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This area of the website is dedicated to Transformers news. Currently this website contains 13 news stories divided over 1 pages. You can submit a news story by using our news submission page.

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  1. AFA Graded Transformers - AFA graded Transformers related news and information. For more details regarding AFA Transformers including the latest ratings, going prices and how to get your figure rated, please visit www.afatransformers.com.
  2. G.I. Joe - We are also fans of G.I-Joe and so on occasionally we run news stories related to that Hasbro line, primarily related to the live action films.
  3. Lucky Draw Transformers - These news stories are reported both on Lucky Draw Transformers .com as well as Transformer Toys .co.uk
  4. Older News
  5. Site Sponsors - News relating specifically to our website sponsors.
  6. The Visionaries.net - The news stories within this category appear on The Visionaries.net as well as Transformers At The Moon
  7. Toy Industry News - This section contains toy industry related news stories, including press releases, NPD sales charts and other events that may have a knock on affect to Hasbro Inc, TakaraTomy or Transformers in general.
  8. Trans-Europe Express Group News - The Trans-Europe Express was a Yahoo! Group where a few people collaboration to share information on what was going in within Europe relating to Transformers as well as promoting a united European fan community.
  9. Transformer Toy Sightings - This is where you will find toy sighting related news stories.
  10. Transformers Animated - Transformers Animated was the cartoon / comic / toy form that the Transformers took from late 2007 until 2010. These news stories are published on Transformers Animated.com as well as on Transformers At The Moon
  11. Transformers Cartoons
  12. Transformers Comic News
  13. Transformers Convention News
  14. Transformers Interviews and Articles
  15. Transformers Merchandise
  16. Transformers Movie News
  17. Transformers Power Core Combiners - News related to the 2010 Transformers subline known as the Power Core Combiners. These news stories are published both on Transformers At The Moon as well as Transformers Power Core Combiners.com.
  18. Transformers Product Listings
  19. Transformers Rumours
  20. Transformers Toy News
  21. Transformers Trademark News - News stories relating to trademark applications that Hasbro Inc have made with the USPTO. These stories are always broken here first.
  22. Transformers: Prime - Transformers: Prime is the name of the 2010 CGI Transformers cartoon which aired on the Hasbro-Discovery joint TV channel The Hub in the fall of 2010 within the US.
  23. Website Bug Fixes
  24. Website Competitions
  25. Website Updates

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Website Updates

Its Friday and the fifth and final day of Transformers Alternity Week here at Transformers At The Moon.  Today we conclude our toy gallery series with a new entry for Alternity Starscream Pearl White version.

Like the other galleries, comparisons with our other Alternity figures are included.

Category: Website Updates | Submitted by: quartz - on: Friday, 29th October 2010 at 10:22:05 BST | Share: | Discuss: Read on

Website UpdatesTransformers: Alternity week continues here at Transformers At The Moon as we published yet another toy gallery.  Today's gallery if Cliff, pearl red version, a recolour of the Alternity Bumble figure but with a new head sculpt.  The image gallery contains comparisons with Bumble as well as some groupshots including Convoy, Megatron and Starscream.

Category: Website Updates | Submitted by: quartz - on: Thursday, 28th October 2010 at 08:14:10 BST | Share: | Discuss: Read on

Website UpdatesIn a follow-on from yesterdays new transformers toy image gallery of Alternity Convoy we are pleased to bring you a gallery of another Alternity figure today, Megatron.  We, currently, own one version of the Alternity Megatron the "Blade Silver" version which you can find here.

Category: Website Updates | Submitted by: quartz - on: Tuesday, 26th October 2010 at 19:22:22 BST | Share: | Discuss: Read on

Website Updates

We have updated the Transformers Prototypes section of the website with mirrored image galleries of the various clear Transformers Collectors Edition Mini-bots that were sold on Yahoo Auction Japan last month.  The image galleries are of:

 These galleries join the image galleries of our own clear testshots.

