BotCon 2012 Metalhawk Revealed
Thursday, January 19th, 2012 11:14AM CST
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Here's the full list of BotCon 2012 "Invasion" figures:
- Gigatron(Overlord)
- Shattered Glass Tracks
- Shattered Glass Soundwave
- Shattered Glass Treadshot
- Shattered Glass Ultra Magnus
- Metalhawk
Here's a piece of Metalhawk character art from the Heroic Autobot facebook page:
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Posted by Fistful of Energon on January 19th, 2012 @ 11:18am CST
Posted by BeastProwl on January 19th, 2012 @ 11:18am CST
Posted by Mkall on January 19th, 2012 @ 11:21am CST
Posted by Prime Evil on January 19th, 2012 @ 11:21am CST
Posted by Sabrblade on January 19th, 2012 @ 11:38am CST
Posted by Swindle01 on January 19th, 2012 @ 11:39am CST
Hasbro forces kotoys to closed down - a ko company that actually give fans what they want (sunstorm/rainmakers/clear convoy/dia convoy ect ect) but yet hasbro give us bullshit like this?
a god awful craptastic gigatron that looks as if a child has put another toys head on a different toys body - a god awful ultra magnus that looks as if it was made up while someone was having a fit - and now 'who ate all the pies' metalhawk....ffs dont they stop half way when making these guys and say 'errr maybe we should start again or do somert better'
christ i always felt energon prime looked like a fat bastard but now metalhawk too? i guess we can now put metalhawk/E-Prime together and start making a FAT BOTS CLUB
i mean just look at metalhawk! he looks so fat that if he tried to transform theres no way in hell that fat gits gona take off the ground
Posted by Galvatron X on January 19th, 2012 @ 12:05pm CST
Posted by Dead Metal on January 19th, 2012 @ 12:07pm CST
The rest of the figure looks great though.
Swindle01 wrote:ok let me see if i got this straight -
Hasbro forces kotoys to closed down - a ko company that actually give fans what they want (sunstorm/rainmakers/clear convoy/dia convoy ect ect) but yet hasbro give us bullshit like this?
a god awful craptastic gigatron that looks as if a child has put another toys head on a different toys body - a god awful ultra magnus that looks as if it was made up while someone was having a fit - and now 'who ate all the pies' metalhawk....ffs dont they stop half way when making these guys and say 'errr maybe we should start again or do somert better'
christ i always felt energon prime looked like a fat bastard but now metalhawk too? i guess we can now put metalhawk/E-Prime together and start making a FAT BOTS CLUB
i mean just look at metalhawk! he looks so fat that if he tried to transform theres no way in hell that fat gits gona take off the ground
Get over it.
Posted by GuyIncognito on January 19th, 2012 @ 12:09pm CST
Swindle01 wrote:ok let me see if i got this straight -
Hasbro forces kotoys to closed down - a ko company that actually give fans what they want (sunstorm/rainmakers/clear convoy/dia convoy ect ect) but yet hasbro give us bullshit like this?
blah blah blah
Hasbro doesn't create the Botcon designs.
Posted by Nemesis Destron on January 19th, 2012 @ 12:10pm CST
Posted by FracturedKoi on January 19th, 2012 @ 12:24pm CST
To hearken back to a note from a previous post...I'd almost rather see Hasbro, Takaratomo, or whomever is responsible for BotCon exclusives contract out the KO companies that did all the very high quality "reissues" that were sold on KO Toys website! I'll admit that I did buy a couple, and they display damn well! Granted, if I ever part with them, I'll go out of my way to make sure it's known that they aren't real or original...but I digress....
If we could see some of those fine molds just reused officially, even as exclusives, I'd eat that up like candy!
Posted by Marcdachamp on January 19th, 2012 @ 12:31pm CST
Posted by Gauntlet101010 on January 19th, 2012 @ 12:44pm CST
It's okay, but just okay.
Posted by GetRightRobot on January 19th, 2012 @ 12:46pm CST
Posted by Sodan-1 on January 19th, 2012 @ 12:47pm CST
As far as the entire boxset goes, whomever at TFCC thought this would be a "must have" must be new to the world of Transformers.
Posted by SW's SilverHammer on January 19th, 2012 @ 1:10pm CST
Posted by AutobotCliffjumper on January 19th, 2012 @ 1:12pm CST
Posted by Sabrblade on January 19th, 2012 @ 1:14pm CST
Pretender Commander: Metalhawk
Base of Operations: The Skyhammer, Japan
Posted by AutobotCliffjumper on January 19th, 2012 @ 1:18pm CST
Sabrblade wrote:http://www.facebook.com/pages/Heroic-Autobots/236980943041104Pretender Commander: Metalhawk
Base of Operations: The Skyhammer, Japan
I hope it ACTUALLY looks closer to this than the botcon official picture,
Posted by Anonymous on January 19th, 2012 @ 1:21pm CST
Is it Rob Riggle from the Daily Show and that movie Step Brothers?
