The Energon Pub

Sabrblade wrote:

phase wrote:Maybe they'll release his inner robot from Cyclonus as a bagged figure either at BotCon 2012 or 2013. Or even make it a Club-Exclusive in 2013. Who knows? I just want to see the thing before I decide how I feel about it.

It's not among the rumored line up for Botcon 2012 (which has all come true thus far).

Speaking of which, I can't find that rumored line up anymore. Where did it go?! I need it for something!

Deleted upon Fun Pub's request.

And again, something I never would have expected. I like it more and more. In my eyes, best set in a good while.

Rated X wrote:Interesting how the Japanese cartoon made the concept work. I was never a comic reader but I do have an issue with Skulgrin fighting against some female super hero called “circuit breaker”.

One could hardly call Circuit Breaker a "superhero". She was deranged and bloodthirsty, with a pathological hatred of the Transformers and burning desire to kill them all.

Rated X wrote:In this comic, Skullgrin appears to be large the size of most other Transformers. How were the autobot pretenders portrayed by marvel comics compared to non pretenders ?

I explained before that Marvel Comics portrayed the Autobot Pretenders as giant humans in armored suits, but this wasn't to fool the Earth humans but instead to fool the Decepticons and aliens on other planets. There was one story in which two Autobot Pretenders went to another planet that was ruled by giant warrior female humans, which is the only time their giant human Pretender shells worked as believable disguises. But most of the time, the Autobot Pretender shells just served as additional power in battle, as the inner robot could subconsciously control the shell when outside of it, so as to be two soldiers instead of one.

Rated X wrote:I cant speak for Philly, but in Miami when Pretenders came out this was the scenario:

By 1988, Transformers sales had decreased in Miami. The American cartoon had ended, young fans were growing up, Nintendo was the toy of choice, and concepts that were considered “cool” to Japanese kids were considered lame by American kids. These concepts included powermasters, micromasters, and of course, pretenders.

I guess the scenarios were different in different parts of the country.

I like this concept, lets just hope that the head sculpt will look as good as the concept and less like Frankenstein's monster.

Now let us see the complete figure in full size please, that and the other con exclusives.

Shelf-warming? FunPub doesn't put the sets out on the shelves. Popularity.. cool factor.. that can all go down the toilet. The ones buying these are the hardcore of the hardcore. People who want the good homages, who want additions to their Neo-G1 and all of that jazz.

Now I don't think this set is going to sell well but that's not because of how they did Metalhawk - it's a solid idea.

Blurrz wrote:Shelf-warming? FunPub doesn't put the sets out on the shelves. Popularity.. cool factor.. that can all go down the toilet. The ones buying these are the hardcore of the hardcore. People who want the good homages, who want additions to their Neo-G1 and all of that jazz.

Now I don't think this set is going to sell well but that's not because of how they did Metalhawk - it's a solid idea.

True enough. I want practically every figure in the set and nearly all of those from the rumor thread (RIP) and I don't even collect Shattered Glass! I'm mostly a character collector and this year is hitting me hard. Ultra Magnus and Soundwave (and possibly Swindle & the Insecti-Junkions) are all ones I collect but I'm going to sell off the whole SG part of the set to pay for it. Or just piggyback off someone else who only wants the SG portion of it.

I'm also hoping that the bloodthirsty Ultra Magnus from the Universe two-pack with the Treadshot (with a nearly red Decepticon symbol) that was a Kohl's exclusive back in '04 ends up becoming part of the Shattered continuity just because of 1: how awesome it is and 2: how impossible it is to find! Plus, it's packaged with Magnus crushing Treadshot, monster truck style! That's pretty Shattered Glass to me!

Blurrz wrote:Shelf-warming? FunPub doesn't put the sets out on the shelves. Popularity.. cool factor.. that can all go down the toilet. The ones buying these are the hardcore of the hardcore. People who want the good homages, who want additions to their Neo-G1 and all of that jazz.

Now I don't think this set is going to sell well but that's not because of how they did Metalhawk - it's a solid idea.

I was not referring to Funpub exclusives.

I was referring to the original G1 Autobot human pretenders and how they failed to impress the youth in my neighborhood back in 1988.

I thought my last post was self explanatory.

zodconvoy wrote:I'm also hoping that the bloodthirsty Ultra Magnus from the Universe two-pack with the Treadshot (with a nearly red Decepticon symbol) that was a Kohl's exclusive back in '04 ends up becoming part of the Shattered continuity just because of 1: how awesome it is and 2: how impossible it is to find! Plus, it's packaged with Magnus crushing Treadshot, monster truck style! That's pretty Shattered Glass to me!

Haha oh dear, I still need that set. Even the Nightbeat is different (brighter plastic). I should probably bite on that before it skyrockets..

Blurrz wrote:

zodconvoy wrote:I'm also hoping that the bloodthirsty Ultra Magnus from the Universe two-pack with the Treadshot (with a nearly red Decepticon symbol) that was a Kohl's exclusive back in '04 ends up becoming part of the Shattered continuity just because of 1: how awesome it is and 2: how impossible it is to find! Plus, it's packaged with Magnus crushing Treadshot, monster truck style! That's pretty Shattered Glass to me!

Haha oh dear, I still need that set. Even the Nightbeat is different (brighter plastic). I should probably bite on that before it skyrockets..

Then I hope you have either kitbashing skills or a kitbasher in your neighborhood: the arm guards are switched on that Super-Con Prime repaint.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Then I hope you have either kitbashing skills or a kitbasher in your neighborhood: the arm guards are switched on that Super-Con Prime repaint.

No real skills needed, they just pop off with a bit of force, quick left to right switch and he's sorted.

waaaaghlord wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Then I hope you have either kitbashing skills or a kitbasher in your neighborhood: the arm guards are switched on that Super-Con Prime repaint.

No real skills needed, they just pop off with a bit of force, quick left to right switch and he's sorted.

Then you have the fists backwards. The arm cuffs have to be split in two and their adhered together with a glue but if you soak it in anything to dissolve it, the red paint will come off. I just opted to leave them the way they were. I already had Bendy Optimus and Nemesis so I wasn't really feeling the need to fiddle with it too much. It's been proudly standing on my Magnus shelf for like 7 years without bending his elbows!

zodconvoy wrote:Then you have the fists backwards. The arm cuffs have to be split in two and their adhered together with a glue but if you soak it in anything to dissolve it, the red paint will come off. I just opted to leave them the way they were.

You don't have to split them to get them off, they'll fit over the fists. Thay're not supposed to but they will. I've done the mod and as I said all it takes is the application of a little force.