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News Credits: 217 · Wed Mar 09, 2011 10:45 pm

To celebrate the exclusive repaint of Animated Blurr as Cheetor the Club comic this year will be set in the Animated Universe featuring Cheetor, Depth Charge and more. The official Transformers Collectors' Club page has a preview of the comic.

The next page of the comic and more information can be seen here.

For the latest in event news stick with Seibertron.com.

News Credits: 15 · Wed Mar 09, 2011 11:08 pm

Wow, Ransack and Crumplezone...

News Credits: 10 · Wed Mar 09, 2011 11:21 pm

Wow, I was more entertained looking at the background filler characters and working out who they were than the story. I see Minerva, Ramhorn, Overkill (?), Huffer, Hot Shot and red Tracks in the first panel alone. I won't be getting the set but if I can pick up the comic I know I will be more into the filler characters than the rest. Btw, awesome job seeing Dark Crumplezone and Ransack in animated style too.

Wed Mar 09, 2011 11:30 pm

Does anybody see the Motormaster in the first panel?

Wed Mar 09, 2011 11:32 pm

hotshot in excelion colors
redalert in red
dark crumplezone and ransack
huffer and pipes
stampy(beast wars neo character)
rosana ramhorn and zaur
chromia(arcee repaint)
a blue with red head powerglide repaint
a all-white cybertronianratchet/ironhide repaint
and obviously transtech cheetor
and a motormaster head

News Credits: 1082 · Wed Mar 09, 2011 11:38 pm

f-primus-unicron wrote:hotshot in excelion colors
redalert in red
dark crumplezone and ransack
huffer and pipes
stampy(beast wars neo character)
rosana ramhorn and zaur
chromia(arcee repaint)
a blue with red head powerglide repaint
a all-white cybertronianratchet/ironhide repaint
and obviously transtech cheetor
and a motormaster head

This would be possibly proof of the Botcon troop builder set of Autorooper/Autotroopers from Ironhide/Ratchet mold.

Good catch on a a lot of those.

Thu Mar 10, 2011 12:05 am

As of yet nobody has commented on the botcon exclusive Sandstorm in the corner, in case you don’t see him he’s right on the panel with the close-up of Cheetor, right near the furthest to the right of his three horns, also whose the bulky black and yellow bot near Cromia?

Thu Mar 10, 2011 12:33 am

I love the fact that his spots are superficial! Very clever to have Pipes spill paint on him! Loving this comic! Will the comic in the club mag be animated as well or will we still in the Elite Guard story?

News Credits: 1082 · Thu Mar 10, 2011 7:30 am

tigertracks 24 wrote:
f-primus-unicron wrote:hotshot in excelion colors
redalert in red
dark crumplezone and ransack
huffer and pipes
stampy(beast wars neo character)
rosana ramhorn and zaur
chromia(arcee repaint)
a blue with red head powerglide repaint
a all-white cybertronianratchet/ironhide repaint
and obviously transtech cheetor
and a motormaster head

This would be possibly proof of the Botcon troop builder set of Autorooper/Autotroopers from Ironhide/Ratchet mold.

Good catch on a a lot of those.

Adding to the list we see one of my favorites Grandus. And page two has that awesome Depth Charge we saw in designs from DWyatt earlier.

Thu Mar 10, 2011 8:23 am

Hmmm... Could Crumplezone and Ransack actually be Autobots? Look at they're eye colour and it kind of looks like there's an autobot symbol on Crumplezone in vehicle mode.

Thu Mar 10, 2011 8:32 am

[quote=Depth charge]How much trouble can you get into in safe and secure Iacon[/quote]

Famous last words, famous last words....

Thu Mar 10, 2011 10:53 am

Rhubarb, rhubarb...

News Credits: 462 · Thu Mar 10, 2011 11:59 am

Correction:

Page 1

Motormaster (head, advertisement)
Huffer
Pipes
TransTech Cheetor
"Dark Crumplezone"
"Ransack"
A red Tracks ("Road Rage?")
Glyph
A red Hot Shot ("Excellion?")
Rosanna
Zaur
Ramhorn
Red Project Omega Autobot Worker
Blue Project Omega Autobot Worker
Stampy
A red Red Alert (???)
An unidentifiable fallen white bot
A yellow Brawn (???)
A blue Arcee (Chromia?)
Tap-Out
A blue Powerglide w/ a red head (???)
Volks
Dug Base
Some drill-looking guy
An Autotrooper
Chase

Page 2

Some blue and red guy with wheels on his shoulders and a face like Wasp's.
"Jackpot"
Hubcap
TransTech Depth Charge

Thu Mar 10, 2011 12:36 pm

Sabrblade wrote:Correction:

