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Transfandom report that the Transformers Club Website has added some new hotel information to their site. The convention will be at the Dallas-Frisco Embassy Suites and they are offering convention goers a special rate. You can make your reservations online or by phone by calling 1-800-EMBASSY (712-7200). Be sure to ask for the Transformer convention room rate or enter the group convention code "HAS" online.
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on: Friday, 13th May 2005 at 18:11:30 BST
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TFW2005 report that the first MasterCollector TF Club toy is currently on ebay
here. The toy is best described as having a transparent Cobra Rattler colour scheme, perhaps a clue as to how the others will be re-colored.
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on: Friday, 13th May 2005 at 14:41:06 BST
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Thanks to Tformers member DragonX76 for translating the recent press release regarding the merging of this two Japanese Toy giants.
Thursday May 12, 9:34 AM
Major Japanese toymakers Takara and Tomy are planning to merge in the latest shake-up for an industry struggling to survive amid falling birthrates, reports said.
The two will integrate operations under a single holding company or through a stock swap as early as January 2006, the Nikkei Keizai Shimbun said, without citing sources.
They are expected to decide on the merger plan at board meetings on Thursday, the economic daily said. The Mainichi Shimbun said the merger could come as early as this year.
The companies have judged mutual use of soft contents such as toy characters to be indispensable in a shrinking market of fewer and fewer children, the Mainichi said.
A Takara spokeswoman said she was checking the reports. No immediate comment was available from Tomy. Takara's long-selling toys include Licca-chan dolls, a Japanese version of Barbie, while Tomy is strong in the market for boys' toys such as trains and cars. Tomy also scored a hit with Pokemon character toys around 2000.
Their merger would create Japan's fourth-largest toy-game group with combined annual sales of 180 billion yen (1.7 billion dollars).
The reports came just 10 days after Japan's top toymaker Bandai, known for its Gundam sci-fi robots, announced a plan to merge with PAC-MAN maker Namco in September.
The Bandai-Namco merger will create Japan's second-largest toy-game firm after Sega Sammy Holdings.
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on: Thursday, 12th May 2005 at 08:46:29 BST
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Our message board, Sake Comments, is now back online at
http://transformers.proboards1.com.
Please note that there appears to be connection problems on the Proboards server which our message board is now on.
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on: Wednesday, 11th May 2005 at 18:34:57 BST
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Thanks to Lars Eriksson (
NTFA.net) for letting the Trans-Europe Express group know about the latest European Alternator sighting ... Swindle. Here's what Mr Eriksson has to say....
We now have a sighting of Alternator Swindle as well, this time in
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on: Wednesday, 11th May 2005 at 18:34:04 BST
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Thanks to Chris McFeely for this news, which he posted on
the Transformers.net a couple of days ago.
Just a little update on the status of these projects - their release dates have been switched around. The movie will now be coming out in August, while Headmasters has been pushed back to September.
Additionally .... the subtitles for HM are being done by a professional company called SDI. They've worked on Star Trek and Stargate, so we can rest easy knowing they're accustomed to dealing with wacky series-specific terminology.
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on: Wednesday, 11th May 2005 at 08:24:22 BST
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The server that our message board is on is still being upgraded. We advise that you check back later in the day to see if that has returned to operation
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on: Wednesday, 11th May 2005 at 08:19:57 BST
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Seibertron have a list of new SKUs for Toys R Us in the United States. They are...
162725 Supreme $49.99
162733 Leader $39.99
162741 Ultra $29.99
162749 Voyager $19.99
162757 Deluxe $9.99
162776 Scout $6.99
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on: Tuesday, 10th May 2005 at 21:22:57 BST
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Cybercon Expo has secured its next guest for the show, and this time it's one of the best! Peter Cullen, quite possibly the most legendary name in G1 Transformers lore, better known to collectors and fans as "The Voice of the Original Optimus Prime" will be in attendance at Cybercon Expo 2005, July 29th and 30th this summer. Check out
http://www.cyberconexpo.com for more details!
Credit to
TFW2005
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on: Tuesday, 10th May 2005 at 18:58:38 BST
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Our message board is currently being upgraded, along with all the others on the first Proboards server, to their Version 4 code. As such the board is offline at the moment but if you visit it
here you can have a quick read about some of the new features that are being introduced.
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on: Tuesday, 10th May 2005 at 08:34:35 BST
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Our friends over at Transfandom have added a listing of the up-coming Transformers: Energon airing that will be shown in the US shortly. Click
here to view it.
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on: Tuesday, 10th May 2005 at 08:26:08 BST
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The Transformers Philippines have added a second gallery to their message board of the KO Yellow Lambo, which you can view
here. They use Proboards, so remember that at somepoint their message board may go down for 24 hours whilst it si upgraded.
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on: Tuesday, 10th May 2005 at 08:24:42 BST
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Thanks to Nevermore for sending this to the Trans-Europe Express group.
Windcharger has been spotted in G
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on: Monday, 9th May 2005 at 18:09:45 BST
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With Transformers: Cybertron edging closer, and more of the US names no doubt being decided, one name that, presently, will not be used is Quickstrike. As of May 7th, the Trademark registration that Hasbro had for this name has expired. Remember, you can view
this and 353 other Transformer Trademark applications, in our
TF Trademark area, available on both the Web and Wap.
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on: Monday, 9th May 2005 at 14:17:40 BST
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Thanks to Fireforce for posting this on our message board
here. It is a spoof transforming Citreon advert, only rather than the new C4, its for the old 2CV. Download it
here
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on: Monday, 9th May 2005 at 08:42:45 BST
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