Cobra Zartan has posted an image of one of the testshots he recently picked up from China which is for the upcoming IDW-inspired Generations Deluxe Orion Pax figure in his vehicle mode

If you are within the UK or Europe and you look out of your window right now you will probably notice that its bright and sunny outside.  As such that can only mean one thing .... the continuation of our Spring / Summer Special of updates.

Following on from our last set of updates, the paint-samples of two of the Brainmasters, it is with great pleasure that I bring to you today another piece of European history, a FEP (Final Engineering Pilot) of Transformers Generation One Classics Sandstorm.  The image gallery contains comparisons with both the original release of the figure as well as the final gold box "classics" version (which had the black plastic feet that were painted and different colour stickers).  The early testshot Sandstorm is made from a milky white plastic and was purchased from the former head of Hasbro Europe.

Enjoy!

Two new Transformers Dark of the Moon auctions have been posted on eBay today. First up eBay seller dj-wiso has posted an eBay auction for a Transformers Dark of the Moon Sideswipe. The second auction is by seller icetwin65 who has posted an auction for a testshot of the Leader Class Sentinal Prime. You can view mirrored images of both figures below.

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Following up our exclusive gallery of the unreleased hand-painted sample of the BotCon Wreckers Alpha Trion toy, you will now find part 2 of our "Build-up to BotCon" feature.  This time we focus on DevCon, a character featured in the BotCon / OTFCC Wreckers, who didn't see a toy released for the convention.  3H did have a hand painted sample made up, although they say that the figure was never intended for a Convention release .. which begs the question "why have the sample made?"

You can see this one of a kind hand painted sample, featuring it's nice metallic red paint, exclusively at Transformers At The Moon.  The toy is featured with a grey/green testshot of Beast Machines Mirage - who was the original owner of the mold.

Chinese testshot seller yizhi521 of TF08.net has posted three images of the first toy from the upcoming Transformers Revenge of the Fallen series. The images are rather blurred and TF08 point out that this sample is not for sale unlike all of the other leaked figures featured on their website.  Rumours have started that the toy is Soundwave though it is too hard to make out from the images.

We have updated the Transformers Toy Galleries area of the website with galleries for the unreleased Transformers Universe Smokescreen and Jolt figures. Universe Smokescreen is a recolour of the Transformers Armada Hotshot figure using the Generation One Smokescreen colour scheme.

You can discuss the toy over on our message board Saké Comments.

TFWorld2005 are running a story on the latest Knock-Off Generation One Transformers toy to be produced, an all clear Optimus Prime figure.

This toy comes complete with trailer and roller, along with featuring yellow eyes (which look a little odd) and clear plastic wheels. The figure is by the same company behind the clear, black and various other coloured G1 Mirage knock-offs.

This isn't the first time a Clear Generation One Optimus Prime toy has been made. The infamous Lunchtime Specials (Takara Staff items, Factory items, Testshots) including a clear Convoy toy (in some areas complete with trailer.

You can find lots of images of these clear Transformers on our Transformers Prototype page or by selecting Lunchtime Specials as a Subgroup on our Transformers Toy Gallery.

eBay seller jkhan7 have updated his auction for Transformers Animated Lugnutz with more images of the Voyager Class Optimus Prime testshot that he will be listing on ebay in the coming weeks. According to jkhan7 the figure has tow faces (much like Cybertron OptimusPrime), one with a mouth and one with the face plate. You can view the images below.

eBay seller jkhan7 has listed an auction for Transformers Animated Lugnut, though without the head. You can view the auction here, and see the images below.

Tonights updates include one Transformers Cybertron toy, of no particular significance, two Japanese Exclusive Generation One Transformers and an unreleased Transformers Generation Two toy.

1. Transformers Cybertron - Excellion
2. Japanese Exclusive Transformers - Black Shadow
3. Japanese Exclusive Transformers - Blue Bacchus
4. Unreleased Transformers Generation Two - Blue Combat Hero Optimus Prime

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• 1,400th Gallery - Generation One - Silver Starscream