According to TFW2005 memeber Sol Fury, the Optimus Prime Blaster, which was exclusive to Wal-Mart stores in the USA, is out in the UK. It was sighted at Toys R Us in Reading. It isn’t known at this time whether it is going to be exclusive here.
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Super-God Masterforce on UK TV
Sorry, I’m a bit late about this news, but digital channel Anime Central, having already aired Headmasters, have now moved onto Super-God Masterforce. The episodes will be on at the same time with the same annoying dub.
Episode 1 aired 2 days ago with episode 3 airing tonight.
Visit Anime Central’s website for more details.
IDW January 2008 Solicitations
IDW Publishing have released their January 2008 solicitations and with it come some interesting publications. 2008 marks the start of Transformers: Animated, Hasbro’s next line of toys, cartoon and now comics. IDW will be printing books to accompany the cartoon series with Transformers: The Animated Series, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2. There is also Spotlight: Blaster, Devastation #5, Best of the UK: Dinobots #5, Classic Transformers, Vol. 1 TPB and The Transformers: Target: 2006 TPB.
Full details can be found at Comic News International.
Transformers Animated Promotion DVD
Another listing on the BBFC website shows that Hasbro UK are releasing the first episode of Transformers Animated on DVD. Since Hasbro UK is a toy company who don’t specialise in DVD distribution, it most likely means this DVD will be included with a Transformers Animated toy, and the best guess is “TF Animated Battle Pack with DVD”, which we mentioned earlier this month.
The episode included is called, “Transform and Roll Out” and will be the first episode of Transformers Animated. The FBI warning indicates that the disc will also be released in North America.
Transformers Beginnings Coming To UK?
With the release of Transformers in North Amercia yesterday, many stores provided exclusives, and the most interesting was Wal-Marts, which contained a bonus disc with an animated version of IDW’s prequel story, entitled Beginnings. Peter Cullen and other voice actors provided voices to bring the prequel to life.
Thats to the BBFC, it looks like the UK will be getting this extra as well. No store has been linked with this exclusive, but with HMV and Play.com already having bonuses, it is likely to be either Virgin Megastores or Asda, who are owned by Wal-Mart.
DVD: Transformers: Robots In Disguise Season One (R2 UK)
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Release Date: 15th October 2007
Distributor: Maximum Entertainment (Jetix)
Country: UK
Region: 2 PAL
Number of Discs: 3
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audio: English Dolby Digital Stereo
Subtitles: None
Catalogue Number: JTX3008
Giving fans another chance to purchase the series on DVD, especially those in North America, the first 20 episodes are presented on this 3 disc set.
Episodes
01. Battle Protocol
02. An Explosive Situation
03. Bullet Train to the Rescue
04. Spychangers to the Rescue
05. The Hunt for Black Pyramid
06. The Secret of the Ruins
07. Sideburn’s Obsession
08. Secret Weapon: D-5
09. Mirage’s Betrayal
10. Skid-Z’s Choice
11. Tow-Line Goes Haywire
12. Ultimate Robot Warrior
13. Hope for the Future
14. The Decepticons
15. Commandos
16. Volcano
17. Attack from Outer Space
18. The Test
19. The Fish Test
20. Wedge’s Short Fuse
Extra Features
None
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Transformers: RID out on DVD Again Today
The popularity of Transformers is bigger than ever with the release of the $700 million grossing movie last summer, and with it comes other companies releasing products to catch on to the hype.
Maximum Entertainment (with Jetix) have today rereleased Transformers: Robots In Disguise (RID) on DVD, exclusively in the UK. All 39 episodes will be on 2 boxsets, entitled Season One (episodes 1-20) and Season Two (episodes 21-39). New artwork has been commissioned, with Optimus Prime and Megatron on the covers. The sets orginally came out in October 2004 and April 2005.
Both DVDs are region 2 PAL encoded and rated PG.
Transformers DVD Details for Japan
The last major territory to receive Transformers in the cinema was Japan. The Transformers toy creators and Movie advisors (Takara) will have to also wait the longest for the DVD, but it looks like the wait will be rewarding.
Paramount Japan have announced a range of packages for Japan, all being released on 19th December. The first is the standard 2 disc special edition being released all over the world, the second is the transformable packaging, also with the 2 discs and third is the HD DVD version. There is also a listing for a “special” edition, but not details have been revealed. Expect some super boxset at a very high price.
Full details can be found on Paramount Japan’s Official Transformers Site.
Target DVD Comic Available Online
This Tuesday marks the release of Transformers on DVD in North America, and part of their promotions, Paramount have many exclusives available. Target stores will be packaging a new prequel comic from IDW Publishing, with a new and different story than the original IDW prequel released earlier this year.
For anyone who is unable to pick up this DVD version,Target have released the comic online in pdf format (Adobe Reader required).
The comic will also be available with the Play.com exclusive steelbook package in the UK.
UK Comic Takes New Direction
With issue 4 of Titan’s Transformers comic out this week in all good newsagents, Simon Furman has provided some details on the next batch of issues and how they fit in with the live action movie and IDW’s Transformers comics.
Issues 1-4 have focused on individual characters and what they did during IDW’s Prequel story. This will continue with issues 5 and 6. Issues 7-12 will be more Earth based, filling in the gaps in the movie.
Issue 7, entitled “Starscream’s Militia”, picks up after Megatron is defeated and probably links in to the credit sequence. Written by Simon himself with art from Simon Williams, issue 7 is on sale from 3rd January 2008 in the UK.
