The Energon Pub

News Credits: 19 · by **Carnivius_Prime** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 11:59 am

The Pretender homage paintschemes on the Titan Masters looks nice but maybe it's more to do with the fact Titan Masters are often so damn plain it's just nice to see them coloured like proper figures. The Only Human figures look good too. Not much else appealing to me in that lot. Many crazy weird colourschemes. That black repaint of Mindwipe looks much better to me than the original Mindwipe release though.

by **Stormshot_Prime** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 12:03 pm

Why the hell didn't we ever get a beast Titan Master?? A head that turns into another robot is normal and meh, but headmasters that turn into a bird for example like with that Doubledealer, that's awesome. That's a selling point. Why didn't we get an actual beast Lyon Titan Master if they're cable of making beast modes?

http://www.youtube.com/user/Pepsimus · by **Black Bumblebee** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 12:06 pm

Brilliant homages that would fill a lot of holes in peoples modern G1 collections. Sad that the sets never came to fruition.

News Credits: 90 · by **Tyrannacon** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 12:12 pm

Okay. Those Megatron concepts are really awesome and I wish now they had a wider release actually at stores because seriously. Action Master Megatron (especially) and even the Energon Megatron would be pretty darn neat to have. I'd buy 'em.

News Credits: 22 · by **Rodimus Prime** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 12:26 pm

Wow those customs are beautiful. Let me get this straight: these are just for show, not for sale, unless Tessman decides to sell them, right?

News Credits: 19 · by **Carnivius_Prime** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 12:26 pm

Hm I will say that deco on the Voyager Optimus Prime does look a lot better than the released original. Particuarly the torso having red either side of the grill with the G1 white stripes breaking up the top and lower half and making that obvious grey hinge at the top of the chest into red (on the concept at least, they left it grey on the real figure in the cabinet it seems). Am looking at my figure and being tempted to repaint it.

I really don't like a lot of the others. The Megatron's in particular look kinda bad to me. Including whatever character that Voyager Megatron body got turned into... damn the colours are bad.

Oh and Toyhax are doing a conversion set for the figure too with stickers and this preview here of added plastic parts.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 12:35 pm

Rodimus Prime wrote:Wow those customs are beautiful. Let me get this straight: these are just for show, not for sale, unless Tessman decides to sell them, right?

The five boxed set ones were raffled off at the convention. Allspark.com user Repugnus won them.

Full details of the con and much much more goodies can be found in my complete report.

News Credits: 8 · by **Flashwave** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 12:39 pm

It's things like this that the Club excelled in. Yeah, they aren't actual Actionmasters. But using the Titan Bodies to homage the Action Master Vehicles and the Heads as the ActionMasters is brilliant. I would've bought these over the Shell things Hasbro is selling, because I care more about the character than the unarticulated hunk of plastic it goes in.

In fact, my biggest gripe about the Headmastes is the feeling of partsformi g people's heads. But I love the concept in this avenue. And in a way, this embraces the play aspect of the Titanmaster bases in a way Hasbro doesn't, and it's THEIR play aspect.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 12:42 pm

Carnivius_Prime wrote:Including whatever character that Voyager Megatron body got turned into... damn the colours are bad.

Dude... That's Gutcruncher! One the most highly sought after Action Masters ever.

News Credits: 61 · by **EvasionModeBumblebee** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 12:48 pm

I didn't think I needed a Bumblebee pretender titan master until now. They even painted his arms to give him horns in head mode!

News Credits: 191 · by **Kurona** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 12:50 pm

Are there any pictures of alt-modes? I'd especially like to see Gutcruncher's jet mode, as the blue pieces he has indicate it'd match his Stratatronic Jet

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 12:53 pm

Kurona wrote:Are there any pictures of alt-modes? I'd especially like to see Gutcruncher's jet mode, as the blue pieces he has indicate it'd match his Stratatronic Jet

There's a digital render in the news post showing his altmodes.

News Credits: 19 · by **Carnivius_Prime** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 12:56 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
Carnivius_Prime wrote:Including whatever character that Voyager Megatron body got turned into... damn the colours are bad.
Dude... That's Gutcruncher! One the most highly sought after Action Masters ever.

Oh that one? Eeesh. The original Action Master figure on it's own ain't too bad but yeah the colour scheme with the jet and everything is just too much for my eyes. Moreso on the Titans version.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 1:00 pm

Carnivius_Prime wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Carnivius_Prime wrote:Including whatever character that Voyager Megatron body got turned into... damn the colours are bad.
Dude... That's Gutcruncher! One the most highly sought after Action Masters ever.

