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This obscure thread from the TFW2005 forum is very telling of how things were as a historical photo into the fans of 2012. Pete the fan was a wonderful person, but Pete the FunPub employee was a different thing entirely. It's a short thread but the final post seals the tale. Click Here to read

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 ...