The BotCon 2006 coverage starts!

First of all - the exclusives. Additional to the boxset featuring Optimus Primal as a remold of Cybertron Crumplezone, Rhinox as a repaint of Cybertron Landmine, Cheetor as a remold of Cybertron Clocker, Rattrap as a repaint of Cybertron Ransack and "Darksyde Dinobot" as a repaint of Cybertron Longrack with the original Armada Hoist head (or, alternatively, a repaint of Armada Hoist with Cybertron Longrack's arm), the following toys are available:
- Tigatron as a repaint of Cheetor, as this year's boxset freebie
- A two-pack of "Darksyde Waspinator" as a remold of Machine Wars Thundercracker and "Darksyde Megatron" as a remold of Cybertron Defense Red Alert
- A two-pack of Laserbeak and Buzzsaw, both as as repaints of Energon Divebomb
Check out some pics of the exclusives here: Allspark gallery, TFormers gallery, Seibertron pics of Megatron and Waspinator, Allspark pics of Tigatron

Also, there's a summary with photos of Hasbro's "Transformers Design Decisions" panel available at TFormers, and more pics can be found here.

Lastly, the Beast Wars voice actor panel apparently confirmed a new Transformers cartoon show being in the works.

More news as they come in.