BotCon 2012 Exclusive Set Hype Begins

Ariel and Orion Pax as the distant past, and Elita-1?

Re distant past... There are few options.... Though as far as I know there have been alpha trion and Orion pax toys....

One tf that hasn't had a toy update that comes to mind is hoist... And trail breaker only had a legends version right?

I'm not a fan of exclusives especially for must haves as they put it.... Yay for hasbro releasing the coneheads

Looked at a list of characters that appeared in the show. Not too many seem to fit the bill and I assume they'd have to be characters seen in the american cartoon and comics.

LiKwid wrote:How bout a date and location....then I'll get excited..

Plan for Spring/Summer in the continental US. Seriously though, just start saving money now. I'll go wherever it ends up being. I'd like to go back to Orlando again but I love flying to someplace new too. I'm intrigued by what the set could be.

The rotten teases.

Well, by my analysis...

The "Distant Past" could mean a lot of things. Are we talking beginning of the civil war, like "War Dawn"? The Quintesson war, like "Forever is a Long Time Coming"? I doubt Beast Wars (it's not very 80s), but could it go back to the Originals?

"80s fans" would seem to imply that we're talking G1; every other continuity is from the 90s or later. Given that, what three characters are getting their first ever update? What toys from that era have never been refreshed? Has anyone ever NOT been revisited?

Characters that stand out to me from that timeframe are the Insecticons, Trailbreaker (who did get a Legends class), some of the Female Autobots, perhaps Devcon, along with a multitude of others.

Oddly, they didn't say "GeeWun", but "80s". That could mean something that I really hope is true... they're finally going to integrate the GoBots continuity into Transformers proper! After all, we've learned that their universe is collapsing, and many have been fleeing into the Classicsverse. How about Silverbolt as Leader-1? Wreck-Gar as CyKill? Cybertron Scourge, as Zod?

Alternately, they could be screwing with us, and giving us a complete set of movie Bumblebee redecos...

the MUST HAVE cant be hoist, alpha trion, elita - one, or trailbreaker,( gears, swerve had many version so they are not in the list)
because elitaone had her timelines thunderclash remold, alpha trion his vector prime remold, trailbreaker his legend class figure (and they said its not trailbreaker) and hoist his longarm repaint (yes, the movie one,but it counts as an update)
so whats left?
orion pax maybe? can be a repaint/remold/retool of sargeant kup

GetRightRobot wrote:Devcon and Orion Pax. Trailbreaker, Gears, and Brawn are NOT candidates, according to their Twitter feed.

you sure theyre not pulling a michael bay and flat out lying to mislead us? the only reason im saying is because the head in the wax (poo!) looks alot like brawn to me.

What would really be awesome are components to form a massive sized Metroplex (my vote), Trypticon, Omega Supreme, or Fortress Maximus. If I had a way of garage kitting something like that I'd do it.

However, that's not gonna happen. I may have to compile a list of what hasn't been updated yet and take a stab at who they are doing for the 2012 set. Hopefully it's a combinable team. Has/Tak has yet to do that for the Classics/Generations (no, repaints don't count).

Botcon sets used to be the pinnacle of Transformers toys, but ever since the Seekers and Scourge debacle im not really all that keen on them anymore. who wants a 3 year old mold with a new head when a better designed totally new figure available for mass consumption will be made not a year later?

Botcon should leave their hands off of G1 characters and cover ancillary fiction only.