The Energon Pub

News Credits: 4 · by **craggy** » Tue Apr 22, 2014 1:57 am

What about Sixknight? The clue is n the name.
Dunno what mold they could use though, of course.

Or maybe the Cybertron Knights are more like Baywatch Nights and its just they wear leather jackets more than other robots?

I like that Roadgrabber.

News Credits: 3 · by **Midnight_Fox** » Tue Apr 22, 2014 7:33 am

Sabrblade wrote:And this Tweet suggests that the souvenirs could celebrate BotCon itself:
And don't forget, this year is BotCon's 20th anniversary #Souvies

This quote makes me think even more that Nightracer using Animated Arcee(to replicate her look in A Flash Forward) is going to be one of the souvenir figures. She was the second Botcon figure and we've already gotten the first redone.

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Tue Apr 22, 2014 8:22 am

craggy wrote:What about Sixknight? The clue is n the name.
Dunno what mold they could use though, of course.

Sixknight was no knight at all, rather he's a ninja in the same vein as Sixshot was, a master in Rokuhenge or Sixchanging.

Back to speculating, we could also use the rule that any mold revealed can be used twice. With that, may I propose Scorpius from the regular Energon Scorponok mold? He has two firsts:

- the first to reuse a mold between Cons, in this case BW Scorponok.
- one of the first two (the other being Windrazor out of BW Silverbolt) to use an existing Hasbro trademark: Sandstorm.

News Credits: 4 · by **craggy** » Tue Apr 22, 2014 10:50 am

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
craggy wrote:What about Sixknight? The clue is n the name.
Dunno what mold they could use though, of course.

Sixknight was no knight at all,

so he'd fit with Devcon and Gingerai

and yeah, I was thinking Scorpy might get a redeco but I couldn't think who.

edit: but, the voyager will probably be Toxitron out of Uglimus Prime.

by **ausbot** » Tue Apr 22, 2014 10:27 pm

Oh god I need a Toxitron from that Prime mold.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Tue Apr 22, 2014 10:30 pm

I guess the inclusion of Maximals in this story makes things easier for the souvenirs to pay homage to some of the classic/3H BotCon toys.

News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Tue Apr 22, 2014 10:40 pm

ausbot wrote:Oh god I need a Toxitron from that Prime mold.

OMG Yes! Though it would make more sense if it was the G2 Prime mold, I would certainly forgive them for giving me a Classics Toxitron.

Sabrblade wrote:I guess the inclusion of Maximals in this story makes things easier for the souvenirs to pay homage to some of the classic/3H BotCon toys.

That caused an eyebrow raise for me as well. I can't wait to see what happens.

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 8:05 am

Regarding the comment of swords being available: Construct-Bots. That's my guess. Last year has proven FunPub has access to Kre-O, I could see them pull Construct-Bots into the mix. Remember, the weapons have 5mm pegs. >:oP

By the by, would Kingbolt out of Rodimus be too much to ask? :oops:

News Credits: 251 · by **Mindmaster** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 11:50 am

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Regarding the comment of swords being available: Construct-Bots. That's my guess. Last year has proven FunPub has access to Kre-O, I could see them pull Construct-Bots into the mix. Remember, the weapons have 5mm pegs. >:oP

I totally wouldn't mind if that happens. Some of the swords from those sets look pretty killer.

News Credits: 3 · by **Midnight_Fox** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 11:57 am

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Regarding the comment of swords being available: Construct-Bots. That's my guess. Last year has proven FunPub has access to Kre-O, I could see them pull Construct-Bots into the mix. Remember, the weapons have 5mm pegs. >:oP

By the by, would Kingbolt out of Rodimus be too much to ask?

I actually had the same thought regarding the swords.

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 12:02 pm

Yet again, when fans think alike, that doesn't bode well for the Exclusives :lol:

Star Saber out of Jetfire is still on the table, IMO, even though he technically outranks Ginrai. So would King/Dai Atlas. :-?

News Credits: 3 · by **Midnight_Fox** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 12:44 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Yet again, when fans think alike, that doesn't bode well for the Exclusives

My first musing was wondering if they have a bunch of Drift swords lying around from casting up Generations/United Blurr.

Floppy Great Swords for everyone!

