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on: Sunday, 15th July 2007 at 10:29:27 BST
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on: Saturday, 14th July 2007 at 22:43:31 BST
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We've uploaded another
82 images from our trip to BotCon 2007 and New York, this time of the items which we bought. We came back with over 70 items, covering almost every Transformers series from G1 to Sports Label, so make sure you check that out. Each toy will get it's own detailed galleries, some of which have never been seen before (and will never be seen again). Keep checking back on Europe's premier Transformers resource for that.
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on: Sunday, 8th July 2007 at 15:24:37 BST
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Here's some of the information on Transformers Animated, most of which was given away at BotCon though the David Kaye panels and the Hasbro Future Product Panels, although I've since found some more information:
Main Autobots
- Optimus Prime - voiced by David Kaye (transforms into a Fire Truck). He will appear in both Cybertron and Earth modes (both have toys, deluxe for Cybertron, Voyager for Earth) and is armed with a red / blue axe, which is huge. The axe is formed from his trailer, which will appear and disappear (G1 style).
- Prowl - voiced by Jeff Bennet (transforms into a Motorcyle). The character is a ninja and will be smart. The toy features some impressive tooling, with the motorbike wheels not appearing. The toy looked similar to Beast Machines Silverbolt (cartoon not toy), in how smooth and round it looked.
- Ratchet - voiced by Corey Burton (fire truck). Very Movie like in vehicle mode, Ratchet is the only Autobot to have served in combat before and is the medic of the team.
- Bumblebee - voiced by Bumper Robinson (yellow sports car). Bumper is said to sound like "Chris Rock style voice". Bumblebee is the youngest of the Autobots, and it very enthusiastic and likes Earth.
- Bulkhead - voiced by Bill Fingerbekke (military vehicle). Bulkhead is the typical "strong-man" character, said to be like the Thing.
- Grimlock - David Kaye (Tyrannosaurs Rex). Very G1 like in robot and dinosaur mode, even down to the gold collar. Grimlock is said to speak in the same grammatical way in which the Dinobots did in the original series. Two other dinobots will also appear, although they may only be guests.
Guest / Additional Autobots
- Jazz - voiced by Phil LaMarr (unknown vehicle)
- 2x Dinobots - not named, although Swoop and Slag (probably called Triceradon) would be the most likely.
- Blurr - voiced by John Moschitta (unknown vehicle). John was the original voice of Blurr and will make a guest appearance.
- Ultra Magnus - voiced by Jeff Bennett (unknown vehicle). Jeff is said to do a good Robert Stack (G1 Ultra Magnus) style voice.
- Arcee - possibly voiced by Susan Blu (unknown vehicle)
- Junkion - voiced by Weird Al Yankovic (dump truck). The name is currently unconfirmed, although it has been reported as simply Junkion. David Kaye believed the form of the Transformer was a dump truck, which would fit the name.
Main Decepticons
- Megatron - voiced by Corey Burton (Vertical Take-Off / Landing Alien Fighter). Megatron will appear as a blacked out silhouette at first and will then show himself as his true form. Megatron's form will change throughout the show to get completely different (probably turning into Galvatron - though I hope not). Two toys of Megatron will be avaliable, like Optimus Prime.
- Starscream - voiced by Tom Kenny (Reverse sweep-winged jet - Cyclonus style). Tom is said to do a very good Chris Latta style voice for Starscream.
- Blackarachnia - voiced by Cree Summer (spider). Blackarachnia is the unknown Decepticon. Supposedly she starts out at first as a completely different character, and will undertake a lot of character development. The toy was extremely detailed.
- Lugnutz - voiced by David Kaye (Bomber Aircraft). Lugnutz is the strong, dumb but overly loyal Decepticon, truely believing in their cause. Lugnutz is said to be "The Hulk, if Bulkhead is The Thing", similar to Cryotek / Cindarr (Visionaries)
- Blitzwing - unknown voice actor (triplechanger - tank / plane). Blitzwing is said to not only have three modes but also a split-personalilty, which should make for an interesting character. He is in his G1 colours.
Guest / Additional Decepticons
- Shockwave - voiced by Corey Burton
Human Characters
- Isaac Sumdac - voiced by unknown. The main scientist who works at the Sumdac Tower in Detroit, where they make Robots.
