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Redimus posted on Seibertron's MEssage board,
The Energon Pub, that hespoke to a member of staff at the Hull branch of Toys 'R' Us, who told him that 20th
Anniversary Optimus Prime will be released on the 15th of
May. This follows on from what we
reported in Feb and so the count down begins
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on: Wednesday, 26th April 2006 at 19:07:17 BST
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Hi everyone,
Just a quick update on the Auto Assembly Podcasts... we're fast approaching the deadline on our second competition so we thought we'd give you all a reminder if you haven't entered! We're hoping to record the third show next week so you've only got seven days to get your entries in to us for your chance to win a complete set of RiD on DVD along with a couple of postcards signed by cast members Wally Wingert and Neil Kaplan!
To enter, just download the second podcast from www.autoassembly.org.uk/podcast.htm and once you've listened to the show, email us your answer along with your name and address by 8:00 pm UK time on Wednesday 3rd May and the winner will be the first name drawn out at random from all the correct entries!
There's also time for YOU to be on the show! If you want to send us an MP3 with your comments and feedback on the show, or anything else for that matter, just record them and email them to us at podcast@autoassembly.org.uk and we'll feature a selection of the best on the show. Again, we will need these by 8:00 pm om the 3rd for consideration for Show #3.
The third show is shaping up to be something rather special and our best yet. We will have another great competition, the first part of our interview with comic artist Simon Williams, the second part in our series looking at the history of Auto Assembly this time from 2001 to 2003, more great music including a song from RiD voice actor Wally Wingert, updates on Auto Assembly: Target 2006 plus a guest appearance from a G1 voice actor...
Talking of Auto Assembly: Target 2006, bookings are still coming in fast for this year's convention on 3rd June in Birmingham, England and we're expecting it to be a complete sell-out once again beating the European attendance record and we are well ahead of where we were this time last year. It's proving to be our most international event yet with bookings coming in from all over the UK, Norway, Germany, Australia and America.
We are proud to have the biggest guest line-up ever seen at a European Transformers convention which currently has us welcoming of honour, David Kaye (the voice of Megatron in Beast Wars, Beast Machines, Armada, Energon and Cybertron), Simon Furman, Andrew Wildman, Guido Guidi, Geoff Senior, Lee Sullivan, Mike Collins, Simon Williams, and Jason Cardy.
Anyway, good luck with the competition and we're looking forward to seeing many of you in June!
Simon and Sven
Auto Assembly: Target 2006
www.autoassembly.org.uk
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on: Wednesday, 26th April 2006 at 10:00:00 BST
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Seibertron received an email from Metrodom yesterday afternoon with an update on the Masterforce DVD boxset.
We've had all kinds of delays caused by the BBFC - the UK censor,
not that they're disputing any aspect, merely that it's been a long
time being passed through due to the length of the series. We've all
put long hours in on this, it's proved to be an extreme challenge to
keep 100% quality control on almost 16 hours of material, the whole
purpose of changing the way we did the subtitling was to avoid some of
the mistakes in Headmasters.
So hard drives, DVDRS, subtitle tiffs and frantic emails have been
flying between myself in London, Chris McFeely in Northern Ireland and
Jordan Derber in Tokyo. Chris and Jordan are the two stars of the
piece, they've both put in late nights and early mornings to get the
subtitles in perfect form for the release. Chris even had to watch the
entire series in something like 3 days flat, working around his day job
- and we're just about to send check discs over to him to watch the
whole series again for a final QC.
So the new release date is set for May 29th, the title should be a PG, it'll be 5 discs and the RRP is £34.99
Chris has provided an excellent commentary on 3 of the episodes and
once again written a booklet with episode guide, background and a
translation chart for the names.
For anyone that hasn't seen Masterforce I can confirm that it's a very special series indeed, my personal favourite so far.
The only sad news is that due to the costs we were incurring we had to
make the decison to leave off the English dub. For those of you that
know it, it's a pretty poor affair, fairly laughable in places and
really not of the expected quality. Done with ahandful of actors,
limited budget and appalling translation - we know it's a curio, but we
just weren't in a position to use it.
As far as we know there is no disc set in the world where the english
Star TV dub and the Japanese audio exist on the same edition. So when
it came down to it we naturally had to choose the Japanese dub,
otherwise what would be the point of the whole exercise.
Of course this will put some people off, we're genuinely sorry we couldn't include it - but it just wasn't an option eventually.
News on the 20th Anniversary release of Transformers: the movie -well
the main news is that i'm trying to clear the decks and get my arse
into gear. It's still on the cards and we may even be a few inches
closer to including Scramble City and Zone on the edition - so more
news to come!
cheers
Jezz
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on: Wednesday, 26th April 2006 at 08:37:00 BST
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Big Bad Toy STore have added an image of the 3" Transformers Titanium Jazz figure which you can view
here.
