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.

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!

Well the Ro�n Friedman auctions are over for Internet Bidding on Heritage Au�ctions.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
��Season 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".

Au�ction #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
A� 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.

With approximately 30 minutes remaining I thought I would bring you an update on the current prices that the Ro�n Friedman (one of the head writers for the first two seasons of Transformers Generation One and Transformers: The Movie) auctions over on Heritage Au�ctions.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
��Season 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".

Au�ction #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
A� 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.

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..."

Jim Sorenson posted up an Ark Addendum update containing the first of four pieces making up the concept artwork for Autobot City.

"Two weeks ago, I posted some unused concept art from the fertile imagination of Floro Dery. I asked if people wanted to see the original notes on it, which would have been unreadable at the size I originally shared it.  The response was fairly positive, so here we go.  I think I'll break it into four drawings.  Here's the left-hand side.  I hope you enjoy!"

Visit Jim's blog to view the artwork

Jim Sorenson has updated his blog with a new entry called The Ark Addendum: Darkwings' Weapons which features the animation models for Transformers Masterforce's Buster and Hydra (aka Dreadwind and Darkwing).  The animation models were originally produced for the various "bibles" that are sent to animation and marketing houses during the production of a series   If you are interested in seeing more you can find some Beast Wars II and Beast Wars Neo scans from our own collection within the prototype and concept art section of this website

Transformers �Revenge of the Fallen concept artist Steve Jung has updated his website with a new piece of concept artwork which reveals his design for what the merged form of the motorcycle gang Arcee, Chromia and Elita-1 may have looked like.�

Transformers Revenge of the Fallen concept artist Ben Proctor has posted some of his work with Concept Art World.�  The images include alternative designs for Devastator, Sideswipe, a model T Ford Transformers and various other images.

Credit to Ras for posting the link on TFW2005.com

Transformers Live has beeen updated with what has been described as updated revised concept art for Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Megatron and Ravage.

You can see both images by following this link.

Derrick Wyatt has posted some sketches on his blog showing some of the large chin designs that he has been working on for the third season of Transformers Animated.

"Fear not Transfandom, I have heard your desperate pleas! I know the recent batch of leaked designs have all had shockingly, Earth and Cybertron shatteringly minuscule chins. But please do not despair! As we speak, I am working 'round the clock to develop new bigger, bolder, more powerful chins.

These new chins will be so bizarre and enormous they could actually impede the transformation process. Chins so massive, they have to be seen to be believed.

These new chins could even be so unstoppably huge and heroic, they may have even the simplest of Cybertronians bellowing out the names of common Earthen table utensils.

Hopefully this meager posting of images will assuage your fears, and calm the terrifying nightmares of horrible chinless robots you've all been having lately."

Derrick Wyatt, Art Director/Lead Character Designer for Transformers Animated, has posted some images on his blog showing some of the design concepts that he used for Transformers Animated Prowl prior to settling on the final design.� As well as the images Derrick reveals that it has already been decided that Prowl would be a motorbike before he came on-board with the series, that he had originally had him coloured more like the black and white G1 version, but since Ratchet was already going to be primarily white, and the ninja aspect of the new Prowl's character was going to be played up, they decided to go with the black, gold and tan theme.� Derrick also mentions that Eric Siebenaler from Hasbro and Alex Kubalski from Takara requested that they move Prowl's wheels from his shoulders to his legs as it helped blend his design with "a really amazing transformation idea" that Alex had been working on for a motorcycle Transformer.

If you look closely on the image you will see that it is dated 2003, giving you some indication of when the work on Transformers Animated first began.

We reported about an art exhibition of Transformers art, calledTransformART, which was to take place in august. Well the event is now on, started on the 8th August running until the 31st August at the Art Center Ongoing which is located in Kichij�ji, a neighborhood within the city Musashino within Tokyo, several blocks from the Kichij�ji Station.

Artwork ranges from the involved professionals to those who had grown up and/or were inspired by the series and includes concert art for unreleased and released figurs.

Art Center Ongoing's page of TransformART.

Gizmodo's page on TransformART

Chris Ryall has updated his blog again, this time with the cover and another preview page from their up coming Transformers The Ark II book.

The book features original Hasbro / Takara designs for the Generation One Transformers, taken from the series bibles.

Derrick J. Wyatt, the Art Director/Lead Character Designer for Transformers Animated, has updated his blog, A Delightgul Tedium, with an article entitled The Evolution of Lockdown. The article discusses how Lockdown was originally going to be a "lumbering Frankenstein monster type, made up of stolen parts looted from other Cybertronians.". Derrick has also posted some interesting comments.

"Ultimately those proportions just didn't fit the personallity of the character. As for the Sari stuff, that's just an internets rumor! People come up with the weirdest ideas..."

"I got the little vestigial arms in on another character. I really loved that idea too. I totally agree about more ugliness. I'm going to try to up that quotient."

"No, he's not based on Death's Head at all. The original design is more 2000 AD inspired, while the final one is sort of reminiscent of skull like head and an undertaker's tux. Death's Head is more Darth Vader (with horns) looking to me. I don't want to say anything about the return of the little arms yet, but you'll know when you see them!"