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waaaaghlord wrote:Simon Plumbe, one of the organisers of Auto Assembly, has posted some preliminary information on next year's event at TF@TM, with a full announcement expected within the week.

The date will be either July or August of next year and the venue will be the Clarendon Suites, Birmingham, the same venue that hosted the last two events.

http://transformers.proboards1.com/inde ... 949&page=2

Auto Assembly wrote:Liam Shalloo

Making his Auto Assembly debut, Liam is relatively new to the Transformers scene. Making his mark through fan work, Liam had his first break into Transformers as a colourist working for IDW Publishing where he has continued to work on several of their titles. He has since gone on to work on Titan Magazines new monthly Transformers comic.

Lew Stringer

Lew is a comic artist and writer and is most known to Transformers fans for writing and illustrating the Combat Colin backup story that appeared in the Marvel G1 comics in the 1980s/1990s. Since then, Lew has continued to work in the comics business and is a regular writer and artist on Viz and countless other titles. Auto Assembly 2008 will be Lew's first Auto Assembly convention, although he was scheduled to have been our very first guest back in 2001!!

Andrew Wildman

Joining us for an astonishing fifth time, Andrew is an established comic illustrator and worked on the original G1 series for Marvel with Simon Furman and has worked steadily on Transformers comics ever since working with almost every publisher who has had the rights to produce Transformers comics from Marvel, Dreamwave, IDW Publishing, Panini and now Titan Magazines! He is co-owner of Wildfur with Simon Furman.

Simon Williams

Making his fourth and very welcome appearance at Auto Assembly is comic artist Simon Williams. Simon has worked on the UK Transformers: Armada comic for Panini, has done Transformers illustrations for SFX magazine and has recently started work providing artwork for IDW Publishing. In addition, Simon created the covers for the Season 3/4 and Season 1 G1 box sets for Metrodome and since 2005 he has been doing artwork for Auto Assembly providing cover artwork for The Cybertronian Times and artwork for our exclusive postcards.

waaaaghlord wrote:Nothing on the scale of Botcon, and too small for Hasbro UK to bother recognising or endorsing the event with the turnout for the last two being around the 400 mark. Unfortunately that means that AA doesn't rate exclusive toys but there are AA exclusive items produced in the form of postcards, pinbadges and TM:UK comics as well as the Cybertronian Times fanzine. It is the UK's only regular TF convention now that Transforce has closed it's doors however with a packed one day format and attracting a good selection of TF dealers.

Personally I never miss this event (well, from 05 onwards anyway) just on the grounds that it's the best excuse we have for a UK meet up on the calendar. Plus a large room full of TF dealers is never a bad thing.

Sunstar wrote:Impressive, the news mod links his own post up. Hmmm.