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on: Wednesday, 26th April 2006 at 08:34:38 BST
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Stunticon and Nevermore have posted an updated on listings from the Transformers website over on
TFW2005, which include two new entries for
Cyro Scourge and
Landslide. Will Cryo Scourage turn out ot be a US version of the Japanese
Lucky Draw Flame Convoy toy? Only time will tell.
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on: Wednesday, 26th April 2006 at 08:32:19 BST
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TFAuctions.com have been told by Hasbro UK that they (Hasbro UK) will not be distributing the Transformers: Cybertron Galvatron toy. This doesn't come as a big suprise, as re-colours of recent Transformer releases have tended to sit as shelf warmers at the best of times, and with main chains such as Woolworths and Toy Master not stocking Transformers: Cybertron, and Hasbro's UKs fast and un-predictable release schedule so far, it is expected that more toys will be dropped from the line.
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on: Wednesday, 26th April 2006 at 08:28:03 BST
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Auto Assembly: Target 2006, the UK Transformers convention taking place on Saturday 3rd of June in Birmingham, England has now set the cut-off date for pre-registrations for fans wishing to book from outside of the UK. Anyone wishing to register who DOES NOT live in the UK will need to book using the online booking system and pay by PayPal by Saturday 20th May 2006 AT THE LATEST to guarantee your place at the convention.
We have had to set this date to ensure that we can process your booking in time and make sure that your booking confirmations are shipped to you before you travel allowing you to get into the convention! With airmail taking several days within Europe and about a week for the rest of the world this should give everyone enough time to get your confirmation slips and information packs.
With Auto Assembly: Target 2006 less than six weeks away, if you are thinking about coming along to the convention, you need to get your bookings in NOW to guarantee your place. With David Kaye, the voice of Megatron, making his European convention debut and Auto Assembly having the biggest guest line-up ever for a European convention, this is one event you don't want to miss!
We will be announcing the cut-off dates for UK postal and online bookings shortly.
Simon and Sven,
Auto Assembly: Target 2006www.autoassembly.org.uk
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on: Tuesday, 25th April 2006 at 10:04:39 BST
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Fan2Fan have posted a roundup of the latest issues of the Japanese Hobby Magazines, including the images of MP-03 Starscream, the expected boxart for Kiss Convoy and more.
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on: Tuesday, 25th April 2006 at 08:18:58 BST
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on: Tuesday, 25th April 2006 at 07:59:56 BST
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From
Yahoo! Business News (originally from Reuters).
(Reuters) - Hasbro Inc. , the No. 2 U.S.
toy company, on Monday said its quarterly loss narrowed as
strong sales of board games and its products such as Playskool,
Littlest Pet Shop, Nerf and Transformers offset slower "Star
Wars" toy sales.But Hasbro warned the second quarter will be difficult
compared with a year ago when its earnings jumped on strong
sales of "Star Wars" merchandise ahead of the May 2005 release
of the movie "Star Wars: Episode III-Revenge of the Sith."
"The second quarter will be challenging," President and CEO
Alfred Verrecchia said on a conference call. "We shipped $147
million of 'Star Wars' product in second quarter of '05. Even
if our first-quarter trend of an approximate 50 percent
fall-off continues, we will have to make up over $70 million in
volume."
"Star Wars" products, which include lightsabers and action
figures, accounted for 16 percent of Hasbro's revenue in 2005.
But with no new movie release set for this year, sales of "Star
Wars"-related items are expected to drop......Revenue in its North American segment rose 7 percent to
$310.3 million, boosted in part by sales of board games such as
Candy Land and Scrabble. International segment revenue fell 5
percent to $145.5 million, hurt by a foreign exchange impact of
about $10.4 million.
Hasbro said shipments of "Star Wars" products in the first
quarter were $51 million, down from $101 million the prior
year's first quarter.
Toymakers have been suffering from an industrywide slump as
electronic gadgets including video games and digital music
players pull away once-captive young consumers, and rising
costs and cutthroat competition eat into margins.
Hasbro's results came a week after larger rival Mattel Inc.
(NYSE:MAT - news) reported an operating loss in its first quarter and
forecast a challenging 2006.
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on: Monday, 24th April 2006 at 23:19:37 BST
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on: Monday, 24th April 2006 at 17:56:45 BST
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The Allspark have two scans from the latest issue of Figure-Oh! magazine, of MP-03 Starscream. You can view the images
here.
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on: Monday, 24th April 2006 at 08:37:23 BST
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AICN have an posted an report and brief interview with Michael Bay regarding the news Transformers Movie.
Category: Transformers Movie News
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on: Monday, 24th April 2006 at 08:34:36 BST
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on: Sunday, 23rd April 2006 at 18:37:21 BST
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The news keeps on coming. Just saw in Bristol the small Legends of Cybertron figures priced at £2.99 had Megs, Starscream, Prime and Hot shot. Not that impressed.
Hob.
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on: Sunday, 23rd April 2006 at 12:21:41 BST
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