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So I'm going to give voice to a conundrum that I've been having. I, like many others swarmed over the Botcon Scourge and Sweeps like ants on ice cream, only now to find out that they are now no longer the figs that best suit the role. When he comes in, I'm going to have United Scourge as Scourge, and three Generations Scourges as Sweeps. This begs the question, what should I do with the Botcon Scourge and Sweeps that I have (I have 6 sweeps)?

I looked through the Seibs Galleries and TFU.info for things that they could homage, but really couldn't find any that suited my tastes. I plan on putting one of the Sweeps into my Shattered Glass set as SG Scourge (who's colours are very close to Kup's) but other than that I don't know.

I don't want to sell them, just find a way to re-purpose some of them or re-homage them.

Any suggestions o brilliant Seibs members?

Use their faces to justify a sub category of ancients. Or sell em.

Maybe Energon?

Or maybe you could change your mind about selling one? I would like one of those, myself....

Do you have a 'generic' TF shelf, for groups of figures not large enough for their own space?

You could re-purpose them into my collection

On a serious note I keep a shelf of random figs that I either have no other shelf for or they are the only represenitive of their respective line.. or just sell me a few

A different squardon of Sweeps? If I had more room, that's what I'd do.

If you do displays you could totally have them in vehicle mode doing a flyover.

Mkall wrote:This begs the question, what should I do with the Botcon Scourge and Sweeps that I have (I have 6 sweeps)?

I plan on putting one of the Sweeps into my Shattered Glass set as SG Scourge (who's colours are very close to Kup's) but other than that I don't know.

I'd use Scourge as SG Scourge with 3 SG Sweeps.

zodconvoy wrote:If you do displays you could totally have them in vehicle mode doing a flyover.

And there's how you can display the other 3.

Sue Hasbro.

OK.

So, Unicron is a multi-dimensional being, right?

So, like Scourge, I have all of my different Nemesis Primes on the shelf area with the other minions of Unicron.

Just display the Botcon Scourge/Sweeps behind/around Unicron as other dimension Scourge/Sweeps that Unicron has brought to the G1 dimension to serve his bidding. You could even have a sweep or two facing off since there would obviously be bit of competition and animosity between the two groups!

Problem solved!

--B-- wrote:OK.

So, Unicron is a multi-dimensional being, right?

So, like Scourge, I have all of my different Nemesis Primes on the shelf area with the other minions of Unicron.

Just display the Botcon Scourge/Sweeps behind/around Unicron as other dimension Scourge/Sweeps that Unicron has brought to the G1 dimension to serve his bidding. You could even have a sweep or two facing off since there would obviously be bit of competition and animosity between the two groups!

Problem solved!

Yeah, they could be considered the troops of "Galvatron II" from the comics continuities! Of course, then you would need a second Galvatron figure...

Autobot Strider wrote:Yeah, they could be considered the troops of "Galvatron II" from the comics continuities! Of course, then you would need a second Galvatron figure...

Energon Galvatron.

Mkall wrote:So I'm going to give voice to a conundrum that I've been having. I, like many others swarmed over the Botcon Scourge and Sweeps like ants on ice cream, only now to find out that they are now no longer the figs that best suit the role. When he comes in, I'm going to have United Scourge as Scourge, and three Generations Scourges as Sweeps. This begs the question, what should I do with the Botcon Scourge and Sweeps that I have (I have 6 sweeps)?

I looked through the Seibs Galleries and TFU.info for things that they could homage, but really couldn't find any that suited my tastes. I plan on putting one of the Sweeps into my Shattered Glass set as SG Scourge (who's colours are very close to Kup's) but other than that I don't know.

I don't want to sell them, just find a way to re-purpose some of them or re-homage them.

Any suggestions o brilliant Seibs members?

Sell sell sell - you'll get a good price for them as they are hard to find exclusives and you can use the extra cash to buy any new TFS (DOTM, Masterpieces, Generations when it re-starts) that you want.

--B-- wrote:So, like Scourge, I have all of my different Nemesis Primes on the shelf area with the other minions of Unicron.

I do this too. The difference being it's all my black Primes/Primals/Convoys and so on. They hang out with Energon Unicron AKA Black Unicron. The only other "minions" I have on that shelf is Armada Sideways sort of hidden behind his legs and the combined Mini-cons in the grasp of Unicron, trying to keep from being eaten.

