My 'haul' for today - Triggerbot Dogfight (to replace a broken one).

I got up early (6am), so only 4 1/2 hours sleep. It was also my turn to have the floor (2 beds, 3 people, for 3 nights), but was too tired to even notice.

I had a couple of things I needed to do early, so was out of the room before the other two woke up.
I had to pick up some toys for Krayt (which he had organised), so went to the ATM to get out the rest of the money for it, but the ATM refused the withdrawal, while another wouldn't let me take out the amount I needed, so ended up sending them the money by paypal (had to go back to my room to do it). An hour later, after all the running around, I had the toys.

But then had to deal with my other problem - wrong BotCon toys. The day before, when they were starting to let people order larger numbers of convention toys, I bought 3 sets of each, but when I was checking how many Con toys I had, I realised they gave me 6 of the Rapido pair and none of the Scorch pair (lucky I needed to check over the toys, or else I may not have noticed until I got home - they were already in a box to take home).
So I had to queue up at the dealer room, instead of at the panel room to get a good seat for the Hasbro panel.
Fortunately the lady remembered me, and didn't doubt my claim (I really should have checked), so swapped them over. I also then bought an extra set of each, which should cover those who sent money for them. (a toy dealer was there at the same time, buying 24 of each set - I guess it was okay now to have unlimited purchase quantities, to make sure they didn't get stuck with too many after the Con)

While in the dealer room, and with very limited funds, I had a look for some cheap figures JustOwen wanted. Found him some, plus that Triggerbot I mentioned earlier.

Dropping all that stuff of in the room, I went back down to line up for the Hasbro panel (for 40 minutes).
Sat through the first four panels (4 hours), then decided to leave before Peter Cullen's panel. Despite being one I like hearing at the convention, I've seen him a few times before, and I needed to take photos of the art display and Hasbro toy display (just in case I didn't get time on Sunday).
I took photos of all the art and hasbro stuff, and headed back to the panel room, with about 5 minutes left of the Peter Cullen panel.
Then sat through the next 2 panels - well, skipped out of the IDW panel after the slide show, to go back to the dealer room before it closed for the day in about half an hour.

I was planning to start writing down the details in the display cases, but had 3 different people running into me, and then chatting.
As such, I didn't end up writing anything down.
I talked to the Activision people a bit, about maybe having a multiplayer demonstration (They had 6 seperate consoles set up to TVs, but all were individual play. They also mentioned that the convention seems like it had a lot less walk-ins this year, and we thought it was probably from lack of targetted marketting of the convention to the Resort patrons.

I left just before the dealer room closed, and headed to my room to get ready for the Awards Dinner.

Dinner was a bit fancy, and the awards presentation was nicely done (aside from some technical/projector problems).
Dinobot won the fan-choice inductee position.
And they announced the dates and locations of next year's botcon (Pasadena, 2-5 June).

Came straight back to the room to post the news, and then do other board stuff until I go to bed by 2am Sunday (4pm Sunday, brisbane time).