Category: Website Updates | Submitted by: quartz - on: Monday, 1st September 2008 at 20:15:02 BST | Share: | Discuss: Read on

Website Updates

Its been a long time since Hasbro applied for a new Transformers related trademark, 14th September 2007 was the last new application, well they have finally applied for a new trademark with the USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) and this time for an interesting, and previously lost, trademark. Which trademark is it? None other than everyone's favourite one-eyed purple Transformer .... Shockwave.

As usual you can find all of the trademark details in our exclusive Transformers Trademark
area
of the site which contains details of 329 trademarks dating from 1984 to the present day. The trademark area is updated several times a day with all of the latest updates and new applications, so keep an eye on that page to see how the mark progresses

Category: Website Updates | Submitted by: quartz - on: Monday, 14th April 2008 at 09:48:23 BST | Share: | Discuss: Read on

Website Updates

We have added the first three video clips from the Transformers Animated episode 10: Sound and Fury to the Animated video section of the website.

1. The first video, which we have dubbed Professor Princess, is from the start of the show where the diminutive turns up to attack Bulkhead and Sari.

2. We have named the second video "Enter Soundwave", and features the first appearance of Soundwave at Sari's birthday party.

3. The third clip, "True Soundwave", is from towards the end of the episode where Soundwave gains self-awareness.

We hope you enjoy these clips, as well as the others that we have made available. Don't forget to check the showtimes page at TransformersAnimated.com to find out where the next episode of Transformers Animated will be broadcast.

Category: Website Updates | Submitted by: Moonbug - on: Sunday, 24th February 2008 at 11:11:38 GMT | Share: | Discuss: Read on

Website UpdatesWe'd like to welcome Big Bad Toy Store (BBTS)as our latest website sponsor. Big Bad Toy Store is one of, if not the, largest Transformers stockist on the web. BBTS also stock a whole host of other collectible merchandise.


You will find the banner for BBTS in the left menu of our site, and we encourage you to click through and browse what they have to offer, as we at Transformers At The Moon require these site sponsors to help cover some of our increasing hosting costs.

Category: Website Updates | Submitted by: Moonbug - on: Wednesday, 1st August 2007 at 22:19:44 BST | Share: | Discuss: Read on

Website UpdatesWe fly out to BotCon tomorrow afternoon and as such, website updates will be few and far between before we return from the event. We hope to be able to post some updates and news from the US but normal service will resume once we return to the UK. We'll be posting new news stories until we leave for the airport, so if anything happens before lunchtime tomorrow, you'll see it here.

Category: Website Updates | Submitted by: Moonbug - on: Tuesday, 26th June 2007 at 19:16:13 BST | Share: | Discuss: Read on

Website UpdatesThanks to website member Sonny, we can bring you four small image galleries of some of the Transformers Alternators toys (which we do not own). The new image galleries are of:

  1. Alternator Side Swipe
  2. Alternator Dead End
  3. Alternator Meister
  4. Alternator Wheeljack

Category: Website Updates | Submitted by: Moonbug - on: Sunday, 24th June 2007 at 20:41:01 BST | Share: | Discuss: Read on

Website UpdatesWe have updated our Transformers Toy Gallery section with seven new Transformers galleries. The galleries are :-

  1. Robot Heroes Rodimus
  2. Robot Heroes Insecticon (Shrapnel)
  3. Robot Heroes Mirage
  4. Robot Hereos Starscream
  5. Generation One Kabaya Mindwipe - This is the official Kabaya kit not a remake.
  6. Generation One Kabaya Vorath
  7. Generation One Kabaya Weirdwolf - Again the official toy not a fake
  8. Generation One Kabaya Monzo
  9. JustIToys WSTF Dinorobot Commander (Grimlock)
Please note that Kabaya Weirdwolf and Mindwipe are both exceptionally brittle toys, due to their age, and as such both are broken. Weirdwolf has been photographed without his animal head as we can not find it at the moment. The image gallery will be updated as soon as it turns up.
These new galleries finally take our Transformers Toy Gallery section to 1,601 galleries (1,714 toys).

