So Botcon Rhinox was revealed and I called this one right. I figured that Cybertron Landmine would probably be the most logical choice for Rhinox and he is.
That leaves us with Rattrap. And if the "leaked" factory bot is true then that means he's based on Cybertron Ransack.
That'll make the figures:
The Boxed Set:
Optimus Primal - retooled from Cybertron Dark Crumplezone
Cheetor - retooled from Cybertron Clocker
Dinobot - from Cybertron Longgrack (retooled from Armada Hoist)
Rhinox - from Cybertron Landmine
Rattrap - probably from Cybertron Ransack
Additional:
Likely Tigatron (attendee exclusive ?)- from the same retooled Cybertron Clocker that Cheetor is based on (even though Tigatron doesn't really exist prior to having a beast mode)
Likely Waspinator (attendee exclusive ?) - from Machine Wars Skywarp
??? Speculative Airrazor - repainted from Energon Divebomb
??? Speculative Tigatron - repainted from the
??? Speculative Terrasaur - Machine Wars Megatron or repainted from Energon Divebomb
??? Speculative Scorponok - repainted from ?
??? Speculative Tarantulus - repainted from ?
That's about it from what I can think of. I can't find a recent (last 6-7 years) mold that would work for Scorponk or Tarantulus that remotely evokes their beast modes.
You know what would be really cool but is so far beyond a long shot that I shouldn't even bring it up?
Wouldn't it be something if Botcon actually decided to spend a little money on truly something special as the attendee-only exclusive and found a way to do a very limited run of a larger-sized Megatron?
It would piss off a lot of non-attendees but man, that would be something special!
Hmmm... but what mold would he be from? There aren't any Cybertron ones that would be appropriate at that size. Energon?
It's too bad the Scrapmetal came out this year, or else that'd be perfect for Tarantulas.
i went to botcons site and they had the box art and it looks like you called it on the rattrap/gasket
It seemed like it'd be the right one. And there was some Ebay auction for a repaint of Ransack that didn't make sense with the Ransack GTS version now hitting selves.
I am curious what those Energon Divebomb repaints are supposed to be though.
Yea on ebay a few days ago i saw someone selling that new prime,waspinator,and megatron which i guess was a defense red alert with new a head?
Ok. You bring up something interesting.
Why the hell would people bid on Ebay auctions for items that are essentially "vapor TFs"?!?!!?
These figures do not yet exist and are not in any kind of official distribution channel. Until Botcon actually has the figures out there these people are not bidding on anything that really exists yet!
The same for all these Nemesis Prime Alternator auctions. The figures are not available to anybody and if they are, they are stolen from a manusfacturing plant.
Yet people still bid on these things that are not officially available to even be mailed to them!!!
I have no clue why all the auctions were listed by a private seller. ebay is somthing else nowadays that Alternators Prime you got was going a week ago for 69.99 people are crazy. I've loved transformers since i was a kid but that much when you can wait and buy it at 19.99 the next week is beyond me let alone buy somthing that may or may not exist yet i.e. vapor transformers
here's the url
http://cgi.ebay.com/Transformers-Botcon-exculsive-megatron-on-hand_W0QQitemZ280004926403QQihZ018QQcategoryZ4696QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.com/Transformers-Botcon-exculsive-Optimus-Prime-Convoy_W0QQitemZ280004920279QQihZ018QQcategoryZ4696QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
I just saw the Rattrap figure and i have to say i like it a lot. it looks cool with the yellow and black