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Auto Assembly 2010 is just DAYS away... but even THIS close, we still haven't finished with our announcements and updates on what is once again Europe's biggest Transformers convention...!
Final Bookings Call
If you haven't pre-registered for the convention, you now have just over 24 hours to do so to guarantee your place at Auto Assembly 2010! Pre-registrations close at 12:00 noon GMT on Wednesday 11th August 2010 and after that time, the only way you will be able to get a ticket for the convention is as an on-the-door attendee and these places will be strictly limited. We will not be able to send passes out in advance for those of you who book now, but they will be available for collection on the day and full details of how to do this will be sent with your booking confirmation email.
Tickets are available for the full weekend and we also have limited numbers of single day passes available for the Saturday and Sunday.
Prize Draws
We are running FOUR free prize draws this year for everyone who has pre-registered for the convention! As long as you have booked in advance for the convention you will be entered into ALL of these to be in with a chance of winning a prize in one of these draws:-
30 Challenge At Cybertron deluxe toy sets
20 random Transformers voice actor signed photos
10 Auto Assembly 2010 10th Anniversary keyrings
3 Auto Assembly 2011 Weekend Passes
So as long as you have booked your ticket by noon on Wednesday, you will have sixty chances to win a great prize!
Charity Fundraising
We are running not one but TWO charity auctions at Auto Assembly 2010 this year. We have had so many items donated that they simply wouldn't fit into a single session so we are splitting them into two. Saturday's session will be hosted by Scott McNeil and Sunday's guest auctioneer will be Garry Chalk. The full auction list will be going online in the next 24 hours on the Auto Assembly website and remember, if you have the Non-Attendee Pack, you can bid on any of these! Items include signed photos, original comic art and more besides.
We will also have a charity raffle running all weekend with a great selection of toys and merchandise up for grabs and plenty of signed photos as well!
All the money raised will go to the convention's nominated charities this year.
Auto Assembly 2011
Mentioning Auto Assembly 2011, we will be opening bookings for next year's convention on Friday. The date has been set as 12th - 14th August 2011 and ticket prices will be £50 for adults. However, until 30th September 2010 we are offering ALL Auto Assembly 2010 a special discount ticket rate £45 for the weekend - freezing ticket prices again from this year!
We already have two voice actors confirmed and we are hoping to make some big announcements very soon, so if you want to get your tickets at a great price, book them at Auto Assembly 2010!
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Full weekend tickets for Auto Assembly 2010 are £45 for adults and £35 for children, students and senior citizens, with under 5s admitted free. Family tickets (2 adults and 2 children) are available for £145. Single day passes for either day are £25 for adults, £18 for children, students or senior citizens and again under 5s are free. A family ticket for one day attendees is available for £80 for 2 adults and 2 children. You need to hurry though as tickets are selling fast!!
Spanning the weekend of Friday 13th - Sunday 15th August 2010 at the The Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Birmingham, England, Auto Assembly 2010 is playing host to a staggering 14 guests including three guests of honour (Garry Chalk, Scott McNeil and Derrick J Wyatt), and will feature toy and art displays, dealers, comic guests, free autograph sessions, a video games area, free workshops run by many of our guests, dedicated childrens programming, video screenings and more! There will also be Friday and Saturday evening programmes, exclusive for weekend attendees and the Saturday evening will play host to a massive musical party, costume competition, our voice actors will take to the stage to perform a BRAND NEW script written by Simon Furman and the chance to win one of THIRTY sets of the Challenge At Cybertron sets donated by Hasbro... and we still have LOADS more to announce!
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
Here is a copy of the latest Auto Assembly press release
Auto Assembly 2010 Releases More Saturday Passes!
With only a week to go until Auto Assembly 2010, we're now doing everything we can to make sure that no-one misses out on what is going to be the best Transformers event of the year for fans all across Europe...
For some time our one day passes for the Saturday have been sold out and all we have had left are full weekend tickets and one day passes for the Sunday. With the convention now only a week away, we are now in a position to take a closer look at our remaining tickets and revise how these are being allocated.
We are now converting all our remaining weekend passes into flexible tickets so we will be selling them in a number of ways. We will still sell most of them as weekend passes, but if someone wishes to buy a Saturday ticket then we will do this, and use the remaining "half" of the weekend pass to create an available Sunday ticket.
