The Energon Pub

[Tigertrack]

Just an FYI for all the TFCC Members here, the collector's club has put up a link for the downloadable story "Razor's Edge" written by Benson Yee with illustrations by Jake Isenberg, and colored by Thomas Deer.

This is a special story written to go along with the club exclusive Air Razor toy produced recently from the E-Slugslinger mold (featuring a brand new Air Razor head mold). It's nine chapters and forty-five pages of new story relating to the Timelines tale started at last year's convention, taking place in the pre-Beast Wars era.

Check it out at The Transformers Collectors Club if you are a member, and think about joining up if you are not!

Also take a look at previous toy news at the Seibertron.com Toy News Section.

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All of a sudden I find myself humming music from Scarface...

[Liege Evilmus]

I was looking at the membership fees and what they have to offer and I still can't justify it to myself.

Is there something I'm missing here. Outside of some overpriced retooled figures, I've never heard anyone rave about membership here.

If someone can give me a good heads up about this club and mention something more than some comics and a news letter, please let me know and I'll join today.

What are some of the GOOD perks!?!

Also, I'm starting to get into the TF comics, and was also wondering if someone could recomend a good site for trade paperbacks.

[Lapse Of Reason]

For those wondering about club benefits:

The more you support the club, the better it will become. It is run by a group of dedicated Transformers fans who have to balance costs ve. pleasing the fans.

If you can travel to their yearly convention (Botcon), then the perks of club membership really pay off. This year club members were treated to an awesome boxed set mostly based on G1 classic characters and exclusive attendee figures (although any attendee could buy them without being a member). Earlier in the year they offered Airazor and Astrotrain exclusive figures.

Besides exclusive figures, club members also were treated to:
a movie preview screening
autograph sessions, toy panels, customization classes, etc...
a dinner party with live music by Stan Bush
goodie bags associated with the dinner party that includsed a T-shirt, movie poster, trading cards, and a "Bee-otch" car air freshener as seen in the new movie.

There is also the annual combiner exclusive as well as the bi monthly club magazine.

For $50, it is worth it especially if you can go to Botcon. If you are not into exclusive figures and can't go to Botcon, then membership may not be of value to you.

[Scaleface]

You can decide if they are worth it to you, but some of the perks include the Scout class redeco, access to club-made tech specs (mostly mini-con dececos on the web site), and now 2 fictions by Ben Yee. The Razor's Edge is a story of Airazor before she came to Beast Wars, and lead a group of Charlie's Angels fembots against some Decepticions. It has some surprises. One old Botcon exclusive makes an appearance too.

I'll give this away since it's in the first line, but her pre-cybertron name is Wing Saber! I don't know why they needed to do that, but now we know.

[Liege Evilmus]

Someone cleared my reply post to Lapse of Reasons statement.

I think I made some good points both for and against joining this club.

I don't care send me a warning, but that's **** up!