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News Credits: 6 · by **City Commander** » Wed May 02, 2007 12:47 pm

Now THAT is a good Botcon Exclusive. A brilliant figure, a popular character. But not everyone will want it. So the masses don't start trying to eat each other, and those that have always wanted an Alpha Trion figure have the chance to go and get one.

by **NightFall** » Wed May 02, 2007 12:55 pm

Wow, that's hot, I'm so paying more for this later, because I'm not going to botcon.

News Credits: 2 · by **Basketball Jones** » Wed May 02, 2007 12:57 pm

Nineteen of them were sold, overall.

Interesting.

by **Gutter Bunny** » Wed May 02, 2007 1:04 pm

i like it. I won't cry if i cant get ahold of it, but i do like it. Good exclusive.

by **Predaprince** » Wed May 02, 2007 1:13 pm

by **bighuffer** » Wed May 02, 2007 1:25 pm

This is not a botcon exclusive. Some fool trying to cash in on the TF Movie hype. Beware.

News Credits: 104 · by **Cyber Bishop** » Wed May 02, 2007 1:28 pm

bighuffer wrote:This is not a botcon exclusive. Some fool trying to cash in on the TF Movie hype. Beware.

And you are whom to know this? What are your credentials?

I am waiting on the sellers response, once I get that I will deal with this story accordingly.

by **bighuffer** » Wed May 02, 2007 1:28 pm

Total fake. Colors suck. looks like someones aunty dolled up.

News Credits: 104 · by **Cyber Bishop** » Wed May 02, 2007 1:29 pm

bighuffer wrote:Total fake. Colors suck. looks like someones aunty dolled up.

Again...

Cyber Bishop wrote:And you are whom to know this? What are your credentials?

News Credits: 38 · by **Sunstar** » Wed May 02, 2007 1:30 pm

Troll

News Credits: 104 · by **Cyber Bishop** » Wed May 02, 2007 1:32 pm

Sunstar wrote:Troll

Let me deal with this alright.

by **Swerve** » Wed May 02, 2007 1:50 pm

When I first saw this, I thought this was a kitbash from Vector Prime but the head mold is really well done so I'm not so sure it isn't real. Now whether it is a Botcon Exclusive remains to be seen.

If this were a kitbash does anyone know what figure could have been used to make the head? After comparing Vector Prime's head to this one they look completely different. If this isn't legit, someone put some serious time into customizing a head.

News Credits: 23 · by **1337W422102** » Wed May 02, 2007 1:50 pm

Effin' awesome. See, BotCon exclusives should be characters like this, not so much the Seekers. Damn, there I go again...

Anyway, it looks very nice.

News Credits: 767 · by **Dead Metal** » Wed May 02, 2007 2:27 pm

Swerve wrote:How is that ebay sellers from Singapore and Hong Kong always get these test shots and figures before they are released? Surely Takara must know that they employ ninja thieves that steal anything new and sell it on the ebay market. Either that or ninja pirates that are constantly raiding the Transformer factories undetected for prototypes and fully packaged, unreleased characters.

You know thats a good point. :-?

But I've got an explanation: Takara and Hasbro give them these items so they can sell them on e-bay, it's a good and cheap way of promoting. Someone paies a hige price just to be first to have it and writs a reviue of it with pics and they get posted on a website just like this one and people want it rigt away! ;)^

News Credits: 1 · by **Brakethrough** » Wed May 02, 2007 2:27 pm

YES. SO MUCH YES.

by **SpacerAM2** » Wed May 02, 2007 2:32 pm

Does he transform into anything?

News Credits: 10 · by **Lapse Of Reason** » Wed May 02, 2007 2:35 pm

#@!& ya! this is awesome news. I hope it is true.

News Credits: 5 · by **skywarp-2** » Wed May 02, 2007 2:47 pm

Lets get an idea of the final price range these are selling for..I'd like to know what they end up at, so I can determine if its a waste of my time or not to bid, because I don't have enough money right now to compete..unfortunately..

by **Nemesis_Apoc** » Wed May 02, 2007 2:52 pm

OOOOOOOHHHH SNAP!!! Dude that's the best exclusive I've EVER freakin seen!

News Credits: 767 · by **Dead Metal** » Wed May 02, 2007 2:56 pm

SpacerAM2 wrote:Does he transform into anything?

Ame .. jes he does, it lookes kind of a Star Wars Spaceship. here :
;)^

http://seibertron.com/toys/gallery.php? ... =0&start=0

News Credits: 150 · by **GetterDragun** » Wed May 02, 2007 3:07 pm

skywarp-2 wrote:Lets get an idea of the final price range these are selling for..I'd like to know what they end up at, so I can determine if its a waste of my time or not to bid, because I don't have enough money right now to compete..unfortunately..

They are $49.99 with $30 shipping. And just like last year, there is a large quantity of "unknown" repaints being sold at Buy-It-Now.

My advice to people who want these and are not going to BotCon is to buy all of the possible BotCon figures now before BotCon. The reason is that a figure like this (Megatron last year) will really go high in value. The only thing you don't get with this is the instructions and the Tech Specs. This is pretty much the cheapest you'll see this figure.

by **tentagil** » Wed May 02, 2007 3:36 pm

As cool as it looks the head looks Kitbashed to me. Very nice Kitbash but definitely looks like it was hand molded as opposed to computer drafted then prototyped. there are a few places on the purple "tiara" and around the face that make me thing it was sculpted in clay or something similiar first then molded. And Takara and Hasbro don't really do figures that way anymore.

News Credits: 2 · by **Autobobby1** » Wed May 02, 2007 3:53 pm

Colors are off, but still awesome.

As soon as I read the title, I knew that it would be a Vector Prime repaint/remold.

News Credits: 127 · by **Counterpunch** » Wed May 02, 2007 4:20 pm

F to the uck yea!

Awesome!!!

News Credits: 665 · by **Skowl** » Wed May 02, 2007 4:29 pm

I like it, better than the other exclusives this year.

This was just one of those toys that has been dying to be made, and the choice of mold, though obvious, is still the perfect one!