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Following on from the North American release on Tuesday, the UK can today sample the Transformers: Animated action on their Nintendo DS.
Look out for platforming action with driving segments for all four Autobots (minus Ratchet). The game is rated 7+ by Pegi, which means it is only sensible for children of ages 7 and up.
Titan Magazine’s first Transformers: Animated comic is out today, exclusively in the UK. The issue contains an 11-page story titled “Burnout”, and introducing a brand new character in the Animated universe, Sideswipe. The issue is written by Simon Furman, who has also commented on the release on his blog, with art drawn by John McCrea, and colour by Kat Nicholson.
There’s also the usual puzzles, competitions, letters and free gift.
Good and bad news Aussie fans, Paramount are going to continue releasing Transformers: Animated on DVD in volumes in Australia, with Volumes 2 and 3 completing the first season. This is good for people who bought the first volume, but bad for most of who want full season sets.
Like the first volume (Blast from the Past), volume 2 will be subtitled Lost and Found”, whilst volume 3 is called “Megatron Rising”. It isn’t clear which volume will contain 4 or 5 episodes.
Transformers: Animated Volume 2 – Lost and Found (R4 Australia) – 29th December 2008
Transformers: Animated Volume 3 – Megatron Rising (R4 Australia) – 15th January 2009
Be sure to keep up-to-date with out Transformers DVD section.
Denton J. Tipton has also updated his blog today, not with a post, but an update to this sidebar, which contains IDW’s Transformers comic schedule.
The only addition is that The Transformers: All Hail Megatron #5 will be coming out on 26th November, and given the quality shown so far, we recommend you pick it up.
Chris Ryall has posted a new cover on his blog and in the process revealed the next series of Marvel UK reprints from IDW. Again coming under the “Best of UK” subtitle, the next series will be City of Fear, following on from current series, Time Wars. The cover is drawn and coloured by Andrew Griffith.
Given that the January 09 previews are already out, The Transformers Best of UK: City of Fear is expected to start in February or March next year.
Here is the official announcement for next year’s convention, with first guest details:
We are pleased to announced that Auto Assembly 2009 is coming! Europe’s largest Transformers convention is back for 2009 and it is going to be bigger and better than ever! This time it is going to be a two-day convention allowing us to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Transformers in style and will be a weekend packed with activities, dealers, guests and so much much!
The convention will be held on Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th August 2009, with a bonus mini programme of activities on the evening of Friday 14th August for those who book for the full weekend. Initially only weekend passes will be available, but single day tickets will be on sale closer to the convention should spaces still be available. There will be an extra special programme of activities running on Saturday evening until the early hours of Sunday, but these will be exclusive to weekend attendees!
The convention will be held at our new venue, The Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, which is on Smallbrook Queensway, Birmingham, right in the heart of Birmingham City Centre, England. It is an ideal location for anyone travelling to Birmingham from anywhere in the UK and is just 2 minutes walk from Birmingham New Street Station!
We have run a number of surveys to find out exactly what you want from Auto Assembly 2009 and we will be tailoring the activities and events to suit YOU the attendees. There will be so much going on that you won’t have time to rest – from guest talks to video screenings, workshops to toy and art displays, dealers and competitions, a charity auction and games area, quizzes and much more besides. And for the first time ever at Auto Assembly, a live script reading from Transformers voice actors! Talking of voice actors, we will be having not one but TWO voice actors joining us at Auto Assembly 2009 to join in the celebrations!
We already have our first three guests confirmed – first up is legendary TF artist Andrew Wildman making his sixth appearance at Auto Assembly, secondly is IDW and Titan colourist Liam Shalloo, and third we have John McCrea whose Transformers work includes Titan Magazines Transformers and Transformers Animated titles. We will be announcing more over the next few days. We are also in the final stages of discussions with our first voice actor and hope to announce them in the next 7 days and the second actor in the next few weeks!
Ticket prices will be £45 for adults and £35 for concessions with reductions to just £40 and £30 for a limited period once bookings open for early registrations! We have also managed to negotiate for reduced accommodation rates in the Holiday Inn hotel for their superb bedrooms and these will be posted on the website.
We are also working our traditional goodie bag of free gifts for attendees and this is going to be our most spectacular yet. As always, there will be more gifts the earlier you register but this will include keyrings, postcards, DVDs (for the first 40+) and much more!! There will also be added bonuses for pre-registrants and if that wasn’t enough, we are also looking at ways of improving our pre-registration system to make things smoother and faster than ever for all of you attending.
Bookings will open soon so keep an eye on the Auto Assembly website and all the usual Transformers websites and forums for all the latest news and developments as we have them.
We hope to see many of you there next year for what we think will be the biggest and best Auto Assembly ever!
Simon and Sven
Auto Assemblyweb: www.autoassembly.org.uk
forum: http://autoassembly.proboards7.com
email: autoassembly@aol.com
tel: +44 (0)7860 948296
Confirmation is a brilliant thing. It puts needless rumours in their place. The good news today is that Transformers: Animated has officially been picked up for another 13 episodes by Cartoon Network.
Season 3 will start airing in Spring 2009, and will probably finish just before the Revenge of the Fallen premieres.
Entertainment Rights again will be selling the show rights to international broadcasters, with many already signing up for more Transformers goodness.
Thanks to forum member for spotting that BBTS have new images for Transformers: Animated Wreck-Gar, Waspinator and Samurai Prowl 2-pack and Atomic Lugnut and Transformers Universe Overload, Leoprime and the Dinobot and Smokescreen 2-pack.
All are expected for release before the end of the year.
MSN are currently asking readers to vote for the toughest robots in the battle of the robots. The fighters include such TV and film robots as R2D2, a Cylon and Robbie the Robot. Of course, Optimus Prime and Megatron are in there too.
Currently Prime has the most wins, just ahead of Megatron and the Terminators. Head over to the site and cast your vote on the battle of the robots.
You’ve heard of the Indiana Jones ride, you’ve heard of Space Mountain, now you can ride the Transformers ride at Universal Parks.
The new Transformers movie, Revenge of the Fallen, is due out next year on June 26th, and to celebrate the movie Universal Studios are planning a theme park ride based on the movie.
The ride was announced yesterday, Monday October 20th, and is set to be unveiled before the summer 2011 in both Universal Studios Singapore, and Hollywood.
Spielberg is of course involved, as he was for the Jurassic Park ride and the E.T. Adventure.
You can read more about the Transformers ride here.
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