The Transformers Collectors Club have sent out the following email update regarding this years San Deigo Comic-Con exclusives.

We have been getting a lot of questions about the Hasbro exclusives for this year's Comic-Con and we want to let you know that we will not be able to get any of the exclusives this year.  

If you are interested in these items, you will either need to attend Comic-Con or check Hasbro Toy Shop to see if there are any left after the show.  

Have a good summer!

Brian

The Auto Assembly team have sent out the following press release

Auto Assembly have tweeted an obscure teaser for their next convention annoucement.

If you're not camera shy then you'll want to be at Auto Assembly 2011! Find out more with our next announcement...

?I thought I would bring you a random Saturday afternoon update since its a warm day here in London and I've been chilling out after a 17 hour grind in the office yes?terday. As such I have uploaded only our 4th video to our YouTube ?account ­which consists of a random montage of footage we recorded from the dealer room at Botcon 2011. The footage is available in HD format down and is the the second video we have uploaded to YouTube from our library of convention footage that we have recorded over the past ten years. At somepoint we hope to share all of thhe videos with you which include videos from Japanese Winter Wonderfests, Botcons, Auto Assembly, Transforce as well as other conventions. We must have something like 40 or 50 hours worth of convention footage that we have never made public before but always planned to release when we found time. Anyway, you can find the video footage below.

Auto Assembly have issued a new press release announcing yet another guest for this years convention.  You can find the press release in full below.

­­Auto Assembly 2011 Announces Twelfth Guest!!

The clock is ticking and with just seven weeks to go until Auto Assembly 2011 we're moving into our rush period now for bookings so if you haven't already got your ticket for this year's event, then now is the time, especially as we are going to be making a lot of announcements over the next couple of weeks...

Starting things off, w­e are proud to bring you all news that we have now confirmed our twelth guest for the convention... but we're not going to tell you who it is right now! You can find details on our latest Youtube video here:- http://youtu.be/5YTrD6ZgsPM

We have also just uploaded the entry form and rules to our Cosplay Competition to the website and there is more about this in the video, but if you have already registered for the convention, head over to the site now and download the forms you need to get involved in what is going to be another great competition!

We have a lot more to announce over the next two weeks including activities taking place over the weekend, details on our script reading auditions, more guests, and a few surprises we have in store...

The convention is taking place over the weekend of 12th - 14th August 2011 at the Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Birmingham, England and tickets are available from the website now. For more details on the convention, to see a full list of all the guests and activities taking place over the weekend, or to book your tickets, visit the website at www.autoassembly.org.uk

We hope to see you all in August!

The Auto Assembly 2011 Team

Web: www.autoassembly.org.uk
Youtube: www.youtube.com/autoassembly
Twitter: www.twitter.com/auto_assembly
Forum: http://autoassembly.proboards.com
Email: autoassembly@aol.com
Tel: +44 (0)7860 948296

Auto Assembly 2011 is sponsored by

Toyz And Gamez - www.toyzandgamez.co.uk
www.transformertoys.co.uk
www.transformersanimated.com
www.thetransformers.net
Science Fiction Collectables - www.sf-collectables.co.uk
Big Bad Toy Store - www.bbts.com
Xyber Toys - www.xybertoys.com
Moonbase 2 Podcast - http://moonbase2.libsyn.com

The latest episode of G4's Attack of the Show featured footage from BotCon 2011 during their Viewer Army segment. The footage can viewed by clicking here.

Credit to ­Seibertron.com for the story. ­

Our friend Raymond T. of the TF-Confederation has made to us a new teaser trailer to the C.O.N.S. 2011:

C.O.N.S. 2011 - Teaser Trailer from Lucy Cons on Vimeo.

