Video of SG Straxus is up!

SG Straxus

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Before I actually saw the figure, I was wondering why come Botcon seemed to be after Cheets' bread and butter this year. Now that I've seen the figure, they just want the bread. And some margarine.

Blah blah blah SG Straxus that comic cover is AWESOME! UPA-tastic. I especially love the typefaces.

It's like Gerald McBot-Bot.

I REALLY want a litho of that comic cover.

Yeah, that comic cover is awesome.

And I have a strange desire for Yellow Straxus.

I'm still seeing Scrounge colors.

I kinda like it. It's just weird enough to be interesting. And I love Scrounge.


-ZacWilliam, I may not like it enough to pay Botcon Exclusive prices, but if I were there I think I'd be happy, or at least intreagued by him.

Data sheet... er... pages! updated!

(FYI, I will update the rest of the figures as they are officially revealed.)

I'd like to compliment Pete's package for its starring role in the beginning of the video.

anyone have insight into the colour choices .. I am unfamiliar with the comics, and where if even this comes from ?

People keep suggesting Scrouge, and I heard Xaaron, and either of those is possible, but neither of them has any green. So it's really just "what yellow guys can you plausibly connect to Straxus?".

I still think he might just be an inverted Straxus. There aren't a lot of yellow guys with green trim. Crosscut. BM Cheetor. BM Buzzsaw.

Slow Poke. Maybe he's Slow Poke-colored.

Was facing the sun really the best place to film this?

Is the point just that he'll look great with SG Bludgeon? Because I'm pretty sure he will.

SERPENTOR!!!!!

I do wonder. Several of the SG figures have been "suped up" compared to their classics versions. Jazz, Goldbug, and Starscream all come to mind.

I wouldn't rule out the possibility that there was a chance this figure was originally going to be SG Swindle, based upon the leaked list. It could be that they couldn't secure a remolded, Swindle-esque head, so they just kept the original head and made it SG Straxus as a "Plan B".

Highly unlikely, I know, but I'm curious.

His Bio card's been posted on TFW.

And damn their eyes he's Lord Byron! (Ok and Shelly)

They just made me interested. Scrap.


-ZacWilliam, has a Masters in the English Romantics...

The Bard of Darkmount!?

Honestly, the most interesting part of this for me is it gives just a little hint of characterization to the mysterious Xal. Ok, yes this is me entirely reading WAY too much into this, I will admit that upfront. But the "Xal Unbound" reference is to Shelly's Prometheus Unbound. Which I'm going to pretend at least casts him as a Prometheus figure in (SG) Cybertronian myth. Since I've been wondering about him since G2 in the 90s it's at least something.


-ZacWilliam, and if I'd happened to cast Xal in a "Prometheus" role in an old fanfic I never finished, that's just kinda a cool coincidence.

This is my guess.

Extrapolate that head onto a full body with a monochromatic look similar to his G1 self, and... you get SG Straxus.

I think you got it on this one. He looks great, reminds me of Serpentor as Cheets mentioned.

Randy

*Stares at SG Straxus*

What am I gonna do with you...

I like your scheme, but don't care for SG

You could of passed for half decent G2 Straxus if Cheets hadn't made me THE AWESOMEST ONE EVER!!!


Where will you fit in?

SUPER SAYIAN STRAXUS!!!

GOLD!!!

He will be super strong and punch everyone in my collection!

IcePick will be Freiza

Oh wow. Thats obscure even for me. I am glad the color scheme has precedence though and wasn't just a random choice. But of all the sources to reference...

Now I wonder which other crazy Magazin color schemes could make their way on to toys...

Got it in one.

(Your Internet has been mailed and will arrive in six to eight years.)

*squint*

"The losses of war is cruel"?

Some hugin' writer HE is.

You dropped a "g" there during your grammar nitpick Chris

I THINK, sir, you will FIND that was the work of the swear filter, and not I!