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The first country outside North America has started airing Transformers: Animated, with it being Malaysian. The series started on Sunday 2nd March at 11am. The remainder of the episodes will air every Sunday on TV3.
The channel are also running a competition until the end of March to win Playstation 3 consoles and Ipods.
Amazon.com, have provided the first details on the next 2 volumes of the Transformers: Animated paperback comic book series, Volume 5 and Volume 6.
Unlike previous Transformers comics series, the books do not have a unique art style but instead use screens from the cartoon episodes to produce the artwork. Volume 5 features Bulkhead on the cover, with a release date for 25th September 2008. Volume 6 features Ratchet on the cover, with a release date of 25th November 2008
Both issues are being published by IDW Publishing and each feature 2 episodes worth of content.
After waiting and waiting, we finally have some art from next months new series from IDW, Transformers: The Reign of Starscream.
The series is the official continuation of the Transformers movie and concentrates on the sneaky Decepticon Starscream. The script is written by Chris Mowry and Chris Ryall with art from Alex Milne and Josh Perez, the same artists who did the Transformers Movie Adaptation comic.
The series will attempt to explain oddities from the film and will visit Cybertron and another planet.
After the news last week about the first Transformers: Animated DVD release, we have more news for you. The disc will be known as Transformers: Animated Movie, and is confirmed as containing ‘Transform & Roll Out’.
The ‘not final’ artwork has been released by TVShowsonDVD in a really small format. We will see if Paramount Home Entertainment will release a, non watermarked, bigger version.
The Dutch/Belgian Transformers Convention, Transformations, will be changing its name. Hasbro US, the worldwide Transformers head office, has requested a name change due to the similarity to the Transformers name.
To make the name change more fun, they are organising a competition where fans can win a free ticket to the 2008 convention and a free t-shirt. The winning entry will be decided by Hasbro NL, who will be attending the event. Closing date for entries is 13th March.
Over the last couple of months, IDW have released the four part series, Beast Wars Sourcebooks, which bring together characters from Beast wars, Beast Wars II and Beast wars Neo and give them profiles. Unfortunately, the books weren’t a complete success, with text and colouring errors as well as complaints from fans that the images were too small and incomplete and that the profiles didn’t make the characters unique enough.
New IDW Editor Denton J. Tipton has posted on the IDW forums asking for a complete list of errors in the books so that they can be corrected for the TPB release. Dan Khanna will be helping with colour corrections, with the added bonus that some extra artwork will be included as well as the missing glossary. Ben Yee will also be involved.
So if you want a more complete and accurate collection, get involved.
Three auctions on ebay have provided us with the first look at the Transformers: Animated Activators figures in package from Hasbro. The figures shown are for Bumblebee, Bulkhead and Starscream.
Activators work by transforming at the touch of a button and feature accurate designs.
Here’s the weekly reminder for people in the USA and Canada, as well as all you torrent people, that the next episode of Transformers: Animated airs today.
For the USA, Cartoon Network airs the episode at 10:30am EST, whilst in Canada, YTV is 30minutes later at 11am EST. The episode is titled “Survival of the Fittest” and is the 9th or 12th episode in the series depending on how you are counting.
A feature on Newsarama, talking with Titan Comics editor Steve White about Titan Transformers UK series, confirms where the next few issues will be heading but also why the idea was taken to introduce an alternate continuity, as to not contradict IDW’s Reign of Starscream series starting in April.
In the comments section, IDW editor-in-chief Chris Ryall has posted a reply to one of the questions from a fan, about the possibility of IDW reprinting the series in the USA, and he confirmed that they will in July.
It has already been confirmed that Titan are collecting what looks like the first 8 issues of their series into one book, due for release at the end of April.
Another auction from eBay seller EToysHunter shows some detailed pictures of BotCon 2008 Exclusive Optimus Prime, from the “Shattered Glass” figure set, which has now sold out completely.
As with most preview galleries, there are lots of photos of the figure in both transformations and with many different angles. The now finished auction of the evil Autobot leader can be found here.
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