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Transformers: Timelines

Voyager class

Battletrap

For Christmas of 2017 I received the Botcon 2015′s Cybertron’s Most Wanted boxed set, back when the Transformers Collector’s Club web site towards the end of its run before shutting down.

Back in the day during G1 the Duocons were a small subgroup of Decepticons consisting of Battletrap, Flywheels and technically Overlord…and I think that was it.

Anyway, a Duocon was a Transformer which had two vehicle modes which combined into one robot mode. So the two vehicle modes had one conscientiousness and were whole when they combined. It was weird.

Anyway the Botcon version of Battletrap utilized the TF Generations Springer mold (with new head sculpt) and now Battle went from Duocon to triple changer! And considering Battletrap was an SUV and a helicopter this works perfectly.

Thought you guys might get a kick out of this pitch @siphersaysstuff and I did for a TFCC subscription figure, the “Spark Warrior.” Coming up with a membership freebie everyone would be into was tricky, so the idea was to use the GI-Joe Steel Brigade concept. In essence, you’d have a figure, preferably one you could get more than one robot mode out of (like classics Sunstreaker/Sideswipe), and it would come with stickers for customization. 

Your spark warrior was “Your” Transformer, and I’d proposed a web form where members could make a bio, mad-libs style, and pick a name (out of multiple prefixes and suffixes) and a randomly drawn winner or three would get named cameos in the club comic. 

There is! The “Wings Universe” series of stories published by Fun Publications continues the events of the cartoon past “The Rebirth.” The post-toon stories began in the BotCon 2010 comic “Generation 2: Redux”:

…and continue on into the 2012 Transformers Collectors Club magazine comic “A Flash Forward”…

…before reaching a two-part conclusion in the BotCon 2013 comic “Termination” and  2014 online comic “A Common Foe.”

Taken together, these stories essentially brought the “Generation 1″ era of the cartoon to an end, time-skipping a few years over the last few years of the US G1 toyline and telling stories set in the eras of the European G1 toyline, then Generation 2, and finally Machine Wars, concluding with the end of the war and setup for the Beast Wars era.

The first set of figures from the subscription definitely do not disappoint!  The paint is phenomenal, the molds are in great condition, and the bios are pretty neat too.  Speaking of bios, check out the two bios for Scorponok:

  Bio Card

    Instructions

                                Stay tuned to our Facebook and Twitter accounts over the next few days, where we will post a few more pics of these guys with some of the figures they fit with from previous releases!

Transformers: Timelines

Cybertron’s Most Wanted

Voyager class? Legends class? Targetmaster class? (All of the above)

Oilmaster (All three)

For Christmas of 2017 I received the Botcon 2015′s Cybertron’s Most Wanted boxed set, back when the Transformers Collector’s Club web site towards the end of its run before shutting down.

HaHaaaaa! Oilmaster is so fun!

I love the Double-Pretender. Since I already own the TFCC Optimus Prime version, and the two only real differences between this and Optimus is the Prime head sculpt and the sword, I’m just going to make this brief and say he’s really fun.

The Swerve sculpt is really awesome, and to have this Decepticon bounty hunter wearing such a s&(t-eating grin on his face is great!

Transformers Collectors Club Subscription Service 5.0

Boxed set 1

Deluxe class Legends class And Micromaster/Targetmaster class

Lifeline & Fractyl Scorponok Quickslinger

Let’s start with Quickslinger.

She’s a light purple micromaster jet. The same one used from Generations Swerve. The paint ins’t bad and she looks okay. Yeah Quickslinger is a femebot.

robot mode and gun mode are both okay. Overall she’s okay. Our think she’s suppose to be Lifelines partner, but there’s a problem with that which we’ll get into later.

Scorponok

The Predacon Scorponok from Beast Wars is back in a pre-Earth mode. He is a repaint of TRANSFORMERS Generations Scamper.

The colors really work for this toy.

Scorponok is a six-wheeled roadster with a small gun up top.

The toy is simple and small, and does adequately represents a Cybertronian pre-Earth Scorponok.

Lifeline, is basically a repaint of Generations Arcee, basically she is the Paradron Medic seen in a season three episode of the G1 Transformers.

She has all the positives and negatives as Arcee has, including her hands, and that brings me to the issue with Targetmaster Quickslinger...Lifeline's hands are ill-suited to holding any gun with a 5mm peg, and the car mode has no mounting for a targetmaster either...Soooo, why was she paired up the Lifeline? It was an odd choice.

I love the Arcee mold, I also own Takara's Nightbird as well, and I'm glad to have a new Autobot medic onto the team.

Last but not least one of the figures I was looking forward to the most, Fractyl. Fractyl dates all the way back to the earliest of Botcons when he came in a two pack with....Packrat. Never having the originals of either I'm glad to have modern versions of them both now. Another few steps to completing my Wreckers.

This version of Fractyl is a pre-Earth mode as well, and the mold used was a Combiner Wars Areialbot. Okay, I'm cool with that.

The deco used is familiar to Fractyl and he has his own head sculpt with a cheeky smirk.

So as a combiner piece Fractyl can convert to either a leg of an arm. Since I'll be adding him to my Beasts Machines Wreckers collection I probably won't be using those the options all too often. Maybe periodically; who knows.