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News Credits: 5749 · Mon Apr 11, 2011 12:50 pm

Before you answer keep in mind that in the wild world of Animated it's a prison! Botcon has updated their twitter account with an image from this year's BotCon comic The Stunti-Con-Job. Check out Trypticon's Animated makeover below.

Here tis! Trypticon Prison... WAIT till you see the guards!

Mon Apr 11, 2011 1:10 pm

So its like metroplex

and fortress maximus

Mon Apr 11, 2011 1:10 pm

So, I'm guessing that this is some sort of Cybertronian Alcatraz? That is awesome.

News Credits: 1 · Mon Apr 11, 2011 1:22 pm

Makes me wonder what Animated Scorpinok would be: a science facility for potentially unethical experiments? Toxic waste storage, hence poisonous connotations of the name?

News Credits: 1 · Mon Apr 11, 2011 2:01 pm

Looks like the perfect place to have some TFA style Sharkticons lurking around. What do you want to bet that those are the guards they're talking about? Either them or something along the lines of the Quint's Executioner bot and more gator styled Guard robots. All 3 variations would make for an awesome prison force and would look delightfully wicked done in TFA style.

Mon Apr 11, 2011 2:33 pm

Depends... will there be cake?

Mon Apr 11, 2011 4:22 pm

Ha! I like that! If I were to write a story using this, I would think that the ultimate prison break-- would be to escape using the prison itself!!!

News Credits: 462 · Mon Apr 11, 2011 6:01 pm

Oh, BEAST! That is awesome! Trypticon Prison looks epic!!!

Mon Apr 11, 2011 9:25 pm

If it's a prison that is (presumeably) controlled by the Autobots, then they certainly chose odd colors based on their other buildings and structures. If however, it's a Decepticon prison to hold Autobots in, understandable. Either way, it looks very nice.

News Credits: 462 · Mon Apr 11, 2011 9:46 pm

Decepticlone Soundwave wrote:If it's a prison that is (presumeably) controlled by the Autobots, then they certainly chose odd colors based on their other buildings and structures. If however, it's a Decepticon prison to hold Autobots in, understandable. Either way, it looks very nice.

It's the former. The Autobots may control all of Cybertron, but Kaon was former Decepticon city-state. So if it existed before the Cons lost the Great War, it could still be there colored as it is on an Autobot-controlled Cybertron.

News Credits: 2 · Mon Apr 11, 2011 10:18 pm

Skyfire-5 wrote:Depends... will there be cake?

No. The cake is a lie.

Tue Apr 12, 2011 8:13 am

i know i'm being obvious but... it's Megs hideout, right?

News Credits: 462 · Tue Apr 12, 2011 9:19 am

Mechastrike wrote:i know i'm being obvious but... it's Megs hideout, right?

No. It's the slammer. The Big House. The Cybertronian equivalent of Alcatraz. Megs gets locked up behind bars in this place. This facility is an Autobot-controlled prison.

An interesting tidbit: A lot of times, Warpath likes to make certain that any new arriving convicts to this prison arrive there in much worse shape than they were before they left from their trials at the Multi-Circuit Court.

Tue Apr 12, 2011 11:46 am

Only if we'd get Warpath or Ironhide to show us the facility. Also, a Confirmation that all the convicts are safely in stasis lock. It'd be a SLAG of a day for the Elite Guard if the 'Cons and traitors took the prison under control with civilians as hostages.

News Credits: 462 · Tue Apr 12, 2011 11:50 am

Red 50 wrote:Only if we'd get Warpath or Ironhide to show us the facility. Also, a Confirmation that all the convicts are safely in stasis lock. It'd be a SLAG of a day for the Elite Guard if the 'Cons and traitors took the prison under control with civilians as hostages.

Well, in season 4, Megatron was just going to jettison the entire prison city of Kaon completely off of Planet Cybertron, launching it to Earth where he'd use it as his new headquarters.

News Credits: 37 · Tue Apr 12, 2011 11:58 am

Sabrblade wrote:
Mechastrike wrote:i know i'm being obvious but... it's Megs hideout, right?
No. It's the slammer. The Big House. The Cybertronian equivalent of Alcatraz. Megs gets locked up behind bars in this place. This facility is an Autobot-controlled prison.

