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The latest email from Mastercollector included some information on the due dates for the registration forms for BotCon 2008
Hello Member-name!The Transformers Collectors Club website has been updated with information and the cover of issue 19 of the Collectors Club magazine. The cover of the magazine shows the first images of Transformers Universe Onslaught, no news on whether this is the first of the Combiners planned for Transformers Universe (Classics).
See the full size image here
Issue 19 of Transformers Collectors' Club Magazine
will leave you speechless as we debut not one, not two, but all
FIVE of the upcoming Wave 1 Transformers Universe Classics! We
decided that we just can't wait until January 25th to show at
least one of these awesome figures, so enjoy our New Year's gift
to you as we unveil the cover to our best issue yet!
We are kicking 2008 off with a bang, so if you have been waiting
to renew your membership, or to join for the first time, now is
the time! We have all kinds of exclusive first looks and content
lined up for both the Magazine and Members site, awesome new Club
exclusives, the 4th free Club figure "Topspin" and so much more.
Don't miss out on what is going to be a great year! Click here
to Join
Now.
The dates and location for BotCon 2008 have been announced over at BotCon.com and they are
BotCon 2008, April 24th - 27th 2008, Duke Energy Center Cincinnati, Ohio
Simon Furman
Staz Johnson (Auto Assembly debut)
Geoff Senior
Liam Shalloo (Auto Assembly debut)
Lew Stringer (Auto Assembly debut)
Andrew Wildman
Simon Williams
Earlier today, 24th November 2007, in Japan the Dengeki 15th Anniversary (電撃15å¹´ç¥) event took place and thanks once again to Yokubarion we are able to bring you images from the event. 376 images to be exact. The images include the Transformers display from Takara Tomy, featuring the Transformers Movie toys, Sky Lynx and the four Japanese exclusives (including the red Vardia Starscream). The images also include other items from TakaraTomy as well as Bandai, Kotobukiya, Konami, Medicoss Entertainment, Max Factory amongst others.
You can find the photographs in the Dengeki 15th Anniversary gallery which is part of our Transformers and Collectors Convention Photo area.
Over at the Transformers Collector Club Message Board they have confirmed that the Universe Seacons will be a future exclusive, that the next club exclusive will not be Elita-1 but will be based on an existing character but with a new head-sculpt and finally, that the 2008 story arch for the comic will be based around the TransTech designs, and will include work from Ken Lashley of Draxhall Jump.
Simes posted the following announcement on our message board.
Things are moving along at a blinding pace already for Auto Assembly
2008! No sooner have we announced the convention, that we're now able
to announce our first guest!
We
are pleased to announce that once again we will be joined by comic
artist Simon Williams who will be making his fourth appearance at Auto
Assembly. Simon has recently started working for IDW on some of their
Transformers titles and doing some work for SFX magazine and is hoping
once again to work on one of our exclusive postcards.
Also
joining us will be Lew Stringer. Lew's work will be known to fans of
the original UK comics published by Marvel when Lew wrote and
illustrated the "Combat Colin" backup strip that appeared in the comic.
Lew will be making his first and long-awaited appearance at Auto
Assembly in 2008!
As always, all of our guests will be appearing subject to work and personal commitments.
Simon and Sven
Auto Assembly 2008
web: www.autoassembly.org.uk
enquiries@autoassembly.org.uk
forum: http://autoassembly.proboards7.com
Yes, it's finally here! We are pleased to announce that Auto Assembly
2008 has been confirmed for Saturday 2nd August 2008 and will once
again be taking place at the Clarendon Suites right here in Birmingham,
England. After taking a much needed year off, we're back and hoping to
bring you the biggest and best Auto Assembly convention EVER with loads
of activities, and what could well be our biggest guest line-up
to-date...
This
time we're running the event to raise funds for Help A Local Child
(formerly known as Cash For Kids) - a local children's charity founded
by BRMB radio station - through a charity auction and raffle and any
excess funds left over from the convention.
Help a Local Child
was launched in 1994 with a commitment to helping the children and
young people of the West Midlands, who experience the negative effects
of poverty, abuse, neglect, homelessness, violence, crime, illness and
disability. There are many children in and around the Birmingham area
who are carers for their own parents or who are indirect victims of
domestic violence or suffer daily pain due to illness. In this world of
glamour and gain, these are the children that BRMB want to help. Their
focus is local fundraising, with all money raised being awarded locally
and really benefiting our community. With the help and support of their
listeners, local celebrities, corporate partners, volunteers, and their
employees, the fundraising year on year will help more and more
children in the area, enabling them to achieve dreams and ambitions
they would never have thought possible.
Back to this year's
convention and we're going to be having the usual mix of activities -
plenty of dealers, video screenings, a bar or two(!), toy and art
displays, competitions and guest talks. We're hoping to have our usual
mix of UK comic guests including all of our "regulars", another voice
actor (who we will announce as soon as possible) but this time we want
to have the biggest guest line-up ever at a British Transformers
convention!
In 2005 Auto Assembly was the biggest ever held in
Europe with 409 fans attending and last year we had 400 attendees and
we are confident that we're going to smash the European record next
year. Every year we have a fantastic amount of interest for the
convention with fans booking up from across Europe and as far afield as
Australia and America!
We'll be producing another issue of our
fanzine, The Cybertronian Times, producing another one of our infamous
"goodie bags" with plenty of great free gifts including two more
convention exclusive postcards, and much more!
Anyway, we hope
to see many of you there next year and feel free to get in touch if you
want to know more! There will be full information about next year's
convention going on the website over the coming days and weeks and
bookings will be open in the next week or so!
Simon and Sven
Auto Assembly 2008
web: www.autoassembly.org.uk
enquiries@autoassembly.org.uk
forum: http://autoassembly.proboards7.com
Great news for UK Transfans, as the date for Auto Assembly 2008 should be announced in the next day or two, according to organiser Simon Plumbe. The event will take place around July / August next year at the Clarendon Suites, where Auto Assembly 2005 and Auto Assembly 2006 took place.
Expect more word as its announced.
We have updated our Transformers Conventions Photograph area with two new galleries of recent Japanese conventions. The conventions are the 2007 Transfanket and the 17th Tokyo Toy Festival 2007, both of which took place towards the end of October. The Tokyo Toy Festival gallery includes a high resolution photograph of the Japanese exclusive Transformers Movie DVD Spychanger Optimus Prime (see below).
Collectormania starts today, running over the weekend, at Milton Keynes shopping centre. The event is free to get into, though you need to pay if you wish to get an item signed my any of the various stars in attendance.
The show is also featuring the 1978 Camaro Bumblebee car (which was on display at the London Film and Comic-Con recently).
BigPete reported the following over at NTFA.net regarding the NTFA Mini-con
"Upon arrival, each attendant will receive 1 (one) free Movie Deluxe toy with a numbered exclusive NTFA Mini-Con convention sticker!
These are handed out at random, and none of them are available in any
Nordic stores yet! We'll keep handing them out until they're all gone,
and they are sponsored by the very friendly and supportive people at
Hasbro Nordic!
Please note that pre-registrants will be supplied
first (regardless of actual arrival time) -- we cannot guarantee that
there will be enough toys to supply the people who turn up at the door
without pre-registering.
"