Hi everyone, as you may or may not not, my brother and I have been slowly revamping our Visionaries website in preparation for a big relaunch. The project has been heavily delayed due to work commitments but it is starting to come together now as we start to put together the articles and reviews to go with the images and information we've been amazing over the last 14 years.

Yesterday we decided to pushed live the images which accompany a review that we published on the 1st Feb 2015 which covers the Season 2 character Kabor. This is the first gallery to contain images of some of our resin 2-up hardcopies of the Season 2 characters weapons.

We'll be adding the other characters over time along with more in-depth articles covering the brand from its inception through to the modern era. We've already published our article on "Visionaries: Reborn" along with the toy ads but there is a lot more to come which will include plenty of things you have not seen before. But that is for another day.

When looking at the images in the gallery you will notice that Kabor was originally going to be called "Cliffdweller" and that rather than coming with an axe, as he is shown in the Toy Fair photographs, it was originally planned for him to come with a gun. The change over to the axe was late in production as now only was the gun sculpted, the 2-up is included in the gallery, but the Neal Adams artwork was converted into the final box art. We have included a copy of that artwork as well though we hope to re-scan it again at some point in the future.

We are still investigating when and why the change was introduced. The axe does suit the character better in our opinion, and the gun does look a little odd, but we hope to be able to confirm the reasons.

I thought I would share it here as I know some members also like the Visionaries brand so I thought you may be interested in seeing more about the "lost" series.

You can find the review and image gallery at Darkling Lords Kabor Toy Review

Having briefly been hinted at fans the original concept of Megabolt Megatron has now been publicly revealed for the first time over on the Robot Points blog.  Robot Points blog is run by, arguably and most likely, the worlds leading collector of Transformers hardcopies, prototypes and un-released items, and is an update on a website he use to run many years ago.  If you are a fan of unreleased and pre-production items, especially from the Generation One era then it is worth bookmarking the blog and having a look around the various articles which are already there as you will see some amazing things.

For those wondering a little about the Megabolt Megatron concept it is a hardcopy figure (resin and finished in grey) which is much closer to the original animation model than the final figure that was released.  Just click the lead and check it out.

Hopefully over the coming months and years more articles will be share on this blog by the own much like The Space-Bridge is now finally able to do on Facebook, as between them they have so many rare, "unseen" (by most fans), amazing pieces of Transformers history it is genuinely an honour to see what they share next.  Both have live extremely busy lives over the last couple of decades so don't expect daily or weekly updates, but when those updates do come, they will be amazing ... trust us.

I thought I would bring you a round-up of the Spring / Summer Special updates here at Transformers At The Moon.  In case you have not heard the bothers behind Transformers At The Moon are trying to make a concerted effort to get to updating the content side of the website on a regular basis.  Sadly over the last two years changes in our "real life" situations, especially within our professional lives, have meant that the website had to be put on the back burner. Well we are tired of this and have been collecting and producing lots of new content for you all to consume for the last year but only now are we at a point where we are ready to release it.

Some of the planned updates included more interviews with the cast and crew of Transformers Prime, however those plans were stopped by the heavy hand of Hasbro US late last year and whilst we were trying to come to an arrangement with them to allow us to proceed, sadly communication was broken by Hasbro and so they will never see the light of day.  Another interview we had arranged late last year was with former Transformers and G.I-Joe writer Ron Friedman. This was just before his auctions went on sale, but sadly due to his busy schedule, the interview kept being postponed and has since fallen off the radar.

But those are enough negatives and we launched the start of the Spring / Summer special with some image galleries of paint-samples of the European Transformers Flame and Lightspeed.  So below you will find a list of all of the updates so far.

• Transformers toy image gallery of paint-sample Brainmaster Flame
• Image gallery of the paint-master for Brainmaster Lightspeed.
• European Generation One Classics (Gold Box classics) Sandstorm Prototype (this is actually an FEP, or Final Engineering Pilot).
• Massive Transformers Instruction Sheet archive update featuring instructions of upcoming Transformers Dark of the Moon toys (many of which were not available on Hasbro's own website at the time)
• TV Magazine December 1987 issue - 32 pages scanned
• TV Magazine October 1988 issue - 28 pages scanned
• TV Magazine December 1988 issue - 31 pages scanned
• TV Magazine July 1989 issue - 28 pages scanned
• TV Magazine September 1989 issue - 26 pages scanned
• TV Magazine December 1989 issue - 25 pages scanned
• TV Magazine December 1996 issue - 12 pages
  
• TV Magazine February 1997 issue -  11 pages
  
• TV Magazine March 1997 issue - 13 pages
  
• TV Magazine April 1997 issue - 15 pages
  
• TV Magazine May 1997 issue - 29 pages
  
• TV Magazine June 1997 issue - 25 pages
  
• TV Magazine September 1997 issue - 26 pages
  
• TV Magazine October 1997 issue - 21 pages
  
• TV Magazne November 1997 issue - 18 pages
• TV Magazine February 1998 - 29 images
• TV Magazine March 1998 - 40 images
• TV Magazine April 1998 - 26 images
• TV Magazine May 1998 - 29 images
• TV Magazine June 1998 - 39 images

­This afternoon a dozen auctions ended on Yahoo Japan Auctions for various testshots and samples of Generation One and Diaclone figures.  The auctions ended in total for over $7,600­­ (£5,167)!­  The auctions were for:

• Blaster (testshot)
• Tracks (hardcopy / mock-up)
• Huffer (testshot)
• Ironhide (testshot)
• Sideswipe (testshot)
• Hoist (testshot)
• Astrotrain (testshot)
• Convoy (testshot)
• Skywarp (testshot)
• Thrust (testshot)

We waited a few days before putting these image galleries online to allow the auctions that were on Yahoo Japan to end to try to help protected the bidders against shill bidding.   Before anyone asks, no we did not win any of the auctions as we did not bid.  The figures are will soon be in the hands of collectors so keep an eye out for newer images in the coming months, and some items may be sold on via eBay in the future.

For anyone interested in early samples, especially mock-up pieces, the Tracks mock-ups (more likely a Diaclone mock-up) are amazing pieces.