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James Eatock (Cereal Geek) has revealed more of his finds of never-seen-before Generation One preproduction material via Instagram.
Following on from the blue Bluestreak cell and animation colour sheet James revealed a coloured animation cell of Ravage with his original blue and red colour scheme!
This was followed up by a look at an early concept of Mirage who looks instantly recognisable and yet also instantly different at the same time.
Finally, James revealed another art piece last night which he refers to as an early promotional sketch that would later evolve into the cover for the Panini sticker album!
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Takara-Tomy have sent a marketing email to point out their lottery sales of a thres set of Transformers Generations toys, Miraga (Riji), Hound and Ironhide TRANSFORMERS SPECIALIST AUTOBOTS listing
The three pack is excluisive to Japan and the details are below.
200 lottery sales limit of Tomy mall limited. ¥ 11,800.
From February 25, lottery, accepting up to 13:00 on March 25.
The winner, there is a contact until March 28, release of the product talk of June 25.
At the bottom of the link, there is the application form of lottery sales.
The toys are very close to the Asia exclusive versions, with subtle colouring differences. There is currently no mention of a Decepticon set, though that is liktley to change.
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on: Tuesday, 25th February 2014 at 09:50:57 GMT
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Maz, owner of TF-1, recently re-instated the website and to celebrate he has posted a new article on the unreleased Generation 2 Neo Mirage figure who's box art was recently published in the
Transformers Vault book. You can view the article which contains the mock-up of the toy
here. I encourage you to have a look through the other galleries on Maz's site that contain several over un-produced G2 mockups as well as G1 variants.
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on: Monday, 13th June 2011 at 09:08:35 BST
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In a strange turn of events, which will no doubt turn out not to be true, Michael Bay's message board administrator Nelson posted the following comment on on ShootForTheEdit.com when asked about who the red robot in Transformers: Dark of the Moon was following on from a post by him that it was not Mirage.
I have embolden Nelson's posts below to help distinguish them from the questions that prompted the answers.
"All I will say is that he speaks with an Italian accent and is named after a famous Italian."
This was followed by the posts
"That doesn't mean s**t. In the comic and novels the twins are still in it." in response to a post by Jason Gould where Jason posted "Come on guys it's Mirage, his name is already in the toys, books, and Novelization.". Nelson then went on to quote Plague1980 wh posted "Are
we talking about two different red robots here? In the children's books
besides Sentinel, the only other red Autobot is the Ferrari which we
all know is Mirage. Now if you are talking about another bot that we
dont know about and trying to hint at it, the first famous Italian name
that comes to mind is "COSIMO" as in Cosmos lol" following up with the response "Don't act dumb. You know I'm talking about the red Ferrari."
This mean that Paramount must have had to hired a new voice actor to record all of Mirage's lines and also have re-recorded any dialogue that names the character, though going by the first two movies this is also feasible. It must have happened fairly recently as not only does the novelisation of the film refers to the character as Mirage but so does the toys and the prequel video game by Activision in which he speaks with an Arabian-based accent. All of the other characters within the video game are voiced by the same voice actors as the Dark of the Moon movie.
We will keep you up-to-date on this story as it develops
Update:
When we posed the following over on ShootForTheEdit "This is very interesting . I know you won't want to give out the new
name for the character but I was wondering when this change took place.", Nelson simply replied with "In the movie script, he was never called Mirage to begin with.".
I have since replied to clarify my question and I will let you all know if Nelson replies to that.
Update 2:
Nevermore complied a great lists of quotes that Nelson posted on TFW2005.com over on the ShootForTheEdit thread linked to that the start of this article that go some way to explain what went down with the character.
"Think about it.Mattel owns the toy merchandising rights to Ferrari. Why would Ferrari allow one of their flagship car to be named after a
Hasbro property name (Mirage) in one of the biggest movies this
year––thus undermining Mattel and possibly creating a huge clusterhug? And before you say "Well the toy is not named Mirage," look again, that's no Ferrari.
BTW, I've been known in extremely rare cases to be wrong."
"In all the treatments and scripts all the way up to the post
production of the DOTM movie, the Ferrari was never referred to as
Mirage. He was referred to by other names such as Rush & Enzo, but
never as Mirage.Capisce?"
