Timey2Wimey has posted a new profile video for Roll Out Roll Call, the G.I-Joe / Action Force and Transformers convention taking place here within the UK in Match. The video is a preview for the colourist John-Paul Bove and can be viewed below.

Timey2Wimey has posted the latest video promoting the upcoming Transformers, G.I-Joe and Action Force convention here within the UK called Roll Out Roll Call.  The video focuses on the profile of Transformers legend, Simon Furman.  You can watch the video below.

The main guest line up has now been confirmed and announced:

Meet Transformers ReGeneration One Team:
Simon Furman - Transformers ReGeneration One writer
Andrew Wildman - Transformers ReGeneration One artist
John-Paul Bove - Transformers ReGeneration One colourist

Meet The Legendary GI-Joe writer at his first ever UK show:
Larry Hama - GI-Joe writer - 1st ever UK show

Meet the IDW Team that helped create the new look Cobra Commander:

Robert Atkins - IDW GI-Joe artist - 1st ever UK show
Simon Gough - IDW GI-Joe colourist - 1st ever UK show

Bill Forster - Transformers Ark & The AllSpark Almanac Author & Artist
Jim Sorenson - Transformers Ark & The AllSpark Almanac Author
James Eatock - Cereal:Geek Animation of the 80's Magazine Editor

Botcon.com has been updated with two new images of Botcon 2012 Metalhawk.  The figure, based on the Transformers: Super God Masterforce Metalhawk toy, is a recolour of the recent Thunderwing toy that was also recoloured as Sky Shadow (Black Shadow).  You can view the mirrored images below.

The Transformers Galaxy Hong Kong Fans Group have manged to get their hands on this year's BotCon exclusive Gigatron (Overlord) from the "Invasion" boxset. You need to be a facebook user to see the images

Auto Assembly is going Twitter crazy this week and letting itself open to all manner of weird and wonderful questions about this year's convention when we are holding a live Q&A Panel on our Twitter page where you'll be able to ask the organisers ANY question you like about this year's convention!

If you want to know more about the events we have planned this year, want to know about our guests or just have any general questions about the convention itself, just pop along and subscribe to our Twitter page for all the latest updates on the convention over at www.twitter.com/auto_assembly and post your question (and don't forget to mention us in your tweet!). One of our team will be monitoring the tweets throughout the day and will reply as soon as possible and we'll be as honest as possible and we promise to reply to EVERYONE!

The Q&A Panel will be taking place on Friday, 20th January 2012 from 9:00 am GMT so pop over to Twitter at any time and join us!

For more information on this year's convention, taking place at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel in Birmingham, England over the weekend of 3rd - 5th August 2012, visit the website at www.autoassembly.org.uk where you can book your tickets now. For all the latest news on Auto Assembly Europe taking place in Sweden later in the year, visit www.autoassemblyeurope.eu

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Full Metal Hero's Stripe (or Minon to Transformers At The Moon members) has gotten his hands on the BotCon exclusive Hunt for the Decepticons Voyager Sea Spray repaint of Shattered Glass Otcopunch, and posted a pictorial review. Click here to view the rest of Stripe's images and read his review of the figure

Early warning for the review - Octopunch is my favourite Transformer and has been since I got my paws on him as a child, so expect some biased love for this toy.
I've wait 20+ years for a new Octopunch toy and whilst i'll openly admit that I wasn't blown away by this interpretation at first, having the toy in hand is perhaps the most excited i've been for a Transformer in years.

This is the third time we've seen this mold, and if you don't love it by now then you've likely already made up your mind about this figure. If you took the lunge on Seaspray and Deep Dive then you'll know what to expect and it really comes down to character and colour choice.

The colours on the toy are much better than early images suggested, and whilst the green of the hovercraft ring isn't what I would call 'Octopunch green', the use of blue, yellow and purple is really nice. Paint apps are decent, with only a few little missed bits here and there. One half of the crotch plate is missing the blue though. If you take the view that Shattered Glass figures can ignore traditional colours schemes, then the one chosen for Ock is perfectly acceptable and very cool in its own right.

