TFW2005.com is reporting that Walmart will be carrying at least two different Christmas ornaments featuring Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen characters. Found were Bumblebee and Optimus Prime. So make your holidays merry with a big robot face staring at you from your tree!

You can see the report and images here. 

Our friends over at FantoFan are reporting that the latest releases from Takara have shipped.  Among the releases direct from Japan are MP-06 Masterpiece Skywarp, Sports Label Convoy Marine Color (Ultra Magnus), Transformers the Movie Twin Blaster, Final Battle Jazz, Longarm, and Payload.

Also released is Dengeki Hobby Books: Transformers Collection 2007.  A look at many of the more recent releases in Japan including Binaltech, Masterpiece, the 2007 Movie and more.

 You can discuss the news over in this thread started by your's truly, and check out all the images at F2F.

A new auction has appeared on eBay, claiming to be for an unreleased G2 Jungle Attack Starscream, similar to the Desert Attack Ramjet that we have seen artwork for. The seller says that it is a hand-painted prototype made in-house at Hasbro as a proposal piece. Obviously, the proposal never passed. The same seller has a carded G2 Groove and has had unreleased G2 toys and artwork in the past, all of which lends credence to this current auction.

You can see the auction here and discuss it here . Thanks to Spark for the heads up. 

WizardUniverse.com has had a chance to sit down with Transformers: Animated voice actor Phil LaMarr. Most of you will remember that he was the voice for Samurai Jack, and that is what the majority of the interview is about. His new role as Jazz is mentioned, however.

Below is the excerpt on Jazz. You can read the rest of the interview here.

Changing subjects, you are set to play Jazz in the new Transformers show. It’s a great role with a lot of history, so are you going to follow the footsteps of the old series, the movie, or should we expect something new?

LAMARR: There’s no way to follow in the footsteps Scatman Crothers [Jazz’s original voice from the old series]. I mean, those are just shoes that are too big to fill. So, yeah, we’ve gone a different direction. Obviously the “cool” element is still there, that’s never going to go away with Jazz, and in my head I always hear Scatman but it’s a different sound. It’s a new sound.

I’m glad you brought up Scatman Crothers, because it must just be cool to pick up after such a legend. What is that like?

LAMARR: It’s an honor to be able to play something that somebody so talented originated. Even though they’re revamping the story, you know and the fans know that that’s where it came from and it’s nice to be connected to that kind of history.