Okay, so there was a certain convention happening this month, but first............ Masterpiece Star Saber! Looks like the business to me, slightly small for Masterpiece, but hopefully the right size for Classics. I have a rule with my Classics not to have the same character twice, I let Galvatron, Cyclonus and Scourge off as in certain continuities they're not previous characters re-formatted, but with say, Bumblebee/Goldbug and potentially God Ginrai/Victory Leo, I'd only go with one. Not sure which I'd rather have out of the last two.
Ultra Magnus, Wheeljack and Bumblebee are all looking rather good. I'm all paid up for the latter two!
Transformers and Angry Birds? Okay........... then!!!
The Dinobots SDCC set looks pretty damn good, Snarl in particular looks a bit good. I think the gold chrome in particular works rather well. I'm not going to pick them up though, firstly because of cost, and secondly because I'm rather enjoying the possibility of picking up the regular releases at retail and figures which I buy in person always mean a bit more to me. I found Grimlock at the start of the month!
So speaking of Dinobots......... Planet X decided to use Botcon to show off their Sludge prototype. Looks good to me, in scale with Grimlock. Can't wait to get them all!!! Fansproject showed off a colour version of Mindwipe, glad to see it's still in progress.
On to Hasbro! I think the one figure I'm definitely going to get is Powerglide, happy to replace my Maketoys one. Arcee looks really good, was already happy to replace my Impossible Toys figure though. Legends Bombshell and Voyager Brainstorm looks interesting, and Superion could be very interesting.
All of these figures raise an interesting question though. For the most part if I've got an official figure of a character, then an unofficial figure is released I pass quite happily (I've only ever made an exception for iGear Bumblebee because I wanted a VW altmode.) But, I'm not sure what to do when the opposite happens, I've got unofficial versions of all of those figures. I'm happy to replace Powerglide and Arcee, but Bombshell and Brainstorm, I'm happy with my Fansproject versions, what really seals it for me though is that in both cases I've got their buddies in the same scale and that's what I want - Shrapnel, Kickback and Chromedome (and hopefully eventually Hardhead and Highbrow). I am actually choosing unofficial over official which seems strange.
There are a couple of precedents with Botcon figures; Deathsaurus and Overlord didn't work for me, I think Scorponok is in that same category. Actually I think it depends which series they're from - early G1 most characters tend to get their own mold, later on they tend to be repaints that may or not work, if they get a figure at all and so unofficial is the much better option.
The Superion reveal is an even trickier one, currently I've got an Energon repaint with an unofficial upgrade that whilst cool, never really evoked G1 Superion. I remember picking that set up though as one of the best finds of my collecting career. Happy to see what it looks like though and make an informed decision!
The official Nightbeat pictures showed that it was going to be a Generations Jazz repaint, I think it was a great shame they changed it to be Bumblebee. Seeings how we might get a Go-Shooter repaint of that Bumblebee, I think I might just pass on Nightbeat. Leader Megatron also looks pretty damn G1, I will probably though unless it could somehow pass for a Masterpiece version.
So, not an outstanding Botcon in terms of news really, I hope they're holding something back for SDCC!
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