The Energon Pub

Tue Jul 09, 2013 1:29 am

How did the clubs subscription service work exactly last year and could you recommend which method of payment to use -i didn't get it last year because i joined too late but im interested if chromedome and treadshot are in it-i had the action master of tread shot- but with the club being -kinda crazy i would like advice on what you recommend having dealt with their craziness.

also thanks for answering my questions -i have been doing some testing and ive found 2000 grit sand paper is really good on figures -extremely fine can remove some bad paint apps -found at most automotive stores-also clear acrylic is good for sealing paint repairs -worked well on vector primes chest orb

Thu Jul 25, 2013 9:31 am

"Simplified Deluxes"

Dear God, WHY?!

And specifically, if you have any insight into why Hasbro is upscaling Cyberverse figures, would you please tell us?

Tue Aug 06, 2013 8:47 pm

recently the two main comic series are about to have their characters made into toys or are featuring more toys as characters. we saw it with the spotlights which are going to be packed with the characters but also other stuff. scoop showed up in rid 20 and we are seeing a tailgate, swerve, skids and whirl from mme. Plus we are seeing waspinator coming out and with a rhinox figure coming out and a the appearance of rattrap in the comics im thinking we may be seeing more characters from the comic as toys and the toys effecting the comic. What are your thoughts?

Also with a whirl coming out do you think they could retool him into highbrow from the head master team? As he is also a copter and they did something similar with springer and sandstorms mold

Sun Aug 25, 2013 3:45 am

interesting talk on third party enhancements following charitcon,

but apart from third party attachments/figurines, what non-hasbro/takara equipment do you feel should be essential to any collector?

I'm looking for some type of affordable diorama background, nothing as elaborate as Jon's, any suggestions?

News Credits: 656 · Thu Oct 10, 2013 3:21 pm

Probably not in 78, but in 79, we're gonna visit some questions here. Thanks for the contributions, and let's get some more in!

News Credits: 25 · Thu Oct 10, 2013 6:28 pm

So what are your opinions upon the concept; movie toys possibly being grouped in with generations? Personally I don't mind it, but it's caused some people to be a touch irate.

News Credits: 462 · Thu Oct 10, 2013 6:42 pm

SW's SilverHammer wrote:So what are your opinions upon the concept; movie toys possibly being grouped in with generations? Personally I don't mind it, but it's caused some people to be a touch irate.

How's it any different from what's happened before? The Generations line has never had any set aesthetic. It's currently going on its fourth one now with the IDW toys.

News Credits: 25 · Thu Oct 10, 2013 6:45 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
SW's SilverHammer wrote:So what are your opinions upon the concept; movie toys possibly being grouped in with generations? Personally I don't mind it, but it's caused some people to be a touch irate.
How's it any different from what's happened before? The Generations line has never had any set aesthetic. It's currently going on its fourth one with the IDW toys.

I personally don't see a deference or care, but I know some think that movie is it's own separate section and shouldn't mix with whatever neo-C.H.U.G line there is.

News Credits: 462 · Thu Oct 10, 2013 6:50 pm

SW's SilverHammer wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
SW's SilverHammer wrote:So what are your opinions upon the concept; movie toys possibly being grouped in with generations? Personally I don't mind it, but it's caused some people to be a touch irate.
How's it any different from what's happened before? The Generations line has never had any set aesthetic. It's currently going on its fourth one with the IDW toys.

I personally don't see a deference or care, but I know some think that movie is it's own separate section and shouldn't mix with whatever neo-C.H.U.G line there is.

There have been Movieverse molds in the Generations line before. Specifically, GDO Sandstorm, Laserbeak, Brawl, Dead End, Springer, Powerdive, and Megatron all used Movie molds (just ones that weren't designed by Paramount).

News Credits: 25 · Thu Oct 10, 2013 6:52 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
SW's SilverHammer wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
SW's SilverHammer wrote:So what are your opinions upon the concept; movie toys possibly being grouped in with generations? Personally I don't mind it, but it's caused some people to be a touch irate.
How's it any different from what's happened before? The Generations line has never had any set aesthetic. It's currently going on its fourth one with the IDW toys.

I personally don't see a deference or care, but I know some think that movie is it's own separate section and shouldn't mix with whatever neo-C.H.U.G line there is.
There have been Movieverse molds in the Generations line before. Specifically, GDO Sandstorm, Laserbeak, Brawl, Dead End, Springer, Powerdive, and Megatron all used Movie molds (just ones that weren't designed by Paramount).

