I don't own either, but the Streetwise/Deadend mold is one I'd like to have to play with more than the Wheeljack/Breakdown mold. Even so, the large spates of white on his upper torso aren't quite what I was looking for. I don't know. We'll see once I have him in hand. I certainly don't think I'm gonna get a 1:1 trade of Lightsteed for UW Strafe like I plan on doing for UW Afterburner.

 

Not sure, but I think it's the guy who repeatedly asks for Headmasrer Arcee.

 

I think Liokaizer's micron is Starscream's, "Gul"

 

Yes it is. This was announced on the Transmissions podcast in November...

I have a solution for selling bodies for the Titan Master like Clobber. If you notice Clobber is not only Grimlock's head, but he is in toy accurate colors (red eyes). So in a year or two when they release a Grimlock figure, it can come with a Clobber with a show accurate head (blue eyes).

 

So having been there, TFsource was shut down for several hours while they went to take down their other, smaller convention and was then allowed to reopen. Although...maaaaaaany booths there had third party add on kits and were allowed to stay open. Ages three and up had third party figures out the first day, and was told to put them away, they put them on the bottom shelf of their booth but started selling a bunch so they put them back on the table. No one said anything.

 

you know, even if i disagreed how funpub went in the end, i will be sad to see botcon go. i went to my one botcon 2012, after waiting years to finally go. i had an amazing time, and i will never forget it. i am excited though for the future

 

I am sad that I never got the chance with my schedule to go to a Botcon, but I am excited for whatever convention comes next!

As for toys revealed, I think I am most excited about Bisk! I've been really enjoying the RID Decepticons. Vehicled that turn into animal men just sits right with me, and he looks really interesting! I'll be picking up a couple Titanmaster Deluxes, a couple voyagers, surprisingly some of the Titan Master individual sets, and waiting on repaints for a lot of figures as the molds look interesting but I have those characters represented in my collection already.

I wanted to check, is there any good method to find someone who want to split a set like an SDCC box set? I really dig that Fort Max painted Windblade, and the one I am not interested in is Highbrow as I already have the voyager one that I am really happy with. I guess I can always try and grab it and resell Brainstorm...

Also quick question on the Hasbro TFW2005 interview/panel. I though RID2015 Season 2 was confirmed to be the last season, is Hasbro now unconfirming it?

 

I think you guys wondered who Alpha Trion might be recolored/remolded into. I saw a hint in the molding of his Titan Master, called "Autobot Sovereign". chest, arms legs and head for the molding on Sovereign are exact copies of the molding on the molding on the Mini-Con Safeguard, which came with Vector Prime. So that would seem to be a hint they intended for the toy to be done as Vector Prime.

Autobot Sovereign:


Cybertron Safeguard:

I did an online trademark check. As you may know there are different trademark categories. Hasbro generally registers as toys.

Weirdwolf was briefly owned by Marvel Comics as a comic character, but they let it expire. No one owns the name in the toy category. Hasbro has never even applied for it!

Gort as a toy is currently owned by 20th Century Fox. Seems to be a toy for The Day The Earth Stood Still.

Monzo is currently registered under trademarked for several industries, like food and leather and scientific instruments, but nothing in toys. No one has applied for it.

 

I was born in the 80's, so my earliest memories of Transformers are the reruns my mom tapped off TV, the figures that my brothers had... and Headmaster figures. I remember seeing them in stores and getting those guys for Christmas/birthday gifts. I think I am more excited for the Titan Master guys, specifically the "original 7" as Vangelus calls them, than I have been for anything else in a long time. Even the new Powermaster Prime looks awesome to me. My G1 Powermaster Prime survived my childhood and I think the two will look great together on a shelf.
I really want to know if that Brianstorm is coming out by itself too. I don't want to have to buy a SDCC set just for him.

 

Since the host asked where he saw that Optimus Prime before, several of them appeared on ebay months ago and everyone thought they were prototypes or something.

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/trans...n/1055731-version-classics-optimus-prime.html

 

So I got Generations Sideswipe in the mail, today. As I look at him in front of me and pull up a picture of a certain Technobot, it occurs to me that with minimum painting, Lightsteed could be repurposed as CW Sideswipe. If I end up getting both sets, I might do that.

 

Oh man... was this recorded for historical purposes... Asking for Headmaster Arcee at the final botcon?

 

I'm only mad at Minimus Ambus being in that Platinum set because this was the perfect time to redeco it into an exo-suited human and they squandered that.

 

As someone else who is COMPLETELY unaware what "The Question" Don could have asked, the only thing I've been able to find is this.
BotCon 2016 - Collector's Club Panel Report Transformers News Reviews Movies Comics and Toys

So it SEEMS the question was asking if they would make the human versions of which ever two didn't get made recently.

 

Hey Vangelus and the gang, I'm not sure how to get you to pick a question but I've recently become a regular listener.

Given how anyone from past "-master" lines appear to be one of Titans Return's bullet points, do you think we'll finally get a new Hot Rod/Rodimus as a surprise or late wave toy?

While technically coming out alongside the movie cast boxset, his old engineering is starting to look pretty dated next to everyone's much more modern molds. Any other unannounced characters the dark parts of your inner collector are hoping for?

Click?

 

2:50ish time
LOUD TYPING!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijl0wXlGwaQ

Don has asks at the BotCon panel if they are going to make a Headmaster Arcee figure. He's famous for it. Been doing it on and off for over a decade.

 

A few thoughts...

I'm a bit more sullen over FunPub losing the licence than most. Did they have their problems? Absolutely. It is time to move on from this outdated business/convention model? Yes.
Still? They've been stewards of the only official TF fan convention for over a decade. There's been more good than bad, and they deserve to be recognized for that.
That being said? Them going away will be a net positive. The whole "Uncle Brian" stuff will go away at least. I know Vangelus and co. never meant it as such, but the jokes always came off as "hur hur he's southern, that's hilarious."
Hopefully this allows everyone to just move on. And hopefully allows people to look back on the totality of FunPub's tenure, rather than the turbulent last few years.

Aaron Archer really doesn't deserve standing room only. I know he was the head of "The Team" for many years, but honestly? I think the brand has only gotten stronger since his departure.
He left claiming he didn't like the restraints that the new budget dictated by The Economy placed on him. We've seen the new team make some great toys with that reduced budget.
Aaron's tenure saw half-hearted attempts at combiners. Now we have a whole subline devoted to them. And more super-referential stuff following that.
Just my personal opinion, but I think the decos have gotten stronger recently. We've got prominent, crisp faction emblems back.
On the fiction end of things? Archer oversaw the ill-fated and ill-conceived Aligned mess. Now? The new team seems to be embracing the IDW neo-G1 take. I'll take the latter every day of the week and twice on Sunday.

Aaron, like FunPub, is representative of a different, past era. Like with the convention it's time for everyone to move on and embrace the new hotness.

 

Yeah, check out the tfwiki page on aligned and you'll see that that was by no means his fault.