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News Credits: 1452 · by **Blurrz** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 12:46 am

"I see a line of cars and they're all painted black." - Rolling Stones

Black Friday may be five months and one week away, but why not party early? Hot Rod and Rodimus molds have been painted black and purple, then reiterated into evil clones, or other characters altogether. Oddly enough, these Black Rodimus figures continue to be exclusives time and time again. With this latest entry, Gentei Wildrider, Animated Black Rodimus and G1 Black Hot Rodimus make their way into the illustrious toy galleries of Seibertron.com.

Gentei Wildrider was a 2008 Chara Hobby Show exclusive, using the Classics mold. This year, Animated Black Rodimus was a Hyper Hobby exclusive, and of course, a repaint of Rodimus Minor. And lastly, way back in 2001 the Tokyo Toy Festival offered 1500 Black Hot Rodimus figures. This toy is a straight black redeco of the G1 Hot Rod figure, and even uses the same stickers!

And what would all this talk about exclusive Black Rodimus figures be without updates to the gallery of Shattered Glass Rodimus? Check out all the Decepticons in their glory below!

(The 2011 BotCon galleries have also been updated, now featuring groupshots!)

Since we're showing ours, let's see pictures of your own black repaint collection!

Wildrider (Deluxe Class, Exclusives)
Transformers Henkei

Black Rodimus (Deluxe Class)
Transformers Animated

Black Hot Rodimus (Autobot Cars, Exclusives, Reissues)
Convention & Club Exclusives

Shattered Glass Rodimus (Deluxe Class, Exclusives)
Convention & Club Exclusives

Links to the 2011 BotCon toys are listed below. SG Thundercracker and SG Galvatron's galleries will appear shortly.

Box Set:

Attendee Figures:

Keep your optics locked to Seibertron.com for more galleries and the latest Transformeres news on the net!

News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 2:09 am

Let's have a black celebration.

News Credits: 1 · by **Gandalf** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 3:57 am

Too much awesome in that shot. Overload, overload!

News Credits: 1 · by **Blackstreak** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 4:04 am

I have the G1 Black Rodimus. Totally missed out on Gentei Wildrider (I wants!!). I have no interest in Shattered Glass Rodimus & Animated Black Rodimus. This is like Optimus having his own series of Nemesis Primes except Rodimus is having his own evil twin. There's something about giving the leader 'bots a nemesis that's just really cool. I mean, it's not enough to give them Megatron or Galvatron to fight, we now have to give them a Nemesis Prime or Nemesis Rodimus also.

News Credits: 3599 · by **Seibertron** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 11:52 am

Who wants to share their black Transformers collection? I'm curious to see what people have in their collections that I don't have yet.

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 12:53 pm

Seibertron wrote:Who wants to share their black Transformers collection? I'm curious to see what people have in their collections that I don't have yet.

I only have two: THS-02 G1 Convoy Black Version, and GC-14 Fang Wolf Black Version. Once I find a decent way to, I may post pics of both.

Website · by **Flux Convoy** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 12:59 pm

Really wish Gentai Wildrider hadn't slipped by. That and I wish he wasn't crazy money after all. Why is he crazy money? At the time he was the only Stunticon available for Classics/Henkei. He's still only got Drag Strip for company as it is. I could understand the insanity of it all if there were a complete roster of Classics Stunticons but there isn't. Not even close.

News Credits: 5 · by **REMINATOR** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 1:04 pm

Gee, what a conspiracy! Hot Rod got 3 black paint already? I'm still waiting for a black UMagnus to happen :lol:

*Oh wait, there was that Black RID version, yeah good luck for me in trying to own one*

News Credits: 3599 · by **Seibertron** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 1:06 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Seibertron wrote:Who wants to share their black Transformers collection? I'm curious to see what people have in their collections that I don't have yet.

I only have two: THS-02 G1 Convoy Black Version, and GC-14 Fang Wolf Black Version. Once I find a decent way to, I may post pics of both.

Any reason why you don't use the upload tool through our forums? Just click on the "Upload attachment" tab below the Save, Preview, Submit buttons when posting a reply.

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 1:23 pm

Seibertron wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Seibertron wrote:Who wants to share their black Transformers collection? I'm curious to see what people have in their collections that I don't have yet.

I only have two: THS-02 G1 Convoy Black Version, and GC-14 Fang Wolf Black Version. Once I find a decent way to, I may post pics of both.

Any reason why you don't use the upload tool through our forums? Just click on the "Upload attachment" tab below the Save, Preview, Submit buttons when posting a reply.

