BotCon.com has been updated with images of the latest BotCon 2009 exclusive toy, Elite Guard Flak.� The figure, as expected, is a recolour of Transformers Cybertron Scattorshot (a toy which has seen several recolours in other Transformers lines).

The toy uses an urban camoflague look, as the all green look (used on the original Micromaster Flak), had alrady been used on the Transformers Universe repaint of this mold.

Stan Bush has been in contact with Seibertron.com to let them know that he has released a "Tribute to the Troops" video on YouTube, that his band will be playing at JACON (Japanese Anime Convention) in Orlando on the Memorial Day weekend of May 22nd and May 23rd as well as Botcon 2009 (though he is waiting for final confirmation).  Stan also announced that Activision will be releasing a free download of "The Touch" for Guitar Hero and that apparently Hasbro will be releasing two Transformers Revenge of the Fallen toys in May along with "The Touch".  Finally Stan sends word that he is going to be submitted a new version of The Touch to Paramount for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.  Whether it will get used time will tell.

The waiting is over, the countdown has begun. The third one and only annual Dutch Transformers convention will open her door on Sunday June 14th 2009. More details will appear in the coming weeks.

www.tf-conversions.com

From this coming monday March 16th, the shop of our site will be opened. Via the shop you will be able to order and buy your tickets now. Only is you buy your ticket in advance, will your admittance fee be 15 euro. The price of the tickets on the day of the event it self will be €17.50.

The shop will also have various T-Shirts for sale. Both with the B.O.T.S. logo from last year, aswell as ones with the TF ConVersions logo for this year. These will be made available in various sizes and colours, in T-shirts with short sleeve, long sleeve, V-neck and ladies model

Don't forget to visit our message board. Here you can leave all your questions, remarks and suggestions.

http://www.tf-conversions.com/index.php?option=com_agora&Itemid=26

We will see each other at TF ConVersions on Zondag 14 Juni 2009.

Auto Assembly have recently updated their website to detail some of the shops, stores and dealers who will be in attendance at Auto Assembly 2009.

The dealers include:-

• Toy-Fu
• The Transformers Collectors Club
• Science Fiction Collectables
• Spacebridge
• Xyber Toys
• T-4-E

BotCon.com has been updated with images of the latet BotCon 2009 exclusice Transforemrs toy, this time the new character of Landshark.

The figure is a recoloured version of Transformers Energon Landmine toy featuring a green and orange colour scheme.

TF08.net has posted images of the Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Wheelie toy, in both roboto and alternate forms.

Meanwhile the site has also posted more images of the BotCon Leozak, still awating official confimation.  As Leo Zak is a repaint of the Skyquake BotCon convention figure, it could well be that this toy will be the "special" more limited figure, following in the recoloured veign of Clear Mirage and Meister from the previous years.

We thought we'd remind everyone that the discount available for the early bird registration for Auto Assembly 2009 ends at the end of this month, March 2009.

Auto Assembly 2009 is set to become the biggest UK Transformers convetion to date, along with breaking a few other UK records.  It is the first 2 day Transformers event in the UK and currently features13 guests including

• Gregg Berger (voice of G1 Grimlock)
  
• Ian James Corlett (voice of BW Cheetor)
• Jason Cardy
• Kat Nicholson
• Liam Shalloo
• Andy Wildman
• Simon Williams
• John McCrea
• Staz Johnson
• Lee Sullivan
• Mike Collins
• Lee Bradley
• Nick Roche
  

Stay tuned to Transformers At The Moon this month as we look to bring you more information on Auto Assembly 2009 including what you can expect from us in the form of a toy display.  If our plans works out, we dont' think you'll be disappointed - though you'll need to attend both days to see everything.

BotCon.com has been updated with the brochure for this years event.

Special Guests-featuring voice actors, artists and of course the Hasbro Transformers Team. The Hasbro Team will be on hand the entire weekend to show you the upcoming products and to answer your burning Transformers questions.

Panels and Seminars-led by Hasbro, special guests and experts in the Transformers community. These presentations will totally immerse you in all things Transformers. Learn inside information, meet celebrities, watch demonstrations and more!

Sales Room-features over 200 tables of Transformers merchandise for sale. There are thousands of items each year that trade hands in this BotCon focal point.

Transformers Film Fest-displays the talents of Transformers fans from all over the world. Come watch as stories you have never dreamed of are shown on the big screen!

Contests-showcase the incredible skills of Transformers artists everywhere. Start designing your entries today as you could be a big winner in one of the five different BotCon contests.

