The Great TFCon Disaster of 2024 

Was beyond honored to have met you at TFCon, that was deadass one of the best weekends of my life

I too yearn to be yelled at by PerspectiveEnd.

PE identified by first fan he meets due to his emotional outburst powers is like... the most this channel thing that has ever happened I await a future incident where he nicknames chunky twins Skids and Crosscut

It's alright perspective not everyone's first conversation experience is great

It’s very sweet of you to care so much about it all

Why were you trying to assemble waspinator? he was missing a limb for most of his screen time

Unfortunately couldn’t make it. Wish I could have been there to meet the funny internet man made of triangles and other geometric shapes.

It was great meeting you at my first convention, was almost too nervous to talk to you when you were at the art booth, but got the nervous feeling out when meeting Alfonso and Primus the Creator. Incidentally I didn’t end up using the spare bag, just stored it in my backpack. You were also the reason I went to the convention, I’m glad I went, got to meet other fans, met people who helped this franchise and even got to voice Gears for a live script reading. This was a day I won’t forget and I thank you, no matter if it was awkward first time or at the end of the 3rd party panel.

Well on the plus side, it's only up from here I guess. I'm sure it wasn't as bad as you are thinking, and a lot of fans just loved seeing you in person. So don't beat yourself up, everyone makes mistakes.

Ah perspective got his first case of con crud welcome to the club

This video is so relatable though, I think we've all had social events go horribly wrong that we kick ourselves for (and haunt your nightmares for years to come). Don't beat yourself up too much though, it WAS your first time after all.

I'm sorry you went through so much stress. I think there was a lot of factors adding up. First TFcon, first time meeting fans. I'm positive the next experience will go better though :)

Don't worry perspective everyone can be social anxious at times. Heck I had social anxiety a majority of my life. Also I personally can't wait for the MMC constructicons review you seem really exited about them and I kind of am too so I'm ready for a cartoon perfect devastator that can combined.

It was great to meet you PE, I was rhe guy with the black flower Hawaiian shirt, you were the first person I've ever taken a photo with at a convention and it was amazing

7:41 A movie toy? PREPOSTEROUS

perspective end being super socially anxious and wanting to apologize for everything, is quite funny. also, releived that you weren't mirdered there, considering how your reputation within some corners of the fanbase in general.

Watching this with cereal 🥣 I hope you're doing alright!

I see why you took that one photo! The MMC Constructicons looks fantastic! Can’t wait to see the full team they make!

Oh, dude, I can sympathise. My first TF Nation, I had a migraine on the outward journey, arrived in pitch darkness and in pouring rain, woke up in the middle of a panic attack on the Saturday morning (long story!), and spent the day as a 100% introverted zombie, barely acknowledging any other people. I almost didn't go to the evening events because I was feeling so out of it. A group of people I'd never met before sat at the table I was on, and tried SO HARD to engage me in their conversations, as they were surprised I'd come to the show completely on my own but, even then, I was basically monosyllabic. The Sunday was not much better and, to be honest, I'm never exactly Mr. Sociable, but I very nearly decided never to go to a convention again, particularly after my train got cancelled on the way home, so I lost my reserved seat. Changed my mind in time for the following year's event, which went much better, and convinced my girlfriend to come along the year after that.

I had so much fun at the convention, and meeting you and your brother was definitely a highlight

As someone who hasn't been to a TFCon, this was cool to hear. Also, the second waves of the Hasbro collector lines this year have been such a disaster in being revealed that I now have Silverbolt in pre-order when Cybertron Starscream, the Deluxes, and Beast Machines Cheetor-morph haven't even been officially revealed.

Next time I’ll definitely have to keep an ear out for your voice lol I would’ve loved to meet you!

for lining posters up like that, get a piece of black background paper so that the line between doesn't pop as much.

And the mistakes keep piling! You called Combaticons that picture you took in the video, but those are Scrapper and Mixmaster! 😂

Hey Perspective, I just wanted to say thanks for the video, I had a really stressful night and to wake up to the mad ramblings of a triangle was exactly what I needed. Thanks for everything and keep up the great work

My local target had like 5 tigerhawk figures. Its massive!

Well at least the next one you go to will be a whole lot better right?

P.E willingly buys a figure from a movie adjacent line? What has happened to reality?

