Last of the BotCon 2010 toys on the club website

[griffin]

Everything has sold out except Rapido/Cindersaur.
The remaining figures have been put up on their website store (http://www.transformersclub.com/shop/index.cfm?do=detail&productid=2147), for anyone who still wants them. If you aren't a member, ebay is probably still cheaper, and shipping won't be as bad...

Not surprised that this set was the last to sell.

(some toy dealers must have cleaned out the rest of the Doublepunch/Scorch toys on the sunday, because they looked to have heaps of those earlier in the day as well)

[griffin]

While I'm at it, the English version of Rapido's techspec has finally been added to the BotCon website.
http://botcon.com/BotCon10/images10/RAPIDO10english.jpg

For those who don't know, FunPub thought it would be funny to have a totally spanish biocard included with Rapido's toy, forcing us to go to their website and print out a proper english one - which won't be on the same nice card of the others. :mad:
I'm not against one-off amusing gimmicks, but they really should have included both language versions with the toy. :mad:

Now the result looks half-assed.

And look at the stats... this character outranks Optimus Prime, and seems so powerful, he could take on the whole Decepticon army. WT?
We might complain about Hasbro throwing in random numbers because they aren't fans, and then we get 'fans' throwing in inconsistent numbers as well...

[Paulbot]

Rapido's stats are basically the same as the original toy's
http://www.tfu.info/1993/Autobot/Rapido/rapido.htm

They were just being consistent with the G1.5/G2 trend to high stats.

To better capture the G1.5 feel they should have put both languages on the same card.

[Sky Shadow]

And look at the stats... this character outranks Optimus Prime, and seems so powerful, he could take on the whole Decepticon army. WT?
We might complain about Hasbro throwing in random numbers because they aren't fans, and then we get 'fans' throwing in inconsistent numbers as well...

I suspect it's a gag directed at the fact that the highest ranking G2 Autobots in 1993 were Grimlock and Rapido (who both outranked Optimus Prime). Thus they've run with that and tried to justify it in the Botcon fiction.

[griffin]

I withdraw my comment on blaming fans, and redirect it back at Hasbro for the original Gen2 randomness. :p

[Zippo]

Oh how I want to get Rapido .. but not Cindersaur

[Gutsman Heavy]

I'm the opposite, I'd love a Cindersaur, but don't want Rapido. Hopefully he gets cheap on eBay!