Tag: Botcon Exclusives

That toy you didn’t even know you needed: Unit-3

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Jason

Jason (Onyx Minor) has been a contributor of News and Content since 2007.He is a fan of beast modes, multilingualism and Jammie Dodgers.

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I’ll be honest, as the exclusives for the last Botcon were revealed online, I didn’t really feel all that excited about Unit-3. For a guy that loves new and obscure characters, I really can’t explain it. He just didn’t do it for me. Who is Unit-3? Long story short, he’s a character created for this year’s Botcon comic, based off […]

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Transformers Collector’s Club Reveal Next Box Set Figure for BOTCON 2016 as well as Another Guest!

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Tony has been with the allspark since 2001 and a forum moderator since 2011.He's been a fan of Transformer since the mid 80's and is an obsessive troop builder.
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The Transformers Collector’s Club has revealed the second figure in the BOTCON 2016: Dawn of Predacus Box Set… Predacon Secret Police Tarantulas!!! Using the Combiner Wars Rook mold, this figure is inspired by the Transmetal version of Tarantulas and features an amazing new headsculpt. As if this announcement wasn’t big enough, the club also announced their next guest… none other […]

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Barrage of Exciting Auto Assembly 2015 News Including Andrew Wildman Print and Botcon Exclusives

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Galen has been a member of the Allspark staff since 2007, has a background in project management, and leads children's charity fundraising efforts in our fan community.
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Auto Assembly 2015, coming August 21-23 in Birmingham, England, will be the last time this convention is held, but it’s promising to be huge!  In the past couple of days there have been a few big announcements about this event, including an Andrew Wildman exclusive print, and an agreement between Roll Out Roll Call and Transformers Collector’s Club to make […]

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BotCon shows off Custom Class Exclusive Galva-Lio Convoy

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Chris Patrick (Random Items) is a fan of all things vintage and retro, with a particular fondness for 1980s robots, classic video games, and anything that blends those two things.

Chris joined the Allspark community in 2002 and has been a member of the News and Content team since 2014.
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The official BotCon 2015 Twitter has tweeted out an image of the figure for this year’s Custom Class sessions… Galva-Lio Convoy!

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Botcon Reveals Cybertron: Most Wanted Boxset Art

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Galen has been a member of the Allspark staff since 2007, has a background in project management, and leads children's charity fundraising efforts in our fan community.
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The box art for the Botcon 2015 “Cybertron: Most Wanted” Boxset has been revealed.  Read on for the pic and link to the preview page at Botcon.com.  The art features cool old west-style wanted posters for each of the five characters representing “Cybertron: Most Wanted,” spread out on a Security Admin Officer’s desk complete with keys and a beverage leaving […]

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Botcon Discussion Bits, Derrick J. Wyatt as a Guest, and Brochure Insights

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Galen has been a member of the Allspark staff since 2007, has a background in project management, and leads children's charity fundraising efforts in our fan community.
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Our ongoing Botcon megathread is now over 50 pages long, but the last few days have seen a flurry of activity with the brochure going live, Derrick J. Wyatt as a guest, the Oilmaster reveal, pics of a familiar-looking redeco of Roadbuster, and some information shared or clarified from Pete Sinclair of FunPub.  This thread has been ripe with discussion, […]

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Read the “Badlands” Comic Featuring Oilmaster, Botcon’s Pretender Exclusive

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Galen has been a member of the Allspark staff since 2007, has a background in project management, and leads children's charity fundraising efforts in our fan community.
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Following yesterday’s unprecedented reveal of Botcon’s new Pretender exclusive Oilmaster, you may want to take a quick trip into the archives to see the character’s only media appearance in the e-Hobby original comic “Badlands” featuring Magnificus.  Written by Andrew Hall and with art by Hidetsugu Yoshioka, our own Powered Convoy first scanned and posted the comic to the Allspark in […]

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Third BotCon 2015 Boxset Figure Revealed

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Callum somehow managed to avoid Transformers during his actual childhood, but then the live-action films piqued his interest, Animated suckered him in, and IDW's comics made sure he stuck around.
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Fun Publications have uploaded their third video reveal for the BotCon 2015 boxset. Read on to watch the video and discover the figure’s identity!

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Botcon 2014 Souvenirs at Transformers Club Store

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Travis Robinson has been a member of the fan community since 2001 and a member of the Allspark staff since 2002. Originally a fan of Generation 1 he's been a fan of the franchise all the way to Prime. You might notice Travis posting as Wheelimus on the Allspark forums!
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Those who couldn’t make it to Botcon 2014 now have the opportunity to buy some of the exclusive merchandise in the Transformers Club Store. At the time this was posted you could get the lithograph, Kre-O’s, the Clone 2 pack, Pirate 2 pack, AND the Knight 3 pack!

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Unused Exclusives Shown At Botcon 20th Anniversary Retrospective Panel

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Travis Robinson has been a member of the fan community since 2001 and a member of the Allspark staff since 2002. Originally a fan of Generation 1 he's been a fan of the franchise all the way to Prime. You might notice Travis posting as Wheelimus on the Allspark forums!
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Last night those lucky enough to attend the Botcon 20th anniversary retrospective panel were shown numerous past exclusive proposals that were either never used or close to happening but rejected by Hasbro. Sadly for those of us at home there were no pictures allowed but we now bring you a list of all of the toys shown and where available […]

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First Botcon 2014 Display Case Pictures

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Travis

Travis Robinson has been a member of the fan community since 2001 and a member of the Allspark staff since 2002. Originally a fan of Generation 1 he's been a fan of the franchise all the way to Prime. You might notice Travis posting as Wheelimus on the Allspark forums!
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Thanks to our friends at Robot Kingdom we have the first images to come out from the legendary Botcon display cases. Our first big news is several previously unknown multiple figure Age of Extinction boxsets. A two Leader set of Grimlock and Optimus with variant paint applications, a five figure Autobot set featuring a more screen accurate Drift, and ANOTHER […]

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