The Energon Pub

Fellow disgruntled Brit from the Energon Pub Ravage XK has pointed us towards a Toys'R'Us UK offer currently taking place on all Hasbro brands: your usual 3for2, which of course includes plenty of Transformers Robots in Disguise and Rescue Bots. Now's the time to pick up those elusive stocking fillers!

1. Add any three of the selected Hasbro items listed below to your basket.
2. Your basket will automatically adjust the lowest price item to zero.
3. *This deal started 25 November 2015 and ends 20 December 2015, subject to availability.

To activate this promotion for home delivery please select all qualifying items for delivery to home. This deal is not available if your split your order between home delivery and collection in store.

1-step quillfire is available at walmart.com:

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Transformers-Robots-in-Disguise-1-Step-Changers-Quillfire-Figure/45057713

Also Warrior Fracture:

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Transformers-Robots-in-Disguise-Warrior-Class-Decepticon-Fracture-Figure/45057725?action=product_interest&action_type=title&item_id=45057725&placement_id=irs-2-m3&strategy=PWVAV&visitor_id&category=&client_guid=ceac1527-696b-4c0a-bc26-2c9e2e741826&customer_id_enc&config_id=2&parent_item_id=45057713&parent_anchor_item_id=45057713&guid=93adce6c-6602-41f9-b4e0-e652df12d22c&bucket_id=irsbucketdefault&beacon_version=1.0.1&findingMethod=p13n

Shockwave is back in stock at Hasbro Toy Shop, I ordered him this morning. Aside from Skylynx, he may be my final Hasbro purchase for a long,long time.

Ironhidensh wrote:Shockwave is back in stock at Hasbro Toy Shop, I ordered him this morning. Aside from Skylynx, he may be my final Hasbro purchase for a long,long time.

Not a fan of them headmasters eh?

I dunno why I clicked the site link when you already stated it was pretty much just RID2015 and Rescue Bots stuff.


Still sore that they never got AoE Wave 2 Voyagers in. Hound is on my want list.

william-james88 wrote:

Ironhidensh wrote:Shockwave is back in stock at Hasbro Toy Shop, I ordered him this morning. Aside from Skylynx, he may be my final Hasbro purchase for a long,long time.

Not a fan of them headmasters eh?

A line that makes Blaster a leader class base? No thank you sir.

Ironhidensh wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Ironhidensh wrote:Shockwave is back in stock at Hasbro Toy Shop, I ordered him this morning. Aside from Skylynx, he may be my final Hasbro purchase for a long,long time.

Not a fan of them headmasters eh?

A line that makes Blaster a leader class base? No thank you sir.

Well there is a difference in liking the line and disliking a figure, but, I agree. Beyond the design lending itself to becoming a base rather easily - I think there are/were more worthy candidates for the leader class figures, but I admit that - outside of disliking the characters - I am intrigued by the base combining gimmick. I am very eager to see what Ryan does with them for his galleries, once he has a bunch of them.

Plus, there is the caveat that these aren't technically headmasters, they're the character themself becoming the head/piloting a conveniently designed mech based on them (i.e. megatron pilots the galvatron mech - it's splitting hairs, but it is an important distinction to make)

Ironhidensh wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Ironhidensh wrote:Shockwave is back in stock at Hasbro Toy Shop, I ordered him this morning. Aside from Skylynx, he may be my final Hasbro purchase for a long,long time.

Not a fan of them headmasters eh?

A line that makes Blaster a leader class base? No thank you sir.

You know what though, there might be a subscale going on in the generations figures. We all can attest that Leader Megatron is out of scale. Some like that he is this big and that is perfectly fine, but he is out of scale none the less when compared to Leader Ultra Magnus or Jetfire or Classics prime ect. So for all intents and purposes, he was a stand alone out of scale figure which could be put wherever people found it to their liking. However, we then got the leader seekers (obviously also out of scale, since they are made from a mold of a character that was always bigger than them). And they fit together nicely. The leaders scale with oneanother. Now we have Blaster who is also leader class. With Buzzsaw around being a decepticon media player, it goes without saying that we will eventually see a leader decepticon media player for him to interact with: Soundwave. So, you would end up with a new of generations figures, in parallel release with the other classes. You would get Megatron, all three seekers, the tapes and Soundwave (so most of the initial Decepticons) all scaling with eachother in this new leader scale.




