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News Credits: 127 · by **Counterpunch** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:54 am

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/showthread.php?t=170423

credit to the og poster over at TFW.

I really hope that's not a final production unit...

Paint aps could be nice if done right, but look sloppy for now.

News Credits: 3 · by **Canned Pasta** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:02 am

I just threw up in my mouth a little

News Credits: 767 · by **Dead Metal** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:08 am

Wow I like the car mode.... the rest kinda sucks, good I just plain hate this mold. But still the carmode looks awesome with that blue lighting.

News Credits: 1014 · by **First Gen** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:24 am

Im not really impressed at all with a couple figures (looking at Jazz) but others (PRIME BABY) really move me, hence my repaint WIP you can find in Repaints.

This has a decent paint scheme in car mode, and at least they made him look evil. But no. I can't see shelling out cash for this figure, which really sucks because I love the Shattered Glass concept, they're just picking really crappy molds to go off of with some of these.

News Credits: 32 · by **UltraPrimal** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:55 am

The color scheme is great, but that face is disgusting! Is he supposed to battle damaged like Prime? I hope we get to see Wheeljack/Drench and Megatron soon.

News Credits: 1082 · by **Tigertrack** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:56 am

Front pages CP, et al.

And I like the idea in theory, if we hadn't already gotten a G1 style Blurr from that mold in Cybertron. The black evil version though...I suppose I must have it if this is true.

by **Lord T** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 11:11 am

Looks kitbashy. And not the good way.

News Credits: 6 · by **City Commander** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 11:48 am

Nice, nicely done face (looks a lil rough yet though). But to be honest, I think we got enough Blurr love with the awesomely done Cybertron Blurr.

News Credits: 11 · by **Overcracker** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 11:56 am

Does anybody else feel he's evoking Scourge there?

Anyway kinda sloppy. Glad I'm not picking up this years set.

News Credits: 387 · by **Nekoman** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 12:06 pm

Looks nice, but, not great…

News Credits: 1014 · by **First Gen** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 12:25 pm

Dealer wrote:Nice, nicely done face (looks a lil rough yet though). But to be honest, I think we got enough Blurr love with the awesomely done Cybertron Blurr.

Well, remember, its just Blurr's mold. this could very well turn out to be Prowl or Sideswipe, who knows.

I don't have this mold in any form, but I hear its a great one.

News Credits: 6 · by **City Commander** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 12:57 pm

Very true.

It is indeed an awesome mould. I'm sad that I only own the Armada release though. The cybertron one is so damn awesome.

News Credits: 273 · by **Delicon** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 8:33 pm

CXan anyone catch me back up with all the exclusive figs that look like a go for Botcon? Will there really be 14?

by **Defcon!** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 8:59 pm

Blurr looks awesome i love the colors! And the mold is cool!

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 8:59 pm

First Gen wrote:I don't have this mold in any form, but I hear its a great one.

I wouldn't say it's a great mold, but I wouldn't say it's a bad one either.

It's a nice mold really, but has a couple of things that don't do it any favours.

As for this repaint, I like the lightning, the alt mode does look good. But the eye patch? No thanks. To me it just seems very pirate-like and it's failing miserably there.

News Credits: 7 · by **shortround** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:10 pm

O.k. I just lost a respect for the person or persons responsable for pick out the figures for botcon.

News Credits: 10 · by **Lapse Of Reason** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:49 pm

Delicon wrote:CXan anyone catch me back up with all the exclusive figs that look like a go for Botcon? Will there really be 14?

There will be 14, including the minicon(s).

