Since this is going to be much longer than the regular episodes of powet.tv, I made a teaser. Final Film will be released by May 1st.

The Transformers collectors club has announced their first club exclusive figure, Astrotrain. Astrotrain will be the redeco of Armada Jetfire that surfaced in images online but never came to retail. He will feature an all new head sculpt designed by Dan Khanna.

From the TCC site:

04/26/06 – The Hasbro Transformers Collectors’ Club is proud to present their first Club Exclusive figure: Astrotrain!

From the far reaches of space comes a deadly new foe on the side of evil. Loyal to no one but himself, this insidious bounty hunter has joined the Decepticons to further his own power. Armed with a vast array of weaponry including his powerful Ionic Pulse Blaster, he and his loyal following tear through space as he transports Decepticons and Mini-Cons on their galactic hunt for the mythical Cyber Planet Keys. As a force to be reckoned with, no Autobot is safe as long as this Decepticon warrior is loose!

Featuring a stunning new head sculpt from original designs by Dan Khanna, Hasbro’s Transformers Collectors’ Club is proud to present the first club exclusive figure reborn from a Hasbro design that never came to fruition. This fall, make Astrotrain part of your Decepticon army, only from the Hasbro Transformers Collectors’ Club!

Pictured here is Hasbro’s original design concept along with sketches of the new head. Watch transformersclub.com for updates this summer on the new deco and ordering information. Pricing has not been determined at this time.

Also, club members, we want your input on part of the deco for this character. Login to the member’s only forum and look in the General Discussion topic area.

 

Mezco Toys has announced their exclusive offerings for the San Diego Comic Con.

From their site:

4/14/2006: 2006 SUMMER EXCLUSIVES REVEALED!
Brace yourselves as we prepare to unleash six new breathtaking exclusive figures this summer:

LDD Presents: Jason Voorhees
Edward Scissorhands: Vincent Price
Family Guy: Herbert
Family Guy: 12″ Evil Monkey
South Park: 12″ Cartman
Hellboy: Comic Hellboy w/Japanese heads

More details, pricing and photos coming soon. Make sure you join our mailing list so you don’t miss out on important pre-order information.

Sideshow has announced their exclusive for the San Diego Comic Con. The exclusive will be a 12 inch Darth Vader just after he turns to the dark side. He features ‘Sith eyes’ (they’re yellow!), a ‘unique lava droid base’, and exclusive packaging. Supplies will be limited to 6000.

Preorders for convention attendees begins April 27th at 10AM, while preorders for non-attendees starts at 10AM the next day.

He-man.org has finally announced the summer convention exclusives from NECA and the Four Horsemen. I’ll just cut to the chase because I’ve been pretty eager to know what they were.

First up features a return of the mini-bust line. An exclusive 3-pack of brand new mini-busts will be offered. The set includes Mekanek, Man-at-Arms, and Teela.

  

The second exclusive (and the one I’m far more stoked about) is a mini-statue (staction) of Evil-Lyn in her classic colors of yellow and blue. It should be noted that this isn’t just a statue of the action figure that came out quite a while (and was short packed so it costs a fortune to find one now! >_< ), but instead a new sculpt. It features a shard of the Crystal of Darkness hanging around her neck as seen in the first volume of the modern comic from MVCreations.

 

Fresh in my inbox to you is another update from Brian Savage of MasterCollector with regard to a new shipping option, particularly international members.

We have found another way to ship some product to our non-US customers at a lower cost and it has been implemented into the store. It is called Global Priority Mail. This service does have some limitations. The shipment must fit into a box that is no more than 36 inches by adding length girth height. Also, the order cannot be over 4 lbs.

For example a 1 lb package to the United Kingdom via surface mail is $24.25 and takes 4-6 weeks.

The same package via airmail is $16.75 and takes 7-10 days.

The same package via Global Priority is $10.50 and takes 4-6 days.

I know, it doesn’t seem to make much sense but that’s the USPS rates and delivry standards.

We hope that this lowers some of the foreign shipments costs. It won’t work for all orders as the items are tool large or the order will be 100 heavy. We think it will work for the bulk of your orders.

Make sure you check the store each week at transformersclub.com/shop to see what the new items in stock an the weekly specials!

Thanks for your support,

Brian
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[UPDATE:

Plesae note that in my last email I had a typo. The dimensions that limite this type of foreign mail is length + width (not girth) + height. This must be 36 inches or less. About 70-80 per cent of the products will fit into this area, but not all of them.

Its kinda funny how this email was a correction for a typo in the last email, yet the first word of this one has a typo in it too.
-CRAZY]

Diamond Select Toys has announced that they will be offering the Spider-woman in the ‘black’ (its always been blue to me) costume as an exclusive at the San Diego Comic-Con this July. Pictures can be seen by following any of the links in this post.

[via TNI]

From the Diamond Select Toys site:

Spider-Woman: San Diego or Bust!

Diamond Select Toys is excited to announce the latest exclusive item for this summer’s San Diego Comic Con – our Marvel Select Black Spider-Woman! Hot on the hells of our regular Spider-Woman release, this version of the buxom beauty features an all-new paint design sure to please fans of the masked maiden.

Available July 19th through July 23rd, the Marvel Select Black Spider-Woman depicts the second Spider-Woman, Julia Carpenter. After receiving her powers through secret experiments by the Commission on Superhuman Activities, Julia took up the Spider-Woman name and replaced the presumed-dead Jessica Drew as a member of the Avengers. Although now retired, her actions contributed to the defeat of the Beyonder during the infamous Secret Wars.

Standing 7 inches tall and including a detailed Hydra base, the Marvel Select Black Spider-Woman is in scale with past Marvel Select releases and will feature the line’s trademark deluxe packaging.

I saw Michael McConnohie is scheduled to appear at TransformersCon in Toronto next month, and I suddenly remembered when I saw him back in 2004 at the Official Transformers Convention voice actor panel. As you can see, he was really excited to be there and quite an entertainer.

EDIT: Ok, this is getting pretty popular and some folks asked for some other versions of the file. All these links are via rapidshare, which is a page that offers reasonably fast downloads and hosting with tons of ads. Just click the link, scroll down and find the button that says “FREE” and click it. it’ll probably make you wait 45-60 seconds before your file starts, but just leave the page open and the download should begin automatically.
big .mov version(should be ipod friendly 7.6MB)
really big .mov version (TV resolution, little compression 9.5 MB)
audio only .mp3 (1.4 MB)