This is exactly how I would be in your situation- awkward or uncomfortable. I think at least half your fans would be the same, so no worries 😉.

6:46 I would justify this by saying “Tigerhawk only appeared in like 2 episodes,” but then I remember the tragedy that was Transmutate

You know that one spoiled it scene in SpongeBob where he breaks down in front of plankton despite not doing all that bad? I always think of that when these things happen. It is beautiful to imagine.

7:29 I literally screamed loud when i realized you have a Bayverse figure. (im a big Bayverse fanboy) I would like to see a full review of him in the future and see you get more Bayverse figures. (Like Ransack, Dirtboss, Mindwipe, and Seaspray)

Knowing that there will be more than the dealer room is helpful, my first tfcon will be later this year in Baltimore so I’m looking forward to it

Well, that sucks.. better luck on the next one. Good learning from that one. Magbe do a live stream next time.

I got three things to say. 1) my first con was a wild experience. Very similar though. It was Pensacon 2022, I had no idea you could go to the celebrity meet and greet zone, me and my brother though you had to PAY just to meet them. (And it's a shame because Ian James Corlett was there that year. I COULD HAVE MET CHEETOR), but now I know that you don't need to pay to meet them. 2. I actually met David Kaye at Pensacon 2023. He was actually one of the coolest people I've ever met, he was such a cool guy. He shared with us some Transformers behind the scenes stories (according to him he auditioned for the role of Optimus Prime in Transformers EarthSpark, but was turned down for Alan Tudyk) we had a "Peter Cullen Optimus-off" where we both just tried to give our best Peter impressions, AND he even signed my Vintage Megatron box, and he was cool enough to let us take a picture with him FOR FREE! If you ever get the chance, definitely meet him. 3. I KNOW TIGERHAWK IS SUCH A PAIN TO TRACK DOWN! I finally managed to find him a few days ago. That's kinda ridiculous that nobody knew who you were talking about considering he's sold out everywhere.

It was awesome meeting you there man! You were great there, don't be so hard on yourself.

Meeting you was one of the best things that’s ever happened to me, and don’t worry, I have a ton of social anxiety despite being an extrovert, so you don’t have to feel bad about not talking much, because I was feeling the same amount of dread of screwing everything up as you did lol 😅

Don't worry man. At least you were able to go. I wish I had the time to do so! I hope some time I can meet you there.

sorry to hear about that PE, will you be reviewing the bumblebee movie rumble?

Damn I’m sad I didn’t get the chance to meet you. I wouldn’t doubt it that I walked past you a lot maybe but didn’t get the chance to ever meet you. Also never seen your face and don’t know if you ever did a face reveal so again wouldn’t know it’s you lol but I also bought that art work as well. It was exactly the Maximal and Predacon arts too but my freebie was the Soundwave ejecting out his cassettes. All were a gift to my little brother for his love for Soundwave and Beast Wars

Hi PE. Let me know if this sounds familiar. You bought a toy/artwork, that you really like. But there is a small flaw with it. Like a QC error, or discolor. You then thought to yourself, maybe I can fix/improve this part. And so you tried, not realizing it's much harder than it looks. And of course, you darned f-ed it up. And in the end you made it worse, now all you can see is your mistake, and your regrets of not leaving it alone in the first place. I have made plenty of such mistakes. But in the end, I think experimentation helps me get better with each mistake. But man, the graveyard pile to get there.....

I’m very sorry for your disastrous TFCon experience, time-wise and interaction-wise. Maybe the next one. Good haul though.

Man, I wish I was able to go. My family arent big on long trips, and LA is probably nowhere near the top of their travel list. It sucks, because transformers cons don’t tend to happen down south, so I missed out on meeting a bunch of my favorite channel guys (you being the top, duh). Not to mention, I want to experience the thrill of finding my grails there

Hahah. I feel you, i went to my first con over the weekend as well. It's a pretty overwhelming experience. You got the next one, easy.

OCD MAN RETURNS!!!!!! 8:39

I would tell you not to overthink it, but I know if what you described happened to me, I would overthink it like hell. I think the best you can do is to go back to TFCon next time and do better. When I say better, I mean doing it in a way that makes you feel better about the outcome. Hopefully, I get to go to TFCon someday. If nothing else, just to gwak at all the toys.

