New Galleries: BotCon 2015 Kre-o Earth's Most Wanted

Man, the paint/tampo work on these kreons is just terrible.

SW's SilverHammer wrote:Man, the paint/tampo work on these kreons is just terrible.

Agreed on that. That's just the major turnoff for me with the Kreons. Their paint apps tampograph are just so poorly done and aligned. This here, looks like somebody designed them with a frickin Sharpie pen.

Hasbro should really QC these Kreon. The best tampo I ever had with Kreons was Jarugar from series 8 i think. That was superb. Colors are nice, well aligned and sharp. That proves they could do it.

My my, first G.B. Blackrock now Donny Finkleburg? What's next, Buster Witwicky?

These are really... yikes. The actual designs look rather primitive with how reliant they are on straight lines, then the printing itself has a bunch of errors like smudging, chipping, and not fully covering a surface.

Seriously, just compare them to THIS:

The paint.................

Aside from the yellow paint for Nightbird's eyes and a few other minor flaws on the rest of these guys, I don't see all of the major flaws that are deserving of the comments above. With macro photography, the flaws in all Transformers toys paint jobs is brought into extreme focus. It is the bane of my existence as I try to find as near perfect specimens of each toy to photograph. The smallest flaws on these toys are brought out unfortunately by my up close and personal photography. The flaws aren't nearly as noticeable when held in hand versus under my camera lens.

Seibertron wrote:Aside from the yellow paint for Nightbird's eyes and a few other minor flaws on the rest of these guys, I don't see all of the major flaws that are deserving of the comments above. With macro photography, the flaws in all Transformers toys paint jobs is brought into extreme focus. It is the bane of my existence as I try to find as near perfect specimens of each toy to photograph. The smallest flaws on these toys are brought out unfortunately by my up close and personal photography. The flaws aren't nearly as noticeable when held in hand versus under my camera lens.

Yeah, because all the other kreons you've photographed looked like crap. Oh wait, they looked fine, and the botcon kreons look like crap. Not even the past 2 years sets looked this bad. So this was either a QC issue which still further reinforces the rumor the club doesn't pay for it despite what they say. Or they gave up on this set. Either way, you don't have to rationalize the clubs mistakes, I know you want to be closer, but still.

SW's SilverHammer wrote:

Seibertron wrote:Aside from the yellow paint for Nightbird's eyes and a few other minor flaws on the rest of these guys, I don't see all of the major flaws that are deserving of the comments above. With macro photography, the flaws in all Transformers toys paint jobs is brought into extreme focus. It is the bane of my existence as I try to find as near perfect specimens of each toy to photograph. The smallest flaws on these toys are brought out unfortunately by my up close and personal photography. The flaws aren't nearly as noticeable when held in hand versus under my camera lens.

Yeah, because all the other kreons you've photographed looked like crap. Oh wait, they looked fine, and the botcon kreons look like crap. Not even the past 2 years sets looked this bad. So this was either a QC issue which still further reinforces the rumor the club doesn't pay for it despite what they say. Or they gave up on this set. Either way, you don't have to rationalize the clubs mistakes, I know you want to be closer, but still.

I'm sure you meant well with your statement but please don't pull that card on me again. I do not deserve that.

In addition, you haven't seen enough photographs of mine of the Kre-o line to know whether or not the rest look just as flawed or not since I only photographed the first wave or two of products 3 years ago. I haven't photographed any of the Microchangers since the preview wave.

http://www.seibertron.com/toys/index.ph ... type=exact

Noideaforaname wrote:

Why sir, is that a bat'leth attached to your head?

DeadCaL wrote:

Noideaforaname wrote:

Why sir, is that a bat'leth attached to your head?

