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News Credits: 2 · Fri Jun 20, 2014 3:32 am

Thrustinator's next? Hell yeah, I can't wait

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Flashwave wrote:Umm, so who's the yllow scorponok in the bckground?

That's just a second Scorponok in beast mode. That light in the hotel room there is yellow tinted so it changes the way the colors of the plastics photograph.

News Credits: 86 · Sun Jun 22, 2014 1:30 pm

In a new TFCC dedicated gallery, Seibertron.com is pleased to present to you a high-quality look at Transformers: Timelines Deluxe Depth Charge. Click on any of the below images to take you directly to the gallery.

Convention & Club Exclusives Depth Charge

Sun Jun 22, 2014 2:15 pm

As truly awesome as that looks. I can't help but look at a much different "Transformer" and see Depthcharge.

Star Wars Transformers Emperor Palpatine (Imperial Shuttle) Gallery

Star Wars Transformers Emperor Palpatine (Imperial Shuttle) Gallery

While it's not the better figure, the alt mode does capture the look and feel of a manta ray space ship. Also the wing placement in bot mode is reminiscent of the wing placement on BW Depthcharge. You can even have a little protoform Depthcharge pilot himself lol.

News Credits: 13 · Sun Jun 22, 2014 2:22 pm

Nice repaint.

I wonder how many more toys will be repainted with the Terradive mold. :-?

News Credits: 122 · Sun Jun 22, 2014 4:06 pm

That Takara Terradive has so much win... I wish I could find one for less than $100.

News Credits: 129 · Mon Jun 23, 2014 3:14 pm

megatronus wrote:I just think it's awesome how good these figures look as a group:

Too true.

News Credits: 462 · Mon Jun 23, 2014 7:31 pm

Why is Thrustinator's wasp eye yellow when it was supposed to be changed to blue?

News Credits: 25 · Mon Jun 23, 2014 8:39 pm

Sabrblade wrote:Why is Thrustinator's wasp eye yellow when it was supposed to be changed to blue?

Because it's homage to the yellowish orange eyes of the motorcycle drone toy from 2001,

News Credits: 462 · Mon Jun 23, 2014 8:47 pm

SW's SilverHammer wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Why is Thrustinator's wasp eye yellow when it was supposed to be changed to blue?

Because it's homage to the yellowish orange eyes of the motorcycle drone toy from 2001,

No it is not. We were told the Club would be correcting it to blue. His robot mode Waspy eye is blue, it only makes sense for his wasp mode eye to be blue too.

And Thrust had a red visor in the cartoon, just like his robot mode Thrust eye is.

News Credits: 25 · Mon Jun 23, 2014 8:52 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
SW's SilverHammer wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Why is Thrustinator's wasp eye yellow when it was supposed to be changed to blue?

Because it's homage to the yellowish orange eyes of the motorcycle drone toy from 2001,
No it is not. We were told the Club would be correcting it to blue. His robot mode Waspy eye is blue, it only makes sense for his wasp mode eye to be blue too.

And Thrust had a red visor in the cartoon, just like his robot mode Thrust eye is.

It's possible it's a production error, But it makes more since for the club to give wink the toy the CG model was based on

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News Credits: 462 · Mon Jun 23, 2014 8:57 pm

SW's SilverHammer wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
SW's SilverHammer wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Why is Thrustinator's wasp eye yellow when it was supposed to be changed to blue?

Because it's homage to the yellowish orange eyes of the motorcycle drone toy from 2001,
No it is not. We were told the Club would be correcting it to blue. His robot mode Waspy eye is blue, it only makes sense for his wasp mode eye to be blue too.

And Thrust had a red visor in the cartoon, just like his robot mode Thrust eye is.

It's possible it's a production error, But it makes more since for the club to give wink the toy the CG model was based on .

More like vice-versa. The Motorcycle Drone was based off the CGI model from the previous year. Beast Machines's second year had toys based off the show models since its first year toys barely resembled them due to the show and toys not being on the same page for that first year.

News Credits: 25 · Mon Jun 23, 2014 9:16 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
SW's SilverHammer wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
SW's SilverHammer wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Why is Thrustinator's wasp eye yellow when it was supposed to be changed to blue?

Because it's homage to the yellowish orange eyes of the motorcycle drone toy from 2001,
No it is not. We were told the Club would be correcting it to blue. His robot mode Waspy eye is blue, it only makes sense for his wasp mode eye to be blue too.

And Thrust had a red visor in the cartoon, just like his robot mode Thrust eye is.

It's possible it's a production error, But it makes more since for the club to give wink the toy the CG model was based on .
More like vice-versa. The Motorcycle Drone was based off the CGI model from the previous year. Beast Machines's second year had toys based off the show models since its first year toys barely resembled them due to the show and toys not being on the same page for that first year.

Actually The thrust figure proper came out in 2000, with the toyline starting in 1999. The motorcycle drone would've been from beast machines third year

I always heard the rumor that mainframe used hasbro's in production concepts of the drones for both the drones and generals due to budget constraints.

