But wait, there's MORE:
Hisashi was cool to watch. Every time someone would meet him with their opened figure he would take it, correctly transform it, test it's limbs or whatever with a loving look in his face before signing it.
Megatron was on display in the Titans Return area near the "new and coming soon" toy display.
Bumblebee was at the front entrance of the 'con.
Megatron was also in slightly smaller than life-size tank mode.
Arcee was representing the gals.
The wall art around the display area of the con was amazing.
Crowds around some of the displays. This was the G1 1984 - 1986 area.
Beast Wars got a lot of love.
Movie toys also had a fair few cabinets.
They didn't allow any KO's/3P but they did have a small display of customised figures.
Don't worry Gok - I will post some close up pics of shelves in cabinets tomorrow for ya so you can all see what types of figures were on display.
A company copying the BAPE style with their licensed Transformers wear. Around AU$50 for a t-shirt.
An Optimus night light. They had a few odd things on sale. But this next one took the cake!
Look carefully folks...and that's OFFICIALLY licensed merch I might add!
There was a fan art competition and these were some of the entries:
I met John Barber. I stupidly left the comic I was going to get him to sign in HK.
I also met Walter Gatus and Josh Feldman.
Walter is responsible for all the character designs in RID, especially the Decepticons. At his panel he talked about one of the Decepticons in the new season who was originally based on a Rhino but ended up being based on an Ankylosaurus so they could give Grimlock his long awaited back story.
Josh Feldman runs all of Transformers media from Movies through to cartoons. I would have loved to have some more time talking to Josh although I did tell him how much my kids hate the current RID Bumblebee and love the animalistic Decepticon designs. He wanted to talk too but the line waiting to meet him was just too long.
Official sticker sets for the event. They cost RMB5 per sheet.
Another official sticker set. This one cost RMB20.
Official poster set (8). It cost RMB80.
Tomorrow time permitting I will post pictures from some of the toy displays.
Videos will take a little longer I'm afraid so may not be till later next week.
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