The Transformers YouTube channel have uploaded a new designer desk video featuring the Design Manager John Warden taking a look at the combiner wars Superion and Menasor.

Fun Publication have posted their 5th video reveal of the Botcon 2015 boxset onto YouTube.  You can watch the video below if you do not want to be spoilt

Have you watched it yet? No well okay the 5th member of Cybetron's Most Wanted was "The Bounty Hunter" who is OilMaster a recolour of the Generations Swerve figure with a difference ... he's now a PRETENDER!!! Yes you read that right, Fun Publication, along with Boss Fight Studios, have produced a new Pretender shell based on a Double Pretender and is an ape shell. The shell opens to reveal the Swerve and mini-con figure.

Chinese Transformers Fansite T.F.N.D have posted in-hand images of the upcoming Transformers Combiner Wars Streetwise figure. The toy is a slight retooling of the Combiner Wars Wave 2 Stunticon Dead End figure.

Takara Tomy have announced a new campaign which they will be running which includes some Generation One Collectible Cards.

78dm.net have posted some images of the upcoming 3rd party Overclocking figure from SXS. The figure is a homage to Blurr from the Generation One toyline.

Amazon.com have posted new pre-orders for Wave 3 of the Transformers Combiner Wars figures including Hotspot

Ozformers have confirmed that both MP-06 Bluestreak and MP-24 Star Saber will both be released within Australia

Mitmunk is releasing a new line of Official Transformers Apparels.

"Autobots, roll out! Mitmunk is excited to bring you our new line of official TRANSFORMERS printed apparel. We’re launching our new women’s and men’s long-sleeved shirts, vests, and leggings based on the Generation 1 Optimus and Megatron artwork. There will also be T-shirts featuring a range of Transformers from the original box art, quotes, and of course the iconic Autobot and Decepticon insignias.

Pre-order from our website starting Thursday, April 9 at 7:00 am Pacific Time to get in on the first print run. We’ll accept pre-orders until we reach the limit of what we can handle in one production run, or while supplies last, and go into production until we’re ready to accept the second round. The first 20 pre-orders will also come with a free t-shirt! The estimated completion time for the first print run is mid- to late-May (subject to change but we’ll update you along the way).

If you’re headed to Fan Expo Vancouver this weekend, you’ll be able to shop our new Transformers line first! Come visit us at Booth 714, April 3-5 at Vancouver Convention Centre."

Georgia Ball has been announced as the new regular writter on the IDW comic Transformers: Robots In Disguise (the tie-in book to the 2015 cartoon series), with her taking over after issue 0.  She will be joining artist Priscilla Toramontano on the book and made the announcement herself via Tumblr

This was actually announced Easter Sunday at Wondercon but the word hasn’t gotten around: I’m writing this series after issue #0. My childhood parked in front of Transformers G1 is now justified. I can bring Starscream back from the dead right?

The Brazilian fansite Transformers Dioramas has shared some images from the 32nd ABRIN LAtin American Toy Show where three new photographs of the upcoming Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator was shown off.

ACToys.net have posted some new imaes of the upcoming Transformers Platinum Edition two-pack release of Astrotrain and Blitzwing. The figures appear to be homages to Flywheels and MachTackle (Transformers Victory) and it should be noted that the firing mechanism on Blitwzing's weapons have been removed due to safety regulations.

E-Hobby and the Takara-Tomy Mall have posted new images of the upcoming Transformers Unite (the Japanese name for Combiner Wars) Stunticon team. The figures are slight redecos with Motormaster being more black and Dragstrip having no purple on him

TFW2005 have posted a nice little image gallery of the Combiner Wars Blackjack figure.

TFND have posted an in-hand image gallery of the upcoming  Combiner Wars Protobot Rook figure.

TFW2005 reported on the 10th April that Netfliex has the first 14 episodes from Season Three of Transformes Rescue Bots

Singaporean online store SimplyToys has images of the three pack Transformers Platinum Edition Seeker Squadron which contains the latest reissues of G1 Thrust, Dirge and Ramjet

Hasbro Studios have updated their You Tube channel with a promotional video for a new character in Transformers Rescue Bots, Servo the rescue dog.

