The 9th poll on TransformersAnimated.com has now finished and the votes have been counted.  The poll asked the question "Which Animated DVD will you buy?" and here are the results.

US release - 66%
UK release - 11%
Not buying - 10%
Other - 6%
Australian release - 6%
German release - 1%

No real suprises, though the poll did start before we broke the news that the UK release of Transformers Animated would not be in a complete box set.

The new poll is regarding the Transformers Animated comics from IDW and Titan Magazines and asked which of the comics are you buying, or plan to buy?

In a bug fix, the showtimes / TV schedule page has had its AJAX called fixed.

TFW2005.com member clonemanager posted a sighting on their message board of the "Super Value Pack" of Transformers Animated Leader class Bulkhead and Activator Bumblebee in a Californian Toys R Us store.  So keep an eye out for him if you are in the area and are after the figure

In a follow-up to the promotional Starscream desktop standee,TransformersAnimated.com has been updated with an exclusive Transformers Animated wallpaper supplied by Titan Magazines in preparation for their upcoming Transformers Animated comic.

The art is by John McCrae and colours by Kat Nicholson, both of whom were at Auto Assembly earlier this year.

Derrick Wyatt has updated his blog with some information on Transformers Aniamted season 3.  The information confirms the preview picture of Beachcomber as real, although he points out that the character may not make it into the series at all.

Derrick also states that Season 3 of Transformers Animated is still a while off.

Hasbro have updated the MonkeyBar website with a new Transformers Animated bonus clip entitled Bumblebee Part 1.  The clip features Bumblebee, Sari, Bulkhead and some mimes!

Credit to TFW2005.com

Derrick Wyatt, Art Director/Lead Character Designer for Transformers Animated, has posted some images on his blog showing some of the design concepts that he used for Transformers Animated Prowl prior to settling on the final design.  As well as the images Derrick reveals that it has already been decided that Prowl would be a motorbike before he came on-board with the series, that he had originally had him coloured more like the black and white G1 version, but since Ratchet was already going to be primarily white, and the ninja aspect of the new Prowl's character was going to be played up, they decided to go with the black, gold and tan theme.  Derrick also mentions that Eric Siebenaler from Hasbro and Alex Kubalski from Takara requested that they move Prowl's wheels from his shoulders to his legs as it helped blend his design with "a really amazing transformation idea" that Alex had been working on for a motorcycle Transformer.

If you look closely on the image you will see that it is dated 2003, giving you some indication of when the work on Transformers Animated first began.

BigBadToyStore has a listing for a Transformers Animated 2-pack consisting of Jetfire and Jetstorm, ata Battle-in-a-Box style price.

The release data, according to BBTS, is November (for the US).

To help celebrate the upcoming launch of the UK Transformers Animated comic, TransformersAnimated.com has teamed up with Titan Magazines to bring you the first in a series of Transformers Animated Desktop Standees.  The first 'bot to get the standee treatment is none other than that sneaky Decepticon Starscream.  You can download the PDF exclusively at TransformersAnimated.com here

Further standees will be being sent out by Titan Magazines in a few weeks time, but for now you can enjoy this TransformersAnimated.com exclusive promotional item.

Thanks go to Titan Magazines.

Transformers Animated Season 2 Box Set is rumoured to be due out in the US on 3rd January 2it's being reported by TVShowsOnDVD.

On top of the 13 episodes in Season 2, the box set will contain a Season 2 photo gallery and three more Transformers Animated shorts like the two offered in the Season 1 box set. No cover art is available at this time.

Transformers Animated.com has been updated with 4 new Transformers Animated toy galleries.

 The new galleries are of:-

1. Deluxe Bumblebee
2. Deluxe Cybertronian Mode Optimus Prime
3. Deluxe Prowl
4. Deluxe Ratchet

S250 has completed publishing the pieces of his puzzlemaster puzzle which reveals that Beachcomber will be returning to Transformers in Transformers Animated.  S250's website has been unavailable over the last 48 hours so the final puzzzel took longer to complete than we hoped.

Thanks to  Break for letting us know that a new Transformers Animated two pack has started appearing within Toys R Us UK stores. The set consists of deluxe Ratchet and deluxe Bumblebee with Ratchet being packaged in robot mode and Bumblebee in car mode. Ratchets 'tools' are displayed above Bumblebee along with his jet boosters, with Break noting that he believes that the intention is for it to look like Ratchet is repairing Bumblebee in his workshop. Both toys are, from what he can tell, identical to their individual versions. The set retails at £29.99.

Also new stock are the Transformers Universe Ultras (Powerglide & Onslaught) and Universe Deluxe wave 2 (Galvatron and Acid Storm).

S250 has posted part seven of his Puzzlemaster teaser which contains the outline of a Transformers Animated Season 3 character.  The new pieces can be found below along with the total image thus far.

S250 has updated his blog with the sixth part of his Puzzlemaster.  Like always you can find the pieces below along with an image containing the entire puzzle thus far.