BotCon 2012!

Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue #45

Editor-In-Chief: Brian Savage
Editor: Pete Sinclair
Creative Director/Layout: Lanny Lathem
Associate Editor: Ben Yee
Associate Editor: Jesse Wittenrich
Research Editor: Karl Hartman
Columnist: Rob Meyer
Head Proofreader: Heather Choplin
Proofreader: Jeremiah McNatt
Contributors: David Willis, Greg Black, Jim Sorenson, Bill Forster, Derrick Wyatt
Resident Artist: Evan Gauntt
Staff: Greg Sepelak, Trent Troop, Rosemary Ward, Drew Eiden
TCC SD Runamuck Design: Richard Chang

On the cover: Photograph of Swoop, Breakdown, and Blitzwing cosplayers from BotCon 2012.
Brian's Bytes and Bolts, From the Editor's Desk (inside cover)
BotCon 2012 Re-cap!! (p. 3-5)
"A Flash Forward, Part 3" - comic story (pp. 6-11)
Profile: Windbreaker (p. 12)
Profile: Flamefeather (p. 13)
The AllSpark Almanac Addendum (pp. 14-15)
Transformers I.Q. trivia, Recordicons, Transformers I.Q. Last Issue Review (p. 16)

Notes

The Transformers I.Q. Last Issue Review continues Fun Publications attempts to patch up the Constructicons' infamously contradictory history in the Generation 1 cartoon continuity for their Wings Universe. Devastator's profile in issue #42 reconciled the scene from "Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4" in which Megatron was shown being created by the team, while this feature describes a battle that left the Constructicons deactivated until their bodies were sent to Earth and rebuilt in the run-up to "Heavy Metal War". The section is illustrated with new artwork by Dan Khanna that shows the team battling their old comrade Hauler as well as Erector, in a nod to the character's Transformers Hall of Fame bio that described him as former member of the team.
A poll will eventually be on Transformersclub.com so that Club members can vote on which of the cosplayers seen on the cover will win the best BotCon 2012 costume prize.
Though her character was not officially recognized by Hasbro upon her creation for BotCon 1995, via the ongoing A Flash Forward storyline in this issue (and positive identification on the back cover I.Q Quiz), Nightracer is officially made a part of Transformers' canon.