Botcon 2013 Machine Wars Mirage - Pictorial Review

Botcon 2013 is behind me, leaving me nothing other than utterly...broke! Of all the figures that are on my list, I manage to secure 5 out of 7 and walk out alive. This review is for 2013's Machine Wars Mirage

A little back story, Machine Wars : Transformers was released in 1997 as an attempt to bring back Transformers in vehicular mode with mostly well known characters (with new design but of pre-existing molds) to succeed its predecessor, the Beast Wars. A sub-continuity, only one wave of figures totaling in 12 characters, was produced

A former member of affluent Cybertron society, Mirage isn't like most of the Autobots. Being among the top of the hierarchical chain, the war was the last thing he'd ever hoped for to happen. But it did and Mirage had to choose side which wasn't easy, being with a group of commoners he couldn't really understand.

Sir Mirage, if you will
Pic Credit : Web

Machine Wars Mirage transforms into a green-ish and white Ligier JS39 F1 race car. The mold was originally design of Generations 2 Mirage which explain it having a head sculpt similar to his G1 form.

A flipchanger, like Animated's Activators

Now for the best part...

Botcon 2013.....

It truly is a sad moment for me, being in Malaysia while Botcon is held in the land far-far away....how I wish to bought all those stuff... Damn It!

This year's Botcon set has been revealed with more and more figures surfaced...on Ebay... Let us start with the main set

The theme of Botcon 2013 is Machine Wars, the weird time (lol), with Termination Set featuring 5 figures in total

Termination Set
Pic Source : Duh, the Net, I'm not there, REMEMBER?!!

Pic Credit : Web

The box consist of 5 figures of Machine Wars characters which are [from left], Strika (Generations Warpath mold), Megaplex (TF:Prime Skyquake/Dreadwing mold), Obsidian (HFTD Highbrow mold), Skywarp (HFTD Dirge mold) and Hoist (Generations Kup mold)

Moving on, aside from the set, few other figures for Botcon 2013 would be

- Sandstorm (DOTM Sky Hammer mold) and Electron (Generations Kup mold) as 2-pack Souvenir

Pic Credit : Botcon Official Page

- Mirage (Classics Mirage mold) and Thundercracker (HFTD Dirge mold as 2-pack Souvenir

Pic Credit : Botcon Official Page

- Generations Warpath mold for Assembled Class Kit Figure

Pic Credit : Botcon Official Page

- Starscream (HFTD Terradive mold)(far left)

Pic Credit : Botcon Official Page

Last but not least (at least as of now)

- The Rainmakers, Sunstorm, Bitstream and Hotlink (Classics Starscream mold)

Pic Credit : Botcon Official Page

This year Botcon really made me cry, too many focused on the Classics/Henkei/United/Reveal The Shield/Generations (CHURGs) line.

As of now, here's my new list :-

- Botcon 2013 Hoist
- Botcon 2013 Strika
- Botcon 2013  Electron
- Botcon 2013 Mirage
- Botcon 2013 Rainmakers

These are not much BUT when you include 3 Metroplexes (Generations, Takara and Conventions), TFC Uranos, TFC Ares, Generations and United....

Expensive year indeed.....