The Auto Assembly team have issued the following press release

Auto Assembly 2009 Script Reading On YoutubeAnd More...

For those of you who attended Auto Assembly 2009, you've been waitng for months for the chance to see it again, and for those of you who couldn't make it, you've been wondering what all the fuss was about, but we are now proud to announce that we are releasing the footage of our live script reading from Auto Assembly 2009 on the official Auto Assembly channel on Youtube!

For those of you who don't know, the script reading took place on the Saturday evening of the convention and featured a brand new 25 minute Beast Wars script written exclusively for the convention and was performed by Gregg Berger, Ian James Corlett, comic artists Simon Williams, Nick Roche, and a number of fans who auditioned for additional roles.

Over the coming weeks we will be uploading the Script Reading and a whole host of other clips from Auto Assembly 2009 - interviews, general footage, guest panels and much much more. As well as this, we be be uploading Highlight Reels from our archives from past events dating back to the very first Auto Assembly event in 2000!

The first videos from this archive are online NOW and new videos will be added every day or two so keep coming back to see all the latest updates. Footage from Auto Assembly 2000, 2001 and the first interview from Auto Assembly 2009 are online NOW and Part One of the Script Reading will be available by the time most of you read this! To see these, just visit the channel at www.youtube.com/autoassembly and if you want to know about the videos as they become available, why not subscribe to us?!

The channel will also bring you the latest news and developments on Auto Assembly 2010 which is going to be our biggest and best yet. We want to celebrate Auto Assembly's 10th Anniversary in style and give you the best Transformers convention that Europe has ever seen. Over the weekend of Friday 13th - Sunday 15th August 2010 we will be bringing you AT LEAST three guests of honour (Garry Chalk and Derrick J Wyatt are already confirmed), a massive Saturday evening programme with a party, live band, costume competition and loads more, toy and art displays, dealers, comic guests, free autograph sessions, video games area, workshops, dedicated childrens programming, video screenings and so much more!

All this will be taking place at the The Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Birmingham, England. Tickets for the weekend are on sale now through the website for for the weekend for adults and for children, students and senior citizens, with under 5s admitted free. Single day passes will be made available for sale closer to the convention.

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 2010.

The Auto Assembly 2010 Team

web: www.autoassembly.org.uk
forum: http://autoassembly.proboards.com
email: autoassembly@aol.com
tel: +44 (0)7860 948296 

KalelPrime has dropped by our message board to talk about the "Team Quiz" that will take part at this years Auto Assembly, here is what he had to say:

"This year at Auto Assembly we will be hosting our own team quiz that will be running all weekend.

If anyone is interested and will be attending the convention this year then below is what we are looking for.

1) Teams of four are required to enter.
2) All team members must be available all weekend.
3) We require that you submit your team name and list of all four members in advance with your registration numbers to moonbase2cast@googlemail.com

May the best team win"

Just a quick reminder that there is just 193 days left until Auto Assembly 2010.  For those who do not know, Auto Assembly is Europe's largest Transformers fan convention and will run from Friday, 13th August 2010 at 17:30 until 20:00 on Sunday 15th August 2010.  This years event sees AA return to the same location as 2009, the Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Smallbrook Queensway, Birmingham.  You can find it on Google maps.  The arrow is pointing to where the actual hotel and convention will be, as Google have the location of the Holiday Inn wrong.

The current guest list stands at:

1. Garry Chalk (guest of honour)
   
2. Derrick J Wyatt (2nd guest of honour)
   
3. Liam Shalloo
4. Simon Williams
5. Guido Guidi
6. Simon Furman
7. Kris Carter
8. Jason Cardy
9. Kat Nicholson
   

If this wasn't enough, a third guest of honour is still in the works, plus you will have toy dealers, panels, Q&A, evening entertainment and so much more.

If you have never been to a Transformers convention and live in the UK we urge you to attend the event.  If you are unsure because you do not know anyone that's fine, you will not be the only nervous person there and you'll be going to an event where you already have something in common with 95% of the people there ... an interest in Transformers.  So whether you want to go to buy some toys, meet the guests or meet up with fellow Transformers enthusiasts there is something at Auto Assembly for everyone.  The event is close to car parks, a train station, not to mention a comic shop :p.  So come along and say high.  We're easy to find, just look for the two guys who look the same.

Please visit the Auto Assembly website for more information and to pre-register (being a non-profit event pre-registration is very important as it helps the keep track of how many guests can be afforded) and don't forget to drop by the Auto Assembly Facebook page.

Thanks to Blueshift for posting a link to Deviant Art of the latest Transformers Mosaic comic, titled Blackest Night.

Script and colours by Matt Marshall (Blueshift), Art by Jake Isenberg and Letters by Mark Kuggeleijn

­A few days after providing a small preview of the concept art for head of their upcoming Punch/Counterpunch exclusive, The Transformers Collectors' Club has made the full preview of the concept art available to the public.

The full preview shows how the head transformation will occur when an individual changes the robot from Punch to Counterpunch, which is basically the same as the original version with a tilting "hat" technique. Check out the full preview at TransformersClub.com.

The first guest of honour has been officially announced for Auto Assembly 2010

Garry Chalk To Attend Auto Assembly 2010!

Auto Assembly 2010 is proud to announce that Garry Chalk, the voice obehind Optimus Primal in Beast Wars and Beast Machines and Optimus Prime in the Unicron Trilogy, will be attending Auto Assembly 2010 as it's first confirmed guest of honour. With a staggering 14 seasons of Transformers under his belt, Garry is the most prolific voice actor to have played the role of Optimus.

With Garry joining us for his first ever Auto Assembly convention, and a second voice actor to be announced soon, joining our existing line-up of comic guests Auto Assembly 2010 is set to be the biggest convention ever seen in Europe taking place on Friday 13th - Sunday 15th August 2010 at The Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Birmingham, England.

Tickets for the weekend are on sale now through the website for £45 for the weekend for adults and £35 for children, students and senior citizens, with under 5s admitted free. Single day passes will be made available for sale closer to the convention.

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

For a rather special announcement about Garry's appearance at the convention, check out this video here on the official Auto Assembly Youtube Channel:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z48sesDwB4k

We hope to see you all in August 2010.

The Auto Assembly 2010 Team

web: www.autoassembly.org.uk
forum: http://autoassembly.proboards.com
email: autoassembly@aol.com
tel: +44 (0)7860 948296\

Cybergundamblog have posted some photos from the 2009 East Japan toy trade fair, at which TakaraTomy showed off their upcoming Donald Duck Disney Label, Transformers Alternity Bumblebee and Cliffjumper and Transformers: Revenge Human-Alliance toys.

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Thanks to Yokubarion we have created a new image gallery containing 149 photographs which he took from the Chara-Hobby event in Japan.  The images included items that were on display from Bandai, TakaraTomy and other manufacturers. The images are grouped by the companies displaying them, so you will find all of the Takara Tomy images at the bottom of the gallery.

The images help to show that the strange combiners within the case with the reissued Combaticons appear to be original concept pieces from the design phase of the first combiners which have been previously shown as concept art within the Generations books.

You can view the images here.