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on: Friday, 3rd June 2005 at 11:58:46 BST
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Auto Assembly 2005 is tomorrow, and if you are still having trouble deciding the best route, then stop by
this thread on our message board for some sugestions from AA organiser Sven Harvey.
For those wondering about the weather, the BBC report sunny intervals where as The Weather Channel report showers all day. Not much help really, so take your pick.
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| Submitted by: quartz -
on: Friday, 3rd June 2005 at 10:26:03 BST
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The US Trademark and Patent Office have marked Hasbro's trademark subbmission for Command Ravage as abandoned due to their failure to respond or a late response. You can view the details
here.
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on: Friday, 3rd June 2005 at 10:19:18 BST
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Play.com have put up a pre-order page for Energon Landquake,
here, with a release date of 04/07/2005 and a price of £39.99. At the moment it is not known whether this is an imported US release or an offical Hasbro UK offering, thuogh the price suggests the former.
Credit to
The Transformers.net for the news.
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| Submitted by: quartz -
on: Thursday, 2nd June 2005 at 21:31:41 BST
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Due to launch before Christmas, these cardboard cutouts will stand at over six feet high and will feature exclusive artwork by Simon Williams, and coloured by Jason Cardy.
Helen Simm from CardboardCutout.net comments on the range; "When considering the first range to produce as a license-holder, we chose TRANSFORMERS as it has a massively broad appeal: fans and collectors, as well as 80s nostalgists not to mention the new generations discovering the massively popular toy range!"
An official launch of the products is due soon, but CardboardCutout.net were keen to announce they will be unveiling how the cutouts will look at this weekend's Auto Assembly (4th & 5th June '05), where you'll also be able to register your interest.
"The range will be a Limited Edition" says Helen. "If this run goes as well as we anticipate we will be looking to extend the range. Dinobots, anybody?"
CardboardCutout.net is the UK's only specialists in life-size cardboard cutouts and you can find out more about them at www.cardboardcutout.net.. You can email them for more information, or to have your say, at transformers@cardboardcutout.net.
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| Submitted by: quartz -
on: Thursday, 2nd June 2005 at 21:28:18 BST
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TFormers are reporting that Transformers: Cybertron will be release in Hong Kong tomorrow. You can read more
here
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| Submitted by: quartz -
on: Thursday, 2nd June 2005 at 21:24:37 BST
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Nevermore reports over at The Allspark
here, that the Cybertron Scorponok remould will be a general release and not an exclusive.
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| Submitted by: quartz -
on: Thursday, 2nd June 2005 at 18:57:20 BST
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Cosmic Rust report that Amazon.com have posted two new trade paperback preorders. The first is for Transformers: Aspects Of Evil . Art by Andrew Wildman, written by Simon Furman. The price is $7.95. The second preorder is for Transformers: Way of the Warrior . Art by Andrew Wildman, written by Simon Furman. The price is $7.95.
You can view the cover images
here and
here
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| Submitted by: quartz -
on: Thursday, 2nd June 2005 at 14:12:18 BST
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Several trademark submissions by Hasbro were published for opposition yesterday, by the USPTO. Among them was the mark for
Transformers: Cybertron. Interestingly the only mark that was not updated to this status yesterday, but was stil updated, was for
Sludge. The update was confirmation that the trademark submission had been extended for the fourth time. You can view of the updated trademarks, along with the rest of the 353 we have listed, in our TF Trademark section,
here.
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| Submitted by: quartz -
on: Thursday, 2nd June 2005 at 08:41:19 BST
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Press Release from
Auto Assembly
AA2005 Final Guest Update
Sadly Lee Sullivan won't be able to join us at Auto Assembly this year due to unforseen family commitments. However, we do have an item for the auction signed by him and he will be back with us for Auto Assembly 2006. However, we do have a surprise....
Also, because of staff shortages, Maximum Entertainment have just informed us today that they will not be able to make it this year. However, we will be still filming Auto Assembly 2005 ourselves (and we are still looking for volunteers!) and hopefully the edited footage will be used on the RiD box set appearing later this year. They are going to be sending some items along for us to give away as prizes though.
Geoff Senior To Attend Auto Assembly 2005!!
Transformers comic legend Geoff Senior will be making his first Auto Assembly appearance this weekend! He will be around to sign autographs and will be taking part in the comic panel at 1:00 pm
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| Submitted by: quartz -
on: Thursday, 2nd June 2005 at 08:35:10 BST
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Press Release from
Auto AssemblyAuto Assembly 2005 Pre-Bookings CLOSED!!
We have now closed the pre-bookings for Auto Assembly 2005 as we are in the final packing stages and getting ready to go over to the Clarendon Suites so we can't process any more bookings properly! If yuo have already pre-booked, your confirmation slips have been posted and should be with you in time for AA2005 if you have not already received them.
We do still have around 100 places available for those of you planning on coming along on the day, but we would advise you all to get here early to get a good place in the queue as once we hit the cut-off point, we will not be able to let anyone else in! On-the-door prices are £10 for adults and £7.50 for children, students etc.
If you have pre-registered and not received your confirmation slips by the time you leave to come along you will need to ensure that you bring the following:- PayPal order confirmation (including the transaction ID), proof of personal ID including address (such as mobile phone bill). If you don't have either of these, it could delay your admission into the event.
