Transformers Event News

Ark Addendum: Webworld (part 5) and a special milestone

All week over at his "Disciples of Boltax" blog, Jim Sorenson has been treating everyone to an extensive series of sketches inspired by the G1 Transformers episode entitled "Webworld."

Jim has just posted Part 5, which finishes out the therapy portion of the backgrounds. We have excerpted a small image below for your convenience.



Also of note is a special milestone that Jim is celebrating in regards to his blog. We'll let him tell you in his own words.

Finally, this post is something of a milestone. My very first post was a year ago today. That makes today the one year anniversary of this blog. Looking back, there were exactly 300 posts in the first year (this is #301 for all time), an average of over 300 visitors per day and over 100,000 pageviews. In that time I've published two books, gotten married and seen blog contributors come and go. I like to think that we'll have as much to be proud of next year.

Congratulations, Jim! If you have never visited his blog, now would be a great time to do so. Simply go to boltax.blogspot.com or click here.

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TFCon 2010 Dates Announced

TFCon, Canada's Annual TransFormers Collectors' Convention has just updated their site with the details of this summer's event. TFCon will be July 17th and 18th, 2010, at the Doubletree International Plaza Hotel in Toronto. TFCon will feature Canada's largest dealer room for Transformers merchandise, a live Transformers script-reading with a Transformers voice actor, Guest Q/A Panels, Autograph Sessions,
Transformers Trivia Contest, Fan Art Contest, Costume Contest, and much more! Head on over to the TFCon site to see the update, and keeping checking back for more as the time draws closer!

ROTF Nominated for People's Choice Awards

Member dragons has let us know that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is up for a People's Choice Award for Best On-Screen Team. It is up against the likes of Harry Potter and Twilight, so this is going to be a competition.

Cast your vote by clicking here and click on the Favourite On-Screen Team link near the bottom of the page.

Go Transformers!

Movie Bumblebee Prop Appears in Sydney, Australia

Bumblebee show's up in Sydney, Australia, or to be precise, Paramount's prop of him, for a promotional event with the DVD and Blu-Ray disk release of Transformers Revenge of The Fallen, in Australia. In addition to the prop, some concept art of a few things in the film were also shown. The familiar prop of the movie's star looms over the people in the images which can be seen here.

Two Transformers DVD sets nominated for "TV DVD Awards"

While Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has dominated DVD news lately, there have been a lot of other fun Transformers DVD's released over the past year.

Two such releases, Transformers Animated Season 2 and Transformers 25th Anniversary Matrix of Leadership boxed set have now been nominated for awards.

Here is some more info, courtesy of Homemediamagazine.com.

A diverse selection of new hits and old favorites highlights the nominees list for the Sixth Annual TV DVD Awards, presented by Home Media Magazine, Agent DVD Magazine and TVShowsOnDVD.com.

Consumer voting for the awards began Nov. 2 and runs through Nov. 20 at HomeMediaMagazine.com/TVDVDVote2009 (the full ballot is available below. Vote now). Winners will be announced in December.

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment’s Lost: The Complete Fourth Season and Warner Home Video’s Fringe: The Complete First Season took three nominations apiece. Lionsgate’s acclaimed Mad Men: Season Two release earned two nominations.

But the studio earning the most nominations was Paramount Home Entertainment, with 10 total nominations, including six from the CBS division. In second place with seven nominations was 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. Indie distributor Shout! Factory earned four nominations, tying with Warner, Lionsgate, HBO Home Entertainment and BBC Video.

To be eligible, titles must have been released between Oct. 1, 2008, and Sept. 30, 2009. A blue-ribbon panel of judges rated each title based on the complete treatment, including program content, bonus materials and packaging. More than 170 submissions were considered.

The Transformers nominations come in the following categories.

Transformers Animated: Season Two, Paramount
Best Kidvid TV DVD -
A disc release intended for younger viewers

The Transformers: 25th Anniversary Matrix of Leadership Edition, Shout! Factory
Best Animation TV DVD -
A disc release of animated programming

To visit the nomination page, see the complete list of nominees and cast YOUR vote please click here!