Again I don't care movie and C.H.U.G insert generation, mixing in GDO, but others got their respective panties in a twist about that to

News Credits: 462 · Thu Oct 10, 2013 7:01 pm

SW's SilverHammer wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
SW's SilverHammer wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
SW's SilverHammer wrote:So what are your opinions upon the concept; movie toys possibly being grouped in with generations? Personally I don't mind it, but it's caused some people to be a touch irate.
How's it any different from what's happened before? The Generations line has never had any set aesthetic. It's currently going on its fourth one with the IDW toys.

I personally don't see a deference or care, but I know some think that movie is it's own separate section and shouldn't mix with whatever neo-C.H.U.G line there is.
There have been Movieverse molds in the Generations line before. Specifically, GDO Sandstorm, Laserbeak, Brawl, Dead End, Springer, Powerdive, and Megatron all used Movie molds (just ones that weren't designed by Paramount).

Again I don't care movie and C.H.U.G insert generation, mixing in GDO, but others got their respective panties in a twist about that to

Kinda makes one try to remember how folks felt about the 2007 movie line using molds from Cybertron and Classics when they did those Walmart exclusive Deluxes back then (I had only just recently joined the site back then, so I can't fully recall what the reactions were). :o)

News Credits: 3 · Fri Oct 11, 2013 2:29 pm

Dear Twincast,

WTF is a CHUG?

News Credits: 462 · Fri Oct 11, 2013 10:11 pm

Kibble wrote:Dear Twincast,

WTF is a CHUG?

"Classics Henkei Universe Generations"

News Credits: 3 · Mon Oct 14, 2013 3:01 pm

Dear Twincast,

Do you have a separate shelf for your Reveal the Shield, United, and various movie line figures that fit the Classics theme since they're not a part of 'CHUG'?

News Credits: 462 · Mon Oct 14, 2013 10:52 pm

Kibble wrote:Dear Twincast,

Do you have a separate shelf for your Reveal the Shield, United, and various movie line figures that fit the Classics theme since they're not a part of 'CHUG'?

"CHUG" is mostly a generalized term to refer to any Classics-style figure regardless of whether or not they were actually released within any of the four lines that make up the acronym. Like, Reveal the Shield Special Ops Jazz is considered to be the CHUG version of Jazz despite his being a RtS figure. People don't expand the term to include initials from other lines since "CHUG" gets the point across fine and any additional letters make it look a bit ridiculous (i.e. - CTHUGURTS, CHUGTHULU, it's like trying t fit all of the TF: Prime toyline names into one long group when "Prime" works just fine over "TFPFERIDAMDEBHPRG"

).

News Credits: 3 · Tue Oct 15, 2013 2:50 pm

Dear Twincast/Sabrblade,

I was going to go play with my Henkei Astrotrain last night so I announced that it was time to go CHUG my choo-choo. How come I got grounded for two weeks?

News Credits: 462 · Tue Oct 15, 2013 4:10 pm

IIIIIIIIII'll let the Twincast handle this one. No comment.

I reall should stop answering questions for the Twincast. :oops:

News Credits: 656 · Thu Oct 17, 2013 1:07 pm

Sabrblade wrote:IIIIIIIIII'll let the Twincast handle this one. No comment.

I reall should stop answering questions for the Twincast.

I think we're going to re-answer some of those anyway, because hugs not chugs.

News Credits: 3 · Thu Oct 17, 2013 1:58 pm

Dear Twincast,

How many of you added CP's new sig gif to your CHUG collections? Wait, wtf is a CHUG again? Sorry, wrong forum...

News Credits: 1452 · Thu Oct 24, 2013 6:37 pm

Do you have any pancake mix?

News Credits: 25 · Fri Oct 25, 2013 12:00 am

Sabrblade wrote: CTHUGURTS, CHUGTHULU,"TFPFERIDAMDEBHPRG"

Why do all these sound like furman-esq death rattles?

"If they can hurt... they can BE HURT! *gets shot* CTHUGURTS!!!!!!!!"

News Credits: 656 · Mon Nov 04, 2013 12:13 pm

Thanks for the contributions - we take (almost) all your questions, we just don't take them all seriously

Anyhow, we're not recording on this topic for awhile, but since this thread is sometimes a slow mover - if you have any questions about G1 toy collecting, post 'em!

News Credits: 25 · Mon Nov 04, 2013 1:00 pm

Counterpunch, why is it so easy to lose my G1 targetmasters and the other master-robits?

News Credits: 461 · Thu Nov 07, 2013 10:17 am

Dear Twincast:

Please talk about the KOing of all the New Masterpieces. And where you think they came from? And how we can stop these horrible practices!

Thanks

News Credits: 461 · Thu Nov 07, 2013 12:51 pm

Dear Twincast:

How many people are there in the Fandom Worldwide? Not percentage of sales, Actual numbers. 10k? 100k? More less? What do you guys think? since I don't think there's an actual way to know...

Thanks