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News Credits: 409 · Sun Jan 11, 2009 4:33 am

A new visual art book called Transformers Generations 2009 vol. 1 will be released in Japan, Feb 16th for 2100 yen. More information about the contents of the book will be revealed soon. The advertisement hints that the book will also contain exclusive ordering information for a limited Transformers figure.

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News Credits: 7 · Sun Jan 11, 2009 8:24 am

I'm definitely interested, specially because of the limited figure. Hopefully the instructions have an english translation.

News Credits: 2 · Sun Jan 11, 2009 10:28 am

I already have a Japanese book called Transformers Generations. It basically gives photos of every Transformer toy from G1, including the Japanese lines such as Zone and Battlestars.

It also contained tonnes of artwork, comics and cartoon episode guides, and pictures of unused toy prototypes and concept artwork, like Headmaster Arcee (a pink Chromedome repaint/remould).

Hopefully this will be a completely revised edition, perhaps even containing more recent toylines.

The fact that this is listed as 'Volume 1' looks very encouraging!

News Credits: 2 · Sun Jan 11, 2009 10:40 am

Further to my reply above, some further information on the original book.

It, too, had a competition to win a exclusive figure - in this case, a Lucky Draw vacuum-metallised gold G1 Rodumus Prime.

I have my copy to hand, and although I don't read Japanese, there seems to be a token printed on the inside of the dustjacket.

I guess to enter the competition, you need to buy a copy of the book, cut the token out of the dustjacket, and mail it to Japan.

I assume the new edition will have a similar scheme.

News Credits: 8 · Sun Jan 11, 2009 12:41 pm

I have a feeling that the speacial toy dealio will be like the Green G1 Ratchet that you could get via the coupon in Transformers Visual Works, i.e. Not able to be ordered from outside Japan and sold for ludicrous money on websites.

I will, likely, however be getting the book. I just love art/photo books.
I still want the original Transfomers Generations book...is it still available anywhere?

News Credits: 2 · Sun Jan 11, 2009 1:04 pm

Sadly, it seems that both the original Transformers Generations and the later updated edition, Transformers Generations Deluxe, are both out of print.

They occasionally turn up on ebay, that's where I got my copy from. Unfortunately, there's also a line of comics called Transformers Generations, so when you do a search on ebay you always get hundreds of hits to sift through!

News Credits: 8 · Sun Jan 11, 2009 2:34 pm

starfish wrote:They occasionally turn up on ebay, that's where I got my copy from. Unfortunately, there's also a line of comics called Transformers Generations, so when you do a search on ebay you always get hundreds of hits to sift through!

To my absolute dismay, I noticed that...