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Dan Gilvezan "Bumblebee and Me: Life as a G1 Transformer" Reading and Signing

Wed Feb 22 2012 16:30:00 pm

Dan Gilvezan, the voice of Bumblebee from the original animated series, will be on hand at Big Kid Toys & Collectables in Sherman Oaks, CA on February 25th for a reading and signing of his book "Bumblebee & Me: Life as a G1 Transformer".

Join us for a reading and book signing of "Bumblebee & Me"
Dan Gilvezan's sometimes hilarious, sometimes precarious recounting of his days voicing Bumblebee
on the original Transformers animated series.

Saturday, February 25th @ 6 PM
Big Kid Toys & Collectables
14109 Burbank Blvd.
Sherman Oaks, CA 91402
See ya there!

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Orlando At Large: Pirate Golf

Posted By: Medium At Large

Wed Feb 22 2012 16:05:00 pm

Meetings are done for the day and we've got a few hours until the flight. As such, we're do the mature, responsible thing to do. Adventure Cove: Pirate Mini Golf.

It should be stated this is the second closest mini golf to our hotel. We had to walk past a Hawaiian-themed mini golf place to get to this clearly superior pirate joint.

The game's between @armstrongmike, @TJAllen77, and @petertatara over the most gentlemanly wager of beers. Birthday boy Travis has taken an early lead.

UPDATE: The game's wrapped. Peter came in at 63, Travis at 49, and Mike clenched it with 41 -- including four holes in one.

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Orlando At Large: Here Be Bossk

Posted By: Medium At Large

Wed Feb 22 2012 13:18:00 pm

We're in the Orange County Convention Center. We just had a fantastic lunch in the Osprey Lounge with quite-possibly-the-best convention food ever. We're now in another planning meeting, and I just wanted to show off these little welcome cards the OCCC set up.

Important to note is Bossk is front and center. Bossk isn't the biggest or most prolific Star Wars character, but he is Mary (from Lucasfilm)'s favorite character. And the OCCC knew this.

They're good.

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Orlando At Large: Chocolate Calzone

Posted By: Medium At Large

Wed Feb 22 2012 7:28:00 am

See these? Some delicious jammy chocolatey duck cookies. (Yeah, Peabody goes all the way with duckies.) They were left in my room along with some fresh fruits and gooey cheeses.

You're seeing a pick of them as it was too dark to take shots at dinner last night. We went to Tu Tu Tango. International Drive is one of Orlando's main drags, stretching from horizon to eternity with every chain restaurant you can image. Surprisingly, nestled between a TGI Friday's and Friendly's is Tu Tu Tango, a locally owned food, art, and music experience every night.

There's always a local musician playing and artists working - with their paintings lining the walls. The food is tapas, small plates of bold, fun, flavor-packed cuisine. We had curry chicken eggroles, steak skewers, pineapple glazed-falafel, empanadas, alligator jambalaya, and about twenty other dishes, followed up by two mad, mad desserts -- the chocolate calzone and the banana, caramel, ice cream pizza.

Oh, it was good.

Alas, all my pictures are too dark or of Danielle eating ice cream off an artist's palette.

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Unpublished Simon Furman Comic Scripts - For Sale

Posted By: Seibertron

Wed Feb 22 2012 0:13:41 am

The wonderfully talented Simon Furman has shared with the world the fate of an unpublished Transformers Beast Wars comic on Simonfurman.wordpress.com. This series, which was written during the collapse of Dreamwave Publications, was a story that would interweave Beast Wars - The Animated series and the one-shot comic Summer Special. The Transformers Summer Special was produced in the summer of 2004 and featured stories from Generation 1, Energon, Robots in Disguise, and Beast Wars. The latter two were put to a vote by fans, and the winner (Beast Wars) was to be the next Transformers comic series. The Summer Special was to be an annual mini-series, but due to Dreamwave's bankruptcy only one issue was published. The financial troubles of Dreamwave put Furman in a position to salvage a half written story and put his own spin on it.

