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Amazon Japan, UK and .Com have been updated with a pre-order page of the next Transformers Reference Book by fan-favorite (and personal friends) Bill Forester and Jim Sorenson, Transformers Legacy: A Celebration of Transformers Package Art.
Release Date: 6 May 2014 ISBN-10: 1613779437 ISBN-13: 978-1613779439
Remember the thrill of tearing open a gift on Christmas morning, discovering a brand-new Transformer in a shiny new box? While the toys were amazing in their own right, what made the packages stand head-and-shoulders above the myriad competing action figures on shelves was the stunning box art. Transformers: Legacy collects hundreds of beautifully airbrushed paintings from the iconic first decade of The Transformers. Hasbro, Takara, and private collectors opened their archives, yielding an unparalled level of quality. Essays and interviews from the original illustrators give unprecedented insight into the process behind the art. This book is chock-full of extras, including never-before-seen artwork from toys that never were, original design sketches, catalog artwork, and more.
Amazon have published a trailer and indepth description of the Covenant of Primus book which will be released at the end of the year. You can order the book by clicking on the previous link.
Book Description: The Covenant of Primus delves into the depths of Transformers mythology to reveal the backstory that’s previously only been hinted at.
Encased in an interlocking Autobot emblem that when pulled open emits Transformer sounds, this tome is a gift to humans from Alpha Trion, one of the ancient Thirteen Primes—the first of the Transformers. Little is known about Alpha Trion, and the rest of the Thirteen Primes have been shrouded in mystery—until now. The Covenant of Primus reveals the stories of these ancient heroes for the first time. It chronicles the saga of Optimus Prime and Megatron and covers the full history of the Transformers. Never-before-seen illustrations depict battles, portraits of the Thirteen Primes, and detailed scenes of the Transformers’ world. Offering insight into their origins, the Golden Age of exploration, the great civil war between the Autobots and Decepticons, and much more, this book is the definitive in-world history of the Transformers.
Product Features: Autobot shield case with three-part interlocking manual opening system and three classic Transformers audio effects Hardcover book with newly commissioned cover art, 20 newly commissioned illustrations, and many never-before-seen images from the Hasbro archive
Release Date: December 10, 2013 Hardcover: 176 pages Publisher: 47North Language: English ISBN-10: 1477805990 ISBN-13: 978-1477805992
About the Author Justina Robson was born in Yorkshire, England in 1968 and grew up watching the original Transformers TV series. After completing school, she dropped out of Art College, then studied philosophy and linguistics at York University. She sold her first novel in 1999. Since then she has won the 2000 Amazon UK Writers’ Bursary Award. She has also been a student (1992) and a teacher (2002, 2006) at the Arvon Foundation in the UK, a center for the development and promotion of all kinds of creative writing. She was a student at Clarion West, the US boot camp for science fiction and fantasy writers, in 1996. Her books have been variously shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Best Novel Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Philip K. Dick Award and the John W. Campbell Award. An anthology of her short fiction, “Heliotrope,” was published in 2012. In 2004, Justina was a judge for the Arthur C. Clarke Award on behalf of the Science Fiction Foundation. Her novels and stories range widely over science fiction and fantasy, often in combination and often featuring AIs and machines who aren’t exactly what they seem. She still lives in t’North of England with her partner and three children and a cat.
During the IDW Botcon panel the next book from Jim Sorenson and Bill Forster was announced as Legacy: The Box Art of the Transformers. As the name suggests, the book will the box art that was used with the toys, bringing together material from Japan, the US and, with luck, Europe.
Here's Jim to tell you more
"Legacy: The Box Art of The Transformers is going to be something special. I've been working on it for a while now, and I'm really amazingly pleased with how well it is going. We've been working with Hasbro, Part One (the parent company of eHobby), and numerous private collectors to pull together the definitive coffee table book of Transformers packaging art.
A lot of things, like the date and the page count, are still up in the air. However, here's what has already been decided on:
1: The scope will be G1 and G2. No Beast Wars or beyond. We'll be covering every year in the US, as well as the entire Japanese set of releases. It's possible that we might get Europe in too, if we can find the material. That remains to be seen. 2: The extras will be substantial. We're talking essays and interviews with the original artists, modern repaints of vintage artwork (think eHobby exclusives), unused box art, production sketches for box art and more. 3: In terms of scale, we've got more then 300 images in hand, and more than 150 additional pieces pledged. I'd like to get those numbers up, so if you are a collector of the originals, drop me a line!"
A new listing has been posted on Amazon for the second book in Ryder Windham's Transformers Classified series. The book follows on from last years "Switching Gears" story and is called Battle Mountain. The book is due for a hardback, softback and digital release with the latter two coming out soon and the hardback out in October release.
