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Date: Saturday, September 30th 2006 9:56pm CDT
Category: Event News
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That's right fellow Seibertronians, the location and approximate date for Botcon '07 has been released here at Botcon, shortly after the awards ceremony.
It pleases us to report that Botcon '07 will be in Providence, RI!
Not only that, it has been announced that the convention will be moved to the Summer for next year. Even one step further, it will be the weekend BEFORE the movie release!
For those wondering what is so special about Providence, it just happens to be the home of Hasbro's Headquarters. There has already been talks of the entire Hasbro staff coming to the convention as well as potential tours of the HQ.
The Seibertron.com will keep you posted with further developments.
Date: Saturday, September 30th 2006 9:49pm CDT
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That's right. The voting is in, the ballots are counted, and we have achieved victory in 2 out of 3 categories for the Website Voting Competition here at BotCon 2006.
An Honorable mention goes to our friends at
TFW2005.com for taking the other category.
The celebration has already started here in downtown Lexington, KY, but we don't want it to stop there! Spread the word fellow Seibertronians as we charge into the next year not only ranked #1 once, but twice!
P.S. Ryan would like to thank everyone of you for making us #1, but he's too busy celebrating ***coughdrinking*** to post. He would also like everyone to know that new galleries will be on the way as soon as he gets home to Chicago. Until then, this is Fender Bender signing off.
Date: Saturday, September 30th 2006 1:30pm CDT
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During the Q&A segement of todays "Hasbro New Product Unveiling", we were given a sample of a few special features including:
Color corrected remastered scenes.
Closed Captioned.
Spanish/French subtitles.
Photo Gallery.
Animated Storyboards.
Side-by-side comparison of the original and remastered. (Hot Rod fishing scene)
Interviews and commentary from Nelson Shin (Director), and Susan Blu (Voice of Arcee) as well as several behind the scenes personalities.
Nelson Shin, Susan Blu and others try to sing the theme song.
MOK (Matrix of Knowledge) which is an turn on and off segment that will display facts and interesting tid bits during the movie.
MANY Easter Eggs.
And Surprisingly, Scramble City will be on the DVD but it will have no audio (Hasbro wasnt able to precure the rights to the japanese voice rights and others). But it will have fan commentary.
And much much more!
Date: Saturday, September 30th 2006 10:43am CDT
Categories: Toy News,
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Posted by: Alex Kingdom |
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It's what you've all been waiting for, Hasbro reveal new never before seen Transformers products live at BotCon 2006!
Tformers.com are reporting live from the event. Read thier report
here.
Summary
- Panel includes: Forest Lee, copyrighter for TFs. He comes up with the character bios on the packaging. Aaron Archer Toy Designer, Greg Lambardo Marketing Director, Eric Sabenhauler Toy Designer.
- Movie Toy line confirmed release date July 4th 2007.
- Two new movie preview figures will be released May 2nd 2007.
- Transformers Cybertron will end this year.
- Transformers Classics line is designed to fill the gaps between end of Cybertron and the beginning of the Movie Toy line. the thought process behind Classics is a continuation to G1, almost a sequel.
- Classics mini-cons. Started with as 2-packs but then switched to 3-packs explaining some unique parings. This was their first time doing beast minicons and it was a success they think.
- It has been requested that Oil Slick be repainted as big daddy. Fireflight was suppposed to be Poweglide, but they couldn't get that name. All the new mini-cons were shown in the cases yesterday at the Hasbro booth.
- Optimus Prime Vs. Megatron DVD Ultimate Battle 2-pack. The new molds for Prime and Megatron were inspired by G1 and G2. The concept behind the DVD is a sort of 'Transformers 101' chronicling Transformers over the years.
- Classics Bumblebee has been repainted as Cliffjumper. He will be in the Hasbro cases later today.
- Classics Jetfire's design is as close as they could get to the classic G1 form. Don decided to use that form for the comic. Hasbro says the jet-pack comes off.
- 20th Anniversary DVD Optimus Prime - They wanted to do something to celebration of the 20th Anniverary Transformer the Movie DVD re-release. Its the same mold as before and no DVD is included.
- Regarding the Trailer Archer said 'Takara has done one now and everything they do Hasbro has access. So you never know?'
- The G1 Soundwave reissue will be Toys 'R' Us exclusive with ravage and laserbeak and will hold both tapes. It will have a unique box and that will be in the display cases later today.
- No Classics Soundwave planned due to the Toy 'R' Us Reissue
- No plans for further G1 Reissues after Soundwave.
- Classic Devestator will be Wal-Mart exclusive. It appears to be an Energon Constructicon Maximus repaint. It will be in the display cases later today.
- Alternators will be ending before the movie. Decepticons Rumble and Ravage will be the last two figures. Rumble has no hands. Both will be displayed later today.
