Well the Ro­n Friedman auctions are over for Internet Bidding on Heritage Au­ctions.com have now ended and it I'm sure we'll find out shortly whether Jim Sorenson, The Allspark and TFWiki attempt to snap up everything has worked.  Half an hour ago the total stood at $6170 but now the cost weighs in at $8140, not too bad for Mr Friedman.  Remember this is not the final price so things could go even higher as people can still bid in person

As previously mentioned you can view a high-resolution mirror of all of the images here but here is a break down of the final prices

Auction #1- $130
­­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 - $220
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 - $95
A ring binder that includes photocopies of the scripts for episodes #10-16.

Auction #4 - $260
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 - $80
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 - $550
A 53-page revised story treatment for the 1985 feature film

Auction #9 - $505
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 - $375
Transformers: The Movie poster that hung in Ron Friedman's office

Auction #12 - $160
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 - $220
Photocopied scripts "Blaster Blues", "A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court", "The God Gambit", "Make Tracks", and "Microbots."

Auction #14 - $160
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 - $375
Transformers: The Movie Revised Final Draft Script (Sunbow Productions, Inc., 1985).

Auction #17 - $550
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 - $325
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 - $375
Hand coloured character sheets for Scourge in robot and vehicle mode.

Auction #22 - $400
Hand coloured character sheets for Cyclonus in both robot and vehicle mode.

Auction #23 - $140
Hand coloured character sheets for Blurr in robot and vehicle mode.

Auction #24 - $130
Hand coloured character sheets for Wheelie in robot and vehicle mode.

GenZhao has posted images of Transformers Reveal the Sheild Grapple on KO Toys.

The figure is not only a repaint of Inferno but also has a remolded  head, hands, forearms, side panels, feet and of cause a crane and hook.  The panels on the forarms are now solid and do not rotate.

The official Transformers Movie website has now published the international release dates for Transformers: Dark of the Moon.  For UK fans the film will be released on July 1st 2011.  The film airs first on the 29th June in Egypt, Belgium and  Switzerland (in French).

North America
United States : 01 July 2011
Canada : 01 July 2011

Latin America
Argentina : 30 June 2011
Brazil : 01 July 2011
Chile : 30 June 2011
Columbia : 01 July 2011
Mexico : 01 July 2011
Panama : 01 July 2011
Peru : 30 June 2011
Venezuela : 01 July 2011

Middle East / Africa
Egypt : 29 June 2011
Israel : 30 June 2011
Lebanon : 30 June 2011
South Africa : 01 July 2011
United Arab Emirates : 30 June 2011

Asia Pacific
Australia : 30 June 2011
China : 11 July 2011
Hong Kong : 30 June 2011
India : 01 July 2011
Indonesia : 01 July 2011
Japan : 29 July 2011
Korea : 30 June 2011
Singapore : 30 June 2011
Malaysia : 30 June 2011
New Zealand : 30 June 2011
Philippines : 01 July 2011
Taiwan : 30 June 2011
Thailand : 30 June 2011

Europe
Austria : 01 July 2011
Belgium : 29 June 2011
Croatia: 30 June 2011
Cyprus : 01 July 2011
Czech Republic / Slovakia : 30 June 2011
Denmark : 30 June 2011
Finland : 01 July 2011
France : 29 June 2011
Germany : 30 June 2011
Greece : 30 June 2011
Hungary : 30 June 2011
Iceland : 01 July 2011
Ireland : 01 July 2011
Italy : 01 July 2011
Netherlands : 30 June 2011
Norway : 01 July 2011
Poland : 01 July 2011
Portugal : 30 June 2011
Romania : 01 July 2011
Russia : 30 June 2011
Serbia / Montenegro ; 30 June 2011
Slovenia : 30 June 2011
Spain : 01 July 2011
Sweden : 01 July 2011
Switzerland-French : 29 June 2011
Switzerland-German : 30 June 2011
Switzerland-Italian : 01 July 2011
Turkey : 01 July 2011
Ukraine : 30 June 2011
United Kingdom : 01 July 2011

Cybertron.ca board member Dak posted the following over on their message board:

Thursday October 28th at 7pm (EST) on Global TV, Entertainment Tonight will be airing a feature for the upcoming Transformers: The Dark of the Moon! Be sure to set your PVR's!

There is no word on what shall be included on the featurette, most likely they will be talking to some of the cast and crew with a few behind the scenes clips thrown in for good measure.

Reports are coming in that the third Transformers movie, believed to be the grammatically strange Transformers: Dark of the Moon, has now finished.

There are conflicting reports if this finshing of filming is just within the US or also internationally.

If the film has finished, which is due for release in 2011, we should be able to expect something official coming out later this year as the online viral and teaser campaigns run.

Another Amazon update has revealed a very loose plot summary for the third live action Transformers film, Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

The Autobots Bumblebee, Ratchet, Ironhide and Sideswipe led by Optimus Prime, are back in action, taking on the evil Decepticons, who are determined to avenge their defeat in 2009’s Transformers Revenge of the Fallen. In this new movie, the Autobots and Decepticons become involved in a perilous space race between the U.S. and Russia, and once again human Sam Witwicky has to come to the aid of his robot friends. There's new characters too, including a new villain in the form of Shockwave, a longtime "Transformers" character who rules Cybertron while the Autobots and Decepticons battle it out on Earth.

A new YouTube video has been posted from the Detroit set of Transformers 3.  You can view the video below.

"Tell us about your role in the upcoming “Transformers 3??

Lester Speight : I am not sure if you know but “Transformers 3? has just eclipsed “Titanic” as the largest budgeted film ever. $400 million and still going north! We are totally taking over downtown Chicago. The city is buzzing and it is crazy around here. I play Hardcore Eddie. Tyrese’s character Robert Epps calls me in. I was in a war with his father. I always told his dad I would look out for him and watch his back. I am doing all the heavy shooting, rocket launchers and kicking ass. Hardcore Eddie is old school soldier who has seen it all and done it all. I am just kicking ass and blowing up shit. Michael (Bay) just created such a great character."

The ­FromHollywoodWithLove website reports that Alan Tudykhas ­ revealed a few details on the sort of a character he will be playing in Transformers 3.

"I’m a fellow agent of [Agent Simmon's], that is sort of his assistant and weapons expert, computer hacker, cyber sleuth.”

Credit to TW2005.com

An image of a poster for Transformers 3

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