With approximately 30 minutes remaining I thought I would bring you an update on the current prices that the Ro­n Friedman (one of the head writers for the first two seasons of Transformers Generation One and Transformers: The Movie) auctions over on Heritage Au­ctions.com are standing at.  Jim Sorenson is leading a consortium of bidders to try to buy the entire set and it looks like if they do they will be paying a fair amount of money.  Currently the total bids stand at $6170 with individual auctions ranging from $55 to $850.

You can view a high-resolution mirror of all of the images here but here is a break down of the prices

Auction #1- $100
­­Season 1 Original Scripts for "Heavy Metal War" and "Plague of Insecticons".
Season 2 Original Scripts for, "City of Steel", "Changing Gears", "Traitor", "Attack of the Autobots", "The Immoblizer", "The Autobot Run", and "Atlantis Arise".

Au­ction #2 - $160
Photocopied scripts for the original "More Than Meets the Eye" mini-series as well as revised drafts of the first 6 episodes immediately following.

Auction #3 - $55
A ring binder that includes photocopies of the scripts for episodes #10-16.

Auction #4 - $220
A binder with photographs, designs, and model sheets. This includes several lists of characters that changed name between the design and the final  drafts.

Auction #5 - $75
Scripts for "Day of the Machines," "Enter the Nightbird," "A Prime Problem," "The Core," "The Insecticon Syndrome," "Dinosaur Island, Part 1 and 2, "The Master Builders," "Auto Beserk," and "Megatron's Master Plan Part 1."

Auction #6 - $110
A binder including images of prototype Ultra Magnus as well as scripts for "Fire in the Sky," "S.O.S. -- Dinobots," "Fire in the Mountain," "War of the Dinobots," "The Ultimate Doom Parts 1-3," "Countdown to Extinction," "Heavy Metal War," and "Plague of Insecticons".

Auction #7 - $850
More character design sheets, notes and bios, as well as audition dialogue for the Season 2 characters.

Auction #8 - $475
A 53-page revised story treatment for the 1985 feature film

Auction #9 - $400
Two sets of photocopied character guide pages compiled for the first season of Transformers, including thirty-eight 8" x 14" color guides, and another set of eighty-nine 8.5" x 11" black and white pages.

Auction #10 - $500
A set of four large black and white photocopies of Transformers characters including Wreck-Gar

Auction #11 - $325
Transformers: The Movie poster that hung in Ron Friedman's office

Auction #12 - $80
Photocopied scripts for "Transport to Oblivion", "Roll With It", and "Divide and Conquer" with hand-written changes, from writers Dick Robbins and Bryce Malek, Douglas Booth, and Don Glut, with revisions from Ron Friedman.

Auction #13 - $80
Photocopied scripts "Blaster Blues", "A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court", "The God Gambit", "Make Tracks", and "Microbots."

Auction #14 - $70
A  binder that includes various Transformers Facts including Hasbro notes, toy photographs, a copy of Transformers#3 (guest starring Spider-Man), scripts for "Desertion of the Dino Bots, Parts 1 and 2," and "Megatron's Master Plan Part 2."

Auction #15 - $375
This is the final draft for Transformers: The Movie. It included a 179-page revised draft and 17 page character notes

Auction #16 - $200
Transformers: The Movie Revised Final Draft Script (Sunbow Productions, Inc., 1985).

Auction #17 - $180
Transformers: the Movie Script Group (Sunbow Productions, Inc., 1984-85). This was Ron Friedman's original unproduced first draft script dated November 12, 1984 (132 pages), plus two sets of revisions including the complete revised script dated February 13, 1983 (184 pages).

Auction #18 - $700
The G1 Series Bible.  This contains character design pages and information on all of the original character from the show.

Auction #19 - $180
Coloured character sheets for Arcee in robot and vehicle mode.

Auction #20 - $375
Coloured character sheets for Galvatron in robot and vehicle mode.

Auction #21 - $130
Hand coloured character sheets for Scourge in robot and vehicle mode.

Auction #22 - $220
Hand coloured character sheets for Cyclonus in both robot and vehicle mode.

Auction #23 - $80
Hand coloured character sheets for Blurr in robot and vehicle mode.

