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Date	June 19, 2014
City	Pasadena, CA
Venue	Pasadena Convention Center

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BotCon 2014 will be held in Pasadena, California, from June 19 to June 22, 2014.

Run-up

On September 3, 2013, Autobot City Comics 2008 from the TFW2005 message boards reported that a Pasadena Convention Center employee confirmed that BotCon would be there from June 19 through June 22 of the following year. Despite complete silence on the issue from Fun Publications, hotel blocks sold out immediately.
On December 24, the official website went up, confirming the date and location.
On February 6, BotCon Twitter asked Who Is Squirm?
February 7 — BotCon revealed the first toy over Twitter: Cannonball from Prime Ratchet.
On February 10, BotCon tweeted a sketch of the Captain's Navigator on Twitter.
On February 27, BotCon announced that Susan Blu, Hal Rayle, and Michael McConnohie would be attending this year's convention.
On March 6, BotCon announced that Jack Angel would be attending this year's convention.
On March 10, Ferak was revealed.
On March 13, BotCon announced that Samantha Newark would be attending.
On March 18, Tornado's Facebook page was launched.
On March 20, Derrick Wyatt and Marty Isenberg were announced as guests.
On March 24, Devcon was revealed.
On March 27, David Kaye was announced as a guest.
On March 31, BotCon's Twitter feed asked "Who is Olin?" along with some uncolored line art.
On April 2, Olin's last name was revealed to be Zarak. A colored image appeared on Tornado's Facebook page.
On April 3, Decepticon Pirate Scorponok was revealed.
On April 4, James Roberts was announced as a guest.
On April 21, Cybertronian Knight Ginrai was revealed.
On April 22, the official brochure went up on the BotCon site.
On April 24, cast and crew from Transformers: Rescue Bots were announced as guests.
On May 9, preregistration went up, as well as images of the box set art, t-shirt, and hat.

Venue

Merchandise

Convention-exclusive toys

Pirates vs Knights box set

Pirate Cannonball, a retool of Prime Ratchet
Pirates Ferak and Tornado, a redeco of Universe Cyclonus
Pirate Scorponok, a retool of Energon Scorponok and Encore Spike Witwicky
Knight Devcon, a retool of Generations Scourge
Knight Ginrai, a redeco of Classics Optimus Prime

At show souvenir packages

Knight Alpha Trizer, Knight Apelinq, and Knight Flareup, redecos of Prime Thundertron, Beast Wars 10th Anniversary Optimus Primal and Prime: Robots in Disguise Arcee
Pirate Hunter and Pirate Brimstone, redecoes of Timelines Protoform X and Generations Air Raid
The Dread Pirate Crew, redecoes of Prime: Robots in Disguise Vehicon and Prime: Arms Micron Jet Vehicon based on Pounce and Wingspan

Customization Exclusive

Primal Prime, a redeco of Beast Wars 10th Anniversary Optimus Primal

Attendee-Only Bonus Figure

Flamewar, a redeco of Beast Hunters Arcee

Kreon Souvenir Figure Set

My Little Pony stuff

Well, 2014 is the Year of the Horse, after all...

2014 conventions exclusive
BotCon 2014 exclusive cover A
BotCon 2014 exclusive cover B
BotCon 2014 exclusive lithograph

A conventions exclusive variant cover of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic #19 by Katie Cook featuring Starscream and Rainbow Dash. This cover was sold at BotCon 2014 as well as other conventions that year.

Two BotCon exclusive variant covers of The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye #30 that together form an image of Soundwave and DJ Pon-3/Vinyl Scratch. These covers were sold only at BotCon, available from the Toy Fusion/Toy Worth booth.

A BotCon exclusive lithograph by Tony Fleecs featuring Megatron and Nightmare Moon. This lithograph was sold only at BotCon.

