Amazon have updated their product listings for Transformers Animated Paperback Volume 1 and Volume 2 to include the proper images of the covers. We're mirrored the images below.

Transformers Animated.com has been updated once again with more wallpapers, this time you will find two new Transformers Animated Starscream wallpapers in 800 by 600, 1024 by 768 and 1280 by 1024 resolution.

The first is of a full body image of Starscream, the second a huge closeup of the Decepticon's upper body and face.

TFWorld2005.com are the latest US Transformers website to receive an advance copy of the Transformers Animated series, in their case not only the first 3 episodes, known as the Transformers Animated Movie, but also the fourth episode.

If you want to read their review, which contains spoilers, then click here.

The episodes are Transform and Roll Out (1-3) and Home is where the Spark is (4).

A new Transformers Animated video clip was shown during the Cartoon Network podcast and as you could expect it has found its way onto youTube. You can view the video in our Video section, or by using the embedded player below.

Transformers Animated has been updated again, this time with yet another Transformers Animated themed wallpaper, this one is only available in 800x600 resolution.

This is the 15th wallpaper available exclusively at Transformers Animated.com

Transformers Animated.com gets yet another update this week with the full list of profiles and characters which have so far been confirmed for the new Transformers series.

You can now find images of all the characters so far shown, including Soundwave, Ironhide, Headmaster, Sentinel Prime, Ultra Magnus and the images of the Detroit Police Department offier and SWAT team member, which you may not have seen before.

Check out the Transformers Animated Character pages for all the goodies.

Hasbro Inc have updated Transformers.com with a new dedicated Transformers Animated section. The area contains buddy icons, news, profiles and a few new images of some of the characters. The Autobot profiles contain a little sound byte from each of the characters.

Don't forget you can stay up-to-date with the latest Transformers Animated news and information over at TransformersAnimated.com

Steve Fritz has written an article over at Newsarama.com regarding Transformers Animated. The article mainly discusses information that has already been released, but it also covers some of the characters that didn't make the final show, such as HotShot and a female Red Alert .

"Bumblebee was originally Hotshot in the development,” he admits, but we were told that Bumblebee was going to be a breakout character in the live action movie, so we happily swapped that one out. Ratchet was originally Red Alert, and believe it or not, was female! Bulkhead at one point was going to be the crusty veteran, but we shifted his role when we changed Red Alert to Ratchet.".

The article also confirmed that the leaders of the Autobots, on Cybertron, are Ultra Magnus (Jeff Bennett) and Sentinel Prime (Townsend Coleman).

Thanks to Da Razorclaw at TFWorld2005.com for pointing out that a game on the Cartoon Network Transformers Animated website includes some pictures of previously unannounced and some announced, but not previously seen, characters.

This is a pretty nice on-line battlecard-type game. I've found its pretty addictive.

The real news is that it reveals some new characters! In addition to giving us our first clear looks at Prometheus Black, Headmaster, and Nanosec, it also reveals that Ironhide and Scrapper are future characrers!

It seems there are also two more playable decks yet to be added; the computer can use them, though, it seems.

Scrapper and Ironhide can only be seen in the opponent's decks, thus far.

eBay seller Heerotoysmaker has listed another auction for a testshot of the upcoming Transformers Animated Starscream figure. The figure has markings written onto the wings, most likely to identify the factory from which it originated.

You can view the images below.

Transformers Animated.com has been updated with the information from the Cartoon Network fact sheets, covering the Transformers Animated profiles as well as Transformers Animated Voice Actors bios.

We've also highlighted the first official blooper, with Jeff Bennett being credited for the character Detective Fanzone. The correct name for the character is Captain Fanzone.

As mentioned in the previous news article we received the press pack from Turner Broadcasting today which included the profiles for the main human characters in Transformers Animated.

SARI SUMDAC
(Voiced by Tara Strong)

Although Sari is one hundred percent human, she’s an “honorary” AUTOBOT. As the adopted daughter of robotics magnate Isaac Sumdac, Sari lived a sheltered life until she met the AUTOBOTS. Obsessed by his work, Sumdac had little time for Sari growing up. As a result, she was raised largely by his domestic robot drones, whom little Sari came to love as deeply as any parent, nanny, teddy bear and/or imaginary friend.

Sari is also integral to the survival of the AUTOBOTS. When they first awakened on Earth, the ALLSPARK scanned for technology that would allow the AUTOBOTS to blend in with their environment. But it scanned something else first: an organic life form—specifically, a pre-pubescent girl who was hanging around her father’s robotics factory. Call it an accident or call it destiny, but the ALLSPARK projected part of itself onto Sari in the form of THE KEY. Wearing it on a chain around her neck, Sari can use the Key to absorb the ALLSPARK energy and store it like a battery, providing an emergency power supply and healing source for the AUTOBOTS in battle. It also provides Sari with an almost psychic connection to the AUTOBOTS. She can sense when they’re in danger and when DECEPTICONS are near.

Sari acts as the unofficial ambassador to the planet Earth for the AUTOBOTS, cluing them in on such alien concepts as junk food, school, sleep, popularity, shopping, belching contests, fashion and the dreaded tow away zones.

ISAAC SUMDAC
(Voiced by Tom Kenny)

As the founder of the modern robotics industry, Sumdac single-handedly transformed the city of Detroit from the crumbling symbol of a declining automobile industry to the gleaming, thriving beacon of the future it becomes in the 22^nd Century. And his public awe and deep gratitude toward the AUTOBOTS is largely responsible for their elevated superhero status on Earth.

One night in the late 21^st Century, the young Sumdac thought he saw a falling star cascade into his back field, but it was something much better. It was the smoldering, non-functioning remains of the head of an alien robot, Megatron. Turns out, after his battle with OPTIMUS PRIME and the AUTOBOTS, a badly damaged Megatron ejected from his ship and crashed to Earth, landing in Sumdac’s field. In the decades that passed while the AUTOBOTS slumbered in stasis at the bottom of Lake Erie, Sumdac was able to reverse the Cybertronian technology engineered by Megatron and usher in the Automatronic Revolution of the 22^nd Century.

But what Sumdac doesn’t know is that the remains of the cybernetic alien he recovered may be more functional than they appear. And Megatron has been manipulating Sumdac to bring Earth technology to a level that will allow him to reconstruct his battle damaged body and a whole new army of DECEPTICONS.

CAPTAIN FANZONE
(Voiced by Jeff Bennett)

Unicron.com had already hinted at seeing the first 3 episodes of Transformers Animated, known as the Transformers Animated Movie, and now both themselves and Benson Yee have updated their respected sites with reviews of the episodes.

Be warned, spoilers are included.
Unicron.com
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We've also now received a copy of the Transformers Animated press pack (via email, not in the post so we didn't get the DVD), but we do have access to the profiles and images. The profiles are already on Transformers Animated.com's profile page, and most of the information was already covered there, but be sure to check that site out for a full rundown.

We are also in the progress of redrawing all of the images in vector graphics, so you can expect some more wallpapers in the near future.

Thanks to The Allspark for the news.

Transformers Animated has been updated with three new wallpapers, this time focusing on the human characters in the series, Detective Fanzone, Issac Sumdac and his daughter Sari Sumdac.

You can download the wallpapers in three resolutions, 800x600, 1024x768 and 1280x1024 by scrolling to the bottom of that page.