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Auto Assembly
Auto Assembly, was first in development from 1994 under the names BotCon UK and la-Con. It was officially founded in 2000 as "The Auto-Assembly." Auto Assembly was a Transformers convention held in Birmingham, UK and run by the science fiction fan organisation Infinite Frontiers. The first event was held in October 2000 and was held annually (except in 2002 and 2007 when it took "gap years") until the final event in 2015. The event was originally called "The Auto-Assembly," and came to be referred to colloquially as "AA." Sven Harvey stepped down from his role with the event between the 2008 and 2009 conventions due to various issues unrelated to the event but has now returned to the team. Head of Infinite Frontiers Simon Plumbe is now the owner of the convention, working with a team of volunteers. The convention started life as a small-scale event, intended to be an occasional Transformers-themed equivalent of the meetings held by the Star Trek fan club Alpha Quadrant (wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auto Assembly - Small
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Geoff Senior
Geoff Senior (born 1960) is a British artist, best known for his work in the comic book field in the 1980s, mainly for Marvel UK. Senior is perhaps best remembered for his art for the Marvel ''Transformers'' series. Biography Senior illustrated the 1985 book ''Space Assassin''. He debuted on the British ''Transformers'' title drawing #42, and became one of the title's most prolific and popular artists (always inking his own pencils), thanks to his geometric style, which perfectly suited the dynamics of the series. He worked on a number of other titles for Marvel UK, including ''Doctor Who Magazine'' (1988), ''Dragon's Claws'' (which he co-created with Simon Furman, and drew all ten issues of), '' Death's Head'' (another character he helped create, initially as a guest star for ''Transformers'') and '' Action Force Weekly'', as well as several Marvel UK annuals. He followed Furman across to Marvel USA in 1989, drawing ''Transformers'' US #61, and four more issues before the titl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Energon , a medicinal concoction produced in Sweden
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Energon may refer to: * Transformers: Energon, an anime series named after a power source in the Transformers stories *Phospho-Energon Phospho-Energon, often just called Energon, was a "miracle medicine" produced and distributed in Sweden. Through the sales of Phospho-Energon, the emerging Swedish pharmaceutical company Pharmacia (founded in 1911 out of the ''Elgen'' pharmacy i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armada
Armada is the Spanish and Portuguese word for naval fleet, which also adopted into English, Malay and Indonesian for the same meaning, or an adjective meaning 'armed'; Armáda () is the Czech and Slovak word for armed forces. Armada may also refer to: Military Explorations and military campaigns * Portuguese India Armadas (''armadas da Índia''), fleets of ships dispatched from Portugal to India, following the sea route opened up by Vasco da Gama in 1497–1499 * 2nd Portuguese India Armada (Cabral, 1500) * 3rd Portuguese India Armada (Nova, 1501) * 4th Portuguese India Armada (Gama, 1502) * 5th Portuguese India Armada (Albuquerque, 1503) * 6th Portuguese India Armada (Albergaria, 1504) * 7th Portuguese India Armada (Almeida, 1505) Military campaigns * Spanish Armada or Great Armada, an unsuccessfully attempted invasion of England by Spain in 1588 * English Armada or Counter Armada, an unsuccessful English naval campaign in 1589 aimed at capturing Lisbon and other coastal town ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beast Machines
''Beast Machines: Transformers'' is an animated television series produced by Mainframe Entertainment as part of the Transformers franchise. Hasbro has the full distribution rights to the show as of 2011. It was a direct sequel to ''Beast Wars'', taking place within the continuity of the original ''Transformers'' series. The show ran for two seasons, airing on YTV and Fox Kids from 1999 to 2000. Of the Transformers animated series produced in North America, ''Beast Machines'' was the only one to have been completely conceptualized and outlined in advance, lending it a more serialized and linear storyline than the others. Prior to '' Transformers: Prime'' in 2010, ''Beast Machines'' was also the last, and second only entirely computer-animated ''Transformers'' series produced, along with its predecessor ''Beast Wars''. The ''Beast Machines'' intro theme was "Phat Planet", by Leftfield. It is also the final installment in the ''Generation 1'' cartoon era. Synopsis Following ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beast Wars
Beast most often refers to: * Non-human animal * Monster Beast or Beasts may also refer to: Bible * Beast (Revelation), two beasts described in the Book of Revelation Computing and gaming * Beast (card game), English name of historical French game, the first card game to use bidding * BEAST (computer security), a computer security attack * BEAST (music composition), a music composition and modular synthesis application that runs under Unix * Beast (lighting software), a computer-graphics lighting software * Beast (Trojan horse), a Windows-based backdoor trojan horse * ''Beast'' (video game), a 1984 ASCII game Film and television * Beast (''Beauty and the Beast''), a character from the 1991 animated film ''Beauty and the Beast'' and sequels * ''Beast'' (2017 film), a British psychological thriller * ''Beast'' (2022 American film), an American thriller film directed by Baltasar Kormákur and starring Idris Elba * ''Beast'' (2022 Indian film), an Indian Tamil-language film * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Megatron (Transformers)
