BotCon Friday

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So BotCon for Friday has finished, other than the Awards dinner (TFW2005 and Seibertron to battle it out for the prizes) and the Casino night.

Today\'s events saw a Cosplay competition, with some fantastic, and a few not to fantastic costumes (personal the Baroness and Crimson Twins, Tomax and Xamot would get my vote).

Next up was the live script reading, which was great fun Auto Assembly 2011 attendees have a lot to look forward to as David Kaye and Greg Berger player odd each other really well (both are really lookinrg forward to the event).

After that the hall opened and sigings from David and the daughter of the late Chris Latter.  Steve queued for ages, so I went into the hall and spent too much money on old BotCon toys.  After filling up I went out, grabbed the comic from Steve, who was still queuing, and got Derrick and Marty to sign it. 

After that it was Greg, Neil, Morgan\'s turn to sign (Neil Ross signed our Visionaries Marketing Book).

Then it was back into the dealer room to pick up more old BotCon exclusives.

The dealer hall had an amazing amount of Japanese Transformers, though comments were the prices on toys was far too expensive ($4300 for a boxed Menasor)!!

Hasbro had a great display of Dark of the Moon, Transformers Prime and Generations toys.  The vehicles for the Transformers Movie were there, and far more dealers then we had seen previously.

There were so many non-official toys for sale, probably 1/4 of all toys, and lots of toys from other ranges, He-Man, GI Joe, Anime ... it was quiet funny.

The biggest disapointment was the queues, again.  We spent over an hour in a queue for the script reading, only for the number of people in front of us to tripple, with people jumping in or joining thier friends.  One group went from 2 to over 20!  Then as the doors opened 10 more people jumped in right at the doors, yet all of this was possible as there was no staff of volenteers looking after things - poor Fun Publications, very very poor.

The queues for signings was far better maintained, with them cutting them off and making sure it was a neat and orderly line.