3rd Party group Maketoys has updated their facebook with coloured images of a testshot of their upcoming Protectobot Blades figure Katana. The images show the weapons and poseability of the figure whom is the fourth member of the Gaurdia gestalt behind Axel (Groove), Rover (Streetwise) and Vulcan (Hotspot).

You can view the images after the jump

As we predicted back on the 4th July when more images of the fake Masterpiece Lambor (Sideswipe) appeared online, it has now been confirmed that fake MP Alerts (Red Alert) are also now out in the wild.  ActionFigure Checklist.com have an album of the fake, which is worth studying especially for the differences with the box and mailers

Mastermind Creations have revealed an upcoming Cyclops figure who is, obviously, their homage to Generation One Shokkwave. You can view the image below.

TFW2005.com have posted a nice summary of the figures which were shown off during the 3rd Party Panel at this years TFCon.  Some of the stand out figures were the Voyager sized G1 Skyfire but a yet unnamed 3rd party company, Make Toys showing off their Computron figure, Make Toys Swerve with drinks tray and additional damaged faced head and Fans Project revealing their Quickswitch figure.

EchoTF
- will be making Fall of Cybertron Bruticus Kits

Unnamed Company
- making Voyager size Skyfire

Mayhem Mechanix
- "Robo Dominion Saga Unrustable Bastards" Non-TF based with a rider.
- Bike turns into robot and rider in chest piece.
- Fiction has robot cycle gangs roving wastelands.
- Mayhem Mechanics, one of the of the mastermind Creations designers. Same who designed Hexatron and most of Feral Rex.
- Will be a kickstarter project.

Ori Toy
- Acid Rain toys. Stronghold out now. More soon. Converting mechs that fit 3-3/4" figures

Fanstoys
- Nothing new shown.

Keith's Fantasy Club.
- VOLTRON redeco of Ironpaw
- doing Raindance, Grandslam, Overkill and Slugfest.
- Overkill and Slugfest will have Dinobots color redecoes
- Showing Perceptor and Magnificus
- Doing a Skybyte called "Haiku"! and doing a Captain Shark deco as well!

X-Transbots
- Huffer and Pipes being shown
- Huffer comes up to MP-10 Optimus' waist

Renderform
- Nothing new to show

BTS
- Doing a Blaster that turns into a walkie talkie
- Senator Ratbat head design also shown for that same mold
- Triple changing Energon cubes - cube, bug, weapon
- Some will be on display here
- will be "Low Cost"
- Nova Lord box art shown, has a base mode
- Prototypes of Nova Lord's head sculpts will be on display. Possibly also his powermaster partners
- BTS was working on a Fortress Maximus, project cancelled when Encore was announced

Mastermind Creations
- Peaugh has full color test shots of Fortis and Bovis here (Jarodimus has handled them, they're outstanding)
- Will be on display
- Peaugh did a live 5-foot drop test of Bovis. Zero Damage.
- Talon pushed back to November for design changes and new features. He is a sniper -- has 2 helmets, rifle, wings act as cloak
- 6th Feral Rex bot is saber tooth tiger remold of Tigris, deco like Catilla, name is Felisaber (G1 Colors) Mostly yellow, some red
- Showing femme bots
- MMC doing a very G1-ish Perceptor. Will have toy and cartoon face. 3 modes, super articulated
- Prototype looks very good

Headrobots
- Iguana is next - finally!
- Doing an Apeface head

Perfect Effect
- IDW Fort Max - seen at Botcon

Maketoys
- Doing Scourge version of Battle Tanker -- no suprise. New head
- IDW Swerve WITH A TRAY OF DRINKS
- COMPUTRON all five shown in bot mode
- concept shown for combined mode

FANSPROJECT
- No news on release date for Steelcore trailer -- still happening
- Showing combined Intimidator (Menasor)
- Roadbuster! Very nice, a half track
- 4th and 5th Glacial bots being shown
- Wooly Rhino and deer
- Announced a Quickswitch/Sixknight

We have mirrored the slides which were shown as well as some images of the 3rd party figures within the dealer room attached to this news story.

Fans Project have sent both Peaugh and Vangelus early release of Glacialord Fangro and Tailclub respectively.  You can watch the video reviews below which take you through the first two figures from the Retro-Future line.

The figures, as well as being combiner toys, are also headmasters as well as being compatible with the G1 figures.

A new preview silhouette image of TFC Ares' combiner figure has been posted, which can be viewed below.  The image shows the outline of all five figures.  The figures still remain somewhat of a mystery especially as two of the figures look very similar from their outilnes,

Protomanx has posted some more images of the grey prototype of BTS Novalord (not-Overlord) onto his Twitter page with the promise that there is "More to come later today on TFW, and later this week......... ROBOT MODE!".  The new images include pictures of all three vehicle modes (tank, jet and aircraft carrier) along with a size comparison to the original Generation One toy. From the images, this figure is going to be huge in robot form though it will probably have a very high price tag.

You can view all of the images after the jump.

FansToys have published some new images of their upcoming Non-Shockwave figure called Quakewave. Having now seemingly decided to settle on the purple fists, they were unsure previously and reached out to fans, this new images are a welcomed update to the progress of the figure.

Whilst we are catching up with the 3rd party news the BTS group recently posted the first images of their not-Overlord figure called Nova lord.  The toy, which reportedly will stand at 18" in robot mode, comes with his godmaster / powermaster figures as well as what appears to be a mode. You can view the images below.

Sticking the non-official 3rd party schema, Perfect Effects have posted the first images of their upcoming Not-Blackarachnia figure who is called Motobot. Motobot transforms from robot mode into a motorcycle as well as a spider. You can view the images below.

Fans Project have posted a whole host of new images of their upcoming Not-Stunticons and Non-Headmasters (Function X) toys.  If you click the headline of this story you will be able to view all of the images which have been released thus far which include Breakdown and Wildrider in both modes, the early prototype of Dragstrip and Deadend in their vehicles modes as well as images of the second and third Function X figures, X-2 (Brainstorm) and X-3 (Weirdwolf).

Remember that all of these figures are unlicensed products.

Unique Toys have posted the first images of their grey prototype of War Rhino (Tantrum) from their upcoming Beasticon set.  The Beasticon will comibine into War Lord AKA Predaking.

With both Unique Toys and Mastermind Creations both releasing third party Predaking figures which will you decide to get?

3rd Party toy maker, TFC Toys, have updated their Facebook page with a collection of coloured images of the latest prototype of their upcoming release SR-71 Blackbird (better known as Silverbolt) who is a part of their Project Uranos project, the unofficial Superion figure. The images include pictures of the new Aerialbot companion X-45 Phantom Ray who transforms into the chest plate of Uranos (Superion). There is also a groupshot of the first three released Phantom, the soon-to-be-released Eagle and Blackbird which helps highlight the size difference.  You can view the images after the jump.

YouTube reveiewer TJ Ducket has posted a video review of the upcoming Fans Project Function X-1 Code figure, who is better known as Not-Chromedome.  You can watch the video below.

Fans Project have unveiled the first image of one of their new Function X series of figures. The first figure to be revealed is X1 AKA Chromedome. You can view an image of this figure below.