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TakaraTomy have updated their Generation One website to confirm that Transformers Animated Snarl, Grimlock, Swoop and Blackout will be released in May. They have also updated the Device Label site confirming that Cheetor will also be released in May. No mention is made to Broadcast though who does appear on the May release schedule at all despite magazine reports that he would be out next month. So it is looking like he has once again been delayed.
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Our thanks go out out ninja_autobot for letting us know that hs has subtitled the full JAM Project theme for Transformers Animated now. You may remember that he recently subtitled the TV version well now you can enjoy the full track which you can see here or by using the plug-in below.
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Paramount Pictures Japan have teamed up with Pepsi Nex (Pepsi Max) to run a promotion of Paramount Pictures themes Be@rbrick figures which includes a Transformers Movie Bumblebee. You can see an image of all of the Be@rbrick's below.
Credit to Snakas for the report.
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Kapow Toys have updated their blog with some images of upcoming Japanese Transformers figure including the highly anticipated Rodimus figure. They have also published release dates for various toys, some of which have been seen before on Japanese sites.
1) Animated Leader Class Megatron - July
2) Animated Swindle - July
3) Animated Jazz - July
4) Animated Sentinel Prime - July
5) Animated Wreck Gar - July
6) Animated Blurr - August
7) Animated Ultra Magnus - August
8) Animated Samurai Prowl - August
9) Animated Cybertron Ratchet - August
10) Animated Rodimus - August
11) Animated Jetpack Bumblebee - September
12) Animated Wingblade Optimus Prime - September
13) Revenge Human Alliance Jazz - July
14) Revenge Insecticon - September
15) Revenge Battle Blade Bumblebee - September
16) Revenge Battle Blade Optimus Prime - September
17) Revenge Deluxe Ironhide - September
18) Disney Label Buzz Lightyear - July
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Snakas has updated Autobase Aichi with some upcoming Japanese Transformers Animated releases. The figures listed are:
April24th
Toys R Us Exclusive "burning" EZ Collection Optimus Prime (clear red). This figure is a campaign toy and can be viewed here.
July
TA26 Leader Class Megatron - 7140yen
TA27 Leader Class Ultra Magnus - 7140yen
TA28 Sentinel - 2415yen
TA29 Autobot Jazz - 2415yen
TA30 Autobot Blurr - 2415yen
TA31 Elite Guard Bumblebee - 2415yen
TA32 Wreck-Gar - 3780yen
Optimus Prime & Rodimus (Japanese exclusive clear ser) - 5250yen
August
TA33 Rodimus - 3780yen
TA34 Samurai Prowl - 2940 yen
TA35 Decepticon Sunstorm - 3780yen
TA36 Swindle - 2415yen
TA37 Waspinator - 2415yen
Cybertron Optimus Prime Vs Cybertron Megatron - 4725yen
September
TA38 Wingblade Optimus Prime - 4725yen
TA39 Jetpack Bumblebee - 3360yen
TA40 Cybertron Mode Ratchet - 2415yen
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Snakas has reported that the Japanese online toy store Rakuten.co.jp have added pre-order
pages for both RA-32 Human Alliance Jazz & Major Lennox as well as the Transformers Disney Label Buzz Light Monochrome version.
Both toys are due for release on the 24th July 2010
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Our thanks go to YouTuber shikamaru2589 who has contacted us to let us know that he has posted an English subtitled version of the opening theme for the Japanese Transformers Animated series which you can view below or by clicking here.
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V-Nihon has subbed
the segment from the TV Boy promotion DVD that came with last months issue and had a Transformers Animated segment where Optimus Prime (Hiroki Takahashi) introduces
the premise of the show, the characters and the toys. To download the clip, just head over to TV-Nihon's tracker
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You can view the opening to the Japanese version of Transformers Animated using the YouTube video below. The theme if Transformers Evo by Jam Project
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Several posts on Japanese based forums and newsgroups are reporting that the Transformers Animated toys are now out in stores
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Below you will find two Japanese TV spots advertising the upcoming launch of Transformers Animated.
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It has been announced via Twitter that the Japanese comic artist, Tsushima Naoto will be writing a new Transformers Animated Manga called "Transformers: Animated - The Cool!" You can view the announcement as well as the artwork here.
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TV-Aichi have now put their Transformers: Animated mini-site now live The site contains Japanese synopsis, cast information, image galleries as well as the online broadcast of "From the Autobot Family (Otobotoke Yori).
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e-Hobby have announced their next exclusive figure as being Transformers Alternity Ultra Magnus. At you can probably guess he is a white repaint of the Optimus Prime figure
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Within the latest issue of Figure King magazine (pronounced figure oh) there was a list of the cast as well as the opening episodes The three-parter "Transform and Roll Out" has been renamed "New Chapter! Transformers", "Hero, the name is Autobot" and "Secret of the Allspark". The fourth episode to air in Japan was the 10th episode in the western release "Sound and Fury", but the Japanese episode will be called "Operation: Soundwave".
In terms of the cast these are the names mentioned within the article.
Optimus Prime: Takahashi Hiroki
Bumblebee: Kishio Daisuke
Ratchet: Okawa Toru
Ironhide: Miyake Kenta
Prowl: Yusa Kouji
Ultra Magnus: Ginga Banjo
Sentinel: Suwabe Junichi
Teletraan I: Takagaki Ayahi
Megatron: Wakamoto Norio
Starscream: Yamanoi Jin
Blitzwing: Cho (Nagashima Shigeru)
Lugnut: Itou Kentaro
Blackarachnia: Uzuki Ryoka
Sari: Akesaka Satomi
Professor Sumdac: Nagasako Takashi
Captain Fanzone: Tobita Nobuo
Credit to Drillbit of TFW2005.com for the report
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