Auto Assembly Kitbash Seminar

Nice one, Sid!

I probably won't make it to AA but well done you guys on clubbing together to do this.

sounds cool. Will it cost money to watch online?

brilliant idea but ROFL! was generations wheeljack widely available over here...........noooooooooooo. but if the head will fit on prid wheeljack ill be trying to get one and crack my paints out

Okay, so the head will only be available at AA? That sucks, since I can't make it to AA. May have to get a hook up somehow.

wow super lame.
you could have mentioned this was a convention exclusive when you posted this in radicons.
http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/radico...d-project.html
Good job getting peoples hopes up and then sticking it to them

I think it's a cool idea and brings something else to Auto Assembly.

This may well end up available on the shapeways store at some point anyway.

Yet there's no promise it will be. But it's a guarantee that these will be on ebay for 5X what people paid for them.

makes a change for the UK to get something that nobody else does, instead of the other way round x

Why? Its not like this is an official Hasbro release or their recreating a classic character.

Congrats Simes, its nice to see the convention expanding in all areas.

Full details will be posted when pre-orders go live next week, we plan on having a decent stock of Wheeljacks for the show so this shouldn't be a problem.

Thanks man.
It wasn't a convention exclusive when I started my custom, but we've worked our asses off over the last couple of weeks to make this happen as a nice bonus for the UK convention goers, so thanks for the support.

This will be available for non-attendees for those who purchase the non-attendee AA pack.

Damn fine idea. Well done organising this fellas.

Looks Promising.

wow, your whining about this! why not try living in the UK and being a TF collector......then you'll really have something to whine about

P.s Sid, sooo looking forward to this after finding out about it. Top work fella

amen to that. its a bunch of guys doing something cool for the UK community and im damn sure gonna be there, might book a few mates on to it as well. the guys whining because the UK gets something America doesnt in a case like this is spoilt, arrogant and ignorant. so you dont get another wheeljack and a random shapeways head, get over it, this wont ruin your life. This isnt botcon, these guys are doing it for love of the game, there wont be many spots available id imagine and no, they wont be online for several hundred pounds on ebay because those of us that can afford to go to this arent money hungry assholes, we're the guys who dont get to go to botcon, dont get every single wave in our local shop and appreciate that chances to do stuff like this are rare and value them.

rant over. thank you to the guys that organised this, look forward to meeting you at AA

Wow. Sense of entitlement much?

How many exclusives do you guys in the States get? It's not even like this is an official item either, it's something designed and sourced by two fans in the UK in their own time who're taking it to a UK convention and the item being made available later via Shapeways or something hasn't been ruled out.

If you asked on the boards instead of whining, I'm sure someone going to AA could pick you one up and post it out to you.

Not happy because of the cost of shipping or because of the waiting time to get to the US? Welcome to our world mate, you should think yourself lucky.

Well done Sid and Nick, this is yet another reason I can't wait for 3rd August!

First fifty-six minutes of seminar: Demonstrating how to disassemble the figure (resulting in two cracked parts), remove the paint (leaving a slight pinkness where the red areas were), remove the wheels (resulting in one slightly melty rim), spray paint the figure (resulting in streaks where the painter's tape was slightly off kilter), reassemble the figure (except for that one screw that went missing somehow), and apply decals (crookedly).

Minute fifty-seven of seminar: "Here's one I prepared earlier...."

All joking aside, cool idea.

Thanks dude.

This announcement is actually for the free kitbash seminar, everyone who attends is welcome, we will release a full press release detailing the availability of the add-on kit which will obviously cost money, but we're trying to keep it reasonable.
It WILL be an AA EXCLUSIVE, and not available on Shapeways later, this was a personal choice to give UK fans something cool and exclusive, rather than turning it into a financial cash cow on Shapeways, but we are working on ways to make it available for all through the convention.


Haha, you're so much closer to the truth than you think. The idea is to have 3-4 WIP's so once we hit a task that takes too long and we need to skip to the next step (every 10-15 minutes I would guess), we'll literally skip to "one we prepared earlier..."
It's like you read my proposal, haha.

