Transformers The Movie News

The nominations for the Academy Awards were announced today and Transformers is up for 3 gongs in Sound Editing, Sound Effects Mixing and of course Visual Effects.

The full details can be found over at TheTransformers.Net.

Toys R Us can still offer delivery in time for Christmas in the UK if you order online before 12:00 noon 20th December, that’s tomorrow!

Have a look at the toys from Toys R Us in our shop to see what’s on offer.

You’ve probably noticed that we haven’t had many updates lately. That’s because our sister Transformers website, TheTransformers.Net has moved away from us, leaving Transformers The Movie to fend for itself.

We’ve been working away behind the scenes for some time, have added a new Transformers shop to the site, and will be relaunching completely in the new year.

In the mean time we hope to get this place up to speed on Transformers news, and particularly news about the second Transformers movie, Transformers 2, due in the Summer of 2009.

Until we get the place ship shape, you can while your time away in our Transformers shop and find some of those transformers movie toys.

Paramount Home Entertainment have just released a press release stating that Transformers has sold 8.3 million copies on DVD in its first week and about 190,000 on HD DVD. We here find this comment a bit ironic from Paramount given the DVD and HD DVD is only out in North America.

According to TFW2005 memeber Sol Fury, the Optimus Prime Blaster, which was exclusive to Wal-Mart stores in the USA, is out in the UK. It was sighted at Toys R Us in Reading. It isn’t known at this time whether it is going to be exclusive here.

Woolworths have put up a page of Christmas toy offers in preparation for the coming festive season (I know, it’s a bit too early for our liking too) and naturally there’s some Transforming action going on there.

As we previously reported here, Toyz and Gamez had said that the Recon Barricade toy was to be released in the UK as a store exclusive.

DVD Reviews website WhatDVD.Net has reviewed the new Transformers DVD from Paramount released in the USA this week. Reviewer JD Lafrance talks in great details about the special features contained in this long awaited DVD Release. Read his review here.

Its been a while but its time for 2 more exclusive Tfnet toy galleries. For your viewing pleasure I give you the G1 Re-Deco of Autobot Jazz and FAB Disc Blast Decepticon Frenzy.

ALLEGIANCE: AUTOBOT
SUB-GROUP: POWERMASTER

HUMAN COMPONENT: LUBE
FUNCTION: INTERCEPTOR
FIRST APPEARANCE: TRANSFORMERS # 41 (Slapdash), TRANSFORMERS # 42 (Lube)

“Sometimes, if you wait long enough, problems solve themselves.”

Profile: Slapdash is not a good team player. He is typically disorganized,
neglectful and sloppy. He is rarely knowledgeable of any strategy that he’s
supposed to follow since he usually forgets to enter it into his memory banks.
He’s been known to plunge into battle without his weapon, or worse, with an
empty fuel tank. Sometimes he even forgets to bring Lube along. Without his
binary-bonded partner, Slapdash loses the ability to transform. It usually falls
upon his Autobot comrades to pay the price of his mistakes. They’re the ones
who have to cover for him when he’s unarmed or haul him back to the Autobot
base camp when he’s out of energy. Slapdash is lucky that they’re as willing
to do these favors for him as they are. If he weren’t such an easy-going, generous
and good-natured fellow, his friends might have stopped acting so friendly a
long time ago.

At the Hi Q Industrial Research Complex on the planet Nebulos, Lube specialized
in fuel technology. Under the direction of the Complex’s director, Hi Q, it
was Lube who made the research breakthrough that led to the tainting of all
Nebulan fuel sources. This prevented any Transformer from coming to Nebulos
and ingesting that planet’s fuel without poisoning himself. Soon after, the
Decepticons Darkwing and Dreadwind arrived and threatened the planet. A team
of Autobots eventually tried to chase the deadly duo away, but without access
to a non-toxic fuel source to supply their needs, they were unable to do it
on their own. Ironically, this turn of events persuaded Lube to help the very
beings he had endangered. He underwent the Powermaster Process and became binary-bonded
to Slapdash so that he could assist the Autobots in their fight against the
Decepticons. Lube is known for his meticulousness and short temper, characteristics
that usually put him at odds with the slovenly Slapdash.

Abilities: Slapdash transforms into a ground racing vehicle. In this
mode he can reach a maximum speed of 600 miles per hour and has a maximum range
of 1800 miles… when he remembers to fill up his tank. In both robot and vehicle
modes he is armed with a powerful electro-magnetizer gun, which has the ability
to neutralize and drain the power supply of almost any machine its beam hits.
He reserves its usage almost exclusively for enemy Decepticons. Lube has the
ability to transform into Slapdash’s engine. In this mode he acts as Slapdash’s
power source and can process almost any fuel source into usable form.

Weaknesses: Virtually all of Slapdash’s weaknesses are self-inflicted
and easily preventable. His careless nature is his greatest problem by far.