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Auto Assembly 2011 is doing something brand new this year and giving fans the chance to be the stars of online videos seen all over the world just by talking about your interest in Transformers and science fiction / fantasy...
The filmmakers behind new British comedy film "Pulp" are offering you the chance to get involved in this great new series of online videos at Auto Assembly 2011 all weekend. "Pulp" is the story of struggling comic book writer Tony Leary, who becomes embroiled in a dastardly plot by nefarious geordie criminals and an alien bear. Aided by his geek dream team; Rick and Keith, Tony must embark upon a journey which takes him to the very edge of reality... And Birmingham.
As part of the publicity drive for the film; the filmmakers are holding a series of interviews with Sci-Fi and film fans. Like Descartes, Plato, Hume, Mulder from ‘The X Files’ and Dr Mark Sloan from "Diagnosis Murder" – Pulp is constantly searching for answers to the most fundamental mysteries of the Universe. Questions such as "Who would win in a fight, Batman or Superman?", "Who is the better captain, Kirk or Picard" and "Is Inception any good?".
Pulp cannot hope to get to the heart of these pressing issues alone, so we have recruit the finest minds on Earth to share their views with us... Some people take it more seriously than others...
If you feel you have the answers to incisive questions such as these, come along to the Alternative Programme Room at Auto Assembly 2011 to share your thoughts on a range of subjects and you too can get involved! The interviews will be broadcast online across over 20,000 websites through AOL's channel. So if you fancy some pulping, come along!
To find out more, visit their sites at:-
http://www.pulpthemovie.com/
http://www.facebook.com/pulpthemovie
http://twitter.com/pulpthemovie
Auto Assembly 2011 is taking place over the weekend of 12th - 14th August 2011 at the Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Birmingham, England and tickets are available from the website now. For more details on the convention, to see a full list of all the guests and activities taking place over the weekend, or to book your tickets, visit the website at www.autoassembly.org.uk
We hope to see you all in August!
The Auto Assembly 2011 Team
The Transformers Collectors Club have sent out the following email update regarding this years San Deigo Comic-Con exclusives.
We have been getting a lot of questions about the Hasbro exclusives
for this year's Comic-Con and we want to let you know that we will not
be able to get any of the exclusives this year.
If you are interested in these items, you will either need to
attend Comic-Con or check Hasbro Toy Shop to see if there are any left
after the show.
The Auto Assembly team have sent out the following press release
Auto Assembly 2011 Booking
Deadlines!
Auto Assembly 2011 is just 32 days away
and as the excitement grows many of you are making last minute preparations for your trip to Birmingham for the
convention...
However, as always, a large number of you
still haven't bought tickets for the event yet. As seems to be the trend with Auto Assembly over the last few
years, 25%-30% of the tickets sold for
the convention are done in the last 4-6 weeks and this year is no
exception!
Many people have emailed us asking what
the closing date is for bookings this year. As many of you know, we are not sending out passes this year. Instead, we
are running a pass pick-up system at the
convention itself for all attendees, staggered to ensure that everyone
gets their passes and goodie bags
quickly and effectively and can get into the convention when it opens properly as fast as possible. All you will
need to do is bring a printout of your
booking confirmation email with you to the convention - it's that
simple!
Because of this, we can accept bookings
later than ever this year. We will have our full PC suite and pass production equipment with us at the convention and
while we are departing for the hotel a
few days before the event, we will still have full internet access so we
will able to accept and process bookings
right up until the evening of Wednesday 10th August 2011!! Bookings MUST be received by no later than 10:00 pm
GMT and be paid for by PayPal using your
credit/debit card or PayPal balance. For bookings made this late, we can
not accept payments made by
echeques.
As soon as we receive your booking, you
will receive a confirmation email with your ticket number and you will need to bring this along to the convention with
you so you can collect your pass and
goodie bag. Details of pass pick up times will be made available online
shortly, as will our convention
information pack.
This year, we are being joined by no less
than 13 guests from the world of Transformers including three guests of honour - David Kaye, Gregg Berger and
David Wise, and some of the top British
comic talent out there - Simon Furman, Nick Roche, James Roberts, Andrew
Wildman, Geoff Senior and many
more!
We have all the usual dealers tables,
guest talks, free autograph sessions, rare toy displays, a massive video games area, free workshops, a fan sales
table where you can sell your unwanted
toys and merchandise, and much more, with a few more surprises to be
announced soon...
