At BotCon 2012, Transformers fans from around the world were shown images of both the mock up and art for the 2013 Free Membership Incentive Figure DEPTHCHARGE! Here now is your first clear online look at the artwork for the character. This great figure is available for free to any member who has an active membership as of March 16th, 2013.

Click the story thumbnail to see the image and stay tuned for more news regarding Depthcharge AND the all-new Transformers Figure Subscription Service (TFSS) starting soon!

Want to be a part of the Transformers Collectors' Club? Then head on over to our Club Store and Join Today!

SURPRISE! This week we started mailing the FREE membership figures for 2012! We were able to get these manufactured much earlier this year, so off they go to you! It will take several weeks for them to reach all of the membership, so please be patient. If you don't receive your figure by the end of May, please let us know.

We are still waiting for the remaining club exclusives to arrive from China and we will start shipping as soon as they get here. They should arrive in the next week.

In your May/June issue of the Club Magazine, you will find a letter that offers: credit card fraud counseling; instructions on how to place a credit alert on your accounts; and a free one-year subscription to a Credit Monitoring and Identity Theft Recovery Service that we have purchased on your behalf.

If you have received any evidence of fraud on your credit cards, please call and make a report with the 800 number listed in the letter for the recovery services.

If you desire to take advantage of the Credit Monitoring and Identity Theft Recovery Service, your letter contains an individually assigned certificate number that will allow you to activate the service. Do not share this certificate number with anyone as it is a one-time use certificate. In addition, you will need to activate your service by June 15, 2012. This service will last for 12 months once you activate it. Again, we apologize for any issues this problem has caused our membership.

Please note that your Club Magazine will be approximately 2 weeks later than normal as we wanted to give you time to check your mailing addresses in the new Club Store before we used it for the first mailing. You should receive your issue by May 4th. Please contact us after that date if you have not received your magazine.

Finally, we hope to see you in Dallas (just 2 short weeks)! If you can't make it, check out the pictures at BotCon.com. Please note that Friday, April 13 is the last day to register for BotCon attending or non-attending packages.

This is coming from our new store software to all active members. We have been transferring and cleaning up data in order to use our new system. We want to have one more set of eyes to look at your addresses, and that's you!

Please go to this link and log in using the email address you use for the TCC, and your old club password (unless you have changed it in the new store).

As we continue to bring up new systems and software, this will remain your membership log in and password. You may change either at anytime by logging in. However, each membership you have must have a unique email address as that will be your log in from here forward. If you don't know your password, use the retrieval link and then log in and change it.

After you log in, please check all of the tabs and make sure your information is accurate. You will have until Tuesday (04/03/12) at 5 pm central time to make any changes to your address(es). After that time we will lock the files and create the mailing lists for this year's membership figure and your magazine. Your April issue will run about 2 weeks late. Next month, we should be back on our regular schedule.

We have limited the access in this first implementation of the club store. There are still some issues we have to work out this week before we put product in. We want to make sure all of the data is correct before we move forward.

If you have more than one membership and have trouble getting into your second account or if you have accounts in both clubs, please contact customer service and we will assist you. It is more efficient for you to email us.

In addition, approximately 150 of you will expire this next week (check your Bill Date in your profile). The new system automatically renews you on your billing anniversary provided you have a valid credit card on file. If you don't want to leave it on file, you can come back after it is billed (you can see the charge in your account) and delete it.

Thanks for your support and help!

Issue 44 of the TCC Magazine is shipping a little late this month due to our change over to the new system. So, in addition to the regular bi-monthly preview, how about a full page sneak peak at one of the pages from this months installment of "A Flash Forward!" Click the story thumbnail for all the action!

As far as the rest of the issue, we have a content packed magazine for you leading up to BotCon. The Transformers brand team talks Bruticus, what we can expect to see at BotCon AND gives us a cool figure preview. We also chat with the show producer behind the Transformers: The Ride attraction. Add in two all-new MTMTE profiles, a great new Allspark Almanac feature with special guest contributor Heather T. Smith, "A Flash Forward" Part two and other amazing content you get in this great issue of the TCC Magazine!

Stay tuned for more news regrading our new online features as well, coming soon!

We have sent out the latest update on the credit card security investigation. To read the details...Click Here!

We hope to have the club store and registration system back online sometime next week. When the store comes back online, we will be adding products slowly so it will take some time to have everything back in the store. Thank you for your patience and support during this trying issue.

Here is the latest update on Over-Run and Drift's shipping schedules. Our original order was split into two shipments in China. The first shipment (which contained the majority of the figures) came in the early part of February. The remaining items are coming with the BotCon sets and are on the water now.

We anticipate that the second shipment will arrive here around the first/second week of April. At that time we will finish shipping the remaining orders. The shipments have gone out in the sequence that they were ordered. If your invoice number is higher than 62851 your items will arrive in a few weeks. We appreciate your patience. If your invoice number is 62851 or lower, your shipment is on its way. 

We look forward to everyone who ordered receiving these great toys!