News is coming in that the Transformers 2010 Unicron toy has now been released in Japan.
The figure, limtied to 2010 copies, is a recoloured version of the Transformers Armada anda Transformers Energon Unicron toy featuring the Generation One Unicron colour scheme and sporting a recolour Mini-Con.

The figure sold out on most online retailers with pre-orders, but fear not, we have a shipment of 10 arriving from Japan.

You can pre order these for £120.00 from us, which includes registered postage within the UK.  Whats' more is if we can import them for for less money then we have estimated then we'll refund you back the difference!!  Bargin.

Email news@transformertoys.co.uk  now to make sure you don't miss out

I thought I'd bring everyone a qu­ick update on two recent Transformers sightings.

First up thanks to Mr Neurie ­for letting us know that the Power Core Combiner 2-Pack Wave 2 figures are now popping up in Tesco's priced at £9.99.­ You can view an image of the toys on the shelves below.

The 2nd update is from UnitedBot and was posted on the sightings thread of our message board here,which I must confess to often missing (sorry guys), and was of the NEXT 3-pack called "The Ravage Infiltration".  The set is contains Flak, Rollbar and the Legend Ravage toys and is priced at £26.99.

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We’ve confirmed that the item in question is exclusive to the Asia market – not the U.S. Sorry for any confusion.

This set was rumored to be a Target Exclusive, but it appears there are no plans to release it within the USA at this time.

Credit to The AllSpark for the news

Kapow-Toys have announced that the Wave 2 Hunt For The Decepticons figures are now hitting UK retail.  The wave includes

1) Elita 1
2) Hailstorm
3) Sidearm Sideswipe
4) Tuner Skids

Kapow also pointed out that they received a solid case of just Sidearm Sideswipe so it looks like some it might prove difficult to track down some of these figures

Thanks to Mr Neurie for letting us know the Transformers Hunt for the Decepticons Ironhide, Wingblade, Battle Axe Bumblebee are out in Entertainer.

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The list of crystal coloured Optimus Prime toys continues to grow with the announcement of the Family Mart contest campaign that will be taking place within Japan.  You enter the lottery by spending 5000yen with the prizes being:

Crystal Clear Transformers Revenge Leader Class Optimus Prime
Transformers Animated "No Battle Damage" Deluxe Class Optimus Prime
Transformers Animated Activator Skywarp
Transformers Animated Clear EZ Collection Figures
Transformers Animated Super-Deformed items.­
Transformers Animated Keychains
Transformers Animated Mugs

You can view images of the prizes below courtesy of Alfes 2010

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Following up from the earlier news report about the coloured Masterpiece Rodimus toy being revealed in Japan this weekend as the C3X event, several other Japanese blogs have new, clearer and larger images from the event including the presentation.  You can find them using the links below.

Hitekumatoytoy Blog

Tama1980jp2006 Blog Entry1

Tama1980jp2006 Blog Entry 2

­­GENgoraw has posted several images on the file and video sharing website YFrog from the C3 Hobby Show (Character Hobby) that is cu­rrently taking place within Japan.  The images include a first look at the painted Masterpiece Rodimus Prime figure and include proof that the toy does indeed Transform into Hot Rod as well.  Previously it had been speculated and the recent image showing that the toy has two faces added to that speculation, but the final proof is in these images which show the toy in Hot Rods vehicle mode.

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­Credit to TFW2005.com for the news

Thanks to Phill for posting the following toy sightings on our message board.

"Edinburgh Forbidden Planet had the Deluxe and Leader classes of the Hunt for the Decepticons in. Leaders were £44.99 and Deluxes were £12.99. Starscream looks a lot better than the Voyager one.

On another note I spoke to someone in Tesco, and they said that if there's no Generations in the catalogue, then they're unlikely to get them in the store. Also was told that they're likely to only have 3 HftD Voyagers in between now and Christmas as the catalogue only says 3 to collect. So that's Seaspray, Payload and the redeco Ratchet."

We are now taking orders for the Toy Hobby Market exclusive 2010 Unicron.  The toy is currently priced at £120 including recorded delivery but if they cost us less to import we will refund the difference.

For more details please read this thread on our message board.

­A japanese blog has been updated with a scan from Hobby Magazine with an image of the upcoming Transformers Masterpiece Rodimus Convoy

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Mike from KO Toys has updated his website with images of the upcoming Transformers Generations Blurr figure, along with comparisons to Transformers Generations Drift.

Following on from our Generation One Japanese Exclusive Transformers Toy gallery at Auto Assembly 2010, we thought we'd point you in the direction of eBay to help pick up one of the more popular items we were asked about, Black Zarak.

Loose Black Zarak
­Boxed Uncomplete Black Zarak
MIB Black Zarak