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News Credits: 665 · Sun Oct 05, 2008 7:16 pm

Many users are now reporting that - after a four year long wait - the highly-anticipated Transformers Club exclusive Seacon sets are finally arriving. The repainted G1 figures had originally been announced as a Wal-Mart exclusive for original Transformers Universe line in August 2004, during the Official Transformers Collectors' Club Convention, but the set had been shelved due to lack of retailer interest and its fate had been uncertain for years. Now, thanks to the persistance of the folks at Hasbro and the TFCC, the set has finally been made available to fans via the Club's online store.

Visit the Club's official site to order your own set by clicking here.

And for galleries of the original Generation 1 Seacons, visit the Seibertron.com gallery here or see photos of the Beast Wars II Seacon repaints here.

News Credits: 9 · Sun Oct 05, 2008 7:57 pm

Sweet. Can't wait for them to arrive even though I will have to pay 13% customs duties to get them!

News Credits: 8 · Sun Oct 05, 2008 8:12 pm

Sweet. I pre-ordered a week and a half ago so i hope that i get them. To bad its a christmas present. but ive been waiting my hole life to get these guys so whats a few more months right?

News Credits: 4 · Sun Oct 05, 2008 9:28 pm

Since they have the molds I wonder if Takara Tomy would release these set in their G1 colors in the Encore series. BTW, any word on the next Encore release? Metroplex was already released and I haven't read anything about more figures announced...

News Credits: 5749 · Sun Oct 05, 2008 11:19 pm

I'm still a little confused. I ordered and the Seacons and Nightbeat, are only the Seacons shipping right now? I've seen no mention of Nightbeat. Do those of us who ordered both have to wait until both are in before the order is shipped. I know that TFCC took a poll to see if fans would rather pay for seperate shipping to get one or the other faster or wait till both were in a just pay for shipping once.

News Credits: 1 · Mon Oct 06, 2008 12:43 am

Many users are now reporting that - after a four year long wait

I don't want them anymore.

News Credits: 4 · Mon Oct 06, 2008 12:54 am

piranacon!!!!!

i want!

Wed Oct 08, 2008 9:53 am

I just got mine via FedEx today!!! The instructions leave something to be desired and there are no stickers??!!? And typical of TF toys, the instructions don't match the box art and some of the pictures on the box have the toys transformed incorrectly. A nice piece overall. Anyone else considering getting a set of stickers from reprolabels and putting on this club exclusive?

News Credits: 4 · Wed Oct 08, 2008 1:32 pm

Ninja Boy wrote:I just got mine via FedEx today!!! The instructions leave something to be desired and there are no stickers??!!? And typical of TF toys, the instructions don't match the box art and some of the pictures on the box have the toys transformed incorrectly. A nice piece overall. Anyone else considering getting a set of stickers from reprolabels and putting on this club exclusive?

I definitely would, but I didn't buy and won't buy the set... only if they release it on the original colors (e.g. in the Encore line it would be cool).

Wed Oct 08, 2008 2:13 pm

I just got an email saying it was delivered. I have to wait till this weekend to go home and open it, along with my SDCC Nemisis Prime. I'm so excited!!

Wed Oct 08, 2008 7:23 pm

Got my set today, along with the Fed Ex e-mail that they were in shipment. Well worth the wait.

News Credits: 2 · Wed Oct 08, 2008 7:30 pm

Has anyone seen Skowl lately?

Anyone?

Thought so...he must've gotten his set. :lol:

Got mine today...no e-mail notice or anything, just showed up and tripped me as I was taking the dogs out.

News Credits: 4 · Thu Oct 09, 2008 11:13 am

I got them!

I was surprised by the box this morning after I got home from work. The Seacons are great worth every penny I spent (and it was a lot of penny's). Nightbeat is ok I guess, I wish he had a Bio card though.

Now if you guys will excuse me I'm gonna mess around with my shiny new Piranacon.

News Credits: 3647 · Thu Oct 09, 2008 11:44 am

I just received my set of Seacons and Nightbeat. Guess I know what I'm doing tomorrow night for all of you.

