­Botcon have announced their second guest for the 2011 event, Flint Dille.  Here is a copy of the announcement

FLINT DILLE has spent most of his creative life on the porous border between the game business and the film business. He has designed games with Gary Gygax and written movies for Steven Spielberg. His friend, Frank Miller, immortalized him as Dillios (a Spartan-ization of Dille), the narrator in 300. Flint has twice won 'Game Script of the Year' (Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay and Dead to Rights and is up for awards for Ghostbusters and Dark Athena.

He has worked on numerous franchises including Transformers (writer on Transformers: The Movie), G.I. Joe, James Bond, Batman (in Guinness Book of Videogame Records for having created the first Batman villain outside of the comics), Superman, Dungeons & Dragons, American Tail, Teen Titans, Scooby-Doo (writing a story about the guy who made all of those rubber costumes) and is the grandson of the originator of Buck Rogers. He has a degree in Ancient History from U.C. Berkeley and an MFA from USC. He is also a consultant to the intelligence community.

Don't miss this opportunity to meet Flint at the 2011 BotCon in Pasadena, Calif. for autographs and a very special panel on Saturday, June 4th!

David Kaye updated his Twitter account with the following announcement:

"Will be appearing @BotCon this year. Friday June 3 1 to about 4. Look forward to seeing you there!"

This was then followed by the Botcon Twitter account also tweeting in reference to the first voice actor guest announcement for the event

"Looks like @dkayevo broke the news! David Kaye will be at BotCon 2011 for autographs and a very special panel. Details coming later!"

For those UK'ers and European who can not attend Botcon do not fear as David will be attending this years Auto Assembly so you will have another chance to meet the voice of Megatron and Optimus Prime

BotCon have tweeted that now 75% of Generation Two Ramjets and 50% of Animated Cheetors have now gone.

They have also hinted at another Transformers Animated Beast Warsfigure at BotCon, saying Cheetor will be a must have for anyone who will be BotCon. His Souvenir partner won't look right without him!

Seibertron.com are reporting that the 2011 Tokyo Toy Fair will have more exclusive Transformers toys this year, in the form of Black Transformers United Cybertronian Optimus Prime and Cybertronian Megatron.  These figures are more commonly seen as the War for Cybertron toys.

No source is credited for the report though

This year we managed to invite a special guest to the C.O.N.S. 2011.

Simon Furman, the comicartist of IDW, will do us the honour, to visit the C.O.N.S. 2011, in order to get to know his fans in Germany.

Today we can proudly present you two C.O.N.S. 2011 exclusives. The first one is an exclusive T-shirt which will only be available at the C.O.N.S. itself. It will be printed live on-site, right before your eyes by 2 MEJG Art & Design. Here are the pictures from the front and back:

Another C.O.N.S. 2011 exclusive is a coupling-out of the new CD of the rockband Rampage. This coupling-out will be the sing "Letz go Transform", which will be played live and exclusively on the C.O.N.S. 2011 on the 24th of July. This is a picture detail of the backside of the exclusive CD, because the rest of the cover shall still stay a surprise.

Source: ntf-cons.de

iGearToys have updated their facebook page some in-hand images of this years Botcon 2011 exclusive Wildrider figure.  You can view the mirrored images below.

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A news story which interests me, and I know of at least one other UK Transformers fan who will like this, but Mandarake have listed a book which includes images of what is stated to be all the Generation One Kabaya Kits.

Having spent a lotof money in Mandarake stores, it appears more will be going to them with the publication of this book.

BotCon have confirmed that the BotCon Stunticon set has sold out.

BotCon Primus and Iacon and loose packages are now all sold out!

That's right, it took just a little over 5 days for all of the toy packages to be gone!

If you tried to place an order before today and your order went to our incomplete file, no worries as we have pulled enough sets to cover all of the incompletes. If we have any sets left after we work the incompletes, we will put them back into inventory. We will let you know if this happens, and it won't be for a couple of weeks. There will not be anymore Iacon (non-attending sets).

Also, we will not be keeping a waiting list.

Please note that we are in the middle of GIJoeCon in Florida so we won't be working the incomplete files until after April 9.

We know who you are and we will follow back up with you then. Please be patient.

We still have Protoform packages available.

We look forward to seeing you in Pasadena in a couple of months!

Stay tuned for upcoming guest information!

Brian

Earlier in the week they confirmed that this year also saw the most number of people buying multiple sets, for what they thought was display reasons - but will probably actually be to sell on.

Seibertron.com have an interview with head Auto Assemly organiser Simon Plumbe covering this years edition of the UK's Largest Transformers convention (Auto Assembly 2011) and next years convention (Auto Assembly 2012) which is proving to potentially be huge. 

Read  up on the convention then book your tickets whilst there are still places.

With about 12 hours past since registration for BotCon 2011was opened, BotCon have tweeted that they are over 50% sold out of the Iacon and Primus packages.

They stated that this year they made "more sets than ever", and thus far (to my knowledge) only one leaked BotCon 2011 figure (Deadend) has been seen outside of the BotCon website.