Amazon has listed several new books for early 2015. Majority of the books are targeted towards little kids. Two books are based on the upcoming animated series Transformers: Robots In Disguise.
- Transformers: Robots in Disguise – Chapter Book #1 – Bumblebee Versus Scuzzard
- Transformers: Robots in Disguise – Chapter Book #2
- Transformers Rescue Bots Born Heroes Colouring & Activity
- Transformers Rescue Bots Go Rescue Bots, Go! Colouring & Activity
- Transformers: Rescue Bots: Land Before Prime
- Transformers Animated: The Complete Allspark Almanac
- Transformers: Rescue Bots: Meet Optimus Primal (Passport to Reading Level 1)
- Transformers: Dark Cybertron
- Transformers Classics Volume 8
- Transformers: Primacy
- Transformers Rescue Bots: Bots’ Best Friend (Passport to Reading Level 1)
- Transformers Volume 7
- Transformers Rescue Bots: The Reusable Sticker Book
- Transformers Rescue Bots: Blast Off! (Transformers Rescue Bots: Passport to Reading, Level 1)
- Transformers Rescue Bots: Reading Adventures: Passport to Reading Level 1 (Transformers Rescue Bots: Passport to Reading, Level 1)
- Transformers: Movie Collection Volume 2
Learn more about these, after the jump.
- Paperback: 28 pages
- Publisher: Autumn Publishing Ltd (January 1, 2015)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1782965750
- ISBN-13: 978-1782965756
- Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.3 x 0.1 inches
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- Paperback: 28 pages
- Publisher: Autumn Publishing Ltd (January 1, 2015)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1782965769
- ISBN-13: 978-1782965763
- Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.3 x 0.1 inches
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Join the Rescue Bots and their leader Optimus Prime on a Transformers adventure unlike any other. Illustrated with action-packed still from the hit TV show!
John Sazaklis
- Age Range: 4 – 8 years
- Grade Level: Preschool – 3
- Series: Transformers
- Paperback: 24 pages
- Publisher: LB Kids (January 6, 2015)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0316405558
- ISBN-13: 978-0316405553
- Product Dimensions: 8 x 0.1 x 8 inches
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The Allspark Almanac is a comprehensive, one-of-a-kind atlas to the amazing 2008 animated series universe. Discover behind-the-scenes secrets directly from the show’s creators. This volume is packed with over 400-pages of full-color bios, character models, episode summaries, interviews, and more. Collects both original volumes into one book!
Jim Sorenson, Bill Forster
- Paperback: 440 pages
- Publisher: IDW Publishing (January 20, 2015)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1631402102
- ISBN-13: 978-1631402104
- Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 1.4 x 11 inches
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Optimus Prime sent the Rescue Bots on a mission–to protect and learn about mankind. When he checks on his team of do-gooders in a time of crisis, he must find a brand new way to save the day. Illustrated with vibrant stills from the Transformers TV show!
Jennifer Fox
- Age Range: 4 – 8 years
- Grade Level: Preschool – 3
- Series: Passport to Reading Level 1
- Paperback: 32 pages
- Publisher: LB Kids (January 20, 2015)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0316405582
- ISBN-13: 978-0316405584
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THE END OF EVERYTHING! Shockwave makes a move millions of years in the planning – an ultimate strategy to remake Cybertron and destroy both the Autobots and Decepticons! This oversized hardcover collects all 12 issues of Transformers: Dark Cybertron.
James Raiz, Livio Ramondelli, Atilio Rojo, Phil Jimenez, Brendan Cahill
- Series: Transformers
- Hardcover: 300 pages
- Publisher: IDW Publishing (February 3, 2015)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 163140072X
- ISBN-13: 978-1631400728
- Product Dimensions: 7 x 1.2 x 11 inches
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Volume 8 of Transformers Classics collects Transformers Universe #1-4, all character biographies from TF issues #47-49, 56-72, and 74-79, plus G.I. JOE and the Transformers #1-4. Also includes issues notes by Mark W. Bellomo.
Bob Budiansky, Michael Higgins, Herb Trimpe
- Series: Transformers Classics
- Paperback: 312 pages
- Publisher: IDW Publishing (February 24, 2015)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1631401335
- ISBN-13: 978-1631401336
- Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 1 x 10.2 inches
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Optimus Prime versus Megatron! Autobots versus Decepticons! At the dawn of the conflict, battle lines are drawn and sides are set… now legends will be made. The war that would define a planet begins in earnest – and its revelations will shake the Transformers’ world to the core!
Chris Metzen, Flint Dille, Livio Ramondelli
- Series: Transformers
- Paperback: 104 pages
- Publisher: IDW Publishing (March 3, 2015)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 163140234X
- ISBN-13: 978-1631402340
- Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 0.3 x 10.2 inches
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Featuring individual Transformers stories focusing on a vast array of characters such as Shockwave, Nightbeat, Kup, Arcee, Grimlock, and Optimus Prime, Volume 1 collects the first 13 issues of the Transformers: Spotlight series
Nick Roche, Simon Furman, Stuart Moore
- Series: Transformers: Spotlight Omnibus
- Paperback: 316 pages
- Publisher: IDW Publishing (March 17, 2015)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1631402463
- ISBN-13: 978-1631402463
- Product Dimensions: 6 x 1 x 9 inches
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When the Rescue Bots find a stray dog without a collar, they take him home and make him part of the family. Join in on the fun as Noble and the Bots protect the good people of Griffin Rock. This Level 1 Passport to Reading title is illustrated from stills from the show!
