The Energon Pub

As a beginning army builder (gotta love them Vehicons) I can't help but notice every Botcon since 2009 has given us army builders in some form or another, starting with the Sweeps, onto the Sharkticons, on to the Autotroopers, and then most recently the Shattered Glass Junkions. These have generally been some of my favorite Botcon exclusives, and I hope the trend of army building continues into 2013. The announcement of Machine Wars as the theme gives us only one obvious candidate for this: Megaplex, one of many clones of Megatron. As some at-show exclusive figures will likely be collected into a three-pack which utilizes multiple retools of a single mold, here's hoping for a small legion of Megatron clones to add to my ever growing Decepticon army.

BotCon 2005 gave us the Virulent Clones

If we did get Megaplex as a Troop Builder, he'd have to be a repaint of the box set's Megatron, retooled head or not. Since both were jets in Machine Wars, are there any Deluxe-sized molds that would fit the bill?

Since it's available to the Club already as Depth Charge, my guess would be the Terradive mold being retooled.

And, because I'm apparently capable of obvious oversight, there's also the Seekers... a three pack of Starscream, Skywarp, and Thundercracker all the same size rather than drastically disproportionate... ridiculous as the prospect of getting all three Seekers in one go may sound.