The Energon Pub

by **mechabot** » Thu Feb 23, 2012 1:10 pm

I mean, out of the TF figures that are easy to find in stores like walmart or target, which ones are worth buying most. I haven't had chance to get out and buy any, so I dont really know what to get or what would be likely to find in those sort of stores.

what more recent figures have the best articulation, or look the most accurate?

by **Dean ML** » Thu Feb 23, 2012 2:31 pm

Which line? Prime, Generations, or the movie line?

News Credits: 12 · by **GuyIncognito** » Thu Feb 23, 2012 2:52 pm

Whichever ones you like the best. It's completely subjective and personal.

If you don't get to the stores much, you're basically going to be limited to only a few choices, anyway: whatever they happen to have in stock.

by **mechabot** » Thu Feb 23, 2012 4:03 pm

Which line? Prime, Generations, or the movie line?

I was thinking ether the movie line or generations.
I really should get out to the stores more often...

News Credits: 4 · by **craggy** » Thu Feb 23, 2012 7:47 pm

movie bumblebees! all the movie bumblebees!

:twisted:

News Credits: 7 · by **TulioDude** » Thu Feb 23, 2012 8:37 pm

OPtimus Prime is always awesome.

News Credits: 97 · by **Savage** » Thu Feb 23, 2012 9:05 pm

Pretty much any of the Generations / Reveal the Shield stuff if you can still find it on shelves. Warpath was fantastic. Sky Shadow (black and red Thunderwing repaint) is really good if you liked that mold, and the new head sculpt gives the figure its own feel. Also, I kinda like the colors better than Thunderwing's.

I just picked up Robots in Disguise TF Prime Voyager Megatron at Walmart tonight, and I'm finding his articulation top-notch. He has a little bit of back kibble that lays flat against his back and panels can be moved in a couple different ways. His shoulderpads inhibit a bit of his shoulder movement though. From the waist down, he has the articulation/feel of a good Transformers Animated figure. He also has fanFREAKINGtastic lightpiping. Put a light behind him and he glows with Dark Energon. Alt mode leaves something to be desired, but I'm planning to keep him in robot mode on display most of the time.

by **Dean ML** » Thu Feb 23, 2012 11:03 pm

mechabot wrote:
Which line? Prime, Generations, or the movie line?

I was thinking ether the movie line or generations.
I really should get out to the stores more often...

If you're interested in the movie line, then you're in luck as I see Walmart and Target discount their surplus DotM figures frequently. I think the DotM line had some really impressive molds, but their smaller size, redundancy (we didn't need new molds of Jolt, Mudflap, Skids, a terrible voyager Prime, and another leader Bumblebee!), and lack of paint apps (I plan on getting around to painting mine anyways) turned a lot of people off. Still, the ones worth buying are...

Deluxe
Bumblebee (best movie BB mold yet, but shameful lack of paint apps)
Barricade (big improvement over the '07 mold)
Sideswipe (great mold, but again, lack of paint is shameful)
Roadbuster (fun figure if you can ignore his giant backpack kibble)
Topspin (damn near perfect)

Voyager
Ironhide (the best movie IH mold there is with almost no kibble)

Leader
Sentinel Prime (some are turned off by his complex transformation, but I enjoy it)

All of the Generations figures look worth picking up except for some of the obscure characters. Wish I had the money to collect more than one line.