Transformers Collectors' Club Tarantulas In-Hand

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Hot off the heels of a recent batch of reveals, Weibo user Lost-Zzl brings us pics of another Transformers Collectors' Club exclusive figure - Tarantulas! He is based off the Reveal the Shield Wreck-Gar mold, and more specifically the E-hobby retool Scrapheap which has only been released stateside once before as the Shattered Glass Botcon Exclusive Scrap Iron. Tarantulas is sporting his original (pre-Transmetal) deco primarily purple with yellow/green accents. Keep scrolling to see the pics and stay tuned to Seibertron.com for all your Transformers news!

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Re: Transformers Collectors' Club Tarantulas In-Hand (1670788)
Posted by SW's SilverHammer on April 3rd, 2015 @ 2:17pm CDT

The bike looks nice, but in robot mode, it kinda just looks like a purple scrapheap, or the SG one without the black and less decals.
Pre cybertronian or not, there's allot more detail, and specifically texture, on season one tarantulas than most people think, here's a relatively accurate CG model

Re: Transformers Collectors' Club Tarantulas In-Hand (1670790)
Posted by Sabrblade on April 3rd, 2015 @ 2:19pm CDT

Wow, that is a very bluish purple.

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Posted by ScottyP on April 3rd, 2015 @ 2:49pm CDT

That looks much nicer than anticipated! Weird that there aren't pics of the Microns though.

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Posted by megatronus on April 3rd, 2015 @ 3:03pm CDT

Wow! Tarantulus looks amazing. He was the figure I was most critical of to start with, but now he might be my favorite.

Re: Transformers Collectors' Club Tarantulas In-Hand (1670829)
Posted by Tranzilla on April 3rd, 2015 @ 4:27pm CDT

Do my eyes deceive me, or is that glow in the dark plastic/paint I see for the seat, upper arms, etc? If so...SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

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Posted by grimdragon2001 on April 3rd, 2015 @ 4:40pm CDT

if it was glow in the dark plastic that would be interesting.

but anyway WERE ARE THE MICRONS?!?!?!?!? i need to see him using therm as claws

Re: Transformers Collectors' Club Tarantulas In-Hand (1670844)
Posted by gothsaurus on April 3rd, 2015 @ 5:11pm CDT

Microns are a different mold. No connection with this one. Guessing all the little bonus 'lego' and micron guys are being tested another day/another run.

Re: Transformers Collectors' Club Tarantulas In-Hand (1670850)
Posted by megatronus on April 3rd, 2015 @ 5:23pm CDT

gothsaurus wrote:Microns are a different mold. No connection with this one. Guessing all the little bonus 'lego' and micron guys are being tested another day/another run.

...the in-hand pics of Krok have his mini-con.

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Posted by Emerje on April 3rd, 2015 @ 6:13pm CDT

megatronus wrote:
gothsaurus wrote:Microns are a different mold. No connection with this one. Guessing all the little bonus 'lego' and micron guys are being tested another day/another run.

...the in-hand pics of Krok have his mini-con.

Just means the person who walked out of the factory with it was able to find both.

Emerje

Re: Transformers Collectors' Club Tarantulas In-Hand (1670855)
Posted by shajaki on April 3rd, 2015 @ 6:15pm CDT

Honestly, I'm a little bummed that the visor is red instead of yellow. Maybe a little custom work is in order....

Re: Transformers Collectors' Club Tarantulas In-Hand (1670863)
Posted by megatronus on April 3rd, 2015 @ 6:31pm CDT

shajaki wrote:Honestly, I'm a little bummed that the visor is red instead of yellow. Maybe a little custom work is in order....

The visor looks orange to my eye... :-?

Re: Transformers Collectors' Club Tarantulas In-Hand (1670866)
Posted by SW's SilverHammer on April 3rd, 2015 @ 6:47pm CDT

megatronus wrote:
shajaki wrote:Honestly, I'm a little bummed that the visor is red instead of yellow. Maybe a little custom work is in order....

