TFCC Botcon 2016 theme - Dawn of the Predacus

[Scaleface]

No BH Soundwave Botanica?

I don't know about this though. Might just buy Alternators Ravage

The club basically said a while back that Hasbro was forcing them to use CURRENT molds for the club exclusives. This is why their exclusives for 2016 are the toys on the shelves in late 2015. We may not get much of a chance to see older molds any more.

[griffin]

They are working closer with Hasbro who does want them to use more recent moulds, but I don't recall them saying that they wouldn't be able to use older moulds. The process would still have them submitting requests to see if moulds they prefer to use are available.

[Scaleface]

They are working closer with Hasbro who does want them to use more recent moulds, but I don't recall them saying that they wouldn't be able to use older moulds. The process would still have them submitting requests to see if moulds they prefer to use are available.

I didn't say it could never happen, but seeing old molds will happen less. So far EVERY ONE of 5 BotCon molds and 6 TFSS molds we know about are guys on the store shelves today.

[SuspectimusPrime]

Pre-orders for the boxed and bagged sets are available on TFSource and BBTS.

[Sinnertwin]

Yeah US$500 is a joke. I really hope it comes on the market at a later time for far less. I want it but not that badly. Maybe BBTS will buy too many and no one will purchase it for their asking price.

I was also considering the bug wars set, but that asking price is just too much

[fatbot]

http://www.allspark.com/2016/02/new-...ible-souvenir/

Maybe you can obtain this for me as well Boss?

[griffin]

http://www.allspark.com/2016/02/new-...ible-souvenir/

Maybe you can obtain this for me as well Boss?

I will have to see what the limits are, and who will wants this (this is not the topic for other people to put in requests - I will have a pre-order topic in the Saleyard closer to BotCon).


For those wondering what this teased item might be, this link has an image of the planned (and cancelled) 2005 Megatron toy (but watch the video as well, as it features David Kaye... yessss)... which appears to be all but confirmed to be one of the at-show exclusives this year (the image in the video matches the proposed toy, and a tweet from BotCon has apparently noted that Megatron will be limited to one per attendee and is expected to sell out on the Friday - not that that can be trusted, as they said the same thing last year).

[griffin]

Another activity has been announced - a live concert on the Friday night (April 8th) by Stan Bush and Vince DiCola, at a nearby live entertainment venue.
I think this will be the last time we will see the pair performing together as the numbers of us old timer fans who love their 1986 work, are very few now, and I'd feel really bad for them if they ever did a performance and only had about 20-30 people showing up.
The venue is near the Convention Centre, and is a free entry public venue, so this won't be an additional cost to attendees... but it will require BotCon attendees to walk there and back (instead of the popular room trading at the Hotel).
Hopefully this is the Friday Night event for the convention, and FunPub don't have something at the Convention Centre at the same time (like the Golden Ticket dinner or MSTF).



It's no wonder their convention and club are failing... at almost a month since the last major news item, when they should be releasing teases and info every week or every few days, especially while they are struggling to sell attendee boxsets.

[UltraMarginal]

What blows my mind is this is a Free event for the public...

Why aren't Botcon hosting a show starring these two chaps?

[griffin]

Probably because they'd only get about 30-40 people if it was exclusive to attendees, so opening it up to the public might get double the audience.