Category: Website Updates | Submitted by: Moonbug - on: Sunday, 24th June 2007 at 15:23:19 BST | Share: | Discuss: Read on

Website UpdatesWe have added our interview with Transformers movie producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura to our Interviews section of Transformers At The Moon. The interview was conducted yesterday during the International Transformers Junket that took place at the Sanderson hotel in London. The interview covers many aspects of the Transformers movie as well as touching briefly on the G.I-Joe live action movie.

We'd like to thank Lorenzo for his time and it was certainly a pleasure to speak to him.


Category: Website Updates | Submitted by: Moonbug - on: Saturday, 23rd June 2007 at 13:45:39 BST | Share: | Discuss: Read on

Website Updates We've added three new galleries this after and as expected they are Transformers Movie related.


  1. Transformers Movie Toy Images - Mini Scorponok
  2. Transformers Movie Toy Images - Voyager Ratchet
  3. Transformers Movie Toy Images - Voyager Blackout
The Voyager Blackout gallery contains images showing the "hair" that was
wrapped around our toy within his box (ewwww) as well as the stress markings on one of the plastic clips. If you find your Blackout figure also has been packaged with someone's hai, then contact Hasbro's Customer service team. You'll find the number on the box.

Category: Website Updates | Submitted by: Moonbug - on: Saturday, 2nd June 2007 at 16:16:06 BST | Share: | Discuss: Read on

Website Updates Its UK Transformers news day here at Transformers At The Moon. Hot on the heals of the Transformers Movie toys being out now at Argos which we broke this morning, it gives us great pleasure to be able to bring you yet another first.

Titan Magazine have sent us the cover from Issue 1 of the new UK exclusive Transformers Comic. The comic will be released on the 19th July 2007 at £2.60. It contains 52 pages jam-packed with all new Transformers stories by TF legend Simon Furman, a free gift with every issue, competitions, fact files and more features than you'll know what to do with.

For more information and to subscribe and receive 15% off, visit the Titan Magazines website at www.titanmagazines.co.uk/transformers

Oh and here is the image ;-) Click for a very large full size version

Transformers Robots In Disguise Issue 1

Thanks to Ricky from Titan Magazines for sending us the image


Category: Website Updates | Submitted by: quartz - on: Wednesday, 23rd May 2007 at 12:08:20 BST | Share: | Discuss: Read on

Website Updates As promised yesterday when Martin Edelman, Product Manager (EMEA) from Glu Mobile sent through the first press images of the mobile Transformers game, its our pleasure to bring you our exclusive interview with Chris White who is head of Glu Mobile's studio EMEA. Unfortunatly, Chris was unable to answer all of our questions, there were quiet a lot, but I'm sure you'll find the Q&A extremely interesting anyway.

Transformers At The Moon: What got you first interested in producing a Transformers Movie themed mobile game?

I've been a fan of The Transformers since the early 80s. At the time, I asked my parents to buy me a Transformer for Christmas and they nearly purchased a voltage converter! I also religiously watched the show and bought the Marvel comic. In later years I remained a devoted follower and even helped organise the UK Transformers convention "Transforce". That was a great experience because I got to meet the team that worked on the original comic."

Transformers At The Moon: How long has the game been in development?
Games are usually six to nine months in the making. Transformers has a strong contingent of die-hard fans and we wanted to make sure the game would match up to their high expectations."

Transformers At The Moon: I understand that there will be two versions of the game, a 3D version and a 2D version, is this correct and can you tell us a little about the difference between these versions?

Yes, that's right. We wanted to make it inclusive and at the same time let mobile gamers get the most out of their handset. For this reason we've made a 2D version and also a 3D version for 3D capable phones. The 3D version features enhanced cut scenes and environments that make use of 3D models. This gives the levels a greater sense of depth on high-end handsets."

