BotCon 2010 Box Set Review

Let’s take a look at the BotCon 2010 Box set that I picked up for a steal!

The cover art is amazing and features all five characters included in the set.

Let’s start with the Autobots –

Pyro – who belongs to this group – is well…colorful.

To me though, Pyro should look  like this:

I do dig the Inferno mold though and for being a repaint, and clearly using the most paint aps ever.   Let’s take a closer look at his head sculpt:

I’m not going to go into TOO much detail here just because these are all older molds.  So here’s Pyro in his truck mode:

He’s awesome.  His paint scheme is dead on to the original toy.  I would love a new head upgrade from Dr. Wu or something,  but other than that, he’s excellent.  Of course, thanks to Pyro, I’ll probably have to buy Artfire….*sigh*.

Next up we have Streetwise – (His name is technically called Street Star due to license issues….) –

Because this set is “G2 Redux”, Streetwise is of course in his Black G2 colors, which is all kinds of fricken awesome:

I mean, the red and blue on his waist is a great touch, the detailing is spot on and once again, this mold is proving more awesome than my first impressions.  I do keep his missiles “tucked” in just because the original didn’t really have them and it helps distinguish him from Prowl and the rest.

I don’t know what happened with this picture..but here’s a crappy head picture.

Alt-mode is radical –

Yeah…he’s that sexy.

Lets move on to the ‘Cons.   There are two Decepticons and one Predicon in the set – lets start with the Predicon, everyone’s favorite Poet Warlord, SKY-BYTE!

I’ve created a separate shelf for Timelines which is most of the TFCC stuff.  So I did put my Leo Prime on the shelf so I have a Predicon and Maximal.

He’s pretty awesome.  His head sculpt is quite impressive:

As for his alt-mode – it IS pretty cool –

But its not really a great “shark”.

Breakdown is who I was most excited for –

The very first BotCon in 1994, offered an actual G2 Breakdown toy at the exclusive so it’s pretty awesome that they brought him back in Classics form:

The license plate: BCFW94 – BotCon Fort Wayne ’94.   I love his head sculpt.  So awesome:

And of course, his (as awesome as Streetwise) alt-mode – in all its glorious G2 Neon!

So radical.  Also, having two classics combiner limbs is just making my day every time I see them on the shelf.

Finally, there’s big bad Clench:

I have to say, this mold is very cool. It’s so big and imposing, its why I used Onslaught to re-purpose him as Turmoil.  Luckily with Clench, they removed all the goofy “Lights and sounds” stuff, just leaving a bad ass Decepticon:

His head sculpt is very unique. 

There’s nothing new with his alt-mode, but its as awesome as always.

Its a cool box set for sure.  I’ll have to post on my 2012 set now I suppose.

I did get get SideBurn with the set as well, but as he’s not officially part of the set, I left him out. I’m also going keep PRIME Rid Dead End on this shelf to go with Breakdown and Dragstrip.

Next up, I’ll be taking a look at Fansproject Assaulter, so Stay tuned!