The Energon Pub

News Credits: 6188 · Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:00 pm

Thanks again to Seibertron we have a better look at the slideshow used during the panel at SDCC. And courtesy of Hasbro, we get a better look at the product images used in the presentation: these include Construct-Bots, Generations, Masterpiece and the Thrilling 30 grouping, and can all be found here. Or you can click on any of the images below for the full galleries!

UPDATE: You can now watch the embedded video below to view the panel's slideshow gallery instead, all courtesy of Seibertron himself.

SDCC Hasbro Panel Gallery

Hasbro Official Product Images Gallery

Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:15 pm

By the ALLSPARK!

It's a MINCON COMBINER! :grin:

http://www.seibertron.com/events/fullsize.php?event_id=316&size=1&image=44

Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:17 pm

Uh oh!

Minicons!

Minicons that don't require assembly!

Minicons that combine into a deluxe sized figure!

News Credits: 25 · Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:19 pm

Those min-cons are pretty badass, it's almost like a miniture TF-GO set up

Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:21 pm

SW's SilverHammer wrote:it's almost like a miniture TF-GO set up

Please don't insult the Minicons!

Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:22 pm

Who is is supposed to be? I'm assuming it's some IDW character(s)?

News Credits: 8 · Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:24 pm

"may make your head explode" why cause the prices are so high or is it because the quality is so low

News Credits: 25 · Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:25 pm

Gearslide wrote:
SW's SilverHammer wrote:it's almost like a miniture TF-GO set up

Please don't insult the Minicons!

I said set up not the same :roll:

, the figures are arranged in a similar way as the triple combiner, one for head and shoulders, one body, and one for lower body and legs.

News Credits: 462 · Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:30 pm

RAcast wrote:Who is is supposed to be? I'm assuming it's some IDW character(s)?

Who? The Mini-Con combiner? It's a new character.

News Credits: 251 · Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:31 pm

Much better quality images than I could find.

Armada Starscream's reveal was a pretty nice early birthday gift. I may consider preordering a figure for the very first time. :-?

Like I usually say, many of the Generations figures are on my "To Get" list. Some of the Construct-Bots as well, oddly enough.

Whoa, Mini-Cons?! Where'd they come from? I don't remember there being anything about Mini-Cons! And they combine?! :BOOM:

pzfksfioejmcsdfgv;afnjna;ffweafj.... Sorry, I was wiping blood off my keyboard. :oops:

So how will they be sold? The traditional three-pack? And how big will they and their combined mode be?

The entirety of the Generations line: Legends, Deluxes, Voyagers, and now the sudden addition of kickass Mini-Cons...

Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:36 pm

Mindmaster wrote:Much better quality images than I could find.

Armada Starscream's reveal was a pretty nice early birthday gift. I may consider preordering a figure for the very first time.

Like I usually say, many of the Generations figures are on my "To Get" list. Some of the Construct-Bots as well, oddly enough.

Whoa, Mini-Cons?! Where'd they come from? I don't remember there being anything about Mini-Cons! And they combine?!

pzfksfioejmcsdfgv;afnjna;ffweafj.... Sorry, I was wiping blood off my keyboard.

So how will they be sold? The traditional three-pack? And how big will they and their combined mode be?

The entirety of the Generations line: Legends, Deluxes, Voyagers, and now the sudden addition of kickass Mini-Cons...

I would guess a traditional three-pack at a deluxe price-point.

News Credits: 6188 · Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:56 pm

Mindmaster wrote:Much better quality images than I could find.

Why do you doubt the power of the Seibertron news team?

Gearslide wrote:Uh oh!

Minicons!

Minicons that don't require assembly!

Minicons that combine into a deluxe sized figure!

With a Minicon emblem! :MINI:

Thu Jul 18, 2013 6:01 pm

Minicons? really? Those things are ugly and terrible... GENERATIONS SKYWARP! There's the awesomeness. Shrapnel looks beautiful too. The rest are pretty meh, with the exception for Whirl who I like despite the awkwardly posed Robot mode.

News Credits: 20 · Thu Jul 18, 2013 6:05 pm

Minicon combiner?
Shrapnel with Reflector?
Generations Skids and Whirl?

Gimme dat.

News Credits: 6188 · Thu Jul 18, 2013 6:09 pm

MINDVVIPE wrote:Minicons? really? Those things are ugly and terrible...

But they're tiny and therefore adorable! And they combine! And they're green!

EDIT: AND THE TANK HAS A MONOCLE! :shock:

I'm in love.

News Credits: 251 · Thu Jul 18, 2013 6:15 pm

Va'al wrote:
MINDVVIPE wrote:Minicons? really? Those things are ugly and terrible...

But they're tiny and therefore adorable! And they combine! And they're green!

EDIT: AND THE TANK HAS A MONOCLE! I'm in love.

Not to mention they're military vehicles. I love me some military vehicles!

Thu Jul 18, 2013 6:17 pm

It's even well articulated! GATTAIIII! :michaelbay:

Thu Jul 18, 2013 6:18 pm

So are these the first minicons that have their own guns?

News Credits: 6188 · Thu Jul 18, 2013 6:19 pm

Looking at them again, they have a bit of an Insecticon vibe to them. :-?

Shrapnel as the helicopter, Bombshell as the tank and Kickback the jet.
Does no one else see it?

News Credits: 251 · Thu Jul 18, 2013 6:19 pm

RAcast wrote:It's even well articulated! GATTAIIII!

And thus, I repeat myself:

Thu Jul 18, 2013 6:21 pm

"I gota pee!"

"Don't watch me pee!"

"I'm peeing"

News Credits: 251 · Thu Jul 18, 2013 6:21 pm

Va'al wrote:Looking at them again, they have a bit of an Insecticon vibe to them.

Shrapnel as the helicopter, Bombshell as the tank and Kickback the jet.
Does no one else see it?

I don't really see it, to be honest. If someone could do a mock-up, digibash, whatever, of these guys in Insecticon colors, then we'll see. :-?

You know what I do see, though? Megatron as the tank, Starscream as the jet, and Soundwave as the helicopter. :michaelbay:

News Credits: 25 · Thu Jul 18, 2013 6:23 pm

Va'al wrote:Looking at them again, they have a bit of an Insecticon vibe to them.

Shrapnel as the helicopter, Bombshell as the tank and Kickback the jet.
Does no one else see it?

I kinda see it with the little tank, it molding has kinda similar to bombshells mouthpiece, but it's under the "chin" and at the collar, rather than a mouthplate

Thu Jul 18, 2013 6:28 pm

While the minicon combiners don't look bad.. Why the hell can't we just get good looking updates of classic combiners? I just don't get it.. How long are we going to have to wait for a really nice combiner of devastator.. Or superion..

Maybe hasbro just can't make it happen.

I can't remember an SDCC that has been less exciting than this one.

There isn't a single thing that I'm super thrilled about.

I'm not saying that I don't like anything.. I was just expecting a little more.

News Credits: 6188 · Thu Jul 18, 2013 6:30 pm

SW's SilverHammer wrote:
Va'al wrote:Looking at them again, they have a bit of an Insecticon vibe to them.

Shrapnel as the helicopter, Bombshell as the tank and Kickback the jet.
Does no one else see it?

I kinda see it with the little tank, it molding has kinda similar to bombshells mouthpiece, but it's under the "chin" and at the collar, rather than a mouthplat

It's more wishful thinking than anything, but yeah!