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Originally posted by: Sol Fury @ TFW2005.com

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Famitsu reports that there is a new Transformers Convoy no Nazo (or Mystery of Convoy) game in the works. It's being developed for iOS and Android, and features the Takara-Tomy Q Transformers Optimus Prime as the main playable character. The original Convoy no Nazo was a Famicom title in Japan released in 1986 known for its crushing difficulty.

There is also some video footage on Youtube by way of Walruslaw, which shows how the game has been reimagined as an "endless runner" i.e. your character is constantly running forwards. The game has also acquired more jumping sections and fewer enemies on screen at a time. The whole thing is controlled by two buttons - jump and transform. The original's music - and gigantic Decepticon symbol boss fight - are both present.

Check out the video clip, which is from the recent edition of TV Boy, below:

Original Source: Q Transformers Mystery of Convoy Game @ Transformers - TFW2005.com.

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Originally posted by: Sol Fury @ TFW2005.com

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Japanese retailer Red Mercury has added a new listing for a Transformers Ultimate Toy Guide 2014 book. From what we can understand from looking at the page through an online translator, this book focuses on the characters and the toys of the Transformers Age of Extinction line, along with the previous three movies. The book will also include something special by way of a history of the line's 30 years. It's due to be released on 8 August - end of the week, in other words!

Original Source: Japanese Transformers Ultimate Toy Guide 2014 Book @ Transformers - TFW2005.com.

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Originally posted by: Sol Fury @ TFW2005.com

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IDW's Brendan Cahill will be attending this year's CybFest Northwest! You might know Brendan from his work on many of IDW's Transformers series including More than Meets the Eye and Dark Cybertron! Check out his online portfolio here to see some samples of pages from his work - which he'll have up for grabs at the show, as well as taking part in a panel and taking commissions.

CybFest NW is the successor to the Cybercon events, and is taking place at the Kent Commons Community Center in Kent, Washington State on 16 August 2014! Find out more at the CybFest NW homepage!

Original Source: Brendan Cahill to attend CybFest Northwest @ Transformers - TFW2005.com.

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Originally posted by: Jacer @ TFW2005.com

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Member Hollywood Hoist has found the latest wave of Rescue Bots two-packs featuring Blades with Dani and Bumblebee with Morbot at a Target in Renton Washington.

Remember to check out your local sightings thread for new toys in your area and happy hunting!

Original Source: Rescue Bots Blades with Dani and Bumblebee with Morbot Found at US Retail @ Transformers - TFW2005.com.

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Originally posted by: SilverOptimus @ TFW2005.com

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Thanks to Joblo, we have with us some official details of the Transformers: Age Of Extinction Home Release.

According to their official press release section, the movie will be available on 30th September in 3D Bluray, Bluray and DVD.

Bonus features include 8 Making Of videos titled "Evolution Within Extinction".

Mark Ryan (voice of Lockdown) has also tweeted a poster advertising the home release.

We've mirrored the content with this news post. Check them out, after the jump.

Original Source: Transformers 4 Age Of Extinction Home Release Info And Release Date @ Transformers - TFW2005.com.

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Originally posted by: Sol Fury @ TFW2005.com

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Our sponsors Robot Kingdom have reported that the next two releases in Takara-Tomy's Transformers Legends line will be TG-06 Gelshark (aka Sky-Byte) and TG-07 Jetfire. The pair are Japanese market releases of the Generations Sky-Byte and Generations Leader class Jetfire, respectively, and they are due to be released in December.

While the initial photos are quite small, it seems as though both releases will sport altered paint jobs for their Japanese outings - Sky-Byte / Gelshark appears to have more silver on his sides in shark mode, and some metallic teal on part of the chest. Jetfire appears to have traded the red chrome on his weapons for regular flat red plastic.

Will you pick these up over their US versions? Sound off in the discussion thread linked below.

Original Source: Transformers Legends Japanese Release of Generations Jetfire and Sky-Byte @ Transformers - TFW2005.com.

