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CollectionDX has posted a video interview with me where we talk about the project.

http://www.collectiondx.com/article/epi ... me_voltron

Vangelus interviewed me for WTF @ TFW: http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/wtf-tfw-t ... 012-a.html

Now down to the final 50 hours of the project. Thank you to everyone who has supported and made the book better than it would have been.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/102 ... rence-book

This first PDF went live last night for people to send in corrections before it gets printed. Pretty good read. Wish he had time and space for 300 pages! There are enough potential toys out there now...

Here is a list of what 3P toys made it into the book with at least one picture:

Art Feather Bumblebee (34)
Beezleboss Growing Pains Custom Kits (32), Heroic Duo Custom Kit (33)
BTS Tremor and Frequency (55), Yin and Yang (55)
Corbot V War Axe and Carnage Axe (cover, 30)
Crazydevy Purple mixing barrel (37, 43, 45) and rifle for Hercules (37, 45)
Dr. Wu Eyesight (45)
FansProject Armored Batallion (9-11), Backfiery (5), Code (16), Defender (14-15), Flameblast (13), Protector (4), Steel Core (14-15), Stormbomb (7), Thundershred (8), Warcry (12)
Headrobots Blood (51), Butcher (53), Junk Armor (50), Snake (52, 54)
iGear Autoscout (24), Bee 02 (48), Black Rager (2, 21), Hench (22), Kup Head (25), Manatee (19), Perceptor and Kup Upgrade Kit (26), Rager (21), Rager (anniversary) (18), Shafter (21), Spray (17), UFO (23)
Impossible Toys Alicon (27, 64), Alpha Traon (28-29), Arbilus (28-29, 64), Kranax (28-29, 64), Quint-05 (64)
Junk Planet Warrior Armor Upgrade (49)
Maketoys Hover & Bomber (2, 48), Giant Type-61 (36-45)
Mastermind Creations Cyclops (61), Talon (62), Terminus Hexatron (61)
Mech iDeas Apex (56-57), Geminus (56-57)
MGS Hound and Ravage upgrade (31)
Perfect Effect Kingbat (64), Warrior Type-F (47), Warrior Type-R (47)
TFClub Dr. Crank (36-45 for all Hercules members), Exgraver, Heavy Labor, Iron Army A (58-60, Iron Army B (58-60), Madblender, Neckbreaker, Structor
Toyworld Hegemon (3), Grind Rod (35)
X-Transbots Glider/Air Robot (2, 63), Kobra Power Rat (63), Wild Child/Explorer (63)
Yom-G Wheelie Survivalist (63)

You can read about the book here: http://en.wikialpha.org/wiki/Transforming_Collections

Rated X wrote:I still say a website data base would be a better idea than a book. By the the hard copy gets printed, 20 new 3rd party products will have been released and another 20 teased.

There IS an online third party Transformer database already. It's at Wikialpha.

http://en.wikialpha.org/wiki/Third_party_Transformer


This book is not a database of all third party Transformer toys. It is a coffee table photo book of some pictures of some third party Transformers.

There are over a hundred pages of content on wikialpha about third party Transformers. As for message boards, pleanty of those out there. I don't know what else you want.

Yes, any printed material will be dated, but that's the nature of printed material. No different from when someone released a printed book about Transformers. Some people will buy it, other will say it's dated. This book is not a reference work, nor it is the "latest thing", and yes, you could probably print a quarterly magazine on the subject of third party Transformers, but that's not happening yet. There was talk of a second volume, with the best of the new stuff, and some classics that got overlooked.

I did notice that one Headrobots toy seems to premier in this book, and there are a few prototype photos of unreleased toys like Terminus Hexatron and MMC's Talon.