We have found some new trademarks filed with the USPTO. The trademarks are:

1. UNICRON

You can view all of the details of these and other trademarks within our exclusive Trademark Application area of the website which features trademark applications from 1984 through until the present day.

In 2004 an auction appeared on eBay (Item Number 5919935901) for PVC Unicron with a price of $2000 (USD). The seller described the item as an unreleased product and when asked on the 4th September 2004 by the eBay user "Chris" whether the figure was from Generation One, a Custom figure or one of the unreleased Super Hybred Models (which it isn't) he was told:

"Nobody did not make it "Custom".Only could make "Company" for sell. Because make prtotype cost,spend made time and made cost was not free.It is a cancelled toys.Do you understand? It is easy!"

Not exactly the clearest of descriptions from the seller, but he basically meant "No it's not a custom item, it was made for a company to sell who cancelled the item.

Currently we do not have images from that auction, just our notes :(

However in 2008 a grey "prototype" was posted by a seller who is well known for selling testshots, hardcopies, prize items but also "lunchtime specials". In that auction, the seller claimed that the figure was a prototype from the 1980s and had it for sale for what worked out at $5000 (again USD).

In September 2013 a painted version was listed on Yahoo Japan for 10,000yen (roughly $1000 USD). The auction ended on the 13th September with no bidders. The seller was the same person who was trying to sell the grey prototype in 2008. This time the description was given as:

２０００年前後の特大３０ｃｍサイズのユニクロンの試作品になります。未発売に終わった幻の品です。ＳＣＦロディマスコンボイは付属しません。

This roughly translates as
"It is a 30cm prototype of Unicron form around 2000. The item was cancelled before it would have been released. SCF Rodimus Convoy is not included in the auction"

So at this point the Unicron is being described as a unreleased SCF figure which is possible considering the design and articulation it has, though we do not have any proof of it being a legitimate TakaraTomy product, whether it was created to be a One-day licensed Winter Wonderfest garage kit, or whether it was a planned unlicensed kit.

Either way it's a pretty cool piece and we're glad that after 5 years additional images appeared.

You can view the images on our Facebook page where we will be hosting the images exclusively for a little while before creating a gallery here.

HK-TF member WHKVICTOR has posted a short gallery of the upcoming Transformers Arms Micron exclusive Nightmare Unicron, who is  due to be released on Tuesday 2nd of April.

Two images have been published of the upcoming Takara Tomy exclusive Transformers Prime Arms Micron Nightmare Unicron figure.  The toy, which can be seen below, is a recolour of the Gaia Unicron figure, will be released in March as a Bic Camera store exclusive and represents the spark of Gaia Unicron when he was sealed away after his appearance in the TV show.

Autobase Aichi have posted a new image gallery over on their Facebook page containing the display within Snakas local Bic Camera store which is advertising various upcoming Transformers releases from Takara-Tomy. The display contains various figures including:

• Masterpiece Convoy Version 2 (Out Now)
• Masterpiece Lambor (Sideswipe)
• Masterpiece Red Alert
• Transformers United EX Grim Master Prime Mode
• Transformers Prime Arms Micron Wheeljack
• Transformers Prime Arms Master Optimus Prime
• Transformers Prime Arms Micron Orion Pax (a Bic Camera exclusive)

It also reveals several new details which were previously unknown such as the fact that Arms Micron Wheeljack will come with both an Arms Micron sword and one of the normal swords from the Hasbro release.

Planet Iacon has once again come through with the following image of the Japanese Arms Micron Gaia Unicron with packaging.

The Facebook group Planet Iacon have posted more images of Transformers Prime Arms Micron Gaia Unicron

Amazon.jp have posted official images of Takara Tomy's upcoming Transformers Prime Arms Micron Gaia Unicron, AM-20 Deluxe Ironhide, and AM-21 Arms Master Optimus Prime.

Thanks go to HK-TF for scanning a catelogue image for a Transformers Prime 2-pack of Optimus Prime and Gaia Unicron.  The images confirms that Unicron will seperate and combine with Optimus Prime to form armour.

Gaia unicron appears to be a mixture of orange, silwer and gold., and looks rather slim.

Thanks to Robot Kingdom for posting up the following image of Transformers Prime Arms Gaia Unicron, showing an interesting image of what appear to be Unicron combined with Optimus Prime - or it could just be some odd scale drawing

Robotkingdom has posted listings of new Takara's Transformers Prime Arms Micron toys. AM-19 is revealed as (????????) Gaia Unicron and AM-20 is revealed as (???????) Ironhide.

We thought we would catch up with some of the behind the scenes concept artwork from Transformers Prime that was posted by Jose Lopez and Vince Toyama during March.  last week, Jose posted a picture of the redesigned head for Unicron that he was asked to produce for the series.

Earlier in March, Vince Toyama posted some early production designs for the first series of the show:

I have updated the Media section of the website to contain a episode summary and complete image gallery from the latest episode of Transformers Prime, Episode 25 One Shall Stand Part 2.

The gallery contains over 350 images from the episode at 1280x720 resolution.� If you have not already seen the episode, then its best to avoid the gallery or at least to avoid reading the test that covers the events of the episode.

Don't forget to check out our sister site that is dedicated to Transformers Prime www.transfomers-prime.com