The Energon Pub

News Credits: 174 · by **Hellscream9999** » Wed Sep 23, 2015 11:49 pm

-Kanrabat- wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
-Kanrabat- wrote:
The irony is, you can get a loose but complete and perfect mint looking G1 6shot for less than 100$ shipped. That's the price I paid and that's the price I sold it when I realised I didnt liked him.

You didnt like him? I was close to buying that edition above for 100$ at comiccon this year but stopped when I realized he was selling for less on e-bay. I was still curious though, care to tell me (either here or in a pm), what you didnt like of sixshot?

Appart for G1 Galvatron (because I care too much for the character), I love my G1 toys to have realistic vehicle altmodes. Insecticons and dinobots excluded, of course. Sixshot is just... too many random things thrown together. It's a very solid toy and it's fun to fiddle with. I would highly recomend him. However, it didnt pleased me as much as I tought it would and I knew I would be able to easely sell him back. Also, there was some other TFs that need funding.

Will, if you don't care about yellowing or missing guns, you should buy 6shot. You'll have fun with it for sure.
Cheapest gunless:
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Vintage-Original ... 1c59bc258d
Cheapest complete (Not the greatest deal):
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Vintage-Transfor ... 54247465e0

What does he need a gun for? He BECOMES the GUN :michaelbay:

News Credits: 19 · by **Carnivius_Prime** » Thu Sep 24, 2015 1:19 am

I actually love these. I hadn't seen the heads close up before so I assumed it was just normal G1-looking head stuck on AoE bodies but the heads appear to be a hybrid (Slog's certainly is) and those pictures are stunning. I wish Grimlock came with all those other-Grimlock weapons though.

News Credits: 25 · by **Ironhidensh** » Thu Sep 24, 2015 1:35 am

These things are so hideous..... Pure laziness on Hasbros part. Thank god for the third party market.

News Credits: 22 · by **Rodimus Prime** » Thu Sep 24, 2015 2:08 am

I wish we would have gotten the other 4 Dinos in the FoC line instead of these. The movie molds are turds.

News Credits: 19 · by **Carnivius_Prime** » Thu Sep 24, 2015 5:16 am

Rodimus Prime wrote:I wish we would have gotten the other 4 Dinos in the FoC line instead of these. The movie molds are turds.

I feel the opposite. FOC Grimlock was one of my biggest purchase regrets. I like the character (Marvel comics version rather than cartoon) so wanted a decent sized/priced G1 Grimlock but I thought that figure was mostly awful, especially the dino mode. I love my AoE Voyager Grimlock figure in both modes though and the one shown here is a beautiful blend of the two. First time in years that I've wanted a complete set of a particular Trasnformers group. Combiner Wars sure as hell didn't do that for me even with the obvious gimmick that requires a team.

News Credits: 1 · by **Marcdachamp** » Thu Sep 24, 2015 8:30 am

I'm not sure I can rationalize the purchase, but these look really fantastic. Love them!

by **RiddlerJ** » Thu Sep 24, 2015 10:23 am

While I would've preferred new molds, these aren't bad as a stop gap to having all five Dinobots for a classics shelf. Shame I didn't know about these sooner I would've got these guys instead of third party Dinobots.

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Thu Sep 24, 2015 11:53 pm

They look pretty cool and I like the looks. the heads look pretty amazing as well!

News Credits: 25 · by **Ironhidensh** » Fri Sep 25, 2015 4:49 am

RiddlerJ wrote:While I would've preferred new molds, these aren't bad as a stop gap to having all five Dinobots for a classics shelf. Shame I didn't know about these sooner I would've got these guys instead of third party Dinobots.

This is what kills me. With the successful multiple runs of 3rd party Dinobots, you would think HasTak would realize that we want new, updated figures. Instead, we get knockoff movie figure repaints. It's disgusting.

What makes it even worse, with every set of this crap bought, the chan we of new dinobots get slimmer and slimmer.

News Credits: 19 · by **Stuartmaximus** » Fri Sep 25, 2015 5:32 am

The chan we? are we getting Chinese Dinobots too?

News Credits: 11 · by **RAR** » Fri Sep 25, 2015 6:10 am

What bothers me more is that they endlessly repaint the Dinobots but they so often miss one or two of them out of the scheme especially Slash & Scorn.

Now from a G1er perspective you would prefer the original line up (or close to it) but from the Movie Universe (or at least the toy version of the Movie Universe) perspective then missing Scorn out seems odd and missing Slash out seems just regrettable.

That is twice now they have made G1 colour Movie Dinobots and twice they have not made those two. Not to mention Takara missed out on the black ones all being made and Hasbro didn't do the smokey platinum ones for all the moulds.

I would like to see Hasbro go back to making some 2 packs (say when Movie 5 comes out) and they at that time make either G1 deco Scorn and Slash or Platinum smoke deco in a 2 pack... then the one they don't do they offer at SDCC or New York Comicon as a follow up to the previous set of 5.

There is so many things needed that are missing and "Most Wanted" style two packs seems like the best way to do it to me.

I'm sick of all those over sized and overpriced "Platinum" & Year of releases - I would so much prefer smaller toys with a premium deco like we used to get from time to time in previous Movie lines - and that I guess Blaster and Perceptor are an example of.

I'm not utterly against premium toys in a larger size - it's just personally I'd rather have an Omega Supreme repaint than a Giant Cybertron Starscream or a Monkey (and I actually do like the Monkey).

I suppose the mold has long since disappeared but I would have actually liked to see a Mega Beast Machines Optimus Primal in show accurate colours before a giant red & blue version not to mention a Blue Savage/Noble.

But I suppose some love for Beast Machines is better than none.
I wonder when they will get around to doing another repaint of RID-2001 Optimus Prime - as a Year of Toy ? and in what colour - a cool colour of that Mould Like say Nightwatch teal or dark or light blue or even white would be really neat.

