Energon

Over at seibertron.com and transformertoys.co.uk, they are reports of Energon toys being seen in Toys R Us stores in the UK. Strongarm, Skyblast, Battle Ravage, Energon Saber, Tidal Wave and Ultra Magnus have all been spotted.

Shame the cartoon does not air until September.

Well, Hasbro UK have been true to their word and are releasing more Energon toys in the UK. EllisModels has picked the last wave of toys

Basics

Windrazor x 2
Terradive x 2
Stormcloud x 1
Kickback x 2
Blackout x 2
Blight x 1
Bonecrusher x 1
Wideload x 1Deluxes
Demolshor x 2
Prowl
Inferno
Hotshot
Starscream
Rodimus
Snowcat
(all orignial decos)

Ultras
landquake x1
Bulkhead x1
Scoponok x1

Landquake has already been seen in the UK but the main bits are Wideload and Bonecrusher, the last Constructicon Maximus limbs and Kickback, Blackout, Blight and Stormcloud, the limbs of Bruticus Maximus.

Now if Hasbro UK can keep their promise of relaunching their website, we my start to like them.

We’ve used our video games connections and managed to track down yet more high res screenshots for the forthcoming Transformers Armada Prelude to Energon. You can see the screenshots below, and see larger verions of them on the special page we’ve made for the game here.

After Atari’s big press event on Wednesday, a few games websites have provided updates of the Transformers game based in the Armada universe. The big news is that the name of the game has changed to just “Transformers” and there is likely to be extras on the disk about the production of the game. Gamespot have provided a preview here and have an interview with a developer if you subscribe. IGN have some more screenshots for you to admire. Just look at Tidal Wave!

According to TFW2005, Transformers Cybertron has been cancelled by Toonami, but they are still showing Transformers Energon.

Whilst roaming in the centre of Milton Keynes yesterday, I happened to pop into the Entertainer toy store there and discovered Energon Treadbolt, Tidalwave, Ironhide and the biggest surprise, ENERGON OPTIMUS PRIME!! Plus the Toys r us website is now listing some of the the Energon basic assortment(Skyblast, Battle-Ravage etc.) By the way things are going we’ll probably see most of the range in Britain by Christmas!!

Play, who now seem to love selling whatever they can get their hands on, have 3 Transformers toys for pre-order. 2 have already been released in the UK, but the third, Energon Landquake, has not. This is either one last attempt by Hasbro UK to release the last of Energon (Not likely) or that Play has simply imported the toy.

The release is 4th July at the very high price of £39.99. If you know anymore, tell one and all in the forums here.

Hasbro have update transformers.com with images of Quickstrike and Sixshot (both due January 2005 in the USA) from the Transformers Energon line and of Battle Ravage (due February 2005) from the Alternators line. See the images here.

Transformers The Game from Activision has been rated PG by the BBFC in the UK. The info provided by the BBFC also gives us an idea of what is included in the game.

There seems to be some short extras involving Armada, Energon and Cybertron and lots of very short video clips before and after levels. Also mentioned are 163 images, probably unlockable extras.

In total there are 28 minutes and 12 seconds of footage.

BBFC Listing