Megatron is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the ''Transformers'' media franchise produced by American toy company Hasbro and Japanese toy company Takara Tomy. Megatron is the cruel and tyrannical leader of the Decepticons, a faction of sentient, war-mongering robotic lifeforms that seeks to conquer their home planet of Cybertron and the rest of the known universe. He serves as the archenemy of Optimus Prime, the leader of the rival Autobot faction. As with all Cybertronians, Megatron has the ability to transform between his robot form and various vehicles or weapons. His alternate modes have ranged from a Walther P38 handgun, a particle-beam weapon, a telescopic laser cannon, and a Cybertronian jet, depending on which continuity he is depicted in. Megatron's most consistent origin portrays him as having risen up from being an oppressed worker to a gladiatorial champion who took the legendary name of one of the original Thirteen Primes—Megatronus—as hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Kaye (voice Actor)
David Kaye is a Canadian voice actor. He is best known for animation roles such as Megatron in five of the ''Transformers'' series (''Beast Wars'', '' Beast Machines'', ''Armada'', ''Energon'', and '' Cybertron''), Optimus Prime in '' Transformers: Animated'', Professor X, Jamie Madrox and Apocalypse in '' X-Men: Evolution'', Cronus in '' Class of the Titans'', Khyber and Shocksquatch in '' Ben 10: Omniverse'', several characters in '' Avengers Assemble'', the newsreel announcer in the Pixar film '' Up'', and Duckworth in the reboot of ''Ducktales''. He is also known for anime roles including Sesshōmaru in ''Inuyasha'' and Treize Khushrenada in ''Mobile Suit Gundam Wing'', and video game roles such as Clank in the ''Ratchet & Clank'' series and Nathan Hale in the ''Resistance'' series. He is also the announcer for '' Last Week Tonight with John Oliver'' on HBO and voiced the Celestial Arishem in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film '' Eternals''. Early life During the 1980 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ro-Tor
The Autobots are the main protagonists in the fictional continuities of the Transformers multimedia franchise, and are depicted in a collection of various toys, cartoons, films, graphic novels, and paperback books first introduced in 1984. The Autobots, led by Optimus Prime, are opposed by the Decepticons, the main antagonists in the universe of the Transformers, headed by Megatron. Both Autobots and Decepticons have "sparks", which function as souls and contain their minds and personality. They can transform into machines, vehicles and other familiar mechanical objects, as well as mimic organic lifeforms (Dinobots). Autobots typically transform into cars, trucks and other road vehicles; some exceptions transform into aircraft, military vehicles, communication devices, weapons, or robotic animals. These Autobots are often grouped into special "teams" that have the suffix "-bot" at the end, such as in Dino''bot'' (Decepticon groups' names end in "-con"). In Japan, the Autobo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Optimus Prime
Optimus Prime, , is a fictional character in the '' Transformers'' franchise. The Transformers characters were developed for an American market after Hasbro representatives visited the 1983 Tokyo Toy Show. The characters were modified and the coloring was changed; notably, Optimus Prime was colored red, white, and blue. The popularity of the Transformers toys resulted in comics, movies, and a TV series. In the Transformers mythology, Optimus Prime is a Cybertronian, an extraterrestrial species of sentient self-configuring modular robotic lifeforms (e.g.: cars and other objects), a synergistic blend of biological evolution and technological engineering. In almost every version of the mythos, Optimus is the leader of the Autobots, a faction of Transformers who are rivals of the Decepticons, another faction. He is defined by his strong moral character and is almost always portrayed as the primary hero of the story, opposing the Decepticon leader Megatron. Over the history of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Kaplan
Neil Charles Kaplan is an American voice actor, audiobook narrator, entertainer, and comedian. Biography Kaplan got his start as a comedian doing impressions of presidents such as Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon. He also impersonated a little-known journalist at the time, Dan Rather. He then started work on video games, including several ''Star Wars'' titles. From there he went on to do such shows as ''Power Rangers'', '' Digimon: Digital Monsters'' and most recently, '' Transformers: Robots in Disguise''. One of his most well known voices is Hawkmon from ''Digimon''. He was once a contestant on the game show ''Street Smarts''. On that appearance, he showed off some of his other impressions, including one of Gilbert Gottfried. He was a guest to the Power Morphicon (in Los Angeles) in June 2007 and August 2010, to Armageddon (in Australia and New Zealand) in October 2007, and to AVCon: Adelaide's Anime & Video Games Festival (in Australia) in July 2018. He also created the televis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robots In Disguise (2001 TV Series)
Robots in Disguise were an English electropunk band composed of Dee Plume (vocals and guitar), Sue Denim (vocals and bass) and a changing line-up of backing musicians. The group released four studio albums between 2000 and 2011. In 2019, they announced their reunion and an upcoming album. History Formation and early years (2000) Plume (Delia Gaitskell) and Denim (Suzanne Powell) met and formed the band when they were both students at the University of Liverpool. They recorded and released their first EP entitled ''Mix Up Words and Sounds'' through Splinter, produced by Chris Corner. ''Robots in Disguise'' and ''Get RID!'' (2001–2005) The band's eponymous début studio album was released through Recall in 2001, produced by Chris Corner. ''Robots in Disguise'' featured the single "Boys". The cover for "Boys" featured a mimic of Roxy Music's '' Country Life''. Robots in Disguise's second studio album, ''Get RID!'' was released in 2005 through Recall and Ben Prime. It fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