Simon Furman Interview @ C.O.N.S.:

This year we managed to invite a special guest to the C.O.N.S. 2011. Simon Furman, the comicartist of IDW, will do us the honour, to visit the C.O.N.S. 2011, in order to get to know his fans in Germany. We are looking forward to meet him and will do our best, to make his stay in Germany as enjoyable as possible. This way, we hope to give you a chance to get to know the awesome writer of IDW. We think that each of you has some question you'd like to ask him. Because of that we will make a live-interview with him on the 24th of July on the C.O.N.S. where we will try to get as much information as possible. Since we are aware of the fact that not everyone of you has the opportunity to attend the convention, we want to give you the chance to ask your questions. So, ask whatever you want to know about Simon Furman and his work. All questions will be collected and than asked to Simon live on the C.O.N.S.. Naturally the answers will be posted in the forum right after the C.O.N.S.

New Partner of C.O.N.S.:

Today we can introduce you to our new partner. It is an Anime, Manga, SciFi Convention, the TsunaCon from the Netherlands. This year the TsunaCon will be present for the first time on the C.O.N.S. and fancy itself to the German fans. We hope for a good partnership and we are glad about the cooperation. The team of the C.O.N.S. 2011 is glad to be able to welcome the TsunaCon in July.

C.O.N.S. 2011 The Program:

11.00 Opening/Disbursement of the quiz sheets
11.15 Rampage live - Letz go transform
11.30 Welcoming and introduction by the team
12.00 Beginning of the barbecue
12.15 Connect Four tournament
12.30 TF Dark Energy presentation
13.00 First tombola
13.30 Rampage live
14.00 Simon Furman interview
14.30 Signature session
15.30 Second tombola
16.00 End of voting for the contests/Revelation of the quiz
16.30 Announcement of the winners
17.00 Acknowledgements
17.30 Rampage live concert
19.00 The "farewells"

Inside-Outside at the C.O.N.S.:

Sometimes it takes a third try. In this year Kerstin and Michael of Inside-Outside Tattoo and jewellery design have once again registered themselves for the C.O.N.S..They will come with a booth of 5 x 4 metres, and delight fans of Transformers tattoos and exclusive Transformers custom jewellery. It is possible to get a tattoo live at the C.O.N.S. and of course you can also buy the handmade jewellery made out of stainless steel and silver. We are looking forward to the team and hope that this time everything will work out.

Cosplay Contest at the C.O.N.S.:

We have learned of several users, who will attend the C.O.N.S. in a cosplay. We think that this is great and that we have to reward it. If you like, you can now enter our new cosplay contest. There are no rules apart from that your cosplay should be made up of more than just a T-shirt and pants. So, if you would like to win a small but nice price, you can register for the contest here. The more the better.

Custom Contest @ C.O.N.S. The Prize:

Many of our customers have asked us what could be this years’ first prize of the custom contest. Today we are going to answer this question. It’s a small case from Revell, which contains 12 enamel colors. Paint thinner, brush cleaner and of course brushes. In addition to that there will be a C.O.N.S. exclusive figure of 2010. We hope that the winner will enjoy the prize. Depending on the number of participants, the second and third placed will also get a small prize. It is still possible to register, here!

Paramount supports the C.O.N.S.:

Today it happened!!! Paramount Pictures Germany has sent big boxes to the C.O.N.S. control center, and the content has thrilled us all. Paramount Pictures Germany supports the C.O.N.S. 2011 with two big display stands, which depict Optimus Prime. Apart from that we got two Transformers Dark of the Moon banners. One of which depicts Bumblebee and the other one shows Optimus Prime.

We want to thank Paramount for the support and we are looking forward to present everything at the C.O.N.S. 2011.

Here is a photo of the completed Optimus Prime display stand.

C.O.N.S. 2011 - Newsflash 1

The first news video for the C.O.N.S. 2011. It is only in german but maybe some understand a bit:

C.O.N.S. 2011 - Newsflash 1 from Lucy Cons on Vimeo.

Source: NTF-CONS.DE

The latest Auto Assembly 2011 Press Release has been sent out

David Wise To Attend Auto Assembly 2011!

With just two months to go before Europe's largest Transformers convention, Auto Assembly, you may be lulled into thinking that all of the preparations are coming to a close and that we have made all of our major announcements. Well think again!