We're looking forward to seeing you all this weekend!!
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| Submitted by: quartz -
on: Thursday, 2nd June 2005 at 08:33:49 BST
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Coming from Transmasters UK, a fanclub that has been around for over ten years, we have produced two magazines for this year's Auto Assembly. These are Relentless and the TMUK Convention Special, which will be £1 and £2 respectively. They have full colour covers and will be jam packed full of stories and artwork (a combined page count of 120 pages!)
You'll find Transmasters UK in the fan area, so stop by and say hi!
You can contact Transmasters UK via the
The Hub messageboards.
Click
here to view the Transmasters AA 2005 promotional advert.
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| Submitted by: Garry Bodsworth -
on: Wednesday, 1st June 2005 at 13:04:06 BST
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Seibertron have a lengthy update from Metrodome regarding their future TF: Movie and Headmasters releases :-
Transformers The Movie - Reconstructed' will be released on 29th August 2005. We're going back to the original picture negative and doing a brand new telecine. It will be 16:9 Widesceen Anamorphic, but will have curtains as the viewable image is 1.33:1 and 1.78:1 and it changes scene by scene. We wanted to give the fans the maximum possible Transformer image. Everything the laminators drew will be visible and this will be the first time anyone, anywhere would have seen the whole movie in its original form. It should be quite something.
There is no convenient way to refer to this non-standard format of film transfer. However the process we applied can be described thus:
35mm film has a native aspect ratio of 1.33:1.
This particular 35mm negative had been shot by several different animators using various size gates, therefore the framing is inconsistent.
In order to respect the full film frame and place it within the wide screen video format of 16:9, the telecine was set-up to create an anamorphic transfer which results in a side curtained 1.33 image within a 1.78 ratio.
Due to the inconsistent framing within the negative the image size changes from shot to shot.
The resulting master preserves the entire field of potential viewable negative.
"'Transformers Takara Headmasters' will be released in a 4 disc box set on 26th September. This will have brand new English subtitles and the original English dub so you can watch it in whatever way you want."
Metrodome has also informed us that both Takara Headmasters and Transformers: The Movie - Reconstructed will be Region 0 releases. This means there are NO region codes on them and you will be able to play them on any DVD-player!
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on: Wednesday, 1st June 2005 at 08:36:41 BST
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AUTO ASSEMBLY '05 - FURMAN AND WILDMAN TO ATTEND
Hard on the heels of Bristol and Comics Expo, Furman and Wildman are heading north (well, as far as Birmingham) for the annual (and only this year!) UK Transformers-con, Auto Assembly (on Saturday June 4th). Once again, there'll be signed/bookplated copies of the Transformers: War Within - The Dark Ages trade paperback, copies of the exclusive Transformers mini-comic (previously only available in the Atari game) and lots of other Transformers and Wildfur-related goodies for sale. Expect also to see original Andrew Wildman artwork from the WW Dark Ages series on sale at this event. Not to be missed! For more details, go to www.autoassembly.org.uk and hurry, tickets to the event are selling out fast!
FURMAN JOINS IDW TRANSFORMERS TEAM!
IDW Publishing, having recently acquired the license to publish new Transformers comics material, announced that long-time Transformers scribe (and Wildfur co-founder) Simon Furman will be joining their creative team for the new G1 book, Transformers: Infiltration. Joining artist EJ Su, Furman will write the opening six-issue story arc, which kicks off in October with issue #0. The series will take a dramatic new perspective on classic characters and situations, providing the perfect jumping-on point for new readers. For more information go to www.idwpublishing.com/
THIRD TITAN B&W COLLECTION CONFIRMED!
The third in Titan's series of manga-sized collections of the UK b&w comic Transformers material continues with Transformers: Fallen Star. Gathering together stories from TFUK #215-218, #243-244, #248, #268, #270, #275-277 and #284-286, this essential collection of hard-to-find originals showcases the clash of two Megatrons and the fall and rise of Starscream. You'll have to wait until September for this one, but in the meantime there's May's Aspect of Evil and July's Way of the Warrior to keep you going. You lucky, lucky people! For more information on Titan's extensive range of Transformers graphic novels, go to www.titanbooks.com
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| Submitted by: quartz -
on: Tuesday, 31st May 2005 at 18:27:20 BST
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Simes posted this request on our message board today.
Hi everyone. We need a volunteer camera person with a digital camcorder (with Firewire/I-Link/IEEE-1394 connection) to record a whole bunch of people doing brief vocal opinions on what TransFormers means to them for a new last-minute programme item we've added to Auto Assembly 2005!!
Anyone will be welcome to come and sit in front of a camera for a few minutes to talk about about what you really think about Transformers, why it appeals to you, and what really gets you interested and excited about the
TransFormers. We are hoping to use the footage recorded on a future Auto Assembly product AND send all your comments to Don Murphy, producer of the live-action movie to give him a feel for what the UK fans think and feel about TFs!!
Anyone armed with a miniDV or similar camcorder who is willing to spend some time on this at AA next week, please contact us urgently at enquiries@autoassembly.org.uk and come along to Auto Assembly 2005 and have YOUR say!
Many thanks!
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| Submitted by: quartz -
on: Monday, 30th May 2005 at 18:39:56 BST
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