The visor looks orange to my eye...

More of like a candy orange.

Re: Transformers Collectors' Club Tarantulas In-Hand (1670889)
Posted by MartianSpyGirl1996 on April 3rd, 2015 @ 8:01pm CDT

Tarantulas looks better and better with each reveal, seriously. Holy cow, this may become one of my favourite figures of the brand :grin:

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Posted by Flashwave on April 3rd, 2015 @ 11:08pm CDT

I keep trying to tell myself that I don't need this, and that I am perfectly happy with the Silver Transmetal figure as a representative to the Tarantulas Character. I ouldn't sign up in time for the figure so I;m having to go second market, too expensive...

I'm not winning this argument.

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Posted by MartianSpyGirl1996 on April 4th, 2015 @ 12:03am CDT

Flashwave wrote:I keep trying to tell myself that I don't need this, and that I am perfectly happy with the Silver Transmetal figure as a representative to the Tarantulas Character. I ouldn't sign up in time for the figure so I;m having to go second market, too expensive...

I'm not winning this argument.

Hey, Vok Tarantulas is hands down the best version of that character, so you're not losing too bad

Re: Transformers Collectors' Club Tarantulas In-Hand (1671045)
Posted by Kyleor on April 4th, 2015 @ 10:44am CDT

No poses of Tarantulas riding Tarantulas?

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Posted by Sabrblade on April 4th, 2015 @ 10:49am CDT

Kyleor wrote:No poses of Tarantulas riding Tarantulas?

Can't ride one without another.

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Posted by shajaki on April 4th, 2015 @ 1:18pm CDT

MartianSpyGirl1996 wrote:
Flashwave wrote:I keep trying to tell myself that I don't need this, and that I am perfectly happy with the Silver Transmetal figure as a representative to the Tarantulas Character. I ouldn't sign up in time for the figure so I;m having to go second market, too expensive...

I'm not winning this argument.
Hey, Vok Tarantulas is hands down the best version of that character, so you're not losing too bad

After recently acquiring a couple zombie Tarantulas', I'm inclined to agree. For something that was completely pointless and easily ignorable when released, it's really a striking figure.

Hey everyone! Look what I found! The new TFCC Lio Convoy next to Robot Masters Lio Convoy

Re: Transformers Collectors' Club Tarantulas In-Hand (1671088)
Posted by MartianSpyGirl1996 on April 4th, 2015 @ 1:20pm CDT

Stunning!

Re: Transformers Collectors' Club Tarantulas In-Hand (1671142)
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on April 4th, 2015 @ 5:09pm CDT

Hopefully Nova Prime goes up early, wouldn't mind scoring one.

Re: Transformers Collectors' Club Tarantulas In-Hand (1682631)
Posted by ScottyP on May 5th, 2015 @ 8:49pm CDT

Thanks to a heads up from Seibertronians philswitch engage and cdavid3, along with the official announcement from the Botcon Twitter account, we now have word that one of this year's Transformers Collectors' Club Exclusive Figures, Nova Prime, is available for purchase.

Transformers Collectors' Club Members may order Nova Prime from theTransformers Club Store by following this link. This figure will set you back $59 plus shipping. Nova Prime is a recolored version of Generations Orion Pax, and features a new head sculpt that is also found on this year's Collectors' Club Membership Incentive figure Lio Convoy.

The order page also lists this bio and information for Nova Prime:

AUTOBOT® HIGH COMMANDER

“‘Till all are redeemed"

NOVA PRIME walks a fine line between being the leader his heritage demands and battling inner demons that threaten to tear his synaptic conscious to a psychotic breaking point. While his ‘accolades’ will be remembered in the Halls of Iacon for eons, he is looking for redemption for what he sees as a ‘lapse in vision’ for his fellow Cybertronians. Combining his Quantum Fusion cannon and his “G-Metal” Battle Axe, NOVA PRIME is a formidable warrior on the battlefield and a masterful tactician in the war room. NOVA PRIME has been given a second chance and seeks to usher in a new Golden Age of Cybertron®. Will a new lasting peace on Cybertron finally come to fruition or will the whispers of the past come back to haunt NOVA PRIME, taking away any chance at redemption and plunging Cybertron once again into…Chaos?

