BotCon 2011 – Souvenirs Revealed!

BotCon has just revealed the souvenirs via their Twitter feed.  Hope they don’t mind the yanking of them, but keep following their Twitter stream, cause who knows what else we’ll see!

Thoughts on the souvenirs after the break.

First off, the 3-pack of troop builders – the Autotroopers.  Based on the same mold as Fisitron, these are remolds of the Cybertron Ratchet/Ironhide mold.  They look darn stunning in white, black and blue.  They look pretty dang close to their show model.  Nice!

Next, we have SG Galvatron and Thundercracker (Action Master colors).  I wasn’t expecting to see Shattered Glass return, and we all thought that AM Thundercracker was an April Fool’s joke.  Looks like it was… but only because the joke mold was Cybertron Starscream.  It’s the Classic Seeker mold, and it’s ugly as sin.  Which it’s supposed to be.  Hope the mold hasn’t degraded that much.

As for Galvatron… well, it’s the Evac mold from Cybertron.  I never bought Evac, so it’s hard for me to judge the toy selection.  The color scheme looks good, though.

Finally, for toys, we have Animated Sideswipe (G2 colors) and Toxitron.

Toxitron???  Holy crap, that’s the deco we saw at Hasbro in 2007!  It was going to be Laser Prime in those colors!  Okay, this isn’t quite the same, but dang, that’s great!

But the winner for me is Sideswipe.  Oh, man, I love Sideswipe.  My first Transformer ever was the original Sideswipe.  I had to get the G2 version.  I got the Alternator.  I got the Classic.  When the BotCon 2010 customization class figure was announced as G2 Sideswipe, I was filled with jealous rage that I wasn’t there.  So, this version?

I. MUST. HAVE.

Ahem.


As for other exclusives, we have the obligatory T-shirt and Hat with the Stunticon logo, and we have lithographs, of which 100 are signed by Derrick Wyatt.

So… anyone willing to help a guy out and pick up some toys for me?