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Auto Assembly have issued the following press release
TF Source Joins Auto Assembly 2012 As Official Sponsor
As Auto Assembly 2012 draws closer, we are now starting to work more closely with partners to bring you the best convention ever this year. As part of this we are proud to announce that - for the second year running - Transformers dealer TF Source is sponsoring the convention.
TF Source has very generously sponsored us with the costs of producing the passes and lanyards this year for the convention which is always a significant cost for us here at the convention. Being a non-profit making event, this support allows us to do much more with the registration fees we receive from our attendees and with our increasing running costs every year this support is vital for us to continue the work that we do.
More details about TF Source - including a list of the full range of Transformers that they stock and information on how to order from anywhere in the world - can be found on their website at www.tfsource.com
For more details on Auto Assembly 2012 which is taking place over the weekend of 3rd - 5th August 2012 in Birmingham, England or to book your tickets or find out information about booking dealers tables, visit the website at www.autoassembly.org.uk and for all the latest news on Auto Assembly Europe, visit www.autoassemblyeurope.eu
Roll Out Roll Call have issued a new press release regarding some of the panels, announcements and showcases that will be taking place at next weekends Roll Out Roll Call show.
Hasbro Europe Showcasing Products at Roll Out Roll Call Show
With just a week to go until Roll Out Roll Call, the UK Show for Transformers, G.I. Joe & Action Force, there are a few new updates for attendee's to look forward to:
Episode 44 of "What's on JOE Mind?" The fancast about the world of GI Joe is now live. This week there is a lowdown on Roll Out Roll Call 2012 and also about the unproduced Action Force F-Force SWS Bombardier/ mystery Flash repaint: Episode 44: What
Marauder "Gun Runners" are showcasing some of their awesome Action Figure accessories at the show and sponsoring the Reporting For Duty custom competition There are even a few promo's that will be available to Weekend Ticket Holders (including a VERY cool Megatron Gun Mode Walther P-38). Product Showcase: Marauder "Gun Runners" | All The Cool Stuff
Paramount Pictures, the studio behind the live action Transformers & G.I.-Joe movies will be supporting the event, promoting their forthcoming The Dictator release: Paramount Pictures | All The Cool Stuff
Two more LA-based guests announced for Roll Out / Roll Call 2012!
We're 16 weeks away from Europe's largest combined G.I-Joe / Action ÂForce and Transformers show Roll Out / Roll Call 2012 and it is with great pleasure that Transformers At The Moon can exclusively reveal the names of two more guests for the show.
The pair are long time fans of both Transformers and G.I-Joe / Action Force and will be making only their second appearance at a European Convention. They are well known within the fan communities of both franchises as well as generally being two of the nicest and most interesting people you could meet. Have you guest who they are yet?
That's right, the guests are none other than Jim Sorenson andd
Bill Forster, writers of the both the Allspark Almanac books, the Ark Books (all three of them) and most recently Allspark Almanac Addendum (published within issue 6 of the Timelines comic that re-printed The Stunti-con Job). Jim and Bill will be on hand
all weekend to meet, great, sign, and generally hang out with fans of both shows as well as taking to the stage over the weekend to give a presentation and take
question on both Transformers and G.I-Joe.
Jim and Bill were extremely popular guests when we bought them over for Auto Assembly 2010 and we have been keen on bringing them back to the UK for another show. At the same time they are both as keen, if not more so, to come back to the UK and meet up with everyone again and so brings us all great pleasure to have them back on these shores for a show that covers not just Transformers but also G.I-Joe, a series that both these men care about.
So if you were unsure whether to attend Roll Out Roll Call 2012 in Southampton next March, then I hope that this announcement will convince you to attend the event and support it.
Roll Out / Roll Call 2012 is the UK Fan Show Convention dedicated to Transformers, Action Force
& GI Joe which will be taking place over the weekend of the 10th-11th March 2012 at Southampton's largest hotel, Jurys
Inn overlooking East Park. It will be the third show for the event and is organised primarily by Dave Tree of All The Cool Stuff. Everyone helping out organise and promote the event is very proud to welcome some very special guests from the world of Transformers, Action Force & GI-Joe including Larry Hama (1st UK show), Simon Furman, Andrew Wildman, Robert Atkins (1st UK show), Jon Goode (1st UK show), Jim Sorenson and Bill Forster. There are still at least three special guests to be announced, so stay tuned to the websites at the bottom of this announcement for all the latest news.
