TFNation have made their thirty second transmission announcing that not one but two Third Party Transformers companies will be attending their show in person.  Fansproject, the team behind the amazing Masterpiece Dinobot inspired Dibot line and Maketoys, the company that created the huge Pandinus figure.

3rd Party group Maketoys has updated their facebook with coloured images of a testshot of their upcoming Protectobot Blades figure Katana. The images show the weapons and poseability of the figure whom is the fourth member of the Gaurdia gestalt behind Axel (Groove), Rover (Streetwise) and Vulcan (Hotspot).

You can view the images after the jump

As you would have noticed, our regulary posting on the Moon hasn't been that regular in a long-time, and our focus on TheVisionaries.net has also slowed in recent months.  The basic reason is work and life　getting in the way.  We recently bought a second light tent and are hoping to get back to taking more (regular or semi-regular) pictures soon (once work  goes back to just 5 days a week).

Anyway the reason for that introduction is that we missed quiet a bit of 3rd Party news this week ... so here's a roundup.

3rd Party Masterpiece Hound

Like buses you wait for one, and two come along at once.  Both MakeToys and TFCToys have shown off grey prorotypes of their Not-Masterpiece Hound  figure, so you can substitute their Hound in place of the one Takara-Tomy haven't made ... yet

1. MakeToys
   Name; Gun Dog
   Height: 16.5 CM / 6 1/2 inches
   Notes: Has two robot modes (pretty much the shoulder postions) for "Classic G1 Look" and "Modern Classic Look"
   
   
2. TFC Toys
   Name: Detective
   Height: Unknown
   Notes: Less G1 toy accurate

3rd Party Masterpiece Chromdome

MakeToys' entrerance into the Masterpiece Class of Transformers figures doesn't stop with Gun Dog (Hound) as they have also announced a nive looking Masterpiece Chromedome.  The character, made popular by Nick Roche and James Roberts in the Transformers More Than Meets The Eye comic certainly looks nice.

1. Maketoys
2. Name: Cupola
   Height: 22 CM / 9 inches
   Notes: Comes with his Headmaster figure (Stylor in the West)

To see images make sure to click the stories link

Maketoys have now shown off offiical, coloured, images of their Utopia figure (theie take on Metroplex) with word that this is the first in a line of "City Transformers"

The toy is shapped more like the original Metroplex figure compared to the latest release from Hasbro / TakaraTomy, though in many ways this one looks more basic in base and battle station mode.

You can see a lot more images by visiting the Maketoys website, but we've mirrored each mode below for you to see.

New images of the upcoming third party release of "Missle Launcher Marine Type, the add-on set for the PowerCore Combiners by MakeToys, have now been released along with information that the set will be released in December priced at 70SGD.  You can view a full preview gallery after the jump with a teaser imagfe embedded below.

New images of the upcoming third party release of "Missle Launcher Jungle Type, the add-on set for the PowerCore Combiners by MakeToys, have now been released along with information that the set will be released in December priced at 70SGD.  You can view a full preview gallery after the jump with a teaser imagfe embedded below.

New images of the upcoming third party release of Chaos (not The Fallen) by MakeToys have been released along with information that the toy will be released in December 20122 priced at 126 SGD. You can view a full image gallery of the figure after the jump, but here is a taster of this awesome looking piece

A member of TFW2005.com has posted a scan of an image which came with the MakeToys Giant Giftset of Mobain, their PowerCore Combiner Addon in the form of The Fallen.

I'll have to admit, personally, The Fallen means nothing to me, as i've not read any of the IDW comics and I never really got into the Dreamwave War Within stories, but the toy looks pretty nice anyway.

Maketoys have annouced they will be producing a Computroin based combiner toy.  This annoucement comes shortly after the concept images from TF Club's Technobot and Terrorcon concepts.

Planet Iacon once again broke the 3rd party news on Facebook

Full Metal Hero have posted up colour images of Maketoy Giant, the latest 3rd party Devastator, this one based on the yellow Generation Two and European Exclusive figures.