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News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Tue May 01, 2012 10:43 am

Cool stuff, but I'm not paying 100 for Shafter. If someone who's going wants to help me out, I'd be more than happy to compensate them.

by **gothsaurus** » Tue May 01, 2012 10:47 am

Same here. If someone is up for picking one up, glad to compensate a bit. Drop me a private message, please! :grin:

by **gothsaurus** » Tue May 01, 2012 10:48 am

awesome that there's a custom class. Sounds like a blast!

News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Mon May 14, 2012 1:08 pm

TFcon has announced special guest Bob Budiansky!

We are honored to welcome Transformers creator Bob Budiansky to TFcon 2012 for his first ever Canadian appearance. Mr. Budiansky is responsible for much of the writing of the original Marvel Transformers comic, and conceived the names of most of the original Transformers including Megatron. He also wrote the vast majority of the descriptive tech spec biographies printed on the Transformers toy packages that Hasbro produced in the 1980s, giving each character it’s own unique personality.

Mr. Budiansky will be taking part in a Q&A panel and autograph session with the attendees of the Canadian Transformers Collectors Convention.

by **gothsaurus** » Mon May 14, 2012 1:28 pm

At first, I was reluctant to give credit to Bob... knowing he wrote some of the sillier comics through TF history (but given, that was comics in the 80s, which were altogether different).

But when I found out he wrote the original bios and tech specs, plus noted some of the other great comics he wrote... I had to rethink my opinion. Bob made some of the most important influences shaping the franchise and characters we love, and he's a SUPER nice guy at the conventions. I'm always glad to see him coming out, and have to give the man his due, now.

News Credits: 273 · by **Delicon** » Mon May 21, 2012 2:17 pm

Canada's annual Transformers Convention, TFcon, has updated their website with images of this year's convention exclusive figure, Shafter.

Shafter is a redeco of iGear's Rager.

Thanks to Seibertron.com member Daimchoc for the tip.

News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Mon May 28, 2012 1:44 pm

Canada's annual Transformers convention, TFcon, have announced special guest Silas Zee:

TFcon is happy to announce the addition of Silas Zee to the TFcon 2012 guest list. Making his first Canadian convention appearance, he is known in the fandom for his My Little Transformer videos and his artwork under the screen name of shibamura_prime. Silas has also lent his unique style to the box art of the TFcon 2012 exclusive Shafter. He will be selling prints and offering commissions to attendees all weekend long.

by **MGrotusque** » Mon May 28, 2012 4:39 pm

kirbenvost wrote:Too bad it's always in Ontario. It costs more to fly there from Vancouver than it does to almost anywhere in the US.

Tell me about it. It's actually cheaper to fly to England from Vancouver than it is to Ontario. So annoying. I'd really like to go to this TFCon.
The convention centre in Vancouver would be the perfect spot for it. The FanFare convention did really well. It was the first event of it's kind here in Van so i hope the convention centre gets on somebodies radar to maybe have a TFCon here.

News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 2:39 pm

Amazing replicas of the Transformers Movie 1977 Bumblebee Camaro and Barricade cars will be in attendance at TFcon 2012 for photo opportunities with all attendees.

For those of you that will be in attendance on the Sunday watch for a special appearance by another pop culture vehicle as well.

by **Rated X** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 10:47 pm

Nice. The cars that should have been at Botcon.

News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Mon Jun 11, 2012 3:25 pm

TFcon has announced special guest for this year's event, voice actor Neil Ross!

We are very pleased to welcome Transformers voice actor Neil Ross to TFcon 2012 for his first ever Canadian convention appearance.

The voice of several characters in the Transformers Generation 1 series including Bonecrusher, Crosshairs, Hook, Pointblank, Sixshot, Slag and Springer; Mr. Ross will be taking part in Q&A panel and autograph sessions with the attendees of the Canadian Transformers Collectors Convention.

News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 2:45 pm

TFCon has announced another special guest for this year's event, artist Alex Milne.

TFcon is please to announce the return of Alex Milne to the TFcon guest list. Alex is the artist on IDW’s current Transformers: More than Meets the Eye comic book, and has also worked on Megatron Origins, the Transformers (2007) Official Movie Adaptation, Spotlight: Arcee, The Reign of Starscream, Transformers: Alliance, Transformers: Drift, various issues of The Transformers and many more. He will be selling prints and offering commissions to attendees all weekend long.

News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 10:57 pm

TFcon has announced a new addition to this year's convention, the Transformers Fan-Made Media Panel.

TFcon is pleased to announce the addition of a Transformers Fan-Made Media Panel this year to our programming. Hosted by Chris Ho (Vangelus) and Ben Dolle (Peaugh) they will discuss media-making within the Transformers fandom, and how you can do it too!

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News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Mon Jun 25, 2012 2:31 pm

TFcon has announced their latest special guest, artist Matt Moylan:

TFcon is pleased to welcome back Matt Moylan to the convention this year. He is best known to Transformers fans as the man behind LilFormers. You can meet him in the TFcon 2012 artist alley all weekend long.

News Credits: 14 · by **robotmel** » Mon Jun 25, 2012 3:09 pm

El Duque wrote:TFcon has announced their latest special guest, artist Matt Moylan:

TFcon is pleased to welcome back Matt Moylan to the convention this year. He is best known to Transformers fans as the man behind LilFormers. You can meet him in the TFcon 2012 artist alley all weekend long.

Matt Moylan ROCKS!!!!
I would love to be able to make it to an American Transformers convention but it would have to be in New York maybe just so the missus can do 'Sex & The City' and 'Friends' tours!! LOL!!

News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 9:52 pm

TFcon has added artist Andrew Griffith to their growing list of special guests!

TFcon is pleased to announce the addition of Andrew Griffith to the 2012 guest list. Andrew is the artist on IDW’s current Transformers: Robots in Disguise comic book and is one of the fans who was discovered through IDW’s comic cover contest. He will be selling prints and offering commissions to attendees all weekend long.

News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Fri Jul 06, 2012 2:45 pm

TFcon has added Transformers Animated mastermind Derrick J. Wyatt to their growing list of special guests!

TFcon is very pleased to be able to welcome back Derrick J. Wyatt to TFcon this year. The Art Director/Lead Character Designer for Transformers Animated, Derrick will be taking part in a Q&A panel and autograph sessions.

News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Sun Jul 08, 2012 10:50 pm

TFcon update:

Due to the sale of 3rd party figures at TFcon the Hasbro New Product Preview and Q/A has been pulled from our programming. Hasbro Canada is still scheduled to attend TFcon 2012 and will have a product display and interact with the fans. We at TFcon apologize for any inconvenience and thank Hasbro Canada for all their help over the years. You can find below the official statement from Hasbro’s Corporate Communications team:

“Although it was communicated by TFcon that Hasbro would host a panel at TFcon this year, Hasbro will unfortunately not be able to participate in a panel. However, we continue to look forward to meeting fans on the convention floor on Saturday.”

News Credits: 12 · by **robofreak** » Sun Jul 08, 2012 10:57 pm

I totally understand the view on 3rd party products, but taking down the new product preview over it? Really?

I bet it's cause all the reveals will be at SDCC.

News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Sun Jul 08, 2012 11:04 pm

I don't think they do any new product reveals there anyway.

News Credits: 1 · by **Gauntlet101010** » Sun Jul 08, 2012 11:16 pm

Lame, but I don't feel like I'm actually missing out on anything. It's not like TFcon has exclucive first reveals and the panel is usually pretty common sense.