The Energon Pub

by **Ratking** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 10:49 pm

I was wondering, who can hold Rollers fuel nozzel? It doesn't seem to fit any other Autobot hands.

Then I thought, if the Deluxe Insecticons had been a combiner, what would it be named?

Lastly, I have an irrational hatred of the Minibot Outback, I just hide it at the back of my display. Damn, I hate that little guy. He just sucks that much. Does anyone else have a least favorite Minibot?

News Credits: 8 · by **Liege Evilmus** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 10:57 pm

OutBack did suck, and I think it was the vioce(sorry to my Aussie friends)

A Deluxe Insecticon Gesalt I think would have been best named INSECTICON.

And I always imagined Roller's gas dealy as something at the end of a controlled flexable hose.

My Questions are,

Where were RoadBuster and Whirl actualy supose to fit in with the line up.

What if they brought back the green seeker from More Than Meets The Eye instead of Sunstorm

and

Why can't I think of a third now while I know on average I have so many :???:

News Credits: 10 · by **Lapse Of Reason** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 11:18 pm

Liege Evilmus wrote:
Where were RoadBuster and Whirl actualy supose to fit in with the line up.

Roadbuster (Mugen Calibur) and Whirl (Ovelon Gazette helicopter mecha) were molds owned by Bandai as figures for their Dorvak anime series. Hasbro licensed them as figures, but since Bandai and Takara were direct competitors in Japan, they could not be in the cartoon since the cartoon also aired in Japan. They could, however, be sold as toys in the USA through Hasbro (but not in Japan by Takara). They are in the same boat as the deluxe insecticons and Jetfire. Hasbro and Takara pushed their license agreement with the strong connection between Jetfire (toy) and Skyfire (character).

News Credits: 8 · by **Liege Evilmus** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 11:34 pm

I knew all that, but I don't now, when I think of the inital G1 check lists, and package lithos, it just makes me think of darker times.

I know the politics behind the molds, but the purpose...

RoadBuster, Whirl, and the Deluxe Insecticons just inspire the idea of a dark disparingly dismal time. I'd love to know how they fit in as they stood as outcasts with the origional Transformers, but are still part of the initial digging of the foundation.