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[Caelus]

I wouldn't be so sure. Souvenir figures are also eligible for new heads (like Shattered Glass Megatron and Blurr) and we have yet to see one with a new head. Maybe this is one.

I thought Blurr used the head from Cybertron's retool of Armada Blurr?

Anyway, I don't see Razorclaw's head being different enough from Prime's to warrant a change.

[JelZe GoldRabbit]

I wouldn't be so sure. Souvenir figures are also eligible for new heads (like Shattered Glass Megatron and Blurr) and we have yet to see one with a new head. Maybe this is one.

I thought Blurr used the head from Cybertron's retool of Armada Blurr?

Nope, the heads are different: Cyb Blurr's is rounded, while Shattered Glass' is more blockish:

[T-Macksimus]

Actually Leo prime is a repaint of Cybertron Leo Breaker so who ever put the tag up on the news header is mistaken. Its a repaint of a Cybertron figure like most of the rest of this botcon set.

Misleading a bit no?

not really as leo prime is a remold of leobreaker not a straightup repaint so that puts it as a universe 2.0

You know that feeling you get when you have that brief flash of insight/enlightenment? I just realized why we get compared to Trekkies so much.

Seriously though, without the head shot how can you categorize whether it is a straight repaint (which should be like the 3rd or 4th) or a remold (which would make this the 2nd, right?) if you count only a different head sculpt as a remold. I think we need to see more pics. of thing.
Ewww, just had a bad thought. Savage Claw mode with THAT color scheme.
Not even the black on the CD Leader Class Op helped with that visual.

[JazZeke]

DAMN IT! We all knew they were going to produce this figure eventually. I'm pissed that it's going to be another freaking exclusive. Now I'll probably never own one.

[Flashwave]

Ewww, just had a bad thought. Savage Claw mode with THAT color scheme.
Not even the black on the CD Leader Class Op helped with that visual.

(Realizing that Razorclaw is the body in G1...) Savage Claw Mode DOES However make a nice Predakng Arm.

[Lapse Of Reason]

This is the only figure I'm really excited about.

I ordered an extra loose set. If anyone going to Botcon wants to trade a complete bagged set for all the souvenior figures, please send me a PM.

[Delicon]

Well, I took the day off the boards for Easter and missed something fun.

It's hard to tell being that figure is still bagged but it looks like a nice paint scheme and a good idea.

One small beef here, though. People really have to learn to appreciate the Botcon figures for what they are. They're not going to be completely new figures mold-wise and obviously there are going to be limitations with what they can do. On the flip side, they go well out of their way to give the adult collector a little something extra that we would have never had otherwise.

It seems like every time we see a new Botcon figure people either complain about "how could they repaint that mold again?" or "that looks cool, but I'll never be able to afford it, why didn't they release it for everyone to buy?"

The fact that these figures are being made for collectors at all is something that a large portion of the fandom takes for granted and doesn't seem even close to appreciating.

[Diem]

Da, I know I recognize that symbol from somewhere...

... It's not at Reprolabels...

... Maybe HMW before one of the board wipes when we were kicking around alternative faction symbols?

For some reason the name "Neopred" leaps to mind.

Edit:

I found it:



http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Faction_symbols#Beast_Era

Razorclaw wears it in "Dawn of Future Past"

Oh Jesus. It is a comics thing. That drops the figure's appeal to me hugely.

[Caelus]

The fact that these figures are being made for collectors at all is something that a large portion of the fandom takes for granted and doesn't seem even close to appreciating.

That might be because a large portion of the fandom will never be able to get it, so what is there to appreciate?

And really, this would have to sell better at retail than that fugly Leo Prime. Least they could have done with him was paint him in white and gold, but blue and red? Blech.

I really believe Botcon exclusives should be reserved for novel characters, either characters created for Botcon (e.g. Landshark), or iterations of characters that would be more or less impossible to mass market (e.g. Shattered Glass). Limiting the availability of major characters like Scourge and Thundercracker to the wealthy and the irresponsible is just... grrr.

[Diem]

Limiting the availability of major characters like Scourge and Thundercracker to the wealthy and the irresponsible is just... grrr.

They're pretty cunning at completing sets that collectors desperately want. The seekers, the Unicronians...