About 2 months after the UK and Canada have finished with the Energon cartoon series, the USA are finally going to air the last 10 episodes from 18th May on Cartoon Network (from http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=138639)

Hello from the crew at Bill’s Toys and Games. As we enter 2005, our goal is to
be your one stop shop for all those collectible and hard to find items you need.
We will be adding a lot of new categories over the next couple of months for some
great new products; but also some new sub-categories for existing lines to expand
some hot toy lines as well as help our customers browse with ease

THE BOSS IS AWAY
With Toy Fair 2005 rapidly approaching, and new items arriving daily; use this
code during checkout, TF10, until 02/28/05 to save 10% on any order, including
all pre-orders!

Here are some of the newer and hotter things at http://www.billstoysandgames.com

Hot Categories To Check Out
· Transformers Energon

TRANSFORMERS – Our next shipment of the highly sought after Predaking
Re-Issue is scheduled to arrive around 02/27/05, so we are once again opening
up more pre-orders. After the coupon is used, Predaking will only be $152.99
before shipping! Also back in stock now is the brand new TFC #17 Blitzwing,
as well as the BT-09 Swindle and BT-10 Grimlock, at our new BT price of $49.99
each before coupon. A small amount of Black Robot Masters, including Beast Convoy
and G1 Starscream are also back in stock.

One of the final assortments of Energon Basics and Deluxes have arrived, giving
everyone the chance to finish out the Superion Maximus Combiner team, and start
the final Combiner team, Bruticus Maximus with Kickback, Stormcloud, and Barricade.
We have also restocked the hard to find World’s Smallest Transformers Cases
of Wave 2.5 for the low price of $44.99 per case of 8 figures. A lot of the
older E-Hobby figures, as well as previous series such as RID and Armada have
been restocked as well. We have also restocked many of the Heroes of Cybertron
figures from all 5 waves.

COMING REAL SOON

· New Deluxe, Mega and Ultra Transformers Energon Assortments

· New Alternators and Binal Tech figures
· RM-18 through RM-21 Robot Masters EN ROUTE NOW

Thank you for stopping by Bill’s Toys and Games, and we hope to see you
back to check out these great items.

Bill, Harry, Liz, Chris and Dan
Bill’s Toys and Games

www.billstoysandgames.com

According to my source, it would now appear that Devil’s Due publishing has picked up the Transformers comic license. Now what this means for the current series (War Within, G1, Energon and the hotly anticipated Beast Wars) I have no idea, but I should imagine that these lines will be carried on as usual. With any luck, perhaps some, maybe all those who worked on the Dreamwave series will be pulled in to carry on the good work. Beryllium digital units crossed and watch this space!!!

Transformers.com has a new survey on their site asking you your age and how often you visit Hasbro’s Transformers Website. They also ask you which is your favourite website.

Transformers.com has been updated by Hasbro with product previews of Transformers Universe Longhaul, Bonecrusher, Longhorn and Transformers Energon Barricade. All can be seen here.

Takara is releasing a new toy line of "miniaturised versions of their
most popular toy lines dating back to the late 60’s to mid-80’s" including
Optimus Prime. The thing is, he’s even smaller than the ‘Worlds Smallest
Transformers’ (not any more) Prime, but manages to be more realistic. 
The photo evidence isn’t conclusive of whether he transforms or not, but you
do get a replica of a newspaper clipping of the toy’s original advertising,
and er… some Japanese bath salts.  Don’t ask me, I just report this stuff…

Read the more below where I got it from – http://tformers.com

Takara’s Mini Toys Shop Collection Released- Mostly
Pictures

Takara’s Mini Toys Shop Collection – Mostly
Info

It’s come to our attention that several retail sites have incorrect information pertaining to the Transformers Season 1 DVD due to be released from Metrodome.

There are two separate releases, one with the FREE tin and one without, but they are BOTH released on October 11th. Currently Amazon only have one listed, and Play have different dates for both releases.

The two releases have DIFFERENT catalogue numbers, so if you want the tin you have to order the correct version. The version with the free tin has the catalogue number MTD5169, whereas the version without the tin has the number MTD5168 (which is listed on Amazon).

So once again, catalogue number MTD5169 comes with the free tin, and is released October 11th.

Debunking the notion that the UK will see no more Alternators, Silverstreak has been confirmed as being available to buy from Argos stores, and is included in their new catalogue, available this Saturday. Now, we all know that just because the toy is pictured in the catalogue does not always mean it’ll be available then and there (recent examples include Powerlinx Hot Shot, Galvatron and Skywarp), but in this case, some Argos stores have already reported stock of Silverstreak arriving. He’s in UK packaging, and Hound is pictured on his box also (not that THAT means anything either, mind you).

Other new toy pictured in the new Argos catalogue include Energon Megatron and Energon Omega Supreme. Note, however, that they share size classes with Optimus Prime and Unicron, respectively, and it’s almost certain that they won’t be in stock for some time.