- However the Alternators may return after the movie. They feel the movie will help them broaden the scope for getting real licenses to do more with the line.
- The movie toy line will be a full line. It will be broad and have multiple scales.
- there will be a Titanium 6-inch Fallen and War Within Megatron set, 6-inch G1 Ultra Magnus (new mould) and 3-inch Predaking, War Within Grimlock will also be a Titanium 6-Inch figure.
- No plans for Titaniums larger than 6" and no combiners.
- The Characters chosen for the first wave of Classics were chosen because they wanted to do a broad variety recognisable characters.
- If the Classics line does well and they chose to continue Classics we are likely to see Cosmos, Jazz, Sideswpe and Sunstreaker.
- When asked about the recent Japanese prototype cell phone, camera and game machine figures they gave no comment
- Of the Takara Kiss Players line they said 'They are allowed to do in their market whatever they want but doesn't make sense to Hasbro. Whatever works for them'
- No plans for an animated DVD Classics movie but they said it was a cool idea.
- No plans for other Beast Wars toys right now other than those in Titanium.
- Transformers Heroes cartoon - Cant talk about it. Working title is just a hasbro title. It will be an American based developed show.
- The Cadillac XLR Alternator was something they were looking into but dropped since Altrenators went on hiatus. - It would have been Megatron!
- When asked about the possible Cybertron Traffic light (Signal Lancer) figure they said 'Maybe if they find a home for it'.
- When asked about who had more input in the Movie designs, hasbro or Michael Bay, they answered 'Its a great partnership. Trying to make cool characters that looked good on the screen, but wanted to have some heritage. Its been fun.'
- The G1 Seacons that were rumoured to be released as part of Universe are done and ready but Hasbro are looking for a home for them.
- No plans for other Classics combiners other than Devastator and maybe Seacons. If they do them they would most likly be as part of Classics.
- No plans to release Cybertron Blue Screapmetal.
- The Tan Abrams tank artwork seen online was a fan made experiment by friends of Hasbro outside of company.
- No plans for Fortress Maximus sized figures.
- The voice stand for 20th Anniversary DVD Prime was voiced by a hired 'local guy'. Hasbro wanted Peter Cullen but they had just developed a relationship with Sony so they couldn't get the sound clips. Also they didn't want interfere with Peters work on the new movie.
The panel ended with a clip from the forthcoming movie. Included images of Prime as Truck, an Autobot hood ornament on prime, an Army Scenes, lots of explosions, no scenes showing anything in robot mode.
See all the new Transformers products revealed at BotCon in our
Hasbro's Toy Display Cases Photogallery!
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Date: Saturday, September 30th 2006 9:12am CDT
Categories: Comic Book News,
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Posted by: Alex Kingdom |
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Next on today's BotCon agenda is the IDW Publishing panel. Simon Furman, Don Figueroa, and Chris Ryall will be answering questions on Transformers Comics: Past, Present and Future.
TFormers.com and
Allspark.com covered the event. You can read thier full reports by clicking on the links above.
Summary
- No plans for any Beast Wars spotlights. It will just be G1 for now. However there are more plans for Beast Wars, which will be more than a one shot.
- IDW plan to reprint the Beast Wars covers in a big art book showing all the cover artwork, like they did with the Infiltration cover art book.
- Yes there will be more evolutions series, but mostly likely not until after the movie. They don't want to many different continuities.
- Stormbringer does not tie into the Dreamwave stuff. The Dreamwave material is all tied up in legal stuff and has to be resolved before they can think about finishing it off. That is if it is ever be resolved?
- However IDW will be reprinting the War Within books.
- Nick Roche doing is all the one-shots and Hot Rod’s redesign has been inspired by I Robot.
- They have considered doing a on shot Megatron Origins story.
- Furman will not connect Cyclonus and Scourge back to Unicron.
- The Beast Wars profile series is being written by Ben Yee and Simon Furman. Art by various artists including Don, Guido, Nick Roach and new talent!
- Furman revealed that the Predacons will be appearing in in the IDW comics. However the presence of the Headmasters in the comic books is denied despite Furnam letting it slip yesterday.
- Furman also says we will probably see stories that harken back to the Trasnformers past, like War Within did.
- Artist Robby Musso will be working on the Ultra Magnus oneshot.
- Chris Ryall and Furman are set to do a 4-part prequel for the movie dubbed 'Prime Directive'. Art by Milne, writer TBA.
- Originall Bob Budiansky was not interested in doing a new original Transformers story but after the movie adaption it seems to have wet his appetite. He may take past stories and do a 'Greatest battle' type title.
- Some of the Marvel UK stories will be reprinted in Transformers Generations.
- No denial or confirmation on the Transformers/Justice League crossover rumor.
- IDW are looking to do their own GIJoe/TF crossover, but only if its done right.
