BotCon 2013 toy reveals

[griffin]

The first of the toy reveals occurred today at the BotCon website, which will show off the five Boxset figures (and suggests that pre-registration is very soon, as it often starts during or just after the five toys are revealed on their site).

The first one is Hoist, which is the robot mode they featured on their site as part of the Machine Wars Theme/Logo of the convention this year.
And as people have already worked out, it is a black and brown redeco of Generations Kup, with a new head.

As the other four are revealed, they'll be added to this topic (and to this first post so that they don't get buried in pages of comments).

Toy 1 - Deluxe Hoist (redeco classicverse Kup - new head)
Toy 2 - Deluxe Skywarp (redeco movie Dirge - new head)
Toy 3 - Dexluxe Strika (redeco classicverse Warpath - new head)
Toy 4 - Voyager Obsidian (redeco movie Highbrow - new head)
Toy 5 - Voyager Megaplex (redeco TFPrime Dreadwing)

[Autocon]

I think its silly, its not a tow truck and they still have towing on it :/

[UltraMarginal]

It's the most tow truck like vehicle from the Generations line, certainly a better mold than the movie tow truck that has already had a green hoist repaint.

it is a bit silly that it doesn't have a tow line on it, but otherwise it looks nice.

[Omega Metro]

That's an easy pass for me. Sick of that Kup mould.

[i_amtrunks]

That's an easy pass for me. Sick of that Kup mould.

I'm not sick of the mold perse, but I would have liked for them to have made some alterations/fixes, especially to the rifle. I hate that it does not sit right in robot mode.

[griffin]

I was actually expecting them to sculpt out a new weapon that has a hook on the end, so that when it clipped on the back, it looked like a tow-truck (like on those American shows that is just a Ute/pickup with a crane attachment in the back tray).
Very disappointed about that, as the expected yellow version (for Hubcap) will also look wrong without it being a towtruck homage.

For Prowl and Mirage, I'm beginning to think they will have to resort to using the Classic-verse Mirage mould, with the disclaimer that it wasn't a boxset toy in 2006, so could be re-used.
(or, maybe they won't have those two, and just focus on the other characters from that "huge" series of 12 toys)

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.

[Paulbot]

Maybe there's still a new weapon coming? This is only an artist impression of the figure.

Or maybe the additional weapon/tow-line will be available to purchase at BotCon separately like Soundwave's headband.

[griffin]

Of course... the extra items to purchase, to make more money off the fans.

[UltraMarginal]

attaching a hook/tow system to the roof via the 3mm pegs is a brilliant idea!!

[fatbot]

MACHINE WARS SKYWARP