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Fan2Fan report that the following Galaxy Force figures have now been released in Japan.
GC-19 Exigeyser, GC-20 BackGild, GC-21 Fastgunner, GD-11 Chromia and GD-12 Roadstorm. Visit Fan2Fan's website for some images.
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on: Wednesday, 13th July 2005 at 10:31:01 BST
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You can read a review and see some images from CybCon 2005 by visiting
this website.
Credit to
TFW2005 for the news.
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on: Wednesday, 13th July 2005 at 10:29:17 BST
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We've update our
July Mirror of the Japanese TF Image Board, with two pictures of e-Hobby Magnidicus. At present we still have not heard from e-Hobby that our order has shipped, but am hopeful that we should hear any day.
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on: Wednesday, 13th July 2005 at 08:32:06 BST
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Junior has posted some more information and the first sneak peak for the 2005 TRU Fan Event on Transfandom
here. Other 'previews' will be posted on various other US websites over the next few days. Here is the schedule.
Tuesday 12th - Transfandom.com
Wednesday - Cosmic Rust
Thursdsay - The Allspark
Friday - TFW2005
Saturday - MTMTE.com
Credit goes to Transfandom for the news.
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on: Wednesday, 13th July 2005 at 08:26:17 BST
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on: Tuesday, 12th July 2005 at 22:19:07 BST
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Citroen have released an updated version of their Justin Timberlake-style dancing transformer. In their new advert just previewed on UK Channel4 the robot is limbering up with a few stretches (as if he's about to run the 100m). Short & sweet advert for the new Citroen Sport..
Update By TF @ The Moon
You can download the video as a zip file form the Citreon C4 website
here. The file is 5.6MB.
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on: Tuesday, 12th July 2005 at 18:24:31 BST
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Online bookings are now being accepted for AutoAssembly 2006. Visit the
Auto Assembly website for more details.
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on: Tuesday, 12th July 2005 at 16:54:44 BST
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Transformerland have updated their site with images of their Cyber Fembots (the non-official Arcee toy they commissioned)
here.
Credit to
Transfandom.com for the news.
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on: Tuesday, 12th July 2005 at 15:25:12 BST
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We have updated our Japanese Image Board Mirror by creating the gallery for July. First up are images of Chromia and Exigeyser. You can view the gallery
here.
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on: Tuesday, 12th July 2005 at 15:16:59 BST
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The TF Writers also sat down with ComingSoon.net for an interview. Again the full article can be read
here but here are some snipits.
"'Transformers' is very tricky, because it's a movie based on a toy line," Kurtzman told us, when asked about how hard it might be to turn the Hasbro toys into a feature film. "The first question you have to ask yourself is what's the movie? We sat down with Steven Spielberg, and we said that the action scenes in this movie are a given, but he said that that it's the story of a boy and his car and that he wants to bring back the old Amblin movies. It's 'Back to the Future'great! We're in! It's a real challenge, because the key to making those movies work--and I totally think it's why 'War of the Worlds' works so well--is to be so invested in the people and to maintain the subjectivity of the humans. If you start 'Transformers' with giant robots sitting in a spaceship flying through space, your movie is dead in the water. It's all about keeping it at a human level, and seeing the amazing things that are going on through the eyes of the characters."
"The staple characters: Optimus Prime, Megatron, Soundwave, Shockwave, Starscream, Jazz," Kurtzman replied. "There's going to be a lot of them. You're going to have ten Transformers in that movie, and if that's not enough, you can go see 2, 3, 4 or 5."
"The meat and potatoes are going to be in there," writing partner Roberto Orci continued. "We're just missing the premise for the sequels."
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on: Tuesday, 12th July 2005 at 14:57:26 BST
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Kurtzman and Orci, the writers for the TF Movie, spoke breifly with IGN Filmforce. You can read the full article
here, but here are some extracts.
"Right now, we're thinking there will be five Autobots and five Decepticons," says Kurtzman. "But you know the ones everybody knows like Optimus Prime and Megatron and Starscream and Soundwave and Bumblebee. Arcee is gonna be in it."
We're in the middle of writing it. There's nothing that came before it, it's a movie that's based on a toy line, so the trick with that movie was again figuring out, 'Okay, what's the character story here, because the action scenes are a given, so what is this story really going to be about?' We spent some time with Steven Spielberg talking about that, and Michael (Bay) may direct it, which would be, I think, perfect in a lot of ways."
"At this point we're not sure, but I think there will be a lot of CGI." Both Kurtzman and Orci said that, for now, that won't play an effect on their script.
The fan expectations also play a part for the writers as they shape the story. "It is hovering for me," says Orci. "We're trying to come up with the story that you would come up with if there was no pressure, and then sort of go, 'Okay, we have to be vigilant of fans and what is good about the source material and what is truly necessary.'"
When asked whether the voice cast could include Hollywood A-listers, Kurtzman says he's not sure. "I don't know that I think it does [need to have them], but I also can see a version that does have big name stars [for] the voices."
Both writers were fans of the shows and the toys. "[We've got] All the comics and we've got an office full of toys," says Kurtzman.
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on: Tuesday, 12th July 2005 at 14:53:15 BST
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Hasbro have updated the Transformers.com ticker with the following announcement
TRANSFORMERS live action movie! Check back tomorrow for an exciting announcement.
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on: Tuesday, 12th July 2005 at 14:10:19 BST
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We've updated our
In The News page yet again, this time to further subdivide the page so now the Official and Convention News is separate from general toy industry news. We have also added feeds from the Yahoo! Finance service for Hasbro Inc as well as Yahoo!'s news reports on anything that mentions Transformers and Hasbro in the same article.
We shall be adding more sites and industry headlines in the future, so stay tuned for more updates.
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on: Tuesday, 12th July 2005 at 13:17:15 BST
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Guido Guidi has posted some new, unpublished artwork from the unreleased Dreamwave TF:G1 #12 on
TFAuctions.
Credit to
Transfandom
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on: Monday, 11th July 2005 at 17:36:34 BST
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A little late we know but back on the 30th June, Takara purchased an 88% share in Tatsunoko Productions in a deal estimated to be worth over 1 billion yen (US$8.9 million). Takara recently made trade news when it was announced that on March 1st 2006, they would merge with Tomy to create Japan's 4th largest "game and toy maker" behind only Sega Sammy Holdings, Namco Bandai Holdings (un-confirmed name) and Nintendo corp. Currently, Takara is ranked 5th in that market and is also the 2nd largest Toy manufacturer in Japan, behind only Bandai. Takara also owns Broccoli, which in turns owns North American anime distributor Synch-Point and Japanese anime retailer Gamers.
The
Japan Times quoted unnamed sources as stating that
Takara wants to create toys and software using Tatsunoko properties.
Following the annoucement, it was reported that Takara's stocks increased by almost 10% and they have stated that they
hopes to increase sales at Tatsunoko from 600 million yen to 5 billion yen in 3 years.
Credit to
Anime News Network for the story.
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on: Monday, 11th July 2005 at 15:53:34 BST
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