It indeed is. Not surprising since Kre-O covers not only Transformers, but Battleship, G.I. Joe and Star Trek as well

The latest offering in the Seibertron.com galleries in the post-BotCon 2015 weeks features some more Diaclone homages in the shape of Burn-Out and Lift-Ticket, and their pilots. These two figures are the previously 'leaked', so to speak', redecos of Generations Skids and Hoist, the former featuring a black paintjob, and the latter sporting a full red makeover - and the pilots, Dia and Cline, are repurposed from the Targetmasters that came with deluxe Scoop, Holepunch and Caliburst.

Check out a preview from the new galleries below, and click on any of the images to access the full works!


BotCon Exclusives Dia Pilot




BotCon Exclusives Cline Pilot




BotCon Exclusives Lift-Ticket








BotCon Exclusives Burn Out

Lift-ticket. He's a wrecker and HE'S GOT A HOOK.

RhA wrote:Lift-ticket. He's a wrecker and HE'S GOT A HOOK.

That's an elevator (BrEng='lift') pitch if I ever heard one.

hoist and trailbreaker fan he must be

I cant wait for mine to arrive. I ordered em from the club finally. I also bought an extra X2 add on kit for lift ticket. Sure the gun is a brighter yellow but who gives a crap? I love diaclone homages. Somebody needs to do a black ironhide and blue trailbreaker. I heard the club is done with diaclone now, no future plans for it. Maybe e-hobby can get the ball rolling ?

I do like the colors for those molds. it works nicely!

Love the black Skids

Seibertron wrote:With macro photography, the flaws in all Transformers toys paint jobs is brought into extreme focus.

A little late to the party, but this, all the way.

Exhibit "The only example I'm posting right now":

Man, look at that running silver paint on his chest, the nick in the red around the Minicon port, the messy gate mark on the right arm, the small chips and inconsistently masked red on the front of the boat, and the tarnish on the metal assembly pin.

Except then get it in hand and it looks flawless. My camera isn't even nearly as nice as Ryan's (I've seen it, and mine, albeit a DSLR as well, is like a Fischer Price My First Camera next to it). I can only imagine how bad Kreons would look if I did it, whether they came from the club or from retail.

What's more is that Burn Out is (piloted by) a female.

Sabrblade wrote:What's more is that Burn Out is (piloted by) a female.

Very interesting and cool point

Sabrblade wrote:What's more is that Burn Out is (piloted by) a female.

I finally got my box set yesterday and read the comic. Fun little book, and she looks very Samus-like in that panel about 2-3 pages from the end where she's holding her helmet off to the side. I dug it.

RhA wrote:Lift-ticket. He's a wrecker and HE'S GOT A HOOK.

"Wrecker" is often associated with tow-trucks like this in Japan. In fact, the Diaclone is called "4WD Wrecker Type" and RiD 2001 Tow-Line is called "Wrecker Hook" in Car Robots. It's more in the sense carrying off wrecks rather than actually causing them.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

RhA wrote:Lift-ticket. He's a wrecker and HE'S GOT A HOOK.

"Wrecker" is often associated with tow-trucks like this in Japan. In fact, the Diaclone is called "4WD Wrecker Type" and RiD 2001 Tow-Line is called "Wrecker Hook" in Car Robots. It's more in the sense carrying off wrecks rather than actually causing them.

Funnily enough, "Wrecker Hook" is also the name of one of Tow-Line's main attacks in the RiD 2001 dub.

And the dub kinda went a little overboard with this attack name since he called it out just about every time he used his hook in his debut episode, when he only called it out once in the Car Robots version of the episode (during the fight at the episode's end).

Our second offering for the day, in terms of Seibertron.com exclusive photo galleries, is another haul from BotCon 2015, and another homage to the Diaclone line that preceded Transformers: General Optimus Prime and Sgt Hound!

The two figures sport some heavy military decos, with Generations Roadbuster now in camo green and Scoop in white and grey (plus a new head too), while still keeping the two Targetmaster minicons. Check them all in the image selection below, and click on any of them to access the full galleries for each!

BotCon Exclusives General Optimus Prime








BotCon Exclusives Sgt Hound

I think that these two are my most favourite of this year's exclusives.

