At Botcon, Up is Down, Left is Right, and the Autobots are Evil
So Zach Oat, my buddy, frequent TR contributor and editor of ToyFare magazine, just asked me to go to Botcon next month, the Transformers convention. I knew the con usually had a ton of Transformers toy exclusives, but I didn’t know this year had a theme?specifically, if the Decepticons were good and the Autobots bad. Above, you can see Starscream repainted in Jetfire colors (note the Decepticon logo is in heroic red), but the real treat is the Autobots:
Yes, that’s an evilly black-and-purple Optimus Prime, but in his truck mode, he’s got graffiti on him reading “Til All Are Gone,” the nihilist version of the Autobots’ rally “Til All Are One.” I find this as awesome as it is nerdy, and it’s pretty goddamn nerdy, obviously. If you check the Botcon site, you can see evil Grimlock, evil Jazz (whose windshield reads “Massacre Racing,” [instead of “Massa Racing”]which is also totally awesome) and a few others.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.