The Energon Pub

News Credits: 23 · Mon Mar 30, 2009 5:02 pm

A picture of Botcon Thunderclash is available to view. Go to the Botcon 2009 web page to see it.

News Credits: 7 · Mon Mar 30, 2009 5:05 pm

Darn, you beat me to it. Anyway, here's the link:

http://www.botcon.com/BotCon09/figurePRE09.cfm

News Credits: 7 · Mon Mar 30, 2009 5:22 pm

I know this is Thunderclash's original colors, but somehow I don't think it looks good on the mold. :-?

News Credits: 402 · Updated Oct 21, 2022

Thanks for the heads up. That's a lot of colours to appear on one mold. It's interesting, but not my favourite one of the set.

News Credits: 4 · Mon Mar 30, 2009 5:31 pm

I like the Energon Rodimus mold. And I think Thunderclash has a pretty unique and interesting color scheme. But I'm not sure they go together that well....

And why is his elite guard symbol so tiny?

News Credits: 1082 · Mon Mar 30, 2009 5:32 pm

I Like the mold. I may try to pick him up, maybe somebody won't like him enough to sell him to me cheaper than...well others...

News Credits: 972 · Mon Mar 30, 2009 5:35 pm

blech.

Much prefer the original. The colours just aren't quite right, and the placement of the paint apps seems rather random...

News Credits: 4 · Mon Mar 30, 2009 5:36 pm

don't think the colours work as well here as they did on the original, but it's certainly my favourite of the bunch, and does give me some of that G1.5 feel.

News Credits: 1014 · Mon Mar 30, 2009 5:39 pm

Well if this is a boxset figure then I just bought it.

News Credits: 1 · Mon Mar 30, 2009 5:52 pm

At least being colorblind has saved me here. I like mold and the idea but he seems to come of as disco to me. I really would have to go get some labels to fix that Autobot crest. I would have thought for a teacher, he'd be proud to wear it, not ashamed. lol

News Credits: 8 · Mon Mar 30, 2009 5:52 pm

see i was hoping they would use energon prime, as i have a spare G2 thunderclash and i was hoping i could attach its trailer to the botcon version, oh wells its quite a nice figure in botmode neways

News Credits: 14 · Mon Mar 30, 2009 5:58 pm

Well, the colors really don't work well on this mold.

The upper legs should have been that pinkish red.

His chest is just too white. some black wash or something to bring out the detail there.

The gun should have been golden or at least some yellowish plastic not blue.

Overall, not nice.

Considering I only like 2 molds of this set, I think I'll pass.

Hopefully BBTS can get Landshark and either Skyquake or Leozack loose so I can get them without having to dish out for the complete set.

News Credits: 21 · Mon Mar 30, 2009 6:05 pm

ugly colros for that figure il stick with the original anyday

News Credits: 3 · Mon Mar 30, 2009 6:23 pm

E-Prime would have been better. Sorry Rosimus does not cut it this time.

Mon Mar 30, 2009 6:59 pm

It's...awful. Even on E-Rodimus, it's still one of the worst color combinations in the history of TFs.

News Credits: 9 · Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:07 pm

So glad that I did not order this set. Bleck!!!!!!!

News Credits: 129 · Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:26 pm

PorQPine wrote:It's...awful. Even on E-Rodimus, it's still one of the worst color combinations in the history of TFs.

Isn't that what makes it perfect though? :grin:

News Credits: 1 · Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:53 pm

I would just call him CLASH because all the colors clash.

News Credits: 3 · Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:58 pm

Not bad. It could have been a lot better than it is, but it doesn't really suck, either.

omega666 wrote:I would just call him CLASH because all the colors clash.

I agree. That's what I think the issue is, here. That the colors don't work well together.

News Credits: 198 · Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:44 pm

I just want to like this year's figures but this is just another mess. Too bad too, I really like this mold.

Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:48 pm

the colors duke, the colors!

News Credits: 5 · Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:56 pm

What's with the Pepsi logo on the side?

Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:57 pm

ShGarland_1383 wrote:Not bad. It could have been a lot better than it is, but it doesn't really suck, either.

omega666 wrote:I would just call him CLASH because all the colors clash.

I agree. That's what I think the issue is, here. That the colors don't work well together.

Well, that's basically how it was with the original Thunderclash. The colors are pretty similar. What more did you guys expect?

I really like Thunderclash. My only complaint is I wish they could have used the Cybertron Prime mold.