Argos have launched a Transformers Age of Extinction promo page with a count down until a launch of the line which, it's suggested, will contain Argos exclusives.  The count down is currently set to expire on the Monday 12th May at midnight. You can check it out by visiting The Argos Website

The Japanese model festival known as SuperFest is taking place with weekend had has included displays of the Fewture Models product lines as well as the Unimetal Optimus Prime.  The products, which have been seen before, including the large Unicron head, though this time in full colour, the PVC G1 Grimlock, Optimus Prime and Alpha Trion figures as well as some super-deformed Convoy and Rodimus figures.

TemptingToys have posted some images from the event which you can view below with more images available over on TFW2005.com

Anime News Network are reporting that it appears as if Takara Tomy are going to run a crossover series between Transformers and Evangelion with the Japanese company taking out adverts in this months hobby magazines which feature a preview of the story that the cross-over will be based on.

The idea is so obvious, it's amazing it took this long. Toy maker Takara Tomy has taken out ads in this month's hobby magazines showing Optimus Prime with a very familiar color scheme. The details of the Evangelion cross-over is still underwraps at this point, but the ad even includes its own "story":

The Angels are invading. Breaking a long silence, the mysterious life-forms known as the Angels suddenly appear. The weapons the UN forces gather together in retaliation can't even scratch them. In the end, they turn to the secret agency, NERV, to manage the anti-Angel strategy. With Neo-Tokyo 3 in their sights, the Angels slowly advance upon the city...but suddenly a spaceship comes hurtling down from the sky above the Angels: the Autobot Sky Lynx! Out of the ship emerges warriors of the far-off planet Cybertron. They've come to investigate after noticing an unusual energy reading.

"We can't let a disaster like the Second Impact occur on this planet."
"What?! What are these monsters?!"

Optimus Prime sets his sights on an enemy much bigger than himself.

The company opened a 30th anniversary site for Transformers last week and Nippon Television Network will hold the Transformers Expo in August.

Thanks to Preview.com we now know that one of the comics set for release on Free Comic Book Day (Saturday May 3rd 2014) in the USA will be Transformers Vs GI Joe

For anyone interested in watching the live broadcast by TakaraTomy of the Fans Choice Masterpiece announcement then you will be please to hear that you can watch the live stream using the plugin below.  Once the broadcast finishes, you should find that the stream will be replaced by a recorded version of the event.

Savcon will be holding a one day dealer room at :
Hilton Garden Inn Savannah/Midtown.
5711 Abercorn Street
Savannah, Georgia  31405

The dealer room will have action figures (including an almost complete G1 Transformers collection for sale) and all other loose ,boxed & carded 80's nostalgia toy lines by local dealers Bottrader and Savcon themselves.

Also at our one day dealer room will be locally owned businesses such as comic book shop ”Galactic Comics & Games”, Floyd Lewis from “DartGirl Comics” as well as T-shirt and Novelty items from ”Brand You Design” (who was at Savcon in 2012) and Artist Christina Colon just to name a few!

The Savcon one day dealer room will be held on Saturday January 11th, 2014 from 10am-5pm.
General Admission for this event is only $5 at the door, no preregister will be necessary for this event.

Stay up to date with all things Savcon at :

www.Savcon.net
Facebook.com/Savcon
Twitter.com/SavCon1

Recently there was a listing found for a Rattrap Generations figure within the Wal*Mart computer system which led fans into believing that there is a Rattrap figure in the works, something the fan community was speculating about after James Roberts name-dropped the character when talking about the comic books. Well over last weekend at Roll Out Roll Call 2013 it was confirmed that designs have been produced for a Generations Rattrap figure as well as a possibly a fourth Beast Wars character.  No details were given on who that additional character could be; it was more deduced from the wording that was used rather than being directly stated; though the Rattrap design is said to be based on original season one form, much like the comic art has shown, rather than the TransMetal figure.  Whilst nothing was shown since the Generations Rhinox figure is turning out to be be very close to the concept design (which was shown), this should give everyone hope that the final Rattrap figure should also look close to his design which is said to be close to the animation model.  It was mentioned at the show that the figure was to be revealed at NYCC though from the reports we have read online it appears that this wasn't the case.

No word on when the figure is expected to hit, but it is coming.

A personal shout-out from Simon Furman:

Okay, so, after my Bedford outing, my next port of call could be the Bewdley Book Week in (you guessed it) Bewdley (Worcs, near Kidderminster). At the moment, I’m down to do a talk on the Friday night (13th September), but honestly, right now, it’s looking a touch doubtful. Not enough bums on seats at this moment in time. If there’s enough of you out there who want to part with a fiver to hear me talk about the comics biz, my part in it, and the current wonder that is Transformers Regeneration One, then sign up soon. Otherwise, regretfully, I’ll have to pull out. Nothing worse for the old ego than talking to five people in a room built for much more. Oh, as an added incentive, there’s a book signingright after. I’ll have copies of both Transformers: Regeneration One trades (vols 1 & 2) to sign/dedicate according to your wishes. We’ll kind of look at numbers again on Monday and make a decision then, so if you want to come along sign up here, soon, and please spread the word via whatever social media networking options at your fingertips. Fingers crossed, I’ll see you there!

eBay seller lena81822, has posted an auction for a repaint of the Transformers Generation ATB Megatron figure in a purple colour scheme for what appears to be a cross promotion with Nike and NFL player Calvin Johnson.  The figure comes with the Nike tick trademark on his feet as well as an American Football and what appears to be a signature on his chest.  Calvin Johnson plays for the Detroit Lions and has been given the nickname Megatron and we can confirm that it is his signature on the toy, as you just need to compare the images to this one.

You can view the images of the Megatron below:

The figure is currently listed on several eBay auction. auction and auction

Hasbro have posted up the official advert for Transformers Constructbots the latest attempt at taking sales figures away from Lego in the contruction toy range

Thanks to Kotaku.com and Barvon Von Brunk for posting up images on his custom made Transforming Lego Nintendo N64 consol, controller and games.

I really like the controller, but the Donkey Kong cartridge transforming into an Ape is a great nod too

Check out the full article at Kotaku and more at Instructables.com

The folks at Kotaku have got their hands on the San Diego Comic Con exclusive Transformers / GI-Joe Crossover set.

The set contains the Jetfire Skystriker, Hound Vamp, Baroness with Ravage, Blugeon (recolour of Budo), Snake-eyes (with Autobot Symbol) and Blaster (geto-blaster mode) with his cassettes

You can read their review by clicking the link Kotaku

UK Transformers and G.I.Joe convention Roll Out Roll Call have updated their Facebook page with a new album of images titled "Collecting Transformer & G.I. Joe in the 90's".  The image gallery contains scans from various catelogues, owned by Dave Tree (All The Cool Stuff), from a variety of years featuring Transformers, G.I.Joe, Action Man as well as other toy lines, along side some photographs from early BotCon's , JoeCons and Memorabillias.

Check it out as it contains some interesting testshots as well as some G2 artwork you may not have seen before.