Canada’s 12th annual Premiere Transformers Collectors Convention will take place July 26th to 28th, 2013. TFcon will return to the Delta Meadowvale Hotel and Conference Centre, 6750 Mississauga Road, Mississauga, Ontario. Hotel block information will be available in the near future. Dealer bookings will be available in January.

The staff of TFcon would like to thank everyone for maybe the greatest TFcon in history.  Thanks to our guests Scott McNeil, Bob Budiansky, Wally Burr, Neil Ross, Josh Perez, Derrick J. Wyatt, Andrew Griffith, Silas Zee, Vangelus, Peaugh, Dan Khanna and Matt Moylan for sharing the weekend with us.  Thanks to iGear, Headrobots and Robotkingdom for providing the exclusives and all the other 3rd party companies for contributing to the product preview panel.  Thanks to Dylan G, Rage Design and Inch Imaging for their graphic and printing assists.  Thanks to Ryan for bringing Bumblebee and Barricade out for us.  Thanks to AVW TELAV for the AV support.  Thanks to Hasbro Canada for coming out and interacting with the fans one on one.  Thanks to the staff of the Delta for being great hosts.  Thanks to the staff and volunteers that work tirelessly to execute the convention every year.  And of course thanks to you the attendees who came out and made the event a huge success.

Lets do it again in 2013.

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.

NAME: Garrison
ALLEGIANCE: Seibertrons
SUB-GROUP: Hybrid Double Headrobot/Pretender
PRETENDER COMPONENT: Cortex
FUNCTION: Solar System Commander

“Some people are born into power, some earn it”

Profile: GARRISON is the younger brother of STRONGHOLD and head of the special weapons division of Praxus. Years of testing and research (including experimenting on himself) led to his one of a kind Headrobot/Pretender hybrid design. With the Masterforce War on Earth heating up, GARRISON was charged by his superiors to deliver the Godbomber Project designs. He must now reach the fragile blue planet’s Seibertron forces before it’s too late.

Abilities: While his main Transtector is his Grando Battleship which doubles as his space transport to Earth; GARRISON uses a smaller truck based body named HEAT to handle more scientific and basic tasks. He also has a Pretender shell dubbed CORTEX which he uses for disguise and other high profile missions. Additionally he carries the legendary Heroic Robot weapon called the Master Sword, which was passed down to him from his brother. Sadly, GARRISON is hesitant to use it in battle due to it’s destructive potential.

Weaknesses: Unlike his brother, GARRISON is not comfortable being a super powered fortress base. While he can pack amazing fire power, he only uses it when the situation is truly dire resulting in not being the most effective warrior on the battlefield. He would rather be developing weapons then firing them.

This TFcon 2012 exclusive is limited to 100 pieces and limited to one per weekend ticket holder.  You can purchase it when you register Friday night at a cost of $70.

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.

100 pieces of the Perfect Effect PE-10X Shadow Bat Convention Exclusive figure will be sold at TFcon 2012 courtesy of RobotKingdom.  They will be priced at $40.

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.

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’s expansion to a 2 day convention was originally made possible through merging with the Canadian 80s Toy Expo on the Sunday of the event. This was necessary due to many dealers completely selling out of merchandise on the Saturday requiring a dealer room restock if a 2nd day was to be added. This year is no different with the Sunday bringing us one of Canada’s largest dealer rooms for 80s toy related merchandise consisting of dealers selling Super Heroes (Marvel, DC etc), Star Wars (new and vintage), Transformers (vintage and Japanese imports), G.I. Joe (vintage and modern), Masters of the Universe (vintage and classics), Wrestling, and tons of other Action Figures and collectibles.