Robotkingdom have sent out some images of the soon to be released two pack of Jetfire and Buster Optimus Prime. Th­e images make it clear that the Buster Prime will come with all his accessories which were beginning to be the submit of speculation.

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A little late but our thanks go to Mr Neurie for dropping us an email last Thursday to let us know that that the Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Back Road Brawl set has now been released at Toys R Us here within the UK.

1. AIRACHNID

Back on the 10th November we exclusively broke word that Hasbro had filed a trademark for POWER CORE COMBINERS.  This news was slowly picked up by a few other websites but has since been forgotten by most.  Well today was a key day as a post was made on 4Chan showing a packaging mock-up of Power Core Combiner Huffer with his Targetmaster companion Caliburst.  Which you can view below.

According to an article on  Nikkei.co.jp,TakaraTomy have announced that they will be moving some of their production from China to Vietnam starting with capsule toys and tomica mini-cars.

"Due to the increase of labour expenses and CNY exchange rate, TakaraTomy will be moving their production line from commissioned plants in China to Vietnam to cut production costs.  This will include capsule toys and Tomica mini-cars. Production value in Vietnam will increase from 15 billion yen by March of 2010 to 30 billion yen in 2011.

Production of toys in Vietnam 30% of total for capsule toys and 60% of total for Tomica cars next year, 100% for both."

No doubt as soon as any contracts with Chinese factories for other lines, including Transformers, will also be shifted away to save costs.  This will have a knock on affect that the Chinese leaked toys will stop for a small period until people find Vietnamese workers willing to offer the same services.

Credit to Drillbit of TFW2005.com for the news.

Yizhi of TF08.net has provided some new images of Transformers Revenge of the Fallen figures Lockdown, Brawn, Skystalker and deluxe class Autobot Ratchet.  You can view the images by clicking on the names below.

• Autobot Ratchet
• Brawn
• Skystalker
• Lockdown

With the Transformers War For Cybertron trailer out it has shed new light on a grey hardcopy of an unknown figure that popped up a few months back.  The figure was a truck that many assumed would be a War Within figure from the Universe line.  However when compared with the images from the trailer it is obvious that the toy is actually a figure of Transformers - War for Cybertron.  What does this mean?  Does it mean that the next cartoon could also be from the same line? Does it ean that toys from the new game will come out as Universe figures? Only time will tell for now.

Credit to Seibertron.com for the comparison

­Our thanks go out to Mr Neurie for sending us through news and images that Tesco have dropped the price of Transformers figures.  Deluxes now cost just ­£6.47, Voyagers £14.97, Leaders class figures stand at £29.97 with the Bumblebee voice changer mask priced at £25.97. As Mr Neurie points out, it now m­eans that scouts now cost more than deluxes in Tesco!

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Kapow Toys have received stock images from Hasbro of some more Transformers Revenge of the Fallen figures that will be released next year.  The first is a twin pack of Jetfire and Buster Optimus Prime.  The other images are of the leader class Shadow Command Megatron, a repaint of the normal toy, as well as scouts Scattorshot, Skystalker and Divebomb.  You can view the images below

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Credit to TFW2005.com for the news

Since its been a quiet few days I thought it was a good chance to bring you a round-up of this months Transformers related trademark applications made by Hasbro Inc.

We collate the information each day from the USPTO for thousands of applications made by Hasbro to ensure that the information is as up-to-date as has been legally published.  We now have 428 trademark applications within our database, with over 6,000 historic status records of those trademarks.

1. ELITA-1 - Update December 7th, 2009 - This trademark has been extended for the fourth time.
   
2. WARPATH - December 7th, 2009 - The Warpath application is still suspended.  But it has finally been updated to have the suspension checked and have now been sent to an attorney for actioning
3. MIXMASTERS - December 7th, 2009.  The Mixmasters trademark is now in the same state as Warpath.  That is the suspension on the trademark is now with an attorney.
   
4. SIDESWIPE - December 4th, 2009 - This mark has still not been registered, however Hasbro have filed an extension as they try to push it through.
   
5. TRANSFORMERS - December 3rd, 2009. This mark, which is specifically within the category of "entertainment services, namely, production and distribution of movies and on-going animated television series" has been granted an extension, and should come through next year
   
6. SPARKPLUG - December 2nd, 2009 - Hasbro recently filed a request to extend this mark.
   
7. REVENGE OF THE FALLEN - December 1st, 2009 - Having rejected the opposition to this mark in October, the USPTO have not requested further documents from Hasbro.  This mark was submitted under the category of "Interactive entertainment software, namely, video game programs, computer game programs, computer game software; computer and video game apparatus, namely, video game machines for use with televisions; sunglasses".  Interesting that Sunglasses come under the same category as video games isn't it.
   

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

News in from Unitedbot is that Animated Wreck-gar and Atomic Lugnut are out in the UK.

I spotted Animated Wreckgar and Lugnut in TRU Stockport today both @ £9.99

US Packaging with a Spanish sticker.

Thanks to Blueshift for letting us know that

The Entertainer is getting in stocks of Animated Voyager Shockwave and Skywarp in the UK (confirmed so far in Birmingham and Milton Keynes), in multilingual European packaging. The best news? They're £12 each!