The Energon Pub

[Rated X]

We all bought Doublecross for Haywire. But on the flip side, it has a better paint deco than Hasbro but is missing the proper guns. So try to think of that Twinferno you bought months ago as if you bought a 3rd party weapon with a free bouns figure for 15 bucks. Chug him in the storage bin. Problem solved. Soon Windblade, Topspin, Twin Twist will be joining him.

Or I could sell them, which I plan on doing

Ive thought about selling some Hasbro stuff. But I'm just so lazy to learn how to sell on e-bay (I buy all the time) The thought of dealing with all the extra work of shipping kind of turns me off. I wish I knew some collectors that lived in South Florida that wanted to link up.

[Omegatron.]

I don't know if this has been mentioned here yet but I found this on Reddit. Ginrai's feet in the God Ginrai set have been modified slightly to make his heel spurs more stable.

[grimdragon2001]

thats good to know. a more stable Ginrai will be welcome

[fenrir72]

To those bellyaching against the Sixshot mold ( I just updated tfwiki of this feature fyi), the Takara mold has a slight retool on his knees to make it not as a useless floppy mess as the Hb version was. Two small pegs are now added to the outer side of his knees to give the junction a bit of a snag when bending it.

So not only we get a new Headmaster (no more paint chipping on the face plate), remolded helmet, new paint apps but a small fix on his knees.

[Va'al]

Courtesy of site sponsor RobotKingdom's official Facebook page, we have some new packaging images - both front and rear - for the latest releases in the Takara Tomy Transformers Legends figures, including LG-54 Bumblebee with Exo-Suit Spike, LG-55 Targetmaster Slugslinger, LG-56 Perceptor and Ramhorn, and LG-57 Octane with Headmaster Ghost Starscream.

All of the images have been mirrored below for your viewing convenience, and offer us a look at these Japanese versions of the figures released in the Hasbro Titans Return line as Legend, Deluxe, and Voyager class. What do you think of the differences? Will you be double-dipping, or were you waiting for these ones specifically? Let us know in the discussion in the Energon Pub!

[blackeyedprime]

Octane is a must for starscreams head/possessed mode, tho I think I prefer hasbro Octanes colors and wing decals but the hasbro one will either turn up here at discount shops or not at all.

Bumblebee is a must for Spike and the clear windows even with me having the hasbro version.

Slugslinger is a must just from the hasbro version not being released here, so if I'm going for an import might as well give Takara the money.

Perceptor is a pass, I'm still happy with the classics figure that I haven't even picked up the hasbro titans return one yet, was waiting for reductions and I will have to find/import hasbro ramhorn for the titan master anyhoos.

[Emerje]

Getting all of these. I like how they actually put the Ghost Starscream mode of Octane on the front of the box as well.

Emerje

[megatronus]

"Triple Tron"

[Sabrblade]

Huh, looks like Ramhorn isn't called a Partner Drone or any kind of descriptor (besides his name) on Perceptor's packaging.

[Cyberpath]

Got all of them except for Octane already pre-ordered. Still waiting for last month's batch though.

[Rated X]

That is not a cartoon accurate deco. Slugslinger should be way darker, almost dark greenish blue. This is almost the same toy accurate blue as the Hasbro version.

[Sabrblade]

That is not a cartoon accurate deco. Slugslinger should be way darker, almost dark greenish blue. This is almost the same toy accurate blue as the Hasbro version.

You're thinking of the wrong cartoon. Takara ignores The Rebirth in favor of The Headmasters for their cartoon-accuracy.

[Evil Eye]

That is not a cartoon accurate deco. Slugslinger should be way darker, almost dark greenish blue. This is almost the same toy accurate blue as the Hasbro version.

You're thinking of the wrong cartoon. Takara ignores The Rebirth in favor of The Headmasters for their cartoon-accuracy.

I can't be the only one baffled by the idea of people actually caring enough about The Rebirth to want toys slavishly accurate to it, right?

[Randomhero]

That is not a cartoon accurate deco. Slugslinger should be way darker, almost dark greenish blue. This is almost the same toy accurate blue as the Hasbro version.

You're thinking of the wrong cartoon. Takara ignores The Rebirth in favor of The Headmasters for their cartoon-accuracy.

I can't be the only one baffled by the idea of people actually caring enough about The Rebirth to want toys slavishly accurate to it, right?

-COUGH-

[Sabrblade]

-COUGH-

You do know that's a secondary redeco done as an atypical bonus and not the main version of that toy, right?

