"This has yet to be confirmed directly by Hasbro but Forbidden Planet UK have listed the following prices via their wholesale arm as the official price points, the wholesale prices supplied which we cannot give out would back up this price point if retailers are to make any money

1) Deluxe - £14.99
2) Voyager - £29.99
3) Leader - £59.99
4) Cyberverse Ark set - £44.99
5) Cyberverse Legends Basic - £5.99
6) Cyberverse Scouts - £12.99

Now this seems like a crazy move on Hasbros part if true, especially after retailing RTS between - £10.95 - £12.95 on the domestic market."

Seibertron.com are reporting that the 2011 Tokyo Toy Fair will have more exclusive Transformers toys this year, in the form of Black Transformers United Cybertronian Optimus Prime and Cybertronian Megatron.  These figures are more commonly seen as the War for Cybertron toys.

No source is credited for the report though

Derrick Wyatt has posted an image of Prison Trypti­con on Twitter
The image is from the BotCon 2011 comic­

I a move which would make Hasbro happy, TakaraTomy have asked some Japanese resellers to stop  stocking 3rd Party Products (unlicenced items sold as Transformers).  One such retailer, Red Murcury, has cancelled all pre-orders of particular items after receving notification form TakaraTomy to stop selling 3rd party products due to copyright and trademark violations.

With the devasation caused by the Tsunami and both recent earthquakes in Japan, this move would help protect legitimate Japanese business, at a time that their country and economy needs it.

It will be interesting to see what other steps are taken.  Will TakaraTomy look to stop more items, what does this mean for the WonderFest (though they are all licenced goods) and will Hasbro start to try and stop US retailers from stock the non-official and unlicensed items (with the run up to Transformers: Dark of the Moon and it's impending increase on Transformers sales).

The following items appeared on TakaraTomy's list

1. Kup Head Set
2. SFX Scouting Force X - Camera Set
3. Primary School: Primars
4. Head Robots: Blood
5. Bee 01
6. CDMW-16
7. CDMW-17

FanofTransformers has posted the trailer for the the next Transformers Prime episode, Predatory.  In this episode a character from Arcee's past (believed to be Airarachnid (the characters who's name we exclusive;y revealed first)) returns to take revenge on her nemisis.

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You can now find a full image gallery of the latest Transformers Prime episode,episode 11 Speed Metal.

The episode sees Jack, Bumblebee and Knock-Out take part in a street race.

You can see the gallery both on Transformers Prime and also on Transformers At The Moon.

­Derrick J Wyatt has posted two new Transformers Animated character designs up on Twitter.  The images are of Transformers Animated Stampy as well as Transformers Animated Chromia.

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It brings me great pleasure to be able to kick off what should be an exciting Spring and Summer to visitor of Transformers At The Moon with three new Transformers Toys image galleries. Being a European based website we felt that it would only be fitting to kick off our "Summer Special" as the Transformers community builds towards the release of Transformers: Dark of the Moon by adding three galleries of European exclusive figures.

First up, we have added an image gallery of Motorvator Gripper.  This image gallery contains comparison images to Brainmaster Blacker as well images showing him combined with both Braver and Laster.

The second and third galleries are of something a little special and yet also related to the Motorvator Gripper gallery.  What are they?  Well they are image galleries of a paint-sample of Motorvator Flame and an image gallery of a paint-sample of Motorvator Lightspeed!  What is a paint-sample, you may be asking yourself, well when Hasbro decide to recolour a figure with a different colour scheme, hand-paint a mock-up version using the existing figures mold.  In this case Hasbro Europe took the Japanese Brainmaster figures Braver and Laster and hand-painted them into the proposed colour schemes for their European releases.  We picked up these figures from the head of Hasbro Europe who was also responsible for presenting these toys to the heads of the individual European territories at the time.  The figures had not been transformed since that presentation until we bought them, which meant that they are very stiff.

The image galleries of these unique figures include comparisons with their Japanese counter-parts but not their final European release, as we do not own those yet.  These figures are from an import period in the history of the Transformers line, as it was a time that support for Transformers had dried up within the US, but it was the lines popularity both within Europe and Japan that kept Transformers going and would eventually lead on the release of Generation 2.

Mastermind Creations updated their blog last night with some robot mode images of their upcoming third-party release of KM03 Cyclops in robot form.  You can view the blog entry here and the images below.

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The TFCC updated their website last night with the following announcement and preview image of their upcoming exclusive figure G2 Ramjet.

"We have received the final Ramjet sample and have posted it to the club toys section. Of interest, it appears that Takara actually remolded his nose cone in rubber. From a close look, it is actually a new molded piece and the nose cone is in fact different from the Classics release. In addition to that, each Ramjet will come with actual stickers affixed to the shoulder and feet sections. This is truly a G2 Ramjet homage and will look AMAZING in any TF collection!

This item will be available for Pre-order later this month. If you are not yet a club member, now is the time to join! You will be able to purchase this great figure, Animated Transtech Cheetor and you will get the FREE 2012 Membership Incentive figure (to be revealed at BotCon 2011!)"

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Hasbro's press company have sent out the following 73 images of upcoming Transformers: Dark of the Moon figures.  The images contain spoilers as they have the names of many of the characters, so if you do not want to be spoiled, do not click on the thumbnails.

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In a follow-up to the news we reported on the 28th March regarding upcoming Transformers Dark Of The Moon toys where the first images of the Generation One Grimlock inspired Mini-con repaint called Dualor was re­vealed two new auction on Yahoo Japan have appeared online today with his partners Rav and Triceradon

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