New Toy Galleries: Gentei Wildrider, Animated Black Rodimus, and G1 Black Hot Rodimus

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"I see a line of cars and they're all painted black." - Rolling Stones

Black Friday may be five months and one week away, but why not party early? Hot Rod and Rodimus molds have been painted black and purple, then reiterated into evil clones, or other characters altogether. Oddly enough, these Black Rodimus figures continue to be exclusives time and time again. With this latest entry, Gentei Wildrider, Animated Black Rodimus and G1 Black Hot Rodimus make their way into the illustrious toy galleries of Seibertron.com.

Gentei Wildrider was a 2008 Chara Hobby Show exclusive, using the Classics mold. This year, Animated Black Rodimus was a Hyper Hobby exclusive, and of course, a repaint of Rodimus Minor. And lastly, way back in 2001 the Tokyo Toy Festival offered 1500 Black Hot Rodimus figures. This toy is a straight black redeco of the G1 Hot Rod figure, and even uses the same stickers!

And what would all this talk about exclusive Black Rodimus figures be without updates to the gallery of Shattered Glass Rodimus? Check out all the Decepticons in their glory below!

(The 2011 BotCon galleries have also been updated, now featuring groupshots!)

Since we're showing ours, let's see pictures of your own black repaint collection!

Wildrider (Deluxe Class, Exclusives)
Transformers Henkei

Black Rodimus (Deluxe Class)
Transformers Animated

Black Hot Rodimus (Autobot Cars, Exclusives, Reissues)
Convention & Club Exclusives

Shattered Glass Rodimus (Deluxe Class, Exclusives)
Convention & Club Exclusives

Links to the 2011 BotCon toys are listed below. SG Thundercracker and SG Galvatron's galleries will appear shortly.

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Attendee Figures:

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Re: New Toy Galleries: Gentei Wildrider, Animated Black Rodimus, and G1 Black Hot Rodimus (1241460)
Posted by El Duque on June 17th, 2011 @ 2:09am CDT

Let's have a black celebration.

Re: New Toy Galleries: Gentei Wildrider, Animated Black Rodimus, and G1 Black Hot Rodimus (1241478)
Posted by Gandalf on June 17th, 2011 @ 3:57am CDT

Too much awesome in that shot. Overload, overload!

Re: New Toy Galleries: Gentei Wildrider, Animated Black Rodimus, and G1 Black Hot Rodimus (1241481)
Posted by Blackstreak on June 17th, 2011 @ 4:04am CDT

I have the G1 Black Rodimus. Totally missed out on Gentei Wildrider (I wants!!). I have no interest in Shattered Glass Rodimus & Animated Black Rodimus. This is like Optimus having his own series of Nemesis Primes except Rodimus is having his own evil twin. There's something about giving the leader 'bots a nemesis that's just really cool. I mean, it's not enough to give them Megatron or Galvatron to fight, we now have to give them a Nemesis Prime or Nemesis Rodimus also.

Re: New Toy Galleries: Gentei Wildrider, Animated Black Rodimus, and G1 Black Hot Rodimus (1241642)
Posted by Seibertron on June 17th, 2011 @ 11:52am CDT

Who wants to share their black Transformers collection? I'm curious to see what people have in their collections that I don't have yet.

Re: New Toy Galleries: Gentei Wildrider, Animated Black Rodimus, and G1 Black Hot Rodimus (1241687)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on June 17th, 2011 @ 12:53pm CDT

Seibertron wrote:Who wants to share their black Transformers collection? I'm curious to see what people have in their collections that I don't have yet.

I only have two: THS-02 G1 Convoy Black Version, and GC-14 Fang Wolf Black Version. Once I find a decent way to, I may post pics of both.

Re: New Toy Galleries: Gentei Wildrider, Animated Black Rodimus, and G1 Black Hot Rodimus (1241690)
Posted by Flux Convoy on June 17th, 2011 @ 12:59pm CDT

Really wish Gentai Wildrider hadn't slipped by. That and I wish he wasn't crazy money after all. Why is he crazy money? At the time he was the only Stunticon available for Classics/Henkei. He's still only got Drag Strip for company as it is. I could understand the insanity of it all if there were a complete roster of Classics Stunticons but there isn't. Not even close.

