Sorry for the lack of updates, work commitments then a vaction has meant that updates have been even more infrequent than recent months / years.

Welcome to day 10 of our 17 day commemoration of the website's launch. Today we shall take a look back at the year 2008.

Transformers Animated went global, toy sales remained very strong, Kapow Toys opened their virtual doors, a G1 Voice Actor attended a UK Transformers show, we came close to debuting Transformers Animated to UK fans, Hasbro UK gave away hand-painted hardcopies, Revenge of the Fallen was announced and Shia was injured and arrested.

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Hi everyone. You may have noticed a recent lack of updates for the last two weeks, that we because we were both in Phuket Thailand taking part in the Asian Cricket Sixes tournament and were unable to update the website with news whilst we were competing.  Now that we are back we will look to catch up on the world of Transformers ourselves over the next 24 hours and will start to then bring you more news service as well as more content and a website facelift

I have added some more toy galleries this evening to complete our Botcon 2011 exclusive image galleries as well as bringing you a gallery of a figure that we purchased at the event, Beast Wars Neo Rockbuster.  The image galleries this evening are of Transformers Animated Sideswipe, Transformers Animated Fisitron (Ironfist), Transformers Animated Autotroopers, Shattered Glass Galvatron, Shattered Glass Thundercracker as well as the aforementioned Beast Wars Neo Rockbuster.

• Rockbuster
• Thundercracker
• Galvatron
• Autotrooper
• Fisitron
• Sideswipe

We have updated the Video Section of the site once more, this time with three videos from Episode 27 of Transformers Animated entitled "Sari, No One's Home". All of the video clips revolve around the scenes where Sari prepared to take on the Constructicons Scrapper and Mixmaster. The videos are called Home Alone, Preparing to fight and Sari vs the Constructicons.

Whilst we were in Tokyo the International Anime Fair 2008 took place at the Tokyo Big Sight. Though no Transformers related items were directly on display, Yokubarion took almost 200 photographs from the event which we have uploaded into the conventions section of the site. If you are a fan of Japanese anime / hobby figures, then you may want to take a look to see what items were on display. The event ran form the 27th March until the 30th March, with the first two days being press only days. Entry was roughly £5.

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Tim Bradley is a freelance designer, illustrator and author who worked full time for Hasbro in 1998 as well as freelancing for them in 2004. Tim worked on various Hasbro properties (Transformers, Star Wars, Jurassic Park), including Beast Wars, Beast Machines and Transformers Cybertron. Tim recently agreed answer a few questions regarding not only his work as a toy designer, but also as an illustrator and published author. You can read our exclusive interview here.

With over 2000 toys photographed just within out toy gallery section we know that it can be a little hard to find the galleries of the figure you are after. So to help a little we have launched are "sub-domain search" feature which means that you can search the toy gallery section of the site by simply visiting one of our thousands of subdomains. For example, if you wish to view a gallery on megatron, you can now quicky jump to the toy gallery section, filtering it to display megatron by visiting the URL http://megatron.transformertoys.co.uk, to view the Bumblebee galleries you'd go to http://bumblebee.transformertoys.co.uk. If the character has a space in their name, such as Optimus Prime then simply change the space for a hyphen. E.G: http://optimus-prime.transformertoys.co.ukhttp://rodimus-prime.transformertoys.co.uk.

The subdomains can also be used to perform wider name based searches such as if you visit http://gold.transformertoys.co.uk, clear.transformertoys.co.uk etc.

So now when you are looking for images of a toy, or you wish to view a list of the re-uses by name, mould etc, simply enter in the name of the toy followed by the transformertoys.co.uk domain.

In the future, this will be expanded to include search results from all of the other areas of the site including news, trademarks, comic reviews, cartoon reviews, prototypes, concept art, interviews etc

"I have gazed on the walls of impregnable Babylon, along which chariots may race, and on the Zeus by the banks of Alphaeus. I have seen the Hanging Gardens and the Colossos of Helios, the great man-made mountains of the lofty pyramids, and the gigantic tomb of Maussollos. But when I opened the package of promise, the others were placed in the shade, for the sun himself has never looked upon its equal."

Full image gallery coming soon