TFWorld 2005 have posted a summary from the first Botcon panel

Just got back from the TFCC Panel, highlights below.

2 things for the end of the year, one cover for the magazine involves Derrick Wyatt

Animated Tech Specs – more planned, 5 at the end of year


Shattered Glass Quintesson Aquarius – Space Hippy, faces look like the Beatles
Shatteredverse Computron

2010 still being worked out

4 more Shattered stories

Blitzwing Bop
Transhuman
Ultimate Salvation
Bonus end of year story

Club exclusives announced tomorrow

2010 toy not ready yet but is being worked on, solid idea.

Not making any more Shatteredverse characters for now – definitely not Omega Doom for now.
Movie toys off limits for exclusives.
Got to see what happens with Animated to see if they can use the toys. Not any time soon.

Heatwave – won’t get a lot of screentime in the comic.
Nexus Maximus – a few names didn’t clear legal, one had Nexus, one had Maximus, Hasbro suggested Nexus Maximus. They ran with it. Didn’t Google it. Ooopssss…
One of the 13, no specific alignment, predates the war.

The 13 are unique over all continuities – there is only one per continuity. Unicron stays evil wherever he is.

Story ideas – not usually a problem.
Names – bit trickier to avoid infringing a mark.

Club board software getting an upgrade.
Might get a fan fiction section.

Can’t touch continuity specific characters like Drift or Mikaela.

Will be a collected edition of the year 3-4-5 comics (if Pete can talk Brian into it)

Razorclaw & Elira-1 were done as a way of covering those characters.
Didn’t want to use the Leo Prime head, didn’t know and was glad about it.

Go-Bots 5 pack – other things they’d want to do first that would sell better

Seacons story would have tied up a loose end from the Marvel comic, still hope at some point of doing it as Part 4 (1 – Crossing Over, 2 – Games of Deception, 3 – Cheap Shots, 4 - ???)

Shattered Glass – idea started as a Mirrorverse GI Joe set, threw around idea for a while, didn’t work for Joe but worked for TF


Comics

Diamond edition split cover old Kup to the left, young to the right, pretty fun looking pencils.

Holligan not Sunstorm (fooled me) but Gaihawk was correct

Sweeps planned for 2 years

Skyquake upgraded from UK bio from Super Evil to Super Evil Super Scientist

Continuity not meant to be certain, just an ambiguous continuity, made sense to leave it open. Future plans for the Elite Guard.

Leozak was originally going to speak in Japanese, way more over the top originally. Compromised with an over the top font instead of having him subtitled.

Pete is extremely happy with how the club comic came out. Look forward to the Diamond Edition content.

Landshark – homage to Steve Martin and Chevy Chase. Cow catcher burrows through the earth.

Sharkticon mold – want to use it, hard to fit it in.

ACToys.nets have posted images of a new Botcon 2009 exclusive which is a recoloured Galaxy Force Chromia / Transformers Cybertron Thunderblast into the Generation One character Elita-1.  You can view the images using the link at the start of this story or mirrored below.

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BotCon.com has been updated with the following guest annoucement.

Update 5/04/09 - BotCon is excited to announce Michael McConnohie as our next guest. Michael voiced Tracks and Cosmos and will be joining us on Sunday May 31 for autographs and a panel with Gregg Berger

Also, On Saturday, May 30th, kids ages 5 to 14 will be able to participate in the Official TRANSFORMERS Challenge, which will award prizes based on how quickly kids can convert TRANSFORMERS toys from robot mode to vehicle mode.

TFW2005.com has been informed by Pete Sinclair that Vince DiCola shall be appearing at BotCon 2009.

You can see the thread on TFW2005.com

BotCon.com has been updated with a new video made by Dr Smoov to promote the event.  This time it features some of the original Generation One characters.

Two images have been posted on the free-to-use Chinese auction site Taobao of what appears to be an unannounced Botcon 2009 exclusive recolour of Transformers Galaxy Force LigerJack AKA Transformers Cybertron Leo Breaker.  The toy has been recoloured in Generation One Razorclaws colour scheme and can be been seen below.

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Credit to TFW2005 for the news.

BotCon.com has been updated with images of Tunderclash, the latest BotCon 2009 exclusive figure and a repainted version of Transformer Superlink Rodimus (Transformers Energon Rodimus).

The  toy features a colour scheme based on the European Exclusive leader, who's mold was later used as Transformers Machine Wars Optimus Prime.

The toy looks pretty nice, but you have to fear for the future of the mainly white toy.