Trypticave: The Trypticon Museum



Ever since I saw him on TV and in various catalogues, I have been a huge Trypticon fan. As a kid I watched the cartoon and was very impressed by him. Trypticon was just enormous. There was nothing that was bigger than him. Well except for Unicron, but I wasn’t aware of his existence until I saw the movie. When I was older, I always resented that the creators made him a big, stupid and easy to defeat Transformer. He had so much potential.
In 1995 I found him in a second hand toy store and he was my obsession from that moment on. I collect everything that’s got to do with him. I almost have every toy that’s been released, I have posters, animation cels, games etc.

More about me:

• Collector Interview with Maz

My collections from the past:

• Autobot City and Charr dioramas
• Telling the Transformers tale: from More Than Meets The Eye till The Rebirth

Trypticon display cabinet #1




It's all about the original G1.




G1 Constructicons constructing G1 Trypticon (Five face of darkness, part 4).




G1 Trypticon attacks the minibots whom are protecting the Ark (Five face of darkness, part 5).




G1 Trypticon battles his archanemy Metroplex, both handicapped due to their faulty transformation cog (The ultimate weapon).




G1 Trypticon in city mode with the Stunticons and Onslaught.









G1 Trypticon in battle station mode with the Combaticons.



Trypticon Platinum edition.


Left OG Trypticon, right Trypticon Platinum edition.


Trypticon Platinum edition MISB.


Titans Return Trypticon.




Titans Return Trypticon in battle station mode.




Transformers Legends Dinosaurer in city mode.




Transformers Legends Dinosaurer in Beast mode (homage to Godzilla 2016).




Titans Return Trypticon with ToyHax stickers.




Full Tilt, Necro and Brunt.




Trypticon display cabinet #2.

Soon!


Display cabinet #2


All the variants.






Trypticon Keshi decoys.




Trypticon Keshi decoy MISP.




Trypticon Caramel - Glow in the dark.






Trypticon Kabaya models: left KO, middle KO and right OG.




WST Trypticon (custom).




WST Trypticon with a regular G1 Trypticon.




Classics Trypticon.




Shattered Glass Grimlocks, homage to Trypticon.




Diabolus Rex.




Device Label Dinosaurer.




MyClone Dinosaurer vs. Metroflex.




Complete collection MyClone Dinosaurer.




Transformers United Wipe-Out.




Trypticon's minions.




Planet X Apocalypse.




Gigstorm Japan.




Gigastorm South Korea.




Left: Gigastorm Japan, right Gigastorm South Korea.




Left: Gigastorm Japan, right Gigastorm South Korea. You can see the big difference in the colour of the horns.




Also, the one from South Korea has a sticker on the battery cover.




Gigastorm in dinosaur mode and battle station mode.




Dr. Wu Energy dragon collection.






Various custom Lego Trypticon's + official KRE-O.




Plush Trypticon.




Plush Trypticon with G1 Platinum Trypticon.






Boxes








G1 Trypticon's MIB, unapplied.



From top to bottom: European, USA poster, USA non-poster.



From top to bottom: Canadian, Italian GIG, Japanese.




Custom GIG boxes, ver very small.




Various items


Takara Tomy keychain of Dinosaurer.




Eyes of Trypticon and Transformation cog.





Polaroids used for the 1986 Hasbro Toy Fair catalog. This hardcopy Trypticon is my holy grail!





Lunchbox with thermos.




T-shirt from Emerald City Comic Con 2014.




Sleeping bag.




Let's play ball! From Italy.




Transformers 1986 board game from Japan: Defeat Trypticon.





Transformers Scramble City puzzle by Ocean.




2017 SDCC: Trypticon's Titan Master Crunch.




Nintendo game: Mystery of Convoy.




Trypticon magnet.




Trypticon patent.






Transformers 1986 portfolio map.




Trypticon profile in Takara Book reissue (Soundblaster).




1986 Advent kalenders.





Books

Custom TF Manga comic book.



Transfunket vol. 14.




