The third figure reveal for BotCon 2016 has been revealed to be Predacon General Ramhorn. This BotCon figure uses the Combiner Wars Brawl mold and many TFW2005 members are already noticing the added parts to the mold looking very much like a member of the Technobots team: Nosecone.
We may be speculating too much here, but the third reveal for BotCon leaves fans with much to discuss both about the BotCon box set as well as future Combiner Wars releases.
Share your thoughts with the discussion link below.
ron8675309
If I got all my druthers, I would say have the vehicle modes in their toy colors, and use a color changing paint for the robot modes to swap from the blue-gray to red.
xZAOx
Actually the show fucked up the lighting. They're gray as they come up, but once they hit the small red lights, they turn red. Even the white light shinning down from above still leaves them red. The small red light on the table makes areas that light couldn't reach red somehow.
They shortchanged the scene because of budget issues. It shows. Arguments could be made for they're red and for they're gray, and both are correct.
TM2 Dinobot
I will say again how much I really, REALLY, REALLY hate these colors. This isn't an affront on the characters, or the show. This is an assault on simple physics because apparently whoever designed these doesn't know how lighting works!
Slight hyperbole? Yes. Am I wrong? No. The character models in the show were NOT red; the lighting was.
What irritates me the most though, I think, is that the irronious fallacy perpetuated over the years that the TriPred Council was red, is now canon. -_-
Come on, FP! How about you use the toy colors as secondary or tertiary colors on these guys? Or swap the grey for the Tripredacus blue present on all three of the BW guys. Or at the bare minimum, MUTE that red!
Not really angry, just flabbergasted and wanted to make my voice known.
Gryph
Actually, they could use the Galvatronus head if they really wanted to. It has enough features to work as a more robotic Tripredacus.
Autovolt 127
Yeah but doing it so soon….it just feels pretty weenie to do that. 3.0 Tarantulas should have been Armada Sideways.
But Only if Hayato Sakamoto does the art for the comic.
Lumpy
If they did Cyclonus, they could use the regular head and make a new combiner head. That'd be pretty cool.
Yeah, they need a new head for the combiner.
That would be cool too, if not entirely fitting for the characters left.
I'm surprised that hasn't happened yet, I figured they'd announce a second run of that toy as ANYBODY else. They could even remold the backpack and use a different interior mold, maybe Tailgate in Rook colors or something.
Yeah, I expect a reveal later this week, I'm loving this reveal setup, doing it all way before. Hopefully we can see some in hand prototypes before they even take any orders.
PoweredConvoy
I'd imagine at the end of the week, as the others have all occurred over the last couple of weeks and all have been some time between Thursday and Saturday.
Randy
Smitty.1981
SWo how much longer do we have to wait to see reveal #4?
T-Hybrid
When people talk about CW repaints, they mean limbs and torsos anyway.
Nobody really counts legends unless they're part of the gestalt.
Sky Lynx will get retooled. It's "when" not "if".
Basilisk
ooh one, that's all of one figure that hasn't been retooled or repainted. And he might not stay that way for long if Chop Shop is anything to go by.
Point is you're acting like Sky Lynx won't get a Decepticon redeco when every other Voyager in his line has an Autobot version and a Decepticon version.
And also you're basing your logic on why this won't happen upon Generations Whirl (Who got redecoed btw) and Generations Rhinox rather than the line that Sky Lynx is actually in?
Ikkstakk
That's exactly what I'm saying.
Johntimus Prime
Are you saying Legends Groove is Defensor's breast implants?
Ikkstakk
Also, you realize what it means if they do Flamewar from Legends Groove and Sea Clamp from Hot Spot…
It means the female Transformer with natural boobs will transform into a pair of artificial boobs to stick onto the male Transformer who has no boobs.
That alone will make this the greatest Botcon set ever.
Johntimus Prime
Fun Pub did Tarantulas as a Club figure this year and he's also in this set. And let's not forget how many times they've done Breakdown either as a Club or Botcon exclusive.
T-Hybrid
It depends on if they want the souvenir figures to stick with the Predacus/Beast Wars theme.
Autovolt 127
If not Hasbro or Takara. It'll be FunPub.
does it really matter, they'll probably just a slap generic name on it.
we'll call it the Giant Purple Griffin.
Thanks to Chop Shop from Shrapnel, I can see Barrage from Bombshell happening.
Gryph
Nah, they just did Flame War a couple years ago. A better option would be Sideways, based on the Robot Masters version.
Bass X0
I'd like to see Oilmaster repainted into Shattered Glass Oilmaster with the prototype's heroic color scheme as one of the bagged set toys.
Gears (not Swerve) would be repainted as this Brazilian toy.
and Flanker would be repainted into Micromaster Nightflight's color scheme since Oilmaster has Micromaster Aiwave's color scheme.
T-Hybrid
What if the attendee freebie is *Deluxe* Groove as Flamewar?
Also, there's no way they don't show the combined mode vefore Botcon.
Ikkstakk
Since they said the attendee freebie would be "in high demand," or however they worded it, I'm guessing that's the Legend figure that goes with the rest of the team. What if they made the Legends Groove into Flamewar? Or the Legends Seeker into Onyx Primal?