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TFcon 2012 Special Guest: Bob Budiansky

Transformers News: TFcon 2012 Special Guest: Bob Budiansky

Monday, May 14th, 2012 1:08PM CDT

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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.


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Re: TFcon 2012 Special Guest: Bob Budiansky (1379776)
Posted by gothsaurus on May 14th, 2012 @ 1:28pm CDT
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.
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Posted by Delicon on May 21st, 2012 @ 2:17pm CDT
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.

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Thanks to Seibertron.com member Daimchoc for the tip.
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Posted by El Duque on May 28th, 2012 @ 1:44pm CDT
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.


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Re: TFcon 2012 Special Guest: Bob Budiansky (1384686)
Posted by MGrotusque on May 28th, 2012 @ 4:39pm CDT
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. :roll:


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.
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Posted by El Duque on June 4th, 2012 @ 2:39pm CDT
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.


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Re: TFcon 2012 Special Guest: Bob Budiansky (1387061)
Posted by Rated X on June 4th, 2012 @ 10:47pm CDT
Nice. The cars that should have been at Botcon.
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Posted by El Duque on June 11th, 2012 @ 3:25pm CDT
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.


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Posted by El Duque on June 15th, 2012 @ 2:45pm CDT
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.


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Posted by El Duque on June 19th, 2012 @ 10:57pm CDT
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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Posted by El Duque on June 25th, 2012 @ 2:31pm CDT
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.


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Re: TFcon 2012 Special Guest: Bob Budiansky (1393924)
Posted by robotmel on June 25th, 2012 @ 3:09pm CDT
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!! ;)
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Posted by El Duque on June 28th, 2012 @ 9:52pm CDT
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.


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Posted by El Duque on July 6th, 2012 @ 2:45pm CDT
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.


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Posted by El Duque on July 8th, 2012 @ 10:50pm CDT
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.”


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Re: TFcon 2012 Special Guest: Bob Budiansky (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: TFcon 2012 Special Guest: Bob Budiansky (1398420)
Posted by El Duque on July 8th, 2012 @ 11:04pm CDT
I don't think they do any new product reveals there anyway.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Posted by metaphorge on July 9th, 2012 @ 6:38am CDT
Yay blackmail!
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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: TFcon 2012 Special Guest: Bob Budiansky (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: TFcon 2012 Special Guest: Bob Budiansky (1398741)
Posted by triKlops on July 9th, 2012 @ 6:41pm CDT
no surprise; especially after Botcon
we'll see what happens with SDCC reveals
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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? :DANCE:


:APPLAUSE: :APPLAUSE: :APPLAUSE:
Re: TFcon 2012 Special Guest: Bob Budiansky (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.


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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!



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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.


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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.


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Re: TFcon 2012 Special Guest: Bob Budiansky (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
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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.


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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.
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Posted by El Duque on July 25th, 2012 @ 10:02pm CDT
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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.



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Re: TFcon 2012 Special Guest: Bob Budiansky (1404245)
Posted by Godzillabot Primal on July 25th, 2012 @ 10:38pm CDT
o.O .........................SO MUCH WIN!!!!!!! :DANCE:
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Posted by Sabrblade on July 25th, 2012 @ 10:50pm CDT
So glad this is unofficial and not canon.
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Posted by Fires_Of_Inferno on July 25th, 2012 @ 11:04pm CDT
Haw! That's horribly AWESOME! XD Wish I could be there.
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Posted by Sunstar on July 26th, 2012 @ 10:13pm CDT
I'm going. Spending the weekend :3 Heading out tomorrow to get there asap.

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