Brazilian Transformers fansite Transformrs Dioramas has posted more images of the upcoming Transformers Combinerwars Devastator.

HissTank have reports from the 2015 JoeCon which included some more of the upcoming GI-Joe Transformers Crossover toys.  The latest offering is "Old Snake" Cobra Commander (based on his appearance in the Transformers Cartoon Only Human) with Stealth Bat (a BAT recolour of Transformers Prime Soundwave)

You can view the images of all of the above figures after the jump.

Veteran voice actor Michael Bell is set to returned to the Transformers franchise by voicing a character within the Transformers Rescue Bots series. Michael previously voiced the Generation 1 characters Prowl, Sideswipe, Swoop, Scrapper. Mr Bell had this to say when maing the announcement on Facebook back on the 8th April

To all my buds..tune in to THE RESCUE BOTS episode "Turning The Tide" which airs this Saturday, April 11 at 10:30am Pacific time on Discovery Family. It's a super show and has lots of your favorite vo actors voicing some wonderful characters. Ya got kids, or know kids, cue them in to watch. I am.

P.S. Yours truly is on this episode. I had a blast doing.

In a quick round-up of the Botcon 2015 exclusives so far the following figures have been announced.

1. Packrat - a recolour of Generations Rattrap, this is "The Thief" character listed on the Botcon website

2. Battletrap - A recolour of Generations Springer, this Decepticon is "The Muscle" as listed on the Botcon website

Below you will find copies of the images and announcement videos thus far for the figures

Packrat

Battletrap Revealed

Once again we find ourselves in the position of needing to appologise for the lack of website updates both in terms of news stories as well as our continued lack of updated galleries and articles.  Whilst it is true that our time spent within and around the Transformers brand has significantly decreased over the last few years due to work, real life and other interests (such as www.thevisionaries.net) we do plan still plan on revamping this website, getting back to bringing you the latest news stories every day as well as regular content updates including the photographing of the rest of our Transformers collection as well as re-photographing many of the figures.

Roll Out Roll Call 2015 Tickets On Sale Now!

Tickets For Roll Out Roll, the Transformers, G.I-Joe and MOTU show are now available over at www.rolloutrollcall.com

You can book Your Early Bird Weekend Pass to Roll Out Roll Call, which takes place on the 3rd & 4th of October 2015 at Jurys Inn Southampton, right now and can recieve a 25% discount saving!!

Weekend Adult Pass £40 (Early Bird £30)
Weekend Under 16 Pass £22 (Early Bird £16.50)
Weekend Family Pass (2 Adults, 2 Under 16's) £100 (Early Bird £75)

Book now at: http://www.rolloutrollcall.com

You can now also book your discounted hotel room at Jurys Inn Southampton too!!!

Book online or call direct and use the promo code of "TOY" for special rate of £60 B&B for single occupancy per night and £70 B&B for double occupancy per night. All bookings include COMPLIMENTARY WiFi!!!

Code valid for Thursday 1st – Monday 5th October, so sharing with a friend works out at £35 each per night with full breakfast and WiFi.

You can find out lots more through our YouTube, Facebook or Twitter channels, if you have any questions, feel free to ask us:

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/RollOutRollCall?fref=nf
Twitter - @RolloutRollCall

For a Full Press Release please visit the press release site

Transformers Asia updated their Facebook page a couple of days ago with some new images of the Ultimate Edition Movie Optimus Prime. This release is of the Revenge of the Falllen figure comes with a new paint job, the accessories of the Japanese exclusive Dark of the Moon Striker Optimus Prime and Jetwings Optimus Prime as well as the sword and hook purchase incentives.

You can view the images after the jump.

Sorry about the lack of news, work has been mental.

