No, the article's not about a ginger haired person but rather about a new face of a robot for Transformers 3.
This new robot was spotted interacting with Sam and Carly on the TF3 Set.
You can also spot him on the following YouTube video (at 3:51).
Who do you think this new robot is? The Ferrari 458 Italia, Rollbar, the red NASCAR Wrecker or someone else? Tell us what you think by clicking on the Discuss Button.
Our friends at Reprolabels.com have a little update for those looking to spruce up both new and old figures. Here is their update: Small update this time, but we do have a new free giveaway.
Also, last month's promo for free full-color labels doesn't actually end until tonight, so anyone ordering on July 30, Pacific Standard Time, will receive BOTH the new Compendium AND the Full Color symbols... one set of each for every $15 spent. See the Full Color set here: Full Color Symbols
Now for the regular sticker sets, this month we bring you G1 Joyride stickers: G1 Joyride
We have received a Press Release from Hasbro and it’s about the recentCybertron Convention, China.
Hasbro is kicking off the start of the first ever official TRANSFORMERS fan convention to be held in Asia, “TRANSFORMERS Cybertron Con,” at the East Asia Exhibition Hall at the Shanghai World Expo.
A “history corridor” will be featured. Within the corridor, visitors and fans can see the chronological progression of the TRANSFORMERS brand beginning with the classic “Generation 1” era, BEAST WARS to the most recent entertainment blockbuster movies and current HUNT FOR THE DECEPTICONS promotion.
In addition to expert panels and the historical retrospective, special events and exhibits will include:
• An opening ceremony where Hasbro will unveil a 23-foot tall BUMBLEBEE character statue.
• A “grafitti wall” featuring TRANSFORMERS characters in the Shanghai East Asia Exhibition Hall.
• Demonstrations of the recently released Transformers: War for Cybertron video game from Activision.
• TRANSFORMERS drawing classes for attendees.
• Three-dimensional action figure dioramas capturing scenes from popular TRANSFORMERS entertainment including the blockbuster movies and 1980’s animated series.
• TRANSFORMERS Challenge competitions testing attendees skills at converting TRANSFORMERS action figures from “robot” to “vehicle” modes.
The TRANSFORMERS Cybertron Convention starts today, Friday, July 30 and ends on Tuesday, August 3.
To read the entire Press Release, click on the Title Bar.
Thanks to the good folks at Activision and S3, we have some Playstation Network codes available to give away. These codes when entered on PSN will allow you to download and install the War for Cybertron DLC Pack, just released this week, FOR FREE!
We have a total of 5, and will be holding "post to win" type threads all weekend. All you need to do is post in the thread, and if we choose your post, you win. Enter as many times as you like per thread.
Nelson; the administrator of MichaelBay.com, visited our boards and announced that the famous Transformers 3NASCAR Trio are indeed The Wreckers.
We wish to thank, Mr. Nelson Lauren for this exclusive piece of news.
We do believe The Wreckers need no introduction. But, just in case...
The Wreckers are a sub-team of Autobots in the Transformers Universe, functioning essentially as a commando unit. They were created by Marvel UK writer, Simon Furman. The Wreckers are called upon whenever the odds of success are slim.
We end this article with the famous quote... "Wreck & Rule!!!"
Nelson continues to pour more info about Transformers 3NASCAR Trio.
Answering to a thread, Nelson of MichaelBay.com said that the NASCAR Trio are not Rallybots with a simple "NO".
So far Nelson said NO to Stunticons, Omnibots and now for Rallybots as the NASCAR Trio.
For those who want to know about Rallybots, you can visit our Resources Section for more info by clicking on : Double Clutch with Rallybots.
Nelson also briefly talked about the real life personalities of Rosie Huntington-Whiteley(Carly) and Shia LaBeouf(Sam) at the site. You can read them by clicking on the above links.
There had been many speculations regarding the identity of the new Mercedes-Benz E550Autobot in Transformers 3 by fans. Finally, Nelson of the Shoot For The Edit provided us with more info about who he is.
So it seems that the Einstein looking bot is the mysterious new Blue Mercedes-Benz E550 Autobot.
If this is not a misinformation then, so ends the rumors stating that the Mercedes bot is Shockwave/Soundwave in disguise. Still we are yet to findout the name of this bot with brains.
UPDATE : Nelson has posted the first Official Image of the Mercedes-Benz E550 vehicle from the Chicago set of Transformers 3. You can click on the Title Bar of this news article to see it.
In a massive shocking turn of events, Cybertron Con in China has produced some incredible news we know many of you had been hoping to see come out of the San Diego Comic Con. At the Hasbro new products panel several of the new 2011 release Transformers toys were on show, and photos were allowed. All of these images come from tfclub's Tsina account (requires registration). Some higher resolution image are also available courtesy of Yeltar on ACToys.
On show were toy pictures of:
Legends:
Revealed for the first time anywhere is Gold Bumblebee, who long time fans will recognize as a homage to Bumblebee's upgraded form Throttlebot Goldbug from The Return of Optimus Prime! Also shown are the Legends Class Generation 1 Optimus Prime, Megatron and Starscream that were first revealed to be in the works at Botcon 2010.
