Bed Bugs wrote:You seem to be playing dense. My point is that right now, in the box set, you have Tarantulas with the Council. We all know the Beast Wars story, and Tarantulas is an Agent for the council. It's never been established in fiction how exactly Tarantulas got from being with the council to infiltrating Megatron's crew. So this story is probably going to establish two things: 1. How the council came to power. 2. How Tarantulas ends up as a spy in Megatron's crew. It's probably an important plot point that Tarantulas uses his Transmetal Paint Job originally when he's part of Predacus, and he switches his paint job AND alt mode, to become the Subscription Service Tarantulas, which ultimately becomes Beast Wars Tarantulas. Also, if you think about it, this also establishes Transmetal Colors as being his true colors. His Beast Wars colors were a disguise.
None of this was ever in question.
Bed Bugs wrote:Likewise, it's very possible that Megatron's true colors are gold, black, and purple, but he disguises himself since he is a wanted criminal. Would explain why this new FOC Grimlock remold Megatron will exist, why he looks different from DOFP/BW Megatron, and why he looks similar to Transmetal Megatron.
But Megatron had no reason to change bodies. You said yourself that Tarantulas changing his body for identity concealment purposes makes sense, but Megatron wasn't partaking in any secret mission that would yield him a new form. You're trying to find excuses to shoehorn in an unnecessary new form for him just because YOU want to.
Just because the Grimlock remold exists doesn't mean it's ever gonna see the light of day. The Armada Demolishor remold of CW Onslaught, for instance, was recently confirmed to not be in any foreseeable plans for release.
And a lot of fans really strongly dislike the FOC Grimlock mold. If Fun Pub is unwilling to make a Flywheels out of the Blitzwing mold for how unpopular that mold is, what makes you think they'd be more willing to make Megatron out of the similarly unpopular FOC Grimlock mold?
Bed Bugs wrote:Botcon 2015 seemed to set a new precedent, as Botcon is always changing. They got Welker as a guest and they put a Megatron in the box set. They announced Tarantulas being in next year's box set at the same time they announced his Voice Actor was coming. It's quite possible Botcon is aiming to try and tie the guests and exclusives together more.
There is one hole in your logic: Frank Welker being a guest at BotCon 2015 was a GINORMOUS deal.
Of course they were gonna do everything to honor his being there. It wasn't only his first BotCon, but his first convention, period. He's like the biggest deal guest BotCon has ever had. It only makes sense that they'd have a Megatron in the set for the BotCon that had
Frank stinkin' Welker for the first time ever.
David Kaye's being a BotCon guest, however, is vastly less significant since he does cons all the time, let alone several BotCons. He's great, but he's no legendary voice actor like Welker, whose career has spanned several decades and over thousands upon thousands of voice roles. He's like the Mel Blanc of Today. Kaye, however, has been to several BotCons even in years when he had no relevance to the brand at all.
Besides, we've already had two BotCon stories that focused on BW Megatron in his pre-Earth days. As you say, this is likely to be a Tripredacus Council-centric story, and Megatron wasn't personally associated with them. If we see Megatron in this year's story, chances are he'll be drawn in either his BotCon 2006 toy body or in his non-toy-based true body that 2006 body was worn ever as armor.
Not to mention that, with Fun Pub talking at this year's BotCon of how they've started working more closely with Hasbro in coming up with exclusives, there's a really good chance that the remaining convention exclusives might consist entirely of more Combiner Wars molds, as fatiguing as that might sound for all those who have grown weary of Combiner Wars.
I'm not saying for absolute certainty that they will not be using the FOC Grimlock Megatron remold as an exclusive this year. What I am saying is that there's a very strong possibility that it won't be used for the reasons given above, and that said possibility isn't something that one needs to refute so strongly as has been done in this thread. It's not worth getting excited about. Nor is David Kaye's being there (it's awesome, but it's also unsurprising).
No, if Cryotek is to be included, he'll be using Prime Bulkhead's body as per his Uprising looks
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