New Galleries: Generations Selects Seacons and King Poseidon

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Seibertron.com is proud to bring you seven new galleries for the Transformers Generations Selects Seacons. All together, there are almost 1,500 images because there is a lot of ground to cover with the Seacons. Since they are all combiners, the limbs have five modes each: leg, arm, robot, beast mode with Snaptrap only having the beast, robot and torso modes (though we attempted a Snaptrap weapons/base/attack mode for your viewing pleasure). On top of that, each of the limbs also have a Targetmaster mode. You will find an individual gallery for Turtler (Snaptrap), Lobclaw (Nautilator), Kraken (Seawing), Gulf (Skalor), Overbite and Tentakil, along with their combined form King Poseidon (Piranacon).

And unlike other combiners, since there are five different limbs, you can get many different configurations when combining them into Piranacon and chosing which one to use as the gun. We cover all of those along with the gun modes being held simply by Snaptrap and Overlord.

The gallery for King Poseidon will also show him off against God Ginrai and Grand Maximus as well as group images with the other Decepticons from the Masterforce cartoon such as Overlord, Dreadwind, Darkwing "Blackwing", the Prime Master Pretenders (Bomb-Burst, Skullgrin, and Submarauder), and Titans Return Headmaster Juniors (Fangry, Horri-Bull and Squeezeplay). In addition to King Poseidon wielding each Seacon member in Targetmaster mode, we came up with several "blaster" combinations that utilize each of the Seacons guns combined to form a massive blaster (which the instructions unfortunately failed to demonstrate an official combined gun mode).

While these figures are all based on previously released molds, the remolding and added parts really make them unique and it is a wonder to behold. We hope you enjoy these galleries!

Generations Selects King Poseidon (205 images) - Combiners, Seacons

Generations Selects Turtler (213 images) - Combiners, Seacons, Voyager Class

Generations Selects Overbite (206 images) - Combiners, Deluxe Class, Seacons

Generations Selects Lobclaw (210 images) - Combiners, Deluxe Class, Seacons

Generations Selects Kraken (215 images) - Combiners, Deluxe Class, Seacons

Generations Selects Gulf (229 images) - Combiners, Deluxe Class, Seacons

Generations Selects Tentakil (217 images) - Combiners, Deluxe Class, Seacons

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Re: New Galleries: Generations Selects Seacons and King Poseidon (2063218)
Posted by Seibertron on May 3rd, 2020 @ 3:18am CDT

Thanks for the write-up, William!

Re: New Galleries: Generations Selects Seacons and King Poseidon (2063224)
Posted by Summoner on May 3rd, 2020 @ 7:38am CDT

What is that third mode for Snap Trap/Turtler? some kind of submarine? gun platform? fanmode? Traditionally the Leaders of Combiner teams have a third mode [and no i don't mean a torso]
Anyone know please?

Re: New Galleries: Generations Selects Seacons and King Poseidon (2063227)
Posted by sol magnus on May 3rd, 2020 @ 9:31am CDT

I wish I could afford these guys, they're just out of the budget - but they are too cool for school!

Re: New Galleries: Generations Selects Seacons and King Poseidon (2063231)
Posted by Decepticon Stryker on May 3rd, 2020 @ 9:50am CDT

Summoner wrote:What is that third mode for Snap Trap/Turtler? some kind of submarine? gun platform? fanmode? Traditionally the Leaders of Combiner teams have a third mode [and no i don't mean a torso]
Anyone know please?

Officially Turtler does not have a third mode. I think the picture in the gallery is Seibertron showing off that he can still transform like Silverbolt, like how Hun-grrr can assume a "jet mode" if you transform him the same way as Silverbolt. Likewise, Silverbolt has a "dragon mode" but these are just fan modes.

Re: New Galleries: Generations Selects Seacons and King Poseidon (2063239)
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on May 3rd, 2020 @ 10:26am CDT

That is a truly impressive gallery, thanks for putting these together Boss!

Makes me more excited to finally get them all once the final 2 come in and I can ship them

Re: New Galleries: Generations Selects Seacons and King Poseidon (2063240)
Posted by Hellscream9999 on May 3rd, 2020 @ 10:35am CDT

The pics look great; I just love how expressive the new hands and feet allow king Poseidon to be

Re: New Galleries: Generations Selects Seacons and King Poseidon (2063241)
Posted by o.supreme on May 3rd, 2020 @ 10:36am CDT

An awesome gallery indeed thank you so much! Also patiently waiting on my last 2 Seacons. I haven't looked at all 1500 pics, but I wonder if there's a way you can turn Tentakil around ( just so you can't see its face), just looks goofy upside down.

