The Energon Pub

[SentinelPrime878]

I just received my Transformers Monopoly Board Game and it is way cool!!! The board is based on G1 characters and all the graphics are great! The properties are renamed for different places from G1 series.

Places such as for Boardwalk = Cybertron, Vector Sigma, Teletran-1, The Ark, The Nemesis, Autobot City, Dinobot Island, Space Bridge, Unicron, Sherman Dam, Earth, Iacon, Nebulon, Junk Planet, Quintessa, Chamber of Ancients, Well of All Spark, Smelting Pools, Decepticon Command Bunker, Kaon, Combat Arena, Shockwave's Tower,Autobase, Decagon, Transwarp DriveMaccadams Old Oil House.

Each Denomination of money is a different character: Ones=Bumblebee, Fives=Soundwave, Tens=Ultra Magnus, Twenties=Starscream, Hundreds=Megatron, Five Hundred=Optimus Prime.

The dices are two different colors: Purple and Red. The Houses (called Energon Cubes) are purple, and the Hotels (called Anti-matter) are Red.

The Ark, Space Bridge, The Nemesis, and Trapswarp Drive all replace the traditional Railrodas spaces; Teletran-1 replaces Electric Company, Vector Sigma replaces Water Works. Decepticon and Autobot cards replaces Chance and Community Chest cards, You use a Card Decoder to decoded the cards, which have all the G1 characters on them!

The only really downside is the pawns are small pewter versions of: Megatron, Optimus Prime, StarScream, Bumblebee, Soundwave, and Jazz. They are not big enough or very well detailed, but you can make out who they are! There is also a cool feature or twist with the Transformers version: If you roll a double, there are either privileges or penalties. For example, if you double twos, you use spark to create a new transformer--You get to collect $200 dollars! If you roll double five, you have to paid $50 to each of the other players If you roll double six, you get to challegne another player's property that you want. Each player take a dice and have a roll-off, the highest dice number get to take control of the property!

Last thing...I am going to use the PVC figures as my pawns, they are just the right size! I highly recommednd this boardgame to all Transformer collectors, it is DEFINITELY worth every penny! I got mine from B.B.T.S. Hope this review helps!

[Uncrazzimatic]

I want! Thanks for saying what the properties are I've been wondering about that for a while. The double thing is an intersting change from previous versions.

[SentinelPrime878]

The other doubles are:

Double 1's= Perfect Transwarp Technology May move token to any space

Double 3's= If Autobot may remove a Energon Cube (house) from one of the Decepticon properties and return it to the bank. Same is done for Decepticon player.

Double 4's= Draw a Autobot card if Autobot token; Decepticon card if a Decepticon token.

I love the new added twists to this great game!

[Riotflea]

This is a licensed product?
How the heck did I miss this?

[Dragonsend]

Cool I'll have to find me one of these!

[Novacron]

Wow, thanks for the great break-down of the game, transform1245. Now I want it too.

[G1 Blaster]

That's so awesome. Gotta get me that.

[Dclone Soundwave]

I got mine about 2 weeks ago & it really is a great piece of work. I was wondering all that time what they would do w/the Hydro-Electric & Water companies. I was pleased w/what they did. There was actually a lot of thought put into this. The creators looked at all the aspects of what Trasnformers has gone through. It wasn't just the comic, or just the cartoon, it was all of it. Even Beast Wars! Where do you think the Transwarp Drive came from!? I like this version so much. I have yet to play it w/anybody. If you haven't gotten this yet, get it! It well worth it!

[Wheeljack35]

I have one but have yet to open it

[God Magnus]

Does it come with an order form for extra player tokens like some of the other USAOpoly Monopoly editions? I know there was one with the Simpsons Monopoly.

[beastbotmom]

There is a man who developed a Transoploy game a while back and unfortunately the makers of Monopoly didn't take it. Now this new one comes out with the movie and it's the hottest thing ever. The one that this guy developed was so awesome and more old school original graphics rather than the "Movie" graphics.
He had a website, not sure if it's still up:http://www.angelfire.com/ca5/Prowl/main.html

[decepticonjon]

There is a man who developed a Transoploy game a while back and unfortunately the makers of Monopoly didn't take it. Now this new one comes out with the movie and it's the hottest thing ever. The one that this guy developed was so awesome and more old school original graphics rather than the "Movie" graphics.

got any pics or links to the old one? sounds interesting, i love this version!

[DISCHARGE]

I've looked all over for this thing.
Is it only available online?

[Tigertrack]

I've looked all over for this thing.
Is it only available online?

My local comic store has one available, but the mark up is big, so I figured I would wait for retail.

I do think I am going to have to get this, RISK, and Stratego...

[Darth Decepticonus]

yeah I got it a few weeks ago. My g/f was anxious to play it with me since we're kinda big on playing Monopoly. She picked Starscream, I picked Megatron and ironically she won lol. Can you believe that. But yeah the game is fun, espcially the new rules yet I find them almost game breaking as well but hell with it their too good to pass up.