BotCon brochure released. Details of the 2012 BotCon box set

[kup]

Because ponchos are so 2011. (Happy new year, Kup.)

Happy new year to you too!

[Paulbot]

Soundwave's been revealed.

According to their tweets the heads been moulded so it looks straight ahead unlike the base toy.

Oh but want a headband to go with his in-fiction look? You'll have to buy that separately from the club store.

[kup]

Soundwave's been revealed.

According to their tweets the heads been moulded so it looks straight ahead unlike the base toy.

Oh but want a headband to go with his in-fiction look? You'll have to buy that separately from the club store.

Wow! That sucks when it comes to the head band. What a blatant 'cash-in' attempt!

I also can't say that I like the actual figure. The head looks too much like Optimus Prime and the body looks awkward.

Yeah, I am not digging this..They should have allowed the Spark white MP3 Soundwave as Shattered Glass and made another character with this mold like Skids.

Metal Hawk is the only announced toy from this set that I am looking forward to being revealed.

Edit: If the rumors on the other thread are correct, this years set could be much better than what it first seems! Hope the execution is right bu the mold choices are indeed interesting.

[griffin]

I wonder why it has a GIJoe Dreadnock (Zartan) face on the side... Perhaps a tease at future FunPub crossover exclusives or story perhaps?. Or to see if it solicits demand for some sort of crossover in the future (since they have both brands to play with).

[Paulbot]

I wonder why it has a GIJoe Dreadnock (Zartan) face on the side... Perhaps a tease at future FunPub crossover exclusives or story perhaps?. Or to see if it solicits demand for some sort of crossover in the future (since they have both brands to play with).

That comes straight from the comic that gave SG Soundwave his earth mode two years ago, so it would have to be a very long term plan!

In the regular universe, Cold Slither was the band Zartan was frontman of in the GIJoe cartoon, but in the Shattered Glass universe they aren't evil (and play concerts with the Misfits the baddies from Jem who are also not evil in the SG universe).

[kup]

I wonder why it has a GIJoe Dreadnock (Zartan) face on the side... Perhaps a tease at future FunPub crossover exclusives or story perhaps?. Or to see if it solicits demand for some sort of crossover in the future (since they have both brands to play with).

I didn't notice that he had a Zartan face. I could have understood if it was a regular universe Soundwave but on Shattered Glass? Very strange unless he is also from that universe as Paulbot mentioned.

[Paulbot]

I didn't notice that he had a Zartan face. I could have understood if it was a regular universe Soundwave but on Shattered Glass? Very strange..

Zartan is not evil in Shattered Glass. He is the lead in a band called Cold Slither who were evil in the regular cartoon universe but not in this alternate reality. (That's the whole SG point, bad guys are good etc. ).

When Soundwave scanned an Earth vehicle it had a Cold Slither logo on it. You can see it in the link I provided to a comic strip. The BotCon toy is based on this existing illustration of SG Soundwave which we learnt almost three years ago (when Griffin wondered if it would be a future exclusive. He was correct).

[Sky Shadow]

For Kup - this is the 'evil' Cold Slither: http://youtu.be/osZ52A-_kpQ. The song was also 'evil' Soundwave's favourite song to play at Dancitron: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYbg_...ailpage#t=265s and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPaIu...ailpage#t=246s. Hence the continuity-porn connection between the two for Shattered Glass.

There's a panel here that shows him off well:

http://www.seibertron.com/images/toy...5_Preview9.png

Primus that was an awesome comic - I'm so looking forward to 2012 from IDW.

[Hursticon]

I don't like SG Soundwave... and I imagine The Real Soundwave's reaction would be akin to this.
This is what I'd like to do to the design team behind this disgusting abuse of a license.

As this is a public area, I will reserve my more candid thoughts on this figure...

[Sky Shadow]

That's an awful headsculpt on Shattered Glass Soundwave. Would it have been that hard to at least mould a headband around his forehead, even if it didn't have the trailling ends?