Charticon 2013 welcomes Paul Eiding to Charlotte!

He also did the narrator for Diablo I.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_78a5i2mJNc#t=4m59s

I'll be attending new for sure.

So, should there be a gathering of sorts of any attending Seibertronians?

I'm attending and bringing my sister. She's a huge Carolina Panthers fan, so we'll be going to the Bears vs. Panthers Pre-Season game Friday Night, then the convention on Sat and Sun.

We are very happy to announce another guest! Ken Christiansen will be joining us for the show as well!

Ken Christiansen has been working as an illustrator and concept designer for over fifteen years. Starting as a video game concept artist, at Nintendo of America (Ridge Racer 64, Pokemon Puzzle League), then moving to Los Angeles to work in games for the Walt Disney Company (Kingdom Hearts, Finding Nemo). In 2004, Ken started his own company, Bad Flip Productions, working for video game clients like Disney, Warner Bros., Universal, and Activision. After working with Activision on Transformers the Game, and the Revenge of the Fallen game, he began working freelance in media development for Hasbro Inc. (Transformers), doing concept art for their film, tv, book, games, and toy initiatives. That expanded into media development beyond the Transformers brand, including Star Wars, Spider-Man, and more.

Ken’s current work includes the cover runs on the Transformers Prime series (IDW), Star Wars Fighter Pods, and Ultimate Spider-Man Spider Pods. Along with other random bits and pieces, hanging off pegs in the toy aisles, book shelves, and video game departments…

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bad-Flip-Productions/214146041944051

http://badflipblog.blogspot.com/

Encline has just provided us with updated pictures of the finished Snipenose! This will be the figure we will be creating in the custom class on Sunday, if you are a fan of Needlenose this is one you don't want to miss!









http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysR_NvmOnBQ

Reserve your spot in the class or order a non-attendee set here:http://www.charticon.com/p/exclusives.html!

It looks to beautiful, it almost seems to good to be true!

...*looks at price*

...Why must you do this to me?

Mindmaster wrote:It looks to beautiful, it almost seems to good to be true!

...*looks at price*

...Why must you do this to me?

Sorry bud, we did the absolute best we could. You do get all the tools to continue to make your own customs along with some great instruction I would give them away for free if I could.

Flawless head sculpt. Amazing.

I'll just leave this here

http://www.charticon.com/2013/06/announcing-charticons-first-door-prize.html

You can't be serious...

Awesome door prize! Really excited for this convention.

Wow, that Prowl looks amazing! Can't wait to see it in person!

Woah, that thing is looking great!

Thanks, been working on it since January, should be done soon, I have a progression blog site at www.projectprowl.com

Charticon Army, we're revealing the SECOND door prize: ENCORE FORTRESS MAXIMUS! If you missed this guy way back when, here's your chance to get him!

Both our MetroTitan Metroplex and Encore Fort Max door prizes are available ONLY for Charticon Pre-Registrants, so if you were looking for that ONE. EXTRA. REASON. to get Pre-Registered, HERE IT IS!

The drawing will be on the last day of Charticon and you must be present to win!

http://www.charticon.com/p/pre-registration.html

Best door prizes ever! Glad both Candace and I are preregistered Can't wait to see everyone there, one more month to wait, omfg

Ready for some more announcements?

First off, we are happy to announce that we will be joined by another IDW artist at the show, none other than Brian Shearer! Brian has been working in the comics industry for several years on books such as Transformers, G.I. Joe, and Doctor Who as well as other titles. About 10 years ago he co-created his first creator-owned book, GravyBoy, which gave him the experience of creating and publishing a book from the ground up. Brian lives in Greensboro, NC with his wife, son, and a cat who likes to be petted at the most inconvenient times.



What's that? Not enough Artists for you yet? Then how about the talented John Wycough! John is an inker, Transformers fan, drummer, awesome cook, and member of Tsunami Studios. He has worked on many titles, (Star Wars, Fear Itself, Chaos War, G.I. Joe, to name a few) along with TRANSFORMERS!! (Last Stand of the Wreckers, TF:Robots in Disguise, TF: More Than Meets the Eye, TF: Infestation2, All Hail Megatron, Movie tie ins) Woot!-Woot! He tends to subconsciously live by the motto of the Wreckers, as he tends to Wreck-n-Rule when no one is looking.



Brian and John will hosting our "Learn to Draw Transformers" Panel on Friday Night!

But, wait, what? You still need more announcements? Then we are happy to announce to you our final door prize, PPO5W Weapons Specialist and PPO5M Medical Specialist! That's right, both will be given away as a set!



Oh and one more thing that I almost forgot to mention. For anyone who missed out on Aftershock, there will be one in our Charity Auction on Saturday night The Charity Auction is only open to preregistrants, so make sure you do it soon as preregistration closes this Monday night at midnight. Also if you are planning on booking a hotel room, our special rate also ends Monday at midnight.

