New Images of 2010 Botcon Gnaw

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 12:09pm CDT

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While this year's Botcon theme happens to be 'Generation Two', Fun Publications isn't shying away from including characters from other eras. The box set includes Sky-Byte, a Robots In Disguise character and remold of Energon Sharkticon. They've taken the same figure and repainted into a Generation One character, or should we say army, as the colors fit both Gnaw and the Sharkticons. Gnaw will likely be an souvenir set figure, whether he will be three-packed like the Botcon Sweeps is a question to be answered for another time. More pictures of Gnaw have been acquired by TFW2005 member Locustreign. Feel free to check some of them out below....

....while the rest can be seen here.

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Re: New Images of 2010 Botcon Gnaw (1078494)
Posted by Nekoman on May 25th, 2010 @ 12:13pm CDT

I think this looks kind of so-so, just doesn't excite me much. I wish we'd get a new Classics/Generations mold.

Re: New Images of 2010 Botcon Gnaw (1078495)
Posted by Razorclaw0000 on May 25th, 2010 @ 12:16pm CDT

Made of epic win. I love these guys so much. The Sharkticon mold is one of the unsung molds of Energon.

Re: New Images of 2010 Botcon Gnaw (1078499)
Posted by Rated X on May 25th, 2010 @ 12:32pm CDT

Looks so much better than Sky-Byte without the stupid mouth...

Re: New Images of 2010 Botcon Gnaw (1078501)
Posted by kirbenvost on May 25th, 2010 @ 12:34pm CDT

I'll be looking to buy one of these guys, but I'm not attending Botcon. If anyone's attending and will be looking to unload a Gnaw figure, shoot me a PM! Even willing to put down a bit of a deposit for a trusted (well-established) member.

Re: New Images of 2010 Botcon Gnaw (1078502)
Posted by Tigertrack on May 25th, 2010 @ 12:35pm CDT

It's a good repaint. I don't like the green though.

Re: New Images of 2010 Botcon Gnaw (1078503)
Posted by DevastaTTor on May 25th, 2010 @ 12:36pm CDT

While I just never liked this mold much, I do like the G1 inspired color scheme.

Re: New Images of 2010 Botcon Gnaw (1078511)
Posted by Chaoslock on May 25th, 2010 @ 1:05pm CDT

The mold: WIN

Making a homage from it to an unrelated figure due to similarities in name: FAIL

It's like making a homage to Dinobot from a construction machine due to RID Grimlock being one... Err, wait, that happened too

Re: New Images of 2010 Botcon Gnaw (1078535)
Posted by kirbenvost on May 25th, 2010 @ 2:04pm CDT

Chaoslock wrote:The mold: WIN

Making a homage from it to an unrelated figure due to similarities in name: FAIL

It's like making a homage to Dinobot from a construction machine due to RID Grimlock being one... Err, wait, that happened too

Well, the alt mode does look like a shark...and the original Sharkticons were sorta...vaguely shark-looking. Very vaguely.

Re: New Images of 2010 Botcon Gnaw (1078541)
Posted by Julie85 on May 25th, 2010 @ 2:24pm CDT

He's okay, I guess. I thought we get the five figure set and one attendee bonus figure, but it sounds like there might be more? I hope this isn't the attendee bonus. First of all, it's the same mold as Sky-Byte and it'd be better to have more unique exclusives, and secondly it should be an Autobot since the box set contains two Autobots and three Decepticons.

Re: New Images of 2010 Botcon Gnaw (1078542)
Posted by Chaoslock on May 25th, 2010 @ 2:29pm CDT

Julie85 wrote:He's okay, I guess. I thought we get the five figure set and one attendee bonus figure, but it sounds like there might be more? I hope this isn't the attendee bonus. First of all, it's the same mold as Sky-Byte and it'd be better to have more unique exclusives, and secondly it should be an Autobot since the box set contains two Autobots and three Decepticons.

The box contains two autobots, two decepticons, and one predacon - as I heard, there are army builder, costumizing class and a few other exclusive figures every year too.

Re: New Images of 2010 Botcon Gnaw (1078565)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on May 25th, 2010 @ 3:29pm CDT

Julie85 wrote:He's okay, I guess. I thought we get the five figure set and one attendee bonus figure, but it sounds like there might be more? I hope this isn't the attendee bonus. First of all, it's the same mold as Sky-Byte and it'd be better to have more unique exclusives, and secondly it should be an Autobot since the box set contains two Autobots and three Decepticons.

It's unlucky wording in the news post. Gnaw/Sharkticons are probably part of the Souvenir Sets. Here's what each convention has, toy-wise:

1 Boxset, 5 figures
1 Attendee-only bonus figure
2 to 3 Souvenir Sets.
1 Customization Class figure.

Re: New Images of 2010 Botcon Gnaw (1078566)
Posted by Blurrz on May 25th, 2010 @ 3:32pm CDT

Aye, that's what's it called. Thanks Jelze.

Re: New Images of 2010 Botcon Gnaw (1078589)
Posted by Julie85 on May 25th, 2010 @ 4:30pm CDT

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
It's unlucky wording in the news post. Gnaw/Sharkticons are probably part of the Souvenir Sets. Here's what each convention has, toy-wise:

1 Boxset, 5 figures
1 Attendee-only bonus figure
2 to 3 Souvenir Sets.
1 Customization Class figure.

Do the souvenir sets come with the Primus Package or do they cost extra money?

Re: New Images of 2010 Botcon Gnaw (1078592)
Posted by Jenus on May 25th, 2010 @ 4:48pm CDT

I really like the G1 homage on this guy I hope he comes in a set of three, if so I'll be on ebay after the first day of Botcon or at least I hope to be.

Re: New Images of 2010 Botcon Gnaw (1078601)
Posted by HighPrime on May 25th, 2010 @ 5:17pm CDT

Julie85 wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
It's unlucky wording in the news post. Gnaw/Sharkticons are probably part of the Souvenir Sets. Here's what each convention has, toy-wise:

1 Boxset, 5 figures
1 Attendee-only bonus figure
2 to 3 Souvenir Sets.
1 Customization Class figure.

Do the souvenir sets come with the Primus Package or do they cost extra money?

They are sold separately. Sometimes, there's some left over (sometimes...) and they are put up in the TFCC store. Otherwise, they often get expensive quickly not too long after the show. (The sweeps sell for 5x-6x what they went at Botcon last year.)

Usually 2 or 3 souvenir sets, with 2 figures per set. Last years, was Elita-1/Razorclaw, Sweeps (set of 3), and Banzaitron/Skyquake.

I expect they'll be 2 or 3 sharkticons in the troop builder set (hoping there's 3, though!)

Re: New Images of 2010 Botcon Gnaw (1078721)
Posted by goshjosh95 on May 26th, 2010 @ 1:55am CDT

Razorclaw0000 wrote:Made of epic win. I love these guys so much. The Sharkticon mold is one of the unsung molds of Energon.

I'm with Razorclaw on this... love the Energon Sharkticon mold, and love that they're using it for Gnaw & the G1 Sharkticons.

Anyone going to Botcon wanna trade one of these for a Sweep from last year's set? Shoot me a PM!