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Paramount Press Junket Part 4: Transformers ROTF and G.I. Joe ROC special effects

The Allspark.com has posted the fourth installment of their coverage of the Paramount Press Junket. This time around, we are treated to (among other things) some insight from Scott Benza, Industrial Lights and Magic Animation Supervisor and Shane Mahan of Legacy Effects.

Here are some excerpts, the first is from Benza.

Following Hasbro’s panel, ILM animation supervisor Scott Benza and visual effects supervisor Russell Earl took center stage, with Benza going first on both Transformers and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Earl would later be covering Star Trek’s visual effects, although he did work on Transformers). Benza starts off that ROTF was his fourth film working with director Michael Bay, having also worked on Pearl Harbor (2001) and The Island (2005), Bay was a very collaborative director and was open to many ideas, and his feedback helps improve some of the shots.

Benza starts off with how Bay understood some of the criticisms from the first movie in regards to the Autobots and the Decepticons, and how the Transformers got a make-over for ROTF, such as Megatron having fully functional tank treads (which was difficult for the animators). Spinning models of the Fallen and Sideswipe followed, as well pointing out on how lighting played about. He noted that Bay believed “the more messed up the robots, the more realistic they look”, hence the various scratches and dings. A lot of the concept designs were the basis for the robots, such as Ben Proctor, and feedback was exchanged between animation and art standpoints. Jetfire gaining a mouth compared to his early model is one such example, allowing them to animate him with more emotion which wouldn’t be as effective if it just his beard, followed by a short clip of Jetfire talking to Sam (Shia LaBeouf) that showed the mouth pieces in motion. One robot can be composed up to 52,000 pieces, Devastator alone the largest they ever dealt with, and several levels of resolution had to be created in order for the animation team to work with the Autobots and Decepticons fast and efficiently. Benza showed off four levels of Bumblebee, ranging from the most simplistic model to the most detailed one.

Here is an excerpt from Mahan's presentation.

Following the ILM presentation, a ride up to San Fernando so as to check out the special effects workshop that worked with Paramount on creating the Accelerator Suits for G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Legacy Effects, successor to Stan Winston Studios. Shane Mahan, co-owner of the shop, showed several of the suits used in Marvel’s Iron Man in 2008, from the Mark I to the enormous Iron Monger, as well several battle-damage pieces of the Mark III. Next up was two of the six Accelerator Suits used in Rise of Cobra, weighing almost 45 pounds, requiring 4 months to build and milled, and composing of over 30 pieces as well additional replacement if anything got broken. Legacy Effects originally laser-scanned Marlon Wayans (Ripcord) and from his measurements they built the first suit; Channing Tatum’s (Duke) suit had to be retrofitted later, even though it’s not the most ideal way but there’s no beating around it. The suits were designed in mind so that it’ll take at least 15 minutes to be fitted on with 2 to 3 people assisting, although the crew spared no expense on the padded cases when it came to shipping them overseas.

You may view the entire original summary of this event by clicking here.

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Paramount Press Junket, part 3

Mike Ballog and Aaron Archer spoke at the Paramount Press Junket recently, describing big news for the toy realm of the Transformers brand, and confirmation that a line similar to Universe 2.0 from 08' and Classics from late 06' is on the way, next Fall.

From Lonegamer of The Allspark:

Questions with Hasbro Director of Global Design and Development Aaron Archer post panel

Is a toy line similar in concept to Classics and Universe 2.0 - classic characters in updated bodies - going to be released next Fall?

Yeah, everything that isn’t movie, should fit in to that kind of area that we’re now calling Universe. So anything that doesn’t quite fit in movie, so whether it be Beast Wars, or re-imagining of, you know, Bluestreak or something, a favorite, will be in that kind of line. So we are going to do new updates.

So classic characters in updated bodies.

How many of those, I can’t really get into, but that’s something we know works for the fans, that kinda complete that new style – expression – and we’re happy to do that. We love to bring back old characters that you wouldn’t have thought we’d redo. It’s kinda a fun little designer challenge now going on. Mirage, he’s out.

