An article here
says that FunPub have renewed the Botcon Trademark. A most interesting development.
Are they just renewing it in the hopes that Hasbro buy it off them?
Are they planning on Hosting unofficial conventions?
Did Hasbro take feedback from the First Hascon on board and decide that Transformers still needs it's own standalone convention and are giving the convention rights back to Fun Pub?
Based on what was reported of Hascon, I think there's room for a dedicated Transformers Convention, and probably a dedicated Magic convention as well.
Fun pub always received lots of criticism, and most of it, probably rightly so. But, they did run a pretty good Convention even taking all the negativity into account and I think the Transformers community can get lot of value out of a professionally run official transformers convention.
It'll be interesting to see where this goes.