TFWorld2005 are running a story on the latest Knock-Off Generation One Transformers toy to be produced, an all clear Optimus Prime figure.

This toy comes complete with trailer and roller, along with featuring yellow eyes (which look a little odd) and clear plastic wheels. The figure is by the same company behind the clear, black and various other coloured G1 Mirage knock-offs.

This isn't the first time a Clear Generation One Optimus Prime toy has been made. The infamous Lunchtime Specials (Takara Staff items, Factory items, Testshots) including a clear Convoy toy (in some areas complete with trailer.

You can find lots of images of these clear Transformers on our Transformers Prototype page or by selecting Lunchtime Specials as a Subgroup on our Transformers Toy Gallery.

eBay seller eToysHunter has posted the first auction for the Japanese version of Transformers Movie Incinerator. The toy, as we previously reported, is recoloured and features the number 0025 on the tail. You can view the auction for the black version here and compare it to the normal one here.

Credit to Nevermore for the spot and Easynet for the original images

Kidi Toys Inc., AKA Newtoy Toys Factory, who are the makers of the recently released knock-off Generation One Metroplex have let us know that their latest two Transformers knock-offs are now available for ordering. These are two more of their fake Binaltech range are a Chinese Police Prowl and Blue Vivid Prowl. You can see the images and listings here and here.

Snakas has published another round-up of the information in this months hobby magazines that were released in Japan over the last few days. For those that can not understand Japanese, we have published a brief summary below

Figure King 119

There is an article discussing Trans-Scanning Optimus Prime, in particular it discusses how the gimmick works. A image of a prototype is included in the article.

There is a comparison between the original Sky Lynx figure and the upcoming re-issue. Snakas points out that some of the detail, especially on the interior and around the eyes show the the Encore edition have more detail.

Images were shown of Transformers Henkei (the Japanese Transformers Classics line) Optimus Prime, Megatron and Bumblebee. All of the figures were shown to be more cartoon accurate than the western release.

The four AllSpark figures will be released in Japan in February. Images are shown of the toys along with the AllSpark toy itself.

There is yet more confirmation that the Masterpiece Starscream USA edition figure, when release in Japan, will be switched back to the Japanese mold where the tail finds were a slightly different shape to their US release.

More information was included on the green Transformers Encore Emergency Ratchet as well as the Revoltech Starscream and Hot Rodimus.

Finally there is a note that more Star Wars Transformers figures will be released in Japan in 2008

Dengeki Hobby (Blitz Hobby) - Feb issue

Again more comparisons and images on the Encore Skylynx toy, though they are not as detailed as the Figure King article.

Dengeki also includes the images of Transformers Henkei Optimus Prime, Megatron and Starscream.

More images of the Transformers Movie scene figures are shown.

There is an article and more images on the e-Hobby black Ironhide as well as the Revoltech figures and Star Wars Transformers.

Japanese Transformers Movie Incinerator

Snakas notes that going by the images published within the two magazines, and comparing them to the recent eBay auctions for Transformers Movie Incinerator, it appears that the Japanese version of the toy will be a different colour. The Japanese figure is much closer to the the Ospreys that appeared within the live action Transformers Movie, not only in their colour scheme, but also in the number on the side of the helicopter.

Two images of the Japanese version of Transformers Classics Megatron were posted over at a popular Japanese social networking site showing the figure to have a much closed Generation One colour scheme, due to the gun laws in Japan. You can view the images below

The taobao seller of the Transformers Movie Big Daddy, Divebomb, Jolt and Grindcore
figures has updated their auctions to include pictures of the cardbackings. We have mirrored the images below.

Hasbro Inc have updated Transformers.com with a release regarding news reported by fan sites. The article, which you van read in full below, states that as the news has not come from official sources, that people should treat them as rumours. The date of this release comes on the heals of the Transformers Animated press packs being sent out as well as recent reports on the Transformers Classics 2.0 figures. Since the Animated news has come direct from the studio producing the series, the most likely news to which Hasbro are referring is the Transformers Classics line. More on this in the coming weeks

"The coming year is going to be very exciting for Hasbro’s boys properties. We realize that fans are anticipating 2008 as much as we are, and that speculation on our line is a large part of the excitement. Fans of Hasbro’s boys brands may be noticing some information circulating on the web. While you may be tempted to believe that this information is accurate, we want to remind our fans, that unless product information or images are posted on an official Hasbro brand site, brand Q&A, or released by Hasbro’s Corporate Communications team, the information is not authorized and therefore not official. We do not want to get consumer hopes up when rumors turn out to be unfounded.

We can’t wait to share great information, images and products with fans of all ages at the appropriate time as determined by Hasbro and, as appropriate, our licensors."

Cool Toy Review is featuring a list of Hasbro's 2008 Action Figure products (planned for US releases in 2008). Assortment and the Number of Items are revealed, although not exact details of who is in what.

"For their Transformers collection, Hasbro is putting a strong focus on the new Animated version of the characters, and we’ll see the following:

Transformers Animated Voyager Assortment
9 figures

Transformers Deluxe Animated Assortment
15 figures

Transformers Leader Assortment
3 figures

Transformers Animated Activators Assortment
8 spring-loaded quick transforming figures

Transformers Universe Deluxe Assortment
8 figures

Transformers Universe Ultra Assortment
4 figures

Transformers Universe Assortment
8 figures

Transformers Movie Screen Battles Assortment
4 figures with scaled human figures

Transformers Universe Robot Heroes Assortment
13 two packs

Transformers Allspark Battle Packs Assortment
8 two packs

Transformers Animated Battle Pack w/DVD

Roll Out & Command Optimus Prime
Optimus comes to life via automorph technology. This talking figure can automatically transform.

Marvel Legends Transformers
Well, there are 8 of these planned, and we guess some people might like them…

Note: The Transformers Universe lines is the official name for Transformers Classics 2.0

Thanks to Oddset for reporting here on our message board, that Transformers Movie Dropkick, Payload and Recon Barricade are now in stock at The Entertainer.

You can find your nearest Entertainer store using our Store Locator search at the top of every page.

According to Snakas, the Japanese version of Transformers Movie Night Watch Optimus Prime is the same as the UK version of the toy, and a slightly different colour to the US release.

You can view our gallery of the figure here.

TakaraTomy have updated their website with the following pages.

Transformers Encore 05 Ironhide page - This shows a clearer image of the new face sticker.

Transformers Encore 06 Ratchet Page - As above, but for Ratchet.

Transformers Music Label Black Soundwave - They have updated the music label section to include the "Soundblaster" version of Music Label Soundwave.

In other Japanese news, e-Hobby have finally replied to our emails and have told us that they have stopped dealing with International orders as of September 2007. This means for western fans, the price of the e-Hobby exclusive items will increase considerably