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The Washington area convention Cybfest is bringing exciting new for their attendees. They have confirmed that David Kaye will attend CybFest Northwest 2019.

Dave Kaye, the unforgettable voice of Beast Wars Megatron, Armada Megatron, Animated Optimus Prime, Grimlock, Lugnut, Prime Hardshell, and many more will be at the convention to share time to sign autographs, take pictures and spend time with fans in a Q&A panel.

CybFest NW 2019 will be held at the Kent Commons Community Center. It is located near Kent Station at 525 Fourth Ave N; Kent, WA 98032 and registrations are already opened. Click on the bar for some extra information and let us know your impressions on the 2005 Boards!

under Transformers Movie (Just Movie)

If you enjoyed the Bumblebee movie and you live in Texas, you may have a chance to watch it for free with your family and friends.

Kicker 102.5 website is informing that the Texas Parks and Recreations Department in Texarkana is starting a “Movies in the Park” event this Thursday, May 23rd and the first movie to be shown is “Bumblebee”.

For the next several weeks, there will be several free screenings of different movies on Thursday nights at Spring Lake Park. The movies will start between 7-8 PM and are shown in the field across the street from the old airplane, all free of charge.

You have to bring your own blankets, chairs, food and drinks (no alcohol or smoking allowed). A great opportunity to have fun and watch the movie one more time.

under 3rd Party Unlicensed

KABOOM!  KAZOWY! Thanks to Fans Toys Weibo we can share for you the final color images of Fans Toys FT-41 Sheridan (Masterpiece Scaled Warpath). 

This is Fans Toys take on popular Autobot red tank for the Masterpiece scale. The images show off the great vibrant red finishing of the figure, and we can see a lot of die-cast in the tank treads that we are sure will please your optics. Fans Toys really captured the animation design in the robot mode, and with a compact and solid tank mode.

You can check the mirrored images on this news post after the jump and then sound off your impressions on the 2005 Boards!

under 3rd Party Unlicensed

3P company Dr. Wu have shared via their Weibo account images of their next accessories: Weapons for Combiner Wars / Titans Return / Power Of The Primes Insecticons, Battletrap, Siege Chromia and Filler parts for Siege Ultra Magnus

If you were looking for some nice guns for these characters, we are sure these sets will please you:

  • DW-P46 Magnum: A great set of filler parts for Leader Class Siege Ultra Magnus, for both the inner robot and the combined form. Additionally, a new missile for Siege Hound is pictured. It’s not clear if it’s part of this set or a different one.
  • DW-P47 Double Trouble: A pair of cool guns for Battletrap and his components. They can be attached to the vehicle modes too.
  • DW-P48 Valkyrja: A pair of blasters and a pair of swords for this lady.
  • DW-P49 Insect: One gun for each of your Insecticons. They can be attached to their insect modes too.

Sweet little details for the robots in your collections. No information on release date or price yet, but you can check out the gallery after the jump. Then, you can share your impressions on the 2005 Boards!

under Trading Card Game

Courtesy of Kotaku we have a new Transformers Trading Card Game reveal to share with you: The Firecons!

It’s time to heat the game with the new Firecons cards with impressive art by artist Marcelo Matere:

  • Raider Flamefeather
  • Raider Cindersaur
  • Sergeant Sparkstalker

We are glad to see the Transformers Trading Card Game is bringing us a plethora of characters. Do you think we will also see the Sparkabots? Click on the bar to see the images on this news post and then sound off on the 2005 Boards!

under 3rd Party Unlicensed

Via Fans Toys Weibo we can share for you the colored images of the FT-30C Goose (Masterpiece Scaled G1 Skydive) for your viewing pleasure.

If you liked our first images of the gray prototype of the FT-30C Goose (Masterpiece scale G1 Skydive), we are sure you will be more than pleased with the new colored images. The pictures show off his wide range of poseability, in total cartoon-accurate design. We also have a comparison shot with his partner Maverick / Silverbolt, so you can have an idea of his size. It’s important to remember that the combined form FT-30 Ethearon / Superion is supposed to be in scale with Fans Toys Terminus Giganticus FT-20, so we are expecting a very big, if not the biggest combiner figure to date.

You can check the mirrored images on this news post after the jump and then sound off your impressions at the 2005 Boards!

under Transformers Movie (Just Movie)

This week we have a really amazing selection of new Bumblebee Movie concept art courtesy of ILM artist Stephen Zavala via his Artstation account.

