BBC Birmingham have published their coverage of Auto Assembly 2009 which includes a feature article as well as an image gallery.

The feature includes some quotes from Auto Assembly Organiser Simon Plumbe regarding how the event went, as well as making mention to the Lucky Draw display that was shown by the owners of this very website.

The image gallery includes photos of some of the female cosplayers, guest, dealers, staff, attendees as well as various items that were on display in our cabinets on the Saturday.

The BBC Birmingham website has been updated with an article that previews Auto Assembly 2009 which takes place at the Holiday Inn in Birmingham city centre (Small Brook, Queensway) on 15th and 16th August 2009.  The article includes some quotes from co-organiser Simon Plumbe who discusses some of the history of Auto Assembly as well as his hopes for this years event which will celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Transformers.

The BBC were in attendance at Auto Assembly 2008 on the weekend and have now published their article and image gallery from the event on the Birmingham section of the BBC website. The article have quotes from both Sven and Simon and also mentioned howover £30,000 was spent by fans at the event, that is an average of over £70 per person. Not bad for a country going into recession.

The NTFA have an interview with Auto Assembly organiser Simon Plumbe. Simon talks about this years event as well as previous years events.

That's right the BBC website is currently running a story on Transformers and Auto Assembly.

The story, which includes a small interview with Sven Harvey, touches on the long running Transformers convention, the impact of the Transformers Movie.

From that came a small local Star Trek fan club but as interest in Star Trek wained, we thought we could try meeting I the same vein with Transformers. Along with Star Trek and Star Wars, Transformers is the most popular science fiction franchise on the internet."

In a strange update to the BBFC website a new entry for Transformers appeared a few weeks ago. The listing was for a 23 minute 23 second U rated video called Transformers - Optimus Prime Vs Megatron - The Ultimate Battle. That title is the name that was used on for the DVD that came with the Transformers Classics Optimus Prime / Megatron 2 pack. The DVD is listed as containing a photo gallery as well as the episode. It seems some what strange that the DVD would just be rated, considering that the toys are no longer on general release. Its also unlikely that this is a mis-entry for the Transformers Animated DVD, as it simply is not long enough. Could it be that the Classic 2-pack will be re-released within the UK shortly, and hte DVD was re-classified, or are the BBFC just that far behind.