- Sari Sumdac - voiced by Tara Strong. Sari is Isaccs daughter and main human companion of the Autobots. Hasbro explain that she is not a "annoying sidekick telling the Autobots what to do, but more explaining what things are on Earth and how they work".
- Angry Archer - voiced by unknown. The Anrgy Archer is based on Aaron Archer (I wouldn't be surprised if he played the voice), and is one of several Super Villans the Autobots will be fighting. The other villains have various powers including speed, strength and spewing acid
- Captain Fanzone - voiced by unknown. Captain Fanzone is the head of the police department in Detroit.
Places of Interest
- The Ark - the Autobots ship. Very G1 style.
- The Nemesis - the Decepticon ship. Hughe compared to the Ark, will mainly appear as a background. Very dark in and outside, quiet Snake Mountain like (from the latest He-Man series).
- Sumdac Tower - the main tower in Detroit, this is where Isaac Sumdac designs / creates the robots on Earth.
- Detroit - the main city on Earth where the robots are built and home to the Sumdac Tower.
Other Guest Voice Actors
- Fred Willeke will make an appearance in the show, although it has not been confirmed as to who he will play.
Series Background / Information.
- Two 13 part series have currently been recorded. The first series starts with a 3 part mini-movie, followed by 13 episodes. The second series is an additional 13 episodes.
- Hasbro / Cartoon network have not ruled out an additional 2 series.
- The show is due in December 2007 / January 2008
- The show was moved to the US as Hasbro no-longer like the results of dubbing the show into English.
- No other Beast Wars actors can appear in the show, as they only have Canadian VA permits. David Kaye lives in LA and is hoping to become an American citizen soon, so he was able to take part.
- The guys at Cartoon Network were fans of the Transformers series, so wanted the show.
- Transformers Heroes was the working title.
- Although Transformers Animated has a more stylised look, they will not be dumbing down the series. It will have more humor in it then previous series (more like Beast Wars).
- The show will be about the impact of the Transformers on Earth, rather than going into space.
- The Autobots will mainly fight human Super Villans at the start, whom are controlled or influenced by Decepticons. The Decepticons will appear later, and will be shown as much stronger than the Super Villans. The Decepticons are supposedly much larger than the Autobots.
- The show will feature realistic transformations (although from what was shown, they are not very detailed), and will only have a few "cut away" style transformations.
- The Cybertronian forms of the Transformers (Optimus Prime / Megatron) will have toys.
- Optimus Prime has both a mouth and faceplate, like in the Transformers Movie.
- Serveral G1 characters will be guesting in the series, which will mean more charcters can appear (more toys relating to the show), but they still get to focus on the main 10 characters).
- There will be new charcaters as well as old ones appearing.
- The Autobots arrive on Earth in search for the Allspark, which they crash into. The Decepticons then follow them.
- There will be combiners in the Transformers Animated line, probably in the cartoon series, although not confirmed, and probably not until later series.
Transformers Animated Toys
- Transformers Animated has been in development for a few years, and this is reflected in the toy design. They feature the freshes looking Transformers for years, with a look and feel similar to the new Masters of the Universe toys (when compared to the old ones). They feature new sculpting techniques, which give them a smooth, rounder apearance.
- The toys look like the characters from Beast Machines, on screen, and have very few parts which stick out.
- The toys feature "character specific" poses, although there is not a single gimmick which runs through the entire line. The gimmick is the Transformation (although some characters may have gimmicks themselves).
- The toys have signature weapons (Prime = axe, Megatron = sword), poses, attutides and stances.
- They feature the highest level of articulation and motion of any Transformers line released so far.
- The toys have a 90% show accurate look, as it was developed alongside the cartoon series, rather than prior.
- Optimus Prime will have two toys (deluxe and voyager), one for the Earth mode and the other for the Cybertronian mode.
- Bulkhead looks quite chibby like, due to how round he is.
- Bumblebee is very smooth and the car mode is similar to Classics Bumblebee
- Prowl was the most impressive toy shown at BotCon.
- Grimlock looked very much like the G1 toy in robot mode (with how he will transform).
- Lugnutz is a Voyager class toy, very round looking.
- The toys have a matt finish to them, not gloss, in a Batman Animated style.
- The toys have a very Anime toy style look
One of the jokes in the show, when Bumblebee and Sari first meet, goes like this:-
Bumblebee: I'm Bumblebee
Sari: I'm Sari
Bumblebee: Don't be
Nice, simple pun that one.
