David Kaye (Beast Wars Megatron) in Amsterdam!

One Excellent Night in Amsterdam
By Raymond T.

For the second time in as many years a name from Transformers history graced the streets of Amsterdam. June 4th 2006, Amsterdam had the voice of Beast Wars, Beast Machines, Armada, Energon and Cybertron Transformers Megatron in its midst. David Kaye was ready to make the streets unsave.

After last year's succes with voice actor to RiD's Optimus Prime, Neil Kaplan, Hans and myself decided to try and pull it off one more time. Thanks to the UK convention of the Auto Assembly, the opportunity arose to ask David Kaye for a visit to our fair little country. Unfortunately, due to some unforseen circumstances, the confirmation of this event didn't come about until very late in the preparations. So the response of people actually able to go turned out to be a bit less than we had hoped, but that didn't suppress our fun.

Getting David Kaye after Neil Kaplan last year last year was a logical step. What else do you follow Optimus Prime with, then Megatron. David kaye turned out to be a very cool person to meet. He was only in Amsterdam for one night. He arrived the day of our meeting and would be returning the next day. We had arranged for him to visit the Van Gogh museum in the afternoon, while hans and I made the final preparations for the evening.

Basically we wanted it to be like last time, but fate dealt us other cards. Amsterdam is a ancient city. For anyone not familiar with the city, it layout can be rather confusing...

"BotCon, OTFCC, AutoAssembly,... All those conventions are fun to do! But this!!! This is the BEST convention in the world!" David told us as we walked along the banks of the Amsterdam canals...

It didn't exactly go according to the planning. But we all enjoyed ourselves extremely well...