Botcon 2005 Exclusives Ironhide and Ratchet galleries now online.

These are two repaints I'm sad I never got, I know I can find them online, but at the average $100, well I'm not that rich yet.

So thanks, I'll just live vicariously through these galleries!

83457W422102 wrote:Screw the Movie toys, if they released these to the general market instead, I'd buy them in a heartbeat.

These SHOULD of been released to the General Public

I mean I do not understand Hasbros thinking on this

What can we do about getting a petition going for this?

Something I would like to see Hasbro do for a hopeful regular release would be to refine the front windshield, instead of it being seperated into two. That and remold the heads a little bit to make their "helmets" look more distinct (give Ironhide his "mohawk" and Ratchet the V-shape on their heads).

From what i've read so far that head is a remold from Tow-line to fit Ironhide better.

We should get these as regular figure besides it would be easier on Hasbro so they don't need to make new molds

Here here!! *agrees with the general sentiment*

Yeah, why did you choose to use black?

I would buy them also.

Calenatarion wrote:Yeah, why did you choose to use black?

Honestly? It all came out of little ol' Classics Legends Jetfire and Titanium Starscream. No matter what setting I used on my camera, I couldn't get a decent picture of Jetfire. There's something weird about the type of plastic used on that little guy that he was hard to photograph. Titanium Starscream happens to just be that weird shade of whitish gray that he was bleeding into the background as well. I figured since I've been wanting to do Masterpiece Ultra Magnus and Botcon Ratchet and had Masterforce Minverva enroute from Asia (who should arrive tomorrow or Thursday) that now would be a good time to temporarily switch to the black backgrounds to do all of these white figures. When I did the photos of Polar Claw, there was a setting on my camera that I wasn't using which made the black backgrounds look pretty terrible. I've figured out that setting and generally white figures are OK now but the same setting applied to the black background makes it look pretty awesome as well. After I finish the galleries of Minerva and Masterpiece Magnus, I'll switch back to using a white background. It's kind of a pain in the ass to swap backgrounds so I'll just do a run of figures with the black in the meantime.

I still say Hasbro was stupid for doing this

They could of made alot more money if they had put them out in the mainstream

Alot of us would love to have these two