We are now proud to announce that we are being joined at the convention by our third guest of honour, none other than G1 script writer David Wise! David was responsible for writing more episodes of the original television series than any other writer and wrote episodes including War Dawn, The Rebirth, Kremzeek, The Girl Who Loved Powerglide and many others. In addition, he has also worked on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Star Trek and countless other shows. David will be with us for the whole weekend signing autographs and will take to the stage on Sunday afternoon to answer your questions. He will also be involved in some other events during the weekend which we will be announcing shortly.

For more information on David's appearance, and to hear a message from the man himself, check out our official announcement video on youtube here:-

http://youtu.be/KZWUpiiYUzA

David's appearance has been made possible thanks to an incredibly generous sponsorship package from UK dealer Toyz And Gamez. They have worked with us previously on our 2010 exclusive variant cover of IDW's Transformers Issue 9 (copies of which are still available through their website at www.toyzandgamez.co.uk) and we can't thank them enough for making David's Auto Assembly debut possible.

David joins our growing line-up of eleven guests which includes eight comic guests including Simon Furman, Nick Roche and Andrew Wildman and our other guests of honour - Gregg Berger and David Kaye who recorded this special message for us the other day about their appearance at the event:-

http://youtu.be/bKMmOVGIvzQ

The convention is taking place over the weekend of 12th - 14th August 2011 at the Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Birmingham, England and tickets are available from the website now. For more details on the convention, to see a full list of all the guests and activities taking place over the weekend, or to book your tickets, visit the website at www.autoassembly.org.uk

We hope to see you all in August!

The Auto Assembly 2011 Team

Web: www.autoassembly.org.uk
Youtube: www.youtube.com/autoassembly
Twitter: www.twitter.com/auto_assembly
Forum: http://autoassembly.proboards.com
Email: autoassembly@aol.com
Tel: +44 (0)7860 948296

Auto Assembly 2011 is sponsored by

Toyz And Gamez - www.toyzandgamez.co.uk
www.transformertoys.co.uk
www.transformersanimated.com
www.thetransformers.net
Science Fiction Collectables - www.sf-collectables.co.uk
Big Bad Toy Store - www.bbts.com
Xyber Toys - www.xybertoys.com
Moonbase 2 Podcast - http://moonbase2.libsyn.com

Remember today is the last day for you to pick up a bargin, the BotCon 2011 Exclusive toys are for sale on ebay from ourselves - already in the UK.

Auction Botcon 2011 TFAnimated Autotrooper 3-pack - MISB

Auction Botcon 2011 Exclusive Fisitron AKA Ironfist MISB

Auction Botcon 2011 Exclusive Shattered Glass Galvatron

Auto Assembly have sent out the following press release­

Auto Assembly 2011 - A Special Announcement

Following Auto Assembly's announcement of Andrew Wildman as our tenth guest for this year's convention a few days ago, we're back with a new video that we wanted to share with all of you with a rather special message that we think you'll all love...

http://youtu.be/bKMmOVGIvzQ

Auto Assembly 2011 is taking place over the weekend of 12th - 14th August 2011 at the Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Birmingham, England.

For more details on the convention, to see a full list of all the guests and activities taking place over the weekend, or to book your tickets, visit the website at www.autoassembly.org.uk

We hope to see you all in August!

The Auto Assembly 2011 Team

Web: www.autoassembly.org.uk
Youtube: www.youtube.com/autoassembly
Twitter: www.twitter.com/auto_assembly
Forum: http://autoassembly.proboards.com
Email: autoassembly@aol.com
Tel: +44 (0)7860 948296

Auto Assembly 2011 is sponsored by

Toyz And Gamez - www.toyzandgamez.co.uk
www.transformertoys.co.uk
www.transformersanimated.com
Science Fiction Collectables - www.sf-collectables.co.uk
Big Bad Toy Store - www.bbts.com
3 Darths Comics - www.3darths.co.uk
Hobby Link Japan - www.hlj.com
Robot Kingdom - www.robotkingdom.com
Xyber Toys - www.xybertoys.com
Moonbase 2 Podcast - http://moonbase2.libsyn.com

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