Two more LA-based guests announced for Roll Out / Roll Call 2012!

We're 16 weeks away from Europe's largest combined G.I-Joe / Action ­Force and Transformers show Roll Out / Roll Call 2012 and it is with great pleasure that Transformers At The Moon can exclusively reveal the names of two more guests for the show.

The pair are long time fans of both Transformers and G.I-Joe / Action Force and will be making only their second appearance at a European Convention.  They are well known within the fan communities of both franchises as well as generally being two of the nicest and most interesting people you could meet.  Have you guest who they are yet?

That's right, the guests are none other than Jim Sorenson andd Bill Forster, writers of the both the Allspark Almanac books, the Ark Books (all three of them) and most recently Allspark Almanac Addendum (published within issue 6 of the Timelines comic that re-printed The Stunti-con Job).  Jim and Bill will be on hand all weekend to meet, great, sign, and generally hang out with fans of both shows as well as taking to the stage over the weekend to give a presentation and take question on both Transformers and G.I-Joe.

Jim and Bill were extremely popular guests when we bought them over for Auto Assembly 2010 and we have been keen on bringing them back to the UK for another show.  At the same time they are both as keen, if not more so, to come back to the UK and meet up with everyone again and so brings us all great pleasure to have them back on these shores for a show that covers not just Transformers but also G.I-Joe, a series that both these men care about.

So if you were unsure whether to attend Roll Out Roll Call 2012 in Southampton next March, then I hope that this announcement will convince you to attend the event and support it.

RollOut Roll Call 2012
10th - 11th March 2012
Jurys Inn, Southampton

Twitter: @rolloutrollcall
Facebook: All The Cool Stuff­
Website:  AllTheCoolStuff

Sponsors / News Network
Transformers At The Moon - www.transformertoys.co.uk
Blood For The Baron - www.bloodforthebaron.com
What's On JOE Mind - whatsonjoemind.podbean.com
Full Metal Hero - www.fullmetalhero.com
­The Nerdsphere - thenerdsphere.blogspot.com/

Pics from previous events can be found on the facebook pages:

Roll Call: Roll Call Action Force/ GI Joe Collectors Event | Facebook
Roll Out:Roll Out, Transformers Day | Facebook
Roll Out Roll Call 2 Roll Out/ Roll Call 2 The Transformer/ Action Force/ GI Joe Show | Facebook
­
Each show has got bigger and better and we hope many of you will be able to join us for the next one in March 2012.

We have continue our Character Model gallery updates with 11 new and two update image galleries.  All of the character models are from the Beast Wars II Japanese series which was released on DVD for the first time last month.

The character models now available cover the letters G through P and are Galvatron, Gigastorm, Hellscream, Ikard, Lio Convoy, "Logos and Lists", Magnaboss, Mantis, Max-B, Megastorm, Moon and Powerhug

Kapow-Toys have posted a short announcement on their Facebook page confirming that the Transformers Prime figures will be released within the United Kingdom in Januray 2012.  The first wave will in­clude Optimus Prime, Bulkhead, Arcee, CliffJumper, Starscream and more.

Fellow UK based site FullMetalHero.com have posted two galleries of upcoming Transformers Prime figures Optimus Prime and Bulkhead.  The toys, when they are officially released, will be available via their store Kapow-Toys.

You can view the galleries here and here.

A little update on the Signature Edition Transformers set:

• There will only be 5,000 made.
• They will be autographed by Bay.
• Will be sold on Amazon.com and another US retailer.
• They will contain the 3 TF Blu-ray movies + behind the scenes stuff.
• It will be out in December.

********

For those who reside outside the US who want in (since Amazon US doesn't ship internationally), I will buy a batch and ship them to you. Retail price + shipping & handling to be determined. You must have a Paypal account.

­TakaraTomy have published a video on their YouTube channel with a video featuring their designers Hironori Kobayashi, Hisashi Yuki and Hisao Nishimoto discussing the Transformers figures Striker Optimus Prime, Leader Sentinel Prime as well as the Cyberverse series. The video can be viewed below and contains subtitles in English for non-Japanese speaker.

