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The My Little Pony Fair 2008 is not the most likely place to find Transformers 2 related information, but a photo taken on the Hasbro tour at their offices in Providence, Rhode Island, shows the robot hand made famous at BotCon 2007, counting down to the release of the first movie in the USA. On this version, the message: REVENGE IS COMING…2009.
It actually sounds better than the Transformers 2 subtitle.
After the large load of new comics last week, disappointingly, there is no new material this week from IDW, as the freighter with the books has been held up by customs.
However, Chris Ryall has posted the cover for Transformers Animated: Arrival #2, due for release in September. The cover is by one of the show’s designers, Maramba Myrberg.
Cartoon Network have decided to treat Transformers: Animated viewers in the USA by airing the season 2 finale, A Bridge Too Close Parts 1 and 2, together as an hour long episode. The season 1 finale originally aired over consecutive Saturdays.
The episodes will air on Saturday 5th July, a week after the previous episode, Sari, Nobody’s Home, which is being shown this Saturday, 28th July.
After last week’s TFCon, TFW2005 have posted a summary of the Q & A with Hasbro Canada. For Canadians, it makes promising reading, and makes everyone else outside North America feel worse.
– Hasbro Canada will be starting up a quarterly Q&A through Cybertron.CA
– There is a big push to get more exclusives out in Canada – aiming for near to 100% in the next two years. Keep watching Cybertron.CA for release news.
– Specific exclusive news – the Universe comic two packs will be coming to Zellers. Zellers and TRU will be getting the Minicon 12 pack. Zellers will also be getting the Deep Space Starscream very soon. Unfortunately though Movie Ultras Jetstorm and Wingblade will not be making it to Canada.
– More bad news – due to licensing issues, the Canadian release of the 25th Anniversary Optimus Prime will not include the DVD with More than Meets the Eye.
– Some good news – the generic packaging, such as on the first wave of Universe, will be superseded by the individualized packaging around about wave 3 or 4 of Universe.
– Hasbro Toy Store is making progress with setting up shipping to Canada, but it is not quite ready yet.The rest of the Q&A session related to broader questions about Hasbro releases in general.
– Masterpiece Thundercracker and Skywarp at domestic retail – there are no firm plans to do these two yet, but they are being kept in mind, possibly for 2009 store exclusive releases.
– Reviving Alternators – there are no plans in the short term, as it was deemed that Universe would have the broader appeal since Alternators was far more narrowly focused on collectors. It was not completely ruled out, though.
– Computer games – Activision has two in the works, an Animated game for late this year, and a Movie game for next year.
– G1 DVDs – it’s still too early to announce any plans, but Hasbro stated they bought back the rights with the intention of using them so watch this space.
– The Marvel and Star Wars Transformers will not feature Transformers characters as the team do not want to mix the fantasies. So no Iron Man that turns into Starscream, for example.
– 6 inch Titaniums – the finished tools will get released. The unfinished ones unfortunately will not. The finished tools referred to are the War Within Grimlock and Prowl who will be TRU exclusives in the US.
– Transformers Animated – there are no specific plans for guest or one shot characters, however it was stated that the design team like to try to make 100% of the characters who appear in the show.
– Animated Legends – no dedicated line, however, some may be done as Universe Legends.
– No plans to make Animated humans as toys.
– There are no specific plans for a dedicated Universe ficition, although you might see some cameos in the comics or other media.
– There is the possibility for some overlap on the Universe and Animated lines, where the two characters are different – Prowl was cited as an example, one being a black motorbike and the other a white police car.
– When the question of combiners was brought up, the reply was “potentially”.
– Hasbro could not comment on the possibility of getting more Dinobots or Sunstorm in Universe.
– They have no current plans to release the black Arcee repaint from the Japanese movie line domestically.
– Robot Heroes Dispensor is the only version of the Mountain Dewbot that is getting released. There are no plans for Leader Blackout or Voyager Bonecrusher.
As 2nd August closes in, more and more information about Auto Assembly 2008 is coming out, and the less time you have to book your tickets for Europe’s largest Transformers convention this year.
Here is this weeks update:
With just under six weeks to to go until Auto Assembly 2008, it’s time for another pre-convention update on the latest developments with Europe’s biggest Transformers event in 2008! We’ve got a few bits of news to bring you as well as some important reminders for all of you…
* Booking Confirmations *
We’ve roughly sent out the first two hundred of these give or take a couple where there are one or two isses that we need to resolve before they are sent out. The remainder will be sent out by this weekend so they will all be done apart from any bookings that arrive with us from this Thursday onwards.
* Pre-Registration Reminder *
I know we do keep saying this, but we can’t stress enough the importance of pre-booking for Auto Assembly 2008. It DOES make our job a lot easier in terms of planning the convention and does help us with our budget planning to help bring you a better convention. One thing we have noticed looking on a lot of forums over the last month or so is the number of fans who have been talking about attending the convention this year and who have said that they will be there but who have NOT currently registered! With early admission and the chance of extra free gifts and entry into our pre-registrant prize draw isn’t that worth it for that alone?!