Scouts:
Windcharger. Just Windcharger. Check him out, he's awesome!
Deluxes:
Here's the mother-lode, what you've all been waiting to see. On show were: Special Ops Jazz, "Turbo" Tracks, Perceptor, Scourge and Thunderwing.
Voyagers:
Lugnut and Grapple were shown. Lugnut looks a little mistransformed / awkwardly posed though.
Power Core Combiner Five Packs:
Grimstone with the Dinobots and Steamhammer with the Constructicons.
Stay tuned for more news from Cybertron Con as it becomes available.
Credit: hschell0002, General Tekno of the 2005 Boards!
At the Animation-Comic-Game Hong Kong (ACGHK) material-entertainment fair, being held over this weekend, Hasbro Hong Kong is offering this cool, one-of-a-kind Lucky Draw Battle Blades Bumblebee. It is made entirely in gold chrome and is encased within a special display case, much like the 2007 Movie Leader Optimus Prime Lucky Draw offered by Hasbro Hong Kong in 2008. Like the Movie Leader Optimus Prime, this piece is available to fans who spend big at the Hasbro booth - except this year, because there is only one piece, it is a straightforward case of whoever spends the most at the Hasbro booth over the course of the weekend gets the prize toy!
Check out the images of this piece by clicking on the title of this article - and take a look at the some more images from the event by visiting HK-TF's gallery.
TFW2005 board member yizhi521 has just stopped by to give us some new closer pictures of the prototype for the new Takara Masterpiece, Rodimus Prime! As shown earlier, Rodimus' trailer will open up to reveal a rather large cannon a la G1 Rodimus Prime, however, now we see clearer shots of Rodimus' robot mode!
Will this have any gimmicks? Will be it be in scale with other Masterpiece figures? Join the conversation and see more pictures by clicking the title of this story!
Get those salt-shakers ready folks, because we have a very interesting - and unusual - item for you today.
As you can see to the left of this image, that is a fully gold chromed version of the legendary Fortress Maximus - the largest Transformers toy ever released. He originally hit stores in 1987 as the centerpiece of the Headmasters line, and has since gone on to command high prices on the secondary market. The mold has been reused a couple of times down the years, including Brave Maximus in Car Robots - also known as Fortress Maximus in the series Robots in Disguise.
Which brings us to this strange piece. It is on display at Cybertron Con in China alongside many other items including the prototype for Masterpiece Rodimus Prime. While it is tempting to write this off as a bootlegger getting a bit over-enthusiastic with gold chrome, it is on display with the other official Transformers merchandise - which you can check out here on ACToys.
UPDATE - 2005 Boards member DrillBIT and several other members have pointed out this new image. For those that cannot read the caption, it explains that this is a fan made custom item and not an official piece. The fan who created this awesome piece brought it out for display at Cybertron Con for his fellow fans to enjoy.
So there you have it. It's a custom, not an official piece, and doesn't hint at a reissue or anything.
It's still extremely cool though, so enjoy the pics by clicking on the title of this story.
Credit: Dragonclaw, Rodimus_Prime, DrillBIT of the 2005 Boards!
We have received another exciting update from Auto Assembly 2010! This time around they announce that, thanks to the generosity of Hasbro UK, they have 30 of the upcoming Challenge at Cybertron three pack to give away to lucky attendees! This set, which consists of updated cartoon colours for Hot Rod, Cyclonus and Galvatron will not be available any other way in the UK, and according to the information received by Auto Assembly is extremely likely to be a Target exclusive in the US.
To be in with a chance to win one of these sets, you need to be a pre-registered attendee. 30 lucky pre-registrants will have tickets inserted into their convention packs, so if you're not already pre-registered and want to be in it to win it, head over to the Auto Assembly Homepage to get yourself pre-registered!
Click the thumbnail for a larger photo. Check out more Car Robots Listings to see what other items were offered for the Japanese series that was turned into Robots In Disguise.
Activision sent us a note, so in case you haven't played in a couple days and missed it....
We wanted to let you know that the guys at High Moon Studios, award-winning developer of Transformers: War for Cybertron, are continuing to listen to fans and are hosting another double XP multiplayer weekend starting 6:00pm Pacific, Friday, July 30th through 12:00am Pacific, Monday, August 2nd. Anyone playing in multiplayer matches on the Xbox 360, PS3 or PC versions of the game will earn double XP rewards and level up faster than ever.
Additionally, players can battle the developers themselves on Xbox LIVE during High Moon’s Game with Developers event, going on today, July 29 from 6:00pm-9:00pm Pacific. For more details, fans can visit: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/...formerswfc.htm
Episode 105, the most technical-difficulty-wrought episode of WTF@TFW this year, brings a live and chainsawin' Deefuzz in directly from the opening night of the San Diego Comic Con!
If you use iTunes and regularly subscribe to podcasts, you can add us to your player and have the software download each episode automatically each time we update. To do that, and give us a reviews on iTunes, click here: Transformers Podcast on iTunes.
