S250 has posted some Transformers Animated season 3 design sheets over on TFW2005.com.  The images include Cyclonus, Highbrow, Blackout and more.

Many thanks to Paul Hitchens for discovering various cases of Transformers Animated Shadow Blade Megatrons, Roadbuster Ultra Magnus', Jetfire / Jetstorm 2-packs and Transformers Universe Silverbolts in his local Toys R Us.

You can see his story and images at TFW2005.com

Thanks to Laserbeak.org for posting what is said to be three more character designs for some Transformers Animated series three guest charcters.  The new characters are Alpha Trion, Dai Atlas and an un-named Decepticon.

Dai Atlas is said to be Prowl's ninja master

According to Kapow toys the UK release of the normal Transformers Animated Ultra Maganus has now officially been cancelled with the Roadbuster Magnus taking his place. However things are not all bad for UK fans as Shockwave is now apparently confirmed and and will retail at £22.99 (report Kapow Toys).

Unfortunately due to NDAs surrounding the Hasbro display at the New York Toy Fair we are unable to UK whole Transformers release schedule for 2009 at this point, however we can say that it is in the final stages and that we hope to bring you more shortly after the US event, so for now we will bring you any news that retailers receive.

A massive thanks to hudemx from TF-Animated.de.vu for reporting on our message board that "The Dubstudio TV+Synchron GmbH has told TF-Animated.de.vu exclusively that the german dub of new Animated Episodes will begin in the first Quarter of 2009."

So not only is the German dub under way, but German becomes the first country in the world to get a release date for the third season.

Transformers At The Moon's Sitesponsor Robotkingdom have dropped us an email to let us know that they have posted updated pictures for the following Transformers Animated deluxe & voyager items on their website.

Animated Deluxe Wave 6 - Samurai Prowl - here
Animated Deluxe Wave 6 - Waspinator - here
Animated Voyager Atomic Lugnut - here
Animated Voyager Wreck-Gar - here

~mmatere of Deviant Art has posted three images on his Deviant Art account of the full box art used on the packaging for Transformers Animated Roadbuster Ultra Magnus, Shadow Blade Megatron and Wreck-Gar figures.  You can view the images by using the links below

Roadbuster Ultra Magnus
Shadow Blade Megatron
Wreck-Gar

Credit to Seibertron.com for the find.

A rumour which started out on TFWorld2005 regarding Transformers Animated stating that Season 3 was to be the last of the popular, yet controversial, Transformers cartoon line has made it's way onto Derrick Wyatt's blog.

Derrick's reply ... "Sorry, I can't comment on this."

These types of answers usually rule out the "it's false" answers, which then tends to point towards the rumour being more likely to be true.  One possible reason, if the show is cancelled, would be the cost.  Transformers Car Robots (Robots in Disguise), Micron Legend (Armada), Super Link (Energon) and Galaxy Force (Cybertron) were original made in Japan for cost cutting reasons (amongst others).

Three series of a Transformers series would make sense, as Hasbro like to keep the toys / stories fresh each year, which would lead into a new series of toys coming later this year after Transformers Revenge of the Fallen.

Thanks to board member Unitedbot for posting his sighting of the Transformers Animated Jetstorm/Jetfire (Safeguard) double pack in ASDA for £20.

Derrick Wyatt has updated his blog with a spoiler image from the upcoming Season 3 of Transformers Animated.  The character models were drawn by Irineo Maramba, Art Lee, Brianne Drew-Hard, James Lim, and Derrick himself .

Site sponsor, Robotkingdom is now stocking some of the Transformers Animated store exclusive 2-packs.  As such they have updated their website with the listings as well as some new images of the figures.  The 2-packs which are available are

Transformers Animated Voyager Shockwave Vs. Activator Bumblebee - available here.

Transformers Animated Voyager Sunstorm Vs. Activator Ratchet - available here

The owner of Kapow Toys Red Leader has posted some information over at TFW2005 regarding some UK Transformers Animated released that will be hitting the shelves in the next few months.  The figures are Roadbuster Ultra Magnus, Shadow Blade Megatron along side the Season 3 character Safeguard (Jetfire and Jetstorm).  Red Leader should have a firmer release date today and will be placing their pre-order shortly.  This confirmed what we reported on the weekend regarding Shadow Blade Megatron being in the new Argos catalogue

Sadly the UK Transformers brand manager from 2007-2008 is no longer employed by Hasbro so we are trying to get in touch with her replacement to try to find out more.