"Sweet-ass gift, Botcon..." *high-five*
Posted by SW's SilverHammer on January 19th, 2012 @ 1:27pm CST
Court Jester wrote:Dood... is that...
Is it Rob Riggle from the Daily Show and that movie Step Brothers?
"Sweet-ass gift, Botcon..."
Mother of god I think your right it's uncanny the resemblance
Posted by Megatron Wolf on January 19th, 2012 @ 1:45pm CST
Posted by Heavy B on January 19th, 2012 @ 1:51pm CST
SW's SilverHammer wrote:Court Jester wrote:Dood... is that...
Is it Rob Riggle from the Daily Show and that movie Step Brothers?
"Sweet-ass gift, Botcon..."
Mother of god I think your right it's uncanny the resemblance
Dude, thats the sound of my mind being blown...
Posted by Dead Metal on January 19th, 2012 @ 1:54pm CST
Megatron Wolf wrote:again why are they using the pretender shell for the inspiration?
Because it's supposed to be a Classics Metalhawk, and all Classics Pretenders homage the Shell, due to that being the most iconic thing about the Pretenders.
Posted by Sabrblade on January 19th, 2012 @ 1:56pm CST
Because that's what they've been doing for EVERY updated Pretender figure. Generations Skullgrin, ROTF Bludgeon, SG Octopunch, Generations Thunderwing, Generations Sky Shadow (Black Shadow), ALL of them look like their G1 Pretender shells. None of them look like their inner robot modes.Megatron Wolf wrote:again why are they using the pretender shell for the inspiration?
Posted by LiKwid on January 19th, 2012 @ 2:00pm CST
Posted by Requiem Prime on January 19th, 2012 @ 2:01pm CST
Somewhere something got lost. You can't fault the idea, the Decepticon ex-pretenders all follow the same concept: splicing robot's vehicle mode and more iconic pretender forms. I think the Con's inhuman designs made it much more forgiving.
Far as I know, Metalhawk is the first autobot pretender they've given the classic-verse treatment and the human face really throws me. It's like I'm looking at a toy from a different franchise. (Of course that could be seen as being a successful pretender)
Posted by Sabrblade on January 19th, 2012 @ 2:04pm CST
Well, if they ever make an update to Stranglehold, we'll not only get a human'looking Decepticon but a rather scantly-clad human Decepticon.Requiem Prime wrote:Somewhere something got lost. You can't fault the idea, the Decepticon ex-pretenders all follow the same concept: splicing robot's vehicle mode and more iconic pretender forms. I think the Con's inhuman designs made it much more forgiving.
Far as I know, Metalhawk is the first autobot pretender they've given the classic-verse treatment and the human face really throws me. It's like I'm looking at a toy from a different franchise. (Of course that could be seen as being a successful pretender)
Posted by Dead Metal on January 19th, 2012 @ 2:14pm CST
Sabrblade wrote:Well, if they ever make an update to Stranglehold, we'll not only get a human'looking Decepticon but a rather scantly-clad human Decepticon.Requiem Prime wrote:Somewhere something got lost. You can't fault the idea, the Decepticon ex-pretenders all follow the same concept: splicing robot's vehicle mode and more iconic pretender forms. I think the Con's inhuman designs made it much more forgiving.
Far as I know, Metalhawk is the first autobot pretender they've given the classic-verse treatment and the human face really throws me. It's like I'm looking at a toy from a different franchise. (Of course that could be seen as being a successful pretender)
Which I would totally buy and love due to his magnificent porn-stache.
Posted by Anonymous on January 19th, 2012 @ 2:15pm CST
Posted by Burn on January 19th, 2012 @ 2:16pm CST
Swindle01 wrote:ok let me see if i got this straight -
Hasbro forces kotoys to closed down - a ko company that actually give fans what they want (sunstorm/rainmakers/clear convoy/dia convoy ect ect) but yet hasbro give us bullshit like this?
a god awful craptastic gigatron that looks as if a child has put another toys head on a different toys body - a god awful ultra magnus that looks as if it was made up while someone was having a fit - and now 'who ate all the pies' metalhawk....ffs dont they stop half way when making these guys and say 'errr maybe we should start again or do somert better'
christ i always felt energon prime looked like a fat bastard but now metalhawk too? i guess we can now put metalhawk/E-Prime together and start making a FAT BOTS CLUB
i mean just look at metalhawk! he looks so fat that if he tried to transform theres no way in hell that fat gits gona take off the ground
Your crying-over-a-plastic-toy rants make me LOL.
