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TFNation 2019 Transformers Convention Review

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Annual Transformers Forum Meet Tour

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Transformer trailer debut breaks Internet record

Written by Tom Potts on May 9, 2011 | Transformers: Dark of the Moon |

Michael Bay’s eagerly anticipated film trailer for the third Transformers movie, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, was downloaded and watched more than 6 million times in the first 24 hours of its release on iTunes movie trailers, making it the most successful Internet trailer ever watched according to Paramount Pictures.

Paramount Pictures also released a short synopsis giving fans a brief taste of what to expect from the upcoming film. A mysterious event from Earth’s past erupts into the present day and threatens to bring a war to earth so big that the Transformers alone will not be able to save us.

The film, which is set to be released nationwide in the U.K on July 1st is expected to be a huge summer blockbuster, has an all-star cast including Shia LaBeouf, John Turturro, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Patrick Dempsey, Kevin Dunn, John Malkovich and Frances McDormand.

Megan Fox, however, is not returning to the screens in this third film and has been replaced by English model, and FHM sexiest woman, Rosie Hungtinton-Whiteley. She is going to play the role of Carly – an original character from the 1984 animated series.

“Transformers represents big summer fun at the movies and iTunes Movie Trailers was the ideal place to debut the latest instalment to a huge global entertainment audience” – says Amy Powell, Paramount Pictures’ Executive Vice President Interactive Marketing & Film Production.

The film is set to be shown in 2D, 3D and selected IMAX studios.

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Auto Assembly 2011 Confirms Latest Guests And More…!

Written by Duh_Prez on April 24, 2011 | News | Tags: , —

We’ve had another couple of quiet months publicly for Auto Assembly, but as ever, we’ve been working frantically to make 2011 our biggest ever convention and we’re ready to unveil our latest serious of announcements…

We’ve got loads of things to announce and update all of you with on Europe’s largest Transformers convention including an announcement on two more guests making an appearance this year, an update on a great panel that we’ll be organising and another update and surprise about Auto Assembly 2012…

Rather than tell you all here, you can see all of them announced here in our latest new video on our Youtube Channel here:-

http://youtu.be/aKpyV4GHQfY

And that’s not all… we’re having a bit of a video frenzy on Youtube this week! We’ve uploaded more footage from last year’s convention and for those of you who weren’t there, or if you want to see some of Saturday night’s programme, you can now see our Cosplay Competition in it’s entirety right here:-

http://youtu.be/wvS8XgxlrT4

We’re going to be uploading some more exclusive footage shortly including Garry Chalk’s concert and the latest of our superb script reading sessions featuring Garry Chalk, Scott McNeil and comic artist Nick Roche!

We’re doing a lot more work on the convention at the moment as well and our Committee Head Simon is making inroads into catching up on all the paperwork following all of the personal issues he has had to deal with over the last 8 months and as well as working on some great stuff for Auto Assembly 2011 that we’ll be announcing soon, we have some fantastic plans ahead for Auto Assembly 2012 and beyond and you can expect to hear more from us on these shortly…

You will have noticed that our website hasn’t been updated for some time and this has been a direct result of Simon’s personal circumstances, but the site has just undergone a major content update as well and you’ll find all the latest news and updates on the convention there, including our new promo poster / flyer which you can download.

Finally, if you have booked for Auto Assembly 2011 and still waiting for your confirmation emails, we are processing the final batch of these and they should be issued shortly. Please check your spam box as well as your inbox as we are aware that some mail addresses (most notably hotmail and yahoo) do have some problems receiving email from us.

We are also trying to finalise the despatching of the AA2010 Non-Attendee Packages. The delay of these has been frustrating for us this time around and has been out of our control. We are looking to see if we can include extra items for everyone who has placed orders for them, but it is our intention to ship these in the next 3-4 weeks at the latest.

Anyway, for those of you who want to attend Auto Assembly 2011, tickets are available now from our website. Ticket prices are £50 for adults and £38 for children, students and senior citizens, with under 5s admitted free. One day tickets are available for the Saturday or Sunday (although these will NOT get you into the Friday or Saturday evening programmes) and these cost £30 for adults, £21 for children, students or senior citizens and under 5’s as always are free. Family tickets will be available shortly.

The convention is taking place over the weekend of 12th – 14th August 2011 at the Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Birmingham, England.

Tickets for Auto Assembly 2012 will go on sale later this year.

