A Transformers-themed pub is in the running to be crowned Britain’s Best Home Bar, in a competition being run by Liberty Games. The winning bar, chosen… [more]
This last weekend saw yet another Transformers convention take over the Metropole Hilton, in Birmingham. These weekends have become a staple of my summer… [more]
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This weekend saw our annual forum meet being held in the Welsh capital of Cardiff. Each year we meet in a different town or city in the UK, alternating… [more]
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As we reported yesterday, Simon Furman is writing the concluding script for the comic strip in Transformers Generations 2009 Vol. 3 with Guido Guidi contributing to the artwork. Now Guido has uploaded a piece of art onto his DeviantArt page.
The panel features Ironhide and Mirage, with a teaser from Guido:
The comic will follow events set in the 2 previous TF Henkei installments… but with a Furman’s twist
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has become only the second film to pass the $200 million point in it’s first 5 days at the North American box office. The other film is The Dark Knight.
Revenge of the Fallen has now made $201,246,000, which is just behind The Dark Knight’s $203,773,518. TDK eventually went on to make over $530m in North America last year.
The film has also taken the rubbish title of “highest-grossing non-holiday, non-Friday opening weekend” ever, as well as largest June opening ever and the biggest Imax weekend ever. Overall, the film stands at $387 million worldwide.
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen opened at midnight on Wednesday in North America, and despite the mostly negative reviews, it seemed to make a lot of money in the last 4 days.
$60.6 million was made in its first full day of release on Wednesday, which was wiped the floor with the previous record holder, Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix, by $15 million. This total included the $16 million made from the midnight openings.
$28.6 was made on Thursday, bringing the total to just under $90 million.
Friday proved to be another profitable day,with $36.7 million, bringing the new total to over$125 million. This is also the 10th highest Friday total ever, which is again very impressive.
Saturday edged up even higher with $39.5 million To beat the $203.8 million 5 day record set by The Dark Knight last year, the film will have to make $39 million on Sunday, which is an extremely tall order.
The one thing from all of this is that Paramount Pictures, Dreamworks SKG and Hasbro must be very happy.
After years on working on Transformers books in the UK and USA, Simon Furman has now turned his attention to Japan. He has contributed a 2 page comic strip to Million Publishing’s latest book, Transformers Generations 2009 Volume 3, which is out in Japan later this year, ISBN 978-4-8130-2105-6. Art is done by Guido Guidi.
The good news is that Simon will be providing a copy of his original English script, so there will be no need to translate the Japanese text, which will have already have been translated from this English script.
As someone who is heavily into his Transformers merchandise (I have several T-Shirts, boxer shorts, Hawaiian shirts and a metal belt buckle for example) I was please to find this website that features Transformers shirts and other types of merchandise.
One of the shirts is this Megatron shirt from Transformers Revenge of the Fallen, but if you’re more into your G1 you’ll be interested to know they also have a G1 Hot Rod T-Shirt.
Contentious perhaps, but I’ve always liked Hot Rod, I don’t care what anybody else says.
As well as T-Shirts they have baseball caps and both Autobot and Decepticon belt buckles.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has started well in North America with $16 million made from the midnight openings. This total is the third best ever, behind The Dark Knight and Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith. The Dark Knight earned $18.5 million whilst Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith just beat ROTF with $16.5 million.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen opened on 3000 screens, but jumped to 4226 during the day.
We’ve getting ever closer to Auto Assembly 2009, and for those of you who cannot make it, here is a way to get all the goodies without even being there, the magical non-attendee pack!
Auto Assembly 2009 Non-Attendee Pack Available!
Auto Assembly 2009 is set to break all attendance records once again for a European Transformers convention and we are delighted to say that we are going to be joined by fans from not only all over the UK but from all over Europe and from as far afield as America, Singapore and Japan making Auto Assembly 2009 a truly global event.
However, we appreciate that there are many of you who would love to be able to attend the convention but can’t attend either because of distance of who are unable to get time off work so once again we are offering a non-attendee package which will allow you to get involved in the convention and get your hands on all of this year’s convention goodies and a whole lot more besides…
These non-attendee packages are £60 for anyone living in the UK and £70 for the rest of the world and are fully inclusive of shipping costs. While these are more expensive than passes for the convention, we think they offer exceptional value for money. Why? Well, each non-attendee pack will get you:-
* A Personalised convention pass with your own ticket number
* The FULL Auto Assembly goodie bag containing up to 12 gifts (with more under negotiation)! (the earlier your ticket number, the more gifts will be in your bag. Visit the website to see the full details of what’s on offer this year!)
* Entry into all of the Auto Assembly 2009 Pre-registrant prize draws
* The Cybertronian Times Issue 10, signed by ALL our convention guests
* All Hail Megatron Issue 13 convention exclusive variant cover comic
* Auto Assembly 2009 convention exclusive mug
* Auto Assembly 2009 Grimlock keyring
* Full set of Auto Assembly convention exclusive postcards from 2004-2008
* Proxy bidding rights for the Auto Assembly charity auction
* A personalised sketch from a random Auto Assembly 2009 comic artist guest
* The option to use your non-attendee pass at ANY TIME and become a full weekend attendee during the convention by simply turning up at the convention and showing your pass and collecting all of your items on the day for just an additionalAnd that’s not all! The first 20 people to buy the non-attendee package will also receive a copy of Apocalypse Comics’ retailer exclusive edition of All Hail Megatron #1 or All Hail Megatron #12! This is quite possibly the best non-attendee package we have EVER put together and is an ideal way for you to get involved with the convention if you can’t make it this year and potentially your ONLY chance to get this year’s convention exclusive comic!
Once you have paid your £60 (or £70 if you live outside the UK) there is nothing more to pay. The only additional charges are for additional postage charges that may be incurred should any competition prizes be won that we may need to ship, or relevant amounts for any auction items that you may win.
To purchase your non-attendee package, visit the Auto Asembly website NOW! If you are able to join us, full weekend tickets are available and are £45 for adults and £35 for children/students/senior citizens with under 5s being FREE. Family tickets (2 adults and 2 children) are just £145 saving £15. Limited numbers of single day passes are also available starting from £18. Don’t miss out on your chance to be a part of what is going to be a great weekend celebrating 25 years of the Transformers!!
For full details on Auto Assembly 2009 and to book your tickets, visit the website at www.autoassembly.org.uk
Simon Plumbe
Auto Assembly 2009Auto Assembly 2009 is a non-profit making convention for fans of Transformers and is being held on 15th – 16th August 2009 at the Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Birmingham, England.
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Industrial Light & Magic, probably the best special effects team in the world, but when it comes to animating the robots in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, it almost got too much.
A lot has been made of the time needed to render the bots on screen, especially in the IMAX, but when an 80,000 part Devastator is created, you begin to understand why some of the machinery ‘exploded’ when given the difficult task. Lets hope no Michael Bay size explosions occur for Transformers 3.
Activision release the official Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Game tomorrow in North America, and the rest of the world throughout the week, and to promote this occasion, they have released 2 trailers, one is the Game Launch Trailer, the other is the Multiplayer Trailer, which looks particularly exciting.
This is the footage for the Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation 3 editions of the game.
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