The Energon Pub

[Tyrannacon]

Heatwave.

Now there's an idea... a Rescue Bots combiner.

A Novel idea...

In my experience, it really isn't. I've seen tons of suggestions and proposals for a Rescue Bot combiner comprised of CW molds.

There could be worse though, like that vehicle alt mode G1 Dinobot team

Hey, I liked this idea!!

Me too. I actually wouldn't mind this set myself. Kinda reminds me of how they were before what happened in Fall of Cybertron with Shockwave experimenting on them and giving them their dinosaur modes.

[william-james88]

Somehow the thing I'm most mad about there is that they didn't think to use the Rook mold and went for cars instead...

The desperation for generations dinobots is so great that this idea was thought up as soon as they revealed the first 2 combiners coming out, so before people even knew of Rook.

[Kurona]

I think Va'al recruiting me to the news team has infected me. I'm starting to play around with Alpha Bravo a lot more and loving him more and more as one of my favourite tfs every time.

[william-james88]

I think Va'al recruiting me to the news team has infected me. I'm starting to play around with Alpha Bravo a lot more and loving him more and more as one of my favourite tfs every time.

Cant be too infectious since I .....

....

....

have never owned an Alpha Bravo

[Decepticon Stryker]

I think Va'al recruiting me to the news team has infected me. I'm starting to play around with Alpha Bravo a lot more and loving him more and more as one of my favourite tfs every time.

Cant be too infectious since I .....

....

....

have never owned an Alpha Bravo

You could say he... He.... I got nothing. Though I would like to get an Alpha Bravo.

[o.supreme]

Here's my own personal take on Alpha Bravo (goes for Offroad & Rook as well). Originally I was on the hate bandwagon as well. *Why Hasbro change the Airialbots" etc...etc... But Hasbro releasing the genuine 5th members, even if only exclusives, somehow makes up for it.

I favor UW by far, but I went out of my way to purchase these CW "6th members" as I call them, because as long as you have the originals, I think there is always room for more. I think of the NBA. You always have your "starting 5" but the 6th man (or the first off the bench) is usually highly valued. That's how I see these guys. Especially in the heat of battle, Combiner limbs are no doubt going to be ripped apart, so they are going to need a *6th man* to step in.

In the original series episode "The Burden Hardest to Bear", when First Aid didn't want to fight anymore, Rook could have stepped up and saved the team etc...

Even more NBA analogy...As long as we always had our "Starting 5" in our combiner teams, heck I wouldn't even mind if the Airialbot ranks (or any other combiner for that matter) swelled to 10 members. It may just be me, but I think Hasbro releasing the "proper" 5th members (then Takara following suit) really saved Alpha Bravo, Offroad, & Rook. I really enjoy having them now, whereas before I don't even know if I would have started collecting the line with an "80%" accurate original combiner.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

I like the basketball comparison. I never got the actual final original limb because I love the alternates in there. Rook is my favorite combiner wars figure as well, so that worked out big time

[nycPrime]

Here's my own personal take on Alpha Bravo (goes for Offroad & Rook as well). Originally I was on the hate bandwagon as well. *Why Hasbro change the Airialbots" etc...etc... But Hasbro releasing the genuine 5th members, even if only exclusives, somehow makes up for it.

I avoided AB and Offroad like the plague. The Aerialbots are supposed to be planes, so I couldn't get past that with AB. And Offroad just didn't come across to me as a proper Stunticon. But Rook I was okay with, especially with the addition of legend size Groove. Rook fits with the rest of the Protectobots rather well, to the point that I'm seriously debating if I should bother getting deluxe sized Groove. The only reason for me is to have a more G1 toon accurate team. The reasons against: $25 for a deluxe figure, Groove as a leg doesn't look as good as Rook.

[Kurona]

Funnily enough, Alpha Bravo himself has become a bit of an anomaly for me. Back when I got him my plan was to get all the combiners - and my thought process was that if I went Takara, Alpha Bravo would be the only Aerialbot I couldn't get. So I might as well get him anyway.

... buuuuuuut now I've limited my wanted combiners to Hasbro Bruticus (almost complete), Hasbro Defensor (halfway complete + including rook & legends groove), Victorion, Sky Reign/Lynxmaster and (if I can) Takara Computron.
So essentially, Alpha Bravo is now a sort of vestigial leftover from my plans to get a Combiner I no longer feel any need for, especially since I didn't get any more of his flying plane pals. He's alone. An outside. A wanderer in this bizarre world where I haphazardly shove TFP Vehicons and Cybertron Sideways into G1 displays.
Do you think he'd like to sign up for the Protectobots?

[Sowndwave76]

Funnily enough, Alpha Bravo himself has become a bit of an anomaly for me. Back when I got him my plan was to get all the combiners - and my thought process was that if I went Takara, Alpha Bravo would be the only Aerialbot I couldn't get. So I might as well get him anyway.

... buuuuuuut now I've limited my wanted combiners to Hasbro Bruticus (almost complete), Hasbro Defensor (halfway complete + including rook & legends groove), Victorion, Sky Reign/Lynxmaster and (if I can) Takara Computron.
So essentially, Alpha Bravo is now a sort of vestigial leftover from my plans to get a Combiner I no longer feel any need for, especially since I didn't get any more of his flying plane pals. He's alone. An outside. A wanderer in this bizarre world where I haphazardly shove TFP Vehicons and Cybertron Sideways into G1 displays.
Do you think he'd like to sign up for the Protectobots?

I forgot, do you have Devastator?

[D-Maximal_Primal]

Funnily enough, Alpha Bravo himself has become a bit of an anomaly for me. Back when I got him my plan was to get all the combiners - and my thought process was that if I went Takara, Alpha Bravo would be the only Aerialbot I couldn't get. So I might as well get him anyway.

