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