The Energon Pub

by **Genericon #378** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 11:53 am

Oh god, it looks......hideous! :SICK:

I mean, the groove redeco looks alright, I guess, so there's that. But who asked for fruit punch mixed with blue raspberry slurpee colour? Who? I can cross this one off the list. So far, the only things I'm looking forward to are Smokescreen, Trailbreaker, Sky Lynx and Bruticus.

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 11:54 am

While all fans didn't agree on the options, she is still decided by the fans via majority vote. Like it or not that's how it is.

I wonder when her release windows is and if she's a gift set or individual releases (I can't see it being individual myself mind, maybe that's why she's shown here next to Go Superion).

Only reason I ask is that here in the eu never saw Windblade at retail

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 11:56 am

Genericon #378 wrote:But who asked for fruit punch mixed with blue raspberry slurpee colour? Who?

Hey, I always mix those two flavors together! They make the best-tasting slurpee.

News Credits: 1 · by **MCutter** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 11:56 am

"Blood-flavored toothpaste" is a pretty bold color scheme. :???:

by **arnie001** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 11:59 am

Looking on the bright side, this will save me some bucks for Bruticus and Sky-reign wave. Not really interested in Victorion.

by **Genericon #378** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 11:59 am

Also, don't even tell me that that is a Sea of Rust colour scheme. No! Sea of Rust should be something not hideous. ****! This is bullshit. This is why fans shouldn't be allowed to choose colour schemes. They choose the worst option. And it's really evident here.

by **Genericon #378** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:01 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
Genericon #378 wrote:But who asked for fruit punch mixed with blue raspberry slurpee colour? Who?
Hey, I always mix those two flavors together! They make the best-tasting slurpee.

It does make a tasty slurpee. But mixing those two together on a Transformer is not ok.

News Credits: 12 · by **Evil Eye** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:02 pm

THEY GAVE THIS HIDEOUS PIECE OF JUNK ANKLE TILTS

WHY COULDN'T THE OTHER COMBINERS HAVE THESE

News Credits: 8 · by **Flashwave** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:03 pm

Well, I'm going off the paint shine to say this is "Hand Painted Protoype" and hope there's a slide show with a more better picture.

I like Nightbird's head, but I am glad that it isn't Nightbird (or G1 Nightbird) the mold's too blocky for an animatronic robot not meant to transform.

Funny, the torso has the right general colors for Fire Chief (should be more blue than green) but when I wanted a Red remold of that it was for Fire Convoy. Oh well, I can still hold out for a yellow repaint, cause I don't trust myself to paint something of that scale.

New arms for AB is cool, kinda wish we got them erlier. Blades maybe. Not Vortex, he actually IS an attack helo. But I wouldn't be surprised if these arms didn't exist until Victorion.

And the combining weapons are AWESOME.

by **hinomars19** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:04 pm

ZeroWolf wrote:While all fans didn't agree on the options, she is still decided by the fans via majority vote. Like it or not that's how it is.

Fans voted on a set of 3 colours. They didn't decide how they would be mapped onto each figure. That's all Hasbro. People who picked this colour choice have every right to complain, imo, since their choice was used less than wisely. >:oP

News Credits: 251 · by **Mindmaster** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:05 pm

I like the way Victorion looks, but I agree about her colors: needs improvement. :SICK:

Never in my life would I ever think about buying a box set solely for weapons... I NEED THOSE THINGS SO F***ING BADLY ARGHHHSDGBSLFHFHFUIFLOHFSFIUHFUIIE :BOOM:

News Credits: 23 · by **Madeus Prime** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:07 pm

Huh, well, not too shabby, I do kind of wish they'd throw in some more colors for variety. Heads and chests look good, all of them overall look nice. The new hands and feet are a nice touch. Although, looking at the Dead-End repaint, I betcha dollars to donuts that it'll be repainted into Nightbird in the US. The weapons are incredible!

by **arnie001** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:09 pm

Looks like a bunch of cross-dressers. Hasbro has released several feminine bots lately Arcee, Windblade, and Chromia and I was expecting the same concept and level of feminine touch and not just some bot slapped with a lipstick.

News Credits: 118 · by **megatronus** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:13 pm

I doubt this is the final color scheme.

