Thanks to Snakas we can bring you news that the Japanese store Lawsons is going to have another exclusive figure, this time a black Hunt For The Decepticons Voyager Class Battle Blades Optimus Prime figure from Transformers: DarkSide Moon (Dark of the Moon in the West).  You can find the original listing here on Lawsons website, with some images below. 

The toys is available for pre-order with the advance screening tickets for Transformers Darkside Moon with the first pre-purchase period starting on the 1st May and running until the 28th July.  The figure is 6760yen which also include the ticket to see the film.  The toy will be released on the 14th July

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Thanks to TF_TF for the corrections

TakaraTomy have updated their website with information on the stores that will be selling the chrome Transformers Dark Side Of The Moon Mech-Tech Weapons.  The store are Toys R Us, Bic Camera and Singh Show (sharing a weapon), Yamada Denki and Yodobashi Camara (also sharing a weapon).  The fourth weapon, the silver one, I can't quite translate but it doesn't appear to be a store.  All stores will be selling the weapons on the 15th May

Thank­s to a Taobao auction we can bring you 23 new images of the upcoming translucent Transformers Dark of the Moon Bumblebee figure.  You can view the images below.

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Below you can find some scans from th­e latest issue of Figure King Magazine which includes a good look at some of the forthcoming Transformers Dark side of the Moon figures as well as anothre look at the Lucky Draw Gold DOTF Bumblebee toy.

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TakaraTomy have update their Transformers Dark Side of the Moon (Dark of the Moon) website with a new page dedicate to two MechTech prize campaigns.  The campaigns are the first Lucky Draw Transformers Dark of the Moon prize draws and starts on May 14th for with the Gold and Silver MechTech Weapons. These weapons will be made available as store exclusives, though the stores are yet to be named.

The first campaign has four prizes, with the top prize being 10 gold chrome MechTech Dark of the Moon Bumblebee.  The 2nd prize is 10 double set of Transformers and Transformers Revenge on Blue-Ray, the third prize is 100 sets of the MechTech weapons with the fourth prize being a poster.

The winners of the first campaign will then be entered into a second campaign, where 100 winners will go onto receive a gold chrome Transformers Dark of the Moon Optimus Prime.

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Million Publishing have updated their website, millionhero.jp, with the cover of their Transformers Generations 2011 book. Amazon Japan has also been updated with the image as have other Japanese book retailers.

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Snakas is reporting that as well as a Transformers: Dark side of the moon TV special is going to air in Japan between April 24th and May 1st 2011 a special Rose O'Neil Kewpie International Bumblebee figure is going to be produced (see below).

Dark side of the Moon is the Japanese name for Transformers Dark of the Moon

Entertainment Weekly.com has posted an article by Anthony Breznican that announced that Leonard Nimoy has joined the cast of Transformers Dark of the Moon and will voice Sentinel Prime.

"Mr. Spock himself, Leonard Nimoy, has joined the film as the voice of Sentinel Prime, the predecessor of Optimus Prime whose wrecked body is seen in the teaser trailer, found crash-landed on the moon by the Apollo 11 astronauts in 1969. Later, after being brought to earth, he takes the disguise form of a fire engine in the movie’s massive, climactic battle through Chicago.

Apart from his obvious Star Trek cred, Nimoy also has a history with Hasbro’s shape-shifting alien robots: He was the voice of Galvatron in 1986?s TheTransformers: The Movie.

Transformers filmmaker Michael Bay had toyed with the idea of inviting him to play a voice in the second movie, Revenge of the Fallen, but wasn’t sure he could pay the veteran actor enough. “I was too scared to ask him,” the director says. “Plus, he’s married to Susan Bay, who’s a cousin of mine. So I had to be careful. I’ve met him at family functions. But he told me, ‘I would be honored. I’m glad to be back!’”"

Snakas has posted the following round-up of the contents of this months Figure King Magazine, issue 158.  Figure is often incorrectly referred to as "Figure Oh" by some Western sites.

Figure King issue 158 was released on the 24th March 2011.

The first five toys form Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon (Transformers Dark of the Moon) including Sentinal Prime, Bumbleee and Optimus Prime with his Japanese exclusive trailer were all shown.

There was an article on how to play the Mech-Tech card/slot game which will be taking over from the current card/slot game B-1.

Some more Transformers Unites figures were six shown with comparisons to their overseas releases.  The Dual Model Kits of Optimus Prime and Bumblebee that were featured in last months Dengeki Hobby magazines are shown, but with more detailed images.

There are more images of the Transformers Crossover Kabya figure Gaia.  As you may remember Gaia is an updated version of the Transformers Victory Landcross toy, so Multi-Force.