Hello TF@TM!

Another batch of sightings from the wonderful Toymaster store in Exeter:

H.F.T.D Wave 1 Deluxes, @ £9.99. That's Ironhide, BB Bumblebee, SA Ravage and Jetblade.
H.F.T.D Wave 1 Voyagers, @ £19.99. Seaspray, Ratchet and the Long Haul repaint.
Restock of Wave 1 Generations, still @ £9.99.
Plenty of Power Core Combiner 5-Packs, too.

It's good to see the prices stabilising. I'm not sure if this store-specific, or a new RRP from Hasbro, but I for one hope that it stays this way.

All the best,

- Adam

Jim Sorenson, writer of both Allspark Almanacs, the Ark books and all round "awesome dude" has posted his thoughts on Auto Assembly 2010 where, amongst other things, Jim discovered that he can pull off wearing a fez pretty well.

If you attended the event I urge you to read Jim's thoughts and if you did not I also urge you to read his blog and find out more about Auto Assembly.

Thanks to Snakas for pointing out that the Million Publishing Exclusive Elite Guard Optimus Prime figure actaully appears to be a recolour of Voyager Optimus Prime rather than a recolour of Wing Blade Optimus Prime.

You can see images of the toy below.

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Its pleases me to announce that the final attendance figure for Auto Assembly 2010 is in and the number 579!  So the convention set a new European attendance record for the 2nd year running as well as making a healthy leap towards the 600 attendees mark. So on behalf of the Auto Assembly committee I would like to extend a big big thank you to everyone who was in attendance over the weekend and helped turn the event into something very special.

And now 3 others reviews Made by Desastron.

Generation 1 Jazz

Generation 1 Cyclonus

TFCC Dion

Source: ntf-archive.de

We have uploaded the photographs that we took during Auto Assembly 2010 to the website now, though we have not added a review of the weekend's events.  Since we were more involved with helping out this year the gallery is not as comprehensive as our normal convention images but it does include a look at our Japanese Transformers display.

For those that wonder the photograph with Derrick and two people is not Derrick with both of us us, but is Derrick Wyatt with Quartz (Steve) and Duh Pres (Billy) as Moonbug was taking the photograph.

The gallery ends with a couple of images showing the items we purchased during the event, but we will add a more detailed review later,

Well folks Auto Assembly 2010 is officially over and yet for many today will be the last post-AA day as they chill at the hotel and say good bye to the guests and fellow attendees.  Sadly, due to work commitments, we had to leave late last night for the drive home.

I'd like to start of by saying thank you to Simon, his wife Trish and daughter Hannah for organising what was once again Europe's largest Transformers Convention.  I'm not sure on the final numbers but when I was last on the registration desk we were up to 578 attendees.

I'd like to thank all of the guest who were as entertaining as always and all probably have RSI from all the signings they did over the weekend.  On a personal note I would like to extend a massive thank you once again to Derrick J Wyatt, Jim Sorenson and Bill Forster for agreeing to come over to the event.  They all loved it and it certainly appeared to be mutual from everyone in attendance.

I hope everyone had a great time at the convention and had, or will have, a safe journey back home.

On a feedback note what did you all make of Auto Assembly 2010?  Did you like the toy display that we put on this year? How about those custom Mighty Muggs that we were showing?  How awesome were those? (A massive thanks to Minion for making them).

Our thanks go out to OmegaStoopreme for sending in the following Power Core Combiner report.

"Just picked up Skyburst with Aerialbots for £15.40 reduced from £22. They also had the Combaticons. Lots of each set all were the same price."

Optimus Scourge has posted a Youube video of the Japanese Black Animated Optimus Prime toy.

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With Auto Assembly 2010 officially starting tomorrow in Birmingham, England some of the guest and attendees have already arrived.  These include Derrick J Wyatt, Jim Sorenson and Bill Forster who's appearance at Europes largest Transformers Convention were funded by this website.

To commerate this event as well as Derrick's recent Birthday, we were proud to present him with a very special gift ... a custom made plush Transformers Animated Swindle!

The figure was specially commissioned for the event and comes complete with detachable weapons and a custom box.

Below you can see some images of the plush that we presented to Derrick along with our own version.  The toy is 10"x7"x4" in size and seemed to be well liked by those who were in attendance.  Hopefully the plush will be on display with Derrick overr thr weekend.

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­­The HubWorld has been updated with image of the Transformers Prime character designs of Bumblebee, Cliffjumper, Megatron, Ratchet, Decepticon Trooper and Rafael­ Esquivel