News Credits: 4 · by **craggy** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 1:14 pm

Midnight_Fox wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Yet again, when fans think alike, that doesn't bode well for the Exclusives

My first musing was wondering if they have a bunch of Drift swords lying around from casting up Generations/United Blurr.

Floppy Great Swords for everyone!

but as you say, they're floppy, so a different plastic not used anywhere else on the toy, so why'd they use a mold they don't have to to make weapons they're not including in the product?

News Credits: 3 · by **Midnight_Fox** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 1:30 pm

craggy wrote:
Midnight_Fox wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Yet again, when fans think alike, that doesn't bode well for the Exclusives

My first musing was wondering if they have a bunch of Drift swords lying around from casting up Generations/United Blurr.

Floppy Great Swords for everyone!

but as you say, they're floppy, so a different plastic not used anywhere else on the toy, so why'd they use a mold they don't have to to make weapons they're not including in the product?

Hence why I don't suggest it as an actual thing. As I said, it was a first musing that was thrown out by thinking more on it, not an actual guess.

Website · by **RK_Striker_JK_5** » Mon Apr 28, 2014 9:24 am

So, it looks like all five figures have been revealed, at least according to their main website.

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Mon Apr 28, 2014 9:28 am

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:So, it looks like all five figures have been revealed, at least according to their main website.

Which leaves the Freebee, Souvenirs and Troop Builders to guess. And given the theme, they could be anything.

News Credits: 251 · by **Mindmaster** » Mon Apr 28, 2014 9:31 am

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:So, it looks like all five figures have been revealed, at least according to their main website.

Which leaves the Freebee, Souvenirs and Troop Builders to guess. And given the theme, they could be anything.

Well, they did tweet out a hint that the souveneirs are based on previous BotCon characters...

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Mon Apr 28, 2014 9:50 am

And, in addition to three more knights, two more pirates, and the pirate troop builders, there's that "rogue Decepticon" to think about.

News Credits: 3 · by **Midnight_Fox** » Mon Apr 28, 2014 10:02 am

Sabrblade wrote:And, in addition to three more knights, two more pirates, and the pirate troop builders, there's that "rogue Decepticon" to think about.

I'm fairly certain Nightracer will be one of the figure, but whether she'll be a Knight or the Rogue is still up in the air. I'm also hoping we get Red Wing.

Perhaps an Onyx Primal from the Scourge mold using the Ratbat head?

Universe Cheetor for CatSCAN and maybe Classics Bee for Glyph and/or Tapout?

Roulette and Shadowstriker may be a good choice. Could use the Hot Rod mold like Sideburn.

Either way, I think most of the Botcon redos are going to be characters from before Funpub took over.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Mon Apr 28, 2014 10:09 am

Midnight_Fox wrote:Universe Cheetor for CatSCAN and maybe Classics Bee for Glyph and/or Tapout?

BLAAAH, NO, to the Universe Cheetor mold. Never let that horrid thing ever see the light of day again.

As for Tap-Out, as much as I'd love to have GDO Cliffjumper redecoed into him, he's got a bit of complication in currently being dead in this continuity. :oops:

Midnight_Fox wrote:Either way, I think most of the Botcon redos are going to be characters from before Funpub took over.

Shokaract/the Hunter redecoed from TCC Rampage is a popularly-demanded option.

Hey, he could be the rogue, here!

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Mon Apr 28, 2014 10:12 am

Just to make things a little easier, here's the list of characters conceived by 3H:

Nightracer (Clone in Wings Universe)
Onyx Primal
Packrat
Fractyl
Barbearian
Double Punch
Antagony
Cataclysm
Shokaract
Vice Grip
Sandstorm ("Quicksand") aka Scorpius
Windrazor ("Soulstice")
Apelinq aka Hyperlinq
CatSCAN
Glyph
Tap-Out
Rook
Rotorbolt
Roulette
Shadow Striker
Megazarak
Defensor

News Credits: 3 · by **Midnight_Fox** » Mon Apr 28, 2014 10:14 am

Sabrblade wrote:As for Tap-Out, as much as I'd love to have GDO Cliffjumper redecoed into him, he's got a bit of complication in currently being dead in this continuity.

I forgot poor Tap-out was dead...

I'm mostly going through the previous years and thinking what would be good molds for them.