The Energon Pub

If it's TFC it'll be single-chested.

I got the Classics Soundblaster repaint...I'd like to get the encore or TFC reissue that has the single chest, but why have 2 soundwaves?

That's a good question. I suppose if one is a hardcore Soundwave fan it makes sense, but I'm happy with just the one.

I love my Soundwaves. Personally I'd like to get a Gen 1 original as I love the mold so much. There's just something special about the figure. Maybe it's because of the character from the original series, or the fact that he's got great articulation. I dunno.

His articulation is a treat, to be honest, given his comrades.

I think I might just break and get the single chested soundwave

Good choice. IMHO the single chested version's the best.

Do either the TFC or the original single-chest versions have the same detailing on the deck window as the TRU double-chest version?

Leonardo wrote:Do either the TFC or the original single-chest versions have the same detailing on the deck window as the TRU double-chest version?

I don't recall the TFC Soundwave re-issue having anything on his deck window.

TFC Soundblaster has some molded details in his IIRC though.

Yes, I would imagine that TRU Soundwave (or Classics Soundwave, whatever) has the same detailings as Soundblaster, given they use the same mold. I like those details.

I wish they'd used the original soundwvae mold for Classics Soundwave instead of a repainted soundblaster

Heck, I might even get me the TRU release

JetfireUK wrote:Heck, I might even get me the TRU release

No, you've got to save your money for Predaking!

I got him..not bad toy. You get Ravage and Laserbeak of course...with fort max plans

Leonardo wrote:

JetfireUK wrote:Heck, I might even get me the TRU release

No, you've got to save your money for Predaking!

That's sorted. I should be the owner of a shiny new Predaking half way though next month

I've also spotted an MP Brave Exkaiser and Hybrid Convoy for sale somewhere, but I might need to wait until June to get 'em.

So many figures to get but so little time and money

JetfireUK wrote:So many figures to get but so little time and money

As BigGrim might say, "Quoted for the bleedin' truth!"

Exactly!

Even though I've decided not to collect series (there's far too many in any of the ranges) I still have a large list.

I might just stick to the off mad purchase, oh and MP figures. They look amazing

My list is large too. Every time I turn my back, it grows a little bit more.

soundwavegt wrote:

JetfireUK wrote:I agree with you - it does make sense. What frustrates me is that originally only European cars made it across to the UK such as the Subaru and Mazda. Now we have the Wrangler Jeep, Dodge Viper and Ram and Ford Mustang. WTF happened?

Oh yeah *PLUG* a few figures up for sale on Carmbombya.

Yeah and don't forget that Jeremy Clarkson had a Ford GT so there's another that a lot of Brits will know of!!!!

Even better then that it was in exactly the same colours as alt Mirage...

Thanks hasbro. Thasbro.

Seibertron wrote:

High Command wrote:Your statistics are shewed in favour of North America as this is a US based site. I'd be interested to see how that would compare with a Canadian based TF site, and even a UK based one. Also important in considering is that the UK has a much smaller population then the US. That means that the 9% of visiters we make up, more substantial then it sounds.

I don't think the statistics are skewed. Do you go to websites because of the locality of the website or because of the content? The beauty of the Internet is that, for the most part, content is king regardless of location. What do you think would be different on this website if it was based out of the UK?

If you look at a UK based transformers site like thetf.net most of its visitors are from the UK. Simple as that.
A simple google search can be radically altered by clicking Search: pages from the UK instead of Search: the web.
In that way location will change what sites you visit.

A simple example is a search for "seibertron" while selecting pages from the UK. Obviously a different result to searching the entire web.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q= ... CcountryGB

High Command wrote:US population: 301,574,000
UK population: 60,209,500

If we do a crude calculation and say that the US has aproximately 5 times as many people and we scale up the UK percentage we'd get a figure of around 45%. Meaning that by scaling up the UK population 5 times to match the US, we'd have a proportionally higher percentage of visiters to this site (45% as opposed to 9%).

While I understand your logic, it is irrelevant because the numbers are what they are. Of this site's entire traffic that it receives, over 70% of the users are from North America. Transformers are most popular in the U.S. for whatever reason. Or maybe Hasbro is just dropping the ball over in Europe but I would think that if there was a euro to be made overseas that they'd be there doing whatever they cold to make it. The reality is that the product must not be moving or else they'd be selling more of it over there.

All I'm demonstating is that the US eclipses the UK by numbers but not be percentages. By percentages the overall interest is somewhat similer in the two countries, it's the US's larger population which influences the number of people visiting the site.
Less money is to be made in the UK then in the US because of the smaller population, hence hasbro showing less interest in the UK market. I don't see hasbro taking Europe as a whole into accoutn as its different European branches operate with no obvious coorination. Transformers which are shelfwarmers in one country will never be released in another. The dates figures are released also differes between the countries. The Dutch were getting figures often six months ahead of us a few years back.
I find that NEW products do tend to move quite well off the shelves over here. A new wave of figures will sell out quite quickly. The problem is that with the Energon line the same handful of figures would keep being restocked. When the same figures are on the shelves for up to six months at a time and more of the same keep coming, it's not a lack of interest in transformers that's the problem it's that people already own these figures. Luckilly with cybertron this problem of stocking new figures lessened considerably.
Hasbro seemed to have learned from the mistakes made in Energon, in that respect, although with classics they seem to be going back to bad habits, by overstocking the same few figures, not helped by Astrotrain being missing from wave 1.

High Command wrote:Furthermore I'm sure you've noticed but the UK posters here are quite a vocal group. I'd be interested to see a similar pic chart detailing the volume of posts made on the forums by each nationality and see how that compares with the first one.

I've been aware for a long time that the foreigners have made up a very vocal part of the forum community here. It is not reflective of this site's traffic. The overall site membership is almost identical to the top 10 country list for the geo-locations of Seibertron.com's users. I would fathom that the European community is socially a tighter-knit group of fans because of your close proximity to each other. You don't live 3,000 miles apart like you can here in the States.[/quote]

I mentioned how vocal the foreign posters are, as in the post I was replying to, you mentioned a shift towards having a more US based staff. While the site's traffic/membership shows a low percentage of visitors from Europe, that doesn't necessarily reflect the forum community, who the staff primarily deal with.

I've preordered single chested Encore soundwave

Anyone who has been tolerating my whinging in this thread may be relieved to know I received Downshift through the post today. He's nice.

Excellent news my friend.

Make sure to find him a spot on the display shelf nice n high up. Out of reach of grubby mitts, and hopefully at eye-height.

Lord Crump wrote:Excellent news my friend.

Make sure to find him a spot on the display shelf nice n high up. Out of reach of grubby mitts, and hopefully at eye-height.

Heeded. But first, play time!

congrats on eventually snagging downshift