Thanks to the awesome folk at Abundant Marketing we are pleased to announce that we have been given two copies of the Limited Edition Transformers Prime Season 2 Volume 1 Orion Pax DVD sets, with UK Exclusive Arms Micron figure and Card to give away!

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The two winners will be chosen at random on the evening of Wednesday 21st July 2014.

We are only accepting UK residents for this competiton as the prize is for Region 2 DVDs.

YouTuber eBEFOREi has posted a video review of Transformers Prime Arms Micron Wildrider onto the video sharing website.  You can view the review using the plug-in below.

Toy World have scanned in three pages of Transformers products from the latest issue of the Japanese hobby magazine, Figure King. This months issue features many of the toys which have been revealed over the last few weeks including"Darkest Megatron", the jet "Vehicon general" from the Transformers Prime Arms Micron line as well as wave 3 of Fall of Cybertron, Transformers Masterpiece figures Rumble and Frenzy as well as another look at the Alternity figures and Fortress Maximus. You can view images below.

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.

Japanese toy blogger Alfes 2010 has posted some new images of the latest Takara-Tomy releasing including Transformers Prime Arms Micron AM-27 Ultra Magnus and AM-28 Leo Prime (we get a nice picture of Micron Moon's head which is such a good homage). We have mirrored a selection of images after the jump, including the just released Transformers Masterpiece MP-14 Alert.

Full Metal Hero have some nice images of Transformers Prime Arms Micron Nemesis Prime

Summary

An underrated figure gets even better with a new black deco and massive Arms Micron blade! Powerizer Optimus didn't set the world alight due to a number of things, 1) Megatron looked better 2) The First Edition kicked butt 3) He had that hideous weapon and loads of horrible grey visible on him, but he was still a good toy that a lot of folks missed out on, hopefully this will rectify things with Nemesis reaching a wider audience. Coming with the obligatory sticker sheet Nemesis is primarily black and dark charcoal grey with the chest being broken up via the red windows and light grey border. It works very well, so well that you may chose not to apply your stickers, I prefer them applied as they add a little more detail and help bring out the red on his forearms more.

Articulation wise Nemesis is very capable with lots of ball joints allowing him to twist and turn into a variety of poses, he is also very well balanced which might come a surprise due to the large back pack made up of the trucks side panels. The Micron is makes a very cool weapon but not such a cool Micron looking a little like a pelican in its robot mode but I'm not displaying him that way and the blade mode is pure win!

Truck mode again can either have stickers on or off and it looks great, I've taken some pics with and without so you can check it out and make your mind up. I personally like the stickers on as it gives it that higher level of detail and contrasts well with the black, a really nice touch by Takara is the inclusion of 5 M.E.C.H stickers which you can place on Nemesis to your hearts content giving him that nice link to the TV show.

Overall he is a repaint so automatically becomes less desirable for some but he is Nemesis Prime, a character thats always been popular, we score him 8/10

TFW2005 have a review of Transformers Prime Arms Micron Smokesceen and S2 which you can read by following the link

Summary

Smokescreen is a remolded version of Transformers Prime Knock Out. This presents an immediate issue with show accuracy, because even with remolding, Smokescreen lacks a few design elements from his CG model on the show - the most notable being the door wings on his back. But let's not linger on the negatives - Smokescreen does manage to look different from Knock Out with his stickers, remolded rear end in vehicle mode and his new head. The head sculpt captures the character well - I'd have personally given him a smirk rather than a serious determined look - but it goes a good way to giving Smokescreen his own identity. The head is spot-on to the look of the character in the show. Stickers give Smokescreen the rest of his deco.

Smokescreen comes with Arms Micron S2, a Micron with a slender and "ornate" look. He's only poseable in the arms, but that seems to be average for the Arms Microns. S2 turns into a high-tech bow weapon for Smokescreen, which I don't recall ever seeing used in the show - yet - but if you fold S2's "wings" in you get a laser weapon that looks like an arm cannon that Smokescreen might equip for battle. In any event, the option to make it into a "gun" or "bow" lends a bit of appeal to the character.

Overall, Smokescreen is an alright release. If you disliked the design on Knock Out there is not a lot here that will change your mind, and the lack of show accuracy is a detractor. However it could be far worse, and as of the moment, this is the only Smokescreen toy available outside the upcoming Legends class in Beast Hunters.

Our thanks go out to Neurie who tweeted us this last night, you may have seen out retweet, but he reported that the Arms Micron blind packs are now out in UK stores priced at just 2.49.  The figures are being released under Tomy's Gacha brand which is the supplier of the UFO / Vending machine figures within Europe.  You can view an image of the figures on the shelf below.

Asian Blogger,Alfes 2010, have updated his blog with a gallery and review of the just released TakaraTomy Transformers Prime Arms Micron AM-22 Dreadwing. The gallery, found here, covers Dreadwing as well as his Arms Micron figure and will allow you to visually compare the figure to the Hasbro release, though Alfes has not included a side-by-side comparison for once

e-Hobby have posted three new listings over night for some forth-coming Transformers Prime Arms Micron figures.  The toys are:

1. AM-24 - Silas Breakdown (a black recolour of Arms Micron Breakdown)
2. AM-25 - Nemesis Prime (A Black recolour of Arms Micron Optimus Prime)
3. AM-26 - Smokescreen (A white recolour of Arms Micron Knockout)

You can view images of the toys as well as their Arms Micron partners by following the jump

Fellow UK fansite FullMetalHero are reporting that UK role-play and board games distributor Esdevium Games have included a release for the Arms Micron figures within their latest catalogue.  On the 5th page there is what appears to be the inclusion of blind packs of Arms Micron toys priced at £2.50.  The toys appears to be released under the Tomy banner and should be available in supermarkets.

Autobase Aichi have posted a new image gallery over on their Facebook page containing the display within Snakas local Bic Camera store which is advertising various upcoming Transformers releases from Takara-Tomy. The display contains various figures including:

• Masterpiece Convoy Version 2 (Out Now)
• Masterpiece Lambor (Sideswipe)
• Masterpiece Red Alert
• Transformers United EX Grim Master Prime Mode
• Transformers Prime Arms Micron Wheeljack
• Transformers Prime Arms Master Optimus Prime
• Transformers Prime Arms Micron Orion Pax (a Bic Camera exclusive)

It also reveals several new details which were previously unknown such as the fact that Arms Micron Wheeljack will come with both an Arms Micron sword and one of the normal swords from the Hasbro release.

Planet Iacon has once again come through with the following image of the Japanese Arms Micron Gaia Unicron with packaging.

Planet Iacon has uploaded a new picture from Cybergundam blog from Figure king number 176. Show in the scan are a new deluxe Arms Micron Thundercracker figure made from the First Edition Starscream mold. The other figure shown is of deluxe Optimus from the First Edition line, referred to by Planet Iacon as "Orion Pax".

TF Wiki have a listing for Transformers Prime Arms Micron Smokescreen under the number AM-26 with a release date of November 2012.

Smokescreen is a repaint and retooling of Knock Out, originally seen at the Tokyo Toy Fair in prototype form. He will come with an unknown Micron Arm

Transformers Prime
Smokescreen (Deluxe, 11-24-2012)
ID number: AM-26
Accessories: Arms Micron
A redeco (and potential retooling) of Knock Out, Smokescreen is (currently) exclusive to the TakaraTomy Prime toyline. He transforms into a low-riding sports car. As part of the Arms Micron gimmick, he has extra 5mm post-holes in both modes, allowing him to use the weapon-bots. He comes with a (currently unknown and unnamed) Arms Micron partner.

Online retailer Archonia also have a placeholder for the toy