The Energon Pub

Lord Onixprime wrote:

Dr. Heavy B wrote:Still no gattling gun? Damnit, I waited 20 years for a new dreadwing rap

“New Dreadwing
Is punishing
His Gatling gun is illin'!
This Decepticon bomber's a
Transformer-rama,
A three-in-one villain that's chillin'!

Combat tank and sonic jet
Transform into double-trouble robots
Their missiles go boom
Spelling certain doom
As they take apart the awesome Autobots!”

Well, we've still not seen his mechtech powerizers weapon, which surely will mimic his onscreen weapon, as the others have done.

Badly. (Megatron being the closest to the exception.)

Sodan-1 wrote:

Lord Onixprime wrote:

Dr. Heavy B wrote:Still no gattling gun? Damnit, I waited 20 years for a new dreadwing rap

“New Dreadwing
Is punishing
His Gatling gun is illin'!
This Decepticon bomber's a
Transformer-rama,
A three-in-one villain that's chillin'!

Combat tank and sonic jet
Transform into double-trouble robots
Their missiles go boom
Spelling certain doom
As they take apart the awesome Autobots!”

Well, we've still not seen his mechtech powerizers weapon, which surely will mimic his onscreen weapon, as the others have done.

Badly. (Megatron being the closest to the exception.)

Megatron's would be fine if it wasn't brown. At least his blades can move independently from the gears so that it can be extended without having to be pressed.

I like how Optimus's is designed to look like his fore arm with the gun flipping out, but without a way to lock it, and being it is almost exclusively clear blue, it is pretty much useless. Sits in a bin with all the other parts I don't display (as does Megatron brass knuckle weapon).

I have no problem with this. The first guy died. The second seems to be a recurring character. Why waste the money and time now? Besides, when they need to pad waves and assortments, the repaint will come in handy.

I'm moderately disappointed that he won't be in Skyquake colours but I don't really care that much - the mold is the most important thing to me. SKyquake's colour is more realistic but as I'm hoping to repaint the whole cast I can't complain.

Wait, what am I talking about? He'll never be released in England anyway.

I probably should have expected this, but do I spot translucent plastic elbows?

Lord Onixprime wrote:

Sodan-1 wrote:

Lord Onixprime wrote:

Dr. Heavy B wrote:Still no gattling gun? Damnit, I waited 20 years for a new dreadwing rap

“New Dreadwing
Is punishing
His Gatling gun is illin'!
This Decepticon bomber's a
Transformer-rama,
A three-in-one villain that's chillin'!

Combat tank and sonic jet
Transform into double-trouble robots
Their missiles go boom
Spelling certain doom
As they take apart the awesome Autobots!”

Well, we've still not seen his mechtech powerizers weapon, which surely will mimic his onscreen weapon, as the others have done.

Badly. (Megatron being the closest to the exception.)

Megatron's would be fine if it wasn't brown. At least his blades can move independently from the gears so that it can be extended without having to be pressed.

I like how Optimus's is designed to look like his fore arm with the gun flipping out, but without a way to lock it, and being it is almost exclusively clear blue, it is pretty much useless. Sits in a bin with all the other parts I don't display (as does Megatron brass knuckle weapon).

I just took out the spring in primes gun. Dosn't light up, but its better then the arm mounted block

I'm dreading bulkheads. Not only is the weapon freakishly stupid, but after seeing F.E. bulkhead, and hasbro saying "HAHAHA, F*ck you america", then replace it with the RID toy that looks NOTHING like it does on tv, I can't get it. I would rather spend hundred bucks to get him on ebay.

Dr. Heavy B wrote:I just took out the spring in primes gun. Dosn't light up, but its better then the arm mounted block

I did too and it's sooo much better. You can get it to light up if you press down on the gear. It's still a dumb feature though.

Evil_the_Nub wrote:

Dr. Heavy B wrote:I just took out the spring in primes gun. Dosn't light up, but its better then the arm mounted block

I did too and it's sooo much better. You can get it to light up if you press down on the gear. It's still a dumb feature though.

Can't say it even makes any of the clear parts actually light up either.

Rated X wrote:Probally just another stupid legal issue with the characters name. Youre probally gonna get the same figure in skyquake colors on a card or box that says Dreadwing.

Hammer to the first person who calls for Reprolabels to make a "Skyquake label" to fix the box.

No Hasbro has the trademarks for Skyquake, this is simply done due to Dredwing being in the show and looking like a new regular cast member. They can do the repaint into the dead guy later.

Hmmmm. Back in early February*....

metaphorge wrote:

Mkall wrote:Whatever happened to Voyager Skyquake?

Are we sure that the powers-hat-be haven't decided to rename him "Dreadwing"? Or "Dreadwind"? I mean, it's not like we've seen them all together in a room at the same time....

*(I only point this out because Sabrblade swore I was crazy for suggesting such a thing.)

Perhaps I should play the lottery more often, or at least the stock market.

Dead Metal wrote:They can do the repaint into the dead guy later.

So would that make Skyquake green or a purplish blue, a laTerrorcon Cliffjumper.

I think I liked Transformers more when it had 97% less zombies....

Huh. So Prime doesn't start airing until April 12 in Japan, huh? Takara seems to be missing a glorious opportunity to sell Americans import figures by not releasing a Skyquake this summer, since the release would follow closely on the heels of the character's appearance, or do they have some sort of rule that they can only release highly desirible Japanese-exclusive repaints that don't make any sense with their media tie-in? (DOTM Vortex? Prime Skyarp?)

NovaSentinel wrote:

Hypershock wrote: just one question though, i have that pic of his robot mode as well, but that sword doesnt look like the other mechtech-esque weapons we've seen to date. is there supposed to be another one?

All RID voyagers have a mechtech type weapon and a smaller static weapon (like primes sword) My guess is therell be some failed mechtech interpretation of his chaingun thing as well

o yea thats right

how bout that static bulkhead weapon? is it supposed to be a gun? it looks like a meat tenderizer lolz