As promised The Hasbro Pulse Con 2023 behind the scenes report for Prime Universe Thundertron from Mark Maher @markclonus is here.This Voyager class figure is another from the Prime TV series with a totally new mold. This guy is clearly ready to lead a band of swash bucking robots. He's got the look, with details on the behind the scenes in the making of Thundertron in the full report with images that follow. - Read the Full News Story

Added to the Sunbow Marvel Archive this month is a plethora of G1 cartoon material, with storyboards from the following:

Unproduced pilot miniseries/Season 1 intro sequence

• More Than Meets The Eye, Part 2
• More Than Meets The Eye, Part 3
• Transport To Oblivion
• Roll For It
• The Ultimate Doom, Part 3
• Countdown To Extinction
• Unproduced Season 2 intro sequence
• Unproduced commercial bumper
• Autobot Spike
• The Immobilizer

Additionally, a quartet of story premises, written by storyboard artist Wendell Washer during early Season 2, have also become available.  Along with the early version of the 1985 New Product briefing he was given for reference.  Three of the unused stories focus on Omega Supreme (then under the working name of Fortress Maximus), and a fourth focusing on Seaspray.

All of these can be viewed at https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.com/p/mp-700-transformers-part-1-1984-1985.html

Below is an animatic, edited by me, of the unproduced season 2 intro sequence:

Many readers may be wondering why they are hearing about Toy Fair in September when it used to be in February. The decades old event has moved from frozen Valentine's Day, to now. With Hasbro Pulse Con 2023 just going down, there was very little on show this year. The only things new were the previously reported EarthSpark Cyber-Combiners & Cyber-Sleeve Battle Blaster toys. - Read the Full News Story

I have been wanting to share these concept designs made for a Transformers Animated Powermaster Optimus Prime for such a long time. This was to be an upgrade made for the character with elements on Fire Truck mode that appeared in the TV show, and the Wingblade Optimus Prime that was eventually released by Takara Tomy in 2010. - Read the Full News Story

Super7 has another trick up their sleeve with the "TRUCK-or-treat" teaser posted on their SNS. The package art shows an Optimus Prime Halloween edition coming soon. The non-transforming figure is almost surely going to be a ReAction figure. - Read the Full News Story

No parking means NO parking! No one knows that better than Tow-Line and this is the Transformers Buzzworthy Bumblebee Legacy Evolution Robots in Disguise 2000 (I always thought it was 2001) version of this guy! What a mouthful that was!

To top things off from the possible new Takara TOMY reveals coming on October 6, 2023, we have two more additions to the Studio Series Japan series. Coming soon are the SS-121 Terrorcon Novakane Core class and SS-122 Beast Awakening (Rise Of The Beasts) Optimus Prime Voyager (102BB mold) figures. The news of the SS-122 should be somewhat of a relief for fans looking to get the 102BB figure mold. - Read the Full News Story