The Energon Pub

[AllNewSuperRobot]

Would've had the G1 theme song play too (dunno which version, though), but copyright issues prevented it.

Good thing, too, IMO. One less G1 thing to cram into Beast Wars.

True. But, I would have liked Frank Welker's Megatron on the Golden Disk message. Garry Chalk does a good job though. Yet, hearing Welker just for a moment, would have really sold the scene.

[Sabrblade]

Would've had the G1 theme song play too (dunno which version, though), but copyright issues prevented it.

Good thing, too, IMO. One less G1 thing to cram into Beast Wars.

True. But, I would have liked Frank Welker's Megatron on the Golden Disk message. Garry Chalk does a good job though. Yet, hearing Welker just for a moment, would have really sold the scene.

Yes. That one would have been preferable.

[AllNewSuperRobot]

I wonder if they could get him to do it now? Possibly re-release it with the boxset for the next anniversary?

[AllNewSuperRobot]

Oh I see. Still, I would have liked to have seen the Transmetal redeco's of Tigatron and Blackarachnia. The latter would have needed a bit of a retool from TM Tarantulas.

A little detective work later...







This is taken from the BW: Transmetals game (one, I do forget actually existed) on the N64. The stretched nature of the images are because it was on the N64. But this is it. A realised version of the colour palette for TM Blackarachnia and Tigatron.

While I can look at TM Tarantulas and envision that redeco on him. Tigatron.. What parts would have been chrome? The white or the green??

I would have bought both in an instant though, back in the day.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

Someday, I'd like to get that Metals Ravage mold in some capacity, it looks really neat, and i think both Ravage and Tigatron make the mold work

[Sabrblade]

After looking through several old Beast Machines toy bios recently, Obsidian's toy has the best motto of any flying character ever:

[Sculyblast]

Someday, I'd like to get that Metals Ravage mold in some capacity, it looks really neat, and i think both Ravage and Tigatron make the mold work

There is a third party hommage by Transart, and another by mastermind creations. I used to have the original mold. the quickdraw function on the guns was nice, but after a while you start to realise the X9 Jaguar mold is just an inferior TM Cheetor. I took the cash over owning the figure.

[Sabrblade]

Click the pic for how to get one.

[Sabrblade]

Behind the scenes Tweets for initial ideas of the Beast Wars-themed BotCon 2016 toys (before Hasbro swooped in and forced it to be a Combiner Wars set):

https://twitter.com/Pete_Sinclair04/sta ... 7236855811

Looks like other than RoboCon, I finally have a place for stuff like this. So... BotCon 2016 was originally a non-combiner set but the brand team wanted Combiner Wars. This set was pretty much scrapped and we started over, kept the BW Uprising theme though.






That’s not to say that there were not additional options. The most intriguing was they offered us the opportunity to release Build King from Devastaror, complete with 6 new head sculpts. At the time we thought it would cost too much. In hindsight though???




That said. Odds are we would have eventually released Build King through the TCC subscription service. Anyway, we settled on A Box Set with Predacus and Megatron.




Souvenirs would have been pretty cool as well. We had an Optimal Optimus w/ Under-3 (who would still get a deluxe version in the final set as Unit-3).




One of the biggest regrets from the second proposal was not getting to release the two RID toys. We thought these were pretty inspired. But we were told market research showed purple toys do not sell. So that was the end of Fangry, and by association Bugbite aka Arctic Bumblebee.





So there you go. We actually spotlighted the progression of the BotCon 2011 boxed set in the BotCon Beyond Guidebook https://nightshiningllc.com/collections/frontpage/products/botcon-beyond-the-convention-the-ultimate-product-guide-volume-1-pre-order. But, couldn’t do that for every set. Though I’m sure we’ll be talking more about stuff like this at RoboCon 2021 this summer.


p.s. Should not have scrapped the Beast Wars Uprising story theme for the set. That decision was made so we could release through IDW. Trying to work those characters into another pre-Beast Wars story just did not work. Glad we used them in BWU prose: http://www.transformersclub.com/TCCprose.cfm




p.s.s. Just noticed in that 1st tweet, I used the wrong boxed set image. That was the version before the original ‘final’. We traded out Scorponok for the Vehicon Jetstorm. Had I known at the time the future of BotCon w/ Hasbro, Jetstorm (new head/leg sculpts) would’ve been made!




Ok. p.s.s.s. This is what happens when you just tweet on the fly. Megatron was taken out of the boxed set, and moved to Souvies. That’s why Optimal Optimus got the boot! The idea of featuring the Unit-3 character ended up replacing Razorbeast. Was a good call.

https://twitter.com/Pete_Sinclair04/status/1390800076323364865

And should have clarified. The RID repaints we pitched were a way to appeal to kids for BotCon 2016. The ‘purple toys don’t appeal to TF buying kids’ was in response to that. After that we just decided to go another way i.e. Reflector 3-pack.

https://twitter.com/Pete_Sinclair04/status/1390800607422738433

Another in hindsight moment. I wish we could have made some variation of those two happen vs Reflector. But it made sense at the time. Not one of the major ‘regrets’.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

My beasts have all been packed, but here are some of my favorites from the pack

A lucky TFcon find that was cheap and so weird but cool


the best Fuzor


Still can't believe I found all this guys missiles


One of my all time favorites


2 of my favorites


Wazzzzpinatorzzz hazzz planzzzz


another all time favorite, gosh I want him to get another toy


Double Dinobots


Such an underappreciated beast. Jawbreaker is a lot of fun


Matrix Bustin'

[Rodimus Prime]

Awesome potential Botcon stuff

I will forever hate Hasbro for forcing that set to be replaced. All those figures look awesome. I would have LOVED that Optimal Optimus out of CW Magnus.

[Sabrblade]

Some old pics I took back in 2014 when AOE made dinosaur-riding all the rage:






























And my old Uprising display from 2016:

[Liokaiser1989]

Beast Wars

[AllNewSuperRobot]

The Originals, very nice

I like how apt the added descriptive of "Heroic" Maximal is for Silverbolt. Making his packaging as pompous as the rest of him

[Liokaiser1989]

Deluxe Fuzors

[Emerje]

Is Torca's paint deteriorating over his eye? Can't say I've ever seen that before.

Emerje

[D-Maximal_Primal]

DinoZaurs!

And Fuzors! I think the Fuzors are my favorite of the Beast subgroups overall

[Liokaiser1989]

Is Torca's paint deteriorating over his eye? Can't say I've ever seen that before.

Emerje

Hi, no, those were the remnants of an elastic band used to secure the mouth.

[Liokaiser1989]

Magnaboss and Tripredacus

[D-Maximal_Primal]

Jealous of those combiners right there

[AllNewSuperRobot]

My newest redeco has arrived!

..Now to find where I put his counterpart

[Sabrblade]

"WOOOOOW! Sugoi na Cybertron! Go! Go! Cybertron! Hooray! Hooray! Cybertron! Let's go! Cybertron!"

[AllNewSuperRobot]

Another set complete! Two this time, actually:

Considering how much I adore Ramulus, I had no idea he had a redeco in Long Horn.

[Sabrblade]

Considering how much I adore Ramulus, I had no idea he had a redeco in Long Horn.

They're even the same person.

[AllNewSuperRobot]

Considering how much I adore Ramulus, I had no idea he had a redeco in Long Horn.

They're even the same person.

That doesn't surprise me, when it comes to these redecos of non-show characters.

Sadly, it seems this set was nearly a trio...



Unfortunately cancelled. The deco reminds me of Rhinox though, which is strange.