The Energon Pub

News Credits: 101 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Tue Aug 26, 2025 4:14 pm

At last, it's here.

News Credits: 9 · by **triKlops** » Tue Aug 26, 2025 10:51 pm

Great score, Kanra.
I am still awaiting mine with the box.

News Credits: 101 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Wed Aug 27, 2025 6:20 pm

Thanks to Mr Seibertron himself, I got one more Overcharge and the S7 Aligatimus!
Just ignore the giant lump on my head that UPS gave me with their fees sledgehammer. 8-}

My Overcharge trio is finally complete!

News Credits: 22 · by **Rodimus Prime** » Wed Aug 27, 2025 10:42 pm

Why 3 copies? That mold is a failure as a triple changer. Unless the jet mode was upgraded?

News Credits: 458 · by **Sabrblade** » Wed Aug 27, 2025 11:38 pm

Rodimus Prime wrote:Why 3 copies?

Troop-building.

News Credits: 22 · by **Rodimus Prime** » Thu Aug 28, 2025 12:32 am

Sabrblade wrote:
Rodimus Prime wrote:Why 3 copies?
Troop-building.

That's expensive troop building. But I guess if he's got the moolah, more power to him. I figured he got 3 to display 1 in each mode.

News Credits: 458 · by **Sabrblade** » Thu Aug 28, 2025 1:16 am

Rodimus Prime wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Rodimus Prime wrote:Why 3 copies?
Troop-building.
That's expensive troop building.

Fitting for a figure named "Overcharge".

In-universe, though, Overcharges are mass-produced drones built and operated by the Quintessons, per the bio of the original Overcharge toy from 2005. Before he acquired his individual identity, Blitzwing used to be an Overcharge, as part of his cartoon backstory, explained in the pack-in manga that came with Takara Legends Blitzwing, which thus explains how and why he remembered the Quintessons in "Five Faces of Darkness" while everyone else didn't.

News Credits: 101 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Thu Aug 28, 2025 4:55 am

Nice trivia! And yeah, even if the tank have a dik and the jet have cancer growths L. Blitzwing is fun to mess around with. Plus knowing that Overcharges are Quints drones, I thought having Blitzwing leading Overcharge troopers would make for a rad display.

News Credits: 42 · by **TF-fan kev777** » Thu Aug 28, 2025 7:15 am

I got my Rathalos Prime from Pulse yesterday. Man that wingspan is impressive.

News Credits: 2 · by **Nemesis Destron** » Sat Aug 30, 2025 7:39 am

Sabrblade wrote:
Rodimus Prime wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Starseeker wrote:Also was pleasantly surprised to find Devcon randomly at Target! I don't know how or why but I'll take it!
He was recently rereleased since he was so impossible to find the first time around.
I also saw him at Target but passed. Kinda regretting it now... Is he a retool of an existing figure or brand new?
Extreme retool of Studio Series 86 Blurr but to the extent that he feels like his own mold.

After reading this I felt compelled to go back when I got mine on eBay and what I paid vs waiting to see him on the Target pegs TODAY! :BANG_HEAD:

It was back on Jan 26th days after this current administration. :BOOM:

I definitely got hosed paying close to $50....but he's a well crafted "retool" as previously stated and worth every hard earned dollar of mine....'nuff said!!! :VEHI:

by **Starseeker** » Sat Aug 30, 2025 10:01 am

Good start to the morning!

News Credits: 101 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Sat Aug 30, 2025 1:17 pm

A shame that this Megatron needs to be I a huge Leader box in order to not be confused with a voyager. A voyager box would have sufficed. Same thing for AoE Optimus.

News Credits: 7 · by **Roadbuster** » Sun Aug 31, 2025 1:00 pm

Nice Haul This weekend.

Friday, I picked up SS86 Megatron at Target (yeah! a miracle. I know!) and spotted some SS86 Grimlock reissues.

Picked up Scavenger today at Wal Mart in the regular TF section along with some Mixmasters spotted.

With Scavenger, my Devastator is complete!

by **Starseeker** » Sun Aug 31, 2025 3:32 pm

-Kanrabat- wrote:A shame that this Megatron needs to be I a huge Leader box in order to not be confused with a voyager. A voyager box would have sufficed. Same thing for AoE Optimus.

Agreed! I was showing my son how ridiculous the box to figure ratio was and he said well Lord Megatron demands nothing less due to his ego lol.
I wish they included the gun he shoots Optimus with in the movie.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Sat Sep 06, 2025 12:29 pm

Got a few things from BBTS this past week.

Blokee's Action Edition Soundwave to go with Prime and Megatron
MPG-14S God Ginrai, the box is massive, even bigger than the MPG-06S Raiden 6-pack box.

Yesterday I got the notice from BBTS that the Selects G2 Dinobots 2-pack is preparing to charge so I picked up G2 Grimlock this morning at Walmart.

Emerje

News Credits: 3608 · by **Seibertron** » Sat Sep 06, 2025 1:14 pm

Hey guys!

Don't forget to use the Sightings forum and sightings section on Seibertron.com also to let your local fellow Seibertronians know about what you've found!

toy-sightings-and-local-meetups-f57.php

https://www.seibertron.com/sightings/

by **Whifflefire** » Mon Sep 08, 2025 8:52 pm

TfSource had, for some reason, the Maketoys Battle Sentinel upgrade kit that came out for Reveal The Shield Laser Optimus Prime for very cheap. This set was one of the first third party items I became aware of way back around 2011, after seeing it in a video and then not being able to find it on the wiki.
I never got it, due to being priced out and not even having RTS Prime. Even though he's been on my want list for a decade and a half, I had yet to actually make the move. Here seemed as good a reason as I was going to get!

I will always be fond of this era of design. The characters were recognizable, but with extra style that made them visually appealing. As toys, they were very tactile and not fiddly. And they had just a bit more mass to them that made them easy and engaging for a child's hands.

This is the line up I wanted in 2011. (Only Wheeljack and Tracks actually joined the collection back then.)

Combing with a trailer is never not awesome.

Compared with the latest Laser Prime incarnation. Again, I'm partial to the stylization of the RTS mold, and really dig that the windows actually end up on the chest. But the Legacy one gets points for actually coming with a trailer (even if I got the upgrade for this one, too!)

Also, 400th Post!

News Credits: 458 · by **Sabrblade** » Mon Sep 08, 2025 9:00 pm

Whifflefire wrote:TfSource had, for some reason, the Maketoys Battle Sentinel upgrade kit that came out for Reveal The Shield Laser Optimus Prime for very cheap.

They got their Customer Appreciation Week sale going on right now.

Whifflefire wrote:Also, 400th Post!

And it only took ten years!

I kid, I kid. A milestone's a milestone. :APPLAUSE:

by **Whifflefire** » Tue Sep 09, 2025 10:59 am

Sabrblade wrote:
Whifflefire wrote:TfSource had, for some reason, the Maketoys Battle Sentinel upgrade kit that came out for Reveal The Shield Laser Optimus Prime for very cheap.
They got their Customer Appreciation Week sale going on right now.

Actually, this was before sale week! It was in the vintage section. I also got a Beast Machines Blackarachnia, who was also noticeably low-priced for TfSource Standards. Of course, both were pre-owned, but even other vintage items I've gotten from there weren't this low.