Two images have been published of the upcoming Takara Tomy exclusive Transformers Prime Arms Micron Nightmare Unicron figure.  The toy, which can be seen below, is a recolour of the Gaia Unicron figure, will be released in March as a Bic Camera store exclusive and represents the spark of Gaia Unicron when he was sealed away after his appearance in the TV show.

Hasbro Inc have filed a new trademark application with the USPTO within the Video Game category for "Transformers Prime Beast Hunters" which you can view here.

TFW2005.com board member Deceptigtar has posted some images onto the US fansites message board of what appears to be an as yet unreleased testshot of a Transformers Prime Gears figure. The toy is a recolour of Transformers Prime Ratchet based on the Generation One Gears figure and is complete with a Mount Saint Hilary logo on.

Here is what Deceptigtar had to say regarding the images, which can be viewed below.

"I received these from a source to remain private, but we all saw this guys head in Ratchets instructions. To me it looks like it could be Gears, like the repaint we had in ROTF, it even has a Gear logo.

Could this also be another unreleased figure? Grain of salt people!

Oh and can anyone spot the G1 reference? The Mt. Saint Hilary in the Gear logo with the back of the Ark jets!"

Wal-Mart Canada have updated their product listings for the Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters Kreo figures which have revealed the names of thhe Prime and Ripclaw sets as Energon Kicker and the Daniel Witwicky!

KRE-O TRANSFORMERS BEAST HUNTERS BEAST BLADE OPTIMUS PRIME Set

Build your own TRANSFORMERS adventures with this awesome KRE-O Construction set! With the 251 bricks and other construction pieces in this set, you can build an OPTIMUS PRIME robot and send him into the fray with his blade in hand! Your OPTIMUS PRIME and ENERGON KICKER KREON figures are ready to fight at his side. When the battle is on the line and OPTIMUS PRIME has a need for speed, rebuild him as a truck and put your KREON figures inside for a wild ride! Keep building and rebuilding for epic TRANSFORMERS action! 

2-in-1 BEAST BLADE OPTIMUS PRIME construction set! Build an OPTIMUS PRIME robot or vehicle! Includes 2 KREON figures. OPTIMUS PRIME and ENERGON KICKER KREON figures! 251 bricks and pieces. Works with major construction brands. 

Includes 251 bricks and pieces, 2 KREON figures and instructions. 

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KRE-O TRANSFORMERS PRIME BEAST HUNTERS RIPCLAW STRIKE Set

Build your own TRANSFORMERS adventures with this awesome KRE-O Construction set! With the 199 bricks and other construction pieces in this set, you can build a fierce robot or an incredible, winged dragon! Send your robot into battle against your RIPCLAW or COL. DANIEL WITWICKY KREON figures. When the tide of battle turns, destroy your robot and build a dragon! Keep building and rebuilding for epic TRANSFORMERS action!

2-in-1 RIPCLAW STRIKE construction set! Build a robot or dragon! Includes 2 KREON figures. RIPCLAW and COL. DANIEL WITWICKY KREON figures! 199 bricks and pieces. Works with major construction brands.

Includes 199 bricks and pieces, 2 KREON figures and instructions.

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Japanese toy blogger Alfes 2010 has posted some new images of the latest Takara-Tomy releasing including Transformers Prime Arms Micron AM-27 Ultra Magnus and AM-28 Leo Prime (we get a nice picture of Micron Moon's head which is such a good homage). We have mirrored a selection of images after the jump, including the just released Transformers Masterpiece MP-14 Alert.

Thanks to Big Bad Toy Store, we can now share two new images of the upcoming Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Predaking figure which includes a first-look at the toys robot form.  The images, which can be viewed below, confirm that the toy is also a homage to the Transformers Cybertron Scourge figure, or as he was known in Japan?Transformers Galaxy Force Flame Convoy?

The robot mode has a head sculpt which fits in very well with the recent Transformers Prime designs, though for a voyager class figure, he almost looks as if he has been scaled down.  The final version of the toy we expect to see paint-application changes, especially on the silver dragon heads, though Hasbro have designed to figure to not require that many paint applications to help keep down the cost.

Full Metal Hero have a look at Issue 1 of Transformers: Prime - Rage of the Dinobots!   which you can see by following the link

Summary

Leading into the third season of Transformers: Prime and tying into Fall of Cybertron, it sees Grimlock and his cohorts charging into Prime like no-one's business. Head out to your local comic shop on Wednesday, or downloaded it to your preferred digital device.

Full Metal Hero have some nice images of Transformers Prime Arms Micron Nemesis Prime

Summary

An underrated figure gets even better with a new black deco and massive Arms Micron blade! Powerizer Optimus didn't set the world alight due to a number of things, 1) Megatron looked better 2) The First Edition kicked butt 3) He had that hideous weapon and loads of horrible grey visible on him, but he was still a good toy that a lot of folks missed out on, hopefully this will rectify things with Nemesis reaching a wider audience. Coming with the obligatory sticker sheet Nemesis is primarily black and dark charcoal grey with the chest being broken up via the red windows and light grey border. It works very well, so well that you may chose not to apply your stickers, I prefer them applied as they add a little more detail and help bring out the red on his forearms more.

Articulation wise Nemesis is very capable with lots of ball joints allowing him to twist and turn into a variety of poses, he is also very well balanced which might come a surprise due to the large back pack made up of the trucks side panels. The Micron is makes a very cool weapon but not such a cool Micron looking a little like a pelican in its robot mode but I'm not displaying him that way and the blade mode is pure win!