Million Publishing have announced that a new Transformers Generations Book will be released on the 18th November 2010, though no further details have been given though the image on the Million Publishing website, based around a poster for Transformers The Movie, includes Masterpiece Rodimus, and "Welcome to 2010" Unicron so most likely the book will be a collection of the three latest Generations Books plus the newer 2010 toy releases.
Amazon.com has posted the cover to the upcoming Transformers Aniamted: Robot Roll Call (I Can Read 2) book. The book written by Jennifer Frantz is 32 pages long and is released on May 6th.
Amazon.com have updated their product listings for volume 5 and 6 of the Transformers Animated paperback series with the covers of each volume. Vol 5 features Bulkhead on the cover, with Vol 6 featuring Ratchet. Both covers can be seen below.
Snakas has published another round-up of the information in this months hobby magazines that were released in Japan over the last few days. For those that can not understand Japanese, we have published a brief summary below
Figure King 119
There is an article discussing Trans-Scanning Optimus Prime, in particular it discusses how the gimmick works. A image of a prototype is included in the article.
There is a comparison between the original Sky Lynx figure and the upcoming re-issue. Snakas points out that some of the detail, especially on the interior and around the eyes show the the Encore edition have more detail.
Images were shown of Transformers Henkei (the Japanese Transformers Classics line) Optimus Prime, Megatron and Bumblebee. All of the figures were shown to be more cartoon accurate than the western release.
The four AllSpark figures will be released in Japan in February. Images are shown of the toys along with the AllSpark toy itself.
There is yet more confirmation that the Masterpiece Starscream USA edition figure, when release in Japan, will be switched back to the Japanese mold where the tail finds were a slightly different shape to their US release.
More information was included on the green Transformers Encore Emergency Ratchet as well as the Revoltech Starscream and Hot Rodimus.
Finally there is a note that more Star Wars Transformers figures will be released in Japan in 2008
Dengeki Hobby (Blitz Hobby) - Feb issue
Again more comparisons and images on the Encore Skylynx toy, though they are not as detailed as the Figure King article.
Dengeki also includes the images of Transformers Henkei Optimus Prime, Megatron and Starscream.
More images of the Transformers Movie scene figures are shown.
There is an article and more images on the e-Hobby black Ironhide as well as the Revoltech figures and Star Wars Transformers.
Japanese Transformers Movie Incinerator
Snakas notes that going by the images published within the two magazines, and comparing them to the recent eBay auctions for Transformers Movie Incinerator, it appears that the Japanese version of the toy will be a different colour. The Japanese figure is much closer to the the Ospreys that appeared within the live action Transformers Movie, not only in their colour scheme, but also in the number on the side of the helicopter.
Amazon have updated their product listings for Transformers Animated Paperback Volume 1 and Volume 2 to include the proper images of the covers. We're mirrored the images below.
Million Hero has been updated with two sample images and listings of the second Transformers Visual works book, scheduled for release in Japan on the 30th November.
Our Ultimate Transformers competition is now closed, and I'm very pleased to announce that we have drawn a winner (Number 27 for those interested) who was .... Steven Cox
Congratulations Steven, you're the winner of :-
Transformers The Ultimate Guide Updated Edition
Transformers Movie Guide
Transformers Movie Fun Facts
How to Draw Transformers
Deception logo t-shirt
Autobot logo light-up t-shirt
Transformers Movie UK press pack (I've not been able to find the colour logo version still, which has me confussed)
The Transformers The Album soundtrack will be sent of later (once they arrive). We're expecting a few copies (should be around 5), so we'll be drawing 4 runners-up once they are with us.
The missing gallery from this mornings website update is now online. It's Transformers Movie Ironhide. This completes the toy image gallery updates for the week, a day ahead of schedule. Tomorrow we'll be focusing on the winner of our Ultimate Transformers Competition.
Speaking of that Transformers competition, Warner Brother Records have confirmed the copies of the Transformers The Album have now been sent of to us direct from the US.
Bit
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Hasbro Inc submitted a trademark application for
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with the USPTO on the Wednesday, 30th November -0001. The mark was submitted within the category
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Choose Your Fate
We loved the Transformers Choose Your Fate books as kids, and even wrote a text adventure in their style for an old version of Transformers At The Moon. Here you can find images from these puzzle-books, both UK and US ....
Ep 12: Captain Fanzone
Captain Fanzone and theh Detroit police department were called into investigate the disappearance of Sari Sumdac. This comic scene features some nice banter between the Captain and a police officer, as well as with Bulkhead. ....
OTFCC 2003 (USA)
We loved the Transformers Choose Your Fate books as kids, and even wrote a text adventure in their style for an old version of Transformers At The Moon. Here you can find images from these puzzle-books, both UK and US ....
US Sheet 1
The scans contained within this gallery are taken from our own Transformers toysheet collection. This is the first US Transformers toysheet. ....
Transformers Animated
The instruction scans contained within this gallery with the TF08.net watermark were originally from the Chinese TF08 website. They have been added here as a mirror. ....
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