Gigastorm in Beast Wars Second, The Big Book, TV Picture Book,1998.






Gigastorm profile in Beast Wars in Beast Wars Source book #2.




Hebrew cut out and colour standee book.






Dutch sticker book.






The Dutch Panini sticker book had a special contest where you could win a Trypticon.






The contest was promoted in various magazines, below the advert.



And via the back of stickers.




Catalogs

Hasbro Toy Fair 1986 pages.




From Lee's Guide: guide to loose 1986 Decepticons




Italian advertisement 1986 GIG Tripticon.





Comics

UK #111, incl. Trypticon his first appearance.






UK #112.




UK#168 incl. second appearance Trypticon.






UK #169.




UK#285 incl. Trypticon's datafile.







UK Easter Special 1993.



Best of UK: City of Fear.






Transformers Generations: King of the Hill.




NL comic #10.




NL Omnibus #2.




Swedish comic #6.




Italian comic #27.




German Transformers nr. 3 condor 1991 comic.




German Comic-Magazine #22.




Group shot.



Transformers Primacy #3 sub cover.




Star Trek vs. Transformers.




Optimus Prime, signed by Livio Lamondelli.




Salvation, signed by Livio Lamondelli.





Cards

Transformers character card: Metroflex & Dinosaurer Set.





Transformers Trading Card Game.








Dr.Wu Enery Dragon cards.





Animation cels

One of my pride and joys. Sadly, this transformation was never used in the cartoon.














Gigastorm (10 out of 28 cells in my collection)























Art

Personal commission by Andrew Wildman.




Baby Trypticon - Original Ken Christiansen.




Trypticon poster, art by Livio Ramondelli and Japanese box art.






Metroplex vs. Trypticon litho, art by Don Figueora.




Trypticon, by Emily Stewart.



Trypticon in G1 episode 'Call of the primitives'.



Thanks for watching!

 

Quite wonderful!!

Congratulations on an amazing collection, Godert.

All the best
Maz

 

Thanks Maz!

 

Very nice. Way to re-purpose the Unicron stand.

 

Very nice collection of Trypty merch! All you need is Brad Garrett's (the G1 voice actor) autograph!

 

Trypticon crush!

 

What kind of display cases are those? They're really nice.

 

Thanks! They are from a Dutch manufacturer

 

New pics added!

 

Art added!


by Livio Ramondelli


by Livio Ramondelli


Litho by Trypticon Metroplex Don Figueroa

 

I do enjoy when collectors choose a figure and then proceed to collect all the different types of figures and artwork.

 

Thanks!

 

Like you, Trypticon has a special place in my heart. I had the flu as a kid and my mom left the house and came back with a big ol' surprise. Trypticon of course! That was the best illness of my life. LOL I love your tribute to him. Very cool!

 

Thanks for your compliments! Tryp rules   What an awesome gift from your mother!

 

I gotta say, I love your love of Trypticon!   Honestly feel he deserves more figures/ media coverage than what he has right now!

Just curious, is the Kre-o Trypticon something you made or was that part of an actual set? Don't seem to remember one at least.
Also sort of curious, do you prefer it when Trypticon goes for a lighter or a darker gray in his colour scheme? I guess personally I wish the Titans Return figure had gone for a bit of a darker shade.

 

Tabitha Canipe made a brilliant cuddly toy of Trypticon. Thank you Tabitha! You can find her webshop with her self made cuddly toys here: Tabitha Canipe on Etsy

 

Thank you, I agree completely. He should get more attention!

The Lego Trypticon is fan made, by Custom Kreon Transformers - Trypticon 1.5.

I would have loved it if the Trypticon toy would have been darker grey. Perhaps in the future if/when the rerelease it? Fingers crossed!

 

Added: signed comics "Transformers Salvation" and "Optimus Prime #14" by Livio Ramondelli. Thanks Livio!

 

All i can say is WOW,... what a amazing collection of the big bot.

 

Updated Titans Return shelf: 1x Titans Return, 2x Legends