A new listing has been posted on Amazon for the second book in Ryder Windham's Transformers Classified series. The book follows on from last years "Switching Gears" story and is called Battle Mountain.  The book is due for a hardback, softback and digital release with the latter two coming out soon and the hardback out in October release.

Credit to FullMetalHero.com for the news.

Full Metal Hero admin and Kapow Toys owner Andy has reported on his sightings from the 2012 UK Toy Fair

1) Generations - returns with the Fall of Cybertron line, on display was a hard copy of Jazz who is a 4 wheeled Cybertronian sports car, the line is officially called Generations and the product packaging still depicts a nice drawn example of the character inside. 8 figures are confirmed for the line one of which might well be Grimlock.

2) Prime Weaponizers - Leader Class figures. Choose from Bumblebee or Optimus Prime who was on display, these new larger scale figures feature 4 modes of play with concealed weapons, Prime himself had a set of gattling guns which can flip out from under his hood in truck mode or mount the shoulders in robot mode. They have been simplified over previous leaders so the core audience of children can transform them more easily.

3) Optimus Maximus - bases make a return to the line with Maximus, a large scale Cyberverse Playset which doubles a fully transforming figure and base for your Cyberverse figures. Featuring light and sound features, firing rockets and launching vehicle this guy was fairly imposing standing somewhere in between Ultimate Op and a regular Leader Class figure. It looked quite bare without any Cyberverse figures locked in but you could see the gun turrets just waiting to be armed by you min faves.

4) Transformers Prime

1) Cyberverse Legion

2) Cyberverse Commander

3) Cyberverse Vehicles

4) Optimus Maximus

5) RID Revealers

6) RID Powerizers

7) RID Weaponizers

1) Battle Masks

2) Bot Shots which is actually a really cool battle game which mixes Bakugan with rock, paper scissors, aside from the single pack figures there are Launchers, Ultimate Packs and 3 packs the idea being 2 figures are thrown together in vehicle mode than collide revealing the winning symbol.

Transformers Prime First Edition will not be hitting UK shelves in anyway shape or form, Cliffjumper and Bumblebee were on display but display is as far as they appear to be going.

Kre-O

New Kre-O sets were on display including the following

1) Decepticon Ambush - 4 Kreon pack with small accessories and a base to battle on

2) Cycle Chase - Prowl and 2 of his troops face off against a Decepticon, again comes with small accessory set and base

3) Kre-O Decepticon Helicopter - the robot with no name looks a lot like Starscream in robot mode and is yellow and red, comes with 3 Kreons and quad bike

4) Kre-O Stealth Bumblebee - new mold Bumblebee comes in black with 3 Kreons and what looks like the checkpoint from DOTM

5) Transformers Prime Kre-O Race Car Showdown - Knock Out and Wheeljack face off in this 2 pack each with the standard Kreons mini figure.

6) Kre-O Optimus Vs Megatron - G1 style set featuring an all new Optimus Prime vs G1 style Megatron who changes into a tank and not a walther comes with mini building and 3 kreons.

7) Kre-O Devastator - 9 in 1 playset - a mix of G1 style robots and movie tradition means you get 4 standard robots in movie Devy colours building seperate vehicles or the might Devastator - for those worried no he doesn't look anything like the hulking movie character. Comes with a slew of Kreons and construction environment.

GI Joe:- No UK toys this year - in a year with the second GI-Joe Movie being released, this is a shocking move by Hasbro for fans of the line.

toy-world.com.hk scanned and uploaded the latest issue of Figure King prior to Christmas. The issue contained new images of the soon-to-be released Transformers Prime and Transformers United figures which include a preview image of the re-issued classics Rodimus figure that can now hold a Mini-con.  The full toys shown are:

Transformers United:

• UN-23 Rodimus Prime
• UN-24 Warpath
• UN-25 G2 Megatron
• UN-26 Thunderwing
• UN-27 Windcharger/Wipeout

• Voyager Optimus Prime
• Voyager Bulkhead
• Deluxe Bumblebee
• Deluxe Cliffjumper
• Deluxe Arcee
• Deluxe Megatron
• Deluxe Starscream
• Deluxe Vehicon

• Blowpipe
• Aimless
• Autobot Peaceman

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Our thanks go out to Dan Gilvezan for letting us know that an audiobook version of is recently released book "Bumblebee & Me" is now available for download on audible.com. The book is read by Dan himself and can be found at http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_2?asin=B006NY1QP0&qid=1324486559&sr=sr_1_2

Our thanks go out to Michael Cicharski for forwarding us an email he recently received from Toys R Us UK regarding the Transformers Generationsand Marvel Universe figures.  Michael email themlast week to find out why his local store had not had any new stock and this was their reply.

"Thank you for your email regarding Marvel Universe and Transformers Generations figures, I have contacted our buying department and they have advised that we have no further orders in place for both of those ranges and that they are being discontinued.

I am afraid we have sold through the remaining stock of the transformers Generations figures throughout our stores nationwide. With regards to the availability if the Marvel Universe figures we do have a lot of stock available in other stores, if there are any specific figures you are looking for we can attempt to locate them and have them transferred to Merry Hill.

Once again thank you for taking the time to contact us,

Yours Sincerely

Toys "R" Us Customer Service

Michael contact Hasbro UK's customer service team regarding whether this was a general discontinuation or whether it was just Toys R Us stopping stocking the figure, but they have thus far declined to comment.

TakaraTomy and Uniqlo have released an image of their UT Megatron T-shirt which will be available at their Harajuku store in Tokyo Japan.  The official TakaraTomy page also includes an image of an uncoloured, or possibly recoloured, Optimus Prime that you can see the image below.

