Veteran voice actor Michael Bell is set to returned to the Transformers franchise by voicing a character within the Transformers Rescue Bots series. Michael previously voiced the Generation 1 characters Prowl, Sideswipe, Swoop, Scrapper. Mr Bell had this to say when maing the announcement on Facebook back on the 8th April

To all my buds..tune in to THE RESCUE BOTS episode "Turning The Tide" which airs this Saturday, April 11 at 10:30am Pacific time on Discovery Family. It's a super show and has lots of your favorite vo actors voicing some wonderful characters. Ya got kids, or know kids, cue them in to watch. I am.

P.S. Yours truly is on this episode. I had a blast doing.

The Auto Assembly website has been updated with a video from Michael Bell talking about his appearance at Auto Assembly 2012.

Click the link to visit the site and see the video.  Also remember that you can already purchase tickets for Auto Assembly 2013 which has already confirmed three guests, the returning Neil Kaplan (voice of Optimus Prime from Transformers Robots in Disguise), the returning Dan Gilvezan (voice of G1 Bumblebee) and Steve Blum (voice of Transformers Prime Starscream as well as Darkscream, Wars and Fortress Maximus in Transformers Robtos in Disguise, Heatwave in Transformers Rescue Bots along with countless other shows and video games).

Also keep an eye out for Roll Out Roll Call 2013, for an earlier fix of Transformers and GI-Joe goodness

Hundreds of thousands of fans are expected to be in attendance over the course of Auto Assembly 2012 ... oh no, wait, that's for the other small event taking place isn't it (London Olympics 2012).  Though not on the same scale, today marks the opening of Auto Assembly 2012, confirmed to be Europe's Largest ever Transformers Convention (on pre-registration alone).

Joining us in Birmingham are comic starts from IDW Publishing from all of their Transformers books, Transformers More Than Meets The Eye, Transformers Robots in Disguise and Transformers Regeneration.  In addition we have three voice actors flying over for Auto Assembly, all making their European Transformers Convention début (some for their first trip to the UK).  We have Michael Bell (voice of G1 Prowl, Springer, Sideswipe and many others), Paul Eiding (voice of G1 Perceptor) and Townsend Coleman (voice of Transformers Animated Sentinel Prime - and a rather popular show called The Tick!)

The show starts tonight and lasts until Sunday, and don't forget what happened last year on Saturday night with the surprise guest appearance.

See you there

Auto Assembly have updated their website with a video on the first of their international guests, Transformers Voice Actor Michael Bell

 Michael Bell provided the voices for several Transformers inclugin Prowl, Sideswipe and Swoop in the original series.  You may also recognise some of his other credits as well.