If you haven't already taken advantage of our 2011 Christmas Sale to get your tickets for Auto Assembly 2012 saving 20% on the Adult weekend ticket prices then you'd better hurry! This fantastic offer runs out at midnight on New Years Eve so you've got just over 24 hours left!
Auto Assembly 2012 is shaping up to be our biggest and best convention ever. With a stunning guest line-up including our THREE confirmed voice actors - Michael Bell, Townsend Coleman and Paul Eiding, a great selection of comic guests including the entire creative team from Transformers Regeneration One together for the first time ever at a Transformers convention and all the usual activities you'd come to expect from Auto Assembly - dealers, toy and art displays, our script reading, cosplay competition, Saturday night party with our karaoke, video games area, free workshops, competitions, charity auctions and much more, this is a convention you won't want to miss!
You can book your tickets here.
The convention is running on 3rd - 5th August 2012 at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel, Birmingham, England.
Roll Out Roll Call, the UK convention show for Transformers, GI-Joe & Action Force is back, announcing their main guest line up for the 10th and 11th of March 2012 at The Jury's Inn in Southampton, United Kingdom.
The main guest line up has now been confirmed and announced:
Meet Transformers ReGeneration One Team:
Simon Furman - Transformers ReGeneration One writer
Andrew Wildman - Transformers ReGeneration One artist
John-Paul Bove - Transformers ReGeneration One colourist
Meet The Legendary GI-Joe writer at his first ever UK show:
Larry Hama - GI-Joe writer - 1st ever UK show
Meet the IDW Team that helped create the new look Cobra Commander:
Robert Atkins - IDW GI-Joe artist - 1st ever UK show
Simon Gough - IDW GI-Joe colourist - 1st ever UK show
Bill Forster - Transformers Ark & The AllSpark Almanac Author & Artist
Jim Sorenson - Transformers Ark & The AllSpark Almanac Author
James Eatock - Cereal:Geek Animation of the 80's Magazine Editor
There may be more guests to come and additional features for the show, including traders, presentations and panels will announced soon.
Roll Out Roll Call 2 featured several exclusives for the show and Roll Out Roll Call 3 is no different.
Find out the latest RollOut / Roll Call news on twitter @rolloutrollcall
We have found some new trademarks filed with the USPTO. The trademarks are:
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Below you can listen to the cut dialogue from the Transformers Generation One cartoon episode Dinobot Island Part 2
This video contains audio taken from a slugged tape acquired from a former MP/Sunbow producer. Full and dialogue scripts for the episode can be downloaded from the Sunbow Marvel Archive: - Dialogue Script - https://bit.ly/3dr1WPp - Full Script: https://bit.ly/2NFFffK
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BARBARIAN: Ura manamabirno! Ramballalala uramala!
HUFFER: What a great time to hit rush-hour traffic!
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SUNSTREAKER: Hey, watch it! I just had my chassis wax and buffed!
DRIVER: Yeah?!? If that hairy elephant sits on you, they'll have to get you out with a can opener... hey, wait a second, whose driving the car?
SUNSTREAKER: I am! Now what's on your mind?
DRIVER: I didn't see what I thought I saw... I didn't... didn't... didn't
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IRONHIDE: Now... where's Spike and Bumblebee?
HOUND: I'm getting an Autobot reading... from there.
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** DELETED AUDIO with Wally Direction **
BARBARIAN Body English Take 1
MEGATRON: Good work, Decepticons! Continue to harvest this bounty of primeval energies there's no one to stop us now! (laughs)
BARBARIAN: Gunda nah? Naga gunda? Wunga ga dindy! Dindy wah!
** DELETED AUDIO ENDS **
IRONHIDE: We gott do somethin', Optimus.
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Body English Dialogue for Sideswipe and Huffer - take one
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Isolated body English - take 2 as they push them through the time warp
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SPIKE: Say, Optimus! I know who might be able to figure out what happened! Chip -- and Teletraan I!
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STARSCREAM: Megatron, this island is unstable! We must evacuate!
MEGATRON: You mean that you a Decepticon Warrior First Class, fear a few tremors?
STARSCREAM: Well, not o"fear" exactly
MEGATRON: We stay! Until all the island's energy belongs to us!
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OPTIMUS PRIME: I am still confused about the cause of the time warp.
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CHIP CHASE: Teletraan I should solve the mystery, Optimus Prime -- with the right input.
SPIKE WITWICKY: You'll do it, Chip.
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OPTIMUS PRIME: Two time warps?
** DELETE AUDIO though Wheeljack was animated to speak in the episode **
WHEELJACK: Two time warps?
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SEASPRAY: I know what you mean, Tracks!
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SEASPRAY: I actually prefer prefer my Hovercraft form to robot mode
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SEASPRAY: But different strokes for different blokes!
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Wally directing Tracks "push strain" body engligh
OUTLAW GANG LEADER: Whoa there!
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Wally scene 103 Motorcycle gang being routed, take 2 plus lower pitch
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RED ALERT: Not in this direction, boys! Don't you dare! Pitch in, Inferno, or do you want me to do it all by myself?
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INFERNO: Nifty, neat, nice going, Red Alert. Now
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INFERNO: Let me put out their fire for good!
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WHEELJACK: Somethin' is makin' this volcano active again!
