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The Transformers movie has won some more end of year awards, this time from IGN. IN the movies section, the film earned the award for Best Sci-Fi Movie and Best Effects Sequence.
In the DVD section, the HD DVD release came runner up in the Best HD DVD award.
The 70 minute mini-movie is premiering today in the USA with the episode appearing all over the internet soon after. We hope to provide our thoughts on the episode and provide you will some details on what to expect.
We also hope to find out who will be showing the series outside North America in the new year.
The Lying In The Gutters column on Comic Book Resources has posted the cover to IDW’s Transformers movie Sequel Comic Book. This series takes place after the events of the Transformers movie and involves and certain Transformer called Starscream.
The cover features that Decepticon in a homage to Marvel’s classic Transformers issue #5 comic, which had Shockwave in a similar stance and the same words scratched into the wall.
Metrodome have re-released the first season of The Transformers Generation One on DVD today in the UK. The 2 box sets each contain 8 episodes with no special features, but come at a cheap price, under £5.
Known as Transformers – The Classic Series 1 Volume 1 and Transformers – The Classic Series 1 Volume 2, the sets are just fancy repackages to get in on the Christmas act and jumping on the Transformers movie bandwagon.
Simon Furman has uploaded a special Christmas present for all Transformers fans, the original script for Dreamwave’s Beast Wars Issue #1, which was due to come out in 2006 before the company went bankrupt. It makes an interesting read for any Beast Wars fans who are interested in how it would have differed for IDW’s Beast Wars series, The Gathering.
Some more ebay auctions have now given some more information on the Target Exclusive Allspark toys coming next year. These are merely repaints of current Transformers movie toys, but the back of the packaging shows the tech specs and profiles of the characters.
Empire Magazine have been celebrating the best of 2007 and Transformers has featured in some of the bad and good awards. Special Mention should go to the visual effects, which got to No. 1, and Best Trailers and Best Comebacks (for Optimus Prime) at No. 2.
Michael Bay, the best US car chase director, only got to No. 3, behind 28 Weeks Later and The Bourne Ultimatum, directed by a Spaniard and an Englishman respectively.
The line “I smell you, boy!” by Megatron was given the award for “Worst Lines Of Dialogue”, even though there were probably worst lines in Transformers.
The Good Awards
Best Trailers – No. 2
Best Visual Effects – No. 1
Scenes Of The Year – No. 3
Best Comebacks (Optimus Prime) – No. 2
Best Chases – No. 3
The Bad Award
Worst Lines Of Dialogue – No. 1
IDW Editor-in-Chief Chris Ryall has tried to distract fans by posting the cover for Transformers Spotlight: Arcee. Lets just say it looks very creepy. The issue is out in February 2008.
BigBot.com have interviewed Transformers: Animated writer Marty Isenberg on the upcoming cartoon. Many people will remember Marty from his work on Beast Machines and the problems that went on at the time with that series.
He reveals some general information about the series without giving away any spoilers.
Bluefunsky from site taobao.com has put up another auction for 2 Fast Action Battlers. The repaints are called Fire Blast Optimus Prime and Pulse Cannon Ironhide. The images included with these show the back of the packaging which show the Tech Specs and general description.
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