The Energon Pub

by **Cobalt Prime** » Fri Dec 20, 2013 11:25 pm

I'm sick to death of all these bladed weapons they're packaging Prime with these days instead of a nice big rifle. Call me a G1 purist if you will, but these are futuristic robots, not knights of old. Even that huge Beast Hunters Prime only comes with that God-awful sword and shield in terms of hand held weapons. A big chunky figure should have had a big chunky hand held high tech beam weapon or something imo. These GO! figures seem to be following the same trend.

News Credits: 1 · by **durroth** » Fri Dec 20, 2013 11:44 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
RhA wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
RhA wrote:He never said there are NO OTHER combiners,
Never claimed he did.

Then what's the use of posting that buttload of combiners?
In response to his claim of "combiners formed by a number of components that's different from 5 are weak".

Tripredacus still looks amazing. Magnaboss would look so much less stupid if they fixed that perpetual looking up thing... I kinda wish they had gone for a set combiner like those instead of the modular teams.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 12:21 am

My reaction to those big arms in dragon mode:

Seriously, am I the only one on here who sincerely thinks this thing looks cool?

News Credits: 1 · by **durroth** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 12:25 am

It looks cool, but I'm still not sold on the dragon mode (The big dragon arms seem to be the reason the arm kibble in robot mode is so huge too since it looks like they're the same part... I want to see it in robot mode with the dragon claws out.)

News Credits: 60 · by **fenrir72** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 2:50 am

When when when?

by **VioMeTriX** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 7:00 am

this is hands down the worst transformer I've ever seen, in this day and age there is no excuse for **** like this.

News Credits: 767 · by **Dead Metal** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 7:41 am

Only way to describe this accurately.

by **morphobots** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 8:02 am

Cobalt Prime wrote:I'm sick to death of all these bladed weapons they're packaging Prime with these days instead of a nice big rifle. Call me a G1 purist if you will, but these are futuristic robots, not knights of old. Even that huge Beast Hunters Prime only comes with that God-awful sword and shield in terms of hand held weapons. A big chunky figure should have had a big chunky hand held high tech beam weapon or something imo. These GO! figures seem to be following the same trend.

Seconded. I miss weapons intended to be so advanced they didn't even make sense, like Skullcruncher's rubberizer rifle for "tenderizing" his opponents. That cracked me up even when I was a kid.

by **Cobalt Prime** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 8:13 am

morphobots wrote:
Cobalt Prime wrote:I'm sick to death of all these bladed weapons they're packaging Prime with these days instead of a nice big rifle. Call me a G1 purist if you will, but these are futuristic robots, not knights of old. Even that huge Beast Hunters Prime only comes with that God-awful sword and shield in terms of hand held weapons. A big chunky figure should have had a big chunky hand held high tech beam weapon or something imo. These GO! figures seem to be following the same trend.

Seconded. I miss weapons intended to be so advanced they didn't even make sense, like Skullcruncher's rubberizer rifle for "tenderizing" his opponents. That cracked me up even when I was a kid.

I know! I wouldn't have been a bit surprised to see "Wheeljack Arms" stamped into every weapon carried by either side, lol

News Credits: 251 · by **Mindmaster** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 8:47 am

Eh, definitely not my cup of tea. Doesn't look bad, but it doesn't appeal to me in any way whatsoever. >:oP

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 9:45 am

VioMeTriX wrote:this is hands down the worst transformer I've ever seen, in this day and age there is no excuse for **** like this.

Dead Metal wrote:Only way to describe this accurately.

News Credits: 4 · by **Megazarak** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 9:52 am

Hm, thought I'd like him cause he's a train and all, but geez, he is kinda ugly. He's not so bad that I wouldn't consider at the right price (he is still a train after all), but uh, that can wait for a while.

News Credits: 4 · by **craggy** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 11:57 am

I think he looks kinda cool. :-$

If I could have picked up the 3 bot Go! combiners for Hasbro prices (probably £40 or so for the ones with electronics?) I would have because I liked them for the most part, and think this one is decent too. I'd have liked to have seen Decepticons or Predacons in this style as well.

News Credits: 15 · by **PrymeStriker** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 12:55 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
VioMeTriX wrote:this is hands down the worst transformer I've ever seen, in this day and age there is no excuse for **** like this.
Dead Metal wrote:Only way to describe this accurately. This sucks more than anything that has ever sucked before.
DOTM Mudflap & Skids

Come on, guys. We all know that there is one transformer toy that sucks more than this abomination of a figure, or any figure at that.

Don't act like you don't remember her.

News Credits: 251 · by **Mindmaster** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 1:04 pm

PrymeStriker wrote:

What are you, nuts? That ain't the worst of them all. This is:

News Credits: 15 · by **PrymeStriker** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 1:27 pm

Mindmaster wrote:
PrymeStriker wrote:*snip*

*snippers*

What are you, nuts? That ain't the worst of them all. This is:

News Credits: 1 · by **YRQRM0** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 4:48 pm

LOL @ Armada Sideswipe. But I don't think this Prime looks THAT bad. I mean, it's different, but that's why it's kind of cool.

News Credits: 251 · by **Mindmaster** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 4:50 pm

YRQRM0 wrote:But I don't think this Prime looks THAT bad.

Agreed. People are just overreacting. >:oP

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 5:55 pm

Mindmaster wrote:
YRQRM0 wrote:But I don't think this Prime looks THAT bad.

Agreed. People are just overreacting.

For what it has to do:

- Robot Mode
- Dragon Mode
- Train Mode
- Sanjou Gattai (middle only)

I'd say he looks fairly decent, but the forearms... :-?

I'll reserve final judgement until in-hand picks arrive in Jan/Feb.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 10:06 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Mindmaster wrote:
YRQRM0 wrote:But I don't think this Prime looks THAT bad.

Agreed. People are just overreacting.

For what it has to do:

- Robot Mode
- Dragon Mode
- Train Mode
- Sanjou Gattai (middle only)

I'd say he looks fairly decent, but the forearms... I'll reserve final judgement until in-hand picks arrive in Jan/Feb.

I think he might have two different torso modes (even if one might possibly be the other just flipped upside-down), so he'd be a five-changer in that case.

Though, with him it's "Renketsu Sanjou Gattai" :-B

by **frogbat** » Sun Dec 22, 2013 5:40 am

agreed that we should wait to see better pix however I cannot but help try dig back in my memory to see whether any other figure made me let out a massive WTF‽ as this one did.

There are lame figures in every run, heck there are lame series too (pretenders... action masters...) but I think this guy's problem isn't the lameness just that it's rather out there... maybe it might work better if they gave him an original character or recycled one of the trainformers rather than use a prime.

News Credits: 1 · by **rpetras** » Mon Dec 23, 2013 11:11 am

My favorite part about this figure?

I'm saving money by not getting it! ZING!!! :grin:

News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Mon Dec 23, 2013 1:12 pm

Autobase Aichi has posted some additional promotional images of Takara Tomy's upcoming Transformers Go! G26 Optimus Exprime. These images give us a look at the figure combined with G01 Kenzan and G05 Gekisomaru. Besides the aforementioned combining abilities the figure is also a triple changer: robot, bullet train, and dragon. Check out the images mirrored below.