The convention is taking place over the
weekend of 12th - 14th August 2011 at the Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Birmingham, England and tickets are
available from the website now. For more
details on the convention, to see a full list of all the guests and
activities taking place over the
weekend, or to book your tickets, visit the website at www.autoassembly.org.uk
The Auto Assembly team have sent out another press release this evening
Fan Sales Table Returns To Auto Assembly 2011!
A surprise hit at Auto Assembly 2010, we are proud to announce that we
are bringing the Fan Sales Table back to Auto Assembly 2011 but better than
ever. If you have any unwanted Transformers that you want to sell but are
tired of spending hours listing them on ebay, then this is for you...
Once again, we'll have this sales table set up for all attendees to
bring their unwanted toys, comics and other TF and non-TF items to be sold
on their behalf all weekend. Just drop them off, name your selling price,
and let us do the rest! All we ask for is a small 10% commission which goes
towards the convention funds and that's it! There's no minimum or maximum
limit to the number of items you can bring to sell and you can collect your
money or unsold items at any time during the convention.
Last year we had an incredible range of items - G1, Animated,
Cybertron, BinalTech, Beast Wars, and loads more and plenty of DVDs, comics,
books, video games... something for everyone. We already have some items
confirmed for the table with more being added daily and you can get your
items pre-listed now by visiting the Auto Assembly website and downloading
the list and information pack.
Ticket sales for the convention are doing great right now and we're on
track for this to be another huge success. Over the next two weeks we will
be making a lot of announcements about the convention so stay tuned as we
enter the final pre-convention rush so get your tickets now if you haven't
already before everyone else decides to!
The convention is taking place over the weekend of 12th - 14th August
2011 at the Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Birmingham, England and
tickets are available from the website now. For more details on the
convention, to see a full list of all the guests and activities taking place
over the weekend, or to book your tickets, visit the website at www.autoassembly.org.uk
The Auto Assembly team has issued the following release
Geoff Senior To Attend Auto Assembly 2011!!
Even though Auto Assembly 2011 is only 38 days away, we're not sitting
around doing nothing! We're still busy making plans and working on more
announcements to make sure that Auto Assembly 2011 is going to be our biggest
and best convention ever! How are we going to do that? By bringing you another
guest, for starters...
You've asked for him so you've got him back! We're talking about noe other
than the legendary G1 Marvel comic artist, Geoff Senior who is making a very
welcome return to Auto Assembly this year! Geoff worked on Marvel's lengthy run
of comics in the UK as well as contributing the the Marvel US title, and the
first issue of Titan's relaunched title following the release of the live action
movies, but that's not all.
Alongside Simon Furman, Geoff is responsible for co-creating one of comics
most well-loved Bounty Hunt... err, Freelance Peace Keeping Agents, Death's Head
who has recently been revived in Panini's Marvel Heroes in a new story penned by
Simon Furman!
Geoff will be signing autographs all weekend and joining all of our comic
guests on stage in a special Q&A Panel on the Saturday. That's not all
though... To celebrate the return of Death's Head, we will be holding a special
Death's Head Panel on the Sunday where Simon Furman and Geoff Senior will take
to the stage, along with Death's Head's new artistic team of Simon Williams,
Jason Cardy and Kat Nicholson to talk about their cult character. This is one
panel you won't want to miss!
The convention is taking place over the weekend of 12th - 14th August 2011
at the Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Birmingham, England and tickets are
available from the website now. For more details on the convention, to see a
full list of all the guests and activities taking place over the weekend, or to
book your tickets, visit the website at www.autoassembly.org.uk
?I thought I would bring you a random Saturday afternoon update since its a warm day here in London and I've been chilling out after a 17 hour grind in the office yes?terday. As such I have uploaded only our 4th video to our YouTube ?account which consists of a random montage of footage we recorded from the dealer room at Botcon 2011. The footage is available in HD format down and is the the second video we have uploaded to YouTube from our library of convention footage that we have recorded over the past ten years. At somepoint we hope to share all of thhe videos with you which include videos from Japanese Winter Wonderfests, Botcons, Auto Assembly, Transforce as well as other conventions. We must have something like 40 or 50 hours worth of convention footage that we have never made public before but always planned to release when we found time. Anyway, you can find the video footage below.
The Auto Assembly team have sent out the following press release.
Auto Assembly 2010 Wreckers Panel Online!
At Auto Assembly 2010, we were joined by Nick Roche and James Roberts who
took to the stage for a special Q&A Panel dedicated to The Last Stand Of The
Wreckers and their future work on Transformers. Now, to celebrate our
announcement over the weekend of the return of James Roberts to Auto Assembly,
we are proud to present this Panel IN FULL on our Youtube channel for all of you
to enjoy...
