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New Galleries: BotCon 2015 Waruder Marauders Drones and Pilots

Posted by Va'al Jun 28, 2015 at 4:33pm CDT 37,383 views
In other Sunday news, we have some more BotCon exclusives to share with and beyond the Seibertron.com community - feast your optics on the swarm of the Waruder Marauders Drones and their pilots! The Diaclone inspired figures of Mudfighter, Storm Rider, Parasite and Paralyzer are all redecos of the Transformers Generations deluxe Waspinator, and come with their own Legends class Targetmaster Waspinator redeco too - click on any of the images below to view the full galleries, as usual, and get the buzz going in the Energon Pub.

BotCon Exclusives Waruder Mudfighter Drone

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Transformers News: New Galleries: BotCon 2015 Waruder Marauders Drones and Pilots

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BotCon Exclusives Waruder Thrasher Pilot

Transformers News: New Galleries: BotCon 2015 Waruder Marauders Drones and Pilots

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BotCon Exclusives Waruder Storm Rider Drone

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Transformers News: New Galleries: BotCon 2015 Waruder Marauders Drones and Pilots

Transformers News: New Galleries: BotCon 2015 Waruder Marauders Drones and Pilots


BotCon Exclusives Waruder Crusher Pilot

Transformers News: New Galleries: BotCon 2015 Waruder Marauders Drones and Pilots

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BotCon Exclusives Waruder Parasite Drone

Transformers News: New Galleries: BotCon 2015 Waruder Marauders Drones and Pilots

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BotCon Exclusives Waruder Ripper Pilot

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BotCon Exclusives Waruder Paralyzer Drone

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Re: New Galleries: BotCon 2015 Waruder Marauders Drones and Pilots (view post)
Comment by Hellscream9999 Jun 28, 2015
Curse this set and it's over-priced-ness :-x
Re: New Galleries: BotCon 2015 Waruder Marauders Drones and Pilots (view post)
Comment by Mkall Jun 28, 2015
I never have had a strong desire to Troop-Build the Waspinator mold...

...until Botcon 2015
Re: New Galleries: BotCon 2015 Waruder Marauders Drones and Pilots (view post)
Comment by Hellscream9999 Jun 28, 2015
Mkall wrote:I never have had a strong desire to Troop-Build the Waspinator mold...

...until Botcon 2015

They just all look so nice :-x
Re: New Galleries: BotCon 2015 Waruder Marauders Drones and Pilots (view post)
Comment by Sabrblade Jun 28, 2015
Fantastic toys, aren't they? 8)

Ryan, if you own or ever plan to get the original Diaclone figures that these pilots and the Storm Rider drone are based on, and want to later update the galleries with comparison pics, here's a chart with all of them plus the others that all the Diaclone homage toys from this year were based on:

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Source: https://twitter.com/p2099/status/611777982454087680
Re: New Galleries: BotCon 2015 Waruder Marauders Drones and Pilots (view post)
Comment by shajaki Jun 28, 2015
Hellscream9999 wrote:Curse this set and it's over-priced-ness :-x
I know... :BOOM:

At first all I wanted (well, needed) was the yellow/green SG Waspinator. But the preview of this gallery and the full one convinced me how much love they put into these Wasps. I want them all. But DAMN that price :-(
Re: New Galleries: BotCon 2015 Waruder Marauders Drones and Pilots (view post)
Comment by Hellscream9999 Jun 28, 2015
shajaki wrote:
Hellscream9999 wrote:Curse this set and it's over-priced-ness :-x
I know... :BOOM:

At first all I wanted (well, needed) was the yellow/green SG Waspinator. But the preview of this gallery and the full one convinced me how much love they put into these Wasps. I want them all. But DAMN that price :-(

Yeah, I would say for 8 figures, it's worth it, but unless they swapped the stupid-cheap rubber for something that doesn't make me want to burn the mini-waspies, I will be saving my money for CW wave 3 (whenever HTS gets them instock :-x )
Re: New Galleries: BotCon 2015 Waruder Marauders Drones and Pilots (view post)
Comment by D-Maximal_Primal Jun 28, 2015
THAT is a terrifying swarm of angry rainbow Waspinators! :BOT:
Re: New Galleries: BotCon 2015 Waruder Marauders Drones and Pilots (view post)
Comment by megatronus Jun 28, 2015
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:THAT is a terrifying swarm of angry rainbow Waspinators! :BOT:

Pride!
Re: New Galleries: BotCon 2015 Waruder Marauders Drones and Pilots (view post)
Comment by SW's SilverHammer Jun 28, 2015
megatronus wrote:
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:THAT is a terrifying swarm of angry rainbow Waspinators! :BOT:

Pride!

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Re: New Galleries: BotCon 2015 Waruder Marauders Drones and Pilots (view post)
Comment by Seibertron Jun 28, 2015
Sabrblade wrote:Fantastic toys, aren't they? 8)

Ryan, if you own or ever plan to get the original Diaclone figures that these pilots and the Storm Rider drone are based on, and want to later update the galleries with comparison pics, here's a chart with all of them plus the others that all the Diaclone homage toys from this year were based on:

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Source: https://twitter.com/p2099/status/611777982454087680


I don't have much interest in chasing down Diaclones for the sake of doing comparisons for these guys. If I found some for a steal, maybe, but I'd really rather finish my Takara G1 collection first.