A prototype for upcoming Takara/Tomy release Masterpiece Rodimus is on display at the 2010 Transformers Cybertron Con. The figure was displayed in vehicle mode, with the trailer displayed in battle mode as well. Also on display was a photo of Rodimus in robot mode. Click on the thumbnail to see all the images.
2005 Boards member Masabon has shared with us some scans from the 150th edition of Figure King (also known as Figure-Oh or Figure-Ou). This edition focuses on the August releases of the Transformers Animated toys - showing different images to the previously shown official images. Here, all of Rodimus' plastic is shown in the same color, and Sunstorm's chrome is noticeably brighter.
There is also a retrospective on the many Transformers series, a brief coverage of Botcon 2010, and a full run down of all the Transformers Celebration 2010 items including the two newly revealed entries into the series, reissue Predaking and Masterpiece Rodimus Convoy.
Check out all the scans by clicking on the title of this story.
We can't call this a big spoiler after revealing Shockwave... So, here's Autobot Rollbar; the newest Autobot to join the 3rd Transformers Movie.
Throughout the past few days there had been numerous reports of a mysterious new Red Giant Jeep at the Transformers 3 set. TFW2005 Member EShadowP managed to confirm who exactly this new bigboy is.
But, this isn't the first time Rollbar appeared in the movie franchise. Head-on over to our Resources Section to see how he was portrayed before the third movie : Rollbar (Combat Series).
Those who know G1, will immediately recognize him as Throttlebot Rollbar from that continuity. If you guessed it correctly, then you can celebrate by hitting the Discuss Button.
Checkout more images by clicking on the Title Bar.
"When the going gets tough, the tough get driving."
UPDATE: The "T B" logo on the back of the vehicle stands for Tommy Built. Initially this jeep was built not for the movie, but YouTube videos (now taken down by Paramount) prove that the "turret" behind the vehicle is fitted with a Machine Gun and a N.E.S.T gunman will wield the weapon (Click here for the image). Thanks should go to cypherXR of 2005 Boards for providing us with these information.
Alex Milne has posted the cover art to the upcoming Transformers Drift Issue 4 on his Deviant Art account. This miniseries explores the secret origin of the one-time Decepticon turned Autobot and the mysterious third faction, all of which were hinted at in the Spotlight: Drift issue. Check out the art by clicking on the link above, and sound off on what you think by clicking the discuss button below.
Where would Optimus Prime be without his archenemy, Megatron? Fortunately that's not a question we will need to answer just yet, because courtesy of the 2005 Heads on a Stick desk, we have an image of a prop used during the Transformers 3 filming in Chicago featuring the evil Decepticon leader's noggin! Like all the props we have been seeing, this is to assist the actors in acting and reacting to the robots who will be CGI'ed in later during post-production.
Maybe it is not much of a surprise that Megatron is returning for Transformers 3, since he was seen fleeing with Starscream at the end of Revenge of the Fallen. But this sighting confirms that Megatron will also be present in some form during the battle in Chicago alongside the other characters already seen on set in prop form or the form of stunt cars.
Michael Bay’s Official Website has been updated with more info, videos and images from the Chicago set of Transformers 3. We have seen some of the stuff right here at TFW2005 few days ago, but given that this is an official update it must go up. Special Thanks to all the Original Posters of 2005 Boards.
Before we begin, SPOILER WARNING : The following articles may contain various plot details.
Next we have an image of Director Michael Bay using the Apple iPad. Nelson says that the Transformers 3 Animatics are loaded to the device. Visit “Michael Bay Using the iPad 3G” to see it.
The Transformers Collector's Club have uploaded a two page preview of the next part of the Club Magazine comic, The Coming Storm, onto their Deviant Art gallery. This story, set 9 Million Years ago back when the Autobot / Decepticon war was still in its infancy, traces the adventures of the Generation 1 styled Elite Guard! In this story, Elite Guard Special Ops team The Combaticons are in a tight spot. Will history take its natural course, or will they escape and postpone the inevitable for another day? Check out the full previews of pages 19 and 20 here, and check out Fun Publication's Deviant Art Gallery for more Transformers (and GI Joe) Collector's Club comic goodness!
A new featured comic strip, by David Willis of Shortpacked fame, is also in the works for the back page of the Collector's Club magazine. According to a post on Walky's blog, the strip titled Recordicons will focus on Shattered Glass Ravage and the other cassettes. Check out a teaser image showing the title of the new strip by clicking on the title of this story.
San Diego Comic-Con 2010 has gone as quickly as it arrived. With it, some really nice Transformers exclusives have gone with it. Blaster keeps selling out before you place your order. Same thing with Mighty Muggs Prowl. For our Featured Ebay Auction, we bring you every listing for the San Diego Comic-Con 2010 Transformers Exclusives.
Some people are listing the items as low as buying them direct from Hasbro. So if you can't wait for Hasbro to restock, or your favorite store to get them in stock, these auctions should help you out.
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