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Christopher Vacher has updated his DeviantArt account with some new Transformers Prime concept artwork. The art features Orion Pax pleading in the Cybertron council halls, the Unicron Spark Chamber and Dynamo being held in the Nemesis Cargo hold. You can view the artwork by following the link at the start of this article.
We have continue our Character Model gallery updates with 11 new and two update image galleries. All of the character models are from the Beast Wars II Japanese series which was released on DVD for the first time last month.
Our Summer Special of updates continues here at Transformers At The Moon, even though we are now well into the Autumn / Fall, with the latest addition of Character Models from our collection. This evening's updates continues our recent theme of commemorating the DVD release of Beast Wars II by publishing the character models from the show and, as such, we are proud to bring you the following new galleries.
Beast Wars II Backgrounds - This gallery contains 62 scans of backgrounds from the show. Some of the sheets you will notice have been coloured, by hand, this was not done by ourselves.
BB - We have published 5 scans of character models for BB, one of which is an early concept art.
Big Horn - We have published 19 sheets of character models of the Cybertron known as Big Horn.
Bigmoss - You can now find an image gallery containing the 5 character models for the Insectron Bigmoss.
Dirge - You can find 7 character models of the Destron Dirge from the Beast Wars II show.
Dirge-gun-Â During the Beast Wars II series Dirge gets upgraded into Dirge-gun and so you can also find 5 character models of that character
Diver was one of the original members of Leo Convoy's Cybertron's and now 11 character models of the little green frog are available for you to view.
Drillnuts - Drillnuts is another member of the Insectrons and was a toy that we purchased whilst at Auto Assembly 2011, so we actually owned his character model before we owned the toy.
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It's taken far longer then we had wanted, but we can final reveal the start of our big Beast Wars Second celebration by showing you the character sheets for Lio Convoy and Galvatron from our Beast Wars II bible.
The sheets show various character designs including very early concepts for Galvatron, which are far more detailed and Anime styled in nature.
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In a guest post over on Jim Sorenson's blog, Disciples of Boltax, Monzo has posted an article reference and re-producing some storyboards from the first ever cartoon episode of Transformers, More Than Meets The Eye, that were sold on Heritage Auctions way back in 2002. The images show some high resolution scans of ten pages of storyboards which make some interesting analysis.
Jose Lopez has updated his Deviant Art page with three concept art images from Transformers Prime. The first is a sketch of the head of Bulkhead, the 2nd is concept art for Wheeljack and the third is concept artwork for Starscream.You can find them all at desoluz.deviantart.com.
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on: Tuesday, 19th July 2011 at 13:53:10 UTC
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ÂMassive Black, Inc. have posted some more concept artwork for Transformers: Dark of the Moon. The latest batch of images focuses on the weapons that were proposed for Optimus Prime including a chainsaw, beam rifle/shot gun, and dual
shoulder mounted missile pods. There are also alternate designs
for Shockwave's drill /snake partner as well as Laserbeak
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on: Saturday, 16th July 2011 at 20:06:34 UTC
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ÂTransformers Vault: The Complete Transformers Universe publisher Abrams Books, has posted a video preview of the soon-to-be-published book over on YouTube. You can watch their video below.
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on: Monday, 23rd May 2011 at 09:30:31 UTC
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We have added a new image gallery into the Books section of the resources area of the website containing 40 images from the Transformers: Generations 2011 Vol 1book that was released by Million Publishing.
The book covers figures from the Transformers: Revenge, Transformers: DarkSide Moon, Transformers Animated and Transformers United as well as some new images of the Generation One Rodimus Prime hardcopy that was shown of a few months ago within the page of Hyper Hobby magazine. The book also includes two interviews, one with TakaraTomy the other with Kabaya, a small section on the Japanese toy leaflets, the final part of the Unite for the Universe comic and a look at the character designs for Transformers Animated.
The book is still for sale and we advise anyone who is interested to pick up a copy from a re-seller or direct from Amazon Japan.
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on: Sunday, 22nd May 2011 at 17:56:56 UTC
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As part of our continual and leading coverage of the Ron Friedman auctions I thought I would bring you details on the final prices of each of the lots along with a quick round-up of who some of the winners are.
First up the winners. Jim Sorenson and co won 6 auctions that will be scanned and made available on both The Allspark and TFWiki. They raised a total of $1608 some of which will go to charity. The auctions they won were Lot 93265, 93266, 93267, 93268, 93276 and 93279. These auctions include scripts for Season 1 of Transformers, several scripts from season 2 of Transformers, the Habro briefing document (that I personally will be very interested in seeing) and the final draft script for Transformers: The Movie. Other winners include Monzo, Kjeevah and G1son sho all one "yet-to-be-confirmed" items.
