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News Credits: 1014 · by **First Gen** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 12:35 am

Trying to get information on the next Botcon has been harder than trying to pull healthy teeth, but we finally get a little hint of what we can expect at the Transformers Club's official event.

According to the latest issue of the Transformers Club Magazine, Brian Savage tells us that three of the Botcon exclusive figures will have remolded heads. As to the who, what, where and when, no word has been mentioned as of yet. This number is one short of the total exclusive figures, which had four remolded heads in Shattered Glass Goldbug, Blurr, Megatron and Jazz/Richochet.

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News Credits: 1452 · by **Blurrz** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 1:06 am

I smell Animated Femcon Seeker

News Credits: 12 · by **robofreak** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 1:08 am

Blurrz wrote:I smell Animated Femcon Seeker

And I smell a million PO'ed fans if that's true. It would be 2007 Seekers all over again. :roll:

I really hope the exclusives are'nt Animated molds. I want Universe molds.

News Credits: 3 · by **ShGarland_1383** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 1:38 am

First Gen wrote:Trying to get information on the next Botcon has been harder than trying to pull healthy teeth, but we finally get a little hint of what we can expect at the Transformers Club's official event.

According to the latest issue of the Transformers Club Magazine, Brian Savage tells us that three of the Botcon exclusive figures will have remolded heads. As to the who, what, where and when, no word has been mentioned as of yet. This number is one short of the total exclusive figures, which had four remolded heads in Shattered Glass Goldbug, Blurr, Megatron and Jazz/Richochet.

Complete details of the Club exclusive magazine are only available to recipients, and in order to receive it you gotta be a member. Sign up by visiting the TFCC Homepage and don't forget we have an exclusive, ongoing, question and answer thread dedicated to the TFCC here.

Very interesting...

Note to First Gen: your link to the TFCC Homepage is broken. Just a minor typo (you left a . out after the www), but for me it goes to a Mediacom search page when I try to use the link. No big; its just that if your gonna link to another page, the link should work.

News Credits: 4 · by **Firebird** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 1:41 am

robofreak wrote:I really hope the exclusives are'nt Animated molds. I want Universe molds.

That makes 2 of us. It's not that I don't like animated, but I would prefer more traditional transformers in my box set.

by **Point** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 3:06 am

Am I the only one who would rather see them go back to just a couple of figs per show, rather than the huge set and all the the extra door figs, and this day only figs, and this section of the 'Con only figs? Having a 20 piece set, plus all the hunt-and-find extras just seems, I dunno, cheaping of the spirit of "exclusive". :-?

by **Booda** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 4:46 am

Classics Ratchet
Classics Wheeljack
Classics Trailbreaker

Make it happen.

News Credits: 23 · by **Prime Evil** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 8:06 am

Point wrote:Am I the only one who would rather see them go back to just a couple of figs per show, rather than the huge set and all the the extra door figs, and this day only figs, and this section of the 'Con only figs? Having a 20 piece set, plus all the hunt-and-find extras just seems, I dunno, cheaping of the spirit of "exclusive".

I don't know if you're the only one, but I'm gonna have to go with the figure heavy exclusives side. I only go anymore for the figures. Besides seeing fellow TF fans in one big ole meeting spot, the next best thing for me are the Con figures. I don't buy many figures at the con cause I pretty much have what I need and can get what I need at better prices online as well. I'll occasionally find something that I've been hunting for, but not too often.

by **Grimpoo** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 8:18 am

I hope they are animated figures....then i wouldnt have any interest in buying them and wouldnt have to spend gazillions of dollars to make my classics/universe shelf purdy.

News Credits: 1 · by **Solrac333** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 11:42 am

Blurrz wrote:I smell Animated Femcon Seeker

That sounds dirty. 8-}

News Credits: 1 · by **Solrac333** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 12:01 pm

remolded heads? Maybe a Universe Jazz. :-?

News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 12:14 pm

Grimpoo wrote:I hope they are animated figures....then i wouldnt have any interest in buying them and wouldnt have to spend gazillions of dollars to make my classics/universe shelf purdy.

I'm hoping the opposite. I'm hoping for universe. That just proves that whichever way they go this year, they'll irk some group of people

by **ThunderThruster** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 1:08 pm

what happenrd to them creating their own charaters, at least that way its harder to piss off people by doing exclusives such as the 2007 set.

This years set was a great idea, as it doesnt feck up the rest of the fans abilty to get figures from the other lines!

by **Bonger** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 5:45 am

omega666 wrote:
Blurrz wrote:I smell Animated Femcon Seeker

That sounds dirty.

lmao

by **Dark Starscream** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 1:55 am

Some things I'd like to see happen:

Nemesis Prime (from combiner Armada Prime)
Motormaster (from Classics Prime)
Elita One (from Thunderblast)
Seaspray (from Cybertron Shortround)
Beastbox (from that Real Gear controller monkey)

They could go with a Stunticon theme to go with our Drag Strip, or even a Soundwave cassette theme using Real Gear molds.

Basically anything but Animated. ANYTHING.

by **Nemesis_Apoc** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 9:42 am

Booda wrote:Classics Ratchet
Classics Wheeljack
Classics Trailbreaker

Make it happen.

Well, Ratchet will come out this spring sometime, but those other two would be pure greatness.

News Credits: 409 · by **Stormrider** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 3:53 am

I would like to see the remaining Stunticons done.

News Credits: 1014 · by **First Gen** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 3:37 pm

Brian Savage of the Transformers Club has posted some new information on the official Club boards about the upcoming Botcon 2009 figure set. Here's what he had to share:

OK, while we are working on finalizing the convention details, brochure and registration forms, we wanted to start the speculation game:

"For one young Autobot..." is all we have revealed so far. While we tend to guard the convention sets and souvenirs closely, I want to let you know that we are very excited about what we have waiting in the wings!

The set we have planned features a team of select Autobots never before featured in G1 in this way. The timeline we are spotlighting is new, yet very familiar...

Let the games begin!

Brian

G1 molds? Autobots? A possible counter to 2007's "Games of Deception" set? Only time will tell.

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by **Hard Hacker** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 3:51 pm

It could be an all new continuity, like last year.

It'd be nice to see all new characters made from the Universe moulds, or an expansion of the Fun Pub Classics fiction. I got my Springer and Huffer today, and they are brilliant, it'd be nice for that universe to be expanded.

Diaclone Sunstreaker deco?

News Credits: 9 · by **Editor** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 3:52 pm

My thought from that statement was the second wave of G1 Autobots Cars, possibly reusing energon molds.

News Credits: 972 · by **i_amtrunks** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 3:55 pm

Young Autobot....

A team of Hot Shot's or Wheelie's?

News Credits: 19 · by ***Soundwave*** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 4:01 pm

My 'Wheelie and Dinobots' sense is tingling.

News Credits: 23 · by **Energon** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 4:24 pm

Wouldn't it be a cruel joke for them to recolor the seekers and call them aerialbots? Hahahaha

I would like to see just one or two good bots and the words Botcon printed on it. The megatron from last year was decent, the showcased red and white blandly colored bot was not. I looked at it and said that is the most boring bot ever. These things should at least have decent paint jobs.

News Credits: 97 · by **Savage** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 5:24 pm

Timeline is new but familiar?
Animated is new, and all its G1 references make it familiar.
I'm thinking G1 characters with Animated molds.
Could be cool, could go horribly wrong.

I'd rather see a War Dawn / War Within type timeline though, which fits that evidence almost as well.