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WIN Masterpiece Rodimus with TheTransformers.Net

Written by Darren 'Starscream' Jamieson on August 8, 2011 | Auto Assembly,News |

In conjunction with Auto Assembly 2011, we here at TheTransformers.Net are giving away a fabulous prize to your UK Transformers fans. We have a Masterpiece Rodimus to offer up to the lucky winner of our competition, details of which were advertised on our flyers at Auto Assembly 2011.

If you’ve come here from seeing one of our flyers at AA, then welcome – we love you one and all. If however you’ve come here from another source, such as a link, Google or the kind words of a friend, we love you too (possibly not quite as much, we’ll decide later).

Anyhow – onto the competition. In order to stand a chance of winning this great (and it is a thing of beauty) prize then all you have to do is sign up to our new forum and post in the competition thread. After the competition end date (September 2nd) we’ll randomly select one of the posters as the winner of this great prize.

Regulars to our site may notice that this is a new forum, as our old one (TheTF.Net) has been closed down and moved over to TheTransformers.Net. TheTF.Net will remain live for all eternity as a homage to the greatness that it was, but this new forum on our main website will grow and grow as members migrate and new members find us – hence the competition to help promote it 😉

We should point out at this stage that staff members of our forum, and staff members of AA, are not allowed to enter… sorry chaps.

Once the lucky winner has been selected, we’ll contact them to get their UK based address and will order the toy for them to be sent out as soon as it’s available (release dates pending of course).

How cool does that sound? All you need to do is sign up to a forum and post in a thread – and if you’re already a member of the forum then half the work’s done for you!

You can find the forum thread here – just post once in the thread and that will register your entry into the competition; you don’t need to post again in that thread, but you can post in other parts of the forum and chat to our friendly, if not slightly inebriated, forum members.

Here, for your perusal, are the terms and conditions of the competition – or the boring bit, as we like to call it.

Terms & Conditions

  1. No purchase necessary. No third party or bulk entries will be accepted.
  2. Under 16s need parental/guardian’s consent. This promotion is open to residents of the UK only, excluding employees and their immediate families of Sheer Media Ltd, TheTransformers.Net and Auto Assembly, its agents and anyone professionally associated with it.
  3. To enter the prize draw you must register on the forum and post in the competition thread
  4. Within a week of the closing date, the winner will be selected from all entries into the competition
  5. The prize consists of the Masterpiece Rodimus (pictured)
  6. All entries into the draw must be received by 23.59 September 2nd 2011
  7. The winner will be selected at random under independent supervision and notified through the forum’s messaging system within 14 days of the closing date. In the event that the winner cannot be contacted within a further 28 days, the promoter reserves the right to withdraw prize entitlement and award the prize to a reserve selected at the same time as the original.
  8. No cash or other alternative prizes are available, except that in the event of circumstances outside its control the promoter reserves the right to substitute similar alternatives of equal or greater value.
  9. By entering this Promotion, all participants will be deemed to have accepted and be bound by these Terms and Conditions.
  10. Prize receivers will be required to take part in publicity. The winners’ name and county will be published on TheTransformers.net website.
  11. The promoter’s decisions regarding all promotional matters will be final and no correspondence will be entered into.
  12. Promoter: Sheer Media Limited, Unit D4, Stanlaw Abbey Business Centre, Ellesmere Port CH65 9BF

Transformers Actors Rally behind Auto Assembly 2011!

Written by Duh_Prez on August 6, 2011 | News |

With only 6 days to go until the largest Transformers convention in Europe, don’t just trust us when we say you should attend… instead, why not listen to what a few our our friends have to say?

Click the link below to view special messages from Garry Chalk, Paul Eiding and a good few more!

Video Messages Here

Remember, pre-registration for Auto Assembly ends on 10th August.  You wouldn’t have to queue for longer, would you?

Hasbro to attend Auto Assembly 2011

Written by Darren 'Starscream' Jamieson on August 2, 2011 | Auto Assembly,Hasbro,News |

Last night Auto Assembly made yet another announcement about this year’s Transformers convention, taking place in Birmingham in just ten days time. The latest announcement is that Hasbro will be attending, and will have a Transformers display of some of the latest toys. Here is the official announcement from Auto Assembly:

We’re just 11 days away from Auto Assembly 2011 but we’re not finished with our big announcements yet…!

We are proud to announce that we are continuing to develop our relationship with Hasbro UK and once again they will be having a display at the convention this year showcasing some of the latest Transformers available. They are also going to be donating some prizes for us to give away at the convention but we’re going to be leaving details of that as a surprise for the weekend itself.

We still have more big announcements to come and the clock is ticking away now for you to hurry and pre-register to guarantee your place at Europe’s Largest Transformers Convention! Pre-booking will get you earlier admission to the event, a better chance for more free gifts in your goodie bag, and you’ll be automatically entered into two free prize draws, one of which is to win autographs from various Transformers actors including Peter Cullen and Shia La Boeuf!

If you’re not able to join us this year, don’t forget that bookings are open now for Auto Assembly 2012 taking place over the weekend of 3rd – 5th August 2012. Tickets are selling at an astonishing rate with almost 40 sold in the first week!

Auto Assembly 2011 is taking place over the weekend of 12th – 14th August 2011 at the Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Birmingham, England and tickets are available from the website now. 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

New Transformers forum – sign up now

Written by Darren 'Starscream' Jamieson on July 29, 2011 | News,Site Updates |

For those who haven’t noticed, we have a new forum here at TheTransformers.Net. Our first forum, on a system called ‘toast’ launched way back in the beginning of the last decade (yep, we’re that old) and was replaced around 2004 with the Web Wiz forum you can still see over at TheTF.Net. Now however we’ve come bounding into the 21st Century with our new forum, located on this very domain, powered by vbulletin.

tf-forumThis new forum has such super sexy cool features as Facebook integration, birthday reminders, personal galleries and more bells and whistles than a Morris Dancers’ convention.

