12 years ago today, 29th October 1999, Transformers At The Moon was first launched.  The website, at that time, operated from the domain www.transformers.themoon.co.uk which was based from the email address transformers@themoon.  It was by registering this email account that we decided to settle on the name for the site.  Whilst both the email address and the domain have since moved to domains owned by us and to better reflect the focus of the website, Transformers toys, the site has continued to be maintained by the two brothers who first launched it.

We had hoped to launch the 9th version of the website to coincide with the anniversary of the site, however due to my computer at home failing, that project is still outstanding.

We will, however, still run the 12th anniversary celebrations, in terms of new special content and announcements, just as soon as wee are able to.  But in the mean time we would like to express our thanks to all of you who have visited the website over the last 12 years, joined the message board, Facebook group or follow us on  Twitter.  So on behalf of thhe pair of us, THANK YOU.

Steve and Dave AKA Transformers At The Moon

As you have no doubt notice the number of updates to this website, including news stories, has gradualy become less and less over recent weeks and so I thought I would take the time to update you all as to why this is the case.

For those of you who do not know this website was set-up and run by some twins 12 years ago.  In fact the site first launched on the 29th October 1999.  However, for the last few years, as we have gotten older, both of our professional careers have taken up more and more of our free time.  Its fairly common for both of us to work 12-16 hour days and personally I have worked 37 hours straight only a few months ago.  Because of this the time we get to maintain the website code, add new galleries and launch new features has dwindled.  The last year has been especially difficult for us as my brother, who you may know as Moonbug, no longer lives in the same town as myself and he use to maintain a lot of the content whilst I was working on the code.  During this time, and indeed the year prior, I have been re-writing the whole website from the ground up.  What was suppose to have been a 6-8 month project has slipped to 2 years.   I was hoping to launch the website this month as a part of ther 12th year anniversary celebrations, however as of last night my the motherboard on my main computer has died.  The machine has been on its last legs for a while with both the graphics card and soundcard failing and finally the fan on the northbridge has once again packed in causing the board to overheat and fry.

The good news is that when the issues stared all of the data was backed up onto an external hard disk so I have, at most, lost about a few days worth of coding and 2 months worth of emails to an old email address.

I will continue to update the news from work, when I can as well as from home via my phone or this extremely low powered netbook whilst I order and re-build a new computer.

My brother is currently out of the country on holiday but once he is back I am sure that he will try to update the site as much as he can whilst I am unable to add new galleries, yes this netbook is that low powered it can't handle high res image editing.

I will continue to try to complete the last 3% of the website re-write as well as things are so close to launch but I wanted to let you all know that if things seem quiet around here for the next week or so it is not because the website has stopped, on the contrary, we have a lot of unique content that we have been preparing to add to the website from hard copies and testshots through cartoon models and behind the scenes Sunbow documents as well as general toy galleries.

What it does mean though, is the big celebration I was hoping to have to commemorate the 12th aniversary of the website will be delayed, perhaps to the 12th anniversary of the official launch of the site which was the 11th November 1999.

Thanks,

Steve AKA Quartz

The event officially starts at 11am at the pub but the plan is that people will meet up there over a 1 hour period before moving onto the nearby shops including Forbidden Planet and Orbital Comics.

As long time visitors to this site will know we have run pub meets in Holborn before (starting back in 2001/2002) and normally meet just around the corner from this pub so you should be able to find it easily enough.

More information is available on our forum here or on the official event's Facebook page here.  Work permitting, I should be there and it will be great to see as many of you as can make it especially as the website will be turning 12 at the end of October.

We have uploaded our image gallery of Transformers Generations 2011 Volume 2.

This book included a manga for Transformers United Stepper along with images of Transformers Dark of the Moon figures.

Also included in the book are images of hardcopies for several unreleased Unicron toys from Generation One and Beast Wars Neo, a great look at the production run for Fortress Maximus from designs, hard copies, prototypes and all the finished items of Fortress Maximus, Grand Maximus, Brave Maximus and Lucky Draw Brave Maximus. Also included is a really nice look at a hard copy Wheelie toy. The magazine also includes concept art for unreleased Pretenders and Action Masters.  Also included is only the second ever image of the super rare Chromedome statue

With the release of Beast Wars II on DVD, we thougth we'd show you a sneak peak into the future

Following on from our 1997 TV Boy scans, you will now find 5 new galleries in out Japanese Magazine scan archive from 1998 TV Boy (TV Kun).

• February 1998 TV Boy scans
• June 1998 TV Boy Scans
  
• November 1998 TV Boy Scans
  
• December 1998 TV Boy scans

Our "Hunt for Lucky Draw Transformers Campaigns" continues with our latest Japanese Magazine scan archives.

The latest in our long running Japanse TV Magazine / TV Boy updates sees 8 new galleries from 1997 (the year Beast Wars hit the UK).

1. TV Boy January 1997
2. TV Boy February 1997
3. TV Boy April 1997
4. TV Boy May 1997
5. TV Boy June 1997
6. TV Boy July 1997
7. TV Boy October 1997
8. TV Boy December 1997

There are more to come, so stay tuned at Transformers At The Moon­

We have started on our next batch of Japanese magazine scans, this time the focus will be on TV Boy.  Before we get onto that though we thought we'd upload two of the recent Japanese hobby magazines, August 2011 issue of Dengeki Hobby and August 2011 TV Magazine.

There are 50 pages scanned from the Dengeki Hobby managzine and 13 from TV Magazine.

Remember to check out the hundreds of other Japanese magazine scans which we have in our Transformers In The Media section.

I thought I would take a moment to explain about the lack of updates to the website.  For the last month I have been extremely busy with my job which has had a massive impact on the time I spend maintaining my websites.  This was then followed by Auto Assembly, for which I was on the committee, and led to the lack of updates to the website since Thursday.  Since being back from AA, which has only been a day, I've been busy putting things back that I had to get out or move around in order to take to the event.  Do not worry though, I will be getting back to the site and updating both the news and resource sections very shortly.  I do apologise for the lack of updates this year which has primarily been caused by the change in responsibilities at my work, but I will strive to find more of a balance and so you should start to see the results very soon.

Thanks

Steve AKA Quartz

We've uploaded two Transformers Dark of the Moon toy galleries into our extensive Transformers toy resource area.

• Transformers Dark of the Moon Deluxe Crankcase
• Transformers Dark of the Moon Voyager Sentinel Prime
  

You will find a new addition to our Transformers Toy Gallery area in the form of a Transformers Generation One White Prototype of Octane.

The figure, made entirely of white plastic has 36 images in it's gallery.

We are very pleased to bring you a full image gallery, and detailed look, at the amazing Scouting Force X Night Ops Convention Exclusive Black Reflector toys, Bullet, Shield and Edge.

• Scouting Force X - Night Ops Edge
• Scouting Force X - Night Ops Shield
• Scouting Force X - Night Ops Bullet

The toy was a RobotKingdom exclusive at Botcon 2011 will also be available at TFCon as well as other conventions around the globe.  Recently Kapow Toys have been dropping hints on their site Full Metal Hero which suggest (through the including of the emoticon) that he will be available through them at some point, so if you have not picked up the black version thus far you will still have other opportunities.