The TFcon 2013 third party panel has just wrapped up and we have all the news on what’s in store for us from some of the best groups making their very own Transformer toys.
Pictures will be added shortly of the slides shown. Until then, click the title bar to see whats coming from Fansproject, Mastermind Creations, X-Transbots, Perfect Effect, Keiths Fantasy Club, Maketoys and more!!! Hi guys. This is kicking off shortly. I’ll be updating the first post with all of the info as I receive it. This won’t be like Botcon or SDCC with the live feed, I’ll just be updating. The front page will be updated once the panel is over. The slides from the panel will be in our possession VERY shortly so just hang tight for pics!
EchoTF
– will be making Fall of Cybertron Bruticus Kits
Unnamed Company
– making Voyager size Skyfire
Mayhem Mechanix
– “Robo Dominion Saga Unrustable Bastards” Non-TF based with a rider.
– Bike turns into robot and rider in chest piece.
– Fiction has robot cycle gangs roving wastelands.
– Mayhem Mechanics, one of the of the mastermind Creations designers. Same who designed Hexatron and most of Feral Rex.
– Will be a kickstarter project.
Ori Toy
– Acid Rain toys. Stronghold out now. More soon. Converting mechs that fit 3-3/4″ figures
Fanstoys
– Nothing new shown.
Keith’s Fantasy Club.
– VOLTRON redeco of Ironpaw
– doing Raindance, Grandslam, Overkill and Slugfest.
– Overkill and Slugfest will have Dinobots color redecoes
– Showing Perceptor and Magnificus
– Doing a Skybyte called “Haiku”! and doing a Captain Shark deco as well!
X-Transbots
– Huffer and Pipes being shown
– Huffer comes up to MP-10 Optimus’ waist
Renderform
– Nothing new to show
BTS
– Doing a Blaster that turns into a walkie talkie
– Senator Ratbat head design also shown for that same mold
– Triple changing Energon cubes – cube, bug, weapon
– Some will be on display here
– will be “Low Cost”
– Nova Lord box art shown, has a base mode
– Prototypes of Nova Lord’s head sculpts will be on display. Possibly also his powermaster partners
– BTS was working on a Fortress Maximus, project cancelled when Encore was announced
Mastermind Creations
– Peaugh has full color test shots of Fortis and Bovis here (Jarodimus has handled them, they’re outstanding)
– Will be on display
– Peaugh did a live 5-foot drop test of Bovis. Zero Damage.
– Talon pushed back to November for design changes and new features. He is a sniper — has 2 helmets, rifle, wings act as cloak
– 6th Feral Rex bot is saber tooth tiger remold of Tigris, deco like Catilla, name is Felisaber (G1 Colors) Mostly yellow, some red
– Showing femme bots
– MMC doing a very G1-ish Perceptor. Will have toy and cartoon face. 3 modes, super articulated
– Prototype looks very good
Headrobots
– Iguana is next – finally!
– Doing an Apeface head
Perfect Effect
– IDW Fort Max – seen at Botcon
Maketoys
– Doing Scourge version of Battle Tanker — no suprise. New head
– IDW Swerve WITH A TRAY OF DRINKS
– COMPUTRON all five shown in bot mode
– concept shown for combined mode
FANSPROJECT
– No news on release date for Steelcore trailer — still happening
– Showing combined Intimidator (Menasor)
– Roadbuster! Very nice, a half track
– 4th and 5th Glacial bots being shown
– Wooly Rhino and deer
– Announced a Quickswitch/Sixknight
THE END
chansformers
For those wondering,the maketoys swerve is an all new mold,better sized to fit the classics line than the soon to be released hasbro version.besides the drinks and tray and bfg given to him by brainstorm in the comics,he also has an interchangeable face which shows the point in the comics when he blew his own face off,ala robo skeleton.this was confirmed to me by the head guy from fans project at their booth.if you look closely at the pics of bots from the dealer room floor,the little black prototype sitting down on his but with his legs spread is the version of swerve with said skeleton face plate.thers three versions of him in there,normal and standing with the trays,alt dune buggy mode and the sitting skeleton.
Transformed
Oh, wow! Those are going to be huge. I think I'm going to need a new shelf after all
Peaugh
They're roughly the size of the old Beast Wars Ultras. Razorclaw slightly taller.
PyjamaPrime
The only thing I'm pissed about is that there's still no news on Savant. He's all we need to finish off the main Autobot Headmasters and there's still been no news on the set
Scaleface
I could not even see paying money for the FansProject psuedo-Headmasters, so I guess it's a matter of opinion on style.
Pj07r80
Wow. I could not disagree more, especially about Hardbone. The easiest pass ever.
daimchoc
There were pics of the Feralcons with Azalea, and Azalea is a DX sized figure.
zfarsh
no, they will all be smaller, even Leo is only 8". Use the pic showing Hex in the mix. Hex is about same size as Quakewave
ebonyleopard
Feral Rex components. Is that photo right? Will the individual robots be almost the size of Quakewave?? There's never a photo of them and their combinded form next to anything for an accurate size reference.
Whelpd
Anyone know when the kickstarter for the Robo Dominion Saga Unrustable Bastards is going up or if it is already up?
jbz
Headrobots fail. They gonna lose all their audience/target base. I just want Ronin already…
TFXProtector
A friend in attendance (I didn't get to go ) said it had been canceled due to MP-13.
Good question… I'm assuming that with everything on their plate, they couldn't make it happen right now.
ryu hayabusha
maketoys what happen to the omega supreme upgrade??
IceCreamCyborg
So…. Will there be an Acoustic Wave? Maybe?
knightmare6
Thanks! I was wracking my brain on that one!
OptionZero
Maketoys Lightspeed, a component of their Computron. In black proto form
knightmare6
My brain's currently overloaded from all these gorgeous photos, but um… who's this?
Scaleface
So now there are two videos of the 2013 third party panel on Youtube. both are partial and bad copies, but cover different parts of the show…
EchoTF, KFC and X-Transbots stuff: Transformers Con (TF Con) 3rd party panel and ECHO TF reveal – YouTube
FansProject stuff: TFCON 2013 – And now the NEW 3rd PARTY TOYS – YouTube
hardreturn
well there was the ori toys stuff and the mayhem mechanics stuff that were very much people doing their own thing. and doing it well.
Ra88
Wait, why were Ori Toys there? They're not a Transformers focused company, they're closer to 3A aren't they? Indie company that makes their own stuff? Though it'd be really cool if TFCon evolved into a promotional platform for indie companies doing their own thing, not just Transformers stuff.