TFcon Announces 3rd Party Panel

El Duque wrote:Canada's Annual Transformer's Collector's Covention, TFcon, has updated their website with the announcement of a 3rd Party Product Panel. See below for further details or visit their website:

With the growing popularity of 3rd party Transformers related products TFcon announces the first annual 3rd party product panel for TFcon 2011. We have invited major 3rd party product manufacturers to contribute to a panel focusing on new images of upcoming and previously announced collector focused toys. We encourage all 3rd party companies to contact us to be involved in this first ever presentation.

We are very pleased to welcome Transformers voice actor Paul Eiding to TFcon 2011 for the 25th Anniversary of Transformers The Movie and his first ever Canadian convention appearance.

The voice of Generation 1 Perceptor; Mr. Eiding will be taking part in Q&A panel and autograph sessions with the attendees of the Canadian Transformers Collectors Convention.

We are happy to welcome back Transformers comic book artist Alex Milne to TFcon 2011. He will be setup in the TFcon artist alley all weekend long signing and sketching for fans. Alex did the packaging art for our convention exclusive Stronghold this year as well as the art for the comic that will be included in the TFcon 2011 program.

Alex has worked on Transformers Energon #26-29 and 31; G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers: The Art of War #4 and 5; as well as IDW’s Megatron Origin; the Transformers (2007) Official Movie Adaptation; Spotlight: Arcee; The Reign of Starscream; Transformers: Alliance; Revenge of the Fallen Movie Adaptation issue 3; Tales of the Fallen #5 Ravage, #6 Arcee; The Transformers: Drift; and The Transformers (issues 16-18).

TFcon’s expansion to a 2 day convention was made possible through merging with the Canadian 80s Toy Expo on the Sunday of the event. This was necessary due to many dealers completely selling out of merchandise on the Saturday requiring a dealer room restock if a 2nd day was to be added. This year is no different with the Sunday bringing us Canada’s largest dealer room for 80s toy related merchandise consisting of dealers selling Super Heroes (Marvel, DC etc), Star Wars (new and vintage), Transformers (vintage and Japanese imports), G.I. Joe (vintage and modern), Masters of the Universe (vintage and classics), Wrestling, and tons of other Action Figures and collectibles. We will also welcome new guests to the convention on the Sunday.
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TFcon is pleased to welcome back Matt Moylan to the convention this year. He is best known to Transformers fans as the artist behind LilFormers. You can meet him in the TFcon 2011 artist alley all weekend.

We are pleased to reveal the TFcon 2011 exclusive Stronghold. Limited to 700 pieces this is a high-quality upgrade kit that contains a transforming head with ball joints and clear blue eyepiece, two photon rifles, one assault cannon, and a backpack. The backpack features many mounting points so the guns can be configured in many ways. You can preorder this figure via the TFcon 2011 registration page until July 15th. This set is produced by Head Robots and designed for the Universe Onslaught mold (not included) and cross compatible with Generation 1 Headmasters. Click the thumbnail for a better look.

Sunspot wrote:do they ever have these things in vancouver?

deathy wrote:A quick question to some who attend this canada convention.

Does Hasbro/Takara ever show any newer TF toys (test shots/proto types) that they didn't show at botcon's convention in the same year?

I ask because it would be kinda cool/awesome to see never before seen TF toys test )shots/proto types) at both TFCON & SDCC this year.

The TFcon 2011 dealer room has sold out all available tables with just under 3 weeks until the convention. This is a new record for Canada’s largest dealer room for Transformers merchandise. The room will be packed with exhibitors selling Transformers toys from all eras including but not limited to Generation 1, Generation 2, Machine Wars, Beast Wars, Beast Machines, Robots in Disguise, Armada, Energon, Cybertron, Universe, Classics, Animated, Crossovers, Commemorative and Encore Reissues, Alternators and Binaltech, Masterpiece, Titanium, Alternity, Generations, plus Movie toys from all 3 films; Transformers, Revenge of the Fallen and Dark of the Moon and 3rd party companies.

http://www.tfcon.ca/tfcon-2011-dealer-room-sold-out
Canada's Annual Transformers Collectors Convention – July 30th and 31st, 2011 – Delta Meadowvale Resort and Conference Centre – 6750 Mississauga Road, Mississauga, Ontario

This is the last call for questions for the Hasbro Canada Transformers Q and A panel at TFcon 2011! Please post your questions in this thread by end of the day today Wednesday July 13th.

Hasbro will be presenting a new product preview and question panel on upcoming Transformers products and answering your submitted questions. Attendees will also have the chance to talk to Hasbro reps in person, one-on-one as they show off the latest releases for Transformers toys at TFcon.

This is your last opportunity to preregister for TFcon 2011 or book your hotel room in the TFcon block. Online registration closes at 12pm Saturday July 16th, and the cutoff for hotel rooms is Friday July 15th. This includes preordering the TFcon 2011 exclusive Stronghold.

This year's guests include Garry Chalk (Optimus Primal) and Paul Eiding (G1 Perceptor). Also writer Simon Furman, comic artists Joe Ng and Alex Milne, L'il Formers creator Matt Moylan, and Hasbro Canada!

