Takara-Tomy have announced that a new lucky Draw, a Gold Age of Extinction's High Octane Bumblebee will be given our after a draw on Twitter based around a Real-Robot Battle TV show

Nippon Television Network is running a program called "Real Robot Battle" - a show that pits teams and their home-built robots against each other. In Tuesday 2 December the finale of the show will air, with the winning team going on to face Optimus Prime himself in a special exhibition battle.  The contest, open to Japanese residents only,　is to tweet their predictions for which of the six competing teams will win the contest and see if they have the touch when it comes to facing the heroic Autobot leader himself!

Full details are on the Takara-Tomy page for this event (Japanese language)

The good news continues for Masterpiece fans as MP-21 Bumblebee has now been released in Japan and Asian with various listings available on eBay including delivery to the UK for £45.  If you are looking to get the figure in time for Christmas then you should think about ordering one very soon.

Robot Kingdom have posted some images of the just released Transformers-Evangelion cross-overr MP-10 Optimus Prime repaint onto their Facebook page. You can view a copy of the images after the jump.  You can also click here to view the Evangelion MP-10 Optimus Prime figures which are listed on eBay.com.

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Hasbro has released eighteen new images from their upcoming Transformers Generations "Combiner Wars" series, where every toy can combine.

The packaging of the figures certainly has a more premium feel to and the toys come with a collector card, a bit like Takara used to do.

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We have updated the Transformers toys instruction sheets section of the website with some new PDF instructon sheets entries.

The following entries were update with PDF scans that were previously missing:

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We have updated the Transformers toys instruction sheets section of the website with some new PDF instructon sheets entries.

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We have updated the Transformers toys instruction sheets section of the website with some new PDF instructon sheets entries.

The following entries were update with PDF scans that were previously missing:

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We have updated the Transformers toys instruction sheets section of the website with some new PDF instructon sheets entries.

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You can download copies of the instruction sheets from our Transformers toys instruction sheets section of the website.

We have updated the Transformers toys instruction sheets section of the website with some new PDF instructon sheets entries.

Of the updates, the following new entries were added into the database:

1. tbt-wait-transformers Instructions

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The Super Festival 66 is currently taking place in Japan, and via Taghobby, where some exclusive Japanese Transformers have been shown off

First up are the Million Publishing exclusives, Shouki and GoShooter, who are mail in exclusives for Transformers Generations 2014 Volumes 1 and 2 respectively. They are homages to characters from Headmasters and Masterforce, the Japanese Generation 1 shows, and both feature Mini-Con / Targetmaster partners.

Next up are a couple of new images of the fourth set of Transformers Cloud releases. For the fourth releases in the Transformers Cloud line, Generations Roadbuster is getting a repaint as Energon Ironhide aka Super Link Roadbuster, while Generations Sky-Byte is sporting a Skywarp redeco as Hellwarp.

The Transformers Collectors Club have posted some new images of their "Figure Subscription Service 3.0 Tarantulas" toy over on their Facebook page which includes a revised version based on feedback from fans which sees the figure coloured closer to the original Beast Wars colour scheme.

You can check out the images, along with a comparison created by a TFW2005 member, below

Felipe León Nájera from the Transformers Colombia Facebook group has posted scans from a Hasbro products line catalog which shows the Columbian releases for Transformers Robots In Disguise, the new 2015 toy/cartoon/comic series.

The first piece of news from the scans is that the Cartoon will air on March 15th 2014 in Colombia, so expect a US launch towards the end of 2014 or early 2015.

Three scans were leaked, all of which are attached to this news item, whihc config the 2015 line-up as revealed that which was revealed at San Diego Comic Con 2014. The four assortments are:

1. Warrior (Deluxe)
2. Legion (Legends, 12 figures)
3. Hyperchange (three step transformations)
4. One-Step Changers (14 toys)

The second and third sheets cover the side-line such as "Titan figures", 12 inch Hero figures and a series of 6 inch Titan Guardians. The image accompanying the listing suggests that there will be a 5-pack of 6 inch Titan Guardian Seekers made up of Starscream, Thundercracker, Skywarp, Sunstorm and Acid Storm.

The current issue of Figure King magazine is now out and it contains a couple of pages of Transformers related material. You can view the images below.