... buuuuuuut now I've limited my wanted combiners to Hasbro Bruticus (almost complete), Hasbro Defensor (halfway complete + including rook & legends groove), Victorion, Sky Reign/Lynxmaster and (if I can) Takara Computron.
So essentially, Alpha Bravo is now a sort of vestigial leftover from my plans to get a Combiner I no longer feel any need for, especially since I didn't get any more of his flying plane pals. He's alone. An outside. A wanderer in this bizarre world where I haphazardly shove TFP Vehicons and Cybertron Sideways into G1 displays.
Do you think he'd like to sign up for the Protectobots?

His white would do better for the overall color scheme then Blades' bright red

[Kurona]

Funnily enough, Alpha Bravo himself has become a bit of an anomaly for me. Back when I got him my plan was to get all the combiners - and my thought process was that if I went Takara, Alpha Bravo would be the only Aerialbot I couldn't get. So I might as well get him anyway.

... buuuuuuut now I've limited my wanted combiners to Hasbro Bruticus (almost complete), Hasbro Defensor (halfway complete + including rook & legends groove), Victorion, Sky Reign/Lynxmaster and (if I can) Takara Computron.
So essentially, Alpha Bravo is now a sort of vestigial leftover from my plans to get a Combiner I no longer feel any need for, especially since I didn't get any more of his flying plane pals. He's alone. An outside. A wanderer in this bizarre world where I haphazardly shove TFP Vehicons and Cybertron Sideways into G1 displays.
Do you think he'd like to sign up for the Protectobots?

I forgot, do you have Devastator?

Nah, I don't have any full combiners. ... not yet.
Though I DID forget that I want Devastator. I want him as part of my sort of like, Megatron's-personal-group Decepticon display. He would be one of my last priorities, though...
If I had to list by priority, come to think of it, it'd go Defensor > Bruticus > Victorion > Sky Reign > Devastator > Computron. I love and adore them all, really, but some I like more than others
That said I think I will complete Bruticus first since I only need Vortex for him as opposed to Hot Spot, Streetwise and Blades for Defensor.

Do you think he'd like to sign up for the Protectobots?

His white would do better for the overall color scheme then Blades' bright red

This is an extremely good point and one I certainly considered when trying to think of what the heck to do with Alpha Bravo. At the same time though Blades is my favourite protectobot - First Aid aside - for how much he stands out in terms of being the psycho brawler on the rescue team, and I think his red contrasted to Defensor's otherwise relatively uniformed colour scheme of blues and whites helps to emphasise that. Which I know was probably not the intention back in 1986, but I do like how it works out.

[Nemesis Maximo]

I think Va'al recruiting me to the news team has infected me. I'm starting to play around with Alpha Bravo a lot more and loving him more and more as one of my favourite tfs every time.

Cant be too infectious since I .....

....

....

have never owned an Alpha Bravo

[william-james88]

For some reason, I feel...

[Kurona]

Just found this in Brawl's Marvel bio. Made me chuckle.

"In tank mode, his turret is prone to getting locked in one position, particularly in dusty environments."

[Va'al]

I think Va'al recruiting me to the news team has infected me. I'm starting to play around with Alpha Bravo a lot more and loving him more and more as one of my favourite tfs every time.

The plan, it is working.

Cant be too infectious since I .....

....

....

have never owned an Alpha Bravo

What joke..?

[william-james88]

Liokaiser is now up for preorder http://www.robotkingdom.com/b6639as00.html for $110

This item will only be distributed stateside by Entertainment Online so any copy you see from BBTS or such will be an pricier import from Asia.

[Kurona]

Does anyone know a good Shapeways long rifle gun thing? I lost one of Onslaught's cannons and Bruticus just isn't Bruticus without both of his back cannons.

[Kurona]

Does anyone know a good Shapeways long rifle gun thing? I lost one of Onslaught's cannons and Bruticus just isn't Bruticus without both of his back cannons.

Never mind just realised I could use Hot Spot's cannons when I get him

[Agamemnon]

Does anyone know a good Shapeways long rifle gun thing? I lost one of Onslaught's cannons and Bruticus just isn't Bruticus without both of his back cannons.

Never mind just realised I could use Hot Spot's cannons when I get him

That'll work. There's a PE set too that might work...

[Kurona]

Does anyone know a good Shapeways long rifle gun thing? I lost one of Onslaught's cannons and Bruticus just isn't Bruticus without both of his back cannons.

Never mind just realised I could use Hot Spot's cannons when I get him

That'll work. There's a PE set too that might work...

This is true, but I want to keep my money down - especially when I don't care for the Shockwave stock and the Bruticus head in that set. Rather not pay 25 quid for a pair of guns when I could pay 20 quid for a pair of guns and Hot Spot.

[jay5]

Think we'll see Thundercracker and Skywarp CW jets eventually now that there's a Ghost Starscream done in the Unite Warriors line?

[Kurona]

Think we'll see Thundercracker and Skywarp CW jets eventually now that there's a Ghost Starscream done in the Unite Warriors line?

Considering Combiner Wars is finished, unlikely.

[Railbomb]

Think we'll see Thundercracker and Skywarp CW jets eventually now that there's a Ghost Starscream done in the Unite Warriors line?

Considering Combiner Wars is finished, unlikely.

We might down the road if Hasbro does another budget repaint line with few original molds like Universe but who knows how long that will be.

[Kurona]

Think we'll see Thundercracker and Skywarp CW jets eventually now that there's a Ghost Starscream done in the Unite Warriors line?

Considering Combiner Wars is finished, unlikely.

We might down the road if Hasbro does another budget repaint line with few original molds like Universe but who knows how long that will be.

Problem with that compared to normal figures - or even titans return figures - is that they specifically have a gimmick that requires other figures to use.