Page 1
Motormaster (head, advertisement)
Huffer
Pipes
TransTech Cheetor
"Dark Crumplezone"
"Ransack"
A red Tracks ("Road Rage?")
Glyph
A red Hot Shot ("Excellion?")
Rosanna
Zaur
Ramhorn
Red Project Omega Autobot Worker
Blue Project Omega Autobot Worker
Stampy
A red Red Alert (???)
An unidentifiable fallen white bot
A yellow Brawn (???)
A blue Arcee (Chromia?)
Tap-Out
A blue Powerglide w/ a red head (???)
Volks
Dug Base
An Autotrooper
Chase
Page 2
Some blue and red guy with wheels on his shoulders and a face like Wasp's.
"Jackpot"
Hubcap
TransTech Depth Charge

You’re forgetting Sandstorm Sabrblade! And to quote myself :

“As of yet nobody has commented on the botcon exclusive Sandstorm in the corner, in case you don’t see him he’s right on the panel with the close-up of Cheetor, right near the furthest to the right of his three horns”

News Credits: 462 · Thu Mar 10, 2011 12:45 pm

godzillabot wrote:You’re forgetting Sandstorm Sabrblade! And to quote myself :

“As of yet nobody has commented on the botcon exclusive Sandstorm in the corner, in case you don’t see him he’s right on the panel with the close-up of Cheetor, right near the furthest to the right of his three horns”

How can you tell who that is? He looks too weird to be Sandstorm.

News Credits: 5749 · Thu Mar 10, 2011 1:20 pm

Botcon has updated their Twitpic feed with the character model for Animated Crumplezone, and yes, he and Ransack are Autobots in the Animated universe. Both appeared in yesterday's TFCC Comic Preview "Moving Violations", which featured Animated TransTech Cheetor.

News Credits: 1 · Thu Mar 10, 2011 1:55 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
godzillabot wrote:You’re forgetting Sandstorm Sabrblade! And to quote myself :

“As of yet nobody has commented on the botcon exclusive Sandstorm in the corner, in case you don’t see him he’s right on the panel with the close-up of Cheetor, right near the furthest to the right of his three horns”
How can you tell who that is? He looks too weird to be Sandstorm.

He bears about as much resemblance to G1 Drilldasher as he does to Convention Sandtorm so I would definitely have to vote that one 'Inconclusive'.

News Credits: 32 · Thu Mar 10, 2011 2:14 pm

You can tell this guy wasn't designed by Derrick Wyatt.

News Credits: 217 · Thu Mar 10, 2011 2:59 pm

Sabrblade wrote:Correction:

Page 1
Motormaster (head, advertisement)
Huffer
Pipes
TransTech Cheetor
"Dark Crumplezone"
"Ransack"
A red Tracks ("Road Rage?")
Glyph
A red Hot Shot ("Excellion?")
Rosanna
Zaur
Ramhorn
Red Project Omega Autobot Worker
Blue Project Omega Autobot Worker
Stampy
A red Red Alert (???)
An unidentifiable fallen white bot
A yellow Brawn (???)
A blue Arcee (Chromia?)
Tap-Out
A blue Powerglide w/ a red head (???)
Volks
Dug Base
An Autotrooper
Chase
Page 2
Some blue and red guy with wheels on his shoulders and a face like Wasp's.
"Jackpot"
Hubcap
TransTech Depth Charge

I was waiting for you to show up and set the record straight Sabr.

News Credits: 17 · Thu Mar 10, 2011 4:36 pm

UltraPrimal wrote:You can tell this guy wasn't designed by Derrick Wyatt.

Actually. He was...

Thu Mar 10, 2011 6:07 pm

Pete@BotCon wrote:
UltraPrimal wrote:You can tell this guy wasn't designed by Derrick Wyatt.

Actually. He was...

It seems to be a little sloppy, I guess, for one of Derrick's designs. It's not bad (though using the less-common Dark Crumplezone scheme was an odd choice), but the lines aren't as clean or nice as most of Derek's other designs have been.

News Credits: 251 · Thu Mar 10, 2011 6:40 pm

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?!?!?!?!? :shock:

At the end of the Cybertron series, they musta hit their heads hard when they landed on Mars! :BOOM:

Thu Mar 10, 2011 6:56 pm

Well according to artist, DJW drew the lines, but the artist inked and colured the sketch. http://msipher.deviantart.com/gallery/4216835#/d3bbuk5

News Credits: 19 · Fri Mar 11, 2011 3:14 am

Jaynz wrote:It seems to be a little sloppy

Aren't they all? I assumed the reason Animated uses this 'style' was so little kids with no artistic talent at all could almost accurately draw their favorite characters. I can't think of any other reason why choose such a poor scrappy graphical aesthetic unless the animators themselves lack the skill to do any better too.

News Credits: 17 · Fri Mar 11, 2011 4:50 am

Carnivius_Prime wrote:
Jaynz wrote:It seems to be a little sloppy

Aren't they all? I assumed the reason Animated uses this 'style' was so little kids with no artistic talent at all could almost accurately draw their favorite characters. I can't think of any other reason why choose such a poor scrappy graphical aesthetic unless the animators themselves lack the skill to do any better too.

Yeah, that's totally the reason.