If you’re an 80’s cartoon aficionado, you won’t want to miss Retro Con’s charity auction this year! Voice actor (and Retro Con 2013 guest) Neil Ross has generously donated his remaining scripts from his voice-over work from back in the day. We have sorted through these and put together a catalog of them to be auctioned off at the show!

These are genuine dialogue scripts used by Neil in the recording studio while working on such classic shows as Transformers, GI Joe, and Voltron! Some include the call sheets, and many have hand-written notes in the sidebars and even the occasional doodle or other artifact. Many of these scripts also have differences to what made it into the final episodes, such as alternate lines of dialogue, and some instances where lines (and even scenes) were removed altogether from the finished shows! As huge fans of these shows ourselves, these scripts have made for most interesting reading!

And to make the scripts even more interesting, we have sent them out to several other voice actors that worked on these series, who have kindly autographed them for us! A special thanks to Neil Ross, Michael Bell, Corey Burton, Sue Blu, Alan Oppenheimer, Gregg Berger, Paul Eiding, Zack Hoffman, Morgan Lofting, John Moschitta, BJ Ward, Jack Angel, and Frank Welker for their assistance on this charity project!

 

The event will be held on Saturday afternoon at the show, and our auctioneer will be none other than America’s favorite fast talker himself: John Moschitta Jr!

100% of proceeds earned will be donated amongst a few different charities. These include Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), Cat Angel Network (a no-kill cat rescue in southeast PA), and other charities that will be selected by our 2015 guests who have participated in this auction project.

Below is the auction line-up, which includes scripts along with other related items. We will include a CD with each signed piece, which contains pictures to help authentic many of these signatures. Not every item will have visual proof, however we have ties with all voice actors involved, so virtually all signatures can be verified with a little routine inquiring. We are also willing to help prove authenticity with details on when and where items were signed.

*All GI Joe & TF scripts are DIALOGUE ONLY (no scene set-ups or action descriptions)*

1. GI Joe: Revenge of Cobra miniseries scripts- Parts 1, 2, 4, and 5
-Signed by Michael Bell, Gregg Berger, Neil Ross, B.J. Ward, Zack Hoffman, and Morgan Lofting.

2. GI Joe: Countdown For Zartan script
-Signed by Zack Hoffman, Gregg Berger and Neil Ross.

3. GI Joe: Cobra’s Candidate script
-Signed by Neil Ross, Michael Bell, B.J. Ward, Gregg Berger, and Corey Burton.

4. GI Joe: Captives of Cobra- Part 1 script
-Signed by Gregg Berger, Corey Burton, Neil Ross, B.J. Ward, Michael Bell, and Morgan Lofting.

5. GI Joe: Twenty Questions script
-Signed by Neil Ross, Gregg Berger, B.J. Ward, Michael Bell, and Morgan Lofting.

6. GI Joe: The Phantom Brigade script
-Signed by Neil Ross, B.J. Ward, Michael Bell, and Morgan Lofting.

7. GI Joe: Arise Serpentor Arise miniseries scripts- Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4
-Signed by Neil Ross, Michael Bell, Morgan Lofting, Gregg Berger and Corey Burton.

8. GI Joe: The Synthoid Conspiracy script- Part 1
-Signed by Michael Bell, Zack Hoffman, B.J. Ward, Gregg Berger, and Neil Ross.

9. GI Joe: Cold Slither script
-Signed by Zack Hoffman, B.J. Ward, Michael Bell, Morgan Lofting, Gregg Berger, Neil Ross, and Corey Burton. (some signatures on call sheet)

10. GI Joe: There’s No Place Like Springfield scripts- Parts 1, 2, and 3
-Part 1 signed by Michael Bell, B.J. Ward, Neil Ross, and Morgan Lofting.
-Part 2 signed by Michael Bell, Morgan Lofting, Zack Hoffman, Neil Ross, and Corey Burton.
-Part 3 (from JoeCon 2014) signed by Morgan Lofting, Brian Cummings, and Zack Hoffman.

11. Heroes of Cybertron Grimlock & Megatron figures
-Signed by Gregg Berger and Frank Welker respectively.

12. Transformers: SOS Dinobots script
-Signed by Gregg Berger, Neil Ross, Michael Bell, and Corey Burton.

13. Transformers: The Burden Hardest to Bear script
-Torn off corner of cover
-Signed by Gregg Berger, Neil Ross, Sue Blu, Jack Angel, and Michael Bell.

14. Transformers: Call of the Primitives script
-Signed by Gregg Berger, Neil Ross, Jack Angel, Michael Bell, and Paul Eiding.

15. Transformers: Grimlock’s New Brain script
-Signed by Gregg Berger, Neil Ross, Jack Angel, Corey Burton, and Paul Eiding.

16. Transformers: Ghost in the Machine script
-Signed by Neil Ross, Corey Burton, Sue Blu, Jack Angel, and Paul Eiding.

17. Transformers: Fives Faces of Darkness miniseries scripts- Parts 1, 2, and 4
-Signed by Gregg Berger, Neil Ross, Corey Burton, Jack Angel, Alan Oppenheimer, Sue Blu, and Paul Eiding.

18. Transformers: The Movie script
-Note: This script is missing 8 pages.
-Signed by Frank Welker, Gregg Berger, Neil Ross, Corey Burton, Alan Oppenheimer, Michael Bell, John Moschitta, Sue Blu, Paul Eiding, and Weird Al Yankovic.

19. Voltron: Who’s Flyin’ Blue Lion? script
-Signed by Neil Ross, Jack Angel, B.J. Ward and Michael Bell.

20. Voltron: Enter Merla Queen of Darkness script
-Signed by Neil Ross, Jack Angel, B.J. Ward and Michael Bell.

21. Voltron: The Fleet of Doom script
-Signed by Neil Ross, Jack Angel, B.J. Ward and Michael Bell.

22. MOTU Man-At-Arms Commemorative Series reissue figure
-Signed by Alan Oppenheimer.

23. GI Joe Tomax & Xamot 25th Anniversary Figure Set
-Wear on top of cardback
-Signed by Corey Burton and Michael Bell.

24. Yarn Optimus Prime figure
-Made by Anthony Tuski of Retro Con.
-20″ tall, made of yarn woven into plastic canvas.
-Moving arms and head.

25. Transformers: The Movie Poster
-Poster is a modern reissue
-Poster measures 27″ by 40″
-In plexiglass frame
-Light wear on edges of poster
-Signed by Frank Welker, Susan Blu, John Moschitta, Neil Ross, Corey Burton, Paul Eiding, Michael Bell, Alan Oppenheimer, and Weird Al Yankovic.

So please consider coming to the show and bidding on these pieces of history. You’ll be donating to some very worthy causes to boot!

We’d like to give a special thanks to RetroDaze! Their generous donation helped give us the means to pick up the scripts from the west coast and get many of them signed!