BotCon 2013 toy reveals

[Krayt]

very happy with this mould choice....

also, is this a new head?

[fatbot]

very happy with this mould choice....

also, is this a new head?

yeah, the body is either ROTF or DOTM Dirge

[Omega Metro]

very happy with this mould choice....

So am I. It means I don't need to buy this figure.

[CHILENO20]

hmmmmm, Movierverse Dirge mold huh? I guess we now know what Thundercracker will look like, not feeling it

[Paulbot]

So far I prefer Skywarp to Hoist, probably because I bought MW Skywarp back in the day and not Hoist.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

I just had a sad thought - Funpub spits out so many toys now with their BotCons, that they could homage the entire Machine Wars toyline and still have one or two toy slots to spare.
But based on past Funpub BotCons, I'd imagine that they'd be roping in other Gen1 characters into the "Machine Wars deco/mould" theme, or just create some new characters.

Wait for it ladies and Gents, MW Sky Byte, coming got a Botcon nowwhere near you!

So am I. It means I don't need to buy this figure.

This

2 outta 2 not interested. That's gotta be a record for me!

[Paul Agnew]

Griffin, is it feasable to move all the BotCon 2013 toys/news/info into a single unified thread, rather than clutter up the news board?

Not that I'm modding or swiping you, merely suggesting the pair (which are still active) are merged, and makes looking for convention info a bit easier.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

This thread is concerned about the unveiling of the new toys. The other Botcon thread doesn't seem to have been touched since the 2nd feb.

All new toys as they show their faces make their way into here. 1 thread, as opposed to other years where iirc a thread was made for each figure or something.

[griffin]

We usually have about two active threads before BotCon - one for the toy reveals (that more people are interested in), and one for the convention details like events, panels and guests (which less people are interested in).

And as it has been shown time and again by people asking about things already posted in a news topic, if we post too many news updates in an active topic, the updates get missed.

Which is why I try to balance inactive news topics (by pairing up the more related updates later so that the news section doesn't have a lot of news topics with no replies or interest), with active news topics (which I would look to see if a later relate update can be posted as a new news topic, if it is going to be missed in the existing one).
Most people don't read every post in a topic, mostly just the first one, and maybe the first few replies... so if a news update is posted on page 7, who's going to be re-checking a topic that often.
(if something really really needs to be in the same topic, like a prolonged set of releases like this one, or the Facebook page reveals, I'll try to keep the first post updated as much as I can)

[Quickstrike]

Wait for it ladies and Gents, MW Sky Byte, coming got a Botcon nowwhere near you!

I'd be ok with this.

Also, Skywarp looks really good. I forgot that mold even existed.