Transformers: Collectors Club Depth Charge

In 2006, Botcon had a pre-Beast Wars focus, imagining the crews of the Axalon and Darksyde prior to their rough landing on prehistoric Earth. The resulting boxset, the generally highly regarded Dawn of Future Past, gave five takes on Cybertron-mode Beast Wars characters. The core Maximal cast of Optimus Primal, Rhinox, Cheetor and Rattrap, along with then-Predacon Dinobot, were all repainted from Cybertron toys, complete with Cyberkeys painted like the Golden Disks. This pre-Beast Wars  idea, like the similarly excellent Shattered Glass storyline, became a concept that FunPub and the Transformers Collectors Club would return to seemingly whenever they had no strong idea for the coming convention or subscription service, producing some winners and total duds along the way. So, if you’re really invested in this concept, there are Tigatrons and Airrazors and Waspinators and a fantastic Megatron and multiple Tarantulus’ among others to help fill out your displays.

Transformers: Botcon 2009 Razorclaw

Sure, it’s a little old. Yes, I’ve got more recent exclusives that I could write on, and I will. But on a lazy Sunday afternoon, I just wanted something light to write about.

Botcon 2009 Razorclaw is a three years later companion piece to the pretty excellent 2006 Dawn of Future’s Past boxset, which featured Maximals and Predicons from Beast Wars in their Cybertronian forms, moments prior to the departure of the Axalon to try and apprehend the fugitive Megatron, having stolen the Golden Disks. Razorclaw is featured in the last panel of the convention comic from that year, and there years later got his convention figure. The figure is a repaint of the Cybertron Liobreaker/Nemesis Breaker, which would also be repainted later into Lio Convoy.