[Randomhero]

-COUGH-

You do know that's a secondary redeco done as an atypical bonus and not the main version of that toy, right?

That’s the rebirth version coming out in all its AKOM incorrect color scheme glory

[Rated X]

That is not a cartoon accurate deco. Slugslinger should be way darker, almost dark greenish blue. This is almost the same toy accurate blue as the Hasbro version.

You're thinking of the wrong cartoon. Takara ignores The Rebirth in favor of The Headmasters for their cartoon-accuracy.

I guess it goes better with that Headmasters accurate Caliburst he comes with.

[Sabrblade]

That’s the rebirth version coming out in all its AKOM incorrect color scheme glory

Yes. Coming after the main non-Rebirth version had already been done as the normal version of Hot Rod.

I guess it goes better with that Headmasters accurate Caliburst he comes with.

...Caliburst was in The Headmasters.

[chuckdawg1999]

I gotta say, the TR version of Slugslinger does the Targetmaster better, it looks more like the original gun mode.

[fenrir72]

10 days to go before the end of the year.

I expect Amiami to give me a holler by Thursday! The recent delivery dump I got:

Sixshot
Brawn
Kickback
Doublecross
Misfire
Triggerhappy
Broadside

almost overloaded my circuits! Especially Broadside, the HB version was so naked and loose. And the change in plastics really makes a difference! And Sixshot........soooooo sweet! With his knees retooled and the oodles of paint (the purple makes it look like die-cast)! Yum!

The rest of the gang this end is sure to please even more!

[Rated X]

That’s the rebirth version coming out in all its AKOM incorrect color scheme glory

Yes. Coming after the main non-Rebirth version had already been done as the normal version of Hot Rod.

I guess it goes better with that Headmasters accurate Caliburst he comes with.

...Caliburst was in The Headmasters.

Never seen this before. I was only going off of people on this site who have said numerous times that there were no targetmasters in the Japanese fiction.

[Rated X]

That is not a cartoon accurate deco. Slugslinger should be way darker, almost dark greenish blue. This is almost the same toy accurate blue as the Hasbro version.

You're thinking of the wrong cartoon. Takara ignores The Rebirth in favor of The Headmasters for their cartoon-accuracy.

I can't be the only one baffled by the idea of people actually caring enough about The Rebirth to want toys slavishly accurate to it, right?

The Rebirth is awesome and the Headmasters is massive pile of suck. It took Jon 3.0 like 4 years to make a couple of the Headmasters episodes watchable. Also the Headmasters deco is too similar to the hasbro toy deco. A nice blueish evergreen Slugslinger would have been great to differentiate the two versions beyond the targetmaster.

[fenrir72]

That’s the rebirth version coming out in all its AKOM incorrect color scheme glory

Yes. Coming after the main non-Rebirth version had already been done as the normal version of Hot Rod.

I guess it goes better with that Headmasters accurate Caliburst he comes with.

...Caliburst was in The Headmasters.

Never seen this before. I was only going off of people on this site who have said numerous times that there were no targetmasters in the Japanese fiction.

Yo X! Not every so called experts here know what they are talking about despite their claim to.

Rebirth's storyline was much better imho except ole Hb no longer wanted to bankroll the series. HM had a lot of plotlines forced and left hanging like the forced death of Convoy, Rodimus' leaving then Fortress suddenly taking over I'd grant you that.

[Sabrblade]

Never seen this before. I was only going off of people on this site who have said numerous times that there were no targetmasters in the Japanese fiction.

I have honestly never heard anyone make that ridiculous claim. It's too absurd a claim to even fathom that someone could say so with a straight face. Anyone who says that there were no Targetmasters in The Headmasters cartoon is a big fat liar.

[Wolfman Jake]

Never seen this before. I was only going off of people on this site who have said numerous times that there were no targetmasters in the Japanese fiction.

I have honestly never heard anyone make that ridiculous claim. It's too absurd a claim to even fathom that someone could say so with a straight face. Anyone who says that there were no Targetmasters in The Headmasters cartoon is a big fat liar.

I think perhaps this is a misunderstanding of the fact that "The Headmasters" didn't turn Hot Rod, Kup, Blurr, Cyclonus, and Scourge into Targetmasters like Hasbro did with the 1987 toyline and "The Rebirth" miniseries. Japan only stuck with the brand new characters for the Headmasters and Targetmasters without "refreshing" the older characters with new gimmicks.