Change to Hasbro Canada involvement in TFcon 2012 - Cybertron.CA - Canadian Transformers News and Discussion

Super_Megatron · 07-08-2012, 11:31 PM

Due to the sale of 3rd party figures at TFcon the Hasbro New Product Preview and Q/A has been pulled from our programming. Hasbro Canada is still scheduled to attend TFcon 2012 and will have a product display and interact with the fans. We at TFcon apologize for any inconvenience and thank Hasbro Canada for all their help over the years. You can find below the official statement from Hasbro’s Corporate Communications team:

“Although it was communicated by TFcon that Hasbro would host a panel at TFcon this year, Hasbro will unfortunately not be able to participate in a panel. However, we continue to look forward to meeting fans on the convention floor on Saturday.”

You have less than a week to register for this summers largest Transformers Collectors Convention. You can reserve the TFcon exclusive Shafter and register for TFcon 2012 via the online registration page.

TFcon 2012 features Canada's largest dealer room for Transformers merchandise, question and answer panels and autograph sessions with many special guests including Transformers Creator Bob Budiansky, Transformers voice actors Scott McNeil and Neil Ross, artists Derrick J. Wyatt, Andrew Griffith, Alex Milne, Matt Moylan and Silas Zee plus Hasbro Canada, Chris Ho (Vangelus) and Ben Dolle (Peaugh) with more to be announced.

TFcon - Canada's 11th Annual Transformers Collectors Convention is July 27th to 29th, 2012 at the Delta Meadowvale Resort and Conference Centre in Mississauga, Ontario. The TFcon 2012 hotel block is still available.

General Tekno · 07-08-2012, 11:35 PM

I was wondering if this would cause any problems.

All the same, it's good to hear they'll still have a presence of some kind at the show. The guys from Hasbro are always pretty nice.

(Though this begs the question.... how are we gonna find out what exclusives are being picked up in Canada? Will they be at liberty to tell us if we ask them on the show floor?)

down_shift · 07-08-2012, 11:44 PM

Is it rude of me to say that this isn't a big deal. Last year's q&a and product preview was a total bust.

As long as they're out there willing to show new product on the floor then It's all gravy.

shockwing · 07-08-2012, 11:51 PM

Hasbro is getting butt hurt over 3rd party being sold? boo hoo

Grimlock4Prime · 07-09-2012, 12:21 AM

I can live without. Most of the preview is stuff that'll come out of SDCC anyways and I'm guessing a majority of the Q&A would get responses along the lines of "I don't know" or "I can't say".

Matrix_Holder · 07-09-2012, 12:32 AM

Really? Is there any point in having them there after last years total fail ? A bunch of old news presented by a guy that didn't even want to be there ( I know he was a replacement but he had a week to prepare) and a pathetic booth with 3 deluxes and a crappy kreon display? (edit , ok some other stuff like ultimate prime ugh... but nothing new or stuff that we havent seen in hand or reviewed a bunch already or wasnt shipping out at that moment ) I'd rather have 3rd party companies have full on booths at TFCON and have Hasbro not even be there at all. If they made the figures we keep asking for there would be no need for 3 rd party companies. I'd rather buy Hasbro stuff if they made it but there you go. This may sound like an Ahole rant but when I saw their booth last year I laughed...then I was a little pissed. We've all seen the booths from sdcc botcon and that is what we get? Felt like a slap in our Canadian faces. If hasbros feelings get hurt cause we found some 3 rd party luvin...Maybe this will give them the push they need to get their act together.

I really, really wish we had it like botcon or SDCC and get the whole "this is whats coming up" show but thats never going to happen I fear. When I saw the 3rd party display case last year I though "Wow look at all the amazing stuff coming out this year, Im going to be spending alot of money" and I never felt that at all looking at the hasbro booth, it was really quite an unsettling thought. I really hoped that it would change this year and still do but I fear its still going to be "lets grab stuff that's already out or shipping very, very soon and put it on the table so its kinda still a preview display" Please prove me wrong Hasbro, I want to believe again.

Cliffjumper69 · 07-09-2012, 01:07 AM

After the last few years I'm not upset or bothered by this decission. The third party preview panels have a bigger draw at TFcon over the Hasbro panels.

The Great Scrotum · 07-09-2012, 01:11 AM

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ASskQc1_kj8

Nightscrabbler · 07-09-2012, 01:42 AM

As others are saying, it's not a big loss. Last few years, Hasbro hadn't put a lot of effort into this panel for Canadian fans to really make it a must-see and TFcon has a lot of events/panels that need more time anyhow.

UltraPrimal · 07-09-2012, 01:47 AM

Booo! Though many people on the boards may be like, "Pff! Whatevers! Who needs them? Hablow sux! 3rd party rulez!!1!", this means the other side of the fandom, the casuals, will be missing out. Believe me, this is a bad thing. This heralds the end of TFcon enjoying the best of both worlds. I wouldn't be surprised if next year, there's no Hasbro Canada presence at all. It's a real shame.