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Originally posted by: StayingInTheBox @ TFW2005.com

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Thanks to TFW2005 boards member jimmynguyen41 we have our first retail sighting of the Nikko RC cars of Bumblebee and Optimus Prime. These items were found at a Target in the Washington area. For those not familiar, the Nikko RC cars are a licensed product of Hasbro and not only operate by remote control, but this Bumblebee and Prime also transform! These sets will retail for $49.99. Check your local areas if you're on the hunt for one!

Original Source: Nikko RC Age of Extinction Bumblebee and Optimus Prime Firs Retail Sightings @ Transformers - TFW2005.com.

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Originally posted by: StayingInTheBox @ TFW2005.com

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Earlier today the Transformers Takara Twitter page tweeted out an awesome image that reveals the throwback packaging of Takara's Legends Rattrap! The box itself seems to be a nod to the Beast Wars packaging released in Japan, which you can see in our resources pages for reference.

Legends Rattrap, also known as Generations Rattrap by Hasbro, is set to be released sometime in October.

Check it out after the jump!

Original Source: Takara Legends Rattrap Packaging Revealed @ Transformers - TFW2005.com.

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Originally posted by: StayingInTheBox @ TFW2005.com

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Thanks to TFW2005 boards member jimmynguyen41 we have our first retail sighting of the Nikko RC cars of Bumblebee and Optimus Prime. These items were found at a Target in the Washington area. For those not familiar, the Nikko RC cars are a licensed product of Hasbro and not only operate by remote control, but this Bumblebee and Prime also transform! These sets will retail for $49.99. Check your local areas if you're on the hunt for one!

Original Source: Nikko RC Age of Extinction Bumblebee and Optimus Prime First Retail Sightings @ Transformers - TFW2005.com.

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Originally posted by: SilverOptimus @ TFW2005.com

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Mobage has announced the next Transformers: Legends event; Autobot X.

Spike was seriously hurt in a Decepticon assault, so his Autobot pals set his mind in the body of Autobot X to save his life. Alas, the Decepticons quickly turned the cyborg against his former friends. Will the Autobots rescue Spike before the cyborg destroys them first? Find out today in TRANSFORMERS: Legends – “AUTOBOT X”!

Original Source: Transformers: Legends Game Event - Autobot X @ Transformers - TFW2005.com.

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Originally posted by: Sol Fury @ TFW2005.com

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We have received the Diamond Comics shipping list from TFW2005 member D-Drive! Comic stores next week will be graced by the latest installment of Chris Metzen and Flint Dille's prequel story, Transformers: Primacy, along with a second printing of Transformers VS GI Joe #1! On top of that, comic shops seem set to get the latest Generations Voyager assortment - that's Roadbuster and Sky-Byte. So you may want to keep a look out in comic stores getting content through Diamond for that pair.

Read on for the full solicits!

Original Source: Diamond Comics Shipping List for August 13th @ Transformers - TFW2005.com.

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Originally posted by: Sol Fury @ TFW2005.com

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Online retailer Anime-Export has put up a listing for a new run on Kaiyado's Revoltech Movie Optimus Prime. Based on his appearance in Transformers Dark of the Moon, this Optimus balanced a detailed sculpt with frankly an insane amount of poseability. According to the listing, this new run on Optimus Prime comes in "renewed packaging", though there are no pictures of what that might be.

Original Source: Revoltech Dark of the Moon Optimus Prime Renewal Version @ Transformers - TFW2005.com.

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Originally posted by: Sol Fury @ TFW2005.com

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Mech Ideas have just released their Techno Toon Titans Bluster and Trench, aka Animated style Huffer and Pipes. The duo are based on designs created by Derrick J Wyatt for the Transformers Animated show, but never saw official toys from Hasbro. Mech Ideas picked up that baton and ran with making their own take on the Animated style, starting with the duo of Huffer and Pipes - a pair of figures that are not without their flaws, but do manage to capture a lot of the same spirit and style of the Transformers Animated designs.

We've got some in-hand shots of this two pack, which started out as some quick pics to share with you guys and quickly grew into a full gallery of both figures - check them out below!

Mech Ideas Bluster / Animated Huffer

Mech Ideas Trench / Animated Pipes

Original Source: Mech Ideas Techno Toon Titans Bluster and Trench In-Hand Gallery @ Transformers - TFW2005.com.

