Thanks to 2005 Boards member PurpleStuf for giving us the heads up that the new Transformers Legacy Wave 1 Core Class is out at US retail. Core class Iguanus, Skywarp and Hot Rod were found and bought at Sugarcreek Target in Ohio. With this sighting, all Legacy Wave 1 classes have been released at US retail. Happy hunting!

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TFW2005 friend and sponsor Ages Three and Up started their Spring Warehouse Sale! Hit the link below to get right into the action, happy hunting!   Shop on our International Site in CAD or USD to Save on hundreds of Items! Save BIG throughout the month of April during our Spring Warehouse Event! Deals online will be posted all month long. Sale Starts April 8, 2022  1:00pm Pacific Standard Time Sale Ends April 29, 2022  11:59pm Pacific Standard Time Please see our conditions below before ordering. * Payment must be made at the time of purchase » Continue Reading.

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Coming to us from the Koreannet Product & Safety website, we have what appears to be our first look at the packaging shots for the much-anticipated Legacy Commander Motormaster and Shattered Glass Voyager Blaster figures. We advise taking this as a rumor for now but if legitimate we hope to see them revealed in full at the upcoming Fan First Tuesday, so stay tuned for more! Update: Added Legacy Leader Blitzwing packaging photos as well.

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Fans Toys have shared images of two new redecos of their FT-44 Thomas / Masterpiece Astrotrain. The images show FT-44JP Thomas with colors inspired by the Takara G1 Astrotrain toy (black train and white space shuttle) and FT-44US Thomas featuring a deco based on Hasbro G1 Astrotrain toy (purple train and white and purple space shuttle). Two alternatives for fans who are looking for an Astrotrains toy deco figure for the Masterpiece scale. See all the mirrored images attached to this news post and then share your impressions on the 2005 Boards!  

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TFW2005 friend and sponsor Robot Kingdom brings you their newsletter for this week. See the highlights below and then read on for the complete listing!   ROBOTKINGDOM.COM Newsletter #1629 Airmail services to certain destinations subject to delay https://www.hongkongpost.hk/en/about_us/whats_new/notices/index_id_1171.htmlm Resumption of airmail services to India. EMS to Australia, Canada, USA limited to 2kg per order Hongkong Post  Press Releases (886) Vietnam Postal service fully resumed! UK Postal service fully resumed! South Korea Postal service fully resumed! Japan E-Express /EMS Resumed! EMS and Surface mail available for Malaysia. NO postal service » Continue Reading.

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Third Party company Fans Toys have just revealed images of the color prototype of their FT-16T Sovereign. This is a redeco of Fans Toys FT-16 Sovereign / Galvatron for the Masterpiece scale now in G1 toy color deco. This is sure a very nice alternative for your Masterpiece display. Its planned for release by the 4th Quarter of 2022. See the images after the break and then sound off on the 2005 Boards!

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Courtesy of Hasbro Toy Designer Evan Brooks, we can share for you a great Behind The Scenes gallery and development info of the popular Transformers Studio Series 86 figures. Mr. Brooks is the person who primarily works on Studio Series 86 figures and he has updated his Instagram account with images of the concept art, sketches, CAD files, prototypes and samples of Studio Series 86 Jazz, Wreck-Gar, Kup and Grimlock. To make things even more interesting, he has also shared amazing information and trivia about the creative process of each figure like the Takara Tomy designers he worked with, references, changes during the development and » Continue Reading.

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Moor Art Gallery website we have updated images and information about their Official G1 Grimlock Screenprints By Housebear.  Drawn by artist Housebear (Justin Froning), we have the following limited (very limited) posters: Regular Dino edition  65 hand-numbered 243x 183 screenprints. Holographic Foil Paper Dino Edition  35 hand-numbered 243x 183 screenprints. Archival Ink Robot Mode  65 hand-numbered 183x 243 pieces. Pre-Orders will go live this Friday 8 April at the following time zones: 6:00 pm UK, 1:00 pm EST, 10:00 am PST via Moor Art Gallery website. See all the mirrored images attached to this news post and then share your » Continue Reading.

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Hasbro Transformers Designer Mark Maher has shared concept art images of his Transformers Botbots RacerRoni (Pizza Racing Car) via his Instagram account. One of the funniest ideas of the Ruckus Rally episode from the Botbots Cartoon. Read on for Marks comments about his design: The RacerRoni concept car I designed was tricked out! Tomato slice wheels, ketchup relish mustard squirt blasters, french fry seats, anchovie missile launcher with the grilled cheese launch pad, and triple pipe turbo charge exhaust!!! Oh yeah!!! This thing is ready to grease the track and keep it smellin cheesy for a stinky win at the Ruckus Rally! Swipe » Continue Reading.

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Thanks to TV Kids Magazine we have a new promotional image for the upcoming Transformers Earthspark cartoon series, set to hit Nickelodeon and Paramount+ later this year.  In it we see Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, two human characters and two new bots.  While nothing major, it does give us a clean look at the core players for the new show.  Read on to check the pic!    