- IDW cannot do an Alternators comic book due of licensing restrictions.
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Date: Saturday, September 30th 2006 8:16am CDT
Categories: Cartoon News,
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Posted by: Alex Kingdom |
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Day 3 of BotCon 2006 and first up is the Transformers Creating Cybertron Panel with David McDermott and Aaron Archer. Discussing the reserch and development of recent Transformers Cartoons like Transformers Cybtertron.
TFormers.com and
The Allspark covered the event Live. You can see what Tformers had to report
here and The Allspark
here
Summary
- The Japanese wanted all male characters in Cybertron, but Cartoon Network asked for female characters too.
- Originally there was only going be one key per planet, but Takara wanted force chips/keys for everyone.
- The accents in Cybertron were used because they wanted people to be able to differentiate all the characters from one another.
- Archer blames the death of Megatron in every Transformers series since RID on Takara. In Car robots when they did Devil Gigatron (RID Galvatron) it sold really well. So they repeated that in future series.
- The reason there are so many episodes is that the Japaneese design thier series to air just once. They dont do reruns so they need 52 episodes to fill 52 weeks in a year.
- Archer is over all happy with the way Cybertron turned out but had imaged it to be alot more elaborate. Due to time, animation and such it felt short of his imagination.
- The 'Decepticon' army of monsters that appeared mid-series were purly a Japaneese idea. Archer and McDermott were kind of confused by that to.
- It was Cartoon Network's decision to break the episodes up and have long periods of time between episodes. The reason being they kept starting over so people were brought up to speed.
- McDermitt talked of how one of the things that didn't turn out the way he expected Lio Breaker. Originally he was going to take over Jungle Planet and wouldn't want to leave the planet. They also planed to make it a one off episode but Japanese request they make it a serial
- Archer said they plan to continue the trend of new molds for characters that get upgrades instead of straight repaints.McDermitt claims to be pushing for a figure of the Stoplight guy (Signal Lancer).
- Archer was responsible for Kicker appearing in the end credits of the last episode.
- For the new cartoon, IF they partner with Takara. They will be have to do more serial episodes. If they don't parntner, they would like to go back to a pattern more like the way Beast Wars was done.
- Archer also seemed to be hinting that this new series will be done with fewer charcters and more like Beast Wars.
These next two bits come from
The Allspark.
- Optimus Prime had to do battle in almost every episode, and had to go "super" every time he did so. That was to move the bigger toys from the Japanese shelves.
- The Coby Scrapmetal as seen in the show was actually the original design for the Scrapmetal! However, Hasbro found the head too herioc and redesigned it. But before the new head design was finished Takara had already created the mold. The decision was made to use the head for the exclusive Coby Ramble (the one in the Sonic Convoy giftset).
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Date: Friday, September 29th 2006 8:15pm CDT
Categories: Cartoon News,
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Posted by: Hotrod |
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Among the many intersting panels at BotCon 2006 was the Voicing the Beast Wars Panel. This panel featured Blu Mankuma, Scott McNeil, Richard Newman, and Pauline Newstone. The panel proved to be rather interesting.
TFormers.com and
Allspark.com have posted reported on this, click on the links above tp read the full reports.
Summary
- Mankuma spoke about how enjoyable playing contrasting characters in “War Planets” and “Beast Wars” was. He enjoyed playing such a beautifull character as Tigatron.
- Newman mentioned that the powes that be decided his voice was to reconizablle to do Tankorr.
- McNeil said Beast Wars was his favorite project because of the deep and complex character writing, and "never since" has another North American animated show come close.
- Newman siad he was 'more drawn to the shows weve worked on (Beast Wars/Machines), We don’t really get to see the finished product when were working. Just animated mouths'.
- Newman recalled the recording sessions for Beast Wars/Machines as having the feel of a radio drama - contrasted with the solo studio dub for Cybertron, on which he admits not even knowing all of his co-stars.
- Both said they haven’t been contacted about voicing for the movie.
- All four will be back for another "Voicing the Beast Wars" panel Saturday afternoon
Date: Friday, September 29th 2006 7:57pm CDT
Categories: Cartoon News,
Event News
Posted by: Hotrod |
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Kaijumaster of
TFW2005 has reported an interesting rumor. According to Kaijumaster during the Voice Actors Panel, Scott McNeil revealed that a new Transformers show will be coming soon and Scott and other Beast Wars voice actors will be doing voices for the show the show.
Update:
Our own Ravage Convoy has confirmer the report in this
thread in the
Energon Pub.
Date: Friday, September 29th 2006 7:49pm CDT
Categories: Comic Book News,
Event News,
People News
Posted by: Hotrod |
Credit(s): Allspark.com and TFormers.com
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As we all know BotCon is just not a place to get news about upcoming Transformers toys, but it is also a place where new information about the comics can be found. Both Simon Furman and Don Figueroa participated in the Creating History Panel. They revealed information about upcoming comics and toys! Here are some reports about what was revealed.
