With TFcon’s 2012 exclusive Shafter rising to the occasion when it comes to this year’s exclusives, I figured now was a good time to give some focus to last year’s exclusive duo of Stronghold and Toxin. Stronghold is a redeco of the great Hardhead upgrade set, this time for Universe Onslaught, and comes complete with Reprolabels to customize the Onslaught body into something new and altogether unique – a proto-Fortress Maximus version of Fortress / Cerebros. It’s rather cool and the Ontario number plate decal adds a lot to the look.
Toxin meanwhile is a redeco of the first Headrobots release, Cobra, and is a nice little complement to the set – it also goes well on a Mindwipe body in my experience.
Open the links below to check out both galleries!
TFcon 2011 Exclusive Stronghold TFcon 2011 Exclusive ToxinTFcon 2012 will be held over the weekend of July 27-29, 2012 at the Delta Meadowvale Resort and Conference Centre in Mississauga, Ontario. Find out more and pre-register – or get your non-attendee Shafter – by clicking here!
Scaleface
For those interested, a guy worked up a smaller version of the Headrobots Cobra mold on Shapeways, which fits on FansProject Code!
http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/radic…plete-i-am-whole-again-fansproject-style.html
echotransformer
Spectacular job on these…wow, the articulation is incredible. Had considered that for mine but chickened out.
cylor
The SWAT one is Stronghold, Robotkingdom still has a few at $60. It includes head and Reprolabels stickers, you have to get an Onslaught mold separately and rub away the green paint OR repaint them silver. I went for the second route. Try and check out Vangelus' review for a better explaination:
Vangelus Review 128 – TFcon 2011 Headrobots Stronghold (With customizing tips) – YouTube
Gundamben831
and exactly how hard is it to acquire one?
brr-icy
they were sold at the convention last year
Gundamben831
are these being sold only at the con or will this be something that will be on stores/ebay as well? I'm only curious as I really like the swat vehicle headmaster and that would be really neat to see in-hand otherwise I'm gonna have to be stuck with buying the Savant kit and just doing that swap.
GeoKaiser
I can't resist showing these off here too. They were a lot of fun to make.
TFCON Toxin Transtector
TFCON Stronghold Transtector
Scaleface
Oddly enough isn't Toxin selling for more aftermarket than Stronghold?
Oh, here are the wiki entries for these two figures, including art, examples, and links about the toys.
http://en.wikialpha.org/wiki/Stronghold_(Headrobots)
http://en.wikialpha.org/wiki/Toxin_(Headrobots)
cylor
I've got one and I love it. Then I've also updated it with a Cerebros head and love it even more. Spot on marvel Fort Max…
It's the only one convention toy I've bouth this far.
Kuma Style
Awesome shot.
ORIO
I have one for sale in my sales thread if you're looking.
I never saw the bumper sticker before. That's friggin cool! Good job on the photos too Sol!
hardreturn
one of my favs as it was my first con toy
seali_me
I have one but I don't want it…
It never really impressed me that much. I guess it's because of the base bot they used.
echotransformer
Might I add the Chromedome repaint?
Janitor
*Ontario number plate. License plates are by province (sorry to be a stickler)
Own 'em both and they're all way cool. Still need to make room to display my various Onslaught molds tho (original, Fortress upgrade, & Hardhead w/ upgrade)
barrelks
Yea, as much as I like Hardhead, this recolor really looks great. I never bothered with the stickers, and have him on the D-Con shelf, but Head Robots really knocked it out of the park both on the original and the TFCon exclusive. I wouldn't sell my Hardhead though if I were you, Headrobots did a great job turning that figure into something special. I have both Hardhead versions, and when I bust them out, I am still impressed with how awesome they are.
I am almost surprised that the TFCon version can be fairly easily had on ebay still. I just need to "man up" and track down the Japanese version of Onslaught to give a little variation between the Butcher, Stronghold, and Onslaught.
mentok27
I have both stronghold and the hardhead/hothead version and gotta say it's one of my favourite 3rd party kits! Stronghold is perfect but I may sell hardhead in favour of a deluxe scale fig since I'm not terribly keen on having 2 of the 5 autobot headmasters be the same mold.
Dinobot747
Sigh…another thing to increase Onslaught's price.
Kaijumaster
WOW! I doubt I'll ever own that but darn immpressive!
Sol Fury
Stronghold – Headrobots – TFW2005.COM
Toxin – Headrobots – TFW2005.COM
With TFcon's 2012 exclusive Shafter rising to the occasion when it comes to this year's exclusives, I figured now was a good time to give some focus to last year's exclusive duo of Stronghold and Toxin. Stronghold is a redeco of the great Hardhead upgrade set, this time for Universe Onslaught, and comes complete with Reprolabels to customize the Onslaught body into something new and altogether unique – a proto-Fortress Maximus version of Fortress / Cerebros. It's rather cool and the Ontario number plate decal adds a lot to the look.
Toxin meanwhile is a redeco of the first Headrobots release, Cobra, and is a nice little complement to the set – it also goes well on a Mindwipe body in my experience.
Click on the links above to check out the galleries of both!