BotCon 2016 Registration Now Open

Some reminders/information before you register:

Hello Members!

BotCon Registration is now LIVE for both attending, non-attending and exhibitor packages!

Please go slowly and choose the correct items. If we have to make corrections to your registration, you may incur a $25 admin fee. You have 10 minutes to finish your registration once you begin.

The text is the same as in the Information Tab at BotCon.com. Please review it before you start, if you are uncertain about what package you need.

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You should get a registration confirmation email when you are finished. You will also receive, within 2 business days, a registration approval email once your registration has been reviewed and accepted.

If you are registering for another member at the same time, you will need to have their login and password before you begin.

In addition, if you want more than one boxed set for yourself, just put in the quantity for the registrations you want to process, and put them both in your name. You will only receive ONE name badge at the convention.

See you in Louisville!

Brian

It's open!!! gogogo!

So how long will registration be open approximately for the non attendee set? I can't make it to botcon but I really want the box set and I can't afford it just yet.

See you all there!

Very nice registration process. Extremely smooth and easy. You've outdone yourselves on this one.

It's done! Got me and my Dad the Predacus box set, an assembled custom class figure, and a neat Botcon hat!
And yes, that was very easy.

Bit the bullet and did Golden Ticket. It stung a little, but I'll manage. Actual process was smooth as butter.

steals_your_goats wrote:So how long will registration be open approximately for the non attendee set? I can't make it to botcon but I really want the box set and I can't afford it just yet.

You have from now until either 1) they cut registration off or 2) the non-attendee sets sell out. For 1, I'd wager they'll cut registration off mid-March or so, but that's just a guess. For 2, nobody knows when/if that happens but they're good about giving a heads up on social media when sell through starts to hit high percentages.

Guys, the GT figure is definitely not Diaclone Bombshell, a deco that is not present on the other use(s) of the CW Bombshell mold for the BotCon set.

Let's just agree on that.

Registered. 8348

1 Primus Package and 1 assembled class figure.


Also, some interesting Tweets from the BotCon Twitter:

To clarify on the Golden Ticket figure. It's more than just a minor paint change. The GT Legends figure is cast in different color plastic.

Also, the figure does not tie in to the Convention set theme directly, but it does tie in to the continuity the set takes place in.

Note, the set doesn't take place in the Beast Wars Uprising Universe. Where it DOES take place is quite exciting! Announcement on that soon!

No, the GT toy is NOT a Beast Wars character. It uses the troop builder mold & is tied to a familiar G1 character.

The class kit figure is ALSO not a Beast Wars character. It is a Generation 1 character.

No. But it IS a 1984/1985 Generation 1 character. You definitely should add the class/class kit to ur registration.

I could see Beast Hunters Shockwave or Warrior Class Prime as a pre-Beast Cryotek.

Current club stuff takes place just after the end of G2. Most of this stuff is semi-chronological. So this could be Cryotek hundreds of years before the Beast Wars.

Or maybe they make Cryotek out of Legends Shockwave so Predacus can use him as a gun.

RodimusRex wrote:Current club stuff takes place just after the end of G2.

What "current club stuff"? Last year's magazine story was in the Shatteredverse, last year's BotCon comic was in Axiom Nexus, the pack-in comic that came with the Legacy set was post-Beast Machines, and the latest prose story was also in the Shatteredverse.

maybe we'll get an Onyx Primal with a gold stamp

These Tweets confirm that the troop builder set uses a Legends mold, so now we have:

5 CW molds in the boxed set

1 CW mold as the attendee freebie with a brand new headsculpt

1 CW mold as the custom class figure with an "an alternative head sculpt that is not available at retail", and which is not a BW character but a 1984/1985 G1 character

1 CW Legends class mold as the troop builder souvenir set, which will have an alternate version of itself included with the Golden Ticket package, and the GT version is also not a BW character but is related to a familiar G1 character

1 non-CW "centerpiece" souvenir figure

1 CW mold souvenir figure

1 non-CW mold souvenir figure

Plus, one of the souvenir figures will feature a headsculpt that has not been released in the U.S. before.

Also, the GT figure does not tie in to the Convention set theme directly, but it does tie in to the continuity the set takes place in.

No, the GT toy is NOT a Beast Wars character. It uses the troop builder mold & is tied to a familiar G1 character.

The class kit figure is ALSO not a Beast Wars character. It is a Generation 1 character.

No. But it IS a 1984/1985 Generation 1 character. You definitely should add the class/class kit to ur registration.

Two things - (A) this almost sounds like it is set in G1 verse and (B) why no more love for BW characters for the anniversary?

