Reissue Anime Generation 1 Galvatron has been released in Japan in by Takara, and can be found at most online stores.
Auto Assembly 2009 Early Bird Ticket Discounts Extended!
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Tyrese Gibson still can’t believe his luck at being cast in Transformers
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Megan Fox not on the market again?
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Transformers 2 – Transformers Revenge of the Fallen – Trailer
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Gregg Berger To Attend Auto Assembly 2009!!
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Fan2Fan Update – 20/10/05
Fan2Fan have provided more details on the recently announced TFC#21 Blaster and C-00 Primus.
Both are due for a February 2006 release. Blaster comes with one cassttebot, SteelJaw, and 2 profile cards and is the original G1 figure. Primus is part of the Galaxy Force line. The reason for the “C-00” is due to it coming in G1 style packaging since he is the god of all Transformers.
Full images can be seen here and the toys can be preordered at Fan2Fan.
Thanks to Nemesis Scourge for the news.
BT Wildrider/Black Widow News
It seems a few details have emerged about the planned repaints of the Honda S2000 for Takara’s BT series. Wildrider was cancelled due to trademark issues with the name, while it seems Black Widow may still make an appearance in the forthcoming BTA series. Read about it here and then pop by the forums to see what everyone is saying about this.
Dreamworks/Paramount producing The Transformers for 2006
Dreamworks will now be producing the Live Action Transformers movie, with a release in 2006, and Paramount with the foreign rights to the film. In previously rumoured news, Steven Spielberg did use his magic on Hasbro to get Dreamwaorks the film rights. He will be the film’s Executive Producer with Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Don Murphy and Tom DeSanto all being producers.
Hasbro will be involved in creative development, marketing and merchandising, with Takara, the poeple who actually make the toys, will have a development role.
The full press release from Hasbro can be found here.
Lucky Draw Black Tracks released
The very limited edition Black Tracks available as one of 300 as part of the ‘Transformers
The Comics’ lucky draw were shipped this week. They come in a plain white cardboard
box, the size of the e-hobby releases, without the cardboard flap, with a large
black and white sticker with the following text
Congratulations on your win! BLACK TRACKS Transformers the Comics Campaign model
Million Publishing / In co-operation with TAKARA Look out for the official ones
– they could be worth quite a bit…
Micron Legend figures at Small Blue Planet
Small Blue Planet emailed us to say that they’ve got the Micron Legend figures from Japan, including that Super Base Prime, Hot Shot comes with Star Saber, Cyclonus comes with the demolition team, and Demolisher comes with the military team. Check out Small Blue Planet here.
Really really small TF’s!
Micros as they were meant to be, Here! Second pic down, 2″ versions of Prime, Soundwave, and others! You buy them for $3 a piece and they come randomly in little packets. Buy a dozen and hope for a full set.
Japanese Armada at Epic Heroes
Epic Heroes asked us to clear something up for them. They’ve received stock of the Armada toys, but only the Japanese Armada. They are still waiting delivery of the UK Armada toys. If you’ve ordered UK Armada from them they’re not in yet, but you can check out the Japanese Armada at epic heroes here.
There are some differences between the UK and Japanese toys in packaging, price and the toys themselves.
New Year Specials 2003
More great news from e-hobby Japan
The 2003 New Year Specials have been confirmed. They are more Countach repaints, known as #91 Clampdown and #92 Deep Cover. They take the form of Super Car Police Car and Black Super Car respectively.
Orders are possible until January 10th and they will ship end of March (New Year???)
P.S. For those of you who may have read about re-re-issues of some of the Decepticon planes and the Autobot car collection editions – These were very limited returns which appeared to sell out in minutes after being posted on the site.
Addendum: My Clone Set 2
e-Hobby also has details of the second edition of My Clone figures available from March:
Bumblebee, Grimlock, Rodimus, Galvatron, Wreck-Gar and SoundWave, as well as 2 secret figures
