Date: Saturday, February 10th 2007 6:36pm CST
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Hey guys I just got off the phone with Ryan and he's been telling me about all the cool stuff they got to see. Stay tuned to SEIBERTRON.com tonight and the rest of the weekend because were going to be putting up some pretty cool galleries of the different things they got to see at Toy Fair 2007.
Apparantly Hasbro had their own building to display all of their new stuff like Star Wars, G.I. Joe, Marvel and of course Transformers! All of the sections had free photography EXCEPT the Transformers area. In fact there was a separate toy room devoted to the Movie Toys. But the Movie Toys were under tight watch and Ryan wasn’t able to take any pictures of them, but we’ve already seen them. The only stuff Ryan was able to photograph was the stuff that was in Hasbro's press release things like: Ultimate Bumbleebee, Leader Class Optimus Prime and the Optimus Prime Voice Changer. And there might even be a few video's for us to take a look at, maybe even a vid of Ultimate Bumblebee in action! But we'll have to wait and see.
Ryan also plans on doing a special photo gallery for the Time Square Toys "R" Us building, the one that’s 4 stories tall? Yeah ... the place is massive! He is going to have many pictures of that and the Transformers section which he said blew him away.
So stay tuned to SEIBERTRON.com for all the Toy Fair coverage! But for now you can also take a look at some of the news already psoted about Toy Fair 2007.
Official Press Release from Hasbro's Press Kit
Toy Fair 2007 Officially Reveals New Transformers Products
Date: Wednesday, February 7th 2007 9:34pm CST
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This weekend SEIBERTRON.com is officially heading to the city so nice they named it twice to attend Toy Fair 2007. Make sure you stop by to view galleries of the upcoming Transformers, Star Wars, G.I.Joe and Marvel product lines this weekend plus a few favorites for the girls like My Little Pony and Barbie. We'll even have some news about the upcoming Transformers Movie video game not to mention a special surprise that's happening next week in New York City that we should hopefully have a report about late at night next Tuesday. If you like Transformers ... it's happening in New York City this upcoming weekend. Stay tuned to SEIBERTRON.com for information and images that's truly "more than meets the eye."
Date: Sunday, January 28th 2007 1:44pm CST
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This week Darth Bombshell has decided share another of his articles with us. Last week Darth Bombshell shared his thoughts on Dreamwave's Generation One More Than Meets The Eye Profile Series. In this weeks article Darth Bombshell shares his thoughts on Dreamwave's Armada More Than Meets The Eye Profile Series. If you missed last week's article check out
Seibertron.com's Article Section. Without further delay here it is the latest article by Darth Bombshell:
Armada MTMTE Overview
Throughout 2003, Dreamwave released the eight issue “More Than Meets The Eye” series. Despite the numerous problems that the series had, it was well received. It was perhaps this response that encouraged the staff at Dreamwave to create a sequel of sorts by writing a series based on the other Transformer franchise that the company was writing at the time: Transformers Armada.
Because of the vastly different scope of the series, changes had to be made in the way it was presented. Instead of eight issues, Armada MTMTE would instead be done in three, no doubt due to the fact that Armada has less than a third of the characters that the Generation One series had to cover. Instead of drawing on previous writings, the biographies and tech spec quotes for most of the characters had to be invented by the writers, since only a select few had officially written bios. And since this series was drawing on both a completed comic and cartoon series, the creators had to attempt to cover elements of both series, while maintaining the fact that they have to try to arrange it all in the comic universe.
All of these changes were perhaps made to make the series more understandable, since the information presented would be fresh in the fans’ minds. Unfortunately, this probably lead to it being as convoluted and confusing as its predecessor.
The first and most obvious problem that the series has was the previously stated attempt by the writers to somehow manage to take elements from both the comic and cartoon and find a way to make them both work. Three bios in this series show how disastrous that attempts was: Galvatron, Nemesis Prime and Sideways. Galvatron, with the exception of the toy comics, was never a part of the regular comic to begin with, was somehow given a life as part of the regular comics, although the conditions and time that this occurred are purposely left vague, no doubt meant to cover up the fact that they have no actual way to describe it. The biography for Galvatron, narrated by Leader-1, gives a very interesting insight to the character. It is just a shame that it is not really part of the comic universe.
Like Galvatron, Nemesis Prime also falls into the category as a toy character needing to have an comics origin. Unlike Galvatron, who was given a believable, yet implausible, comics life, the writers of the comic saw fit to merely rehash the plot of the Armada episode “Puppet”, trying to incorporate the events that occurred in the episode to the comic timeline. This doesn’t work for two reasons: there was no way that this event could have occurred in the comic, and they made the mistake of incorporating Run-Over, the Mini-Con partner who came with the Nemesis Prime toy that never appeared in the episode in question, into the character’s history. By all rights, Nemesis Prime should not be in the comic at all. Much like Galvatron, the only reason for his inclusion in this series was because he was a toy character who needed to be explained.
