The Energon Pub

News Credits: 31 · by **bacem** » Wed Jun 07, 2017 6:36 am

Found this from whatsapp group. Since there is movie optimus artwork on the front, i am assuming it is part of movie toyline. If it is not, feel free to move it on the appropriate place.

News Credits: 19 · by **Carnivius_Prime** » Wed Jun 07, 2017 6:39 am

bacem wrote:Found this from whatsapp group. Since there is movie optimus artwork on the front, i am assuming it is part of movie toyline. If it is not, feel free to move it on the appropriate place.
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That's bizarre. Old movie Optimus picture rather tnan his current knight form and with two non-movie mold figures. Usually in these double packs you'd get at least one of them being a previously used movie mold.

News Credits: 9 · by **Rainmaker** » Wed Jun 07, 2017 6:53 am

Ooo another Evolution Pack! Me likey. This is part of the Tribute line apparently...maybe that's where the Orion Pax comes from. Although nothing from the packaging confirms this is a Takara product, it looks like Hasbro packaging. I thought the Tribute line was Takara.

:MAXIMAL:

News Credits: 13 · by **kurthy** » Wed Jun 07, 2017 7:28 am

Planet Iacon has news of Orion Pax in an evolution two pack with an Optimus Prime.

News Credits: 102 · by **Qwan** » Wed Jun 07, 2017 7:37 am

kurthy wrote:Planet Iacon has news of Orion Pax in an evolution two pack with an Optimus Prime.

Now that looks pretty great! I actually never got a chance to get WFC Optimus, so this is absolutely going on my to-buy list. (Orion super looks like Animated Cybertronian Optimus, actually - even moreso than I had expected him to!)

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Wed Jun 07, 2017 8:02 am

We had news of the Transformers Tribute line appearing soon from our regular Weibo user/leaker, but we now also have an in-package image of who Orion Pax (the Kup repaint) will be featured with: deluxe War for Cybertron Generations Optimus Prime! Check out the box below, as reported by several Seibertronians, and let us know what you think of this new Evolution Pack line!

by **RiddlerJ** » Wed Jun 07, 2017 8:08 am

kurthy wrote:Planet Iacon has news of Orion Pax in an evolution two pack with an Optimus Prime.

So this is a movieverse set with no movie toys?

That's kinds dumb.

And I already have the WFC Optimus so I'm not seeing the need to buy another one. I might have bight Orion Pax if he was sold alone but I'll probably skip this.

News Credits: 131 · by **no-one** » Wed Jun 07, 2017 8:14 am

That just screams Target exclusive

I kinda want that Orion repaint but I don't need a second Linebacker Prime. Is the WfC OP deco any different?

News Credits: 19 · by **Carnivius_Prime** » Wed Jun 07, 2017 8:14 am

I don't get what it's a tribute to...

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Wed Jun 07, 2017 8:17 am

Two pre-Earth toys of Optimus, both as versions of him from a point set before he got the Matrix. Weird.

News Credits: 31 · by **bacem** » Wed Jun 07, 2017 8:18 am

Carnivius_Prime wrote:I don't get what it's a tribute to...

tribute for people like me who missed the first wfc optimus prime. :-P

News Credits: 13 · by **kurthy** » Wed Jun 07, 2017 8:27 am

bacem wrote:
Carnivius_Prime wrote:I don't get what it's a tribute to...

tribute for people like me who missed the first wfc optimus prime.

Really great for people like me who are getting the takara kup and don't have linebacker prime.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Wed Jun 07, 2017 8:27 am

carytheone wrote:Is the WfC OP deco any different?

Yes. The red looks to be deeper, the gray darker, and all the pink Tron-style lights are light blue instead of pink.

News Credits: 3 · by **Randomhero** » Wed Jun 07, 2017 8:30 am

Oh I'm getting this. My WFC Optimus fell from the shelf and his right antennae broke and that Pax looks too good to pass up. I was getting worried they go all out homage and include Dione in the Wheelie mold.

News Credits: 19 · by **Carnivius_Prime** » Wed Jun 07, 2017 8:31 am

bacem wrote:
Carnivius_Prime wrote:I don't get what it's a tribute to...

tribute for people like me who missed the first wfc optimus prime.

Heh, ok. I passed on that WFC Prime many times as it didn't interest me and that Kup mold looks pretty bad so I don't mind passing on this set.