Oh and tone down the language or you can have a warning.
P.S. The warning will make me LOL too.
Posted by SJ21 on January 19th, 2012 @ 2:26pm CST
I will not be getting this set. Weird, weird, weird. The figures are just so weird looking. Metalhawk, to me, is the weirdest looking one, by far. The human face on a robot just looks too weird. I thought it was weird in G1. If it's possible, I think it looks even worse now.
Posted by kirbenvost on January 19th, 2012 @ 2:41pm CST
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on January 19th, 2012 @ 2:42pm CST
Posted by ausbot on January 19th, 2012 @ 3:20pm CST
Posted by DISCHARGE on January 19th, 2012 @ 3:38pm CST
Posted by Anonymous on January 19th, 2012 @ 3:41pm CST
Posted by Poyguimogul on January 19th, 2012 @ 4:13pm CST
Seriously...
Posted by F Prime on January 19th, 2012 @ 4:15pm CST
Sabrblade wrote:Well, if they ever make an update to Stranglehold, we'll not only get a human'looking Decepticon but a rather scantly-clad human Decepticon.
He always creeped me out. Looks like he should come with a bottle of skin lotion as an accessory.
Posted by Swindle01 on January 19th, 2012 @ 4:59pm CST
Well darn... I love everything except his face, and his beady Batman the Animated series eyes.
Seriously
your joking yes? you even like his -fat bastard let himself go - appearance? it looks as if during the 15+ something years we havent seen metalhawk that his routine has been eating food in front of tv till loses will to live....but has then been forced back into work as an old overweight man. He looks like John Travolta when he dragged up ffs
Posted by DISCHARGE on January 19th, 2012 @ 5:40pm CST
Swindle01 wrote:Well darn... I love everything except his face, and his beady Batman the Animated series eyes.
Seriously
your joking yes? you even like his -fat bastard let himself go - appearance? it looks as if during the 15+ something years we havent seen metalhawk that his routine has been eating food in front of tv till loses will to live....but has then been forced back into work as an old overweight man. He looks like John Travolta when he dragged up ffs
Really, cause his G1 version looks pretty beefy(as do all the G1 Autobot Pretenders)
He actually looks like he's spent half a season on Biggest Loser.
They even posed him as if he were running in place.
The legs are toned down, the arms don't seem as chunky, but, damn does the G1 version have a stellar head of hair!
Posted by dinogeist on January 19th, 2012 @ 6:20pm CST
Posted by SW's SilverHammer on January 19th, 2012 @ 6:48pm CST
DISCHARGE wrote:Swindle01 wrote:Well darn... I love everything except his face, and his beady Batman the Animated series eyes.
Seriously
your joking yes? you even like his -fat bastard let himself go - appearance? it looks as if during the 15+ something years we havent seen metalhawk that his routine has been eating food in front of tv till loses will to live....but has then been forced back into work as an old overweight man. He looks like John Travolta when he dragged up ffs
Really, cause his G1 version looks pretty beefy(as do all the G1 Autobot Pretenders)
He actually looks like he's spent half a season on Biggest Loser.
They even posed him as if he were running in place.
The legs are toned down, the arms don't seem as chunky, but, damn does the G1 version have a stellar head of hair!
Damn That is a head of Hair to be proud of
Posted by 33Silencer on January 19th, 2012 @ 7:31pm CST
The concept of Pretenders in general is pretty strange, but lets not hate on the figure due to the strange concept, in which FunPub didn't start!
Posted by NatsumeRyu on January 19th, 2012 @ 8:10pm CST
Posted by funklizard on January 19th, 2012 @ 8:25pm CST
Posted by Stormrider on January 19th, 2012 @ 8:30pm CST
Posted by Anonymous on January 19th, 2012 @ 8:32pm CST
How does the vast majority fail to see the upgrade potential in this mold? Fine let me hype this mofo properly...
-Shoulder cannons can be swapped
-Bicep swivel detaches easily for upgrade and would not interfere with transformation
-Drone can be upgraded with a transformable bot mode.
-Missile launchers can be upgraded with interactivity to "drone" (to beef it up while not stowed).
-Bot mode has a torso cavity for the transformable "drone" - allowing storage in both modes
-Room for a booster pack
I believe it's time for the equivalent of a trailer add-on for a jet transformer. This mold is ripe for it. I would go on, but I'll leave the rest up to the imagination of the 3rd parties. Believe me, you ought to be excited for this. Mark my words - Metalhawk will be the SG Rodimus of this year's Botcon set.