Sideways, however, falls into a different path. Unlike Galvatron and Nemesis Prime, Sideways actually was in the comic. Yes, it was in two very brief appearances, but he was there. I expected that his biography would state that he was a mercenary playing both sides of the Transformer war. And I was right. That is how he was presented However, they made the big mistake of including elements of the cartoon into his bio, and said that he was a servant of Unicron. This makes no sense as far as the comic goes, since his first appearance was a good four issues before Unicron’s presence was ever confirmed, and his second was during Unicron’s ill-fated attack on Cybertron cowering with a bunch of Decepticons. This especially makes no sense, because if he was truly Unicron’s herald, would he not be rampaging around causing chaos?
The writing, as previously stated, had to draw heavily on the imaginations of the writers of the series since, with a few exceptions, there were few “official” biographies made for the Armada characters during its run. This lead to a great many of the characters having fairly unsuited character biographies and tech spec quotes that sound incredibly horrendous. I do believe that a great many of these will be making an appearance on the Trannies “Worst Tech Spec Quotes” ballot next year.
The artwork in the series, like in the Generation One MTMTE, is another round of “one good for every five bad” deal. Ironically, much of the good art in this series has made appearances on the toy boxes or promotional art made during the run of the toyline, also drawn by the various artists in this series. A good deal of this art takes up much of the space in the books, making me wonder why the artists were lazy enough to include this art. Couldn’t they do new artwork for this series? Isn’t it what it was meant to do?
Another problem this series has in its artwork is the fact that the Mini-Con teams that were repainted during the toyline each had two pages of artwork devoted to them, one for the color in which they were first released and their “powerlinx” recolors. I found this to be an incredible waste of page space, with the only acceptable color changes coming from the Road Assault (Race) Team and the Star (Dark) Saber sword, since the bios for these weapons state that the characters would change color depending on how long they were held by an enemy.
Finally, much like the Generation One MTMTE, the Armada MTMTE had a prologue and epilogue story designed to explain they reason why this information is being presented. Unlike the story in G1 MTMTE, the Armada one is meant to be part of the actual timeline. The prologue explains that a machine by someone that Alexis has possession of and is using to be prepared for the return of the Transformers. The epilogue explains that the device was left by Over-Run, who wants to prepare Alexis for the return of the Transformers. This would appear to make Alexis the focus of the Energon story, a fact we know to be false, as it is Kicker whose fate is ultimately linked to the Energon story…at least in the cartoon, anyway.
The Armada MTMTE was written shortly after the end of the series, with Energon firmly in the minds of the people behind the Transformers. This fact, combined with the haphazard way that the series was written and the apparent poor production values, have lead many to look down upon this series. It could have been better, though, had it been written later. But as it is, it exists merely as a way for Dreamwave to earn an dollar by any means.
After all, it’s what they’re known for.
Date: Sunday, February 12th 2006 4:06am CST
Category: Site News
Posted by: Alex Kingdom |
Credit(s): GetterDragun, TFW2005, TFormers, Allspark
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ToyFair is here, and as
promised Transformers have hit in a big way!
Showcases so far have been new figures from Transformers Titanium, Cybertron, Alternators, Beast Wars 10th Anniversary, Star Wars Transformers and Attacktix. Including Cybertron Primus and Unicron, Deluxe Cybertron Prime (Deluxe Armada Prime repaint), Titanium Megatron, Titanium War Within Optimus Prime, Alternators Mirage and Prime, Beast Wars 10th Anniversary Optimus Primal, SWTF Millennum Falcon, Attacktix Energon Omega Supreme, and more!
Take a look at the following Toyfair galleries:
TFW2005:
TFW2005 Toyfair Galleries Index
TFW2005 Toyfair Coverage
TFormers Galleries:
Beast Wars 10th Anniversary Optimus Primal and Megatron
Transformers Cybertron
Transformers Titanium Prime and Megatron
Alternators Mirage and Prime
Transformers Attacktix
Star Wars Transformers
Allspark:
ToyFair Gallery Index
Allspark ToyFair Thread (Containing many images from the event)
Toy News International
Hasbro ToyFair Galleries
Thanks go to
Lawson Allen and
Scaleface for reporting this to the New Crew.
Date: Friday, February 3rd 2006 1:09am CST
Category: Site News
Posted by: Alex Kingdom |
Credit(s): Yahoo
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Hasbro, Inc. have announced they will webcast its management presentation from Toy Fair via the internet on Friday, February 10, 2006 at 8am EST. The webcast will be available for investors and the media to view on Hasbro's Investor Relations home page, at
www.hasbro.com. Click on the "Corporate Information" link at the bottom of the page and then on "Investors," and finally on the the webcast microphone. See the original news report
here at Yahoo Finance.
Date: Sunday, January 29th 2006 6:56am CST
Category: Site News
Posted by: Calenatarion |
Credit(s): BigBot and TF Auctions
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SEIBERTRON.com member BigBot has found an update over at
TF Auctions concerning the UK Toyfair.
Over at the Toyfair Hasbro UK answered some questions about future Transformers releases, distribution and other things.
Click
here to see the questions and answers!
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