Publisher Viz Media has tweeted images of Jim Sorenson’s Transformers: A Visual History Artbook Limited & Regular Covers for your viewing pleasure!
This book, written by pop culture chronicler Jim Sorenson, showcases hundreds of iconic and rare images drawn from the Hasbro archives as well as development art from Paramount Studios feature films in an impressive amount of 408 pages.
The regular Hardcover can be pre-ordered via Amazon for $49.99 and the cover features a The Last Knight Optimus Prime portrait, and the special Deluxe Limited Edition will come packaged in a collector’s box and include five exclusive art prints for $99.99 with an amazing lenticular cover with The Last Knight Optimus Prime and Megatron. Both books are scheduled for release on November 12, 2019.
Click on the bar to see the mirrored covers and some extra page samples, courtesy of 2005 Boards member EightiesKid
Fafnir72
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JohnStartop
Sorry if someone's already answered these, but I have two questions:
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Goldbolt would love to get in touch if you're around.
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Thylacine2000
The giant double-page Platinum Trypticon art is itself worth the cost of the book.
Decepticreeps100
Great con and very Tarnish in his aspect. Would love to see some pics of the robot in question….
Goldbolt
Looking for things to read in quarantine I bought this book and going through it I was really excited to see this artwork appear. I have had this piece hanging in my house for around a decade. This is the original line art for the unproduced Spacewarp figure that I bought directly from Dan Khanna at a convention (I think at NJCC). The head was swapped out for the TFCC Astrontrain boxart but to my knowledge it was never published before with the original head. It was a curiosity that I really enjoy having and it was so cool to see the completed color art finally after looking at it for so many years.
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ken_christiansen on Instagram: “One last post for the Transformers : A Visual History book. Matt Trakker, team representative from M.A.S.K. *I was very surprised when Jim…”
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ken_christiansen on Instagram: “More Transformers : A Visual History Leoric…maybe…the Visionaries member for the team. *I was very surprised when Jim Sorenson asked…”
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ken_christiansen on Instagram: “More Transformers : A Visual History Ratchet, Transformers : Prime I was very surprised when Jim Sorenson asked me about a Hasbro Shared…”
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Aaron Archer on Instagram: “#thankyou @jim_sorenson for the copy of the wonderful #transformers book.. it was great going back in time and seeing so many generational…”
ken_christiansen on Instagram: “Full color version of the cover for the Covenant of Primus. Swipe for the originally published hardback "Black" version, this color…”
ken_christiansen on Instagram: “Transformers : A Visual History I was honored to be asked by Jim Sorenson to write the forward to his incredible new book. Apparently…”
rendsora
Yes I find it hard to believe that Jim Sorenson would be like that. From what I've known from his past works..he's more from the ol skool G1 crowd and very knowledgeable about it too.
drmick
Yeah, if you listen to the podcast it is clear that his first love is G1 box art, then character profiles from the various series.
The cover image has to be a publisher decision.
I found I quite interesting that the book was commissioned a good while before Jim was invited to be the author.
G.B. Blackrock
I don't see how. It hardly explains why include movie art at all on the cover… it merely says that, of the movies, that's one that's less objectionable than others.
iuJacob
Sorry, I should’ve been a little more constructive with my post.
I was really curious as to why the cover is the way it is, now I know. Seemed like an odd choice for a book spanning all generations.
I may be in the minority here, but I’m not a huge fan of the red and purple gradient either. I think just a simple, plain, matte black cover with maybe some faction logos would’ve been better suited.
drmick
To be fair, he explained his reasoning. He clearly states that the first one is the best.
iuJacob
Just listened to the Transmissions interview with Jim Sorenson.
His favourite Transformers movie is The Last Knight, so that explains the ugly cover art.
Decepticreeps100
Love a classics/generations takara art book. Niche is the word, its got grace it's got motion.
(ed, sorry all should be Grease apparently)
BlackHawkOmega
So, as someone's whos on the fence on getting this, how much actual "history" is in this? Aside from the foreward there doesn't seem to be much, or any, written word in the book.
G.B. Blackrock
Problem is, there simply isn't the market for a lot of those more niche areas of the TF franchise. If some of that material is to be released at all, it has to be bundled with the stuff that sells better (i.e., G1 and movie-related stuff)