"
The point is the Ferrari in the film can't be named after any Hasbro TF name. Period.
1.- Because the movie is not a Hasbro property per se.
2.- The terms of use stated that Ferrari was going to have approval of name, voice, etc."
So, as Nevermore himself put it over on ShootForTheEdit, Dark of the Moon is "a movie based on Hasbro's Transformers property includes a
character as a Transformer who must not be named after one of Hasbro's
Transformers characters. I guess that shows how little say Hasbro has in
these movies."
Sources of the quotes:
http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers...tml#post6103423
http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers...tml#post6103518
http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers...tml#post6103534
http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers...tml#post6103650
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on: Sunday, 29th May 2011 at 14:45:57 BST
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on: Saturday, 9th April 2011 at 10:54:39 BST
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As a follow-up to the news story we reported on the 8th November regarding the knock-off Henkei Seekers, and KO Henkei and Botcon exclusive clear Mirage toys, KOToys.com have now posted some images showing the fake instructions and bio cards that will accompany the fake Botcon 2007 Mirage figure. You can view the images below.
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on: Sunday, 14th November 2010 at 10:20:55 GMT
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The MillionHero website has been updated with details regarding the shipping of their Generations Book 2009 Vol1 exclusive figure Electro-disrupter Mirage. The toy will start to ship from the 26th August and should have reached Japanese customers by the 10th September.
Thanks to Snakas for the news.
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on: Thursday, 20th August 2009 at 13:55:00 BST
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Following up our exclusive gallery of the unreleased hand-painted sample of the BotCon Wreckers Alpha Trion toy, you will now find part 2 of our "Build-up to BotCon" feature. This time we focus on DevCon, a character featured in the BotCon / OTFCC Wreckers, who didn't see a toy released for the convention. 3H did have a hand painted sample made up, although they say that the figure was never intended for a Convention release .. which begs the question "why have the sample made?"
You can see this one of a kind hand painted sample, featuring it's nice metallic red paint, exclusively at Transformers At The Moon. The toy is featured with a grey/green testshot of Beast Machines Mirage - who was the original owner of the mold.
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on: Monday, 12th January 2009 at 08:34:31 GMT
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on: Friday, 18th January 2008 at 10:52:15 GMT
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With only a week to go before the 8th anniversary of Transformers At The Moon, we're getting even closer to our 1,900th Transformers toy gallery in our
Transformers Toy Gallery area.
There are 467 new images for you to look at in 11 new Transformers toy galleries, along with 7 updated galleries, as we finish of our Transformers Alternators and Binaltech collection, as well as focusing on some Japanese Transformers.
The new galleries are: -
The updated galleries are some of our favorite Japanese re-molds / re-coloured toys, the Dinoforce.
This takes us to 1,896 Transformers toy galleries, featuring 30,591 photographs. Don't forget there are lots of our Transformers toy and merchandise images in our
Transformers Miscellaneous Galleries area as well.
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on: Sunday, 21st October 2007 at 22:15:20 BST
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We have updated our AcToys August mirror with comparison pictures of the e-Hobby Shop exclusive Clear Rijie (Mirage) toy with all the other Alternator, Binaltech and Kiss-Play Transformers toys which use the same mold.
You can see the images in our Chinese Transformers Site Mirror section for
AcToys.
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on: Thursday, 30th August 2007 at 17:10:00 BST
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Thanks to I-Primus for letting the
Transformers community know that store chain Wilkinsons are now stocking both Transformers Classics and Transformers Titaniums. Mirage, War Within Megatron and Ultra Magnus have all been spotted.
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on: Sunday, 12th August 2007 at 19:46:31 BST
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on: Sunday, 22nd July 2007 at 22:37:06 BST
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on: Sunday, 15th July 2007 at 10:29:27 BST
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Thanks to Gregg Nell for letting the
Trans-Europe Express Group know that that the following
Transformers Classics toys have been released in South Africa.
Ramjet, Mirage, Cliffjumper, Grimlock and Astrotrain as well the Optimus Prime / Megatron battle in a box set. Deluxes are priced at R159.95 with the double pack priced at R339.95
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on: Sunday, 25th February 2007 at 10:24:25 GMT
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