Transformers Club Exclusive Seacons Now Arriving!

Sweet. Can't wait for them to arrive even though I will have to pay 13% customs duties to get them!

Sweet. I pre-ordered a week and a half ago so i hope that i get them. To bad its a christmas present. but ive been waiting my hole life to get these guys so whats a few more months right?

Since they have the molds I wonder if Takara Tomy would release these set in their G1 colors in the Encore series. BTW, any word on the next Encore release? Metroplex was already released and I haven't read anything about more figures announced...

I'm still a little confused. I ordered and the Seacons and Nightbeat, are only the Seacons shipping right now? I've seen no mention of Nightbeat. Do those of us who ordered both have to wait until both are in before the order is shipped. I know that TFCC took a poll to see if fans would rather pay for seperate shipping to get one or the other faster or wait till both were in a just pay for shipping once.

Many users are now reporting that - after a four year long wait

I don't want them anymore.

piranacon!!!!!

i want!

I just got mine via FedEx today!!! The instructions leave something to be desired and there are no stickers??!!? And typical of TF toys, the instructions don't match the box art and some of the pictures on the box have the toys transformed incorrectly. A nice piece overall. Anyone else considering getting a set of stickers from reprolabels and putting on this club exclusive?

Ninja Boy wrote:I just got mine via FedEx today!!! The instructions leave something to be desired and there are no stickers??!!? And typical of TF toys, the instructions don't match the box art and some of the pictures on the box have the toys transformed incorrectly. A nice piece overall. Anyone else considering getting a set of stickers from reprolabels and putting on this club exclusive?

I definitely would, but I didn't buy and won't buy the set... only if they release it on the original colors (e.g. in the Encore line it would be cool).

I just got an email saying it was delivered. I have to wait till this weekend to go home and open it, along with my SDCC Nemisis Prime. I'm so excited!!

Got my set today, along with the Fed Ex e-mail that they were in shipment. Well worth the wait.

Has anyone seen Skowl lately?




Anyone?




Thought so...he must've gotten his set. Got mine today...no e-mail notice or anything, just showed up and tripped me as I was taking the dogs out.

I got them!

I was surprised by the box this morning after I got home from work. The Seacons are great worth every penny I spent (and it was a lot of penny's). Nightbeat is ok I guess, I wish he had a Bio card though.

Now if you guys will excuse me I'm gonna mess around with my shiny new Piranacon.

I just received my set of Seacons and Nightbeat. Guess I know what I'm doing tomorrow night for all of you.

Think we can convince reprolables to make a sticker set for this color scheme? I was thinking same patterns but orange instead of the blue and the maroon/purple instead of the pink. Any other suggestions?

Got mine today! Nightbeat looks ok, but awesome packaging. The seacons look crazy good. Actually, better irl than online I think. Good stuff!!!

Bonger wrote:Got mine today! Nightbeat looks ok, but awesome packaging. The seacons look crazy good. Actually, better irl than online I think. Good stuff!!!

I was confused by the comic, mind you I didn't read it all, but why does Nightbeat have his antennaes until the last two pages? I can't believe they made this toy without the antennaes. I was hoping beyond hope that the final product would have the antennae but that didn't happen ... just further teased with the comic where he has the antennaes.

Seibertron wrote:

Bonger wrote:Got mine today! Nightbeat looks ok, but awesome packaging. The seacons look crazy good. Actually, better irl than online I think. Good stuff!!!

I was confused by the comic, mind you I didn't read it all, but why does Nightbeat have his antennaes until the last two pages? I can't believe they made this toy without the antennaes. I was hoping beyond hope that the final product would have the antennae but that didn't happen ... just further teased with the comic where he has the antennaes.

Heh, they probably meant to have antennas and figured it would cost too muc. I'm guessing they then told the illustrators to remove the antenna, so they drew no antenna, but forgot to go back and correct their previous work? Maybe?

Is it wrong to like the box more than the figure?

The "ears" were planned for the toy.

When test samples arrived at the factory, the test run did not transform because the "ears" got in the way. The factory removed them from the mold without FP's permission as their directive was to have these things ready for BotCon,..you know several months ago.

Failures in time-travel aside...FP decided to let it go and proceed with production. The comic is an attempt to justify the lack of "ears" from what I understand.

i dunno about them new seacons. i just can't get into the colors.
g1>universe

wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.. no antannae on nightbeat??
WTF?

decepticonjon wrote:i dunno about them new seacons. i just can't get into the colors.
g1>universe

Actually, I really like the new pauint scheme. It is a lot more detailed than the original. Overbite looks crazy good with his scales highlighted.

I put hIm on my G2 Combiners shelf. He fits in rather well with the rest of G2. Now I just need to commission a G2 Menasor.

decepticonjon wrote:i dunno about them new seacons. i just can't get into the colors.
g1>universe

They definately get my stamp of approval.

These figures are just one of those, 'you have to see them...' kind of purchases, which is of course difficult considering the price. Lack of true articulation on the small guys aside, they could easily be Classics Seacons.

