TFW2005.com has posted a gallery of what could possibly be the prototype of Astrotrain from the upcoming Neo G1 line that Hasbro has been teasing us with since Botcon. Little is known about the line other than it will contain updated versions of classic characters from Generation 1, the original series that kicked off the franchise so many have followed for a long time. Click below to see some of the images. To see the full gallery go here.

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Greg Weisman, the co-creator of the Gargoyles has given an interview to comicbookresources.com. In it he describes his work on the upcoming Gargoyles comic book. The book will be in canon with the animated series and take place after the end of Season 2. After Season 2, Weisman had left the series for various reasons and Disney decided to continue without him on what is popularly known as the worst season of Gargolyes, The Goliath Chronicles. Just reading the interview, it is very clear that Weisman has a direction with this book and plenty of material. The book is slated for a possible June release, so keep an eye out. I know I will be.

Xbox.com Forum has a member with the new issue of Game Informer with apparently a huge article on Halo 3… which is apparently currently called “Forerunner” Why the name change? Because theres isn’t a Halo in the game. First one was destroyed, and all the action takes place off Delta Halo. Master Chief is still our man, though it remains to be see about the future of the Arbiter or any other playable characters.
They bulletpoint some neat stuff, like 4 player co-op online, but honestly the chances are 50/50 of this being purely made up. We’ll know for sure when the new GI hits the news stands, but it should be noted that GI broke Spartan 458 in Dead Or Alive 4 well in advance of Bungie.net.
Its a well known fact that whatever Bungie’s next project is, it’ll help drive the 360 more than anything currently out. I’ll be unable to resist the white box if it means finding out what the heck happened at the end of Halo 2.

Brian Savage from Master Collector sent out an email update to club members:

We have had so many people signing up at the last minute it will take us the weekend to process all of the memberships and renewals.

So we have decided to extend the membership sign up until 4:30 pm on Friday as we can still enter them in the database.

Please post on the fourms that we have extended the sign up deadline until Friday 4:30 central. As long as you sign up by that time you will get this year’s free memebership figure. You can do the membership renewal or sign up at: http://transformersclub.com/shop/index.cfm?do=subscribe

I was perusing AFX.com‘s offerings of the He-Man mini-statues when I stumbled upon this listing.

The preorder page reads as follows:

Availability: To Be Announced

Transformers Generation One Bludgeon Statue GIJBDGNpad $79.99

I have not heard this announced before anywhere, so I’m not sure how official this is.

This is important. I want you all to hold hands and thank whatever higher power you hold dear.
Jeuxpo, which is some kind of french game site, is revealing that Micheal Ancel is going forward with a sequel to Beyond Good & Evil.
Isn’t this great news?? What? You never played this game? Are you out of your mind? Its available on all 3 current consoles. Go buy it or rent it or something. Its fun, has a great story, and is one of the most creative non-Nintendo games I can think of. Ubisoft made a game for anyone who was disappointed by Windwaker, and too many people didn’t play it.
Now because of Ancel’s great success on King Kong, it looks like we’ll find out what happens to Jade & Pey’j and whats really going on in outer space.

I woke up early enough this morning to read the annuncements, but not early enough to post it to the site, so here’s the round up.
PS3 is coming in November, PSP is getting a price drop
While some look at the PS3 launch as a delay, I was skeptical it would even come out this year so it looks to me like things are going better than I thought.
There is the very likely possibility that Sony wouldn’t let Microsoft and Nintendo have a holiday season without them and no matter what kind of loss they might take selling the machine in November, it better than losing the market to the competition.

Erik Larsen’s She-Dragon will be coming out in statue form in June 2006. The statue is 15 inches tall, handpainted and limited to 1800 pieces.

For more pictures and commentary by the sculptor, go here.