Botcon Drench In Robot Mode Pics

Friday, April 18th, 2008 11:20AM CDT

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Courtesy of ACToys yet again, we receive photos of what is rumored to be one of the Botcon souvenir sets next week. This is the Armada Wheeljack mold repainted into what some believe may be a scorned Sideswipe joining the decent, and good Decepticons.

You can see the original ACToys post here.

Transformers News: Botcon Drench In Robot Mode Pics

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Credit(s): AC Toys.net

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Re: Botcon Drench In Robot Mode Pics (683269)
Posted by Anonymous on April 18th, 2008 @ 11:23am CDT

weaksauce

Re: Botcon Drench In Robot Mode Pics (683299)
Posted by emeraldbeacon on April 18th, 2008 @ 12:07pm CDT

Love the mold, hate the deco (too garish for my tastes).

Re: Botcon Drench In Robot Mode Pics (683319)
Posted by Hard Hacker on April 18th, 2008 @ 12:34pm CDT

I like it. Very G2 feel to it. Seeing as how I'm a 90's product myself, I feel I'm the only one who likes this exclusive.

Re: Botcon Drench In Robot Mode Pics (683327)
Posted by Windracer on April 18th, 2008 @ 12:40pm CDT

My all time fave mold getting a repaint? Do want!

Paying like septuple the price for an otherwise $8 toy? Do not want! :[

Re: Botcon Drench In Robot Mode Pics (683333)
Posted by Megatron's Lapdog on April 18th, 2008 @ 12:42pm CDT

Ugh. I like the mold too, but the colors are way too garish. And what's with the stupid "TURBO" written on the spoiler? lol

Re: Botcon Drench In Robot Mode Pics (683343)
Posted by Zeds on April 18th, 2008 @ 12:50pm CDT

Too many colour blind people are involved in the design stage of some of these figures. NASTY! Great mould though. LOVE THAT!

Re: Botcon Drench In Robot Mode Pics (683357)
Posted by Hans on April 18th, 2008 @ 12:59pm CDT

Geeez, they STILL haven't managed to fix the paint on the logo?? It's still a big blot of ink without leaving the lines "open"... I had to import the Japanese version because of that in the Armada days...

Re: Botcon Drench In Robot Mode Pics (683374)
Posted by First-Aid on April 18th, 2008 @ 1:21pm CDT

Why always with the Turqoise? not good at all...first Botcon fig I really haven't liked

Re: Botcon Drench In Robot Mode Pics (683385)
Posted by Autobot Jazz on April 18th, 2008 @ 1:31pm CDT

Sideswipe huh? Bet nobody saw that coming! Well, he eas seen with the Decepticons in "the Gril who Loved Powerglide."Looks like his Botcon counterpart decided to stick with them.

Re: Botcon Drench In Robot Mode Pics (683473)
Posted by Sowndwave76 on April 18th, 2008 @ 3:14pm CDT

For what it is, that's pretty decent looking.
With some slight re-tooling and G1 colors, that could be an awesome Sideswipe for the Universe line.
I know they already have Sunstreaker, but I'd like it if Sideswipe wasn't just a repaint of him.
After all, the characters look really different in bot mode.

Re: Botcon Drench In Robot Mode Pics (683496)
Posted by Geekee1 on April 18th, 2008 @ 3:42pm CDT

Huh, I really like this one, early 90's paint deco and all.

Re: Botcon Drench In Robot Mode Pics (683504)
Posted by shortround on April 18th, 2008 @ 3:54pm CDT

Nice always liked him even back in the armada days

Re: Botcon Drench In Robot Mode Pics (683623)
Posted by dragons on April 18th, 2008 @ 6:18pm CDT

good looking figure bad choice in colors green is horrible looking on this figure everything else looks good

Re: Botcon Drench In Robot Mode Pics (683627)
Posted by Cyberjet #7 on April 18th, 2008 @ 6:25pm CDT

The green is too bad... could've been a nice figure.

Re: Botcon Drench In Robot Mode Pics (683644)
Posted by Craven Knight on April 18th, 2008 @ 6:48pm CDT

Cool, his colours are a homage to G2 Colorchanger Drench.

They've chosen the mold and colours well, I think if more people new the toy this guy pays tribute too they appriciate how well he's done.

I'd buy him but since he's a BotCon exclusive, I won't :-(

Re: Botcon Drench In Robot Mode Pics (683752)
Posted by UltraPrimal on April 18th, 2008 @ 9:55pm CDT

Craven Knight wrote:Cool, his colours are a homage to G2 Colorchanger Drench.

They've chosen the mold and colours well, I think if more people new the toy this guy pays tribute too they appriciate how well he's done.

I'd buy him but since he's a BotCon exclusive, I won't

QFT. You new guys should learn your history. In the old Universe line, there were a number of cancelled figures just when the line was getting good. Drench, Astrotrain, and the Seacons were some of them which have seen been released by the Club. This is the original unreleased prototype. As you can see, very similar.

I hope the Club does more of those unreleased figures, like Megatron and Defensor. And more that are not mentioned in the wiki page, but mentioned here.