Date: Saturday, December 17th 2005 8:19am CST
Category: Toy News
Posted by: Alex Kingdom |
Credit(s): Entertainment Earth
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Entertainment Earth have put up the Transformers Cybertron Deluxe Wave 5 assortment for pre-order. This assortment includes:
8 individually packaged Transformers: 1x Downshift (green car), 1x Cybertron Defense Hot Shot (armored blue vehicle), 1x Snarl (Wolf), 1x Sideways (Space Ship), 1x Buzzsaw (helicopter), 1x Runamuck (black car), 1x Longrack (construction vehicle), 1x Blurr (blue car). (Subject to change.)
They hae also posted the bios for the two new figures in this assortment, Cybertron Defence Hot Shot and Downshift:
Hot Shot
HOT SHOT isn’t psyched to give up his modified racer mode and the speed that went with it, but in the service of CYBERTRON, any sacrifice is worthwhile to him. His adventures on the Speed Planet taught him that speed isn’t everything – true victory can only be won through a combination of wits, reflexes, and, when it comes down to it, the right weaponry. His new, heavily armed modes pack enough firepower to keep most enemies at bay, but if they get close enough, HOT SHOT is more than happy to show them the sword fighting techniques he learned from BRAKEDOWN back on the Speed Planet.
Downshift
A few years of experience in the Energon Wars have gone a long way in DOWNSHIFT. Once an impulsive speedster, he has learned patience and consideration from his mentor HOT SHOT. Where he once would have raced straight into battle against even overwhelming odds, relying on his speed to get him out of tight spots, he has now learned to observe and enter a fight cautiously. His keen eye and quick reflexes allow him to exploit even the smallest opportunity to bring down DECEPTICONS much bigger and stronger than him.
See the full listing for Transformers Cybertron Deluxe Wave 5
here at Entertainment Earth.
Date: Wednesday, December 14th 2005 6:11pm CST
Category: Toy News
Posted by: Darth Bombshell |
Credit(s): StarWars.com
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The Official Star Wars Site has put up an article about the recently announced Wave 2 Star Wars Transformers. The article gives some background infomation about these releases, combining both Star Wars and Transformers lore, naming Dath Maul as a Predacon!
Click
here to read it.
Date: Wednesday, December 14th 2005 10:55am CST
Category: Toy News
Posted by: Alex Kingdom |
Credit(s): eBay, Action-HQ
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Views: 22,051
Takara's reissue G1 Galvatron in Anime Accurate colours has now hit the stores in Japan.
Galvatron is now (or will soon be) in-stock and at many on-line import stores and multiple auctions for this figure are appearing on eBay. Act now to avoid disappointment!
Date: Saturday, December 10th 2005 5:35am CST
Category: Toy News
Posted by: Raymond T. |
Credit(s): www.iparentingmediaawards.com
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Views: 22,381
Hasbro and their action figure of
Transformers Cybertron Starscream has won a
iParenting Media "Hot" Award for the year 2005 in the
Toys and Games Catagory.
iParenting Media is a media company focused on parents. The company uses several media channels to reach its target market of parents, parents-to-be and women: online, print and radio.
iParenting Media Awards program has attained ISO 9001:2000 Certification. ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is the world’s largest developer of standardization regulations and ISO 9001:2000 is an internationally recognized standard for quality assurance. Only a fraction of the companies that attempt ISO certification succeed. The iParenting Media Awards program is the only product evaluation service with an awards program of its kind to earn this prestigious status.
Date: Saturday, December 10th 2005 4:12am CST
Category: Toy News
Posted by: Alex Kingdom |
Credit(s): UltraPrimal
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Views: 19,626
UltraPrimal of the
Energon Pub tells us Toys 'R' Us Canada are running a 30% off sale on Transformers all this week. This Includes all brands, except those that have been reduced or on clearance.
