The Energon Pub

News Credits: 198 · by **DevastaTTor** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 4:09 pm

So when I use the toilet, I'm in combined mode? Cool!

News Credits: 1 · by **Gauntlet101010** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 4:13 pm

Unless Ratbat somehow pegs into place it's not much of a combination. Frenzy's combination with Ravage is a bad joke. I could think it was fine if they didn't advertize it as "combination" at all.

Although I do like their Ravage and Ratbat, this "combination" business .... let us not speak of it again, BTS.

by **necr0blivion** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 4:14 pm

BTS trolled us, but I'll still be picking up Nightfang & Savage. I really hope this "combination" with Savage is not the primary reason why Frequency/Tremor have such wide, child-bearing hips.

by **necr0blivion** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 4:15 pm

DevastaTTor wrote:So when I use the toilet, I'm in combined mode? Cool!

"Ravage, eject!"

News Credits: 3 · by **DISCHARGE** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 4:31 pm

necr0blivion wrote:
DevastaTTor wrote:So when I use the toilet, I'm in combined mode? Cool!

"Ravage, eject!"

Hurty and violent. :SICK:

News Credits: 1 · by **mattwhite924** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 4:43 pm

Midnight_Fox wrote:Both of these are supremely lazy, I was expecting something a bit more combiney than "I become a dude's head" and "Wheee! I'm a cowboy!"

I'll be honest, if it came with a little cowboy hat for Frenzy/Rumble I would buy the crap out of it.

by **AutobotCliffjumper** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 4:55 pm

necr0blivion wrote:
DevastaTTor wrote:So when I use the toilet, I'm in combined mode? Cool!

"Ravage, eject!"

OMFG, I seriously am cracking up after reading that!

News Credits: 5 · by **zodconvoy** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 4:56 pm

Do you want to know what kills these for me? The holes. I realize that cassettes have holes in them and that the Hasbro cassettes use them for weapon ports. These don't use them for anything. They just gouge out areas that should have been utilized to make the bot & bat & dog-that's-supposed-to-be-a-cat look a little less... brittle. That's the word I'm going with. And the "combinations" are asinine.

I was really looking forward to the Ratbat from the designs we say months ago, I was iffy when we first saw the pics but preordered it in the hopes that it was going to be better. Preorder cancelled, I still need a Classics Ratbat. >:oP

by **liveconvoy** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 5:04 pm

necr0blivion wrote:
DevastaTTor wrote:So when I use the toilet, I'm in combined mode? Cool!

"Ravage, eject!"

Great minds. My webcomic from a while back:

Like Covenant on Facebook · by **Covenant** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 5:52 pm

Soooooo, Savage wearing Nightfang as an asshat is a 'combination'?

I'd like an apology from the flak I took from fellow fans about Energon combinations at this point, please.

News Credits: 409 · by **Stormrider** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 5:53 pm

They look inferior to the G1 products. Why buy these over the G1 version?

News Credits: 1 · by **phase** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 6:08 pm

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I'm glad I didn't get BTS Soundwave, I'm glad I didn't get BTS Rumble and Frenzy, and now I'm glad I'm not getting this set.

News Credits: 5 · by **zodconvoy** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 6:17 pm

phase wrote:I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I'm glad I didn't get BTS Soundwave, I'm glad I didn't get BTS Rumble and Frenzy, and now I'm glad I'm not getting this set.

Sonicron looks like bad cosplay, Rumble & Frenzy are anorexic, Ravage is a greyhound, and Ratbat is just... disappointing. The "combined" mode (singular or Sparks from Sealab 2021 is a gestalt) are clearly accidental.

News Credits: 88 · by **DavidT** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 6:29 pm

I kinda like all the designs of theses figures. They could possibly fit in with the Transformers Animated line... I could see them in the cartoon!

News Credits: 5 · by **--B--** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 6:29 pm

To quote my 7 year old son: "Lame".

And my 5 year old son: "Eww"

That is all.

News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 6:39 pm

zodconvoy wrote:
phase wrote:I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I'm glad I didn't get BTS Soundwave, I'm glad I didn't get BTS Rumble and Frenzy, and now I'm glad I'm not getting this set.

Sonicron looks like bad cosplay, Rumble & Frenzy are anorexic, Ravage is a greyhound, and Ratbat is just... disappointing. The "combined" mode (singular or Sparks from Sealab 2021 is a gestalt) are clearly accidental.

Ya know... I looked at these pictures... then I looked at the original promo pics that got me excited to own Ratbat... then I went to BBTS and cancelled my preorder.

It's seriously not worth it for me.

BTS, you had all sorts of potential going for you. What happened? You made the first add-on weapons kit I recall, followed up by a decent Classics Prime Trailer. Then things went very down hill.

News Credits: 8 · by **Megatron Wolf** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 6:50 pm

so according to these guys if i put on a hat or sitting on somthing im combining with it, what an extremely lazy way of doing a gimmick. The figures themselves look good but thats not really combining, well the first one kinda is but the second one isnt.

News Credits: 104 · by **Cyber Bishop** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 7:18 pm

I am digging that Ratbat!

by **TFhunter** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 7:20 pm

So "combine" = "put one on top of the other"?

When I get home from work today, I'm going to combine with my sofa.

I combine with my woman a lot.

News Credits: 7 · by **Zeedust** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 7:38 pm

DavidT wrote:I kinda like all the designs of theses figures. They could possibly fit in with the Transformers Animated line... I could see them in the cartoon!

What did Animated ever do to you?

News Credits: 1 · by **Sodan-1** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 8:32 pm

I'm sorry, but that's simply not cool enough. Pass.

by **Rated X** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 10:12 pm

I really dont like this line. They are too boxy to go with classics figures. Too much is sacraficed just to make them fit into a G1 Soundwave's chest. First we need a real classics Soundwave, then make cassettes that look good with him.

by **AutobotCliffjumper** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 11:50 pm

Although the "combined" modes are junk, I still like them as individual characters.

*Edit* I hope that "Savage" gets some ears. It looks ridiculous without a pair of them.

News Credits: 1 · by **Sodan-1** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 6:58 am

DISCHARGE wrote:
necr0blivion wrote:
DevastaTTor wrote:So when I use the toilet, I'm in combined mode? Cool!

"Ravage, eject!"

Hurty and violent.

News Credits: 5 · by **alexison** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 1:38 pm

I don't care for Ravage hardly at all but I'm still going to pick up this set. I received my Rumble & Frenzy this week & the quality is nice. Plus, I really like that Ratbat, moreso than the PE version.