So upon the glorious news that BotCon 2010 will be in Orlando next June, it became clear to me that it is just frankly my own lame destiny to have it so close to home the same summer as Star Wars Celebration V.
However, this BotCon announcement is not without it’s own geeky repercussions to me personally. For the first time since 2005, I think I’m skipping MegaCon, of which I’ve loyally attended in all it’s insanity. With the impending awesomeness and expense of both the toy robots extravaganza and the annual Lucasfilm celebration of arrested youth, I’m afraid MegaCon is simply a con too far, as is JoeCon in Rhode Island. My plastic army men loving peeps will have to wait until another time to meet the infamous Agent Morris (aka Agent of Doom).
The way I see it, the cost of my plane ticket alone could get me my pre-registration for BotCon. That, and I ain’t made of money. Gotta draw the line somewhere.
Star Wars Celebration V is a similar matter. I kinda figured I’d never ever get to go to one without extreme expense, but alas, in my own backyard!
2010 is already shaping up to be one hell of an awesome, shamelessly lame and expensive year for me. But now I’ll have both of those supreme Con experiences under my belt and I barely had to even go across the street to do so!
And let’s face it, it ain’t every day you can get to finally meet the Indiana Jones of toy robot ads, is it?
We need to do secret pirate panels during Botcon about Mazinger-Z and GoBots and how to hack into the Transformersclub message boards without a membership.
As long as our super terrific happy fun time pirated Botcon panel can include something about how awesome M.A.S.K.toys are AND we can lead off with the Wheeled Warriors theme song–I’m all in!!
As far as hacking the TF Collector’s Club? I’d LOVE to know that just so I didn’t pay like $40 for the “membership benefit”.
That said, I’m actually considering rejoining the damn club again! hahahaha