Also, looks like you got some pretty awesome poses, and were abel to have him keep his arm up even with the added deluxe as a weapon! (or was that trick photography

) I know PrimevsPrime was disappointed at the the loose/floppiness of KP, did you find this to be so? I know it may be a case of YMMV, but I haven't had any extreme problems with the 4 I have so far.

Re: New Galleries: Generations Selects Seacons and King Poseidon (2063242)
Posted by TF-fan kev777 on May 3rd, 2020 @ 11:21am CDT

Hellscream9999 wrote:The pics look great; I just love how expressive the new hands and feet allow king Poseidon to be

The hands in particular are incredible. Blows any of the previous Has/Tak hands out of the water. I'd seriously pay $20 a pair of they ever released them separately for the other combiners.

Re: New Galleries: Generations Selects Seacons and King Poseidon (2063244)
Posted by Seibertron on May 3rd, 2020 @ 11:42am CDT

o.supreme wrote:Also, looks like you got some pretty awesome poses, and were abel to have him keep his arm up even with the added deluxe as a weapon! (or was that trick photography ) I know PrimevsPrime was disappointed at the the loose/floppiness of KP, did you find this to be so? I know it may be a case of YMMV, but I haven't had any extreme problems with the 4 I have so far.

King Poseidon and the Seacons have the same inherent problems that the rest of the Combiner Wars molds have. I knew what to expect and wasn't going to let that stop me from showing the rest of you how awesome this set is. I was inspired by PrimevsPrime's video review to kick ass with these galleries. I made some modifications to some of the figures (like adding a coating of super glue to thicken up some of the joints) to be able to get these toys to do what I wanted them to do in the galleries.

Re: New Galleries: Generations Selects Seacons and King Poseidon (2063245)
Posted by Rodimus Knight on May 3rd, 2020 @ 11:56am CDT

Great photos. The Modern ones look so much nicer then the original's overall, although the modern turtler is a little less sleet looking in Turtle mode then the original, but he reminds me more of Gamera then the original did.
It's too bad Tentikill looks terrible no matter which version you go with. lol

Re: New Galleries: Generations Selects Seacons and King Poseidon (2063246)
Posted by william-james88 on May 3rd, 2020 @ 12:04pm CDT

Seibertron wrote:Thanks for the write-up, William!

It was a pleasure, thanks for the galleries!

Re: New Galleries: Generations Selects Seacons and King Poseidon (2063247)
Posted by ZeroWolf on May 3rd, 2020 @ 12:25pm CDT

I would have loved to have gotten my hands on these. Money just didn't make it happen. These galleries certainly make it easier to appreciate them

Fantastic shots, only thing missing from the masterforce villains is Black Zarak! (oh and I guess the headmaster Jr's receiving proper updates)

Re: New Galleries: Generations Selects Seacons and King Poseidon (2063248)
Posted by Seibertron on May 3rd, 2020 @ 12:38pm CDT

ZeroWolf wrote:Fantastic shots, only thing missing from the masterforce villains is Black Zarak! (oh and I guess the headmaster Jr's receiving proper updates)

And sadly, Doubledealer. It was really hard doing all of these setup shots for Masterforce knowing that a proper Doubledealer was just around the corner.

Re: New Galleries: Generations Selects Seacons and King Poseidon (2063249)
Posted by ZeroWolf on May 3rd, 2020 @ 12:44pm CDT

I forgot Doubledealer #-o

I can understand that though. On reflection there's still a lot of the Autobot cast that haven't been updated yet. Luckily God Ginrai has Grand to back him up in the photos :lol:

Re: New Galleries: Generations Selects Seacons and King Poseidon (2063260)
Posted by TheAmazingBrave on May 3rd, 2020 @ 3:11pm CDT

Wait... Did you get him to hold up his targetmaster...?!

Re: New Galleries: Generations Selects Seacons and King Poseidon (2063290)
Posted by Ultra Markus on May 3rd, 2020 @ 5:16pm CDT

its a shame that the ones who form the limbs never got their robot modes animated for comparision :-?

Re: New Galleries: Generations Selects Seacons and King Poseidon (2063292)
Posted by Emerje on May 3rd, 2020 @ 5:36pm CDT

TheAmazingBrave wrote:Wait... Did you get him to hold up his targetmaster...?!

Seibertron wrote:I made some modifications to some of the figures (like adding a coating of super glue to thicken up some of the joints) to be able to get these toys to do what I wanted them to do in the galleries.

Also, I love this photo so much!