We have done this because we know that there are those of you out there who are only able to attend for a single day this year for one reason or another and for some of you, the only day you can make it is Saturday but until now with those tickets selling out you have missed your chance to attend this year.
You can find out more about this and our other latest news announcements including some incredible prize draws for our pre-registrants here:-
Full weekend tickets are £45 for adults and £35 for children, students and senior citizens, with under 5s admitted free. Family tickets (2 adults and 2 children) are available for £145. Single day passes for either day are £25 for adults, £18 for children, students or senior citizens and again under 5s are free. A family ticket for one day attendees is available for £80 for 2 adults and 2 children. You need to hurry though as tickets are selling fast!!
As long as we receive your bookings by Monday 9th August 2010, we can post your passes out to you for those of you who live in the UK. Anyone outside of the UK will need to collect their passes on arrival but we will give you information on how to do this. The FINAL deadline for booking is the morning of Wednesday 11th August 2010 and ALL bookings received by this date must be collected.
Spanning the weekend of Friday 13th - Sunday 15th August 2010 at the The Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Birmingham, England, the convention is playing host to a staggering 14 guests including three guests of honour (Garry Chalk, Scott McNeil and Derrick J Wyatt), and will feature toy and art displays, dealers, comic guests, free autograph sessions, a video games area, free workshops run by many of our guests, dedicated childrens programming, video screenings and more! There will also be Friday and Saturday evening programmes, exclusive for weekend attendees and the Saturday evening will play host to a massive musical party, costume competition, our voice actors will take to the stage to perform a BRAND NEW script written by Simon Furman and the chance to win one of THIRTY sets of the Challenge At Cybertron sets donated by Hasbro... and we still have LOADS more to announce!
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
The Auto Assembly Team have issued the following "final" Auto Assembly 2010 update which includes news that the convention is already up to 538 attendees and so if you are unsure about whether to go we urge you to decide to make the trip to Birmingham and help the convention break the 600 barrier.
The more interest in the conventions each year helps companies like Hasbro take notice and become more willing to get involved as well as ensuring a better budget for guests. Without more-a-do here's the press release
Auto Assembly 2010 Final Update
Hi everyone,
Can you believe it, we're only EIGHT days away from Auto Assembly 2010! Even with the convention being this close, we've still got more news to bring you and more announcements and lots of things to update you all on so we had better get on with it all...
Children's Programme
As you know, we've got a programme of activities lined up for our younger attendees this year included 2 hours of DEDICATED events running on both days between 11:30 am and 1:30 pm in the Alternative Programme Room which will include face painting, games, colouring competitions, and an art workshop on the Sunday with more generalised activities for the really young children! To ensure that we have adequate registered childcare provision, can you let us know if you may be interested in using this room for your child so we can make sure enough people are on hand. Otherwise, we may have to set a limit to the number of children who are allowed in to each session.
Competition Frenzy!
We've got loads of competitions taking place at the convention this year. While it's too late for advance entry for our writing competition and to get your early registrations in for our art, kitbash and costume competitions, you can still enter these if you bring your entries and forms along with you to the convention itself. The costume competition is already shaping up to be something pretty spectacular... We still want to see more entries for the art competition as well, especially from our younger attendees...
As part of the Children's Programme, we have two colouring competitions and we will judge kids in two age ranges to be fair on all the children who will be there. Free packs of colouring pencils will be provided for every child who takes part, and even children who are friends / family of convention committee members / staff / volunteers will be eligible to enter because the entry forms are 100% anonymous and we will be getting one of our guests to judge it who will not be able to tell who did what entry!
Free Prize Draws!
We have loads of prize draws that you can be entered into this year to win some great prizes! First is the incredible prize draw supported by Hasbro. THIRTY of you will get the chance to win an amazing Challenge At Cybertron set. This set features three toys - Cyclonus, Rodimus and Galvatron all in their animated colour schemes. It is not going to be released in the UK and hasn't been released in America yet! The 30 winners are going to be chosen at random and if you have won you will find a winning ticket inserted randomly into your convention pack. Just bring this to the Registration Desk at any time during the convention to claim your prize. If you don't claim by the end of the convention, your prize will be forfeit!
