This posts serves as your one-stop shop for news related to Botcon 2012. From announcements to reveals to actual convention coverage! Check back often as we bring you the latest news for our favorite annual robot toy convention.
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I have been attending Transformers conventions for over a decade now. I not only own all of the convention exclusive sets offered over that time, I have experienced the convention and its prevailing atmosphere each year. I wanted to make a list of the five best Botcon exclusive sets, not just based on the toys, but on much more than that. Innovation. Character Selection. Overall theme. Fan Demand. I made this list with all of these things in mind to bring forth the most cohesive and synergistic sets to date. Have a look through each of my selections and let us know what you think in the comments.

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Fun Publications, the folks who run the Botcon convention, have posted a picture on facebook revealing the box art for the 2012 convention box set. As seen above, the art features each of the six characters in the set; Metalhawk, Overlord Gigatron, Shattered Glass Tracks, Shattered Glass Ultra Magnus, Shattered Glass Treadshot and Shattered Glass Soundwave.

Botcon will be held in Dallas, Texas this year from April 26th to 29th.

Back in July we found out the fans won out with their demand to continue the original Transformers comic series, picking up from issue 81.

That book is being “ReGeneration One” and is being written by longtime TF scribe Simon Furman with Andrew Wildman providing artwork in his original early 90s style. IDW comics publisher Chris Ryall has tweeted a colored interior page of the book without text. Ultra Magnus makes his US debut and Optimus Prime retains his Action Master form in this direct continuation of the events in the Marvel Transformers comic #80.

See here the cover and that interior page from issue 80.5, available on Free Comic Book Day

[UPDATE – Crazy: Looks like I was wrong, go here to see the theme revealed for the Botcon 2011 Exclusive Box Set!]

Question Mark? Well, it hasn’t been confirmed yet, but it sounds like the theme for Botcon 2011 is going to be Transformers in 3-D, a little known story that took place after G1 that involved a team of Autobots led by Ultra Magnus, a team of Decepticons led by Cyclonus, and a team called the Destructons led by Lord Imperious Delirious, possibly the greatest character name in all Transformers fiction aside from Powerglide.

How do we know this? Well, here are the hints we were given on the @Botcon twitter feed:

Just realized SO many stories and/or TF continuities (as a whole) were told in installments/seasons of 3… Well, get ready for Season 3.5!

G1? AEC? Animated? BW? What could it be? All of this contemplating may make you feel like you got hit by a Delirious Fire Attack

Lord Imperious Delirious’s grand attack was called the Delirious Fire Attack. You can read more about him on the TFWiki here. Also Transformers in 3-D was a unfinished comic story from 1988 with three completed chapters. You can read more about that here.

We’ll know for sure once the next issue of the Collector’s Club Magazine starts rolling out to members.

Side note: @Botcon also revealed the 2011 logo, which never has anything to do with the theme of that year’s convention. (See Above)

 

In 2002, it all started out so innocently. Takara was reissuing some of the original line of Transformers. As an E-Hobby exclusive, special variants were made of brand new characters that never appeared in the original show. The result was Road Rage and Crosscut. After that, what followed could only be described as a wave of repainted G1 molds as new characters with new stories inserted into the Generation 1 canon. This is what we may call a ‘retcon’ since the books were more or less closed on new stories from the original canon up to that point. Repaints of Hound, Sideswipe, Starscream, Grapple and more would follow with new color schemes, names and bios. If a mold had been part of the Diaclone or Microchange line, that original paint scheme would be used as an option as well.

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King Koopa is Dead; Long Live the King. We talk about Season and Series finales, comics made into movies, games made into movies, comics made into games (and back into comics). Waiting for our LOST thoughts! They’re coming in a special Cool Beans! Listen on, dear Poweteers.

Direct Link: Powetcast 34: Long Live President Koopa

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(Did you even SEE the Super Mario Bros. Movie. Mario Mario and Luigi Mario? What’s THAT all about? Leave your thoughts below!)

Show notes after the jump!

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UPDATE: Nominations extended until Nov. 30th! See the rest of the article for details.

It’s been a year since we’ve promised our viewers One Video Per Week. For 52 weeks we brought you 52 new videos for Keep Playing, Powet Toys, Famicom Dojo, our movie review series, as well as many others. Help us celebrate a successful year by picking out your favorite moments!

It’s really easy. All you have to do is find your top five favorite videos from the official list (after the jump). Watch them again to find your favorite scene or clip from each one. Once you think you found it, reply to this post with the name of the video and the timestamp (MM:SS) of your favorite moment.

We will tally the results and present them to you all for voting after the close of nominations. Winners will be announced in our December 9th video.

So what are you waiting for? Nominations close next Monday, November 30th!

See a list of valid contenders after the break:

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