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News Credits: 5749 · Sun Jun 16, 2013 11:38 am

Thanks to the wonderful world of TaoBao we know one of the attendee only add-on figures in this year's BotCon 2013 Machine Wars: Termination set. Voyager class Transformers: Dark of the Moon Skyhammer has been repainted in Machine Wars Sandstorm! Check out the images mirrored from the auctions below.

For comparison here are images from our own galleries of the original Machine Wars Sandstorm:

The auctions can be found here and here.

News Credits: 12 · Sun Jun 16, 2013 11:49 am

Nice. Skyhammer was an excellent mold with a cool weapon, this looks like a good choice.

News Credits: 5 · Sun Jun 16, 2013 11:49 am

I think they went a little overboard on the stripes, but otherwise nice. I don't like how they're mixing movie and non-movie molds. They should just stick to the movie molds

News Credits: 241 · Sun Jun 16, 2013 12:03 pm

YES, I CALLED IT, I SO CALLED IT!!! :DANCE:

*ahem* Sorry about that :oops:

Looking great, and surprised they included the MechTech weapon. InstaFav'ed.

News Credits: 14 · Sun Jun 16, 2013 12:04 pm

welcometothedarksyde wrote:I think they went a little overboard on the stripes, but otherwise nice. I don't like how they're mixing movie and non-movie molds. They should just stick to the movie molds

I dunno. The way I see it is: It's not COMPLETELY a movie mold unless it was in the movie. So, figures like Terradive and Tomahawk had potential to become Neo-G1 figures in my collection. I've actually really wanted them to release a figure that would finally open the door for Skyhammer to become a Neo-G1 figure.

That being said, because Darksteel is a Qucikstrike homage, and, despite what so many people here say, Skyhammer is pretty clearly an Air Hammer homage, I'm just gonna keep those two together on display.

Sun Jun 16, 2013 12:06 pm

It's nice. Not all that accurate to l figure, but cool. It needs a new less movieish head. How much could that really have cost ? Funpub is really cheap. All repaints should have new heads mandatory. Something else should be exclusive besides the deco.

News Credits: 7 · Sun Jun 16, 2013 12:33 pm

Gorgeous!

Sun Jun 16, 2013 12:54 pm

Great mold, great deco, glad to see it!

News Credits: 251 · Sun Jun 16, 2013 1:05 pm

I... I think I owe JelZe a few dollars... :oops:

News Credits: 3642 · Sun Jun 16, 2013 1:56 pm

This would be extremely awesome ... with a new head. :BANG_HEAD:

News Credits: 1 · Sun Jun 16, 2013 1:59 pm

This is weird. I mentioned a few weeks ago that the new Generations Sandstorm could be repainted into Ultra Pretender Skyhammer, and now the more recent Skyhammer gets repainted into that other incarnation of Sandstorm!

And yet...I never bought MW Sandstorm for the same reason I can't get too excited about this guy: That color combination is just really off-putting. I'm usually not one to complain about that. Hell, I never complain about "neon" because I respect any color loud enough that the toy looks like it actually wants to blind me. But something about the helmet and other accents being in that same caramel hue that Batman toys inexplicably get decoed in every few years...I love this mold, but this is the first reveal so far that I have no interest in.

News Credits: 25 · Sun Jun 16, 2013 2:01 pm

Seibertron wrote:This would be extremely awesome ... with a new head.

Seems to be a reoccurring theme with some figures this year.........

News Credits: 241 · Sun Jun 16, 2013 2:06 pm

Mindmaster wrote:I... I think I owe JelZe a few dollars...

I take Mini-Cons and Microns ;;)

I kid, I kid.

Skyhammer happens to be my favourite DotM mold, and I like Sandstorm as a character. And really, the head does not need changing, it's fairly accurate to the G1 toy with the crest and mouthplate.