The other thing that I'd like to add in passing is that this isn't a "Halloween" deco as some people (not you) are trying to pass it off as. The figure when combined reminds me of a giant coral reef. The orange, yellow, and various blues work really well. It's actually a clever deco.

My seacon and Nightbeat arrived. At first glance I was very impressed with the packaging. I expected the boxes to be thin like depatment store clothing boxes. but these are thick durable and very pretty boxes.

As for nightbeat. Just a repaint IMO. yeah its a different head but if I worked on the remold of this figure it WOULD have his Antenna and I would have eliminated the whole Powerlinx gimmick and had his head permenantly attacted to the body. with the rest of the powerlinx crap eliminated i would have gave him proper shoulders too. I actually bought 2 and am seriously thinking about modding the second one.

I haven't really had a chance to dig into the Seacons yet but i will be in about 1 hour. but the paints are not bothering me at all.

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BBTS updated their site showing that they will receive the Seacons Oct. 15. TODAY!


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Seibertron wrote:

Bonger wrote:Got mine today! Nightbeat looks ok, but awesome packaging. The seacons look crazy good. Actually, better irl than online I think. Good stuff!!!

I was confused by the comic, mind you I didn't read it all, but why does Nightbeat have his antennaes until the last two pages? I can't believe they made this toy without the antennaes. I was hoping beyond hope that the final product would have the antennae but that didn't happen ... just further teased with the comic where he has the antennaes.

He was planned to have antennas. If you read the comic his head gets damaged in the last two pages and a new one is provided to him to explain the lack of them on the toy.

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YAY! They are Processing.....

Finally get to ship my LOOT.... BT-22, City Commander, Quint-01, Henkei Thundercracker & Skywarp, & Seacons will be on their way very soon


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I got my Seacons a few days ago and am really impressed with them. They look awsome and I can definitely say that I missed out back in 87' or 88' when they originally came out.

I think the targetmaster concept for all of the limbs are cool but I wonder about some mold degradation though. On 4 out of 5 limbs their weapons won't stay attached in their gun modes. That being the case I don't have any of them in their gun mode on the stand.

And certain limbs don't help their combined form stand up very well either. After fiddling with it for about an hour and a half I finally figured out the best set up for Pirhanacon to stand up straight and still look good. Nautilator & Tentakill are the legs and Overbite & Skalor are the arms. Seawing is the odd man out. Seawing just doesn't work very well as a leg and Overbite & Skalor work a bit more symmetrically as the gesalt arms.

These critisisms (damn, is that how you spell it?) aside I have no regrets about getting it and find it worth every penny! So Skowl, did you wet yourself upon opening your set?

Ultra Prime wrote:I got my Seacons a few days ago and am really impressed with them. They look awsome and I can definitely say that I missed out back in 87' or 88' when they originally came out.

I think the targetmaster concept for all of the limbs are cool but I wonder about some mold degradation though. On 4 out of 5 limbs their weapons won't stay attached in their gun modes. That being the case I don't have any of them in their gun mode on the stand.

And certain limbs don't help their combined form stand up very well either. After fiddling with it for about an hour and a half I finally figured out the best set up for Pirhanacon to stand up straight and still look good. Nautilator & Tentakill are the legs and Overbite & Skalor are the arms. Seawing is the odd man out. Seawing just doesn't work very well as a leg and Overbite & Skalor work a bit more symmetrically as the gesalt arms.

These critisisms (damn, is that how you spell it?) aside I have no regrets about getting it and find it worth every penny! So Skowl, did you wet yourself upon opening your set?

I am very pleased. i see some QC issues here and there but aside from that Im digging them. I think my biggest complaint is Overbites fish arms just falling out. They have no hold at all.

After fiddling with them in differet positions i felt they were cooler to display as individual bots. Each one has so much personality and the colors have totally grown on me.

I ran into the problem of Skalor's or Overbite's (can't remember which) arms falling out too. I had to go with the combined form due to space limitations though otherwise I would've gladly displayed them individually.

No problems with mine. I went with the combined form as well since I have way too many TFs and cant devote half a shelf to 6 bots.

God these look great though. Luckily mine have no QC issues, or atleast none that I have noticed.

Am I the only person out there (I'm not) who's Nautilator can not form a left arm for Piranacon?

It seems the fist is warped juuuust enough.

For starters, I love my Seacons, and I totally agree that if you see them in person they are wildly more impressive than any picture of them we had/have seen online. Nightbeat, is very, very lame. No anntanae doesn't bother me, the Powerlinx port doesn't bother me, it's just a dull figure.
As for mold wear and looseness on Seacons, I haven't had any trouble, but I havn't combined them as of yet. By looking at some of them however, I can see where there might be problem spots....the hole on Overbites' underside where the gun attaches for weapon mode, Tentakills' hip seems kind of weak. Could this really be degredation of molds for figures that have been released three times? God knows that stupid Energon Arcee mold has been used a million times and most of those seem to be just fine.