my 2011 botCon tavel blog

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Originally Posted by Sleeve

I'll be right over. :p

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What's the best way to get my camera to you? I'm interested in seeing if the deleted pics can be salvaged.

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Originally Posted by Autocon

so who won the fan inductee thing?

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Waspinator.

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Originally Posted by griffin

What's the best way to get my camera to you? I'm interested in seeing if the deleted pics can be salvaged.

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You free at all on the weekend? I could use a drive to get out of the house and away from uni work.

I should be home for most of the time until I go back to work on Monday. So you can come around at any time - just give me a call first to be sure I haven't popped out for a toy hunt. Yes, there are still a couple items I didn't get while in America. :p

Some more random photos while I work through them all...

Waspinator's Hall of Fame display.
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/bc11/x50.jpg

Some movie character costumes.
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/bc11/x51.jpg

The dealer room this year.
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/bc11/x52.jpg


Part time Aussie Eric Siebenaler.
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/bc11/x53.jpg

Custom deco van as Ratchet, with Ravage on the roof.
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/bc11/x54.jpg

And all the toys I came home with...
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/bc11/x55.jpg

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http://www.toycollectors.com.au/bc11/x57.jpg
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http://www.toycollectors.com.au/bc11/x59.jpg

128 toys costing about $3000...

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Originally Posted by griffin

128 toys costing about $3000...

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and probably a saving of about $1000 still cant believe the price differences between AU and the US

i had an awesome time too, cant wait to do it again although i might have to wait a couple of years to do so

That's a biiiig Haul there. what are those white Animated Ratchets? Next to the Animated Stunticon set.... are they Botcon figures?... oooh a sword, will we get those here as well?

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Originally Posted by liegeprime

That's a biiiig Haul there. what are those white Animated Ratchets? Next to the Animated Stunticon set.... are they Botcon figures?... oooh a sword, will we get those here as well?

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I believe that they are the three Autoroopers from Botcon.

Great haul there Griff, makes many of the movie figures look better than I had anticipated. AM Thundercracker would fit in very nicely with the late g1 Predator jets, it has all of their colours on the one figure.

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Originally Posted by i_amtrunks

AM Thundercracker would fit in very nicely with the late g1 Predator jets, it has all of their colours on the one figure.

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I was speakinng about that with tinyjazz the other night. There was an entry in the Custom Contest at last year's Botcon that had a heap of figures repainted into AM Thundercracker, but until I read that it was him I thought it was Snare.

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Originally Posted by liegeprime

That's a biiiig Haul there. what are those white Animated Ratchets? Next to the Animated Stunticon set.... are they Botcon figures?... oooh a sword, will we get those here as well?

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As Trunks mentioned, the white Ratchets are the Autotroopers 3-pack.
And as for the sword(s), we might not get the TF3 grey/blue one here, because we didn't get the TF2 orange/red one here. I was actually amazed at how much old stuff I was finding at US Kmart stores over there. I don't think I bought any TF3 toys at any of the Kmarts I checked out, just TF2 and gimmick items (like Speed Stars and Roleplay). Other store-chains didn't have much that was pre-TF3...

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Originally Posted by i_amtrunks

Great haul there Griff, makes many of the movie figures look better than I had anticipated.

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I'm finding that now that I have set them (TF3 toys) all out on that big bench in their sizes and assortments, it is making it a lot easier keeping track of what was released in what wave.

The TF3 swords in TRU Doncaster.... been there over a week....