I've grown especially fond of the head, and whilst I completely understand the calls for a new one, the blue breathing aparatus (like on the G1 pretender's chest) over the purple helmet really does have that Octopunch feel to it.

Transformation is smooth and easy (and yes I know I mistransformed the shoulder plates in some photos - I was too excited to have my Ock figure), and joints are reasonably tight. Overall the quality of the toy from a construction point of view is easily comparable to Seaspray and Deep Dive, and the firing missile launchers work fine.
My only real gripe is that the peg for the missile launcher is a bit too tight for him to hold them in his hand, although they fit on the forearm pegs just fine. The back plate where the deck of the hovercraft folds up is also a little finnicky at the bottom hinge and takes some effort to lock in correctly.

Octopunch is far from a must have for most fans, and anyone who already owns this mold has probably had their fix from it, but there is still something really special about him. Sure he's missing the tentacles, harpoon gun, crab chap and the pretender-ness of the G1 toy, but recent reimaginings over the past few years of Bludgeon, Skullgrin and Thunderwing have redecuated us in our expectations anyway. The little touches such as the tentacle decals on the chest, blue breathing mask and general coolness really sell the figure.

Dare I say - roll on a voyager sized Stranglehold?

San Diego, CA (January 16, 2012)—IDW Publishing will be attending our first-ever UK comic convention when the inaugural London Super Comic Convention, kicks off the weekend of February 25th. In addition to having a booth on the show floor, IDW’s Chief Creative Offier/Editor-in-Chief Chris Ryall will be in attendance participating in an IDW panel, doing portfolio reviews, and promising an exclusive announcement or two as well. The show is billing itself as “the U.K.’s Biggest American Creator-Driven Comic Convention.”

“I’m very happy to be present at the debut London Super Comic show and meeting the fans,” said Chris Ryall. “In fact, I feel like I owe it to our loyal UK fans to make a good first impression at one of their cons, so I’ll be announcing at least one gigantic new series, if not more.”

In addition to portfolio reviews, fans will have chance to pick up a con-exclusive cover for Infestation 2: Transformers, and get books signed by Ryall and creators such as Tony Lee, J.K. Woodward, Phil Jimenez, and others. A full signing and panel schedule will be announced as soon as it is finalized.


Visit IDWPublishing.com to learn more about the company and its top-selling books.

Visit http://www.londonsupercomicconvention.com for more information on the show. Or check out http://www.facebook.com/LondonSuperComicConvention and http://twitter.com/#!/LSComicCon


About IDW Publishing
IDW is an award-winning publisher of comic books, graphic novels and trade paperbacks, based in San Diego, California. Renowned for its diverse catalog of licensed and independent titles, IDW publishes some of the most successful and popular titles in the industry, including: Hasbro’s The TRANSFORMERS and G.I. JOE, Paramount’s Star Trek; HBO’s True Blood; the BBC’s DOCTOR WHO; Toho’s Godzilla; and comics and trade collections based on novels by worldwide bestselling author, James Patterson. IDW is also home to the Library of American Comics imprint, which publishes classic comic reprints; Yoe! Books, a partnership with Yoe! Studio.

IDW’s original horror series, 30 Days of Night, was launched as a major motion picture in October 2007 by Sony Pictures and was the #1 film in its first week of release. More information about the company can be found at IDWPublishing.com.

Botcon have revealed the lead figure of the 2012 Invasion set, Ultra Magnus.  Based on the Diaclone colours, and using the Reveal the Shield Laser Prime mold, Magnus will be another toy to split opinions, mainly due to the head.

Livio Ramondelli, the artist from th  "Chaos" story arc in IDW's Transformers 2011 ongoing comic, has announced via Twitter that he will be attending BotCon 2012.

Click here to see Livio Ramondelli's tweet

BotCon 2012 takes place April 26-29 in Dallas, Texas.

