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Only two comic releases this week, but both play important roles in IDW’s main continuity and the movie continuity.
Transformers Spotlight: Hardhead
Transformers Movie Sequel: The Reign of Starscream #3
Chris Ryall has also posted both covers for The Reign of Starscream #3.
The official SDCC website has posted the final schedules for the entire convention, with the details of Hasbro’s all important panel on the Saturday. At their panel will be toys for the Animated Universe line and details of next years 25th Anniversary celebration.
12:00-1:00 Hasbro: Transformers— Aaron Archer and Jared Wade (Hasbro Design), and Michael Ballog and Jared Jones (Hasbro Marketing) present all the latest toys from the new Transformers Animated and Transformers Universe toy lines. See a sneak peek into what Hasbro is doing to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Transformers in 2009! Room 7AB
Check back on Saturday for updates from the San Diego Comic-Con panels.
IDW Editor Denton J. Tipton has posted an updated schedule for IDW’s Transformers comics releases for the beginning of August.
6th August
Transformers Movie Sequel: Saga of the Allspark #2
13th August
Transformers: The Reign of Starscream #4
Transformers Animated: The Arrival #1
Transformers Best of U.K.: Time Wars #1
All that’s left for August is ROS #5, Spotlight Doubledealer and All Hail Megatron #2.
Hasbro UK have updated their online toy store with the first wave deluxe figures of the Transformers: Universe line. Listed are Prowl, Sunstreaker and Tankor, each for the high price of £12.99. To put this in context, this equates to roughly $25 each, compared to $9.99 in the USA.
All can be bought now, are should be in other stores very soon.
TF@TM member Break has posted that he has found the first wave of Transformers Animated Activators at his local Toys R Us store. At the weekend he spotted the first wave of Activators, Bumblebee, Bulkhead and Starscream, which all cost £4.99 each.
These were released in the USA last month, with wave 2 due there in August.
The release of Transformers Spotlight: Wheelie last month completed the third set of Spotlight issues, but has left fans wondering who would be in the next set of 5.
IDW Editor-in-Chief Chris Ryall has posted a teaser for the main character in the next Spotlight issue. The picture shows a close up of the characters head. The picture is drawn by Casey Coller, who has been signed up to draw the whole issue after his work on Apocalypse Comics’ variant cover for All Hail Megatron #1. The issue will also be written by All Hail Megatron writer Shane McCarthy, with a scheduled release date of December.
Competition time people, and a simply one at that. Writer Chris Mowry is offering fans a chance to win the original drafts and other bits of material from Reign of Starscream #1, copies of the finished issues #1, #2, and #3 and the scripts for the issues. All you have to do is take a picture of Starscream by 31st July. Simple. Full details can be found on Mowry’s blog.
So that’s the contest! Send me your photos of Starscream (in toy form… any version) visiting somewhere on our planet. Would he go back to Ohio to seek out the fembots of Botcon? Would he be hiding at a local coffee shop? Finally learning about human physiology at the beach with Barricade? Of course, he wouldn’t travel far without a copy of his comic book, now would he? IT’S UP TO YOU!!!
We’ve received an important update for Auto Assembly 2008. If you’ve booked your tickets and think you should have received your confirmation pack by now, read the following announcement:
Auto Assembly 2008 – Europe’s largest Transformers convention being held in the Clarendon Suites, Birmingham – is now just over three weeks away on 2nd August 2008, and there’s a massive buzz amongst all of you who have pre-booked looking forward to coming along. However, we have had a couple of you contact us in the last week with a few concerns which is why we wanted to make an urgent announcement…
It’s been brought to our attention that some of you haven’t received your confirmation packs yet. At the time of writing this, we’ve sent out packs for most of the bookings that we have received, up to the bookings received by the 1st of July 2008. We are going to be sending out the next batch this weekend which will bring us up to date with the exception of one or two where we are waiting for some further details from people who haven’t completed their forms properly.
That brings us onto those of you who haven’t had your confirmation packs yet…
It seems that there are some of you who have booked a while ago who haven’t received anything yet. This is only affecting people who have used our online booking system and – as far as we know – has only affected a few people so far. What appears to have happened is that PayPal hasn’t forwarded the booking confirmations to us so while bookings have gone through properly, the details haven’t been sent to us so your bookings are effectively in limbo.
If you think that this has happened to you and you have booked before the middle of June, please contact us IMMEDIATELY by email letting us know the details of how many places you have booked, the names and the exact date of when you paid by PayPal and we’ll trace your booking for you.
If you haven’t booked, there’s still time to pre-register and if you’re not too sure you’ll be able to come along on the day although don’t forget, pre-registrants get early admission and entry into the free prize draw!
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Because of the importance of the booking update, please feel free to post this update on any Transformers website or forum that you visit, along with any other Auto Assembly 2008 update that we have issued over the last couple of months.
We’ll be back with another update in the next few days so keep an eye out on all the major TF websites and forums and we’re looking forward to seeing many of you in a couple of weeks’ time!
As always, for all the latest information on Auto Assembly 2008, to book online or to download booking forms, visit the website at www.autoassembly.org.uk
Simon and Sven
Auto Assembly 2008email: enquiries@autoassembly.org.uk
web: www.autoassembly.org.uk
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Good news bargin fans, Argos are having a sale on Transformers toys. Here are some of the reduced prices you could pick up:
Leader Optimus Prime £15
Voyagers £7.49
Screen Battles £9.99
Voyager Prime with Bumblebee £9.99
Thanks to forum member dragonfall5 for the news.
Michael Bay’s forum Administrator Nelson, has posted what could be considered a hint towards when we will get the first trailer for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. In his message, he says “no” to a trailer at Hasbro’s panel at the San Diego Comic-Con but for a trailer to come out in November.
Of course, this could be part of Michael Bay’s misinformation campaign, but we’ll find out in a couple of weeks.
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