As for Botcon Scourge and his Sweeps, I'm in that boat too. I'm thinking the Botcon figures can stay where they are with the other Botcon figures. I'm out of space in the Classics case now (Which is where all my FunPub Botcon figures are.) so I'm splitting the 86 movie cast into their own display anyway.

Don't pay any attention to the "Sell sell SELL!" people. They just wanna get their grabby hands on your set for cheap

Seriously though, if you have a Universe 2003 shelf that can use some expanding put them in there. If you already have BotCon 2002 Cyclonus, it's perfect

I feel sooooo lucky to have held off on the Botcon set. I suffered one of those stupid moments of buy now and second thought later. After getting Cybertron Sideways I came to actually hating that mold not to mention the crappy repaint of Ratbat. I hated it so much that I just gave it away. Then when the Botcon figs came out the new head sculpts made them all look much more appealing along with the nice paint apps.

One day I was super close to laying down the cash for Scourge and his minions over at my local shop but I had to stop for a second and think of my finances/budget at the moment. I had to change my mind and ask that they be put back under glass. It was clear to me now that I was not suppose to get the Botcon set and end up with the Generations/United release. So to those that got the Botcon set and are happy enjoy, but if you have doubts then sell or trade...'nuff said!

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Don't pay any attention to the "Sell sell SELL!" people. They just wanna get their grabby hands on your set for cheap

Seriously though, if you have a Universe 2003 shelf that can use some expanding put them in there. If you already have BotCon 2002 Cyclonus, it's perfect

I am outraged at these accusations.

orangeitis wrote:Sue Hasbro.

Now that's funny!!

Jazz-1982 wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Don't pay any attention to the "Sell sell SELL!" people. They just wanna get their grabby hands on your set for cheap

Seriously though, if you have a Universe 2003 shelf that can use some expanding put them in there. If you already have BotCon 2002 Cyclonus, it's perfect

I am outraged at these accusations.

Me too . Besides, I'm one of those fools who will possibly pay outrageous prices just to get hard to finds for my collection. I still feel wierd for paying 160 for the Punch/Counterpunch TCC exclusive.

Jazz-1982 wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Don't pay any attention to the "Sell sell SELL!" people. They just wanna get their grabby hands on your set for cheap

Seriously though, if you have a Universe 2003 shelf that can use some expanding put them in there. If you already have BotCon 2002 Cyclonus, it's perfect

I am outraged at these accusations.

Don't be, I'm just as bad should he decide to sell

I like some of the suggestions posted here, although suing Hasbro would prove a long fight in which I have no leg to stand on

My current plans then involve keeping 3 of them as another wing of Sweeps, One sweep will be SG Scourge. That leaves two Sweeps and Scourge. I'm very tempted to see if I can find someone who'll swap me one sweep for another Botcon Scourge to act as an SG Sweep...

hmmm...

Mkall wrote:I like some of the suggestions posted here, although suing Hasbro would prove a long fight in which I have no leg to stand on

My current plans then involve keeping 3 of them as another wing of Sweeps, One sweep will be SG Scourge. That leaves two Sweeps and Scourge. I'm very tempted to see if I can find someone who'll swap me one sweep for another Botcon Scourge to act as an SG Sweep...

hmmm...

So what you're saying is out of the 6 BotCon Sweeps:

- 3 Sweeps will remain a regular squadron
- 1 Sweep will become SG Scourge, while the regular BotCon Scourges will be SG Sweeps (i.e. their colors are switched)

Correct?

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Mkall wrote:I like some of the suggestions posted here, although suing Hasbro would prove a long fight in which I have no leg to stand on

My current plans then involve keeping 3 of them as another wing of Sweeps, One sweep will be SG Scourge. That leaves two Sweeps and Scourge. I'm very tempted to see if I can find someone who'll swap me one sweep for another Botcon Scourge to act as an SG Sweep...

hmmm...

So what you're saying is out of the 6 BotCon Sweeps:

- 3 Sweeps will remain a regular squadron
- 1 Sweep will become SG Scourge, while the regular BotCon Scourges will be SG Sweeps (i.e. their colors are switched)

Correct?

Correct.

how about a shelf for all your botcon figures, you can even pose them all like they were in a convention

grimdragon2001 wrote:how about a shelf for all your botcon figures, you can even pose them all like they were in a convention

Not how I do things. All of my figures are from the same universe, and thus intermingle with those on my shelves.

Also you make the erroneous assumption that I have free shelf space