Release date next fall?

I think mostly next fall is when you’ll see more of that.

Any update on release dates for the remaining Animated stuff?

[San Diego] Comic-Con, we showed what the few remaining guys were out there that we will produce at some point, whether in Animated packaging or not. But I don’t know the release dates, I focus on the creation and stuff. I don’t want to give the wrong date, but they are definitely coming out. We want all that stuff to come.

How does Hasbro handle the cultural differences, such as when it came to localizing the Unicron Trilogy and “Robots in Disguise” (“Car Robots” in Japan)?

It’s a challenge because it’s culturally two different ways to tell stories. So we kinda trade off – we wanted a particular type of thing, Takara will need a certain type of thing. What works well in the Japanese market is kinda the combining figures and different event-base products coming out, so their telling those stories, and we have a different take on that. So we make compromises on both sides and try to make it work. For Animated, it was more of a US-led production, and I think they’re trying to figure it out on their end how they’re going to make it fit into the universe they have. It’s not always easy but it’s not too difficult either.

Any thoughts on Japanese storytelling compared to Western storytelling?

I think for the Japanese… it’s one episode every week, it’s 52 episodes, more of a soap opera, in a way. Whereas we’re just telling fun action stories, character driven, from an American or Western sensibility, of course. Those are the really two big kind of things we navigate, and in Animated we led that production with Cartoon Network, so we didn’t do 52 episodes stand alone, and all of that. It just works better for the US and some of the markets that Hasbro participates in.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen wins 3 SPIKE "Scream" awards

As we first reported in early September, SPIKE TV is airing its 4th Annual "Scream" awards on Tuesday, October 27th at 10PM PST/EST. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen as you might suspect drew heavy consideration when nominations were decided and was actually nominated in 11 different categories.

Can't wait to know how many it won? Well, you don't have to.

The actual awards show was taped last night, and ROTF did very well, earning 3 awards. Megan Fox won for "best sci-fi actress", Isabel Lucas won for "breakout performance - female" and the movie itself was deemed to have the best special effects.

Of course, with ROTF hitting shelves everywhere in a mere matter or hours, fellow Seibertron.com News Crew member Blurrz had compiled a comprehensive list of the various DVD and Blu-Ray special editions that the various retailers are releasing, You may check that out by clicking here.

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Transformers invade Los Angeles!

***MEDIA ALERT***MEDIA ALERT***

TRANSFORMERS
INVADE LOS ANGELES!

PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT CELEBRATES THE DVD & BLU-RAY DEBUT OF THE BIGGEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR WITH AN OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD CONSUMER EVENT

Free Giveaways, Live DJ, Fans and…an 18-Foot-Tall TRANSFORMER!

***INCREDIBLE AERIAL PHOTO OPPORTUNITY OF FULL-SIZE BUMBLEBEE TRANSFORMER***

WHAT:
Paramount Home Entertainment celebrates the DVD and Blu-ray debut of the biggest movie of the year, TRANSFORMERS: Revenge of the Fallen, with an out-of-this-world consumer event. Fans will have a chance to be among the first to own the $830 million blockbuster when the Best Buy and Target in the West Hollywood Gateway shopping center open their doors for the DVD and Blu-ray release.

Consumers also will be able to take their picture with a full-size, 18-foot-tall, 8,200 pound BUMBLEBEE! Fans will be entertained by a live KROQ DJ.

**The traffic-stopping BUMBLEBEE, which requires a forklift and 10 ton crane to assemble and set up, will make for an extraordinary visual for your helicopter crew to capture**

WHO:
BUMBLEBEE, the brave AUTOBOT who turns into a Camaro, and TRANSFORMERS fans.

WHEN:
Consumer Event: Monday, October 19th, 8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
BUMBLEBEE Visual: Sunday, October 18th through Tuesday, October 20th

WHERE:
West Hollywood Gateway shopping center.
Corner of La Brea & Santa Monica Blvd.

This weekend's NASCAR battle featuring Optimus Prime vs Megatron!!!

***MEDIA ALERT***

START YOUR ENGINES AND ROLL OUT!

