Transformers News: Tag - "hobby magazine"

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20 WSTF toys photographed

Transformers At The Moon breaks through the 1,800 mark with 1,814 Transformers toys featured in our Transformers toy gallery area. To celebrate the milestone, we've uploaded images of our entire Worlds Smallest Transformers collection (which is just missing Ultra Magnus and the Anime Convoy trailer).

So have a look at our Transformers toy gallery are to see the following new editions (please note that we use correct names on the site, therefore they are listed under their Japanese names).

Our next target is to get to our 1,700th Transformers toy image gallery, in the Transformers toy section (as some toys share a gallery - such as Brainstorm and Arcana). We are only 1 gallery away from this mark, so stay tuned to find out what will be the 1,700th Transformers toy gallery on the site.

Category: Website Updates | Submitted by: Moonbug - on: Sunday, 26th August 2007 at 11:19:20 BST | Share: | Discuss: Read on

Yet more MP-05 Megatron pictures from Hobby Magazine

Visual Media Technology, the Hong Kong message board, has yet another magazine scan of Masterpiece Megatron, MP-05, this time from the January issue of Hobby Magazine.

The image is expected to be mirrored by various US Transformers websites and Fan to Fan should have more information when they review that issue of the magazine.

Category: Website Updates | Submitted by: Moonbug - on: Wednesday, 22nd November 2006 at 08:33:26 GMT | Share: | Discuss: Read on

Beast Wars Convoy to be released again?

TFormers have a report on the latest issue of Hobby Magazine which includes an images of a blacked out Optimus Primal toy. Will the figure be re-released again? Will it be a re-issue of Burning Convoy, I guess we wait and see.

Category: Website Updates | Submitted by: quartz - on: Monday, 23rd October 2006 at 20:12:04 BST | Share: | Discuss: Read on

Designer Shoji Kawamori interview: MP-03 design / Kiss-Play

Seibertron have a translation of the interview with Shoji Kawamori featured in the lastest edition of Hobby Magazine in Japan. The interview covers Masterpiece Starscream and the Kiss-Play toys. Some of the key points are:

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Tomy-Takara plans to market Transformers to adults for a while and not to children. We've been witnessing this already as Takara created the Binaltechs, Binaltech Astericks, Masterpieces, and now KISS Players.

Female figurines are popular in Japan among male adults. Tomy-Takara jumped on the bandwagon and included them in their KISS products. A radio show of KISS now airs in Japan.

Takara did not mention how long they will continue this campaign, but hinted that we will see other KISS Transformers released in the near future. Takara revealed that both the KISS and Masterpiece series are doing very well.

It is not known whether Tomy-Takara plans to release additional series in the near future.

Starscream:
Takara pretty much gave Shoji the reigns to make changes where he saw fit. The mold changes were made (as you can guess) to make the jet mode more complete. Some of these include (as you know) part of the fuselage on Starscream's arms, shoulders, and hips.

The tail stabilizers were moved from his legs to his hips to create the appearance of a samurai wearing two swords.

Shoji originally wanted to make the robot parts completely hidden on the undercarriage of the jet. He was not happy that the forearms and chest were visible during the alt mode. He also was not satisfied with the head. He played around with designs to cover these parts up but then scrapped the idea because it would have sacrificed the robot mode too much.