The Energon Pub

Overcracker wrote:I wonder why Hasbro discontinued the idea of packing energon Weapons with the toys, they were really cool and had lots of play value.

The Energon weapons only came with scout (aka basic) class toys in the Transformers: Energon toy line. Starscream's weapons were always sold with the toy. It was toys like Ravage, Cruellock, Drillbit, Skyblast, Arcee, Strongarm and the others and repaints that had the weapon the Deluxe, Voyagers, Leaders, and the other toys could hold. My biggest gripe with that was the fact that most of the weapons didn't work well with bigger toys (there were exceptions of course most notable with Megatron/Galvatron being able to hold Cruellock's sword) but for the most it was probably dropped because it was hard to design and this also meant people would have buy two Transformers to get that feature to work. Also remember that Transformers: Energon had poor distribution in some areas and that didn't help matters.

BOT: I like the Botcon exclusives.

Well they've gotten Skyquakes colours more or less right from the looks of things.

First time we will have a Skyquake figure that has more than 2 points of articulation!

Cyberstrike wrote:

Overcracker wrote:I wonder why Hasbro discontinued the idea of packing energon Weapons with the toys, they were really cool and had lots of play value.

The Energon weapons only came with scout (aka basic) class toys in the Transformers: Energon toy line. Starscream's weapons were always sold with the toy. It was toys like Ravage, Cruellock, Drillbit, Skyblast, Arcee, Strongarm and the others and repaints that had the weapon the Deluxe, Voyagers, Leaders, and the other toys could hold. My biggest gripe with that was the fact that most of the weapons didn't work well with bigger toys (there were exceptions of course most notable with Megatron/Galvatron being able to hold Cruellock's sword) but for the most it was probably dropped because it was hard to design and this also meant people would have buy two Transformers to get that feature to work. Also remember that Transformers: Energon had poor distribution in some areas and that didn't help matters.

BOT: I like the Botcon exclusives.

That's not exactly accurate. Deluxe figures such as Downshift, towline, Hot Shot and Starscream, also came with Energon Weapons. Larger figures like Optimus Prime, and Megatron also had weapons of their own.



The scout or basic classed figures had in addition to the weapons Energon Chips or stars these were not present in any other figure except the scout sized ones. They where used in the show to power up the larger robots.

Hm, these two look good. I would definitely like one of these.

These guys look nice...if I had the means I wouldnt mind buying them. Once again...Bring Botcon to the East Coast like Miami, Atlanta or New York City because us urban transformers fans need a Botcon too !

Peace

First Gen wrote:Meh. Guess im alone in not being very impressed by these two. I think the theme for Botcon should have been 'For one aquamarine toy set'.

No, I'm with you. I am not very impressed with any of these figures.