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Part One Ltd's e-Hobby Shop website has been updated with more information and images of the Transparent Transformers Henkei Convoy toy.
This figure will be offered at the International Tokyo Toy Show from June 19th – 22nd for Y3500. A small quantity of the figures will be available through e-Hobby after the show on a lottery basis, and as usual is only open to Japanese residents.
Thanks to T4e for reporting that Toys R Us stores are now stocking Transformers Movie Stealth Bumblebee and Salvage. His sighting was in the Cardiff Toys R Us store.
eBay seller Pren01 has an auction for an unpainted Transformers Collectors Club Nightbeat figure (base colours of blue and yellow) for sale at the moment. It will be interesting to see if eBay grant Master Collectors their eBay mod powers in order to remove the item (which is doubtful) as they had with the BotCon sets.
You can see the auction here via a non click-through link.
TakaraTomy has updated their Transformers website with the following items.
Binaltech
No new content, other than an image of Bluestreak
Movie Figures
Battlemode Optimus Prime & Battlemode Bumblebee - released this month.
Henkei Exclusives
Skywarp - show accurate
Thundercracker - show accurate
Clear Convoy
The Clear Convoy is set to be a Convention Exclusive toy, available at the International Tokyo Toy
Show on June 21st & 22nd with a few toys kept back for Part One Ltd's e-Hobby Shop.
Thundercracker and Skywarp will be available through Toy Hobby Market & Ganbo-Store.com.
Both sites will begin accepting pre-orders May 22nd but neither site
has been updated yet.
e-Hobby Shop Exclusives
The site now contains an imahe of Transformers Encore Guardian Robot (Omega Supreme re-colour).
Note: The Thuncercracker toy looks quiet differnet to the BotCon figure, more cartoon accurate and less metalic paint.
Chris Ryall has updated his blog with the cover of the latest Transformers Revelations comic by E.J.Su.
The cover features Cyclonus, Hardhead, Doubledealer and Sideswipe.
Thanks to TFWorld2005 for reporting that at the recent Shizuoka Hobby Show in Japan, the four upcoming, announced Transformers Binaltech figures were on display by TakaraTomy. Shown to the public were BT-19 Bluesteak, BT-20 Agent Meister, BT-21 Arcee, and BT-22 Convoy in final colors. There was also a sign with a silhouette of a car, teasing the next Binaltech figure after these four.
As mentioned yesterday you will now find an eBay auction for both Transformers Encore - Visual Artbook Exclusive - Green Emergency Ratchet and Transformers Encore - e-Hobby Shop Exclusive - Black Protect Ironhide.
The auction number is 290228569718 and is open to world-wide bidders.
Along with an auction on ebay for the Transformers Collectors Club Seacons, Talk Transformers (the Hong Kong Transformers message board) has also been updated with more images of the toy.
You can also find a few images of the original unreleased Transformers Universe Seasons toys in our Kabaya Seacons Transformers Toy galleries, thanks to Minion.
TransFan2, who won the recent eBay auction for the loose G2 Motormaster, has posted an image gallery of the toy on photobucket.
The figure is one of 10 unreleased Generation Two combiner Transformers figures, and was recently named as a possible future Transformers Collectors Club figure.
Jiza toys have published some more images of their "in-progress" Perfect Transformation Iron-hide figure that will be on sale at this summers Wonderfestival. You can find these new images, along with others that have been published over the last two months (since our last report) which include images showing that the toy will actually be a Brainmaster Ironhide figure.
e-Hobby have updated their website with some more images of their upcoming exclusive Guardian robot figure. You can view the images below.