The Energon Pub

News Credits: 1 · by **Skywarp64** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 9:14 am

I was about to blow out my money on ROTF Superion, but this is infinitely better. I'll save up.

News Credits: 457 · by **Sabrblade** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 10:47 am

Starscream GaGa wrote:Isn't it because they can't traemark the name Hot Rod? Seriously though, I think you're whining over nothing.

Let me make this crystal clear. I DON'T care about the NAME! I DO care about the COLORS!

These are not the colors of Hot Rod/Rodimus or Rodimus Prime. These are the colors of Hot Rod/Rodimus's TOY!!! :BANG_HEAD:

News Credits: 4 · by **craggy** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 1:23 pm

Hal7300 wrote:
craggy wrote:I just want a toy of that cool car robot who shot Optimus Prime in the real movie.

Which movie was that?

the one about Transformers. not the one about Shia.

News Credits: 4 · by **craggy** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 1:26 pm

burning_sirius wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Because it is being marketed as his Prime self, rather than his non-Prime self. It's false advertising when the toy is based off of his non-Prime G1 toy's Robot Mode yet marketed as being his Prime self (which would imply that it is based off of his Prime G1 toy's Robot Mode instead).

It's like making a toy that is clearly based on G1 Orion Pax and promoting it as being G1 Optimus Prime. The toy represents a version of the the character that does not match its label.

I'm not saying that they should simply change "Rodimus Prime" to "Rodimus" (while that would indeed work, it would also be taking the easy way out). I'm saying that for this to be Rodimus Prime, it has to look like Rodimus Prime. This looks like "Hot Rod", or rather "Hot Rod's toy". Hot Rod himself didn't even look like this. Both he and his Prime form had, more or less, the same look as the Takara MP toy.

This is probably the giant nit pick of all time. I am just... wow! This is all over a 'name'. Prime and Hot Rod were nearly identical in their animation models... to each his own I guess, but I cannot believe that you are just pissing all over this figure because he favors Hot Rod over Rodimus. When Hasbro gets the trademark for Hot Rod back we could have a more vigorous debate on the name of the figure.

ha, they were identical weren't they? And yet, this toy is coloured like neither of them.

News Credits: 127 · by **Counterpunch** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 3:27 pm

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Butthurt, Counter Punch likes putting meat in his mouth, I'm starting to wonder about you guys; more than I was before.

I did mention I'm going to buy two of these right?

News Credits: 4 · by **craggy** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 4:33 pm

you're not going to make them ride each other are you? oh wait that's Wreck-Gar...oh wait, no, it's CP! you're not are you?

News Credits: 331 · by **chuckdawg1999** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 4:59 pm

Counterpunch wrote:
chuckdawg1999 wrote:Butthurt, Counter Punch likes putting meat in his mouth, I'm starting to wonder about you guys; more than I was before.

I did mention I'm going to buy two of these right?

I have a Takara one and I'm gonna buy this. My Takara one is sitting in Space Winnie mode just because I'm afraid to touch him but I will have to eventually just to put him away.

News Credits: 1 · by **burning_sirius** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 9:15 pm

Okay we get it critics. We should forget that the G1 Hot Rod toy ever existed. We should only get rehashes of the animation model and nothing more. Boo on originality and differentiation, Hasbro should just surrender to Takara and their color models.

News Credits: 4 · by **craggy** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 3:20 pm

they made a Hot Rod toy?

by **ninjascythe79** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 11:37 am

i just got sentinel pink so this guy being red is fine for me another pink prime would have meant my daughters ponies wanting to play lol no more pink primes please robots should be silver and black and gun metal with extra colors to accentuate their personality not make them look like the how should i say without offending anybody.... like the sissy of the group(sorry thats the best i got)

News Credits: 4 · by **craggy** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 12:01 pm

ninjascythe, truly the most manly of alien robot fans.

yes, clearly all back and silver metal is 100% hetero.

News Credits: 22 · by **Rodimus Prime** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 12:07 am

Mine.

I already own Takara's version, but it's in Winnebago mode all the time. I'll get this for the robot mode. And yes, sadly that does look like poopy silver plastic instead of actual chrome.

News Credits: 1 · by **vectorA3** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 11:30 pm

you'd probably get this one no what it looked like

News Credits: 22 · by **Rodimus Prime** » Sat Jun 11, 2011 6:23 pm

Yeah, I would... :oops:

And when is the release date? I asked at my TRU store and they couldn't tell me.

News Credits: 1 · by **vectorA3** » Sun Jun 12, 2011 11:53 pm

july or aug.? I'm not sure. I seriously regret not looking at the tag closer to memorize when i was near the case. Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!! me. I just hope it's available for sdcc