Botcon Registration
Registration was at 4:30 on the upper level of the Providence Convention Center. There were Botcon signs everywhere, and they had set up a huge Optimus Prime standup above the staircase leading to the registration area. We had to wait until 5:30 before the “blue” group was able to register (there were four groups that were assigned according to how soon you registered), so we waited in the general area until we could get in line. The original Transformers movie was projected onto the ceiling and there were people walking around dressed up as G1 Transformers, so there was plenty to gawk at while we waited.
We finally got to the front of the line for registration. This is where you get your name badge, your movie tickets and your exclusive box set. This year, the box set was made up of repaints from the Classics line: the three seeker jets that didn’t come out at retail (Thrust, Thundercracker and Dirge), a Jetfire mold painted like G1 Dreadwind and a new Bumblebee repaint named Bugbite. You can’t get the other two exclusive sets in the registration line, however. To do that, you have to wait in another line (and it didn’t seem to move at all).
We heard a rumor that people would be allowed to go through the exclusives line as many times as they wanted to in order to get as many sets as they wanted. The line was rediculously long, so we assumed that it was because people were returning to the back of the line from the front. We were pissed. We found out, however, that this wasn’t true — your name badge was marked when you bought the sets, so each registrant could only get one set until everyone had a chance to get one. Once this was understood, we decided to wait until the next day to wait in the rediculous line.
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