The Energon Pub

GetRightRobot wrote:To anyone who has even the most minor complaints about what we've sen so far regarding this Figure:

Really?
Like the individual bot or vehicles modes are going to see the light of day?!? I mean, personally, the trend of buying 3rd party products in order to get something Transformer related that it is not a plastic pile of crap may have finally come to an end. I love it. I hope they make more. I love that it will not cost $600! I'm buying 3 of these at least. Make no mistake, these figures won't be warming shelves anywhere.

A side note for those reading, that is 8 confirmed (or atleast HEAVILY RUMORED) fig's for the Gen. Line. Can't say anymore... right now.

Why can you not have criticisms toward this? It very well could be mistransformed or incomplete, but if that is the final product, it's fair to not love every last bit of it. Hercules isn't as awesome as he is because they're able to charge $600. He's $600 because of how small the operation is and the runs are.

Sodan-1 wrote:Seriously unimpressed. Looks like a glorified PCC Commander and nothing like his in-game self. As a solo figure it's a pass but I'll reserve final judgement for once I've seen pictures of the entire set.

I seem to be in the minority when I say that the individual figures are just as important to me as the combined form. That's why I could never pull the trigger on FansProject's Crossfire-02 set: Brawl, Vortex and Onslaught still looked like crap.

......No some like myself are just happy we're getting "something". I'll admit that Onslaught's alt mode is lame but oh well still a purchase on sight.

And as I said on another site this is combiner will not be that big.

Down_Shift wrote:...and it's pretty obvious that the "gun" he's holding is his backpack cannon.

Assuming the toy can even hold it on his back in bot mode. :/

Something has to be wrong; it looks like a big chunk of the rear of the vehicle mode is missing in comparison to the game art.

If that's how it's supposed to look, yech. It's not bad enough to make me pass on the set; I'm just glad Brawl's and Swindle's alt-modes look much, much better than that (from the limited photography we've seen of them thus far, anyway).

I'm hoping it's just badly mistransformed or is missing some parts. Takara's engineers are good enough that they shouldn't have had to make that many compromises to the vehicle mode to get all three modes to work....

Looking at it again, I'm still going with my theory that the cap isn't angled correctly with the rear. BUT, it also looks like the "gun" he holds is supposed to connect to the top of the back, to create a more oval shape, similar to the ingame model. That is also the location of his cannons in the game as well. It seems like the photographer attached the gun to the panel that would normally sit on his back in robot mode, and instead of putting it on his back in Robot Mode, stuck it in his hands, resulting in the very awkward holding position.

Plus, that gun doesn't even look like it's supposed to be held. AND, looking at the toy versus concept art, it seems that he is indeed mistransformed: his shoulders should be sitting at a 45 degree angle from his body, not parallel to it, with his upper arms hanging from the end, which would give him a bulkier, more imposing look. Combine that with a hunched over pose, and he will look just like his ingame model.


Still, looking pretty good considering it's probably only deluxed size.

Unless this guy is mistransformed, Onslaught isn't my favorite of the Combaticons.

2012 is getting better and better. I feel like I'm going to be army building/customizing this FoC line like crazy.

GetRightRobot wrote:To anyone who has even the most minor complaints about what we've sen so far regarding this Figure:

Really?
Like the individual bot or vehicles modes are going to see the light of day?!? I mean, personally, the trend of buying 3rd party products in order to get something Transformer related that it is not a plastic pile of crap may have finally come to an end. I love it. I hope they make more. I love that it will not cost $600! I'm buying 3 of these at least. Make no mistake, these figures won't be warming shelves anywhere.

A side note for those reading, that is 8 confirmed (or atleast HEAVILY RUMORED) fig's for the Gen. Line. Can't say anymore... right now.

*Looks at the latest combined pic* Can we have the most minor of complaints now?

Ok people, Optimus has a new mode, Megs has one as well.

Why can't Onslaught have nabbed a new alt? Whose to say he didn't get damaged or just chose a more effective alt mode in the time between WfC and FoC?
That said it still looks mistransformed, but still I'm getting it even if it isn't because I have managed to get poopy Transformers and screw with them a bit until I find a way to make them look good.

Looks like he just went to a weight loss clinic and recently got discharged, when compared to the rendering from the game.