The schedule for this year’s Botcon is now online! Click here to check it out at the official Botcon homepage. Some of the key items of interest for attendees are:
Friday 1pm – Script Reading “The Stunti-Con Job”
Saturday 11 am – Hasbro Transformers Toys Panel
Saturday 12 pm – Transformers Prime Cast Script Reading
Saturday 2 pm – Surprise Guest Autograph section – who could they be?
Saturday 4 pm – TFTM 25th Anniversary Voice Actor Panel
Sunday 10 am – The Making of Transformers Prime Panel
Sunday 1 pm – Hasbro Planning and Story Building
All this and much much more on a packed weekend schedule! Check out the full schedule here, and be sure to keep your browsers on TFW2005 all Botcon weekend when we bring you live coverage of the panels and new products on show in the Dealer room!
Update – Botcon has added further information about the content of each panel. The Animated Stunti-Con Job panel also mentions that there will be a surprise guest – could they also be signing autographs the next day? Talk about this new development here.
Mikey246
this being my first and probably last botcon unless it comes to new york, i really hope peter cullen will be there, his autograph would be my holy grail.
Jigga
Looks like the toy design panel is actually on the Sat based on the seminar info released today
Black Oracle
A Prime cast script reading? Holy smokes! I'm weeping that I can't be at Botcon this year now!
Omnus
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Fort Max
So the Hasbro panels are at 11 on the 4th and 1 on the 5th, that's all I really need to know.
x BlackMagnus x
http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-news-rumors/405902-botcon-schedule-announced.html
Peaugh
If it's the Sunday panel I will have a huge sad, since I'll have to be at the airport to catch my flight home during that one. Oh well.
highlander3000
BotCon Schedule is up
BotCon schedule for the weekend is up at The Transformers Collectors' Convention – BotCon 2011!
Jigga
I hope Pete or someone at botcon can clear up the speculation
HighCaptSpock
Well, there were two Hasbro panels last years: Hasbro Marketing was on Saturday and Hasbro Designers was on Sunday. The marketing panel was where they basically talked about toys we had already seen (there were maybe a couple of new ones, but nothing earth shattering), and the designer panel was where we all screamed like little girls at a Justin Bieber concert. I assumed it was the same this year, just with different names. They could have moved the new toy panel to Saturday, but I would be very surprised by that as it is really the highlight of the show (you know, saving the best for last and all that).
Hollywood Hoist
Hate to correct you spock but it looks like the new toy panel is on Saturday at 11:00, it's called 2011 Hasbro toys – Hasbro Brand Team.
HighCaptSpock
Indeed, I noticed that. That surprise autograph session also happens immediately after the Prime script reading.
It's the Sunday Hasbro panel. Given the name change, perhaps we can expect a big, or at least notable, shift in the brand after the third movie ends (smaller toys, fewer toys, less "risk money," etc.). Also, in last year's panel, Aaron Archer took a good chunk of the time to start explaining where they were going with the Original Thirteen, so that's probably what the "Story Building" aspect is.
Chopperface
Awesome! I'd kill to go to that Prime script reading! I hope it's a goody, funny one like Bee in the City 2008.
sh002
astrotrain and omega supreme had awesome voices.
is reposting the schedule here allowed? someone want to do that? i can't highlight copy and paste it or save it.
Swoop Dogg
So jealous of Jack Angel being there. I'm happy for you West Coast fans. When Botcon makes its way back to the Midwest again (if it ever does) we'll probably have a bunch of lame guests compared to this year's guest list.
Jigga
Which day is the Panel where they show future toys? Its my first botcon and I didn't see it on the schedule. I thought it was called the Hasbro Design Panel.
sh002
peter cullen and frank welker please.
x BlackMagnus x
Clicking the link I posted, you will see that both of these, Prime script reading and surprise autographs, happen on Sat.
HighCaptSpock
Hrm, if they are doing a Prime script reading, he would be an incredible surprise member of it. Him, Adam Baldwin, or Jeffery Combs.