There will also be special presentations and panels on the toys, comics
and cartoons from special guest presenters, plus in addition there will
be show exclusives and trading affiliates, who will be attending the
show with a host of the latest, and in some cases, unique range of
merchandise.
Tickets will be on limited
availability, so please book in advance to avoid disappointment. Tickets
will go on sale soon.
I have uploaded the photographs that we took whilst at Auto Assembly 2011 here in the UK. The convention took place last week end in Birmingham and was another outstanding success.
We'd once again like to thank everyone who attended the event from the guests, the dealers, the volunteers, the committee, the hotel staff and, of course, Simon and Trish for all their work throughout the year
Auto Assembly sent out the following press release yesterday
Transformers Actors Rally behind Auto Assembly 2011!
With less than a week to go before the Transformers event of the year, it’s
decision time -Â are you going to join us in giving a thunderous farewell to
the Holiday Inn, in it’s final year as AA central?
We’ve done all we can to persuade you – we’ve told you about our room full
of Transformers dealers, our guest panels, exclusive giveaways, our unveiling of
new and never before seen video game information from Jagex... we’ve even told
you that Hasbro will be in attendance this year to add a final shine to what is
certainly going to be the biggest and most phenomenal event we have ever
hosted.
But still, with just four days until pre-registration closes, some of you
are undecided... so how about, rather than taking our word you listen to what
some of our friends have got to say about us... and my, do we have friends in
high places!
Firstly, we have a special Auto Assembly 2011 message from Optimus Primal
himself, Mr Garry Chalk!
And not to be outdone, with the appliance of science we are able to bring
you this special presentation put together for you all by Mr Paul Eiding
himself - the voice of Generation 1 Perceptor.
Friends, your heroes have spoken! Come to Auto Assembly 2011! And let’s
break that European attendance record one more time! If you can't make it this
year, don't forget you can book NOW for Auto Assembly 2012 and beat the
rush!
Auto Assembly 2011 is taking place over the weekend of 12th - 14th August
2011 at the Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Birmingham, England and tickets
are available from the website now. For more details on the convention, to see a
full list of all the guests and activities taking place over the weekend, or to
book your tickets, visit the website at www.autoassembly.org.uk
Auto Assembly have issued another press release for the upcoming UK Transformers Convention
14th Guest For Auto Assembly 2011 And Workshops Announced!
26 days to go until fans from across Europe and the rest of the world gather in Birmingham for Auto Assembly 2011, and we're still working hard to make this the biggest and best convention we have ever created. Not satisfied with what we have already go lined up for you, we can now bring you details of our next guest...
Returning once again as our FOURTEENTH guest this year is comic artist Lee Bradley. Lee's work will be familiar to UK fans through his ongoing work for Titan Magazines on their Transformers comic doing interior illustrations, comic strips and their "How To Draw..." series.
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Lee joins our extensive line up which already includes Gregg Berger, David Kaye, David Wise, Simon Furman, Andrew Wildman, Nick Roche, Geoff Senior, James Roberts, Simon Williams, Liam Shalloo, Kris Carter, Jason Cardy and Kat Nicholson!
Fourteen guests not enough for you? Well, we can now confirm details of this year's FREE Workshops that will be taking place during the convention weekend as well! Spread throughout the weekend will be a series of workshops open to all attendees run by some of our guests! Lee Bradley will be running a "How To Draw..." Workshop on the Sunday for anyone wanting to learn how to draw their favourite Transformer and Kris Carter and Liam Shalloo will be hosting a Colourist Workshop on Saturday. Kat Nicholson will be running a Transformers Animated themed Children's Art Workshop on Sunday and our Kitbash Workshop, a popular part of the programme in 2009, is making a welcome return!!
The convention is taking place over the weekend of 12th - 14th August 2011 at the Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Birmingham, England and tickets are available from the website now. For more details on the convention, to see a full list of all the guests and activities taking place over the weekend, or to book your tickets, visit the website at www.autoassembly.org.uk
Auto Assembly have issued a new press release announcing yet another guest for this years convention. You can find the press release in full below.
ÂÂAuto Assembly 2011 Announces Twelfth Guest!!
The clock is ticking and with just seven weeks to go until Auto Assembly 2011 we're moving into our rush period now for bookings so if you haven't already got your ticket for this year's event, then now is the time, especially as we are going to be making a lot of announcements over the next couple of weeks...
