BotCon 2012 Coverage: Third-Party Items
Monday, April 30th, 2012 12:21am CDT
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Courtesy of on-line retailer Captured Prey:
First we have MasterMind Creations KM-05 Air Screech.
Next we have the upcoming Hubcap and Thumper head upgrades from Renderform.
The MasterShooter Collectibles Shootermasters in prototype form.
MasterMind Creations KM-03 in Cyclops in color.
More upcoming weapons from Renderform.


Lastly TFC Toys Iron Army upgrade PCC limb set.

Next we have some images from the booth of site sponsor RobotKingdom. They also had their show exclusive Perfect Effect PE-10X Shadow Bat and Dr. Wu's DW-05 Eyesight light pods for sale.
The teaser image for TFC Toys upcoming Superion project, Iron Arm PCC upgrade figures, and Iron Army promo sheet.

PE-DX-01B RC on display and Dr. Wu's DW-TP01 Blade upgrade for Transformers Prime Wheeljack
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Posted by wewyllenium on April 30th, 2012 @ 1:13am CDT

Posted by robofreak on April 30th, 2012 @ 1:18am CDT
I think I might now.
Posted by CBratetron on April 30th, 2012 @ 1:56am CDT
Posted by Mechastrike on April 30th, 2012 @ 6:05am CDT
Posted by DoubleOScorpio on April 30th, 2012 @ 6:09am CDT
Cyclops looks like pure badassery in those pictures.
Iron Army looks fun. Won't replace my FP Bruticus, but might be worthy of buying for the kiddos. Only thing that scares me about that are the propellers and tank turrets...my older boy will be ok with them, but if the younger one gets his mitts on them...could be ugly. The debate is now between this and Hasbro's FOC Bruticus...let the debating begin.
Can't wait to get the Renderform Hubcap and Bumper upgrades...I've had those Bee figures stashed away for this since I first saw that Venksta was going to do these. Keep up the good work, my friend!
It's sad that I got more excited by the 3rd party stuff that wasn't supposed to be there than anything that Hasbro or Fun Pub let out of the bag.

Posted by Rodimus Prime on April 30th, 2012 @ 7:38am CDT
Posted by Gauntlet101010 on April 30th, 2012 @ 8:30am CDT
Posted by El Duque on April 30th, 2012 @ 9:17am CDT
Gauntlet101010 wrote:So ... was there any difference in how they treated the 3rd party stuff this year at Botcon? Was it still being sold out in the open? Was there a strong KO presence as well?
It wasn't a strong presence, but Robotkingdom had Hercules and the stuff I mentioned in the news out in plain sight from day one. Captured Prey and TFsource were a little more reserved, for the first couple of days they just had their stuff on a display and for sale in their private rooms, but on the last day Captured Prey brought out their Cyclops for display and TFsource brought out Yellow Giant in the dealer room. I asked the Robotkingdom guy how he was getting by with it, and he said whenever they came by and told him to put it up he just told them no and went on about his business.
Posted by Gauntlet101010 on April 30th, 2012 @ 9:22am CDT
El Duque wrote:Gauntlet101010 wrote:So ... was there any difference in how they treated the 3rd party stuff this year at Botcon? Was it still being sold out in the open? Was there a strong KO presence as well?
It wasn't a strong presence, but Robotkingdom had Hercules and the stuff I mentioned in the news out in plain sight from day one. Captured Prey and TFsource were a little more reserved, for the first couple of days they just had their stuff on a display and for sale in their private rooms, but on the last day Captured Prey brought out their Cyclops for display and TFsource brought out Yellow Giant in the dealer room. I asked the Robotkingdom guy how he was getting by with it, and he said whenever they came by and told him to put it up he just told them no and went on about his business.
Hm, okay. I guess Hasbro was all bark and no bite, then. I can see how they may get away with just showing stuff, but the fact that they didn't bust people for selling stuff is somewhat surprising.
What about straight-up KO stuff? In my mind there's a difference between original molds and the KOs of stuff.
Posted by Dead Metal on April 30th, 2012 @ 9:29am CDT
Posted by starscream1974 on April 30th, 2012 @ 10:13am CDT








Posted by korisifu on April 30th, 2012 @ 10:19am CDT
"no"
LIKE A BOSS!
Posted by starscream1974 on April 30th, 2012 @ 10:34am CDT
Posted by Gauntlet101010 on April 30th, 2012 @ 10:36am CDT
Oh well. What I've seen out of the pics from Botcon aren't really my sort of thing, but they all look great. Cyclops looks badass.
Posted by kirbenvost on April 30th, 2012 @ 10:50am CDT

PE Arcee/Chromia I'm really liking too and I wish I could keep my preorder, especially with the word from Hasbro being there is no classics Arcee on the horizon. Unfortunately I need to divert all the funds I can to Maketoys Giant for the time being.
Posted by LOST Cybertronian on April 30th, 2012 @ 10:57am CDT
starscream1974 wrote:I don't understand the Iron Giant / which character is the center piece?
That is Power Core Combiner Bombshock. Those also look nice combined with Heavy Tread.
Posted by Sodan-1 on April 30th, 2012 @ 10:59am CDT
Posted by Gauntlet101010 on April 30th, 2012 @ 11:27am CDT
Sodan-1 wrote:I'm disappointed there was nothing new on show
I'm not. My wallet needs time to heal.

Really, this'll give us all more time to save up and get the stuff we really want. We've seen SO MANY 3rd party stuff ... there's no way to keep up with it all. Personally I need more time to get funds to buy what I want. Jolly Green Giant being "save up project" #1 for now.
Posted by Dead Metal on April 30th, 2012 @ 12:43pm CDT

Posted by starscream1974 on April 30th, 2012 @ 1:48pm CDT