There are a few things I would like to say in terms of our pre-registration targets however. We do have our break-even point that we ovbiously want to reach from pre-bookings but we do have a couple of other targets that we want to reach with YOUR help. Our first main goal is to beat the all-time European record from pre-registrations alone so we would love to have 410 pre-bookings.
However, the dream figure for us would be to reach 450 pre-bookings by at least 10 days before the convention. If we can manage this it *should* enable us to produce a THIRD postcard to give away to all attendees, potentially secure an ELEVENTH guest AND there is a surprise we are hoping to work on for the convention that may need extra money to fund it. So if you haven’t booked up and you are planning to or were thinking of paying on the day, you know what to do. If you’ve already booked, get your friends to come along as well!!
* Pre-Registration Prize Draw *
Tying in with this, as we have mentioned before, we are running a prize draw for all pre-registrants. To enter, all you need to do is pre-book and the winner will be announced during the opening ceremony and the winner will receive a bundle of goodies including a G1 graphic novel, a Transformers Titanium figure, a family ticket (2 adults and 2 children) to Auto Assembly 2009 and more besides!
* Fast-Track Entry *
This is just something we are considering right now and we’ll confirm it closer to the day itself, but for anyone arriving on the Friday night we may give fans the opportunity to collect their registration packs assuming we can get our registration desk set up in time. You won’t be able to spend time in the hall with the dealers, just collect your packs, but this will mean that once the doors open on Saturday morning you’ll be able to walk right in at 10:30 am!
This is just an idea right now but we’ll let you all know if this is going to happen. Again, this will be for PRE-REGISTRANTS ONLY!! Keep reading these updates for more news on whether we do this fast-track entry system!
* Charity Raffle Update *
Thanks to a very generous donation from Nostalgia & Comics in Birmingham, we now have a massive selection of almost 20 prizes in the charity raffle covering the movie and G1 including t-shirts, comics, books, toys, figures and more!
Tickets will be just 20p with all proceeds going to our nominated charity Help A Local Child. If every attendee spends just £2 on tickets that will help us raise almost £1,000 for charity just from the raffle alone so please be generous!
* Toy Collection *
We’re running another toy collection again for Help A Local Child so if you have any unwanted BRAND NEW toys that you want to donate, please bring them along and leave them at the registration desk. They MUST have the CE safety mark on them but apart from that they can be anything – action figures, board games, jigsaws, boys or girls toys and don’t have to be limited to Transformers but they MUST be NEW. Last time we collected SIX BOXES full of toys and we’d like to thank everyone for their generous donations.
* Guest Update *
A quick update on one of our guests, Kat Nicholson. Contrary to what we have said before, while Kat made her Transformers debut colouring the Beast Wars Megatron postcard for Auto Assembly: Target 2006 she has since worked professionally on Transformers working on IDW’s Beast Wars Source Books and has now done work for Titan’s Transformers comic and will also be working on their forthcoming Transformers Animated comic… although they seem to like referring to her as Kat Robinson!
* Volunteering *
We still need more volunteers to come forward for the convention. While we have had plenty of offers, not many of you have sent in your volunteering forms which we need to be able to allocate everyone to their duties during the day so please get these in to us as soon as possible!
Well, that’s it for now, but we should have a few more announcements over the next few days so keep an eye out on all the major TF websites and forums and look out for our next update next weekend and we hope to see a lot of you all on 2nd August!
As always, for all the latest information on Auto Assembly 2008, to book online or to download booking forms or for more information on anything in this weekly update, visit the website at www.autoassembly.org.uk
Simon and Sven
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At a time, it was easy calling the Transformers sequel, Transformers 2, but now, the Transformers Live Action Movie Blog are reporting that the correct title for the film is Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen instead of “Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen”.
Screenwriter Roberto Orci has confirmed that the sequel will indeed be leaving out the “2” from the title and keeping this new name.
For all UK readers who are sick of needless delays, price rises and excuses from major international companies, it’s time to get your pitch forks out again. Paramount Home Entertainment have announced that Transformers: Animated Season One will be released in the UK on 20th October! This is over 2 months after the North American release of 19th August.
Reasons for this delay aren’t known, they probably don’t care about us…
After the release of Spotlight: Cyclonus last week, IDW Editor-In-Chief Chris Ryall as posted some pages for the fourth and final issue in the Revelation saga, Spotlight Sideswipe.
The pages, drawn and coloured by E. J. Su, show some amazing art, without the text bubbles, which will be added by SImon Furman, for release in September.
Paramount Home Entertainment have released the cover for the North American version of the Transformers movie on Blu-ray. As you can see from the images, it is exactly the same as the 2 dsic DVD set, expect with the Blu-ray logo.
This is mainly for all the complainers, but also for people asking the question, what happened to Ironhide during IDW’s Transformers: Devastation series? Well, artist Nick Roche has posted a “100% official and Ryall/Hasbro/SimFur approved” page to fill in the gap between the end of Devastation and Spotlight: Cyclonus (Revelation Part 1).
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