The Energon Pub

News Credits: 226 · Wed Sep 24, 2014 7:10 pm

fenrir72 wrote:Burn is having his hahaha

What am I suppose to do when bitching about the thread is closer to breaking the forum rules than the actual pointless thread itself?

Wed Sep 24, 2014 10:16 pm

Hasbro broke the mold when they made G1 Omega Supreme. I think he was a really big deal when he came out, sort of like when Apple unveiled their Macintosh computer. They put alot of marketing into Omega; I can only imagine the board meeting when he was presented to the stock-holders. They all must have been really excited. But it seemed like it ended up being a one-night-stand to Hasbro. The excitement and hype lasted only a short time, and they moved onto bigger. Poor Omega

. How could they toss you aside after such a tender display of affection?

News Credits: 1235 · Wed Sep 24, 2014 11:08 pm

duragrip wrote:Hasbro broke the mold when they made G1 Omega Supreme.

Except that Hasbro didn't make Omega Supreme. At least not the toy anyway. Hasbro licensed the toy from a company named Toybox along with Sky Lynx.

Thu Sep 25, 2014 2:13 am

G1 Omega Supreme's track can extend across canyons like in "The God Gambit". It can also create a path over wreckage as when he was tracking the Constructicons in "The Secret of Omega Supreme". His track is electrified to shock intruders and in robot mode the white portions are impenetrable crystalline shields.

News Credits: 5 · Thu Sep 25, 2014 2:27 am

There's a video of this thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7WuFZ59aN8

News Credits: 226 · Thu Sep 25, 2014 4:35 am

duragrip wrote:G1 Omega Supreme's track can extend across canyons like in "The God Gambit". It can also create a path over wreckage as when he was tracking the Constructicons in "The Secret of Omega Supreme". His track is electrified to shock intruders and in robot mode the white portions are impenetrable crystalline shields.

Meanwhile all other tank based Transformers don't require tracks to roll.

Thu Sep 25, 2014 2:10 pm

Are G1 Shockwave and G1 Omega Supreme the only Transformers that kept their Cybertronian modes? That's cool!

News Credits: 241 · Thu Sep 25, 2014 2:24 pm

duragrip wrote:Are G1 Shockwave and G1 Omega Supreme the only Transformers that kept their Cybertronian modes? That's cool!

The Jumpstarters/Wreckers Topspin and Twin Twist did too. One could argue Jetfire did as well as he never adopted an Earth Jet form in the cartoon.

News Credits: 1350 · Thu Sep 25, 2014 2:42 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
duragrip wrote:Are G1 Shockwave and G1 Omega Supreme the only Transformers that kept their Cybertronian modes? That's cool!

The Jumpstarters/Wreckers Topspin and Twin Twist did too. One could argue Jetfire did as well as he never adopted an Earth Jet form in the cartoon.

What about the pretenders in their bot forms? And the technobots.

News Credits: 241 · Thu Sep 25, 2014 2:44 pm

ZeroWolf wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
duragrip wrote:Are G1 Shockwave and G1 Omega Supreme the only Transformers that kept their Cybertronian modes? That's cool!

The Jumpstarters/Wreckers Topspin and Twin Twist did too. One could argue Jetfire did as well as he never adopted an Earth Jet form in the cartoon.

What about the pretenders in their bot forms? And the technobots.

I only counted the first two years, as anything past practically was until 1988/1989.

News Credits: 1 · Thu Sep 25, 2014 4:59 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
ZeroWolf wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
duragrip wrote:Are G1 Shockwave and G1 Omega Supreme the only Transformers that kept their Cybertronian modes? That's cool!

The Jumpstarters/Wreckers Topspin and Twin Twist did too. One could argue Jetfire did as well as he never adopted an Earth Jet form in the cartoon.

What about the pretenders in their bot forms? And the technobots.

I only counted the first two years, as anything past practically was until 1988/1989.

The Powerdashers don't look too Earthly:

Yeah, kinda out of place:

Thu Sep 25, 2014 8:00 pm

Duke of Luns wrote:The Powerdashers don't look too Earthly:

Yeah, kinda out of place:

That's Nosecone, Strafe, and Lightspeed---The Technobots. Powerdashers?

News Credits: 226 · Thu Sep 25, 2014 8:03 pm

duragrip wrote:That's Nosecone, Strafe, and Lightspeed---The Technobots. Powerdashers?

