Friday, October 16, 2009

Transformers Artwork #2

This piece features all six of the Seacons in robot mode in their natural environment, the ocean. Pictured here is the Seacon commander Snaptrap and his comrades: Overbite, Tentakil, Nautilator, Seawing, and Skalor. The five Seacons under Snaptrap's command are each Target Masters in that they can not only transform into sea creatures, but also into weapons for their combined super robot form of Piranacon. Each one of them can become a gun and each one can become a limb. Therfore, Snaptrap forms the torso and head, and any one of his teammates can become the arms, the legs, or a gun. Awesome and powerful team.

They never saw any action in the United States outside of a brief stint in the comic books and some animated scenes in the toy commercials. However, in the Japanese animated series, Transformers: Super-God Masterforce, Piranacon appeared under the command of Overlord and the Decepticon Pretenders. In Japan, he was known as King Poseidon. Also, the individual Seacons never transformed to robot mode. Snaptrap was called Turtler while his five comrades were drones. Turtler would summon them to combine with him to form King Poseidon.

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