Much to my surprise, shortly after my previous journal, more BotCon news took place! Namely, a bunch of different panels (Again, Q&A and future plans)

This time, extra special guest Weird Al (popular in the TF series for Dare To Be Stupid, featured in the '86 movie, and the voice of Wreck-Gar in TFA) had a Q&A with David Kaye (voice of Megatron in previous shows and Optimus in TFA.) Much fun was had, judging by the live text feeds. Wish someone could've recorded it. One thing I liked reading was that Weird Al apparently plays with his daughter using his Wreck-Gar voice, I thought that was cute.

Aside from that, there was also a panel for IDW, which from what I was told revealed that a TFA comic was in future plans, so that should be good news for fans. Another panel was for Activision, which revealed some info on the upcoming movie game, didn't really read that one either. Most important was Hasbro's panel, which explained future listing in the movie AND TFA lines. I must say, surprising stuff was said.

The only most notable things about the movie line is that there will be a special Toys R Us pack which features a blue redeco of Soundwave, as well as movie 1 Voyager Megatron for some reason. But the biggest thing there is the announcement of a movie version of Lockdown, the bounty hunter Decepticon from TFA. Lockdown's character and name were both exclusive to TFA, so seeing him graduate to a new series is interesting. And from what was said, it sounds like he's gonna be like a movie version of the TFA design, which I'm dying to see! But this will be in 2010, so we must be patient.

Now, I'm sure people here wanna know about the TFA toyline, right? They listed off every release they've got in mind, but I'm holding out hope they have more plans as time goes by. Here's what we should be expecting;
Electrostatic Soundwave with Ratbat
Arcee
Cybertron Mode Ratchet
Ironhide (Redeco/remold of above)
Rodimus Minor (Comes with spoiler missiles, apparently has odd legs)
Fugitive Waspinator (Simple redeco of Bumblebee, reenacting when he switched places with him)
Hydrodive Bumblebee (The smaller-than-Deluxe figure who comes in Voyager class with a submarine accessory)
Goldfire Grimlock (Gold redeco, yawn)
Blackout (Has an Earth mode and hand weapons or something)
Wingblade Optimus Prime (Voyager price point set which features Deluxe Earth mode Optimus Prime with jetpack, gauntlets and hammer JUST LIKE I PREDICTED)
Thundercracker (Redeco of Starscream)

So, wow. Hasbro surprised me with all these releases. However, I don't know if these will release alongside the movie line - All that I saw about it was that they want to release these all (especially Arcee) in some form, some may be exclusives. Before people groan at the word 'exclusive', I'm thinking maybe that refers to the redecos/remolds. So, no need to get into a tizzy.

Anyway, great stuff revealed at this BotCon. To be honest, this is the first time I'm actually reading up about BotCon stuff, so it's pretty exciting news. Probably not for the people who hate the movie AND TFA, but for me, it's AWESOME.