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CHIP: Not surprising. Something has disrupted the energies on Dinobot Island... the same energies that kept it unchanged for millions of years. But now holes have been ripped in the "time flow", and if something isn't done fast, the instability could destroy the fabric of time itself! And the Earth - the entire Universe - will disintegrate into chaos!
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OPTIMUS PRIME: The energy disruptions on Dinobot Island have activated this volcano as well
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MEGATRON: I don't care if the entire Earth explodes! We can always relocate
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MEGATRON: to any place in the Universe!
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EXTENDED SLAG SFX for flames
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Wally directing Dinobot b-dialogue for reactions
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OPTIMUS PRIME: The Decepticons are here! I knew they were at the bottom of this!
IRONHIDE: Those crypto-ferric rat finks!
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OPTIMUS PRIME: If that stolen energy is taken from this area
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BEACHCOMBER: Like, I hope we don't destroy this place before we can study it! Ooh, wow! (chuckles)
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BEACHCOMBER: Hey
WARPATH: ZORCH! ZAP"
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WARPATH: Hang in there, Beachcomber! Here comes the cavalry! (laughs)
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WARPATH: Hey, Blitzwing! Tank you! (laughs)
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OPTIMUS PRIME: Stop! Lay down all weapons! The fighting increases the time disruption! This is Optimus Prime, all Autobots cease fire"
MEGATRON: You heard him, Decepticons! Unarmed Autobots will fall before our firepower!
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SLUDGE: Uhh, now, Grimlock? We attack Decepticons now?
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Dinobots marching to war b-dialgoue
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MEGATRON: Victory is near. I want to savour this moment! Never mind the Autobots! Repel those monsters!
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MEGATRON: Back, you three horned horror .. oof
STARSCREAM Watch out for it's .... tail
DIRGE: Put me down!! Ohh nooooooo
SKYWARP: Nothing slows them down!
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MEGATRON: If only one Decepticon survives this assault, it shall be I!
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Wally Directing 164-A and 164-B
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OPTIMUS PRIME: The Dinobots have not only proved they can control their powers, they have also demonstrated that they have great value to our cause. They will remain at Autobot Headquarters from now on
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OPTIMUS PRIME: Finally, Trailbreaker's forcefield will insure that the myserious energies of Dinobot Island will be secure 'til the end of time.
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From 7pm GMT you'll be able to hear the audio that was cut from the Generation One Transformers episode The Immobilizer on our YouTube channel. You can listen using the embeddd video below.
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We have found some new trademarks filed with the USPTO. The trademarks are:
You can view all of the details of these and other trademarks within our exclusive Trademark Application area of the website which features trademark applications from 1984 through until the present day.
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Transformers writer Flint Dille is starting to sell off some of his personal Transformers items from his days at Sunbow. He's already sold of one of the Transformers posters that was on the wall and has now placed his first auction up on eBay for a Transformers promotional folder with episode summaries from season one of the cartoon.
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We have found some new trademarks filed with the USPTO. The trademarks are:
You can view all of the details of these and other trademarks within our exclusive Trademark Application area of the website which features trademark applications from 1984 through until the present day.
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We have found some new trademarks filed with the USPTO. The trademarks are:
You can view all of the details of these and other trademarks within our exclusive Trademark Application area of the website which features trademark applications from 1984 through until the present day.
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In a series of tweets from ToyAnatomy of screenshots from the TFW2005 boards it appears that knock-off toy maker Wei Jiang has been raided and closed down by officials in China after pressure from Disney who were rightly not happy about the KO Hot Toys they were producing of Marvel's Iron Man
Wei Jiang's flagship store, too....
— ToyAnatomy (@AnatomyToy) June 4, 2020
Not Good pic.twitter.com/Xj3xHcWvDc
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We have found some new trademarks filed with the USPTO. The trademarks are:
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We know that a lot of TFNation revolves around toys, too, so we hope you'll join us in welcoming to our 2020 edition someone from the design side of that story: former Hasbro designer, development and product manager, Andy Couzens!
Couzens has been involved in toy design and production since the mid 1970s, working on preschool development for Kiddy Craft. He then moved over to Milton Bradley - the earliest distributor of continental European Transformers toys - and to the new position of Senior Designer and playing a crucial part in the development of childhood staples Playskool and Robotix, whose key features he had a significant hand in designing. As of 1984, with Hasbro acquiring Milton Bradley, Couzens retained his position, and was later promoted to Group Product Manager for research and development in the unfortunately termed Boys Toys section, before becoming Category Development Head of Boys, Girls Toys and Creative Play sections for Hasbro Europe!
How does this relate to our favourite robotic friends? Couzens has been in charge of action figure and toy development for a sizable chunk of their first golden age, and has working knowledge of most of the late 80s through mid 90s in those categories, including Transformers, G.I. Joe, and Action Man. During his time on the franchise, several Japanese releases saw their release in European markets, including the likes of Overlord, the Motorvators, and the Energon figures that North American audiences knew as Powermasters - and what has come to be known as Generation 1.5 among fans and collectors.
Andy Couzens will be attending the convention all weekend, revealing what he can from old toy design lore, discussing bringing Transformers to (plastic) life, and how much the industry has changed during his time! We look forward to welcoming him and all of you to TFNation 2020. This will be Andy's first ever convention appearance.
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Starscream
Choose Your Fate
Ep 5: Autobots watch TV
OTFCC 2003 (USA)
US Sheet 1
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