Deadline reports that the writers for the upcoming spin-off Transformers live action movies have now been hired and include Robert Kirkman (Walking Dead), Art Marcum (Iron Man), Art Marcum(Iron Man), Matt Holloway (Iron Man), Zak Penn (Pacific Rim 2) and Jeff Pinkner (Amazing Spider-Man 2).

TFW2005.com board member Icepick is at it again as now he brings word of a $29.99 listing for Transformers Megatronus.  Whether this figure is part of the Robots In Disguise line or the Combiner Wars / Generations line is not known, but you can view the listing below.

Let the rumour mill start running riot again as when asked if Tigertrack was the e-Hobby announcement he teased Hydra has replied "Paul nope! Tigertrack is a great character choice though!".  So if Tigertrack is not the announcement what will it be?

• Masterpiece Deepcover and Clampdown?
• More Shattered Glass recoloured Generation One figures?
• Masterpiece Bluestreak?

TakaraTomy and Uniqlo have released an image of their UT Megatron T-shirt which will be available at their Harajuku store in Tokyo Japan.  The official TakaraTomy page also includes an image of an uncoloured, or possibly recoloured, Optimus Prime that you can see the image below.

FullMetalHero.com are reporting an interesting rumour that a UK exclusive Transformers Dark of the Moon Leadfoot figure may be coming later in the year.  According to Red Leader, "a well known UK high street wholesaler on Thursday indicate that the UK may be getting a Leadfoot figure in a limited capacity, no figure class details were revealed but the order quantity must be 5000 for the exclusivity and it may possibly be stocked by a high street chain well known for serving the UK with sci fi products, it is still an open offer so anyone can still bite. Go on TRU, you know you want to!"

This would certainly be an interesting and we will let you know if we hear any more

S250 has "tweeted" another rumour, this time that a new Unicron repaint will be released by Takara Tomy in September  2010.  S250 goes on to speculate that the figure may be released as part of the "Welcome to Transformers 2010" theme of TakaraTomy releases.

Again, this should be considered a rumour, but S250 does have a good record for these things hence this rumour report.

S250 have posted a Twitter update stating that he had "just heard some rumor about Giant character of coming transformers series".  This was then followed by the tweat "something like giant arachnida and dinosaur......".  Now some of you may remember that towards the end of last year we broke news the Hasbro Inc had submitted a Trademark application to the USPTO for the mark Airachinid could this be the name of this giant character that S250 has heard about?

Its possible, though its also possible that it is in no way related to what he has heard or that what he has heard is simple wrong. Time will tell but you can be sure we will update you if this story develops into anything more concrete, so for now keep it as a rumour.­

Update: We asked S250 if they could have meant Airachinid to which he replied "What I heard is belong to Arthropoda-Arachricla-Scorpionida", so basically the rumour specifically relates to a Chelicerata which is the group of Athropods that includes scorpions and spiders.  This makes it less likely to be Airachinid, who's name suggests flight as well as being an arachnid, though not impossible.

Update 2:S250 has posted in a thread over on TFW2005.com that he's now been told that it is not a spider but a scorpiones, the class of arachnida to which scorpions belong.  So its more likely that it will not be related to Airachinid, but remember that this news article is only a rumour and, as such, should be treated as speculation only.

Craig's List have posted another listing for a casting call in in Chicago by a company named Joan Philo Casting who are looking for "Ukranian or Ukranian-looking people", who know how to handle firearms for a shoot in April.

The listing should be considered a rumour as there have been scams in the past using this type of advertising to request fees to apply. Either way you can see the post here