Transformers musings: Botcon 2010 Nonattendee thoughts part 2

If this shows up in your news feed, please take the time to read it, i'm tired of tagging people in these.

anyway, onwards to the nerdiness

for visuals, check out the tfw2005 main page for the Seacon info. and the following link for the other news:

Animated Rodimus and Ironhide (US versions!): http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/conventions-15/tfw2005-botcon-2010-coverage-animated-rodimus-minor-and-cybertron-mode-ratchet-170047/

PowerCore Combiners: http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/conventions-15/tfw2005-botcon-2010-coverage--power-core-combiners-170050/

Voyager Seaspray: http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=HAS18743&mode=retail

Generations figures: http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/conventions-15/tfw2005-botcon-2010-coverage--toys-toys-and-more-toys-170043/

All news from btocon, so lets get into it:

Firts off more info on the main figrues of interest from the lats post. The Seacon combiner team from g1 is being reissued, they're thinking its gonna be a store exclusive, but not sure where or ehat the release date will be. Needless to say, this set is goning on my wishlist for the holiday season. more pressing for me though, Animated Rodimus Minor and Ironhide. Ironhide was inevitable as soon as we got Cybertron mode Ratchet. Lets ignore the fact that in the first couple of photos Ironhide is mistransformed. This toy looks pretty nice. The one thing i dont like is the fact they included the Paddles that came wiht the aforementioned Ratchet figure. Ironhide, in the show, had the power of turning his body into and unpenetrable force of metal or somethign. So i'm gonna use that as his power/ weapon when i get him, nto the paddles BS, even if they hide part of the robot in alt mode.

Onto Rodimus Minor. I was already gonna order the Japanese transformers animated version of this guy, but then we founf out via the above link that these two guys are gonna be Toys r us exclusives in August. Rodimus looks very nice, and i just hope Bigbadtoystore comes around and posts these two guys for order soon cause the toys r us wbesite sucks for ordering figures and theres not a single one inside a 30 minutes drive at home or at school. the closest one at home is in sliver spring and is like 34 minutes away, and the closest one to school is in Dayton, which is about 50 minutes away. Well enough of my whining. I'm going to get this figure even if its the japanese version.

Next matter of business, the Power Core Combiners subline. The only figures that are peaking my interest still are the two-pack figures. Again see link above. We're talking huffer w/ caliburst, Smolder w/ Chopster, Searchlight With BAckwind, etc. The problem wiht this is to get the full play value out the line and use one of those guys as a torso for a combiner, i'll have to get one of the 5-packs, like Aerialbots, combaticons, or rallybots. But the first 2 sets mentioned are the only ones who remotely interest me. Plus, its disturbing that on all the figures, the connecting ports are all that annoyign light blue made popular by the first movie, the infamous "Allspark Blue". With the Rallybots and their wavemates, the destructicons, i'm nto digging the look of the combiend form, so i dont wanna have to pay full price for a figure i'm gonna be keeping in non combined robot mode while i use the drones for the other figures whose Torso modes i actually like, like Searchlight's or Smolder's.

With the two pack PCC's we're seeing, that i'm assuming are wave 2 for that subline, Sledge w/ throttler, Icepick w/ Chainclaw, and Leadfoot with Pinpoint, my feelings are mixed Sledge i like the look of, but again, the combination ports are horribly out of place cause of their coloration. I like sledge's individual robot mode, but i'm undecided on the torso mode. With Leadfoot, his combination ports in alt mode are fogiveable cause they kind of work with the overall look of the awesome car mode. the individual robot mode looks pretty nice as well, and vaguely reminds me of animated Scrapper. I also like the look of thr Torso mode, btu again, i'd need one of the fivepacks to get full value and yea see above. Lastly, on Icepick the alt mode is very nice and cohesive and i like how the ports actually work (in terms of their coloration) with the figure's colorization. The look of the Torso mode is just too hilarious for me to take seriously. in this mode, he looks too much like a sumor wrestler hunched over ready to lunge forward.

Making this a twoparter. cause blogger hates long posts.