What I am interested in knowing is where I can find out if the Reflector pilot is actually called Spy-Eye (as in the Go-Bot, which I read elsewhere on our forums) and if the Diaclone pilot which it homages is a good guy or a Waruder and who the original pilot it homages is.
Re: New Galleries: BotCon 2015 Waruder Marauders Drones and Pilots (view post)
Comment by Sabrblade Jun 28, 2015
Seibertron wrote:What I am interested in knowing is where I can find out if the Reflector pilot is actually called Spy-Eye (as in the Go-Bot, which I read elsewhere on our forums) and if the Diaclone pilot which it homages is a good guy or a Waruder and who the original pilot it homages is.
On the first page that Burn Out and Lift-Ticket appear in the comic, Lift-Ticket is holding the red Reflector in camera mode and refers to it as "Spy-Eye". I'd give the page number, but the comic lacks page numbers and I wouldn't know which page to consider "Page 1" (the cover, the inside cover, or the next page with the story's beginning).

Lift-Ticket's line of dialogue reads "Hrm, the signals that are being detected by Spy-Eye... without a doubt."

Sadly, the little guy doesn't seem to appear on any other page in the comic.

As for whether the name is a reference to the GoBot, or what the nature of the Diaclone toy it homages is, I know not, but can keep looking into it.
Re: New Galleries: BotCon 2015 Waruder Marauders Drones and Pilots (view post)
Comment by Sabrblade Jun 28, 2015
Well, looks like finding out what Diaclone toy Spy-Eye is based on was easier than I thought. It's the Powered Suit, a biosuit that the little (good guy) Diaclone pilot figures could be put into and wear.

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Re: New Galleries: BotCon 2015 Waruder Marauders Drones and Pilots (view post)
Comment by grimdragon2001 Jun 29, 2015
anybody else catch how the pilots are named after the Dreadnoks? kinda noticed as i was looking at the gallery titles
Re: New Galleries: BotCon 2015 Waruder Marauders Drones and Pilots (view post)
Comment by megatronus Jun 29, 2015
It always tickles me to see just how deeply Transformers were influenced by mecha.
Re: New Galleries: BotCon 2015 Waruder Marauders Drones and Pilots (view post)
Comment by Rated X Jun 29, 2015
Is the price really that bad ? Its 4 figures. Split the price in 4 and they come out to $42.50 each plus shipping. Pretty good for an exclusive compared to millions publishing or Tokyo toy fair exclusives prices.
Re: New Galleries: BotCon 2015 Waruder Marauders Drones and Pilots (view post)
Comment by Hellscream9999 Jun 29, 2015
I mean, you can say 4x the price of a deluxe, for a deluxe and a rubber piece of crap is a good deal - as compared to more outlandish figures' prices; but to everyone on even the most lax budget, it's a rather horrendous price >:oP
Re: New Galleries: BotCon 2015 Waruder Marauders Drones and Pilots (view post)
Comment by megatronus Jun 29, 2015
Hellscream9999 wrote:I mean, you can say 4x the price of a deluxe, for a deluxe and a rubber piece of crap is a good deal - as compared to more outlandish figures' prices; but to everyone on even the most lax budget, it's a rather horrendous price >:oP

So don't buy it. These are limited exclusives, and are priced accordingly. I sympathize with those who are priced out of instant gratification, but I don't see the point in constantly bellyaching about it.

These will most likely lower in price/value as time goes on. Patience.
Re: New Galleries: BotCon 2015 Waruder Marauders Drones and Pilots (view post)
Comment by Va'al Jun 30, 2015
We continue here at Seibertron.com to bring you galleries from the 2015 edition of BotCon, as we delve into the smaller world of Kre-O - and the Earth's Most Wanted set from the event! Acting as a counterpart to the Cybertron Most Wanted full figure boxset, this souvenir set includes Kreons for Nightbird, Autobot Spike, Dr Arkeville, Robot Master, Sentinel Prime and Headmaster, gathered from different fictions and continuities of the Transformers franchise. Check out some previews below, and click on any of the images for the full galleries!


BotCon Exclusives Nightbird

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BotCon Exclusives Autobot Spike

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BotCon Exclusives Dr. Arkeville

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BotCon Exclusives Robot Master

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BotCon Exclusives Sentinel Prime

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BotCon Exclusives Headmaster

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Re: New Galleries: BotCon 2015 Waruder Marauders Drones and Pilots (view post)
Comment by SW's SilverHammer Jun 30, 2015
Man, the paint/tampo work on these kreons is just terrible.
Re: New Galleries: BotCon 2015 Waruder Marauders Drones and Pilots (view post)
Comment by zwann Jun 30, 2015
SW's SilverHammer wrote:Man, the paint/tampo work on these kreons is just terrible.


Agreed on that. That's just the major turnoff for me with the Kreons. Their paint apps tampograph are just so poorly done and aligned. This here, looks like somebody designed them with a frickin Sharpie pen.

Hasbro should really QC these Kreon. The best tampo I ever had with Kreons was Jarugar from series 8 i think. That was superb. Colors are nice, well aligned and sharp. That proves they could do it.
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