I... kinda lost my digital camera :oops:

I guess my cell phone will have to do for now. I'll get to it tomorrow.

by **MGrotusque** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 1:29 pm

Seibertron wrote:Any reason why you don't use the upload tool through our forums? Just click on the "Upload attachment" tab below the Save, Preview, Submit buttons when posting a reply.

OMG!!i did not know that! that changes everything for me. It's so simple now. Can't beleive i never noticed that before.
I'm not very computer savy. :oops:

News Credits: 1 · by **Blackstreak** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 6:04 pm

monstergrotusque wrote:
Seibertron wrote:Any reason why you don't use the upload tool through our forums? Just click on the "Upload attachment" tab below the Save, Preview, Submit buttons when posting a reply.

OMG!!i did not know that! that changes everything for me. It's so simple now. Can't beleive i never noticed that before.
I'm not very computer savy.

Yea, tell me about it. I got all my pics loaded onto photobucket.

by **Grahf_** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 11:53 pm

Where's titanium Menasaur?

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Sat Jun 18, 2011 9:52 am

Ok, pics are taken, now I have to resize them and then upload them. Let me tell you this though, Convoy is photogenic

by **Savage_Prime** » Sat Jun 18, 2011 10:18 am

Hey Seibertron why no shout out for hooking you up with that Gentei Wildrider? hope you have enjoyed it as much as I have the figures you traded me for it!

News Credits: 3599 · by **Seibertron** » Sat Jun 18, 2011 1:45 pm

Thanks again Savage_Prime. I really appreciate the hookup. Gave you a shout out in the gallery now as well: http://www.seibertron.com/toys/gallery. ... =0&start=0

News Credits: 3599 · by **Seibertron** » Sat Jun 18, 2011 1:47 pm

Alpha Weltall wrote:Where's titanium Menasaur?

To be honest, I always forget about him. That toy is still an abomination to me.

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Sat Jun 18, 2011 2:06 pm

OK, here are my pics of Fang Wolf Black Version. Excuse the burriness, and enjoy:

: Beast Mode

: Robot Mode

Now working on resizing the Hybrid Convoy pics.

News Credits: 3599 · by **Seibertron** » Sat Jun 18, 2011 2:08 pm

You shouldn't have to resize pics. I think the site does it automatically if you upload an image that is larger than the specs I provided.

News Credits: 3599 · by **Seibertron** » Sat Jun 18, 2011 2:10 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:OK, here are my pics of Fang Wolf Black Version. Excuse the burriness, and enjoy:

FangWolfBlack1.jpg

FangWolfBlack3.jpg

Now working on resizing the Hybrid Convoy pics.

I don't have any of the black Cybertron or Robot Masters figures ... yet. The Robot Masters ones aren't that expensive to get, but they're just black versions of molds that are rather terrible.

Fang Wolf Black looks pretty nice. What's his story? Is he a Decepticon or just a black version of the same character?

News Credits: 1 · by **Gauntlet101010** » Sat Jun 18, 2011 2:18 pm

Seibertron wrote:
Alpha Weltall wrote:Where's titanium Menasaur?

To be honest, I always forget about him. That toy is still an abomination to me.

Why the dislike?

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Sat Jun 18, 2011 2:19 pm

Thing is, it may resize, but it rejects anything above 256 kb. I had to shrink them down to 25% original size, but it cuts the file size down to an 1/8.

Black Fang Wolf has no backstory at all, in fact his box is the same as the regular Fang Wolf, only with an additional sticker. It's safe to say he's the same character. He was fairly cheap, probably because he wasn't a major character. I paid slightly over what a regular imported GF toy would cost, should you be interested in hunting him down.

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Sat Jun 18, 2011 2:26 pm

Hybrid Black G1 Convoy does have a backstory however, saving Ultra Magnus from Galvatron II with his new gun, which uses sunlight for power. The black is to get the most out of it, since black is the only color that totally absorbs and doesn't reflect.

The pics of this guy turned out better, minus the glare from the chromed parts. First up, Vehicle:

: Vehicle Mode with Trailer

: Vehicle Mode

: Combat Deck with Roller

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Sat Jun 18, 2011 2:33 pm

And now, Robot Mode. He's a bit photogenic, I know...

: Robot Mode

: With Energon Axe

: "Light our Darkest Hour! Or you could give me my red and blue back, I don't care"

: "Dig my Rocket Pack? It's the latest thing"

: "Let's bring out the big guns! I hope the forecast was wrong about cloudy..."

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 2:39 pm

Don't tell me I'm the only one who actually wanted to show off

Anybody have the eHobby Black Megatron? I know a store near me has it, but i'm kind of on the fence with him.

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