Thanks to an auction on Taobao a Botcon troop builder set of repaints of the Transformers Generations Waspinator figure appear to be on the way.  The recolours include Buzzsaw and Halloween Horrocon Waspinator as well as two others.  You can view a copy of the image below.

Having preview the latest TFCC Subscription figure Thrustinator yesterday in comic format, the Transformers Collectors Club have now posted a mock-up of the toy which you can view below.

The figure is a redeco of the Beast Wars II Dirgegun toy but with a new head.

Some of the Hasbro toy reveals have now been posted online such as IDW Skids, Goldfire (Goldbug), Waspinator and Dreadwing, whilst others haven't.  The news is pretty much as we had anticipated, with Transformers Beast Hunters being dragged out until Transformers 4 has been released whilst the main focus for the toys will be the 30th Anniversary line, focusing on the IDW Designs.  Surely the one many fans will love is the annoucement of More Than Meets The Eye Whirl, along with his shipmates Tailgate and Swerve.

Hasbro also confirmed that they want to simplfy the Transformation os Transformers, as they don't like them being too complicated.  They want the kids to just be able to play on the floor - of cause other reasons will be that it costs more in RND

Other toys annouced were

1. Whirl
2. Swerve
3. Tailgate
4. Skids
5. Waspinator
6. Goldfire (Goldstar)
7. Dreadwind
8. Cosmos
9. Skywarp
10. Scooop (with Double Targetmasters)
11. Doubledealer (recolour of Blitzwing)
12. Rhinox (Voyager Class)
13. Armada Starscream

Peaugh has posted two new video reviews of figures from the nextd wave of Transformers Generations Legends class toys. The videos are of the Starscream and Waspinator 2-pack where Starscream is based on his recent IDW desigsn, with the 2nd video being Megatron with Chop Shop where Megatron is this time based on his pre-war IDW design. You can watch the videos using the YouTube plugins below

Transformers Generations Legends Starscream & Waspinator

Transformers Generations Legends Megatron & Chop Shop

The next issue of the TCC Magazine will begin shipping in the next couple of days, but the cover can be seen right now! Click the story thumbnail to see the incredible cover done by Matt Frank (the artist behind this years Hall of Fame Waspinator profile art). In this great scene created just for the TCC Magazine, we can see there is a bit of a disagreement between Beast Wars Waspinator and Animated Waspinator as to whom actually receives the trophy for "Waspinator's" induction in to the Transformers Hall of Fame!

The Transformers Collectors Club has been updated with information on the September issue

Issue 40 will give club members a detailed look at BotCon 2011 and the Transformers Hall of Fame as well as ALL-NEW MTMTE character profiles, an interview with Transformers Prime Voice Actor Steven Blum, Part 4 of the ongoing comic "Transformers: Battle Lines" and more!

Also, stay tuned to the TCC as there will be a sneak peak at next year's FREE Membership Incentive Figure Runamuck in the next couple of weeks. Not a member yet? Check out the Benefits tab and then be sure to Join Now!

Thanks to King Grimlock for providing us with three new Transformers Animated toy galleries

You can now find Blazing Lockdown, Waspinator and Wreck-Gar toy galleries on Transformers Animated.com and Transformers At The Moon. 

As you know, as part of the Saturday evening entertainment at Auto Assembly 2009 there will be a script reading featuring Gregg Berger, Ian James Corlett, comic artist Simon Williams and - subject to his appearance at the convention - Neil Kaplan in a brand new script being written exclusively for Auto Assembly by Simon Furman (who is writing All Hail Megatron issue 13 which is having a convention exclusive variant cover from Nick Roche and Liam Shalloo). However, the script has more than those few characters now it's time to give YOU the chance to appear on stage with these Transformers voice actors...!

Starting now, we are casting for four roles in this short play set in the Beast Wars era and to have a chance of playing one of these characters, all you need to do is decide which part(s) you want to audition for and just send us an MP3 of you doing that voice and include your ticket number with your email! We'll listen to all of the entries and select a winner and runner up to act as an understudy incase the winner isn't available on the evening!

There are just three basic rules for this competition:- 1. All entrants must be 16 or over. 2. Entrants must be FULL WEEKEND attendees and available for the Saturday evening programme. 3. You must pre-register for the convention and auditions must be received by no later than 31st July 2009. Apart from that, the auditions are open to everyone, INCLUDING our guests! Naturally, Auto Assembly Committee members and their families are not eligible to enter.

We have open audtions for the following Beast Wars characters:- Megatron, Razorbeast, Dinobot and Waspinator so get your files to us as soon as possible! You can create dialogue yourself, perform existing lines from the TV show (or the comic in the case of Razorbeast) or request a short extract from the actual script and we will send a small piece for you to record but you need to hurry!

For full details on Auto Assembly 2009 and to book your tickets, visit the website at www.autoassembly.org.uk To submit your audition, send it to autoassembly@aol.com

Simon Plumbe
Auto Assembly 2009

Auto Assembly 2009 is a non-profit making convention for fans of Transformers and is being held on 15th - 16th August 2009 at the Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Birmingham, England.

web: www.autoassembly.org.uk
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email: autoassembly@aol.com
tel: +44 (0)7860 948296

Transformers Animated.com has been updated with screen grabs from the latest Transformers Animated cartoon episode, Predacon's Rising.

Marcelo Matere has followed up his Arcee boxart Deviant Art Page update with more Transformers Animated boxart, this time looking at Waspinator.

TFW2005 have conducted an interview with Transformers Animated designer Derrick Wyatt.

The interview includes information on several Transformers Animated season 3 characters such as Rodimus Prime, Shockwave, Waspinator and Blurr, as well as including a few design images of Kickback and a bald, western, Issac Sumdac.

Following on from the Universe Countdown story, TF08.net have also uploaded some images of the future releases of Transformers Animated Waspinator and Samurai Armour Prowl.

To keep with TF08's requests we've not mirrored the images, so please visit their site to see them.

TF08.net have posted several images on their message board of upcoming Transformers Animated and Transformers Universe figures.  On the Transformers Animated front they have images of Wasp (out of packaging), a boxed image of Atomic Lugnut, card Activator Dirge and an image of a carded Activator CliffJumper.

On the Transformers Universe front, the images include carded Supressor, Bodyblock, Makeshift, Brimstone, Dinobot, Boltflash and Blight

TFW2005 Member Automaster has spotted some new Transformers Animated toy listings in Wal-Mart's computers. The listings include Deluxe Class Swindle, Blurr and Waspinator, plus Voyager Class Wreck Gar and Skywarp as well as revealing the existence of two new Transformers Animated toys. These figures are Deluxe Class Arcee (Sleek Car) and Voyager Class Shockwave.

There was also a further listing for something called "Electro Static S" which might be a part of a name of a repaint

On the 18th April 2008, TransformersAnimated.com began running a poll to see who its visitors would have like to see appear in the Transformers Animated TV show. Well the poll have now closed and we can bring you the results.

Q. Who would you like to appear in the show?

• Jetfire - 35%
• Unicron 26%
• Hot Rod - 23%
• Waspinator - 10%
• Sixshot - 6%