TFcon is happy to welcome Jon Bailey to TFcon Chicago 2016. Known as the epic voice of Screen Junkies’ Honest Trailers, the long time Transformers fan can now be seen as Optimus Prime in Machinima’s Transformers: Combiner Wars animated web series. Jon will be taking part in a Q&A panel and meeting with the attendees of the America’s largest fan-run Transformers convention all weekend long.
TFcon Chicago 2016 will take place October 21-23, 2016 at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare with special guests MICHAEL BELL the voices of G1 Prowl, Sideswipe and Swoop, GREGG BERGER the voice of G1 Grimlock, GARRY CHALK the voice of Optimus Primal, RICHARD NEWMAN the voice of Rhinox, Transformers creator BOB BUDIANSKY and Transformers Comic Book artists Alex Milne, Sara Pitre-Durocher and Brandan Cahill with many more to be announced. Online registration for TFcon Chicago 2016 tickets is live and the TFcon Chicago 2016 hotel block is still available.
Autovolt 127
Well that's cool.
Even if CW wasn't that great of a show, I'm pretty sure most of the VA's at least enjoyed it.
Jason Marnocha was legit great as Megatron IMO. It helps Megatron was one of the few great things in the show.
CapnScumbone
Maybe he can share what it was like to help build up expectations and then completely shit on and ruin a fan-favorite character. Maybe he can share the address of the writers responsible for the flailing hedgerow of stupidity that was the last two episodes.
CapnScumbone
Fucking zing.
TCJJ
Good for them. I hope the two people who meet the voice actors behind such a God-awful show enjoy themselves. Is Miss Denial, voice actor of Maxima, attending too? She can tell everyone how deep a character Maxima is and how she hopes to reprise her role and… oh wait a minute, never mind.
Ben Pronsky and Patrick Seitz are the only two voice actors in Combiner Wars that are any good, but the direction in Combiner Wars is so bad that it doesn't even matter. I'd rather watch the proper shows they're in where they do actually decent work. I could listen to Patrick Seitz as Franky all day, but Devastator barely talked, and that's probably for the better.
G1Prowl
IMDB was enlightening. Didn't realize Seitz was Silverbot in WFC.
SeanTF1967
Well, Patrick Seitz and Ben Pronsky have voiced in other series'. Jon Bailey is a professional voice actor.
G1Prowl
So a quick wikipedia search for the voice of Starscream turns up a mafioso. How many of the VAs from CW voiced anything legitimate? And before it starts, no, youtube commentaries don't count.
primalxconvoy
THIS.
Heck, even Sony has distanced itself from No Man's Sky…
Coffee
Now people can meet the man behind the high-pitched screaming/crying/laughing? of a big purple cloud.
But really I actually somewhat liked his voice in the episodes leading up to ^. It wasn\'t over the top, but still sounded like Starscream.
GizmoTron
They deserve some recognition, they were all very good, I wouldn't mind them voicing those characters again in a longer series.
usernamedustin
Won't it be distracting with him just screaming all the time?
UltraAlanMagnus
Aww Yeah Friezascream!
Super_Megatron
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Bass X0
The only fans associated with the Combiner Wars cartoon are those that blow away black holes.
And what is there to be proud of here? Bailey and Marnocha may be decent voice actors for a low-budget production like this, but for all the good they've done is ruined by everything else in the show. I thought episodes 3 to 6 were getting better with each new episode after a lacklustre first two episodes but then the writers went full on stupid when they wrote episode 7. Its common for good actors to appear in bad productions and then be ashamed of having appeared in such crap for years to come. So again, what is there to be proud of? Being able to voice Optimus Prime and Megatron is only an honor in an actually decent production.
Nocturne
This makes sense as Megatron is the best part about this series.
usernamedustin
Why didn't they invite the "Fan-Favorite" Windblade voice actress? Isn't she the star of this series?
shin03
Agreed
Deadend
Ah yes, because heaven forbid people from a show be proud of their work and wanting to share their experiences with fans.
Hope he has a good time at the convention!
ichnach
Why would anyone admit in public they are a voice on that series?
Bass X0
I'm sure they can manage to deal with all the hardcore fans of the TV show flocking around them.