News Credits: 1 · by **Lucky Logician** » Wed Jun 07, 2017 8:56 am

Another WFC Prime? Boo. That mold is such a pain to transform.

I like the Pax version of the Kup mold. Normally I would say he looks good. However, seeing him next to that sweet cherry red WFC Prime makes him look.... kinda dull by comparison. Pax looks like he needs to go to the car wash and get a premium wax.

News Credits: 4835 · by **william-james88** » Wed Jun 07, 2017 9:00 am

Rainmaker wrote:Ooo another Evolution Pack! Me likey. This is part of the Tribute line apparently...maybe that's where the Orion Pax comes from. Although nothing from the packaging confirms this is a Takara product, it looks like Hasbro packaging. I thought the Tribute line was Takara.

We knew it was Hasbro since Takara toys never get leaked (at leasst not that I know of) and the instructions shown were Hasbro instructions with English everywhere:
https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... med/38363/

Also takara doesnt really do stuff like this, with current molds, aside from E-hobby stuff but thats another story.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:I don't get what it's a tribute to...

Optimus Prime?

News Credits: 19 · by **Carnivius_Prime** » Wed Jun 07, 2017 10:06 am

william-james88 wrote:Optimus Prime?

From which universe???

News Credits: 41 · by **Cobotron** » Wed Jun 07, 2017 10:09 am

Carnivius_Prime wrote:
william-james88 wrote:Optimus Prime?

From which universe???

All of them? :-?

News Credits: 19 · by **Carnivius_Prime** » Wed Jun 07, 2017 10:12 am

Cobotron wrote:
Carnivius_Prime wrote:
william-james88 wrote:Optimus Prime?

From which universe???

All of them?

These other double pack figures make much more sense to be in an 'evolution' two pack with movie Prime on the box than this WfC and Kup mold.

It's all just a bit weird...

News Credits: 3 · by **Randomhero** » Wed Jun 07, 2017 10:15 am

william-james88 wrote:
Rainmaker wrote:Ooo another Evolution Pack! Me likey. This is part of the Tribute line apparently...maybe that's where the Orion Pax comes from. Although nothing from the packaging confirms this is a Takara product, it looks like Hasbro packaging. I thought the Tribute line was Takara.

We knew it was Hasbro since Takara toys never get leaked (at leasst not that I know of) and the instructions shown were Hasbro instructions with English everywhere:
https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... med/38363/

Also takara doesnt really do stuff like this, with current molds, aside from E-hobby stuff but thats another story.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:I don't get what it's a tribute to...

Optimus Prime?

Could be the tenacious D song too

News Credits: 12 · by **Evil Eye** » Wed Jun 07, 2017 10:42 am

Huh, that looks pretty neat. Assuming I don't get Legends Kup at some point I might spring for this.

News Credits: 4835 · by **william-james88** » Wed Jun 07, 2017 11:24 am

Carnivius_Prime wrote:
william-james88 wrote:Optimus Prime?

From which universe???

But when isn't Optimus Prime Optimus Prime? He's always the same character, Peter Cullin says so every chance he gets.

But if we want to get nerdy, we do know that the High moon games both serve as a peripheral prequel (either canon or not) to both the films and the alligned continuity since there are references to both of those continuities within the games (Lockdown and Dark energon for instance). Now we know Orion Pax is also part of the Alligned Continuity, specifically prime. So Movie Prime, WFC Prime and Orion pax are all loosely connected in the multiple iterations of the evolution of the various optimus prime depicitons and designs throughout the years

News Credits: 2 · by **Insurgent** » Wed Jun 07, 2017 11:35 am

They are a quasi prequel to the aligned continuity, even though WFC was meant to be a G1 based universe, but where does the Movie references come in?

Dark Energon was never mentioned on screen, and Lockdown, to my knowledge, never appeared in Prime. If you mean Rise of the Dark Spark game, it's established in game those are two different universes that the Dark Spark jumps across.

News Credits: 4835 · by **william-james88** » Wed Jun 07, 2017 11:57 am

Insurgent wrote:Dark Energon was never mentioned on screen, and Lockdown, to my knowledge, never appeared in Prime. If you mean Rise of the Dark Spark game, it's established in game those are two different universes that the Dark Spark jumps across.

There you go, they are all all connected in some way.