Movie Barricade and Bumblebee Replicas return to TFcon 2012

We are very pleased to welcome Transformers voice actor Neil Ross to TFcon 2012 for his first ever Canadian convention appearance.

The voice of several characters in the Transformers Generation 1 series including Bonecrusher, Crosshairs, Hook, Pointblank, Sixshot, Slag and Springer; Mr. Ross will be taking part in Q&A panel and autograph sessions with the attendees of the Canadian Transformers Collectors Convention.

TFcon is please to announce the return of Alex Milne to the TFcon guest list. Alex is the artist on IDW’s current Transformers: More than Meets the Eye comic book, and has also worked on Megatron Origins, the Transformers (2007) Official Movie Adaptation, Spotlight: Arcee, The Reign of Starscream, Transformers: Alliance, Transformers: Drift, various issues of The Transformers and many more. He will be selling prints and offering commissions to attendees all weekend long.

TFcon is pleased to announce the addition of a Transformers Fan-Made Media Panel this year to our programming. Hosted by Chris Ho (Vangelus) and Ben Dolle (Peaugh) they will discuss media-making within the Transformers fandom, and how you can do it too!

TFcon is pleased to welcome back Matt Moylan to the convention this year. He is best known to Transformers fans as the man behind LilFormers. You can meet him in the TFcon 2012 artist alley all weekend long.

El Duque wrote:TFcon has announced their latest special guest, artist Matt Moylan:

TFcon is pleased to welcome back Matt Moylan to the convention this year. He is best known to Transformers fans as the man behind LilFormers. You can meet him in the TFcon 2012 artist alley all weekend long.

TFcon is pleased to announce the addition of Andrew Griffith to the 2012 guest list. Andrew is the artist on IDW’s current Transformers: Robots in Disguise comic book and is one of the fans who was discovered through IDW’s comic cover contest. He will be selling prints and offering commissions to attendees all weekend long.

TFcon is very pleased to be able to welcome back Derrick J. Wyatt to TFcon this year. The Art Director/Lead Character Designer for Transformers Animated, Derrick will be taking part in a Q&A panel and autograph sessions.

Due to the sale of 3rd party figures at TFcon the Hasbro New Product Preview and Q/A has been pulled from our programming. Hasbro Canada is still scheduled to attend TFcon 2012 and will have a product display and interact with the fans. We at TFcon apologize for any inconvenience and thank Hasbro Canada for all their help over the years. You can find below the official statement from Hasbro’s Corporate Communications team:

“Although it was communicated by TFcon that Hasbro would host a panel at TFcon this year, Hasbro will unfortunately not be able to participate in a panel. However, we continue to look forward to meeting fans on the convention floor on Saturday.”

GuyIncognito wrote:"If you don't play by our rules, we're taking our ball and going home!"

Lame. BOOOOOOO!

Matrix_Holder wrote:

GuyIncognito wrote:"If you don't play by our rules, we're taking our ball and going home!"

Lame. BOOOOOOO!

Hey look Hasbro, we got a new ball. It's the updated ball we were asking you for all these years but this one is made by a another company and we paid 10 times as much.... but we love it soooooo much, do we even need you anymore?

Our final round of guest announcements has begun. We are thrilled to have IDW publishing colorist Josh Perez finally join us at TFcon 2012. He will be setup all weekend and offering prints and commissions to attendees all weekend long.

TFsource wrote:Big news: TFsource will be at TFCON 2012! Yes we will be at TFCon celebrating the 10th anniversary of Canada's Annual Transformers convention! We will have a full assortment of product, to learn more about TFcon visit the official website here: http://www.tfcon.ca/ we look forward to seeing everyone there!

We are pleased to announce that author Jim Sorenson will join us at TFcon 2012. Co-producer of the upcoming Legacy: The Box Art of The Transformers from IDW, he also worked on Transformers: The Ark and The AllSpark Almanac. At TFcon he will be hosting the Transformers Legacy panel and Q&A.

TFcon is pleased to announce the return of artist Dan Khanna to the 2012 guest list. He will be selling prints and offering commissions to attendees all weekend long.

Our final guest announcement has been revealed: Wally Burr the man that cast Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime, Frank Welker as Megatron as well as Neil Ross in his roles; directed 98 episodes of Transformers Generation 1 and the 1986 Animated Movie will join us this weekend at TFcon. He will join Neil Ross on stage for the G1 Q&A panel and will be judging the live script reading.

Join Transformers voice actors Scott McNeil and Neil Ross at the TFcon 2012 Live Script Auditions and Reading where fans audition for roles in the Live Script Reading judged by Transformers voice director Wally Burr then perform live in front of everyone in attendance with Transformers Voice Actors. To get you ready check out the TFcon 2012 live script reading prelude comic below.