There’s been an update in the guests attending Botcon 2016. Unfortunately, Alec Willows, the voice of Tarantulas, will not be able to attend this year’s convention due to appearing in a lead role in a theater production which coincides with when he was due to attend at Botcon.
In his place, Botcon have announced that the voice of Blackarachnia in Beast Wars and Beast Machines, Venus Terzo, will be attending Botcon 2016. Venus’ performance as Blackarachnia helped to bring to life one of the deepest and most interesting female characters of the Transformers franchise. She’s also appeared as Jean Grey in X-Men Evolution, Jinx in G.I. Joe Valor VS Venom, and the Sorceress in The New Adventures of He-Man.
Botcon 2016 will be held on April 7th-10th in Louisville, Kentucky. Other guests who fans can look forward to meeting at Botcon 2016 include fellow Beast Wars cast alumni David Kaye (Megatron), and Scott McNeil (Rattrap, Dinobot, Waspinator, and Silverbolt).
Autovolt 127
No you're not, in fact she was actually inspired by an Asian stripper the show designers saw at a strip club and no I'm not making this up.
XXLMagnus
Quick rando question – as a kid I always imagined the Black Arachnia voice actor was going for some Asian dragon lady-type angle – was this just me or did other ppl pick this up?? Always kinda freaked me out a lil – the whole robot dominatrix thing ….
omegafix
yeah it was really nice of her, she didn't have to, and its not like my son was screaming or going nuts that he was thirsty, he said it twice to me and she mustve overheard him. even then she didn't have to go out of her way to entertain him like she did. that Venus……shes alright in my book. its to bad she gets heckled and treated the way she does when she goes to these cons
MagnusPrimal
That's a classy fandom we have going here.
That's really nice that she would do that for your son.
I would absolutely buy a Legends BA for her to sign if I could go to this.
Roadblock1977
Damn, talking about her sitting in their laps? Yeesh… talk about creepy.
Autovolt 127
yes it's cool they got Blackarachnia to take Tarantulas's place.
also Venus is truly hot, posionous and deadly.
Your son's pretty based.
omegafix
years ago when my son and I went to botcon (he was 8 at the time) we were waiting on the long ass autograph line, and Venus overheard my son saying he was thirsty, she called him over propped him up on her lap and gave him a glass of water, he sat on her lap until we got our autographs and she loved talking to him. she was very kind to my son and they hit it off pretty good. he must have been on her lap for about 15 to 20 minutes, just chatting away and drinking all her water. after we got out autographs she gave him a huge hug and said goodbye to him. as we were walking away we heard all kind of heckles from basement dwelling fantarts about how my kid was lucky and how she could sit on their lap any day of the week
Novaburnhilde
Wow, one Spider can't attend, the other one takes his place!
Wish I lived close enough so I could meet her.
scrapmetaru
I wish there was a good Blackarachnia figure to be signed.
calvin0
damn, i wish i could goto botcon… i would get her to sign my legends blackarachnia and transmetal 2 blackarachnia
TacticalBacon
I have the sudden urge to buy a Legends Blackarachnia now.
Cascadia
Venus is great and very down to Earth. I met her back in 2014 at TFcon in Chicago.
oku
Even better!
Thundershot
If I were able to go to Botcon, I'd bring my sealed Legends Blackarachnia and the SH Figuarts female Ranma that's coming out this month to sign.
PredaConvoy
Man, that's sad. I mean, yes, she is totally gorgeous, but come on, we love her for her work! Shame on the supposed 'fans' who would make her feel uncomfortable.
Shame I am on the wrong side of the Atlantic, I'd love to say hi at BotCon. Maybe we'll get lucky and Venus will come to a UK con.
flux convoy
Cool! Still a little bummed about Alec Willows but this is nice.
Raiyuki
So we lost a spider but now we got a spider eh?
Paladin
I thought she quit conventions because Fanboys kept harassing her…
SG Roadbuster
did you hear that? that's the sound of Takara legends Blackarachnia shooting up in price on ebay
Autobot City Comics 2008
your welcome as I have plenty to get autographed as well for all of them