The third Roll Out Roll Call took place on the 11th and 12th of March 2012 in Southampton. The Action Force, GI Joe and Transformers convention is organised by All The Cool Stuff and we had the extreme pleasure in working with them for the shoJw. Some of the guests at the show?where Jim Sorenson, Bill Forster, Larry Hama, Simon Furman, Robert Akins, Andrew Wildman, John Paul Bove, Simon Gough, James Eatock, James Kavanaugh Jr and Gary Godsoe.
As well as guests, there are various presenations including.

• Cosplay Contest, Product Showcase by Hasbro UK
• Product Showcase by Marauder Gun Runners
• Product Showcase by Mastermind Creation
• Presentation- Deconstructing Silent Interlude by Larry Hama
• Presentation- Transformers from Script to Panel by Simon Furman
• Presentation- The History of Action Force by Dave Tree
• Presentation - Leave No Man Behind - a look at unreleased Action Force toys by Dave Tree
• Custom Competition

Here is a very quick summary.

Mastermind Creations

• Cyclops was on show. Anyone wondering about the build quality, don't. It's 100x better then the Night Morpher Prime toys.
• The figures for 2012 are
  • Hexitron (3 versions)
  • Screech (Hearts of Steel Starscream)
  • Warper (Hearts of Steel Skywarp)
  • Screamer (Hearts of Steel Thundercracker)
  • Nova Prime (with trailer for small robot and combined form)

Transformers Regeneration

• Characters designed to look like you remember them, not to look exactly like they did
• Some characters have been "repaired"
• Soundwave will appear Purple in flashbacks, but Blue in "current" day
• Seacons will be in it
• Ultra Magnus will make his US debut in the "original universe"
• Bludgeon will return
• Octopunch - "some characters will return, but will have changed from how you remember them"
• Nucleon will be in it, and resolve the outstanding issues (such as Grimlock not being able to Transform). Looking at what impact is had on characters such as Blaster etc. (aybe he'll turn Blue into Twincast??)
• Cover for 81 features Megatron on a thrown saying "what took you?"

GI-Joe Character Book

• Features character, vehicle and some backgrond art from Season One. Current title is "GI-Joe Field Manual Volume 1".
• More text then in the Transformers Ark Books, this contains Character Bios, information and "real life" statistics for the vehicles.
• If it sells well then they may be a volume 2 - Jim and Bill are already compiling information on a Season 2, movie and DIC
• They'd love to do a GI-Joe Renegades book, though there is currently nothing planned

Action Force

• Dave Tree showed off unreleased Action Force toys
• Desgins and concepts of unreleased figures and vehicles were shown
• Dave confirmed he is working on a book covering the history of Action Force, and including the unreleased material

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