BotCon 2012 Artist Alley Update: Casey Coller & Matt Frank

BeastProwl wrote:Is he going to be handing out pictures of BLUE-ticus?

Sabrblade wrote:

BeastProwl wrote:Is he going to be handing out pictures of BLUE-ticus?

BotCon wrote:NOTE: The following procedure applies ONLY to Peter Cullen!

Mr. Cullen is very limited in the number of autographs that he can sign at any show. We are very fortunate that he will be attending BotCon this year. In order to be as fair to every fan at the show as possible, and to help you maximize your BotCon experience by not waiting in a very long line for Mr. Cullen, we will be instituting a random drawing for his autograph line. This is how the procedure will go:

1. Mr. Cullen will be signing 125 autographs.

2. Each person who is a registered guest at BotCon will have one entry in the autograph drawing. You do not need to do anything as we have entered your name into a database that will randomly pick the attendees that are eligible for Mr. Cullen's autograph.

3. General Admission attendees who purchase an autograph band will also be put into the drawing, provided that they purchase their autograph band before 11:00 AM, Saturday April 28, 2012.

4. After the list is generated (around noon) we will post it online at BotCon.com, tweet that it is posted and have a printed copy posted on the room-to-room trading board.

5. If your name is on the list, you will need to go to the info booth and receive your autograph ticket.

6. Names will be listed by last name, first name, city, postal code and country to avoid any confusion.

7. At 1:30 PM the line will start for Mr. Cullen's autograph. There is no reason to line up early, as Mr. Cullen will sign for each person in the line.

8. You will be allowed ONE item to sign, please have it out and ready to go when you get to the front of the line.

9. Please move along as fast as you can so that we can get everyone through the line in the allotted time. You can have a friend take your picture during the autograph signing but there will not be time to pose with Mr. Cullen.

10. These tickets are NOT transferrable. We will recheck the names drawn when you get to the front of the autograph line in order to audit that you were chosen in the drawing.

BotCon wrote:10. These tickets are NOT transferrable. We will recheck the names drawn when you get to the front of the autograph line in order to audit that you were chosen in the drawing.

Hufferbee7 wrote:The lottery idea for Peter Cullen is a JOKE! If people REALLY want an autograph let them sit in line for hours waiting...there is always a POSTED cutoff number. If you want to meet him/get an autograph be willing to sit. Yes, it may take hours of waiting, but it you REALLY want it then you will WAIT. This is going to cause more issues then before. People who don’t want to meet him/get an autograph are taking away from people that do because it is nontransferable. I am about done with Botcon, and think smaller conventions is where it is at. Plus if you got a "Golden Ticket," for the $300 extra that should make a person a little higher up then a walk in off the street. It is all about money, and not the collector anymore...it is a real shame.

cannonfodder4000 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

BeastProwl wrote:Is he going to be handing out pictures of BLUE-ticus?

Wait is that from Headmasters? and here I thought it wasn't as prone to animation errors as the original cartoon!

camzilla51 wrote:This goes against everything he ever stood for. Peter Cullen is a very humble person, as those of us lucky enough to have met him before have seen, and they're celebretizing him! As if he was a hot topic in sleezy tabloid news. I don't like the hype, and I don't like the lack of explanation. Give us a chance to sit down and bond with this precious man. We promise, we pudgy, slimy, pimpley, nerdy, rejects of society won't bite!

How disrespectful.

Counterpunch wrote:The lottery is the best way to go.

Fans have not been very well behaved over the Peter Cullen autograph line in the past two years and there are far too many people who line up. The guy would be there for six hours signing stuff.

The lottery really is the most fair way to go about this now.

Cosplayers! Gonna be at BotCon2012? Make sure you go all out cause the best costume as decided by FP staff will get cover shoot 4 Issue 45! The three BEST costumes, as judged throughout the weekend, will be announced via Twitter pic by Sunday at Noon, with the winning costume announced at the 2PM Cosplay panel on Sunday! We'll need some help on deciding the winner, so make sure to comment on the pics when we tweet them out at noon Sunday!

Delicon wrote:Perhaps a good compromise which would maximize the ability for fans to get autographs who truly wanted them would be to allow anyone whose name was drawn to "opt out" of their chance so new names could be chosen. Some of us have met Peter before and would be more than willing to step aside and let our fellow fans get the same chance we had.

BotCon wrote:Be sure to check out these two amazing artists, both of whom will be attending BotCon 2012... Livio Ramondelli and Dan Khanna!

Livio has worked on various Transformers titles for IDW, including "Transformers: Autocracy". Dan Khanna has worked on different Transformers projects for several companies for well over a decade and is the artist behind the "Transformers: Invasion" comic offered this year at BotCon 2012.

Be sure to visit both Livio and Dan at the BotCon 2012 Artist Alley!

Seibertron wrote:The thumbnail you selected for the news story reminded me that we need a Hauler repaint of RTS Solar Storm Grappel.

• Simon Furman
• Ken Christiansen
• David Willis
• Silas Zee
• Tyla Sprouse
• Donna Kunz

Rounding out our Artists Alley is six more incredible artists/creators! Each will be avaialble throughout the weekend selling some amazing art work and other great items at BotCon 2012!

Be sure to stop by and see Ken Christiansen, David Willis (of Shortpacked/Recordicons fame), Silas Zee, Tyla Sprouse, Donna Kunz (Puggleformers!) and Simon Furman! You read that last one right, as Simon will be on hand in the Artist Alley selling copies of the following scripts:

*Transformers: War Within -- Age of Wrath #4 (unpublished)
*Transformers: War Within -- Age of Wrath #5 (unpublished), including a bonus FREE outline of issue #6 *Transformers Beast Wars #1 (Dreamwave/unpublished) *Transformers #80 (Marvel US, 1991)

Make sure you take the time to visit every one of the great artists that will be at BotCon 2012!