Category: BotCon

BotCon Reveals 2014 Figure – Decepticon Pirate Scorponok with Headmaster Olin Zarak

Well, to quote a spinach-eating sailor man, blow me down.  Or as I tweeted, Nobody expects 1) the unexpected; 2) the Spanish Inquisition; 3) a new Headmaster figure in 2014. http://t.co/FCDSeLDZfa @BotCon — ASM (@ASMzine) April 3, 2014 I’ve lamented that we weren’t getting Nightbeat as a Headmaster later this year.  I’ve wondered if we’d ever get a Headmaster figure again.  Looks like BotCon has answered my mostly-unheard request, because lo and behold, they just showed off Decepticon Pirate Scorponok with Headmaster Olin Zarak. Look at him.  Look at how glorious he is.  LOOK AT THAT HEAD.  It’s like it’s

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BotCon Reveals the Third 2014 Exclusive – Cybertronian Knight Devcon!

So, although I haven’t talked about the previous two exclusives (but I will soon), I figure that should change with the third reveal for BotCon 2014 – Devcon, the Cybertronian Knight! Some fans have been waiting for a Devcon toy for almost 30 years.  We almost had him twice — he was a potential toy for BotCon 2002 (a race car)and if 3H had kept the BotCon license, we might have had him for BotCon 2005 or later (a remold of Energon Slugslinger). They say anticipation makes the heart grow fonder.  I don’t know about that, but at least in

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BotCon Introduces Us To Tornado, the Decepticon Saboteur, and His Facebook Page

In a nice bit of pre-BotCon hype, the organizers of the 20th annual Transformers Convention have introduced us to Tornado, the Decepticon Saboteur, one the characters who will feature in this year’s “Pirates vs. Knights” set.  And they’ve done this not on their own website, but via a new Facebook Page.  By following Tornado, you’ll learn more about this saboteur via status updates as well as links to his personal logs (which are very handily stored as PDFs on Google Drive.  The Big G even gets used by Transformers.  Who knew?) Tornado also helpfully posted this artwork of himself. Very nice.

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BotCon 2014 Coming to Pasadena, California June 19 – June 22

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BotCon 2014 Coming to Pasadena, California June 19th – June 22nd! Fort Worth, TX – December 24th, 2013 – Fun Publications, Inc., licensee for Hasbro’s official Transformers Collectors’ Convention, BotCon, announced today that next year’s award-winning convention will take place at the Pasadena Convention Center June 19th thru June 22nd in the beautiful city of Pasadena. Next year, fans will be able to celebrate both the 20th anniversary of BotCon and the 30th anniversary of the Transformers brand at this amazing event! In the next few weeks, Pop Culture enthusiasts from around the world will be able

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Toy Review – BotCon 2010 Turbomaster (a/k/a Scorch)

BotCon 2010’s theme was “Generation 2: Redux”, a reimagining and extention of the nearly 20-year old (at the time) toy line.  One of the souvenirs was “Turbomaster”, which was a new version of the toy once known as “Scorch”.  A redeco of the Classics/Universe Hound mold, Turbomaster is yellow, orange and grey and comes with the nicest transforming jaguar you’ll ever meet.  But how good is Turbomaster?  Read on!

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BotCon 2013 Reveals Show Exclusives

On their Facebook page, BotCon revealed the show souvenir exclusves right before the club store opened to sell them to throngs of waiting fans. Available are: Thundercracker/Mirage 2-pack (limited to 2000) Sandstorm/Electron 2-pack (limited to 2000) Rainmakers 3-pack (Sunstorm, Bitstream, Hotlink, limited to 2500) Kreon 5-pack (Kreon figures of the box set characters, limited to 1500) Along with yesterday’s revelation of the attendee-exclusive Starscream and the customization class Blastcharge Strika, we now know all of the exclusive toys available at the show.  In addition, BotCon showed a new War of Machines lithograph, featuring this years characters; what look like trading

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