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News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Fri Feb 22, 2013 8:25 pm

Our friends at IDW have sent us a sneak peak at their upcoming limited edition Transformers: The Art of Fall of Cybertron Hardcover. Check out the details below.

Experience every gorgeous detail of the Fall of Cybertron. This limited-edition hardcover collects production art and notes for the smash videogame from Activision and High Moon Studios. Hand numbered to 250, this over-sized hardcover will conquer your coffee table.

• Limited to 250 hand-numbered copies
• Special handbuilt custom-designed slipcase
• Ten limited-edition lithographs housed in a hardcover portfolio
• Custom, exclusive to IDW Limited cover in metallic ink
• Vellum overlay of the title page
• Brand new endpages designed to mirror the style of the slipcase and portfolio
• Stamped with the IDW Limited Red Foil Imprint
• Red satin ribbon bookmark

The curtain is raised on the biggest and best Transformers game in history! See never-before-revealed art from the genre-smashing Transformers: Fall of Cybertron! Watch as Optimus Prime, Grimlock, Bumblebee, and Shockwave grow from conceptual sketches into finished, fully-realized characters; witness the development of Cybertron into the most detailed renderings of the planet that have ever existed; learn the behind-the-scenes secrets from the visionary artists at Activision and High Moon Studios! The Art of Transformers: Fall of Cybertron is a must-have for any fan of Transformers, gaming, or great art!

by **noctorro** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 2:39 am

Very awsome I wantz, but it's a bit pricey for a non-toy.

News Credits: 9 · by **triKlops** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 9:50 am

this is pretty awesome.
might be out of my price range but an awesome buck nonetheless!

by **optimuscarlos** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 3:11 pm

I bought the normal edition and I was a little dissapointed.
The book is cool but there are few pages for bots, the book is almost only about the environment of the game.
I was expecting lots of pages full of characters.

by **Henry921** » Sun Feb 24, 2013 10:21 am

optimuscarlos wrote:I bought the normal edition and I was a little dissapointed.
The book is cool but there are few pages for bots, the book is almost only about the environment of the game.
I was expecting lots of pages full of characters.

Yeah, I was a little underwhelmed by it, and spending another $125 for the same book again with another new art book? Thanks, but no thanks.

News Credits: 440 · by **Sabrblade** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 2:31 am

Tarter sauce! :BANG_HEAD:

They just HAD to go and make a bigger, better, and far more expensive version of that book! Neptune's beard, IDW! :BANG_HEAD:

by **Bullycon** » Tue Feb 26, 2013 12:49 pm

Sabrblade wrote:Tarter sauce!

They just HAD to go and make a bigger, better, and far more expensive version of that book! Neptune's beard, IDW!

I feel ya. Not sure how much bigger and better it is. The only real addition is the ten lithographs.

Of course, being a sucker for IDW Limited, I already preordered it.

Preorder link is here: http://idwlimited.com/series/transformers/transformers-art-of-the-fall-of-cybertron-red-label.html It's actually $100, not $125.

by **natecm** » Tue Feb 26, 2013 2:16 pm

Bullycon wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Tarter sauce!

They just HAD to go and make a bigger, better, and far more expensive version of that book! Neptune's beard, IDW!

I feel ya. Not sure how much bigger and better it is. The only real addition is the ten lithographs.

Of course, being a sucker for IDW Limited, I already preordered it.

Preorder link is here: http://idwlimited.com/series/transformers/transformers-art-of-the-fall-of-cybertron-red-label.html It's actually $100, not $125.

If you're a slipcase nerd like me you're going to be happy. The case has a great look & feel. :-B

by **Nemesis Maximo** » Tue Feb 26, 2013 3:06 pm

At first I was like "damn, I should've waited for this one." Then I was like, "meh, this one doesn't have much more than a fancy cover."

Pass. Already own the unlimited one. And I gotta say, not as impressive as the Art of the Mass Effect Universe one. As was said before, not enough character pages.

News Credits: 440 · by **Sabrblade** » Tue Feb 26, 2013 8:10 pm

But the regular version was 200 pages (according to TFwiki), and this new one is 250 pages (according to Amazon). That's fifty additional pages of new stuff.

by **natecm** » Tue Feb 26, 2013 8:13 pm

Sabrblade wrote:But the regular version was 200 pages (according to TFwiki), and this new one is 250 pages (according to Amazon). That's fifty additional pages of new stuff.

This one is not listed on Amazon. Both page counts are the same. The new content is the slipcase and the lithographs, all interior pages should be equal.

News Credits: 440 · by **Sabrblade** » Thu Feb 28, 2013 10:34 am

natecm wrote:Both page counts are the same. The new content is the slipcase and the lithographs, all interior pages should be equal.

But the book itself does look thicker in the video.

And since I don't have my book on hand atm I can't check for sure, but don't those first few inside pages in the video look new compared to the regular version?

by **natecm** » Thu Feb 28, 2013 11:05 am

Sabrblade wrote:
natecm wrote:Both page counts are the same. The new content is the slipcase and the lithographs, all interior pages should be equal.
But the book itself does look thicker in the video.

And since I don't have my book on hand atm I can't check for sure, but don't those first few inside pages in the video look new compared to the regular version?

The first few pages are new, yes. We always re-do the end papers to match the style choices we make w/ the cover and slipcase. We also add a vellum overlay to the title page, in this case the target outline on Optimus which turned out awesome. Other than that, the content is the same.