How to draw Transformers-provides you with the basic drawing skills to start drawing your own versions of your favorite Transformers heroes. These demonstrations are led by artists from the Hasbro team.

Transformers Customizing Class‑a day long optional event, that teaches fans to take off-the-shelf toys and create new characters by repainting the existing toy’s factory colors.

Local Tours-always a great way to start your week, touring the Los Angeles area with your fellow Transformers fans! This is a great way to meet other fans and share memories that will last a lifetime!

MSTF-a hilarious fun-filled evening where Transformers fans parody all things Transformers from cartoons to the live action movie, all on the big screen. MSTF is the Transformers version of  Mystery Science Theatre 3000. You will laugh so hard your sides will hurt!

Room to Room Trading‑provides collectors a chance to swap, buy and sell items from their personal collections in the evenings when the Dealer Room is closed. Have just a few extras you would like to swap? Well, this is your chance to trade with other collectors.

Party at Paramount-the culmination of our festivities celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Transformers! Tour the back lot, have dinner, and enjoy the camaraderie of fans from all over the world! Watch for more announcements about this event. This will be a night you’ll never forget!

Fan Achievement Awards‑allows attendees to vote for their favorite web sites achievements in several different categories. Be sure to vote and support your favorite sites!

Exclusives - Battle of Beta 9

Wings of Honor Convention Set: A five-figure boxed set which includes
Kup, Thunderclash, Landshark, Flak, and Scourge, plus Primus Package Exclusive Figure

While at the show, make sure you stop by the club booth to get the latest release of the Revenge of the Fallen movie products! BotCon will be the first time the mainline products will be offered for sale and each piece will come with a gold foil BotCon 2009 First Release sticker! These are sure to become instant collectibles as we will have a limited number on hand.

After weeks of speculation, Europe's largest Transformers convention Auto Assembly 2009, is proud to announce it's second voice actor for it's convention taking place over the weekend of 15th-16th August 2009...

Joining our first voice actor, Ian James Corlett (the voice of Cheetor from Beast Wars and Beast Machines) will ne none other than Gregg Berger, the voice of Grimlock and Skyfire and a host of other characters from G1!! Fans have been asking us for several years to bring Gregg over to the UK to appear at an Auto Assembly convention and we are excited to be able to make this a reality in the 25th Anniversary year of Transformers!

Gregg will be actively involved with the convention all weekend and for those of you who aren't sure about whether to book for the weekend or wait until we release single day tickets, when you find out what Gregg will be doing, you won't want to miss out on the full weekend! As well as signing autographs for fans all weekend, Gregg will be taking to the stage for a talk/Q&A session on one of the days (the exact day to be confirmed), he will be joining Ian James Corlett and comic artist Simon Williams on stage on Saturday evening for the live script reading which is being written by Simon Furman (and the evening programme is exclusive for weekend attendees), and he will be involved in another part of the main programme item during the weekend which will be on the DIFFERENT day to his talk/Q&A session so to see everything Gregg will be doing, you need to be there all weekend!

As is the standard policy for Auto Assembly, Gregg will NOT be charging for autographs but he will be bringing along a selection of items for sale including photos, CDs and DVDs which you can get signed but please feel free to have any of your own items autographed freely... including the Auto Assembly 2009 convention exclusive Grimlock postcard being illustrated by Andrew Wildman!

With a staggering 13 guests, there have never been a better time for you to attend Auto Assembly if you have never been before! Auto Assembly will be a packed weekend running from around 10:00 am until about 6:00 pm each day with a bonus programme on Saturday evening until 1:00 am and a small bonus programme on Friday evening, both for weekend attendees only.

In terms of activities, this will be the biggest and best Auto Assembly yet with dealers tables, guest talks (13 guests so far with at least two different panels each day, splitting our guest talks so no guest will talk more than once over the weekend), live script reading featuring Ian James Corlett and Gregg Berger, autograph sessions, artist sketches, artist workshops, comic colourist workshops, toy displays, art displays, charity auction, charity raffle, fan displays, quiz, video screenings, art, fiction and costume competitions, games area, a party and disco running until 1:00 am on Sunday, a possible cinema screening of Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen and much more besides...

The convention will be taking place right in the heart of Birmingham city centre in England at the Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Smallbrook Queensway, Birmingham. There is fantastic public transport access from every part of the UK and for those of you travelling from outside of the UK, Birmingham International Airport is just 10 minutes away by train!

For full details and online booking, visit the website NOW at www.autoassembly.org.uk

Anyway, we hope to see many of you there for what we hope will be Europe's biggest ever Transformers convention!
 