For those of you planning on attending the convention this year, or for
those of you who are still undecided, this is a great way to get a teaser of
what you can expect this year from some of our guests, especially with the
upcoming work from both Nick and James on some of IDW's titles and James' work
leading into the Chaos storyline in August.
A surprise hit at Auto Assembly 2010, we are proud to announce that we are
bringing the Fan Sales Table back to Auto Assembly 2011 but better than ever. If
you have any unwanted Transformers that you want to sell but are tired of
spending hours listing them on ebay, then this is for you...
Once again, we'll have this sales table set up for all attendees to bring
their unwanted toys, comics and other TF and non-TF items to be sold on their
behalf all weekend. Just drop them off, name your selling price, and let us do
the rest! All we ask for is a small 10% commission which goes towards the
convention funds and that's it! There's no minimum or maximum limit to the
number of items you can bring to sell and you can collect your money or unsold
items at any time during the convention.
Last year we had an incredible range of items - G1, Animated, Cybertron,
BinalTech, Beast Wars, and loads more and plenty of DVDs, comics, books, video
games... something for everyone. We already have some items confirmed for the
table with more being added daily and you can get your items pre-listed now by
visiting the Auto Assembly website and downloading the list and information
pack. More items are being added daily and we expect to have several hundred
items in stock over the weekend.
The convention is taking place over the weekend of 12th - 14th August 2011
at the Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Birmingham, England and tickets are
available from the website now. For more details on the convention, to see a
full list of all the guests and activities taking place over the weekend, or to
book your tickets, visit the website at www.autoassembly.org.uk
Auto Assembly have issued a new press release announcing yet another guest for this years convention. You can find the press release in full below.
Auto Assembly 2011 Announces Twelfth Guest!!
The clock is ticking and with just seven weeks to go until Auto Assembly 2011 we're moving into our rush period now for bookings so if you haven't already got your ticket for this year's event, then now is the time, especially as we are going to be making a lot of announcements over the next couple of weeks...
Starting things off, we are proud to bring you all news that we have now confirmed our twelth guest for the convention... but we're not going to tell you who it is right now! You can find details on our latest Youtube video here:- http://youtu.be/5YTrD6ZgsPM
We have also just uploaded the entry form and rules to our Cosplay Competition to the website and there is more about this in the video, but if you have already registered for the convention, head over to the site now and download the forms you need to get involved in what is going to be another great competition!
We have a lot more to announce over the next two weeks including activities taking place over the weekend, details on our script reading auditions, more guests, and a few surprises we have in store...
The convention is taking place over the weekend of 12th - 14th August 2011 at the Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Birmingham, England and tickets are available from the website now. For more details on the convention, to see a full list of all the guests and activities taking place over the weekend, or to book your tickets, visit the website at www.autoassembly.org.uk
This year we managed to invite a special guest to the C.O.N.S. 2011. Simon Furman, the comicartist of IDW, will do us the honour, to visit the C.O.N.S. 2011, in order to get to know his fans in Germany. We are looking forward to meet him and will do our best, to make his stay in Germany as enjoyable as possible. This way, we hope to give you a chance to get to know the awesome writer of IDW. We think that each of you has some question you'd like to ask him. Because of that we will make a live-interview with him on the 24th of July on the C.O.N.S. where we will try to get as much information as possible. Since we are aware of the fact that not everyone of you has the opportunity to attend the convention, we want to give you the chance to ask your questions. So, ask whatever you want to know about Simon Furman and his work. All questions will be collected and than asked to Simon live on the C.O.N.S.. Naturally the answers will be posted in the forum right after the C.O.N.S.
New Partner of C.O.N.S.:
Today we can introduce you to our new partner. It is an Anime, Manga, SciFi Convention, the TsunaCon from the Netherlands. This year the TsunaCon will be present for the first time on the C.O.N.S. and fancy itself to the German fans. We hope for a good partnership and we are glad about the cooperation. The team of the C.O.N.S. 2011 is glad to be able to welcome the TsunaCon in July.
