An image of a new Transformers Go! booklet has been shared over Social Media sites previewing the in-production anime series.  The booklet will be released on the 27th of this month and we expect will contain the first detailed information and images of the character in the series

MTV Geek! have posted a new clip from this week's episode of Transformers Prime Beast Hunters which is titled "Prey". The episode will air within the US on The Hub this Friday at 7:30PM EST.

Amazon have posted some new pre-orders for some upcoming Transformers trades from IDW. The two new listings are:

Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Volume 1
It's the beginning of the end for Transformers Prime! But a new enemy is revealed and the stakes are racheted up even higher as the Cybertronians continue their quest for peace throughout the universe.

Paperback: 112 pages
Publisher: IDW Publishing (August 20, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1613777159
ISBN-13: 978-1613777152

and Transformers Prelude which is a collection of the latest spotlight comics
The Spotlight falls on Orion Pax, Thundercracker, Megatron, Bumblebee, Trailcutter, and Hoist in this collection of six individual stories that explain an important moment in each character's life. From the distant past to current events, each story adds to the Cybertronian lore.

Paperback: 152 pages
Publisher: IDW Publishing (August 27, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1613777167
ISBN-13: 978-1613777169

Now that the first three episode's of Transformers Prime have aired in Singapore as a back-to-back 1 hour special, videos are already popping up on YouTube of the entire broadcast, one such video can be viewed below.

Zap2it have updated their Transformers Prime Beast Hunters episode guide with the title and description for the fourth episode 4 within the series.  The episode, titled "Rebellion", is due to air within the US on the 12th April 2013 and has the brief synopsis of "Team Prime wages war against the Decepticon citadel."

To help promote the UK DVD only release of Transformers Prime: Dangerous Ground within the UK, Hasbro UK have launched as new Transformers themed website www.transformersprimesoundboard.co.uk which contains free downloadable audio snippets from the show

Hasbro have launched a free TF: Prime soundboard with downloadable clips to coincide with the home-release of Transformers Prime: Dangerous Ground in the UK

UK Transformers dealer Kapow Toys has posted up the first listings for some exclusive toys in Japan, a combiner, in the series called Transformers Go! (The Japanese Release of Transformers Beast Hunters)

The first releases are

G01 Kenzan Samurai - Police Car
G02 Jinbu Samurai - Jet
G03 Genoh Samurai - Fire Truck
G04 Gaidora

EDIT:

Corrected the listing of Transformers Go as Beast Hunters, as per information on TFW2005.com.  Sorry for that, I've been out of the TF News frame for several months - Dave

Paul Hitchens has updated The Spacebridge's Facebook page with another reconstructed deleted scene from the 1986 Transformers: The Movie animated feature film.  This latest video is the original sequence which was planned for Ultra Magnus' death.  Readers of the Marvel comics adaptation will recognise the way Magnus meets his end but this confirms that it was the original way in which he was going to be killed.

If you would like to see further recreations like this then we encourage you to head over to the Space-Bridge page on Facebook and like it to help show Paul your appreciation of the material he is sharing.

Paul Hitchens has put together a fantastic reconstruction of a deleted scene from the Transformers: The Movie which he has shared on his The Spacebridge page over on Facebook.  The video, which is on YouTube, shows what happens between Optimus Prime ploughing through the Decepticons and then coming face-to-face with Megatron.  Here is Paul to give a better explanation

"Here is a video I made of one of the deleted scenes from the 1986 Transformers movie. It's made using a set of production used storyboards I own. I have included a section of the film either side so you can see where it would have fit in. I believe this scene was animated as it exists in very late production notes & music was written to accompany it. It was cut as Nelson Shin felt it ruined the flow of Primes attack leading up to his battle with Megatron. Ultra Magnus, Tracks, Sideswipe & Red Alert were picked to attack Devastator as they all have rocket launchers. It also explains what Megatron was looking at when Prime found him. Hope you like"

Hasbro UK have confirmed, via Facebook, that following on from the release of Transformers Prime Volume 2 (Episodes 6-10 of season 1) the rest of the season will be released in June (Decepticons Unleashed) and October (Unlikely Alliancea) with a complete season 1 boxset also being released then.  Sadly they have also confirmed that there will be no UK release of Transformers Prime on Blu-Ray meaning that if you wish to enjoy an HD viewing of the series that you will need to import either the US version (with a region free Blu-Ray player) of the Australian Madman release which is the same region as the UK.