News Credits: 2 · Sun Jun 16, 2013 2:06 pm

Not bad, I think it would have been much better if they ditched that crappy DOTM weapon for another and painted his hands. :VEHI:

Sun Jun 16, 2013 3:04 pm

Two toys at once for Sandstorm, and Hoist. Funny how things work out.

News Credits: 5749 · Sun Jun 16, 2013 3:13 pm

We've been sitting on a list of rumored BotCon 2013 attendee only figures for a while now, but since this morning's reveal of Machine Wars Sandstorm lends some credence to the list we've decide to go ahead and share it. Keep in mind the list below is "rumored", although Machine Wars Sandstorm appears to be confirmed and Machine Wars Thundercracker has already been hinted at by TFCC.

Machine Wars Prowl from Classics Mirage
Machine Wars Sandstorm from Transfrormes: Dark of the Moon Skyhammer
Machine Wars Starscream from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Terradive
Machine Wars Thundercracker from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Dirge
Classics Starscream mold repainted into the Rainmakers

Sun Jun 16, 2013 3:15 pm

Oh no, not MORE Classics Starscreams! :lol:

News Credits: 241 · Sun Jun 16, 2013 3:20 pm

RAcast wrote:Oh no, not MORE Classics Starscreams!

I feel really, really sorry for that mold now... Poor guy. :-(

So let's see...

Set 1: Prowl and Sandstorm
Set 2: Starscream and Thundercracker
Set 3: Rainmakers

Then Electro should be the freebie. That should complete the MW lineup except for Hubcap, Mirage and Soundwave.

News Credits: 12 · Sun Jun 16, 2013 3:24 pm

I'd like it if they reissued the original Electro toy, but in new, less GPS-vulnerable plastic. It's a decent toy, especially for the time, but the poopy plastic makes it ridiculously rare and overly expensive.

News Credits: 1235 · Sun Jun 16, 2013 3:33 pm

I would honestly love more classics seekers.

News Credits: 226 · Sun Jun 16, 2013 3:42 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Then Electro should be the freebie. That should complete the MW lineup except for Hubcap, Mirage and Soundwave.

Well Cybertron Defense Red Alert is the perfect mold for Soundwave, but I doubt they'll do it.

If they do a Soundwave with another mold, it just won't be the same.

Sun Jun 16, 2013 3:55 pm

Burn wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Then Electro should be the freebie. That should complete the MW lineup except for Hubcap, Mirage and Soundwave.

Well Cybertron Defense Red Alert is the perfect mold for Soundwave, but I doubt they'll do it.

If they do a Soundwave with another mold, it just won't be the same.

Well, assuming UT molds are still too old and worn to make new figures from, that just leaves customs. Fortunately, the best custom Soundwave made from the Cybertron Defense Red Alert/Universe Countdown mold already exists as a template:

Sandstorm looks okay for what he is, though I don't have a great deal of affection for the character. If indeed Thundercracker and Starscream share a package, I'll get off very cheap this year with those two and their fellow 'Cons Skywarp and Megaplex. Throw in Obsidian and I walk away with my wallet only badly wounded, but surviving.

Though if BotCon 2012 is anything to go by, the figures will be mixed up with each other, in little "versus" sets, so I may end up stuck with a few surplus Autobots... :BANG_HEAD:

News Credits: 122 · Sun Jun 16, 2013 4:33 pm

Not that I have any interest in MW Sandstorm, but a new head may have helped.

Actually, I think GDO Springer's head would have been PERFECT for this.

Meh.

News Credits: 1 · Sun Jun 16, 2013 4:47 pm

My eyes are bleeding, but it's a good kind of pain.

News Credits: 25 · Sun Jun 16, 2013 5:13 pm

This list is all well and good, but hasn't Sabrblade mentioned in the past that figures before a certain year, are off limits to the club due "mold degradation" and extra fees? then again the club has proven fickle in the past; like with the use prime Skyquake mold even though some of us said it was too new for them to use.