Nova Prime is a Deluxe sized figure which features an ALL-NEW head sculpt. Look for Nova Prime later this year in the 2015 TCC Magazine Club comic. The toy is packed in a convention style box with a foam insert for easy removal and display. There is also an additional cut out for you to store the Lio ConvoyTM figure.*

*Lio Convoy sold separately

If you aren't a member of the Transformers Collectors' Club and would like to sign up so you can order the figure, check out the club's website.

Additionally, it looks as if the free incentive figure Lio Convoy and the first part of Figure Subscription Service 3.0 will be mailing out soon. An email sent out to club members had the following to say about it:

Hello Club Members,

If you are participating in the FSS 3.0 service, please verify your address at the FSS site by logging in making sure your address is correct by the end of day Thursday, May 7. We will be working shipping these out to you and the end of next week.

If your address has changed since March 16th, please email your correct address to admin@funpubinc.com as well. Please note that the systems are totally separate so if you have moved, you will need to update both the FSS and send an email to admin for your club free figure.

Thanks for your support!

Jumping on board with all this club goodness, or sitting on the sidelines? Talk about it with your fellow Seibertronians by clicking "Reply" at the top of this news story.

Re: Transformers Collectors' Club Tarantulas In-Hand (1682633)
Posted by Gearslide on May 5th, 2015 @ 9:24pm CDT

Who is that Purple Prime on the box?

I can't tell if it's SG Optimus, some obscure Nemesis, or that Purple Lucky Draw(?) Lio Convoy figure whose name I forget.

Re: Transformers Collectors' Club Tarantulas In-Hand (1682635)
Posted by Sabrblade on May 5th, 2015 @ 9:31pm CDT

That bio... Just who is this version of Nova and what universe is he from?

I've only heard one theory about who he is and where he's from, and a whole lot of you guys are likely to not like it if it's true.

Therefore, I'll spoiler-tag the theory:

The theory is that he's Shattered Glass Optimus Prime after having been reformatted by the good Unicron, like how the evil Unicron turned Megatron into Galvatron in the 1986 movie, but with the added twist of the good Unicron trying to turn SG Optimus into a good guy.

Re: Transformers Collectors' Club Tarantulas In-Hand (1682639)
Posted by Mkall on May 5th, 2015 @ 9:35pm CDT

I got him, primarily because I want to give that halberd to Chromia.

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Posted by Twitchythe3rd on May 5th, 2015 @ 9:40pm CDT

Sabrblade wrote:That bio... Just who is this version of Nova and what universe is he from?

I've only heard one theory about who he is and where he's from, and a whole lot of you guys are likely to not like it if it's true.

Therefore, I'll spoiler-tag the theory:

The theory is that he's Shattered Glass Optimus Prime after having been reformatted by the good Unicron, like how the evil Unicron turned Megatron into Galvatron in the 1986 movie, but with the added twist of the good Unicron trying to turn SG Optimus into a good guy.

Wouldn't Unicron be evil no matter the universe, being a multiversal singularity?

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Posted by Sabrblade on May 5th, 2015 @ 9:49pm CDT

Twitchythe3rd wrote:Wouldn't Unicron be evil no matter the universe, being a multiversal singularity?

Pete has chimed in about that and confirmed that the Unicron seen previously in the "Another Light" preview is, and I quote, "good".

How that relates the Multiversal Singularity concept, which is still in play since Part 1 of "Another Light" had G1/BW/Classics/etc. Prowl give the first ever in-fiction mention of the concept, is anyone's guess, but Pete also noted that we'll just have to wait and see what this "good Unicron's" deal is.

