#BotCon2016 'Dawn of the Predacus' Magnaboss Sticker Sheet Instructions

I like how this came out just in time for the Prowl/Ironhide/etc deluxe wave to not be on store shelves after sitting around for half a year Ah well, there's always Amazon and such.

Magnaboss looks amazing. too bad he wasn't a Con exclusive as i like the colours on Silverbolt, Prowl and Ironhide. and plus, the CW Menasor i have is needing someone to fight.

Okay, with all the stickers properly in place, Magnaboss looks pretty good.

...Except for that goofy 1980s/90s Ninja Turtle Toy-esque mouth. Seriously what expression is that supposed to be? Is it a grin? A scowl?

Maybe it's just that he needed a nose in the sticker. Magnaboss had a pretty distinct shnoz.

Everything else looks great though. It's exactly what I was hopping would be done to balance out Predacus. Even that sword is a nice touch.

Gearslide wrote:...Except for that goofy 1980s/90s Ninja Turtle Toy-esque mouth. Seriously what expression is that supposed to be? Is it a grin? A scowl?

This:

ScottyP wrote:I like how this came out just in time for the Prowl/Ironhide/etc deluxe wave to not be on store shelves after sitting around for half a year Ah well, there's always Amazon and such.

goddamn, no kidding, right?

It was 400 sticker sets, not 40. A typo dropped the second zero from the sales sheet.

that honestly looks pretty sweet

TF_JW wrote:It was 400 sticker sets, not 40. A typo dropped the second zero from the sales sheet.

Good to know! Thanks

Sabrblade wrote:

Gearslide wrote:...Except for that goofy 1980s/90s Ninja Turtle Toy-esque mouth. Seriously what expression is that supposed to be? Is it a grin? A scowl?

This:

It's a shame though, that instead of looking like that, the mouth looks like it's from this:

Gearslide wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Gearslide wrote:...Except for that goofy 1980s/90s Ninja Turtle Toy-esque mouth. Seriously what expression is that supposed to be? Is it a grin? A scowl?

This:

It's a shame though, that instead of looking like that, the mouth looks like it's from this:

That's actually kind of a good thing since those kinds of faces became a sort of staple with nearly every Transmetal toy from 1998-2000 having those kinds of facial expressions.

To any Funpub employee who reads this:
Please make a second run of this Year's Megatron, and sell them to more than one person this time. This is a figure the fandom has been waiting 11 years for, and you did you customers a MASSIVE disservice by selling out your stock to the first person in line on saturday morning.
People spend upwards of 2 or 3 THOUSAND DOLLARS to get to your events and buy your products.
The least you could have done is wait until the afternoon to lift your one per customer limit and at least give people a chance.

Counterpunch wrote:

ScottyP wrote:I like how this came out just in time for the Prowl/Ironhide/etc deluxe wave to not be on store shelves after sitting around for half a year Ah well, there's always Amazon and such.

goddamn, no kidding, right?

[quote="Counterpunch"]

Psst. I still have them at retail if you'd like me to nab them.

I grabbed a set of Silverbolt, Ironhide and BBTS last night for $60 shipped, which is pretty good since they had Silverbolt below his MSRP ($19.99 versus $26.99). Heckuva lot cheaper than BotCon exclusives!

SG Roadbuster wrote:To any Funpub employee who reads this:
Please make a second run of this Year's Megatron, and sell them to more than one person this time. This is a figure the fandom has been waiting 11 years for, and you did you customers a MASSIVE disservice by selling out your stock to the first person in line on saturday morning.
People spend upwards of 2 or 3 THOUSAND DOLLARS to get to your events and buy your products.
The least you could have done is wait until the afternoon to lift your one per customer limit and at least give people a chance.

The people that paid "2 or 3 THOUSAND DOLLARS" probably didn't wait until Saturday to get one.

While I think it would have been a nice gesture to keep the limit of only 1 per person for that particular item at least through Saturday afternoon, I'm assuming based on the previous 11 BotCons that Fun Pub has a pretty good idea of what happens with whether or not the walk-ins will purchase any of those exclusives.

Also, it seems that there was some misunderstanding about Megatron. Apparently he did sell out, but not in the way that people are talking about with a dealer buying out the rest of the inventory.

