Swedish convention RetCon will be returning in September 2019 for their third convention – and they’ve got an exclusive figure from Mastershooter for attendees.
Mastershooter’s Mega-Gun – an unofficial Generation 1 Megatron whose central conceit was turning into a 5mm compatible blaster for larger Transformers – is getting a redeco into the cheekily named Ironsmeg, the Devil Knight. This figure is a limited run of 30 and will only be available at the convention. It is also a great little homage to the first ever UK comic strip Man of Iron, which introduced several ideas to the Transformers storyline including lost Cybertronians separated from the main groups for thousands of years and Transformers whose prescience on Earth had passed into local legend. Man of Iron was a significant enough storyline that it was later reprinted in the US comics – and dare we say that some of its story elements concerning a Transformer in medieval Britain mistaken by locals as a knight just might have influenced a Michael Bay movie?
RetCon 2019 will be held in Borås, Sweden, on 28 September 2019. Guests include the Transformers writer who got his start on the UK comics, Simon Furman, and Transformers Lost Light artist Jack Lawrence. Be sure to check out the RetCon website for more information, and follow RetCon on Facebook for further updates.
Scaleface
Anyone have an Ironsmeg of these for sale?
Laserpants
Awesome they’re doing another convention, I’m in. The figure looks like fun.
As for those who can’t attend, ask heromic.se if they can arrange to get one for you. It’s the only Swedish TF store afaik, I bet they’ll be there.
Digger
That’s dope.
casacrespo
I saw the guys who do these figures at TFCon. They had all kinds of different TFs from various lines for sale at their booth. But the coolest part was if you bought anything from them they gave you a free blind bag original injection plastic Targetmaster. Super nice guys.
Rated X
I thought these guys sold all their extra parts and closed shop.
Chaos Muffin
Little guy is cool. Any online retailers going to have him?
MegaDolrailer
Didn't know these guys were still around
Smitty.1981
I wish I had gotten their Mega-Sub.
Digger
Damn they’re still alive? Crazy. Good on them.
Kenchanayoh
This is pretty neat. I\'ve also never heard of mastershooter.
Bravemaximike
You and me both!
Too bad I'll probably never be able to get one.
Cool idea, though!
Sol Fury
Swedish convention Retcon 2019 will be bringing their very own exclusive from Mastershooter to the table. Mastershooter's Mega-Gun will get a very limited edition redeco to homage the Man of Iron from the UK Transformers comics – in fact this character was featured in the first ever UK-only Transformers comic.
I'm in for the UK comic reference.
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