I’ve been an avid collector of Transformers since I can remember, and they’ve actually helped shape my career path. If it wasn’t for Transformers, I wouldn’t have been lucky enough to become the website designer for GAME in 2000. I was chosen for that role, in no small part, due to the animated Transformers GIFs I had created on a hobby website I created in 1999. Back then, animated GIFs weren’t the hugely popular communication medium they are today. My using animated GIFs, over a decade before they became popular on social media, set me aside from the others going for that role. I wouldn’t be in digital marketing now if it weren’t for Transformers. As well as being an avid collector, I’ve also been involved in shaping the Transformers community. In 2004 I wrote and produced a two-part Transformers comic, entitled The Beast Within, that would be printed and distributed with the DVD boxsets of the animated cartoons from Metrodome Distribution. The comic received a mixed response, to put it mildly, but much to annoyance of many fans it is Transformers canon. Some people liked it, though, as this video review shows: It’s fair to say you will also find plenty of video reviews on YouTube from people who really didn’t like it. In addition to the comic, I produced a lot of the special features for the early Metrodome releases, such as character profiles and interactive quizzes. The cover art on the DVDs was also down to me – well, I didn’t actually draw them – I introduced Metrodome to the artists for them to create the artwork, artists such as Theo Black and Lee Sullivan.

I’d like to profess to having a manly pastime, such as DIY, fixing up cars or whiling away hours in a shed before coming out with something practical – sadly I can’t. I build Lego sets. I have a wide collection of different Lego sets, ranging from the smaller, 5 minute builds, to the absolutely ridiculous 5-month projects. The largest of these, by some considerable distance, was the Star Wars Lego Millennium Falcon. After pondering for a few weeks on whether I not I could justify the price, and whether or not I actually had anywhere to put it, the fact it went ‘out of stock’ and became even harder to get hold of meant I had to have it.

After many years on the waiting list for season tickets at Liverpool, I was fortunate enough to be able to acquire hospitality season tickets through Engage Web when the new Main Stand was developed for the start of the 2016/17 season. We now take clients, suppliers and referral partners to matches at Anfield as our guests, in the Carlsberg Dugout Lounge. Match day hospitality includes access to the the exclusive, sports bar styled, lounge 3hrs before kick off, all of the food provided and the chance to meet former Liverpool players. All home games are included, as well as European matches, which is why I experienced my greatest footballing spectator moment during the 2018/19 season when I saw Liverpool overhaul a 3-0 first-let deficit to defeat Barcelona 4-3 in the Champions’ League Semi-Final, before going on to win the European Cup for a sixth time in Madrid. If this sort of experience sounds like something you’d enjoy, get in touch through Engage Web – we love to take our business contacts as our guests.