The Energon Pub

News Credits: 23 · by **Madeus Prime** » Sat Jul 26, 2014 1:55 pm

Any word on how much the class of '84 will be on Hasbro?

News Credits: 118 · by **megatronus** » Sat Jul 26, 2014 1:56 pm

hinomars19 wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Trash-talk and hot air.

There's a new Decepticon duo right there

Seriously, I haven't experienced any falling apart on toys ever.Not even the notorious offenders

Sludge seems to have missed out on the clear plastics? Am I right? I can't see any.
As for all these cool reveals, it's harder and harder to get excited when not even Rhinox and co are in my stores. Even AoE generations have been shafted completely. My Tesco and Argos have nothing but the simple gimmick stuff. The only way to find AoE Gen. toys was a TRU in London (I stayed there recently) Other than that the latest Generations to be there are the Optimus and Bumblee legends figs with the minicons. They still had an FoC Sideswipe! Forget these combiners, I still need to find Swerve, cosmos, whirl and Rattrap

Cosmos may have my vote for figure of the year. Seriously, he's near-perfect IMHO. Totally worth buying him off ebay or some other after-market if you can get a reasonable price.

News Credits: 23 · by **Madeus Prime** » Sat Jul 26, 2014 2:05 pm

megatronus wrote:
hinomars19 wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Trash-talk and hot air.

There's a new Decepticon duo right there

Seriously, I haven't experienced any falling apart on toys ever.Not even the notorious offenders

Sludge seems to have missed out on the clear plastics? Am I right? I can't see any.
As for all these cool reveals, it's harder and harder to get excited when not even Rhinox and co are in my stores. Even AoE generations have been shafted completely. My Tesco and Argos have nothing but the simple gimmick stuff. The only way to find AoE Gen. toys was a TRU in London (I stayed there recently) Other than that the latest Generations to be there are the Optimus and Bumblee legends figs with the minicons. They still had an FoC Sideswipe! Forget these combiners, I still need to find Swerve, cosmos, whirl and Rattrap

Cosmos may have my vote for figure of the year. Seriously, he's near-perfect IMHO. Totally worth buying him off ebay or some other after-market if you can get a reasonable price.

I'm forced to disagree, Whirl is un-vincible!

News Credits: 293 · by **shajaki** » Sat Jul 26, 2014 2:21 pm

hinomars19 wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Trash-talk and hot air.
There's a new Decepticon duo right there

Madeus Prime wrote:
megatronus wrote:Cosmos may have my vote for figure of the year. Seriously, he's near-perfect IMHO. Totally worth buying him off ebay or some other after-market if you can get a reasonable price.
I'm forced to disagree, Whirl is un-vincible!

while i like the whirl figure... those thin plastic knee joints are TERRIFYING. so much so, that i posed him right out of the box and never plan on moving those joints again.

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Sat Jul 26, 2014 2:27 pm

hinomars19 wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Trash-talk and hot air.

There's a new Decepticon duo right there

Allow me to steal that idea.
They will also combine together to do two different super modes! I'll use some Energon leftovers and...

Gotta get to work! :michaelbay:

by **MenaceRX** » Sat Jul 26, 2014 3:31 pm

SDCC stuff was up on BBTS however it sold out in a matter of seconds it seems like. Anyone here order them? When did they go up?

See the set listed on Ebay for 240, 60 less then BBTS though so thats not bad. Still not worth 240 to me though, and then you have to get the other one off amazon separately.

by **TF_PFoz** » Sat Jul 26, 2014 4:27 pm

No UK shipping but it says ships to other non US countries. Do you want my money or not Hasbramazon?

News Credits: 7 · by **Zeedust** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 12:27 am

Madeus Prime wrote:
megatronus wrote:Cosmos may have my vote for figure of the year. Seriously, he's near-perfect IMHO. Totally worth buying him off ebay or some other after-market if you can get a reasonable price.

I'm forced to disagree, Whirl is un-vincible!

Rhinox has my vote, it's probably the closest thing we'll ever get to a Masterpiece BW figure.

by **Code3** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 10:40 am

Wow! How disappointing! Hasbro and Michael Bay have destroyed Transformers so much and now they come up with more garbage. No more G1 anything! Now I know why the vintage items costs so much when Hasbro comes up with crap! You would think for the 30th anniversary that they would have come up with something to honor the G1 series. If your like me and love G1, your screwed! The SDCC items look like crap too but I guess people love to buy crap these days. I feel sorry for kids that have to grow up now with crap like this. When I grew up in the 80's I had so many quality choices of toys and tv shows to watch that supported the toys, now everything is recycled into some new creative design that has nothing to do with the original idea. Sad, just sad! I will not buy any of this new trash, G1 for me and if I have to dish out the cash for it, then so be it.

