We are thrilled to announce that in 2014, Auto Assembly will once again be graced by renowned Transformers Author, Jim Sorenson!
Jim has worked with IDW since 2006 and has been the pen behind many pieces of great Transformers literature such as, The Ark (1 and 2), The AllSpark Almanac (1 and 2), The Art of Transformers Prime and The Transformers 30th Anniversary Collection. He has also leant his talents to several projects outside of the Transformers Universe (debatably!) such as the much lauded GI:Joe Field Manuals.
Jim’s latest offering, Transformers Legacy: The Art of Transformers Packaging (compiled with longtime co-creator, Bill Forster) is scheduled for a May 2014 release. Be sure to pre-order a copy and bring it with you to Auto Assembly to be signed by the man himself! We have attached the link below.
As ever, you can follow Jim’s updates on his blog, Disciples of Boltax:
http://boltax.blogspot.co.uk
Jim will be joining us for Auto Assembly 2014, which will take place on 8th – 10th August 2014 at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel. Order your tickets now to join us in celebrating 30 years of the Cybertronians!
Auto Assembly 2014 Guest Announcement: Transformers Legacy Jim Sorenson
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Apr 27, 2014 at 5:06pm CDT
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Comment by craggy
Apr 27, 2014
tempted to go, but it's not cheap is it? it's my 30th the week before, so I might be able to blag some cash off the oldies... we'll see.
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Comment by Stumpybot
Apr 27, 2014
Its less than £30 for a weekend, so if that is expensive to you....
Day tickets are under £20 I believe.
I had my fill the last 2 years, i'm going this year to hang out in the bar for a day and catch up with a few close friends, I dont plan to buy a ticket, not worth it to me. But if the guests appeal to you, its 3 and a half months away, plenty of time to save.
Ironically ive travelled down from Manchester the last 2 years and done the same exact thing. Glad somebody will be there representing grumpy northerners
Day tickets are under £20 I believe.
I had my fill the last 2 years, i'm going this year to hang out in the bar for a day and catch up with a few close friends, I dont plan to buy a ticket, not worth it to me. But if the guests appeal to you, its 3 and a half months away, plenty of time to save.
Blast Cannon wrote:I'll be the grumpy northerner quietly judging people from the bar.
Ironically ive travelled down from Manchester the last 2 years and done the same exact thing. Glad somebody will be there representing grumpy northerners
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Comment by fenrir72
Apr 28, 2014
Gotta love 'em. Those TF packaging of yesteryears are truly a class on their own.
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Comment by craggy
Apr 28, 2014
Website says £55 for a weekend ticket, which admittedly still isn't a lot...but is more than the comic cons I've been to in the past few years. The deal with the Hilton is actually pretty good, although I dread to think what the bar prices will be. Then there's travel and spending money. That last one will be the real killer. I can save up, sure, and it's my 30th a week or two prior, so I'll be able to afford it. More looking for any folks previous experiences to sell me on the show.
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Comment by Va'al
May 6, 2014
It looks as though the Auto Assembly team have actually been able to secure most of the core creative team behind IDW Publishing's Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye! Yes indeed, Europe's biggest transforming robots convention has just revealed a new guest for their already impressive line-up, from James Roberts to Jim Sorenson, via Alex Milne, Townsend Coleman, Peter Spellos, Livio Ramondelli and more: the newly announced MTMTE colourist Joana Lafuente. Check out the news below, and head here to buy your tickets.
We are hugely excited to announce that comic colouring sensation Joana Lafuente will be making her debut appearance at Auto Assembly 2014.
Joana is the newly announced lead colourist on the trailblazing Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye comic series. Her hugely impressive resume also includes work on fan favourite; Last Stand of the Wreckers, the Ironhide mini series and Spotlights Blurr, Drift and Cliffjumper.
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Comment by shockblast2
May 6, 2014
Who?
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Comment by Va'al
May 6, 2014
shockblast2 wrote:Who?
Joana is the newly announced lead colourist on the trailblazing Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye comic series. Her hugely impressive resume also includes work on fan favourite; Last Stand of the Wreckers, the Ironhide mini series and Spotlights Blurr, Drift and Cliffjumper.
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Comment by Black Bumblebee
May 6, 2014
Anyone who worked on Last Stand of the Wreckers automatically gets promoted to demi-god status.
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Comment by Flashwave
May 6, 2014
Never heard of her, loved her work, and she's gotta be older than she looks...
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Comment by craggy
May 6, 2014
Spotlight Cliffjumper did have some lovely colours.
oh...and I bought my weekend ticket.
oh...and I bought my weekend ticket.
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Eeeeeeeexcellent.
Comment by Va'al
May 6, 2014
craggy wrote:Spotlight Cliffjumper did have some lovely colours.
oh...and I bought my weekend ticket.
Eeeeeeeexcellent.
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Comment by Va'al
May 9, 2014
Another day, another guest announced for Europe's biggest Transformers convention. Auto Assembly have just revealed that IDW Publishing comics artist Casey Coller will be attending the convention this coming August! Check out some of his credits below, and head here to buy your ticket.
