We have added a new image gallery into the Books section of the resources area of the website containing 40 images from the Transformers: Generations 2011 Vol 1book that was released by Million Publishing.

The book covers figures from the Transformers: Revenge, Transformers: DarkSide Moon, Transformers Animated and Transformers United as well as some new images of the Generation One Rodimus Prime hardcopy that was shown of a few months ago within the page of Hyper Hobby magazine.  The book also includes two interviews, one with TakaraTomy the other with Kabaya, a small section on the Japanese toy leaflets, the final part of the Unite for the Universe comic and a look at the character designs for Transformers Animated.

The book is still for sale and we advise anyone who is interested to pick up a copy from a re-seller or direct from Amazon Japan.

I have updated the Transformers Toy Gallery section of the website to contain a new gallery of one of the Family Mart campaign figures that was released in Japan last year.  The gallery is of the clear leader class Optimus Prime figure from the Transformers Revenge (Revenge of the Fallen) toyline.  We bought the figure last year as apart of a bulk auction that included 95% of the Family Mart Prizes, only we did not get around to photographing this figure until yesterday.  Its a bit of a sad tale for this toy really, that was opened, transformed, and then put in a cupboard for a few months even though we planned on keeping him in his box on a shelf with the rest of the Movieverse figures as as well as taking the gallery yesterday he has now joined his "brothers" rather than hi-jacking the Masterpiece shelf.

Anyway, I digress, you can check out the image gallery of this limited edition toy here.   Enjoy!

TakaraTomy have updated their website with pages dedicated to their October 2010 releases.­  The new pages are for ­Alternity Thundercracker, Masterpiece Movie Starscream, EZ Collection Vol.5, and the Family Mart prizes.  You can view images of the pages below.

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We have created an image gallery containing scans of pretty much everything in this months Dengeki Hobby Magazine, so that is over 300 images of action figures, models, statues and all kinda of "tacktastic" goodness.  Including in the gallery is seven pages of Transformers related content including Device Label Broadcast, Disney Label Buzz Lightyeat, UA-01 Jet Power Optimus Prime, the Transformers Animated Dinobots, Arcee, new Transformers T-shirts and more.

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Credit to ModXToys.com for the scans

Thanks to the Cyber Gundam Blog we have added images of the April 2010 Hyper Hobby Magazine to our Japanese Magazine section.

The images cover the three pages of Transformers Animated and Transformers Revenge toys, mainly showing the new Transformers Animated toys in packaging.

Whilst we wait for Yokobarion, we have updated our Winter Wonderfest 2010 gallery with more images showing the Transformers Animated, Transformers Revenge, Transformers Disney Label and Transformers Device Label (including Blaster, who once again we want to reitterate was never cancelled - only delayed).

Thanks to Snakas and Remy for posting the first images of the Japanese Transformers: Unite for Universe figures.  The toys shown are Revenge of the Fallen Optimus Prime, Jetfire and Megatron.

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The Feb 2010 issue of Dengeki Hobby magazine has now been released within Japan and thoguh there was not as much coverage as Figure King, you can find a summary below.

1. Transformers Animated's Japanese release is announced with both Optimus Prime and Bumblebee being shown.
2. The Human Alliance figures that will be released within Feb are shown.
3. The actual release of the Transformers edition Camaro is published, as per Figure King.
4. The TRU Japan NEST campaign and Wonderfest figures are mentioned.
   

The latest issue of Figure King, issue 143, was recently released within Japan.  The issued contained pictures of Transformers Revenge Human Alliance Barricade who will be released within Japan in Feb 2010.  On the 23rd January, Toysa R Us stores in Japan will be holding a special "NEST enlistment campaign".  This campaign will see the first 4,000 pepole that spend 2000 yen or more on Transformers Revenge of the Fallen items received a specially-made NEST badge.

The magazine announced that a short NEST movie will be released on the TakaraToym Generation One website in January.

A sihouette of The Fallen was shown as part of the advertisement for the upcoming Winter Wonderfest.

The Transformers Camaro will be released within Japan next year costing 4.42 million yen for the LT spec and 5.47 million yen for the SS spec.  Sales for the car begin on the 6th Feb, and you get a free Human Alliance Bumblebee with Sam for your troubles.

The 12th and final article covering the 25th years of Transformers was published, which featured developments since the 2007 movie.

There is a two page feature of the Japanese release of Transformers Animated in 2010 including a note that the story and characters will be changed to try to make them tie-in to the live action Transformers films which should be interesting to see how that works out.

Finally it seems that the next issue of Figure King, on sale at the end of Jan, will have a large feature on Transformers in 2010, so should be the first look at what Takara are plannig for next year.

The Jan 2010 issue of TV Magazine is now out and thanks to ModXToys it has been revealed that the Lucky Draw prize draw was indeed just delayed one months issue (ie the Jan issue rather than the December one) and that in this years draw the Transformers toy will be the expected gold leader class Transformers Revenge Optimus Prime.  The toy will be limited to 3 official items, though no doubt fakes will be produced and distributed by HeeroToyMaker.

The image below shows a mock-up and is not the final version that will be released in March / April 2010

ModXToys have a full scan of the December issue of Dengeki Hobby Magazine.  To easy your viewing we have created a mirror of the issue which you can find here.

On the Transformers side various figures were shown from Transformers: Revenge, Transformers: Device Label and the Transformers: Disney Label Donal Duck figure wasalso once again shown.

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Thanks to Toy-World Hong Kong for scanning in the two pages from the latest Figure King magazine (issue 141) which feature Transformers Toys.  The pages mainly consist of Transformers Revenge Legend Figures (Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Legends of Cybertron) but also include more pictures of Transformers Device Label and the black Amazon Japan Transformers Revenge Optimus Prime figure.