Fun Pub has had to deal with excess inventory of BotCon and Club exclusives many times over the past 12 BotCons so I can't say I blame them for wanting to liquidate inventory as fast as possible.

Seibertron wrote:Apparently he did sell out, but not in the way that people are talking about with a dealer buying out the rest of the inventory.

Do you know what happened exactly?

Can we see those Ironhide stickers on a Hasbro Ironhide. I want to see how they look on the version I have.

Nik Hero wrote:Can we see those Ironhide stickers on a Hasbro Ironhide. I want to see how they look on the version I have.

I'm pretty sure they are on Hasbro Ironhide

Dr Va'al wrote:

Can anyone tell me how to do that with Ironhide's HFG?

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Nik Hero wrote:Can we see those Ironhide stickers on a Hasbro Ironhide. I want to see how they look on the version I have.

I'm pretty sure they are on Hasbro Ironhide

Nope, I'm looking at my Ironhide now. The Combiner port is black, not red, and the crotch piece is red, among other changes.

Zeedust wrote:

Dr Va'al wrote:

Can anyone tell me how to do that with Ironhide's HFG?

You have to curl the thumb up half way and then just snap the hfg in between the wheels. This is how Trailbreaker gets his forcefield projector

Nik Hero wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Nik Hero wrote:Can we see those Ironhide stickers on a Hasbro Ironhide. I want to see how they look on the version I have.

I'm pretty sure they are on Hasbro Ironhide

Nope, I'm looking at my Ironhide now. The Combiner port is black, not red, and the crotch piece is red, among other changes.

The red must be stickers. The hands are unpainted, the HFG is the right color and the lacking of paint is prevalent on the legs as well. That is CW Ironhide with the stickers

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Nik Hero wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Nik Hero wrote:Can we see those Ironhide stickers on a Hasbro Ironhide. I want to see how they look on the version I have.

I'm pretty sure they are on Hasbro Ironhide

Nope, I'm looking at my Ironhide now. The Combiner port is black, not red, and the crotch piece is red, among other changes.

The red must be stickers. The hands are unpainted, the HFG is the right color and the lacking of paint is prevalent on the legs as well. That is CW Ironhide with the stickers

You're right, it is Hasbro, but the Combiner port and crotch piece look to been painted. It's not just the front, the sides are that color too.

Nik Hero wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Nik Hero wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Nik Hero wrote:Can we see those Ironhide stickers on a Hasbro Ironhide. I want to see how they look on the version I have.

I'm pretty sure they are on Hasbro Ironhide

Nope, I'm looking at my Ironhide now. The Combiner port is black, not red, and the crotch piece is red, among other changes.

The red must be stickers. The hands are unpainted, the HFG is the right color and the lacking of paint is prevalent on the legs as well. That is CW Ironhide with the stickers

You're right, it is Hasbro, but the Combiner port and crotch piece look to been painted. It's not just the front, the sides are that color too.

I'm thinking Jesse customized his Ironhide, painting the combiner peg red, himself. He's custom-painted his figures before.

Nik Hero wrote:

Zeedust wrote:

Dr Va'al wrote:

Can anyone tell me how to do that with Ironhide's HFG?

You have to curl the thumb up half way and then just snap the hfg in between the wheels. This is how Trailbreaker gets his forcefield projector

I'm doing something wrong. No matter what I try it either falls out, launches out, or won't go in and I feel like I'm going to break the toy. Anyone else have any advice or clarifications?

Zeedust wrote:

Nik Hero wrote:

Zeedust wrote:

Dr Va'al wrote:

Can anyone tell me how to do that with Ironhide's HFG?

You have to curl the thumb up half way and then just snap the hfg in between the wheels. This is how Trailbreaker gets his forcefield projector

I'm doing something wrong. No matter what I try it either falls out, launches out, or won't go in and I feel like I'm going to break the toy. Anyone else have any advice or clarifications?

I've heard that it wasn't meant to do that anymore, it will crack the plastic if you force it. Keep trying, so long as you feel comfortable, but it's not too important to do that to Ironhide

Will there be galleries for the Predacus toys? I'd like to see me some more of that Terrorsaur.

