BotCon 2014 Coverage: Club Store gallery

Botcon toys are starting to show up on ebay, and some of them have pictures...

And I'm only mentioning this because the guy that people seem to think is based on Energon Six Shot looks to me like he's actually a homage to Cybertron Brimstone.

Looks like the Decepticon Clones are Jet Vehicons. Nice to see them released stateside... though I'd rather just have some generic Jet Vehicons, these will do.

Nemesis Primal wrote:

megatronus wrote:Looks like the Decepticon Clones are Jet Vehicons. Nice to see them released stateside... though I'd rather just have some generic Jet Vehicons, these will do.

Actually, it looks like one jet and one car.

It also looks like they have arms microns, and the car has the version of the gun from the RiD Vehicon release in addition to his arms micron.

Yea - you're right, one Jet one car. I guess Pounce and Wingspan wouldn't make sense if both had wings...

Does anyone have a schedule? I'd like to know about when I can expect news on what.

Anyone know if they have Depth Charge, Rampage, and Transmutate at the Club store? I might try and find someone to middleman them for me if they're cheap enough.

Well, I caved. I totally bought a bunch of Botcon exclusives off of ebay just now. Oddly enough, the ones I wanted/purchased were all the figures not included in the boxed set. I didn't go for Scorponok, Ginrai or any of the others. I snagged Flamewar, the three 'Knights', the two 'Pirates' and the two Clones. I'm also gonna snag a Primal Prime once one comes up that's already been painted (and painted well at that). If a few days or so go by without any painted/customized Primal Primes showing up, then I'll just snag one of the unpainted ones and attempt it myself. I just wish it included the paints so I wouldn't have to worry about color matching.

It's funny that this year, just as with last year's set (the Rainmakers (Welcoming Committee), the show-exclusives were the only ones to interest me and the ones in the boxed set were a flop or at least not worth paying the prices. I mean I get that Scorponok and Devcon in particular have been requested like crazy and were definitely excellent choices for exclusives, especially with the custom Headmaster head for Scorponok and all, but I just wasn't convinced that I needed to have them in my collection. That said, all these 3H Beast Wars characters were absolute must haves for me. I've got all of their original versions already, but most of these are really awesome, and in the case of Alpha Trion it's the closest I'll ever come (short of a custom) to the 3H Botcon repaint that could've been but never was save for a single sample:


edit: I just realized that even Devcon was planned that final year before 3H went under:


So given that, plus Apelinq, Primal Prime and Shokoract (and any others who might have appeared in/been featured in the 3H Wreckers/Botcon fiction) it seems that in addition to being the 30th anniversary celebration for Transformers, it's also sort of a homage to the 3H days sort of giving them their dues for being the previous guys running Botcon I guess.

For the curious, there's a whole article about these never released 3H exclusives with pictures and info here on TFormers. They also have pics of the display cases from this year's Botcon showing off all of this year's exclusives, including the show-exclusives but I won't post those since I expect Seibertron has their own that they intend to post for the news feed.

mooncake623 wrote:

xyl360 wrote:Well, I caved. I totally bought a bunch of Botcon exclusives off of ebay just now.

A little early no? I feel like prices is at it's highest now, before everyone else gets a chance at it to flip

Actually it wasn't too bad. The price I got for getting all of them together was considerably lower than trying to buy each set individually so I don't figure the prices will drop by that much, particularly for some of these that you know people are gonna be snatching up like crazy (such as the Clones).

BotCon 2014 is well underway and with each new day, we bring you the best content. Today is no different, and we have another Seibertron.com gallery to share with you. This time, we have the BotCon 2014 Pirates Vs. Knights attendee Souvenir gallery!

Featuring Pirates Clone Pounce, Clone Wingspan, "The Hunter", and Brimstone and Knights Ape-Linq, Flareup, and Alpha Trizer. (You might be wondering "What about the Kreos?" Those will be online this weekend.)

Pounce is a redeco of the PRID Vehicon mold
Wingspan is a redeco of the Arms Micron Jet Vehicon mold
"The Hunter" is a redeco/remold of the PRID Megatron mold
Brimstone is a redeco of the FOC Air Raid mold
Ape-Linq is a redeco of the of the Beast Wars 10th Anniversary/Cybertron Optimus Prime/Primal mold
Flareup is a redeco of the PRID Arcee mold
and finally, Alpha Trizer, which is a redeco of the PRID Thundertron mold.
You can click on the names above to see the galleries of the origin figures.

You've seen this year's exclusive boxset tech specs, which you can see again here, and now it's time to see the attendee figures and their techspecs as well!

Coming to you right from Pasadena, CA, Seibertron.com is proud to present Pirates Vs. Knights Attendee Souvenir gallery!

Click on any of the images below to be taken to the full gallery:













Keep your optics tuned to Seibertron.com for the latest in news and updates, plus the best galleries around!

Yeah, I definitely don't regret my purchases. These are definitely the figures to have. That seems to be a recurring theme for the past couple years or so. The attendee-only figures beat out the boxed set figures. Those Vehicons in particular look amazing as the Decepticon Clones. That choice was a stroke of genius on the Club's part and it allowed them to finally give us the Jet Vehicon mold. Very cool.