Sabrblade wrote:These Tweets confirm that the troop builder set uses a Legends mold, so now we have:

5 CW molds in the boxed set

1 CW mold as the attendee freebie with a brand new headsculpt

1 CW mold as the custom class figure with an "an alternative head sculpt that is not available at retail", and which is not a BW character but a 1984/1985 G1 character

1 CW Legends class mold as the troop builder souvenir set, which will have an alternate version of itself included with the Golden Ticket package, and the GT version is also not a BW character but is related to a familiar G1 character

1 non-CW "centerpiece" souvenir figure

1 CW mold souvenir figure

1 non-CW mold souvenir figure

Plus, one of the souvenir figures will feature a headsculpt that has not been released in the U.S. before.

ah but....some G1 characters ALSO appeared in BW(granted deactivated! but still)

Troop Builder? hmmmm...could it be an Insecticon after all as you can troop build those....i s'pose?

so....not a BW character but related to a familiar G1 character? well i guess Onyx Primal's out the window!

Stuartmaximus wrote:Troop Builder? hmmmm...could it be an Insecticon after all as you can troop build those....i s'pose?

Dude, there's always a troop builder set in the BotCon souvenirs. Ever since 2009 they've been a mainstay.

Lucky Logician wrote:

If you register as a Primus package holder, you will receive not just the 5 figure boxed set, but also a FREE additional Deluxe figure.

It doesn't say attendees only. Just Primus package holders. So do non-attendee Primus people get it?

According to the Botcon website:

BONUS FIGURE: Primus Package attendees will receive an extra
surprise convention piece not available with the non-attending package.
This extra piece will not be sold and is our gift to you for making the trip.

So is this convention piece the figure? Or is it some little extra that isn't an actual figure?

You used the term "non-attendee Primus" here, and that's not a thing that exists. Primus packages = attending the show and you get the boxed set, panel/dealer room/club store/Saturday night activity access included. This also includes the noted "Bonus" figure, which is not part of the boxed set.

Iacon package = you can't attend but want the boxed set. They will send you that, along with a certificate of authenticity for the set and the accompaniment comic book. End of story for that one.

ScottyP wrote:You used the term "non-attendee Primus" here, and that's not a thing that exists. Primus packages = attending the show and you get the boxed set, panel/dealer room/club store/Saturday night activity access included. This also includes the noted "Bonus" figure, which is not part of the boxed set.

Iacon package = you can't attend but want the boxed set. They will send you that, along with a certificate of authenticity for the set and the accompaniment comic book. End of story for that one.

Thank you for the reminder. I had forgotten the non-attenddee was named differently.

Sabrblade wrote:

RodimusRex wrote:Current club stuff takes place just after the end of G2.

What "current club stuff"? Last year's magazine story was in the Shatteredverse, last year's BotCon comic was in Axiom Nexus, the pack-in comic that came with the Legacy set was post-Beast Machines, and the latest prose story was also in the Shatteredverse.

Aside from Shattered Glass and far future stuff like Pirates vs. Knights, there has been a core storyline to the Wings Universe since G2 Redux.

G2 Redux, taking place post-Rebirth in a G1 toon-like continuity.
Immediately chronologically followed by Machine Wars, where Jhiaxus invades with the clones.
The last we saw of that universe was that the Sharkticons and Sky-Bite had joined the Predacons, who refused to join the Decepticons when the Pax Cybertonia was signed.
And then in Jhiaxus' lab, stasis pods came online, teasing the rise of Predacus in the year 2016 as the Predacons (who at this point are predominantly not animal transformers) prepare for war with the now allied post-G2, post-MW Autobots and Decepticons.

The story does detour into universes and times but the G2 Redux story has been continuous in that we're seeing all the major events more or less in sequence. It's present day in a world where Optimus Prime died in 2005 and the Autobots awoke in 1984.

G2, Machine Wars, and Rise of the Predacus are three consecutive "present day" stories which are setting up the Beast Wars from the perspective of a very late G1 toon inspired continuity.

Incidentally, I could see the Japanese shuttle Blast-Off getting redecoed as a non-beast Skybyte and would not be surprised to see Sideways and other characters like that because the heavy implication seems to be that the Predacus counsil and the Beast Wars Predacons were working for Unicron. (Something about how the Predacus Council seemed to be planted there?)

And that's where all the lines seem to be headed. Devastation hints at Unicron coming. The toyline right now is a trilogy that's going from Titans to city mode combiners and lots of late G1 characters to ??? -- But my money there is on a new Unicron. The comics stuff seems like it could go that direction. All the lines seem to me to be pointing towards Unicron being a focus of the brand in 2017 or so and I think they're leaning towards pinning the dawn of the Beast Wars on Unicron in the club fiction.

I just registered and got the Primus Package and figure customizing class for Thursday. This is my first Botcon ever and I cannot describe how excited I am!! I cannot wait for the Hasbro reveals and I especially cannot wait to get toys! So does anyone have a ballpark estimate as to how much money I will need for Souvenir toys? If I want to get all of them?