"Dawn of the Predacus" BotCon 2016 Predacon General Cicadacon Toy Revealed

OH, oh, right, the color scheme from The Agenda. For a second I thought he was supposed to be all bloody as a sort of Halloween gag.

I guess making a jet the color of the toy would look too much like Armada Thrust. Though in this scheme, his jet mode looks like it's supposed to be yet another Armada Starscream, which could be fixed by changing the yellow bits to a dash of his original green.

They should've seen if they could cast the wings in translucent plastic and then paint over them, similar to their machine wars skywarp.

I might just have to get this set. I am really liking it and the fact that I have none of these characters and they combine is making it good for me. Not too sure how I'll afford it (maybe my tax return will be in), and more importantly I cannot go so it would be through other sources, so that's just pricey

Sabrblade wrote:

SW's SilverHammer wrote:They should've seen if they could cast the wings in translucent plastic and then paint over them, similar to their machine wars skywarp.

I'd... rather we not risk another incident like that again.

How so? I never heard anything bad happening to the figure. Also if this an aesthetic thing, deco-ed clear wings on a jet character that eventually becomes a bug might not be bad.

SW's SilverHammer wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

SW's SilverHammer wrote:They should've seen if they could cast the wings in translucent plastic and then paint over them, similar to their machine wars skywarp.

I'd... rather we not risk another incident like that again.

How so? I never heard anything bad happening to the figure. Also if this an aesthetic thing, deco-ed clear wings on a jet character that eventually becomes a bug might not be bad.

The specific areas of Skywarp's wings that were supposed to represent his teleporting ability (as in, these parts were supposed to be fully translucent with no paint apps) got painted over in solid white, ruining the effect.

SW's SilverHammer wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

SW's SilverHammer wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

SW's SilverHammer wrote:They should've seen if they could cast the wings in translucent plastic and then paint over them, similar to their machine wars skywarp.

I'd... rather we not risk another incident like that again.

How so? I never heard anything bad happening to the figure. Also if this an aesthetic thing, deco-ed clear wings on a jet character that eventually becomes a bug might not be bad.

The specific areas of Skywarp's wings that were supposed to represent his teleporting ability (as in, these parts were supposed to be fully translucent with no paint apps) got painted over in solid white, ruining the effect.

Oh, see what I was thinking was cast the wings in translucent plastic and adding the line work of the bug wings to them.

Yeah, but, with what happened last time they tried "translucent wings with paint pattern" I'd rather they not risk making something go wrong again (as so recently happened with the black helmet sides of everyone's TFSS G2 Starscream).

Plus, there's already a red and silver deco on the undersides of the wings, so that might show through the translucent topsides of the wings, making them look more red than clear.

Ya know, I've leveled my well-founded complaints, but, I just can't do it for this guy, every time I scroll down, I just go: "D@yum those wing decals"

Cicadacon looks very good, but I think the best figure in the box set is Tarantulas. I've always loved the Rook mold, so any use of it is good in my book.

So first they mistake the red light illuminating the Council as their actual colours (as opposed to, you know, colouring them like the actual toys). And now, as one of their special, limited edition convention exclusives, they give us...a straight redeco with absolutely no retooling whatsoever.

AAAAND FUNPUB DROPS THE BALL AGAIN

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Delta Magnus wrote:So first they mistake the red light illuminating the Council as their actual colours (as opposed to, you know, colouring them like the actual toys). And now, as one of their special, limited edition convention exclusives, they give us...a straight redeco with absolutely no retooling whatsoever.

AAAAND FUNPUB DROPS THE BALL AGAIN

Well, what were you expecting, a drill gun? They said they were going to give us 5 new heads, so unless you're willing to skip the combiner head, one of them was always going to have a normal head

Besides, there's not much precedent (like, none at all actually to my knowledge) of them doing any re-tooling besides heads, so Ramhorns drill would be a first.

The drill isn't from Fun Pub. It's believed to be preexisting tooling from Hasbro/Takara that hasn't been used yet.

In the past, Fun Pub has retooled new wings for BotCon 2007 Thrust, and a new neck piece for BotCon 2014 Scorponok. But other than those, it's mostly been new heads.