Okay, I'll ask one of my UK brothers for help rather than whine about the lack of a US offering. I'm sure someone can snag an extra set for me, and I am more than happy to pick up anything you might need in the States in return for the favor. If the values are equal, we can do a straight trade, otherwise we can still work out the details

Can anyone help?

I will be looking to get that non-attendee pack!
Really wish I could make it to the show though, I've always wanted to meet Michael Bell, his Sideswipe and Prowl voices are so memorable and heroic!

UK exclusive? Well done chaps! I'm gutted that I can't make AA at all this year but given that I'll be living in the UK full time from September onwards I hope to go next year. Hopefully this class will be a roaring success.

Good to know it is not an exclusive that you would have to there in person, I do have an extra wheeljack that I picked up during the sale.

Because everyone who attended Botcon is a money hungry asshole. Good lord, get over yourself.

I may have to order the non attendees AA package now. Well done!

I never said that every Botcon attendee was a money hungry asshole. Please dont misunderstand what i said, im very happy to clarify my view.

Every person (and there is always a good few) that put their custom figure on ebay for several hundred dollars IS (in my opinion) a money hungry asshole, they used the highly desired place to make some cheap money and took away from those who desperately desired the opportunity to own a highly limited figure. I know theres the 'well i needed to do it to fund my trip' but seriously, how many people does that REALLY apply to. Every other botcon attendee, i envy, id love to be able to afford to go. Feel free to tell me im wrong, but you will not convince me otherwise and i dont need to get over myself, my point is perfectly justified.

This is not a hasbro run convention, the class is run by guys who are good at what they do and wanted to help out the convention and do something special for attendees. Ultimately somebody may try and sell on their figure immediately for stupid money, but they too, are assholes and i like to think those of us that hopefully will attend, will truly appreciate that these guys are going to the time and effort.

I hope this has clarified my point, i wont dwell on this, my earlier comments were fuelled by the childish comments of other board members, so i felt it necessary to respond in anger

I really want that kit but I cannot make it to that convention.

Blue Peter? Sounds painful.

Blue Peter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I'm sure it'll make sense after reading that

Looking forward to it, and even if I don't get around to going to the seminar I'll still pick up one of those upgrade kits (and a Wheeljack or two) and catch it online later

Having a Diaclone-looking Generations guy could be fun

Cool, I bought an extra Wheeljack so I could do a repaint and hoped that someone would make a head. Hopefully I'll have money when the Non-Attendee pack goes up. And if they ship stateside.

The custome Wheeljack look so cool,the face like Power Ranger

Wait, nonattendee package? Explain...

People who don't attend can buy some items from the con afterwards in limited numbers, similar to what happens at Botcon with the boxsets

To clarify, we'll be announcing details of the Non-Attendee Package and how you can get the kit in the next 24 hours and as Sid said it is a convention exclusive but that also includes being available to those who will have taken up the option to get our Non-Attendee Package.

We will ship these - and the optional add on for the Workshop kit - worldwide so no-one will miss out. As for the workshop, the places are only limited by the physical amount of space that the room has. No-one will be able to fleece people on ebay with the toys that they can come away from the convention with because all they will have - at most - is a Generations Wheeljack and the upgrade kit - they'll still have to do the kitbash themselves.

This year, the workshop is going to be instructional rather than interactive but by doing it this way, we can open it up to as many people as possible and keep it FREE. If people don't want to buy the kit, they don't have to but hopefully they'll still learn something but we hope that a lot will want to create what they have seen and that's where the exclusive comes in.

It's not going to be overly expensive as we want to try to offer everyone value for money, but we will limit them to one per person to give everyone a fair chance at getting them. If you're not able to get into the workshop or not able to make it to the convention, you'll still be able to see the workshop itself on our Youtube Channel, probably a week or two after the convention once we have edited all of the footage (it may take me a week or two as well have about 90 - 120 minutes of HD footage to upload!).