Auto Assembly 2013 Tickets On Sale NOW

[Andy Turnbull]

Yes, you read it right! While Auto Assembly 2012 is only a couple of weeks away we know that many of you like to plan ahead which is why we have decided to announce details of Auto Assembly 2013 and open bookings for next year’s convention NOW! It’s set to be another rip-roaring year and we’ve been waiting for months to be able to reveal the details to you about the convention and now we can tell you some of the great things we have in store…

Date And Venue

The convention will be taking place over the weekend of Friday 9th August to Sunday 11th August 2013 and will be held, once again at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel, Birmingham which is our new home for Auto Assembly. We already have the date set for Auto Assembly 2014 as well but we'll be announcing this shortly.

Special Guests

We have our two of our three guests of honour confirmed and the third is in the closing stages of discussions and all three will be announced at Auto Assembly 2012. We also have confirmed returning comic guests and at least one new international comic guest but all will be revealed soon...

Prices

Sadly, we have had to raise our ticket prices for Auto Assembly 2013 because a lot of our costs have risen considerably over the last couple of years and while we have tried to absorb as many of these as we could we have reached the point where this is no longer possible. As such, Adult weekend tickets will be £50, Youth and Elderly weekend passes will be £38 and Partner weekend passes will be £40. Accommodation in the Hilton will be £51.50 for a single or £62 for a twin or double room per night inclusive of breakfast!

Dealers Tables are also going to be slightly more expensive for 2013 but we believe that these also still represent fantastic value for money and these are available for just £120 each for the weekend and that includes two staff passes.

Special Offer

We know that a lot of you love to book early for Auto Assembly and we hope that Auto Assembly 2013 will be no exception. Because of this, we are giving you the chance to book your tickets for Auto Assembly 2013 at a discount rate for a limited period where will be FREEZING prices at the Auto Assembly 2012 rate! To take advantage of this offer, you will need to book your tickets by no later than 31st August 2012. This is a great way to guarantee your tickets for next year’s convention and know that all you have to do after that is sort out travel and spending money that you have an entire year to do!

Passes For Life / Tables For Life

We know that many of you have been coming to the convention for a long time now and we have built up a loyal following of attendees who regularly come to the event every year. Fans travel to the convention from all over the UK, across Europe and from all over the world for the weekend-long celebration of all things Transformers.

Now, we want to take the opportunity to reward some of our most loyal attendees. Many fans return to the convention year after year and have spent hundreds of pounds on their tickets to the event over the years and with the convention set to run on for many years to come, will continue to spend hundreds of pounds more on their registration fee alone. We have also seen Dealers who have been with us for almost as long as the convention has been running offering fans some fantastic bargains on all the latest and rarest Transformers toys and we want to offer many of you the opportunity to save an incredible amount of money and guarantee your place at Auto Assembly FOREVER…

We have now launched our Pass For Life and Dealers Table For Life to do just that. For a simple one-off payment, you will get guaranteed admission to Auto Assembly for as long as the convention continues to run. You will never have to worry about whether or not you have booked tickets or – if you are a dealer – whether you need to book tables. Your places will be secured automatically and the only costs you will need to be concerned about will be your travel, accommodation and spending money.

These extremely limited tickets protect you from the inevitable price rises that we will have to introduce in the future as our running costs for the convention increase over time and as the event increases in popularity and demand for tickets rise, places will be harder to book so you will never have to worry about whether or not you will be able to get into the convention!

Prices for these are all inclusive. Once you have purchased these tickets, you will never have to make another payment to Auto Assembly again unless you wish to purchase separate convention merchandise or bring other people to the convention with you. A Pass For Life for Auto Assembly is just £150! There are no concessions available on these because attendees will age over time and their status will change from Youth to a regular Adult Pass.