In conjunction with Toyz And Gamez, we are running a free "tombola" for everyone who buys a copy of this year's convention exclusive comic. For each copy of the comic that you buy, you can draw a raffle ticket. 31 numbers have been pre-selected at random and if you draw a ticket that matches one of these then you're a lucky winner. 30 people will win an Auto Assembly 2010 10th Anniversary Keyring and one lucky winner will get a weekend ticket to Auto Assembly 2011!!
Finally is our usual pre-registrant prize draw. Three of you who have pre-booked for Auto Assembly 2010 will be in with a chance of winning something pretty special this year... There are three prizes on offer and we think you'll love what we have on offer:-
1st Prize - LIFETIME pass to Auto Assembly!
2nd Prize - Family Weekend Ticket to Auto Assembly 2011
3rd Prize - Weekend Ticket to Auto Assembly 2011
Plus additional smaller prizes for each winner!
Script Reading Auditions Open NOW!
We are still casting for this year's script!! If you want to join Garry Chalk, Scott McNeil, Nick Roche and Simon William
You may have seen the recent annoucement that this years Transformers Toy Display at Auto Assembly 2010 will contain Japanese Generation One figures. Well below you can see the full mouth watering list of which toys will be on display.
Display 1
Top Shelf - Zone • Roadfire
• Sonic Bomber
• Dia Atlas
• Rabbicrator (with Zone VHS if we can find it)
• Super Car Patrol (recoloured Sports Car Patrol)
• Battle Patrol (recoloured Battle Patrol)
2nd Shelf - Masterforce • Black Zarak
• Overlord
• Metal Hawk
• SixKnight (Quickswitch recolour)
• Ranger (Joyride recolour)
• Minelba / Minerva (depending if you go by what is on the box or not)
• Go Shooter
• God Bomber (this is the original release)
• 3x Godmaster figures
Bottom Shelf - The Max's 1. Fortress Maximus (US release)
2. Grand Maximus
3. Brave Maximus
4. Fort Max Jr
5. Convoy Jr
6. Chromedome Jr
7. Soundwave Jr
8. Soundblaster Jr
9. Super God Ginrai Jr
10. Metroplex Jr
11. Dinosaurer Jr
11. Star Saber Jr (if he can be found)
Display 2
Top Shelf - Return of Convoy 1. Six Train - (Original release)
2. Six Liner - (Original release)
3. Six Wing - (Original release)
4. Six Builder - (Original release)
5. Six Turbo - (Original release)
6. Star Convoy - (Original release)
7. Grandus
8. Sky Garry
9. Metrotitan
2nd & 3rd Shelf - Victory 1. Blue Bacchus
2. Black Shadow
3. Star Saber
4. Victory Leo
5. Victory Saber (there will be two)
6. Deathsaurus
7. Road Ceasar
8. Lio Kasier
9. Dinoking
10. Dinoforce shells
11. Greatshot
12. Landcross (original release)
13. Galaxy Shuttle
We're going to decide how to split them on the day
4th Shelf - Microman / Diaclone / Trasformer 1. Browning
2. Magnum
3. Helicopter Robo
4. Lockbot
5. Scopeman
6. Silver Robot Eggbot
7. Gold Eagle Eggbot
8. Gold Watch Robot
We might bring along some more of the ko-kronoform watches as well.
5th Shelf - European Action Masters 1. All four Elites
2. 3x Bombshells (one carded, one colour variant, one normal loose)
3. 2x Tracks
4. 2x Charger
5. Sideswipe
6. Powerflash
7. Turbomaster
8. Slicer
9. Thundercracker
10. Circuit
11. Rumbler
Auto Assembly's own Simon Pumbe has recorded a short message on YouTube showing that the Challenge and Cybertron sets that will be given away at Auto Assembly 2010 are now in hand with him in Birmingham England. The sets will be given to 30 people at the event and are not scheduled for a UK release, nor have they been released within the US yet. You can view that video below along with the previous video from a few days ago which includes the announcement of this years toy display that will be put on by none other than this websites owners.
It's hard to
believe that Auto Assembly 2010 is only NINE days away. Fans across
Europe have been anticipating the arrival of the convention for so long
this year and with an incredible guest line-up and some of the best
activities we have ever arranged, this is shaping up to be our best
convention ever.
Even with the convention being so close, there
are still some of you who haven't booked your tickets yet! We have said
this repeatedly but please don't leave it until it is too late and hope
to be able to come on the day. While we may have some on-the-door
places, we can't guarantee how many we will have and they will be on a
first come, first served basis. We won't announce how many of these we
will have until pre-registrations close so advance booking is your only
way to GUARANTEE admission to this year's convention.