Thu Oct 09, 2008 3:22 pm

Think we can convince reprolables to make a sticker set for this color scheme? I was thinking same patterns but orange instead of the blue and the maroon/purple instead of the pink. Any other suggestions?

Thu Oct 09, 2008 6:07 pm

Got mine today! Nightbeat looks ok, but awesome packaging. The seacons look crazy good. Actually, better irl than online I think. Good stuff!!!

News Credits: 3647 · Thu Oct 09, 2008 10:56 pm

Bonger wrote:Got mine today! Nightbeat looks ok, but awesome packaging. The seacons look crazy good. Actually, better irl than online I think. Good stuff!!!

I was confused by the comic, mind you I didn't read it all, but why does Nightbeat have his antennaes until the last two pages? I can't believe they made this toy without the antennaes. I was hoping beyond hope that the final product would have the antennae but that didn't happen ... just further teased with the comic where he has the antennaes.

Fri Oct 10, 2008 5:53 am

Seibertron wrote:
Bonger wrote:Got mine today! Nightbeat looks ok, but awesome packaging. The seacons look crazy good. Actually, better irl than online I think. Good stuff!!!

I was confused by the comic, mind you I didn't read it all, but why does Nightbeat have his antennaes until the last two pages? I can't believe they made this toy without the antennaes. I was hoping beyond hope that the final product would have the antennae but that didn't happen ... just further teased with the comic where he has the antennaes.

Heh, they probably meant to have antennas and figured it would cost too muc. I'm guessing they then told the illustrators to remove the antenna, so they drew no antenna, but forgot to go back and correct their previous work? Maybe?

Is it wrong to like the box more than the figure? :???:

News Credits: 129 · Fri Oct 10, 2008 8:10 am

The "ears" were planned for the toy.

When test samples arrived at the factory, the test run did not transform because the "ears" got in the way. The factory removed them from the mold without FP's permission as their directive was to have these things ready for BotCon,..you know several months ago.

Failures in time-travel aside...FP decided to let it go and proceed with production. The comic is an attempt to justify the lack of "ears" from what I understand.

News Credits: 5 · Fri Oct 10, 2008 9:29 am

i dunno about them new seacons. i just can't get into the colors.
g1>universe

News Credits: 5 · Fri Oct 10, 2008 11:27 am

wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.. no antannae on nightbeat??
WTF?

Mon Oct 13, 2008 2:25 am

decepticonjon wrote:i dunno about them new seacons. i just can't get into the colors.
g1>universe

Actually, I really like the new pauint scheme. It is a lot more detailed than the original. Overbite looks crazy good with his scales highlighted.

I put hIm on my G2 Combiners shelf. He fits in rather well with the rest of G2. Now I just need to commission a G2 Menasor. ;-)

News Credits: 129 · Tue Oct 14, 2008 7:31 am

decepticonjon wrote:i dunno about them new seacons. i just can't get into the colors.
g1>universe

They definately get my stamp of approval.

These figures are just one of those, 'you have to see them...' kind of purchases, which is of course difficult considering the price. Lack of true articulation on the small guys aside, they could easily be Classics Seacons.

The other thing that I'd like to add in passing is that this isn't a "Halloween" deco as some people (not you) are trying to pass it off as. The figure when combined reminds me of a giant coral reef. The orange, yellow, and various blues work really well. It's actually a clever deco.

Tue Oct 14, 2008 6:33 pm

My seacon and Nightbeat arrived. At first glance I was very impressed with the packaging. I expected the boxes to be thin like depatment store clothing boxes. but these are thick durable and very pretty boxes.

As for nightbeat. Just a repaint IMO. yeah its a different head but if I worked on the remold of this figure it WOULD have his Antenna and I would have eliminated the whole Powerlinx gimmick and had his head permenantly attacted to the body. with the rest of the powerlinx crap eliminated i would have gave him proper shoulders too. I actually bought 2 and am seriously thinking about modding the second one.

I haven't really had a chance to dig into the Seacons yet but i will be in about 1 hour. but the paints are not bothering me at all.