Fun Publications have sent out the following email regarding them now selling off spare stock which include this years Transformers Animated Botcon set.  Here is a copy of the email

"We have a very limited number of BotCon items that were left over after we finished shipping and replacing all of the problem pieces.  We keep items in reserve in case they are damaged in shipping.  However, these BotCon items are the last of the last so when they ship, we will not have anything to replace them with if there is a problem.  We have checked these items to make sure there are no factory mistakes.

2011 TF Botcon Leftovers-

2011 BotCon T-shirt (Medium) 1 pc$20+shipping

Transformer Magazine 40th Edition (August/September 2011) 1 pc $10+shipping

2011 BotCon Animated Autotrooper Souvenir #2-3 pack (1 pc) $89+shipping

2011 BotCon Animated Sideswipe & Toxitron Souvenir #1-2 pack (1 pc) $89+shipping

2011 BotCon Animated Shattered Glass: Thundercracker & Galvatron Souvenir #3-2 pack (1pc) $92+shipping

2011 BotCon Boxed Convention Set Stunticons: The Con is On! (1 pc) $315+shipping

2011 BotCon Loose Polybagged Stunticons: The Con is On! (1 pc) $210+shipping

One other non-Botcon item:

KRE-O TRANSFORMERS OPTIMUS PRIME Construction Set (1 pc) $59.99+shipping

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Million Publishing have updated their website with some more details on the 2nd volume of the Transformers Generations Book 2011 which include the revelation that the book will include images of the concept art and prototype of the largest Transformer toy ever to be released ... Fortress Maximus.

They also announced that the book will also include a "Heat Scramble Poster" and they have posted several tweets talking about it.

The book will be released on the 28th July 2011

If you look around the internet today you will see lots of fellow Transformers site reporting "breaking news" about Transformers instruction sheets for Dark Sentinel Prime and perhaps DOTM Guzzle.  You won't find that news story on this site today, other than this rather sarcastic entry, as we broke the news about both of these at midday back on Sunday 19th but since a few people are contacting us about this story, we felt that we should publish something to say "yes, we know about it, we already covered it a few day ago". 

Here at Transformers At The Moon we can guarantee you that, 99% of the time, that Hasbro Inc publish new Transformers related instruction sheets, that you will find the news of their existence right here first.  Quite often you will find the actual PDF documents are available via this site before you will find them on Hasbro's own instruction sheet archive as has been the case with the Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Kre-o instruction sheets.

To view our instruction database simply visit the Transformers Instruction area of this website.

The website trueachievements.com has posted a list of the achievements for Transformers 3 on the xBox 360.  You can view the list below:

Prime - Complete the Campaign.
Completionist - Destroy all hidden TRANSFORMERS symbols in Campaign.
Road Kill - Destroy 30 enemies while in vehicle form in Campaign.
Grenade Expert - Eliminate 20 opponents with the Flak Grenade in Campaign.
Recruit - Survive 60 seconds in a public multiplayer match without being killed.
Power Surge - Use an active ability 5 times in a public multiplayer match.
The Champion - Reach level 20 in any single class in Multiplayer.
Secret Achievement - Continue playing to unlock this secret achievement.

Chapter I - Complete Chapter I on any difficulty.
Top Score: Bumblebee - Complete Chapter I with a score of 1000000 or more.
I know what I’m doing! - Change into vehicle form before reaching the change form tutorial in Chapter I.
Boot Stomper - Kill 3 Enemies with Bumblebee’s Kick Ability in Chapter I.

Chapter II - Complete Chapter II on any difficulty.
Top Score: Ironhide - Complete Chapter II with a score of 1000000 or more.
Seek and Destroy - Kill 25 Enemies using Grenade Blossom in Chapter II.
Rule With An Iron Fist - Kill 20 enemies with Ironhide's Melee attack in Chapter II.

Chapter III - Complete Chapter III on any difficulty.
Top Score: Mirage - Complete Chapter III with a score of 800000 or more.
Body Count - While holding out for Reynolds to send backup in Chapter III, 30 Decepticons are killed.
Good Driver Discount - Avoid taking any damage from Starscream’s proximity mines in Chapter III.

Chapter IV - Complete Chapter IV on any difficulty.
Top Score: Soundwave - Complete Chapter IV with a score of 1000000 or more.
Serrated - Kill 10 Autobots with Laserbeak's ram ability in Chapter IV.
Stunning! - Stun 10 Autobots with Soundwave's stun ability in Chapter IV.

Chapter V - Complete Chapter V on any difficulty.
Homewrecker - Wipe out all secret base ground defenders within 60 seconds in Chapter V.
Furious Flyer - Fly through the canyons after Air Raid in 120 seconds in Chapter V.
Surprise Package - In the air battle, activate Starscream's Guided Missile ability 5 times without dying in Chapter V.

Chapter VI - Complete Chapter VI on any difficulty.
Top Score: Megatron - Complete Chapter VI with a score of 2000000 or more.
Autobots are Weak! - Defeat all 3 waves in Megatron's Lair without dying on Hard Difficulty in Chapter VI.
Overlord - Drain 5000 health from enemies in Chapter VI.

Chapter VII - Complete Chapter VII on any difficulty.
Fleet of Foot - When one Driller arm is attacking, avoid all attacks in Chapter VII.
Counting Coup - Use only melee attacks on Shockwave's power core to make him retreat to his cryo platform.
Primed for Combat - Activate Optimus' Shoulder Rocket ability 5 times without dying in Chapter VII.

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KOToys have updated their thread on their KO Classics Deepcover figure.  The toy is a recolour of the knock-off Sideswipe mold with new decals and painted up to resemble the e-Hobby exclusive figure.  You can view some mirrored images below.

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