Starting things off, wÂe are proud to bring you all news that we have now confirmed our twelth guest for the convention... but we're not going to tell you who it is right now! You can find details on our latest Youtube video here:- http://youtu.be/5YTrD6ZgsPM
We have also just uploaded the entry form and rules to our Cosplay Competition to the website and there is more about this in the video, but if you have already registered for the convention, head over to the site now and download the forms you need to get involved in what is going to be another great competition!
We have a lot more to announce over the next two weeks including activities taking place over the weekend, details on our script reading auditions, more guests, and a few surprises we have in store...
The convention is taking place over the weekend of 12th - 14th August 2011 at the Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Birmingham, England and tickets are available from the website now. For more details on the convention, to see a full list of all the guests and activities taking place over the weekend, or to book your tickets, visit the website at www.autoassembly.org.uk
Auto Assembly have issued the following press release regarding the Andrew Wildman guest announcement
Auto Assembly 2011 Goes WILD!
The Transformers community is now fully entrenched into its annual convention season and now that everyone has had time to recover from Botcon, it's time for us here at Auto Assembly to shift gears as we head into the final stretch for this year's convention...
We have already announced our first nine guests but we are now proud to announce that legendary Marvel UK, Dreamwave and IDW artist Andrew Wildman will be joining us for his seventh Auto Assembly appearance. Andrew will be around all weekend meeting fans and signing autographs and will take to the stage on Saturday alongside all of our other comic guests as part of a stunning comic panel.
Andrew has a superb pedigree in the Transformers world, having worked on the original Transformers series for Marvel UK, the Generation 2 series for Marvel US, Dreamwave, Panini, Titan, and IDW. As well as this, he has worked on countless other titles and in the video game industry as well as his own forthcoming project, Horizon which can be found at http://www.indiegogo.com/horizon
Andrew is joining our extensive guest line-up which already includes David Kaye, Gregg Berger, Simon Furman, Nick Roche, Simon Williams, Liam Shalloo, Kris Carter, Jason Cardy and Kat Nicholson. But that's not all... in the next few days we will be announcing our THIRD guest of honour and we have two more guests to announce after that, but who are they?
We're now about to enter our "rush" period for ticket sales for the convention, where most of our ticket sales take place so if you haven't already registered for Auto Assembly 2011 then NOW is the time to do it!! Tickets are available from our website and are £50 for adults and £38 for children, students and senior citizens, with under 5s admitted free. One day tickets are available for the Saturday or Sunday (although these will NOT get you into the Friday or Saturday evening programmes) and these cost £30 for adults, £21 for children, students or senior citizens and under 5's as always are free. Family tickets are also available.
The convention is taking place over the weekend of 12th - 14th August 2011 at the Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Birmingham, England.
Tickets for Auto Assembly 2012 will go on sale later this year.
For more details on the convention, to see a full list of all the guests and activities taking place over the weekend, or to book your tickets, visit the website at www.autoassembly.org.uk
Transformations 2011 has been cancelled, announces organiser Paul Cannon on the official website. Transformations 2011 was going to be a London based Transformers Convention taking place in April 2011, the first since Paul's previous Transformers convention Transforce stopped running a few years ago. According to the website, the event was cancelled simply due to a lack of registrations.
This means that the UK is back to being a single dedicated Transformers Convention with Auto Assembly. There are other events that take place during the year which include Transformers, but there is no other dedicated event.
For those of us who were fortunate enough to attend Transforces in the past, I can tell you that, with the exception of the last TransForce, each event saw the convention grow with an atmosphere similar to the last two Auto Assembly's.
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Live in the UK? Can't make it to Auto Assembly? Fear not as the first UK Transformers "convention" for 2011 has been announced and for those familiar with Transforce you'll recognise the location. The convention is called Transformation 2011 and is set to take place on the 16th April 2011 at the Fairfield Halls, Croydon. London.
The Auto Assembly website has been updated with news that IDW and Titan colourist Kris Carter will be making his return to Auto Assembly at next years event. Kris will be sketching throughout the weekend, will
be joining our other comic guests on stage and will be running another workshop for all you budding comic colourists out there!Â
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Below you will find the latest press release from Auto Assembly regarding the opening of bookings for next years premier European Transformers Convention
Auto Assembly 2010 Bookings Open!