Looking forward to seeing everyone there!

Charticon: Pre-Registration

Our friends from Charticon dropped by with a few announcements from next month's show, see below:

Arkvander wrote:Ready for some more announcements?

First off, we are happy to announce that we will be joined by another IDW artist at the show, none other than Brian Shearer! Brian has been working in the comics industry for several years on books such as Transformers, G.I. Joe, and Doctor Who as well as other titles. About 10 years ago he co-created his first creator-owned book, GravyBoy, which gave him the experience of creating and publishing a book from the ground up. Brian lives in Greensboro, NC with his wife, son, and a cat who likes to be petted at the most inconvenient times.

What's that? Not enough Artists for you yet? Then how about the talented John Wycough! John is an inker, Transformers fan, drummer, awesome cook, and member of Tsunami Studios. He has worked on many titles, (Star Wars, Fear Itself, Chaos War, G.I. Joe, to name a few) along with TRANSFORMERS!! (Last Stand of the Wreckers, TF:Robots in Disguise, TF: More Than Meets the Eye, TF: Infestation2, All Hail Megatron, Movie tie ins) Woot!-Woot! He tends to subconsciously live by the motto of the Wreckers, as he tends to Wreck-n-Rule when no one is looking.

Brian and John will hosting our "Learn to Draw Transformers" Panel on Friday Night!

But, wait, what? You still need more announcements? Then we are happy to announce to you our final door prize, PPO5W Weapons Specialist and PPO5M Medical Specialist! That's right, both will be given away as a set!

Oh and one more thing that I almost forgot to mention. For anyone who missed out on Aftershock, there will be one in our Charity Auction on Saturday night The Charity Auction is only open to preregistrants, so make sure you do it soon as preregistration closes this Monday night at midnight. Also if you are planning on booking a hotel room, our special rate also ends Monday at midnight.

Looking forward to seeing everyone there!

Charticon: Pre-Registration

Today is the last day to preregister, if you want in on all the extra goodies make sure you sign up now!

http://www.charticon.com/p/pre-registration.html

Are you ready?

"Year One"

Does this mean we'll get another Charticon next year? Because I would really like that, since I can't make it this year.

Mastershooter Collectibles stopped by to let us know that they will be offering an exclusive 2-pack of Mastershooters at the show: "High-Que" and "Revaway"! This set will be limited to just 35 sets and will be available starting Saturday morning at MSC's booth!

Arkvander wrote:Mastershooter Collectibles stopped by to let us know that they will be offering an exclusive 2-pack of Mastershooters at the show: "High-Que" and "Revaway"! This set will be limited to just 35 sets and will be available starting Saturday morning at MSC's booth!

Looks like I know where I'm stopping on Saturday after picking up Landsharks!

Could someone pick me up a pair of these? Drop me a PM!? Very interested.

We've got one more exclusive for all you Charticon Faithful!

What, you didn't think we would cover two of the Decepticon Double Targetmasters and leave out the third did you? Our last exclusive for the show is an upgrade head for the Botcon Spinister figure released in 2012, giving him a more IDW look from his recent appearance in MTMTE!

This head will only be available at the show and is limited to 50 pieces! While you are there, stop by the Captured Prey booth to pick up the awesome Nit-Picker and Firebrand by Mastershooter Collectibles to complete your figure!

A big thanks to Wheeljack's Custom Body Shop http://www.facebook.com/MrWheeljack for the design and painting and Megatron31 for the casting of this great head!

That's actually a really nice looking head. Hate that I have neither the BotCon figure nor the funds and time to go to Charticon.

Sheesh, I would like to get one of these, too. Have the Botcon exclusive.

So wow. I can't get one request out without another exclusive showing up. Anyone going but not getting the exclusives? Drop me a line.

Getting close to Charticon and I'm Excited. I'm sad that work obligations will keep me from the Friday night events but I'm looking forward to all the Saturday and Sunday Events. I assume the Saturday Night Siebertron.com metup is at the Hotel bar?

Not enough exclusives for you? Mastershooter Collectibles is bringing a second set of figures for your purchasing enjoyment!

Shattered Glass fans rejoice!

I feel that there are more exclusives here than there are at BotCon.

Mindmaster wrote:I feel that there are more exclusives here than there are at BotCon.

We certainly didn't plan it that way, we wanted to try and keep things simple but I'll never turn away some exclusive figs

Hey Guys! Crowemag Toys will be set up at Charticon. I am located in the corner near the exit door, so make sure you see me first and not last! I have 2 locations in Raleigh, one at the NC State Fairgrounds Flea Market in the Education bldg, and at 3801 Hillsborough St inside the Royal Bakery bldg (inside the bldg, no outside signage, park in back, go thru back doors, towards the front left.) check out the Crowemag Toys facebook page!

