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Following on from the news we broke yesterday images have been posted on Twitter and the image sharing site TinyPic from a recent TakaraTomy product catelogue which shows the first actual toy images of TG-25 Black Lio Convoy,a recolour of Thundertron / Leo Prime but with two new swords, and TG-26 Optimus Prime, the quad-changer gestault Transformers Go exclusive figure. You can view the images below.
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We're back to playing catch up again with out Beast Wars II cartoon gallery update (due to no internet at the new house) so here'd a quick look at the two of the four galleries I put live on Friday, but didnt' get any time to tell you about.
Beast Wars II Episode 18 - The Black Lio Convoy
The Destrons stumble across an old artefact which can duplicate any object that it scans in the ruins of an ancient city on Planet Gaia. Galvatron decides to use the device to clone his arm, creating a Black and Grey duplicate of BB - only to find that the clones are uncontrollable, believing themselves to the the original. This gives the Destron Lord of Destructin an idea .. he'll trick the Cybertron's into using the device on themselves, to that their duplicates can take out Lio Convoy and his troops.
As expected it's poor old Tasmania Kid who finds the device and takes it back to base. After first clonning a Manga that Scuba is reading the device is used on Lio Convoy creating a dark duplicte, Black Lio Convoy.
Having only seen a few pictures from this episode previously what then suprised me was that the other Cybertron's were also cloned into Black Versions .... the suprise of this to me is that toys were not made of these. A Black Big Horn (Grey), Apache, Scuba and Tasmania Kid are also produced. Only Scuba is not cloned, allowing him to defeat the evil clones. This episode if also very similar to an A-Team episode when some imposters pretend to be the Heroes for Hire, with Murdock not being "copied".
Beast Wars II Epiosde 19 - The Space Pirate Seacons
This episode sees the Space Pirate Seacons, lead by Halfshell, arrive on Planet Gaia looking for Anglomois energy.
Stay tuned for the other two a little later today
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Transformers Robotmasters was a pretty short lived series in Japan, featuring only a few toys and even less cartoon and comic episodes, yet it made quite a big impact when first released. The toys featured mainly new molds, with a few recoloured toys fom Transfomers Generation Two and Transformers Beast Wars, and was the Japanese take on the Transformers Universe theme, where characters from different Transformers lines were bought together.
The line featured some of the best Transformers toy molds and some of the most popular characters, and also showed how the original Transformers Generation One toy molds could be updated with more articulation, but could still be extremley close to the originals.
To help celebrate this short lived Japanese exclusive line, we have uploaded 21 new Transformers Robot Masters toy galleriesas well as updated 3 existing galleries with new images.
This takes us to an unrivaled 2,178 Transformers Galleries
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For a while there has been some confusion regarding the identity of the Bom-Bom Magazine Lucky Draw Black Lio Convoy figure. We ourselves had been some what confused with the different reports and information we had heard over the years. Finally we can bring a conclusion to the story, something we should have done years ago.
The Lucky Draw Black Lio Convoy toy is limited to 10 pcs. It features Blue Claws and can be clearly identified by the white writing on it's backside (bottom), in robot mode. The writing states the number the toy is (BL00 through BL09).
There are two known variations of the Toys R Us version of the Black Lio Convoy, limited to 5000. Blue claws (no writing on the toy) and Gold claws (no writing on the toy).
There have been rumours and listings of a Silver Clawed version, said to be the Lucky Draw version of the toy. This is false, the actual Lucky Draw version has blue claws. As yet we have found no evidence to show the Silver Clawed version of the Black Lio Convoy toy exists. If the figure does exist, then it will be yet another store exclusive version. as such we have removed the listing for this toy from our Transformers toy gallery area.
If you own a Silver Clawed Black Lio Convoy, please send us images.
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With only 51 hours of 2007 remaining, for us on GMT, we have decided to upload our finally gallery of the year a few days in advance, and you can be sure it's one you're going to want to see.
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Choose Your Fate
Ep 20: Universal Greeting
OTFCC 2003 (USA)
US Sheet 1
Transformers Animated
