February 17th, 2014 
Simon Plumbe 
We just wanted to let you all know that over the weekend we’ve encountered a few problems with the official Auto Assembly Forum. It appears that a software update to the forum failed which has now frozen the board completely to the extend that it has rendered the board unusable and even locked our own team out of using it!
As a result, we will be taking the old forum offline and replacing it with a brand new board in the next couple of days in preparation for Auto Assembly 2014. We hope to have this ready for new signups in the next 24 hours if not sooner but we’ll keep you all posted!
UPDATE
The new forum is now LIVE! We’re still updating it and working on getting all of the areas set up and adding categories and planning out content for it, but we thought that it was important to have the forum online as quickly as possible rather than leaving it offline for too long so feel free to sign up to the new board! Unfortunately, as we have had to start this from scratch all previous forum members will have to join again.
Canadian artist Alex Milne (pictured here taking part in last year’s Fans Vs Guests Quiz, photo courtesy of Nick Hardy) has been one of the more popular artists working on Transformers for the last few years. Making his debut for Dreamwave working on Transformers: Energon and other titles for the publisher before working for Devil’s Due Publishing on their GI Joe Vs Transformers book, he subsequently joined the core team of artists working on Transformers making his debut on the adaptation of the 2007 live action movie.
To Transformers fans, Peter is known as the voice of Sky-Byte, the haiku reading Predacon who is constantly thwarted by Optimus Prime and the rest of the Autobots (in between dealing with his angst over continual comparisons being made between him and jellyfish) but away from this he is an accomplish voice, screen and stage actor with an extensive career behind him with over 100 television programmes and films to his name.
Livio has been responsible for the stunning painted artwork that has been seen on IDW’s groundbreaking digital series Autocracy and it’s follow-up Monstrosity written by animated movie writer Flint Dille. His unique artistic style has won him a legion of fans quickly making him a firm fan favourite.
James is no stranger to Transformers fiction cutting his teeth – as most contemporary TF writers have – in Transformers fandom writing for a wide range of Transmasters UK fanzines before writing the seminal and critically acclaimed Transformers fan novel Eugenesis. He shot to fame professionally through his collaboration with Nick Roche on the now-legendary Last Stand Of The Wreckers for IDW Publishing.
To Transformers fans everywhere, Townsend is most well-known for providing the voice of Sentinel Prime in Transformers: Animated but in addition to this, he also voiced Tracks in the same show along with a number of minor roles in G1 including Rewind.