Here is the breakdown of every auction that ended, along with the final price including the "Buyers Premium".
Lot 93264 - Transformers Animated Series Script Collection - $334.60
Lot 93265 - Transformers Miniseries and Episodes #1-6 Script Collection - $507.88
Lot 93266 - Transformers TV Series Episodes #10-16 Script Collection - $262.90
Lot 93267 - Transformers Sunbow/Hasbro Briefing Book in Red Vinyl Three-Ring Binder with Related Photographs, Designs, and Model Sheets Group - $836.50
Lot 93268 - Transformers TV Scripts in Red Vinyl Three-Ring Binder - $215.10
Lot 93269 - Transformers TV Scripts in Red Vinyl Three-Ring Binder with Ultra Magnus Toy Prototype Snapshot Photo Group - $262.90
Lot 93270 - Transformers TV Series Audition Dialogue and Character Notes - $1015.75
Lot 93271 - Transformers: The Movie Revised Script Treatment (Sunbow Productions, Inc., 1984) - $1314.50
Lot 93272 - Transformers Character Guide Sheet Group - $1195
Lot 93273 - Transformers Character Sketch Photocopy Group - $836.50
Lot 93274 - Transformers TV Series Poster - $657.25 (This item normally sells for just $40)
Lot 93275 - Transformers First Season Script Group - $262.90
Lot 93276 - Transformers TV Scripts in Red Vinyl Three-Ring Binder with Related Material Group - $262.90
Lot 93277 - Transformers Fact Book in Red Vinyl Three-Ring Binder with Related Promotional Material Group - $687.13
Lot 93278 - Transformers: The Movie Final Draft Screenplay with Outline - $597.50
Lot 93279 - Transformers: The Movie Revised Final Draft Script - $448.13
Lot 93280 - Transformers: the Movie Script Group - $2005.21
Lot 93281 - Transformers Series Bible - $836.50
Lot 93282 - Transformers: the Movie "Arcee" Painted Cel Model Sheet Group - $507.88
Lot 93283 - Transformers: the Movie "Galvatron" Painted Cel Model Sheet Group - $507.88
Lot 93284 - Transformers: the Movie "Sweep" Painted Cel Model Sheet Group - $448.13
Lot 93285 - Transformers: the Movie "Decepticon" Plane Painted Cel Model Sheet Group (Cyclonus) - $478
Lot 93286 - Transformers: the Movie "Blurr" Painted Cel Model Sheet Group - $334.60
Lot 93287 - Transformers: the Movie Wheelie Painted Cel Model Sheet Group - $262.90
Lot 93288 - Transformers: the Movie "Old Kup" Painted Cel Model Sheet Group - $227.05
 So that is a total of a whopping $15,305.59!
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on: Saturday, 20th November 2010 at 12:21:20 UTC
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Well the RoÂn
Friedman auctions are over for Internet Bidding on Heritage AuÂctions.com have now ended and it I'm sure we'll find out shortly whether Jim Sorenson, The Allspark and TFWiki attempt to snap up everything has worked. Half an hour ago the total stood at $6170 but now the cost weighs in at $8140, not too bad for Mr Friedman. Remember this is not the final price so things could go even higher as people can still bid in person
As previously mentioned you can view a high-resolution mirror of all of the images here but here is a break down of the final prices
Auction #1- $130
ÂÂSeason 1 Original Scripts for "Heavy Metal War" and "Plague of Insecticons".
Season 2 Original Scripts for, "City of Steel", "Changing Gears",
"Traitor", "Attack of the Autobots", "The Immoblizer", "The Autobot
Run", and "Atlantis Arise".
AuÂction #2 - $220
Photocopied scripts
for the original "More Than Meets the Eye" mini-series as well as revised drafts of the first 6 episodes immediately
following.
Auction #3 - $95
A ring binder that includes photocopies of the scripts for
episodes #10-16.
Auction #4 - $260
A binder with photographs, designs, and model sheets. This
includes several lists of characters that changed name between the
design and the final drafts.
Auction #5 - $80
Scripts for "Day of
the Machines," "Enter the Nightbird," "A Prime Problem," "The Core,"
"The Insecticon Syndrome," "Dinosaur Island, Part 1 and 2, "The Master
Builders," "Auto Beserk," and "Megatron's Master Plan Part 1."
Auction #6 - $110
A binder including images of prototype Ultra Magnus as well as scripts for "Fire in the Sky," "S.O.S. -- Dinobots," "Fire
in the Mountain," "War of the Dinobots," "The Ultimate Doom Parts 1-3,"
"Countdown to Extinction," "Heavy Metal War," and "Plague of
Insecticons".
Auction #7 - $850
More character design sheets, notes and bios, as well as audition dialogue for the Season 2 characters.
