Griffin, the admin of OzFormers has posted some infromation from the Australian Toy Fair which includes word that MP Tracks will not be MP-25 and that 6 more Masterpiece figures will be released in Japan this year, after Star Saber with those toys being:

1. Gold Bumblebee (Goldbug) - July
2. Convoy re-issue - Assumed August
3. Tracks - Assumed August
4. Secret - MP25 expected to be announced shortly - September
5. New Sports Car - Oct
6. New Sports Car - Nov

Below you will find a quote of the full new report which contains further information on the Australian releases. 

Photos later tonight, and the full report.... but some teaser info to get you interested and to send the global fansites into meltdown.

Generations Devastator on display with my Gen1 Devastator - BigW already signed up for June/July. 

More JP Masterpiece coming this year - Gold bumblebee July, Convoy reissue, Tracks (not MP25), MP25 in Sept (I can't reveal name before TakaraTomy), and two new "sports cars" for OCT & NOV.

Platinum edition - Myer will have Seeker pack and YOTG pair... while ToysRUs will have Insecticon pack, Perceptor/Blaster, Trypticon, aaaaand.... Dinobots. YES, Gen1 Dinobots multipack which I hope is all five.

JP Stinger still for this month, only at TRU though.

GEN Slingshot & Wildrider don't exist (yet) for Hasbro Generations, but might next year as Combiners are going to be at least two years. 

Leader Starscream for wave 4.

Hasbro MP Starscream is the second (MP11) version because fans wanted it.

Hasbro MP Bluestreak will be in July.

Toyworld's cheaper prices were indeed just introductory prices from Hasbro. 

Loyal Subjects w3 should be out in the next month.

That's most of it. More later, probably after midnight though.

Go nuts... 

Go nuts indeed!

The Japanese Hobby Magazines are carrying the first images of the grey prototype of future Masterpiece Transformers figure Tracks. The toy will be released under the MP-25 number and is expected to come with a human figure.  Eventually we expect the toy to be recoloured into Roadrage as well as a black Tracks variant.

Botcon have revealed their 2nd 2012 exclusive figure as the evil Tracks.  We predicted the figure uses the Transformers Universe Tracks mold but is recoloured red like Road Rage, the E-Hobby exclusive figure. Tracks is from the Shattered Glass universe which is why he is an evil Autobot

Do not be surprised if you find a black version is also released as an additional toy at some stage. You can view the images below.

1. Shattered Glass Ultra Magnus (Classic Laser Prime mold)
2. Shattered Glass Soundwave (what appears to be Classic Ironhide mold)
3. Shattered Treadshot (hopefully based on the Action Master, if so a Megatron repaint)
4. Shattered Glass Tracks (Red version of Classics Tracks most likely)
5. Classics "Overlord" Gigatron (if this is meant to be Overlord, then probably a Straxus repaint)
6. Clasics Metal Hawk (probably a Thunderwing repaint)

Ours thanks go out to gojira72 for letting us know that he just spotted all four Wave 1 Reveal The Shield deluxe figures on sale in an ASDA store in Harrogate, North Yorkshire priced at £10.97 each.  As gojira72 himself asks "can anyone find the voyagers?"

TFW2005.com are reporting that the Transformers Reveal the Shield Jazz and Tracks have now been released in Ireland and are available at Smyths stores.

Smyths also have a UK presence so it is possible that these toys might start finding their way across the Irish channel and into UK retail outlets in the coming weeks rather than next Spring as was Hasbro's original plan.

Scourge
G2 Optimus Prime
Grapple
Rumble/Frenzy
Wheeljack
Kup
Perceptor
Tracks
Drift

The Transformers Collectors Club Store has been updated with some entries for the Transformers Reveal The Shield line which include the first look at the packaging for this sub-line.­ The figures shown are Special Ops Jazz, Turbo Tracks, Mindset and Fallback.­  You can view the images below.

­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.

­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.

Ebay seller Heerotoysmaker has placed two new auctions for some of his own Worlds Smallest Transformers. In the past he has sold a variety of clear, chromed, and custom coloured World's Smallest Transformers as well as various full size testshots and samples. The auctions this time are for Tracks and the red repaint Roadrage. You can view some, but not all, of the images below.

A member of ACToys.net (since banned) was posting about Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen designs he claimed to have, and enquiring about using that Chinese site to produce fake items before the official Transformers 2 figures are released.  The user was posting using the image below as his avatar (click for full sized image), which has lead chinese base fan S250 to speculate this this is the head of the character.  The banned member also posted a Taobao auction using the image.

1. Arachnid, 19 images
2. Orcanok, 16 images
3. Action Master Inferno, 6 images
4. Fortress Maximus JR, 20 images
5. Action Master Thundercracker, 1 image
6. Action Master Tracks, 17 images