Personally, I'm thinking it's just some other guy who isn't a god, but who also happens to just have the same name and look as the dark god. An "impostor" or "lookalike", of sorts.

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Posted by ScottyP on May 5th, 2015 @ 9:56pm CDT

Sabrblade wrote:That bio... Just who is this version of Nova and what universe is he from?

I've only heard one theory about who he is and where he's from, and a whole lot of you guys are likely to not like it if it's true.

Therefore, I'll spoiler-tag the theory:

The theory is that he's Shattered Glass Optimus Prime after having been reformatted by the good Unicron, like how the evil Unicron turned Megatron into Galvatron in the 1986 movie, but with the added twist of the good Unicron trying to turn SG Optimus into a good guy.

That's actually pretty cool and would beat the pants off another random purple Prime.

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Posted by Sabrblade on May 5th, 2015 @ 9:59pm CDT

This reminds me, I need to update the list of BotCon/TCC fiction again with latest magazine issue fiction.

[/shamelessplug]

Re: Transformers Collectors' Club Tarantulas In-Hand (1682652)
Posted by MaverickPrime on May 5th, 2015 @ 10:14pm CDT

Looks very nice, but getting both him and Lio Convoy seems somewhat redundant, sure, they're different characters, but the colorsschemes are far too similar IMO and the mold suits Nova a lot more.
That said, it's out of my budget :/

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Posted by prjkt on May 5th, 2015 @ 10:21pm CDT

Mkall wrote:I got him, primarily because I want to give that halberd to Chromia.

That's a damn good idea...

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Posted by megatronus on May 5th, 2015 @ 10:23pm CDT

I ordered Nova in the hope that the face ends up looking nicer in person. Hopefully we get that black/purple deco sometime in the near future. He looks nice.

Mkall wrote:I got him, primarily because I want to give that halberd to Chromia.

That's one expensive halberd!

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Posted by chuckdawg1999 on May 5th, 2015 @ 11:01pm CDT

It's interesting how Lio Convoy and some of the FSS figures have shown up on eBay but nothing for Nova Prime. I was looking to get it early.

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Posted by Bounti76 on May 6th, 2015 @ 12:35am CDT

Mkall wrote:I got him, primarily because I want to give that halberd to Chromia.

I've been saying this since day one of seeing this figure. Glad to know I'm not the only one doing this, haha. Though in recent fiction, Chromia has been using blasters.

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Posted by Tshadow9 on May 6th, 2015 @ 7:18am CDT

I know a modification to make nova prime have wings by unsliding his arm panels if they are not glued on and placing them on his back

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Posted by Emerje on May 6th, 2015 @ 7:26am CDT

Gearslide wrote:Who is that Purple Prime on the box?

I can't tell if it's SG Optimus, some obscure Nemesis, or that Purple Lucky Draw(?) Lio Convoy figure whose name I forget.

Galva-LioConvoy? I was thinking the same thing, but the head isn't colored right for that. Could just be an evil Nova Prime if what's posted above is true, before being made good. Would explain the purple.

Emerje

Re: Transformers Collectors' Club Tarantulas In-Hand (1682725)
Posted by shockblast2 on May 6th, 2015 @ 8:14am CDT

More highway robbery via the TFCC! YAY!

$60 for THIS? That is insulting.

Re: Transformers Collectors' Club Tarantulas In-Hand (1682732)
Posted by ScottyP on May 6th, 2015 @ 8:50am CDT

MaverickPrime wrote:Looks very nice, but getting both him and Lio Convoy seems somewhat redundant, sure, they're different characters, but the colorsschemes are far too similar IMO and the mold suits Nova a lot more.
That said, it's out of my budget :/

Oof, you've probably got international shipping to get killed on with it too. Out of curiosity, what's something like this run when you're not in the states?

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Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on May 6th, 2015 @ 8:56am CDT

shockblast2 wrote:More highway robbery via the TFCC! YAY!

$60 for THIS? That is insulting.