The Stars Of The Biggest Movie Of The Year Face Off On The Track With Legendary Director Michael Bay Driving The Pace Car!

OPTIMUS PRIME vs. MEGATRON
At the NASCAR Banking 500 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Charlotte, North Carolina

In a first-ever stunt for a film property, rising star and 2008 Daytona 500 winner Ryan Newman, undercover as OPTIMUS PRIME, the heroic leader of the peace-loving AUTOBOTS, goes head to head with four-time Sprint Cup Series Champion Jeff Gordon, aka MEGATRON, the malevolent leader of the DECEPTICONS.

Ryan Newman’s car, uniform and pit crew will be branded with images of OPTIMUS PRIME, while Jeff Gordon’s car, uniform and crew will sport graphics of MEGATRON. In addition, Michael Bay, the renowned director of the TRANSFORMERS megahits, will be the official pace car driver for the 50th running of the NASCAR Banking 500 only from Bank of America at Lowe's Motor Speedway.

TRANSFORMERS: Revenge of the Fallen will make its highly-anticipated DVD and Blu-ray debut on October 20, 2009 in immersive, two-disc Special Editions, as well as on a single disc DVD, from DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures in association with Hasbro; distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment.

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Garry Chalk Confirmed for Auto Assembly 2010

Simon Plumbe of the UK based Transformers convention Auto Assembly has dropped us a note of a new update for the scheduled event due to take place in August 2010. Here's what he had to share:

Auto Assembly 2010 is proud to announce that Garry Chalk, the voice behind Optimus Primal in Beast Wars and Beast Machines and Optimus Prime in the Unicron Trilogy, will be attending Auto Assembly 2010 as it's first confirmed guest of honour. With a staggering 14 seasons of Transformers under his belt, Garry is the most prolific voice actor to have played the role of Optimus.

With Garry joining us for his first ever Auto Assembly convention, and a second voice actor to be announced soon, joining our existing line-up of comic guests Auto Assembly 2010 is set to be the biggest convention ever seen in Europe taking place on Friday 13th - Sunday 15th August 2010 at The Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Birmingham, England.

Tickets for the weekend are on sale now through the website for £45 for the weekend for adults and £35 for children, students and senior citizens, with under 5s admitted free. Single day passes will be made available for sale closer to the convention.

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 http://www.autoassembly.org.uk

For a rather special announcement about Garry's appearance at the convention, check out this video here on the official Auto Assembly Youtube Channel:



We hope to see you all in August 2010.

The Auto Assembly 2010 Team

Nordic Mini-Con 2010 is in Aalborg

Good news for Danish Transformer fans, and surrounding fans from the Scandinavian countries, as the Nordic TransFans Association presents the Nordic Mini-Con 2010, which will be in Aalborg, Denmark. Here's what they have to say.

The NTFA Staff is pleased to announce Nordic Mini-Con 2010 in Aalborg!

Two years ago we held the first ever Nordic Transformers convention, in Arlöv in Sweden. The convention was a big success - we had presentations, competitions, a customizing class, a popular art contest, an exhibition with some more exotic (from a Nordic perspective) Transformers figures and other sci-fi figures, a sales room, plus the worldwide première of the first episode of Transformers Animated. People came, chatted, mingled, and had fun!

People have asked for it, we have been looking for opportunities to do it, and now it's time for the sequel: Nordic Mini-Con 2010! More of the same, only bigger and better!

The convention will be held in Aalborg in northern Denmark, with NTFA co-founder and staff-member Fighbird as the main organizer. Connections are great - you can get there by air (there's one bus going directly from the airport to the location for the convention), by train, and of course by car. If you live close to Oslo or Gothenburg you can take the ferry over to Hirtshals or Frederikshavn and then the train the rest of the distance to Aalborg. And if you live in southern Sweden, you can go by the Øresund train to Copenhagen and then switch to a train to Aalborg.