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Originally posted by: Super_Megatron @ TFW2005.com

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TFcon is pleased welcome Transformers comic book artist Sarah Stone to TFcon Chicago this fall.

Sarah is the artist for IDW’s highly successful Transformers: Windblade miniseries that just concluded. She will be available all weekend for commissions, prints and signings at TFcon Chicago 2014.

TFcon Chicago – The world's largest fan-run Transformers convention will take place October 24th to 26th, 2014 at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare – 9300 Bryn Mawr Avenue, Rosemont, Illinois to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the Transformers. You can book your discounted room now via the TFcon 2014 hotel reservation website. Online registration is now available for TFcon Chicago 2014. You can follow the Admission/Registration/Ticket Information link to purchase your advance tickets.

TFcon Chicago 2014 features a huge dealer room for Transformers merchandise, question and answer panels and autograph sessions with many special guests including ALAN OPPENHEIMER the voices of Warpath, Beachcomber, Breakdown and Seaspray in Transformers Generation 1 well as the voices of Skeletor, Man-At-Arms and Mer-Man from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, in addition to DAN GILVEZAN best known as the voice of the Autobot Bumblebee in the original Transformers cartoon as well as the voice of Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the 1981 animated series, Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends. He also voiced Goldbug, Hot Spot, Outback, Rollbar, Scamper, Skids and Snapdragon in Transformers Generation 1, plus AARON ARCHER former Hasbro VP, toy designer and creative lead for all Transformers partnerships. More guests TBA.

Original Source: Transformers Artist Sarah Stone to attend TFcon Chicago 2014 @ Transformers - TFW2005.com.

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Originally posted by: Sol Fury @ TFW2005.com

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Apple's iBooks store has updated with a three page preview of Robots in Disguise issue 32, which is due out in just two weeks time! Check out the preview to get excited for the next chapter in John Barber's epic tail!

AUTOBOTS VERSUS EARTH! OPTIMUS PRIME and the AUTOBOTS discover the humans’ secret—and they aren’t pleased with what they learn! Will the DECEPTICON’s alliance tear down the peace—and will the world learn the CYBERTRONIANs are back?

Original Source: Robots in Disguise issue 32 iBooks Preview @ Transformers - TFW2005.com.

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Originally posted by: Mechafire @ TFW2005.com

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Thanks to the Agabyss Twitter page, we have some larger images of the previously-reported Takara Legends Jetfire and Sky-Byte figures!

These photos confirm our speculation that Sky-Byte is done up in more metallic colors in addition to having a few extra paint apps, and Jetfire has indeed ditched the chrome in favor of flat red, and has also gained back the paint apps that we had seen on the Hasbro version originally back when it was first revealed.

Check 'em out after the break!

Original Source: Larger Images of Takara Legends Jetfire & Sky-Byte @ Transformers - TFW2005.com.

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Originally posted by: Sol Fury @ TFW2005.com

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Autobase Aichi on Facebook has shared our first look at a color prototype image of the Takara-Tomy Arts Playstation Optimus Prime. Based on the original Sony Playstation this Optimus Prime sports the original PS1's iconic gray deco in alternate mode with more traditional Optimus red and blue being revealed in robot mode. Check out the image and see what you think.

Original Source: Takara-Tomy Arts Playstation Optimus Prime Color Prototype Image @ Transformers - TFW2005.com.

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Originally posted by: SilverOptimus @ TFW2005.com

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Transformers: Lost Age (Japanese movie release of Transformers: Age Of Extinction) is out now in Japan.

Japan Times has published an article today where director Michael Bay explains Autobot Drift and more.

"You put a medieval knight in front of the camera and it now looks (a bit) cliched, it looks outdated," Michael Bay says. "But the samurai look, of course we know it’s historical yet it looks so modern."

"You look at some of the older Japanese movies with samurai characters in them and you can visualize them as robotic," he says. "They look . . . streamlined, mechanical and practical."

The director also talked about the Franchise:

"I understand the need to draw an audience of kids and the global considerations, but I wanted to be involved with something that had a longer-lasting, even cerebral appeal. And I don’t want to be tied — artistically or in people’s minds — to ‘Transformers’ after ‘Transformers,’ " Bay says, perhaps alluding to the series’ planned fifth installment.

