Someone over at TFW2005 posted some photos of a repainted G2 jet that looks like it could be Botcon repaint of Beast Wars Waspinator.
Of course, I never know what to believe when random things like these are posted on message boards. Hell, this could be somebody doing a custom.
But I have to say that if this is released as a Botcon-only non-set figure I'll probably pick it up while I'm there.
I didn't expect to see any Predacons but if this is in fact legit it'll be pretty cool.
I'm no huge fan of the G2 "flip" jets and Baby Jesus knows the damn things have been repainted enough over the years but this works.
It'll probably run in the $20-$30 range which may be the breaker on this for me.
The other flip jet may just end up as a Terrorsaur figure too. Personally, I can't think of anything more boring than Terrorsaur and Scorponok from the first season of Beast Wars but it makes sense they'd possibly be considered for Botcon figures.
At least the theme to this con's figures is more exciting than the previous one.
Personally, I'd rather have the $100 answer to why they are called Maximals and Predacons prior to taking organic animal forms.
I'm just say'n...
The one thing that's going to suck about 2006 BotCon toys is that there will probably not be a Megatron.
I actually quite dig the G2 flip-planes. Sucks this won't be part of the regular set. Oh well.
I hope he's legit because I like him.
I think that we can expect him to be around $20 since last year's clones were $17.50.
If this is real, then it really opens the door for other Preds since it looks like they can use older molds.
And look at Jeremy, getting all credited and stuff at TFW2005 about the Rhinox = Landmine post.
I'm happy I called that one correctly. So far I'm 4 for 3 for 4 and I think we can assume Rattrap will indeed be from Ransack.