April 28th, 2008
Hayden has been a big fan of Transformers ever since his older cousin had a Transformers birthday party. There he learned all about Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, who are the only Transformers he still knows to date.
We’ve since picked out a few small versions of the above Autobots, for our toy collection. Not full on transforming robots since those were a bit above him at the time, but useful enough to be featured in Hayden’s robot stories.
This past weekend in an attempt to destroy his future sex life (says the guy with several Transformers T-shirts and a 20 year anniversary Optimus Prime. High school’s going to be rough buddy!) I took Hayden to the Transformer’s convention, known as BotCon, which just happened to be located nearby this year.
I learned a lot of things from my first BotCon. First of all, and this is probably true of any sort of fanboyish activity, everyone shows up for when the doors open. It took Hayden and I 40 minutes to get in the door. Miraculously Hayden was patient for the whole ordeal. However, from 20 minutes after we got in and on, there was no line.
The next thing I learned is that the BMI of the average BotCon attendee is…alarming. I don’t want to be judgmental, but it was very eye-opening.
The event was very packed, but everyone was very nice. There were tons of families, a number of vendors selling new and old Transformers (plus one open box of GoBots, wtf?), advertisements, and some artists from Hasbro drawing sketches of characters from the new cartoon.
Hayden wound up getting a personalized sketch of Bumblebee and the big boy versions of Bumblebee and Evac, whereas the other boy in the group got a Grimlock (he’s my favorite).
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