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Super7 finally lists the movie figures Target has been selling for a week, and adds an Amazon Megatron nobody had seen

Four Transformers: The Movie 40th anniversary product pages went up on super7.com this morning. Three are the Target exclusives already on pegs; the fourth is a metallic Megatron for Amazon, in stock at $25.00.

The first people to see Optimus Prime: Awakening came out talking about the music

Hasbro, Collider and Fathom screened the 12 minute short in California a week before its public premiere. Two of the people who were there have described Bobby Krlic's score, there was a Q and A with the director, and everyone went home with a Studio Series Deluxe.

The Hot Wheels Bumblebee Opens September 17 at $65, With Volkswagen's Name on the Box

Mattel Creations has listed the third 1:64 Hot Wheels Transformers at $65.00, limit three, launching September 17 at 9:00 am PT. It is the first of the run built on a real production car.

Thirty-five seconds of Awakening are out, and the last shot is a Bumblebee with red eyes

The official Transformers channel put the first footage from Optimus Prime: Awakening online this morning, a week before the short opens in front of the 40th anniversary screenings. Soundwave ambushes Prime on broken grey rock, Prime calls Bumblebee to safety, and then the camera

Funko's Transformers: The Movie Pops Are Live, and Funko Is the One Shop That Cannot Sell Them Yet

Five Retro Toys Pops for the 1986 film opened for pre-order at $14.99 each, numbered 178 to 182, while Funko's own store still reads Coming Soon.

Super7's Transformers: The Movie blind boxes are on sale, and both mystery figures are already identified

Wave 06 went live on Super7's own store today at fifteen dollars a box, with the odds for all six figures printed on the packaging and two of them left as black silhouettes. A collector who bought a case at Target had already opened his.

Frank Welker has made Peter Cullen the front page of his own website

Welker's own homepage now lives at a second address. Type frankwelker.com and you land on Peter's Page, a thousand words and ten photographs about the friend he spent forty-two years pretending to destroy.

Super7's Labor Day sale has 311 products in it and the Transformers half is two t-shirts

Super7 lists 130 Transformers products, 108 of them figures, and exactly two are in stock. Both are tees. BigBadToyStore has the ULTIMATES line at up to 55 percent off, which is the better Transformers deal today.

Two Transformers: The Movie fortieth Optimus Primes are on sale at Target, and Hasbro made neither

A light up Optimus Prime popcorn bucket built by CultureFly at $24.99 and a thirty inch Big-Figs Optimus at $34.99 are both buyable at Target right now. Both boxes carry the official 40 Years badge, eleven days before the film returns to cinemas.

Super7's VHS boxed Transformers are on Target pegs in two decos Super7 does not sell

A grey Fallen Leader Optimus Prime at thirty dollars and a translucent purple Reformatting Megatron have been photographed on Target pegs in the DX Deluxe VHS box. Super7's own store lists neither, and both decos read out of stock in its ULTIMATES line.

Skybound's first Energon Universe manga covers land in December, and they are printed in black and white

Satoshi Shiki and Manabu Yashiro have drawn 1:50 incentive covers for four December Energon Universe issues, and Skybound is running them in screentone.

Dan Gilvezan has published the Peter Cullen interview he sat on for nine years

Bumblebee interviewed Optimus Prime over drinks in 2017 and never ran it. Gilvezan put the whole nine page conversation online on Monday, free to read.

Icons Megatron pre-orders are live at $46.99, and Fall 2026 has quietly become December

Hasbro's Decepticon symbol figure went up for pre-order on September 1 at $46.99 with a December 2026 ship estimate, filling in the two blanks the July reveal left.

The 40th Anniversary 4K steelbook is real, it is dated November 17, and disc two has something new on it

Shout! Factory has the 4K steelbook of The Transformers: The Movie up for pre-order at $39.99 ahead of a November 17 release, with Atmos and a 2026 coda.

The new short has a name, it runs 12 minutes, and it is Peter Cullen's last Optimus Prime

Hasbro and Fathom have finally said what the all new chapter attached to the 40th anniversary screenings actually is. Optimus Prime: Awakening is a 12 minute CG animated short, it is Peter Cullen's final original performance as Prime, and Frank Welker is back as both Megatron and

Upper Deck's Transformers 40th cards go to Target in September, and the chase is a Peter Cullen autograph

Upper Deck's first Hasbro product is a Transformers: The Movie 40th set, exclusive to Target, with the hanger box already listed at $19.99 for twelve cards.

Flame Toys caps Shattered Glass Ultra Magnus at 1,000 pieces, and preorders are open at $499.99

Kuro Kara Kuri's mirror-universe Ultra Magnus is up at BigBadToyStore for $499.99, limited to 1,000 worldwide, with a January 2027 ship date.

Peter Cullen, the voice of Optimus Prime, has died at 85

Cullen died at home on Wednesday. Optimus Prime, Eeyore and the Predator were all the same man, across a career of more than sixty years.

Tim Curry, the voice of Doctor Morocco in Rescue Bots, has died at 80

Curry died at home on Wednesday. His only Transformers role lasted a single season of Rescue Bots, cut short by the 2012 stroke, and it is still the best villain that show ever had.

Transformers' first made-to-order set closes tonight, and it does not ship until October 2027

Hasbro Pulse takes orders on the Studio Series G1 Seeker Storm Pack until late tonight. Four Voyager Seekers, $149.99, and a ship date of October 2027.

The full 40th anniversary Celebration of Life concert is online, all one hour and fifty three minutes

The official Transformers channel posted the complete San Diego Comic-Con concert on August 21. Three sets, a chaptered setlist, and Sebastian Bach closing the night out.

The man who named most of the Transformers is going to TFcon Orlando

Bob Budiansky, who wrote most of the Marvel Transformers comic and named much of the original cast, is confirmed for TFcon Orlando this October.

Hasbro's Transformers brand manager breaks silence on the MTMTE Starscream cancellations

Eleven days after Target began cancelling pre-orders, Hasbro brand manager Nate Purswell says the Starscream, Prowl and Insecticons rollout is a top priority and that the team is actively working to fix it. He does not say how, or when.

McFarlane's 23 inch Optimus Prime head replica reaches retail, and BigBadToyStore already has it in stock

The oversized G1 Optimus Prime head McFarlane showed at San Diego Comic-Con has a $149.99 price, an August 29 release date and, as of today, a live in stock listing at BigBadToyStore.

Hasbro reissues the 2018 SDCC Throne of the Primes Optimal Optimus as a wide fan channel release

The Power of the Primes Throne of the Primes set, a San Diego Comic-Con exclusive in 2018, is back with no advance notice and listed at $99.99 for September.

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