As a short update, why not check out our March 2015 Transformers Collection showcase.  It's on out Facebook Account and contains over 80 images

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.859199890792227.1073741844.107005016011722&type=1&l=60bd47fc81

We hope you like it

Thanks to Issuu some images of the Platinum Edition re-issues of Generation One Astrotrain and Blitzwing have emerged.  The colours are quiet bizarre, with Blitzwing looking like he made be bsaed of the Duocon Flywheels, and Astrotrain a little like Alpha Bravo (kinda)

Click for a larger view

We have updated the Transformers toys instruction sheets section of the website with some new PDF instructon sheets entries.

Of the updates, the following new entries were added into the database:

1. Transformers How To Ride Your Dinobot Instructions

You can download copies of the instruction sheets from our Transformers toys instruction sheets section of the website.

Our "Trademark-bots" have have found some new Transformers related trademarks filed with the USPTO by Hasbro Inc. The trademarks come under the beverages section and cover two Hasbro Inc brands:

1. TRANSFORMERS
2. G.I. JOE

The applications were filed a week ago and cover "Dairy-based beverages; vegetable-based food beverages; fruit-based food beverages; yogurt-based beverages; coconut-based beverages used as a milk substitute; milk beverages containing fruits; milk based beverages containing fruit juice; peanut-based food beverages; soy-based food beverage used as a milk substitute; nut and seed-based milks" so it will be interesting to see what exactly these are for.

NEFF (86555418), My Little Pony (86555391) and Littlest Pet Shop (86558814) are additional Hasbro Inc brands which have also had beverage related trademarks filed within the last few weeks.

Griffin, the admin of OzFormers has posted some infromation from the Australian Toy Fair which includes word that MP Tracks will not be MP-25 and that 6 more Masterpiece figures will be released in Japan this year, after Star Saber with those toys being:

1. Gold Bumblebee (Goldbug) - July
2. Convoy re-issue - Assumed August
3. Tracks - Assumed August
4. Secret - MP25 expected to be announced shortly - September
5. New Sports Car - Oct
6. New Sports Car - Nov

Below you will find a quote of the full new report which contains further information on the Australian releases. 

Photos later tonight, and the full report.... but some teaser info to get you interested and to send the global fansites into meltdown.

Generations Devastator on display with my Gen1 Devastator - BigW already signed up for June/July. 

More JP Masterpiece coming this year - Gold bumblebee July, Convoy reissue, Tracks (not MP25), MP25 in Sept (I can't reveal name before TakaraTomy), and two new "sports cars" for OCT & NOV.

Platinum edition - Myer will have Seeker pack and YOTG pair... while ToysRUs will have Insecticon pack, Perceptor/Blaster, Trypticon, aaaaand.... Dinobots. YES, Gen1 Dinobots multipack which I hope is all five.

JP Stinger still for this month, only at TRU though.

GEN Slingshot & Wildrider don't exist (yet) for Hasbro Generations, but might next year as Combiners are going to be at least two years. 

Leader Starscream for wave 4.

Hasbro MP Starscream is the second (MP11) version because fans wanted it.

Hasbro MP Bluestreak will be in July.

Toyworld's cheaper prices were indeed just introductory prices from Hasbro. 

Loyal Subjects w3 should be out in the next month.

That's most of it. More later, probably after midnight though.

Go nuts... 

Go nuts indeed!

The PlayWithThisToo team, most of whom are former Hasbro employees who worked on the Transformers brand, have finally launched their Kickstarter for their 6" interchangable action figure series which is based on the Pretender concept, along with the characters colour schemes.  The kickstarter aims to raise $80,000 and after the first 24 hours has already raised 41.3% of the target.

You can check out the kickstarter here.

Comic Book Resources have posted an interview with Mairghread Scott and John Barber the creators behind the upcoming Transformers: Combiner Wars crossover. The key points are:

• The Combiner Wars will be on two fronts - both an information war, a "war of influence", and a physical war. Starscream is at the heart of all of it, of course - with Optimus, Windblade and Prowl all being key players.
• Superion has a few new moves - he's described as a cross between "an NBA star and Godzilla"
• The seeds of Combiner Wars have been sown since Windblade first appeared in Dark Cybertron.
• On an unrelated note, we'll also be seeing more Transformers of more body types - not only female characters but more diversity in general, more religions, creeds and classes.

Credit to TFW2005.com for the summary