Lucy Rosen
- Age Range: 3 – 6 years
- Grade Level: Preschool – 1
- Series: Passport to Reading Level 1
- Paperback: 32 pages
- Publisher: LB Kids (April 7, 2015)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0316410896
- ISBN-13: 978-0316410892
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Wheeljack awakens to find a strange, new Cybertron! The secret origins of Cybertron’s golden age are revealed to Optimus Prime – and what he learns changes everything about the Autobots’ mission on Earth as all-out war erupts on the streets of Tokyo. Collects issues #33-38.
- Paperback: 152 pages
- Publisher: IDW Publishing (April 21, 2015)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1631402854
- ISBN-13: 978-1631402852
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The first in an exciting, original chapter book series based on the new Cartoon Network show, Transformers: Robots in Disguise!
John Sazaklis
- Age Range: 8 – 12 years
- Grade Level: 3 – 7
- Series: Transformers: Robots in Disguise
- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (May 5, 2015)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 031641087X
- ISBN-13: 978-0316410878
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The second in an exciting, original chapter book series based on the new Cartoon Network show, Transformers: Robots in Disguise!
John Sazaklis
- Age Range: 8 – 12 years
- Grade Level: 3 – 7
- Series: Transformers: Robots in Disguise
- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (May 5, 2015)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0316410888
- ISBN-13: 978-0316410885
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Join Chase, Heatwave, Blades, and Boulder as they protect and serve the good citizens of Griffin Rock. In this fun, reusable sticker book full of activities, put out fires, stop crime, save animals and more!
- Age Range: 3 – 6 years
- Grade Level: Preschool – 1
- Paperback: 12 pages
- Publisher: LB Kids; Stk edition (June 2, 2015)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0316405604
- ISBN-13: 978-0316405607
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When Doc Greene and Graham find themselves stranded, orbiting the Earth, the Rescue Bots dust off their old ship and attempt a risky space rescue. Can the Bots work together in zero-gravity?
Lucy Rosen
- Age Range: 4 – 8 years
- Grade Level: Preschool – 3
- Series: Transformers Rescue Bots: Passport to Reading, Level 1
- Paperback: 24 pages
- Publisher: LB Kids (June 2, 2015)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0316405566
- ISBN-13: 978-0316405560
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This bindup of illustrated, television show-based readers is sure to thrill younger Transformers fans! Includes Meet Heatwave, Meet Chase, Meet Blades, Meet Boulder, Team of Heroes, and Meet Optimus Primal.
- Age Range: 3 – 6 years
- Grade Level: Preschool – 1
- Series: Transformers Rescue Bots: Passport to Reading, Level 1
- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: LB Kids (June 2, 2015)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0316286273
- ISBN-13: 978-0316286275
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This movie collection contains two movie prequels, ‘Defiance’ and ‘Alliance’, plus the adaptation for ‘Revenge of the Fallen’.
Dan Khanna, Andrew Griffit, Don Figueroa, Alex Milne, Jon Davis-hunt
- Series: Transformers
- Paperback: 308 pages
- Publisher: IDW Publishing; Mti edition (July 7, 2015)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1613778031
- ISBN-13: 978-1613778036
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MasterZero
So…like a buzzard? Neat. I like this name.
Helllooooo new favorite character.
Heh. I kid.
SPLIT LIP
Yup.
SpinalCord
This has 45 votes… most generally accepted slang has 2-3 thousand votes. This is beyond stupid
WilyMech
I honestly think Hasbro cares less about the Urban Dictionary but what the slang implies at this point. It is like avoiding controversy at this point or public perception of a merger talks. It might be more easier avoid and do name change right now before the series airs than a later date.
The oxford English dictionary does not produce street lingo for Hasbro to look at.
flatline72
Autovolt 127
Oh my god……
That'd be both hilarious and ruin my childhood at the same time.
Triggerhappy
you know anyone can add anything to UrbanDictionary right? like I could go on there right now and say an Optimus Prime is the rudest possible thing I can think of.. not that I'm going to.
Autobot Spike
hmm. Well, Hasbro….another cool name that had to go for no other reason than "someone used it to describe something unpleasant, once."
for the record, "slag" is defined as "Stony waste matter separated from metals during the smelting or refining of ore."
someone always ruins it for everyone else.
-A.S.
WilyMech
I got the urban dictionary I think Hasbro is going change the name.
Urban Dictionary: scuzzard
Click the link for the explanation.
moreprimeland
May have to get the Land before Prime.
Yeah, wondered about the Scuzz thing too.
Ampere
The only thing I found was some entry from Urban Dictionary and that site can make anything in existence offensive. But that doesn't stop some parents from googling it and saying Hasbro is trying to poison the minds of their children with subliminal messages. Scuzzard may just be the "Derpy incident" from Friendship is Magic all over again.
Nevermore
Have you googled the term?
The Diggs
^ This.
QLRformer
Scuzzard? Sounds like the offspring of a union between Wreck-Gar and Buzzsaw.
But considering we've got a Lobster Con named Bisk, it's no better or worse a name.
Hope he has a good design.
Autovolt 127
I don't know what kind name Scuzzard is but I'm guessing it'll be a bird based Decepticon or something.
Electro Rush
So how is "Scuzzard" potentially offensive?
UltraPrimal
Scuzzard? Is that Seth Buzzard's new name? First it was BuzzBeak, then Seth Buzzard, and now he's just shortened it to Scuzzard.
bumblebeej8
Scuzzard, my my thats a sexy name.
Nevermore
Oh look, it's the next name controversy.
Slag and Spastic say hi.