Fans of the Fans-Project "Core" line will be pleased to know that pre-order for their Riftshot Core & Recoiler Core are now available from the FPCore website.

The toys are being sold only as a set for $189.99 for members and $209.99 for non-members. Order by can placed here.

Mastermind Creations have revealed an upcoming Cyclops figure who is, obviously, their homage to Generation One Shokkwave. You can view the image below.

A new third party group revealed themselves a couple of days ago via the Facebook group Planet Iacon when they showed off prototypes for a new non-official Bruticus figure. Unlike recent revealed, none of the figures were blacked out so everyone gets the chance to have a good look at Warbotron who appears to be pretty detailed as well as larger than some 3rd party items.  You can view the images after the jump.

UPDATE: NECIO of TFW2005.com has mocked up a size comparison chart of some of the Third Party figures!

TFW2005.com have posted a nice summary of the figures which were shown off during the 3rd Party Panel at this years TFCon.  Some of the stand out figures were the Voyager sized G1 Skyfire but a yet unnamed 3rd party company, Make Toys showing off their Computron figure, Make Toys Swerve with drinks tray and additional damaged faced head and Fans Project revealing their Quickswitch figure.

EchoTF
- will be making Fall of Cybertron Bruticus Kits

Unnamed Company
- making Voyager size Skyfire

Mayhem Mechanix
- "Robo Dominion Saga Unrustable Bastards" Non-TF based with a rider.
- Bike turns into robot and rider in chest piece.
- Fiction has robot cycle gangs roving wastelands.
- Mayhem Mechanics, one of the of the mastermind Creations designers. Same who designed Hexatron and most of Feral Rex.
- Will be a kickstarter project.

Ori Toy
- Acid Rain toys. Stronghold out now. More soon. Converting mechs that fit 3-3/4" figures

Fanstoys
- Nothing new shown.

Keith's Fantasy Club.
- VOLTRON redeco of Ironpaw
- doing Raindance, Grandslam, Overkill and Slugfest.
- Overkill and Slugfest will have Dinobots color redecoes
- Showing Perceptor and Magnificus
- Doing a Skybyte called "Haiku"! and doing a Captain Shark deco as well!

X-Transbots
- Huffer and Pipes being shown
- Huffer comes up to MP-10 Optimus' waist

Renderform
- Nothing new to show

BTS
- Doing a Blaster that turns into a walkie talkie
- Senator Ratbat head design also shown for that same mold
- Triple changing Energon cubes - cube, bug, weapon
- Some will be on display here
- will be "Low Cost"
- Nova Lord box art shown, has a base mode
- Prototypes of Nova Lord's head sculpts will be on display. Possibly also his powermaster partners
- BTS was working on a Fortress Maximus, project cancelled when Encore was announced

Mastermind Creations
- Peaugh has full color test shots of Fortis and Bovis here (Jarodimus has handled them, they're outstanding)
- Will be on display
- Peaugh did a live 5-foot drop test of Bovis. Zero Damage.
- Talon pushed back to November for design changes and new features. He is a sniper -- has 2 helmets, rifle, wings act as cloak
- 6th Feral Rex bot is saber tooth tiger remold of Tigris, deco like Catilla, name is Felisaber (G1 Colors) Mostly yellow, some red
- Showing femme bots
- MMC doing a very G1-ish Perceptor. Will have toy and cartoon face. 3 modes, super articulated
- Prototype looks very good

Headrobots
- Iguana is next - finally!
- Doing an Apeface head

Perfect Effect
- IDW Fort Max - seen at Botcon

Maketoys
- Doing Scourge version of Battle Tanker -- no suprise. New head
- IDW Swerve WITH A TRAY OF DRINKS
- COMPUTRON all five shown in bot mode
- concept shown for combined mode

FANSPROJECT
- No news on release date for Steelcore trailer -- still happening
- Showing combined Intimidator (Menasor)
- Roadbuster! Very nice, a half track
- 4th and 5th Glacial bots being shown
- Wooly Rhino and deer
- Announced a Quickswitch/Sixknight

We have mirrored the slides which were shown as well as some images of the 3rd party figures within the dealer room attached to this news story.

A video have been posted on the Chinese Video Sharing site YouKu.com of the Mecha Ideas Wrecking Crew Geminus and Apex better known as not-TopSpin and not-TwinTwist.  You can view the video using the plug-in below.

3rd Party toy maker, Fans Toys, have sent out over 100 preview images of their soon-to-be-released, FT-03 Quake ave (Not Shockwave) figure.  All of the images can be viewed by clicking the headline of this story.

