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On May 10th 2021- BotCon FINALLY posted to its Facebook page a statement giving detail to who is apart of "BC Productions" that owns the name "BotCon" and outlined who is who on board of trustees. One of whom is Pete Sinclair, confirming what fans had been stewing over for a year. Facebook post It was also then pushed out to their other media account on Twitter,  click here . BUT did BotCon ever NOT say Pete was involved? Did they lie? BotCon never said anything officially for or against it. Fans were actively talking online in public spaces and forums about it, and messaging on BotCon social media to "address" if Pete was working for the convention or not. BotCon simply said nothing. Silence. For over a year. Not confirming or denying. Plausible deniability could be the reason for saying nothing. Or it could have been a detail lost to them since a month after the February 2020 announcement the whole world went into lockdown because of the Covid-19 Corona

On May 8th 2021 -  The Stasis Lock Podcast announced on the TFW2005 forum that they would be broadcasting a podcast that evening to clear the air of who was involved with BotCon 2020 (BC Productions) going forward. They also posted to their twitter social media. The following link  TFW2005 forum discussion post #850  details the initial announcement, the link to the YouTube channel and the aftermath notes taken by a forum member about the conversation on the podcast. Bret Lovell detailed how he was the CEO of BC Productions that now owns BotCon. No one else was detailed to run the convention with him, until the BotCon public post two days later that detailed six individuals.

April 29th to May 1st, 2021- Botcon tweeted a transformer toy themed reaction and got random responses from the fandom which sparked the following response from the Botcon social media twitter account: This in turn started a fan after fan response in the negative about the actions of doubling down and a few other fan issues with Pete which merged with BotCon issues. Between the fans who were not aware of the past credit card security leak and the ones who'd been active attendees at the time, it stirred the upset for hours and brought Pete to the platform to confront random posts by searching BotCon as the keyword. He started jumping in and out of responses calling them "lies" and "hateful words" to discredit him and the convention. The following interactions between fans where the most prominent: JarodimusPrime ian_reid aksmth TokuChris And some fans just blocked him as soon as he jumped into their twitter mentions just to stave off the drama before it even st

The previous "Transformers Collectors Club" twitter social media account was rebranded by Pete Sinclair to @TFMatrix. And for several years it was completely fine and free from problems. (If this isn't your experience please contact us at TFCO so we can provide proof and background of other wise.) Gliding under the radar of most fans who did not even know it was him behind the account. When fans on twitter were told they were surprised because many of them were still following the formerly branded TFCC because they were members of the club or had an interest in what the club of the past put out on media. Several of them expressed that they were not aware of who was running this account. On or around the end of April 2021 during a heated back and forth between fans the @TFMatrix account was deleted completely from Twitter. (TFCO is still investigating what the cause and lead up to this deletion was.) From what we could gather, the back and forth started after the Botcon T

In February 2020 , on the allspark.com transformers news site, it was reported that Karl Hartman announced via Facebook the widely known transformer convention BotCon (once ran and owned by FunPub) would be making it's return and relaunch back into the world.  ( click to view announcement ) The forum went on to chatter and converse about the joy and trepidation of the returning Botcon. You can read about it HERE . The allspark.com website went on to announce that they would be hosting Botcon chatter on their forum, and in the frustration between fans on the forum on the announcement and between the ranks of the moderating staff... where they disagreed, several threads were locked and unlocked. And in the end, the upset between the staff itself, several members of the staff resigned. They published a very public letter. ( which you can read or download here ) Pete Sinclair, former employee (head of PR) of FunPub, who aided in running the previous era of BotCon, went on the forum

We are a group of transformer fans who are building a community of individuals who stand for transparency, honesty, and accountability to combat online harassment and deception.  We started this blog to post information at a hub where we can avoid direct confrontation to personal social media accounts etc. and keep the conversation on events rather than on individuals. It is meant to be anonymous so no one person can be singled out and harassed online. All comments are moderated. Some fans may choose to contact us through comments to report harassment to keep them safe we have opted to keep all comments moderated to delete information that should be kept private. Thank you for your understanding. When submitting information, we prefer public posts that are available for large groups to see and coordinating links, so our readers can search out information and keep us accountable as well. If you are receiving "DM" Direct Message harassment or "PM" Private Message hara