Seacons and Predacons were the only combiner teams I didn't own any members of as a kid. The Predacons I've made up for a couple times between the first Japanese reissue and Titan, but I passed on the Hasbro Seacon reissue because I thought Takara would use the refreshed molds for a properly colored box set like they did with the Predacons, Constructicons and Combaticons (spoiler: they didn't) and the club repaint sold out before I could complete the sale. This is my first time with any for of Seacons and I'm having a lot of fun with them!

Emerje

Re: New Galleries: Generations Selects Seacons and King Poseidon (2063294)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on May 3rd, 2020 @ 5:44pm CDT

Maybe a silly question, but how well do the Selects Seacons mix with the rest of the CW/PotP? I'm asking because I was wondering if a new version of this guy would be possible:

Re: New Galleries: Generations Selects Seacons and King Poseidon (2063298)
Posted by Emerje on May 3rd, 2020 @ 6:00pm CDT

I don't see why it couldn't. The limbs are all the same size as CW and PotP limbs and there's no clearance issues where they connect to Turtler.

Emerje

Re: New Galleries: Generations Selects Seacons and King Poseidon (2063299)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on May 3rd, 2020 @ 6:07pm CDT

Emerje wrote:I don't see why it couldn't. The limbs are all the same size as CW and PotP limbs and there's no clearance issues where they connect to Turtler.

Emerje

I'm talking more about the tolerances of the ports.

Re: New Galleries: Generations Selects Seacons and King Poseidon (2063301)
Posted by Emerje on May 3rd, 2020 @ 6:18pm CDT

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Emerje wrote:I don't see why it couldn't. The limbs are all the same size as CW and PotP limbs and there's no clearance issues where they connect to Turtler.

Emerje

I'm talking more about the tolerances of the ports.

If you're asking if the torso can handle having four Deluxe figures hanging off its shoulders then I doubt there's any problem. The torso is very sturdy with multiple connecting points holding it together. Since it's based on the Silverbolt engineering the shoulders are really Turtler's thighs and knees so it's not like he's going to be pulled in half by the weight on each side. And his feet are plenty big and stable to not fall over. The elbows are the bigger concern, I doubt Blastoff and Cutthroat are any better at holding up another Deluxe than any other combiner limb is.

Emerje

Re: New Galleries: Generations Selects Seacons and King Poseidon (2063349)
Posted by MeGrimlock78 on May 4th, 2020 @ 11:59am CDT

So, seeing the way that the limbs are held in weapon mode, has anyone tried using PotP fists to attach Combine limbs to Metroplex, the same way G1 combiners could attach to G1 Metroplex? I'd try, but I never got Metroplex.

Re: New Galleries: Generations Selects Seacons and King Poseidon (2063351)
Posted by Seibertron on May 4th, 2020 @ 12:19pm CDT

MeGrimlock78 wrote:So, seeing the way that the limbs are held in weapon mode, has anyone tried using PotP fists to attach Combine limbs to Metroplex, the same way G1 combiners could attach to G1 Metroplex? I'd try, but I never got Metroplex.

I like that idea! Haven't tried it yet though.

Re: New Galleries: Generations Selects Seacons and King Poseidon (2063355)
Posted by TF-fan kev777 on May 4th, 2020 @ 1:45pm CDT

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Maybe a silly question, but how well do the Selects Seacons mix with the rest of the CW/PotP? I'm asking because I was wondering if a new version of this guy would be possible:

That is the first thing I was going to try once the last 2 Seacons get here.

Re: New Galleries: Generations Selects Seacons and King Poseidon (2063358)
Posted by Seibertron on May 4th, 2020 @ 1:56pm CDT

It'll work if you put some superglue on the joints of the Decepticons used for the arms to thicken up the joints. But if you just do the standard figures, it won't support the weight of the Targetmaster modes. The poses I put Piranacon in are not for the faint of heart!

Re: New Galleries: Generations Selects Seacons and King Poseidon (2063365)
Posted by ZeldaTheSwordsman on May 4th, 2020 @ 2:26pm CDT

They look pretty cool though! The Seacons look awesome and you photographed them quite well.

Also, does this mean we're getting Ginrai, Godbomber, and God Ginrai galleries next?

Re: New Galleries: Generations Selects Seacons and King Poseidon (2063377)
Posted by Gauntlet101010 on May 4th, 2020 @ 4:05pm CDT

I can tell you had some fun making these galleries.

Re: New Galleries: Generations Selects Seacons and King Poseidon (2063414)
Posted by SpikeyTigertron on May 5th, 2020 @ 4:21am CDT

For the combined gun mode, were we have provided "official guidance"?

I have to say your take on it, is the best I've seen so far!

I cringe at the idea of "modifying" my figures when it comes to joints... but I really do want to be able to pull of some of those poses with the target master mode.

