The Energon Pub

News Credits: 9 · by **Mykltron** » Sat Jul 24, 2010 3:48 am

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Rail racer might be the overall best combiner. The three 'bots have good transformations, good robot modes and train modes. They combine into a well-articulated, uniform-looking gestalt with cool weapons and look.

I disagree. Railspike looks ok but Midnight has giant legs while Rapid is as skinny as a pencil with tiny tiny arms.

The best Combiner in my opinion is the Energon Aerialbot team, although they need miscombining to make them any good at all.

by **Prime Riblet** » Sat Jul 24, 2010 5:21 am

Strangely, I am not the biggest fan of combiners. I kind of like G1 Devastator, but after that I really never cared. I had the Stunticons, but I preferred them to be in their individual forms instead of combined. Aerialbots were the same way for me, and so on and so forth. I just don't like them and I don't guess I ever saw any importance in them as characters. They just aren't my thing at all.

News Credits: 3 · by **Kibble** » Sat Jul 24, 2010 8:30 am

I'd rather have lots of useless kibble to make a badass combined mode than ROTF Devastator or a PCC 5 pack. If you're going to cheat either way, may as well have good figures while you're at it!

Although considering how far TF engineering has come the last 5 or 10 years, it's beyond me that they can't do amazing things with combiners these days...

News Credits: 1082 · by **Tigertrack** » Sat Jul 24, 2010 9:41 am

I think we have yet to see the best combiner possible.

I happen to like Omega Prime even if it is fragile.

Predaking, Dinoking, Rail Racer, and Liokaiser are the best, unless you count Roadfire, Dai Atlas, and Sonic Bomber, combining into Big-Powered. Defensor is also excellent because of his included in the transformation, not separate head.

And also I really happen to like Galaxy Force Optimus Prime combined with Wingsaber/Sonic Bomber, and I suppose you could put Leo Prime on in Savage Claw mode too.

by **SJ21** » Sat Jul 24, 2010 10:53 am

I prefer the G1 combiners. I like all of the individual components are their own, stand-alone characters. I don't like the non-transforming drones or limbs that don't have robot modes.

News Credits: 1 · by **Gauntlet101010** » Sat Jul 24, 2010 3:05 pm

I think a big reason I like Devestator so much was how much the G1 cartoon and movie sold it. If you rewatch it again, those first few combiners had expancive origins, impressive fights, and were very memorable. The toys themselves aren't what sold me on my favorite combiners.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Sat Jul 24, 2010 3:11 pm

Gauntlet101010 wrote:I think a big reason I like Devestator so much was how much the G1 cartoon and movie sold it. If you rewatch it again, those first few combiners had expancive origins, impressive fights, and were very memorable. The toys themselves aren't what sold me on my favorite combiners.

Plus you knew that the second they combined, a whole crap load of crap was about to hit the fan. They were considered as a powerful entity, they were the big guns that both sides pulled out when the tide of battle needed to be turned.

Now days, it's just a gimmick, and generally a poorly executed one at that.