BotCon 2016 news and reveals

[Paul Agnew]

Airazor (GEN-14 DLX Windblade)

With the Slipstream head.

[griffin]

Ooops,... I don't like the Windblade mould so much I didn't look enough to even notice the head.

[reillyd]

I'll definitely track down Airrazor and by either the Renderform upgrade or inevitable Shapeways head.. Looked at the toy, and the head looks a new one. I thought it was just a repaint windblade from the comic cover.

Tigatron looks awesome, must buy.

[griffin]

The non-toy items for sale this year...

[Paulbot]

For those like me that didn't get the joke, Unit 3 is "Under-3", a Beast Wars Happy Meal toy.

[griffin]

Some news photos and (very very) brief details from the first two days of Botcon.
(photos are temporary until the full adventure write-up is done, but it will be a few weeks before that happens)

Wednesday night package pickup - Boxset, t-shirt, Custom Class toy (Ratchet), Golden Ticket toy (Flash Sentry), Attendee toy (Terrorsaur),
first day pin, golden ticket pin, namebadge, comic/program guide, and folder of vouchers and certificate (no feedback form this year... because
there isn't any more BotCons for them to need feedback for).


The toys in alt-mode with all their accessories (except Ravage's sword, which I didn't notice was somewhere else until later).


Robot modes.


Thursday Custom Class.


The five example versions - Gen1 comic, Gen1 cartoon, Gen2 (no actual Gen2 toy so I'm not sure if this is based off anything official), Mirrorverse, Medix (Rescue Bot colours).

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There was also a sixth option - a Gen2 Ratchet that would be like Inferno, which was the Gen1 toy version, but with the "Gen2 Autobot" sticker on the roof.
I think the Gen2 version above would be if Ratchet was like Gen2 Jazz, with different stickers and paint apps.

The parts before construction started.


Thursday afternoon - Club Store open.


Display case of this year's toys and merchandise...


...including a regular retail release of Silverbolt, Prowl and Ironhide, in combined mode with Tigatron & Unit 3, with exclusive stickers to turn them
into the Magnaboss trio to look like them in the Convention comic.
(yes, that's a sticker for a face)


And the five Autobots as individuals, with the 3 retail toys stickered up.


Reflector 3-pack in a "combined" form, by joining up the arms of the toys like a circular chain.


The products and price list for this year.


Items I bought for myself.


I found a box of these welcome letters on a table in the main hallway and took one, thinking that it was just something to be handed out to walk-ins
on the weekend (because I stopped reading at the middle bit that sounded like a promo press release for upcoming official projects). It wasn't until
several hours later that I heard about the last paragraph making news... and dug out my copy to read.


One of the room traders Thursday night. I couldn't see the noticeboard on Wednesday night in the lobby, so didn't think it was officially permitted
until the next night, as it was in a corner of the Lobby that was on the opposite side to the two official BotCon noticeboards (usually the three are
next to each other).


At the end of the night (10pm), the dealer room was already being set up for the 2pm opening on Friday.


And in a separate room is the Hasbro exhibit, also ready for tomorrow.


It's just past 3am Friday here in Kentucky, and I have to be up at 7am to get a few other things done before leaving at about 8.45 for the first panel of the day.

I will try to post up more during the weekend, but as past BotCons have shown me, I don't get much spare time between Friday morning to Sunday night.

[Raider]

Thanks for the update mate. So many goodies in that pic of the trader room. Wish I was there!