Third party toy manufaturer, ToyWorld, have announced on their website, that they will be releasing what appears to be some 3rd party Dinobot figures in 2013.  Not much information has been given thus far, only the preview image which can be viewed below.

Credit to fellow UK fansite FullMetalHero.com for the news.

Dealers who will be trading at Botcon have received an email stating that Hasbro and Fun Publications reserve the right to confiscate any and all unlicensed materials.  You'll find a copy of the announcement below.

"Promoter and its designees, including Hasbro, Inc., each reserves the right to ban or deny display of any item for any reason. Promoter and its designees, including Hasbro, Inc., each reserves the right to confiscate any items that violates these rules and regulations. Exhibitor agrees to permit such confiscation without incident and agrees that all confiscated items shall become the property of Promoter or its designee and may be turned over to the appropriate authorities. Exhibitor herby [sic] waives and all claims against the Promotor [sic] or Hasbro, Inc. with respect to any removal of person or confiscation of items."

Credit to FullMetalHero for the news.

Update:

Pete has posted a response on behalf of Botcon over on TFW2005.com

I am afraid that details will not be provided. There are SO many 3rd party items, no one is going to provide a list of what is acceptable "unlicensed" toys.

FullMetalHero.com have announced that the third party group, Mastermind Creations, will be in attendance at this years Roll Out Roll Call.  Here's a copy of the announcement.

"We are pleased and proud to announce that Mastermind Creations will be attending this years Roll Out Roll Call G.I. Joe and Transformers Convention.

Mastermind are known for their Knight Morpher Commander series, the upcoming Hexatron Sixchanger and massive Cyclops steamboat figures, one of the original and best companies to work within the modern Transformers fandom MMC cannot wait for you to see their work up close and reveal a few surprises along the way.

If your attending you can look forward to a fantastic display of art and figures plus a presentation detailing something very special.

You can check out MMC's official blog here Mastermind Creations and you can also discuss their work right here on FMH via their dedicated mini forum.

If your not already booked make sure you grab those tickets now!

Guarantee your Ticket Pass for the UK show dedicated to Transformers, Action Force and GI-Joe, Roll Out Roll Call 3, 10th & 11th of March 2012 at Jury's Inn, Southampton.

Roll Out Roll Call 3 Saturday Advance Purchase Ticket | All The Cool Stuff"

This is great news for fans of Transformers and we strongly urge everyone to attend the event.

iGear toys have posted some new images of a black recolour of their Not-Huffer (Rager) figure as well as their upcoming Herbie figure.  herbie is a recolour of a Not-Bumblebee based on the Disney character.

Transformers Galaxy Hong Kong have updated their Facebook page with some more images of the upgrade parts for X-Transbots XP1-Destroyer.  These are the parts for the G1 Devastator that make him articulated.  The main new image is below with the rest of the images after the jump.

The 3rd Party Group Headrobots who previous made new heads for the headmaster figures as well as Headmaster heads for non-Headmaster figures have announced some new projects as well as posting some preview images online  The announcement includes:

    Centurion - This is a set of two new heads for Fortress Maximus' Cerrebros headmaster figure, one based on the US cartoon another on the Japanese style head and comes with a Bonus Power Sword. The toy is available from BBTS
    Big Road - This is a Classics size figure based on Generation One Trailbreaker
    Drone - A conversion kit for Hunt for the Decepticons Tomahawk that turns him into a G1 Whirl figure
    Blood DX - This is a follow-up to their previous Bludgeon upgrade.

CM Corp have updated their website with more images of their upcoming PVC Minerva figure which is from their Guttu Kurru series.  Minerva was one of the Headmaster Juniors from Transformers Masterforce where the toy was a recolour of Nightbeat.  The toy, which represents the character in her exo-suit, comes with interchangable faces and stands 185mm.  The 2nd Transformers figure in the series will be Ginrai.  You can view three images below, with the rest available here.

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TFC Toys has revealed an image of Hercules using prototype versions of all six team members, including Mad Blender (Mixmaster) who up until now has only been seen as a computer render.

Leading 3rd Party non-official Transformers maker ­TFC Toys (AKA Transformers Club out of China) have ­revealed several new images of their upcoming figures including the next part of their Hercules (Devastator) combiner team.  The figure they have shown off is called Neck Breaker and is their versi­on of B­onecrus­her.  The g­roup have also posted mock-up image of what Hercules will look like when he is fully combined.  The image is a combination of grey-resin prototypes and a CGI outline of the yet-to-be-produced figures.

As well as showing of their Devastator toy, TFC have also posted new images of the DSLR camera team (Reflector­), as well as Junkion Blacksmith Headmasters and Infinity Warfare 2.  The images have been mirrored below but were originally posted on their weibo page.­