The Energon Pub

News Credits: 2 · Sat Mar 31, 2007 3:05 pm

straight from seibertron
This year's set includes Thundercracker, Dirge, Thrust, Dreadwind, and the mysterious new Bugbite!

Sat Mar 31, 2007 4:43 pm

bugbite is the white bumblebee repaint from the ehobby set, i dunno why he was white in gobots he was yellow

he would be cool though, these exclusives are getting better

Sat Mar 31, 2007 9:09 pm

is it true that they are classics repaints?

Sat Mar 31, 2007 10:23 pm

yes, and some with remolds. or parts remolded. I hope they just do the wings, which would be smart.

Sun Apr 01, 2007 12:10 am

yeah . i found the answer to my question on tni after i posted it.. and the price for it... ya know.. i want the figs.. but its not worth $350.............................................

Sun Apr 01, 2007 9:10 am

$350 lol thats crazy please says thats april fools . i wish someone would repo the heads though

Sun Apr 01, 2007 10:57 am

the price is on tni... with a few different packages from the con... i WISH the $350 price tag was a joke...

News Credits: 2 · Sun Apr 01, 2007 11:23 am

lets see this year's set:4 dlx +1 voyager
last years's set:2 basics + 2 dlx +1 voyager
price the same
for everything else ....theres mastercard
forget the figs,i just want the comic

Sun Apr 01, 2007 12:36 pm

Where is anyone getting $350? The Primus package is $279 (or $280 if you round up)
I believe that's more than it was last year. If I can find my order form... yup. It was $250 last year. (+ tax which was about... $15. and this year there's apparently no tax, so it's $265 VS $280) Wow. the real difference is in the loose set. $130 VS $180 this year.

Sun Apr 01, 2007 12:48 pm

http://tformers.com/article.php?sid=7354&ss=as

sorry.. $329 for non members... still. not... worth...it....

Sun Apr 01, 2007 2:46 pm

I can't make the con, but I've got a TFCC member helping me out with the set and hopefully the extras as well:)

Sun Apr 01, 2007 3:18 pm

I only plan on keeping one of each convention toy, so if anyone wants, I can order the Additoinal 5 figures loose set for $179. I'd only charge cost of the figures and shipping, but I'd need the money before I register for the convention.

Also, my brother will be selling his boxed set of figures for $229 plus shipping. He will also need the money before he registers.

If anyone is interested, or you have further questions, please send me a PM and let me know what set you are interested in.

UPDATE: Sorry folks, the sets are spoken for. If there's any change in their status I'll post it here.

Sun Apr 01, 2007 9:29 pm

I'm blatantly never getting any of those.

Re Bugbite, it's true that in GoBots he was yellow, but let's face it, they couldn't really have done a yellow repaint of Bumblebee, could they?
Actually, all the E-Hobby GoBots bar one were different colours to the originals: Bug Bite, yellow > white; Pathfinder, dark grey > blue; Road Ranger, red/blue > black; Bad Boy, green > white; Small Foot, red > yellow. Treads was the only one who stayed green. To compensate though, he switched sides and hooked up with the bad guys.

Anywho... most of these guys, it's pretty plain what they are, but what about the last two, Dreadwind and Bug Bite? I'd assume Bug Bite is the white Bumblebee repaint and Dreadwind is another Seeker retool (or is he a Jetfire rework? GP mentioned a Voyager... in which case surely he should be Darkwing)... are there any pictures yet?

News Credits: 2 · Mon Apr 02, 2007 7:02 am

i'm just guessing given last year's set assortment plus jetfire seems to lend itself to the character

Mon Apr 02, 2007 9:11 am

PM'd you Dev.

Mon Apr 02, 2007 9:58 am

Yes! the decepticons are getting some backup.

I'm not getting to go this year because i won't have the money till Sept. Why'd they have to move it to July. That and all three hotels are full already so if you haven't gotten a room yet your paying full price or sleeping in your car.