Simon and Sven
Auto Assembly
 
web: www.autoassembly.org.uk
forum: http://autoassembly.proboards7.com
email: autoassembly@aol.com
tel: +44 (0)7804 951406

Europe's largest Transformers convention, Auto Assembly 2009, taking place over the weekend of 15th-16th August at the Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre in Birmingham, England is once again expanding it's ever increasing line-up of guests...

We are pleased to announce that IDW and Titan Books comic artist Nick Roche will be joining us for his first ever Auto Assembly appearance as our TWELFTH guest!

Nick will be actively involved with Auto Assembly 2009 throughout the weekend and as well as being a part of one of our two comic panels, he will be joining our other comic guests in the guest area meeting fans throughout the weekend signing autographs. Here, you'll be able to meet Nick to talk to him about his work, and he will also be doing sketches for fans!

If that wasn't enough, he will be donating some original artwork for our charity auction and Nick will also be one of the artists involved in our art workshops taking place during the convention so if you have ever wanted to draw Transformers like the professionals, here's your chance to find out how!!

Nick isn't the only one of our comic guests to be actively involved in the convention in this way. As well as taking part in the comic panels, many of our other comic guests will be doing more during the weekend...

SIMON WILLIAMS

Simon will be providing the artwork for one of the convention exclusive postcards that will be given away free to all attendees and once again, Simon will be on hand all weekend doing sketches for fans. But that's not all... Simon will also be bringing artwork for sale, prints and more besides.

ANDREW WILDMAN

Andrew will be doing the artwork for our other exclusive postcard, doing sketches for fans and bringing some original artwork for sale.

LIAM SHALLOO

Liam will be playing host to one of our comic art colouring workshops taking place during the weekend, and he will also be bringing prints with him for sale.
 
JASON CARDY and KAT NICHOLSON

Jason and Kat will be bringing a selection of brand new prints and badges for sale and Kat will be doing sketches for fans of Transformers Animated characters. We are also hoping that they will be involved in the convention in some other way too...

Please note that there may be charges from some of our artists for sketches and some may insist that they are personalised. We will bring you more updates on our other comic guests as we get them.

Don't forget, you can find full details about the convention and the the new Auto Assembly Shop where you can buy back issues of our convention magazine, pin badges and more on the website at www.autoassembly.org.uk

We have some more MASSIVE announcements over the next few days including details of our second voice actor and much more besides so keep your eyes on all the major forums and websites! As always, we hope to see as many of you as possible in August.

Simon and Sven
Auto Assembly
 
web: www.autoassembly.org.uk
forum: http://autoassembly.proboards7.com
email: autoassembly@aol.com
tel: +44 (0)7804 951406

Hi,
 
Now that things are starting to move along, we thought it was time to bring you the first of our regular updates on what is happening with Auto Assembly 2009...

BOOKINGS

Since we opened bookings less than a month ago, it would seem that we are already on target for setting a new European attendance record once again! We have already beaten the attendance figures that we set for Auto Assembly 2000 and Auto Assembly 2001 and what that has meant is that - sadly - for those of you who have not already registered, the free DVDs that are part of the goodie bag have already been allocated. We do have plenty of other items that will be in the goodie bag for ALL attendees though so don't worry if you haven't already booked as no-one will go away from the convention empty handed!

For those of you who are reluctant to book your tickets online using PayPal, we now have the Postal Booking Forms on the website for downloading so you can print these off and send them to us with your payment. The early registration discounts still apply if you book this way, as do the family discounts.

DEALER TABLES

If you want to attend Auto Assembly 2009 as a dealer, we have also opened up bookings for dealers tables this year so get in touch if you are interested. We have sorted out the room layout and as well as reserving space for all of our regular dealers who will be returning, we do have space available for new dealers but tables are limited so hurry if you want to get involved!

GUESTS

We already have a fantastic guest line-up for Auto Assembly 2009 with no less than ELEVEN guests confirmed so far with more in the pipeline. Right now we are being joined by our first guest of honour, Ian James Corlett (the voice of Cheetor from Beast Wars) and supporting him is our usual array of comic guests - Andrew Wildman, Simon Williams, Jason Cardy, Kat Nicholson, Staz Johnson, Liam Shalloo, Lee Sullivan, Mike Collins, Lee Bradley and John McCrea. We are currently in talks with a second voice actor and additional comic guests.

