BotCon 2015 Transformers Exclusives: Official Pics of "The Loose Cannon" Shattered Glass Stepper

Eh, honestly, the more I see of this one specifically, I really don't see the appeal. Unlike the others, Stepper's really passionless, which makes it worse considering that it's one of the concepts the club wanted to make for awhile.

I don't like or dislike SG, but I love Stepper. I'd be happy with this figure even if it were just a companion piece to my Million Pulblishing Stepper.

Two things FunPub struggles with... heads and decals. Those flames suck

Im suprised they even went for this deco considering GDO wheelie exists. Two orange Jazz molds. They should have done him in neon green or yellow.

Is it possible that Stepper's color sceme is based on Cybertron Lugnutz, or am I just halucinating again?

Nemesis Primal wrote:Is it possible that Stepper's color sceme is based on Cybertron Lugnutz, or am I just halucinating again?

Pete outright said that Stepper's paint scheme came from a reversal of the Primary/trim colors on the original. The reddish (orange? yeah...) flame decals on black, inverted to black flames on a reddish (orange?)

But your right, I do see Lugnutz, intentional or not.

I for one, like the colors and the flame pattern, but this is a figure I can pass on quite easily.

This figure is terribly bright and dangerously weird. Why must BotCon exclusives be so...abnormal?

just one year with out shattered glass is all i ask.

OptimalOptimus2 wrote:This figure is terribly bright and dangerously weird. Why must BotCon exclusives be so...abnormal?

Because they would be boring that way?

Flashwave wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:Is it possible that Stepper's color sceme is based on Cybertron Lugnutz, or am I just halucinating again?

Pete outright said that Stepper's paint scheme came from a reversal of the Primary/trim colors on the original. The reddish (orange? yeah...) flame decals on black, inverted to black flames on a reddish (orange?)

But your right, I do see Lugnutz, intentional or not.

Sorry, missed that memo. I don't mean to be a tinfoil hatter, can we pretend I never said any of this?

I like it.

Doubledealer93 wrote:just one year with out shattered glass is all i ask.

We had BotCon sets without SG last year (Pirates vs. Knights) and the year before (Machine Wars: Termination). This includes the souvenirs.

SG Stepper is a great example of how you ruin a great toy with bad colors.

^ I'm actually ok with the colors. Just a little worn out on the mold, but give it a couple years from now if this is the last use of it for a bit and I'll look back more positively.

Speaking of the colors, was at the store this morning and found what may have been the inspiration for them?

I like it too. It's way better than using the gold for the primary color, which always comes out kinda brown. I think the dark red would have been really nice too though.

Looking back I think that was something the early years did really well. While the mail lines were putting out bright colors for kids, the botcon toys were decidedly more adult and dark. Black, dark blue, dark green. Unless homaging g2, I love it when the con toys lean toward grown up schemes. Guess that's why I'm pleased with all the nice blue bots this year.

Looking forward to more reveals. Guessing this orange may be a nice flash of color in the set after they're all on the shelf.

Doubledealer93 wrote:just one year with out shattered glass is all i ask.

What? Like last year? Or the year before that? We haven't gotten a single SG figure at BotCon OR through the club for the past two years, unless you insist on counting last year's Rodimus Kreon. If so, that's really petty.

You may not like SG, but a lot of folks do, so don't deny those of us who do the chance to get ONE figure out of the set that's SG this year.

Bad Wolf wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Ok, now only the Boss and Bounty Hunter remain. Let's recap what we have:

1.) the Boss will most likely be based on something from Dark of the Moon with 62811 (June 28 2011, movie premier) and something else with 484 (4-84, 48-4, 4-8-4, or "DHD" even).

Anyone?

This still leads me to believe the "Boss" is going to be Mirage/Ligier
6/28/11 - DotM Movie
4-84 - Mirage was Autobot "#4" in the original 84 line up

I still haven't figured out what mold/color they would use. possibly they could go with his DotM "Dino" color scheme, in the Gen BB/Nightbeat mold?

Hmmmm... To be honest we kept thinking of Decepticon bosses. Were there any Autobot-allied bosses that are a bit shady?

Here's what Jesse Wittenrich had to say about Stepper's colors:

NightViper wrote:Applying only logic, the orange comes from the yellow and red on G1 Stepper's flames...

But outside of that it's because it looks cool. It's a very Halloween-esque color scheme that makes him look evil in a fun way.

If I do get SG Stepper, he's going to be Zoom Zoom.

RiddlerJ wrote:If I do get SG Stepper, he's going to be Zoom Zoom.