Allspark.com and
TFormers.com has posted reports on this click on the links above to read the full reports
Summary
Simon Furman
- There are plans to bring Galvatron into the IDW comic universe but nothing specific. Although he mentioned 'Other dimension stuff' that will appear in the Nightbeat spotlight.
- In the Ultra Magnus Spotlight he wants to see him step over the line a little bit. Possibly more like Grimlock.
-There may be "some Headmasters stuff" in the IDW Universe.
- Furman doesn't want to overuse Grimlock. He was in the Shockwave spotlight and won't show up again. for a while.
- he wants to do a Soundwave Spotlight which we might see more Ratbat in.
- He approached Bludgeon in the IDW series the same way he did before. Don made some design changes to make him more scary.
- Something that happens to one of the human characters in the 1st issue of Escalation which will have big repercussions. However he is aware Transformers is all about the robots.
+ Furman's thoughts on Female Transformers: There has to be a rational for any character he uses. Females never worked for him. Why are there female robots? Until he has a reason why, he won't use them.
- Furman "would love to do more with" Marvels new Death's Head.
- Furman has a love for Marvel comics because he grew up reading them. Working in the Marvel universe is just fabulous.
- Furman's influence would be Stan Lee.
- Furman will be working on some movie-related non-comic projects.
More specifics will be coming from Furman on Sunday.
Don Figueroa
- Don spoke of a reworked, 'less floppy' Titanium War Within Optimus Prime. Possibly as part of a two-pack with a reworked Megatron.
- Don also metioned a new non-repaint Titanium G1 Ultra Magnus toy that will transform without having to remove his armor.
- Don does not own the copywrites ti the Transformers art he does, once submitted to the companies they own it. Sometimes he sells originals which he gets to keep. But he cannot print them and sell them.
- Don Influence: Old school type. Jim Lee stuff, doesn't want to try and compete with other TF artists.
For all your BotCon 2006 news, stay tuned to
Seibertron.com, because the news crew will keep you posted on everthing you need to know!
Date: Friday, September 29th 2006 7:34pm CDT
Categories: Toy News,
Event News,
Company News
Posted by: Hotrod |
Credit(s): Allspark and TFormers.com
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As you already know, BotCon is in full swing already. As you know from viewing
Seibertron.com's Hasbro Toy Displays Photogallery, Hasbro has already showed off a lot of new soon to be release figures. However, there is a lot of news from BotCon Design Panel about future releases and more.
Allspark.com and
TFormers.com have posted reports detailing this information, click on the links above or read the full reports.
Summary
- No confirmation but lots or talk of Masterpiece Starscream's possible release in the US. If released, Hasbro's Starsream will have his original deco and be a different toy to Takaras version.
- Hasbro say Masterpeice Starscream was thier idea that they gave to Takara.
- When asked Hasbro said they would like to see a Masterpiece Grimlock, although there are no plans do make one just yet.
- Alternators is not dead, but it on hiatus. There are no plans for Alternator Hot Rod version of Kiss-Players Rodimus.
- Universe is officially finished but there will be some "unexpected" new Titaniums revealed on Saturday. Anything like Universe they do from now on will probably be in a Classics package.
- Some of the new Titanium to be seen on Saturday will be based om comic book designs, maybe Dreamwave.
- The gold and white Galaxy Force Vector Prime deco was used because Gonzo did an animated model in those colours.
- There is a Cosmo G1 UFO design which could be seen in Classics.
- The Beast Wars 10th Aniversary Optimus Primal and Megatron were designed for the Cybertron line. It was planned to have Cybertron Optimus and Megatron hit with something from the beast planet. However they used the moulds for the BW anniversary series instead.
- Classic Megatron's alt-mode was chosen for it's lack of realism. They chose the 'Nerf maverick' blaster look because it looked 'cool' but not like a real gun. They went for non-metallic colours to avoid any legal problems.
- Hasbro have a list of 8 or so extra Classics figures. Should Classics do well, this nay be released but no designs have been drawn up yet.
- Hasbro said that Arcee is probably on the list for Classics.
- Archer would like to do a Classics Predaking figure but there are no plans as yet.
- Hasbro is working with movie design team on the Moive toy line.
- The fan reaction to the leaked movie images didn't surprise surprise Archer. However, he's not sure if Paramount was prepared for the fan reaction. Hasbro wants fans to voice their opinions about the movie.
- Archer has seen about 20 min of footage from the movie. His honest opinion is he really likes what he has seen so far.
- Archer doesn't think that Transformers have a unique look and wants to push the boundaries. He feels 'the character is the character no matter how you draw it as long as its done with integrity.'
For all your BotCon 2006 news, stay tuned to
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