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

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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 2010 Announces Massive Hasbro Giveaway!

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

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

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Auto Assembly have sent out the following release

Auto Assembly 2010 - The Rush Is ON!!

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

www.autoassembly.org.uk - official Auto Assembly website
www.youtube.com/autoassembly - official Auto Assembly Youtube channel
www.twitter.com/auto_assembly - official Auto Assembly Twitter page
http://autoassembly.proboards.com - official Auto Assembly forum

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

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.

Strength 5
Intelligence 8
Speed 6
Endurance 6
Rank 7
Courage 7
Fireblast 8
Skill 10

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

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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

Jim Sorenson has updated his blog, The Disciples of Boltax, with comments regarding his and Bill Forster's appearance at Auto Assembly 2010.

I've got some news that I find incredibly exciting.  This year, both Bill Forster and I have been invited to Auto Assembly, Europe's largest Transformers convention.  As I haven't been to England since 2006, I'm extremely excited to get the chance to go back and mingle with the terrific fan community out there.  In addition to hanging around and making a nuisance of ourselves all weekend, we're tentatively planning to use our time on Sunday to give a brief presentation on some behind-the-scenes artwork from various generations that hasn't been published before, before shifting to a traditional Q&A session.  

Other great guests include Derrick Wyatt, Garry Chalk, Scott McNeil, Simon Furman, Nick Roche, Guido Guidi, and many more.  This looks like a must-attend convention if you're native to the British Isles.  If you were at all on the fence about coming to this con, I strongly urge you to preregister now, as the spots are filling up quickly and there's no worse feeling than having to turn someone away from an event like this. 

I have to extend my warmest thanks to the convention organizers and especially to Steve and David Mapes from Transformers At The Moon for making this happen.  I love smaller conventions, so it really is quite an honor to­ be invited. AA at AA... feels like a natural fit, doesn't it?­

Hello all,

finaly our booklets arieved today and we have the days programm for the C.O.N.S. 2010

We have rented the hall! We have almost booked up them! We have the exclusive figure here! We have invited "Rampage"! We have engaged the comic draftsman "Claude Christ"! We have introduced our programm to you! We have shown you the badges! We have already sent a lot of tickets! We have not shown only one to you yet! Our booklet, now this comes! Today we show you the booklet, what every visitor of the C.O.N.S., on the 25th of July, free of charge by the entry receives. Now thanks to our sponsor Sacha Mozina the booklets have also arrived with us and here we have the pictures in addition and the programm:

11.00 am Opening
11.30 am Welcoming and introduction of the team
00.00 pm Sale of the C.O.N.S. exclusive figure "Cobra"
00.30 pm Start of the BBQ
01.00 pm Jumpstarter challenge
01.30 pm First tombola
02.00 pm Start of the attacktix tournament
03.00 pm Second tombola & End of votings for the contests
04.00 pm Announcement of the winners
05.00 pm End of selling
Aftershow party with rockband "Rampage"

Here is a copy of the latest Auto Assembly 2010 press release.

­Auto Assembly 2010 Announces More Guests!

We're less than four weeks away from Auto Assembly 2010 but that hasn't stopped us from adding even more to our line-up to make this the best convention we have ever put together...

We are now proud to announce the addition of TWO more guests to the convention in the shape of Jim Sorenson and Bill Forster, writers of the Allspark Almanac and it's newly released follow-up! Making their European convention debut, they will be on hand all weekend to meet and talk to fans and sign autographs and they will be taking to the stage on the Sunday to give a presentation and take questions about their work on what is considered to be one of the best Transformers books released for years.

Their appearance at Auto Assembly 2010 has been made possible thanks to the incredibly generous sponsorship from Steve and David Mapes from Transformers At The Moon (www.transformertoys.co.uk) and means that the convention will have THREE major Transformers Animated guests this year, and all of them will be on stage in turn on the Sunday. If you have even the slightest interest in Transformers Animated, you won't want to miss this year's event!

That's not all though, adding to that the convention exclusive edition of IDW's Transformers Issue 9 with an exclusive cover by Nick Roche and Liam Shalloo, a concert by Garry Chalk, a live script performance featuring Garry Chalk and Scott McNeil from a BRAND NEW script written exclusively for the convention by Simon Furman, a Saturday night disco and karaoke with singing by Scott McNeil, dealers, 13 confirmed guests with talks, autographs, competitions, workshops, displays, and a video games area showcasing 25 years of Transformers video games... could you ask for anything more?!

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

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

The CyberGundamBlog have posted some photographs which they took at the Tokyo Toy Show which show the new Transformers Animated line-up, 2010 re-issue Predaking, Masterpiece Movie Starscream, Alternity Thundercracker and Animated Hydrodive Bumblebee­.­  Click the link for the images.

If that is not enough, Amiami Blog has also posted lots of photo from the event which doesn't just include Transformers items

Hasbro's PR company­ has sent out samples of the San Diego Comic-con exclusive Mighty Muggs Prowl to some of the US Transformers websites including the webmaster of TFW2005.com and  a member of The All Spark.

You can see the TFW2005.com­ and ­Allspark.com galleries by following the links (so I guess it's not so exclusive to the show after all).  It remains to be seen if the other US Transformers sites will receive a copy, and if not what backlash may come of it.