(Does HFG stand for Hand Foot Gun?)

[BW] Rainmaker wrote:Will there be galleries for the Predacus toys? I'd like to see me some more of that Terrorsaur.

(Does HFG stand for Hand Foot Gun?)

Yup, we learned very early on that those suckers were gonna need an acronym so badly

[BW] Rainmaker wrote:Will there be galleries for the Predacus toys? I'd like to see me some more of that Terrorsaur.

There will be galleries when Ryan can work on them.

Hey @AllsparkNews, @seibertroncom, @tfw2005, @TFormers, and @BotCon fans everywhere, are you ready for some Magnaboss decal instructions?

Let's start With Megatron. While not part of Magnaboss, he has decals on Ironhide's sheet. Pred symbol & dragon eyes. There are 8 Megatron eyes on the sheet. The extras are there because of how tiny they are - you will have spares if you tear or loose one.

Actually, the more I think about Megatron having a Dinobot spark crystal, the more I think about the untapped possibilities of stories for it. After all, Megatron DOES take the form of a T-Rex twice, and a dragon is more or less a winged dinosaur. Magmatron was turned into a Dinobot in US continuity, and a good number of Predacons have been of the saurian variety.

It would've been an interesting story to think that during the Great Reformatting, Cybertronians had a choice of faction. For some reason, if Dinobots and their descendants were looked down upon by "polite society" of Cybertron for perceptions of lack of processing power or Wheeljackian origins or whatever, they chose to be affiliated with the Predacon cause. What if Megatron was one of these disenfranchised Dinobots who chose to become a Predacon and take the name of the great Decepticon leader to prove himself against a world that discriminated against him? He could have recruited others like Terrorsaur, THE Dinobot, and just about everyone from BW Neo. Then, the Dinobots could've had a hand in saving Cybertron during Beast Machines, and had an engaging arc of character development.

It's a left-field theory, but I think it would've been a more interesting origin for BW Megatron than what we got.

Psychography wrote:

Hey @AllsparkNews, @seibertroncom, @tfw2005, @TFormers, and @BotCon fans everywhere, are you ready for some Magnaboss decal instructions?

Let's start With Megatron. While not part of Magnaboss, he has decals on Ironhide's sheet. Pred symbol & dragon eyes. There are 8 Megatron eyes on the sheet. The extras are there because of how tiny they are - you will have spares if you tear or loose one.

Actually, the more I think about Megatron having a Dinobot spark crystal, the more I think about the untapped possibilities of stories for it. After all, Megatron DOES take the form of a T-Rex twice, and a dragon is more or less a winged dinosaur. Magmatron was turned into a Dinobot in US continuity, and a good number of Predacons have been of the saurian variety.

It would've been an interesting story to think that during the Great Reformatting, Cybertronians had a choice of faction. For some reason, if Dinobots and their descendants were looked down upon by "polite society" of Cybertron for perceptions of lack of processing power or Wheeljackian origins or whatever, they chose to be affiliated with the Predacon cause. What if Megatron was one of these disenfranchised Dinobots who chose to become a Predacon and take the name of the great Decepticon leader to prove himself against a world that discriminated against him? He could have recruited others like Terrorsaur, THE Dinobot, and just about everyone from BW Neo. Then, the Dinobots could've had a hand in saving Cybertron during Beast Machines, and had an engaging arc of character development.

It's a left-field theory, but I think it would've been a more interesting origin for BW Megatron than what we got.

Well, the upper part of his head looks like Grimlock.

So... Let's tick off the fans upset by Dawn of the Predacus further:

BW Megatron is Grimlock, having undergone another anti-Electron brain upgrade like he got in "Grimlock's New Brain". The Anti-Electrons, we learn, are actually an anti-spark from the Dead Universe (which is why Unicron has anti-electrons flowing around inside him). The Technobots (created by anti-electron Grimlock) are also corrupt and the foundation of the Predacons, bearing Predacon colors. Which also happen to be Sentinel Prime colors and Unicron colors.

Related note of interest: In this year's script reading, titled "The Hot Rod", Megatron was mistaken for being a Dinobot by White Propionica (a pre-BW Blackarachnia) and had a one-on-one fight against Grimlock.