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

Web: www.autoassembly.org.uk
Youtube: www.youtube.com/autoassembly
Twitter: www.twitter.com/auto_assembly
Forum: http://autoassembly.proboards.com
Email: autoassembly@aol.com
Tel: +44 (0)7860 948296

Auto Assembly 2011 is sponsored by

www.transformertoys.co.uk
www.transformersanimated.com
Science Fiction Collectables – www.sf-collectables.co.uk
Toyz And Gamez – www.toyzandgamez.co.uk
Big Bad Toy Store – www.bbts.com
3 Darths Comics – www.3darths.co.uk
Hobby Link Japan – www.hlj.com
Robot Kingdom – www.robotkingdom.com
Xyber Toys – www.xybertoys.com
Moonbase 2 Podcast – http://moonbase2.libsyn.com

Transformers issue 81?

Written by Darren 'Starscream' Jamieson on April 7, 2011 | IDW Publishing,Marvel |

Transformers comic artist and all round top bloke Andy Wildman sent out an appeal this week for Transformers fans everywhere to sign a petition for IDW that could see Transformers #81 go into production. Andy and Simon Furman worked on the last of the Marvel Transformers comics in the 80s, when comics were really comics, and the story was kinda finished in a rush. Now, after all this time, it looks as though there’s a chance for that story to continue.

Have a read of what Andy says below, and then sign the petition overe here.

There is a bit of a buzz at the moment on the interenet about there being a Transformers #81. Thought I would add my perspective on this.

A while ago myself and Simon Furman considered the idea of picking up where we left off with the old Marvel Comics run of Transformers. For me it came about because after doing a series of six covers IDW asked me to do some interior art for their Transformers book. I wasn’t particularly interested in doing any so they asked me what it would take to do some. Well the obvious amswer would be copious amounts of dallar 😉 but to be honest it wasn’t about that. It was more to do with the fact that I was happy to just do cover art for Transformers and that I am busy doing other stuff these days. I gave it some thought though and put to them that it would be possible under a couple of conditions. First was that I would want to work with Simon Furman. Second was that we would want to do something that had a point. Something that felt like it was really saying something. I came up with the gist of an idea and put it to Simon. He ran with it and things began to take shape. What was clear was that it fitted well into the continuity of our old Marvel run. IDW agreed that there is precedent for this with the fact that GI Joe recently picked up on Larry Hama’s old Marvel story threads. So. An idea took shape and we almost had it until the current economic siutation put the breaks on it.

So where are we now? Well it is clear that IDW are not resistant to the idea but in these current times of relatively low comics sales they would need to feel confident that it would sell.

So what can be done about it? If you are interested, sign the petition that is going about. Get enough names on that and it would clearly be a viable project. Of course it remains to be seen who would draw it as there are other interested parties but I think it is safe to say that Simon would love to get his teeth into it.

Roll Out!

TheTF.Net Sponsorship Fundraiser for Auto Assembly 2011

Written by Darren 'Starscream' Jamieson on March 31, 2011 | Auto Assembly,Marvel,People |

Auto Assembly is the biggest Transformers convention in Europe, and this year it’s being held on the 12th – 14th August in Birmingham’s Holiday Inn, Birmingham City Centre.

This year’s guests of honour are David Kaye and Gregg Berger, and tickets can be booked now from www.autoassembly.org.uk.

Usually at Auto Assembly TheTransformers.Net takes a watching brief; mostly watching the bar it has to be said. At past conventions we’ve participated solely in helping the venue to increase its bar takings, decorated display tables with our empties and became increasingly slovenly as the day went on. Our only previous worthwhile contribution was in producing a CD-ROM for Auto Assembly 2005. However, this year, for Auto Assembly 2011, we intend to actually do something.

Transformers #147 CoverThis year TheTransformers.Net is hoping to raise funds (listen up, this is where you come in) to bring one of the best loved comic artists, and little seen at Transformers conventions, Geoff Senior to Auto Assembly.

Geoff Senior was one of the original comic artists on the Marvel UK Transformers comic, and was one of the people responsible for creating the legendary bounty hunter Death’s Head – who made a comeback recently thanks to artist talents of Simon Williams. In addition to Transformers and Death’s Head, Geoff Senior also put pencils to paper to produce artwork for Doctor Who, Judge Dredd, Dragon’s Claws and Zoids.

Galvatron defeats Magnus

Getting Geoff to Auto Assembly 2011 on behalf of TheTransformers.Net and TheTF.Net is going to cost £200 – and we’re officially launching our fundraiser right here. We need our members, our website visitors, you guys, to donate any small amount you can (even a couple of pounds would be a huge help) so that we can get Geoff Senior to Auto Assembly 2011.

Transformers #83 CoverIf you want your comics or graphic novels signed, if you want to chat to Geoff about Transformers or Death’s Head, or if you want Geoff to draw a personalised sketch just for you; help us to bring Geoff Senior to Auto Assembly 2011.

The best part is: we don’t even need to raise the full £200 ourselves as Auto Assembly will match anything we raise, so we just need to raise £100.