Because we
are so close now, we have revised our bookings deadlines to make it as
easy as possible for you all to get your tickets. The FINAL deadline for
all bookings is the morning of Wednesday 11th August 2010. However, if
your booking reaches us on this date, we will NOT be able to post your
passes out to you. Monday 9th August is the booking deadline for people
within the UK to have your passes sent out to ensure that they reach you
in time for the convention. After that point - and for ALL
international bookings - we will send your confirmation email out as
normal but arrange for you to collect your passes when you arrive so
make sure you bring a print out of these emails with you.
We
have also extended the postal booking deadlines. However, you need to
use the NEW postal booking form that we have uploaded to the website
today and there is a new postal address and cheque payment details that
you need to use which will allow us to process your bookings. Postal
bookings must be received by no later than Monday 9th August.
There
are about 75 full weekend passes available still, and less than 40 one
day passes for the Sunday, but one day passes for the Saturday are sold
out! With ticket sales doing so well, booking now, or getting a
Non-Attendee Pack could be your only way of getting this year's
convention exclusive comic - the convention variant cover of IDW's
Transformers Issue 9 with new cover art by Nick Roche and Liam Shalloo,
produced for the convention by Toyz And Gamez (www.toyzandgamez.co.uk)
Spanning
the weekend of Friday 13th - Sunday 15th August 2010 at the The Holiday
Inn Birmingham City Centre, Birmingham, England, the convention is
playing host to a staggering 14 guests including three guests of honour
(Garry Chalk, Scott McNeil and Derrick J Wyatt), and will feature toy
and art displays, dealers, comic guests, free autograph sessions, a
video games area, free workshops run by many of our guests, dedicated
childrens programming, video screenings and more! There will also be
Friday and Saturday evening programmes, exclusive for weekend attendees
and the Saturday evening will play host to a massive musical party,
costume competition, our voice actors will take to the stage to perform a
BRAND NEW script written by Simon Furman and the chance to win one of
THIRTY sets of the Challenge At Cybertron sets donated by Hasbro... and
we still have LOADS more to announce!
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
Are you a kitbasher well you might be interested in this latest mini-announcement from the Auto Assembly team
Due to a line up change, we have unfortunately been left without a kitbasher for this year's event. I'm writing to ask whether anybody would be willing to help us out here.... We are looking for somebody to run a Kitbash segment on both Saturday and Sunday - both will be at 10:00am - 11.30am in one of our side rooms.
Please note - you don't necessarily have to run a workshop with demos etc, but it would be good for an experienced kitbasher to maybe show off some of their work and answer questions / give tips.
If you think you can help, please drop us a line urgently at autoassembly@aol.com
The figure was from the customising class which was assembly and sold onto a dealer at Botcon. It then made its way to Japan, where is was listed on the Auction site and was won by an overseas bidder using the Rinkya bidding service.
Our thanks to Phill and King Grimlock for correcting us on the origins of the figure.
Auto Assembly is teaming up with Hasbro again this year for some fantastic competitions this year that will blow everyone away!!
In the past couple of years we have had displays that have included displays of some of the curent toy ranges on offer in the UK and the unveiling the UK's first lucky draw toy that was produced in 2008. But for Auto Assembly 2010, it's going to be awesome...
This year, Hasbro have generously supplied us with no less than THIRTY sets Of the eagerly anticipated Challenge At Cybertron boxed set featuring Universe Cyclonus, Galvertron and Rodimus! This set is not being released in the UK and at the moment, it's not even released in the US and when it is, it will be a Target exclusive!!
To be in with a chance of winning one of these, you MUST be pre-registered for the convention. We will then be holding a random prize draw and 30 lucky winners will be chosen, and winning tickets will be inserted into the attendee packs that you will collect when you arrive at the convention. If you find one, bring it to the Registration Desk to claim your prize!!
If you haven't already booked, there's still time to be in with a chance to win one of these great sets of toys and be entered into some of our other draws that we will be announcing soon...!
To find out more about Hasbro's involvement and some other things they are doing, watch the official announcement video here:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9jh9MQ1PUU
Tickets are selling fast for the convention and if you want to be a part of this and the prize draw you need to book quickly! Every day we are setting a new attendance record so why not hurry and be a part of Europe's biggest Transformers convention.
