­Tickets for Auto Assembly 2010 selling at an incredible rate. We have just entered our "rush" period for the convention and while we are still five weeks away from the event, it is clear that we are well on target to shatter the European attendance record for a Transformers convention...

In fact, tickets have been selling so well that we have now SOLD OUT of our allocation of one day passes for the Saturday!! What this means is that for any of you who wish to attend Auto Assembly 2010 and have not yet purchased your tickets, you can now only buy FULL WEEKEND or SUNDAY ONLY tickets. Because of space limitations in the hotel, we will not be releasing a further allocation of passes for the Saturday so unless you have already registered, the only way you can now attend Auto Assembly 2010 on the Saturday is to buy a weekend pass. If you can't make the convention at all, we still have our Non-Attendee Packs and there will be no restrictions on the availability of these.

We have frozen the ticket prices for the convention from Auto Assembly 2009 and the one day tickets for Sunday 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! 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.

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 so pre-registration this year is a must!

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 11 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 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

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's appearance 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

The SDCC exclusives and panels have been announced in the last week.  The toys will be Masterpiece Grimlock, Mighty Mugg Blaster and Mighty Muggs Prowl.  It was also announced that there would be two panels, a War For Cybertron panel and another one for Transformers Prime that will show the first footage from the series.

NTF-C.o.n.s have updated their website with a video review of the C.O.N.S. exclusive figure "Cobra" which has been produced in association with NTF-Archive and HeadRobots.

Here is a round up of what was said during the Hasbro designer panel at Botcon 2010.

The Hasbro team on the panel were Eric Seibenhaler, Bill Rawley, Joe Kline, Lenny Kanziga, Chris Oliverie and Lenny Panzica.  With the last two being new members of the team.  Joining them from Takara-Tomy was Mr Yake.

G1 Legends Optimus Prime, Starscream, Prowl and Megatron (gun), all with rubsigns.  Megatron can be held by Starscream

Scout Class Windcharger with flip out magnet weapons

Darkmount recoloured as Skullgrin with a new ram skull head.

Deluxe class Scourge (white stealth jet)

War For Cybertron Cliffjumper

Generations.  Tunderwing (deluxe), Tracks (deluxe with three modes), Mindset (Hailstorm remould with nerw head), Jazz (with speakers), Perceptor (transforms into a truck based on TF Animated).  Perceptor recolour with new head to be Reflector.  Grappel also shown as is Inferno with a new head.  Highbrow, Lugnut (new mold based on a WWII Bomder)

Voyager Class Fallen

Powercore combiners Heavytread with Groundspike.  Skyhammer with Airlift.  5-pack Constructicons.  Dinobot set with the body being a Styracosaurus but in Slag's colour scheme.

They talked about some new story ideas  / concepts they are working on, showing original 13 AlphaTrion.  Alpha Trion is shown holding a book and quil, and basically is a scribe recording events and knowledge.

Liege Maximo is the second with a Greek Mythology based design

Vector Prime is the third.  He is described as a time/space warrior with golden armour

Prima is the fourth, the first of the Primes.  A warrior of the light, he is all white with a broadsword

Megatronus if the fifth, a blakc and red robot with a fusion cannon.  He's head is based on the Decepticon symbol.  He sets himself on fire and becomes known as The Fallen.

Battle Ops Bumblebee comes with an easter egg.  If you keep operating the sounds he plays the G1 theme.

Transformers Prime.  Eric is designing Bulkhead for the show.  There will be a new Kup coming.  They want to dso more humans and cassettes.

After Dinobot being voted in to the Hall of Fame, Hasbro would now like to re-vist Beast Wars.

No plans at the moment for War For Cybertron Trypticon or Omega Supreme.

No chance of new toys for Japanese Animated release as the tools no longer exist.

On Airachnid Aaron said to wait and see, that they copyright a lot of names but people will find out in time.

Botcon.com have announced the initial details for their 2011 convention.  The event will take place in Pasadena, California within the United States (a popular location for Botcon) and will take place between June 2nd and June 5th.  Check out the Botcon 2011 website here.

Both tfw2005.com and seibertron.com have continued coverage from BotCon 2010 day 2

From TFW

1) Botcon 2010 Activision Panel
2) Botcon 2010 Hasbro Panel Coverage
3) Botcon 2010 Transformers Prime Panel Coverage
4) TFW2005 BotCon 2010 Coverage : Real Life Motormaster At BotCon 2010

From Seibertron

1) Notes from Hasbro's Marketing Review panel (aka Hasbro Toy panel)
2) Notes from Hasbro's Transformers: PRIME CG cartoon panel (updated during panel) Welker and Cullen reprise roles, Soundwave ...
3) BotCon 2010 Gallery - Hunt For The Decepticons Toys Revealed

The various US based sites have published reports from day 1 of Botcon 2010 and so to help you quickly find them here is a list of the main players.

TFW2005

Takara Tomy Panel - Not much to talk about from this, some history of the diaclones and a few questions on the Masterpiece figures

General Images -Animated Ironhide, some movie recolours and the G1 Seacon reissues

Bob Budiansky panel - some details on alternative names for some of the G1 figures

Seibertron.com

Bob Budiansky panel

TFormers

TakaraTomy Panel

Bod Budiansky panel

General Images.

S250 have posted some images of the Botcon 2010 Slicer and Double Punch figures which includes a first look at their robot modes.  You can see the images below.

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The Auto Assembly Twitter page have been updated with a Tweet stating "Over 400 people now registered for Auto Assembly 2010! New record here we come...", which is, of course, in reference to the European Transformers record which was broken by last years Auto Assembly Event which saw 501 attendees over the weekend.

Auto Assembly 2010 is on between the 13th - 15th August 2010 in Birmingham England.  Visit the Auto Assembly website to book tickets and for more information.

Several other websites have arranged time for "official meets" at the convention though they clash with some of the guest panels, well Transformers At The Moon / Transformers Animated isn't that strict and so we are making considering the whole week-end as our official meet.  This year we will not only be putting on a toy display (which makes it the perfect location for people to meet as its will be obvious where and who we are, but we are also on the committee as well as being the first sponsors of the event and are bringing our very own guest Mr Derrick J Wyatt!