A MAN, A PLAN, A PANEL-BOTLANTA!

The breaking of the 85th seal of the Roboplastic Apocalypse is the sound of Larry Hama playing guitar at Toylanta 2017! Yes it's the post TOY/JOE/BOT-lanta episode and it's packed with all sorts of stories about toys, joes, bots, and lantas. Join the Nostrodomatron as he realizes that after this convention, he's a lanta, she's a lanta, and you probably would like to be a lanta, too. How did my very first ever successful awesome wonderful toy robots ad panel go? Did Derek Yaniger finally bring comic pages to a convention? How much for that Zartan crotch in the window? And would I rather ride a strong donkey or hump an old unicorn? Hear these and other horrible revelations in this MAMA WE'RE ALL LANTA NOW edition of the podcastalypse!

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BUY LIKE YOU FIGHT!

The Combaterwars Combinecons popped up at military bases during the holidays. I noticed the shelf warmers at the nearby Army PX were the flying Combaticons and the shelfwarmers at the Air Force BX were the ground based Combaticons.




THE DESOLATION OF KAYCEE

No trip to Atlanta is complete without a quick swing by the old abandoned Lionel building. This visit ended up a little more exciting than the last time I was here.




REAL TOYLANTEAN HEROES
Marten Jallad (left) Toylanta organizer, Derek Yaniger (center) artist illustrator, and Rob Springer (right) Botlanta track organizer




IMPERIAL CHUTES HAVE ENTERED THE FALLING

The Saturday night parachute drop was as surreal as ever, with 12 inch Joes and other figures plummeting 14 stories to the waiting attendees, elevators, and carpet.




ROB HAS SUMMONED ME HERE FOR A PURPOSE

I got to kickoff BOTLANTA with my overhead projector, showing and telling the Toylanteans about Jetfire mockups, Lionel Playworld, red cab Ultra Magnus, and unused Micromaster card art all from old toy robots newspaper ads.




ONE PAGE IS ALL HIAXUS FOR
FINALLY, after chasing Derek Yaniger all over Florida and Georgia, finally he brought comic pages to a con. I was so happy. I got to man his table while he was in his panel, AND I bought page 27 from G2 #1. I dug it the most, to say the least!




HEARD THE NOISE/ SAW THE TOYS/ GOT SOME CROTCHES
It was a weekend of toylantastic overload that will live forever so long as freedom exists. Legends of panelanta were born, a new convention experience was forged from the united titans of Joe and robot fandoms, and I almost got arrested. Plus I got some crotches for my Snake Eyes and Zartan. What more can a man ask for than Larry Hama guitar solos and a dependable 50 year old overhead projector. We shall remember you, Toylanta 2017, we shall remember.





SHOW NOTES OF THE PODCASTALYPSE

• Encounter with one of the rarest store flyers of all
• BREAK-AAFES commercial
• That famous old abandoned Lionel photo
• Interview with the first post Lionel owners of the old Buford Highway building
• BREAK-Kiddie City commercial
• Post Botlanta panel thoughts
• Putting my horrible first panel attempt behind me
• Being recognized by the guys from Radio Free Cybertron and others
• BREAK-Derek Yaniger at La Fiambrera Art Gallery
• Derek Yaniger stories
• Audience members tweeted and tweeted from my panels
• I gave away a slide or five
• Vintage TF vendor Galaxie OfJunk had a nice Omega Supreme
• Don't rocket punch your friends!