Alexander Kubalsky has created a profile on DeviantArt which includes concept art for the Transformers Classics toys, Transformers Real Gear and Transformers Movie Toys along with Transformers Animated transformations as well as Classics for Hot Rod.

here are some concept sketches and photos of Transformers related work up. Some interesting behind the scenes drawings.

Nothing Transformers related, but we've been talking about this for years with freinds .. a Lego Movie

2014 will see the release of the first ever Lego movie. A specific release date is still to be announced.

The finished work will reportedly be a mix of animation with live action scenes and will be '80 per cent Lego'.

Australian effects company vfx-toon will produce the animation with Phil Lord and Chris Miller – the team behind 2009's CGI hit Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs - writing the script.

The movie looks set to provide another boost to the Lego brand. The partnership between Warner and Lego has already seen the construction toy spun into a series of CG-animated cartoons and a successful line of video games based on licences like Star Wars and Pirates of the Caribbean.

Stay tuned this week as we'll be exclusively announcing more guests for Roll Out Roll Call 2012 - the premier cross brand, Action Force / GI-Joe / Transformers convention.

The guests will be making their RORC debut and are flying in from Los Angeles ....

Jim Sorenson posted a new The Ark Addendum yesterday called "The Ark Addendum - Ravage's Transform and The AllSpark Almanac Addendum! " which, as you could have guessed from the title, focuses on the transformation of the Decepticon spy Ravage as well as containing some information on the new AllSpark Almanac content that will feature in the Transformers Timelines publication of this years Botcon comic The Stunticon Job.

If you like character models do not forget to check out the ones we posted yesterday from Beast Wars II as we will be adding more later on this afternoon

Popular YouTube poster Peaugh has posted a video review of the Transformers Prime Voyager Class Optimus Prime figure on the video sharing website. You can view the video below.

Our Summer Special of updates continues here at Transformers At The Moon, even though we are now well into the Autumn / Fall, with the latest addition of Character Models from our collection.  This evening's updates continues our recent theme of commemorating the DVD release of Beast Wars II by publishing the character models from the show and, as such, we are proud to bring you the following new galleries.

Beast Wars II Backgrounds - This gallery contains 62 scans of backgrounds from the show.  Some of the sheets you will notice have been coloured, by hand, this was not done by ourselves.

BB - We have published 5 scans of character models for BB, one of which is an early concept art.

Big Horn - We have published 19 sheets of character models of the Cybertron known as Big Horn.

Bigmoss - You can now find an image gallery containing the 5 character models for the Insectron Bigmoss.

Dirge - You can find 7 character models of the Destron Dirge from the Beast Wars II show.

Dirge-gun-  During the Beast Wars II series Dirge gets upgraded into Dirge-gun and so you can also find 5 character models of that character

Diver was one of the original members of Leo Convoy's Cybertron's and now 11 character models of the little green frog are available for you to view.

Drillnuts - Drillnuts is another member of the Insectrons and was a toy that we purchased whilst at Auto Assembly 2011, so we actually owned his character model before we owned the toy.

TFW2005.com have posted a translation of the interview with Kabaya staff members Mr. Koutaro Hayashi and Mr. Masakazu Kunimitsu which was published in the Transformers Generation Book 2011 Volume 2.

­KOToys.com recently announced that a Knock-Off Weirdwolf will be released before the end of the year. The figure will also be released at the same time as another knock-off set of knock-off Headmaster heads.  Both toys followup from the release of Abominus who will be released at any time.

You can view all of the images of this figure here and we suggest comparing them to the original toy so you can tell the difference. You can also find a selection of images below.

For those not keeping up with the knock-off releases the recently released fake Japanese Dinosaur cassettes are already being sold on Yahoo Japan as the originals for high prices which is a trend that is expected to continue over the coming months as well as spreading to western auction sites such as eBay­

­KOToys.com have posted lots of new images of their upcoming recoloured knock-off Transformers figure Powerrat.  Powerrat is a recoloured version of the CHSM Powerglide toy painted up, with decals, to look like the Cobra Rattler from G.I-Joe.  You can view some of the images below, but we advise you to drop by the KOToys forum to view all of the images.

The figure will be avai­lable to order soon and is limited to 300 pieces.

­