Roll Out Roll Calll have announced that they are teaming up with the Transformers Collectors Club to sell some of the Botcon 2015 exclusives at Auto Assembly here within the UK!! Yes that is another UK show working directly with the Official Club to sell the Official Shows exclusives at another UK event!  The figure are very competitively priced as well

You can find the announcement below

Attending Auto Assembly but never before been to Roll Out Roll Call, The UK Transformers, G.I. Joe & Action Force Show???
As a little taster on what is available at Roll Out Roll Call we have organised a range of BotCon (Official) show exclusives to be available at Auto Assembly. Roll Out Roll Call would like to thank the Transformers Collectors' Club (Official).in helping make this available to Auto Assembly attendees.

TakaraTomy designer Hisashi Yuki has posted some images of the forthcoming TAV-25 Legends Class Runabout  figure onto his twitter account.  The toy is a repaint of the Combiner Wars Black Jack mold.Yuki’s twitter after the jump!

Weibo users 小蜜蜂小王子, and AC Toys (AC模玩网商务中心) have posted prototype images of the upcoming Master Made SDT-02 Diabolus Rex, a super deformed version of Trypticon. The figure will join thier other SD release of  Titan (Metroplex).

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Steven S. DeKnight; one of the writers of the Transformers Cinematic Universe recently sat down to talk to IGN.

“It’s that wonderful thing where features are now taking a page from television and getting people together to really try and plan things out. It was a wonderful experience. Akiva Goldsman was fantastic and Jeff Pinkner, who’s co-writing the fifth [Transformers] movie with him was phenomenal. Zak Penn… It was just a room full of brilliant, funny, amazing people. And we spent two and a half weeks in physically the best writers room I’ve ever seen in my life. Paramount pulled out all the stops. It was phenomenal! We laughed and joked and told stories and plotted out…”

DeKnight had to keep his secrets about Transformers, noting, “I can’t say what we plotted out, but it was all very exciting and in the next few months we’ll see what moves forward and what doesn’t move forward. But it was a fantastic experience. One of the best experiences of that was when Steven Spielberg popped by one afternoon to just sit and talk and hear what we were working on. Everybody was about to throw up, they were so excited.”

TakaraTomy Mall have posted up a new product page for an upcoming MP-11T Masterpiece Thundecracker figure. This version of MP Thundercracker will be a recolour of the MP11 Starscream with a more accurate animation based color scheme and will comes with a "hologram pilot figure" that will fit into the cockpit.  The toy will be available for preorder on the TakaraTomy Mall from August, 3rd to August, 17th for 14,904 yen and is limited to 2,000 units domestically in Japan. 

Accessaa UK report that Hasbro UK Inc, in partnership with i2i Marketing, have announced their 2016 Transformers Roadshow which will focus on the Transformers Robots In Disguise show for this years  family event:

The pop-up trailer, which is branded in line with the new Transformers: Robots in Disguise animation airing on Cartoon Network, also invites people inside to scan an exclusive app code and earn points to play on the new Robots in Disguise digital game.

Delivered in partnership with experiential agency i2i Marketing, the roadshow will head to Carfest North (31 July –2 August), Bristol International Balloon Fiesta (6-9 August), Birmingham Rotunda Square (14-16 August) and Carfest South (28-30 August).

Great news fellow UK Transformers fans, we have a NEW Transformers convention starting in the summer of 2016 at the Hilton in Birmingham!

Yes you read that right, with Auto Assembly coming to a close this year many Transformers fans here within the UK and across Europe were fearing that this would be the end of a dedicated Summer ‪#‎Transformers‬ convention but those fears have been put to rest with the announcement today that TFNation Ltd will be starting a new show called TFNation.

Details are sketchy at the moment but we here at Transformers At The Moon expect that further information will be released in the coming weeks though it's quiet possible that the main announcements will not be made until after Auto Assembly next month out of respect for the convention.

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Operation: Convention

Calling all Transformers fans:

TFNation is a new Transformers convention initiating in summer 2016 run by fans, for fans.

We look forward to welcoming you to our base of operations; the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel in Birmingham, England.

Access our website at TFNation.com and subscribe to our mailing list to receive further transmissions.

You can also receive updates and help us to reach more fans by following us on:

Twitter: @tfnationltd
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Facebook: www.facebook.com/tfnation


Further broadcasts to follow.

TFNation
Where all are one
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We have found some new Transformers related trademarks filed with the USPTO by Hasbro Inc. The trademarks are:

1. BUMBLEBEE

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.

Hasbro's anouncements are San Diego Comic Con 2015 included

1. Transformers Combiner Wars G2 Aerialbots
2. Transformers Combiner Wars G2 Stunticons
3. Transformers Combiner Wars Victorian in Red and Teal (very much like Rapido).  All toys are one colour (I'm in the minority that I like that), their names are
   1. Pyra Magna (body, remold of Hot Spot)
   2. Stormclash and Skyburst　(remold of Alpha Bravo)
   3. Jumpstream (remold of Breakdown)
   4. Dustup (remold of Dead End)
   5. Rust Dust (remold of Groove)
4. New Transformers Combiner Wars Betatron
   1. Body is Scattorshot (heavy remold of Silerbolt)
5. The New Transformers Combiner Wars toys will feature Ankle joints
6. Masterpiece Bluestreak
7. Masterpiece Starscream
8. Platinmumn Edition Blaster
9. Platinum Edition Perceptor
10. Platinum Edition Trypticon
11. No plans for Predaking
12. No plans for Dinobot combiner
13. Cannot confirm MP-28 is Hound
14. No plans for toys on Decepiticon Lustice League
15. There will be a Transformers Combiner Wars Animated Series on Machinima

Combiner Wars Animated Series press release

“The Transformers are coming to Machinima.

