets for Auto Assembly 2013, but as of 22nd November 2012 we have now made one day passes available for the convention. However, these are limited so if you are interested, you'll need to book these sooner rather than later!
Guests
Starting things off are our guests. We deliberately held back on announcing our comic guests for 2013 so we still had guests to announce after our voice actors! Anyway, our first two confirmed comic guests are Simon Furman and James Roberts with more to come over the next few days.
Convention Exclusives
We've just unveiled the artwork for the first of our convention exclusive postcards for Auto Assembly 2013 and you can find this on our website. It's already been extremely well received and we'll be showing you the artwork for the rest of the cards over the coming months. That's not all though - we have more convention exclusive merchandise that we'll be announcing, starting tomorrow...
Full details on all of these stories and many more are on the Auto Assembly website, as well as more news to come over the next few days!
Auto Assembly 2013 is Europe's largest EVER Transformers convention and is taking place over the weekend of 9th - 11th August 2013 at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel. To book your tickets, to enquire about dealers tables or sponsorship / advertising opportunities or to find out more including details of all the dealers attending, all of our guests and a full schedule for the weekend, visit the website at www.autoassembly.org.uk
If you can't make it to the convention, we'll be offering a Non-Attendee Package early in the new year and running other online activities that you'll be able to get involved with!
Hope to see you all next year!
The Auto Assembly Team
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TF Source - www.tfsource.com
Robot Kingdom - www.robotkingdom.com
Transformers @ The Moon - www.transformertoys.co.uk
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Big Bad Toy Store - www.bbts.com
Official "in-packaging" images of the Transformers Prime Beast Hunters figures are now being distributed by Hasbro. You can view all of the 8 images which have been released thus far after the jump
BBTS have updated their website with some image of the upcoming Kreo figures. First up is a look at Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Beast Blade Optimus Prime.
Following on from that, BBTS have also posted a series of images of the new Combiner (gestalt) figures coming in the new year including Devastator, Superion, Bruticus and Predaking
Japanese retailer ToyHobbyShop have posted two new stock images of the upcoming Transformers Alternity GT-R Prime and Star Saber figures in vehicle modes. They have also updated the product pages for both of these figures. The images have been mirrored below.
Hobby Ark's Facebook Page has been updated with more images of the upcoming releases of Takara-Tomy's exclusive Transformers Prime Arms Micron Ultra Magnus and Lio Convoy (a recolour of Thundertron).
I'm certainly liking Lio Convoy
Fellow UK Transformers fansite, FullMetalHero.com (run by the folks behind KapowToys), posted a new image of the upcoming Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Optimus Prime Cyberverse Commander toy yesterday which you can view here. The image, whilst small gives us a better idea of what a fullsize version woulld look like.
They have also updated the KapowToys website with some new product listings for the series
1) Weaponizers Ultra Magnus with Battle Hammer - Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Weaponizers Ultra Magnus - Kapow Toys
2) Weaponizers Optimus Prime - Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Weaponizers Optimus Prime - Kapow Toys
3) Weaponizers Bumblebee - Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Weaponizers Bumblebee - Kapow Toys (a retooled from the original toy)