The good news continues for Masterpiece fans as MP-21 Bumblebee has now been released in Japan and Asian with various listings available on eBay including delivery to the UK for £45.  If you are looking to get the figure in time for Christmas then you should think about ordering one very soon.

Robot Kingdom have posted some images of the just released Transformers-Evangelion cross-overr MP-10 Optimus Prime repaint onto their Facebook page. You can view a copy of the images after the jump.  You can also click here to view the Evangelion MP-10 Optimus Prime figures which are listed on eBay.com.

TFYuki has posted an image of Twitter of a production sample for the upcoming Masterpiece Star Saber. Whilst this is not the finished version it is a great update on where the toy is.

月曜日から仕事が怒濤のように・・・そんな中でもＭＰスターセイバーのテストショットが到着で、ちょっと幸せ気分♪　しかし、サンプルが届く＝チェックの仕事が増える訳で、残業必須なのだ！ pic.twitter.com/qWDZpwKwPy

— TF YUKI (@TFYUKI) October 27, 2014

This months Japanese Hobby magazines come with a fresh and full look at the soon to be released Masterpiece Star Saber figure. The figure we expect to be released in a blackk redeco later to match the Robotmasters figure but the latest offers show the painted figure in various forms giving everyone the best look thus far at the toy.

TagHobby have revealed that thhe MP-23 Takara-Tomy Masterpiece figure will be .... Exhaust!  Who, you ask? Exhaust is a recolour of the upcoming MP-20 Wheeljack figure with a new head and is based on the Marlboro diaclone Wheeljack figure but as a Decepticon.

The figure may seem like a strange one but TakaraTomy do like to release recolours of the figures to justify the tooling costs.  We are still expecting a Slicer repaint to be released at somepoint, though that may turn out to be a Hasbro figure more than a TakaraTomy one,

Hisashi Yuki, better known as TF YUKI on Twitter, has been sharing more images of the upcoming Transformers Masterpiece Star Saber prototype over on his Twitter account. The new images including comparisons of Saber, who is smaller than the original toy but more cartoon accurate, as well as Star Saber, who is taller than the original figure. You can view the new images below and remember that the toy is out in March 2015

The Tokyo Toy Show is on in Japan and TakaraTomy are showing off their 2014 releases including the Transformers: Lost Age figures, Transformers Cloud, Transformers Legends as well as the Masterpiece line.  PHotographs from the event are hitting the internet and so we have mirrored some which can be viewed by clicking on the headline.

The show highlights include Masterpieces Ultra Magnus and Evangelion Convoy as well as Transformers Cloud Rodimus and Shockwave.

Takara-Tomy have updated their website with the announcement of a new line of Transformers toys called "Transformers Legends".  The line is basically the new official Japanese title for the Generations Figures but also contains some Japanese exclusive items.  The first two releases to be announced are Rattle (Rattrap) and Convoy (Optimus Primal), from Beast Wars. Rattle is the Generations Deluxe class Rattrap figure with a new deco whilst Convoy is the 10th Anniverary Golden Disk Beast Wars Ultra class toy. They are currently due for release in October 2014.

You can view the images after the jump

Toys R Us Japan vepdated their website with a new listing for their exclusive Lost Age version of Evasion Mode Optimus Prime. This figure is schedule for release on August 10th and will run you about 4,999 yen.

Anime News Network are reporting that it appears as if Takara Tomy are going to run a crossover series between Transformers and Evangelion with the Japanese company taking out adverts in this months hobby magazines which feature a preview of the story that the cross-over will be based on.

The idea is so obvious, it's amazing it took this long. Toy maker Takara Tomy has taken out ads in this month's hobby magazines showing Optimus Prime with a very familiar color scheme. The details of the Evangelion cross-over is still underwraps at this point, but the ad even includes its own "story":

The Angels are invading. Breaking a long silence, the mysterious life-forms known as the Angels suddenly appear. The weapons the UN forces gather together in retaliation can't even scratch them. In the end, they turn to the secret agency, NERV, to manage the anti-Angel strategy. With Neo-Tokyo 3 in their sights, the Angels slowly advance upon the city...but suddenly a spaceship comes hurtling down from the sky above the Angels: the Autobot Sky Lynx! Out of the ship emerges warriors of the far-off planet Cybertron. They've come to investigate after noticing an unusual energy reading.

"We can't let a disaster like the Second Impact occur on this planet."
"What?! What are these monsters?!"

Optimus Prime sets his sights on an enemy much bigger than himself.

The company opened a 30th anniversary site for Transformers last week and Nippon Television Network will hold the Transformers Expo in August.

Takara designer Shogo Hasui has tweeted out some more images of the upcoming MP-21 Bumblebee figure. The images include a size comparison wirth MP-17 Prowl, confirming that Bumblebee will be half his size, a look at the read of the figure as well as a profile image of Spike's Exo-Suit. You can view the news images below and all of the images of this figure by following the jump.

TakaraTomy have published a image of the next two Transformers Cloudo figures and they do not include the expected Rodimus toy. Instead the image has revealed the 2nd and 3rd release for Transformers Cloud to be Starscream, a remold from Generations Blitzwing, and Brawn a remold from the First Edition Transformers Prime Bulkhead figure.

Brawn will be released exclusively through the TakaraTomy Mall with Starscream being an e-Hobby exclusive

Masterpiece Generation Two Lambor AKA Sideswipe has now been released within Japan leading to images being shared across the internet.  Thanks to these in-hand images taken by Hobby Search, Robot Kingdom and  Oscar Fung we can bring you 14 images of the latest Masterpiece figure.

Shogo Hasui has updated his Twitter feed with an image, mirrored below, off the the missile launcher upgrade for MP-20 Wheeljack.  The weapon is based from the G1 episode "The Rise of Atlantis".

Takara-Tomy Transformers designer, Hisashi Yuki, has updated his twitter feed with more new images of the upcoming Transformers Go Optimus EX Prime.