[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by KaiserBlue

Yay? Great that it's back but wasnt the corporate backing wjat helped make it so great? Even with the same ppl, it may feel like a husk of its formers self compared to it's glory days. Also, it feels like its lost its place and this comeback feels pointless. If its an unofficial con, there are already like 6 established unofficial cons that are great. What made botcon speicial was the official merch only at the cons and their tie-ins.

You are not wrong! Most people put up with BotCon and its organizers because it was the only place to get official merch. (All of that official merch is what's now Generations Selects, available for about a third of what you'd pay at Botcon and way less limited.) Without that, BotCon is basically TFCon, but run by people who squandered the community's goodwill. Not saying the new BotCon will be bad, or won't have some cool exclusives, but it's working with a lot less advantages than it used to have.