Close to final, maybe, but these are clearly hand-painted, and I can see this being toned down a bit.

News Credits: 12 · by **Evil Eye** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:15 pm

megatronus wrote:I doubt this is the final color scheme.

Close to final, maybe, but these are clearly hand-painted, and I can see this being toned down a bit.

I sure hope so. The words that sprung to mind when I saw the prototype were "Watermelon Abomination".

News Credits: 11 · by **Munkky** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:15 pm

ZeroWolf wrote:I wonder when her release windows is and if she's a gift set or individual releases (I can't see it being individual myself mind, maybe that's why she's shown here next to Go Superion).

According to TFW2005, Victorion and G2 Superion will be box-sets, not exclusive to any particular store, but they'll mostly be sold through online retailers.

News Credits: 19 · by **Carnivius_Prime** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:18 pm

That's a huge eyesore. Those colours just don't work together at all especially in this messy way. They should have gone with option A colour scheme if any of them but yeah.

by **shockblast2** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:18 pm

LOL...what a joke. Of course I did not expect any less. This right here proves that these sexist morons at Hasbro are doing this because they think that random females will flock to the fandom because there is a "female" transformer. And in that, they cannot even create new molds for the release! And, to top that all off, it just repaints of the same molds from he supposed "male" transformers. This is so insulting to women! I mean, look, they put lipstick on one of them!

HAHAHAHA! They must be the Bruce Jenners of Cybertron, eh Hasbro? Oh well, saves my cash. And I need a break anyhow with all of these releases.

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:23 pm

I will have none of that type of talk in this thread, shockblast2. None of it.

In one post you have insulted Hasbro staff, Caitlyn Jenner and probably a number of users and fans. I'd almost be impressed if it weren't so sad.

You are clearly incapable of expressing your negative opinions without resorting to insult - have a warning. It's on me.

by **D-BagTron** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:25 pm

arnie001 wrote:Looks like a bunch of cross-dressers. Hasbro has released several feminine bots lately Arcee, Windblade, and Chromia and I was expecting the same concept and level of feminine touch and not just some bot slapped with a lipstick.

I have to agree. Masterpiece Tracks looks more feminine than these. Repaints still can't make these molds look more feminine. I'm all for fem-bots but this is a hell of a fail. I was looking forward to acquiring this set but it's going to be a "no".

by **Optimum Supreme** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:30 pm

Toys designed by "fan" votes (really just a very small subset of fans stuffing the ballot box) are a bad idea. That... thing is beyond hideous.

News Credits: 12 · by **Evil Eye** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:32 pm

To be fair, those "fembots" are OUTRAGEOUSLY butch. Seriously, those were some absolutely zero-effort retools. The Dead End retool with the Nightbird headsculpt could easily pass off as a guy (and honestly looks like a hench "gangsta"/Somali pirate with a facemask). After Road Rage, who only had a few parts here and there rounded off and generally made more feminine, and yet still looked like a proper fembot, there is absolutely no excuse for the feeble effort they made here.

I'm not saying they needed to look like Drossel Von Flugel, but they could have done better than the goddamn botched-tranny look they've given them. Seriously, there's plenty of TFs that are meant to be male that make better fembots than these disasters.

by **hinomars19** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:32 pm

I don't have a problem with them not looking 'feminine' After all, G1 Hot-Rod looked less than masculine, and the same can now be said for Nick Roche's Springer. I'm not overly fond of the character, but RiD Strongarm is a good female design without being traditionally feminine

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:38 pm

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News Credits: 12 · by **Evil Eye** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:38 pm

hinomars19 wrote:I don't have a problem with them not looking 'feminine' After all, G1 Hot-Rod looked less than masculine, and the same can now be said for Nick Roche's Springer. I'm not overly fond of the character, but RiD Strongarm is a good female design without being traditionally feminine

Yeah, Strongarm is great, and still at least looks vaguely female. These though? Even the headsculpts suck ball bearings. The Breakdown retool looks like a blow-up doll, the Dead End retool looks like a South African gangster, the Alpha Bravo retools are just generic in the extreme (the mouthplated head is OK, the visored head...yeah...)...they all look just awful.

I'll be waiting for a 3P Victorion that actually has some effort put into it.