News Credits: 12 · by **Evil Eye** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 10:50 am

Code3 wrote:Wow! How disappointing! Hasbro and Michael Bay have destroyed Transformers so much and now they come up with more garbage. No more G1 anything! Now I know why the vintage items costs so much when Hasbro comes up with crap! You would think for the 30th anniversary that they would have come up with something to honor the G1 series. If your like me and love G1, your screwed! The SDCC items look like crap too but I guess people love to buy crap these days. I feel sorry for kids that have to grow up now with crap like this. When I grew up in the 80's I had so many quality choices of toys and tv shows to watch that supported the toys, now everything is recycled into some new creative design that has nothing to do with the original idea. Sad, just sad! I will not buy any of this new trash, G1 for me and if I have to dish out the cash for it, then so be it.

You were saying?

News Credits: 2 · by **Hero Alpha** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 10:58 am

Code3 wrote:Wow! How disappointing! Hasbro and Michael Bay have destroyed Transformers so much and now they come up with more garbage. No more G1 anything! Now I know why the vintage items costs so much when Hasbro comes up with crap! You would think for the 30th anniversary that they would have come up with something to honor the G1 series. If your like me and love G1, your screwed! The SDCC items look like crap too but I guess people love to buy crap these days. I feel sorry for kids that have to grow up now with crap like this. When I grew up in the 80's I had so many quality choices of toys and tv shows to watch that supported the toys, now everything is recycled into some new creative design that has nothing to do with the original idea. Sad, just sad! I will not buy any of this new trash, G1 for me and if I have to dish out the cash for it, then so be it.

I am really confused by this. I am a G1 guy and the new Superion and Menasor are sweet looking. I mean they are like a 30 something Transformers fan's wet dream lol. The generations stuff(not AoE) is great for G1 fans, but I guess that's just me.

News Credits: 65 · by **Wolfman Jake** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 11:04 am

Code3 wrote:Wow! How disappointing! Hasbro and Michael Bay have destroyed Transformers so much and now they come up with more garbage. No more G1 anything! Now I know why the vintage items costs so much when Hasbro comes up with crap! You would think for the 30th anniversary that they would have come up with something to honor the G1 series. If your like me and love G1, your screwed! The SDCC items look like crap too but I guess people love to buy crap these days. I feel sorry for kids that have to grow up now with crap like this. When I grew up in the 80's I had so many quality choices of toys and tv shows to watch that supported the toys, now everything is recycled into some new creative design that has nothing to do with the original idea. Sad, just sad! I will not buy any of this new trash, G1 for me and if I have to dish out the cash for it, then so be it.

That's exactly the opposite reaction I've had to the Transformers showcases at SDCC. The combiners are full of G1 appeal, lovingly, not lavishly, modernizing the original characters and concepts for the most part. They've got competent robot, alt, and limb modes, torsos of a larger size class than the limbs, Scramble City style customizability, hands and feet as separate pieces of the gestalt modes (how much more G1 can that be, honestly?) and now, they've taken the old concepts a step further with "honorary" team members who become weapons or armor for the main teams' gestalt modes. Heck, Hasbro finally remembered that the Aerialbots are rivals to the Stunticons, NOT the Combaticons. I'm very excited to see what comes next in the "Combiner Wars."

The G1-themed AoE Dinobot set is just bursting with G1 goodness too. The AoE Dinobots turned out pretty well, and giving them the G1 deco treatment and putting them in a box that transforms into Mount St. Hillary on the front on the Ark, complete with Teletran 1 on the back, is more than most fans could ask for in an SDCC exclusive.

News Credits: 293 · by **shajaki** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 11:38 am

Code3 wrote:negative gobbledy gook

he a friend of yours shockblast?

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 12:12 pm

Code3 wrote:Hello, I'm new here. Also, I'm either trolling or my nostalia goggles are one miles thick!

News Credits: 65 · by **Wolfman Jake** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 12:19 pm

shajaki wrote:
Code3 wrote:negative gobbledy gook
he a friend of yours shockblast?

Maybe Code3 is shockblast2's new ALTmode. See wut I did thar? :lol:

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 12:30 pm

Wolfman Jake wrote:
shajaki wrote:
Code3 wrote:negative gobbledy gook
he a friend of yours shockblast?

