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News Credits: 1 · Fri Jun 20, 2014 1:08 am

I'll probably shell out for the kreons, but TFSS payments are coming up, and then MP prowl... and I really want that comiccon dinobots set but I figure if I wait long enough that will be reasonably priced on ebay.

News Credits: 668 · Fri Jun 20, 2014 3:04 am

BotCon 2014 is well underway and with each new day, we bring you the best content. Today is no different, and we have another Seibertron.com gallery to share with you. This time, we have the BotCon 2014 Pirates Vs. Knights attendee Souvenir gallery!

Featuring Pirates Clone Pounce, Clone Wingspan, "The Hunter", and Brimstone and Knights Ape-Linq, Flareup, and Alpha Trizer. (You might be wondering "What about the Kreos?" Those will be online this weekend.)

Pounce is a redeco of the PRID Vehicon mold
Wingspan is a redeco of the Arms Micron Jet Vehicon mold
"The Hunter" is a redeco/remold of the PRID Megatron mold
Brimstone is a redeco of the FOC Air Raid mold
Ape-Linq is a redeco of the of the Beast Wars 10th Anniversary/Cybertron Optimus Prime/Primal mold
Flareup is a redeco of the PRID Arcee mold
and finally, Alpha Trizer, which is a redeco of the PRID Thundertron mold.
You can click on the names above to see the galleries of the origin figures.

You've seen this year's exclusive boxset tech specs, which you can see again here, and now it's time to see the attendee figures and their techspecs as well!

Coming to you right from Pasadena, CA, Seibertron.com is proud to present Pirates Vs. Knights Attendee Souvenir gallery!

Click on any of the images below to be taken to the full gallery:

Keep your optics tuned to Seibertron.com for the latest in news and updates, plus the best galleries around!

Fri Jun 20, 2014 3:24 am

I'm digging all the pirates! They WILL be mine :KREMZEEK:

News Credits: 2 · Fri Jun 20, 2014 3:26 am

Yeah, I definitely don't regret my purchases. These are definitely the figures to have. That seems to be a recurring theme for the past couple years or so. The attendee-only figures beat out the boxed set figures. Those Vehicons in particular look amazing as the Decepticon Clones. That choice was a stroke of genius on the Club's part and it allowed them to finally give us the Jet Vehicon mold. Very cool.

Fri Jun 20, 2014 7:24 am

With the demand for G1 figures to be re-introduced into the CHUG lines, I really hope these "pirated" (see what I did there?) Clones are released to the general public as Decepticon Clones Wingspan and Pounce, even if they're not beasts. All the botcon figures are pretty sweet, but those "Clones" would be the only two "must haves" I would want of this Botcon collection.

News Credits: 3 · Fri Jun 20, 2014 7:34 am

While I'm going to be using the clones as Pounce and Wingspan on my shelves, I really do like that they`re mass produced clone clones.

As someone who army built the hell out of the various Vehicon releases, I may get two more sets down the road.

News Credits: 12 · Fri Jun 20, 2014 8:02 am

I like this set better than the "main" set! Pounce and Wingspan, in particular, look beautiful and NEED to be in my collection.

Fri Jun 20, 2014 8:06 am

While I get the thinking behind those molds for Pounce and Wingspan, I can't help but think they would've made more sense for Fastlane and Cloudraker.

Of course, they could've really blown minds by using the molds for both sets of Autobot and Decepticon clones, suggesting they're all clones of the same robot.

News Credits: 3 · Fri Jun 20, 2014 8:20 am

Ive never really gotten into BotCon (or any convention really) how do attendee figures work?

News Credits: 25 · Fri Jun 20, 2014 8:34 am

With all the sheer awesome that is the secondary exclusives, the polybagged sets, I kinda wish Funpub decided to forgo the box set based on the 30th anniversary of transformers, and make it a set dedicated to botcons 20th. They still could've included devcon and scorponok, plus they probably would've been able to pull of more kickass figures based on previous exclusives, or Unreleased ones.

Also on a side note, is odd that the Kreons this year are figures unrelated to the boxset? Last years machine wars termination kreons were parallel to the figures from the box set, this year they're all previous exclusives, which makes me think a botcon 20th set would've been better than the transformers 30th.

News Credits: 1 · Fri Jun 20, 2014 8:36 am

xyl360 wrote:That seems to be a recurring theme for the past couple years or so. The attendee-only figures beat out the boxed set figures.

That's the truth! I couldn't care less about most of the set figures, Scorponok excluded. But even Scorpy is skipable because the energon version is good enough for me.

The Clones, and the bikes are the "must buys" for me.

Shockoract, Alpha Triser and Brimstone are all pretty nice too.
Not must haves, but all quite nice.

News Credits: 122 · Fri Jun 20, 2014 9:05 am

I could see myself going for all the attendee figures except Apelinq. These guys seem to be fairly popular, but I'll wait for all the hubbub to die down and see if they go on sale at the major retailers and the Club Store.

