According to a report we have received, in the latest issue of Figure King (No 118) there are images of the Transformers Encore Ironhide and Ratchet showing that the figures will come with an image of their faces from the cartoons series which can be cut out and placed on the toy to give the figure a more authentic look. We're trying to find more on this as well as images.

Earlier today, 24th November 2007, in Japan the Dengeki 15th Anniversary (電撃15年祭) event took place and thanks once again to Yokubarion we are able to bring you images from the event. 376 images to be exact. The images include the Transformers display from Takara Tomy, featuring the Transformers Movie toys, Sky Lynx and the four Japanese exclusives (including the red Vardia Starscream). The images also include other items from TakaraTomy as well as Bandai, Kotobukiya, Konami, Medicoss Entertainment, Max Factory amongst others.

You can find the photographs in the Dengeki 15th Anniversary gallery which is part of our Transformers and Collectors Convention Photo area.

Over at the Transformers Collector Club Message Board they have confirmed that the Universe Seacons will be a future exclusive, that the next club exclusive will not be Elita-1 but will be based on an existing character but with a new head-sculpt and finally, that the 2008 story arch for the comic will be based around the TransTech designs, and will include work from Ken Lashley of Draxhall Jump.

You will now find 6 more images of our Transformers collection, low resolution taken on my phone, from when we cleared out out main Transformers cabinet. This was the first time in many years that the cabinet was emptied.

You can see the new images in our November 2007 Transformers Collection gallery.

Million Hero has been updated with two sample images and listings of the second Transformers Visual works book, scheduled for release in Japan on the 30th November.

You can see the images listing here

Talk Transformers has an image of carded versions of the Transformers Movie toys Cliffjumper (repainted 08 Bumblebee), Landmine and Camshaft (repainted Swindle).

You can see the image here.

Simes posted the following announcement on our message board.

Things are moving along at a blinding pace already for Auto Assembly 2008! No sooner have we announced the convention, that we're now able to announce our first guest!

We are pleased to announce that once again we will be joined by comic artist Simon Williams who will be making his fourth appearance at Auto Assembly. Simon has recently started working for IDW on some of their Transformers titles and doing some work for SFX magazine and is hoping once again to work on one of our exclusive postcards.

Also joining us will be Lew Stringer. Lew's work will be known to fans of the original UK comics published by Marvel when Lew wrote and illustrated the "Combat Colin" backup strip that appeared in the comic. Lew will be making his first and long-awaited appearance at Auto Assembly in 2008!

As always, all of our guests will be appearing subject to work and personal commitments.

Simon and Sven
Auto Assembly 2008

web: www.autoassembly.org.uk
enquiries@autoassembly.org.uk
forum: http://autoassembly.proboards7.com

Yes, it's finally here! We are pleased to announce that Auto Assembly 2008 has been confirmed for Saturday 2nd August 2008 and will once again be taking place at the Clarendon Suites right here in Birmingham, England. After taking a much needed year off, we're back and hoping to bring you the biggest and best Auto Assembly convention EVER with loads of activities, and what could well be our biggest guest line-up to-date...

This time we're running the event to raise funds for Help A Local Child (formerly known as Cash For Kids) - a local children's charity founded by BRMB radio station - through a charity auction and raffle and any excess funds left over from the convention.

Help a Local Child was launched in 1994 with a commitment to helping the children and young people of the West Midlands, who experience the negative effects of poverty, abuse, neglect, homelessness, violence, crime, illness and disability. There are many children in and around the Birmingham area who are carers for their own parents or who are indirect victims of domestic violence or suffer daily pain due to illness. In this world of glamour and gain, these are the children that BRMB want to help. Their focus is local fundraising, with all money raised being awarded locally and really benefiting our community. With the help and support of their listeners, local celebrities, corporate partners, volunteers, and their employees, the fundraising year on year will help more and more children in the area, enabling them to achieve dreams and ambitions they would never have thought possible.

Back to this year's convention and we're going to be having the usual mix of activities - plenty of dealers, video screenings, a bar or two(!), toy and art displays, competitions and guest talks. We're hoping to have our usual mix of UK comic guests including all of our "regulars", another voice actor (who we will announce as soon as possible) but this time we want to have the biggest guest line-up ever at a British Transformers convention!

In 2005 Auto Assembly was the biggest ever held in Europe with 409 fans attending and last year we had 400 attendees and we are confident that we're going to smash the European record next year. Every year we have a fantastic amount of interest for the convention with fans booking up from across Europe and as far afield as Australia and America!

We'll be producing another issue of our fanzine, The Cybertronian Times, producing another one of our infamous "goodie bags" with plenty of great free gifts including two more convention exclusive postcards, and much more!

Anyway, we hope to see many of you there next year and feel free to get in touch if you want to know more! There will be full information about next year's convention going on the website over the coming days and weeks and bookings will be open in the next week or so!

Simon and Sven
Auto Assembly 2008

web: www.autoassembly.org.uk
enquiries@autoassembly.org.uk
forum: http://autoassembly.proboards7.com

Thanks to Simes for posting the following news / request concerning Auto Assembly 2008 on our Transformers Message Board.

Well, Auto Assembly 2008 is already shaping up to be something special and we can make our first announcement for the convention... Issue 9 of the convention fanzine The Cybertronian Times will feature an exclusive interview with Mark Ryan - the voice of Bumblebee in the live action movie!

While Bumblebee didn't have a great deal of dialogue in the film, Mark had a lot more involvement in the film than you might think... He worked on the throughout filming as the on-set voices of several different characters right into editing, prior to the actual casting of the main voice actors prior to his casting as Bumblebee. He then also voiced Ironhide and Hoist for Activision's game based on the film.

We're open to your suggestions for questions for Mark so feel free to post them on the Transformers Forum of Transformers At The Moon and we'll pick the best ones to send to him! As always, the fanzine will be available to pre-order for all attendees booking for the convention and a limited number of copies will be sold after the event subject to availability. Simon and Sven Auto Assembly 2008

Ages 3 and Up report over at TFW2005, that there is a knock-off Metroplex in the pipeline from a company new to making Transformers fakes.

"As many know, competition in China is fierce for KO companies and to compete against eachother is commonplace. I have receintly been contacted by a different company than the first who is also doing KOs of G1 figures. Their first release - METROPLEX! I am told this is done is high quality and will come in a G1 style of box with styrofoam insert, instructions, catalogue and sticker sheets. I don't know what they will have for copyrites, this will be found out when they come in stock. The retail on this figure will be $124.99 US which I find is much more reasonable than $80 for a Dinobot considering the size and complexity of the figure. (a good portion of the cost is in the shipping as well)"

Don't forget that you can view galleries of the real deal Metroplex here at Transformers At The Moon, as well as the Japanese exclusive Destron recolour Metrotitan

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Variety report that British actress Sienna Miller has signed on to the G.I-Joe Movie and will play the lead female in he movie .... The Baroness. Variety go on to report that the "story is set at Brussels-based GIJOE, an acronym for the Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity, and revolves around an international co-ed force of operatives who use high-tech equipment to battle Cobra, an evil org headed by a Scottish arms dealer." So effectively G.I-Joe vs Destro, so it looks like Cobra Commander may not make an appearance, or at least if he does it, it will simply be to further the plot for future movies.

Filming is set to begin in mid-feb 2008