Following on from the Kabor update to TheVisionaries.net we are pleased to bring you are 2nd gallery of Season 2 2-up hardcopy weapons, this time belonging to the Spectral Knight, Lazorlash

Once again we use Witterquick as an example of the size of the 2-up.

We do not have the 2-up of the axe for Lazorlash but the shield is an interesting one in itself. Not only is it held in an unusual manner, we believe that the "broken piece" is part of a gun which he can hold enabling him to attach the shield and hold it in a more traditional fashion. 

Sadly we do not have all of that piece (if you do, please let us know), but if you look at the Toy Fair image you will be able to work out how it would have worked.

You can view  the gallery at http://www.thevisionaries.net/toys/spectral-knights/lazorlash/32

Enjoy!

Hi everyone, as you may or may not not, my brother and I have been slowly revamping our Visionaries website in preparation for a big relaunch. The project has been heavily delayed due to work commitments but it is starting to come together now as we start to put together the articles and reviews to go with the images and information we've been amazing over the last 14 years.

Yesterday we decided to pushed live the images which accompany a review that we published on the 1st Feb 2015 which covers the Season 2 character Kabor. This is the first gallery to contain images of some of our resin 2-up hardcopies of the Season 2 characters weapons.

We'll be adding the other characters over time along with more in-depth articles covering the brand from its inception through to the modern era. We've already published our article on "Visionaries: Reborn" along with the toy ads but there is a lot more to come which will include plenty of things you have not seen before. But that is for another day.

When looking at the images in the gallery you will notice that Kabor was originally going to be called "Cliffdweller" and that rather than coming with an axe, as he is shown in the Toy Fair photographs, it was originally planned for him to come with a gun. The change over to the axe was late in production as now only was the gun sculpted, the 2-up is included in the gallery, but the Neal Adams artwork was converted into the final box art. We have included a copy of that artwork as well though we hope to re-scan it again at some point in the future.

We are still investigating when and why the change was introduced. The axe does suit the character better in our opinion, and the gun does look a little odd, but we hope to be able to confirm the reasons.

I thought I would share it here as I know some members also like the Visionaries brand so I thought you may be interested in seeing more about the "lost" series.

You can find the review and image gallery at Darkling Lords Kabor Toy Review

With the closing of his G2 Stunticon eBay auction, eBay seller z75Sales has posted some more listings for rare items. The items currently available include:

1. Testshot Beast Wars Waspinator
2. Testshot Beast Wars Tarantulus
3. Boxed Megatron / Starscream ATB - We own this figure so be sure to check out our own galleries for additional images.
4. Testshot Beast Wars Dinobot
5. Lazercycle Soundwave
6. Gobot HighBeam Packaging Mockup
7. Cyberjet Air Raid Production Sample

You can view the auction, along with the images of the items, by clicking on the links above.

The eBay seller of the Unreleased Generation 2 Stunticons has postd some new images of the toys online. You can view a mirror of the images after the jump. The set is currently going for over $11,000 but that is expected to rise to over $15k before the end of the auction.

The Space-Bridge has updated his Prototype image gallery on Facebook to include a look at the official Hasbro library images of what was the planned US release of the Commerative Edition Megatron figure in the early 2000s. The toy had to be repainted orange and blue to comply with US gun safety laws but still failed as it "looked too gun like".  You can view the images over on Facebook.

Don't forget to check out our own unreleased toy galleries whilst you are in the mood.

After years of trying to find the best way to share some of his archive, and decades collecting, Paul Hitchens AKA The Space-Bridge has finally started uploading images to his newly created Facebook page.  If you are a fan of prototypes, unreleased figures, concept art, early artwork then I urge you to check out his images as it includes many things you will never have seen before. 

TFW2005.com board member Deceptigtar has posted some images onto the US fansites message board of what appears to be an as yet unreleased testshot of a Transformers Prime Gears figure. The toy is a recolour of Transformers Prime Ratchet based on the Generation One Gears figure and is complete with a Mount Saint Hilary logo on.

Here is what Deceptigtar had to say regarding the images, which can be viewed below.

"I received these from a source to remain private, but we all saw this guys head in Ratchets instructions. To me it looks like it could be Gears, like the repaint we had in ROTF, it even has a Gear logo.

Could this also be another unreleased figure? Grain of salt people!

Oh and can anyone spot the G1 reference? The Mt. Saint Hilary in the Gear logo with the back of the Ark jets!"

eBsy seller foo has posted another auction for an unreleased Transformers Animated Electrostatic Soundwave on eBay. This is the same seller who recently sold another one.­

Simon Furman has updated his blog with the tenth entry in his series of scripts from the unfinished Dreamwave Transformers Energon series.  Today's update contains the second half of the outline for the unpublished Transformers Energon issue 35,  ‘Armageddon part 4?.