Eh, It could be worse. I remember going to my first Con and somehow losing my sister despite we were walking around, literally holding hands for the first hour or so. Then, our mom gave us a $100 dollar budget and I spent $20 of it on Legos. But hey, never forget your first, but their also usually the worst. Hopefully next year will be better

Don’t worry buddy, a lot of people obsess over bad social interactions. The other day I was listening to music really loudly and some dude complimented my jacket and I didn’t hear him and I felt bad.

I'm going to try and make at least one of these conventions in my lifetime, but man a scotland to America flight will actually kill me.

Mixmaster and scrapper, my favorite members of the combaticons

If it makes you feel better, when i went to my first TFCon, I brought two friends of mine, and I felt like I was acting like a complete fool in front of them in a couple of intances. Like how I imediately bought thing at first glance because of having something akin to the "ooh, shiny" mindset, then having buyers remorse and going around selling/trading with vendors. Which made me look like an idiot to them too. And because of all that, I didnt have enough money to purchase an autograph from Stan Bush, so I asked one of my friends to lend a little cash for it. (Uuuuuuuugh, I'm still mad at myself for that). He was cool about it, and i think he did say i dont have to pay him back, despite offering to do so first thing. And that doesnt even cover my two trips of going to disneyland for the first time in almost a decade. Thr first being with my high school senior class, and the second with my cousins (where i acidentally spilled the blue milk of one of my cousin's kids, you can imagine the guilt i felt).

If it makes you feel better your fans will feel the same way too meeting up with their favourite youtubers, like you, so don't be hard on yourself

With your remark about Beast Wars and how people view it, blame people not looking past the animation (despite the fact it was one of the earliest pieces of fully 3D animated media and was fantastic for the time. I think it holds up perfectly fine because of that). As for TFCon, I think my best haul item was a Bitcon 2015 Battletrap. I hate most of that set, but I love that Battletrap and base Springer figure. The other thing that's kinda my guilty pleasure is getting a whole POTP Volcanicus and a Perfect Effect default Combiner upgrade kit for a great price. Now I just need a way to fix that ugly combined torso form.

I wish I could have been there, but literally forgot TFCon EXISTED. But granted I wanna finish my Prime Soundwave cosplay before I end up going to my first TFCon

Wheelie being a magical creature of some sort feels oddly perfect imo, dude cant stop rhyming like he's the goddamn demon Etrigan or something Ok wait my brain just considered that he might be some kinda Great Gazoo-bot, this likely ends up my new headcanon What have you done, PE 😅

I wish I could have gone, unfortunately I suffer from a critical case of living on the other side of the country. Oh, also I’m sure your fans that got yo see you had way more fun than you realized, never forget you’ll always be your biggest critic.

Mate our first TFCons were compleatly diffrent. like night and day. I am so sorry that your first con was that stressful. But you learn from those mistakes and get better. I suggest getting a hotel room in the future. I got a massive migrane after doing my panel and needed to crash, it would have sucked to have to have ridden in a car with a migrane. Your next one will be better mate 😊

Did the same thing this past year at gencon. Sometimes you just pay the money to buy more things at a large store.

this whole video is so chaotic and glad you really care about your fanbase

I actually just found tiger hawk at retail not too long ago, so you might find him yourself pretty soon

“We all make mistakes in the heat of passion, Jimbo”

You do you, don’t worry about it. (The only thing someone should worry about at a tf con is spending too much)

ah hyper analyzing and feeling shame while replaying every recent social interaction in his head. He really is one of us.

I now want to go to a transformers convention I've never been to one

You gotta know when LA traffic becomes a disaster, rookie mistake

If it makes you feel better I screwed up my first tfcon and i made a fool of myself infront of tjomega. It can be very overwhelming. I never realized how much of a plan you need before hand

i feel like getting yelled at by the funny internet man who *yells* at toys would be a experience

I got ss Pablo, good god is he awful. Everything is like 3x as tight as it needs to be, and there isn't any clearance for the arms in the transformation, so you end up bumping into the clear plastic door wings.

