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YouTuber Mazainjapan2008 has posted some images and videos from Chara-Hobby (Character Hobby) which is currently taking place within Japan. This event saw the first showing of the coloured Masterpiece Rodimus as well as showing the just released Transformers Animated Hydrodive Bumblebee and Wingblade Optimus Prime. The event also showed the new Transformers Animated Lucky Draw Silver Bumblebee figure which will be given away to 40 winners split between two chains of stores within Japan. You can find the videos and images below.
Are you a fan of Starscream? Are you in Japan on the 31st October 2010? If so you may be interested into heading to Kohinta for the "Starscream Only" event which will be taking place. Yes Japanese fans have organised a get-together that celebrates the popular seeker. The event will have cosplay and fan produced comics (doujinshi) all based around Starscream. Click the link for more.
We forgot to post a news story on this a few days ago after Auto Assembly organiser Simon Plumbe posting the video on YouTube, but I guess it's better late than never.
Below you will see the special tribute videos which were recorded for Auto Assembly 2010 by various Transformers related voice actors.
Jim Sorenson, writer of both Allspark Almanacs, the Ark books and all round "awesome dude" has posted his thoughts on Auto Assembly 2010 where, amongst other things, Jim discovered that he can pull off wearing a fez pretty well.
If you attended the event I urge you to read Jim's thoughts and if you did not I also urge you to read his blog and find out more about Auto Assembly.
Its pleases me to announce that the final attendance figure for Auto Assembly 2010 is in and the number 579! So the convention set a new European attendance record for the 2nd year running as well as making a healthy leap towards the 600 attendees mark. So on behalf of the Auto Assembly committee I would like to extend a big big thank you to everyone who was in attendance over the weekend and helped turn the event into something very special.
We have uploaded the photographs that we took during Auto Assembly 2010 to the website now, though we have not added a review of the weekend's events. Since we were more involved with helping out this year the gallery is not as comprehensive as our normal convention images but it does include a look at our Japanese Transformers display.
For those that wonder the photograph with Derrick and two people is not Derrick with both of us us, but is Derrick Wyatt with Quartz (Steve) and Duh Pres (Billy) as Moonbug was taking the photograph.
The gallery ends with a couple of images showing the items we purchased during the event, but we will add a more detailed review later,
Well folks Auto Assembly 2010 is officially over and yet for many today will be the last post-AA day as they chill at the hotel and say good bye to the guests and fellow attendees. Sadly, due to work commitments, we had to leave late last night for the drive home.
I'd like to start of by saying thank you to Simon, his wife Trish and daughter Hannah for organising what was once again Europe's largest Transformers Convention. I'm not sure on the final numbers but when I was last on the registration desk we were up to 578 attendees.
I'd like to thank all of the guest who were as entertaining as always and all probably have RSI from all the signings they did over the weekend. On a personal note I would like to extend a massive thank you once again to Derrick J Wyatt, Jim Sorenson and Bill Forster for agreeing to come over to the event. They all loved it and it certainly appeared to be mutual from everyone in attendance.
I hope everyone had a great time at the convention and had, or will have, a safe journey back home.
On a feedback note what did you all make of Auto Assembly 2010? Did you like the toy display that we put on this year? How about those custom Mighty Muggs that we were showing? How awesome were those? (A massive thanks to Minion for making them).
Before Auto Assembly 2010 has even started, we're not resting on our laurels and plans are well underway for Auto Assembly 2011! The date has been set for 12th - 14th August 2011 at the Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Birmingham, England - the home of Auto Assembly since 2009 and home to this year's convention taking place this weekend!
Details are limited right now but we can say that all the usual activities and events that you have come to expect from Auto Assembly are planned and we already have our first two voice actors CONFIRMED for the convention. We aren't announcing either of them *just* yet although some of you may find out sooner than you think...
Ticket prices are £50 for adults and £38 for children, students and senior citizens, with under 5s admitted free. One day tickets are available for the Saturday or Sunday (although these will NOT get you into the Friday or Saturday evening programmes) and these cost £30 for adults, £21 for children, students or senior citizens and under 5's as always are free. Family tickets will be available shortly.
Tickets will be available to buy at Auto Assembly 2010 this weekend and ALL Auto Assembly 2010 attendees will qualify for a discount enabling them to register at this year's rates but those prices only apply until the end of September. We do have a limited number of on-the-door places available still if you haven't booked so you still have a chance to join us this weekend!
For more details on the convention, or for information on Auto Assembly 2010, visit the website at www.autoassembly.org.uk
We hope to see you all in August 2011 or this weekend!
A little behind everyone else, but e-Hobby have now posted their own report and images from the recent Chinese Transformers convention CybertronCon. You can find the report, which is in Japanese, by clicking the link at the beginning of this article.
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
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TOY ROBOTS CONVERTIBLE INTO OTHER VISUAL FORMS and currently has as status of The registration has been renewed..
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OTFCC 2003 (USA)
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US Sheet 1
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Transformers Animated
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