4Chan has a picture, said to be used as part of the planned marketing by Hasbro at the UK toyfair.  The images includes what is a recolour (white) of Ultra Prime (Combiner Wars Optimus Prime's combiner head) as well as Rodimus (HotRod) (as a recolour of BlackJack).

There have alraedy been rumours that Ultra Magnus would feature as a leader class toy, so that may well be the name of this combined toy.  Will this be announced to stockists at the UK toy fair?  We'll have to wait and see.

The Planet Iacon have shared an image from weibo.com/botcon which shows some new re-colours of the third party Targetdoids of Optimus Prime and Rodimus in their Shattered Glass colour schemes from Botcon.  You can view the image below and can compare them to the original Botcon figures using our Transformers Toy Gallery section.

Kate from KOToys, has updated their message board with some new images of their upcoming knock-off Shattered Glass Rodimus figure.  you can view the images of the fake toy below and can compare them to the original toy within our image gallery here.

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KOToys have revealed images of a knock-off Transformers Classics Rodimus sample along with news that figures using this mold will start to go on sale towards the end of this month or early next month.

Will this mean a KO's of the Henkei Wildrider, Shattered Glass Rodimus Prime and e-Hobby clear blue Rodimus toys are on the way? Time will tell.

­Japanese blogger Alfes 2010 has posted images of the recently released Hyper Hobby exclusive Transformers Animated Decepticon Dark Commander Black Rodimus over two posts.  You can find the full posts and galleries here and here with some selective images mirrored below.

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Toys R Us UK worker Omega Prime has posted a list of new Transformers entries within the UK computer system over on TFW2005.com and here they are:

TF Masterpiece Rodimus - 309311
TF3 Activators Asst - 345423
TF3 Battle Mask - 309230
TF3 Cyberverse Commander Asst - 345318
TF3 Cyberverse Legion Asst - 345296
TF3 Cyberverse Ark Set - 346543
TF3 Energon Shock Sword - 309117
TF3 GoBots Asst - 345466
TF3 Mechtech Voyager Asst - 345741
TF3 Mechtech Deluxe Asst - 345709
TF3 Megaverse Evolution 4 Pack - 309265
TF3 Optimus Prime Blaster - 346012
TF3 Revving Robots - 309095
TF3 Robo Fighters Asst - 345601
TF3 Robo Power Bash Bots - 308749
TF3 Scanning Ironhide & Sideswipe

In a follow-up post he then announced that Rodimus was listed as a global exclusive meaning that the toy will also be sold within the US exclusively in Toys R Us stores

In a follow-up to the news we bought you yesterday afternoon regarding Hyper Hobby Feb 2011 containing an article and images of a new­ly unearthed Generation One Prototype of Rodimus Convoy that TakaraTomy recently found in a warehouse, we can now bring you some low resolution images thanks to Masabon from TFW2005.com.  The figure is actually a hardcopy and is significantly taller than the released version.  According to the text this was the original Rodimus toy that was designed by Takara but the toy was nixed by Hasbro in favour of a smaller, cheaper version that was eventually released.

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We will keep our eyes out for higher resolution scans, and if we find them we will let you know.

Snakas has posted his round-up of the contents of the Feb issue of Hyper Hobby Magazine and as part of it has announced a very interesting turn of events that took place at the TakaraTomy offices this year.  As part of an interview regarding Masterpiece Rodimus, the content of which is very similar to other magazines, Snakas reveals  that two photographs are shown of prototypes of the 1985 Rodimus figure that Takara Tomy only recently found in an warehouse.  The article then goes on to talk about that design, the concept and decide of the Masterpiece figure and what had to change during the design process.  Snakas does not go into a great deal of detail but instead urges people to go out and buy the magazine. We will keep an eye on out for scans of the article as it sounds like it will be very interesting.

In other content Transformers United is the main theme that the magazine focusing on, covering the normal releases as well as the e-Hobby exclusives though there are general images and articles on both Masterpiece Rodimus and the re-issue of Masterpiece Megatron.

CYBERGUNDAM BLOG has pbeen updated with a single?page scan of the Transformers Masterpiece Rodimus figure.

The scan shows the Box, Instructions Cover, File card and stand that the toy comes with.

Part One Ltd have updated e-Hobby Shop with images of both their exclusive Autobot (Cybertron) and Decepticon (Destron) 3 packs.

The Autobot set comprises of a Clear Blue HotRod, Kup and Scrap Head (a remold of Wreck-Gar) whilst the Decepticons are Clear Blue Galvatron, Clear Purple Cyclonus and Clear Blue Scourge (representing when Unicron reformated them).

e-Hobby have updated their website with a little bit more information on their upcoming Transformers 2010 e-Hobby Exclusive - Autobots and Decepticons 3 Packs. No new images were shown but the information has announce more about the colour scheme of the figures.

The Autobot 3 set will consist of a clear blue Rodimus, representing the scene where HotRod morphs into Rodimus Prime, a battle damaged Kup, representing the wounds he received when Hot Rod and himself crashed on Quintessa, and Scrap Heap the Junkion remold of Wreckgar (he has a new head).

The Decepticon set will consist of clear purple versions of Galvatron, Cyclonus and Scourge representing the scene where Unicron gives them their "new bodies"