More photos
My photos for BotCon '95 are now up also. I think that's all the BotCon photos I have; if I took any at 2001, I don't know where they ended up.
The trend for BotCons for me seemed to be that I got into the dealer room aspects less and less -- also hardly stepped into the video rooms at all after a while. Felt like I'd seen it all. As far as purchases went, in the later 'Cons that I went to, most all I bought were interesting stuff that either wasn't actually Transformers, or that was knockoffs. I don't know quite why, but robot toy knockoffs have some sort of special appeal for me. Part of that is probably because I like different color versions of things I am already familiar with, and knockoffs usually are different colors. This affection for color variance isn't just in toys. In playing Street Fighter II, for example, I was quite happy when they came out with the "Championship Edition" because I could then play as different color versions of the same characters. (Though Capcom went a bit nuts by the time of Super Street Fighter II, which had seven or eight variations for each character -- yikes!)
Posted on Saturday, January 24, 2004, at 09:47 AM