News Credits: 3 · Fri Jun 20, 2014 9:11 am

megatronus wrote:I could see myself going for all the attendee figures except Apelinq. These guys seem to be fairly popular, but I'll wait for all the hubbub to die down and see if they go on sale at the major retailers and the Club Store.

Something tells me they're not gonna have many(or any) left to sell on the club store.

News Credits: 241 · Fri Jun 20, 2014 9:47 am

Did I call the use of FoC Air Raid or what? :DANCE:

Better yet, he's homaging Cybertron Brimstone, that's the kind of surprise I dig.

And the Clones I could easily see being originally produced by Wings Jhiaxus, maybe commissioned by Cannonball. Igu being included is icing on the cake.

Alpha Trizer, Apelinq and Hunter are all must-haves... *sob*

Fri Jun 20, 2014 9:52 am

Im shocked by the love these crappy character choices are getting. I only bought the non attendee box set and grabbed Flamewar on ebay. I also had took a gamble on the class figure before knowing what it was in my preorder, but kind of like it for the clear red plastic. He will be my rabid hate plauge ape. 75 bucks on that was a fair deal.

But those clones...ugh. How could funpub not give them proper heads instead of vehicons ? Im pretty sure a 3rd party will make proper heads. The yellow shockwave repaint just sucks because the mold sucks to begin with. Alpha Lion (or whatever his name is) is a joke. I know theres a still a heavy demand for the 2007 botcon alpha trion, but cmon thats thing dont cut it as a place holder. Flareup looks good, but its basically an orange arcee. Maybe if they had done a fembots 3 pack it would have been worth picking up. But im happy with the 2005 versions. I actually like the black crab, but I 60 dollar like him, not 125 dollar like him. Apelinq...I dont really care about. I want to keep my beast wars collection simple. I dont regret my decison of skipping botcon this year. I did Pasadena in 2011 so its not like I missed any adventuring out thrre. Alot of money saved on hotel, airfare, and high priced California food.

News Credits: 5749 · Fri Jun 20, 2014 10:20 am

Site sponsor Robotkingdom managed to snap a few early images of Hasbro's display cases at BotCon! The displays haven't been fully set up, but we get some pretty interesting images of several upcoming Transformers: Age of Extinction box set, plus some previously announced figures like Generations Leader Class Jetfire and the Hasbro Toys"R"Us Exclusive Masterpieces Sunstorm and Prowl. Expect much better images and info later on this weekend, for now check out the sneak peak below:

Fri Jun 20, 2014 10:23 am

Rated X wrote:Im shocked by the love these crappy character choices are getting. I only bought the non attendee box set and grabbed Flamewar on ebay. I also had took a gamble on the class figure before knowing what it was in my preorder, but kind of like it for the clear red plastic. He will be my rabid hate plauge ape. 75 bucks on that was a fair deal.

But those clones...ugh. How could funpub not give them proper heads instead of vehicons ? Im pretty sure a 3rd party will make proper heads. The yellow shockwave repaint just sucks because the mold sucks to begin with. Alpha Lion (or whatever his name is) is a joke. I know theres a still a heavy demand for the 2007 botcon alpha trion, but cmon thats thing dont cut it as a place holder. Flareup looks good, but its basically an orange arcee. Maybe if they had done a fembots 3 pack it would have been worth picking up. But im happy with the 2005 versions. I actually like the black crab, but I 60 dollar like him, not 125 dollar like him. Apelinq...I dont really care about. I want to keep my beast wars collection simple. I dont regret my decison of skipping botcon this year. I did Pasadena in 2011 so its not like I missed any adventuring out thrre. Alot of money saved on hotel, airfare, and high priced California food.

I kind of agree with you, but just not with so much of a vitriol I think. I think a lot of the choices, mold and character wise, are just dull. Yes, I see what they did, and I understand that their referencing 3H/old Fun Pub OC's is one of those things we're expected to be beside ourselves with awe and wonder at, but to me, it just makes a random jumble of a set more random and jumbled.
I think all the toys look very nice, add on wise; the box set is still real weak to me. I think the bikes look great, and I think the Clones look good, but to me they don't work. I think the Vehicon heads actually work into a fiction where the two guys are supposed to be clones, but to me they just look like white Vehicons. That Alpha Trion is just stupid.
I get the idea that this set was a way better sounding idea than it was a practice. It's like Fun Pub's own little Generations line, but for me at least, it just didn't work out.

Fri Jun 20, 2014 10:35 am

Rusty Brown Prime!

Though, they are all knocked over! :lol:

The Vehicon Clones look awesome. Only thing I really want, though Ape-Linq is tempting, because, Beast Wars.

That last Grimlock is massive. Adult Collector sticker on it too!

Really want to see what else is in store! I love exclusives.

News Credits: 3 · Fri Jun 20, 2014 10:39 am

I hear that last night FunPub confirmed that Alpha Trizer is future Cheetor, NOT Alpha Lion.

News Credits: 1 · Fri Jun 20, 2014 10:40 am

Whatever that jumbled mess is with the beat up white Prime ... I'm interested.

If I can cancel my preorder for the Takara import, that would be good.