How can you keep telling us G1 is the best when you are clearly lacking a lot of knowledge of it?

If you don't know G1 that well ... then you clearly know nothing of other continuities and are really hurting yourself by not exploring.

News Credits: 1 · Thu Sep 25, 2014 8:20 pm

duragrip wrote:
Duke of Luns wrote:The Powerdashers don't look too Earthly:

Yeah, kinda out of place:

That's Nosecone, Strafe, and Lightspeed---The Technobots. Powerdashers?

Huh, I never realized it, but yeah they do bear a vague resemblance to the Technobots:

Anyway, the Powerdashers were mail-away only figures back in the day(along with the also pictured Omnibots), never made a cartoon appearance, and a throwaway appearance in Dreamwave comics. Apparently they appeared in IDW comics, but I haven't read those.

Like a lot of early G1 they started out in the Diaclone line, hence the little seats that are very clearly seen in their alt. modes. Oh, and they all have pull back motors.

News Credits: 462 · Thu Sep 25, 2014 9:57 pm

I like Omega Doom better.

Still want a toy of him even though it won't come.

Fri Sep 26, 2014 1:08 am

Sabrblade wrote:I like Omega Doom better.

Still want a toy of him even though it won't come.

No one rips off G1 Omega Supreme's design and engineering.

News Credits: 1 · Fri Sep 26, 2014 1:55 am

duragrip wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:I like Omega Doom better.

Still want a toy of him even though it won't come.

No one rips off G1 Omega Supreme's design and engineering.

Well, obviously they do

News Credits: 1350 · Fri Sep 26, 2014 1:59 am

Sabrblade wrote:I like Omega Doom better.

Still want a toy of him even though it won't come.

That's an interesting re-color of Cybertron Menasor, wouldn't be that hard to custom either....a lil head swap with Energon O.S., a drab with the paint brush...

Fri Sep 26, 2014 2:34 am

I like Menasor because he got his stick taken away from him by G1 Omega Supreme and got beaten with it. Imagine what Omega could have done to Bruticus considering Menasor destroyed Bruticus.

News Credits: 1350 · Fri Sep 26, 2014 7:39 am

Urm I was talking about a different Menasor. The one from Cybertron not the combiner from G1

News Credits: 241 · Fri Sep 26, 2014 8:24 am

Duke of Luns wrote:
duragrip wrote:
Duke of Luns wrote:The Powerdashers don't look too Earthly:

Yeah, kinda out of place:

That's Nosecone, Strafe, and Lightspeed---The Technobots. Powerdashers?

Huh, I never realized it, but yeah they do bear a vague resemblance to the Technobots:

Anyway, the Powerdashers were mail-away only figures back in the day(along with the also pictured Omnibots), never made a cartoon appearance, and a throwaway appearance in Dreamwave comics. Apparently they appeared in IDW comics, but I haven't read those.

Like a lot of early G1 they started out in the Diaclone line, hence the little seats that are very clearly seen in their alt. modes. Oh, and they all have pull back motors.

To complete the story, the robot modes:

Sabrblade wrote:I like Omega Doom better.

Still want a toy of him even though it won't come.

I think using Cybertron Menasor as model works out, even if the "arms are switched":

Fri Sep 26, 2014 1:38 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:I think using Cybertron Menasor as model works out, even if the "arms are switched":

Why do people like these blatant hacks and rip-offs instead of the original G1 Omega Supreme? It's his design.

News Credits: 241 · Fri Sep 26, 2014 2:01 pm

duragrip wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:I think using Cybertron Menasor as model works out, even if the "arms are switched":

Why do people like these blatant hacks and rip-offs instead of the original G1 Omega Supreme? It's his design.

It's not a rip-off if it's by the same company

And I like Cybertron Menasor aka GF Mole Dive because of his simplicity. He's not based on Omega Supreme at all if you must know, but the designs he does have, work into turning him into Omega without much effort.

News Credits: 462 · Fri Sep 26, 2014 3:00 pm

Omega Doom took out the psychopathic Alpha Trion with a single cannon blast, disabled Abominus with a single eye beam, and almost destroyed the whole of planet Cybertron and its entire solar system with his starkiller missile fired straight at Cybertron's sun.

It took divine intervention from a god-empowered combiner divebombing him from the sun to take him down.

By comparison, Omega Supreme's hardly impressive.