Thanks to Snakas for pointing out that the Million Publishing Exclusive Elite Guard Optimus Prime figure actaully appears to be a recolour of Voyager Optimus Prime rather than a recolour of Wing Blade Optimus Prime.

You can see images of the toy below.

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Optimus Scourge has posted a Youube video of the Japanese Black Animated Optimus Prime toy.

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With Auto Assembly 2010 officially starting tomorrow in Birmingham, England some of the guest and attendees have already arrived.  These include Derrick J Wyatt, Jim Sorenson and Bill Forster who's appearance at Europes largest Transformers Convention were funded by this website.

To commerate this event as well as Derrick's recent Birthday, we were proud to present him with a very special gift ... a custom made plush Transformers Animated Swindle!

The figure was specially commissioned for the event and comes complete with detachable weapons and a custom box.

Below you can see some images of the plush that we presented to Derrick along with our own version.  The toy is 10"x7"x4" in size and seemed to be well liked by those who were in attendance.  Hopefully the plush will be on display with Derrick overr thr weekend.

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We have updated our Magazine scan area of the website with a gallery of the September issue of TV Boy.  The images are provided by ModXToys.com and contain five pages of Transformers related items which you can find below­.

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Jim Sorenson has posted an updated on his Blog Disciples of Boltax entitled "AllSpark Almanac II: Deviants".  The article links to several images that were drawn by Bill Forster for the book often appearing as small images of in the background on some pages.  Bill has uploaded larger versions of these images to his DeviantArt account so you can enjoy them along with his comments.

Both men will be in attendance as guests at Auto Assembly 2010 which takes places within the UK on August 13th through August 15th.

Yahoo Japan seller Chibiruku has listed an auction for the TakaraTomy exclusive EZ Collection Purple Starscream figure that was part of the recent Transformers Animated campaign within Japan.  You can view the images within the Misc Toy Image section of Starscreams profile on TransformersAnimated.com as well as below.

TransformersAnimated.com and Transformers At The Moon are proud sponsors of Auto Assembly 2010 and are  sponsoring the event by bringing Derrick J Wyatt, Jim Sorenson and Bill Forster over to the UK for Europe's largest Transformers Convention ever seen!.

Thanks to an auction on TaoBao by TFclub, there are more images of the clear plastic Transformers Animated Sons of Cybertron Rodmus toy.

Follow the link above to see the auction and images.

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A new campaign has been annouced in Japan called Transformers Museum, in which stores around Japan will be running exhibitions on the Transformers toy line.  Included in the delbrations is a limited edition  Black Voyager Class Transformers Animated Optimus Prime.



So far not much is known about the event, though it will be occuring at Otsu Western Store in Kyoto from the 3rd of August to the 8th and at Yokohama Sogo Store from the 10th to the 16th. So far it is unknown if further stores and dates will be added.

In addition to Optimus Prime Black Version being on sale in limited numbers for 4200 yen, attendees will be able to see a Camaro painted up as Bumblebee and 6ft models of Prime and Bumblebee, and will be able to purchase Masterpiece Convoy as well as Transformers T-shirts and cups.

The Otsu Store's page can be seen here and a .pdf of Yokohama's event can be seen here.

Have you got your ticket pre-registered for Auto Assembly 2010 yet?  No? Shame on you, you better get cracking as the latest two guests have just been announced.  Yes that's right in an interview with TFW2005.com Auto Assembly's own Simon Plumbe announced to the world that both Jim Sorenson and Bill Forster, authors of not only both Allspark Almanacs but also the wonderful Ark Compendiums which showcase the design art for much of the original series will be attending Auto Assembly 2010 right here within the UK.

There appearance at the event is sponsored by this very site.  Yes you read that right, Transformers At The Moon and TransformersAnimated.com not only are we bringing over Derrick J Wyatt but also both Jim Sorenson and Bill Forster!!

So if you are a fan of Transformers Animated this is the event to get to.  If you don't like Transformers Animated but you liked the Ark books, this is the event to go to.  If you don't like that either but you like Beast Wars, this is still the event to go to (Garry Chalk, Scott McNeil).  If you liked, and you know you did, the IDW Wreckers mini-series, once again Auto Assembly 2010 is the event to go to as Nick Roche will be there.  So what are you waiting for, head over to www.autoassembly.org.uk  right now and book a ticket before they sell out.

Derrick J Wyatt has posted a very cool response to one of the latest questions posed to him on Formspring.  When asked "Who's in charge of financial matters on Animated Cybertron? According to the old STARS Tech Spec Manual, the Autobots were traders at one point, and I'd think a planet not at war would have commerce." Derrick replied with a post that introduces the Transformer Universe to a new character ..... Decimus Quadrillon.

"There is commerce on Cybertron. For a great deal of time before Megatron reappeared, the post Great War has been a time where the Autobots have created many ways to entertain themselves. There are refuelery restaurants, energon bars, shopping arcades with every upgrade you could ever think of, as well as various forms of theater, music, and other entertainment.

There is a commerce guild that is in charge of the credit and energon banks.The head of this guild is Decimus Quadrillon, who is the richest mech on Cybertron. Rumor has it that Decimus' cube shaped headquarters is actually a giant bin containing over 30,000 square standard Cybertronian units of raw energon. There are even some wild and unlikely rumors that he dives into and swims through the energon. An act which would be very damaging on a Cybertronian's inner workings.

The Autobots have a distrust of other alien races (organics and non-organics), and do not engage in much, if any, off world trade in modern times. Cybertron has been invaded, conquered, and nearly conquered at different points throughout its vast history, leaving the Autobots with little care to act with outside civilizations." replies Derrick.

Now I'm not sure about you, but I would love to to see how Derrick pictures Decimus now.

Don't forget that if you are in the UK you can meet Derrick first hand by attending Auto Assembly 2010 which takes place next month.