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http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/showthread.php?t=174764
- Transtech comic is not building up to a big payoff, but not a Crisis on Infinite Cybertrons.
- The theme of the story is a political conflict rather than a military one - Optimus and Megatron on that world are like leaders of political parties.
- Prose stories - Two more are planned for the Transtech Universe - Withered Hope, featuring the E Hobby Gobots, who are Bugbite's crew, and I Lowtech, a story with Nick Roche providing the illustrations.
- They will then be moving on to Shattered Glass Prose, and where possible, we are getting some elements of the AFD jokes. The first is Dungeons and Dinobots, a sample picture was shown with Grimlock saying "Quite the precarious predicament, wot?". There will be two more strips in addition to this one and a Club Exclusive Shatteredverse toy.
- Speaking of Shattered Glass, you too can own a Shattered Glass Nemesis Prime! Brian joked that the Classics Ultra Magnus would fit the bill, and also be the happiest buy you know.
- The Nightbeat comic is currently in limbo, it is planned as a pack in with the club toy. A Nightbeat profile like the Cyrotek one is also coming soon.
- There is also some sort of fiction planned for the Seacons, but they are currently uncertain on what.

- It is highly unlikely that the staff will combine the cons, simply because A) we're Transformers fans not Joe fans, and there are Joe fans who are not Transformers fans, so it would be counterproductive because then for most people it would not feel like "their" con. B) It would be twice the work for the staff.
- The possibility of adding souvenir figures to the pre-reg forms to cut down on the time queueing was raised - Fun Publications will consider it, contact them to voice your support if you like this idea.
- Once again the question of online registration was raised, the staff explained that hand-written faxed forms means a person looks at it and can interpret, unlike on an electronic form where there is no such leeway. Also, the costs of setup were raised, especially since the structure changes for every convention that they do.
- Energon packages (entry to all events like a Primus package but without toys) may be kept. Again, contact Fun Publications to voice your opinion on if they should stay or not.
- About this year's figures - it was a gamble, they did not expect it to sell like it did. They tried to get the number of sets raised, but it was too late. In future they are working to take registration before they have to give final numbers, to better gauge the numbers. However, it is a good thing when the sets sell out, because it means they have done their job and will be able to make more sets in future. In particular, if demand reached the 4-5000 range, it would help with Takara Tomy, who are reluctant to do the runs. They will also not limit sales of sets to individuals because it hurts their ability to sell out, they don't want sets over. However at the same time, they want everyone to be able to buy the sets at the original price not Ebay prices.
- The reason that non-attendee sets got cut first is that the majority of sales were for attending sets - hence catering to the demand.
- On the subject of Takara Tomy, they apparently hiked the price on the production of the exclusives.
- Next year's set may be another new idea for Transformers - the idea of Zombie Transformers was batted around by the staff.
- Blurr got a remolded head, because Brian Savage did not like the original head. In retrospect he noted that if he was redoing the head, he should really have looked for a different toy for the body.
- Nightbeat was chosen for the club exclusive over Elita-1 because it was thought that he would sell better, and also because Airazor did not sell as well as they had hoped.
- Talking about Piranacon, the team suggested that if people were in favour of it they might go back and redo other older unreleased toys, for example, the Generation 2 Stuntacons.
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Can buy in stores: Robot Heroes Tigatron/Inferno, Ricochet/Predaking.
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G2 STUNTICONS? *Commences the fanboy seizure*
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The G2 Stunticons are only 'popular' because they weren't released.. they're a grail. Aside from that, they completely, utterly, and in all other ways, suck.

Frankly, FP has a lot of dumb-ass ideas there...
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TFVanguard wrote:The G2 Stunticons are only 'popular' because they weren't released.. they're a grail. Aside from that, they completely, utterly, and in all other ways, suck.
Aye, but it'd be ****ing hilarious if they came out in larger numbers after the money some of these wankers have been spending on them just to have the things as a private gloat...
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Post by borg72 »

yup. didn't that chap pay $6000+ on that auction site for an unreleased loose G2 motormaster*?

*godawful, btw. turquise and blue.
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Exactly. Even at a short run Club exclusive, we'd be talking, what, 1/20th of that, and you'd also get the other four and bits so you could, y'know, make Menasor. The toys are horrid, but I'd love to see them come out as a lesson to cock-wavers everywhere =D
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Cliffjumper wrote:Aye, but it'd be ****ing hilarious if they came out in larger numbers after the money some of these wankers have been spending on them just to have the things as a private gloat...
Got to admit that that's true, when it starts becoming cheaper to literally pay Hasbro to cast it for yourself than what you're spending on eBay. And wouldn't classics-era fans rather see new toys of the Stunticons that homaged the originals rather than the god-awful G2 versions?

I also wonder why Brian Savage disliked the Blurr head... and then promptly made a new one that was almost exactly the same, only damaged?

I really don't get these guys...
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G2 Motormaster's colors, as awful as they are, aren't as bad as him with the rest of the G2 Stunticons *shivers*. Worse when combined into Menasor.:sick:
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I never understood the neon colors for G2 aside from them being different. And 6 grand for a toy? I think I just died a bit inside knowing something can go for so much, yet be so tiny. And as Cliffy said, that'll show the cock wavers who buy toys like that for bragging rights. I do wonder if G2 Motormaster will now go down in value, even if it was unreleased since there will be a few more in the market, and that being said, did any of the re-released G1 original toys' value go down because of the Encores, and the Hasbro re-releases? And lastly, I bet some knock off geniuses will be busy at work finding the old box art for G2 Motormaster, and photo shopping, and thusly producing fake boxes/cards with plastic for him to sell on ebay. If this doesn't happen, I will be amazed.
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