Botcon 2015 - Chicago June 18-21

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

Battletrap as a triple changer. I like the idea and though I'd be keen for it, but after seeing that video the figure just looks SUPER plain. Not a super-plane.

Head sculpt seemed ok, but I thought it looked a bit small as well. Maybe they shrunk it a tad as it feels like a pretty close fit with Springer.

Good idea, but it falls flat somewhere.

[griffin]

More images of Packrat... and looks like I was right in thinking that Pete might be using Seibertron now to promote Club stuff after abandoning the Q&A topic at TFW2005, as Seibertron has managed to post up exclusive galleries now for two of FunPub's upcoming toys, and one of the Packrat photo shows that Seibertron has photos ready for one more, or all of the Boxset toys.

[griffin]

Oh, and now that the GIJoe convention has now finished, I would expect to see more reveals, the Brochure and pre-registration within the next few weeks.... at least I hope.

[fatbot]

I'm on my phone so no link, the 3rd is " the loose cannon" Shattered Glass Stepper. An orange repaint of RTS Jazz with black flames down the side & a blue /purple repainted Nightstick as his targetmaster partner

[griffin]

Link to the Youtube reveal.
Shattered Glass Stepper with Nebulon.

The orange reminds me of some Euro Gen1/Gen2 toys, but if the gold colourings work, they will pop out nicely.

So he says that it is a second chance at doing a Mirror Universe Stepper/Ricochet toy, because they ran out of time on the 2008 version (because they do too many toys each year), and so now this Stepper toy is being made out to be Ricochet's brother in the Mirror Universe.

Well that ought to confuse people... who try to follow the technicalities of Transformers, or cares about FunPub toys.
In the existing toy universe of Hasbro/TakaraTomy, Stepper IS Ricochet (like Convoy is Optimus, or Jaguar is Ravage... even TFWiki retconned Stepper into Ricochet so that they were on the one page - - which IMO the character pages should be titled according to their first official name, otherwise they have to keep changing Character pages whenever an existing Japanese character gets a Hasbro version/name years later, but that's sidetracking a little).

But now in the Mirror Universe, they are separate characters, with Ricochet being a maroon toy for BotCon 2008, and Stepper being and orange toy for BotCon 2015.

So does that mean other Hasbro characters that have different Japanese names (like Convoy, Bumble, Jaguar, Lambor) will start showing up in the Mirror Universe as separate characters?

[BigTransformerTrev]

I must admit I'll be putting the shout out for anyone who can be good enough to grab me a Battletrap (giving the screen a pleading, wide-eyed puppy look right now) - the other two dont hold much appeal for me personally

Wonder if this means at some point we will get a redeco of Gen Blitzwing as Flywheels to complete the pair (hope hope hope!)

[Krayt]

Wonder if this means at some point we will get a redeco of Gen Blitzwing as Flywheels to complete the pair (hope hope hope!)

Did you miss this one Trev?

http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-...1426606631.jpg

[griffin]

Well, Trev did say Generations, which could pair nicely with the BotCon Battletrap. (two triple-changers as Duocons, so that they suit each other visually on display)

[UltraMarginal]

if fun pub were smart it would be one of the at show exclusives.

[griffin]

Official images of Battletrap are now on the BotCon website, and once again Seibertron has gained exclusive access to the toy for their own photo gallery.

And it looks like they will also have a gallery up of Stepper as well, some time in the next few days.