What we can now confirm is some of the extra involvement of some of our guests during the weekend... As we have already announced, we will be having a live voice actor script reading on the Saturday evening. Taking to the stage will be Ian Corlett, Simon Williams taking on the role of the narrator, and our second voice actor in a brand new script penned by Simon Furman!

Many of our comic guests will be doing sketches for fans during the convention, usually for a small charge, and we can already confirm that Andrew Wildman and Simon Williams will again be doing these for any fans who want an original piece of artwork! Simon will also be bringing artwork and prints for sale.

Still with the weekend activities and we would like to announce that IDW and Titan comic colourist Liam Shalloo will be taking charge of one of the comic colourist workshops taking place during the weekend and as with ALL of the activities and workshops at Auto Assembly, there is no additional charge once you have paid your registration fee!!

As always, guests are appearing subject to work and personal commitments.

AUTO ASSEMBLY SHOP

Just added to the website is the new Auto Assembly Shop. You can now buy back issues of our convention magazine, The Cybertronian Times, the Auto Assembly pin badges that were produced for Auto Assembly 2005 and Auto Assembly 2006, and the full range of keyrings produced for Auto Assembly 2008. We will ship these worldwide and all proceeds will go towards Auto Assembly 2009's guest budget and providing additional activities and events during the weekend. We have been offered additional guests for the convention but the only way we can get these is through extra funding so if you are coming to Auto Assembly and you want to see them, then every penny from these sales helps!

THE CYBERTRONIAN TIMES ISSUE 10

After a brief delay, we have opened pre-orders for this year's convention magazine through the bookings page on the website. For those of you who have already pre-registered, you can still pre-order the magazine by going to the bookings page and placing your order and we will match it to your booking so it will be ready for collection on arrival. We will have a limited number of additional copies available for sale over the weekend but we do recommend ordering in advance as most of the earlier issues have sold out completely!

CAR / ROOM SHARE

A lot of you may be travelling to Auto Assembly 2009 on your own or are planning on coming to the convention on your own this year and are finding the cost daunting in these difficult financial times. To make things easier, we have established two new areas on the Official Auto Assembly forum where you can find other Transformers fans who may be willing to car share or room share to help you cut your costs.

For those of you who still want to go it alone but need help, we're only too happy to help you find the best travel deals, good prices on car parking or anything else that you need to get your money to stretch as far as possible!

GOODIE BAG UPDATE

We have now confirmed the seventh item for our infamous goodie bag! Courtesy of reprolabels.com all attendees will be receiving a sheet of custom insignia stickers as part of their goodie bag. We don't know exactly what will be on the sheets yet, but rest assured that they will be up to the usual high standard from Reprolabels.

These gifts are in addition to the DVDs for the first 49 pre-registrants (which have now been allocated), and packs of G1 stickers for the first 100 attendees (although we may be getting a further supply of these soon), keyrings, two postcards, and lanyards (the last four guaranteed for every attendee). We are still in talks to bring you even more free gifts as part of your goodie bag so keep your eyes peeled!

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For those of you who still don't know, Auto Assembly 2009 is taking place at the Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Smallbrook Queensway, Birmingham, England from Saturday 15th - Sunday 16th August 2009. A bonus programme of activities will take place on the evening of Friday 14th August 2009 for those fans who are attending the convention for the full weekend.

Anyway, that's it for this update but we'll be back with more news soon. We hope to see many of you in August for what we think will be the biggest and best Auto Assembly ever!
 
Simon and Sven
Auto Assembly
 
web: www.autoassembly.org.uk
forum: http://autoassembly.proboards7.com
email: autoassembly@aol.com
tel: +44 (0)7804 951406

The website for this year's Dutch Transformers convention is now live.  The convention has changed it's name once again (from Transformations in 2007, through to B.O.T.S (2008) and now to TF ConVersions).

The event is due to take place in June 2009, around the time of the second live action Transformers Movie (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen).

The website www.TF-ConVersions.com promises that more updates and features will be added to the site in the coming months leading towards the event.

The Transformers Live Action Movie Blog has been updated with several rumours regarding the sequal to the hit Transformers Movie, Transformers Revenge of the Fallen.

The rumours cover some of the possible footage to be shown at the Superbowl (in the trailer) and other rumours regarding characters.

Pete Sinclair, from the Fun Publications team behind BotCon, has dropped another hint that the BotCon set for 2009 will be the Wreckers.

Far be it from me to wreck your all's ideas. I just know that this year's set is going to rule!

Obviously this is more likey to be the OTFCC/BotCon Wreckers group, rather than the original UK Transformers Comic Wreckers team, with Impactor, Wreck and Rule etc.