Botcon 2009 location announced

[llamatron]

BotCon 2009 will be in Pasadena, CA May 28th-31st

After months of June been heavily hinted at we now get this.

Boy it sure is a good thing that I already had my flights to the UK booked for June so that I could make it across at the same time.

Well done FP, your incompetence is only matched by your refusal to enter the 21st century and inability to properly cater for international fans.

[STL]

http://www.seibertron.com/transforme...evealed/14814/

This just in from the North Pole:

##Santa just announced the location of BotCon 2009##

BotCon 2009 will be in Pasadena, CA May 28th-31st!

__________________________________________________ ________________________________

Much earlier than expected. Maybe they couldn't get the movie screening. The toys can't be far behind now.

[roller]

bah!!! in America again

[MV75]

Mmmmm.... maybe I should save up and go....... nah, I'd rather a new car. The arse end is about to fall out of that market, I'll take a slice of it. Beep beep!

[griffin]

Got the email from Fun-Pub as well.
Good news is that being on the west coast, makes it a lot cheaper for flights. And LA makes for a good opportunity for a holiday at the same time with all the theme parks and hollywood.
Bad news that it isn't at Hasbro HQ again.
And I wonder if it would be too early to have an advance screening of the movie. We had the advance screening in Sydney a month early, so it's possible. Maybe they plan to have a tour at the movie studios that produced the movie.

Hmmm, the date is earlier than I was expecting. I'm not able to acces my next batch of annual leave until June. Will have to work something out... Still happy though.

[doubleclouder]

just curious, any one of you guys here attend botcon regularly?
i have a girl fan in SG who attends every year without fail!

[griffin]

I've only been to nine...
But there could be a few from here going next year, especially with it being on the cheaper west coast.
This topic keeps track of who might be going:
http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php?t=1129

[Paulbot]

I wasn't planning to go to LA again... but I'm familar with the city so I'm happy. I'm also kind of happy that it's earlier than the movie release so I can see that here in a Gold Class cinema when it comes out. (Then again we still might get a preview screening)

[fatbot]

ahh well, i'm out then, the state government overlords won't allow me to swap my holidays a second time.

can you still get the exculisve figures without going? i mean, pay for 'em and have another person pick them up? if you can i may beg someone who's going to grab them for me.

[Paulbot]

ahh well, i'm out then, the state government overlords won't allow me to swap my holidays a second time.

can you still get the exculisve figures without going? i mean, pay for 'em and have another person pick them up? if you can i may beg someone who's going to grab them for me.

They usually have a "non-attending" package where you get most of the stuff someone going does, except the ticket to the actual convention (and the attendee figures). Several of us did that last year.