As you head out the door, remember that the Season 1 DVD set for Transformers Animated is due out today. So as you're driving past all those stores on your way to work, you may want to make a quick stop and grab some Animated goodness! The set has all 13 Season 1 episodes, a Season 2 Photo Gallery and an ad for the Nintendo DS Animated video game! Those that haven't yet picked up the "Transform and Rollout" DVD, may want to look for that too, since the introductory "movie" is not marketed as part of Season 1, and therefore not on this set.

Those interested in Battle Roller to go with their MP-4 Masterpiece Convoy (and IN scale!), Movie, and/or Classics Optimus, now you can pre-order the "tough little Autobot" kit from BBTS and Robot Kingdom. Two swords, two guns, and swappable hands alongside the covers for his vehicle mode are included. Roller won't be released until November 2008.

Here's the pre-order page at BBTS, and here RobotKingdom.com's pre-order page with more pics.

"Reign of Starscream" writer Chris Mowry has put up 5-page preview of RoS #5 up at the IDW TF boards, showing Arcee and several Autobots gearing up for a rescue mission and Starscream implementing his plans on Cybertron.

Although if you haven't read #4 yet, it may be a bit spoilerish, so check the preview out at your own risk. Reign of Starscream #5 comes out August 27th.

UPDATE: Toxicshock has edited their article to confirm that the poster is in fact fan-made.

Toxicshock.tv has posted what could be our first official poster for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. If this is official, and not a well-done fake, it would be our first indication of Michael Bay's sequel's marketing campaign. However, the image and synopsis on the site are not yet confirmed. Decide for yourself by clicking this link!

A second poster, different from the first, can also be seen here.

Keep in mind, neither of these are confirmed as of yet. When word from Hasbro or Paramount surfaces, we will post that as well.

Colorist Josh Burcham has posted the clean version cover to Transformers Animated #4 at his deviantArt gallery, that of Lockdown with his cloak and hook versus what appears to be Blackarachnia's other four arms/legs. The cool part? Burcham got to do the entire cover, lines and all.

Drop by there to check out the awesomeness of Lockdown and Josh's colors and style.

From Comic News International, here are IDW's Transformers solicitations for November 2008:

• Transformers Spotlight: Blurr
  Shane McCarthy (w) • Casey Coller (a) • Coller, Trevor Hutchison (c)
• Transformers Spotlight: Optimus Prime 3-D Edition
  Simon Furman (w) • Don Figueroa (a) • Ray Zone (3-D effects) • Thomas Hoon (c)
• The Transformers: All Hail Megatron #5
  Shane McCarthy (w) • Guido Guidi (a) • Guidi, Trevor Hutchison (c)
• Transformers Animated: The Arrival #4
  Marty Isenberg (w) • Dario Brizuela, Boo (a) • Marcelo Matere, Josh Burcham (c)
• Transformers Movie Sequel: The Reign of Starscream TPB
  Chris Mowry (w) • Alex Milne (a) • Milne (c)
• Transformers Best of the UK: Time Wars #4
  Simon Furman (w) • Dan Reed (a) • Dan Khanna (c)

Like Transformers? Like coffee? Then Takara Tomy has a deal for you! Walk into any convenience store in Japan, buy a can of Suntory Coffee Boss coffee and you get a free Transformers mini figure, called a "Character Figure", or one of two Microns! Both Microns are repaints from the Giant Planet Team; Craydon is a yellow repaint of Longarm, and Seawave is a green repaint of Deepdive. The Character Figures include PVCs of Astrtrain, Shockwave, Soundwave, Wheeljack, Ironhide, Bumblebee, Jazz, Megatron, Starscream, Optimus Prime, and gold metallic versions of Starscream, Megatron and Optimus!

Click here to see and ad for the campaign on Takara Tomy's website and here to discuss the figures on the Allspark. Thanks to Nevermore for the news! 

Hey, kids! Do you like Transformers Animated? Do you like getting things without having to pay for them, but hate breaking the law? Well, then, here's some good news: you have a chance to get the first season of Transformers Animated on DVD for absolutely free, without stealing it. Just go to television news blog TVSquad.com and leave a comment on their giveaway post, and you'll have a chance to win one of three DVD sets.

Click here for the contest info, and make sure you get in your entry before 5PM on Friday, August 22!

TF08.net has posted galleries of the four known Universe Animated Series Legends Class figures. That includes the Starscream that we saw the vehicle mode of yesterday! So fans that want to see the robot mode for this even tinier Animated Starscream, should head on over to TF08.net to check out the new images!

Click here to see the Starscream gallery, then here for Prowl, here for Prime and here for Bumblebee. Then you can discuss the new images here on the Allspark!

It looks like eBay is giving us yet another first look at a new Transformers toy! This time it's for another new size for Animated Starscream. That's right, Prime, Prowl and Bumblebee will be joined by the Decepticon back-stabber in the Universe Legends Class of toys! The same seller also has the three Autobots, in case you'd want another look at them. Only the vehicle modes are shown, but as is often the case on Ebay, robot modes may be forthcoming shortly.

Check out these Ebay pages for Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Prowl and the newbie, Starscream !