Casey has been working on Transformers comics since making his debut providing variant cover artwork for the first issue of All Hail Megatron and subsequently covers for several other issues in the series. Since then has provided interior and cover artwork for Spotlight Blurr, Spotlight Drift (both for covers and interior artwork), Spotlight Cliffjumper, the Ironhide miniseries, and many more.
Most recently, Casey is providing regular cover work for More Than Meets The Eye and Robots In Disguise, with much of his work being coloured by fellow Auto Assembly 2014 guest Joana Lafuente!
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Comment by Va'al
May 15, 2014
The updates from Auto Assembly, Europe's largest Transformers convention, have kept coming in! In the last couple of days, two major announcement have been made: first off, the core creative team behind IDW Publishing's Transformers: ReGeneration One comics series will all be returning as guests, and that includes Simon Furman, Andrew Wildman, Stephen Baskerville and John-Paul Bove; Jason Cardy, the cover colourist, will also be attending, as part of the newly created Artist Alley at the convention, along with (for now) Kat Nicholson, Liam Shalloo and Kris Carter. Check out more below, and head here for even further information!
We’re more than a little enthusiastic to announce that we are going to be joined this year by the entire creative team behind Regeneration One! Yes, once again writer Simon Furman, artist Andrew Wildman, inker Stephen Baskerville and colourist John-Paul Bove will all be in attendance along with cover colourist Jason Cardy who will be in our new Artists Alley that we have introduced for Auto Assembly 2014 and not only will they be around throughout the convention to meet fans, sign autographs and sketch for all of you (although we’re not too sure how many of you would be asking Simon Furman for sketches!), all five of them will be taking to the stage for a special Regeneration One themed panel.
As you can imagine with Regeneration One coming to a close, this is going to be a fantastic opportunity to celebrate with us what has been a rollercoaster ride as the team close a monumental comic series.
We’re always on the lookout for new ideas to introduce to the convention here at Auto Assembly, especially this year as we celebrate 30 years of Transformers so starting with Auto Assembly 2014 we are pleased to present the launch of Auto Assembly’s brand new Artists Alley…
As you’d expect, this is a new area we are setting aside at the convention to allow artists to showcase their work, sell original artwork, sketch for attendees and more but for this year we’re doing something rather special as the area is going to be a special All-Star Artists Alley! This year it is going to be playing host to nothing but professional comic artists who will be selling some of their original work, other projects they are involved with and, of course, sketching throughout the convention weekend.
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Comment by Va'al
May 22, 2014
The UK is warming up (before drowning in floods again), and its biggest Transformers convention reveals their new, exclusive, attendee-only lithograph, with artwork by Auto Assembly's resident artist Ed Pirrie! The piece is a massive A2 size (16.5 x 23.4 in), and will be given free at registration until stocks last - check it out below!
We’ve been keeping this one under wraps for a while, but after a two year gap we’re incredibly excited to announce that once again we’re bringing you all a convention exclusive lithograph for Auto Assembly 2014 as we celebrate 30 years of Transformers and best of all, we’re giving this litho print away absolutely FREE!
This is an absolutely stunning limited edition A2 sized print and features a wide range of characters from the last 30 years of Transformers and has been illustrated by Auto Assembly in-house artist and AA2014 guest Ed Pirrie. The litho is limited to a print run of just 1,250 copies and will not be available from anywhere else apart from Auto Assembly 2014 so if you want to get your hands on this great piece of artwork, then you will have to be at this year’s convention!!
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Comment by STngAR
May 22, 2014
That is a really cool print. Very nicely done


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Comment by craggy
May 23, 2014
doubt I'd have gone out of my way to buy this, but I'll certainly be looking forward to getting it for free. saw the pic somewhere online recently, and it's pretty darn nice.
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Comment by Va'al
May 26, 2014
So craggy and myself will be attending - who else from Seibertron.com is going? 

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Comment by Va'al
Jun 24, 2014
With not long left to the event, Auto Assembly 2014 has finally revealed its final guest, joining a list so long you can find it linked here - he's a writer, artist, liar and Irishman, and will be gracing the Hilton halls from his Marvel and IDW gigs: Nick Roche!
NICK ROCHE
Writer and artist extraordinaire, Nick made his mark with the release of the seminal Last Stand Of The Wreckers and has worked on countless other Transformers titles since then. He also seems to have something of a personality crisis, often thinking that in reality he is Beast Wars Megatron, usually during our script readings, but the less said about that the better…
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That's nick? he reminds me of Elrond from lord of the rings
Comment by mooncake623
Jun 24, 2014
Va'al wrote:With not long left to the event, Auto Assembly 2014 has finally revealed its final guest, joining a list so long you can find it linked here - he's a writer, artist, liar and Irishman, and will be gracing the Hilton halls from his Marvel and IDW gigs: Nick Roche!NICK ROCHE
Writer and artist extraordinaire, Nick made his mark with the release of the seminal Last Stand Of The Wreckers and has worked on countless other Transformers titles since then. He also seems to have something of a personality crisis, often thinking that in reality he is Beast Wars Megatron, usually during our script readings, but the less said about that the better…
That's nick? he reminds me of Elrond from lord of the rings
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Comment by Va'al
Jun 25, 2014
That is a *much* younger Nick, yes. He hasn't updated the photo in years. 
