Amiami.jp have posted a new listing for an upcoming Kabaya combiner figure from the Gaia range.  The range is being called Gaia Scramble and is based on the "Scramble Union Warriors" of the past (so Scramble City).  Gaia Scramble figures will be released at 300 yen each and can be combined to for "Superion", "Menasor" and "Bruticus".  There are molds being released, in one will come in two colours with the molds being called Brawl, Firebolt, Air Raid, Dead End, Drag strip and Bolter.

The toys will be released in late August 2013

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Scans from this months Hobby Japan have been posted online which include a look at some of the upcoming Transformers figures which are being released by TakaraTomy.

eBay seller lena8182 has posted auctions for the Botcon Sandstorm and Botcon Obsidian figures. The auctions, which can be found by clicking those links, contain some additional images to those shown on the TaoBao auctions which had been previously reported.

Robotkingdom have posted a collection of in-package images of Transformers Generations Voyager Sandstorm figure who is a retooled and repainted version of the previously released Voyager Springer toy.  The images, wich can be viewed below, also show his bio which is as follows:

SANDSTORM lives for action. His only real fear is a fear of boredom. As a result, he takes unnecessary risks, both in combat and out - risks that can sometimes threaten the success of his missions. He lives fast, loud, and dangerously - traits that make him fun to hang out with most of the time. But his fellow AUTOBOTS are getting a little sick of his habit of giving away his position to the DECEPTICONS just so he has the opportunity to enjoy a fight.

TFC Toys have announced that they will be producing an upgrade set for their Uranos figure.  Uranos is the groups non-official Superion releasee with the upgrade set including new "g1-themed" guns both for the individual robots as well as Uranos himself and a new "G1 body shield".  You can view all of the images after the jump

Our thanks go to Pete Brown for letting us know that he spoke with the manager of Toys R Us Poole here within the UK earlier today, enquiring about the Transformers Fall of Cybertron Generations Voyager Class figures and to his surprise, the manager checked the computer and found that there were Voyager class figures from the Generations line being released within the UK as Toys R Us exclusives!!  The second piece of information that he was given, was that the figures have a shelf date of February 2013, as in 3 months ago!  Pete was told that the manager believes the figures have "just been held up" but Toys R Us do not know whether they are the FoC figures (which is most likely the case) or whether they are the Asian exclusives.

Pete has promised to update us if he hears more, so we will keep you all updated on this story.

With his recently re-issue in Japan, you have probably come across all of the photographs on various social media channels of smiling faces with their re-issue Fortress Maximus'.  Are you feeling left out but do not have over £300 to spend on the figure? Well help is at hand thanks to some overseas eBay sellers.

Seller Animetroplis has placed a figure up for sale for £249.99 with £29.99 postage and packing, so a grand total of £279.98 which is available through their eBay store ANIMETROPOLIS.

Not to be outdone however is crosszgundam who has a Fortess Maximus figure up at £184.98 with a postage charge of £75, bringing the total price to a reasonable £259.98.

Another cheaper listing comes thanks to toyercity who has the toy up for $409 which works out at around £267.41 with free shipping.

Hasbro's official images of Acid Storm and Soundwave have now been released. Acid Storm is a bright green and black redeco of the second Starscream mould, whilst the US Soundwave comes with all five of his Masterpiece Cassettes, Buzzsaw, Laserbeak, Ravage, Rumble and Frenzy.

The Hong Kong Toy fair has now finished and whilst Hasbro were reportedly not at the event, there were some Transformers licensed products on display.  One of these products were licensed replica polyresin (ABS) statues of Transformers Movie Optimus Prime and Bumblebee along with a prop-replica of the Allspark from FMC. Atamaii TV Blog were in attendance with their reporter Stu Carter recording a video introduction by FMC representative Mike.

The statues are Asian exclusives, are articulated and come with interchangable accessories.  Mike explains in the video that the Bumblebee figure is to scale with the Optimus Prime statue which is why he is smaller with Prime standing at 20" tall and Bumblebee who is 14" tall.

The figures are on the expensive side with Optimus Prime retailing at $1,699 (that is USD not HKD) with Bumblebee being $1,399.

The Allspark cube is made to scale for the film and costs $299.

The first run of both the Optimus Prime and the Bumblebee statues have now sold out within Asia with FMC looking to produce a second run.  You can view a video below.

This is just a quick reminder to UK Transformers fans that the new Argos catalogue will be out tomorrow. Stores already have the catalogue in but they are not unpacking them until tomorrow morning (at least they shouldn't).  If your local branch does put them out early, let us know what Transformers listings have been added.

Amazon UK have now cancelled ALL orders for the Masterpiece Optimus Prime figure stating that mispricing as the reason.  A new listing has not yet been added and is not expected, so it turns out that the UK will once again have to continue to play the wait-and-see game as to whether Toys R Us UK actually put the figure out on the shelves.

In a strange turn of events the delayed UK release of Masrterpiece Optimus Prime (the MP-10 version) who was going to be released as a Toys R Us exclusive is now looking like he will be released on Amazon.co.uk for an amazing price of just £35!!  The listing for Masrterpiece Optimus Prime cab be found by clicking the link. Below you will find the product description for the figure.

Product Description

Box Contains

1 x OptimusS Prime figure
1 x Autobot Roller
1 x Spike Witwicky mini-figure
1 x Energon
1 x Instructions

Two images have been published of the upcoming Takara Tomy exclusive Transformers Prime Arms Micron Nightmare Unicron figure.  The toy, which can be seen below, is a recolour of the Gaia Unicron figure, will be released in March as a Bic Camera store exclusive and represents the spark of Gaia Unicron when he was sealed away after his appearance in the TV show.

Thanks to Yomiru online for the quiet awesome looking Japanese prototype of a working mech-suit.

Though not Transformers related, i'm sure you'll agree this is quite awesome.

Following on from our report on Thursday 25th October, Toy-Hobby World have posted some full scans from the 177th issue of Figure King.  Last Thursday we bought you news regarding the contents of the magazine, well now we have mirrored the images, which were originally available here, after the jump.

• The Transformers Encore release of Fortress Maximus. The images are the same official stock photos as seen on Amazon and other retailers.
• The Transformers Generations Feb 2012 releases are shown, again these are the same stock images used by online retailers of the Fall of Cybertron figures.
• Images are shown of the Masterpiece MP-15 Rumble and Jaguar (Ravage) figures as well as MP-16 Buzzsaw and Frenzy.  There are also imagesa of MP-10b Black Convoy, Lambor (Sideswipe), Alert (Red Alert) as well as Soundwave with Starscream (the same images that were published within Dengeki Hobby). 
• The two cap-bots, officially called Kaputicon's are once again shown.  The toys come with a one-touch transformation gimmick much like the old Machine Wars and Beast Wars figures.
• There are some new imags of the Transformers United figures.
• Build Master Prime is shown as is Assualt Master Prime, Tank Master Prime and Marine Master Prime.
• For Transformers Prime, Smokescreen, Nemesis Prime and Silas Breakdown are also shown.
• Some news images are shown of the EZ Collection Set 2 as well as Cannon / Gattling / Weaponizer Bumblebee.  That toy is out in late November within Japan.
• Finally, some images of the Bic Camera campaign Arcee figure, as well as the chrome gold Transformers Prime Optimus Prime figure, are shown as well as some Toys R Us campaign Arms Micron figures