A Dealers Table For Life at Auto Assembly is £400. This is for one of our “standard” tables which comprises of three tables which are approximately 5' x 2' 6? in size. It also covers full weekend admission to the convention for up to two members of staff. Additional tables are available at the reduced cost of £300 each. Both types of Lifetime Passes are very limited and are proving incredibly popular. To order one of these, just download the Pass For Life Application Form now and return it as soon as possible.

So if you want to get your tickets NOW for the biggest Transformers event in Europe of 2013, then visit our Auto Assembly 2013 Bookings Page on the Auto Assembly website! If you want to order a Pass For Life or know more, you can download the form here:- www.autoassembly.org.uk/AA2012/AutoAssemblyPassForLifeApplicationForm.doc

If you haven't already booked for Auto Assembly 2012 there's still time before the ticket deadline and we still have plenty of announcements to make about the convention. If you haven’t already booked, you can order a Pass For Life NOW and you’ll be able to use this to get into this year’s convention as well so what better reason is there to order one?!

Auto Assembly 2012 IS Europe's largest EVER Transformers convention and is taking place over the weekend of 3rd - 5th August 2012 at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel. To book your tickets or find out information about booking dealers tables, to sponsor the event or to enquire about advertising with us, visit the website at www.autoassembly.org.uk

Hope to see you there!

The Auto Assembly Team

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Auto Assembly is sponsored by

Calloway Custom Designs - www.shapeways.com/shops/callowaycustomdesigns
Big Ds Toy Chest - www.bigdstoychest.co.uk
Toyz And Gamez - www.toyzandgamez.co.uk
Kapow Toys - www.kapowtoys.co.uk
TF Source - www.tfsource.com
Robot Kingdom - www.robotkingdom.com
Transformers @ The Moon - www.transformertoys.co.uk
TransformersAnimated.com - www.transformersanimated.com
TheTransformers.net - www.thetransformers.net
Titan Books - www.titanbooks.com
3 Darths Comics - www.3darthscomics.co.uk
Science Fiction Collectables - www.sf-collectables.co.uk
Big Bad Toy Store - www.bbts.com
Xyber Toys - www.xybertoys.com

[primenova]

Does Simon have a free gift for booking room at the hotel using the link deal planned for next year like was planned for this year [but was altered due to the IDW Hasbro deal about not letting artist draw comic convention covers - But Marcelo who's been doing the Botcon ones does the IDW covers]

[Deleted]

No, we probably won't be doing a hotel exclusive gift for 2013. Being honest it's going to be difficult making sure that we can get everyone's registration details from the hotel and then ensuring that no-one misses out on gifts so rather than any mistakes happening and people being disappointed, it's better for us making sure those funds can be diverted to offer a gift that everyone can enjoy.

With regards to artists such as Marcelo Matere, anyone who is contracted to IDW is currently prohibited from doing any work for fan conventions, fan sites or any other fan-produced Transformers projects. This is something that has come down from Hasbro and not IDW and it's something that has proved frustrating for all of the artists concerned.

Whether that was the main reason behind our IDW comic being cancelled or not this year I don't know, but it did mean that several artists were unable to work on our comic as planned and we had to change artists for our litho at short notice.

[primenova]

I expect Hasbro let FP have the artist on due to being Botcon & FP running the stuff for them [badly but they do run it for them]. But at least we have UK artist - only thing this would mean Andrew Wildman can't do any comic stuff until after RG1#100? But postcards effected with them not being a comic?

[Deleted]

No this ruling applies to everything - comics, postcards, lithos... anything that involves artwork so the only artists who will be working on anything we do for the foreseeable future will be artists not currently contracted to IDW (which can include past Marvel UK artists) or fan artists.

Luckily we have a pretty awesome in-house artist in the shape of Ed Pirrie who has done us proud this year...

[primenova]

Ed's work is amazing - so at least we get great stuff still, & Jeff Anderson poster. Wouldn't it be great if you found the Earthforce crew that I have never seen them move to the US. Only Staz & Coleby move over the others just disappeared.