Simon Furman wrote:I tapped a bunch of characters that had never made it into the show, including a kind of cool bad guy called Magmatron, and set about entwining two story threads, that would serve to pull the core TV show characters back to Earth (and pick up Rattrap’s ‘dream’ from the Summer Special), and kickstart a big new storyline that dealt with all the other Stasis Pod (and their protoforms) that had kind of got left behind on Earth. In the end, the first story arc was mapped out and two issues were written before $&^% really hit the fan and Dreamwave closed its doors. Don (Figueroa) even drew the whole first issue — and it looked great!

So Furman is now hitting the conventions, and shedding light on this lost piece of lore. All the Cool Stuff is helping to get the stories out to fans who cannot make it to the shows. The list of available, signed stories is below:

-Signed Script of Transformers: Beast Wars #1

-Signed Script of Transformers #80 (Marvel US)

-Signed Script of Transformers: Age of Wrath #4

-Signed Script of Transformers: Age of Wrath #5

Furman has posted the who and why's of these unpublished stories on his site which can be found by clicking here.

Don't miss your opportunity to own an unpublished piece of Transformers history signed by the man who was there from the beginning. I would like to also add that these items will be available at the Roll Out, Roll Call Transformers and G.I. Joe convention and Furman will be on hand to sign items... for free. For information on Roll Out, Roll Call, click here.

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Updated Registration Information

Posted By: Comic-Con International

Tue Feb 21 2012 17:45:00 pm

Comic-Con will release the badge sales date and time via email to everyone who has registered for a Member ID. Please check your e-mail frequently. Facebook, Twitter, and RSS announcements will come later. If you are not receiving notifications through SMS, you need to review your Facebook settings or contact Facebook directly. CCI does not send out announcements via SMS.

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With 1 Week Til Pre-Reg Ends, Dairycon Reveals 5 New Figures!

Posted By: Seibertron

Tue Feb 21 2012 16:26:00 pm

For Immediate Release.

One Week to Go before PreReg ends, folks! If you haven't already signed up for Dairycon 2012, you may well consider doing so after this. Save yourself a bit of regret & fill out your PreReg Form TODAY!
http://dairylandtransfans.com/dtfdairycon12form.html

Dairycon Staffers today revealed what's in-store for those who PreRegister for the Con:

IN ADDITION to the previously announced Barn, NeoKnight, & Cosmoo (Seen at http://dairylandtransfans.com/2012fig.html ), we have an additional FIVE figures that will be available at this year's Dairycon Convention!

The Future Dairycons!
http://dairylandtransfans.com/2012fig2a.html

Awesum Possum

Rally Rhino

Burning Monkey

Battle Bat

The Cracker

Oh. My. God. *FIVE* Figures?

Dairycon Staffers confirmed that, yes, there will be FIVE figures available to PreRegistrants who sign up for Dairycon.

No further information was given when we asked about how these would come (in a boxset, packaged individually, etc), however, they did say this: "Originally, the 'Battle Bat' figure was given (to another show) as our foreign market exclusive, and was not intended to be available at Dairycon. However, since there is Fan Demand for it, we will do our best to make sure that this figure is also available here as well."

With the previous reveals of Barn, CosMoo, and NeoKnight, seeing FIVE MORE figures at Dairycon is just... it's just....

Wow.

There's only one week to go! Register Today!

http://www.dairycon.com

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Dairycon Promotional Video #5
"Stars of Dairycon"

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Tired of your voice not being heard? Did your choice not get the recognition it truly deserved? Well no more Transfans! At the Dairycon Alcove of Honor *YOUR* voice can be heard!
http://dairylandtransfans.com/images/alcove.gif

http://dairylandtransfans.com/vote.html
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Orlando At Large: Ducks

Posted By: Medium At Large

Tue Feb 21 2012 15:16:00 pm

These are ducks. In the Peabody Hotel. Splashing around. They're part of a (drunken) tradition, and they march to this central fountain each day at 11 AM and march out at 5 PM. Between these two times, they generally waddle about, swim, and quack. Pure awesomeness.

Fun Fact: A duck's belly feels like a water balloon.