Botcon 2005 Exclusives Ironhide and Ratchet galleries now online.
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007 2:52AM CST
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Posted by Liege Evilmus on February 6th, 2007 @ 6:55am CST
So thanks, I'll just live vicariously through these galleries!
Posted by 1337W422102 on February 6th, 2007 @ 7:14am CST
Posted by Wheeljack35 on February 6th, 2007 @ 7:34am CST
83457W422102 wrote:Screw the Movie toys, if they released these to the general market instead, I'd buy them in a heartbeat.
These SHOULD of been released to the General Public
I mean I do not understand Hasbros thinking on this
Posted by thunder-clubhouse on February 6th, 2007 @ 7:51am CST
I know my addicted ass would shell out that kind of cash for these to in a box set.
Posted by Hairball178 on February 6th, 2007 @ 8:24am CST
Something I would like to see Hasbro do for a hopeful regular release would be to refine the front windshield, instead of it being seperated into two. That and remold the heads a little bit to make their "helmets" look more distinct (give Ironhide his "mohawk" and Ratchet the V-shape on their heads).
Posted by Tusko on February 6th, 2007 @ 9:01am CST
These toys really show where the IDW designs come from.
Thanks for posting.
Posted by Maldroth on February 6th, 2007 @ 10:29am CST
Posted by City Commander on February 6th, 2007 @ 10:32am CST
Shame I'll never be able to get them.
Posted by DecepticonRedAlert on February 6th, 2007 @ 10:35am CST
Posted by 1337W422102 on February 6th, 2007 @ 10:49am CST
Posted by Agamemnon on February 6th, 2007 @ 12:17pm CST
Posted by Megas XLR on February 6th, 2007 @ 2:15pm CST
Posted by Calenatarion on February 6th, 2007 @ 2:42pm CST
Posted by Bugbite on February 6th, 2007 @ 3:10pm CST
Posted by Leonardo on February 6th, 2007 @ 3:18pm CST
Posted by Greed on February 6th, 2007 @ 3:41pm CST
Posted by Seibertron on February 6th, 2007 @ 9:25pm CST
Calenatarion wrote:Yeah, why did you choose to use black?
Honestly? It all came out of little ol' Classics Legends Jetfire and Titanium Starscream. No matter what setting I used on my camera, I couldn't get a decent picture of Jetfire. There's something weird about the type of plastic used on that little guy that he was hard to photograph. Titanium Starscream happens to just be that weird shade of whitish gray that he was bleeding into the background as well. I figured since I've been wanting to do Masterpiece Ultra Magnus and Botcon Ratchet and had Masterforce Minverva enroute from Asia (who should arrive tomorrow or Thursday) that now would be a good time to temporarily switch to the black backgrounds to do all of these white figures. When I did the photos of Polar Claw, there was a setting on my camera that I wasn't using which made the black backgrounds look pretty terrible. I've figured out that setting and generally white figures are OK now but the same setting applied to the black background makes it look pretty awesome as well. After I finish the galleries of Minerva and Masterpiece Magnus, I'll switch back to using a white background. It's kind of a pain in the ass to swap backgrounds so I'll just do a run of figures with the black in the meantime.
Posted by Seibertron on February 6th, 2007 @ 9:27pm CST
Greed wrote:Come on Hasbro, repaint the Seekers to fill in the gaps and throw these bad boys in and we got another wave for the Classics.
Never gonna happen. Can you imagine how pissed the fans would be that bought a BotCon exclusive figure only to have it released in the main line? Yikes!
I actually decided to put Ratchet and Ironhide ahead of a lot of other figures because of the unusual number of emails I received inquiring about the Botcon Ratchet figure that I cameo'ed in the Movie Ratchet gallery. People didn't know what line the figure was from so I decided that I'd give those people a treat by doing a rush gallery of him since I had the black background up.
Posted by Wheeljack35 on February 6th, 2007 @ 9:37pm CST
They could of made alot more money if they had put them out in the mainstream
Alot of us would love to have these two