Toy-Hobby-World have posted three scans from the latest issue of Dengeki Hobby Magazine. The scans have another look at the next Japanese Luck Draw figure, Sentinel Prime, as well as showing some new images of the upcoming DA­-28 Striker Optimus Prime and Human Alliance Soundwave toy. Check out the mirrored scans below.

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TakaraTomy have announced, via their website, their latest prize campaign within Japan, also known as the lucky draw c­ampaigns, with the top prize this time being a gold chrome Transformers: Dark Side Moon Sentinel Prime.  Dark Side Moon being the Japanese name for the 3rd live action Transformers movie.

The figure will be limited to 10 pieces with collectors able to enter the competition by collecting the serial codes from the Transformers Dark Side Moon toys.  Other then the 10 Voyager Sentinel Primes other prizes include 10 special edition Transformers web cameras and 100 new gold Mech Tech weapon.

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I have added to new Japanese Hobby Magazine image galleries to the website containing scans from the July issues of both TV Boy and Hyper Hobby.

The TV Boy image scans include a new image of the Lucky Draw Transformers Dark of the Moon Bumblebee and Ultimate Optimus Prime figures.

The scans are mirrors of images taken by ModXToys.com

­­The International Tokyo Toy Show has shown off three Transformers Dark of the Moon campaign prizes, or Lucky Draw Transformers toys.

Shown are Gold MechTech Optimus Prime with trailer before, along with the previously unseen Gold MechTech Voyager Megatron and Gold MechTech Voyager Sentinel Prime

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

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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I have updated the Transformers Toy Gallery section of the website to contain a new gallery of one of the Family Mart campaign figures that was released in Japan last year.  The gallery is of the clear leader class Optimus Prime figure from the Transformers Revenge (Revenge of the Fallen) toyline.  We bought the figure last year as apart of a bulk auction that included 95% of the Family Mart Prizes, only we did not get around to photographing this figure until yesterday.  Its a bit of a sad tale for this toy really, that was opened, transformed, and then put in a cupboard for a few months even though we planned on keeping him in his box on a shelf with the rest of the Movieverse figures as as well as taking the gallery yesterday he has now joined his "brothers" rather than hi-jacking the Masterpiece shelf.

Anyway, I digress, you can check out the image gallery of this limited edition toy here.   Enjoy!

Back in September TakaraTomy ran a competition where 40 lucky people could win a silver chromed Transformers Animated Bumblebee figure,  well it pleases my to announced that we own one of those figures and can now bring you the first full and detailed look at this limited edition Lucky Draw.  You can find the image gallery on LuckyDrawTransformers.com as well as on Transformers At The Moon.

Our normal digital SLR is currently on its way to New York, so the images were taken with my video camera but don't worry, its an HD camera so the quality is still pretty good.

Included are comparisons to the Optimus Prime Gold Version as well as the normal Bumblebee.

Enjoy!

HK-Tf member Magicikki has posted a new image of the latest Lucky Draw figure, the silver chrome Transformers Animated Bumblebee.  Officially limited to 40 pieces, this figure was offered in a store prize with the winners announced last month.  It was the second of three currently announced Transformers Animated Lucky Draw figures, though it is quite likely that the January issue of TV Magazine, on sale now, will contain a draw for more chrome Animated figures.

From reading the Million Publishing Twitter page it seems that the company is still deciding on who to use as their book exclusive figure for the upcoming Transformers Generation 2010 book.  This morning they blogged that their first recommendation was to produce two exclusives for the book a gold and a silver Rodimus. The toy, I assume, would use the Henkei (Classics) mold and would be based on the Super-Link figures (Gold SuperLink Rodimus, Silver Superlink Rodimus).  Though personally speaking I would rather they did a chromed Masterpiece Rodimus as other than looking nicer it would be a homage to the Primus figure they did as well as being harder for knock-offs to be made.

As my brother Moonbug  pointed out, the toy could well use the Animated Rodimus mold, which would be a safer choice, but I'd still like to see a Masterpiece used.

You may remember a month or so ago we announced news that Paramount Pictures published details of a gold deluxe Transformers Animated Megatron figure.  Well the page was pulled after four days of being online from their server and nothing was ever officially said again, that is until now as TakaraTomy have updated their own site with the same images and information on the competition which you can find here.

The toy will be officially limited to 1000 pieces, though like the Gold Animated Optimus Prime, more will be made

TFW2005.com have some new images of the recently started Japanese store campaign figures that are available at Family Mart.  The exact quantity of each item is not yet know however according to a members or TFW2005, 2,000 stores are offering this lottery now, and each store has..

Prize A - Clear ROTF leader Prime: Qty. 2
Prize B - Animated DX Prime : Qty. 5
Prize C - Activators Skywarp: Qty. 6
Prize D - Clear EZ/Legends: Qty. 20
Prize E: - Deformed figurines Qty. 21
Prize F: - Lanyards Qty. 22
Prize G - Tumblers: Qty. 24

This figures are clearly wrong as TakaraTomy pack the cases that they send to stores with an even amount of figures. Each figure is sent in solid pack cases, normally of the same size as the regular figures. With the recent Gold Deluxe Animated Prime, the toys were shipped 12 to a case.