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[hinomars19]

I have a special place in my heart for Machine Wars. Being in the U.K I loved the turbo masters and Predators, I still have Stalker, and even now he is one of my faves. Always ALWAYS wanted Thunderclash but I don't think I ever saw him in my stores, just drooled at the 'catalog' that came packed with Stalker.

Machine Wars being re-paints of these figures and having a unique story of it's own is just too quirky for me to resist

That said...I don't think I'll ever afford a botcon

[Hip-Hoptimus Rime]

I heart Machine Wars! I have Optimus, Sandstorm, and the Whirl and Soundwave repaints from Universe.

I really should just buy up the whole line, it's pretty small and has some fun molds.

[Mkall]

Soundwave - Cybertron Defence Red Alert

Which would be the obvious choice except for it already being used for BotCon in 2006.

Pete has siad that there is no merit to the "one use only" for botcon molds. FunPub just chooses the molds that work for the character. It speaks more to the diversity of molds and ideas that there has been very little overlap in mold use to this day.

[gavinfuzzy]

I think they'll probably use Generations and/or Prime molds.

I like gavinfuzzy's idea of using PCC Commander molds, but I think they'd rather use Deluxe molds.

Actually, i think they can get away with scout sized molds. Especially since it reflects the actual size of the toys.

Descendant into evil (Was it?) The one with Overlord, used a few energon scouts, and had 6/7 figures in total?

No more AEC molds? Damn, what's Starscream gonna be? I really wanted a Cybertron Wingsaber Starscream.

Oh well, probably Generations Thunderwing again.

[gavinfuzzy]

Soundwave - Cybertron Defence Red Alert

Which would be the obvious choice except for it already being used for BotCon in 2006.

Pete has siad that there is no merit to the "one use only" for botcon molds. FunPub just chooses the molds that work for the character. It speaks more to the diversity of molds and ideas that there has been very little overlap in mold use to this day.

Although, I can't think (of the top of my head), Where the same mold has been used to make botcon figures from different years.

I'm sure someone's gonna come in and correct me.

[Sabrblade]

All these ideas of what toys to use for these characters, yet there's always the possibility that this won't a simple case of them redecoing figures into resembling the old Machine Wars toys.

Rather, they could be working to expand the old toyline by introducing NEW toys in this set to go along with the old ones. After all, the magazine image showed sihlouettes of Megatron, Starscream, and Soundwave in their old MW toy bodies rather than new toy bodies redecoed in homage to that old toys.

Thus, they could be using all the old MW toys for the looks of the characters in this story, with the convention toys being new characters to expand upon what came before. Like, we could get a Machine Wars Bumblebee or Ironhide or Ravage or anything that we didn't get before. The schtick could be to take a toy, redeco it in some new color scheme, and apply a classic name to it.

For example, imagine something like 2010 Terradive redecoed in teal as Machine Wars Cyclonus. Or 2010 Hailstorm in silver as Machine Wars Warpath. Something like that could be what we're getting here.

[kirbenvost]

Haha, wow, I only just now realized that Prowl has an 8-Ball on his chest. Oh 90s, so cheesy you were.

A friend of mine was lucky enough to pick up Machine Wars Prime at a local meetup and I had a chance to Transform him. Pretty impressive toy for that era. They had some good molds back then.

I'm interested to see how they do this, but I'm not really expecting to pick any up as Botcon Exclusives are usually way too pricey for me.

[RAcast]

I have a few Machine Wars molds from when I was a kid, Soundwave and Prowl, and they're both really solid molds. I'm definitely glad they're finally bringing it back! It's a great chance to expand on a half-existing mythos. Also, MW Screamer is kind of a badass. I can't wait to finally see him put Galvatron in his place!

[FellintoOblivion]

Repaints of those giant plastic bricks as a con exclusive is supposed to be exciting news? For once I'll be happy about not going.

[JelZe GoldRabbit]

Repaints of those giant plastic bricks as a con exclusive is supposed to be exciting news? For once I'll be happy about not going.

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