Auction #8 - $550
A 53-page revised story treatment for the 1985 feature film
Auction #9 - $505
Two sets of photocopied character guide pages compiled for the first
season of Transformers, including thirty-eight 8" x 14" color guides,
and another set of eighty-nine 8.5" x 11" black and white pages.
Auction #10 - $500
A set of four large black and white photocopies of Transformers characters including Wreck-Gar
Auction #11 - $375
Transformers: The Movie poster that hung in Ron Friedman's office
Auction #12 - $160
Photocopied scripts for "Transport to Oblivion", "Roll With It", and
"Divide and Conquer" with hand-written changes, from writers Dick
Robbins and Bryce Malek, Douglas Booth, and Don Glut, with revisions
from Ron Friedman.
Auction #13 - $220
Photocopied scripts "Blaster Blues", "A Decepticon Raider in King
Arthur's Court", "The God Gambit", "Make Tracks", and "Microbots."
Auction #14 - $160
AÂ binder that includes various Transformers Facts including
Hasbro notes, toy photographs, a copy of Transformers#3 (guest starring
Spider-Man), scripts for "Desertion of
the Dino Bots, Parts 1 and 2," and "Megatron's Master Plan Part 2."
Auction #15 - $375
This is the final draft for Transformers: The Movie. It included a 179-page revised draft and 17 page character notes
Auction #16 - $375
Transformers: The Movie Revised Final Draft Script (Sunbow
Productions, Inc., 1985).
Auction #17 - $550
Transformers: the Movie Script Group (Sunbow Productions, Inc.,
1984-85). This was Ron Friedman's original unproduced first draft script dated
November 12, 1984 (132 pages), plus two sets of revisions including the
complete revised script dated February 13, 1983 (184 pages).
Auction #18 - $700
The G1 Series Bible. This contains character design pages and information on all of the original character from the show.
Auction #19 - $325
Coloured character sheets for Arcee in robot and vehicle mode.
Auction #20 - $375
Coloured character sheets for Galvatron in robot and vehicle mode.
Auction #21 - $375
Hand coloured character sheets for Scourge in robot and vehicle mode.
Auction #22 - $400
Hand coloured character sheets for Cyclonus in both robot and vehicle mode.
Auction #23 - $140
Hand coloured character sheets for Blurr in robot and vehicle mode.
Auction #24 - $130
Hand coloured character sheets for Wheelie in robot and vehicle mode.
Auction #25 - $180
Hand coloured character sheets for Kup in robot and vehicle mode.
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With approximately 30 minutes remaining I thought I would bring you an update on the current prices that the RoÂn
Friedman (one of the head writers for the first two seasons of
Transformers Generation One and Transformers: The Movie) auctions over on Heritage AuÂctions.com are standing at. Jim Sorenson is leading a consortium of bidders to try to buy the entire set and it looks like if they do they will be paying a fair amount of money. Currently the total bids stand at $6170 with individual auctions ranging from $55 to $850.
You can view a high-resolution mirror of all of the images here but here is a break down of the prices
Auction #1- $100
ÂÂSeason 1 Original Scripts for "Heavy Metal War" and "Plague of Insecticons".
Season 2 Original Scripts for, "City of Steel", "Changing Gears",
"Traitor", "Attack of the Autobots", "The Immoblizer", "The Autobot
Run", and "Atlantis Arise".
AuÂction #2 - $160
Photocopied scripts
for the original "More Than Meets the Eye" mini-series as well as revised drafts of the first 6 episodes immediately
following.
Auction #3 - $55
A ring binder that includes photocopies of the scripts for
episodes #10-16.
Auction #4 - $220
A binder with photographs, designs, and model sheets. This
includes several lists of characters that changed name between the
design and the final drafts.
Auction #5 - $75
Scripts for "Day of
the Machines," "Enter the Nightbird," "A Prime Problem," "The Core,"
"The Insecticon Syndrome," "Dinosaur Island, Part 1 and 2, "The Master
Builders," "Auto Beserk," and "Megatron's Master Plan Part 1."
Auction #6 - $110
A binder including images of prototype Ultra Magnus as well as scripts for "Fire in the Sky," "S.O.S. -- Dinobots," "Fire
in the Mountain," "War of the Dinobots," "The Ultimate Doom Parts 1-3,"
"Countdown to Extinction," "Heavy Metal War," and "Plague of
Insecticons".
Auction #7 - $850
More character design sheets, notes and bios, as well as audition dialogue for the Season 2 characters.
Auction #8 - $475
A 53-page revised story treatment for the 1985 feature film
Auction #9 - $400
Two sets of photocopied character guide pages compiled for the first
season of Transformers, including thirty-eight 8" x 14" color guides,
and another set of eighty-nine 8.5" x 11" black and white pages.