Re: New Toy Galleries: Gentei Wildrider, Animated Black Rodimus, and G1 Black Hot Rodimus (1241692)
Posted by REMINATOR on June 17th, 2011 @ 1:04pm CDT

Gee, what a conspiracy! Hot Rod got 3 black paint already? I'm still waiting for a black UMagnus to happen :lol:

*Oh wait, there was that Black RID version, yeah good luck for me in trying to own one*

Re: New Toy Galleries: Gentei Wildrider, Animated Black Rodimus, and G1 Black Hot Rodimus (1241694)
Posted by Seibertron on June 17th, 2011 @ 1:06pm CDT

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Seibertron wrote:Who wants to share their black Transformers collection? I'm curious to see what people have in their collections that I don't have yet.

I only have two: THS-02 G1 Convoy Black Version, and GC-14 Fang Wolf Black Version. Once I find a decent way to, I may post pics of both.

Any reason why you don't use the upload tool through our forums? Just click on the "Upload attachment" tab below the Save, Preview, Submit buttons when posting a reply.

Re: New Toy Galleries: Gentei Wildrider, Animated Black Rodimus, and G1 Black Hot Rodimus (1241704)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on June 17th, 2011 @ 1:23pm CDT

Seibertron wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Seibertron wrote:Who wants to share their black Transformers collection? I'm curious to see what people have in their collections that I don't have yet.

I only have two: THS-02 G1 Convoy Black Version, and GC-14 Fang Wolf Black Version. Once I find a decent way to, I may post pics of both.

Any reason why you don't use the upload tool through our forums? Just click on the "Upload attachment" tab below the Save, Preview, Submit buttons when posting a reply.

I... kinda lost my digital camera :oops:

I guess my cell phone will have to do for now. I'll get to it tomorrow.

Re: New Toy Galleries: Gentei Wildrider, Animated Black Rodimus, and G1 Black Hot Rodimus (1241707)
Posted by MGrotusque on June 17th, 2011 @ 1:29pm CDT

Seibertron wrote:Any reason why you don't use the upload tool through our forums? Just click on the "Upload attachment" tab below the Save, Preview, Submit buttons when posting a reply.

OMG!!i did not know that! that changes everything for me. It's so simple now. Can't beleive i never noticed that before.
I'm not very computer savy. :oops:

Re: New Toy Galleries: Gentei Wildrider, Animated Black Rodimus, and G1 Black Hot Rodimus (1241846)
Posted by Blackstreak on June 17th, 2011 @ 6:04pm CDT

monstergrotusque wrote:
Seibertron wrote:Any reason why you don't use the upload tool through our forums? Just click on the "Upload attachment" tab below the Save, Preview, Submit buttons when posting a reply.

OMG!!i did not know that! that changes everything for me. It's so simple now. Can't beleive i never noticed that before.
I'm not very computer savy.

Yea, tell me about it. I got all my pics loaded onto photobucket.

Re: New Toy Galleries: Gentei Wildrider, Animated Black Rodimus, and G1 Black Hot Rodimus (1241982)
Posted by Grahf_ on June 17th, 2011 @ 11:53pm CDT

Where's titanium Menasaur?

Re: New Toy Galleries: Gentei Wildrider, Animated Black Rodimus, and G1 Black Hot Rodimus (1242093)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on June 18th, 2011 @ 9:52am CDT

Ok, pics are taken, now I have to resize them and then upload them. Let me tell you this though, Convoy is photogenic

Re: New Toy Galleries: Gentei Wildrider, Animated Black Rodimus, and G1 Black Hot Rodimus (1242110)
Posted by Savage_Prime on June 18th, 2011 @ 10:18am CDT

Hey Seibertron why no shout out for hooking you up with that Gentei Wildrider? hope you have enjoyed it as much as I have the figures you traded me for it!

Re: New Toy Galleries: Gentei Wildrider, Animated Black Rodimus, and G1 Black Hot Rodimus (1242204)
Posted by Seibertron on June 18th, 2011 @ 1:45pm CDT

Thanks again Savage_Prime. I really appreciate the hookup. Gave you a shout out in the gallery now as well: http://www.seibertron.com/toys/gallery. ... =0&start=0

Re: New Toy Galleries: Gentei Wildrider, Animated Black Rodimus, and G1 Black Hot Rodimus (1242206)
Posted by Seibertron on June 18th, 2011 @ 1:47pm CDT

Alpha Weltall wrote:Where's titanium Menasaur?

