Botcon 2015 is underway and our guys on the ground are enjoying their vacation checking out some panels. They’ve sent in their notes on the TCC Magazine panel from earlier today, read on to check out details for year 11, year 12, the comics, and some QnA. We’ll be live blogging bigger panels later in the weekend with updates like this for the smaller ones, so stay tuned!
Botcon 2015 – TCC Magazine Panel Round Up
- Year 11
- Return of the club combiner soon.
- Classics universe transported to shattered glass universe
- TCC year 12
- 2015 story concludes
- Another 2 year story arc next year’s story picking up after Another Light
- Familiar faces return
- FunPub comics
- Cyberton’s Most Wanted
- Matt Frank on art
- Set up by Forest Lee
- Introduced in 2008
- Axiom Nexus is hub in Transformers multiverse
- Diaclone homages
- Fans have been asking for this for years
- Decided to “do it right” this year
- Q&A
- Waspinator homages
- Red & blue – diaclone warruders
- Yellow – buzzsaw & sg Waspinator
- Halloween horrocon deco
- White & pink – Bug Bite
- Cameos from obscure characters?
- Brought out destructicons last yaer
- Future – possibly, just depends
- Always looking for obscure characters
- Timetable for more collected issues
- First 5 are out
- 6,7, &8 are working on it. Guido Guidi was pulled off to do Botcon stuff.
- Wings Universe
- Entire Wings Universe in one shot
- Combiner Wars stuff
- Will discuss at the roundtable tomorrow
- When do you expect the Withered Hope sequel to be released
- First year the club freebie wasn’t in the fiction
- Prose story only online
- Will be returning to the Withered Hope maybe later this summer
- Collected edition 6-8 cover
- Won’t create a collected scene like
- FoC SG Combaticons?
- There are a lot of good CW molds and we do like Shattered Glass.
- No plans for more SG toys right now. No wait, that’s not exactly accurate. Wait to see in the comics.
- Waspinator homages
- Sunday script reading
- Sue Blu and John Moschitta
- Judging “so you think you can voice act” panel
- Visual aids for the script reading Colored by Josh Prerez
- Witten in the format of the old “book and record” books from the 80’s.
- Animated Sari, Arcee, Nightbeat, Hosehead, Siren
Thundershot
I agree since I feel we need a bigger Thunderwing figure.
I just hope they'll consider swapping the molds used for Windsweeper and Needlenose. Air raid is so much more perfect for Windsweeper.
Unless it has to do with the heads…
BScorpinok75
I think I would have liked Thunderwing from Silverbolt better than Bludgeon from Onslaught…
G.B. Blackrock
I know Shattered Glass has its naysayers, but it's hard to argue the fact that those exclusives have tended to be quite successful, compared to other concepts FunPub has tried. I really can't fault them for continuing to explore the concept. I simply can't agree that it's been "played out" until they at least give us that last prose story that finishes out the SG Underbase story arc.
primushatesyou
Mayhem attack squad….. combiner??!! God dammit, we really never get Flywheels, huh?
artiepants
It always came off as such a lame Star Trek rip off too me, and the bulk of the decos have been pretty terrible, or wasted a potential proper re-use age like Road Rage.
Glad they are talking Diaclone, kills me I can't get these first two!
Laser_Optimus
This. 1,000 times this. Kind of sick of SG at this point. It was interesting the first year, but I think it's run it's course.
Shin-Gouki
Please lay off SG already.
Thundershot
I'd just like to see some later year characters get some more love. They could use other characters from the era..
Thunderwing from Silverbolt
Spinister from Alpha Bravo
Ruckus from Off-road
Needlenose from Skydive
Windsweeper from Air Raid
Unfortunately it means most will be Aerialbot retools..
Autovolt 127
I don't hate the idea of SG but they need to. Forcing it in almost every year was annoying.
Laser_Optimus
If they do Mayhem Attack Squad from Combiner Wars molds I might pick up the individual figures based on look, but I'd probably ignore a 'combined mode' just like I'm ignoring Galvatronus or that FoC Wrecker's ability to combine.
BScorpinok75
Wonder if Shattered Glass Mayhem Suppression Squad as a CW gestalt is possible…if not I'm wondering how they'd fill out Ruckus' Classics' Mayhem Attack Squad…???…and…who'll form the core bot…???…
ACMagnus
I'm curious on which lineup they'll choose for the Mayhem Attack Squad, because Ruckus's team was only 4 members.
misternewuzer
Itvwoyld work just fine if the set functioned the same as the previous Club Combiner set- one figure a year as the club freebie gets retool, a new paintjob, and if the tfss is any indication of budget, could afford a micron as well. The club has plenty budget these days, they can do this
Jalaguy
I'd certainly put money on that.
Randomus
Since the Classics version of the squad contains Ruckus, does this mean the Offroad mold is getting its original intended use?
Jalaguy
Liokaiser is a pretty good idea in theory, but its downfall, I think, is in the fact that the club probably couldn't budget for giving everyone a new head, and the animal hats are a pretty key part of the Breatforce's look.
misternewuzer
Mayhem attack squad could be cool, but NOT for a combiner set… The club really dropped the ball on this if that's what ends up happening, a new club combiner set should have been LioKaiser- enough molds to have a complete combiner AND extra members to swap out as limbs (Jallguar from Offroad and Deathcobra from Blades)
LeoZack- Cyclonus
GuyHawk/Hellbat- just pick 2 jets
Killbison- Rook
Drillhorn- assumed technobot retool, or at the worst another Rook retool.
Hell, throw in a micron animal with each one as a representation of their Breast Animals
That's a full combiner right there, and with the 2 aforementioned molds, adds some great versatility, I would gladly throw my money at THIS for 6 years.
Jalaguy
To further speculation RE: a Fun Oub combiner, here's a teaser image that's on display for tomorrow's roundtable:
This is totally babies, Hmmm
Looks like we might be getting a Mayhem Attack Squad combiner for TFSS 4.0…
Rated X
Hope they finally put SG to rest.
kaijuguy19
Hope they're considering making a Thunderclash out of the CW Optimus/Motormaster mold.