Transformers At The Moon: What was the biggest technical challenge when developing the game?
Every game brings a unique set of challenges. The shape-shifting of the characters was something quite new. Making a game suitable for use on such a wide range of handsets with different capabilities is also a big challenge in game development.

We want to let users focus on having fun by reacting to enemies and objects. This meant streamlining the controls and making the game as high-octane as possible."

Transformers At The Moon: I understand that compatibility can often be a headache with the increasing number of handsets on the market. With this in mind can you give us any ideas of what the requirements are for the game in terms of handset compatibility?
We've specifically developed the game so that as many mobile users as possible can get full enjoyment out of it. This is the main reason for offering both 2D and 3D versions we want everyone to be able to join in the fun."

Transformers At The Moon: Have you developed localised versions of the game for different markets (North America, Asia, Europe, and Australasia) and, in particular, local languages?
Yes, there will be localised versions for all territories. In Europe, the game will be localised into French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. The game may also be localised into further European languages at a later stage."

Transformers At The Moon: In the game you play as Optimus Prime in his search to find the AllSpark, can you tell us a little more about the challenge players can expect to come up against within the game? The plot for the game mirrors that of the movie making it a really engaging experience. The focus has been on creating an authentic Transformers experience with the best possible gameplay, graphics, sound and animation."

One funky feature is that gamers can use the other Autobot characters throughout the game to progress. An example is if players get stuck by an obstacle like a wall, by pressing a key, Ironhide will come down and destroy the wall for Optimus Prime."

Transformers At The Moon: The game features "A unique and robust combat system never seen before on mobile", can you tell us more about this?
The team developed tools to script a series of diverse behaviours for the Decepticons. This allows each enemy to exhibit a unique movement pattern, and have customised attacks and defensive behaviours. Combined with your ability to transform, this ensures combat is more tactical than simply relying on brute force."

Transformers At The Moon: Does the game feature any speech, and if so are these sound bytes provided by the Movie actors?
Mobile games are typically very small, and builds are generally multi-lingual. Unfortunately, this leaves little room for speech. However, Glu will also be offering a range of mobile Voice Tones featuring the voice of Optimus Prime, Peter Cullen. Peter recorded some mobile specific dialogue for us so you'll be able to hear Optimus speak to you when your phone rings or you receive a message!"

Transformers At The Moon: Have you been surprised by the level of hype and expectation that surrounds the Transformers movie and tie-in products?
Like a lot of classic TV shows Transformers has a massive cult following of people who grew up watching the cartoon. I was tremendously excited to hear we'd be working on it. The movie and this game are introducing the characters to a whole new generation; the buzz is fantastic and goes to show that good ideas and good characters can cross generations."

Transformers At The Moon: Can you tell us when the game will be available for eager mobile gamers?
The game will be available in time for the release of the upcoming movie in July. As I mentioned, Glu will also be providing Voice Tones featuring the voice of Optimus Prime and we will also be offering a range of cool Transformers wallpapers for your mobile."

Transformers At The Moon: Some of our site users are not sure how to get a game on their phone. How can Transformers fans get the game?
From July you can get the game from your mobile network operator's wap portal or by visiting www.glu.com. We are also creating the mobile site where fans can try a 1 full level demo of the game for free and get wallpapers and voice tones. This will be available from June so check www.transformersmobile.com later for more details"



I'd like to thank both Martin and Chris for taking the time to answer our questions and we look forward to continue working with Glu Mobile in the coming months including bringing you a working online demo of the game!.

Category: Website Updates | Submitted by: quartz - on: Thursday, 3rd May 2007 at 17:02:09 BST | Share: | Discuss: Read on

Website Updates Following up from our recent chats with Thumbs Up UK Ltd (Light-up T-Shirts and USB Key rings), Winning Moves (Top Trumps), Panini, Paramount UK, Glu Mobile and some other UK Transformers license holders, I spoke with Scalextric brand manager Paul Chandler earlier today in regards to their upcoming Transformers Movie licensed Scalextric racing set. The Transformers Scalextric set first came into the public eye at the British Toy and Hobby fair in January even though it was not officially shown at the event. Since then no further information has become available, that is until this article.