0:40 The mmc combaticons huh

conventions are fun, i'm going to tfnation minicon in Manchester next saturday. It would be cool to meet you at a convention, but being on different continents kinda causes issues

I am still so mad this year I was out of the country and it was the one time I don’t go that you were there there’s always next year 👏👏👏

I wish I could have met you i don’t care how awkward it would have been meeting my favorite RU-vidr would be dream come true

Well your first con experience is miles better than mine, mainly because I haven’t gone to one yet, but still…

Sounds like a rough time. Well, at the very least not all of it was on you. At cons, it's easy for people to forget like...manners or how to act, so don't sweat it if you call someone to attention about it. It's one thing to have fun, just don't be crazy about it. I get how it can be meeting childhood celebrities, I had the chance to meet Jason David Frank and my buddy at the time said I was kinda starry eyed over the experience.

Kinda wish I could go to TFcon LA, but I live on the east coast, and I can’t drive, and I’m too young to get a hotel. But I’m going to TFcon Baltimore at least, I’m hoping to get some older RID 2001 figures, maybe even get a brave Maximus if I’m lucky. But I’m mainly looking for team bullet train and the rest of the autobot brothers

I went and it was definitely something, I didn’t really do anything, just night down stuff, but I still liked it

I've never actually been to a TFCon ever, so I'm just wondering why there were just bins of random transformers parts. It's probably helpful for people who need those specific parts, but outside of that, It's still confusing to me

Wow ur like the kindest transformers youtuber ive ever seen ever

hey perspective how do you feel about the new skybound comics so far ? especially about cliffjumper, optimus and starscream, and what do you think about the possibility of a crossover with invincible ?

Ive been thinking about getting tiger hawk for a while, and my question to you is is it worth the full leader price or should I wait for a sale

Oh yeah don’t forget jimmy Kimmel insulted the transformers fandom in the 2024 Oscars and he did while tfcon was there in California

Don't be so hard on yourself. TFCons are as close to positive sensory overload as a place can be. Shame they didn't put up signage. David Kaye is very fun to meet.

Uff! Awesome prints!

Know exactly how you feel dude tfcon chicago 2022 was my 1st con I filmed a few videos lol

Also ocd man is sending me

8:39 ocd man is back!!!!!!

Dude I can so fucking relate to you with being way too empathetic about stuff like this. I will feel sorry for little jimmy who got the spoiler box ultra Magnus while already having the siege version. Don’t feel too hard on yourself, I would have probably done the same shit (plus I would take being yelled at by my favorite RU-vidr over a beast wars waspinator as one of the best moments of my life).

Thanks to you I might buy the mmc constructicons well maybe just 1 or 2

This is so on-brand for the channel, it's as if god planned it.

I've never been to a convention

Ah geez, sorry to hear you didn't have fun yourself, but at least you got a good toy haul. The after-convention bug is pretty standard, I'm afraid; exactly why they were shut down during the height of the pandemic. Not having been one of them I can't tell you "Don't worry so much, it was fine" about interacting with people in person (and me saying that would be hilariously hypocritical to begin with) but attending a convention is not a performance unless you're on a panel or something, it's okay to not be on full blast anyone surprised the quips don't roll like a normal scripted and retake-as-needed episode when meeting an online influencer in person is setting their expectations too high to begin with. (and you don't need to feel like you need to reply to this either, I know the comments on this video are probably filled with similar sentiments and just reading my word-spew wilt take long enough)

Wish I coulda seen ya, but next time for sure :)

Hi! What can you say about Alternators? Do they look good? Bad? At least interesting?

Please review the tfcon haul

It was your first convention, you just didn’t know. (Sorry if this comes off rude or something)

So, you could say your convention experience was… unconventional?

never went to a TF convention, don’t intend on ever doing it 👍

Wait, wait- You're joking! SOME "TF FANS" DON'T KNOW WHO TIGERHAWK IS AND THOUGHT HE WAS AN OG CHARACTER IN LEGACY?!

How good is HFTD Highbrow? I bought POTP Beachcomber for 9 bucks and he's honestly the perfect size. He's supposed to be around the same size as Bumblebee vehicle-wise. Powerglide and Seaspray, on the other hand, are ridiculous miniatures of vehicles the size of a house, so they've got to be at least Deluxe scale. I ain't buying TR Seaspray. Also bought an old Prime Arcee that's arriving in a few days. I hope Space Wheeljack's coming into my country. Have you seen Space Wheeljack?

Do you naturally talk fast or do you purposely speed up you voice in editing?