It will once again take place over the span of a weekend - the question is, which weekend? We are choosing between five dates in May and June, and now we want your input on which dates would suit you the best! Click on this link to go to the poll (you need to be logged in on the board to vote) and give us your answers! And feel free to give us your arguments for and against a certain date in that topic - we will consider all serious opinions. (The poll will remain open until 24:00 on 14 October).

Are you interested in contributing to Nordic Mini-Con 2010 somehow? Perhaps you want to sell/trade at a dealer table, or arrange a panel, competition or presentation - if so, please contact the NTFA Staff, either via a Personal Message or e-mail to one of the staff members, or via the contact form.

(Information on prices and how to register for the convention will be posted at a later date.)

ESPN & NASCAR and ROTF Contest. Win a signed copy of ROTF DVD!

MegatronSRT8 brings us news that NASCAR drivers Jeff Gordon and Ryan Newman are going to be running special paint schemes at the race on October 17th, in Charlotte NC to promote the release of ROTF on DVD and ESPN is running a contest where you can win a copy ot the DVD signed by Megan Fox, or a trip to the NASCAR Championship weekend and meet both drivers.

Gordon's #24 car will feature a Megatron scheme:


Newman's #39 car will feature Optimus Prime:


(Thanks to Jayski.com for the pics of the cars)

Here's the link to the contest sight where you vote to see who will win the battle between the Autobots (Newman) and Decipticons (Gordon) on the track - a.k.a who finishes ahead of the other.

Click here to see the contest details in full.

Jornadas de Transfans Españolas convention to be held October 10th to 11th

The Association of Collectors and Fans of Transforming Robots, is holding a Transformers convention during October 10th and 11th, entitled "Jornadas de Transfans Españolas".

The menu to include Transformers films and cartoons, projected on a big screen, contests, a Transformers painting workshop, an exposition of 1500 figures, from Generation 1 to Revenge of the Fallen, and more! So if you live in, or close to Madrid, Spain, you might want to check it next Saturday, October tenth.

To view their site full of details, click here.

Marvel Transformers Artist Herb Trimpe at 4 Comic Conventions In October

Seibertron.com member and all around great guy Jeff from comicbook-art.com stopped by to share some upcoming convention information with us. Here's what he had to share:

Hi everyone,

I wanted to let you all know that Marvel Transformers artist Herb Trimpe will be appearing at several comic shows during the month of October. Herb Trimpe also worked on G.I. Joe for Marvel, including drawing the cover to issue #1. He is also well known for his work on Godzilla and his long run on Incredible Hulk, including the first appearance of Wolverine.

This coming weekend Herb will be attending the Mid-Ohio Con in Columbus. http://midohiocon.blogspot.com/

Next Weekend (10th & 11th) he will be at the Baltimore Comicon. http://www.comicon.com/baltimore/

On 10/17 he will be attending the Big Apple Comicon. (Note he will be attending on Saturday only, although this is not listed on the show site.) http://www.wizardworld.com/home-apple.html

Longtime Transformers writer Bob Budiansky will also make a rare convention appearance at the Big Apple Show, appearing on Saturday and Sunday.

Finally Herb will be appearing at the Boston Comic Con on 10/24 and 10/25.

Both Herb and Bob will be [selling sketches] at the shows and signing for free. If you can't attend a show but are still interested in a sketch or commission, please email me at info@comicbook-art.com

Thanks,

Jeff
www.comicbook-art.com

Decepticon 'Motormaster' shows up at Tennessee Car Show

Generation One Decepticon Motormaster makes a life like appearance at a recent car show in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Motormaster takes the form of a 1987 Kenworth K100E, and without a doubt is a beautiful masterpiece. Take a look at the pictures below.






Thanks to our friend Charles for filling us in. Stay tuned to Seibertron.com for more news and updates!

Bumblebee to pace 2009 Inaugural Hasbro Children's Hospital Fundraising Walk

As any Transformers fan can attest, the Robots in Disguise have an ability to make things all better in our every day lives. It looks like they'll be taking their "Human Alliance" a step further to help out a great cause.

On October 4th, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Hasbro Children's Hospital will be hosting its inaugural "The Walk: Hasbro Childrens Hospital" Fundraising event. All walkers are welcome to join the event that will be paced by none other than Bumblebee, the first official 2010 Chevy Camaro.

