I was about to say, I thought it looked like your work. Awesome job, as always!  

 

Ok, I won't do that again in the future. Again I only had good intentions here, I never ment to undermine anyone's authority, offend, or disappoint. On the bright side, I got my first news credit...

 

Glad I grabbed the image when it was up.   I'm going to see if I can "lighten" it when I get home. I don't have the right software @work.  

 

I've no objection to giving such promos to magazines, but to do so without simultaneously making them available to us via the BotCon site (or at least the club site) is a terrible error in judgment, IMHO.

 

To follow up on my other post, if the magazine won't carry it if it's online, then don't use the magazine. It doesn't have the wide circulation that the site does (actual number of hits notwithstanding), and frankly, I still think that to give it to the magazine and not the rest of us is beyond wrong.

 

Indeed. I can't remember any other convention-exclusive toy being featured on the cover of a mainstream toy magazine.

I'd be willing to bet FP didn't give Tomart's anything -- they likely sold them first rights to publishing the image. However, I don't think it would be completely unreasonable for paid club members to have access to the box art on the TFCC site. But enh... we'll all get to see it in 1-1/2 weeks.

 

Bingo. Tomart's has a much, much wider audience that just putting it on Botcon.com. Money and wider publicity will always win out. It's likely they approached FP with an offer to do an exclusive first look. FP isn't going to turn down an offer like that, and they shouldn't. Again, kudos to them for expanding the publicity beyond their own publications.

 

Assuming you're right (I certainly have no reason to think otherwise), it still makes no difference. I consider it the wrong thing to do. The club, not to mention paying BotCon attendees (via the website), should be first.

 

I simply disagree with pretty much every point here in the strongest possible way.

But I guess it's not my call, is it?

(Shakes fist in impotent rage)

 

Well, G.B., it's not like we're gonna cancel our orders if we don't like the boxart, and we will see it at the convention (and even online by that time, so Non-Attendee packages will see it before they get their set), so I don't see this as much of a problem.

Regarding the boxart: GREAT! FANTASTIC! I didn't see it.  

-airfox