You can read the rest of the article (which is quite lengthy and other cast members chime their views) at Japan Times.

Original Source: Transformers: Lost Age Interviews - Drift, The Franchise And More @ Transformers - TFW2005.com.

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Originally posted by: Jacer @ TFW2005.com

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Thanks to the HKGTF Facebook page we get a look at Takara's AD-28 Snarl! Takara's Snarl has a darker paint job than Hasbro's as well has some added dark grey/black plastic.

Checkout more images after the jump and in the discussion.

Original Source: Takara AD-28 Snarl In-Hand Images @ Transformers - TFW2005.com.

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Originally posted by: Jacer @ TFW2005.com

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A user over at the Transformers Addicts Facebook group page posted a couple in-hand images of the upcoming EX Wheeljack. This Wheeljack is a repaint of the cancelled movie All-Stars Wheeljack with a more G1 accurate paint scheme on his hood. Sadly this Wheeljack does not appear to have any weapons, much like Dark Side Soundwave.

Check out of the images after the jump.

Original Source: Takara Tomy Movie Advanced EX Wheeljack In-Hand @ Transformers - TFW2005.com.

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Originally posted by: Sol Fury @ TFW2005.com

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DX9 Toys have updated their Facebook page with some in-hand images of the final version of their Splinter figure. A reworked version of Salmore, Splinter is an unofficial take on Wreck-Gar scaled to a similar size as the Masterpiece Autobots. It's worth noting that he does not include the classic Wreck-Gar axe weapon though. Check out the images and see what you think.

Original Source: DX9 Wreck-Gar "Splinter" In-Hand Images @ Transformers - TFW2005.com.

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Originally posted by: Sol Fury @ TFW2005.com

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TFC Toys have shown off a downsized version of their first combiner, the not-Devastator Hercules, in pictures of a display shown on their Weibo account. The pictures are small but show a Hercules who is a fraction of the size of the original - one that stands perhaps slightly taller than a limb of the Prometheus combiner.

Exactly what is this guy - and what will it be in scale with? He just might be scaled for the Legends class figures - which seems to be a new thing among third parties along with Masterpiece scale - but will it work for you? Share your thoughts after the break.

Original Source: TFC Toys Hercules - Downsized? @ Transformers - TFW2005.com.

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Originally posted by: ORIO @ TFW2005.com

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Former lead designer for the Transformers brand, Aaron Archer, has posted an unrealized design for a Megatron toy. This design was kicked around by Archer in 2002 or 2003. Had this become a full realized toy, it may have ended up in the Armada toyline. The design itself features Megatron with several large spikes on his shoulder and ginormous forearms. Archer mentions that he thinks he intended the alternate mode to be a bomber or space shuttle.


Take a look at this incredibly menacing looking Megatron after the break! Aaron Archer will be in attendance at NJCC on August 17th and at TFcon Chicago October 24th-26th.

Original Source: Unrealized Megatron Design from Aaron Archer @ Transformers - TFW2005.com.

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Originally posted by: Sol Fury @ TFW2005.com

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In the fourth in a series of translated interviews from the Transformers Masterpiece Official Guide book, TFW2005 staff member SydneyY kindly has provided us with a translation of an interview with Takara-Tomy's Noriaki Maeda. Maeda was involved in the Masterpiece series since the release of MP-9 Rodimus Convoy, and talks about the changing direction that came with the release of MP-10 Convoy Version 2 as well as the style and the presentation of MP-12, Lambor / Sideswipe.

Check out the interview after the break, and hit the discuss button to talk about this on the boards!

Original Source: TakaraTomy Staff Interview - Noriaki Maeda on Masterpiece @ Transformers - TFW2005.com.

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Originally posted by: Jacer @ TFW2005.com

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The Transformers Collectors Club just posted on their Twitter the new 2015 member exclusive Nova Prime. This figure is a remold of Generations Orion Pax. Nova Prime is going to be released in a convention style box with room to add in your Lio Convoy. No word on pricing yet but that'll come out closer to release during Spring/Summer time next year.

Join the discussion after the break to share your opinion. I for one am eager to grab this figure.

Original Source: 2015 Transformers Collectors Club Exclusive Nova Prime @ Transformers - TFW2005.com.