Date: Friday, December 9th 2005 3:24pm CST
Category: Toy News
Posted by: Alex Kingdom |
Credit(s): BigBadToyStore.com
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Views: 27,933
Hi, Here is a quick update from
http://www.bigbadtoystore.com about a variety of new arrivals and a new Holiday Sale!
HOLIDAY SALE! 25 Items have just been added to our sale menu including a variety of Star Wars & Transformer figures! This sale will run for around a week so be sure to check out the list. We've also added and removed a few more product lines to the sale menu, be sure to check out the entire list for great discounts on a variety of items.
http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/content.aspx?content=10
NEW ARRIVALS:
NARNIA - THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE: We are heading out to see this fantastic looking movie tonight and the toys have arrived just in time! We now have the lineup of wave 1 figures including a variety of different versions of Aslan, Edmond, Peter, Oreius, Otmin, Armies, Boxed Sets, Battle Packs, basic, deluxe, giftsets & More!
http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/menu.aspx?menu=576
CINEMAQUETTES T-850 & TERMINATRIX: Great holiday value on the Terminatrix figure! If you buy the Terminatrix at our normal price of $999.99, we'll give you at $200 BBTS Gift Card for free! This $200 credit can be used on any other items we sell. The T-850 'Arnold' Terminator has also just arrived, this awesome piece uses real human hair on its fleshy head and is in stock now for $1199.99
http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/menu.aspx?menu=557&category=1640
TRANSFORMERS CYBERTRON: The new Leader sized Galvatron has arrived and we have just a few pieces left. The new wave 1 Mini-Cons have also just arrived! Wave 2 should be here in under 2 weeks and each is available for $5.49.
TRANSFORMERS CARDBOARD CUTOUTS: The 6' Optimus and Megatron Cardboard Cutouts have just arrived, these stand-ups arrived to us in great shape and the cardboard used is quite thick so your cutout won't be flopping around and warped. Each is priced at $49.99 and made by a company in the UK.
http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/menu.aspx?menu=586
STAR WARS MODEL KITS: The 1/7 Anakin model kit from Kotobukiya has just arrived and is available for $84.99. This is a dark kit that captures the likeness of Anakin right before he becomes Darth Vader at the end of EpIII. A few new kits from Ertl have just been listed at $9.99 each, including the Corporate Allegiance Droid and Jedi Starfighter Mid Sized Kits.
http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/menu.aspx?menu=325
VINTAGE DEPARTMENT: The vintage department has been working on a variety of GI Joe, Macross, and Japanese G1 Transformers and many other items for the past few days. Check out their recent listings here:
http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/productlist.aspx?browse=1&mode=vintage&list=recent
GI JOE ARAH 3: Our last shipment sold out almost immediately so we've opened a backorder for the Wave 3 set of 6 and both of the wave 3 comic 3-packs. Our next shipment should arrive towards the end of December, get your backorders in now and we'll let you know when they arrive.
http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/menu.aspx?menu=582&category=1638
GUNDAM SUPER DEFORMED: A new assortment of Super Deformed Kits has recently arrived from Japan, we've restocked a variety of kits in the #190 to #210 number range, and we have about 13 new kits in stock ranging from #239 to #285
http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/menu.aspx?menu=444&company=0&category=1113
BLUE BOX 1:18 - The 'Jolly Rogers' F-18 Hornet is now in stock for $79.99, this big and beautiful plane comes with a detailed pilot and an awesome black and yellow paint job. Blue Box continues to impress with these ultra-realistic jets at reasonable prices.
http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=BBX10107&mode=retail
PRE-ORDER GX-04S GRENDIZER: Bandai Japan will be coming through for us with a new production run of Grendizers, we've opened a preorder for this highly sought after item at $189.99, it comes with the All Speizer set and everything is high quality die-cast or high end plastic.
http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=BAN10735&mode=retail
YAMATO USA ITEMS:
--SAMURAI CHAMPLOO: Set of 3 figures is available for $32.99 - this set features 3 figures that interlock to create a diorama as well as 3 mini-bust style extras.
http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=YAM10102&mode=retail
--GENSHUKIN FIGURE COLLECTION - GARGOYLE: This box of 10 figures contains a variety of mini-vinyl figures about half women and half men in a variety of poses and outfits.
http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=YAM10101&mode=retail
--MEGAMAN X FIGURE COLLECTION: This set of six is part of the Capcom Figure Collection and features versions of Megaman and his enemies - set of 6 is priced at $31.99
http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=CAP10000&mode=retail
Thanks for your interest in
www.bigbadtoystore.com and be sure to check out some of the new items above.
