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Cybercon Expo - Unofficial Transformers and Toy Convention
Description
On April 5th of 2003 fans J.E. Alvarez, Alex Weiner and Fran O'Boyle held their first fan-oriented convention at the Holiday Inn in Cherry Hill New Jersey. Born out of a desire to produce a great fan experience without a high cost of attending and with no desire to compete with other conventions, even to the organizers it was a surprising success as fans enthusiastically turned out in drones to attend. Before the doors opened there was a line of fans waiting to get in! In attendance was a representative of Hard Hero to debut new product as well as dealers from all over the East Coast.
On November 1st of that same year, Cybercon Expo Wave 2 was held at the Radisson Hotel in Mt. Laurel New Jersey. The organizers stated that each show would be bigger, better and different in some way from the previous convention and this show raised the bar considerably. Now, in a much bigger dealer room Cybercon Expo had room to accommodate more venders as well play hosts to guests of the industry. In attendance were Voice Actors Neil Kaplan and Wankus from the RID television series. Also making an appearance was comic book artist Chip Wallace. At the end of the evening a special dinner was held for organizers, guests and pre-registrants.
On April 10th of 2004 Cybercon Expo Act 3 returned to the Radisson Hotel in Mt. Laurel New Jersey. This time Atari, Palisades, and Fleer where in attendance as well Cybercon's Canadian sister-show Transformerscon who provided a Dreamwave comic with an exclusive convention cover. Set up in the dealer room was a "20 Years of Optimus Prime" display with every main version of Optimus Prime along with many rare variations. Also available were playable demos of Atari's then unreleased Transformers video game for the PS2. This was the most ambitious Cybercon to date and fans supported it as always by showing up in full force.
