BotCon 2012
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| Date | April 26, 2012 | ||||||
| City | Dallas, TX | ||||||
| Venue | Hyatt Regency Dallas | ||||||
BotCon 2012 will be held in the Hyatt Regency Dallas in Dallas, Texas from April 26 to April 29, 2012.
Run-up
- September 7, 2011, BotCon's Twitter feed started hinting at BotCon 2012's exclusive toys. [1]
- The Diamond-exclusive version of "The Stunti-Con Job" had a full page ad advertising BotCon 2012, and hinted at the mold of one of its box set toys. [2]
- On December 5, 2011, the date, location, and hotel for BotCon 2012 were announced.
- On December 24, 2011, the brochure went live.
- On December 27, 2011, "BotCon 2012: Figure Reveal!" revealed the first images of Gigatron.
- On December 30, 2011, Shattered Glass Tracks was revealed.
- On January 3, 2012, Shattered Glass Soundwave was revealed.
Venue
The Convention Center of the Hyatt Regency Dallas is home to BotCon 2012. It's "one of the city’s most consistent AAA Four Diamond Dallas luxury hotels," full of restaurants and shopping opportunities, and it's smack dab in the middle of downtown Dallas, Texas. This 28-floor hotel is three blocks from the JFK Memorial and across a parking lot from a giant Playstation Move controller. In the summer, they have AnimeFest there, host to overpriced Pocky, Scott McNeil, and all manner of unwashed webcartoonists. But unlike AnimeFest, BotCon 2012's dealer room probably won't be partially out in the hallways.
The hallways are very extravagant.
Merchandise
Convention-exclusive toys
Transformers: Invasion box set
- Shattered Glass Ultra Magnus, a retool of Transformers Optimus Prime
- Shattered Glass Tracks, a redeco of Transformers Turbo Tracks
- Shattered Glass Soundwave, a retool of Universe Classics Series Ironhide
- Shattered Glass Treadshot
- Classics Gigatron, a retool of Revenge of the Fallen Bludgeon
- Classics Metalhawk
At show souvenir packages
Customization Exclusive
Attendee-Only Bonus Exclusive
Hasbro