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Posted by TF-fan kev777 on May 5th, 2020 @ 11:49am CDT

SpikeyTigertron wrote:For the combined gun mode, were we have provided "official guidance"?

I have to say your take on it, is the best I've seen so far!

I cringe at the idea of "modifying" my figures when it comes to joints... but I really do want to be able to pull of some of those poses with the target master mode.

Not as elegant as free standing, but you can use some type of overhead supports and a thin string or thread to support the targetmaster kind of like a puppet.

Re: New Galleries: Generations Selects Seacons and King Poseidon (2063435)
Posted by aronjlove on May 5th, 2020 @ 12:53pm CDT

Seibertron wrote:It'll work if you put some superglue on the joints of the Decepticons used for the arms to thicken up the joints. But if you just do the standard figures, it won't support the weight of the Targetmaster modes. The poses I put Piranacon in are not for the faint of heart!

This would be the joints on the legs of the figures used as arms, correct? I'm thinking of trying this with an extra Red Swoop. Those are some of the loosest legs evar!

Re: New Galleries: Generations Selects Seacons and King Poseidon (2063440)
Posted by cruizerdave on May 5th, 2020 @ 3:30pm CDT

I'm always amazed at how extensive the photo galleries are on this site. Great job Seibertron folks!

Re: New Galleries: Generations Selects Seacons and King Poseidon (2063441)
Posted by Rodimus Prime on May 5th, 2020 @ 4:07pm CDT

cruizerdave wrote:I'm always amazed at how extensive the photo galleries are on this site. Great job Seibertron folks!

More like 'great job, Seibertron!' :lol:

Is it weird that looking through this gallery is making me want to buy the original G1 figures again? (Had to sell mine about 10 years ago.)

Re: New Galleries: Generations Selects Seacons and King Poseidon (2063469)
Posted by SpikeyTigertron on May 5th, 2020 @ 9:29pm CDT

aronjlove wrote:
Seibertron wrote:It'll work if you put some superglue on the joints of the Decepticons used for the arms to thicken up the joints. But if you just do the standard figures, it won't support the weight of the Targetmaster modes. The poses I put Piranacon in are not for the faint of heart!
This would be the joints on the legs of the figures used as arms, correct? I'm thinking of trying this with an extra Red Swoop. Those are some of the loosest legs evar!

Yeah, basically the hip and knees of the arm robot(s)

Re: New Galleries: Generations Selects Seacons and King Poseidon (2063814)
Posted by Seibertron on May 9th, 2020 @ 11:38am CDT

SpikeyTigertron wrote:
aronjlove wrote:
Seibertron wrote:It'll work if you put some superglue on the joints of the Decepticons used for the arms to thicken up the joints. But if you just do the standard figures, it won't support the weight of the Targetmaster modes. The poses I put Piranacon in are not for the faint of heart!
This would be the joints on the legs of the figures used as arms, correct? I'm thinking of trying this with an extra Red Swoop. Those are some of the loosest legs evar!

Yeah, basically the hip and knees of the arm robot(s)

Yes, that's where I added the super glue. On the knees, I applied a tiny dab to the backside of Nautilator's knees and just kept bending the legs back and forth until I felt the glue had done its job and dried. Then I popped the legs off and applied a thin coating of superglue to the ball joints. I let those dry for a few minutes, popped the legs back on, and moved the legs around until I was satisfied with the level of friction and making sure that the glue had dried. My Nautilator now almost has the opposite problem when his ball joints might be a tad too tight, but I needed them to be like that to support these poses.

On that note, the biggest problem I ended up having with Nautilator holding a Targetmaster mode Seacon was the actual combiner joint inside of him wasn't always strong enough to support the weight. To really fix him, you'd have to disassemble Nautilator's chest (which requires pin removal) in order to get to the combiner port to disassemble that piece and stretch out the spring to make it stronger. I didn't do that because I was able to pull off the poses I wanted long enough for my pics (though it was a really, really, really frustrating process that involved me cursing when Piranacon would tip over or a limb would fall off or whatever else happened behind the scenes).

Re: New Galleries: Generations Selects Seacons and King Poseidon (2063815)
Posted by Seibertron on May 9th, 2020 @ 11:43am CDT

SpikeyTigertron wrote:For the combined gun mode, were we have provided "official guidance"?

I have to say your take on it, is the best I've seen so far!

Transformers Generations Selects Piranacon (King Poseidon) Gallery

This one was my favorite, though I didn't like that Overbite's gun had to sit sideways on top. I wish there had been a better way to handle Overbite's gun integration. It was always the one piece that messed up whatever I came up with.