Auction #24 - $90
Hand coloured character sheets for Wheelie in robot and vehicle mode.

1. Did you know that Jetfire was originally going to be called Fireball before being changed to Skyfire and then eventually Jetfire?
2. Did you know that, when he was Fireball, Jetfire's function was Autobot Aerospace Commander which was latter changed to Autobot Air Guardian?
3. Did you know that Grimlock was originally going to be called Trapjam?  He was also known as Jawbreaker as well.
4. Did you know that the Sharkticons were originally known Sharkons before being changed to Sharticon. It was only on on reviewing the name that the k was added and they finally became the Sharkticons.
5. Did you know that Quintessa was originally known as the planet Sharkon?
6. Did you know that in one of the meetings regarding the cartoon series when the crew discussed the characters for the Transformers Megatron was described as "more like Destro - icy" and that he "doesn't make jokes".
7. Did you know that in the same meeting, they described Starscream as "more like Cobra Commander, psycho, more wild, violent.
8. Did you know that in the original plans when ever Unicron spoke in the whilst in Robot mode in Transformers: The Movie, lightning rods were suppose to slash from his eyes, while other colours flashed from various parts of his body.
9. Did you know that in the original scale of Unicron, Earth was going to be the size of one of the spheres that are on Unicron's rings.
10. Did you know that Unicron, originally referred to simply as "The Planet Entity", was designed with rings simply because Saturn has rings and is a similar word to Satur, which is synonymous with the Devil?

Million Publishing have updated their website with some details, as well as a sample image of the cover, of their forthcoming Transformers Generations 2010 book.  The book, which is due for release on the 19th November 2010, will include information on the third live action Transformers Movie, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, though that its still tentative so it may be removed before the book is published. It will also cover every item that was released within Japan in 2010 as well as some of the Transformers Revenge items to be released in 2011.  If that was not enough the book will contain a special anniversary look at Transformers Headmasters (Fight 2010, Transformers Super Robot) including interviews with Ishimaru Hiroya (Rodimus Convoy), Seiz? Kat? (Galvatron) and Tashima Shiyou (the Japanese director). 

Excited yet? No? Okay well the book does not end there.  It will also contain a special historic piece on Rodimus Convoy which will build up to a detailed look at the Masterpiece figure.  If you are a Transformers Animated fan, the book will contain pictures of every figure released in Japan in 2010 as well as toys that will be released in 2011, yes there are more Transformers Animated toys coming to Japan in 2011.

Finally the book will cover Transformers United! including publishing a new comic called "A New Battle" by Tsushima Naoto and a look at all the figures.  Here is a preview of the cover.

All this will be covered in 96 pages.  The books ISBN is 978-4-8130-2130-8

Thanks to Toy-World Hong Kong we have added a small image gallery of the Transformers pages from this months Figure King magazine. The images include Alternity Skywarp, Masterpiece Rodimus Prime, various new Japanese Transformers Animated releases and more EZ Collection figures.  The campaign figures from Famimart stores are once again shown but no further details on this toys are included so its still not entirely certain how you get these toys or how limited they will be.

Thanks to Snakas for the information

We have added some new galleries containing scans from some of the Japanese Hobby Magazines.  The update includes the October issue of TV Boy, the September issue of Hyper Hobby and Figure King (AKA Figure Oh) issue 151 (the September issue).

­The folks over at ModXToys.com have scanned in the August issue of Dengeki Hobby magazine which we have mirrored for you in this gallery.  The issue contains four pages of Transformers related materials which you can quickly access using the thumbnails below.

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Speaking of new releases if you would like to know which new release we photographed this evening with the aim to upload the toy gallery tomorrow, then check out our Facebook Group.

We have added four new Japaense hobby magazine galleries to the website for your viewing pleasure.  Each of the galleries contain about four pages of Transformers related items including more images of Sleep Mode Convoy, 2010 Unicron and the latest Transformers Revenge figures. The galleries are:

Figure King Issue 149

Dengeki Hobby June 2010

Dengeki Hobby July 2010

Hyper Hobby July 2010

The May 2010 issue of Hyper Hobby is now out in Japan and we have a new gallery thanks to scans by Pete Amuro.  The gallery contains three Transformers related images, which you can also see below, along with 47 other images from this months issue.