A couple of photos have been circulating the internet that may have revealed a pair of this year’s BotCon at-show exclusives. The images reveal what looks to be an Alpha Trion and Shokaract figure, both of which we’ve seen rumored prior. It looks like the rumored list is proving true so far, we’ll know for sure soon enough!
triKlops
Shokers is cool but Alpha looks pretty sweet; can't wait to see how this develops.
Whovian Zorker
No, no, no. It's ugly employee.
I hadn't read Shokaract's full bio, so with the other comments it makes a bit more sense for him to be a pirate.
Darn! I thought I could cross him off my list of exclusives I wanted….
Catatronic
I guess that means the paint job on Alpha Trion is pretty employee?
flatline72
rampage was the incentive aka free figure with the club subscription.
It's not like they charged $59 like the transmutate figure.
and as far as them reusing that mold with the new head…it makes money sense due to the fact that they made a new head for the figure and now they are recoping the costs factor by offering a figure via that mold for botcon.
Gryph
I don't really see how.
TCJJ
They're really trying to make the club exclusives redundant, aren't they? These look nice, though.
LegendAntihero
I'm glad they're offering this at BotCon. I'm going to BotCon tomorrow. Now I don't have to buy Rampage off the online club store just to get this retool of TFP Megatron
flatline72
sucks to be those folks then….aside from the cybertron scrapmetal figures being used…that cybertron monkey has to be the worse possible customizing mold , especially using translucent plastic.
who wants to paint over translucent plastic? that spoils the whole awesomeness that translucent plastic provides.
gawddammit
It is.
flatline72
i'm going to laugh my ass off if that cybertron TF monkey with a surfboard is the customizing class figure.
OMG.
Ektris
Shokaract looks simply stunning and makes complete sense as an exclusive this year… He even does sort of fit the theme.
But I am still not at all sold on the Alpha Trion from Thundertron. He just does not look the part.
DarkPrinceofKaon
Now not entirely. Shokaract, in just about any fiction he appeared, always started out as a low level scout or bandit and then by subsuming Unicron's Spark, rose to that of a Conqueror King.
Either out of some left-field irony or rather some strange genius, Fun Pub possibly managed to choose the perfect character to represent concept of "pirates". His forces moved in, they took everything they could carry and what they could not they burned down to the ground (or just out right obliterated your world). Yeah, I'd say that the pirate them is pretty much alive and well in this one.
Shokaract does look fantastic! He's a great villain with a very original back story and I believe that he adds a lot to the Transformers mythos, especially in the area of helping us all get away from the "Autobots VS Decepticons" formally that we have seen for years. Ironically, IDW is just now exploring that concept.
Lumpy
Shokaract looks cool, but I'm not digging alpha trion much. I want to see pictures of the rumored twins.
Whovian Zorker
Yeah. The only problem is —
So was I, but–
All I can say is that if the real Predacon Overlord hears about this, that pirate-branded pipsqueak using his name and likeness is going to be in BIG trouble.
gawddammit
…and?
The original used the BW Rampage mold. Seems fitting, don't you think?
Gryph
What's wrong with that? I got Rampage, and I was hoping for Shokaract, too.
Warpshard
Did anyone else notice the way that Alpha Trion's shoulders were transformed? They actually look really cool like that. It may very well become by Leo Prime's default Transformation.
Richform4
Shokaract the use of the Rampage mold from TFCC. wow
Novaburnhilde
Those two look "very" awesome.
Shokaract as a Star Seeker? I like that concept.
Raiju
Alpha Lion looks pretty sharp!