I like them, but I think Zaptrap and Lift Ticket and Burnout are mine favs.

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Sergeant W.A.L.T. is an instant win for me. I enjoy the nods to fans. Especially when the fan is a friend.

Following yesterday's news from the Transformers Collectors' Club about their crossover G.I. Joe sets of Afterbreaker and Marissa Faireborn, and Old Snake with Stealth B.A.T. from earlier this year being available in their store, Seibertron.com is proud to present a browsing opportunity for those of you uncertain whether these are figures you want in your collection!

The galleries, accessed by clicking on any of the images, show the characters in a variety of poses and display options, including the retro-style packaging, and offer comparisons with previous G.I. Joe and Transformers themed crossovers. Take a look below!

Convention & Club Exclusives Old Snake










Convention & Club Exclusives Stealth Battle Android Troopers (B.A.T.s)








Convention & Club Exclusives Marissa Faireborn












Convention & Club Exclusives Afterbreaker

That group shot of all of the GI Joe vs Transformers toys from the past 3 or 4 years took quite a while to setup, plus required an extra trip to my warehouse to collect all of those figures. The shot turned out nice! Interesting seeing all of those toys together, even if fictionally it doesn't really make sense. Even Combiner Wars Viper made an appearance! I thought about tossing the horrid Titanium Megatron in there, but since he's Cobra related through the bio only (and because the toy is one of the worst Transformers toys ever), I decided to omit him.

I really wanted to do a shot with the G1 and/or Generations versions of Old Snake with Ultra Magnus, Rodimus Prime, Springer and Arcee (Generations version would have to do double duty), but decided it would be best to save that for when we get the full set of upcoming toys from "Only Human".

Great photos as always, and this gallery is just a ton of fun to go through, thanks for the effort!

Indeed, great galleries. Thanks for doing them. If I wasn't convinced to buy them before, this would do it.

Magnificent. At some stage I'm going have to pick those up.

Have tempted to throw a few Decepticon insignias on an old GI Joe Snowcat.

Wouldn't mind seeing a few more Joe repaints as Transformers like maybe an AWE Striker ad Sandstorm, Dune Runner or Beachcomber.

The other Seekers and Air Raid.

The Mauler could be used for Blitzwing or Quake

The Mocassin as G2 Leadfoot

Mercer could pass for Pretender Starscream out of armour.

Dye the hair blonde and you've got Landmine out of armour

Blaster could pass for Jazz in his shell

I just cant get into any of this stuff.

Windsweeper wrote:Magnificent. At some stage I'm going have to pick those up.

Have tempted to throw a few Decepticon insignias on an old GI Joe Snowcat.

Wouldn't mind seeing a few more Joe repaints as Transformers like maybe an AWE Striker ad Sandstorm, Dune Runner or Beachcomber.

The other Seekers and Air Raid.

The Mauler could be used for Blitzwing or Quake

The Mocassin as G2 Leadfoot

Mercer could pass for Pretender Starscream out of armour.

Dye the hair blonde and you've got Landmine out of armour

Blaster could pass for Jazz in his shell

Interesting ideas! Makes me think it'd be great to do the Masterforce Pretender humans ... Diver, Phoenix, Waver and Hawk. It's too bad there isn't a kid-sized GI Joe figure because then you could do all of the kids as well like Daniel, Rad, Alexis, Carlos, Minvera, Cancer, Go Shuta, and Cab as well as any others worthy of getting a Joe sized toy made into a Transformers character.

Seibertron wrote:Masterforce Pretender humans ... Diver, Phoenix, Waver and Hawk.

I'm throwing my money at the computer monitor but nothing is happening.

ScottyP wrote:

Seibertron wrote:Masterforce Pretender humans ... Diver, Phoenix, Waver and Hawk.

I'm throwing my money at the computer monitor but nothing is happening.

Try PayPal instead. I'd be more than happy to give you my PayPal ID.

Mkall wrote:

ScottyP wrote:

Seibertron wrote:Masterforce Pretender humans ... Diver, Phoenix, Waver and Hawk.