Truck mode again can either have stickers on or off and it looks great, I've taken some pics with and without so you can check it out and make your mind up. I personally like the stickers on as it gives it that higher level of detail and contrasts well with the black, a really nice touch by Takara is the inclusion of 5 M.E.C.H stickers which you can place on Nemesis to your hearts content giving him that nice link to the TV show.

Overall he is a repaint so automatically becomes less desirable for some but he is Nemesis Prime, a character thats always been popular, we score him 8/10

TFW2005 have a review of Transformers Prime Arms Micron Smokesceen and S2 which you can read by following the link

Summary

Smokescreen is a remolded version of Transformers Prime Knock Out. This presents an immediate issue with show accuracy, because even with remolding, Smokescreen lacks a few design elements from his CG model on the show - the most notable being the door wings on his back. But let's not linger on the negatives - Smokescreen does manage to look different from Knock Out with his stickers, remolded rear end in vehicle mode and his new head. The head sculpt captures the character well - I'd have personally given him a smirk rather than a serious determined look - but it goes a good way to giving Smokescreen his own identity. The head is spot-on to the look of the character in the show. Stickers give Smokescreen the rest of his deco.

Smokescreen comes with Arms Micron S2, a Micron with a slender and "ornate" look. He's only poseable in the arms, but that seems to be average for the Arms Microns. S2 turns into a high-tech bow weapon for Smokescreen, which I don't recall ever seeing used in the show - yet - but if you fold S2's "wings" in you get a laser weapon that looks like an arm cannon that Smokescreen might equip for battle. In any event, the option to make it into a "gun" or "bow" lends a bit of appeal to the character.

Overall, Smokescreen is an alright release. If you disliked the design on Knock Out there is not a lot here that will change your mind, and the lack of show accuracy is a detractor. However it could be far worse, and as of the moment, this is the only Smokescreen toy available outside the upcoming Legends class in Beast Hunters.

Hobby Ark's Facebook Page has been updated with more images of the upcoming releases of Takara-Tomy's exclusive Transformers Prime Arms Micron Ultra Magnus and Lio Convoy (a recolour of Thundertron).

I'm certainly liking Lio Convoy

Fellow UK Transformers fansite, FullMetalHero.com (run by the folks behind KapowToys), posted a new image of the upcoming Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Optimus Prime Cyberverse Commander toy yesterday which you can view here.  The image, whilst small gives us a better idea of what a fullsize version woulld look like.

They have also updated the KapowToys website with some new product listings for the series

1) Weaponizers Ultra Magnus with Battle Hammer - Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Weaponizers Ultra Magnus - Kapow Toys

2) Weaponizers Optimus Prime - Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Weaponizers Optimus Prime - Kapow Toys

3) Weaponizers Bumblebee - Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Weaponizers Bumblebee - Kapow Toys (a retooled from the original toy)

Our thanks go out to Neurie who tweeted us this last night, you may have seen out retweet, but he reported that the Arms Micron blind packs are now out in UK stores priced at just 2.49.  The figures are being released under Tomy's Gacha brand which is the supplier of the UFO / Vending machine figures within Europe.  You can view an image of the figures on the shelf below.

A new image has been published of the BigBadToyStore exclusive (within the US at least) Transformers Prime Dark Energon Knock Out figure.  The toy, which can be seen below, is a translucent recolour with the bio "KNOCK OUT doesn't often test weapons himself - the danger of a catastrophic malfunction is just too great.  But when he saw the power granted by Dark Energon he just had to have a taste.  Now he's amped up and ready to bring the hurt to the AUTOBOTS".

In an articles entitled " ‘Transformers: Prime’ producer talks Beasts, mythology, Michael Bay", Transformers Prime producer Jeff Kline has sat down with LA Times to talk Transformers.  The article, which can be read in full here, includes the following snippet on Season 3 and a preview of what is to come during the Beast Hunters story arch.

HC: Have you formulated a new three-year plan?

JK: We definitely reconfigured ourselves through Season 3, which we are in production on now. One of the nice things about “Transformers: Prime,” not true of all animated series, is that we have a full-time writing staff. A lot of animated series have to make do with one story editor and freelancers. It can be very hard to plot out long-term stories by yourself in a room. But we have a full-blown writing staff, so we spend a lot of time before we get down to script writing talking about where do we want to go, where do we want the characters to go.

HC: What can people expect in Season 3?

JK: As anybody who’s been watching the show knows, we tend to get bigger and bigger and paint ourselves into corners. So the end of Season 2 will paint us into a corner and hopefully you’ll be surprised at how we get ourselves out of it. For Season 3, we’re actually bringing Beasts into the story, which is a big game-changers. Not necessarily “Beast Wars” way or “Dino-bots” but Beasts, which are part of the Transformers lore. For us, it’s important to be able to justify that previous lore within our own continuity. One of the big things for us is the idea that Earth and Cybertron have been interrelated for eons. The Unicron arc played with that quite a bit. But Season 3 will be even more about how Earth and Cybertron are brother, or twin, planets in some way. And, as we’ve been doing for two seasons, allegiances will change, good guys and bad guys will switch sides, new elements will be brought in and old elements will be sent away. We try to change it up because we always want our Autobots at a disadvantage. From the very beginning, there have always been fewer Autobots than Decepticons, they’re technologically disadvantaged. We’ll continue to try to stack the deck against them.

Asian Blogger,Alfes 2010, have updated his blog with a gallery and review of the just released TakaraTomy Transformers Prime Arms Micron AM-22 Dreadwing. The gallery, found here, covers Dreadwing as well as his Arms Micron figure and will allow you to visually compare the figure to the Hasbro release, though Alfes has not included a side-by-side comparison for once