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Hasbro’s kicked off a new coupon campaign, with a bunch of pretty solid coupons. The highlight is a ‘Buy One Get One’ coupon for Star Wars figures – which is perfect with the Star Wars reset that’s going on. Also of note are coupons for $3 off a Transformers Dark of the Moon deluxe, $8 off the Optimus Prime Kreo set, or $5 off Hungry Hungry Hippos. You can find all these coupons by following this link. Please note, registration and installation of a coupon printer are required to get the coupons.

Botcon, the official Transformers convention, has been revealing their 2012 convention exclusive figures this week. The exclusives set continues their ‘Shattered Glass’ storyline; an alternate reality where Autobots are evil and Decepitcons are good. This year’s figures so far include Gigatron (based on the classics Galvatron mold), a red Tracks (repaint of ‘Reveal the Shield’ Tracks) and Soundwave (based on Classics Ironhide / Ratchet). Images are all at Botcon.com – alt modes are below, head to their site to see robot modes.

As an in-universe GI Joe reference, Shattered Glass Soundwave features a ‘Cold Slither’ logo on his door; the Zartan fronted rock band from the GI Joe episode ‘Cold Slither’.  Soundwave will have a headband, which will be available at the club shop.

Thanks to the folks at Hasbro and HunterPR, the presentation from the Transformers panel is now available for your perusing at home!  Just follow this link to download a PDF of the material and enjoy!

Amazon Japan has revealed official images for the upcoming Transformers Encore reissues of Twincast and Soundblaster (the rebuilt forms of Soundwave and Blaster after the destroyed each other in the Headmasters series).  Included in the images are the cassettes for each character; Soundblaster comes with Enemy and Wing Thing, while Twincast comes with Nightstalker and Stripes. Check out the images below!

Get a $5 off a $5.99 Dark of the Moon Transformers purchase by ‘liking’ Hasbro Transformers on facebook.  You can visit the page by clicking here – once you like the page you can grab your coupon!  The coupon prints through coupons.com; so you may have to install a coupon printer.  You are limited to printing 2 copies.  This is a great chance to score some cheap Transformers – ideal for Toys for Tots!

If you spent the weekend the way I did, being bitter that you weren’t at NYCC – then this is the post for you!  The fine folks at Hasbro sent out word that their remaining stock of their NYCC exclusives will be hitting HasbroToyShop.com this Wednesday, October 19th after 10AM Eastern.  This is your chance to score a Compound Hulk, Spider-men Mini-muggs or that fantastic Transformers: Prime Bumblebee and Arcee two-pack.  Stock will be likely be limited, so don’t delay and grab your exclusives Wednesday.

A few weeks ago, not only did Hasbro announce their debut at NYCC, they also announced that they would have some exclusive merchandise with them.  Details on this exclusive items are now being shared.  First, via the Nerf Facebook page – the Bumblebee Nerf gun is a follow on piece to the SDCC exclusive Optimus Prime Nerf gun.  The foam weapon features Bumblebee-centric IDW comic art.  Today, on Marvel.com, the Marvel Universe “Compound Hulk” figure was announced.  He’s 1/2 green Hulk and 1/2 Red Hulk, and very Christmasey!  Check out images of the exclusives below.

It’s time for the my first panel of the convention, the Hasbro Transformers panel.  There’s not much new in the case, so hopefully the design and marketing teams have a few things up their sleeves!

Starting off with Kreo – 28 Kreons in launch, 16 Transformers, 12 humans.

Generations – last wave of 2011: Junkheap – Junkion, Sky Shawdow

Dark of the Moon
Wave 6 – Soundwave (has a transforming satellite dish), Wheeljack
Voyager Wave 4 – Cannon Force Iron Hide – a red G1 inspired deco
Human Alliance Wave 3 – Soundwave with Mr. Gould and Laserbeak
Keep reading after the jump for news on the 2011 Exclusives, 2012 sneak peak and Transformers: the Ride 3D!

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Hasbro’s Transformers display was heavy on ‘Dark of the Moon’, as one would expect just weeks the movie has been released and it’s making gobs of money.  Also on display was the Unicron repaint – including both loose and packaged versions of the figure; which looks incredible by the way.  There was also “lifestyle” product on display as well, which I didn’t photograph tonight, but will be sure to get before the show wraps up.  In the mean time, check out the display of Dark of the Moon, Cyberverse and the rest of the Transformers line-up.

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