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In some sad news, Steve Gerber passed away on 10th February at the age of 60 after a long battle with chronic lung disease (pulmonary fibrosis).
Steve was a writer and story editor on the original Transformers series as well as Sunbow’s other series at the time, G.I. Joe. He is also remembered for his work on the Howard the Duck Comicbook series.
Million Publishing, who released the Japanese Transformers Visual Works Book last year, have provided an updated extension to the book by uploading the bio and prototype photos of Exclusive Emergency Green Encore Ratchet, a recolour of Encore Ratchet.
TakaraTomy have updated their Transformers website with new pages and pictures of their planned releases for this month.
There are pages for Transformers movie Black Arcee (MA-20) and Stockade (MD-23), as well as the long awaited reissue of Generation One Sky Lynx, who is being added to the Encore line.
Fractal Matter have received a copy of Transformers Spotlight: Arcee from IDW Publishing and have provided a review of the issue. There are plenty of spoilers so read only if you don’t mind.
The issue is due for release later this month and is the second Spotlight issue (out of 5) to be released this year.
For this weeks releases, there are offerings from 3 companies, IDW, Devil’s Due and Titan Books. IDW are releasing The Transformers: Devastation #5 (of 6) and Beast Wars Sourcebook #4, the final issue. Devil’s Due are putting out G.I. Joe/Transformers Omnibus, a compilation of all 4 volumes of the series, whilst Titan and re-releasing the Transformers: Fallen Angel TPB.
As well as providing a sneak peak of the first wave of Transformers Universe toys, Hasbro have also created a cgi version of the classic fight between Optimus Prime and Megatron from Transformers The Movie.
The video, titled “They were always real to me” starts off with the original scene from the film, but suddenly changes to a modern cgi version, with all the classic set pieces from the fight, except for Hot Rod getting in the way.
The clip (1m 19s) can be found on Hasbro’s official Transformers Universe site.
According to the listing on e-hobby for Transformers Encore Jazz, or Meister given the Japanese name, the figure will be released with a remolded head, but of who’s we are not sure.
The item is due out in March and is number 8 in the Encore line from Takara-Tomy.
Simon Furman has provided his thoughts on this weeks release from IDW Publishing, Transformers Spotlight: Blaster, out on 23rd January.
Of course, there are slight spoilers, but nothing that goes too deeply into the story.
As always with the IDW/TF-verse, though the character is still recognizable as his ‘classic’ G1 equivalent, this is very much a reimagined Blaster, with a somewhat different role in the expanding conflict between the Autobots and the Decepticons.
Fan2Fan have attended a 2-day toy forum in Japan with Takara-Tomy in attendance.
They showed off their version of the Transformers Classics, or HenKei “Transform”! as they are known in Japan. The first 6 figures will start being released in March with Astrotrain following in April and Hot Rodimus in June.
Continuing the Encore line will be Encore 9 Bumble & Minibots set and Encore 10 will be Omega Supreme. Yes, the big Autobot is coming back. They will be released in late May and late June respectively.
Finally, there were some Transformers movie related toys like MA-21 Optimus Prime Battle Mode, MA-22 Bumblebee Battle Mode, TS-01 Scanning Optimus Prime and TS-02 Scanning Bumblebee.
IDW Editor-in-Chief Chris Ryall has posted an updated schedule for IDW’s Transformers releases over the next month, and has given updates on other issues that should be coming soon.
Chris also talks about delays and wrong information posted about release dates. He asks that fans keep faith that there is nothing that can be done about some delays.
Here are the IDW releases for the next month:
16th January:
TF Animated Digest, Vol. 1
TF: Devastation #4
23rd January:
TF: Target 2006 TPB
TF Spotlight: Blaster
6th February:
TF: Devastation #5
TF Beast Wars Sourcebook #4
13th February:
TF Beast Wars: The Ascending TPB
TF Animated Digest, Vol. 2
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