Another Transformers Animated campaign figure has been announced, this time running in the Japanese Tran­sformers Animated comic known as The Cool.  The campaign will be for a crystal (clear coloured) Transformers Animated Activators Optimus Prime.  The details will be in next months issue though we are working on translating the text from the images.

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Credit to Masabon for the news for posting the news on the TFW2005 boards.

An ebay auction has appeared for the Lucky Draw Gold Optimus Prime toy from Transformers Animated.

The figure is limited to 1000 pieces and the seller has 4 for sale.

You can see the auction for the first Transformers Animated Lucky Drawfigure here.

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Not only content with updating his blog with his own material Jim Sorenson has posted a blog letting everyone know that his "esteemed colleague" and quite frankly all-round "awesome dude" (ask anyone that met the pair of them at Auto Assembly 2010) Bill Forster has updated his Deviant Art gallery with yet more of his original artwork from The AllSpark Almanac II.    Here's the low-down from Jim on the updates that Bill posted

This time around, he's uploaded our Reverse-Pretender alter-egos, Octus and Megadeath, some heads from the Great War like Moonradar and Gigatron (a.k.a. RID Megatron, Animated style), some Maccadam's heads like the adorable Clipper, and more. 

I think my favorite might be Skids.  While, obviously, it was movie-style Skids that inspired the design, the idea that he'd be infested with brain parasites came from G1 Skids, where he spent well over 100 UK issues in limbo after Galvatron time-displaced him there.  I thought it funny to include this element, but with the much uglier RotF Skids. 

Swing by, let Bill know what you think of his work!

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.