My excellent Nick Roche commission. First up, a quick piece of housekeeping for people that don’t follow me on social media: Because writing Revisitation is so time consuming and difficult (and whilst my break for TFN was planned, you’ll have noticed it doesn’t take much to knock me off-course and create an unplanned gap), I’ve decided that, once I’ve reached the end of 2012 in six weeks, I’m going to take a proper season break for the rest of the year.
The plan is then to come back in January 2025 with 2013 and a whole new fresh energy, and hopefully making things a bit punchier and shorter (because I still feel I’m badly over-writing them) without losing my free-form nonsense.
Now onto the real purpose of this piece though, something that probably would have been a Twitter thread a year ago, but now all the people I’m going to mention are so spread over different platforms, it’s easier to have one central post to link to.
I’ve just returned from the 40th anniversary of Transformers, TFNation convention. I’ve been going to the Birmingham TF Convention for 21 years, 19 cons, two convention names and my seventh specific TFN.
So, at this point, I’m probably the worst person for someone thinking of going for the first time to ask about what it’s like. Because the convention is an incredibly well-oiled machine, with Billy, David, and the entire team have such experience now, even a con that was basically at the limit of how many attendees it could have without becoming uncomfortable, flowed well. The panels were great, the dealer room was amazing (though I suppose if I did have one big piece of advice, now there are so many dealers, shop around. My two big Transformers purchase were both considerably cheaper on the second stall I saw them on, holding back saved me a lot of money), the convention part of the convention is as good as it’s possible to be.
The plan is then to come back in January 2025 with 2013 and a whole new fresh energy, and hopefully making things a bit punchier and shorter (because I still feel I’m badly over-writing them) without losing my free-form nonsense.
Now onto the real purpose of this piece though, something that probably would have been a Twitter thread a year ago, but now all the people I’m going to mention are so spread over different platforms, it’s easier to have one central post to link to.
I’ve just returned from the 40th anniversary of Transformers, TFNation convention. I’ve been going to the Birmingham TF Convention for 21 years, 19 cons, two convention names and my seventh specific TFN.
So, at this point, I’m probably the worst person for someone thinking of going for the first time to ask about what it’s like. Because the convention is an incredibly well-oiled machine, with Billy, David, and the entire team have such experience now, even a con that was basically at the limit of how many attendees it could have without becoming uncomfortable, flowed well. The panels were great, the dealer room was amazing (though I suppose if I did have one big piece of advice, now there are so many dealers, shop around. My two big Transformers purchase were both considerably cheaper on the second stall I saw them on, holding back saved me a lot of money), the convention part of the convention is as good as it’s possible to be.
RSS Feed
