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I do like how Tarantulas' dark blue appears in Predacus' head and torso, that paint job looks a lot better than what I was expecting (just straight red, grey and black like the rest of Sea Clamp).

I usually love Beast Wars homages and Predacus does look okay, but I think I can live without it because I barely remember the Tripredacus Council on the show (at the time, seven-year-old me didn't even realise the council members were Transformers at all) so I have no real attachment to them.

Box art by Marcelo Matere and Josh Perez. They did an incredible job with it!

https://twitter.com/BotCon/status/689127591358427136

TF_JW wrote:Box art by Marcelo Matere and Josh Perez. They did an incredible job with it!

https://twitter.com/BotCon/status/689127591358427136

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The pose in that box art looks really familiar, but I can't quite put my finger on it.

MemphisR56 wrote:

TF_JW wrote:Box art by Marcelo Matere and Josh Perez. They did an incredible job with it!

https://twitter.com/BotCon/status/689127591358427136

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The pose in that box art looks really familiar, but I can't quite put my finger on it.

It looks like the CW/UW Devastator box art.

It does fit nicely into the Combiner Wars/Unite Warriors art style.

I admit my opinion on this set has changed a bit since it was first announced.

In the top left corner, a red jet with a yellow nosecone? Hmmmmmm...

Courtesy as always of TF_JW from BotCon and FunPub, we have some more Dawn of the Predacus set news to share with you all, specifically, the box art for the set, as created by Marcelo Matere and Josh Perez. Check it out mirrored below, along with some additional art and renders for figures from the 2016 exclusive set, via G1Hexatron on Facebook.

BotCon 2016 Registration begins this week! Before we start, here is a look at the box w/ artwork for the excl. toys!

Emerje wrote:Is that another deluxe Seeker I see on the left side in red and orange Predicus colors? Who do you suppose that is? Probably see a figure for him at the con.

Emerje

Exactly, it's attendee figure #1, name? Eh...

Randomhero wrote:

Emerje wrote:Is that another deluxe Seeker I see on the left side in red and orange Predicus colors? Who do you suppose that is? Probably see a figure for him at the con.

Emerje

Exactly, it's attendee figure #1, name? Eh...

If that's the case then what mold will they be using? A combiner wars mold? They said that they've retired the classics mold didn't they?

RED WING!!!

ALL HAIL THE GLORIOUS SEEKER LEGEND RED WING FINALLY ARRIVING IN TOY FORM!


http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Red_Wing_(MW)

So Predacus is trying to grab my purse away, Ramhorn shakes his fist at me for some reason, and they're both puffy as hell. Is Pat Lee back or something?

Microraptor wrote:So Predacus is trying to grab my purse away, Ramhorn shakes his fist at me for some reason, and they're both puffy as hell. Is Pat Lee back or something?

Is there something wrong with the art?


Either way I doubt Pat Lee will ever be allowed to be near Transformers or heck any legit business again after what he did.

mirageandjazz1197 wrote:

Microraptor wrote:So Predacus is trying to grab my purse away, Ramhorn shakes his fist at me for some reason, and they're both puffy as hell. Is Pat Lee back or something?

Is there something wrong with the art?


Either way I doubt Pat Lee will ever be allowed to be near Transformers or heck any legit business again after what he did.

The problem is the puffiness. It's freaking INSANE. Remember the Micromasters mini-series? This is that, but worse. It be fine if it weren't SO. DAMN. PUFFY.

Microraptor wrote:The problem is the puffiness. It's freaking INSANE. Remember the Micromasters mini-series? This is that, but worse. It be fine if it weren't SO. DAMN. PUFFY.

I'm not sure how your supposed to draw a blocky G1 transformer without making it puffy or making up a design.

steals_your_goats wrote:

Randomhero wrote:

Emerje wrote:Is that another deluxe Seeker I see on the left side in red and orange Predicus colors? Who do you suppose that is? Probably see a figure for him at the con.

Emerje

Exactly, it's attendee figure #1, name? Eh...

If that's the case then what mold will they be using? A combiner wars mold? They said that they've retired the classics mold didn't they?

It's Terrorsaur, through and through. But is it from Air Raid, or the Seekers?

I don't get whats peoples problems with the artwork its not even bad plus comparing it to the Transformers: mircomasters series is silly its basically an hasbro combiner boxset artwork, and it plainout looks pretty good in my opinion

Good art! and Terrorsaur perhaps?

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Good art! and Terrorsaur perhaps?

Looks like it or could just be some random jet drawn into the artwork for the background oh well time will only tell

Interesting that the art even depicts Predacus with a copy of breakdowns hand for nosecone Ramhorn, wonder if the nosecone mold didn't have an applicable hand available, since the he's supposed to come with a new one

Hellscream9999 wrote:Interesting that the art even depicts Predacus with a copy of breakdowns hand for nosecone Ramhorn, wonder if the nosecone mold didn't have an applicable hand available, since the he's supposed to come with a new one

He comes with two pairs of hand/foot pieces, like what the Unite Warriors sets have been doing.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:Interesting that the art even depicts Predacus with a copy of breakdowns hand for nosecone Ramhorn, wonder if the nosecone mold didn't have an applicable hand available, since the he's supposed to come with a new one

He comes with two pairs of hand/foot pieces, like what the Unite Warriors sets have been doing.

Could you clarify? I meant that maybe predacus doesn't use brawls hand/foot gun - the one tied to that mold - since nosecone is coming out as a foot for computron, and that mold might have the special foot designated for that mold.

Or do you mean that they are using two copies of two hand/foot guns? 2 of breakdowns and 2 of skydives (tarantulas' foot kinda looks like airraids hand/foot gun, but I thought he was using rooks hand/foot gun)?

Other than the Dreamwave-y reaching, this reminds me a bit of the BW card/box art from the '90s. I like it.

steals_your_goats wrote:

Randomhero wrote:

Emerje wrote:Is that another deluxe Seeker I see on the left side in red and orange Predicus colors? Who do you suppose that is? Probably see a figure for him at the con.

Emerje

Exactly, it's attendee figure #1, name? Eh...

If that's the case then what mold will they be using? A combiner wars mold? They said that they've retired the classics mold didn't they?

Looks to me like it's meant to be Terrorsaur using the ROTF Breakaway mold.

Looking at the art, the combiner fingers are clawed. Think the ones in the toy pics are just placeholders?

shajaki wrote:Looking at the art, the combiner fingers are clawed. Think the ones in the toy pics are just placeholders?

No, that's just artistic license; I doubt funpub would have put that in the budget