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Category: Transformers Toy News
| Submitted by: quartz -
on: Tuesday, 29th April 2008 at 08:41:45 BST
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An
auction has appeared on ebay for what is believed will be a Wonderfest exclusive black Transformers Henkei Convoy you. The figure is similar to this years SDCC figure but has red windows.
Category: Transformers Toy News
| Submitted by: quartz -
on: Tuesday, 29th April 2008 at 08:27:34 BST
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Below you will find a copy of the press release from Hasbro regarding the Transformers Universe and Transformers 25th Anniversary Optimus Prime toy.
TRANSFORMERS UNIVERSE – New product revealed at Botcon
At BOTCON 2008, Hasbro has unveiled new items for the TRANSFORMERS Universe line
in Fall 2008. As seen below, TRANSFORMERS Universe continues to deliver the
most beloved characters to today’s TRANFORMERS’ kids and fans with updated and
realistic designs.
Additionally, the big announcement at BOTCON 2008 is
the upcoming 25th Anniversary which will start kickoff with the launch of the
OPTIMUS PRIME 25th ANNIVERSARY PACK. This great offering harkens back to 1984
with a re-release of the OPTIMUS PRIME figure with trailer, a re-release of the
original comic, the original 3 part animated series of More than Meets the Eye
and an Autobot Shield with great sounds and phrases. This 25th Anniversary pack
will truly let all TRANSFORMERS fans relive their wonderful childhood memories!
MSRP $69.99
UNIVERSE DELUXE
Fans of all ages
will continue to enjoy more of the realistic styled vehicles and key characters
from the TRANSFORMERS lore. All figures come with the authentic TRANSFORMERS
action that enables them to change from vehicle mode to robot mode! Wave 3 of
2008 will include: SIDESWIPE, SILVERSTREAK and IRONHIDE. MSRP $9.99
UNIVERSE ULTRA
SILVERBOLT is
packed with lights and sounds, as this Autobot takes off for retail! This Ultra
scale Aerialbot provides action packed play for TRANSFORMERS fans of all ages!
MSRP 24.99
UNIVERSE ROBOT HEROES
ROBOT
HEROES continue to pay tribute to the rich history of the TRANSFOMERS brand in
Fall ’08. Wave 3 of 2008 will highlight favorite characters, including: THRUST,
AUTOBOT BLASTER, KICKBACK, IRONHIDE, Beast Wars MEGATRON and Beast Wars
SILVERBOLT. MSRP $4.99
Category: Transformers Toy News
| Submitted by: Moonbug -
on: Sunday, 27th April 2008 at 10:12:49 BST
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HasbroToyShop has been updated with some new listings. The figures are:
Category: Transformers Toy News
| Submitted by: Moonbug -
on: Saturday, 26th April 2008 at 15:32:43 BST
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e-Hobby have placed a listing for their latest exclusive a recolour of the Encore Omega Supreme but into the Guardian Robot colour schemes.
You can view the listing and images on the e-Hobby website.
Category: Transformers Toy News
| Submitted by: quartz -
on: Thursday, 24th April 2008 at 13:42:00 BST
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Fan to Fan have a new scan of the upcoming Transformers Binaltech Arcee toy, from one of the Japanese magazines (they've not said the source) showing a photoshopped image of the toy with different colours then the original image.
The toy's colour scheme may change again, from these early concepts, so we'll let you know more new when we have it.
Category: Transformers Toy News
| Submitted by: Moonbug -
on: Thursday, 24th April 2008 at 07:11:39 BST
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You will now find a new gallery of Transformers Henkei Astrotrain, which was recently recently in Japan, and is a recoloured version of the Transformers Classics Astrotrain toy.
The figure is one of over 2,000 Transformers toys featured in our Transformers toy image gallery. The images come thanks to Talk Transformers.
Category: Transformers Toy News
| Submitted by: Moonbug -
on: Wednesday, 23rd April 2008 at 18:00:02 BST
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FatGuy has updated his blog with several pictures of the just released Transformers Movie TransScanning Bumblebee. The figure is the second in the TS line, after Optimus Prime, and can be displayed in base robot form, protoform form and final Earth form.
Stay with us here at Transformers At The Moon, as we will soon be publishing our own gallery of TransScanning Optimus Prime whom we picked up from Japan where we were there at the start of the month
Category: Transformers Toy News
| Submitted by: Moonbug -
on: Tuesday, 22nd April 2008 at 17:37:12 BST
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Thanks to board member PhantomFish for reporting that the US Target Exclusive blue deluxe figures of Jazz, Barricade, Braw and Bumblebee, have now been released in the UK are are exclusives to Sainsbury's at a price of 9.99./p>
Category: Transformers Toy News
| Submitted by: quartz -
on: Monday, 21st April 2008 at 17:11:30 BST
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Below you will find two new images of the fan made Transformers Classics Ultra Magnus upgrade armour from ACToys and friends.
edit: The link on the second image has now been fixed
Category: Transformers Toy News
| Submitted by: quartz -
on: Monday, 21st April 2008 at 15:52:28 BST
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Ultra Convoy and Optimus747 have
posted images of this years
SDCC exclusive figure Nemesis Prime. News of this figure first came back on the
14th Feb when Nevermore pointed us to the Toy Workers website. The figure is a black repaint of Transformers Classics Optimus Prime.
Category: Transformers Toy News
| Submitted by: Moonbug -
on: Sunday, 20th April 2008 at 20:20:27 BST
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Toy Hobby Market have announced that they will be producing an exclusive seeker as part of their 1st anniversary celebrations. More information will be announced in the issue of Toy Hobby Market released at the end of May.
See the original report
here at Autobase Atachi.
Category: Transformers Toy News
| Submitted by: quartz -
on: Friday, 18th April 2008 at 16:03:15 BST
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Category: Transformers Toy News
| Submitted by: quartz -
on: Friday, 18th April 2008 at 11:12:32 BST
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TakaraTomy have updated their Transformers websitewith pictures and information on the soon-to-be-released TS-02 TransScanning Bumblebee Transformers Movie figure.
The toy, so far a Japanese exclusive, will be released next week.
Category: Transformers Toy News
| Submitted by: quartz -
on: Thursday, 17th April 2008 at 16:00:18 BST
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An image has been posted over at ACToys.net of Botcon 2008 Megatron. The previously unseen figure is the Energon Megatron but with a new head. This comes the day that Brian Savage has threaterned Asian based Transformers fans / sellers with legal action over various eBay auctions.
Out of respect for Fun Publications, we will not be hosting the image on this server nor linking to the page from this news article, though we do feel that the story is worthy of reporting, hence why you are reading the story at this moment.
Category: Transformers Toy News
| Submitted by: quartz -
on: Wednesday, 16th April 2008 at 16:31:15 BST
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