Twitter user Ryan Sheehey has shared the first images of the upcoming Studio Series figures Sideswipe, Barricade, Crankcase and World War II Bumblebee which are on display at Fan Expo Canada. All four toys are set to be are deluxes with Sideswipe coming with the dual-wield double-barrel guns he had in Transformers:Dark of the Moon, Crankcase appears to be a repaint of Crowbar mold but with a new head, and the WWII-style Bumblebee comes in an accurate military green paint job.

TakaraTomy have tweeted out a photograph showing the upcoming Legends Trypticon against Metroplex.

レジェンズシリーズはまだ終わりません。LG43ダイナザウラーの予約がスタートしています！夏にはこんなライバル対決の再現も可能に♪
よろしくお願いします。（幸）
トランスフォーマー レジェンズ LG43 ダイナザウラー: https://t.co/Voba0ypm75 pic.twitter.com/tzr7SkxjJG

— トランスフォーマー情報局 (@TF_pr) March 6, 2017

Nicole Dubuc has confirmed, via Twitter, that a female Rescue-bot is on the way in the fourth season of the Transformers cartoon. You can view a copy of the twitter confirmation below

Yes! https://t.co/aGXNqL3zxn

— Nicole Dubuc (@NicoleDubuc) December 1, 2015

TFYuki has revealed a new recolour of Springer is going to be released in Japan that is coloured much closer to the animation model of the character. You can view the announcement below

「LG19 スプラング」好評予約受付中♪ pic.twitter.com/FyjGfjQMTA

— TF YUKI (@TFYUKI) November 4, 2015

Botcon have updated their Twitter page with a digital reveal of the next member of the Botcon 2016 combiner figure and, as has been widely expected, the figure is Ramhorn, now General Ramhorn, of the Tripredacus Council.

General Ramhorn of the Tripredacus Council! Figure reveal later today at http://t.co/cev79J8sqK pic.twitter.com/qLUgq3HNLh

— BotCon 2016 (@BotCon) October 15, 2015

UPDATE:

K-Hobby Twitter feed and hobbylog.jp have posted images of grey prototypes for two new Transformers Masterpiece figures from TakaraTomy. The first is a new look at the recently announced new Hot Rod figure with the second reveal being an official Masterpiece Shockwave. Yes, we are finally getting a NEW Decepticon Masterpiece character.

You can view the images after the jump

Hasbro have announced that their Transformers panels for the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con will be:

1. Transformers Generations Panel - Thursday July 9 @ 11:00am in Room 25ABC
2. Transformers: Robots in Disguise Panel - Thursday July 9 @ 3:00pm in Room 5AB

The Japanese Transformers PR Twitter account has tweeted out an image of the Transformers Robots In Disguise (Adventure Team) Optimus Prime animation model. You can view the image below

【続報】新アニメ「トランスフォーマー アドベンチャー」伝説の司令官オプティマスプライムのキャストが楠大典さんに決定〜★ #TFADV #TT_TF pic.twitter.com/D8GlQ84l0a

— トランスフォーマー情報局 (@TF_pr) January 30, 2015

Takara Tomy's Transformers PR account has tweeted out some new comparison images of the Generation 1 Ultra Magnus toy with the soon-to-be-released Masterpiece Ultra Magnus figure (MP-22), the toy is due on shelves at the end of month. You can view the images below.

Takara-Tomy have announced that a new lucky Draw, a Gold Age of Extinction's High Octane Bumblebee will be given our after a draw on Twitter based around a Real-Robot Battle TV show

Nippon Television Network is running a program called "Real Robot Battle" - a show that pits teams and their home-built robots against each other. In Tuesday 2 December the finale of the show will air, with the winning team going on to face Optimus Prime himself in a special exhibition battle.  The contest, open to Japanese residents only,　is to tweet their predictions for which of the six competing teams will win the contest and see if they have the touch when it comes to facing the heroic Autobot leader himself!

Full details are on the Takara-Tomy page for this event (Japanese language)

TFYuki has posted an image of Twitter of a production sample for the upcoming Masterpiece Star Saber. Whilst this is not the finished version it is a great update on where the toy is.

月曜日から仕事が怒濤のように・・・そんな中でもＭＰスターセイバーのテストショットが到着で、ちょっと幸せ気分♪　しかし、サンプルが届く＝チェックの仕事が増える訳で、残業必須なのだ！ pic.twitter.com/qWDZpwKwPy

— TF YUKI (@TFYUKI) October 27, 2014

Thanks to the twitter account of Hisashi yuki, we have a good look at the prototype of the inner Brainmaster figure for the upcoming Masterpiece Star Saber. This figure is roughly the size of a Diaclone driver, as shown in the images, and whilst its body no longer contains the face of Saber, he does reveal the face by putting the figure to the chest.  The mini-figure is also more show accurate in his general appearance. Check out the images below.

Hero X tweeted some updates regarding Million Publishing's poll which they are running to choose their next exclusive figure. The winner will be the ext Generations Book figure withh the current leaders being Alpha Trion, GoShooter, Beast Wars Silverbolte, and Drift Black Version.  You can find the full list below.

1. Alpha Trion using the Generations Scourge mold
2. The Fallen using the Generations FoC Onslaught mold
3. Sunstreaker Police Type using the Universe Sunstreaker mold
4. Smokescreen using the Universe Smokescreen mold
5. Autobot Drift Black Version using the Generations Drift mold
6. Omnibot Overdrive using the Universe Smokescreen mold
7. Ominbot Camshaft using the Generations Wheeljack mold
8. Omnibot Downshift using the Universe Ironhide mold
9. Beast Wars Silverbolt using the Beast Hunters Grimwing mold
10. Goshooter using the Generations Goldfire mold

Congratulations @XxChalkyxX on Twitter for winning our Paladone Transformers competition. We'd like to thank everyone who entered, entries ranged from various parts of the world but there could be only one winner who was selected thanks to the good old "Rand()*n" function within excel.

You can follow us on Twitter @transformertoys

Transformers At The Moon, in association with Paladone Products, are pleased to announce that we are opening a new competition right now where you can win a collection of Paladone Transformers licensed products including

1) Transformers G1 30th Anniversary Mini Figures

2) Transformers Prime 30th Anniversary Mini Figures

3) Transformers Movie (Dark of the Moon) 30th Anniversary Mini Figures

4) Cardboard Optimus Prime build a figure

5) Cardboard Bumblebee build a figure

6) Optimus Prime water bottle

7) Autobot logo cup

8) Heat changing Autobot logo cup 

Entry to the competition is easy, you simple need to Tweet the message "Transformers Collections" to us, @transformertoys, including the Hashtag #TFComp.

An example of a valid entry would be the tweet "@transformertoys Transformers Collections #TFComp".

The winner will be chosen via a random draw after the competition has closed.  Entries will be accepted up until Tuesday 27th May 2014 at 12:00 BST.  After which any entries shall be discounted.

You may only enter the competition once, so duplicate entries will be ignored. Fake twitter profiles will also be ignored. Please see the Twitter Guidelines on Competition entries which we shall be following.

Click on the news story title or scroll down to view individual images of the competition prizes

Good luck.