BotCon 2013 have sent over the full list of guests who will be setting up in the Artist Alley, which now includes professional artist Marcelo Matere!

We are thrilled to announce that Marcelo Matere will be part of the BotCon 2013 Artists' Alley in San Diego this June. Marcelo has had a huge impact of the Transformers brand, from working on various projects for Hasbro, IDW and Fun Publications. Be sure to see him when you are at BotCon this year!

With the addition of Marcelo, the BotCon Artists' Alley will now feature OVER TWENTY amazing Transformers artists from all over the world! Visit www.botcon.com for all the details. This is one show you don't want to miss!

Click here to see the full list of artists

Discuss the artists here

This morning we received word that Hasbro will once again be running the Hall of Fame Fans' Choice Awards (which were renamed The Hartman Awards at last year's BotCon)! This year they will be announcing TWO winners of the award, so let's make those nominations count!

Hello, TRANSFORMERS fans!

In 2010, Hasbro founded its TRANSFORMERS Hall of Fame, honoring humans and robots that have left an everlasting mark on the world of toys, entertainment and CYBERTRON during the past nearly 30 years of "ROBOTS IN DISGUISE" action. Now in its fourth year, Hasbro is once again turning to fans to help select two Fans' Choice robot inductees to make up the class of 2013!

All polling result lists will be combined together (each outlet getting an equal voice) with the #1 character on each list worth 5 points, etc. The resultant point values will be used to generate the final ballot of five choices, which will be voted upon in early June on Transformers.com.

The two characters receiving the most fan votes in the final polling will be announced at Hasbro’s panel on Saturday, June 29, at Transformers BotCon in San Diego!

Click here to post your submissions for the 2013 Hall of Fame - Submissions must be in before 5PM EST on May 31st

TakaraTomy's releases for May 25th are now hitting Japanese retail and thus several images of the new releases are trickling through the Internet.  Among the new releases are Generations TG-17 Blaster & Steeljaw, Generations TG-18 Skywarp, Transformers GT Prime & Misaki, and Transformers GT Saber & Anna.

Click here to discuss the releases and for links to several photos of each.

BotCon 2013 have announced that eleven members of the Transformers Rescue Bots cast and crew will be in attendance at this year's convention! We already knew that Steve Blum (Heatwave), Parvesh Cheena (Blades), DC Douglas (Chase), and Imari Willaims (Boulder) would be there, but now we can add to that list: Brian Hohlfeld (Supervising Producer/Co-Creator), Nicole Dubuc (Story Editor/Co-Creator), Greg Johnson (Story Editor), Elan Garfias (Cody Burns), Jason Marsden (Kade Burns), Diamond White (Frankie Greene), and Shannon McKain (Graham Burns)!

Click here to read more about each guest

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Check out a new preview for Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters episode 6 "Chain of Command" that was posted on Crave Online. And you Miko fans will want to check out the exclusive image that they have to go with the preview!

See the clip and image here

Discuss both in Triblurr's thread

Big Bad Toy Store have sent over a new newsletter for the week!Check out the Transformers related items below:

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NEW PRE-ORDERS
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LEADER OP TRANSFORMING TRAILER CHROME EDITION
DW-P16 ORIGIN MATRIX - BLUE, PURPLE

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NEW ARRIVALS
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DW-P11 ENERGY CUBE SET OF 2 - PINK

Then view the full newsletter here

Thanks to a Japanese Image Board, we now have scans of a new hobby magazine that shows off a bunch of great new images upcoming Transformers Go! toys! From the combiner team Kenzan, Jinbu, and Ganou to Gaidorah, the repaint/remold of Lazerback. The scans also show Masterpiece Tigertrack and Generations Ratbat!

Click here to see the images on our Facebook page

Then discuss them here in Triblurr's tread

BotCon 2013 has updated their website with two more artists who will be setting up in Artist Alley. The first is Clyde Grapa, and the second is the Allspark's very own Rob "Cheetimus Primal" Roberts!

Click here to read more about the artists

And then click here to discuss this news

We've received word that IDW Publishing will be opening its offices for a VIP Tour during BotCon 2013 next month:

IDW Publishing Presents

A rare peek inside what goes into making comics! The studio is opening its doors to a select few and offering a special VIP tour that is sure to be a memorable one.

Meet with creators, editors, and walk away with more exclusives goodies than you'll know what to do with!

Meet The Creators Behind the Comics!
Featuring appearances by:
    Livio Ramondelli
    Josh Burcham
    Matt Frank
    John Barber
    and more!

Thursday, June 27th 2-5pm

Tickets are available for sale right here

And more information can be found here

EHOBBY have updated their Magnifucs product page with a six page preview of the "Badlands" comic that will come with the Magnificus figure. It is set in the year 2034 in "Iron Town", and apparently a couple of interesting Transformers make an appearance...

Click here to see the comic preview

Discuss it here