The Energon Pub

News Credits: 349 · Thu Jun 19, 2014 12:56 am

Back of comic says Souvie Sets are like this:
Knights 3 Pack (Alpha Trizer, Apelinq, Flareup)
Pirates 2 Pack (Shockaract, Sixshot)
Clones 2 Pack (Pounce and Wingspan)

Names aren't confirmed, but you get the drift.

News Credits: 1 · Thu Jun 19, 2014 1:02 am

Who's the hotty next to primal ?

News Credits: 8 · Thu Jun 19, 2014 3:18 am

Fender Bender wrote:Back of comic says Souvie Sets are like this:
Knights 3 Pack (Alpha Trizer, Apelinq, Flareup)
Pirates 2 Pack (Shockaract, Sixshot)
Clones 2 Pack (Pounce and Wingspan)

Names aren't confirmed, but you get the drift.

Pounce... and Wingspan??? God this convention is getting better and better. Curious about Sixshot too.

Thu Jun 19, 2014 3:26 am

Props to Cheetimus for making his own custom Alpha Trizer and Decepticon clones Pounce and Wingspan before these were ever even conceived or announced as Botcon Exclusives!

News Credits: 6188 · Thu Jun 19, 2014 4:10 am

Thanks to our team currently enjoying BotCon, we get a look at the full exclusive boxset of figures, including Devcon, Ferak, Scorponok and Olin Zarak, Cannonball and (Fire Guts) Ginrai, plus the custom class figure Primal Prime and the attendee exclusive Flamewar! Check out some shots below, and the full gallery here - and stay tuned to Seibertron.com for more BotCon news.

Pirate Scorponok + Olin Zarak from Energon Scorponok with new head
Knight Devcon from Generations Scourge
Knight Ginrai from Henkei Optimus Prime
Pirate Cannonball from Transformers Prime RID Ratchet
Pirate Ferak + Tornado from Reveal the Shield Cyclonus and Nightstick

Flamewar - attendee exclusive, from Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Arcee

Primal Prime - custom class figure, from Cybertron Optimus Prime

News Credits: 6188 · Thu Jun 19, 2014 4:42 am

In more BotCon coverage news, after the gallery of the exclusive figures for this year's event, we get to take a look at the characters' bio cards and tech specs! Check out the full ongoing gallery here, and a preview look below.

Thu Jun 19, 2014 4:42 am

wow, is that a free little lord zarak? or does he attach to scorpy?

News Credits: 25 · Thu Jun 19, 2014 4:52 am

Well this could've gone allot better for someones first toy

News Credits: 3 · Thu Jun 19, 2014 5:20 am

crossblades wrote:wow, is that a free little lord zarak? or does he attach to scorpy?

He's the head, the Energon Scorponok mold was retooled for this release to allow a Headmaster to connect to it, and then they retooled encore Spike to be a new Zarak, and it looks AWESOME!

SW's SilverHammer wrote:Well this could've gone allot better for someones first toy

Derpcon, anyone?

News Credits: 10 · Thu Jun 19, 2014 5:22 am

SW's SilverHammer wrote:Well this could've gone allot better for someones first toy

Is that correctly transformed? Gotta say I'm not impressed. Are you sure the chest can't get higher? Scorponok is still the best of this set.

News Credits: 25 · Thu Jun 19, 2014 5:36 am

One, the neck is over extended, its part of the neo classics scourges original tooling so the head can extend in vehicle mode like in the original movie.

Two, the eyes are to small and close together, the nose is long and narrow, and mouth is more of blob representing lips that are eschew

News Credits: 22 · Thu Jun 19, 2014 7:09 am

So according to this, Scorponok/Zarak is not the boss of the Pirates, Cannonball is. I was under the impression that while Cannonball was the Captain, and his crew included only himself and Ferak with Tornado, it was actually Zarak/Scorponok who had the final word. Looks like Zarak/Scorponok is just a common crew member of the Pirates.

News Credits: 3 · Thu Jun 19, 2014 7:30 am

Rodimus Prime wrote:

So according to this, Scorponok/Zarak is not the boss of the Pirates, Cannonball is. I was under the impression that while Cannonball was the Captain, and his crew included only himself and Ferak with Tornado, it was actually Zarak/Scorponok who had the final word. Looks like Zarak/Scorponok is just a common crew member of the Pirates.

Yup. Tornado actually clued us in on that through his Datalogs. He mentions that Zarak is up in arms over not knowing what Cannonball is planning before the Transwarp jump.

Edit: Man, I hope eBay prices go down after more people have their stuff in hand. I'd really like to grab more than just a set of the Clones.

News Credits: 3 · Thu Jun 19, 2014 8:37 am

Damnit. I really like that Flamewar. I didn't really care for the rest, had they put her in the lineup I would have been more interested. I guess I'll be searching for ebay in a month or two.

Man..Should've gone.

News Credits: 122 · Thu Jun 19, 2014 9:24 am

Is it weird I have no interest in Scorponok? He's cool and all, but that Energon mold is son inflexible. I have a feeling we'll see some Generations incarnation of Scorponok in a year or two, just based on the before market prices of this guy alone.

Hoping that means there are people who only want Scorponok from this set. Should give me an opportunity to pick up the other 4 figures in the box set economically.