I'm throwing my money at the computer monitor but nothing is happening.

Try PayPal instead. I'd be more than happy to give you my PayPal ID.

If a G1 Metalhawk is a free gift with the $20 in coins I have laying around on the desk, then sure, PM me that email

Va'al wrote:... Scoop in white and grey (plus a new head too), while still keeping the two Targetmaster minicons. ...

Regarding Scoop/Hound-- That new head, is that newly sculpted for the club? or is this a case where they took an unused existing alternate head? Does anybody know for sure on that? I may have missed it, if it was said somewhere else.

NicholasPrime wrote:

Va'al wrote:... Scoop in white and grey (plus a new head too), while still keeping the two Targetmaster minicons. ...

Regarding Scoop/Hound-- That new head, is that newly sculpted for the club? or is this a case where they took an unused existing alternate head? Does anybody know for sure on that? I may have missed it, if it was said somewhere else.

Yeah it is, Scoop and Roadblock share the same head, despite what I thought.

So, Sgt. Hound is a brand new headsculpt.

NicholasPrime wrote:

Va'al wrote:... Scoop in white and grey (plus a new head too), while still keeping the two Targetmaster minicons. ...

Regarding Scoop/Hound-- That new head, is that newly sculpted for the club? or is this a case where they took an unused existing alternate head? Does anybody know for sure on that? I may have missed it, if it was said somewhere else.

The Club made the Sgt. Hound head.

Yup, the Sgt. Hound head was entirely a Fun Publications/BotCon production piece.

Our latest addition to the Seibertron.com toy galleries features the last ever official use of a mold that has served well through the years, as released by the Transformers Collectors' Club - behold the last plastic Seeker in all but name: Nacelle. The second figure of the the TFCC Subscription Service 3.0, Decepticon Nacelle sports an eager blue, white and red deco, purple insignias, a set of turbine powered wings and the trademark guns and missiles. Check out the full gallery by clicking on any of the images below!

Convention & Club Exclusives Nacelle

Wonderful colourscheme, however this is one Seeker who keeps moving around my collection because I'm still trying to figure out where he fits in and looks nice.

Va'al wrote:Our latest addition to the Seibertron.com toy galleries features the last ever official use of a mold that has served well through the years, as released by the Transformers Collectors' Club - behold the last plastic Seeker in all but name: Nacelle.

G2 Starscream still hasn't come out yet.

Still disappointed there is no Red Wing.


Hopefully they decide to make him in a couple years.

Sabrblade wrote:

Va'al wrote:Our latest addition to the Seibertron.com toy galleries features the last ever official use of a mold that has served well through the years, as released by the Transformers Collectors' Club - behold the last plastic Seeker in all but name: Nacelle.

G2 Starscream still hasn't come out yet.

Va'al wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Va'al wrote:Our latest addition to the Seibertron.com toy galleries features the last ever official use of a mold that has served well through the years, as released by the Transformers Collectors' Club - behold the last plastic Seeker in all but name: Nacelle.

G2 Starscream still hasn't come out yet.

I'm still waiting for G2 Starscream damn it.

SW's SilverHammer wrote:

Va'al wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Va'al wrote:Our latest addition to the Seibertron.com toy galleries features the last ever official use of a mold that has served well through the years, as released by the Transformers Collectors' Club - behold the last plastic Seeker in all but name: Nacelle.

G2 Starscream still hasn't come out yet.

I'm still waiting for G2 Starscream damn it.

I might possibly do the massive group shot I'm sure everyone would enjoy seeing with all 31 Seekers in G2 Starscream's gallery. We'll see if I can get to the 6 Asian Seekers in the next few weeks. Working on finishing up Hotlink, Bitstream, and Sunstorm's galleries tomorrow morning.

Really like seeing Nacelle together with Sunstorm, Bitstream, and Hotlink. All four MTMTE Part 1 "Welcoming Committee" Seekers together at last.