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Courtesy of Tets’ Toys and Shenanigans blog, we can share for you the English translation of Takara Tomy Generations Selects God Neptune Web Comic/Manga.

We can finally read all the story of this 2-part manga which is also part 9 of the Generations Selects story. A lot fo reveals on these pages. Blue Big Convoy and the rest of the Blue order is fighting each other to death due to Straxus’ virus. Blue Big Convoy sacrifices himself to stop this madness. Primus alerts the other red, green, white, yellow, black and purple orders to defend the universe. Things don’t go well for our heroes since the reborn Seacons attack all the orders and take all their Matrixes and weapons. Primacron finally appears and confronts Primus… Is he who he claims to be? God Neptune is ready for his final move.

Click on the following link for the English translations of this chapter via Tets’ Toys and Shenanigans blog. Alternatively, check the mirrored images after the jump and let us know your impressions on the 2005 Boards. You can also find pre-orders for God Neptune via our sponsors links below.

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Attention Australian collectors. The recently reveales Generations Selects King Poseidon has been listed as EB Games and Zing exclusive for the Australian market.

2005 Boards member Operative294 reports that Generations Selects King Poseidon is now available for pre-order at the Australian EB Games and Zing stores. It is listed for not-so-economic $398 AUD ($255.32 approximately), with a $50 AUD deposit ($32.00 approximately) required when you pre-order it, either on their website or at a store. This 5-pack is scheduled for release by October 30th, 2020.

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under Beast Wars, Generations / Classics, Japanese Transformers

Thanks to the Takara Tomy Twitter, we get the full reveal for their next Generations Selects Figure, God Neptune! A great Generations Selects King Poseidon/Piranacon as the famous Beast Wars II gestalt who is made up by Halfshell, Coelagon, Sea Phantom, Terrormander, and last but not least, Scylla which is not just Tentakil redeco but a remold to match her animation model as a fembot. Lobclaw/Nautilator is not present since he was not part of the Seacons in the original Beast Wars II cartoon.

God Neptune will be a Takara Tomy Mall exclusive boxset which includes the 5 Beast Wars II Seacons from the cartoon. Ordering period will be only from May 15th to June 17th and is due to be released in October for 22,000 yen ($205.08 approximately).

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Via the official Takara Tomy Transformers Twitter we have our first teaser image of the next installment in the Generations Selects line. We can clearly see the recently released King Poseidon’s silhouette.

We can bet this will be a King Poseidon repaint in God Neptune’s colors. For those not familiarized with the character, God Neptune was a white version of King Poseidon/Piranacon that was seen in the Japanese exclusive Beast Wars II cartoon.

We are yet to see an official confirmation, but we are sure many fans were already expecting this repaint. Will this figure be sold individually or as a gift set? Will this release include the six new Seacons molds? The original God Neptune figure had only 5 Seacons leaving  Lobclaw / Nautilor out. Stay tuned with TFW2005 for more updates.

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under Generation 1, Generations / Classics, Japanese Transformers, Transformers Masterpiece, Transformers Movie Toys & Products

Courtesy of Loopaza Mega Store we have our usual doses of Figure King Magazine Scans. Issue #267 features some new images of Super Megatron, Netflix’s War For Cybertron, Earthrise, Studio Series, Cyberverse & Masterpiece Arcee

This month we have only 4 pages of Transformers content:

  • Generations Selects Super Megatron – Two pages dedicated to the latest Takara Tomy Mall exclusive item. We can see Super Megatron and his alternate modes as Ultra Megatron and Ultra Megatron Omega revealing the changing-face gimmick and the way how the chest switch works. We also have shots of all the alt mode configurations.
  • Netflix’s War For Cybertron – Takara Tomy will also release the new Siege redecos for the Japanese market starting with WFC-01 Decepticon Mirage and WFC-02 Hound. They are expected for release in September 26 this year.
  • Transformers Earthrise – We have some extra shots of he upcoming Earthrise releases for the Japanese market: ER-08 Doubledeaer (Wave 6) and the next Takara Tomy Mall exclusives ER EX-09 Ground Hog & Roller Force and ER EX-10 Snapdragon. All of them are scheduled for September this year.
  • Transformers Studio Series Releases For May 2020 – This time we only have images Wave 14 SS-50 DOTM Roadbuster and SS-51 Constructicon Scrapper (Takara Tomy releases have different numeration compared to the Hasbro ones).
  • Transformers Cyberverse Action Masters–While the name of this line may remind you of the non-transformable G1 Action Masters toys, it’s just the name chosen by Takara Tomy in order to release the Cyberverse Deluxe Build-A-Figure line in Japan. Wave 1 consists of Optimus Prime, Megatron and Shockwave. They will be released as Takara Tomy Mall exclusives by August 2020.
  • Masterpiece MP-51 Arcee. – New promotional image in both modes. We have a clear look at the back pack in robot mode.