Autobot tap out wrote:Magnaboss looks amazing. too bad he wasn't a Con exclusive as i like the colours on Silverbolt, Prowl and Ironhide. and plus, the CW Menasor i have is needing someone to fight.

Just stickered up an extra Silverbolt, Ironhide and Prowl. They look pretty good for the most part. Didn't realize that Magnaboss' ** entire ** face was stickers. Kind of want to buy some orange paint to cover up the silver from Superion's face shield that peaks out between the eyes sticker and the face shield sticker as well as some white paint for the crest. I'm pretty good at doing stickers but couldn't get the lower abdomen stickers right on Ironhide despite going top to bottom per the instructions. Regardless, it came out pretty good still.

Just need some Ratchet stickers now.

Seibertron wrote:

Autobot tap out wrote:Magnaboss looks amazing. too bad he wasn't a Con exclusive as i like the colours on Silverbolt, Prowl and Ironhide. and plus, the CW Menasor i have is needing someone to fight.

Just stickered up an extra Silverbolt, Ironhide and Prowl. They look pretty good for the most part. Didn't realize that Magnaboss' ** entire ** face was stickers. Kind of want to buy some orange paint to cover up the silver from Superion's face shield that peaks out between the eyes sticker and the face shield sticker as well as some white paint for the crest. I'm pretty good at doing stickers but couldn't get the lower abdomen stickers right on Ironhide despite going top to bottom per the instructions. Regardless, it came out pretty good still.

Just need some Ratchet stickers now.

Did you get an order in at the Club store? They were available there this week.

Counterpunch wrote:

Seibertron wrote:

Autobot tap out wrote:Magnaboss looks amazing. too bad he wasn't a Con exclusive as i like the colours on Silverbolt, Prowl and Ironhide. and plus, the CW Menasor i have is needing someone to fight.

Just stickered up an extra Silverbolt, Ironhide and Prowl. They look pretty good for the most part. Didn't realize that Magnaboss' ** entire ** face was stickers. Kind of want to buy some orange paint to cover up the silver from Superion's face shield that peaks out between the eyes sticker and the face shield sticker as well as some white paint for the crest. I'm pretty good at doing stickers but couldn't get the lower abdomen stickers right on Ironhide despite going top to bottom per the instructions. Regardless, it came out pretty good still.

Just need some Ratchet stickers now.

Did you get an order in at the Club store? They were available there this week.

I did ... thanks Mike

Unfortunately, they listed them 12 hours after I bought a Botcon Ratchet on eBay that had the Shattered glass and G1 stickers for $200 just so I could get the sticker sheet. Urgh.

Seibertron wrote:Just stickered up an extra Silverbolt, Ironhide and Prowl. They look pretty good for the most part. Didn't realize that Magnaboss' ** entire ** face was stickers. Kind of want to buy some orange paint to cover up the silver from Superion's face shield that peaks out between the eyes sticker and the face shield sticker as well as some white paint for the crest. I'm pretty good at doing stickers but couldn't get the lower abdomen stickers right on Ironhide despite going top to bottom per the instructions. Regardless, it came out pretty good still.

Cool, glad we'll get to see a Seibertron gallery of Magnaboss! (No rush, of course.) Wasn't sure if the eclectic combination of self-customized retail toys and exclusives would be worth the effort or not. Looking forward to it.

RevTibe wrote:

Seibertron wrote:Just stickered up an extra Silverbolt, Ironhide and Prowl. They look pretty good for the most part. Didn't realize that Magnaboss' ** entire ** face was stickers. Kind of want to buy some orange paint to cover up the silver from Superion's face shield that peaks out between the eyes sticker and the face shield sticker as well as some white paint for the crest. I'm pretty good at doing stickers but couldn't get the lower abdomen stickers right on Ironhide despite going top to bottom per the instructions. Regardless, it came out pretty good still.

Cool, glad we'll get to see a Seibertron gallery of Magnaboss! (No rush, of course.) Wasn't sure if the eclectic combination of self-customized retail toys and exclusives would be worth the effort or not. Looking forward to it.