Nothing against Stepper, myself, but I do still kinda wish it had been Zoom-Zoom instead. The bo could have written him as a loose cannon by saying something like this:

ZOOM-ZOOM is no ordinary AUTOBOT. In the reality designated the "BT World", the Autobot scientist PERCEPTOR worked many long hours on the Timaeus Project. One such experiment required a test subject needed to access the Timaeus Drive for the project to be a success. The AUTOBOT known as MEISTER volunteered one of his GT System duplicates, designation "ZOOM-ZOOM", for the experiment. However, PERCEPTOR'S theory contained a small margin of error that proved larger than believed. The experiment caused a rift in space-time, which pulled ZOOM-ZOOM into its vortex. The savage energies of Transwarp space greatly affected ZOOM-ZOOM's programming, turning it into a rampaging berserker. Upon finally exiting the rift, the now-living, mad ZOOM-ZOOM found himself in the world of Axiom Nexus. Constantly at war with himself, ZOOM-ZOOM struggles to keep himself under control from lashing out in blind fury. Deemed a public menace by Axiom Nexus's officials, ZOOM-ZOOM desperately sought help from anyone he could find, eventually finding refuge with other fellow bots on the run from the law.

And then another sentence or two about his personality or so.

Sabrblade wrote:

RiddlerJ wrote:If I do get SG Stepper, he's going to be Zoom Zoom.

Nothing against Stepper, myself, but I do still kinda wish it had been Zoom-Zoom instead. The bo could have written him as a loose cannon by saying something like this:

ZOOM-ZOOM is no ordinary AUTOBOT. In the reality designated the "BT World", the Autobot scientist PERCEPTOR worked many long hours on the Timaeus Project. One such experiment required a test subject needed to access the Timaeus Drive for the project to be a success. The AUTOBOT known as MEISTER volunteered one of his GT System duplicates, designation "ZOOM-ZOOM", for the experiment. However, PERCEPTOR'S theory contained a small margin of error that proved larger than believed. The experiment caused a rift in space-time, which pulled ZOOM-ZOOM into its vortex. The savage energies of Transwarp space greatly affected ZOOM-ZOOM's programming, turning it into a rampaging berserker. Upon finally exiting the rift, the now-living, mad ZOOM-ZOOM found himself in the world of Axiom Nexus. Constantly at war with himself, ZOOM-ZOOM struggles to keep himself under control from lashing out in blind fury. Deemed a public menace by Axiom Nexus's officials, ZOOM-ZOOM desperately sought help from anyone he could find, eventually finding refuge with other fellow bots on the run from the law.

And then another sentence or two about his personality or so.

I think of all the untapped avenues, Groundbreaker would be a better fit for the "loose cannon" over all. He's established to be a bit kill crazy, and it would be interesting from a story perspective to see an autobot who thinks he's doing the right thing, despite the fact his actions are deplorable, to the point he's working with decipticons. Also, in regards to figures, I think it would be neat either to see the monochromatic colorscheme on beast hunters bumblebee, or alternatively the pretender shell deco on Generations voyager Roadbuster.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Bad Wolf wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Ok, now only the Boss and Bounty Hunter remain. Let's recap what we have:

1.) the Boss will most likely be based on something from Dark of the Moon with 62811 (June 28 2011, movie premier) and something else with 484 (4-84, 48-4, 4-8-4, or "DHD" even).

Anyone?

This still leads me to believe the "Boss" is going to be Mirage/Ligier
6/28/11 - DotM Movie
4-84 - Mirage was Autobot "#4" in the original 84 line up

I still haven't figured out what mold/color they would use. possibly they could go with his DotM "Dino" color scheme, in the Gen BB/Nightbeat mold?

Hmmmm... To be honest we kept thinking of Decepticon bosses. Were there any Autobot-allied bosses that are a bit shady?

You don't think they'd make Sentinel Prime from someone do you? The only figure off the top of my head that would work would be RID Optimus Prime.
I just don't see Mirage being the boss. I can't find where the "4" for Mirage is coming from. Lambor or Sideswipe was C-04 in Japan. D-84 was Abominus. Also, Mirage would be sketchy to begin with because of the rumored limb of him.

It's everything we thought it was and MORE!

We called Dark of the Moon, we called you-know-who, but the "484" still doesn't make any sense...

Huh, I was expecting something a little more intricate from this head sculpt, even though, yes it's a post movie, movie, megatron meaning his face, or lack there of half, has been repaired. However, I dare say because of that it came out a little, vanilla; it dosen't have any interesting or particularly unique details. Because of its mixing of pseudo G1 and movie, it almost looks like one of the Kreo sets' heads (not the kreons mind you). Also, wasn't DOTM Megatron's olive green a little less saturated, like almost bordering on beige? I suppose I like the inclusion of the arms microns, but they feel almost too garish in their pallet to be paired with the pseudo DOTM megatron, at least for scalpel and the energon mace.