No matter the Details, I like the Yellow Eyed version better, it's reminiscent of the motorcycle drone figure, which was the most accurate interpretation of thrust at the time, and to an extent still is. plus that would be three/four homages in this toy, and the more there are, the better the toy is (that part was snark).

News Credits: 656 · Tue Jun 24, 2014 12:12 pm

Thrustinator's yellow eye is a production error. Pete's response was to find a customizer if you want it blue. I can't make that up.

News Credits: 462 · Tue Jun 24, 2014 12:17 pm

ScottyP wrote:Thrustinator's yellow eye is a production error. Pete's response was to find a customizer if you want it blue. I can't make that up.

Typical.

News Credits: 668 · Mon Jun 30, 2014 2:20 am

We've shown you the galleries of this year's BotCon exclusives, and you can always see the previous exclusives from recent past events by clicking here: Events

Since we're going back in time, we thought we should share an oldie, but a goodie:

BotCon '99 exclusive Deluxe Class Windrazor!

Windrazor is based off of Beast Wars Fuzor Silverbolt and redecoed in a white and two tone purple. With special collector's packaging based off of the then current Beast Wars line, this attractive looking exclusive was a must for attendees.

Click on any of the pictures below to be taken to the full gallery.

Convention & Club Exclusives Windrazor

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

News Credits: 6188 · Sat Jul 12, 2014 4:10 pm

It's about time we show you some more BotCon Transformers exclusive figures, is it not? To begin with, feast your optics on the Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Arcee repaint into Flamewar, complete with weapon, flames and ..war? For comparison, check out the Cyberverse counterpart too, by clicking on any of the images below to access the full galleries!

Convention & Club Exclusives Flamewar

Transformers Prime: Cyberverse Flamewar

Sat Jul 12, 2014 4:38 pm

Va'al wrote:complete with weapon, flames and ..war?

Mindmaster's sig told me to.

Don't ban me Va'al.

Sat Jul 12, 2014 5:05 pm

now the females do not just have boobs. they have boobs with flames on them.

News Credits: 3 · Sat Jul 12, 2014 5:37 pm

griftimus prime wrote:now the females do not just have boobs. they have boobs with flames on them.

You must have missed the furor during the con.

They jiggle, too.

News Credits: 13 · Sat Jul 12, 2014 6:02 pm

I believe that they have chose the right mold for Flamewar. Let me check:

Yep.

Zeek99g wrote:
Va'al wrote:complete with weapon, flames and ..war?

Nice catch!

News Credits: 25 · Sat Jul 12, 2014 6:19 pm

Midnight_Fox wrote:They jiggle, too.

I may be thinking to hard about this, but does that mean they're made of something soft, or they have jointage/springs that allow them to bounce/ articulate. Do transformer women where Brassieres? Does that mean there's a transformers clothes/fashion industry, if that's the case do transformers as a race wear clothes, are clothes vehicle kibble? How do we know when they're wearing clothes, does that mean there are cybertonain decency laws? If that's all entirely false does this imply transformers are constantly nude all the time? Why's the prospect of transformers with jiggle physics open this many question :BOOM:

Sat Jul 12, 2014 6:35 pm

holy flaming bras batman!

News Credits: 23 · Sat Jul 12, 2014 6:41 pm

Midnight_Fox wrote:
griftimus prime wrote:now the females do not just have boobs. they have boobs with flames on them.

You must have missed the furor during the con.

They jiggle, too.

Two words, shock absorbers.

SW's SilverHammer wrote:I may be thinking to hard about this, but does that mean they're made of something soft, or they have jointage/springs that allow them to bounce/ articulate. Do transformer women where Brassieres? Does that mean there's a transformers clothes/fasion industry, if that's the case do transformers as a race wear clothes, are clothes vehicle kibble, or if that's all entirely false does this imply transformers are constantly nude all the time? Why's the prospect of transformers with jiggle physics open this many question

Dude, they're bewbs. To 99% of the male population they are beyond the concept of logical reason- :-B

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Sorry, I was *cough*staring at the awesome bewbs*cough*, what was I saying? :???:

News Credits: 6188 · Sun Jul 13, 2014 9:45 am

Yet more high quality, detailed Seibertron.com galleries of BotCon 2014 exclusive figures! Click on any of the images below to access the full works of Starseeker Pirates Hunter, a repaint of TCC Rampage, in itself a repaint and remold of Transformers Prime First Edition Deluxe Megatron, and Brimstone, a repaint of the Air Raid remold of Fall of Cybertron Shockwave!

Convention & Club Exclusives Pirate Hunter

Convention & Club Exclusives Pirate Brimstone

News Credits: 7 · Sun Jul 13, 2014 10:02 am

For whatever reason, the small head doesn't look as bad on Hunter/Shockawhatever

Brimstone seems to lose a bit of his visual appeal with the lack of asymmetrical legs, but I'd totally have gotten him if he was a mass-release figure. And fan-moded a pterodactyl mode.