Package pickup for Botcon 2015 is kicking off shortly – and our newsie Jacer has snapped some pics of the display outside of the club store, showing off this year’s exclusive toys!
There are three sets of exclusives this year:
- The Diaclone set of Lift-Ticket (red Generations Hoist) and Burnout (black Generations Skids)
- The Generation 2 set of General Optimus Prime (military green deco of Generations Roadbuster) and Sgt. Hound (white Generations Scoop, with new head)
- The Waruder set consisting of four Generations Deluxe Waspinator recolors – and four accompanying Generations Legends Waspinator recolors!
Check out the images after the break.
Autovolt 127
I have to say I would like to someday own all these exclusives.
Nice.
why aren't you in any kind of position to get the toy of your namesake?
"One of these things is not like the other?"
Well Takara already did their Roadblock. also the head design kind of reminds me of Tarantulas weirdly enough.
Yeah I have to agree. It'll all over the place. The best sets had a spefici theme in mind.
Digilaut
I'd like to congratulate Funpub with once again releasing a Botcon set that is a mishmash of potentially great ideas, thus ending up with only a 'you can sort of repurpose this one as that one' set.
Sorry, but…Pete, or anyone from Funpub that visits TFW…isn't it true that that the really well liked and great selling sets were the ones that are super coherent – the pre-Beast Wars one, the first Shattered Glass, the Animated one? Heck, I actually think even the G2 set did better than the sets from the last couple of years.
Seriously, all of the stuff in this set (box and loose souvenirs) would have been perfect as the 'full package'. Diaclone/pre-Transformers? Check. Movie characters in alternate universe? Check. Formerly unreleased toys remade? Check.
Not sure if this is some kind of Hasbro regulation that's limiting you or something, but please stop shooting yourself in the foot. Stop spreading your bets across the table, aim for one big thing. At this point I fully expect you to use Combiner Wars next year, yet fail to create even one combiner with the molds.
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Bass X0
The toys look good but I'm not pleased with the identities and storyline for them. The Diaclone story and characters should have been part of G1, not its own separate story. I admit that its kinda cool that Diaclone is getting its own modern story but that just makes the new characters non-entities. I don't particularly care for any of the new Diaclone characters even though the toys look good. I would genuinely have cared more for the Burnout and Lift-Ticket toys had they been named and characterised as Shattered Glass Skids and Hoist, two obscure old toys from the late 1980s or two existing fiction only characters.
I have no problems with Optimus Prime and Hound.
ljacone
Fox Kids Transmetal Waspinator, I assume? Because FK Waspinator was lavender and gold. Still a great looking figure — Generations Buzzsaw! Just needs a new head!
Jalaguy
To specify, Parasite is the black Halloween Horrorcon one, Mudfighter is the yellow Fox Kids/Shattered Glass one, Storm Rider is the red Warudaros one, and Paralyzer is the white Bug Bite one.
G.B. Blackrock
According to the bio cards (which seem to have specific-colored art for each, but the same text in all), they have designated functions. I've listed these on the data pages at The Unofficial Transformers Club and Convention Exclusive Data Pages
BScorpinok75
Do the Waspys have individual names???…
Swoop Dogg
Lol. I'm selling it for $137 (OBO) shipped in my sales thread. Anybody else interested?
Personally, I dig the Waruder set the best. The paint apps on them are fantastic.
G1Prowl
So it looks like the Diaclone set interest far outstrips the availability. Figures…
Obsidian X
That is a VERY unpainted face on janitor Hound. I love that mold and will probably need it. I guess I'll break out my citadel paints and give him some make-up.
WishfulThinking
Since I need the G2 pack in my life, I broke down and pre-ordered a set from BBTS. Sure, it's $145 after shipping. But the set is going for at least that if not more on ebay right now AND with it being limited to 1100, I don't want to be left with hyper-scalper pricing. In the end, this will be one of the rarer sets of figures I'll own.
ultramagnus1
Waspinator 4 pack looks good. That was a good mold so nice.
The Skids and Hoist/Trailcutter repaints are good too but the rest are an easy pass.
cobra zartan
Curse my fat fingers haha
ljacone
Lift-Ticket is cool because he is both a Diaclone homage and GI Joe shout-out. As a major Hoist fanboy, I may have to search him out on the aftermarket. No real interest in the Skids, though.
General Optimus and Sgt. Hound really made me smile. The Targetmaster/Diaclone drivers makes me wonder if there is a peg somewhere on the Hoist mold which would work to mount the gun in vehicle mode. He's got the peg holes between the wheels but not sure if there is enough clearance there for a mount. And the one on his back holds the wrecking hook.
And the Waspinator mega pack is a thing of beauty. Clearly the yellow one is an update of BW Buzzsaw, which is great. I love the addition of the Legends/Targetmaster Waspinators as well. Get Generations Waspinator and Venin in there and you have a Super Sentai team.
Autobot Burnout
What are you talking about? There's always a retooled head in the souvenir sets.
The wasp colors are all different incarnations of waspinator.
The Offroad retool? I wouldn't call that proper when the alt mode isn't even close to that old van form.
Uh..no.
EvanusPrime
I'm digging Lift Ticket and Burnout, but I'm not entirely sold on the rest. I like the idea behind the G2 set and the Waruders, but it's just not quite doing it for me.
Matt_M
A couple of factors here –
The Club has put up leftovers on their site post-convention the past couple of years.
-but-
They also put out a tweet saying there's a "Renewed focus on exclusivity" this year, so with their smaller production run they might not have enough to sell afterwards.
Stryker055
Son of a dammit. I'm going to have to track down that Optimus/Hound two-pack.
Props to TFCC, they nailed the souvenir sets this year. Shame the box set isn't quite as impressive, but still.
Basilisk
The Waspinator gang is just genius.