Autobots
1. Optimus Prime
2. Goldbug
3. Grimlock
4. Jazz
5. Ricochet
6. Rodimus (rumored)
7. Blur (rumored)

Decepticons
1. Starscream
2. Megatron (rumored)
3. Razorclaw
4. Predator Minicon 2 (rumored)
5. Predator Minicon 3 (rumored)
6. Sideswipe (rumored Wheeljack mold)
7. Sideswipe's Minicon (Windsheer mold)

News Credits: 10 · by **Lapse Of Reason** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 11:59 pm

This is the first Botcon set in awhile where I have no strong desire to get them all. Since I can't attend, I won't be shelling out eBay prices for all the figures - only the select few I feel fit in with this concept. I am not excited about all the figures. I want to be - but I just am not. I like the concept and I like Goldbug, Prime, Jazz, Starscream, and probably Megatron, Wheeljack and Rodimus. Those characters fit.

Ricochet? Not a character I care about.

Razorclaw? He got a serious demotion from savage predacon leader to ... pet cat?

Blurr? I like the mold and paint. The head sculpt looks good too, but why Blurr? Like Ricochet, the character does not fit.

Grimlock? Understandable character choice, but I think the Trypticon color scheme was a mistake. They should have gone with mostly black with splashes of red or orange (like Titanium The Fallen). I'd even settle for some blue (like his G2 counterpart).

Since I have not seen the others, I will reserve judgement. Megatron will be a must, but I wish there were more Decepticons.

It looks like the lineup I will keep (so far) is Prime, Jazz, Goldbug vs. Starscream and Megatron. I'll be satisfied with them. The unseen figures are a toss-up right now. I eagerly anticpate seeing the Armada Wheeljack redeco.

by **grayj74** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:08 am

i like both heads of the those first two blurrs that were released during the trilogy, but i hated the bodies- anytime the arms don"t extend out past the chest "blarghhh". its not like i"m going to be picking up on these figures anyway as i won"t spend that kind of money on something like that.if they do new figures i honestly wish they would spend the time on getting the figures a little more size uniformity...you know proper sizing car vs. helicopter a little more realism in that department would be awesome. like Blackout was supposed to be the largest of the decepticons from the movie..a giant, and yet the Barricade figure hits him at his chest.Blackout ends up little compared to Starscream.
in the end thus far i"ve only seen one set of figures from Bot-Con that i would like to have and that"s the whole pre-beast wars figures - more of those please. like that "new" version of Cryotek.

News Credits: 1014 · by **First Gen** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 9:28 am

Burn wrote: But the eye patch? No thanks. To me it just seems very pirate-like and it's failing miserably there.

lol, yeah, I wasn't aware that Autobots could bleed red blood either. But that does give Bay a great idea to do a TF Pirates of the Carribean crossover. :grin:

News Credits: 1 · by **rpetras** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 2:36 pm

Meh.

I'm glad I got the Cybertron version of Blur, but I never need that mold again.

It is OK at best. Kinda crummy articulation (it originally Armada, so that makes sense) and lots o' back kibble.

Kind of a neat looking car though.

by **Pyrostrata** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 3:27 pm

Neat alt mode. Crappy robot mode. I won't be getting that Shattered Glass issue.

News Credits: 97 · by **Savage** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 4:54 pm

Decepticons
1. Starscream
2. Megatron (rumored)
3. Razorclaw
4. Predator Minicon 2 (rumored)
5. Predator Minicon 3 (rumored)
6. Sideswipe (rumored Wheeljack mold)
7. Sideswipe's Minicon (Windsheer mold)[/quote]

Sideswipe as a heroic Decepticon? Are they on crack? Just name it after one of the Stunticons and be done with it.

News Credits: 1 · by **Optimus_Prowl** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:52 pm

I'm a little confused. Does this Blurr have hands at all? It just looks like they molded his blasters to his arms. That puts me off to the mold alot if they did.

News Credits: 32 · by **UltraPrimal** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:15 pm

Optimus_Prowl wrote:I'm a little confused. Does this Blurr have hands at all? It just looks like they molded his blasters to his arms. That puts me off to the mold alot if they did.

He has hands that hold his guns, not with standardized fist holes though. It's just the angle that make him look like he has guns for arms.