Most likely SG Wheeljack, since Downshift has a molded on Autobot symbol.

 

how in the world do people get the toys before their released nice find

 

oooohhh, good point, i'd forgotten about those...

 

Been talking this one over with BraveMax today.

I'll note that Wheeljack has a molded faction emblem on his chest (yes, he does, it's shallow and small, but it's not just paint, and subsequent uses of the mold didn't smooth it over). Also, no BotCon toy to date has had the molded emblems removed (Rhinox, for example), unless that change was already made by Hasbro for their own use, due to the obvious expense of even a simple change like that.

Given that, and the deco match as SG Wheeljack, I'm going to say this is almost certainly part of a 2-pack along the lines of Elita-1 and Razorclaw last year. Not related to the current year's story, but tied to prior club/con stories dirctly.

I am also going to speculate (BraveMax's pitch, and I agree entirely), that a very, very likely pack-mate for this figure is SG Galvatron. The size is right for a match to last year's setup (Deluxe + Voyager), and there really aren't any other unmade SG characters either of us can think of that are based on the right size of toy to make the pack work.

In other words, to borrow from Obi-Wan "It's not a BotCon 2010 toy, from a certain point of view".

 

If this does end up as SG Wheeljack, I'll probably still buy it and pretend it's G1 Slicer (just ignore the insignia... or say he's a defected Autobot or somethin), but I'd skip a Galvatron. That'd save me some money...

 

I please, please, please let this be the case. Ever since SG Galvatron debuted, I've felt it made a much better Universe Galvatron than the actual figure we got. SG WJ/Slicer would simply be icing. Delicious, strangely colored icing.

 

Sweet i love the mold since i got it for christmas and made it 100 times better as a henkei-ish look. I can't wait to get the mold again love it. The Botcon set doesnt fail all the way yet.

 

I suppose I could also see the other toy in the pack being SG Soundwave or Ironfist or Hound w/ Ravage. Both having been suggested earlier in this thread...

 

Well, last year they had a set that had figures that went with two previous Botcons, why can't this be one for the last two as well? One SG and possibly one WoH. Of course it may be wishful thinking, since I want to see a WoH Ironfist from Hound myself. Of course, even if Slicer isn't G2, he's a brightly colored European exclusive that came out just before G2, like Pyro and Clench; maybe he's one of the remaining Decepticons left after the main forces left earth and part of the reason G2 comes to be in this story. Heck, being a Wheeljack repaint, he probably plays the role of mad scientist that copies the new technologies present in the G2 bots.

Just speculating.

 

Wheeljack is a scientist, but that doesn't mean his redeco must be too.

Slicer (1991) - Decepticon Massive Assault Specialist - www.tfu.info
Slicer's tech spec. He's basically really really angry

 

Not digging this at all.

 

If it's not for Botcon (as someone "in the know" has already stated) then what the he'll is it for? HftD? Generations? I hope the symbol is filled in.

 

If it isn't a Botcon exclusive, the only other thing that it could be, imo, is a Generations figure. HftD is, for the most part, movie themed (Seaspray, for example, has some movie influence, but is mostly Classics-styled), so I doubt a repaint of an Energon figure would end up in that line. While it is a really obscure thing to homage, that wouldn't be all that surprising the way Hasbro has been going the past couple of years. Specifically with Generations in mind, Darkmount (aka Straxus) is a really obscure homage too, so one more wouldn't at all be surprising to see.

Though I still think this is most likely a Botcon exclusive. The color scheme fits this years overall theme, and the figure next to him looks as though it could be the Rapido figure we saw a while back (though there is little to go off of, so it could easily be another figure entirely).

 

He could still be HfD if he's an exclusive. Remember all the walmart movie exclusives that were intended for Universe/Classics but Wally wanted movie packaging...

In any case, as old as the mold is, it really FEELS like something the club would do... Maybe it's for the custom class, I don't know...

 

Oh I am just talking out my a$$. My friends and I love messing with peoples when they start wildly speculating... Joke's run it's course. I have no clue who this is.

 

D'oh!!!

 

Oh, that was hilarious! You should be so proud!