That was my first impression, too. The microns don't seem to match in color scheme to the muted olive colors. Mind you, the black looks good.

gothsaurus wrote:That was my first impression, too. The microns don't seem to match in color scheme to the muted olive colors. Mind you, the black looks good.

They're not supposed to: the mantis is colored like (and probably is) "Ze Doctor", the mace refers to G1's More than Meets the Eye pt. 2, and the cannon... well it's always been black

gothsaurus wrote:That was my first impression, too. The microns don't seem to match in color scheme to the muted olive colors. Mind you, the black looks good.

Yeah, it feels like scalpel should be more of an off white, whether a bone white, or borderline grey, whilst the energon mace should be more of a silver, or mat grey flail than the well, the bright pink energon mace. homaging the aspect of his melee, rather than making a direct alteration of it.

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Total fail. Im skipping the set this year. I dont need DOTM homages when I already have the real thing. Ill pay e-bay prices for the Duocons and still save money.

I give this an eh out of 10. The color pattern is divided up strangely, and the microns are too vibrant compared to his colors. The head sculpts is okay. I'd prefer to just get Breakdown with regular paint apps instead of stickers, but I won't hold my breath.

Oh wow. How much is this set going for? I want that megatron

This years botcon set to me is really just a filler set of figures just to fill the gaps of missing figures we wanted but haven't recieved

I actually am really liking that paint job on Megs. I think the Breakdown mold works surprisingly well on him.

I also bet that cybertron Sideways will be the bounty hunter. He would fit in because he is a dimensional traveler, and I can picture him being a bounty hunter.

I think this is a great idea.

Scalpel from the mantis Micron in white won't ever stop being a great idea.

I love the face on Megatron. I'm glad that his head didn't end up too small on that body too.

Randy

Literally my only complaint with Megatron is that his face should have been scarred. That aside I'd be happy to make him my Classics Megatron (or I would if I had the budget). Not sure I'd give him all those Microns but that's OK, all the more for the rest of my 'cons.

This Megatron is cool and I wanna be like him with his rad Micron collection.

Well, if the last one is Oilmaster, what does anyone think they're going to use for the shell?

I like the Boss, and wouldn't mind having more like him, but I can't say I'm not disappointed. Didn't they say that this set would top last year's? I hope this isn't what they were referring to when they said that.

The Microns are cool though, so I'll give them that.

Mr.Man on the video says Megs takes notes from Bayverse and G1... I thought that's what this was?

Mindmaster wrote:I like the Boss, and wouldn't mind having more like him, but I can't say I'm not disappointed. Didn't they say that this set would top last year's? I hope this isn't what they were referring to when they said that.

The Microns are cool though, so I'll give them that.

Right now they'r banking most everything in the box set on oilmaster, a double pretender with two robots inside a shell. Outside of that, I suspect the pollybag sets are going to where it it's at.

This set is a snoozer besides Packrat.

My mother always told me if I don't have anything nice, don't say anything at all. So I'll just say this: I like Battletrap. That is all.

While I wasn't a fan of the movies... or their toys... I will say I do REALLY like the head sculpt. I think it nailed exactly what they were shooting for. Plus it does exactly what I want to do every time I close my eyes... whitewash the bad movie faces with slightly more G1 versions. Bravo for retconning what movie's toady megatron into something I can be proud of.

Black Bumblebee wrote:My mother always told me if I don't have anything nice, don't say anything at all. So I'll just say this: I like Battletrap. That is all.

Well, if I use that axiom, then...
... ... ... ... (sound of crickets in the distance)

this Megatron looks like a nice figure ... now if it was a stand alone figure under the CW title, then i would buy it

Megatron looks N-I-C-E! I'm not going to lie, this Megatron is pretty sweet. And using the Breakdown mold was pretty clever.

My feelings on this are complicated.

Amelie wrote:I kinda like Megatron. Its probably my favorite figure of the set as for me its what exclusives should really be about - bonkers homages that have no real place in the main line.

BattleTrap should have been a main line release, as a Voyager case-filler when the movie comes out next year so new molds aren't swamped under the inevitable movie-verse tsunami.

I can agree with you there battle trap should have been released as a main line figure but we might be lucky and get a main line release with some remolded parts later on like they did with the seekers and coneheads. But that is a big hopefully though.