Snakas has published details of the contents of this months Figure King hobby magazine. Below you will find our English summary of the details.

Trans-Scanning Optimus Prime is shown in full colour, with Bumblebee listed as appearing in next months issues. Snakas notes that the release date appears to have changes slightly.

The Generation One coloured Music Label Convoy is shown as is Transformers Henkei Astrotrain, also shown in full colour.

The face and packaging for Transformers Encore Meister (Jazz) is also shown in the magazine and there is a mention to the release of the Minibot and Omega Supreme Encore figures.

The Transformers DVD soundtrack is once again featured in the issue.

Minicon fans rejoice, their is a new Toys R Us campaign starting in Japan for the Micron Skyglide. The figure is the A-10 Minicon but painted in the colour scheme of Generation One Powerglide. The campaign runs on the 13th March across Japan.

A new image has appeared of the custom upgrade kit being made by the folks from TF-Labs for the Transformers Classics Ultra Magnus figure. The kit is a trailer for the toy that changes into the Generation One style robot armour.

Hasbro has updated the Universe section of Transformers.com with images of some fo the Transformers Universe figure in packaging.

TRANSFORMERS Movie Premium Series Rolls Out to Retail!

Transformers Movie Premium Series DELUXE CLASS (SRPs: $9.99)

Premium Series BARRICADE
Keeping his armor polished and his vehicle mode looking sharp, Premium Series BARRICADE is hoping that MEGATRON will return again soon to lead the DECEPTICONS to glory. In the meantime, BARRICADE has made some changes to his vehicle mode in order to blend in better and bide his time till MEGATRON’s hopeful return.


Premium Series AUTOBOT JAZZ
Since getting off-lined by DECEPTICON BRAWL, AUTOBOT JAZZ has worked with IRONHIDE to upgrade his endoskeleton reinforcements and has kept his vehicle mode absolutely pristine. Something about getting so badly damaged made him care even more than he used to about looking good.

Premium Series BUMBLEBEE
Ever since the final battle against the DECEPTICONS, BUMBLEBEE has been meticulous about his appearance. With Sam’s help he immediately buffed out every scratch in his finish for a premium sales-room shine. But don’t let his premium finish fool you because BUMBLEBEE is always ready for battle against any DECEPTICON enemy with his new battle mask head sculpt.

Transformers Movie Premium Series VOYAGER CLASS (SRPs: $19.99)

Premium Series IRONHIDE
With the war finally over, IRONHIDE is free to return to the simple, easy life he knew before. Captain Lennox has been kind enough to lend him some space in his barn to store the crates containing his weapons collection. In return for IRONHIDE watching over his family while he is away on duty, Lennox keeps the old AUTOBOT warrior in perfect condition.

Premium Series BLACKOUT
The only goals BLACKOUT ever had were to serve MEGATRON, fight for DECEPTICON dominance and be the most perfect soldier he could. He follows orders without question, even to the point of self-termination and maintains himself and his weapons in pristine condition.

Transformers Movie Premium Series VOYAGER CLASS (SRPs: $19.99)Transformers Movie Premium Series LEADER CLASS (SRPs: $39.99)

remium Series OPTIMUS PRIME
OPTIMUS PRIME now travels the streets of Earth in his super-detailed Semi vehicle mode searching for MEGATRON and his evil DECEPTICON forces. As OPTIMUS PRIME enters the battlefield he is prepared to engage in close combat with his new energy sword and Movie accurate head sculpt.

The Transformers Collectors Club website has been updated with the final images of the fourth member of their exclusive combiner team, Topspin.

The latest news from the US toyfair covers Transformers Universe Galvatron, originally confirmed for a release at BotCon last year. The information is that Galvatron turns into a tank, has the G1 cartoon colour scheme in robot mode (purple) yet a grey tank mode. The toy also includes his orange cannon.

Next up was the showing of Transformers Animated Jazz, with the news confirming that reported by Minion, exclusively at Transformers At The Moon, after the UK toyfair. Also noted is that the bonnet of the car forms Jazz's chest.

Update: From Seibertron.com - Hasbro is now taking the Star Wars Transformers and combining them with the Marvel Transformers and they will now collectively be known as Transformers Crossovers .... In a conversation with Aaron Archer, Ryan found out that Hasbro has been working with the Paramount/Dreamworks for the past 3 weeks. The current designs that they have come up with have been submitted to Tomy/Takara.

Update 2:

Tformers are confirming that Transformers Animated Soundwave's guitar transforms into Lazerbeak and that The company (Hasbro) is currently trying to figure out a way to get the Alternators line out there again, but haven't pinned down how or yet at this point.

The Allspark are reporting that a "Deluxe Decepticon named "Oil Slick" is present, a motorcycle with a skull motif." here

TFWorld2005 have images of Transformers Universe Galvatron, taken on a phone. Here and here. As expected their server cannot cope with the demand, so please be patients. We'll not be mirroring their images out of respect.

Update 3:

Leader-class Bulkhead comes with a Headmaster toy, who can be made to "enslave" any other Leader toy with a cry of "Ownage! Total ownage!" - Report by The Allspark (see link above) - GMT 22:14

Update 4

The Allspark are now reporting "Apparently Hasbro and Takaratomy have been considering several candidates for the next Masterpiece. Among the possibilities are Hot Rod, Grimlock, and Soundwave. They're also wondering about combiners for the upcoming 25th anniversary."

In related news The Transformers Collector's Club Members Only section updates with exclusive Toy Fair coverage, including the first pictures of the Animated Activators and Robots Heroes Arcee VS Rumble!

Japanese store, RedMercury.co.jp, has updated their listings page for the Encore minibot set with a picture confirming which toys will make up the set. The figures are Bumblebee (with show accurate face), Swerve, Pipes, Tailgate and Outback.

WizardUniverse.com has bought the first report from Toy Fair which included the announcement that the Transformers Universe Classics line will be padded out with some recolours. First up is Blaster, a repaint of Cybertron Soundwave. The next recolour is Heavy Duty, a recolour of Cybertron Quickmix. They also have large images of all of the Universe figures in high resolution.

UPDATE: Also shown is an all red Buzzsaw which comes with Blaster, although no name is given. The image can be seen here and is the 11th and 8th image from the right on the third row, or directly on FLICKER

Heavy Duty Minicon

Red Buzzsaw 1

Red Buzzsaw 2

Million Publishing, publisher of the Japanese Transformers Visual Works Book, has updated their website with a bio and photos for their exclusive Emergency Green exclusive redeco of Encore Ratchet.

We own a copy of the book, and plan to add a gallery to the site in the future.

Thanks to Break for sending across some more information form the UK Toy Fair, this time information from the Hasbro Buyers Catalogue. Here's a summary

1. Transformers Animated 'Bumpber-bots' is the name of the new Cyber-slammer type line.
2. Animated 'Activators' are scout-sized versions of characters which feature spring loaded transformations.
3. There will also be a Cyber-Stomper version of Animated Bumblebee
4. Universe Legends were listed
5. A supreme-scale 'Roll Out' Optimus Prime that has a moving mouth with sounds from the cartoon!"

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