Transformers Generations Combiner Wars Skywarp Gallery

GuyIncognito wrote:Since this thread is 4 years old, can't you retire it and start a new one? I clicked the link in the first post, looking for United Rumble and Frenzy, before realizing the post was from 2011.

Best way to handle this is for all of us to start posting in this topic. Not sure why it doesn't get used.

grimlockprime108 wrote:http://www.walmart.com/ip/Transformers-Robots-in-Disguise-Warrior-Class-Decepticon-Fracture-Figure/45057725
for any one looking for him

Thanks for sharing this with us!

Probably like a bunch of folks, I just got an email from BBTS that have the second Autobot combiner limb wave up for preorders:

http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/sear ... m_content=

They have a set of two each, one each and individual bots up. Better grab em while they last.

No Skylynx spotted at this time.

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Wheeljack looks so terribly unpainted

Hound is already sold out. But ordered Smokescreen and Wheeljack for myself. Needed a new Smokescreen anyway, and as for Wheeljack, just wanted him. Lol

What do they have against just molding that little elbow joint on the Dead End mold the same color as the rest of the figure and painting just a tiny piece of it to make it seamless with the rest of the figure?

I really thought I was ok with the Hound/Swindle sculpt, but now that just looks absurd.

TFSource has joined the preorder party with the new Autobot limbs up for preorder.

4 pack case

8 pack case

As far as repaints go, they look alright (except for Smokescreen who just looks too lazy), but the choice of characters going with Sky Lynx seems a little strange. The combiner is called Sky Reign and the four limbs are all cars.

Even if they didn't have some flying characters to go with, maybe some guys that actually were in the same wave as Sky Lynx might have seemed appropriate.

Kup - Offroad mold
Springer - Rook mold
Blurr - Dead End mold
Hot Rod - Breakdown mold

RiddlerJ wrote:As far as repaints go, they look alright (except for Smokescreen who just looks too lazy), but the choice of characters going with Sky Lynx seems a little strange. The combiner is called Sky Reign and the four limbs are all cars.

Even if they didn't have some flying characters to go with, maybe some guys that actually were in the same wave as Sky Lynx might have seemed appropriate.

Kup - Offroad mold
Springer - Rook mold
Blurr - Dead End mold
Hot Rod - Breakdown mold

Yeah, I also find that weird since Skylynx is the only bot in all these G1 characters being made as toys in the CW line to be from the post movie era while it seems the main idea Hasbro is going for (from what I can tell) is pre movie era.

EDIT: Yeah, there is rodimus, but I was looking more at limbs and torsos.

william-james88 wrote:

RiddlerJ wrote:As far as repaints go, they look alright (except for Smokescreen who just looks too lazy), but the choice of characters going with Sky Lynx seems a little strange. The combiner is called Sky Reign and the four limbs are all cars.

Even if they didn't have some flying characters to go with, maybe some guys that actually were in the same wave as Sky Lynx might have seemed appropriate.

Kup - Offroad mold
Springer - Rook mold
Blurr - Dead End mold
Hot Rod - Breakdown mold

Yeah, I also find that weird since Skylynx is the only bot in all these G1 characters being made as toys in the CW line to be from the post movie era while it seems the main idea Hasbro is going for (from what I can tell) is pre movie era.

Well, in the Marvel Comics version, Sky Lynx existed in the present day (the 1980s) rather than the future (the 2000s), and was an old friend of Wheeljack's. So there is at least that connection between those two.

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

RiddlerJ wrote:As far as repaints go, they look alright (except for Smokescreen who just looks too lazy), but the choice of characters going with Sky Lynx seems a little strange. The combiner is called Sky Reign and the four limbs are all cars.