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Third party company Newage Toys have shared images of the color prototype of their H28EXR Rhodes (G1 Shining Magnus) via their Weibo and Facebook accounts. This is another redeco of H27W Conquest (Legends Scale G1 Ultra Magnus), now inspired by the Japan exclusive 20th Century Toy Museum exclusive Shining Magnus yellow redeco. But theres more than meets the eye with this redeco, since Newage have made the armor/trailer with glow-in-the-dark plastic as you can see on this video. We still have no concrete information about price or release date, but stay tuned with TFW2005 for more updates. Now click on the » Continue Reading.

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PREVIEWSworld unveils another trio of incoming comics covers, this time for Junes Last Bot Standing issue #2: B by John Allison: Just to let you know, the world has been allowed the ridiculous spectacle of me drawing a cover for a Transformers comic. I thought it was issue 3, apparently its issue 2, when Im allowed to show you, Ill reveal all. I dont think Ive ever tried harder at a drawing. C by SidVenBlu D by Jim Stafford: Seriously, I couldnt be in better company with this cover. Join in the discussion with fellow readers on » Continue Reading.

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TFW2005 friend and sponsor Big Bad Toy Store brings you their latest newsletter. See the highlights below and then read on for the complete listing!   New Pre-Orders & New Arrivals  

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Via Chinese platform Bilibili we have our first images of the color prototype of the new Transformers Prime Airachnid made by third party company APC Toys. This figure is a new mold which features a very cartoon-accurate robot mode with a solid alt mode. A very great improvement over the original Deluxe Airachnid figure for sure. To top it all, the figure seems to be able to transform into Airachnids spider mode as seen in the Transformers Prime cartoon. We are sure Transformers Prime fans should be really pleased with the images we are sharing today. Theres still no concrete information » Continue Reading.

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We are saddened to report that veteran G1 voice actor Stephen Keener has passed away, as confirmed by TFCon Facebook. Mr. Keener role in the Transformers franchise was for the last seasons of the G1 cartoon, being the voice of Fortress Maximus, Scorponok, Hardhead, Hun-Grrr, Mindwipe and Scattershot. Mr. Keener passed away in peace last Wednesday, but his roles will always be remembered by the fandom. We offer our heartfelt condolences to his family and friends.

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Artist Robby Musso have updated his Facebook account with images of more Transformers Botbots Concept Art. We have some images of the early idea of some Series 4 Botbots like Skitter Chatter (wind-up chattering teeth), Goggly Spy P.I. (binoculars), Crumbly Yumbly (chocolate chip cookie), Data Dump (desktop computer), The Cobbler (corn), Burrito Favorito (burrito), King Cheats (playing cards), Incog Eggo (easter egg), Lunchador (tamale) and as an extra bonus Space Case (toy rocket) from the cancelled Series 6 See all the images attached to this news post and then share your impressions on the 2005 Boards!

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Sandwiched between a Trading Card Game and a Deck Building Game, at one point in this episode Vangelus describes a toy to TJ and Aaron as being a Bladed Butterfly Made of Knives, so you just know youre in for a good time with this episode of WTF@TFW. You can download and comment on it here: WTF @ TFW  612  December 30 2021 Check out the WTF@TFW blog here. If you use iTunes and regularly subscribe to podcasts, you can add us to your player and have the software download each episode automatically » Continue Reading.

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Robosen, the company behind the incredible Auto-Converting Optimus Prime figure, have uploaded a Facebook video showing a mysterious teaser video about an upcoming new collaboration with Transformers. This is a short video featuring Robosen Optimus Prime in a dark scenery, then we can see the lights and shadows of three cars coming at Optimus. What could this be? Your guess is as good as ours. The only concrete information is that the official reveal will be this upcoming April 12 which is the same date of the recently announced Habros Fan First Tuesday.   Watch the video after the jump » Continue Reading.

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Via Transformers Addicts Facebook group we have our first US sighting of the new Jada Toys G1 Transformers Die-Cast Nanofigs Multi-Pack. We learned about this product back in February, and we finally have a look at this pack of 18 die-cast G1 figurines, each of 4 cm tall. The pack includes: Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Cliffjumper, Sunstreaker, Prowl, Jazz, Arcee, Sideswipe, Ironhide, Wheeljack, Hot Rod, Ultra Magnus, Megatron, Soundwave, Shockwave, Starscream, Thundercracker and Skywarp. It was spotted at a Walmart in Texarkana, Arkansas and priced $12.00. See the images of this box after the break and then let us know your impressions on » Continue Reading.

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Takara Tomy Mall website have just updated their pre-orders for September 2022. This time they only have one single release for the Transformers Legacy line: Legacy TL-06 Laser Optimus Prime Its good to notice that he will be a regular retail release and not a Takara Tomy Mall exclusive. Click on the bar to see the mirrored stock images and then let us know your impressions on the 2005 Boards!

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