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on: Sunday, 8th July 2007 at 15:46:28 BST
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It didn't quiet make it into the 7-7 update, but you can now find 280 photographs (minimum of 1000, several at over 2000 pixels) which we took during the
Hasbro Tour at BotCon 2007. The images include concept artwork for the Transformers Movie designs, early concepts through to production colour sheets for Transformers Cybertron Optimus Prime, prototype and testshot images, with colour sheets for several un-released Transformers Movie items.
Various high-resolution shots of Transformers testshots as well as lots of images of the Unreleased G1 Optimus Prime Voice-changer helmet and other Transformers toys which have not, many will not ever, be released. These toys include Toxitron, Titanium Arcee, Cosmos, Bumblebee / Cliffjumper and lots more.
You may have seen some
images from the tour, but not from a 9 megapixel camera!
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on: Sunday, 8th July 2007 at 00:19:07 BST
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Following on from the earlier 200 images we took at BotCon, you can now find an additional 112 images taken from the
Hasbro booth. Some of these images are extremely large, 2000 pixles wide, so if you're on dial-up you may have an issue.
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on: Saturday, 7th July 2007 at 22:25:39 BST
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Though by now you have no doubt already seen plenty of images from BotCon 2007, we have uploaded our first two image galleries, over 200 images, from the event last weekend. The image galleries include 97 images of the custom and fan art entries and 118 general convention images. These won't be the last image galleries we put up from the event, as we still have the Hasbro Tour and Hasbro toy display, not to mention all of the images of the toys that we purchased from the event. Stay tuned for those as well as our coverage of the panels and Hasbro tour as we still need to transcribe three to four hours of video and audio recordings from the convention.
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on: Saturday, 7th July 2007 at 16:10:28 BST
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You may, or may not, be aware that there are at least three different versions of the Botcon 2007 Games of Deception boxset, of of which appear to be accidental. The differences revolve around Dirge's weapons. In one set, Dirge has the correct weapons, where as in the other two sets he either has two left or two right guns. There is no word as to how many of each version went out to attendees, we have both the correct weapons and a boxed set with two left weapons. We do not know if this is true for the bagged toy.
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on: Friday, 6th July 2007 at 16:13:35 BST
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TFWorld2005
noticed an ebay auction for a Transformers Movie Bumblebee door key for the Westin Providence hotel which will be given to BotCon attendees staying at the hotel. The image is a little blurry, but is a nice touch.
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on: Tuesday, 26th June 2007 at 18:44:46 BST
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The BotCon website has been updated with a full PDF schedule, which you can view
here. The schedule announced that not only Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman (Transformers Movie writers) will be at the event (as they suggested they would be several months ago), but that Peter Cullen (Optimus Prime) will be returning for his third BotCon event.
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on: Friday, 22nd June 2007 at 08:35:57 BST
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Daniel Ross has been added as the second confirmed guest for BotCon 2007, which takes place next week. Daniel Ross will provide the voice for Starscream on all console
versions of Transformers: The Game available this summer, and Mixmaster
and Hound on the PSP version.
Thanks to
TFWorld2005 for the original report.
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on: Wednesday, 20th June 2007 at 08:22:41 BST
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The Botcon website has been updated with the announcement that the Custom Classes figure will be a Transformers Classics Grimlock. They are keeping the character under wraps, but advise you to bring along a store version as a guide to how the toy will be assembled. You can read more
here.
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on: Monday, 18th June 2007 at 19:20:15 BST
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Seibertron
member rikkomba has posted images and a review of the unannounced BotCon 2007 Alpha Trion toy (the recoloured vector prime toy) at
Inside Pulse.
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on: Saturday, 16th June 2007 at 09:09:20 BST
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The BotCon
website has been updated with the first images of the artwork which will comprise of the set of toys for this years convention, known as the Games of Decption.
The set of toys are Bugbyte, Dirge, Dreadwind, Ramjet and Thrust.
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on: Friday, 15th June 2007 at 08:29:14 BST
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The
BotCon website has been updated with a new advertisement image that will be used to promote the event as well as the list of 100 winners for the last Hasbro Visit. The winners list, which includes one person from Ireland, can be viewed
here.
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on: Saturday, 9th June 2007 at 10:18:40 BST
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