To be honest, I always forget about him. That toy is still an abomination to me.

Re: New Toy Galleries: Gentei Wildrider, Animated Black Rodimus, and G1 Black Hot Rodimus (1242216)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on June 18th, 2011 @ 2:06pm CDT

OK, here are my pics of Fang Wolf Black Version. Excuse the burriness, and enjoy:

FangWolfBlack1.jpg

FangWolfBlack3.jpg

Now working on resizing the Hybrid Convoy pics.

Re: New Toy Galleries: Gentei Wildrider, Animated Black Rodimus, and G1 Black Hot Rodimus (1242217)
Posted by Seibertron on June 18th, 2011 @ 2:08pm CDT

You shouldn't have to resize pics. I think the site does it automatically if you upload an image that is larger than the specs I provided.

Re: New Toy Galleries: Gentei Wildrider, Animated Black Rodimus, and G1 Black Hot Rodimus (1242218)
Posted by Seibertron on June 18th, 2011 @ 2:10pm CDT

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:OK, here are my pics of Fang Wolf Black Version. Excuse the burriness, and enjoy:

FangWolfBlack1.jpg

FangWolfBlack3.jpg

Now working on resizing the Hybrid Convoy pics.

I don't have any of the black Cybertron or Robot Masters figures ... yet. The Robot Masters ones aren't that expensive to get, but they're just black versions of molds that are rather terrible.

Fang Wolf Black looks pretty nice. What's his story? Is he a Decepticon or just a black version of the same character?

Re: New Toy Galleries: Gentei Wildrider, Animated Black Rodimus, and G1 Black Hot Rodimus (1242221)
Posted by Gauntlet101010 on June 18th, 2011 @ 2:18pm CDT

Seibertron wrote:
Alpha Weltall wrote:Where's titanium Menasaur?

To be honest, I always forget about him. That toy is still an abomination to me.

Why the dislike?

Re: New Toy Galleries: Gentei Wildrider, Animated Black Rodimus, and G1 Black Hot Rodimus (1242222)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on June 18th, 2011 @ 2:19pm CDT

Thing is, it may resize, but it rejects anything above 256 kb. I had to shrink them down to 25% original size, but it cuts the file size down to an 1/8.

Black Fang Wolf has no backstory at all, in fact his box is the same as the regular Fang Wolf, only with an additional sticker. It's safe to say he's the same character. He was fairly cheap, probably because he wasn't a major character. I paid slightly over what a regular imported GF toy would cost, should you be interested in hunting him down.

Re: New Toy Galleries: Gentei Wildrider, Animated Black Rodimus, and G1 Black Hot Rodimus (1242223)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on June 18th, 2011 @ 2:26pm CDT

Hybrid Black G1 Convoy does have a backstory however, saving Ultra Magnus from Galvatron II with his new gun, which uses sunlight for power. The black is to get the most out of it, since black is the only color that totally absorbs and doesn't reflect.

The pics of this guy turned out better, minus the glare from the chromed parts. First up, Vehicle:

THSConvoyBlack1.jpg

THSConvoyBlack3.jpg

THSConvoyBlack4.jpg

Re: New Toy Galleries: Gentei Wildrider, Animated Black Rodimus, and G1 Black Hot Rodimus (1242225)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on June 18th, 2011 @ 2:33pm CDT

And now, Robot Mode. He's a bit photogenic, I know...

THSConvoyBlack5.jpg

THSConvoyBlack6.jpg

THSConvoyBlack7.jpg

THSConvoyBlack9.jpg

THSConvoyBlack8.jpg

Re: New Toy Galleries: Gentei Wildrider, Animated Black Rodimus, and G1 Black Hot Rodimus (1243592)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on June 20th, 2011 @ 2:39pm CDT

Don't tell me I'm the only one who actually wanted to show off

Anybody have the eHobby Black Megatron? I know a store near me has it, but i'm kind of on the fence with him.