Thanks!
Joel & The BBTS Crew
www.bigbadtoystore.com
Date: Friday, December 9th 2005 12:55pm CST
Category: Toy News
Posted by: Jelze Bunnycat |
Credit(s): First 4 Figures.com
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First 4 Figures has sent us a Press Release dealing with the Super-Deformed Ultra Magnus statue:
First 4 Figures is proud to be presenting the SD Ultra Magnus Statue, based off the “SD Transformers Statue contest†winning entry from XuWei aka Iron Bird. The contest was held over the summer by TFW2005.com with the winners decided on by a poll on the F4F website. All entries to the contest can be seen here:
http://www.tfw2005.com/gallery/Hosted-Galleries-SD-Transformers-Statue-Contest
As a result, we are turning XuWei’s SD Ultra Magnus into a 5 inch statue, slated to be released in Q1 2006. We are excited to announce that we have partnered with both Action Figure Express and Gear 4 Games for the US and UK respectively to distribute the statues. Each will have 500 pieces in their territories. Total run is strictly limited to 1,000 worldwide. They are currently taking pre-orders at the moment.
Action Figure Express @ $24.99:
http://shopafx.com/trstexsudeul.html
Forbidden Planet International (Retail partner of Gear 4 Games) @ £12.99
http://www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=10614
In addition to this, we will be releasing a F4F highly exclusive version of 100 pieces of Ultra Magnus in the colors of the original Powered Convoy from the Diaclone line. Be sure to place your order quickly as low numbers come on a first come first serve basis. This will be up for pre-orders on the 14th Dec, 2005.
Digital Print:
We also will be releasing a digital print of the Top 10 entrants of the “SD Transformers Statue contestâ€. This will go up for pre-order for on the 14th t Dec, 2005 too.
Thanks to the TFW2005 staff, particularly Joe Moore, for organizing the contest.
Visit the First 4 Figures' official website,
http://www.first4figures.com for more information.
Read the original Press Release
here.
Date: Wednesday, December 7th 2005 9:42am CST
Category: Toy News
Posted by: Jelze Bunnycat |
Credit(s): BigBadToyStore.com
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Views: 23,341
BigBadToyStore has released a smal newsletter with two new products: Galaxy Force Soundblaster and a restock of Reissue Soundblaster. In addition,
Cybertron Galvatron has now been listed in stock. Here's the newsletter:
PREORDER TAKARA GALAXY FORCE SOUNDBLASTER: We've just uploaded a picture of this highly anticipated exclusive. Preorders are available for $64.99 and this is a fairly limited edition release. The GX-02 Soundwave was extremely popular and we expect this one to be as well.
http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=TAK10490&mode=retail
REISSUE SOUNDBLASTER: One of our secondary overseas suppliers was able to find a small number of Soundblasters at aftermarket pricing in Japan. We now have them back in stock at $104.99, which is a bit spendy, but much better than not stocking them at all. I would expect this figure to further appreciate as they become more and more scarce, as Soundwave did.
http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=TAK10285&mode=retail
Date: Tuesday, December 6th 2005 11:18pm CST
Category: Toy News
Posted by: Alex Kingdom |
Credit(s): HasbroToy Shop, TFW2005
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Views: 18,691
The long listed but up untill now out of stock Generation 1 reissue Astrotrain is now in stock at
HasbroToyShop.com, you can order your Astrotrain
here!
Hurry! This toy is exclusive to HasbroToyShop.com and is likely to sell out quick!