The Energon Pub

I finally hunted down Nitro ZEUS! When I first saw him in pics months ago, I couldn't wait to use the Titan Masters on him.Tarn helped!But who wore it best?

Hide your fuel tanks!

The art and characters by Frank Miller were perfect in "The Hard Goodbye". Bomb-Burst & Fangry go great together -- like Marv & Gladys.BB may be lacking in articulation, but with a face like a fugly vampire bat-man, what's not to love?I thought Mickey Rourke was perfectly cast as Marv in the movies -- but I will always prefer the look of the comics.

I blame Shaj for making me need dis.
I was shocked to only pay $15 on eBay, brand new.

When did you pick up Transmetal 2 Optimus Primal?!

And, nice find on the TF:TM vinyl!

AND!

Awesome reference to Sin City

Thanks Crammy!! I scored Optimal several months ago, for like $18 or so. He didn't have his gun or arm-shields, but he's still more fun than a barrel of munkkys.

I can't wait to get the record. I only downloaded the soundtrack within the last year, so this will be my first physical copy.

The kids love Weird Al's DARE TO BE STUPID

Galvatron & Tarn (+ Laserbeak)

LOVE the Lion King references

Awesome price on the Vinyl! You open it yet? It's so purdy

It's set to be in my record player on 10/23, Shaj! Those pics are from the eBay listing -- I can't wait to rip it open for that first spin.

I'm hunting for Misfire today -- wish me luck! This week has been so rough I need some TF-therapy.

bodrock wrote:I'm hunting for Misfire today -- wish me luck! This week has been so rough I need some TF-therapy.

Yeah we all need that some days

I saw a Nitro Z at TRU but left him for another hunter. No luck but seeing my friend's Shattered Glass Optimus Prime (as well as talkin about him in your thread, Shaj!) made me think how he would fit in with my collection and head-canon.....

Now that there is one damn fine coat you're wearing, Crosshairs.

Do you have AOE CH? I've been wondering how he compares to the new one....

Sorry, Shaj -- this is my first incarnation of Cross! From what I read, his new coat may be made of sterner stuff.

I grew up watching Chow Yun Fat in lots of Chinese movies (dubbed/subbed). This inspired a shot with Cross & SG-D....and then some.

Back in the day, I loved going to the local video game arcade. Plunking in quarter after quarter, seeing the latest side-scrolling beat-em-up, and crowding around a quarter-muncher are all pure nostalgia now; especially as my tastes changed and home/handheld consoles pretty much made them obsolete.

But one of the games I remember seeing for the first time was Dragon's Lair (1983). With animation from Don Bluth, it had the laserdisc driven, graphical beauty of an animated movie with the typical change-draining, instant-death philosophy of any arcade game. In a nutshell, you were a knight on a quest to save the lovely Princess Daphne from a dragon. And thus my love of dragons and blonde babes in bathing suits began.Like most fantasy-fans, I love dragons and seeing them in mainstream faire; from Dragon Age to Game of Thrones. It has made everyone else fans as well!I still haven't seen The Last Knight, but wow -- Dragonstorm looks fantastic! Who would ever have thought a movie with swords, knights, a three-headed robo-dragon & Cybertronians could gross $600 million globally?Being a three-headed, Leader-class dragon is cool enough, but the fact that he consists of two Voyager bots -- Dragonicus and Stormreign, increases the fun factor on this figure. It didn't quite work for me with the Bayverse Dinobots (as knights), but it suits these robo-knights well.

Uggghhhh FINE. I'll give my Dragonstorm a chance

The last great side-scrolling beat-em-up I played was Dragon's Crown. What was so great about it? Well, it had everything I loved about the genre: local multiplayer (arcade-stylee, not MMO!), straight-forward action controls, swords, sorcery, succubi, dragons and scantily-clad beauties.My favorite beat-em-ups include Final Fight CD (SegaCD), Double Dragon, Bad Dudes, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage, River City Ransom.....hell, let's throw in Rampage, Magic Sword, Knights of the Round, X-Men and Simpsons arcade. Then there were the consoles-only games, like Zombies Ate My Neighbors, Monster Madness, Hunter the Reckoning....I will always love couch co-op. It's almost like the Real Thing, crowding around a standup arcade cabinet for four players -- without the quarters.

Primus, Cybertron Primus.

I went to my favorite vintage toy store and scored this loose and incomplete Cybertron Primus for $7.99. He doesn't have his feet or accessories, but he's still great fun to pose.He does "planet" better than my Unicron, but...
Can your friends go poof? Well looky here.Can your friends go abracadabra, let her rip, and then make the sucker disappear?
For some reason, Primus made me think of the Genie from Disney's Aladdin:
-Primus as Genie
-Roddy as Al
-Shuffler as Apu
-Vector Sigma as the Lamp

I completely missed out on the Cybertron series. And Armada. As well as Beast Wars. Ok, everything after the G1 cartoon ended back in 1987.But since getting back into Transformers and chasing down nostalgia to share with my children, it's been quite a ride -- from toys to movies to music. A lot of the movies we grew up with couldn't give two $h!ts about swear words, so it can be a bit tough with kids under 7. To be honest, they still haven't picked up on Spike saying "ohhh, $h!t!" in the Movie. Or they have and know better. Two movies I look forward to sharing with them are the Karate Kid 1&2.Sure, they've seen the modern update with Jackie Chan....but no. It's not even the same thang.

In 1987, the beat-em-up genre fulfilled its destiny with Double Dragon -- it was multiplayer mayhem for two; specifically, 2P co-op! Instead of trading-off turns between deaths or simply being on-screen for short stages limited to a single-screen, this was a side-scrolling adventure for two against an entire gang! It was all to save the damsel in distress, who gets kidnapped in the first 5 seconds of non-verbal exposition. Back when games were created mainly by males for heterosexual adolescent males, that was pretty much the story of most games (if it had one at all).But then there was the twist-ending.

After all those quarters, button-mashing and brawling to take down the bad guys to save the girl, there was one problem -- there was only one girl.

No indication was made to suggest what came next, but Double Dragon was the first 2P co-op game I can recall where your partner could take collateral damage. And the reason was clear, now.

There was only one way to settle the dispute, since the clock was ticking, no more enemies were in-sight, but the girl remained bound to the wall: a fight to the death between Player 1 & 2.Sure, there's plenty of PvP games, but this game played out as 2P co-op until the very end, when it shifted to 1v1 -- all over the one thing they both desired...Needless to say, the Corner Arcade was an interesting place to learn life's lessons.