With the record-breaking Auto Assembly 2009 still fresh in everyone's memories, we have been busy behind the scenes and we are now pleased to announce that Auto Assembly 2010 is here! Europe's largest Transformers convention is returning over the weekend of Friday 13th - Sunday 15th August 2010 to celebrate its 10th Anniversary and once again it is aiming to be bigger and better than ever before!
As before, the convention will be spread over a weekend mainly running on Saturday and Sunday (with bonus programmes on Friday and Saturday evenings for full weekend attendees) and will feature a whole host of activities, dealers, guests, a party, live band, a script reading with our voice actors, charity auction, video screenings, art and kitbash workshops, costume competitions, video games area, toy and art displays, a dedicated childrens programme for the younger fans and so much more besides...!
The convention will be held at The Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, which is on Smallbrook Queensway, Birmingham,
right in the heart of Birmingham City Centre, England. It is an ideal location for anyone travelling to Birmingham from anywhere in the UK and is just 2 minutes walk from Birmingham New Street Station!
We already have our first four guests confirmed - IDW and Titan colourist Liam Shalloo, comic artist Simon Williams, legendary comic writer Simon Furman, and making his long-awaited return to Auto Assembly is Guido Guidi. More guests, and our voice actors will be announced shortly.
Ticket prices have been FROZEN for Auto Assembly 2010 and are £45 for adults and £35 for concessions with under 5s being FREE. Family tickets are also available offering larger discounts.
As always, we will have one of our usual goodie bags on offer for all attendees and we think that this will be another great bundle of goodies and once again it will include keyrings, postcards, and many more items... FREE for every attendee!
Bookings are open NOW so hurry to guarantee your place. Tickets are already selling fast based on the incredible response to Auto Assembly 2009, so if you want to make sure you can be a part of Auto Assembly 2010 then you want to book now while you can!
We hope to see many of you there next year for what we think will be the biggest and best Auto Assembly ever!
Auto Assembly have announced their 14th guest on their website as Lew Stringer, the creator/artist behind Combat Colin and Robo capers
"We've tried to get him a few times before, but Lew Stringer - creator/artist behind the Combat Colin and Robo Capers back-up strips that appeared in the Marvel UK G1 comics will be making his debut appearance at Auto Assembly 2009. Because of family commitments, Lew will only be appearing on Saturday so if you want to meet Lew you will need a Saturday or weekend pass. With the addition of Lew it gives Auto Assembly 2009 the biggest guest line-up ever seen at a European Transformers convention!"
The guest list for Auto Assembly 2008 just keeps on growing with the 6th and 7th guest now announced. Below you will find a quick run down of all of the guest, remember the guest of honour is still TBA.
Simon Furman
Staz Johnson (Auto Assembly debut)
Geoff Senior
Liam Shalloo (Auto Assembly debut)
Lew Stringer (Auto Assembly debut)
Andrew Wildman
Simon Williams
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.
Kakuryu
Click the link or image above to view the Kakuryu toy gallery. The gallery contains 48 images of this figure for your viewing pleasure.
Hasbro Inc submitted a trademark application for
INCINERATOR
with the USPTO on the Wednesday, 7th February 2007. The mark was submitted within the category
toy action figures, toy vehicles and toy robots convertible into other visual toy forms and currently has as status of Registered. The registration date is used to determine when post-registration maintenance documents are due..
Generation One Character Sheets, Designs and notes from Ron Friedman
Ron Friedman (one of the head writers for the first two seasons of Transformers Generation One and Transformers: The Movie) has placed several auctions on the website Heritage Auctions.com. The auctions include the G1 series bible, character sheets ....
Choose Your Fate
We loved the Transformers Choose Your Fate books as kids, and even wrote a text adventure in their style for an old version of Transformers At The Moon. Here you can find images from these puzzle-books, both UK and US ....
Ep 16: Megatron vs Optimus Prime
The opening fight sequence from the final episode of Transformers Animated Season One sees Optimus Prime battle it out with Megatron. ....
OTFCC 2003 (USA)
We loved the Transformers Choose Your Fate books as kids, and even wrote a text adventure in their style for an old version of Transformers At The Moon. Here you can find images from these puzzle-books, both UK and US ....
US Sheet 1
The scans contained within this gallery are taken from our own Transformers toysheet collection. This is the first US Transformers toysheet. ....
Transformers Animated
The instruction scans contained within this gallery with the TF08.net watermark were originally from the Chinese TF08 website. They have been added here as a mirror. ....
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