The Energon Pub

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Anyway, wanted to cheer myself up, so I took some Cosmos pics!

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I was going to take a picture of Megatron, Nitro Zeus, and Barricade in front of Stonehenge, but I kept thinking of Charlie's Angels while posing them, so now you get this instead!

[D-Maximal_Primal]

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TEASER: He’s coming...

[D-Maximal_Primal]

I had a one-way ticket to a place where all the demons go
Where the wind don't change
And nothing in the ground can ever grow
No hope, just lies
And you're taught to cry in your pillow
But I survived

[ZeldaTheSwordsman]

D-Max, you're making me want to take more shots of my uncluttered Volcanicus

Love that Charlie's Angels shot, Fires_of_Inferno.

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A once irrelevant figure is now shelf worthy again...

[D-Maximal_Primal]

*Weird cute/aggressive monster noises*

[The_Cryptid_Person]

I really liked this shot of Ironworks (and a friend).

[ZeldaTheSwordsman]

That looks pretty rad!


Here's Cybertron Mudflap posing with his sword.

[Emerje]

That looks pretty rad!


Here's Cybertron Mudflap posing with his sword.

Glad to see my Mudflap isn't the only one that has a sword that's gotten all warped over time. It was never great to start with, but deploying it recently for the first time in maybe 10 years it didn't even want to come unhooked. Jeeze, they really should have used harder plastic!

Emerje

[D-Maximal_Primal]

The Cyberverse Resistance (cons half)

[ZeldaTheSwordsman]

That looks pretty rad!


Here's Cybertron Mudflap posing with his sword.

Glad to see my Mudflap isn't the only one that has a sword that's gotten all warped over time. It was never great to start with, but deploying it recently for the first time in maybe 10 years it didn't even want to come unhooked. Jeeze, they really should have used harder plastic!

Emerje

EVERY Hasbro Mudflap is doomed to the sword getting bent. The tab restraining it warring with the deployment spring bends it - most of them arrived in stores with a bit of a bend in the blade.

Safety concerns at the time - and possibly breakage concerns - pushed Hasbro to using soft plastic. Hindsight, they might have gotten away with hard plastic because of it being on a hinge, but not a guarantee.
Of course, some of the fault lies with the design of the tab. Instead of tabbing into the side of the blade like is normal with flip-out swords, the tab covers the sword's tip. This is why Mudflap's sword gets bent, but Supreme-class Starscream's doesn't.
Mudflap's other key gimmick also has a design flaw: There's no clearance notch for the missile trigger when the gun is folded up. So unless you actually carve your own notch (which I did) he's very prone to firing the missile off if you so much as stare at him for too long.

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Huh, guess I'm lucky that I don't seem to have the same issue you guys do.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

I was Born in a Thunderstorm;
I grew up Overnight;
I played alone
I played on my own;
But I Survived...

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Man. Now that I'm playing with him, for such a blocky guy, Cybertron Mudflap has some sweet articulation.

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There we go~

[ZeldaTheSwordsman]

Man. Now that I'm playing with him, for such a blocky guy, Cybertron Mudflap has some sweet articulation.

I know, right? And that's a nice pic you took of him!

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For everything that The Last Knight did wrong, at least the toys that came out of it were awesome. Quintessa is only and inch and a half tall but she's got a hell of a lot of detail on her!

[ZeldaTheSwordsman]

IMO TLK's biggest flaws were following rather than overwriting AoE, and not saying what happened to Sam. For me, it fixed a lot of what AoE broke and answered questions AoE neglected.

But yes, it did produce some delightful toys and that Quintessa figurine is amazing.

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Some freshly cleaned Power Master Optimus Prime for your Saturday!

[ZeldaTheSwordsman]

A nice classic.

Did a big mega-base setup:






Main pic on DA for full size

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