C.O.N.S. 2011 The Program:
11.00 Opening/Disbursement of the quiz sheets
11.15 Rampage live - Letz go transform
11.30 Welcoming and introduction by the team
12.00 Beginning of the barbecue
12.15 Connect Four tournament
12.30 TF Dark Energy presentation
13.00 First tombola
13.30 Rampage live
14.00 Simon Furman interview
14.30 Signature session
15.30 Second tombola
16.00 End of voting for the contests/Revelation of the quiz
16.30 Announcement of the winners
17.00 Acknowledgements
17.30 Rampage live concert
19.00 The "farewells"
Inside-Outside at the C.O.N.S.:
Sometimes it takes a third try. In this year Kerstin and Michael of Inside-Outside Tattoo and jewellery design have once again registered themselves for the C.O.N.S..They will come with a booth of 5 x 4 metres, and delight fans of Transformers tattoos and exclusive Transformers custom jewellery. It is possible to get a tattoo live at the C.O.N.S. and of course you can also buy the handmade jewellery made out of stainless steel and silver. We are looking forward to the team and hope that this time everything will work out.
Cosplay Contest at the C.O.N.S.:
We have learned of several users, who will attend the C.O.N.S. in a cosplay. We think that this is great and that we have to reward it. If you like, you can now enter our new cosplay contest. There are no rules apart from that your cosplay should be made up of more than just a T-shirt and pants. So, if you would like to win a small but nice price, you can register for the contest here. The more the better.
Custom Contest @ C.O.N.S. The Prize:
Many of our customers have asked us what could be this years’ first prize of the custom contest. Today we are going to answer this question. It’s a small case from Revell, which contains 12 enamel colors. Paint thinner, brush cleaner and of course brushes. In addition to that there will be a C.O.N.S. exclusive figure of 2010. We hope that the winner will enjoy the prize. Depending on the number of participants, the second and third placed will also get a small prize. It is still possible to register, here!
Paramount supports the C.O.N.S.:
Today it happened!!! Paramount Pictures Germany has sent big boxes to the C.O.N.S. control center, and the content has thrilled us all. Paramount Pictures Germany supports the C.O.N.S. 2011 with two big display stands, which depict Optimus Prime. Apart from that we got two Transformers Dark of the Moon banners. One of which depicts Bumblebee and the other one shows Optimus Prime.
We want to thank Paramount for the support and we are looking forward to present everything at the C.O.N.S. 2011.
Here is a photo of the completed Optimus Prime display stand.
C.O.N.S. 2011 - Newsflash 1
The first news video for the C.O.N.S. 2011. It is only in german but maybe some understand a bit:
The latest Auto Assembly 2011 Press Release has been sent out
David Wise To Attend Auto Assembly 2011!
With just two months to go before Europe's largest Transformers convention, Auto Assembly, you may be lulled into thinking that all of the preparations are coming to a close and that we have made all of our major announcements. Well think again!
We are now proud to announce that we are being joined at the convention by our third guest of honour, none other than G1 script writer David Wise! David was responsible for writing more episodes of the original television series than any other writer and wrote episodes including War Dawn, The Rebirth, Kremzeek, The Girl Who Loved Powerglide and many others. In addition, he has also worked on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Star Trek and countless other shows. David will be with us for the whole weekend signing autographs and will take to the stage on Sunday afternoon to answer your questions. He will also be involved in some other events during the weekend which we will be announcing shortly.
For more information on David's appearance, and to hear a message from the man himself, check out our official announcement video on youtube here:-
David's appearance has been made possible thanks to an incredibly generous sponsorship package from UK dealer Toyz And Gamez. They have worked with us previously on our 2010 exclusive variant cover of IDW's Transformers Issue 9 (copies of which are still available through their website at www.toyzandgamez.co.uk) and we can't thank them enough for making David's Auto Assembly debut possible.
David joins our growing line-up of eleven guests which includes eight comic guests including Simon Furman, Nick Roche and Andrew Wildman and our other guests of honour - Gregg Berger and David Kaye who recorded this special message for us the other day about their appearance at the event:-
The convention is taking place over the weekend of 12th - 14th August 2011 at the Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Birmingham, England and tickets are available from the website now. For more details on the convention, to see a full list of all the guests and activities taking place over the weekend, or to book your tickets, visit the website at www.autoassembly.org.uk
The Auto Assembly team have published a new YouTube video announced the third guest of honour. Who is it? Well you'll have to watch the video below or pop over to TFW2005.com where Simon Plumbe, organiser of Auto Assembly was recently interviewed by SOl Fury and announced the news.
This third guest of honour is sponsored by Toys And Games
Today is the day that Auto Assembly are due to announce the name of their third Guest of Honour. As soon as the announcement has been made, the video published and the Press Released issue, we will cover the story here at Transformers At The Moon
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Choose Your Fate
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Ep 12: Captain Fanzone
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OTFCC 2003 (USA)
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