Change to Hasbro Canada involvement in TFcon 2012

Sunday, July 8th, 2012 10:51PM CDT

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TFcon update, Hasbro Canada's Product Preview and Q/A has been pulled from the schedule, statement below:

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.”

Credit(s): TFcon

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Re: Change to Hasbro Canada involvement in TFcon 2012 (1398417)
Posted by robofreak on July 8th, 2012 @ 10:57pm CDT

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.

Re: Change to Hasbro Canada involvement in TFcon 2012 (1398420)
Posted by El Duque on July 8th, 2012 @ 11:04pm CDT

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

Re: Change to Hasbro Canada involvement in TFcon 2012 (1398425)
Posted by Gauntlet101010 on July 8th, 2012 @ 11:16pm CDT

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.

Re: Change to Hasbro Canada involvement in TFcon 2012 (1398426)
Posted by Mkall on July 8th, 2012 @ 11:21pm CDT

I gotta say I kind of expected this, though with SDCC only a week away, I think we'll do ok.

Re: Change to Hasbro Canada involvement in TFcon 2012 (1398427)
Posted by Rated X on July 8th, 2012 @ 11:21pm CDT

What a bunch of little b**ches. Much respect to TFcon staff for keeping it real.

Re: Change to Hasbro Canada involvement in TFcon 2012 (1398488)
Posted by metaphorge on July 9th, 2012 @ 6:38am CDT

Yay blackmail!

Re: Change to Hasbro Canada involvement in TFcon 2012 (1398504)
Posted by GuyIncognito on July 9th, 2012 @ 7:42am CDT

"If you don't play by our rules, we're taking our ball and going home!" [-(

Lame. BOOOOOOO!

Re: Change to Hasbro Canada involvement in TFcon 2012 (1398738)
Posted by Matrix_Holder on July 9th, 2012 @ 6:33pm CDT

GuyIncognito wrote:"If you don't play by our rules, we're taking our ball and going home!"

Lame. BOOOOOOO!

Hey look Hasbro, we got a new ball. It's the updated ball we were asking you for all these years but this one is made by a another company and we paid 10 times as much.... but we love it soooooo much, do we even need you anymore? :DANCE:

Re: Change to Hasbro Canada involvement in TFcon 2012 (1398741)
Posted by triKlops on July 9th, 2012 @ 6:41pm CDT

no surprise; especially after Botcon
we'll see what happens with SDCC reveals

Re: Change to Hasbro Canada involvement in TFcon 2012 (1398793)
Posted by Rated X on July 9th, 2012 @ 9:16pm CDT

Matrix_Holder wrote:
GuyIncognito wrote:"If you don't play by our rules, we're taking our ball and going home!"

Lame. BOOOOOOO!

Hey look Hasbro, we got a new ball. It's the updated ball we were asking you for all these years but this one is made by a another company and we paid 10 times as much.... but we love it soooooo much, do we even need you anymore?

Re: Change to Hasbro Canada involvement in TFcon 2012 (1401760)
Posted by El Duque on July 17th, 2012 @ 8:05pm CDT

TFcon has announced their latest special guest IDW publishing colorist Josh Perez.

Our final round of guest announcements has begun. We are thrilled to have IDW publishing colorist Josh Perez finally join us at TFcon 2012. He will be setup all weekend and offering prints and commissions to attendees all weekend long.

Re: Change to Hasbro Canada involvement in TFcon 2012 (1402221)
Posted by El Duque on July 19th, 2012 @ 12:16am CDT

Couple of quick TFcon 2012 updates:

First, a tentative schedule of events has been posted and can be found by clicking here.

Second, site sponsor TFsource have announced via their facebook page that they will be attending this year's event!

TFsource wrote:Big news: TFsource will be at TFCON 2012! Yes we will be at TFCon celebrating the 10th anniversary of Canada's Annual Transformers convention! We will have a full assortment of product, to learn more about TFcon visit the official website here: http://www.tfcon.ca/ we look forward to seeing everyone there!

Re: Change to Hasbro Canada involvement in TFcon 2012 (1402741)
Posted by El Duque on July 20th, 2012 @ 3:53pm CDT

Our friend Jim Sorenson will be attending TFcon 2012 and hosting a Q&A panel covering his upcoming book Transfomers Legacy: The Box Art of Transformers.

We are pleased to announce that author Jim Sorenson will join us at TFcon 2012. Co-producer of the upcoming Legacy: The Box Art of The Transformers from IDW, he also worked on Transformers: The Ark and The AllSpark Almanac. At TFcon he will be hosting the Transformers Legacy panel and Q&A.

Re: Change to Hasbro Canada involvement in TFcon 2012 (1403153)
Posted by El Duque on July 22nd, 2012 @ 10:21am CDT

TFcon has announce yet another guest for this year's event, artist Dan Khanna:

TFcon is pleased to announce the return of artist Dan Khanna to the 2012 guest list. He will be selling prints and offering commissions to attendees all weekend long.

Re: Change to Hasbro Canada involvement in TFcon 2012 (1403303)
Posted by FracturedKoi on July 22nd, 2012 @ 10:04pm CDT

Met Dan at Savcon, he's a really nice guy! Got him to draw Shockwave for me on the cover of Regeneration One. I'm proud of that one >=D

Re: Change to Hasbro Canada involvement in TFcon 2012 (1403714)
Posted by El Duque on July 24th, 2012 @ 9:17am CDT

TFcon has announce their final special guest for this year's event, Transformers Voice Director Wally Burr.

Our final guest announcement has been revealed: Wally Burr the man that cast Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime, Frank Welker as Megatron as well as Neil Ross in his roles; directed 98 episodes of Transformers Generation 1 and the 1986 Animated Movie will join us this weekend at TFcon. He will join Neil Ross on stage for the G1 Q&A panel and will be judging the live script reading.

Re: Change to Hasbro Canada involvement in TFcon 2012 (1403731)
Posted by Mkall on July 24th, 2012 @ 10:13am CDT

Man, I've always wanted to see Burr in a panel. Now I wish I could've made it to TFCon this year.

Re: Change to Hasbro Canada involvement in TFcon 2012 (1404236)
Posted by El Duque on July 25th, 2012 @ 10:02pm CDT

The latest update for TFcon 2012:

Join Transformers voice actors Scott McNeil and Neil Ross at the TFcon 2012 Live Script Auditions and Reading where fans audition for roles in the Live Script Reading judged by Transformers voice director Wally Burr then perform live in front of everyone in attendance with Transformers Voice Actors. To get you ready check out the TFcon 2012 live script reading prelude comic below.