I thought that was Kaon.

News Credits: 37 · Tue Apr 12, 2011 11:59 am

Sabrblade wrote:
Mechastrike wrote:i know i'm being obvious but... it's Megs hideout, right?
No. It's the slammer. The Big House. The Cybertronian equivalent of Alcatraz. Megs gets locked up behind bars in this place. This facility is an Autobot-controlled prison.

Mother of hell. I accidentally made 2 posts; please don't kill me. :-(

News Credits: 462 · Tue Apr 12, 2011 12:09 pm

SlyTF1 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Mechastrike wrote:i know i'm being obvious but... it's Megs hideout, right?
No. It's the slammer. The Big House. The Cybertronian equivalent of Alcatraz. Megs gets locked up behind bars in this place. This facility is an Autobot-controlled prison.

I thought that was Kaon.

Trypticon Prison is located within Kaon. The whole city is used as a prison, but Trypticon is the heart of it all (metaphorically speaking).

News Credits: 37 · Tue Apr 12, 2011 12:12 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
SlyTF1 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Mechastrike wrote:i know i'm being obvious but... it's Megs hideout, right?
No. It's the slammer. The Big House. The Cybertronian equivalent of Alcatraz. Megs gets locked up behind bars in this place. This facility is an Autobot-controlled prison.

I thought that was Kaon.
Trypticon Prison is located within Kaon. The whole city is used as a prison, but Trypticon is the heart of it all (metaphorically speaking).

...oh.

News Credits: 462 · Tue Apr 12, 2011 12:15 pm

SlyTF1 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
SlyTF1 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Mechastrike wrote:i know i'm being obvious but... it's Megs hideout, right?
No. It's the slammer. The Big House. The Cybertronian equivalent of Alcatraz. Megs gets locked up behind bars in this place. This facility is an Autobot-controlled prison.

I thought that was Kaon.
Trypticon Prison is located within Kaon. The whole city is used as a prison, but Trypticon is the heart of it all (metaphorically speaking).

...oh.

Yeah, the AllSpark Almanac books are really handy when it comes to this sort of non-show Animated info.

News Credits: 37 · Tue Apr 12, 2011 12:18 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
SlyTF1 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
SlyTF1 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Mechastrike wrote:i know i'm being obvious but... it's Megs hideout, right?
No. It's the slammer. The Big House. The Cybertronian equivalent of Alcatraz. Megs gets locked up behind bars in this place. This facility is an Autobot-controlled prison.

I thought that was Kaon.
Trypticon Prison is located within Kaon. The whole city is used as a prison, but Trypticon is the heart of it all (metaphorically speaking).

...oh.
Yeah, the AllSpark Almanac books are really handy when it comes to this sort of non-show Animated info.

Where do you get it?

News Credits: 462 · Tue Apr 12, 2011 12:37 pm

SlyTF1 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
SlyTF1 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
SlyTF1 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Mechastrike wrote:i know i'm being obvious but... it's Megs hideout, right?
No. It's the slammer. The Big House. The Cybertronian equivalent of Alcatraz. Megs gets locked up behind bars in this place. This facility is an Autobot-controlled prison.

I thought that was Kaon.
Trypticon Prison is located within Kaon. The whole city is used as a prison, but Trypticon is the heart of it all (metaphorically speaking).

...oh.
Yeah, the AllSpark Almanac books are really handy when it comes to this sort of non-show Animated info.

Where do you get it?

Got'em both online for Christmas. Best gifts I received last year. These two books are simply epic!

Tue Apr 12, 2011 3:51 pm

If that's all so, then it would be possible for Megs and the D'Cons to TURN it into a gigantic transformer.

News Credits: 462 · Tue Apr 12, 2011 4:19 pm

Red 50 wrote:If that's all so, then it would be possible for Megs and the D'Cons to TURN it into a gigantic transformer.

Please, let's not go there. Then they'd have to do the same for the Metroplex and Fortress Maximus. Keeping it as an ordinary prison building is a new, creative, and ingenious take on the Trypticon concept, without rehashing old concepts that have been done to death.