Diamond Select Toys has been doing a series of Crocodile Battle Beasts built around the mini-mate body as convention exclusives over the past year, each one sporting different accessories and color scheme. ToyNewsInternational snapped some pics (mirrored below) of what appears to be brand new Battle Beasts. It doesn’t look like these are built on the mini-mate body at all, in fact, I question their articulation. It looks like there is a rhino, octopus, monkey, iguana and a new crocodile.

There is no real indication of size or scale in the pictures, but there is placard stating they will be in stores in 2011 and retail for $14.99. Its not clear if that is individually or sold as a set. For their sake, I hope they are sold as a set because one figure with that amount of articulation for that price is a real tough sale for many collectors. And if I may say so the rhino and octopus are ADORABLE! I think I may have found a replacement line for the discontinued Robot Heroes I was collecting.

Adorable mirrored images after the jump!
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All right, Poweteers! We are about to be deluged with news coming out of SDCC 2010.

We’ll be posting news as we find it.
We know there is going to be a lot, so we are keeping this post stickied and will be updated with links to each news post from the con.

SDCC 2010: Four Horsemen – Symbiotech Pics, New Art Print
SDCC 2010: Spider-man: Shattered Dimensions trailer
SDCC 2010: DST expands Battle Beast line
SDCC 2010: Hasbro Marvel Super Hero Squad
SDCC 2010: Green Lantern’s Abin-Sur corpse on showroom floor
SDCC 2010: Marvel Legends Preview Night
SDCC 2010: DCUO voice cast revealed, Mark Hammil and Kevin Conroy
SDCC 2010: Joss Whedon OFFICIALLY directing Avengers
SDCC 2010: Halo Reach High End Figures From… Square Enix?
SDCC 2010: Transformers Panels come up short
SDCC 2010: Halo Reach Crams FIVE Multiplayer Maps Into One Forge World
SDCC 2010: Mattel’s Ghostbusters display [UPDATED WITH PANEL REVEALS]
SDCC 2010: Stan Lee on the Throne of Asgard
SDCC 2010: MOTU Classics [EXTENSIVELY UPDATED!]
SDCC 2010: DC Universe Online Trailer
SDCC 2010: Star Trek Toys and Replicas
SDCC 2010: Icon Heroes – Thundercats
SDCC 2010: Street Fighter vs Tekken, Tekken vs Street Fighter
SDCC 2010: The Destroyer From Asgard Arrives For Thor
SDCC 2010: Nolan North is Deadpool in Marvel VS Capcom 3
SDCC 2010: The Avengers Animated Series Trailer
SDCC 2010: Avengers Assembled! Full Cast Revealed!
SDCC 2010: Marvel Universe, Legends, Movie figures and more
SDCC 2010: Mattel’s DCUC, DCIH, Green Lantern Classics and more
SDCC 2010: The Walking Dead TV Series
SDCC 2010: Blake Lively’s Sideboob
SDCC 2010: Sucker Punch
SDCC 2010: More info on The Legend of Korra
SDCC 2010: Live Action Blue Beetle Footage
SDCC 2010: Thor Movie Trailer

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Four Horsemen Reveal Symbiotech Tygos and Tygolith
First Look of Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan, the Green Lantern
SDCC and regular Thundercats Lion-O statue pictures
Thundercats see some staction

The Four Horsemen have really brought a great showing to SDCC 2010 with prototypes of their Symbiotech line, Outer Space Men line, and more. They have a beautiful art print for sale showcasing many of their long time properties that have appeared in their annual FANtastic Exclusive polls. The print is on sale at their booth and their online store, StoreHorsemen.com. It was done by FANEx member, Baena, who has done other art commissions for the 4H properties. Click the image above to see the full poster in all its glory!

Action Figure Insider snapped this great picture of the Symbiotech prototypes on display including a brand new pair called Bipedix and Bipedon on the right. Guanos and Sonos are on the left. If you look at the top middle of the picture, you will see an unpainted prototype. Look closer and you will note that is Tygos riding in some form of vehicle made of Tygolith’s armor! Now, thats pretty darn cool!

[UPDATE – Crazy] I want to point out the gallery over at Michael Crawford’s site. It has some fantastic pictures of what the Horsemen had on display including the Tygos riding the combined parts vehicle from Tygolith. That can be seen here.

TFW2005 is reporting that the long rumored Masterpiece Rodimus will in fact be Rodimus Prime (Convoy) and not just Hot Rod. They offered up some concept art to back up the claim courtesy of 2005 member, S250.

I’d be happy with a masterpiece Winebago. Rodimus Prime doesn’t get enough love in my book.
Can anyone offer anything meanings behind the japanese text in the image?