Hasbro, the toy company-now-play brand, has partnered with the online gamer and video platform to produce a new animated series based on its Transformers: Combiner Wars line.

Combiner Wars is a storyline that has been playing out across Hasbro’s toys and IDW comic books for the past year and the upcoming Activision video game Transformers: Devastation.

Insiders say it’s the first time these many synergistic elements have been combined by Hasbro to tell an overall story.

Additionally, Habsro is giving something a segment of its large Transformers audience has been demanding for years, namely an animated series aimed at an older audience.

“Our audiences are huge fans of the toy, comics, movies and video games, and for us to continue the legend with the Combiner War is a unique story-telling opportunity,” said CCA Daniel Tibbets.

Said Hasbro’s senior vp of the Transformers franchise, Tom Warner: “(Machinima is) the perfect partner to help launch a totally new kind of Transformers animation—one that, for the first time ever, is specifically designed for the teen and adult fans who’ve grown up loving the Transformers brand.”

Without going to deep into the complexities of the Transformers universe, Combiner Wars saw groups of Transformers be able to combine into one giant robot, known as a Combiner. Superion and Menasor were among the new robots that held the fate of the Transformers’ homeworld Cybertron in their hands.”

You can see a nice gallery on TFW2005 here

Thanks to Alfes2010's toyblog and Australian Transformers site Ozformers new in-hand images of the Transformers Adventure Phantom Jaw (Japanese Transformers Robots in Disguise) and Transformers Robots in Disguise Megatronus (5 step changer) have been posted on line.

Alfest has posted images and a write up on Phantom Jaw, the Japanese recoluor of Steeljaw who featuers far more paint detail than the original toy, on his blog

Strongarm was startled, since the car approaching with its sirens on was Decepticon Phantom Jaw. Phantom Jaw transformed immediately and attacked Strongarm. As a very competent intelligence officer, Phantom Jaw took the opportunity once he heard there was an opportunity to act solo against a member of the Autobot. However, after she was caught off guard, Strongarm begin fight back when she regained her posture. Having fought together with the first class warrior Bumblebee, she has grown by leaps and bounds.

Mean while TFW2005 are hosting images taken by the Ozformers owned of the 5 step changer of Megatronus.  The toy towers over most of the other Robots in Disguise toys.

Dengeki Hobby have published some new images of the upcoming TakaraTomy Legends fembot figures Nightbird, Slipstream and Blackarachnia.

So Botcon is taking place this weekend over in the United States whilst the Toyko Toy Show is taking placed in Japan at the same time, so here is a round-up of the news so far:

BOTCON

The additional figures for this years set turned out to be General Optimus Prime, Sergeant Hound, Diaclone Skidz (Burnout), Diaclone Hoist (Lift Ticket), The Waruders 4-Pack with the Custom Class figure being Galva-Leo Convoy a recolour of the Collectors Club exclusive figure based on the original "Lucky Draw" figure of the same name.

Transformers Titan Wars - This will be the toyline following on from the Combiner Wars theme and sees the return of the Headmasters to the main Transformers line.  Wireframe outlines were shown, drawn by Emiliano Santalucia (going by his Facebook reaction), which include Blaster (now a Headmaster), Astrotrain (a triple changer headmaster) and Fortress Maximus (a re-tool of Metroplex wtih both Cerebros and Spike much like the original toy / character).  More is expect to be announced on this over the weekend.

TOKYO TOY SHOW

Meanwhile in the other big news was being announced. 

Masterpiece Ironhide was confirmed and shown. The figure, as you would expect from the Masterpiece line, is very muhc designed on the animated series and will come with a whole host of weapons and accessories.  You can expect a Ratchet repaint and, most likely, a black "Diaclone" version later (in our opinion).

Masterpiece Optimus Primal / Gorilla Convoy - Masterpiece is going Beast Wars! To commemorate the 20th anniversary of Beast Wars, 2016 is going to see the Masterpiece line cover that incarnation of Transformers start off with the Maximal leader Optimus Primal. A mock-up was shown in beast form which you can view below.

Also shown at the event were Unite Warriors Devastator, this is the Japanese release of the Combiner Wars Devastator set with Scrapper, Long Haul, Hook and Mixmaster all being remoulded to include elbow articulation unlike the Western release.  The toy will also be released with two heads meaning that you'll be able to re-create the standard US and SDCC looks

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For further images from the show, please see:

TFW2005.com, Seibertron.com

Harris Ars has posted a set of comparison images of the various Generations Roadbusters redecos onto his Facebook page which includes the expected Botcon 2015 Attendee Exclusive "G2 General Optimus Prime".  In the photographs, which can be seen below, are also the Hasbro Generations Roadbuster, TakaraTomy Legends LG-04 Roadbuster, and E-Hobby Cloud Roadbuster.

Thanks to a post on the Transformers Collectors Europe Facebook Group we have confirmation that Hasbro Europe could not meet the demand required to stock Wave 2 of the Combiner Wars in domestic stores though Wave 3 was in high enough demand to warrant it's release.  This means that if you are after the toy you will need to look online at retailer such as In-Demand Toys, Kapow, All The Cool Stuff and Masterforce.

TFW2005.com report of sightings of the Wave 3 Combiner Wars First Aid, Streetwise, Rook, and Blades in a Toyland store in Scarborough. It is believed that these aere regular Hasbro UK offerings as the figures do not come with the comics like within the US. It means that, this far, Wave 2 (the Stunticons) have been skipped within the UK though rumours suggest that those figures will be Toys R Us exclusives and are set with a June / July release date.