my 2011 botCon tavel blog

[griffin]

I'll be right over.

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

so who won the fan inductee thing?

Waspinator.

[Sleeve]

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

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

[griffin]

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.

[griffin]

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

Waspinator's Hall of Fame display.


Some movie character costumes.


The dealer room this year.



Part time Aussie Eric Siebenaler.


Custom deco van as Ratchet, with Ravage on the roof.


And all the toys I came home with...



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128 toys costing about $3000...

[loophole]

128 toys costing about $3000...

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

[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?

[i_amtrunks]

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?

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.

[Sleeve]

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

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.

[griffin]

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?

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...

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

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.

[Krayt]

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