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The convention is taking place over the weekend of Friday 13th - Sunday 15th August 2010 at the Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Birmingham, England. There will be Friday and Saturday evening programmes that are exclusive for weekend attendees and the Saturday evening will play host to a massive musical party, costume competition, and the script and disco / karaoke.
We have frozen the ticket prices for the convention from Auto Assembly 2009 and full weekend tickets are £45 for adults and £35 for children, students and senior citizens, with under 5s admitted free. Family tickets (2 adults and 2 children) are available for £145. One day tickets for Saturday have sold out, but one day tickets for Sunday are still available and cost £25 for adults, £18 for children, students or senior citizens and under 5's as always are free. However as they are limited, if you want to come along for just the day then you need to book 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
Auto Assembly 2010 is sponsored by www.transformertoys.co.uk and www.transformersanimated.com whose generosity have made Derrick J Wyatt, Jim Sorenson and Bill Forster's appearances at the convention possible.
Auto Assembly 2010 is also sponsored by:-
Science Fiction Collectables - www.sf-collectables.co.uk
Toyz And Gamez - www.toyzandgamez.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
Every year, the attendance figure for Auto Assembly has grown consistently
from its humble beginnings 10 years ago to becoming Europe's largest Transformers convention. One thing that we can always depend on is that no
matter how steady bookings are throughout the year - despite the odd surges
following major announcements - is that we have a massive rush in the closing
couple of weeks when everyone who hasn't booked and wants to attend remembers
that they still need to order their tickets..
THAT TIME IS NOW!!
Last year, in the final 18 days we had 85 bookings - 17% of the total
turnout of the convention in the space of just a couple of weeks. We have already set a new European attendance record (at the time of writing this, we have 512 bookings) and with bookings coming in faster than ever, we predict
that the convention could well be a total sell out over the next two weeks or
so.
At the moment we still have approximately 100 full weekend tickets
available and 50 Sunday passes and that's it!
Non-Attendee Packs are also available and there is no limit on the number of these that are available as they
are produced to order. If there are going to be any on-the-door tickets
available, we won't know about these until about 48 hours before the convention
and we will announce this on the convention website. If these are
available, we *may* have a limited number of one-day Saturday passes on sale, but
the only tickets we can guarantee at the moment are pre-bookings.
With the convention being this close, many of you may feel that we have
nothing left to announce and that everything you can see on the website it is
for this year's convention. Well we still have a LOT more to come...
We
have just confirmed our FOURTEENTH guest for this year - Titan comic artist
Lee Bradley who is making a return to Auto Assembly and although Lee will
only be with us for the Saturday, he'll be involved in a panel with our other
comic guests and will be around all day to meet fans providing sketches and
will no doubt be around for our Saturday night party!
But what other announcements do we have on the way? We are going to be
announcing the full list of items in this year's charity auction shortly (which
all of our Non-Attendees will be able to bid on), news on some great prize
draws we will be running for all pre-registrants, full details and images
of this years convention merchandise, and a lot more surprises that we have
in store...!
The convention is taking place over the weekend of Friday 13th - Sunday
15th August 2010 at the Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Birmingham,
England. There will be Friday and Saturday evening programmes that are exclusive
for weekend attendees and the Saturday evening will play host to a massive
musical party, costume competition, and the script and disco / karaoke.
We have frozen the ticket prices for the convention from Auto Assembly 2009
and full weekend tickets are £45 for adults and £35 for children, students
and senior citizens, with under 5s admitted free. Family tickets (2 adults
and 2 children) are available for £145. One day tickets for Saturday have
sold out, but one day tickets for Sunday are still available and cost £25
for adults, £18 for children, students or senior citizens and under 5's as
always are free. However as they are limited, if you want to come along for
just the day then you need to book 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 2010.
The Auto Assembly 2010 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 2010 is sponsored by www.transformertoys.co.uk and www.transformersanimated.com whose generosity have made Derrick J Wyatt, Jim
Sorenson and Bill Forster's appearances at the convention possible.
