This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our subject today is a potential Transformers Collectors' Club set.
"Transformers: Unanimated" wasn't the only Animated-related set Fun Publications tried to work up for a BotCon/TFCC set. Another would have seen Sentinel Prime repainted into Optimus Primal:
FunPub's Jesse Wittenrich explained the story concept behind the set:
an all Beast Wars-themed set which told the story of Primal Minor searching for his missing friend. His journeys take him to a strange jungle where he finds a collective of odd semi-organic Decepticons, led by none other than Blackarachnia! The dark-hearted spider has continued her experiments and created Fractyl, Terrorsaur, Inferno, Antagony, and Megatron - an egotistical former tyrant who reminded her of her previous boss.
To Minor's horror, also among the Decepticons is his friend, now renamed "Tri-Nox*", given a prehistoric beast mode, and enslaved using a control collar and brainwave bolts. The stalwart Autobot explorer must battle these Decepticons - or Predacons as they've taken to calling themselves - alone and so resorts to guerrilla warfare as he also tries time and again to break Blackarachnia's hold over Tri-Nox.
He also said that "Tri-Nox" was just going to be a joke, until he did the mock-up of the colors and thought it looked legitimately cool:
It's pretty apparent Fractyl and Terrorsaur would have been repaints of Swoop, Inferno and Antagony could have been retooled from Waspinator, though no images of those have surfaced.
