Takara have updated their website with their latest campaign item a set of MechTech Battle Blades for Striker Optimus Prime.   The campaign starts on November 18th for fans who spend 3000 Yen on Transformers products at Toys R Us.  The run is limited to 10,000 sets.

YouTube member Walruslaw has posted the Japanese teaser trailer for Transformers Prime on the video sharing website.  You can watch the

Snakas has updated ­Autobase Aichi with some information and images on the latest Transformers release in Japan including toy sheets of the October releases as well as listing the late November and December releases.

November's figures were:
DA-28 yen striker Optimus 9240
DA-33 air raid Seeker (Deluxe Class) ¥ 2730
Red DA-34 foot (Deluxe Class) ¥ 2730
DD-09 Sound Wave And Mr. Gould 6300 yen
Wave Sound CV-26 (Cyber ??Bath) 714 yen

Mid-December
DA-31 Autobot queue (Deluxe Class) ¥ 2730
DD-13 Soundwave (Deluxe Class) ¥ 2730

According to the information he posted some of the toys will be a different colour to the US release.  You can view more information (in Japanese) and images on Autobase Aichi.

FantoFan.jp have updated their website with some new images of upcoming TakaraTomy Transformers: Darkside Moon toys. The images include DA3-4 Leadfoot, DA-28 Striker Optimus Prime, DA-31 Autobot Que, DD-09 Soundwave and Mr.Cruel, DD-13 Soundwave, and CV-26 Soundwave.

The images are in a very low resolutions but can be foudn on their early bird page.

Following on from the recent announcement of the Japanese release of Beast Wars II, the box art has now been released, and can be viewed below.  Beast Wars II was a Japanese exclusive series that was produced to fill the gap between Japanese dubs of Beast Wars and led on to the follow-up series Beast Wars Neo.  There has been no official word on whether Beast Wars Neo will be released on DVD though, personally, we are expecting that announcement shortly after the release of Beast Wars II.  It is also our prediction that the series will be subbed into English and released via Shout Factory in either late 2012 or during 2013.  Again there is no official confirmation of this yet, it is purely a prediction by Transformers At The Moon.

If you like Beast Wars II or want to find out more then why not check out our Toy Gallery where we have photographed many of the figures or our Prototype section that contains some pages from the animations sheets and character designs.  You'll be seeing more behind the scenes details from Beast Wars II over the coming months here at Transformers At The Moon as we own hundreds of pages of character models from the show as well as some original scripts.

Japanese YouTuber tokusatsurevoltech has posted a 7 minute video of the Revoltech Transfo­rmers Movie Optimus Prime toy.  You can watch the video below.

TakaraTomy and Uniqlo have released an image of their UT Megatron T-shirt which will be available at their Harajuku store in Tokyo Japan.  The official TakaraTomy page also includes an image of an uncoloured, or possibly recoloured, Optimus Prime that you can see the image below.

e-Hobby have updated their website with a product page for an exclusive black repaint of Masterpiece Rodimus Convoy.  The figure, whi­ch was highly speculated, is going to be a Decepticon and will be released in November.

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Toys R Us Japan have updated their website with some more images and information on the Transformers Encore release of Devastator.  The figure will retail for 10,500 yen but is currently on discounted pre-order for 8,499 yen and will be released on the 21st November 2011.

Credit to FullMetalHero.com for the news­

­­­The Revoltech website has been updated with images and information on the Transformers Movie Optimus Prime ­figure.­  The toy, that will be released on the 1st July 2011, has a retail price of 3800? and is 140mm tall, has 19 joints and was sculpted by Yuki Ohshima.  The site confirms that the gun is made from five parts, that he comes with four optional hands, 1 blade and a name plate.  Its also confirmed that the figure will have a metallic coating and will be built with a heavy / solid feel in mind to help reproduce being a giant robot.

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Masabon has reported to TFW2005.com that Transformers: Darkside Moon, the Japanese name for Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Vortex has now been released in Japan at the International Tokyo Toy Show. The toy is a remold of the Tomahawk figure with the following profile

Vortex is the aerial soldier of Decepticon. As he has ruthless and brutal nature, he ultimate pleasure is to chop up the Autobot he captures.

You can view some images of this figure at ­TFW2005.com

TakaraTomy have updated the official Japanese Transformers website with the following updates.

­The Mobage Transformers: The Live is introduced.  This game sees your favourite Autobots and Decepticons battle it out.

A page has been added advertising an event that takes place this Saturday in Japan (18th June 2011) between 12:00 and 12:30 that will feature the first public viewing of the new MP-10 Masterpiece Convoy figure.  After this event you can expect that the internet will be awash with more images of the figure that will no doubt be recoloured numerous times over the next five years.

The MechTech pages have been updated with a page dedicated to Wing Jet Optimus Prime and Ultimate Ironhide

The Transformers Chronicle is launched.  TF Chronicles is the new name for a new EZ Collection figure line based on the Generation One series and starting off with Optimus Prime