Below you will find the latest press release from Auto Assembly regarding the opening of bookings for next years premier European Transformers Convention

Auto Assembly 2010 Bookings Open!

With the record-breaking Auto Assembly 2009 still fresh in everyone's memories, we have been busy behind the scenes and we are now pleased to announce that Auto Assembly 2010 is here! Europe's largest Transformers convention is returning over the weekend of Friday 13th - Sunday 15th August 2010 to celebrate its 10th Anniversary and once again it is aiming to be bigger and better than ever before!

As before, the convention will be spread over a weekend mainly running on Saturday and Sunday (with bonus programmes on Friday and Saturday evenings for full weekend attendees) and will feature a whole host of activities, dealers, guests, a party, live band, a script reading with our voice actors, charity auction, video screenings, art and kitbash workshops, costume competitions, video games area, toy and art displays, a dedicated childrens programme for the younger fans and so much more besides...!

The convention will be held at The Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, which is on Smallbrook Queensway, Birmingham,

right in the heart of Birmingham City Centre, England. It is an ideal location for anyone travelling to Birmingham from anywhere in the UK and is just 2 minutes walk from Birmingham New Street Station!

We already have our first four guests confirmed - IDW and Titan colourist Liam Shalloo, comic artist Simon Williams, legendary comic writer Simon Furman, and making his long-awaited return to Auto Assembly is Guido Guidi. More guests, and our voice actors will be announced shortly.

Ticket prices have been FROZEN for Auto Assembly 2010 and are £45 for adults and £35 for concessions with under 5s being FREE. Family tickets are also available offering larger discounts.

As always, we will have one of our usual goodie bags on offer for all attendees and we think that this will be another great bundle of goodies and once again it will include keyrings, postcards, and many more items... FREE for every attendee!

Bookings are open NOW so hurry to guarantee your place. Tickets are already selling fast based on the incredible response to Auto Assembly 2009, so if you want to make sure you can be a part of Auto Assembly 2010 then you want to book now while you can!

We hope to see many of you there next year for what we think will be the biggest and best Auto Assembly ever!

The Auto Assembly 2010 Team

web: www.autoassembly.org.uk
forum: http://autoassembly.proboards.com ­
email: autoassembly@aol.com
tel: +44 (0)7860 948296

In yet another update to MichaelBay.com Nelson, the sites administrator, has posted the following comments in regards to Michael's involvement with the third live action Transformers Movie.

"Nelson here...

I spoke to Michael today and he had a little update on his future projects:

• He will be meeting later this week with Steven Spielberg, and Ehren Kruger to discuss ideas for Transformers 3. By the end of the week he should have an idea if Transformers 3 will hit your local cineplex in the summer of 2011 or 2012.
• In the meantime "Pain & Gain" is looking very possible as is...
• ...Bad Boys 3. Either film coming to a theater near you before or after Transformers 3.

"

Following up from the story we ran last night, as predicted regarding the open letter from three Transformers Revenge of the Fallen crew, and sent to Nelson (editor of Shoot for the Edit)regarding Megan Fox's recent comments about Michael Bay, the letter / comments have now been removed from Michael's website (as we predicted).

Michael Bay has posted the following comment.

I don’t condone the crew letter to Megan. And I don’t condone Megan’s outlandish quotes. But her crazy quips are part of her crazy charm. The fact of the matter I still love working with her, and I know we still get along. I even expect more crazy quotes from her on Transformers 3.

Michael

If you want to read the crew's original reaction then you can still do so on Transformers At The Moon and the news story which we posted last night, mirroring the story for exactly this reason.

Nelson, the admin of Michael Bay's website and message board has posted the following "open letter" response from three disgruntled members of the team that worked on Transformers and Transformers Revenge of the Fallen in reference to comments that were made by Megan Fox and recently published in various magazines and newspapers around the world.  Her comments included a line that compared Mr Bay to Adolf Hitler when he was on the set.  You can view a copy of the letter below just in case it gets retracted.

"Nelson,

This is an open letter to all Michael Bay fans.  We are three crew members that have worked with Michael for the past ten years.  Last week we read the terrible article with inflammatory, truly trashing quotes by the Ms. Fox about Michael Bay.  This letter is to set a few things straight.

Yes, Megan has great eyes, a tight stomach we spray with glycerin, and an awful silly Marilyn Monroe tattoo plastered on her arm that we cover up to keep the moms happy.

Michael found this shy, inexperienced girl, plucked her out of total obscurity thus giving her the biggest shot of any young actresses' life. He told everyone around to just trust him on his choice.  He granted her the starring role in Transformers, a franchise that forever changed her life; she became one of the most googled and oogled women on earth.  She was famous!  She was the next Angelina Jolie, hooray! Wait a minute, two of us worked with Angelina – second thought – she’s no Angelina.  You see, Angelia is a professional.

We know this quite intimately because we’ve had the tedious experience of working with the dumb-as-a-rock Megan Fox on both Transformers movies. We've spent a total of 12 months on set making these two movies.  

We are in different departments; we can’t give our names because sadly doing so in Hollywood could lead to being banished from future Paramount work.  One of us touches Megan’s panties, the other has the often shitty job of pulling Ms. Sour pants out of her trailer, while another is near the Panaflex camera that helps to memorialize the valley girl on film. 

Megan has the press fooled.  When we read those magazines we wish we worked with that woman. Megan knows how to work her smile for the press. Those writers should try being on set for two movies, sadly she never smiles.  The cast, crew and director make Transformers a really fun and energetic set.  We’ve traveled around the world together, so we have never understood why Megan was always such – the grump of the set? 

