TFcon 3rd party panel - Computron! Roadbuster!

[kup]

http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/conventions-15/tfw2005-tfcon-3rd-party-panel-coverage-178111/

EchoTF
- will be making Fall of Cybertron Bruticus Kits

Unnamed Company
- making Voyager size Skyfire

Mayhem Mechanix
- "Robo Dominion Saga Unrustable Bastards" Non-TF based with a rider.
- Bike turns into robot and rider in chest piece.
- Fiction has robot cycle gangs roving wastelands.
- Mayhem Mechanics, one of the of the mastermind Creations designers. Same who designed Hexatron and most of Feral Rex.
- Will be a kickstarter project.

Ori Toy
- Acid Rain toys. Stronghold out now. More soon. Converting mechs that fit 3-3/4" figures

Fanstoys
- Nothing new shown.

Keith's Fantasy Club.
- VOLTRON redeco of Ironpaw
- doing Raindance, Grandslam, Overkill and Slugfest.
- Overkill and Slugfest will have Dinobots color redecoes
- Showing Perceptor and Magnificus
- Doing a Skybyte called "Haiku"! and doing a Captain Shark deco as well!

X-Transbots
- Huffer and Pipes being shown
- Huffer comes up to MP-10 Optimus' waist

Renderform
- Nothing new to show

BTS
- Doing a Blaster that turns into a walkie talkie
- Senator Ratbat head design also shown for that same mold
- Triple changing Energon cubes - cube, bug, weapon
- Some will be on display here
- will be "Low Cost"
- Nova Lord box art shown, has a base mode
- Prototypes of Nova Lord's head sculpts will be on display. Possibly also his powermaster partners
- BTS was working on a Fortress Maximus, project cancelled when Encore was announced

Mastermind Creations
- Peaugh has full color test shots of Fortis and Bovis here (Jarodimus has handled them, they're outstanding)
- Will be on display
- Peaugh did a live 5-foot drop test of Bovis. Zero Damage.
- Talon pushed back to November for design changes and new features. He is a sniper -- has 2 helmets, rifle, wings act as cloak
- 6th Feral Rex bot is saber tooth tiger remold of Tigris, deco like Catilla, name is Felisaber (G1 Colors) Mostly yellow, some red
- Showing femme bots
- MMC doing a very G1-ish Perceptor. Will have toy and cartoon face. 3 modes, super articulated
- Prototype looks very good

Headrobots
- Iguana is next - finally!
- Doing an Apeface head

Perfect Effect
- IDW Fort Max - seen at Botcon

Maketoys
- Doing Scourge version of Battle Tanker -- no suprise. New head
- IDW Swerve WITH A TRAY OF DRINKS
- COMPUTRON all five shown in bot mode
- concept shown for combined mode

FANSPROJECT
- No news on release date for Steelcore trailer -- still happening
- Showing combined Intimidator (Menasor)
- Roadbuster! Very nice, a half track
- 4th and 5th Glacial bots being shown
- Wooly Rhino and deer
- Announced a Quickswitch/Sixknight


Links to slide show and pics here:

http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/conventions-15/tfcon-2013-3rd-party-panel-slides-and-showroom-floor-pics-178113/

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[Blink90210]

wow...where to start, so much awesome stuff in the works!

[Blink90210]

Thanks for putting the pics up here as well, I've just gone through them again and there's a lot to get excited for. I'm very keen to get my hands on the not-Technobots in particular

[gamblor916]

Wow there's some nice stuff there along with quite a bit of garbage. Out of that lot the MMC fembots and the FP not-stunticons are must buys.

[kup]

Wow there's some nice stuff there along with quite a bit of garbage. Out of that lot the MMC fembots and the FP not-stunticons are must buys.

Yeah not impressed with the BTS stuff.

Edit: I had forgotten to add this:

http://kupscigar.com/tfcon2013/44x.jpg

[Sky Shadow]

I love Glacialord. Shattered Glass Steeljaw and Nova Prime are good ideas, because they're toys that don't currently exist.

