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Transformers No. 1 is going back for a fifteenth printing, and Skybound has opened its books

The Hollywood Reporter got Skybound to publish sales on Friday: over 7.6 million units across the Energon Universe, 3.5 million of them the Transformers comic, and a first issue going back to press for the fifteenth time three years after it launched. The issue with all those pri

Peter Cullen gave him seventeen takes, and the director picked the one Cullen liked best

Josh Wassung has now talked twice about making Optimus Prime: Awakening, on a stage in Los Angeles and in an email exchange with Animation Scoop. He describes a recording booth, an 85 year old man who flipped into Optimus Prime between one breath and the next, and a team that spe

threezero's MDLX movie line stops selling repaints and starts selling scenes

Hot Rod and a Fallen Coronation Starscream went up on threezero's store this morning with no price on either. The three figures already in the line are $71.99 to $102.99 at BigBadToyStore, arriving January 2027, and the copy on the new pair reads nothing like the copy on those th

Awakening Bumblebee pre-orders are live at $29.99, and his Autobot badge has been scratched to pieces

Pre-orders opened on Tuesday afternoon for the Studio Series Deluxe Class Awakening Bumblebee at $29.99 at Hasbro Pulse, BigBadToyStore and Entertainment Earth. Hasbro's own page calls him an Evil Bumblebee in one sentence and tells you to add him to your Autobot lineup in the ne

Four days of the 40th anniversary run are counted at 4,156,531 dollars, and Saturday beat the Thursday that opened it

Box Office Mojo has posted the first four days of the Fathom run of The Transformers: The Movie, across 1,454 theatres. Thursday finished second in the country, Saturday came in higher still, and the run has not closed yet.

Robosen's Optimus Prime trailer is in stock at $1,199, and it converts itself between three modes

The Robosen Elite Optimus Prime Trailer Kit reads In Stock at BigBadToyStore at $1,199.99 and at Robosen's own store at $1,199.00. Robosen's listing puts the run at 2,500 units, calls it a North America exclusive, and says it converts itself between three modes.

The cancelled MTMTE Starscream orders are back in carts, and the Insecticons are a fifth off

Prowl is $22.39 and the Insecticon three pack is $63.99 at Target tonight, both cut by a fifth, and collectors whose Starscream pre-orders were cancelled in August are finding the figure sitting in their carts again. Neither Hasbro nor Target has explained the carts.

The six days are up on Tuesday and AMC is still selling seats for Wednesday, so here is what fans have been filming

Fathom sold the 40th anniversary re-release as six days only, September 17 to 22. Showtimes exist on the 23rd and the 24th, Box Office Report has it at 1,454 locations, and a Peter Cullen tribute is playing before the feature in theatres on two continents. Here is the week as the

Bumblebee is whole again and still will not wake up, in Skybound's first look at Transformers #37

Skybound, Image and Hasbro put two pages of Transformers #37 in front of readers today. Robert Kirkman and guest artist Karl Kerschl open the next arc with a standalone Elita Prime story on 14 October.

WOLFpak's Transformers packs run to $189.95, and every patch on them sells separately for $12.95

WOLFpak opened a licensed Transformers range of 26 products this week. The bags run $129.95 to $189.95, and the patches on them sell on their own at $12.95.

The Noble Collection puts the Matrix of Leadership on a bracelet, and hides a second one under Optimus Prime

Three officially licensed Transformers bracelets at $39.99 and a seven inch Optimus Prime diorama at $35.00 went up on The Noble Collection's store today. The bracelets are in stock; the diorama takes an order now and ships on 31 October.

Transformers Day Was Built as an Apology for Killing Optimus Prime, and Now It Is a Wake

The Transformers: The Movie is in theatres from today through September 22 in 4K, and every screening ends with Peter Cullen's last recorded performance as Optimus Prime.

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 that listed 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.

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