MEDIA A To Z COMPANION
BY: Tony "Auto Forse" Buchanan

			BOTCON FAN MADE MERCHANDISE
		       Date of Compilation: 7/16/1996

**Iteneraries**
BOTCON PROGRAM (12 pages) July 1994 available at CotCon by Jon and Karl
Hartman.

BOTCON '95 CONVENTION SCHEDULE (11 pages) August 5 & 6 1995 available at
BotCon II by Jovanka Kink.

BOTCON PROGRAM (12 page) July 12, 13, 14 1996 7x8.5 booklet by Men in
Black.


**Special extras**
TRANSFORMERS: BOTCON '94 TEN-YEAR RETROSPECTIVE 136 pages, counting color,
by David Kolodny-Nagy.

BOTCON VIDEO B "BotCon '94: A Video Retrospective" = 1 video tape 
running approx. 1 hour 30 minutes. Produced by Tim Finn (see address
for Trans Spoof).  Price $12.00 US.  Comes with 3 page explatory 
notes.  Well done.  Divided into the following sections:  The Collection
Room, The Art Contest, Weaknesses: Does not include Tony Preto's
presentation on non-US Transformers.

"BOTCON '95: A Video Retrospective" = 1 video tape running approx.
1 hour and 29 minutes.  Produced by Tim Finn (see Trans Spoof address).
Price: $10.00 US.  Contains in depth converage of: Convention layout/
hotel area, collection room, art gallery a pan of the toy dealers, the
TF Movie laser light show and Toy variation panel.  Also lightly 
touches on media and club panels.  Only weakness it can be accused of,
is not covering the media and club panels in depth.  Very good
presentation.

**BotCon '94 Products**
BotCon '94 pass
BotCon '94 button
Botcon '94 T-shirt (with G2 symbols) in both purple & red (The BotCon
exclusive toy was Breakdown, in aqua green and light pruple.  This was a
Generation 2 toy which was never released to the general market . . .
only a limited supply was made and all made for BotCon were tagged as a
BotCon exclusive, toy is sealed in factory made blister pack with 
pictures of other supposedly made Stunticons behind the BotCon sticker).

**BotCon '95 Products**
BotCon '95 pin/pass for weekend (yellow)
BotCon '95 pin/pass for Saturday (purple)
BotCon '95 pin/pass for Sunday (red)
BotCon '95 logo magnet
BotCon '95 T-shirt (with old symbols) in both purple & red (I missed purple
one)
(The Botcon exclusive toy was Night racer a recolored Gobot Highbeam 
in black and flourescent yellow.  It was bagged and stapled to fan-made 
card with profile).

**BotCon '96 Products**
BotCon '96 T-shirt Arcee in parody of "Pulp Fiction" gold on black
BotCon '96 T-shirt version available black on white I didn't get
(The BotCon exclusive toy was an Onyx Primal a recolored black & 
grey Optimus Primal.  There were 3 different boxes available for: 
Preregistrants, Dealers, and VIPs who helped with con and for Staff).

Also made by a Dealer there "Starbase Rugby":
1) Black cap with both Autobot & Decepticon symbols embroidered on it.
2) Black T-shirt with button collar with both Autobot & Decepticon 
   symbols embroidered on it in corner (missed this one).
3) Pair of lapel pins gold-colored metal in form of Generation 2 
   Autobot & Decepticon symbols.

			OTHER FAN-MADE VIDEOS
COLLECTIORS VIDEO from Karl & Jon Hartman including: Transformers The Movie
Trailer, Japanese Transformers The Movie Clips and Beast Wars TV Show Ad
plus the 2-part Beast Wars preview.  Running time approx. 1 hour.  Comes
with color flyer to past on for a tape sleeve.  Price was $15.00 at
convention.