[Trent]

That BTS Fort Max would have been interesting. But yeah. Catilla looks good in the render. MAy end up having to pick him up after all. Finally a look at Computron. Keen for this guy:cool:

As Gamblor said. A lot of great stuff, and a lot of rubbish. Unrustable Bastards looks cool I like the sleek look of the bike. While I wouldn't collect that Acid Rain stuff, it looks cool. And the Glacialbots couldn't interest me less.

But thanks for that Kup.:)

[kup]

Fort Max is PE not BTS.

[Trent]

Fort Max is PE not BTS.

BTS were in the process of making one but cancelled it when the Encore FM was announced.

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-3rd-party-discussion/948558-bts-cerebro-fortmax-cancelled-project.html

[rocman12]

Computron looks interesting, hopefully he is G1 accurate! I'm trying to ignore the other stuff cause ill go broke! Though, not all of it great!

[Hursticon]

Bloody good job on mirroring the slides & pics Kup :cool:, there has been an absolute bevvy of upcoming yummies come out of TFcon eh? :D - Except what some would've preferably liked to of seen/heard... Some Firm Release Dates! :rolleyes::p
The only real interesting info I've heard via the international grape-vine is that MakeToys: Not-Strafe & Not-Lightspeed are due for release in November. :)


Allow me to impart some photos from various Podcasters & Reviewers who were in attendance:

Peaugh (https://twitter.com/Peaugh) -

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[Hursticon]

PreOrder66 (https://twitter.com/Preorder66) -

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[Lord_Zed]

Aside from the BTS stuff and some of the cassettes, most of it looks pretty nice.

I particularly like the look of Function X1 and Computron. Even though I have a few of the FP Stunticons and the TFC Arielbots, Maketoys Gaint is still my favourite combiner, so It will be interesting to see what they do with him.

[Hursticon]

TJ Duckett (https://twitter.com/Kuma_Style) -

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[Hursticon]

Jarodimus Prime (https://twitter.com/JarodimusPrime) -

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[kup]

Awesome pics Hurty! :)

[Hursticon]

Round 2 of TJ Duckett (https://twitter.com/Kuma_Style) -

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[canofwhoopass_87]

Oh man what the hell?

You guys posted up some photos and now I've suddenly spent a weeks pay.

[Hursticon]

...and last but not least, Round 3 of the incredible TJ Duckett (https://twitter.com/Kuma_Style) -

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[Hursticon]

Awesome pics Hurty! :)

Hehe, don't thank me dude thank the guys who kindly took all of these great shots & provided them for us - Some amazing details to be found in amongst them that I feel the "Official" slides just don't carry across. ;):)
(TJ's & Peaugh's I especially like, they've done brilliantly in covering the various 3rd Party offerings :cool:)


Oh man what the hell?

You guys posted up some photos and now I've suddenly spent a weeks pay.

Hehe, see a couple of things you like do you dude? :D

[Hursticon]

Peaugh (https://twitter.com/Peaugh) has just taken a pic showing where FansProject's Not-Roadbuster's 'C.O.R.E.' minifigure plugs-in/resides :):

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[SuspectimusPrime]

Wow. I just love the way MK does alt-mode kibble! Don't think I need any more convincing on Computron!

As Trent said, Catilla's deco really surprises me, and I might end up getting this repaint as well.

Quickswitch looks good, but a little on the small side. I think it's partially because I've been spoiled by Terminus Hexatron's mammoth scale.

What are everyone's thoughts on PE not-Fort Max? I know there a lot of fans out there that's been calling for a 3P IDW release of him, but something does not sit right. Either it's his head to body ratio or maybe it's his shoulders. Also, where are his trademark guns in his knees?

[Hursticon]

A couple more shots from Peaugh (https://twitter.com/Peaugh) with some comparisons that some might be interested in too:

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[kaiden]

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[nofacej]

Feeling better and better about my Giant decision every day. These guys are going to look incredible next to each other. That Computron looks like he'd be able to hold his own against Dev and Menasor at the same time! :eek: