ionacus wrote:alright skowl. you can die happy now.
Not until I actually get a set!
shortround wrote:I have to aim this question a skowl since he seems to be the secons junky. What makes the orignal secons that these are based off so amazing. Also what is the difference between them and the beast wars figures not that I own either one just wondering. Because this may finally be the reason I join the collecters club.
Alot of it (for me anyway) is just a strong emotional connection and personal taste. They were among my first Transformers as a child. I've always loved toys based on aquatic things, like fish or boats or whatever. The Seacon team was great, each mold was amazing by the day's standards. The sculpting detail on the beast modes are great. It was fun how the alt modes were very monstrous versions of real-life aquatic animals, and the robots all looked cool - not like other combiner teams who had a few weird looking bots (Aerialbots come to mind... boy, those robots looked sickly). When the Seacons combined, they made a wicked robot with loads of firepower, more than any other combiner. The colour scheme (though many find it weird) was different, but fit the aquatic nature of the set perfectly. Piranacon's colours meshed together well, not some of the other combiners, he was well-balanced and just plain fun. All the members had great profiles, and I just fell in love with the group, they've always been my favourites.
The Beast Wars versions were great as well. I still like the original colours the best since it was the one I grew up with, but man, those BW2 repaints are
beautiful, and may very well be one of the best repaints in TF history - the whole "fossil" look was such a brilliant idea, I still can't believe how beautiful this set looks. Shame Nautilator (or any of the gun accessories) didn't make the set.
But now, we finally have a chance to own the whole set over again, in a brand new "coral reef"-esque colour scheme. It's darker, the black, purple, and greyish-blue are very "decepticon" - with the orange for contrast, the set really comes alive. You could almost imagine the orange and yellow parts glowing underwater. I think the best part of this set, is how it will look next to the other two.
When the Universe line first came out, my first thought was "wow, it would be so great if the repainted the Seacons, they were my favourite... I mean, come on, they've already done Bruticus like a thousand times". Then when they were finally announced, I was so happy, I love the colours, then it just turned into a waiting game... wait... and wait... and wait... while all the other fans got all the seekers they asked for... an Ultra-Magnus here, another one there... oh look, another Rodimus toy.... Here's Prowl again, I haven't seen him for 15 minutes... while I waited and waited for the only real set I ever wanted. The one that would make me feel the most like a kid again.
I always said one thing about the set:
I don't care about the price, just make the set available, it'll make me really feel like a kid again... and you can't put a price on that.
