Spotted Online – Transformers Botcon Exclusives Wishlist
When the Botcon (website, Twitter) exclusive Gigatron was first revealed a few days ago (last mentioned here) I mentioned to Vangelus (website, Twitter) on Twitter that I was tempted to create my own wishlist of exclusives I’d like to see created.
Well, Vangelus pointed me at this thread at TFW2005 where user WhiteMocha took it beyond a wishlist and created dozens of “digibash” photo illustrations showing how existing molds — with some new tooling at times — would look redecoed for exclusives. Absolutely amazing work!
There are many great ideas there, but it was the reuse of the Transformers Universe Cyclonus mold that most grabbed me. I assembled the above collection to show all seven photo illustrations in a single image and I have to say that if the seven were released as a box set I would grab it. I really do love that Cyclonus mold and have already reviewed it a few times — Cyclonus review here, Strafe review here, Shattered Glass Cyclonus review here — and even took a look at the Reprolabels sticker sheet (review here) so it should come as no surprise that I’m ready for more toys using the mold.
I think I’ll still make that wishlist, but I know that no matter what I do it won’t compare to all of the work that went into WhiteMocha’s images in this thread at TFW2005.
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Thanks now i am going to lose another day to that thread. I keep going back and looking at some of the amazing concepts that are presented there. I really should get someone to do the Swoop version for me as I am huge fan of the Dinobots.
@Marv – That thread truly is amazing. I’ve lost a few hours scrolling through and looking at the images; there are several designs there I would like to see made.