Hasbro Inc have issued the following press release announcing a deal with Vision Animation and Moody Street Kids to produce 26 half-hour episodes for a 2nd season of Rescue Bots.

Hasbro Strikes Malaysian Production Deal for Rescue Bots

LOS ANGELES, CA -- Hasbro Studios, the Los Angeles-based entertainment division of Hasbro, Inc., announced an agreement with Malaysia’s leading studio, Vision Animation, and Australia’s Moody Street Kids to produce 26 half-hour episodes for the second season of Rescue Bots. The pact comes as the new animated Transformers franchise series has debuted to strong ratings both on The Hub, a joint venture between Hasbro and Discovery Communications in the U.S., and on many of the top broadcast networks globally. 

Rescue Bots will be collaboratively produced by Hasbro in the U.S., Vision in Malaysia and Moody Street in Australia. This brings to eight the number of countries that will be involved in production or co-production deals with Hasbro Studios by the end of November, with the United States, China, Japan, Canada, South Korea and Spain also on the list. Pre-production on the Rescue Bot episodes will commence immediately and delivery is expected in mid-2014.

“We are always striving to find cutting edge talent around the world,” said Hasbro Studios President Stephen Davis. “With Vision and Moody Street, we now have another team of international production partners that share our vision and understanding of the power of brands. We are most impressed with their ability to take branded entertainment and create great emotional stories.”  

The Vision agreement is significant to Malaysia, with Hasbro Studios becoming the first U.S. company to strike a deal under the terms of Malaysia’s recently announced production Tax Incentive program.

Following an introductory meeting between Davis and Malaysia’s Minister of Information, Culture and Communications two years ago, Vision joined the discussions. The animation studio at the forefront of developing Malaysia’s production industry, especially through co-productions with world-class partners, brought in Moody Street Kids with which they had collaborated on three previous projects. To ensure their ability to deliver high-quality animation and strong storytelling in conjunction with Hasbro Studios, the partners conducted a successful test prior to the deal being signed.

“Gill Carr of Moody Street Kids and I are delighted to be given the opportunity to bring the collective strengths of our studios to bear on the production of this fantastic show,” said Huoi-Seong Low, CEO of Vision Animation. “We are confident that this will be the first of many projects we will be doing together with Hasbro Studios.”

"I am happy and pleased to take note that the Malaysian Government's support and investments in the entertainment & media industry over the past few years have paid off,” said Dato' Sri Kamaruddin Siaraf, Secretary General of the Malaysian Ministry of Information, Communications and Culture. “Malaysia is being globally recognized as a reliable content production centre, ready for co-production opportunities, especially in 2D & 3D animation. The production deal between Hasbro Studios and Vision Animation is a landmark and certainly a testament to Malaysia's capabilities in producing award-winning, world-class animation for international markets at a competitive cost."

Source: Hasbro Studios

A new video preview of this weeks Transformers Prime episode, Regeneration, has been posted onto the video sharing website YouTube.  You can watch the trailer for the 51st episode of the Transformers Cartoon below.

Below you will find a new preview for this weeks Transformers Prime epsisode Patch.  This week also marks the 50th episode within the ongoing Transformers show.

Jim Sorenson has updated his blog with a new entry for The Ark Addendum titled Fortress' (Cerebros') Transform.  As you can guess from the name, the entry covers the transformation sequence for Fortress, or Cerebros as he was known within the West, from robot into his head mode.

The video trailer for next weeks episode of Transformers Prime, Patch, is now available on YouTube.  The video, which follows on from yesterdays episode is the 50th episode from the series