We can share for you concept art and sketches of several characters seen in the epic Cybertron battle in the movie. We are adding Mr Zavala’s comments for each art which reveal interesting details about the creative process and design of each character. We get clearer images of the previous ones shared in Instagram, as well as some great new images and concept art:

  • Brawn By Stephen Zavala  – Brawn from Transformers: Bumblebee. The first Transformer I designed for the Cybertron sequence. This once was the easiest, meaning that it didn’t go through a lot of changes. Few changes make everybody happy. The 3D model was done by the talented Gerald Blaise here at ILM. 
  • Wheeljack By Stephen Zavala – Wheeljack from Transformers: Bumblebee. The very first Transformer I designed for the show. This one was the one that took the longest to approve. This was a specific characters director Travis Knight wanted in the movie so I figured it’d be better to do him first to fine tune him the most compared to other Transformers. Final head design in the film was done by Thang Le and Alex Jaeger. The 3D model was done by the talented Gerald Blaise here at ILM. 
  • Ironhide By Stephen Zavala – Ironhide from Transformers: Bumblebee. The basis body of the Autobot army. Funny how this was designed first and it’s not that featured that much in the final movie. Final details on the head and the chest were done by Alex Jaeger. 
  • Ratchet By Stephen Zavala – Ratchet from Transformers: Bumblebee. Ratchet was mostly and after thought after I designed Ironhide. We needed to populate the Cybertron scene with a lot of Autobots and we didn’t have a lot of time to do it, so we essentially cloned my Ironhide design, changed colors, replaced heads and had them as the Autobots army. Ratchet was the only “unique” clone since he ended up being featured more prominently. And because all of this you can see the Ratchet artwork is a little more rough since I only did a quick color swap to use as a color guide (don’t really love that I left those reds that saturated). The 3D model was done by the talented Gerald Blaise here at ILM.
  • Arcee By Stephen Zavala –Arcee from Transformers: Bumblebee. By far my fav Transformer design for the movie. For all these concepts I tried to retain the essence of the G1 cartoon designs; I grew up with them so I wanted to update the designs, not change them. Also, pleeeeeease tell me how thick her thighs are for the nth time cause I can;t wait to hear it. 
  • Shockwave By Stephen Zavala –Shockwave from Transformers: Bumblebee. My second fav transformer to work on. Yes, he’s thicc, deal with it. 
  • Ravage By Stephen Zavala –Ravage from Transformers: Bumblebee. A collab design done with the talented Karl Lindberg. We originally tried the puma approach but as we progressed (and began wondering why Ravage should look like a creature from Earth) we tried to make him more of a hybrid. Inspired by dragons, wolves, and the puma, we put those together for the final version. 

Thanks to all our 2005 Boards members who shared the images in our forums. You can also check out our previous round ups Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7 and Part 8. Click on the bar to see all the images after the jump and then sound off on the 2005 Boards!

under Generation 1, Transformers Sightings

Thanks to 2005 Boards member Rookbartley for sharing photographic proof of the Transformers Authentics Bravo 5″ Grimlock found At US Retail.

We knew about this new 5″ Authentics Grimlock mold (not to be confused with the bigger Authentics Alpha 7″ Grimlock) for the first time via an unexpected sighting in the Australian market. This new toy brings us a detailed and simple G1-styled Grimlock with a transformation similar to the G1 toy. Sadly, it has no real arms in the dinosaur mode since they are just molded on the body.

This small and fun Grimlock toy was spotted at a Dollar General store outside Kalamazoo, Michigan for only $5.00.

under Generations / Classics

Autobase Aichi has uploaded some in-hand images of the new War For Cybertron: Siege Deluxe Class Refraktor (Reflector) for your viewing pleasure.

The original G1 Reflector was in fact three robots that combined into a classic film camera. Siege brings a new incarnation of the characters, but with a new name possibly for trademark reasons. Each Refraktor toy can transform into a spaceship, and now you have to buy three of them to be combined into a modern camera mode, which includes a stand. The individual robots are smaller than other Siege Deluxe toys, but the combined camera mode sure looks big even for a Leader Class figure like Galaxy Upgrade Optimus Prime, as seen in the images.

Check out all the images, as well as a video review, after the jump and then sound off on the 2005 Boards!

under Transformers Movie Toys & Products, Transformers Sightings

2005 Boards member Nevermore is giving us the heads up of some new Transformers sightings at German shelves.

Studio Series Voyager Wave 6 SS-38 Optimus Prime (from the Bumblebee Movie) was found at Müller in Hilden. His wave partner Rampage should be around too. Unfortunately, it seems that Voyager Wave 4 with ROTF Starscream was skipped at this point.

At the same store, the Bumblebee Movie Energon Igniters Power Ratchet was also spotted.

Happy hunting! Keep reporting your sightings around the world on the 2005 Boards!