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| Botcon 2009 Convention Toys Teaser Information |
| Posted on 01-06-2009 at 02:47 PM by Sol Fury | Posting on the Transformers Collectors Club forums, Brain Savage has released a few small hints about what the Botcon 2009 Exclusive toy set might contain:
"For one young Autobot..." is all we have revealed so far. While we tend to guard the convention sets and souvenirs closely, I want to let you know that we are very excited about what we have waiting in the wings!
The set we have planned features a select team of Autobots never before featured in G1 in this way. The timeline we are spotlighting is new, yet very familiar...
Let the games begin!
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| | Credit: xZAOx of the 2005 Boards! | Views: 2,387 | | Mr. Knight:
I think if this set came with Sunstorm there would be so much NerdRage it would break the internet.  Trailbreaker77:
I was really hoping to attend this year I just can not work out the cost of the flight. I will get the non-attending set but I would have like to have gotten all the exclusive figures.
Locke: Quote:
Originally Posted by WhiteMocha  I dunno... you could get close if you included that other pre-TF gold-mine, Microchange:
Red Mirage
Blue Optimus
Police Sideswipe/Sunstreaker
Black Ironhide
Blue (or other pre-TF minibot color) Bumblebee
Blue Bluestreak
Black Megatron
Blue Ravage
And, uh.... well, shoot, I guess Grimlock would look about the same, but for having a blue crotch. And you couldn't very well use the blue and silver Jet-robos, they would look almost exactly like Starscream and Thundercracker.
Though the idea of having a second unattainable Botcon Thundercracker IS delicious in its cruelty. 
Okay so maybe not quite ten toys. Darn... I liked the pre-TF idea too. Especially if the box included some retro, wackily-proportioned, painted Diaclone-style boxart as well. | While admittedly impossible, the powered convoy repaint of the city commander armor would round this set out nicely. xZAOx: Quote:
Originally Posted by WhiteMocha I dunno... you could get close if you included that other pre-TF gold-mine, Microchange:
Red Mirage
Blue Optimus
Police Sideswipe/Sunstreaker
Black Ironhide
Blue (or other pre-TF minibot color) Bumblebee
Blue Bluestreak
Black Megatron
Blue Ravage
And, uh.... well, shoot, I guess Grimlock would look about the same, but for having a blue crotch. And you couldn't very well use the blue and silver Jet-robos, they would look almost exactly like Starscream and Thundercracker.
Though the idea of having a second unattainable Botcon Thundercracker IS delicious in its cruelty.
Okay so maybe not quite ten toys. Darn... I liked the pre-TF idea too. Especially if the box included some retro, wackily-proportioned, painted Diaclone-style boxart as well. | Most of those I mentioned. I did totally forget about red Mirage (that mold is awesome), and recoloring minibots. I seriously don't think they'd get away with a black Megatron, due to toy laws. But the "pad with eHobby style" repaints is a good idea. Black Sideswipe and Sunstorm are easy.
airfox: Quote:
Originally Posted by WhiteMocha And, uh.... well, shoot, I guess Grimlock would look about the same, but for having a blue crotch. And you couldn't very well use the blue and silver Jet-robos, they would look almost exactly like Starscream and Thundercracker. | Quote:
Originally Posted by xZAOx But the "pad with eHobby style" repaints is a good idea. Black Sideswipe and Sunstorm are easy. | You could always add to the Diaclone decoed Classics, some decoed like G2 toys (hey! it's the 25th anniversary! you can homage both pre-tf days and post G1 days), like Black Sideswipe and Blue Grimlock.
And since we're talking pre-TF, you can also include different Valkiries decos on Jetfire, like Max or Millia's VF-1J, or Ben's VF-1A.
Do we have 10 figures already?
-airfox
Edgewise: Quote:
Originally Posted by airfox You could always add to the Diaclone decoed Classics, some decoed like G2 toys (hey! it's the 25th anniversary! you can homage both pre-tf days and post G1 days), like Black Sideswipe and Blue Grimlock.
And since we're talking pre-TF, you can also include different Valkiries decos on Jetfire, like Max or Millia's VF-1J, or Ben's VF-1A.
Do we have 10 figures already?
-airfox |
If FP is still of the mindset of not re-using molds they've used before then a whole lot of the 'padding' options are out the window.
Dark Starscream:
Seriously, when is FP going to tell us something???? I can't stand all this waiting! The convention is only 4 months away! We know 7 months in advance last year about Shattered Glass!
airfox: Quote:
Originally Posted by Dark Starscream Seriously, when is FP going to tell us something???? I can't stand all this waiting! The convention is only 4 months away! We know 7 months in advance last year about Shattered Glass! | Did we? By my own recollection, the convention brochure was made public aproximately 4 months before BC08, not 7.
I'm expecting more info by February 1st.
-airfox
Baccala1976:
Last year pictures were trickling in February and the Con was in April. I wouldn't expect anything until mid to late Feb for this one (not that I agree with it)
Dark Starscream:
Can't... stand... the waiting... >(
RedAlert Rescue:
If it's Gladiatorial I won't be buying it with any sense of enthusiasm. if it's characters like a couple of Energon Autobots rebranded as Rack and Ruin or a toy of Straxus I might be more interested.
Personally I'd rather they just filled in some gaps and made things Hasbro seem disinclined to make - such as perhaps Mixmaster (from Quickmix) & Hook from (Mudflap). Since there's been a few Constructicon sets sold as Universe with missing characters and those would be a good idea to round out the missing Constructicon members as non combination characters.
I hope it's not Gladiatorial I dispise that aspect of Transformers I think it's far to over played in certain comics.
Solscud007: Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Knight I agree that springer is very important to the Wrekers and doing a set with out him would just be wrong, which is why I think this set wont just be the normal G1 Wrekers. If they are going to do the wrekers this year they will probably do something like Animated Wrekers or Shattered Glass Wreckers so that springer can be in the set. If it is G1 like the 2007 set the they already did one and they'll just use that model in the botcon comic. | There is only one TRUE Wrecker haha  |
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