News Credits: 1 · Thu Jun 19, 2014 9:36 am

megatronus wrote:Is it weird I have no interest in Scorponok? He's cool and all, but that Energon mold is son inflexible. I have a feeling we'll see some Generations incarnation of Scorponok in a year or two, just based on the before market prices of this guy alone.

Hoping that means there are people who only want Scorponok from this set. Should give me an opportunity to pick up the other 4 figures in the box set economically.

I still wish I had my energon scorpinok but I would be thrilled if they were sold individually in regular retail expecially scopinok and Olin and girani ( however its spelt

News Credits: 241 · Thu Jun 19, 2014 10:14 am

So we already have a bit of a spoiler concerning Shokaract and his BotCon toy:

Yup, that's Shokaract's original toy, and the McGuffin he's holding? The Matrix of Conquest. Not related to the Dead Matrix. :-B

Thu Jun 19, 2014 12:34 pm

And what do these have in common?

$$$$$$$$

Thu Jun 19, 2014 12:40 pm

Anyone doing trades this afternoon?

News Credits: 22 · Thu Jun 19, 2014 1:23 pm

Midnight_Fox wrote:
Rodimus Prime wrote:

So according to this, Scorponok/Zarak is not the boss of the Pirates, Cannonball is. I was under the impression that while Cannonball was the Captain, and his crew included only himself and Ferak with Tornado, it was actually Zarak/Scorponok who had the final word. Looks like Zarak/Scorponok is just a common crew member of the Pirates.

Yup. Tornado actually clued us in on that through his Datalogs. He mentions that Zarak is up in arms over not knowing what Cannonball is planning before the Transwarp jump.

I didn't read those. :oops:

I didn't think someone as powerful as Scorponok would take **** from anyone.

News Credits: 241 · Thu Jun 19, 2014 1:32 pm

Rodimus Prime wrote:
Midnight_Fox wrote:
Rodimus Prime wrote:

So according to this, Scorponok/Zarak is not the boss of the Pirates, Cannonball is. I was under the impression that while Cannonball was the Captain, and his crew included only himself and Ferak with Tornado, it was actually Zarak/Scorponok who had the final word. Looks like Zarak/Scorponok is just a common crew member of the Pirates.

Yup. Tornado actually clued us in on that through his Datalogs. He mentions that Zarak is up in arms over not knowing what Cannonball is planning before the Transwarp jump.

I didn't read those. I didn't think someone as powerful as Scorponok would take **** from anyone.

Also keep in mind Wings follows the G1 cartoon timeline for the most part in which Scorponok was lifeless, but we get a small comic reference with the Headmaster figure: Olin Zarak, son of Lord Zarak and brother to Llyra.

News Credits: 7 · Thu Jun 19, 2014 1:50 pm

I know this is gonna sound weird, but Flareup is looking kinda sexy in that comic...

News Credits: 251 · Thu Jun 19, 2014 2:05 pm

Nemesis Primal wrote:I know this is gonna sound weird, but Flareup is looking kinda sexy in that comic...

ಠ_ಠ

If you're finding yourself attracted to robot females capable of transforming in a comic, you need more cold showers. :lol:

News Credits: 7 · Thu Jun 19, 2014 2:14 pm

Mindmaster wrote:
Nemesis Primal wrote:I know this is gonna sound weird, but Flareup is looking kinda sexy in that comic...

ಠ_ಠ

If you're finding yourself attracted to robot females capable of transforming in a comic, you need more cold showers.

Yeah, I think there's something wrong with me.

Back in the land of normal stuff, it looks like this comic ties the "Descent Into Evil" set in with the 3H-era Botcon comics, and possibly puts the Wings Universe in the same continuity as bot of those. I feel continuity headaches coming on.

Also, speaking of confusion, Alpha Trizer? Is he Alpha Trion with a new name, or is he a new guy who's similar to Alpha Trion but is a separate individual?

News Credits: 3 · Thu Jun 19, 2014 2:41 pm

Nemesis Primal wrote:
Mindmaster wrote:
Nemesis Primal wrote:I know this is gonna sound weird, but Flareup is looking kinda sexy in that comic...

ಠ_ಠ

If you're finding yourself attracted to robot females capable of transforming in a comic, you need more cold showers.

Yeah, I think there's something wrong with me.

Back in the land of normal stuff, it looks like this comic ties the "Descent Into Evil" set in with the 3H-era Botcon comics, and possibly puts the Wings Universe in the same continuity as bot of those. I feel continuity headaches coming on.

Also, speaking of confusion, Alpha Trizer? Is he Alpha Trion with a new name, or is he a new guy who's similar to Alpha Trion but is a separate individual?

Confusing it even more: Apelinq's Journals that are being found by Tornado mention the Universe War and 3H Wreckers(Devcon was a former Wrecker, the new Wrecker's ship is named after a deceased member named Rodimus, etc.) and that THIS Devcon, Primal Prime, maybe Apelinq, and Alpha Trizer were involved in it, meaning that they may not be native to Wings in the first place.

Apelinq is even having memories of 3H's version of Omega Point, which everyone was supposed to have forgotten(except Primal Prime, who had to have his mind wiped by Vector Sigma) because Shokaract was erased from the timeline.

My theory: at the end of the Universe War, the Wreckers weren't actually returned to their home universe and instead wound up in Wings, which was similar enough at that point that they were able to be slotted in with no paradoxes or they merged with their counterparts and their memories altered to adjust to the differences.