Maybe Code3 is shockblast2's new ALTmode. See wut I did thar?

Guys, I think we should just ignore Code3 from now on.
You know, before we get Burned.

News Credits: 251 · by **Mindmaster** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 12:43 pm

-Kanrabat- wrote:
Wolfman Jake wrote:
shajaki wrote:
Code3 wrote:negative gobbledy gook
he a friend of yours shockblast?

Maybe Code3 is shockblast2's new ALTmode. See wut I did thar?

Guys, I think we should just ignore Code3 from now on.
You know, before we get Burned.

Or Va'al'd. Or Mindmaster'd. Depending on who you annoy the most. >:oP

Now. Please stay on topic. We shouldn't have to step in a second time. Please don't push the wrong buttons.

News Credits: 23 · by **Madeus Prime** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 2:05 pm

Code3, Hasbro's giving us the good G1 goodness FINALLY, IMO, 2015 is looking to be one of the best Transformers years yet.

Wolfman Jake wrote:Heck, Hasbro finally remembered that the Aerialbots are rivals to the Stunticons, NOT the Combaticons. I'm very excited to see what comes next in the "Combiner Wars.".

Excellent point, I've always seen it like this:

Devastator - Omega Supreme (Fair point, they were arch enemies)
Menesor - Superion
Bruticus Maximus - Defensor
Abominus - Computron

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 2:58 pm

shajaki wrote:
Code3 wrote:negative gobbledy gook
he a friend of yours shockblast?

-Kanrabat- wrote:
Code3 wrote:Hello, I'm new here. Also, I'm either trolling or my nostalia goggles are one miles thick!

Wolfman Jake wrote:
shajaki wrote:
Code3 wrote:negative gobbledy gook
he a friend of yours shockblast?

Maybe Code3 is shockblast2's new ALTmode. See wut I did thar?

Good work guys. You screwed the thread over. I see any more garbage like this and warnings will be issued.

Frankly -Kanrabat-, you should get one now. Getting tired of having to pull you up.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 3:26 pm

I think Code3 might have clicked on a news post regarding something like the SDCC Dinobots set and was referring specifically to that. Or at least to something Movieverse related, even though there was very little Movieverse-related new given at this year's SDCC.

After all, this is an all-encompassing thread for SDCC Transformers news in general, so anyone not aware of that who clicked to comment on just one news post might think that this topic is just for that particular bit of news.

So, yeah, I'm betting he was talking about the SDCC Dinobots in all their Movieverse mold glory (or leack thereof, from his point of view).

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 3:31 pm

Hey, any more news on the various Stinger toys? Today is the last day of the con, right?

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 3:56 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Hey, any more news on the various Stinger toys? Today is the last day of the con, right?

The only Stinger I've seen so far is the TF Prime Legends Smokescreen repaint. Found it at walmart at... 8.50$+taxes!
What the flying hell?!

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 4:00 pm

I guess that word from the Hasbro booth at BotCon about there being no Deluxe toy for Stinger might prove true after all. Not that it's that big a loss, since the 'bot was a nobody in the movie.

Unless TakaraTomy comes through with making one of their own independently of Hasbro in their Movie Advanced Series line.

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 4:05 pm

-Kanrabat- wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Hey, any more news on the various Stinger toys? Today is the last day of the con, right?

The only Stinger I've seen so far is the TF Prime Legends Smokescreen repaint. Found it at walmart at... 8.50$+taxes!
What the flying hell?!

Knock Out, not Smokescreen.

Aside from him there's the RotF Legends Sideways repaint and the One-Step Changer. All exclusive to Walmart supposedly as the One-Step has appeared at Target of all places.

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 4:15 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
-Kanrabat- wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Hey, any more news on the various Stinger toys? Today is the last day of the con, right?

The only Stinger I've seen so far is the TF Prime Legends Smokescreen repaint. Found it at walmart at... 8.50$+taxes!
What the flying hell?!

Knock Out, not Smokescreen. Aside from him there's the RotF Legends Sideways repaint and the One-Step Changer. All exclusive to Walmart supposedly as the One-Step has appeared at Target of all places.

Oh yeah, Knock out. Still, in Canada, Legends tend to sell between 5$ and 7$. At 7$, it's the highest price it can get, TrU style. But 8.50$? For a repaint? A repaint that is very close to the original?
NOOOOOOOOPE.