Three of the five BotCon days completed...
June 17th - Wednesday - Convention Tour & Package pickup (link to tour not yet done)
June 18th - Thursday - Custom Class & Club store
June 19th - Friday - BotCon day 1 & Golden Ticket dinner
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Three of the five BotCon days completed...
June 17th - Wednesday - Convention Tour & Package pickup (link to tour not yet done)
June 18th - Thursday - Custom Class & Club store
June 19th - Friday - BotCon day 1 & Golden Ticket dinner
The remaining two BotCon days are done, so if you just want to experience the BotCon portion of the trip (except the pre-Con tours because they haven't been done yet, but they weren't even Transformers related anyway), click on the Wednesday page in the post above and just follow the links through to the end.
June 20th - Saturday - BotCon day 2 & Awards dinner
June 21st - Sunday - BotCon day 3
I think I should have the remainder done by the end of the weekend (for anyone who is actually planning to go through the entire trip from start to finish).
For those who bought a non-attending set, they must have sent them out last week, as people in America are just receiving theirs.
So give it another couple weeks to show up here, depending on the shipping method they use.
And on related news, FunPub must have been given permission by Hasbro to give official names to more of the unnamed Gen1 cartoon Seekers... by announcing that they have named the remaining two unnamed Rainmakers - Ion Storm and Nova Storm - with some bios and art released with the names.
For those unfamiliar, or confused over all the unnamed Gen1 cartoon seekers, there were two "famous" teams of Generic Seekers in the cartoon...
The Welcoming Committee (in the first episode, against Wheeljack and Bumblebee) - Sunstorm, Bitstream, Hotlink - two of which FunPub were allowed to officially name for their 3-pack set in 2013 (which was mistakenly called the Rainmakers 3-pack).
The Rainmakers (in the episode Divide and Conquer) - Acidstorm, Ion Storm, Nova Storm - two of which FunPub were we now allowed to officially name.
It is worth noting that the artwork on the three Rainmakers that were posted up with this news looks to be using the Generations Armada mould... so it could be the new Seeker mould to be pumped out en-masse by FunPub, after they stated that the Classics Seeker mould was now retired.
Cool... Looking forward to getting my non-attendee setQuote:
Originally Posted by griffin
The release of seekers using the Armada mold is almost certain, we will start to see Ramjet and Skywarp next year, and given how many seekers were released using the Classics mold and their popularity, why not? :p
so who's got shipping info so far?
I had heard nothing, and emailed yesterday as i'm changing delivery address and would have updated if they still had it. This morning I have a shipping notice, and same day US are getting theirs.
Grrrr.... Botcon squeezing on shipping, saying checkout didn't charge enough
Lol. Tell them to get their shit soryed out. Bloody amateurs. If they were based in Australia, I'd have reported them to fair trading so many times.Quote:
Originally Posted by Krayt
Good to know that I wasn't the only one that got that email... :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by Krayt
Seriously!!
they are a business, and don't have a proper shipping calculator. Tell them they can give you a full refund if they are going to try that on you. you are paying as much for a boxed set as an attendee at the conference, shipping should be free.
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Originally Posted by Krayt
What is the figure/amount extra that they are charging?Quote:
Originally Posted by MayzaPrime
If it was me, I'd say to them...
If they stop us non-American customers from claiming back a refund of excessive charges to Shipping, despite telling us that they would voluntarily do it, why should we be paying extra when there is an under-charging of shipping?
http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transf...l#post11583067
(half-way down the post, after Pete's quote)
Surely they make enough profit from shipping charges that they aren't entitled to, to cover the rare occasions that it is under-estimated.
(so far I've been brushed off by two of their senior staff about the matter... so it is poor form that they are continuing to prove that they check all orders & shipping but only proactively chase up people for more money, without proactively chasing up people with a refund.)
:mad:
Just noting that all of the Convention related pages of my Adventure report are now done, with just the three pre-BotCon pages left to do and the two Pre-Con tours (which aren't Transformers related).
The "before" page took a while to do, but today's semi-rant in the post above gave me the introduction I needed to finish it off nicely.
(the "before" page is a time-line archive of the news and announcements in the 8 months leading up to the Convention, plus my planning for the trip with some tips for long-distance travelling)
When the remaining pages are done they will be noted in the BotCon topic that is in the meets section, as those pages aren't BotCon news, so would be off-topic posting it here.
They charged 50, asking for 12.95 more.
But it's already posted and out of Chicago....
That's what disgusts me about them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Krayt
They confess to checking all the orders to see how much shipping was paid, and chase up people when they are short by about $10, but keep quiet on the orders that they see have over-paid by $50-70.
I just found that the BotCon site had photo galleries of this year's convention (like usual - I just didn't remember to look as FunPub and Pete have been rather quiet since BotCon this year).
Things worth noting...
- Dealer Room photos taken from the second floor windows, which I should have thought about doing, because I saw them and wondered what they were for. You get an idea of how big the dealer room is from those photos, and also how empty it was, as most years it is like "sardines" busy.
- Photos of Frank Welker during the photo and autograph sessions, plus him receiving the Hall of Fame award (which no one else was allowed to take photos of).
- the Golden Ticket dinner/reception, with one lady who was in as many photos as the actual guests... because she caught our eyes all night (fatbot and I, and the guy who was at our table)... and obviously caught the eye of Lanny (the photographer).
- a couple of costumes that I missed seeing, but not very "robotic" ones, as it took me a moment to work out who they were (Animated Lockdown and TFPrime Knockout).
- and you get to see the walk-in crowd lined up at the start of Saturday... which looks like a lot, but I've seen bigger queues in previous years that stretch around the whole block of the convention centre.