Botcon have announced the dates and the venue of their 2016 convention! Botcon 2016 will be held in Louisville, Kentucky, over the weekend of April 7th – April 10th, 2016!
Botcon 2016 will be held in the historic Galt House, a waterfront hotel in the heart of Louisville. Hotel registration is now available through the Botcon website. As always, there will be the Primus package option available for attendees with the five figure convention exclusive set, plus Friday night admission to the sales room and admission to the Saturday night casino night and awards party.
It is advertised that convention pre-registration will be available “in the coming weeks” – let’s hope that means it is a little earlier than this year’s convention! For now, mark the dates in your diary – April 7th to April 10th, 2016 – and the place – the Galt House in Louisville, Kentucky!
flux convoy
I'd like them too, please.
Farstryder
I would like to have one if possible.
AutobotSDG
I actually have a scan (300 dpi) of the Shattered Glass Ratchet sheet if you want it
Farstryder
I was wondering if you were ever able to make this happen? Thanks for your time.
Swoop Dogg
Nice work! Can't wait to read this tonight!
griffin-of-oz
My Botcon 2016 adventure report is finally completed, with 38 pages and 957 images.
For those who went and want to relive it, or those who missed it or missed parts of it…
griffin's 2016 BotCon adventure from Australia
It took me about five weeks to do, but that's about normal for me due to work and other more important things when I get back home.
While most people just enjoy BotCon for a week, I do these write-ups so that it is like living it for 5-6 weeks, while processing photos, typing up pages from my notes and listening to the audio recordings to complete my archive. I end up remembering the Convention better in the process, and have it there to relive in the future.
Initially, I wasn't thinking I would go this year, but hearing about it being the last one (again), I committed to going to my 16th BotCon. Being so late to commit to it, I wasn't able to give myself much time away or save up much money, so it was only 5 nights in America this time, and very little spending money (once I had to spend almost all of it at the Club Store).
It was a great time this year, with friends, guests, and of course all of the Transformers… with a few sad moments for many of us old timers.
fanboy375
Still looking for the shattered glass ratchet sticker sheet if anyone has one
happy
That food was not free and the dress expectations were ignored by many who attended the dinner. This was my 10th Botcon and my first time going to the dinner. While I had a nice time, my expectations, based on what had been done years prior, were much higher.
I too attended the Botcon Bingo and had a great time. I managed to win an Ultra Mammoth; it is for sale if anybody is interested.
drushing
I see where you are both coming from with this issue. But, there were alot of people in that room. It was hard to assess to determine what each area had. You pretty much just worked yourself into one crowd or another.
Either way, it was free food and for that I am appreciative.
Primal Sabbath
Eh to a degree that's true too.. But that's why you scope the room out prior to funneling into whatever line the crowd goes to… But alas, you're right
G.B. Blackrock
No chips at all, in fact. If you played Bingo, you pretty much kissed any chance of winning enough chips to matter good-bye. But it's always been this way at BotCon Casino nights….
For Bingo, you get one card per game for free, and could purchase additional cards for $1 each (money to go to the same charity as everything else that evening). For $25 (I think it was) at one shot, you not only got 25 cards (which you didn't have to use all at once. They only asked that you use the free card each game rather than stack those up), but you got a special coin that someone had made special for the occasion (arguably the rarest BotCon exclusive of them all? I don't know. I haven't looked for it on eBay) and a link to an auction site where (so I'm told) you were given money to be used on one of their auctions (I've put in some bids, but nothing's ended yet, so I don't yet know how/if that will work). Game play continued pretty much until the end of the evening. Most games were just for one prize at a time, but later, as the night was coming to a close, they'd often do two or three prizes on a single board. After the first winner, they'd pick more numbers until the next one, and so on (with the earlier winners having their pick of prizes available for that board, and later winners getting what was left). Ties (which occasionally happened) resulted in a run-off (which didn't affect later play on the same board if there were still prizes to win on that board).
Anyway, all of which is to say that winners in Bingo DID get prizes. Mostly FunPub exclusives from the past, but there were a few other items, as well (a few winners got some Tumblers with "I won BotCon Bingo" on them, in addition to the main prize, but they were inconsistent about adding those in, and I think even left a few unpresented by the end of the evening). I myself won an extra TFSS Treadshot, which I then sold on eBay, making my original donation back. Can't complain.
drushing
We met some nice people from Colorado that left to play bingo. I wish we had gone with them. What were the prizes for bingo or did you just win chips, etc.
G.B. Blackrock
Forced? What a strange thing to say. It's not like people were going to (or, bluntly, should have had to) look around for what lines offered what options. They should all have been serving the same thing, to get people in and out as quickly as possible.
Although, as I've said about another matter entirely, none of this matters much now. It's not like they could hear our complaints and fix things for next year….
allew
We skipped out on the awards dinner – ate around 6pm so that we could wake up early sunday morning to go ziplining at Louisville Mega Cavern at 10:30am (I highly recommend doing it if it's your first time ziplining like it was for us, very fun! We also took the tram tour, which was just ok). It's too bad there were no videos of the TF HOF nominees, that was something I enjoyed watching the last couple of times.
Unfortunately, our flight to Dallas was delayed about two hours and so we missed our connecting flight. Managed to get on the last flight to SF though so we lucked out (even though the gate agent gave us the wrong terminal number). It didn't affect our flight, but the Louisville airport security also was a bit puzzled by my carry-on bag of souvenir Botcon toys and some interesting rocks from the cavern gift shop – luckily I had receipts It was nice seeing and briefly chatting with Gregg Berger and Stan Bush waiting for their flight at the terminal as well as bumping into a few fellow Botcon attendees.
Primal Sabbath
True, but no one was forced into any single line either, so….
G.B. Blackrock
Perhaps the complaint should simply be "inconsistent service" or "luck of the draw lines" then.
Primal Sabbath
Also, if I remember correctly I don't think Judd was even supposed to be at the awards dinner on Saturday. But I could be wrong.
The buffet style hot dogs, burgers & chicken, etc… At the GT dinner wasn't half bad either.
Primal Sabbath
Shoulda been in my line. They had a full set up of two people cooking shrimp, sausage onion chives, etc… And serving it with fettuccini or macaroni. It was pretty damn good.
G.B. Blackrock
Well, I can't speak to the awards presentations. I was already GONE to go play Bingo…..
But, yes, I thought the food should have been of a higher caliber. They send all those notes telling us we should be dressed up, and then serve hot dogs (and I don't think chicken fingers were even an option in my line…)? Those things just don't match.
happy
Maybe I am a little late to the party, but was anyone else disgusted by the awards dinner on Saturday? Hot dogs and chicken fingers…seriously? This is what I paid for?
Then they didn't wait for everyone to get through the food lines to start the awards presentations and Judd Nelson spent his entire speech talking over the crowd.