With Botcon roughly a month away, we finally have an official reveal of the Botcon 2016 V.I.P. voice acting guest. That guest is none other than Judd Neslon, the voice of Hot Rod/Rodimus Prime in the 1986 Transformers Movie. Additionally, he reprised the role of Rodimus in Transformers Animated, providing younger fans a chance to get their Animated Rodimus signed in place of a Generation 1 or Masterpiece version.
Additional details and instructions on how to get your VIP pass for the Judd Nelson experience can be found on Botcon’s website.
Strike Creamsicle
For sure! Thanks for sharing that link.
I kept trying to picture Hot Rod talking during the interview. It sort of worked, but 30 years on his voice is obviously a bit different.
Optronix1087
I think this needs to be front paged as the whole fandom should get to see it.
AzT
Solid share, thanks! Nelson answered lots of good questions with candor. Especially liked his instant "Sure!" in reply to "Would you ever play the role of Rodimus again?"
Optronix1087
Video is up of the panel. Really cool that he is genuinely nice and had lots to contribute about the history of the '86 film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzv6PB_NL9c
moreprimeland
Gonna move this thread to the Judd Nelson thread in the News forum…
Here's a link, maybe they'll have the info you're looking for…
http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/trans…-guest-judd-nelson.html?highlight=Judd+Nelson
Optronix1087
Judd Nelson panel?
Has anyone been to it yet? I have no idea what the schedule is since I'm not attending I'm curious if they're be a write up or video.
turbobluestreak
No I went protoform as it was the cheapest option o get the VIP.
tbs
Ikkstakk
Did you register for a Primus package? If you did, you're getting a boxset of toys you can resell plus an attendee freebie that people are going to want.
turbobluestreak
I've very frustrated with the recent GA Judd Nelson VIP announcement. I haven't preregistered for a Botcon since 2001 and only preregistered this year to get the Judd Nelson VIP package. Now that it’s open to everyone what was my incentive to preregister? I feel like I got screwed.
tbs
allew
Judd Nelson VIP pass now available for General Admission, per the club's email:
2016 BotCon SATURDAY Judd Nelson VIP General Admission Ticket is now available.
For $189***, the Judd Nelson VIP GA PASS includes:
• One (1) Saturday General Admission**
• One (1) item autographed in person by Judd Nelson
• One (1) professional 5×7 photograph with Judd Nelson (Saturday afternoon)
• Exclusive Hot Rod art print
• Exclusive Hot Rod Cloisonné Pin
• First seating at the Judd Nelson Panel*
Please note that there will be no photography permitted during the autograph session.
Your autograph slot will be on Saturday morning 9:00am-11:30am and your photo slot will be Saturday afternoon 12:30pm-3:00pm. This autograph package for General Admission attendees is limited to 200 slots and can be pre-ordered now through March 30th. After that date, you will need to come to late registration and availability is not guaranteed.
*After Registered Guest Package Judd Nelson VIP Pass holders and Golden Ticket Attendees.
**General Admission Ticket ONLY valid on Saturday
***$189 is the GA Pass price. The registered attendee package price is $129.
Visit BotCon and order your Judd Nelson VIP Pass today. Please post this online so that non-club members will know of this GA pass.
See you in Lousiville in a few short weeks!
Brian
Autovolt 127
Look on the bright side.
He'll probably be at TFCon next year anyways.
Shin-Gouki
It's actually sad that my Daughter and I will not be able to go. One of her all time favorite movies is Breakfast Club.
flamepanther
Optionalize the extras, reduce the mandatory cost. Pretty damn simple.
Have you actually been to one of these signings? There are always people managing the line to prevent specifically those kinds of things. Some asks "hey can I get a quick picture?" and an usher leans in and says "no."
You are if you don't pay $130 to get in. If only certain people can get in, then everyone else is barred, de facto. You don't need a sign or an addendum or whatnot. That's silly.
So, at the comic book store event, where there were "only" several hundred people in line, the autographs should have been free? Obviously not. The price is there so that the guest and the event organizers have an incentive to hold the event in the first place. The price might limit attendance as a side effect, but that's an unfortunate side-effect of rewarding guest and host. "Affluent people only" would be abjectly awful as a deliberate means of controlling the event.
No, the mechanism for keeping the event from being overrun is completely different, and it's employed at every autograph signing or meet-and-greet event regardless whether the meeting is free or comes with a pricetag. Every last one. It's called "capping the line." Again, have you been to this type of event before?
Because it inflates the price for those who don't want them, and because the extras would be available for those who want them either way. Running off "limited edition" prints is not terribly costly. You'll find starving fan artists peddling them in booths at every fan convention anywhere. If they can afford it, then FunPub surely can. And when you're selling those prints for $30 or more, it's a fairly safe bet that they'll cover the cost of printing at the very least. You can have 50 8.5×11 glossy prints made for under $30. If even one in 50 attendees buys a print for $30, you made a profit. $100 is a bit steep for an autograph, so FunPub is likely charging quite a bit more than $30 for those prints. This isn't a bargain or a special service. This is along the same lines as when GameStop holds their scarce items (e.g. GameCube WiiU adaptor) hostage unless you buy some other item with them.
How much money do you think you could make back from these extras? Do you suppose it even approaches the amount by which these extras inflate the event price? I, for one, do not. It's highly irregular to even have to guess at that in the first place.
That's my point. Someone made a big deal about how great it is to have a "guarantee" and where else can you get something so awesome? But in reality there's no more guarantee here than anywhere else, so what's the point?
Let me stop you right there. They're already limiting the number of "full package" attendees anyway, so that's not a guarantee until you've successfully paid. There's already the possibility that all the slots will fill up and some poor soul who is able and willing to pay for all this stuff logs on to the website only to have their dreams dashed. The current plan is, at the very best, no better than what I'm suggesting in that regard, as at least there's the (IMO very likely) possibility that all of the "experience" packages won't sell out. What you're doing here is known as the "Nirvana fallacy" or the "perfect solution fallacy". The proposed solution does not completely eliminate the problem, and so should be rejected even if the current reality is worse. The common example is approximately "the proposed law is supposed to reduce crime, but crime will still exist, therefore we should reject the proposed law."
My preferred solution would be to handle this like a normal convention would and sell the extras as extras. My alternative solution was suggested as a compromise. Guess what? Compromise solutions yield imperfect results for either side of the compromise. That's why it's a compromise.
And nobody is suggesting otherwise. Again, every other event of this sort manages to find a balance without resorting to forced bundles. The forced bundling has nothing to do with limiting crowds and everything to do with selling more posters.
At least that much is correct.
Autovolt 127
Judd Nelson was in Ben 10 Omniverse as Ben 10,000 and Eon….granted that's mostly due to DJW who was the character designer and Susan Blu as the voice director.
Still.
Primal Sabbath
Umm… Judd Nelson is still (and has been ever since 1985) actively working in movies and television. So yeah…
Pretty lonely basement to chill in…
Also, flamepanther… After doing a little detective work… As far as the pin, print, etc go… They make up about 5% of the overall price for Judd's appearance. So even dropping those nice extras wouldn't make much of a difference, if any.