Re: New Toy Galleries: Gentei Wildrider, Animated Black Rodimus, and G1 Black Hot Rodimus (1243595)
Posted by Seibertron on June 20th, 2011 @ 2:49pm CDT

Yah, where are everyone else's pics?

Re: New Toy Galleries: Gentei Wildrider, Animated Black Rodimus, and G1 Black Hot Rodimus (1243596)
Posted by Counterpunch on June 20th, 2011 @ 2:51pm CDT

These are some very old pics of mine:

Re: New Toy Galleries: Gentei Wildrider, Animated Black Rodimus, and G1 Black Hot Rodimus (1243603)
Posted by Seibertron on June 20th, 2011 @ 3:04pm CDT

I'd like to get the other variations of the Energon Rodimus mold.

Re: New Toy Galleries: Gentei Wildrider, Animated Black Rodimus, and G1 Black Hot Rodimus (1243608)
Posted by Counterpunch on June 20th, 2011 @ 3:19pm CDT

Seibertron wrote:I'd like to get the other variations of the Energon Rodimus mold.

The only problem finding that guy I showed is that you have to buy the truly awful STD Fireguts convoy with him (usually).

Re: New Toy Galleries: Gentei Wildrider, Animated Black Rodimus, and G1 Black Hot Rodimus (1243699)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on June 20th, 2011 @ 5:39pm CDT

Counterpunch wrote:
Seibertron wrote:I'd like to get the other variations of the Energon Rodimus mold.

The only problem finding that guy I showed is that you have to buy the truly awful STD Fireguts convoy with him (usually).

I've seen him in a store individually, but the price was still nothing to sneeze at: €99 or $140!

And there aren't that many varieties of the Energon Rodimus mold, really:

- Energon
- Superlink
- Black
- Energon Checkpoint
- BotCon Thunderclash

And if you're extremely lucky, Shattered Glass Thunderclash, from the BotCon 2009 Customising Class.

Re: New Toy Galleries: Gentei Wildrider, Animated Black Rodimus, and G1 Black Hot Rodimus (1243719)
Posted by trence5 on June 20th, 2011 @ 6:10pm CDT

Has anyone read the comic about the Fansproject add-on to make him Death scythe?

Re: New Toy Galleries: Gentei Wildrider, Animated Black Rodimus, and G1 Black Hot Rodimus (1243739)
Posted by Counterpunch on June 20th, 2011 @ 6:34pm CDT

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Counterpunch wrote:
Seibertron wrote:I'd like to get the other variations of the Energon Rodimus mold.

The only problem finding that guy I showed is that you have to buy the truly awful STD Fireguts convoy with him (usually).

I've seen him in a store individually, but the price was still nothing to sneeze at: €99 or $140!

And there aren't that many varieties of the Energon Rodimus mold, really:

- Energon
- Superlink
- Black
- Energon Checkpoint
- BotCon Thunderclash

And if you're extremely lucky, Shattered Glass Thunderclash, from the BotCon 2009 Customising Class.

Luck? That thing was ugly as hell.

Re: New Toy Galleries: Gentei Wildrider, Animated Black Rodimus, and G1 Black Hot Rodimus (1244957)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on June 22nd, 2011 @ 12:37pm CDT

Counterpunch wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Counterpunch wrote:
Seibertron wrote:I'd like to get the other variations of the Energon Rodimus mold.

The only problem finding that guy I showed is that you have to buy the truly awful STD Fireguts convoy with him (usually).

I've seen him in a store individually, but the price was still nothing to sneeze at: €99 or $140!

And there aren't that many varieties of the Energon Rodimus mold, really:

- Energon
- Superlink
- Black
- Energon Checkpoint
- BotCon Thunderclash

And if you're extremely lucky, Shattered Glass Thunderclash, from the BotCon 2009 Customising Class.

Luck? That thing was ugly as hell.

Well, depends on who paints him :lol:

Yipe, forgot about another black repaint for sale "near me" in Amsterdam: Robot Masters RM-11 Black Beast Convoy. The mold doesn't look too bad actually... I still think RM Lioconvoy is the best, and yes, he does have a black repaint as well, as a Decepticon.