Canada's Annual Transformers Collectors Convention – July 30th and 31st, 2011 – Delta Meadowvale Resort and Conference Centre – 6750 Mississauga Road, Mississauga, Ontario

Links:
Prereg - http://tfcon.eventbrite.com/
Hotel - http://accounts.deltahotels.com/group.h ... 4&type=grp

Thanks to the fine folks at The Perth Mint TFcon 2011 will be giving away Transformers Collectible Coins as first prizes in our costume, 2D art and 3D customs contests this year. Our 1st, 2nd and 3rd place customs contest winners will also go home with custom trophies to commemorate their victories. The other categories will go home with original Transformers comic book art thanks to comic book artist Alex Milne.

The 2nd TFcon 2011 exclusive is Toxin!

When Lord Zarak needed someone to help copy the Headmaster and Transtector technology that Stronghold pioneered, he turned to Toxin. Toxin biggest claim to fame back on Cybertron was the mass cloning process of Reflector which bulked out Megatron‘s army during the early days of the war. He made 3 special clones for himself Edge, Shield and Bullet (Dubbed the NIGHT OPS SFX) as his hired goons to help get him needed “materials” for future experiments.
All was going well for Toxin till he along with Lord Zarak got captured by the Autobots. His personal Transtector body was destroyed in the scuffle and now he hopes to break free and commandeer a new one.

Produced by Head Robots, you can now give your headless G1 figures a much needed upgrade. This figure is limited to only 100 pieces and limited to one per attendee.

El Duque wrote:TFcon has announced it's second convention exclusive, Head Robots Toxin, limited to 100 pieces.

The 2nd TFcon 2011 exclusive is Toxin!

When Lord Zarak needed someone to help copy the Headmaster and Transtector technology that Stronghold pioneered, he turned to Toxin. Toxin biggest claim to fame back on Cybertron was the mass cloning process of Reflector which bulked out Megatron‘s army during the early days of the war. He made 3 special clones for himself Edge, Shield and Bullet (Dubbed the NIGHT OPS SFX) as his hired goons to help get him needed “materials” for future experiments.
All was going well for Toxin till he along with Lord Zarak got captured by the Autobots. His personal Transtector body was destroyed in the scuffle and now he hopes to break free and commandeer a new one.

Produced by Head Robots, you can now give your headless G1 figures a much needed upgrade. This figure is limited to only 100 pieces and limited to one per attendee.

Eclipsica wrote:If I get to this, I wonder if there's any female attendees who might share a room with me?.

Seibertron wrote:Who else is going to TFcon? I'll be there. Thinking about bringing some Seibertron.com t-shirts with me to sell to our Canadian Seibertron.com fans.

TFcon is happy to welcome back Transformers toy designer and artist Marvin Mariano to the 2011 convention. Marvin’s involvement with the Transformers franchise includes concept works and toys designs for the Transformers Crossovers line. Examples of Transformer characters he has worked on are: Obsidian (Beast Machines), Transtech/Armada – Optimus, Megatron, Cheetor, Black Arachnia, Shockwave, and Starscream to name a few. Marvin will be setup in the TFcon artist alley all weekend.

TFcon is happy to welcome back Dan Khanna to the 2011 convention. Having penciled a number of Transformers convention books dating back to 2001, he has worked on everything from statue design for Hard Hero, to Transformers T-Shirts, commemorative plates, pin-ups, and art on many of the Transformers toy boxes for Hasbro. Dan will be setup in the artist alley all weekend sketching and signing for the attendees of TFcon.

TFcon has just announced the 2011 Social Media Contest

Be the only TFcon 2011 attendee to get a PE-11X and Toxin reserved for you AND get in the TFcon dealer room 15 minutes before everyone else with help from your social media friends.

Use your Facebook, Twitter and/or You Tube account to promote TFcon in the most funny, interesting and creative way. Images, captions, and poems are all accepted. Twitter users use the hashtag #TFcon when looking for the most retweets. Facebook users use @TFcon in your status to link to the TFcon Facebook account for the most likes and reshares. You tube users should make a video response to the TFcon 2011 trailer.



The winner will be announced Friday morning via our social networking accounts, you have until
Thursday 11:59 pm EST to enter, multiple entries are encouraged. You can RSVP to the TFcon 2011 Facebook event here, follow us on Twitter and subscribe to us on You Tube.

Amazing replicas of the Transformers Movie 1977 Bumblebee Camaro and Barricade cars will be in attendance at TFcon 2011 for photo opportunities with all attendees.

Send the 1977 Bumblebee Camaro Replica “Beaterbee” to this years Sema Car Show in Las Vegas by voting here.

Join Transformers voice actors Garry Chalk and Paul Eiding at the TFcon 2011 Live Script Auditions and Reading where fans audition for roles in the Live Script Reading with Transformers Voice Actors then perform live in front of everyone in attendance. To get you ready check out the TFcon 2011 live script reading prelude comic below.