I'd like to thank Paul for taking the time to speak to me and answer as many of my questions as he could.

Transformers At The Moon: Do Hornby Hobbies hold a general Transformers brand license, or one specifically for the upcoming live action Transformers Movie?

Paul: The license is specifically for the Movie.

Transformers At The Moon: How near to completion is the Transformers racing set?

Paul: Very near, the set will be released in early June, so within plenty of time before the Movie is released

Transformers At The Moon: Has a price point been fixed yet for the set?

Paul: Yes, the set will be a 1:64 scale set, as I say due out in June and with a RRP of £39.99

Transformers At The Moon: Will the set be released generally or only through specialist hobby stores and the Internet?

Paul: Generally available through our normal stockists

Transformers At The Moon: Will the set be released internationally or just within the UK and Ireland?

Paul: Internationally

Transformers At The Moon: Are Hornby working on any other Transformers related products, or just this racing set?

Paul: Just this set, we're looking at perhaps others next year but we'll see.

Transformers At The Moon: Are there any Transformers fans at Hornby?

Paul: Yes, we all remember Transformers fondly and, of course, our Chief Executive is Frank Martin who was at Hasbro when Transformers started so he knows the product well.

Transformers At The Moon: Hey readers, if you weren't aware Frank Martin helped Hasbro Inc launch both Transformers and My Little Pony into the UK market back in the 1980s. Now back to the questions.

Transformers At The Moon: I understand that the cars will be based on Bumblebee and Barricade, is this correct?

Paul: Yes, that that is correct, from what I understand they are the two main characters in the film.

Transformers At The Moon: In the movie Bumblebee has two forms, a vintage Chevolet Camaro and the 2008-2008 model. Which version did you use in set?

Paul: The vintage mold.

Transformers At The Moon: Really? I was expecting you to say the newer one. Will any other cars be released for the set?

Paul: No, we really want to concentrate on the set as a whole.

Transformers At The Moon: What type of track layout will the set contain? Wil it ben an oval ciruit? A figure-of-eight or another type of layout?

Paul: That's a bit hard to describe. There are three set pieces with the set, hair pin bends, a chicane area and what we call an island hazard where the road splits in two directions.

Transformers At The Moon: I understand that the cars will transform, do you remember the 1980s Transformers racing track from Tyco, in that the front fo the cars would flip up to show the robot mode, is it something like this or something else?

Paul: Yes very simliar. the cars have to be lifted of the track then, as you say, the front of the car lifts up, the ams can move out and the head is flicked up.

Transformers At The Moon: Are there any images of the set that you can show me?

Paul: There are images, but none that can be shown yet. Hasbro like to keep as many of their products underwraps, so we have to be very careful with what images are shown and used.

Transformers At The Moon: Was the decision to release a Transformers set purely a commerical decision or had there been a large amount of interest shown by fans and collectors of the Scalextric brand?

Paul: We look at which licenses are going to be big each yeah, and in 2007 Transformers is expected to be the biggest, and is up their with some others, so we were always likely to be interested. Then there is the connection we have with Hasbro alredy with Frank, he obviously knows Transformers well and expects it to be a success and was keen on producing the set.

Transformers At The Moon: What was the hardest thing about producing a Transformers racing set as oppose to releasing your normal sets?

Paul: The transforming feature was probably the most challenging for our design and product teams, though working closely with Hasbro I think we've managed to crack that quiet well. We tried to put in a lot of detail with the set.

Once again I'd like to thank Paul for taking the time to speak to me today, and on behalf of Transformers At The Moon, I'd like to wish Hornby all the best with the set.

Category: Website Updates | Submitted by: quartz - on: Monday, 23rd April 2007 at 15:15:35 BST | Share: | Discuss: Read on

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