So this is in a few days.

Sweeeet. See everyone Friday afternoon!

If anyone can help out a Shattered Glass collector, drop me a line. Really wanting the MasterShooters exclusives for the con.

Our friend Ken Christiansen dropped by to let us know he will be attending this weekend's Charticon in Charlotte, NC. Ken will be participating in the IDW artist panel on Saturday afternoon and selling prints, sketchbooks, and commission pieces through the weekend. He's also donating a Transformers Prime : Beast Hunters #1 sketch cover to the Charticon Charity Auction. Be sure to stop by Ken's table and say hello!

Charticon is this weekend! I'll be there Friday through Sunday. There's a meet and greet patio party Friday night, and I'll be on the con floor the whole weekend, but I'll step away, for just a bit on Friday afternoon, to join the IDW artists panel.

As usual, I'll have prints, sketchbooks, originals, and will be available for commissions during the show. Here's a more comprehensive overview of what I'll have with me:

Convention Stuff

Also, I'll be participating in the Charticon Charity Auction, supporting A Child's Place. I'm donating a Transformers Prime : Beast Hunters #1 sketch cover:

Also, I saw there's a couple of Rage of the Dinobots series in the auction, winners are welcome to stop by and get them signed as well. I'm hoping it's a massively successful event!

Hope to see you there!



Oh, and one more thing. Charticon, NC + Discovery Shark Week = Sharkticon Week, on the Bad Flip Blog. Every week day I'll post a sketch of a shark themed bot...you know, for fun.

We start with Hammer Strike.

Wow, that cover is amazing!

Hey, I screwed up - the panel is Saturday afternoon - hope to see some of you guys there!

Va'al wrote:Wow, that cover is amazing!

Thanks!

So what parts parties are gonna be going on? I have a box o' stuff to bring along to sell or trade for cheap, so if you're gonna have stuff in your room or whatnot, lmk!

Be careful out there, I hear there is some craziness on the way!

Any seibertronians make it in?

redoutlander wrote:Any seibertronians make it in?

I made it in and had a blast. I have been to BotCon several times and actually preferred this smaller convention. There were great guests and exclusives and the smaller numbers allowed you to get to know people while making the line-ride a bit shorter. The dealer room was also much, much larger than I was expecting.

I am just a run-of-the-mill fan (well, a pretty intense run-of-the-mill fan) but I was still able to hang out with Paul Eiding, Paul's wife (whose name I am forgetting), Hal Rayle, and another fan for around 4 hours at the hotel bar. (I was even serenaded by Hal and his ukelele.) You get to hang out with voice actors occasionally at BotCon, but the event is so large that something like the experience I had would be tough to pull off.

Plus it was about 700$ less expensive given the low registration and hotel costs.

Sounds like a great time! Also quite a bit closer to me than California. Going to try to make it some time... maybe next year.

Really wished I could've made it. I would've had a blast!

Bad news everyone - there will be no Charticon 2014.

but -


Good news everyone! There will be a Charticon 2015!

Quoting their facebook page:

It was a tough call, #CharticonArmy - this year's show was a great success and we've received an overwhelming amount of feedback and support from all of you, asking us to bring back another incredible event!

It's in that vein that we decided to do the next Charticon in 2015: to give our staff time to recuperate from all the planning for this year's show and to give us time to make sure the NEXT Charticon is even BETTER! We have some BIG THINGS planned for Charticon 2015, and we want to do it RIGHT for you guys! ...

"But what will we, the Charticon Army, do in the interim?" you ask! Do not despair! We will continue to keep the Charticon Community going and growing! We will have monthly Transformers meetups and are encouraging TF fans in other cities to do the same! We are rolling out a new #CharticonCommunities project, run by the fans FOR the fans called #CharticonSpotlight !

Down the pipeline, you can expect more planning by the Charticon staffers for 2015 and we'll continue to need YOUR input and support! We'll be organizing fundraising events through Indiegogo/Kickstarters, contacting more artists, voice actors and musicians, getting more vendors and planning more activities to make the next Charticon the BEST Transformers experience!

If you want to help the #CharticonArmy put on the best Charticon show yet in 2015, let us know how you want to help and we'll put you to work! Direct Message us on FB or email us at FeedTheCharticon@gmail.com

See you all again then, hopefully sooner!

Well, darn, I was hoping to make Charticon 2014 my graduation trip since I couldn't make it this year. Oh well, I'm happy to see that another convention is in the works!

What a great convention and very memorable. For those that have heard the Twincast podcast, I am the winner of the Fort Max. However, I no longer have the Fort Max. Rather than taking the figure back to Oregon/G1-land, I gave the figure to my best friend's artist partner.




One of my closest friends who also lives in Oregon, did all of the artwork in the packets for attendees.