Our Lucky Draw Transformers Animated Optimus Prime Gold Version has now arrived, complete with TakaraTomy dispatch case.  A gallery of the figure will not be added to the website tonight, but if you are a fan of the site on Facebook  (www.facebook.com/transformertoys) you can see a couple of preview images right now.

I can tell you that the toy, which was suppose to be limited to 1000 pieces is actually limited to 1104.  In our last news update we announced that the figure is packed 12 to the case, well there were 92 sent out by TakaraTomy so where the other 1104 figures were suppose to end up is probably the missing link that explains why so many lucky draw figures appear to be made in larger quantities than their original prize draws intend.

More on this when the gallery is published.

Higekuma Toy Toy blog have posted lots of photographs of TakaraTomy's Transformers Animated Samurai Prowl toy including comparisons with both the regular  TakaraTomy Prowl and the Hasbro release of the same toy.  You can view he images here.

Credit to The Allspark for the news.

To commemorate the release of the Transformers Animated Optimus Prime Gold Version, Sega have announced that they will be releasing two special cards for their Transformers Animated card game.  The cards will be of the Old Optimus Prime and are both numbered A-021 with one of the cards being a chase card, i,e itself limited.  The cards feature Optimus Prime in both vehicle and robot modes.  You can view the card below.  The vehicle mode will be the chase card

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Another Gold Transformers Animated Optimus Prime­ has been listed on eBay.  This is the 2nd auction in as many days from TheCrowGirl and has a Buy It Now price of $448 more than yesterdays auction which sold for $398.  This is the 14th figure that we know of.

The toys were suppose to have been limited to ­1000 yet they are packed in cases of 12.  This means 84 cases would make 1008 toy.  Therefore there will certainly not be 1000 of these toys, and its perfectly plausible that 100 cases may have been made making the toy limited to 1200 pieces.

The original campaign was run by TakaraTomy in association with Sega and Mountain Rose with 1000 names being draw at random to receive the figures with the campaign running between the 18th August and 30th September 2010.

Next month two Transformers Animated Jigsaw puzzles will be released in Japan priced at 1575yen (roughly ­£12).­  The jigsaws will be of the Autobot and Decepticon cast.  They can be pre-ordered now from the amiami website here and here.

KOToys.com have gotten their hands on some of the TakaraTomy Transformers Animated Lucky Draw Gold Deluxe Optimus Prime figures and have posted a mini gallery over on their message board.  The toy is 100% legit and will be given out to 1000 winners at the end of this month, though a 12 of the toys (they are packed 12 to a case) have found their way to KOtoys.  Oh and yes, you read that right 12 to a case, so that means that there will certainly not be 1000 of the items since its not a multiple of 12.

Another Transformers Animated campaign figure has been announced, this time running in the Japanese Tran­sformers Animated comic known as The Cool.  The campaign will be for a crystal (clear coloured) Transformers Animated Activators Optimus Prime.  The details will be in next months issue though we are working on translating the text from the images.

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Credit to Masabon for the news for posting the news on the TFW2005 boards.

YouTuber Mazainjapan2008 has posted some images and videos from Chara-Hobby (Character Hobby) which is currently taking place within Japan.  This event saw the first showing of the coloured Masterpiece Rodimus as well as showing the just released Transformers Animated Hydrodive Bumblebee and Wingblade Optimus Prime.  The event also showed the new Transformers Animated Lucky Draw Silver Bumblebee figure which will be given away to 40 winners split between two chains of stores within Japan.  You can find the videos and images below.

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Thanks to Snakas for pointing out that the Million Publishing Exclusive Elite Guard Optimus Prime figure actaully appears to be a recolour of Voyager Optimus Prime rather than a recolour of Wing Blade Optimus Prime.

You can see images of the toy below.

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Optimus Scourge has posted a Youube video of the Japanese Black Animated Optimus Prime toy.

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We have updated our Magazine scan area of the website with a gallery of the September issue of TV Boy.  The images are provided by ModXToys.com and contain five pages of Transformers related items which you can find below­.

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Yahoo Japan seller Chibiruku has listed an auction for the TakaraTomy exclusive EZ Collection Purple Starscream figure that was part of the recent Transformers Animated campaign within Japan.  You can view the images within the Misc Toy Image section of Starscreams profile on TransformersAnimated.com as well as below.

TransformersAnimated.com and Transformers At The Moon are proud sponsors of Auto Assembly 2010 and are  sponsoring the event by bringing Derrick J Wyatt, Jim Sorenson and Bill Forster over to the UK for Europe's largest Transformers Convention ever seen!.

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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