Auto Assembly 2010 is also sponsored by:
Science Fiction Collectables - www.sf-collectables.co.uk
Toyz And Gamez -_www.toyzandgamez.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
Auto Assembly have sent out the following reminder that the event is now less than 3 weeks away
Auto Assembly 2010 - Less Than Three Weeks Away
The convention is taking place over the weekend of 13th - 15th August 2010 at the Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Birmingham, England. If you've already booked you know what's in store, but if you haven't, you haven't attended for a few years or haven't made up your minds yet, we wanted to let you know what this year's convention will be like...
A NEW European Attendance Record!!
Last year we had a staggering 501 people at Auto Assembly 2009 making it not only the largest Transformers convention ever seen in Europe but also made us the first European event to break the 500-attendee barrier that we've all been striving for for so long. However, with three weeks to go, we've already set a NEW European record from pre-bookings with 506 at the time of writing! What this means is that we are going to SMASH last year's total. We know a lot of you may be leaving things until the last minute before you book, or may be planning on coming along and paying on the day, but we don't want any of you to be disappointed just because you waited "just one more day"...
Auto Assembly Needs You!
While we have a great line-up of activities and guests spread over the convention weekend, the most important part of the convention is the people who attend it... you guys! Last year, people felt that it had the best atmosphere EVER at an Auto Assembly event and we want to beat that this time and the more people who are there, the better! What could be better than being surrounded by over 500 like-minded people for a few days of fun?!
The Guests
Since we last contacted you, we've updated our guest list and we now have a massive 14 guests attending Auto Assembly 2010. So far we have:-
* Garry Chalk - voice of Optimus Primal in Beast Wars / Beast Machines and Optimus Prime in Armada / Energon / Cybertron
*Scott McNeil - voice of Rattrap, Waspinator, Dinobot and Silverbolt in Beast Wars and Beast Machines
* Derrick J Wyatt - lead character designer for Transformers: Animated
* Jim Sorenson - co-author of the Allspark Almanac
* Bill Forster - co-author of the Allspark Almanac
* Simon Furman - legendary Transformers comic writer
* Nick Roche - IDW comic artist
* James Roberts - IDW writer (co-author of Last Stand Of The Wreckers)
* Simon Williams - artist
* Liam Shalloo - IDW colourist
* Kris Carter - IDW / Titan colourist
* Jason Cardy - colourist
* Kat Nicholson - colourist
* Lee Bradley - Titan artist (Saturday only)
As you can see from the line-up, Guido Guidi is no longer able to be with us due to family commitments. However, we are now being joined by writer James Roberts. James is Nick Roche's co-writer on the stunning Last Stand Of The Wreckers series, and is also responsible for the critically-acclaimed fan novel Eugenesis.
And ALL of our guests will be on hand all weekend signing autographs and will take to the stage for Q&A sessions. Most of our comic guests will also be sketching for fans during the weekend.
The Activities
It's going to be a packed weekend. Infact it will be so busy that we don't think you'll have time to fit everything in! Starting at around 5:30 pm on Friday until 6:00 pm on Sunday, there will be something for everyone no matter what era of Transformers you are interested in!
The main part of the convention takes place on the Saturday and Sunday between 9:30 am and 5:30 pm but there are bonus programmes on the Friday evening from 5:30 pm until 11:00 pm and Saturday evening from 7:00 pm until 1:00 am so while you can attend for just the one day, it really pays to be there for the full weekend!
But what exactly will the convention be offering? Well, here's a list of some of the things we have planned...
Dealers
Video screenings
Guests
Guest talks - at least five Q&A sessions with different panels on each day!
Autograph Sessions
Game Zone - the ultimate Transformers video games area ever seen!
Toy Display
Art Display
Costume Competition
Party (Saturday night)
Script Performance with our voice actors (brand new script written by Simon Furman)
Charity Auction
Quizzes
Comic Art Workshop
Comic Colourist Workshop
Kitbash Workshop
Dedicated Children's Programme
Transformers Fan Forum Meets
Activities run BY fans FOR fans
And much, much more! More detailed information on many of the activities being held, along with a programme for the convention can be found on the convention website.
The Game Zone
Love video games? Well the Game Zone will be perfect for you!! It's the 10th Anniversary of Auto Assembly and it's been 25 years since the first Transformers game was released so we wanted to do something special...
