Botcon 2014 Hasbro Display Case Images – Transformers Age of Extinction

Okay I'd hate to be a necromancer, but this is directly related to the BotCon 2014 display. I read on tfwiki that AOE Hotshot originally had flames when shown on display at BotCon 2014, which was corroborated by posts mentioning the flames in associated threads, and now that I've finally found the images the flames are nowhere to be seen. Does anyone have the pictures? Or is this some full on Mandela Effect going on?

I look forward to Jetfire and Brainstorm more than anything else

Any word on the release date of the two leaders?

mttyns

Would they not have had a translucent one to take the package pics with in the first place…?

Again, the same thing happened last year with Predaking. The official pics sent out were translucent, the figure on display wasn't.

SPLIT LIP

Exactly.

Plus, the one on display isn't hand-painted. He's got chrome and is clearly made of normal plastic.

…this on the other hand, I can't argue with. Looking more closely at the photos, you're definitely right about some parts being plain plastic, such as some of the joints as well as the sword. On the other hand, all of the blue and red parts have a pronounced coat of paint on them and the flame decals look like they're applied via transfer decal or something, which you can really see in this picture http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/attach/3/9/4/7/1/DSC04410_1403463441. So I have no clue why it's not transparent blue  

In any case, I'd be stoked if the final release had normal, non translucent plastic because the yellow windows and bright blue really turned me off of the first release.

SPLIT LIP

You're joking, right?

There's more to come. Just because we haven't seen it doesn't mean you need to start spelling doom and gloom for AOE.

I wish Rusty Prime was part of the Autobots United.

I don't know if I want to end up with three of that mould, and good as it is.

Same here especially as the others are far more screen accurate, plus I prefer the non-faceplate head of that mould. Maybe they'll do a slightly different Scrapyard Optimus (seeing as they went to all the effort of giving him a prefix) as a single figure or even better, in a 2-pack with a more screen accurate version of High Octane Bumblebee. That's a set that would kind of make sense.

Ribieconvoy

Yes, and it probably will be upon release. Often times, hand painted prototypes are displayed at Conventions if a production sample isn't ready. He's just dark blue because well, you can't paint solid plastic into translucent colors. The same thing happened last year when the new voyager Predaking was revealed and displayed.

Would they not have had a translucent one to take the package pics with in the first place…?

I originally didn't want leader Prime, but with it painted like that, I'll get it. And that Grimlock looks good too…I should take my leader Grimlock back, along with Crosshairs, since he's getting better paint too.

BlueAngel_Bolt

I'm confused. Wasn't the Optimus in that leader two pack supposed to be translucent?

Yes, and it probably will be upon release. Often times, hand painted prototypes are displayed at Conventions if a production sample isn't ready. He's just dark blue because well, you can't paint solid plastic into translucent colors. The same thing happened last year when the new voyager Predaking was revealed and displayed.

I want that Dinobot set more than anything else at Comic Con

WhiteMocha

Yeah, I'm not sure exactly what went down with the naming (whether it was a trademark issue or something else) but I would imagine most people who buy this, myself included, will simply be calling him Tracks. Mark Weber essentially even said as much during the panel. This seems like a Tankor-is-Octane situation.

Ah, that's a bummer. Autobot Tracks would've worked, or they could've gone with Turbo Tracks like the RTS release. Hopefully this doesn't mean they can't use the name Tracks again ever, that'd make me very sad.