As we mentioned yesterday, the guest of honour for Auto Assembly 2008 was hopefully going to be announced today, and they have confirmed the identity of the guest.

Attending the event will be G1 voice actor Dan Gilvezan, the voice of Bumblebee, Hot Spot, Snapdragon, Outback, Rollbar and Skids. He’ll be signing your stuff and take part in the Q & A.

Here is the press release from Simon and Sven of Auto Assembly:

Hi everyone,

It’s taken us a while, but we’re pleased to announce that we can finally confirm our guest of honour for Auto Assembly 2008, the annual European Transformers convention taking place on 2nd August in Birmingham, England! For the first time ever, we are going to be joined by a G1 voice actor – none other than the voice of Bumblebee, Dan Gilvezan!

As well as Bumblebee, Dan has voiced a number of other G1 characters including Hot Spot, Snapdragon, Outback, Rollbar and Skids. And for all you Marvel comics fans out there Dan also voiced a certain friendly neighbourhood superhero – starring as Spiderman in the 1980s animated series, Spiderman And His Amazing Friends alongside fellow G1 actor Frank Welker! Dan will be with us for the duration of the convention, meeting fans and signing autographs in the guest area and be on stage for a talk / Q&A session later in the day.

We are pleased to have Dan joining us and hope you’ll all make him feel welcome. With less than 3 months to go before Auto Assembly 2008, there’s no better time to book your tickets to make sure you have a chance to attend what is sure to be Europe’s biggest ever Transformers convention!

With Dan making a personal appearance, the interview with Mark Ryan (Bumblebee in the live action movie) in Issue 9 of The Cybertronian Times we have a double Bumblebee special, the usual mix of dealers, displays, videos, guest talks (including a great comic guest line-up), we’re sure you’ll have a great day!

Hope to see many of you there!

Simon and Sven
Auto Assembly 2008