Alfes' has posted up some images and a review of Transformers Encore Fortress Maximus who was released yesterday on the 30th of March.   Fortress Maximus now features painted eyes and painted detailing on his  Master Sword, rather than the original's stickers, as well as a new box featuring the Transformers Encore mini logo and the number 23

You can see the gallery here

e-Hobby have now fully revealed their recently announced exclusive figure, Magnificus.  The toy, which is a redeco of the "Reveal the Shield Perceptor", comes with a new head sculpt and can be seen below.

Hasbro have posted some new larger official images of their upcoming Transformers Generations Voyager Class Springer and Blitzwing figures.  You can view the new images by clicking the thumbnails below

Scans from a Taiwanese Toys R Us catelogue showing 6 pages of Transformers BotShotshas appeared online.  We have mirrored the images which you can see below

TakaraTomy have tweeted out a new preview image of their next Masterpiece figure, MP-17 Prowl, with a size comparison to MP Lambor as well as the Human Alliance Sideswipe and Barricade from the Movie-Verse

e-Hobby have posted a teaser image onto their website and social media account to tease their upcoming exclusive figure.  You may remember that back in Jan we tweeted out regarding a new e-Hobby exclusive, well it seems to have taken longer than we expected for the story to progress but now it has.  The image, which can be viewed below, contains the characters EONBMI as well as the message "look closer!".  The full reveal will be made on the 22nd March, but for now let the speculation continue.

Hasbro have released some new official stock images of the Transformers Prime Beast Hunters figures for both Optimus Prime and Predaking. You can view the new images along with the previous ones after the jump.

Some nice detailed images of the Transformers Alternity GTR Megarton toy have been posted, so we thought we'd share them with you.

More images of Transformers Masterpiece Prowl and Streak (Bluestreak) have appeared showing the size of the toys next to MP10 Convoy and Sideswipe

Toys R Us Canada has posted up listings for some up coming Transformers Toys showing the Canadian Dollar price point of the figures.

Masterpiece Soundwave SKU043130 - $119.99
Masterpiece Acid Storm SKU043128 - $69.99
Generations Titan Metroplex SKU043106 - $99.99
Prime Plat. Ed Ultra Magnus SKU038196 - $69.99
Prime Ultimate Dragon SKU043112 - $59.99
Prime 16'' Figure SKU038183 - $29.99

That means Soundwave, with all 5 cassettes, retails at around £77, with Metroplex being $64.  If these figures are released in the UK you can expect their prices to be more likely around the £120 and £99 range (due to shipping and customs costs)

Good news for non-US / Japanese residents as the e-Hobby and TFCC Solar Requiem sets are now arriving to members around the world. We received our set yesterday as you can see below,

Planet Iacon has updated it's facebook page with some nice imagse ot Takara-Tomy TF TG-20 Ratbat.  The toy, a repaint of Generations Scourge, features a new headsculpt, one that would make a nice head for a new Brestforce toy.

You can see the images on their page

Fun Publications US release of the e-Hobby Shattered Glass G1 Blaster and Soundwave set, which also comes with Slugfest, Ratbat, Ramhorn, Eject and Solarbot is now starting to arrive at doors in the US.  There is no word on when the international orders will be released, but given surface mail times we should get them by May.

The E-Hobby sets have been arriving since late January / early February.

The official Botcon Twitter account brings us some more Botcon 2013 news - they have posted an image of the Botcon 2013 baseball cap. The Botcon 2013 Baseball cap features the Megaplex version of the Decepticon symbol with Fun Publication's take on Machine Wars Thundercracker in front of it. Like in the original line, their illustration of Machine Wars Thundercracker is a redeco of Skywarp - in other words, it is based upon the Revenge of the Fallen Dirge mold.

An illustration does not a toy make, however you might be interested in an exchange of tweets between one Twitter user and Botcon:


- From Twitter user Emerald Beacon - so you're basically confirming MW Thundercracker with this hat, right?

-Response from Botcon - Basically...

The BotCon 2013 website has now been updated with a photo of Megaplex' jet mode.