You'd be paying for the exclusivity, plus the new (outsourced) head, not the mold itself

I wonder what lead the Club to decide on Lio Convoy be the free figure instead of Nova. :-?

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Posted by megatronus on May 6th, 2015 @ 8:58am CDT

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
shockblast2 wrote:More highway robbery via the TFCC! YAY!

$60 for THIS? That is insulting.

You'd be paying for the exclusivity, plus the new (outsourced) head, not the mold itself

I wonder what lead the Club to decide on Lio Convoy be the free figure instead of Nova.

I think Lio made more sense given the recent emphasis on Beast Wars characters as the freebie; Depthcharge, Protoform X, etc.

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Posted by ScottyP on May 6th, 2015 @ 11:19am CDT

megatronus wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:I wonder what lead the Club to decide on Lio Convoy be the free figure instead of Nova.

I think Lio made more sense given the recent emphasis on Beast Wars characters as the freebie; Depthcharge, Protoform X, etc.

Yep, that right there. Nova Prime is a money grab (I ain't mad, just pointing it out.)

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Posted by Sabrblade on May 6th, 2015 @ 11:23am CDT

ScottyP wrote:
megatronus wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:I wonder what lead the Club to decide on Lio Convoy be the free figure instead of Nova.

I think Lio made more sense given the recent emphasis on Beast Wars characters as the freebie; Depthcharge, Protoform X, etc.

Yep, that right there. Nova Prime is a money grab (I ain't mad, just pointing it out.)

Even if he is (or might be) just SG Optimus.

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Posted by ScottyP on May 6th, 2015 @ 11:26am CDT

Sabrblade wrote:Even if he is (or might be) just SG Optimus.

I'm sure the fiction probably just follows after they come up with toy ideas

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Posted by Henry921 on May 6th, 2015 @ 10:43pm CDT

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
shockblast2 wrote:More highway robbery via the TFCC! YAY!

$60 for THIS? That is insulting.

You'd be paying for the exclusivity, plus the new (outsourced) head, not the mold itself

I wonder what lead the Club to decide on Lio Convoy be the free figure instead of Nova.

I'm not sure how everyone else feels, but Nova strikes me as a more popular/desired character than Lio, hence you get the less wanted character as the membership freebie and pay for the other one you want more. It certainly got me to open my wallet; if the situation were reversed, I'd only have Nova and wouldn't spring for Lio, even with a cool box to put him in.

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Posted by mooncake623 on May 8th, 2015 @ 11:36am CDT

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Posted by Sabrblade on May 8th, 2015 @ 11:38am CDT

Do it G.B.! Shoot down that spawn of a glitch G2 Starscream after what he did to Cannonball! :evil:

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Posted by Mkall on May 8th, 2015 @ 11:46am CDT

What an economy we live in today, where in the 80's he was a CEO of a multi-billion dollar corporation, and now he's been reduced to pumping gas to make ends meet...

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Posted by no-one on May 8th, 2015 @ 11:50am CDT

That little guy scales very well with that mold. I like his muscley little arms. Going rip that suit, guy.

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Posted by Sabrblade on May 8th, 2015 @ 11:57am CDT

Mkall wrote:What an economy we live in today, where in the 80's he was a CEO of a multi-billion dollar corporation, and now he's been reduced to pumping gas to make ends meet...

He pumped gas in the 80's too. For Goldbug, of all bots.

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Posted by Rated X on May 8th, 2015 @ 4:55pm CDT

Sabrblade wrote:
Mkall wrote:What an economy we live in today, where in the 80's he was a CEO of a multi-billion dollar corporation, and now he's been reduced to pumping gas to make ends meet...
He pumped gas in the 80's too. For Goldbug, of all bots.

Who exactly is the lego guy supposed to be ? I was under the assumption it was just a random human...

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Posted by Poyguimogul on May 8th, 2015 @ 5:00pm CDT

Some marvel comics Blackrock guy.

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