Armada

Our very own board member rikkomba has posted up some nice images and first ever review of the rarest edition of Minicons, the Space Galaxy Destruction Team on his personal blog site. Go there to see all the images and read his review. To discuss this topic, click the "Read on" link below.

Limited to 10 pieces TF@TM has posted up a gallery of the Lucky Draw Green Unicron. You can check it out by clicking here.

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TV Shows On DVD is reporting that the upcoming Transformers Armada Season 1 Part 2 DVD Set has had its release date moved again. Originally it was scheduled for a September 26th release. It was then moved to October 3rd. Now it has been moved back up to September 26th.

TV Shows On DVD has an image of the Transformers Armada Season 1 Part 2 boxart.

The set is scheduled for release on September 26th at a suggested retail price of $49.95. The second part of Armada follows the awakening of Unicron, and the Transformers" battle to destroy him at all costs. Considered by many fans to be far superior to the first half of the series.

2005 Boards member payres has found a the red version of Armada Powerlinx Thrust in the UK.

Ive just returned from The Entertainer in Kingston. They had a new wave of Transformers Armada toys in. Armadas been gone from the UK for nearly 2 years now so this has to have been sitting in a warehouse somewhere since then. They had on the shelves 1 x PL Cyclonus, 4 x Armada Airazor with Nightscream (quite rare in herself I believe) and 2 x Red Powerlinx Thrust.

Previously, the figure had been available only in Japan, with some sightings in Isreal, Italy, Portugal and Australia.

Our good friends at Fan2Fan have noted that Transformers Station has started their campaign for Hell Flame Micron Bulge. Requirements to acquire this figure from Transformers Station stores may vary from store to store. You can check out some photos at Fan2Fan's Mainpage.

Thanks to Nevermore for the news.

From this latest magazine scan shows the new Kabaya Galaxy Micron set.

Also pictured is the Toys R Us exclusive Gold Hop which customers buying LigerJack will receive with their purchase.

Many thanks to Raijin Optimus for the information concerning the TRU Hop Exclusive.

Here's two new pics of the latest Micron Booster Set from Japan. The first pic is of some of the set, the second is of two of the Micron's with the recent Galaxy Force Blurr and Buzzsaw. Click Here for the pics. The picture comes courtesy of the Transformers Image Board.

Transformers Armada Season 1 Part 1 was released today. This set contains the first 26 episodes of Armada. No word on if any changes were made to the set. The set contains the following episodes:

First Encounter
Metamophosis
Base
Comrade
Soldier
Jungle
Carnival
Palace
Confrontation
Underground
Ruin
Prehistory
Swoop
Overmatch
Gale
Credulous
Conspiracy
Trust
Vacation
Reinforcement
Decisive Battle
Vow
Rebellion
Chase
Tactician
Link Up

The folks over at TV Shows On DVD have updated with info on yet another Transformers related DVD. This time it's the Armada Season 1 Part 1 boxset, as they unveil the cover art for this set.

They also note that Amazon.com has the set up for preorder at 30% Off with Free Shipping! You can see that Here.

The original post can be seen Here.

Thanks to Transfandom for the news.

The folks over at TV Shows On DVD have updated with new info about the upcoming Armada DVD set.

"We gave you a heads-up a few weeks ago that Transformers: Armada - Season 1, Part 1 was coming on November 9th in a 4-DVD set. At the time, we didn't have any other details. Well, that's changed!

26 Episodes will be found on this set: First Encounter, Metamophosis, Base, Comrade, Soldier, Jungle, Carnival, Palace, Confrontation, Underground, Ruin, Prehistory, Swoop, Overmatch, Gale, Credulous, Conspiracy, Trust, Vacation, Reinforcement, Decisive Battle, Vow, Rebellion, Chase, Tactician, and Link Up.

Rhino has decided to keep this a lean release, and so you shouldn't look for bonus material this time around. This helps keep the price down, so you can look for this to go for a $49.95 SRP ($10 cheaper than most of the "G1" Transformers sets went for). But you get 600 minutes of running time, and that comes to just a tad over 8 cents a minute...not bad to entertain the kids these days, eh? Wait, what did you say? You want to get it for less than that? Well...okay! Pre-order it from Amazon.com or DVDEmpire.com right now, and you can lock in a discounted price.

Stay tuned, guys, and we'll bring you the cover art for this release in the near future."

The original post can be seen by clicking Here.

TV Shows On DVD is reporting that Rhino is releasing Transformers Armada Season 1 Part 1 on November 9th. This will be a 4-disc boxset. Check out the full report Here.

Thank to Transfandom for the heads up.

GameStop.com has a preorder up for a limited edition Optimus Prime controller for the Playstation2. Produced by Nuby Tech Inc., the controller is scheduled to be available on January 11, 2005 at a price of $29.99. No pic available yet. See the preorder page Here.

Thanks to Transfandom for the news.

Having a hard time with the Transformers game? Perhaps some game cheats are in order. IGN PS2 and Gamespot have added a few cheats to their list.

NOTE: We removed the cheats just because we figured if you wanted to read them, you'd click on the "Read More" text. So if you want to know all the great cheats, such as codes to pass every level, infinite stealth and powerlinx abilities, as well as big head mode, then READ MORE!, Enter these at the "Difficulty Select Screen" when starting a new game. After each code you should hear Red Alert say the code was accepted.

Deep Amazon Level Complete: LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, LEFT, RIGHT, R1, R2, CIRCLE
Mid Atlantic Level Complete: CIRCLE, SQUARE, CIRCLE, SQUARE, Right, Left, Left, Right
Alaska Level Complete: R1, CIRCLE, R1, SQUARE, Left, Left, Right, Left
Starship Level Complete: LEFT, LEFT, RIGHT, CIRCLE, CIRCLE, RIGHT, RIGHT, LEFT
Earth Complete: R2, R1, L1, L2, SQUARE, CIRCLE, SQUARE, CIRCLE

At the Autobot HQ main menu screen hit the following:

Infinite stealth: (Must have convert minicon equipped): UP, UP, DOWN, DOWN, L1, L2, L1, L2
Infinite Powerlink: UP, DOWN, UP, DOWN, CIRCLE, SQUARE, SQUARE, CIRCLE
Big Head Mode: CIRCLE, CIRCLE, CIRCLE, SQUARE, L1, L1, L1, L2
Turbo Mode: L1, R2, R2, SQUARE, SQUARE, SQUARE, SQUARE, L1

One Hit Kills
While playing, pause the game and press SQUARE, CIRCLE, SQUARE, CIRCLE, L1, L1, L2, L1. You will hear "Code Accepted" when entered correctly.

Unlockable: Extra Cinema
Collect all of the mini-cons to unlock an extra cinema.

Fight Unicron
First you need to beat the Pacific islands level, then you need to have gotten a total of 30 minicons. When you do these two things you can go to the Cybertron level where you fight Unicron in his planet mode.

Some of the cheats are older, but now you have a complete list of the known cheats.

In preparation of the upcoming release of the two new Region 1 Armada DVDs Battle for the Mini-Cons and Power of the Mini-Cons on June 22nd, online retailers are now taking pre-orders for these items. Check the links below for pre-order pages!

Amazon
Power of the Mini-Cons - $10.49
Battle for the Mini-cons - $10.49

DVD Empire
Power of the Mini-Cons - $12.26
Battle for the Mini-cons - $12.26

And for our Canadian viewers...

Amazon Canada
Power of the Mini-Cons - $14.62 CDN
Battle for the Mini-cons - $14.62 CDN