Auction #10 - $500
A set of four large black and white photocopies of Transformers characters including Wreck-Gar
Auction #11 - $325
Transformers: The Movie poster that hung in Ron Friedman's office
Auction #12 - $80
Photocopied scripts for "Transport to Oblivion", "Roll With It", and
"Divide and Conquer" with hand-written changes, from writers Dick
Robbins and Bryce Malek, Douglas Booth, and Don Glut, with revisions
from Ron Friedman.
Auction #13 - $80
Photocopied scripts "Blaster Blues", "A Decepticon Raider in King
Arthur's Court", "The God Gambit", "Make Tracks", and "Microbots."
Auction #14 - $70
AÂ binder that includes various Transformers Facts including
Hasbro notes, toy photographs, a copy of Transformers#3 (guest starring
Spider-Man), scripts for "Desertion of
the Dino Bots, Parts 1 and 2," and "Megatron's Master Plan Part 2."
Auction #15 - $375
This is the final draft for Transformers: The Movie. It included a 179-page revised draft and 17 page character notes
Auction #16 - $200
Transformers: The Movie Revised Final Draft Script (Sunbow
Productions, Inc., 1985).
Auction #17 - $180
Transformers: the Movie Script Group (Sunbow Productions, Inc.,
1984-85). This was Ron Friedman's original unproduced first draft script dated
November 12, 1984 (132 pages), plus two sets of revisions including the
complete revised script dated February 13, 1983 (184 pages).
Auction #18 - $700
The G1 Series Bible. This contains character design pages and information on all of the original character from the show.
Auction #19 - $180
Coloured character sheets for Arcee in robot and vehicle mode.
Auction #20 - $375
Coloured character sheets for Galvatron in robot and vehicle mode.
Auction #21 - $130
Hand coloured character sheets for Scourge in robot and vehicle mode.
Auction #22 - $220
Hand coloured character sheets for Cyclonus in both robot and vehicle mode.
Auction #23 - $80
Hand coloured character sheets for Blurr in robot and vehicle mode.
Auction #24 - $90
Hand coloured character sheets for Wheelie in robot and vehicle mode.
Auction #24 - 140Â
Hand coloured character sheets for Kup in robot and vehicle mode.
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on: Friday, 19th November 2010 at 21:32:19 UTC
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Ken Christiansen has updated his blog with some designed of Transformers Bumblebee, Jazz and Inferno which are alternative ideas from Transformers Prime,
Mr Christiansen is working as a concept artist on Transformers Primeand has previously worked on Activisions Transformers: The Game and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen computer games.
"Yes I did work on Transformers : Prime. No,
these images (Click on the Title Bar to see) are NOT from that work.
You have to wait until October to see those...
But, now that some of those images are starting to come out, I wanted to
try to do some studies to match the official style. Just really rough
at this point, trying to find some of the basics.
Obviously, TFP Bumblebee is based on the movie Camaro, so I wanted to
try a pass with him as the Beetle, and how that old vehicle form could
break up in new ways. Then I took a crack at Jazz (I don't know if
there's any TF/Prime images of him out, and I honestly don't know if
he's in the lineup for the show - I didn't work on him, in any case) and
based him on more of the TF:Animated styling. And then for fun, I just
picked a random Autobot, and did Inferno. He was the last one I did,
and I think I started to capture some of the TFP looks...
Tomorrow, some Decepts..."
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Prowl
Click the link or image above to view the Prowl toy gallery. The gallery contains 4 images of this figure for your viewing pleasure.
Hasbro Inc submitted a trademark application for
JETFIRE
with the USPTO on the Thursday, 4th September 2003. The mark was submitted within the category
toy action figures, toy vehicles and toy robots convertible into other visual toy forms and currently has as status of A Sections 8 and 15 combined declaration has been accepted and acknowledged..
Choose Your Fate
We loved the Transformers Choose Your Fate books as kids, and even wrote a text adventure in their style for an old version of Transformers At The Moon. Here you can find images from these puzzle-books, both UK and US ....
Ep 12: Dinobots Revealed
After defeating Meltdown the Dinobots reveal their true forms to Prowl, Bulkhead, Sari and Captain Fanzone. Grimlock, Snarl and Swoop transform for the first time and take their frustrations out on Cyrus Rhodes and the monsters. ....
OTFCC 2003 (USA)
We loved the Transformers Choose Your Fate books as kids, and even wrote a text adventure in their style for an old version of Transformers At The Moon. Here you can find images from these puzzle-books, both UK and US ....
US Sheet 1
The scans contained within this gallery are taken from our own Transformers toysheet collection. This is the first US Transformers toysheet. ....
Transformers Animated
The instruction scans contained within this gallery with the TF08.net watermark were originally from the Chinese TF08 website. They have been added here as a mirror. ....
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