Normally I'd say no, but "Predacus" needs his arch-enemy plus the sticker sheets are really nice (and extensive), so it helps make it feel like it was all intended. I have to give them credit for going beyond the call of duty with these stickers to help make Silverbolt, Ironhide and Prowl feel different enough that they can go with the rest of the BotCon 2016 toys.

Seibertron wrote:

Counterpunch wrote:

Seibertron wrote:

Autobot tap out wrote:Magnaboss looks amazing. too bad he wasn't a Con exclusive as i like the colours on Silverbolt, Prowl and Ironhide. and plus, the CW Menasor i have is needing someone to fight.

Just stickered up an extra Silverbolt, Ironhide and Prowl. They look pretty good for the most part. Didn't realize that Magnaboss' ** entire ** face was stickers. Kind of want to buy some orange paint to cover up the silver from Superion's face shield that peaks out between the eyes sticker and the face shield sticker as well as some white paint for the crest. I'm pretty good at doing stickers but couldn't get the lower abdomen stickers right on Ironhide despite going top to bottom per the instructions. Regardless, it came out pretty good still.

Just need some Ratchet stickers now.

Did you get an order in at the Club store? They were available there this week.

I did ... thanks Mike

Unfortunately, they listed them 12 hours after I bought a Botcon Ratchet on eBay that had the Shattered glass and G1 stickers for $200 just so I could get the sticker sheet. Urgh.

On the flipside, you got the SG stickers, which I'm told was the most popular of the five sticker sets for those who took the classes.

Seibertron wrote:Normally I'd say no, but "Predacus" needs his arch-enemy plus the sticker sheets are really nice (and extensive), so it helps make it feel like it was all intended. I have to give them credit for going beyond the call of duty with these stickers to help make Silverbolt, Ironhide and Prowl feel different enough that they can go with the rest of the BotCon 2016 toys.

Well, thanks for putting the extra effort in! (I suppose the same should be said of all the Seibertron galleries.)

I was also impressed with how in-depth they went with Magnaboss - I was just expecting stock Silver/Prowl/Iron + two other retail Combiner Wars Autobots. Ironhide's grey detailing looks pretty sharp.

The Magnaboss did some out pretty swell, and I would buy him he is cool enough.

I might use the retail Scattershot/Betatron torso for Magnaboss... Just to give him a different flavor than Superion, and put that non-box set Scattershot to use.

megatronus wrote:I might use the retail Scattershot/Betatron torso for Magnaboss... Just to give him a different flavor than Superion, and put that non-box set Scattershot to use.

I use mine as the body to go with Ratchet, Medix, Alpha Bravo, and Rook. Betatron is now the backup Protectobot team!

megatronus wrote:I might use the retail Scattershot/Betatron torso for Magnaboss... Just to give him a different flavor than Superion, and put that non-box set Scattershot to use.

I admire your creativity.

Regarding Megatron...

Anyone else find that his elbows are kind of weak compared to all previous versions?

I tried to tighten them, but the screws don't seem to affect that tension.

I've notice almost all samples of the figure have some seam gap in the forearms as they approach the joint as well.

Thoughts? Confirmations?

No one?

Nothing?

Counterpunch wrote:No one?

Nothing?

Nothing here, certainly. I can neither confirm nor deny, despite having both this figure and Deathsaurus. Any difference between the two is too subtle for me to notice nor care.

Counterpunch wrote:No one?

Nothing?

I haven't even opened my TM3 Megs yet - nowhere to put him.

megatronus wrote:

Counterpunch wrote:No one?

Nothing?

I haven't even opened my TM3 Megs yet - nowhere to put him.

On a small shrine to his magnificence?

Delta Magnus wrote:

megatronus wrote:

Counterpunch wrote:No one?

Nothing?

I haven't even opened my TM3 Megs yet - nowhere to put him.

On a small shrine to his magnificence?

Maybe I should put him in a piggy bank?

megatronus wrote:

Delta Magnus wrote:

megatronus wrote:

Counterpunch wrote:No one?

Nothing?

I haven't even opened my TM3 Megs yet - nowhere to put him.

On a small shrine to his magnificence?

Maybe I should put him in a piggy bank?

It would need to be a bloody big piggy bank- more like a wild boar bank than anything else. He's a big lad after all.