Other merchandise

Fiction

Guests

Voice actors

Actors

Writers

Artists

Derrick J. Wyatt

Fun Publications

Hasbro employees

Hasbro Studios employees

IDW Publishing comics

James Roberts

High Moon Studios & Activision

Jagex

Events

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Notes

External links

Official BotCon 2014 site

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 ===Convention-exclusive toys===
 '''''Pirates vs Knights'' box set'''
-*Decepticon Pirate [[Cannonball (G1)|Cannonball]], a retool of ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)|Prime]]'' [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]]
+*Pirate [[Cannonball (G1)|Cannonball]], a retool of ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)|Prime]]'' [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]]
-*Decepticon Pirates [[Ferak]] and [[Tornado]], a redeco of ''[[Universe (2008)|Universe]] [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]]
+*Pirates [[Ferak]] and [[Tornado]], a redeco of ''[[Transformers: Universe (2008 toyline)|Universe]]'' [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]]
-*Decepticon Pirate [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]], a retool of [[Energon (toyline)|Energon]] [[Scorponok (Energon)|Scorponok]] and [[Encore]] [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]]
+*Pirate [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]], a retool of ''[[Transformers: Energon (toyline)|Energon]]'' [[Scorponok (Energon)|Scorponok]] and ''[[Transformers Encore|Encore]]'' [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]]
-*Autobot Knight [[Devcon (G1)|Devcon]], a retool of [[Generations (toyline)|''Generations'']] [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]]
+*Knight [[Devcon (G1)|Devcon]], a retool of [[Transformers: Generations|''Generations'']] [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]]
-*Autobot Knight [[Ginrai]], a redeco of ''[[Classics (2006)|Classics]]'' [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Optimus Prime]]
+*Knight [[Ginrai]], a redeco of ''[[Transformers: Classics|Classics]]'' [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Optimus Prime]]
 '''At show souvenir packages'''
-*[[Cheetor (BW)/toys#Timelines|Knight Alpha Trizer]], [[Apelinq]], and [[Flareup (G1)|Knight Flareup]], redecos of ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)|Prime]]'' [[Thundertron]], ''[[Beast Wars 10th Anniversary]]'' [[Optimus Primal]] and ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)#Deluxe_Class_2|Prime: Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]]
+*Knight [[Cheetor (BW)/toys#Timelines|Alpha Trizer]], Knight [[Apelinq]], and Knight [[Flareup (G1)|Flareup]], redecos of ''Prime'' [[Thundertron]], ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars 10th Anniversary|Beast Wars 10th Anniversary]]'' [[Optimus Primal]] and ''Prime: Robots in Disguise'' [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]]
-*[[Shokaract|Pirate Hunter]] and Brimstone, redecoes of ''[[Timelines]]'' [[Rampage (BW)|Protoform X]] and ''[[Generations (toyline)|Generations]] [[Fireflight (FOC)|Air Raid]]''
+*Pirate [[Shokaract|Hunter]] and Pirate Brimstone, redecoes of ''[[Transformers Timelines (toyline)|Timelines]]'' [[Rampage (BW)|Protoform X]] and ''Generations'' [[Fireflight (FOC)|Air Raid]]''
-*[[The Dread Pirate Crew]], redecoes of ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)#Deluxe_Class_2|Prime: Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]] and ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)#Japanese_Exclusives_2|Prime: Arms Micron]]'' [[Vehicon (Prime)|Jet Vehicon]] based on [[Pounce]] and [[Wingspan]]
+*The [[Dread Pirate Crew]], redecoes of ''Prime: Robots in Disguise'' [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]] and ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)#Japanese_Exclusives_2|Prime: Arms Micron]]'' [[Vehicon (Prime)|Jet Vehicon]] based on [[Pounce]] and [[Wingspan]]
 '''Customization Exclusive'''
-*[[Primal Prime]], a redeco of ''[[Beast Wars 10th Anniversary]]'' [[Optimus Primal]]
+*[[Primal Prime]], a redeco of ''Beast Wars 10th Anniversary'' [[Optimus Primal]]
 '''Attendee-Only Bonus Figure'''
-*[[Flamewar (G1)|Flamewar]], a redeco of [[Beast Hunters]] [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]]
+*[[Flamewar (G1)|Flamewar]], a redeco of ''[[Beast Hunters]]'' [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]]
+'''Kreon Souvenir Figure Set'''
+*[[BotCon 1994]] [[Breakdown (Kre-O)|Breakdown]]
+*[[BotCon 1997]] [[Fractyl (Kre-O)|Fractyl]]
+*[[BotCon 2006]] [[Rattrap (Kre-O)|Rattrap]]
+*[[BotCon 2008]] [[Rodimus (Kre-O)|Rodimus]]
+*[[BotCon 2009]] [[Landshark (Kre-O)|Landshark]]
+*[[BotCon 2012]] [[Gigatron (Kre-O)|Gigatron]]
 ====''My Little Pony'' stuff====