We are aiming to have as many Transformers games running as possible spanning this 25 year history and will have games dating back to the very first TF game on the Commodore 64 right up to War For Cybertron on the Playstation 3 and everything in between. will There will be games that many of you won't have seen for years, for some of the younger attendees, may have been released before you were born, and we are also hoping to showcase some of the rarer and more unusual imported games from America and Japan that never made it to the UK. And if for some unknown reason we can't have the game running, we will have them on display in a special TF video game showcase!
So what games can you expect to find? Well, here are just a few of the highlights...
Transformers (Ocean) - Commodore 64
Transformers: Battle To Save The Earth (Activision) - Commodore 64
Challenge Of The Gobots - Commodore 64
Beast Wars - Playstation
Beast Wars: Transmetals - Playstation (US version)
Beast Wars: Transmetals - Nintendo 64 (Japanese version)
Beast Wars - Gameboy Color (Japanese)
Transformers (Atari) - Playstation 2
Dream Mix TV World Fighters - Gamecube (Japanese)
Transformers (live action movie) - PSP
Transformers: Animated - Nintendo DS
Revenge Of The Fallen - Playstation 2, Nintendo DS, PS3
War For Cybertron - Playstation 3
War For Cybertron - Nintendo DS
Guitar Hero - Wii
And many more!
Pre-Registrant Prize Draws
We have some great competitions lined up for all of you who book (or have booked) for Auto Assembly 2010. Everyone who pre-registers will be entered into a free prize draw and the winner will receive a family weekend ticket (up to 2 adults and 2 children) to Auto Assembly 2011!! One runner up will receive an adult weekend ticket for Auto Assembly 2011. Both will also receive additional prizes!
We will also hold some additional prize draws but you need to pre-register to be entered. You can't come along and pay on the door to enter these!
Convention Exclusive Comic
Yes, for the second year running we have a convention exclusive comic! Produced for us by Toyz And Gamez, this us a brand new convention edition of IDW's Transformers Issue 9 featuring new cover art by Nick Roche and Liam Shalloo. This is a stunning souvenir of the convention and is limited to just 1,000 copies!
Auto Assembly 2010 Non-Attendee Package
Can't make it to the convention? Why not grab our fantastic value Non-Attendee Package. For only £70 (£80 for those of you who live outside the UK), you will get ALL of the convention merchandise and goodies and a whole load of other great stuff:-
* The full Auto Assembly 2010 Goodie Bag (more items the earlier you book!)
* FOUR keyrings including the limited edition 10th Annversary Auto Assembly keyring that will NOT go on general sale!
* A copy of Issue 11 of The Cybertronian Times, signed by ALL our guests
* An original sketch by one of our comic artists
* The Auto Assembly 2010 commemorative mug
* IDW's Transformers Issue 9 Auto Assembly 2010 Convention Exclusive Variant Cover
* Entry into all our prize draws and bidding rights for our charity raffle
* A copy of the CD single for the official Auto Assembly theme song, "Transform"
* Additional fanzines produced for Auto Assembly 2010 by Transmasters UK
And much more...! Visit the website to get yours!
Auto Assembly On Youtube
If you haven't already seen it, we're quite active on Youtube these days. You can find footage from all our previous events as well as regular news updates on Auto Assembly 2010 on our official channel. There's some fantastic exclusive footage from Auto Assembly 2009 and you can check out the channel here - http://www.youtube.com/autoassembly and if you are an active Youtube user, why not subscribe and get updates as we add new videos!
Where, When And How Much?
So hopefully now that some of you will be thinking of joining us for the weekend, you'll want to know whwre it is and how much it is to get in! Well, the convention runs between Friday 13th - Sunday 15th August 2010 and takes place at the Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Birmingham, England which is right in the city centre.
Tickets are £45 for adults and £35 for children, students and senior citizens with under 5s being free. Reductions are available for family bookings and we also offer special family discounts and reduced rates for one-day tickets although the one-day passes for the Saturday are now sold out so the only single day tickets we have available are for the Sunday.
Late Bookings - Ticket Collection Option
Because the convention is only a few weeks away, some of you may be concerned about booking and receiving your passes in time. We are now sending out passes within 24-48 hours of bookings coming in (and in most cases the same day) but for added reassurance, we can give you the option to have your passes available for collection at the convention instead.
Just book your tickets through the website as normal but as soon as you book, email us and let us know that you want to collect your passes instead. Then just bring your confirmation email with you on the Friday night to collect your pass. Because of the number of people at the event, we can only offer this to weekend bookings.