When facing the press, Megan is the queen of talking trailer trash and posing like a porn star.  And yes we’ve had the unbearable time of watching her try to act on set, and yes, it's very cringe-able. So maybe, being a porn star in the future might be a good career option. But make-up beware, she has a paragraph tattooed to her backside (probably due her rotten childhood) easily another 45 minutes in the chair!

So when the three of us caught wind of Ms Fox, pontificating yet again in some publication (like she actually has something interesting to say) blabbing her trash mouth about a director whom we three have grown to really like. She compared working with Michael, to “working with Hitler”.  We actually don’t think she knows who Hitler is by the way.  But we wondered how she doesn’t realize what a disgusting, fully uneducated comment this was?  Well, here let’s get some facts straight.

Say what you want about Michael – yes at times he can be hard, but he's also fun, and he challenges everyone for a reason – he simply wants people to bring their ‘A’ game.  He comes very prepared, knows exactly what he wants, involves the crew and expects everyone to follow through with his or her best, and that includes the actors.  He’s one of the hardest working directors out there.

He gets the best from his crews, many of whom have worked with him for 15 years.  And yes, he’s loyal, one of the few directors we’ve encountered who lowered his fee by millions to keep Transformers in the United States and California, so he could work with his own crew. 

Megan says that Transformers was an unsafe set? Come on Megan, we know it is a bit more strenuous then the playground at the trailer park, but you don’t insult one of the very best stunt and physical effects teams in the business!  Not one person got hurt!

And who is the real Megan Fox?  She is very different than the academy nominee and winning actors we’ve all worked around.  She’s as about ungracious a person as you can ever fathom.  She shows little interest in the crew members around her.  We work to make her look good in every way, but she's absolutely never appreciative of anyone’s hard work. Never a thank you.  All the crewmembers have stopped saying hi to Ms. Princess because she never says hello back. It gets tiring. Many think she just really hates the process of being an actress.  

Megan has been late to the sets many times. She goes through the motions that make her exude this sense of misery. We’ve heard the A.D’s piped over the radio that Megan won’t walk from her trailer until John Turturro walks first! John’s done seventy-five movies and she’s made two!   

Never expect Megan to attend any of the 15 or so crew parties like all the other actors have. And then there's the classless night she blew off The Royal Prince of Jordan who made a special dinner for all the actors. She doesn’t know that one of the grips daughters wanted to visit their daddy’s work to meet Megan, but he wouldn’t let them come because he told them “she is not nice."

The press certainly doesn’t know her most famous line. On our first day in Egypt, the Egyptian government wouldn’t let us shoot because of a permit problem as the actors got ready in make up at the Four Seasons Hotel. Michael tried to make the best of it; he wanted to take the cast and crew on a private tour of the famous Giza pyramids. God hold us witness, Megan said, "I can’t believe Michael is fucking forcing us to go to the fucking pyramids!" I guess this is the “Hitler guy” she is referring to.

So this is the Megan Fox you don’t get to see. Maybe she will learn, but we figure if she can sling insults, then she can take them too. Megan really is a thankless, classless, graceless, and shall we say unfriendly bitch. It's sad how fame can twist people, and even sadder that young girls look up to her. If only they knew who they're really looking up to.

But ‘Fame’ is fleeting.  We, being behind the scenes, seen em’ come and go. Hopefully Michael will have Megatron squish her character in the first ten minutes of Transformers 3. We can tell you that will make the crew happy!

-Loyal Transformers Crew­­"

ShadowDancer is reporting that a toy shop he found in in Letchworth, Hertfordshire is selling Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Ravage for £12.00, Megatron for £15.00 and Ratchet £15.00.

MillionHero has updated it's website with images of the Transformers Generation 2009 Volume 2 Gentei Ghost Starscream, the clear plastic version of Transformers Henkei \ Transformers Classics Starscream.

Jizai toys has uploaded the images of the brand new Nano Scale Transformers - G1 Wheelie and Springer. The two figures are being made exclusively for the Winter Wonderfestival in Japan and are said to be official TakaraTomy products..

The Nano Scale line matches the recent Legends and Worlds Smallest Transformers in size.

Irish retailer Smyths has released its top ten Irish Christmas toy predictions, with Transfomers: Revenge of the Fallen Devastator leading the list.

Smyths Top Ten

1. Transformers Supreme Combiner - Devastator
2. Fur Real Lulu the Cat
3. In the Night Garden Sleepy Time Igglepiggle
4. Monopoly City
5. Ben 10 Alien Force Figures
6. Sylvanian Caravan and Family Car
7. Lego Minotaurus
8. Mickey Mouse ClubHouse Hot Dog Dancer
9. Clone Wars Ultimate Blaster
10. Animatazz

KOToys.com have published some images of here what appears to be a Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen version of Nightwatch Optimus Prime.  The you is a redeco of the Voyager Class Optimus Prime figure.

Simon Furman has updated his blog with an entry dedicated to issue two of the IDW Transformers comic book series Tales of the Fallen.  Issue two focuses on Sideswipe and the back story which bought him to Earth on a quest for vengeance with utter disregard for the organic life he finds teeming on the planet.   Such is the level of his disregard that he actually becomes the target that the other Autobots must confront.  Tales of the Fallen #2 hits stores this week, September 9th in the US, 10th in the UK. Art is by Carlos Magno, who Simon describes as "a new talent and definitely one to watch!"

Head over to Simon's blog to read more details abotu the issue as well as taking a peek at the cover art.

TFCToy has posted a testshot of a green early version of the Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Voyager Class Megatron figure on ebay

Evem if you are not interested in bidding on the item it is well worth taking a look at this "Minty Movie Megatron".