San Diego Comic-Con Hasbro Booth Autograph Schedule

For those who are going to San Diego Comic-Con later this week, Hasbro will be having 3 autograph sessions at their booth (#3212) in the exhibitor hall. Marvel legend Stan Lee, wrestling icon and GI Joe character Sgt. Slaughter, and writer & Transformers: Exodus author Alex Irvine will each be signing at the Hasbro booth at this year’s Comic-Con. And Anyone who gets Alex Irvine autograph tickets also gets a signed copy of Transformers: Exodus. Click through for the schedule. (…more)

Botcon 2011

Congratulations to any west-coasters. At tonight’s Hall of Fame dinner it was revealed that the 2011 BotCon convention will be taking place in Pasadena, California. The official dates are June 2nd through 5th, 2011.

And the winning Hall of Fame character is…

Dinobot!

Thanks to  Super_Megatron and gen1fan of the 2005 Boards for the news.

Information and Spoilers for Transformers 3

Slashfilm.com has an article revealing some details about the upcoming Transformers 3, including the identity of the main villain. Spoilers abound, so if you don’t want to know, don’t read on! (…more)

War for Cybertron: Interview with Matt Tieger

UGDB.com have posted an interview with Matt Tieger, the Game Director at High Moon Studios, about the upcoming “Transformers: War for Cybertron” video game.

Transformers: War for Cybertron. A game that is not based on the movies, depicting the beginning of the infamous war between the Autobots and the Decepticons, set on the Transformers’ homeworld, Cybertron. The Transformers fans should be hyped as hell, but still there are so many questions that we want to be answered. So, we have Matt Tieger, the Game Director at High Moon Studios to give us what we want.

The game is due for release in June 2010.

Transformers: Prime Premire Date and VA’s

As reported by Mediaweek.com, along with the launch of The Hub channel on October 10th, the new “Transformers: Prime” cartoon is scheduled to make its premier on the same day.  The exact time has yet to be revealed, but it is reported to be sometime in the afternoon between 1-6pm, during the new channels “Kids Afternoon/Prime block”.

In addition, two well known voice actors to the franchise will be a part of the new cartoon series. As previously reported, Peter Cullen will be lending his voice and Robert Orici recently revealed on Don Murphy’s message boards that so will Frank Welker. Cullen and Welker are well known for their roles as Optimus Prime and Megatron, respectively, from the original Transformers cartoon.

The Hub to Air Classic Transformers, New non-Hasbro Programming

Will we see Barbie on “My Little Pony”?

When the Hub launches Oct. 10, the kids’ cable network will have more than just increased competition from the Disney Channel, Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network to contend with. The joint venture between Discovery and Hasbro, the world’s second-largest toy company, will also have to sell itself to fellow toy marketers such as Mattel. (…more)

ROTF in the running in several categories for the MTV movie awards

Voting is now open for the 2010 MTV movie awards.

Fans can vote for the following nominees (…more)

New Transformers 3 details

Director Michael Bay has updated his website with some new details about the next Transformers film, including revealing the vehicle form of a new Autobot and a few actors that will be joining the cast. See the details Bay shared after the cut… (…more)

Transformers 3’s Optimus, Bumblebee getting makeovers

From sci-fi wire, animation supervisor Scott Benza of Industrial Lights and Magic discusses changes to the CGI models for Optimus Prime and Bumblebee.

As the third Transformers movie gears up preproduction this month, we’ve learned that Optumus Prime and Bumblebee will get a makeover. (…more)