Oh that one? Eeesh. The original Action Master figure on it's own ain't too bad but yeah the colour scheme with the jet and everything is just too much for my eyes. Moreso on the Titans version.

It was 1990. Brightly-colored Action Master vehicles were the main thing back then. G2 was just around the corner, even.

News Credits: 61 · by **EvasionModeBumblebee** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 1:05 pm

Hey, does anyone know what face is used on that Bumblebee titan master? Looks Ironhide/Impactor-ish to me, but neither of them have TR figures.

News Credits: 10 · by **Terrsolpix** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 1:07 pm

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Hey, does anyone know what face is used on that Bumblebee titan master? Looks Ironhide/Impactor-ish to me, but neither of them have TR figures.

That's TR Hotrod's head.

by **RiddlerJ** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 1:08 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
Carnivius_Prime wrote:Including whatever character that Voyager Megatron body got turned into... damn the colours are bad.
Dude... That's Gutcruncher! One the most highly sought after Action Masters ever.

Why didn't they put the yellow cannon on his shoulder in the display and render. It can go there! Grraaagggghhh. :-(

News Credits: 10 · by **Terrsolpix** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 1:09 pm

RiddlerJ wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Carnivius_Prime wrote:Including whatever character that Voyager Megatron body got turned into... damn the colours are bad.
Dude... That's Gutcruncher! One the most highly sought after Action Masters ever.

Why didn't they put the yellow cannon on his shoulder in the display and render. It can go there! Grraaagggghhh.

Because Gutcruncher is too good for this world......

by **Silverwing** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 1:09 pm

Those are such good, creative ideas! I wish I'd thought of some of them!

News Credits: 61 · by **EvasionModeBumblebee** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 1:12 pm

Terrsolpix wrote:
EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Hey, does anyone know what face is used on that Bumblebee titan master? Looks Ironhide/Impactor-ish to me, but neither of them have TR figures.

That's TR Hotrod's head.

Thanks! Don't know why I didn't think of that.

News Credits: 1082 · by **Tigertrack** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 1:42 pm

Id have gone for this set. Like the Add ons too! Especially the titanmasters as pretenders... Crossblades and Vroom look excellent!

News Credits: 11 · by **RAR** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 1:53 pm

I like Turbomaster - very er "Pink" but cool.

It's a shame Hasbro never made Sparkcrusher as a Deluxe from the Warpath Deluxe it seemed very well suited to the idea.

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The thing that is so nice about this stuff is that it's scratching my updated Actionmaster itch and it's also adding to the Play functionality of existing and future toys too.

Because they would have provided the very thing missing from the Prime Wars segment which is the parts and elements you can use to play more with what you have - the only thing they are missing really is some ramps.

I must pester someone caster producer into making base mode ramps sometime if they don't already - I thought I saw someone had made adaptors for the Micromaster ramps already though - which is also a good idea.

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A word or two about Megatron too - the cool thing about the 6 changer is that he's a kinda like a "History of Megatrons" in one toys as he has a jet mode an armoured vehicle mode and "Submarine" *wink* mode and even a car mode of sorts & so on.

Also the Energon Megs works pretty well too though it does beg the question can you get the tank to ride on top of the jet - or does it have to be the jet on top of the tank instead ?

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 2:25 pm

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:
Terrsolpix wrote:
EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Hey, does anyone know what face is used on that Bumblebee titan master? Looks Ironhide/Impactor-ish to me, but neither of them have TR figures.

That's TR Hotrod's head.

Thanks! Don't know why I didn't think of that.

This sort of confusion is why I kinda wish the organization of my original report had been left intact. I had all the info and image laid out accordingly to show who is who and what is what.

News Credits: 5 · by **Whirlkick** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 2:38 pm

Man I just really want that Hot Shot. I recently started watching Armada. I'm really sad that the Unicron Trilogy doesn't get any recognition anymore. Like Hasbro just don't pay much, if any, attention to it anymore. They could've done Hot Shot instead of Breakaway in the main line and I'd be on that. They need to redo some Armada characters like they did with Armada Starscream.

News Credits: 61 · by **EvasionModeBumblebee** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 2:41 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:
Terrsolpix wrote:
EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Hey, does anyone know what face is used on that Bumblebee titan master? Looks Ironhide/Impactor-ish to me, but neither of them have TR figures.

That's TR Hotrod's head.

Thanks! Don't know why I didn't think of that.
This sort of confusion is why I kinda wish the organization of my original report had been left intact. I had all the info and image laid out accordingly to show who is who and what is what.

Well, it does say Firedrive on the article, but when i looked up the name I accidentally typed Hyperfire instead, thus my confusion xD