Even if they didn't have some flying characters to go with, maybe some guys that actually were in the same wave as Sky Lynx might have seemed appropriate.

Kup - Offroad mold
Springer - Rook mold
Blurr - Dead End mold
Hot Rod - Breakdown mold

Yeah, I also find that weird since Skylynx is the only bot in all these G1 characters being made as toys in the CW line to be from the post movie era while it seems the main idea Hasbro is going for (from what I can tell) is pre movie era.

Well, in the Marvel Comics version, Sky Lynx existed in the present day (the 1980s) rather than the future (the 2000s), and was an old friend of Wheeljack's. So there is at least that connection between those two.

The guys at botcon alluded to his being a favorite of the design team, as well as being popular with fans in general. I kinda agree that the team doesn't really fit with a flier, but what other fliers were there? alpha bravo as Springer... pass...

Hellscream9999 wrote:The guys at botcon alluded to his being a favorite of the design team, as well as being popular with fans in general.

We know that's why they made Sky Lynx, but it isn't fiction justification for why he's paired with four guys he's rarely ever been associated with. I was talking about this when I mentioned Wheeljack and Sky Lynx having been old friends in Marvel G1.

Sabrblade wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:The guys at botcon alluded to his being a favorite of the design team, as well as being popular with fans in general.

We know that's why they made Sky Lynx, but it isn't fiction justification for why he's paired with four guys he's rarely ever been associated with. I was talking about this when I mentioned Wheeljack and Sky Lynx having been old friends in Marvel G1.

Fiction justification, please, they just have to have it happen in the comics, and there. Honestly, the reasons for this mash-up are probably more worldy than fictitious - like trademark, or that kids like good guys, or something else. They could have given us jetfire out of airraid, they both have moving wings...

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:The guys at botcon alluded to his being a favorite of the design team, as well as being popular with fans in general.

We know that's why they made Sky Lynx, but it isn't fiction justification for why he's paired with four guys he's rarely ever been associated with. I was talking about this when I mentioned Wheeljack and Sky Lynx having been old friends in Marvel G1.

Fiction justification, please, they just have to have it happen in the comics, and there. Honestly, the reasons for this mash-up are probably more worldy than fictitious - like trademark, or that kids like good guys, or something else. They could have given us jetfire out of airraid, they both have moving wings...

Or that the choices for the four limb characters were simply that they're ones that could be easily made from the preexisting Prowl, Swindle, Offroad, and Breakdown molds.

The point is, though, that most people would expect a Sky Lynx combiner to have the guy teamed up with 1986/"Season 3" Autobots rather than 1984-1985/"Seasons 1-2" Autobots. My Wheeljack/Sky Lynx justification was in response to that.

And it was Rook, not AB, whom was suggested for Springer.

Sabrblade wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:The guys at botcon alluded to his being a favorite of the design team, as well as being popular with fans in general.

We know that's why they made Sky Lynx, but it isn't fiction justification for why he's paired with four guys he's rarely ever been associated with. I was talking about this when I mentioned Wheeljack and Sky Lynx having been old friends in Marvel G1.

Fiction justification, please, they just have to have it happen in the comics, and there. Honestly, the reasons for this mash-up are probably more worldy than fictitious - like trademark, or that kids like good guys, or something else. They could have given us jetfire out of airraid, they both have moving wings...

Or that the choices for the four limb characters were simply that they're ones that could be easily made from the preexisting Prowl, Swindle, Offroad, and Breakdown molds.

The point is, though, that most people would expect a Sky Lynx combiner to have the guy teamed up with 1986/"Season 3" Autobots rather than 1984-1985/"Seasons 1-2" Autobots. My Wheeljack/Sky Lynx justification was in response to that.

And it was Rook, not AB, whom was suggested for Springer.

I was going off of someone else's comment that he has all land based limbs when his name is Sky Reign; I was wondering what other fliers could've been added to sky reign.