Transformer Toys - Device Label Cheetus out in Asia

Device Label Cheetus (a USB memory stick that turns into a kitteh) has hit Asia.

Let's celebrate!

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Botcon 2010 exclusive Sky-Byte Preview

Over at Botcon's official website they have a new preview of one of this year's exclusive toys: Sky-Byte. Follow the link to check it out! The base mold is Energon Sharkticon, a fine choice! Earlier pictures of the toy were released, though in a mistransformed state, so this is our first decent look at him. The new head mold, while undeniably Sky-Byte, is a little bland. Many have already expressed feelings of general "meh" about it. When first seeing it, I felt all it was missing was the asymmetry of the original toy. Now that we have a nice closeup of the head, I figured I'd try that out in Photoshop and compare the two:

My altered version certainly has more character. Self bias ftw! I will say though that after seeing the close up, the head we're actually getting does look fine. Sky-Byte is a wacky damn character, I love RiD, and I love the Energon Sharkticon mold. Obviously - I'd love to own this toy. Too bad Botcon exclusives are so damn expensive, eh?

Shia LaBeouf speaks about Transformers 3 Plot

Shia LaBeouf told The Associated Press that Transformers 3 "brings the heart back to the franchise." He starts working on the third installment on Tuesday.

The new script restores a human element that got lost in the second movie, LaBeouf said. "When I saw the second movie, I wasn't impressed with what we did," LaBeouf said at the Cannes Film Festival. "There were some really wild stunts in it, but the heart was gone."

Michael Bay returns for the third time as director of the science-fiction franchise, which centers on dueling races of giant robots that bring their war to Earth. The next movie will have what the last one lacked - a sense of human consequences, LaBeouf said.

On the second movie, "we got lost. We tried to get bigger. It's what happens to sequels. It's like, how do you top the first one? You've got to go bigger," LaBeouf said. "Mike went so big that it became too big, and I think you lost the anchor of the movie. ... You lost a bit of the relationships. Unless you have those relationships, then the movie doesn't matter. Then it's just a bunch of robots fighting each other."

With "Transformers 3," the toll of the robot war will be grave for our planet, LaBeouf said.

"There's going to be a lot of death, human death. This time, they're targeting humans," LaBeouf said. "It's going to be the craziest action movie ever made, or we failed."

Quoting the article from TFW2005 there.

I actually wonder if The Beef even paid attention to Revenge of the Fallen. I've seen it four times, which for me is three too many, and to my recollection - outside of the forest battle and the two-second beatdown of The Fallen, the action was primarily HUMAN SOLDIERS VS. CANNON FODDER ROBOTS HIDDEN BEHIND PILLARS AND SMOKE. The huge "Let's save Optimus!" portion of the movie was extremely heavy on fleshbags as well. To say it wasn't human oriented enough, if that's what The Beef was getting at, is pretty off base.

Highlighting certain parts of this, it looks like anyone that hoped the robots would actually be in the forefront for the third Transformers film will probably be disappointed. Oh well.

Transformers News Highliths - May 11th, 2010

FP Upgraded Bruticus in full color:

I think I speak for us all when I say: Good lawd

Moving on: Here we see the vehicle upgrades for those totally not in movie 3 (nice try, Bay) ugly-twins

Aaaand here's a slightly crap picture of Botcon Clench:

I like him!

Check out the full stories on these at TFW2005.com!

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