We've got two more Beast Wars II episode galleries for you tonight as we finish of the Seacons section of the cartoon series and introduce the cloned son of Convoy

Beast Wars II - Episode 25 - The Final Battle

Lio Convoy meets with the Seacons to strike up a deal to help them leave Planet Gaia.  The plan doesn't quiet go according to plan though.

Beast Wars II - Episode 26 - Enter Lio Junior

Lio Junior arrives, what impact will he have and where did he come from?

After a long delay, due to moving house, we can finally start to bring you the second half of our Beast Wars II cartoon image galleries.

Today we bring to you three more galleries

Transformers: Beast Wars Second Episode 22 - Megastorm's Reckoning

Megastorm meets with Halfshell to try and recruit the Seacons into the Deston's ranks, and have them attack the Cybertrons

Transformers: Beast Wars Second Episode 23 - Showdown in the Sea

Whilst the love triangle of Scylla, Bighorn and Scuba continues, the Insectrons first meet the Seacons

Transformers Beast Wars Second Epiosde 24 - Face the Setting Sun

Big Horn enlists the help of the Insectrons to stage a fake capture and rescue of Scylla to try and get her to fall in love with him.

We're back to playing catch up again with out Beast Wars II cartoon gallery update (due to no internet at the new house) so here'd a quick look at the two of the four galleries I put live on Friday, but didnt' get any time to tell you about.

Beast Wars II Episode 18 - The Black Lio Convoy

The Destrons stumble across an old artefact which can duplicate any object that it scans in the ruins of an ancient city on Planet Gaia.  Galvatron decides to use the device to clone his arm, creating a Black and Grey duplicate of BB - only to find that the clones are uncontrollable, believing themselves to the the original.  This gives the Destron Lord of Destructin an idea .. he'll trick the Cybertron's into using the device on themselves, to that their duplicates can take out Lio Convoy and his troops.

As expected it's poor old Tasmania Kid who finds the device and takes it back to base.  After first clonning a Manga that Scuba is reading the device is used on Lio Convoy creating a dark duplicte, Black Lio Convoy.

Having only seen a few pictures from this episode previously what then suprised me was that the other Cybertron's were also cloned into Black Versions .... the suprise of this to me is that toys were not made of these.  A Black Big Horn (Grey), Apache, Scuba and Tasmania Kid are also produced.   Only Scuba is not cloned, allowing him to defeat the evil clones.  This episode if also very similar to an A-Team episode when some imposters pretend to be the Heroes for Hire, with Murdock not being "copied".

Beast Wars II Epiosde 19 - The Space Pirate Seacons

This episode sees the Space Pirate Seacons, lead by Halfshell, arrive on Planet Gaia looking for Anglomois energy.

Stay tuned for the other two a little later today

HongKong based fan catz has dropped by TFW2005.com reporting a rumour that he heard form a Hong Kong supplier that the Seacons will be released by Hasbro in July and that there is a Target Exclusive three pack on the way of Hot Rod, Galvatron and Cyclonus.

More on this rumour as it develops

ACToys.net member ??has posted a series of images of the Seacons in Generation One colour schemes though Snap Trap is missing and Jawbreaker / Overbite is somewhat off coloured.  Some of the toys have a "not for sale" stamp as well as "made in China" markings suggesting that though they also have an 1­987 copyright marking, that these figures have been made in recent years.  Its unlikely that these were test-shots for the Collectors Club figure, as white samples have already been seen of those and its more likely that these figures could be seeing a re-release perhaps as a SDCC exclusive or a Japanese release.  Expect more on this as the story develops.

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Transformers At The Moon's Transformers Toy Gallery section has been updated with the latest Transformers Collectors Club exclusive figures of Nightbeat and the Seacons.  The toys feature in 8 galleries and take the total number of Transformers Toys featured in that section to 2,134.

• Nightbeat
• Nautilator
• Overbite
• Tentakil
• Skalor
• Seawing
• Snap Trap
• Piranacon

The Transformers Collectors Club have sent out an email announcing the release of their exclusive Seacons box set and Nightbeat figure.

"The pre-orders are online now.  Please try to place your order on the web as to minimize phone calls.

Products are expected to arrive to us by the end of Sept.  I'll let you know when they get on the boat!

Thanks for your patience. We wanted to get the new credit card system running before we started taking orders as it will help our international friends.

transformersclub.com/shop  select the pre-order check box and search to find both items.

Thanks for your support!

Brian"

The Transformers Collectors Club have updated their members only area with a preview image of the second Transformers Classics / Universe Seacons, Overbite. Members of the TFCC can need to sign in to that website to view the image which will probably be made publicly available in a few weeks.

Here is the link for Classics Legends Jazz:
http://actoys.net/bbs/read.php?tid-274172.html

And for Classics Legends Megatron and Hound:
http://actoys.net/bbs/read.php?tid-274104.html

For Binaltech Jazz:
http://actoys.net/bbs/read.php?tid-274081.html
and
http://actoys.net/bbs/read.php?tid-274002.html

For the Seacons
http://actoys.net/bbs/read.php?tid-273890.html

Fun Publications have updated the Transformers Collectors Club website with the following announcement.

"We are excited to announce that the pre-order page for the TCC Club Exclusive Seacons and Nightbeat will be going up here in the next 7-10 days. We are getting everything set up and will be taking orders then. We will be sending an email out to all club members notifying everyone of when the pre-order page is up.

The prices for each are as follows:
Nightbeat with exclusive Transformers Timelines Digest Comic - $48 plus s/h
Seacons gift set - $119 plus s/h

Each item will need to be pre-ordered separately as they will not be shipped together. Also, over the next couple of weeks we will be putting up some preview pages of the Timelines Nightbeat Comic that will come with the toy as well as some profile art that will only be able to be seen on the "Members Only" page for now."

Along with an auction on ebay for the Transformers Collectors Club Seacons, Talk Transformers (the Hong Kong Transformers message board) has also been updated with more images of the toy.

You can also find a few images of the original unreleased Transformers Universe Seasons toys in our Kabaya Seacons Transformers Toy galleries, thanks to Minion.

TFW2005 report that in the latest edition of the Transformers Collectors Club, Brian Savage states that the Seacons are now in production with an aim for an April release, just in time for BotCon 2008. He goes on to state that the Transformers Collectors Club Seacons are being produced to be similar to the unreleased Transformers Universe Seacons, but will not be exactly the same. Expected images to be posted over at TransformersClub.com as soon as samples are received from Asia.

They also report that in the same magazine, Brian Savage also talks a little about who will be the body for the Collectors Club Exclusive combiner. Not much information is given, other than that the toy will feature a gestalt head.

You can read the original article here.

Over at the Transformers Collector Club Message Board they have confirmed that the Universe Seacons will be a future exclusive, that the next club exclusive will not be Elita-1 but will be based on an existing character but with a new head-sculpt and finally, that the 2008 story arch for the comic will be based around the TransTech designs, and will include work from Ken Lashley of Draxhall Jump.