­TFW2005.com member Bignick1693 has posted a photograph of the Diamond reprint of the Botcon 2011 Stunti-con Job comic book that comes with a teaser for Botcon 2012.  The image, which is mirrored below features an image of Reveal The Shield Optimus Prime and the following tag line:

An enemy thought defeated
A power thought to be legend
At Botcon 2012, Earth's survival rests
in the hands of just one robot...­

Sightings have started to come in of Reveal the Shield Windcharger at US Retail outlet Ross.  The figure is priced at $4.99 (£3.04) so not only is he out but he is dirt cheap to boot!

Go get him US readers.

Million Publishing, the company behind the Generations Books, have announced that their exclusive mail-away figure for the Transformers Generations 2011 book will be none other than Transformers United Stepper.  The figure is a recolour of the Transformers United / Reveal The Shield Jazz complete with Nightstick targetmaster.  The toy is based on the Stepper figure from the Transformers Headmasters line.

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Our thanks go to Unitedbot for reporting that Reveal The Shield Solar Storm Grappel and Lugnut are now out within the UK.  Unitedbot found both toys in Sainsburys Macclesfield priced at £20.99 each. You can view an image of his find with the receipt below.

On Thursaday Unitedbot posted the following sighting on our message board.

"RTS G2 Prime and Wreck-Gar from TRU Stockport for £9.97 each."

The figures do not appear to have made their way to all of the Toys R Us stores as yet, another board member, Brawn, posted that "Thanks unitedbot! My TRU has boxes of TF DELUXE WAVE 2, under the shelves and they are indeed RTS wave 2. Skipped on the rest."

HK-TF.com board member Mike has posted some images of the upcoming Transformers Reveal The Shield W­reck-Gar figure.  You can view the original post here, and the mirrored images below.

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ACToys.net have posted some comparison images of Transformers United Jazz and Transformers Reveal the Shield Jazz.  The latter figure, as you may recall, has been released within the UK and Ireland in Smyths stores.

You can view a mirror of the images below.

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TFW2005.com are reporting that the Transformers Reveal the Shield Jazz and Tracks have now been released in Ireland and are available at Smyths stores.

Smyths also have a UK presence so it is possible that these toys might start finding their way across the Irish channel and into UK retail outlets in the coming weeks rather than next Spring as was Hasbro's original plan.

Think back a few weeks and you'll remember that the first images of Hasbro's Transformers: Reveal the Shield­ Solar Storm Grappel, with that spelling, well now images of the Japanese version, Transformers United Grapple can be seen over on AmiAmi.

For those wondering about the differences, the Japanese version uses orange plastic and not yellow, including an orange head making it more cartoon accurate.

Credit to Snakas for the report.

The Transformers Collectors Club Store has been updated with some entries for the Transformers Reveal The Shield line which include the first look at the packaging for this sub-line.­ The figures shown are Special Ops Jazz, Turbo Tracks, Mindset and Fallback.­  You can view the images below.

Kapow-Toys have posted word over on TFW2005.com that the Reveal of the Shield sub-line will be starting in December

"Following on from the pics of TF united yesterday we've received some sparse news on a new theme / line from Hasbro coming sometime December.

all we have been told is its called ''Reveal of the Shield'' and is of a G1 theme which will be of interest to mainly collectors.

Sorry for such little info, we'll post more as we get it"