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According to a close Japanese contact who recently visited the "Tokyo International Gift Show", (a trade-only show for shops, stores and retailers in Japan and abroad) at Tokyo's "Big Sight" in Japan; Takara were on-hand to offer some tit-bits of info to those interested.
1. The Movie will be out in AUGUST, due to the "General Japanese public having little or no knowledge or exposure to Transformers or specifically the MOVIE brand of Transformers robots, unlike the USA/Europe general public, which has already seen pictures of Transformers robots in magazines, TV show previews, etc".
2. No robot pictures were shown at the event, only pictures of the human characters, due to the same reasons mentioned above. It would seem that the Japanese side of things wants to keep the movie bots a secret for as long as possible with the general Japanese public in order to create more of a shock-value with them perhaps.
3. There will be a premier of sorts (known in Japan under the Japanese-English term "roadshow") on 4th of August, 2007.
4. The only robots at the small Takara booth were old G1 bots up to present day Binaltech bots.
5. For more info, please check out the pics (at TFormers) to glean what you can from the Japanese language printed on the flyer.