Roll Out Roll Call tickets are now available, so get booking up.

Ticket booking for Europe's largest Transformers, GI-Joe and Action Force show is now open.

Roll Out Roll Call 3
10th & 11th March 2012
Jury's Inn Hotel
1 Charlotte Place
Southampton
SO14 0TB
United Kingdom

Weekend Ticket Pass: £26.00 each
Saturday Ticket Pass: £16.00 each
Sunday Ticket Pass: £16.00 each

Within this ticket price signings are free*.

With 9 guests attending, that works out at under £3.00 per guest on a weekend ticket pass, representing amazing value.

*signings are free for valid ticket holder, however if you have a large collection of items to be signed, please be aware there may be a charge.

Special Guests include:

Larry Hama - GI-Joe writer - 1st ever UK show
Robert Atkins - IDW GI-Joe artist - 1st ever UK show
Simon Gough - IDW GI-Joe colourist - 1st ever UK show
Simon Furman - Transformers ReGeneration One writer
Andrew Wildman - Transformers ReGeneration One artist
John-Paul Bove - Transformers ReGeneration One colourist
Bill Forster - Transformers Ark & The AllSpark Almanac Author & Artist
Jim Sorenson - Transformers Ark & The AllSpark Almanac Author
James Eatock - Cereal:Geek Animation of the 80's Magazine Editor

In addition to guests, we will have presentations and panels throughout the weekend, giving special insight from guests and contributing fans.
There will be a range of specially selected dealers who will be offering a wide range of your favourite products, from vintage to current releases.
Roll Out Roll Call Exclusives specially created for the show (Weekend Ticket Pass holders will be able to advance purchase Exclusives ahead of the show on a first come, first served basis).

Ticket Pass availability is limited, so advance booking is strongly recommended.
Head over now to book your ticket:
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If you have any questions regarding the show, please do not hesitate to drop us a line.


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eBay seller riflescopeshop has posted two listings on the auction website for the upcoming Botcon 2012 exclusive Shattered Glass Octopunch.  The figure, who was recently revealed thanks to ACToys, is a recolour of the HFTD Seaspray.  The new images that were posted on ebay show the figure in robot mode for the first time.  You can view the auctions here and here and can see the images below.

All The Cool Stuff have updated their Roll Out Roll Call 2013 pages with the custom profiles of Jim Sorenson and Bill Forster.

In addition they have an order page for commissioned artwork by Robert Akins for sale

Robert is pleased to offer commissions ahead of the show (those not able to pick up their commission's at the show will be charged P&P).
The 9x12" single character can also feature additional characters at an additional cost of £15.00 per character.
When ordering a commission, please give the details of what character you would like and any supplemental information, like scenario etc
The images shown are examples of 9X12" Single Character Inked commissions.

Ticket prices still aren't up yet, but the latest news is 

All The Cool Stuff Just waiting on the last checks going through the site, and then they'll be up :o)

ACToys.net have posted an image of what appears to be a new Botcon 2012 figure ... Octopunch!  The toy is a recolour of the Hunt For The Decepticons Seaspray.

Botcon Tweeted last night that "We are now 50% sold thru on Primus and 70% sold through on Golden Ticket packages. We doubled class size this year and still sold out fast!".

The Golden Tickets are priority passes that were last used at OTFCC 2003 and proved extremely controversial.

We will continue to update you with the latest Botcon news, though you can also use our exclusive "Other Sites News / In The News" section to stay up-to-date with news from 43 different websites from around the world.

Botcon 2012 registration went live, for attending packages, just before midnight UK time. Non-attendee packages are due to go live sometime next week.  As well as putting the registrations live two small images were also published of the complete Botcon set which confirmed the molds of the rest of the figures.  Metalhawk, as predicted, is a a recoloured classics Thunderwing with a new head sculpt whilst Ultra Magnus is a diaclone coloured G2 Optimus Prime.

Botcon have also tweeted some concept art of the Metalhawk head that can be seen in the additional images section below.