Two more Botcon Minicons revealed?!

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 4:36PM CDT

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Chinese Auction site, Taobao.com has two auctions right now for Minicons that are supposedly part of the Botcon '08 souvenir sets. Both figures are repaints from the Predator Attack Team, which makes sense, to go with previously revealed Razorclaw.

Here is what we believe to be Botcon '08 Rampage:
http://auction1.taobao.com/auction/item ... jhtml?pm=2

And what is most likely Botcon '08 Divebomb:
http://auction1.taobao.com/auction/item ... jhtml?pm=1

We will keep you posted when further information comes available.

Credit(s): Taobao.com

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Re: Two more Botcon Minicons revealed?! (670172)
Posted by Liege Evilmus on April 1st, 2008 @ 4:39pm CDT

I don't care how rare or collectable they'll be but any version of the Classics Minicons need to be burned.

There where a couple good ones(monster truck and General Lee) but they realy where the pinical of suckitude!

Re: Two more Botcon Minicons revealed?! (670174)
Posted by ShGarland_1383 on April 1st, 2008 @ 4:44pm CDT

Rampage is a repaint? If it is all they did is darken the orange...

Liege Evilmus wrote:I don't care how rare or collectable they'll be but any version of the Classics Minicons need to be burned.

I like the classics mini-cons. Its just that after a while repaints get redundant.

Re: Two more Botcon Minicons revealed?! (670191)
Posted by shortround on April 1st, 2008 @ 5:03pm CDT

I agree 100% with Liege Evilmus on the suck factor of most of the classic min-cons.

Re: Two more Botcon Minicons revealed?! (670264)
Posted by Liege Evilmus on April 1st, 2008 @ 6:50pm CDT

shortround wrote:I agree 100% with Liege Evilmus on the suck factor of most of the classic min-cons.

Thats Right!!!!

Re: Two more Botcon Minicons revealed?! (670277)
Posted by Counterpunch on April 1st, 2008 @ 7:07pm CDT

I called this two months ago.

FB and Soundstang can attest to this.

Re: Two more Botcon Minicons revealed?! (670332)
Posted by Jazzz on April 1st, 2008 @ 8:13pm CDT

Yup, classics Mini-Cons suck.
My friend hates them cause he got back into Transformers during Energon when the Mini-cons all starting sucking. But he totally hates them because of the Classics ones.
Though Gravedigger and General lee were cool.

Re: Two more Botcon Minicons revealed?! (670391)
Posted by TFBuyer on April 1st, 2008 @ 9:26pm CDT

I think some of you expect too much out of these things most of the time. "What!?!? It doesn't have the complexity and range of motion of a deluxe? It must be teh suxor!"

I'll give you Swoop with his stubby little hands, but most of these were cool because they were different.

Re: Two more Botcon Minicons revealed?! (670439)
Posted by Skalor on April 1st, 2008 @ 9:52pm CDT

I thought they were pretty good for the most part. Hell, I was burglarized last fall and oddly enough, the Classics minicons were some of the only Transformers taken. Even the evil that roams the land appreciates a good minicon. :twisted:

Re: Two more Botcon Minicons revealed?! (670448)
Posted by UltraPrimal on April 1st, 2008 @ 9:59pm CDT

I think the Decepticons are gonna get their asses handed to them. More minicons=more meh.

I think they should have gone with Ravage and Lazerbeak.

Re: Two more Botcon Minicons revealed?! (671481)
Posted by Dagon on April 3rd, 2008 @ 7:30am CDT

UltraPrimal wrote:I think the Decepticons are gonna get their asses handed to them. More minicons=more meh.

I think they should have gone with Ravage and Lazerbeak.

That would make sense, especially if the point was to replicate as much of the original groups as was possible. I know that Grimlock and Blur and Riccochet weren't on the Ark, but all the others were Season 1 characters, so Ravage and Laserbeak may have made more sense in that regard. But that Razorclaw minicon was originally pretty Ravage-esque, and that may be why they had to repaint it so that it was substantially different from the original version of the toy.

Re: Two more Botcon Minicons revealed?! (671509)
Posted by DISCHARGE on April 3rd, 2008 @ 8:36am CDT

What like about these is, judging from the comic preview, these guys aren't Mini-cons but Predacons. Giving people the scale they look for.
That's if I interpreted it right. Also I liked these minicons. They were the only Classics Mini-con set I bought out of the ones offered.