BotCon: Another Year, Another Underestimate

It's truly insane that, a mere six or so days after registration opened, the boxed sets and loose sets allocated to non-attendees have sold out.

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but limiting the number of sets per registration to one is unprecedented.

This year's production run is higher than last year's? Really? And it's selling out quicker (only two figure previews are officially available so far, with a couple of others knocking about if you know where to look)? What on earth was the production run? Can't have been that much higher, as the folks behind BotCon are well known for slow processing of (faxed!) registration forms.

It's also amusing that many 'fans' are complaining that molds from the Unicron Trilogy are being revisited again, despite better being available... So who's buying these sets?

I'd have to agree that Kup (based on Cybertron Red Alert) looks terrible and doesn't suit the character at all (plus, let's face it, the recolour of Brakedown was basically a homage to Kup)... but Scourge from Cybertron Sideways is genius. Sure, they've used the mold with its original head as a Universe Ratbat (before he became one of Soundwave's cassettes, I presume), but it's a cool mold and not desperately overused like Cybertron Hot Shot, or Clocker.

I may well try to obtain Scourge from eBay (if no other source presents itself)... As for the rest, we shall have to wait and see.

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