The Energon Pub

[Fires_Of_Inferno]

From my collection of discount store transformers, good morning!

[Sigma Magnus]

[shajaki]

Nice!

[Sigma Magnus]

Nice!

You have no idea how hard that was to set up!

[Burn]

You want to talk about a hard set up?

"They pretend, Bumblebee, and when you're down here with me you'll pretend too"

(Looking back I should have used Pretender Bumblebee's inner robot)

[bodrock]

You want to talk about a hard set up?

"They pretend, Bumblebee, and when you're down here with me you'll pretend too"

(Looking back I should have used Pretender Bumblebee's inner robot)

Wanna float?

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[Carnivius_Prime]

I have 8 TLK figures oddly including three of the later harder to get ones.
Need more Decepticons...though I think Nitro Zeus is the only 'Con I don't have?




Can see they at top with AoE Grimlock, AoE Drift, TFM Arcee, RotF Bludgeon and RotF Dead End added. Other versions of movie Prime and Bee scattered about.

[wilcosu35]

My collection of meeting and convention exclusives and lottery prizes.

[Carnivius_Prime]

"My gun-arm's bigger than your gun-arm...."

[D-Maximal_Primal]

You want to talk about a hard set up?

"They pretend, Bumblebee, and when you're down here with me you'll pretend too"

(Looking back I should have used Pretender Bumblebee's inner robot)

You have no idea how much I love this

[Fires_Of_Inferno]

Good morning!

Kup: "Boy, back in my day we didn't have all these fancy lattes and Chi's and mochas and such. We had room temperature brown water, and we loved it!"

Wheelie: "Did you actually get to drink any? Or was it gone by the time you finished talking?"

"Kup: "DRINK it?! BOY WE'D BE LUCKY IF WE GOT THE CHANCE TO SNIFF IT! We didn't have time to enjoy our lives with fancy things like coffee! There was WORK to do!"

Wheelie: "Please go away. My coffee's getting cold."

Kup: "NOW LISTEN HERE YOU LITTLE S***..."

[no-one]

Psssst.... Hey kid! Want some free candy?

I love this like the day is long, love it even more after I realized what inspired it

[Sigma Magnus]

I love this like the day is long, love it even more after I realized what inspired it

Aw, thanks.

[bodrock]

Love Omega BLACK!

Sweet FM shot, Sigma -- that's one cool Titan.

I'm still having some fun with Primus; I like his new colors a bit more, but for $8, I'm not complaining about the one I got.

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[Fires_Of_Inferno]

WHERE EVERYBODY KNOWS YOUR NAAAAAME!
AND THEY'RE ALWAYS GLAD YOU CAAAAAME!

Good morning!

[Bronzewolf]

Good morning!

Kup: "Boy, back in my day we didn't have all these fancy lattes and Chi's and mochas and such. We had room temperature brown water, and we loved it!"

Wheelie: "Did you actually get to drink any? Or was it gone by the time you finished talking?"

"Kup: "DRINK it?! BOY WE'D BE LUCKY IF WE GOT THE CHANCE TO SNIFF IT! We didn't have time to enjoy our lives with fancy things like coffee! There was WORK to do!"

Wheelie: "Please go away. My coffee's getting cold."

Kup: "NOW LISTEN HERE YOU LITTLE S***..."

"Buddy, they don't even let me drink the coffee."

Duuuude. That is stunning. The best photo we've gotten in a loong time. Well done.

[Fires_Of_Inferno]

Good morning!

I've discovered that all of the winter-themed Transformers are Decepticons!

[no-one]

Good morning!

I've discovered that all of the winter-themed Transformers are Decepticons!

Cold sparks

[Bronzewolf]

Hey APaP folks! Just in case you didn't see the news post, you'll probably be Interested this!
https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... 1st/39975/

[triKlops]

KFC Surgeon by triKlops, on Flickr

[Fires_Of_Inferno]

When I was a lad I had a hiatus with my love of Transformers for a while. I mean, I HAD Transformers, but video games were starting to take up more and more of my time. Not that I consider it a bad thing, mind you, it gave me an appreciation for the old style games of the 80's and 90's and turned me into a snob when it comes to most new games that come out these days that prevents me from gaming as much as I used to because really, why would I want to spend my life playing utter garbage like call of duty?

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But I digress.

My interest in Transformers was thankfully renewed due to Beast Wars! Today it still strikes me as the best written of the myriad of Transformers cartoons that have come out. I've not even watched the current one, but just knowing it has Bumblebee in it makes me want to vomit. I swear if I have to see any version of Bumblebee again (other than the one from the 80's) I'll punch Hasbro in the kidneys. I'm too old for this crap.

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One of the first new Transformers I had gotten in a long time was Razorbeast! Shown here in colours that are no where near accurate to an actual warthog. His features include a remove-able mane that becomes a double-barreled laser gun, and an automatic transformation that is achieved using springs and gears. His beast mode doesn't really do much other than make me TRY to not make Timon and Pumbaa references.

Because the Transformation is literally as easy as flicking a switch and letting the springs do the work, taking pictures of the transformation in progress is a b***h and I had to keep resetting and taking pictures over and over again. But hey, the result was worth it!

In robot mode, Razorbeast is more-or-less a warthog shell with a robot inside. Thankfully the robot mode makes up for the lackluster beast mode with the neat colouring and interesting robotic details. The ball-and-socket joints allow him to pull of some decent poses, thought the entire beast mode on his back makes him hard to balance. At least he can do the Iron Man ground punch (I refuse to say "Superhero landing").

While the character never showed up in the (dated) CGI cartoon, he did show up in the comics produced by IDW about a decade or so later. I've never read them, but he was a bit of a bad-ass from what I can gather. He led his own group of Maximals to fight a dude named Magmatron (who needed to trisect himself into three different beasts to transform). Razorbeast is kinda short to be a leader, but I'm sure he's full of anger or something.

So while I have a lot of nostalgia for Beast Wars, I find that not a lot of people share in this, and they say things like "The original was better!" I can understand this point of view, but after having watched an episode that had a Japanese human character shouting (in an offensive accent) "OH! YOU AUTOBOT! VEEEEERY HONOUR!" I think I'm being fair in saying that Beast Wars was at least slightly better. That won't stop me from liking the original too though. If Beast Wars isn't your thing then that means no worries for me, I can enjoy it myse-

Oh dammit.

[no-one]

[bodrock]

PERFECT

And Fires, Beast Wars brought you back into the fold, eh? I keep hearing it's the best....it was Combiner Wars for me.

Love the pics/story -- keep it up!

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[Fires_Of_Inferno]

Good morning! You know the coffee is good when it turns Orion Pax into Optimus Prime!

[Fires_Of_Inferno]

Bonecrusher's beast mode is really good for enduring the elements.





Windblade and Bludgeon get into a bit of a disagreement at sunset.