The Energon Pub

Posted: **Wed Nov 21, 2007 11:38 am**

Following on from this information which came to light earlier in the week:

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

There has now been a full announcement made at Auto Assembly's website.

http://www.infinitefrontiers.0catch.com ... AA2008.htm

The date for next year's event will be Saturday August 2nd, the venue will be the Clarendon Suites, Birmingham, and ticket prices will be £16 for adults and £8 for children.

Guest of Honour details and an online booking form for the event are still forthcoming at this time. That said there are already four confirmed guests at this early stage.

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.

Posted: **Wed Nov 21, 2007 12:07 pm**

You have my attention. It's even at a time convenient for me.

Posted: **Thu Nov 22, 2007 3:36 am**

First post updated with date and ticket price information.

Posted: **Thu Nov 22, 2007 6:59 am**

I'm going to be in the UK for this!!!! BLATES gonna go

:D

Posted: **Thu Nov 22, 2007 8:22 am**

Ah and if I'm lucky I'll be in the country at that time! :grin:

Yeay my first Autoesembly!

Posted: **Thu Nov 22, 2007 10:25 am**

Hmm its a ponderer :-?

Is it nethin like Botcon?, where u can by exclusives etc?

TBH, doesnt look like much but its got my interest, as ive never been to a convention of netype

Posted: **Thu Nov 22, 2007 11:00 am**

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.

Posted: **Thu Nov 22, 2007 11:13 am**

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.

Plus you have the chance of being on the Metrodone DVD's as bonus material!

Posted: **Thu Nov 22, 2007 3:20 pm**

Bookings are now open.

http://www.infinitefrontiers.0catch.com ... okings.htm

Posted: **Thu Nov 22, 2007 6:07 pm**

I went to this last time (2006), its very good especially if you're a fan. I went mainly to buy figures but they had alot fan things going on like signings by voice actors etc (beast wars megatron dude and some comic artists).

Best thing about the whole event is the sellers room, man its like heaven... well apart from the prices lol.

I'm still kicking myself now because there was a meeting scheduled during the day where random people were selected to offer input to decisions being made by hasbro regarding future toylines (i think) something to that effect.

the way they selected this is that you got an invitation in your goody bag at the entrance. I went straight to the sellers room not bothering to check out my bag until I got home... then found the invitation :BANG_HEAD:

so yeah, if you go remember to check your bags!!!

Posted: **Fri Nov 23, 2007 12:28 pm**

By the end of the day they were letting all and sundry in to the 'secret' meeting about the 'secret' TF product that it appears is never going to see the light of day anyway! So you really didn't miss much.

As for attending, despite my lukewarm feelings towards the TF franchise right now I may well come along just to catch up with people such as waaaaghlord, Doughbot, Big Grim, KingMob, Private Random and all the rest of you guys that went to the last two. By Aug 08 it will have been a long time what with there not being a AA 07.

Yours AK

Posted: **Fri Nov 23, 2007 12:34 pm**

Impressive, the news mod links his own post up. Hmmm. Too bad I am unlikely to be able to get to the UK any time soon. Not unless I plan on swimming. :-P

Posted: **Fri Nov 23, 2007 3:24 pm**

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

Actually Raymonds news post will have generated that post, he wont have come to this forum to post it. Likelihood is what really happened was he spotted it on some other TF site and didn't bother to check the forums to see it anyone had posted it already. Much of the news here is poached from other sites, which is a shame when many of the members here post it way before the news crew ever do. Its an easy mistake to make but back in my day we used to apologies to the original poster and repost the story from their original post. I guess a lots changed since then.

Yours AK

The Energon Pub

Auto Assembley 2008 date announced.

Auto Assembley 2008 date announced.