The Energon Pub

Over the past couple of days BotCon has been busy updating their official twitter account with little tidbits of information regarding the 2012 convention exclusive boxset. To read all their tweets click here, but in a nutshell:

• The Mock-ups for the set are done
• They feel this set may be the best they've ever produced, definitely in the top three
• If you're 80's fan, one figure in the set will be "MUST HAVE Transformer of the year"
• Three of the character are getting their first update ever
• Two of the figures draw upon the "distant past"
• The set is not TFA
• The "MUST HAVE" figure is one of the characters getting their first update ever

They have also tweeted an image of their sculpters work table. If you look closely you can see a tiny sliver of three of the new heads at the far bottom left of the image. There is also a partial head on the left side of the wax pile. Image mirrored below.

Ariel and Orion Pax as the distant past, and Elita-1?

It could be anyone,but the round head reminds me of G1 Bee or Guzzle.

Re distant past... There are few options.... Though as far as I know there have been alpha trion and Orion pax toys....

One tf that hasn't had a toy update that comes to mind is hoist... And trail breaker only had a legends version right?

I'm not a fan of exclusives especially for must haves as they put it.... Yay for hasbro releasing the coneheads

How bout a date and location....then I'll get excited..

Looked at a list of characters that appeared in the show. Not too many seem to fit the bill and I assume they'd have to be characters seen in the american cartoon and comics.

And I too am more interested in the location. Hope to Primus it aint on the West Coast again or my dear spark shall be crushed.... .. again.

LiKwid wrote:How bout a date and location....then I'll get excited..

Plan for Spring/Summer in the continental US. Seriously though, just start saving money now. I'll go wherever it ends up being. I'd like to go back to Orlando again but I love flying to someplace new too. I'm intrigued by what the set could be.

Unless it's within driving distance, I won't give a damn.

The rotten teases.

i will be excited when i actually see some pics of the new toys. i just hope they are ones i can add to my classics collection

Well, by my analysis...

The "Distant Past" could mean a lot of things. Are we talking beginning of the civil war, like "War Dawn"? The Quintesson war, like "Forever is a Long Time Coming"? I doubt Beast Wars (it's not very 80s), but could it go back to the Originals?

"80s fans" would seem to imply that we're talking G1; every other continuity is from the 90s or later. Given that, what three characters are getting their first ever update? What toys from that era have never been refreshed? Has anyone ever NOT been revisited?

Characters that stand out to me from that timeframe are the Insecticons, Trailbreaker (who did get a Legends class), some of the Female Autobots, perhaps Devcon, along with a multitude of others.

Oddly, they didn't say "GeeWun", but "80s". That could mean something that I really hope is true... they're finally going to integrate the GoBots continuity into Transformers proper! After all, we've learned that their universe is collapsing, and many have been fleeing into the Classicsverse. How about Silverbolt as Leader-1? Wreck-Gar as CyKill? Cybertron Scourge, as Zod?

Alternately, they could be screwing with us, and giving us a complete set of movie Bumblebee redecos...

Hmm, two dragon heads in the background...I've got it! this set is going to be composed of Doublecross, Hunn-Grr, and RID Megatron in their cybertronian modes! and some other guys...

You heard it here first folks!

the MUST HAVE cant be hoist, alpha trion, elita - one, or trailbreaker,( gears, swerve had many version so they are not in the list)
because elitaone had her timelines thunderclash remold, alpha trion his vector prime remold, trailbreaker his legend class figure (and they said its not trailbreaker) and hoist his longarm repaint (yes, the movie one,but it counts as an update)
so whats left?
orion pax maybe? can be a repaint/remold/retool of sargeant kup

Devcon and Orion Pax. Trailbreaker, Gears, and Brawn are NOT candidates, according to their Twitter feed.

Scourge=Devcon.
Kup=Pax
(distant past)

3rd figure to get its first retooling/paint would be=Lugnut, Galvatron, Perceptor, Warpath, Octane, Astrotrain... from the classics line atleast...I know there is more.

GetRightRobot wrote:Devcon and Orion Pax. Trailbreaker, Gears, and Brawn are NOT candidates, according to their Twitter feed.

you sure theyre not pulling a michael bay and flat out lying to mislead us? the only reason im saying is because the head in the wax (poo!) looks alot like brawn to me.

I was hoping for a Machine Wars tribute...or maybe even a Transtech tribute. G1 is always getting a ton of love, so it's hard for me to get excited about this set. Every character I liked from the 80's cartoon has received a proper HasTak release, so I've already lost interest in this set.

Give us some more obscure continuities and then we'll talk. But the usual Jee Wun fanwank doesn't do it for me anymore.

What would really be awesome are components to form a massive sized Metroplex (my vote), Trypticon, Omega Supreme, or Fortress Maximus. If I had a way of garage kitting something like that I'd do it.

However, that's not gonna happen. I may have to compile a list of what hasn't been updated yet and take a stab at who they are doing for the 2012 set. Hopefully it's a combinable team. Has/Tak has yet to do that for the Classics/Generations (no, repaints don't count).

Ideas:

Sky Lynx from DotM Hatchet?
Sandstorm
Broadside
True triple changer Springer?


Ideas I'd love to see, but I don't think are feasable:
Any of the combiners, like the Technobots, Predacons, Terrorcons, Protectobots, and Stuntacons.

Too big to be convention exclusives, I think (though didn't they do an Energon Scorponok repaint?):
Omega Supreme
Trypticon

That's pretty much it from looking through the characters in G1, unless the 3 part headmasters season 4 is considered. Yet, that popularity pales in comparison to the other seasons.

Outside from my first suggestion, I don't have any toy ideas for the others at this time.

Botcon sets used to be the pinnacle of Transformers toys, but ever since the Seekers and Scourge debacle im not really all that keen on them anymore. who wants a 3 year old mold with a new head when a better designed totally new figure available for mass consumption will be made not a year later?

Botcon should leave their hands off of G1 characters and cover ancillary fiction only.

im guessing shockwave will be in there. he's an 80s toy without a neo-classics re-do, and there could be Masterforce/victory characters in there. Star Saber, Overlord and maybe a few updated pretenders characters

the ancient past ones could turn out to be some of the original 13

Now see, THIS is how you start hype. Don't know what the deal is, but it seems like every time I learn/hear about a con-set, I'm already looking at a finished product. This time, seeing the sculpter's table in process, reading the descriptions, I love it. I'm actually excited to see what's coming.

This info is useless to me without a location and date for the Con.

Sorry, Botcon, you're taking too long and I've been seduced by other Cons already. Ones that have dates and locations announced.

Midnight_Fox wrote:This info is useless to me without a location and date for the Con.

Sorry, Botcon, you're taking too long and I've been seduced by other Cons already. Ones that have dates and locations announced.

Yeah, I'm excited about these figures, but I'm more interested in the location. I'm tempted to book a trip to TFCon in Canada instead, since it's driving distance from me.

I live in Orlando but because I stopped collecting TFs during the second and third movies I completely missed out on 2010 Botcon.

Then I saw the exclusives and I was a little less upset about it lol.