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If you have any questions about the convention, feel free to email us or pop over to our discussion forum at http://autoassembly.proboards.com where we'll be only too happy to answer any questions or comments you might have about the convention and keep checking on the website for all the latest news and guest updates as well!
Anyway, thanks for taking the time to read this and we hope to see many of you there in August!
The Auto Assembly 2010 Team
Auto Assembly 2010 - 13th - 15th August 2010.
The Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Birmingham, England
Auto Assembly has issues another press release and YouTube video update announcing another guest as well as confirming that Auto Assembly 2010 has received (by midnight) 501 pre-registrants, meaning that the after one more booking the convention will break its own European Transformers Convention attendance records with three weeks to go!
Get Wrecked At Auto Assembly 2010...!
Auto Assembly 2010 is now only three weeks away but rather than going into hiding for the remaining time to finish preparations, we are busy working on even more surprises and announcements to make this a convention you will never forget...
We have now made a couple of changes to our guest line-up for the convention. Sadly, Guido Guidi is no longer able to join us. Owing to personal reasons and the pressures of an impending house move, Guido is unable to be with us, and despite being disappointed at missing the convention, he is hoping to make his return in 2011...
However, thanks to an incredible fundraising campaign started by members at the Moonbase 2 forum we do have another guest. He is a comic writer who has worked for IDW and he is... well, just watch this video and find out...
The convention is taking place over the weekend of Friday 13th - Sunday 15th August 2010 at the Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Birmingham, England. There will be Friday and Saturday evening programmes that are exclusive for weekend attendees and the Saturday evening will play host to a massive musical party, costume competition, and the script and disco / karaoke. And we still have lots more to announce...!
We have frozen the ticket prices for the convention from Auto Assembly 2009 and full weekend tickets are £45 for adults and £35 for children, students and senior citizens, with under 5s admitted free. Family tickets (2 adults and 2 children) are available for £145.
One day tickets for Saturday have sold out, but one day tickets for Sunday are still available and cost £25 for adults, £18 for children, students or senior citizens and under 5's as always are free. However as they are limited, if you want to come along for just the day then you need to book NOW!
Because of the rate that bookings are coming in, and the popularity of the one-day passes last year, we cannot guarantee that single day tickets will be available to purchase on the door and it is looking likely that we may not have ANY on-the-door places available for the full weekend so pre-registration this year is a must!
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
The Transformers Collectors Club has posted the bio for BotCon 2010 Shattered Glass Ravage online.
Ravage- Good Kitty
"Out of Sight, out of mind. GTG TTYL"
Ravage always wants you to know exactly where he is, and what he is
doing. An endless attention seeker, he can always be found perching
from the top of the most visible structure, excitedly waving his little
paw, hoping you catch a glimpse of him. Megatron has long since ordered
Decepticons to maintain eternal radio silence, not only because of the
possibility of Autobot interference, but because Ravage can't stop
sending radio communications, telling others his location and what his
current moos is. Now that he's on Earth, he's become addicted to social
networking and micro-blogging. Unsurprisingly, none of his fellow
Decepticons have followed through on his friending requests.
News has come in of the Summer Wonderfest 2010 exclusive Generation One Arcee Resin, The resin is 24 cms tall and will be on sale this weekend at the 2010 SUmmer Wonderfestival in Japan.
Height: 24cm
Series: Transformers
Maker: Jamming Off
Release date: 25 July 2010
Seibertron.com have news of the 7th Spanish Transformers convention, details of which are below
From October 1st to October 3rd, 2010 the seventh edition of the
Jornadas de Transfans Españolas convention (JDT) will be held in the
spanish city of Zaragoza. This convention, formerly known as Jornadas de
Transformers Españolas, is the annual meeting in which Spanish fans
celebrate their passion for these toys through exhibitions, lectures,
contests and activities.
This edition will hold the following contests, in which
transformable toys prizes worth over 300 Euros will be awarded.
One of them will be a custom contest, open to everyone, everywhere.
Up to two Custom figures can be presented for each contestant, and a
first and a second prizes will be awarded. Also a special prize will be
awarded for the audience's favourite. The prizes will be worth 100, 50,
and 50 euros respectively. No attendance is necessary, as you can send
your customs to the JDTn, and after the Convention they will be
delivered back.
Check our news and contests rules (in English) on our homepage: www.asoc-acat.es
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