G2 Sandstorm and G2 Night Attack Starscream prototypes discovered amidst ancient relics in China, now on Taobao for a shitload of money
"Hello, is it me you are looking for?"
Years ago, a bunch of rare Transformers artwork was put up for sale by a dealer who found a huge bulk of it from a few Hasbro employees. Pieces included original box art, the original air brushed autobot and decepticon symbols, back of box art, you name it! Also included was production artwork for never-before-seen Generation 2 figures including a purple Sludge, Black Starscream, and a desert-camo themed Ramjet. These were apparently scrapped like many other figures from the line and thought to have never made it past the employee-created custom mock-up phase. However yesterday, history was rewritten!
Why didn't I buy this when I had the chance?!? Oh right, I was a college grad and I didn't have any god damn money to waste.
Apparently someone searching the great pyramids of China stumbled upon a treasure greater than any ancient aliens theorist could’ve imagined – prototypes of some of the un-released G2 figures!!! These include a real G2 Sandstorm, a black prototype of G2 Starscream, a spray-painted mock-up of G2 Sandstorm and some boring G2 Stunticons. Pff, like those are worth anything…
Black Death or Night Attack Starscream?
Whomever is selling these relics ain’t no dummy either. With prices like 10,000 and 20,000 Yuan, we are talking well over $1000 USD for either of these prize items. It’s taking everything in my being to stop from purchasing that G2 Black Starscream… only time will tell.
Too legit to quit
So with great discoveries like this, who knows what may still be out there? Purple Sludges? Skywarps with purple missiles and nose cones? BLUE BLUESTREAKS?!?! Keep your eyes peeled Collecticons, Unicorns are still out there.
I'm not saying it's aliens...
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-22
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- SG Prime to SG Ultra Magnus "GIVE ME YOUR FAAACE!" "ok…"
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Shattered Glass Ultra Magnus from Botcon 2012 boxset – He gave Prime his face!
Diacloooooone!!!! Well, sort of.
Yay, a clear look at Botcon 2012 Ultra Magnus, a REAL CLEAR look at his clear face!!!! Ultra Ghostnus! From what I can gather, Shattered Glass Ultra Magnus is some sort of cross-over with G2 laser Optimus Prime and Bludgeon. I get that from the box art I suppose, but it’s really anyone’s guess until we get the comic that goes with this peculiar set.
Public outcry is, as expected, at a whiny fever pitch (myself included) and most of the distaste comes from the head, which if you look closely, is another remold. That’s quite a few heads we’ve gotten so far this year! Woo hoo! You can’t say that Fun Publications didn’t give it their all this year, at least from a production standpoint.
Evillll
Just to get a taste of what fans are saying, here is one of the more heated comments I’ve seen:
wtf is up with the tribal bullshit! i’ll say it. its fuckin lame/stupid, what is this?… some “just got into college” shattered Ultra magnus that got drunk after a weezer concert in florida and tatooed is hood like a dumbass. WTF! Jesus! WTF!
So there you have it. We don’t like tribal bullshit on our toys. Or Zartan heads.
Here is an updated look at Magnus’ head thanks to Botcon
Bug eyes
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Narcissistron
It's the Transformer every transfan wants to be but wouldn't admit it!
Check out this humorous comic from Doug Savage and his blog savagechickens. I want more new characters!
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Awesome Generations Shockwave on Ebay – Take some lessons Botcon!
Just 3 cool dudes hangin' out, being custom
Alas, what could’ve been! Here we get a look at some titillating custom generations figures from Ebay user venom_7. It’s funny how close his Skram figure actually looks compared to the Treadshot figure we are actually getting at Botcon 2012. Of note is the pretty nice Nemesis Prime in the photos from the ebay auction.
Don’t get too greedy folks, I’m bidding on this little Shockwave, or Shockblast if you want to be really nerdy. It is based on the Alternator Shockblast that was a remold of Alternators Jazz. Repetition kills. The head is from a spare Action Master Shockwave. I guess Action Masters can be good for SOMETHING once in a while…
Oh Botcon 2012, what could have been!!!
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Hegemon 3rd party Megatron hits the mark – a fake Transformer I actually like
Amongst his fake Transformer underlings
For all my outright hatred of all KO’s and 3rd party non-licensed Transformer toys, there is once in a while a glimmer of awesome amongst the crap. Today a shining star appeared from beneath the rubble and it is a new 3rd party Megatron toy from some company that has yet to be named.
Predacons, accessorize!
This thing comes with awesome accessories and succeeds where the Masterpice Megatron somewhat failed int he bulk and overall build of the robot mode. The gun handle is a bit oversized, but we always have to give in a little, don’t we? Feast your eyes on the new emperor of destruction!
A little white-balance never hurt nobody
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Botcon 2012 Shattered Glass Octopunch – a punch in the face
Gawaaaah
Thanks Ebay for this horrifying look at what is coming for the Botcon 2012 exclusives. Here we have the brilliant choice of Octopunch as the Seaspray mold.
Seriously, why do we have to reach back so far as to use the shittiest of all Transformer lore in Botcon sets these days? Action masters and Pretenders sucked, they were and still are pathetic excuses for Transformer toys, and no amount of ret-conning or upgrades will change that fact. These things KILLED the Transformers franchise, let’s not celebrate them anymore, please? Alice was the only good pretender we ever got, and that still hasn’t become a toy!
Under the sea, the only place you should ever see me!
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Transform your Nintendo Entertainment System into Soundwave and Rumble – RIBFIR
It's amazing!!!!!
I have no idea who made this design or took the photo but it is simply amazing!
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- "…the G1 sharkticons basically transform into Danny Devito" #transformers #
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