Walkers and their teams from all over Rhode Island and southeastern New England will be able to choose two-mile or five-mile strolls along the scenic and pedestrian-friendly paths by the rivers in historic downtown Providence. While the walkers share a common goal -- enhancing Hasbro Children's Hospital's care for kids -- many will have personal reasons for their involvement.


Timothy J. Babineau, M.D., Rhode Island Hospital's president and chief executive officer, says, "We decided to start this walk in addition to our very successful annual gala. This event will allow members of our community, who prefer to support a different type of activity, to help the young patients at Hasbro Children's Hospital. It's easy for anyone to get involved and be a part of The Walk."



Check out all the details by clicking here.

TFCon 2009 Alex Milne Universe Divided Litho- UPDATE TFCon Responds

UPDATE!!!!!

On the heels of Seibertron.com's story regarding member complaints of not receiving the TFCon 2009 Exclusive lithograph "Universe Divided" by Alex Milne, we get a response to our inquiry submitted a few days ago. Here's what TFCon had to say:

Was just alerted to the message stickied on the front page of your website. Very hurt and disappointed that a story like this would be posted without hearing from the other side of the story as
it makes it look like the people that work on TFcon are crooks trying to scam Transformers collectors out of a couple hundred dollars by not shipping some posters.

Some people did not receive posters so last month we reshipped to those that indicated to us that they did receive their shipment. Some people have now requested refunds which they have received. [Going] over the topic I saw mention of 2 people from Australia, if they were to check their paypal/credit cards statements they should see that they were
refunded. I see 1 email here from yesterday requesting a refund but if there are still people that have not received it we will certainly refund
them as soon as possible.

In attempting to contact the post office outlet that these were shipped from it no longer exists. It sounds convenient but it's also the truth. Regardless if any of your friends didn't receive a litho have them email this address and will make sure it's checked daily so refunds can be issued so this can be resolved.

Thanks.

The email address that was used was tfcon@moutaincable.com, the same email address located under the contact information on the TFCon website.

The folks of TFCon are dedicated individuals who volunteer for the event and are Transformers fans just like you and I. It is this Seibertronians belief that no foul play was intended and the Transformers fans of TFCon will do everything in their power to correct this situation.

Seibertron.com: If it's happening, we're there.


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Back in May of 2009, Seibertron.com reported that the Canadian Transformers Convention, TFCon, was offering non attendees a chance to own an exclusive art piece from the event. Universe Divided, done by artist Alex Milne, was a large poster done to commemerate the 25th Anniversary of the Transformers franchise.



Recently, members of Seibertron.com have been coming foward to claim that the TFCon exclusive lithograph has not been delivered despite ordering the poster. A couple members have even stated that communication between the folks over at TFCon had stopped and email inquiries were not being responded to. Seibertron.com also submitted and official inquiry to these allegations but the email was not immediately answered.

Have you ordered the TFCon 2009 Lithograph and either recieved it or not? Please let us know by clicking Discuss this topic above and help your fellow Seibertronians resolve this dilemna.

Seibertron.com, keeping you in the know, right now.

Auto Assembly 2010 Update: Bookings open and several guests confirmed

We'd like to thank Simon Plumbe and the rest of the Auto Assembly team for sending us an update on AA 2010!

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!



The Auto Assembly 2010 Team



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email: autoassembly@aol.com

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2009 East Japan Toy Trade Fair - Takara Transformers Toy Images

Cybergundam blog has shared the images of Tomy Takara Transformers toys at the 2009 East Japan Toy Trade Fair (16th & 17th September 2009) currently held at Tokyo.

The Transformers toys at the exhibition include Transformers Alternity Bumble Bee & Cliffjumper, Disney Label Donald Duck, as well as ROTF toys such as Human Alliance series.





Release date of Alternity Bumble Bee & Cliffjumper: November 2009.

Release date of Disney Label Donald Duck: December 2009

Stay tuned to Seibertron for all your latest news on Transformers.