Its the 14th November 2010 in Japan now (as that are ahead) and as such it is 24 years to the day that Transformers 2010 (Headmasters) first aired and to commemorate this e-Hobby have updated their website with a page dedicated to Transformers United.  The page contains silhouettes of Scourge, Galvatron, Cyclonus, Rodimus, Kup and Wreck-Gar.  What is not clear is whether this means that there will be e-Hobby exclusive Transformers United figures coming soon, or just thast they will be stocking the toys.

You can view the page here.

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.

Good news for fans of mail-away Transformers as Hyper Hobby have announced that the December issue of the Japanese magazine will contain a mail-away slip for a black repaint of Transformers Animated Rodimus.  The toy will most likely be black and silver like previous Japanese exclusives.

Credit to TFW2005.com for the news.  The also have a small scan of the page though no actual toy is shown.

As was predicted by Snakas, the grey prototype for Masterpiece Rodimus was show off to the public for the first time at CybertronCon in China.  Chinese message board ACToys.net have posted images from the event including some images of the prototype that can be found below.  Thanks to Xian for pointing us to the images.

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Thanks to an auction on TaoBao by TFclub, there are more images of the clear plastic Transformers Animated Sons of Cybertron Rodmus toy.

Follow the link above to see the auction and images.

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TakaraTomy have updated their Transformers websites with the following additions:

Their Generation One website sees updates to the Animated section including updates to Ultra Magnus, Sentinal Prime, Jazz, Blurr, Elite Guard Bumblebee, Wreck-Gar and Leader Class Megatron, all of whom were released at the end of June.

The Summer EZ Collection Campaign page is updated with information on which Jusco stores will have the clear figures.

The Transformers 2010 campaign page is updated with the Sons of Cybertron Classics figures.

Finally the Disney Label Buzz Lightyear product page is updated.

Our thanks go to Snakas for the update.

Our thanks go to Phill for reporting that the Transformers Generation Deluxe figures are now out in the UK. The figures were spotted in Forbidden Planet in Edinburgh for £14.99 each and come carded on the standard 12-Language backing cards like all European items.  Expect them to hit other retail shops in the coming weeks.  Phill has photographed the toys (below) which are War For Cybertron Optimus Prime and Bumblebee along with Drift and Thrust

The instructions which come with Masterpiece Sleep Mode Convoy have confirmed that TakaraTomy will indeed be releasing a Masterpiece Rodimus (Hot Rod) figure.  If you take a look at the image below which Yizhi of TF08.net found on 2Chan then you'll see it reads "Next Masterpiece,name is Rodimus".

The July releases for Transformers Animated were shown.
The figures include Leader Class Ultra Magnus and Megatron and will come with cards for use with Sega's Transformers Animated card game.

The magazine takes a look over the episodes of Transformers Animated that will air over July as well as looking at Volume 1 of the Animated DVD and the Sega games.

Images were published of variou EZ Collection figures including Skywarp and Sunstorm.

From the Transformers 2010 Campaign the Classics "Sons of Cybertron" Optimus Prime and Rodimus were shown.  The figures are exactly the same as the ones from the Philippines and will be sold in limited quantites over two days in Japan.

Human Alliance Jazz with Agent Lennox isshown in detail.

Finally the article contains a mention to the "Cybertron Con" a Transformers event that will take place in Shanghai between the 30th Jult and the 3rd August.  The event will see the sale of the clear Sons of Cybertron Classics set, Alternity Ultra Magnus as well as showing all seven exclusives from the 2010 campaign

Credit to Snakas for the news

The official website for Takara's 2010 Campaign has been updated with a new page for the recently announced Toy Hobby Market exclusive Primus figure, an image of the Transformers Henkei 'Sons of Cy­bertron' Optimus Prime and Rodimus set as well as an image of the Transformers Animated 'Sons of Cybertron­' set (again Optimus Prime and Rodimus but using the Transformers Animated molds), finally they have also added a new piece of merchandise the  Masterpiece Sound Stage which appears to be a large plastic stand which will most likely containing sound bites from various characters. You can find images of the sound stage as well as the Transformers Animated Sons of Cybertron crystal Optimus Prime and Rodimus below.

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­The Cybertron Philippines have posted images on their message board of another "Transformers 2010" double pack budded the Sons of Cybetron.  This pack contains a clear Optimus Prime and clear Rodimus figures but its not the Transformers Animated toys that have previously been seen, but instead is clear versions of the Transformers Classics molds.  The toys are part of the Transformers Autobot Alliance Toy Launch.  Visit the Cybertron Philippines message board to view all of the images and use the four thumbnails below for some samples.

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CyberGundam blog scanned in the latest issue of Figure King magazine which as well as including the image of Unicron also included the first images of the clear Optimus Prime and Rodimus 2-pack from Transformers Animated as well as a first look at the trailer of Sleep Mode Convoy which shows that it will be clear.

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To celebrate King Grimlock (Matt Messanger)'s birthday, you can now find 5 new Transformers Classics Toy Galleries  which Matt has provided us with (just some of several).

The new galleries feature the following Transformers Toys

• Transformers Classics - Cliffjumper
• Transformers Classics - Optimus Prime
• Transformers Classics - Rodimus
• Transformers Classics - Grimlock
• Transformers Classics - Jetfire