New Galleries: BotCon 2015 Burn Out and Lift-Ticket with Diaclone Pilots

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

hoist and trailbreaker fan he must be

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

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.

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

Very interesting and cool point

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.

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

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

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".