griffin's complete BotCon adventure write-up.

[griffin]

I do so love the upcoming toy pics... couldnt make out though if Sideswipe gets a new head mold or just different paintjob. Also enjoyed the spoilers, most people avoid it, I really dont mind... wish the Arcee thingie doesnt reamain only in concept. Darn, didnt remeber putting in that question for Griffin to ask the panel, Why oh why, hasn't there been a legitimate car ( as in G1 version or near to it) version of Arcee when it can easily be done with todays toy technology at their disposal? Sigh, even Crasher gets a head of a true TF Icon with her new near-to the-original- figure, and shes not even a TF but a Gobot.... so little love for Arcee? Oh well better write it down for next year hehehe

At least there will be one for the Animated series. The robot mode looked very Animated-ish, but the vehicle mode looked interesting. It resembled the gen1 car mode, but the front end looked a little too narrow though.

The first burger photo in the brief bits page is also disturbing.
It is probably tasty though...?

I ordered the largest thing I could find at Arbys the Sunday night, when everything else was closed. And even the Arbys was half-closed up, and didn't have some things I wanted to try.
The 'gimmick' of Arbys, as you may have noticed from that photo, is they used shaved meat on their main burger menu (instead of a meat patty). Admittedly, that one was their 'oversized' burger, with so much meat, you can't even see the bottom half of the bread. But bigger isn't necessarily tastier though, as it was a little boring.

*Throws up* That's one scary looking burger.
How do you consume that much? Those burgers and the drinks and then another meal at the Outback restaurant!

It wasn't intentional. Due to a busy schedule and Cincinnati being such a ghost town after hours, I had to cram in all that 'food sampling' into the last morning, instead of throughout the week as I would have intended.

I'm surprised about how lacklustre the event seems. The poker room, the auction rooms. Just thought they'd be a bit more of a buzz. Anyways, the dealer room will be my favourite part next year.

It wasn't that lack-luster. You have probably a couple of thousand fans of Transformers, converging on the one location for one weekend a year. It can get exciting, but now that I think about it, it did feel a little more subdued this year. I guess we are all just getting older, and we just don't get as worked up as we used to...