How to Donate

All you have to do donate is to send any amount you can spare to paypal@thetf.net – or you can use the donate button below.

Help TheTransformers.Net and TheTF.Net to get Geoff to AA!





Some of Geoff’s famous Transformers covers:

Transformers #113 CoverTransformers #100 Cover

MP Optimus crops up in Internet SEO advert

Written by Darren 'Starscream' Jamieson on March 14, 2011 | News |

You can never keep a good robot down, and Optimus Prime is a good robot. Old Optimus has cropped up in an Internet advert for a UK based SEO company representing the ‘Optimisation’ in search engine optimisation.

Well, what else would you use to represent optimisation?

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TheTransformers.net Website Meet – February 2011

Written by Duh_Prez on February 23, 2011 | News | Tags: , , , , , —

TheTF.net Meet

This past weekend, some of our forum members got together in the centre of Birmingham for TheTransformers.net’s most recent website meet – and what a meet it was.

Celebrating the occasion in true TheTransformers.net fashion, the TFnetters shunned Masterpiece Rodimus in favour of (exactly) 762 fake Micromasters. Well, in theory. Our plan didn’t *actually* become reality owing to the sheer amount of time we spent frequenting Birmingham’s bars.

Sounds good doesn’t it? Come and see what we got up to in our Transformers Forum.

CD-ROMs and Auto Assembly

Written by Darren 'Starscream' Jamieson on February 15, 2011 | Auto Assembly |

A few years ago at the Transformers convention in Birmingham we all know and love by the name of Auto Assembly, TheTransformers.Net produced a CD-ROM to give away free in the goody bags. This CD-ROM contained contents such as a fan art gallery from Transformers fans from around the world, and a mini website – including web links.

Now, for this year’s convention we’ve been asked if we can produce something similar to offer as a freebie in the goody bags – but alas the CD-ROM idea isn’t going to work. You see, when we produced the one a few years ago I personally worked for a design agency in Cardiff, and had access to professional printers for the CD labels, free access to CD and DVD replication equipment to mass produce the CDs and a hefty discount on the actual CDs themselves.

This is no longer the case 🙁

However; this time we do have another idea that we can’t go into too much in depth now, but it involves the Internet, Twitter, Facebook, a forum and a competition prize. This weekend, in our forum meetup, we’ll be ironing out the details of our plan for this year’s Auto Assembly and, while it will no doubt include our ever present display of empty beer glasses, it should be something pretty exciting.

We’ll make details available of our maniacal scheme as soon as we can, and as soon as we’ve approved them with the powers that be, but we’re looking forward to a great Auto Assembly this year – and a great forum meet this weekend.

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley in her underwear

Written by Darren 'Starscream' Jamieson on January 25, 2011 | Transformers 3 (2011),Transformers: Dark of the Moon |

Rosie Huntington-WhiteleyFollowing yesterday’s post where former Transformers actress Megan Fox appeared topless in an advert for Armani jeans it was perhaps only to be expected that the new Transformers actress, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, who appears in this summer’s third Transformers movie ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ would up the stakes.

Rosie was today seen on the Daily Mail’s website in a new campaign for Victoria’s Secret, dressed in a very provacative lingerie set. The model turned actress looked stunning in the underwear for the new campaign, pouting away in a bid to outdo Megan Fox’s campaign for Armani.

What do you think of Rosie? Are you looking forward to seeing what Transformers 3 director Michael Bay will have her do in the new film?

You can see more of her photos here.

Megan Fox Topless in new ad for Armani

Written by Darren 'Starscream' Jamieson on January 24, 2011 | Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen |

She might not be appearing in Transformers 3, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, but former TF siren Megan Fox is still a big hit with Transformers fans and guys everywhere. Megan has just appeared in a new advert for Armani where she bears an uncanny resemblence to Tomb Raider actress Angelina Jolie. In the Armani ad Megan Fox is topless, laying on her front in a pair of tight wight jeans. Some of her many tattoos are visible and she’s sporting the famous Jolie pout.

Despite her obvious similarity to Jolie, Fox has complained in the past at being compared to 35 year old vixen. In 2009 Megan Fox commented:

“It’s a lack of creativity on the media’s part. Because I have tattoos and dark hair and I was in an action movie? That’s as far as the similarities extend.”

Megan Fox Topless

Transformers Reveal the Shield in new Argos Catalogue

Written by Darren 'Starscream' Jamieson on January 23, 2011 | News,Toys,Toys / Action Figures |

Transformers forum member Magpiezz has posted a scan of the new Argos catalogue featuring some Transformers Reveal The Shield toys. There’s even an offer in the catalogue of 3 for the price of 2 on some of the toys. See the catalogue page scan in full, and discuss the toys, in our Transformers forum thread.

Transformers Reveal The Shield

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