Click on the bar to see all the mirrored images on this news post and then share your impressions on the 2005 Boards!

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Courtesy of Prime World Facebook we can share for you our first in-hand images of the Transformers Kentei (Proficiency Test) Exclusive Commemorative Optimus Prime.

While back in June 2019 we reported a new Official Transformers Kentei (Proficiency Test) for Japanese fans to be held in February 16th, 2020. The test was offered via Japanese Website Kentei Uketsuke, known in Japan for offering tests and certificates for an enormous amount of categories (from how much do you know about rice to otaku knowledge).

Takara Tomy announced that all participants in the test would receive an Exclusive Commemorative Optimus Prime figure which was a slight redeco of the Energon Igniters Speed Series Optimus Prime toy. This figure comes in a black and white closed box and the figure features a more matte paint applications compared to the shiny colors seen in the first promotional images.

Another Japanese exclusive item that some fans (Optimus Prime collectors specially) will have to hunt with patience. Click on the bar to see all the mirrored images on this news post and then share your impressions on the 2005 Boards.

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Via Dengeki Hobby Web and Takara Tomy Mall website we can share for you our first stock images of the new Takara Tomy Mall Exclusive Generation Selects Super Megatron.

We can confirm this figure is an extensive retool of Titans Return Galvatron, but it is unknown if the Headmaster gimmick has been kept in the figure. This character only appeared in the pages of the Japanese exclusive TV Magazine: “Battlestars: Return of Convoy”.

Super Megatron will be released as a Takara Tomy Mall exclusive in Japan with pre-orders starting only from April 8th to May 7th for 6600 Yen ($61.42 approximately). It’s scheduled for release in late September, 2020.

Check out the images attached to this news post and then sound off on the 2005 Boards!

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Thanks to Autobase Aichi we can share for you our first image of the TV-Kun Magazine Exclusive Thunder Spark Bumblebee.

Popular Japanese magazine TV-Kun on its May edition will offer a special clear version of the Dark Of The Moon Legion Class Cyberverse Bumblebee figure from 2011. A very unexpected surprise to see a reuse of this mold after so much time and now as a Japanese exclusive and kind of limited item.

Update: Thanks to 2005 Boards Nevermore for pointing out that TV-kun had released a similar clear release of this mold while back in 2011.

Update: Autobase Aichi have just uploaded a better image of this item.

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To our surprise, the official Takara Tomy Twitter have shared a new teaser image of their next Generations Selects figure and it seems that Super Megatron is coming in hot.

We got our first hint of this figure together with the first official images of Generations Selects Star Convoy. Now Takara Tomy is revealing two silhouettes of a robot and alt mode which look very similar to Super Megatron’s design. This character only appeared in the pages of the Japanese exclusive TV Magazine: “Battlestars: Return of Convoy”.

According to the information shared in Takara Tomy’s tweet, the full reveal of this character will be this April 2, 2020. Stay tuned with TFW2005 for more updates.

The images also seem to reveal that this could be an extensive remold of Titans Return Galvatron. What do you think? Interested in adding Super Megatron into your collection? Click on the bar and sound off your impressions on the 2005 Boards.

under Comics, Japanese Transformers

Letterer Brandon Bovia celebrates the long-awaited release of VIZ Media’s Transformers: The Manga Volume 1 by revealing several creative process insights, including the following with associated images attached to this post:

• In this book, I was tasked with picking fonts that best suit the art, arranging the translated text into the pages in a way that’s easy to read/appealing, and adapting the sound effects into English+retouching the art so it looks seamless.

• Most modern manga have dialogue lettered digitally in Japan, but being from the 80s, Transformers is all analog. And that means any text elements you see within the pages themselves had to be erased/retouched by hand. Like these. And these. And these!

• All of the little imperfections of the original art, down to the type of ink used and the off-white of the paper, made redrawing the art uniquely difficult. It took a while to figure out how to best match the original art, but what I landed on was this: A standard brush with the blend mode set to dissolve, and a Gaussian Blur filter set to 1 px (give or take), and voila! Sometimes I would reduce the opacity of the brush as well, to “fake” the imperfections (third pic). Worked like a charm. I did this for every page in the book!

Creator credits: Masumi Kaneda (Author) Ban Magami (Artist, Cover Artist) Brandon Bovia (Letterer)

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