I think they should consider making some smaller additional "Year of toys" too like a 'Year of the Rat' Rattrap when the time comes.

It's not that I object to 'Year of' and Platinum release toys - I just think some of the choices are a little lazy.

Hasbro seems insistent on giving things you are less likely to want in a half hearted manner while a whole lot of other things that were actually in a TV show remain unmade (Like Black non-spikey Deluxe Prime Bumblebee & Deluxe Beast Hunters Blue Smokescreen). Not to mention they never did make a "Pre-Earth" Skywarp & Thundercracker out of the Cybertron Voyager mould either let alone Ramjet, Acid Storm and Sunstorm.

I can't be the only one who keeps their older toys and still wishes for completed sets can I ?

News Credits: 4836 · by **william-james88** » Fri Sep 25, 2015 9:26 am

All great points! But just in case you wanted to know, they did make an Omega Suprme repaint for year of the Snake.

News Credits: 5 · by **welcometothedarksyde** » Fri Sep 25, 2015 2:15 pm

These are looking better. I think these will be quite good classics Dinobots. Definitely picking these up

News Credits: 4836 · by **william-james88** » Sun Sep 27, 2015 10:20 pm

We had quite a few images of Grimlock and Slog, but now げんもん Photo Vault on facebook have given us images of the rest of the team as well as some nice group shots. Dinobots Grimlock, Slog, Strafe (yes, they are keeping that name), Slug and Snarl can be seen below in their G1 deco, which is slightly different from the deco found in the SDCC set.

For comparison, here are the SDCC Dinobots:

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Sun Sep 27, 2015 10:22 pm

So much chrome and shininess

News Credits: 174 · by **Hellscream9999** » Sun Sep 27, 2015 10:26 pm

These look really nice, and, actually look like what actual dinobots would probably look like; epic dino's and a streamlined armored design that allows for actual movement in bot mode;

News Credits: 60 · by **fenrir72** » Sun Sep 27, 2015 10:34 pm

Ohh the aching wallet! Got lot's of orders backed up. Hopefully I still have some cash left for this :-(

So Awesomesauce looking!

by **Ultra Markus** » Sun Sep 27, 2015 10:41 pm

these could could be a stand in to go with a classics/generations collection
they do look good 8-)

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Sun Sep 27, 2015 11:10 pm

As much as I can praise these figures and love them (which I do), I still wish for a retail release of actual original dinobots, like how we got FoC Grimlock but no others, and I would gladly have bought all 5 in FoC style

by **Shadowstream** » Sun Sep 27, 2015 11:46 pm

I've said it before, but just show me a pricetag that beats going out of my way for the 3P Dinobot groups and I'm in.

News Credits: 4836 · by **william-james88** » Mon Sep 28, 2015 12:04 am

Shadowstream wrote:I've said it before, but just show me a pricetag that beats going out of my way for the 3P Dinobot groups and I'm in.

When did you say that? Also, I dont understand the question, the price tag of this set is as cheap as just 1 3p dinobot. Have fun spending 500$ on your dinos, I will just buy this at 100$ or less depending on the discount TRU gives.

by **Shadowstream** » Mon Sep 28, 2015 12:21 am

william-james88 wrote:
Shadowstream wrote:I've said it before, but just show me a pricetag that beats going out of my way for the 3P Dinobot groups and I'm in.

When did you say that? Also, I dont understand the question, the price tag of this set is as cheap as just 1 3p dinobot. Have fun spending 500$ on your dinos, I will just buy this at 100$ or less depending on the discount TRU gives.

Perhaps I said it on another board, so pardon me if that makes no sense. And that's basically what I meant is whether this will be cheaper than going in the 3P direction, cuz these look passable enough to me.

News Credits: 174 · by **Hellscream9999** » Mon Sep 28, 2015 12:49 am

Shadowstream wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
Shadowstream wrote:I've said it before, but just show me a pricetag that beats going out of my way for the 3P Dinobot groups and I'm in.

When did you say that? Also, I dont understand the question, the price tag of this set is as cheap as just 1 3p dinobot. Have fun spending 500$ on your dinos, I will just buy this at 100$ or less depending on the discount TRU gives.

Perhaps I said it on another board, so pardon me if that makes no sense. And that's basically what I meant is whether this will be cheaper than going in the 3P direction, cuz these look passable enough to me.

Yeah, it will be, I think this set will be ~$120, or at least similar in price to the sdcc set; dunno what that was, but this seems to be your best option if you like the look of them ;)^

News Credits: 19 · by **Carnivius_Prime** » Mon Sep 28, 2015 1:10 am

They're on my christmas list!

News Credits: 11 · by **RAR** » Mon Sep 28, 2015 4:24 am

william-james88 wrote:All great points! But just in case you wanted to know, they did make an Omega Supreme repaint for year of the Snake.

Yes - Amusingly I nearly edited the post to put G1 in to prevent pople thinking I meant The Energon derived Mould then I decided it didn't matter as it was implied by me mentioning Blaster & Perceptor in the previous sentence. - Guess I should have done.

I've been looking at things like the recent Trypticon, Blaster, Perceptor, Blitzwing, Astrotrain and the previous Asian Exclusive Sixshot and wondering what else would work - one of the things that appealed to me was the original Omega Supreme as Omega Sentinel colours.

I wonder why they decided to remould the Energon One rather than use G1 version - I guess whoever worked in the department at the time was someone who had a downer on G1 moulds.

The other reason I brought up the idea of G1 toys as Platinum releases is that the idea of Sky Lynx redone as a Purple Gryphon still amuses me. But he'd also work OK in darker tones as Hatchet too.

It looks like they don't often want to make the repaints new characters though unfortunately.