Thanks to board member Unitedbot for posting his sighting of the Transformers Animated Jetstorm/Jetfire (Safeguard) double pack in ASDA for £20.

Updated with images

Snakas has a nice roundup of the information from this months Figure King hobby magazine that was recently released in Japan.  Below you will find our translation of the information that Snakas has published.

First up was an article on the Chrono Label line.  The prototype of the figure was once again shown, showing the toy in both robot and watch mode. The price of the toy is listed as "undecided" but with a current release date of June.  Its reported that the figure will be made with Stainless steel parts and is described as a car-robot item manufactured by Shehorp.

There were packaged photographs of the Transformers Alternity GT-R Convoy (red version) as well as more images of the Fairlady Z Megatron prototype.

The Disney Label Transformers Mickey Mouse (coloured version) was once again shown as was Masterpiece Grimlock who was photographed wearing an apron and bow tie.

For Transformers Henkei fans, Ratchet was once again shown as having a feb 2009 release day, with the first image of the Japanese release of Inferno (for Figure King) being published.  There are comparison images between the Henkei and Transformers Classics Ratchet version shown in the issue.  Transformers Henkei Hot Shot, Dinobot and the Minicon set are all announced as having a March 2009 release, with the photographs showing the US versions rather than the Japanese re-colours.

The Transformers Encore: "Cassette Masterpiece War Volume 1" set is introduced in the Magazine.  Figure King list the set as containing Lazerbeak rather than Buzzsaw who was originally reported as being in the set.

Finally their is an article entitled "25 years of the Transformers"

Thanks to Toys-World.com-hk we can now bring you some scans of the pages.

Cybergundam blog, has uploaded images from the March Issue of Dengeki Hobby magazine Included are images of Transformers Masterpiece Grimlock showing the  "waiter mode", based on the episode "Madman's Paradise".

There is also more artwork for Transformers Alternity Megatron, images of the box art for Alternity Convoy and Disney Label Mickey Mouse, and a feature theChrono Label watches.

The Arker has followed it's thread on Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Optimus Prime, Starscream and Bumblebee with the first images of Ironhide from the new Transformers film.

The toy appears to be a slight remold of the original Transformers Movie figure.

The Arker has been updated with new images of Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Voyager Optimus Prime and Voyager Starsrcream (back of box images) as well as Deluxe Bumblbebee in packaging.

You can see the first two toys here and bumblebee here.

iGear toys have announced, via TF08.net, that they will be producing an add-on pack for the FansProject's City Commander Transformers Classics Ultra Magnus upgrade pack.  Their pack comes with a new head, missiles, sword and gun.  So far only a 3D render of the items has been shown.

iGear toys have also announced that they will be producing a Auto-Scout cassette of their own, which will rival the TFCToys Gears of Wars set.  An early prototype and renderings have also been shown of these. 

The packs have a release date of April and you can view all of the images below.

TFCToys has sent out some new images of the most recent colour samples of their upcoming TFC-004 "Gears of War" set.  The set includes a new ladder for Classics Inferno, should rockets for Sunstreaker / Sideswipe / Mirage and a brand new Auto-Scout cassette.  You can view the images below.

Yizhi has posted images of the first of three motorbikes which form the robot mode of Transformers Revenge fo the Fallen Arcee.

The bike has more of an off-road feel then the orignal Transformers Movie Arcee toy and appears to have Cyberglyphs on the tank.

TFW2005 have images of prototpes for the unofficial WST Shockwave and Blsater figures, thanks to TFSource.

If you were a fan of the WST Dinorobots then these will wet your appitite for more of the same.

Derrick Wyatt has updated his blog with a spoiler image from the upcoming Season 3 of Transformers Animated.  The character models were drawn by Irineo Maramba, Art Lee, Brianne Drew-Hard, James Lim, and Derrick himself .

Site sponsor, Robotkingdom is now stocking some of the Transformers Animated store exclusive 2-packs.  As such they have updated their website with the listings as well as some new images of the figures.  The 2-packs which are available are

Transformers Animated Voyager Shockwave Vs. Activator Bumblebee - available here.

Transformers Animated Voyager Sunstorm Vs. Activator Ratchet - available here

Thanks to Matt Marshall for pointing out that a prototype for the upcoming Transformers Universe Hot Shot toy has been posted over on HK-TF.com which, amongst other things, has revealed his number plate to be JAAM, as in the JaAm comic
http://www.redshirt.co.uk/tall-tales/armada-the-real-story/
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/JaAm

MillionHero has posted some new information regarding the three Transformers Generations 2009 books. They confirm that the books won't be reprints of the previous two versions but are all new content, working as "add-ons" to the existing books, covering the newer lines.

Volume one covering the very latest releases in Japanese Transformers, including 25th Anniversary items like Disney Label, Masterpiece Grimlock and Alternity, in addition to a complete listing for all of Transformers Henkei.  They have also posted details on the exclusive item for volume one - a special Electro-Disruptor version of Transformers Henkei Ligier (Mirage) in mostly clear plastic, with some solid black and silver areas.  The toy is based on the Part One Limited e-Hobby Shop exclusive Binaltech toy of the same character (though in that line called Rijie).