I'll most likely get the non attendee pack, I've never bought any of the extra figures, talk about over priced. The free attendee figure will be missed though.

My best guess and hope is the remolds will be the wings in thust and dirge and a head on the dreadwind character whoever that is. The increase in price is most likely the fact they are not remolding only heads this time.

Mon Apr 02, 2007 2:16 pm

Lord_Loqi wrote:dreadwind character whoever that is.

Dreadwind. Powermaster. http://www.tfu.info/1988/Decepticon/Dre ... adwind.htm

Looking again, I s'pose that although Jetfire's altmode is closer to Darkwing's (swing wing, and all that), his transformation's more like Dreadwind, with the arms under wings and cockpit on the chest. Maybe they'll redo the wings on him to match, too.

Mon Apr 02, 2007 2:19 pm

Nah! You can always just leave them folded down. That's what i do with my jetfire. I think it just looks better that way.

Mon Apr 02, 2007 2:57 pm

Oh, I generally do too. I just mean new wings to give him the delta formation like G1 Dreadwind, rather than the existing swing wing.

Tue Apr 03, 2007 2:47 pm

I'm quite disappointed. Not only are three of the molds basically the same, but the entire set is decepticons, and they're all basically jets. No variety at all.

Also, Bugbite is apparently a new character, not the white Bumblebee. I'm guessing it's another seeker repaint. Probably one of those random seekers from the cartoon.

And Dreadwind? No one cares about him. It would have been a far better idea to make Jetfire into Star Saber. It would have been a great way to compliment the first set with Deathsaurus. Maybe if we're lucky one of the individual figures will be Star Saber, but I doubt it.

Tue Apr 03, 2007 3:38 pm

Bug bite was apparently a japanese figure. they released the minicar set in alternat colors as decepticons. There was a blue cosmos, a green (what was the tanks name?) and I can't remember what the others were in the set. I googled it yesterday.

News Credits: 2 · Tue Apr 03, 2007 4:39 pm

heres links to them
http://tfu.info/2004/Destron/Treads/treads.htm
http://tfu.info/2004/Cybertron/RoadRang ... ranger.htm
http://tfu.info/2004/Cybertron/SmallFoot/smallfoot.htm
http://tfu.info/2004/Cybertron/Pathfind ... finder.htm
http://tfu.info/2004/Destron/BugBite/bugbite.htm
http://tfu.info/2004/Destron/BadBoy/badboy.htm

Tue Apr 03, 2007 5:50 pm

Lord_Loqi wrote:Bug bite was apparently a japanese figure. they released the minicar set in alternat colors as decepticons. There was a blue cosmos, a green (what was the tanks name?) and I can't remember what the others were in the set. I googled it yesterday.

Only three from the set were Decepticons. Road Ranger, Pathfinder and Small Foot were Autobots, Bug Bite, Bad Boy and Treads were Decepticons (even though the GoBot Treads was actually a Guardian).

For quick reference (even though the links to the GoBot characters are at the bottom of the E-Hobby pages), here are the GoBot versions...

http://tfu.info/Gobots/Guardians/Treads/treads.htm
http://tfu.info/Gobots/Guardians/RoadRa ... ranger.htm
http://tfu.info/Gobots/Guardians/SmallF ... llfoot.htm
http://tfu.info/Gobots/Guardians/Pathfi ... finder.htm
http://tfu.info/Gobots/Renegades/BugBite/bugbite.htm
http://tfu.info/Gobots/Renegades/BadBoy/badboy.htm

Wed Apr 04, 2007 8:27 pm

Lord_Loqi wrote:Bug bite was apparently a japanese figure. they released the minicar set in alternat colors as decepticons. There was a blue cosmos, a green (what was the tanks name?) and I can't remember what the others were in the set. I googled it yesterday.

I've known about those for a long time. The description for the botcon set says it's a new character. Everyone getting one will already know about that Bug Bite. Hence, they can't really pass it off as a new character without looking stupid. That's why I think it's probably another seeker.