So, sign up to this new forum ASAP to ensure you get the username you want before someone else nabs it. Our old forum, over at TheTF.Net, will be live and running for a week or so yet but will be locked down before Auto Assembly so that the new forum can take us into the next ten years of Transformers worship. The URL TheTF.Net will be redirected to our new forum, but all of the old posts will be saved and archived so that you can still read them if you want – your work will not be lost 😉

See you there people!

Guest Number 15 for Auto Assembly 2011

Written by Duh_Prez on July 24, 2011 | News |

AA2011 has announced it’s 15th guest – colourist John Paul Bove.

Check out our Transformers forum for the full press release.

With less than 3 weeks to go, be sure to buy your tickets now from www.autoassembly.org.uk

Auto Assembly 2011 Bookings Close In 3 Weeks

Written by Duh_Prez on July 20, 2011 | News |

 

What more can we say?  It’s Europe’s largest Transformers convention.  It’s in just over 3 weeks.  Bookings close in exactly 3 weeks.  And if you don’t go, you won’t be able to sit at our beer table.

What are you waiting for!?!?!

Buy tickets NOW from www.autoassembly.org.uk

Discuss in our Transformers Forum

14th Guest For Auto Assembly 2011 And Workshops Announced!

Written by Duh_Prez on July 17, 2011 | News |
26 days to go until fans from across Europe and the rest of the world gather in Birmingham for Auto Assembly 2011, and we’re still working hard to make this the biggest and best convention we have ever created. Not satisfied with what we have already go lined up for you, we can now bring you details of our next guest…
Returning once again as our FOURTEENTH guest this year is comic artist Lee Bradley. Lee’s work will be familiar to UK fans through his ongoing work for Titan Magazines on their Transformers comic doing interior illustrations, comic strips and their “How To Draw…” series.

Lee joins our extensive line up which already includes Gregg Berger, David Kaye, David Wise, Simon Furman, Andrew Wildman, Nick Roche, Geoff Senior, James Roberts, Simon Williams, Liam Shalloo, Kris Carter, Jason Cardy and Kat Nicholson!
Fourteen guests not enough for you? Well, we can now confirm details of this year’s FREE Workshops that will be taking place during the convention weekend as well! Spread throughout the weekend will be a series of workshops open to all attendees run by some of our guests! Lee Bradley will be running a “How To Draw…” Workshop on the Sunday for anyone wanting to learn how to draw their favourite Transformer and Kris Carter and Liam Shalloo will be hosting a Colourist Workshop on Saturday. Kat Nicholson will be running a Transformers Animated themed Children’s Art Workshop on Sunday and our Kitbash Workshop, a popular part of the programme in 2009, is making a welcome return!!
The convention is taking place over the weekend of 12th – 14th August 2011 at the Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Birmingham, England and tickets are available from the website now. 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

Toyz And Gamez – www.toyzandgamez.co.uk
Transformers @ The Moon – www.transformertoys.co.uk
www.transformersanimated.com
www.thetransformers.net
Titan Books – www.titanbooks.com
Science Fiction Collectables – www.sf-collectables.co.uk
Big Bad Toy Store – www.bbts.com
Xyber Toys – www.xybertoys.com
Moonbase 2 Podcast – http://moonbase2.libsyn.com

Silverbolt discusses Auto Assembly 2011

Written by Duh_Prez on July 14, 2011 | News |

TheTransformers.net’s very own Silverbolt discusses the upcoming week of EPIC win that is Auto Assembly 2011.  Unfortunately in doing so he manages to take the mick out of… well… you’ll just have to watch to find out!

… he will pay…

To grab your tickets before everybody leaves you out in the cold, head over to www.autoassembly.org.uk

 

Masterpiece Rodimus Prime competition at AA 2011

Written by Darren 'Starscream' Jamieson on July 12, 2011 | Auto Assembly,News,Toys |

There’s not long to go now until Auto Assembly 2011, the biggest Transformers convention Europe (and excuse for a good nerd drinkathon in Birmingham). To make this year’s AA extra special, at TheTransformers.Net we’re giving away a Masterpiece Rodimus Prime – the Hasbro version.

While this spectacular and, dare we say it, sexy beast isn’t yet released – the lucky winner of our competition will have one shipped out to them as soon as he’s available, and we can get our hands on him.

To promote this competition we’re inserting flyers into the goody bags at AA, with all of the details you’ll need to enter the competition – so you’ll just have to wait for Auto Assembly itself before you can enter our competition and be in with a chance of getting your sticky fingers on Rodimus.

Right now though – here’s a sneak peak at the leaflet we’ve designed to promote the contest – though of course you can’t see it all, because it would reveal just what you have to do to win!

Transformers-Flyer-at-AA

Over the next week we’ll be looking for a leaflet printing company to get these little beauties printed, and sent over to the boys at AA ready to be stuffed, lovingly, into the goody bags. You’ll notice from the cross section of the leaflet that it features a photo or two of the chaps from our forum – what handsome devils they are. Why not head over there now and chat to some of them – but don’t offer them any food, whatever you do.

Auto Assembly 2011 announces booking deadlines!

Written by Duh_Prez on July 11, 2011 | News |

Europe’s largest Transformers convention (and downright awesome drinking party) has announced it’s booking deadline.

Hop into our Transformers Forum to read the information, which is vital to you getting into the hottest gig of the summer!

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