Woolworths have put up a page of Christmas toy offers in preparation for the coming festive season (I know, it’s a bit too early for our liking too) and naturally there’s some Transforming action going on there.

You can order the Optimus Prime helmet,  Optimus Prime himself and a Starscream Blaster.

See the offers page here.

According to Hitwise, Transformers are the second most searched for toy online in the run up to this Christmas, just behind the Bratz dolls. It seems that Transformers toys make up a staggering 11.9% of all toy related searches. Star Wars is nowhere to be seen!

Searches for Bratz dolls are double that for second placed Transformers, which have seen a big revival after the release of the Transformers movie this summer.

You can see the full details here.

e-Hobby have provided the English story and profile of Orion Pax

Story
This product is a recreation of the robot youth Orion Pax, who appears in the original series episode “War Dawn” as the younger form of Autobot Supreme Commander Optimus Prime. He transforms from retro-futuristic pickup to robot mode and comes in a three-robot set with an auxiliary droid module and his friend and fellow freight handler, Dion.Profile
A laborer robot who enjoyed peace and prosperity in an era known as Cybertron’s Golden Age, some nine million years ago. He and his good friend　Dion, who also transformed into a transport vehicle, conducted delivery work at the energon storehouses. His body was composed of two autonomous units and could divide into the main module, Orion, and the industrial droid Barrelroller, who could transform into an electromagnetic lift handle. Later, he would be severely injured in an attack by Megatron, but at the hands of Alpha Trion, who recognized in Orion an uncommonly strong spirit and ability to get things done, he would be reborn as the first of Cybertron’s new defenders, Optimus Prime.

Thanks to http://www.transformertoys.co.uk for the news.