Botcon 2016 Information Brochure Now Online

Beast Wars! Twenty years ago, the television series and toy line gave Transformers fans, not a new world of Autobots and Decepticons, but one of raging beasts that converted into Heroic Maximal and Evil Predacon warriors! Led by the namesakes of Optimus Prime and Megatron, these Transformers explored worlds of stories that no one had previously thought possible. And while Optimus Primal, Rhinox, Cheetor, Rattrap, Dinobot, Airazor, Tigatron on-board the crashed Axalon, and Megatron, Scorponok, Waspinator, Terrorsaur, Blackarachnia, and Rampage on the broken Darksyde captivated audiences on a weekly basis, other characters stirred the imagination as well. Characters with their own agendas...

As they sat aboard their own personal space station orbiting Cybertron, the Tripredacus Council seemed to defy Maximal Intelligence in every way. Shrouded in mystery and shadows cast by a single hanging lamp, this trinity of high-ranking Predacons plotted their own path to restoring greatness to the Predacon faction. While fans never saw them in combined form on the show, we know that the Predacons General Seaclamp, Cicadacon, and Ramhorn combined to form the fearsome and towering Tripredacus!

Of course, what good is a conspiracy without operatives to carry it out? And the Predacon Council had some of the best operatives for that task! Working as a covert specialist for the Tripredacus Council, Ravage was described as one of the few Generation 1 Decepticon warriors who was rebuilt and reprogrammed... as a Predacon. Given new stealth abilities and one of the Predacon’s most advanced ships, Ravage made his presence known shortly after his arrival on ancient Earth by capturing the renegade Predacon Megatron and dispersing his troops. Although the crafty Megatron soon turned the tides back on the famous feline with his own manipulation and offer, Ravage soon made his true loyalties known - “Decepticons Forever!”

But the former Decepticon wasn’t the only one who had previously sworn loyalty to the Council. Sly, secretive, and scheming, Predacon Secret Police Lieutenant Tarantulas had been a mole inside of Megatron’s crew from the very beginning! Turning into a disgusting, giant spider with the ‘occasional’ mad scientist tendencies and personality gave fans a character the likes they had never seen before in the Transformers mythos.

As BotCon 2016 celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the Beast Wars TV series and toy line, fans can relive these great characters through new toys and a new story! With FIVE new head sculpts spread across the box set and utilizing the awesome Combiner Wars molds from the Transformers Generations toy line, Voyager Class SEACLAMP, Deluxe Class RAMHORN, Deluxe Class CICADACON, Deluxe Class RAVAGE, and Deluxe Class TARANTULAS are ready to join fans’ Beast Wars shelves individually OR joined together as the unstoppable Predacon Battle Master PREDACUS!

Beast Wars Uprising: Dawn of the Predacus

Beast Wars Uprising: Dawn of the Predacus

SW's SilverHammer wrote:

Beast Wars Uprising: Dawn of the Predacus

Sabrblade wrote:Sad thing is, a lot of folks (myself included at the time) were hoping for an Uprising set long before the finalized theme was announced.

"Be careful what we wish for" and all that.

G.B. Blackrock wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Sad thing is, a lot of folks (myself included at the time) were hoping for an Uprising set long before the finalized theme was announced.

"Be careful what we wish for" and all that.

I don't understand why this would have been a "be careful what we wish for" moment. I still would have preferred Uprising, myself.

Sabrblade wrote:

G.B. Blackrock wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Sad thing is, a lot of folks (myself included at the time) were hoping for an Uprising set long before the finalized theme was announced.

"Be careful what we wish for" and all that.

I don't understand why this would have been a "be careful what we wish for" moment. I still would have preferred Uprising, myself.

For me personally, I wanted a story about the Council that we saw in the cartoon itself, rather than some new version in another world that has nothing to do with the specific Council that I've always been curious and interested in.

And so I'm glad that it isn't an Uprising version.

G.B. Blackrock wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

G.B. Blackrock wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Sad thing is, a lot of folks (myself included at the time) were hoping for an Uprising set long before the finalized theme was announced.

"Be careful what we wish for" and all that.

I don't understand why this would have been a "be careful what we wish for" moment. I still would have preferred Uprising, myself.

For me personally, I wanted a story about the Council that we saw in the cartoon itself, rather than some new version in another world that has nothing to do with the specific Council that I've always been curious and interested in.

And so I'm glad that it isn't an Uprising version.

Fair enough, I guess. For myself, I don't want more information on that Council. I consider them best left in the shadows. A mystery. The Beast Wars saga is excellent. But I consider it closed. I don't want any more.

So, paying homage to that saga though something based on it, but not it (such as Uprising) is exactly what I want to see more of.

11/24/2015 - We are thrilled to announce that Scott McNeil, who did the voices of RATTRAP, DINOBOT, WASPINATOR, SILVERBOLT and Tripredacus Council member CICADACON from the Beast Wars cartoon series will be our guest at BotCon 2016.

Along with David Kaye and Alec Willows, Scott will be available for autographs and panels as we celebrate the 20th anniversary of Beast Wars! For more info on Scott, be sure to click the "Guests" link to read his bio.

If you haven't seen our 20th anniversary convention boxed set celebrating the anniversary as well, be sure to click the "Con Exclusives" link to the left.

Stay tuned for more news, guest updates, and info regarding events and registration for BotCon 2016 - North America's LARGEST Transformers fan convention!

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Starsaber468 wrote:A bit earlier in all honesty oh yeah also might wanna see this sabrblade its an canceled 2016 botcon figure (as far as a know its canceled or they aren't currently doing it)

Sabrblade wrote:

Starsaber468 wrote:A bit earlier in all honesty oh yeah also might wanna see this sabrblade its an canceled 2016 botcon figure (as far as a know its canceled or they aren't currently doing it)

That looks awful and is a terrible character choice for a set celebrating the anniversary of the American Beast Wars cartoon, which Big Convoy has nothing to do with.

Starsaber468 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Starsaber468 wrote:A bit earlier in all honesty oh yeah also might wanna see this sabrblade its an canceled 2016 botcon figure (as far as a know its canceled or they aren't currently doing it)

That looks awful and is a terrible character choice for a set celebrating the anniversary of the American Beast Wars cartoon, which Big Convoy has nothing to do with.

Woopsthey are fake please delete the posts so taht I don't get people confused

Va'al wrote:

Starsaber468 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Starsaber468 wrote:A bit earlier in all honesty oh yeah also might wanna see this sabrblade its an canceled 2016 botcon figure (as far as a know its canceled or they aren't currently doing it)

That looks awful and is a terrible character choice for a set celebrating the anniversary of the American Beast Wars cartoon, which Big Convoy has nothing to do with.

Woopsthey are fake please delete the posts so taht I don't get people confused

Nah, let's leave it there.