The Energon Pub

[Emerje]

Wow, you really got a good deal. I've always wanted that one (and Fire Guts), I have three regular Powermaster Primes and a God Ginrai, but I really feel like I need to complete the set some day.

Emerje

[-Kanrabat-]

Wow, you really got a good deal. I've always wanted that one (and Fire Guts), I have three regular Powermaster Primes and a God Ginrai, but I really feel like I need to complete the set some day.

Emerje

Ironic that despite paying over 150$can in shipping and taxes alone, I was still hundreds of dollars cheaper than eBay!
But that Fire Guts may be problematic to get unless I land on some miracle deal.

I also realize that the total cost of my "Black Ginrai" was around 50$can more than the total cost of my HASLAB Victory Saber.

[Rodimus Prime]

Congrats on Nucleon Quest Convoy! It's 1 I always wanted to complete my set, but never got. And if only you told me you were looking for Fire Guts... I just sold mine a couple of months ago. Would've made you a good deal.

[TF-fan kev777]

SG Screamer came in Friday and Maverick arrived yesterday. Maverick was a post Christmas present to myself from Amazon Japan for $50 shipped. Still overpriced for a Voyager, but a fun mold that I'm glad I got.

[triKlops]

@Kanra; awesome score; great to see flicks

@TFFK777; i pretty much did the same through AJP. I skipped it on Pulse then changed my mind back once i saw it dip on Amazon.

[-Kanrabat-]

Congrats on Nucleon Quest Convoy! It's 1 I always wanted to complete my set, but never got. And if only you told me you were looking for Fire Guts... I just sold mine a couple of months ago. Would've made you a good deal.

I didn't knew I wanted Fire Guts to begin with!

[-Kanrabat-]

Not much TF at Walmart but they had Vintage Tigatron.

It's fun to see the unused prototype pictured on the packaging.

I'm looking forward having the Kingdom Tigatron and the exclusive "prototype" version.

[william-james88]

Not much TF at Walmart but they had Vintage Tigatron.

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It's fun to see the unused prototype pictured on the packaging.

I'm looking forward having the Kingdom Tigatron and the exclusive "prototype" version.

That's just the same packaging as the original figure

[-Kanrabat-]

Not much TF at Walmart but they had Vintage Tigatron.

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It's fun to see the unused prototype pictured on the packaging.

I'm looking forward having the Kingdom Tigatron and the exclusive "prototype" version.

That's just the same packaging as the original figure

Obviously.

Still neat though.

[M. Spector]

Picked up Kingdom Slammer from walvart last night, I really like em. Breaks down into quite a few parts and each one has a lot of different attachment points. If you enjoyed any of the Siege weaponizers (or just Sixgun like me) I would def recommend picking this one up

[-Kanrabat-]

Thanks to clearance prices of some TF at Amazon.ca, I finally got myself K Paleotrex and my friend got K Arcee.
14$can + tx with free shipping is not something I'm gonna ignore.

Now I'm only missing K Ractonite to have all the bones.

[Emerje]

Realized I haven't posted a haul in a while and had a stack of boxes sitting here so no better time than the present.

First off got my Shattered Glass Starscream and Jetfire in from Hasbro Pulse.

Then there's Slammer from Amazon. The bubble envelope provided not protection and the box was completely flattened. It's so bad his top and bottom separated, but he doesn't appear to be broken. All that's left for Kingdom at retail is Core Hot Rod, but I won't lose sleep if I have to substitute the Legacy version.

Next I had mentioned in a topic that I just needed Sunstorm to complete my Titanium Seekers squad, but they're hard to find loose without a bunch of paint chips. Our own Kanrabat directed me to a reasonably priced one in box on eBay that I bought along with The Fallen and Jetfire. Prices have started to really come down on a lot of these figures since there are better alternatives to a lot of them out there. I still really like them because they feel to me like what G1 toys would have felt like if Takara Tomy had the same engineering in the 80s.

Finally I had gotten a notice from BBTS that I needed to ship my POL soon which contained a few Transformers figures I bought many moths ago:

Selects G2 Ramjet and Artfire with Nightstick

Premium Finish Optimus Prime, Hasbro is using their own stupid numbering system again on TT products. (And why is Bee taking so much longer? They should have been on the same boat.)

Alternators Hot Rod, one of the few I was still missing. He was part of their Black Friday sale.

Not shown: third party guns for Titan Fort Max and Grand Max.

I think this year since I'm not buying as many Transformers at retail as last year I'm going to try and complete Alternators and Titanium. I think I'm only missing 4 Alternators and 7 Titaniums now, but Kanrabat says he can help me out with a few of the Titaniums so that number will likely come down a lot!

Emerje

[-Kanrabat-]

Congrats on your multiple hauls!

It's very fun and rewarding to buy toys that are "outdated" and "no longer wanted" like Titaniums and Alternators. There's some real treasures to get. Especially now on the cheap side!

[Rodimus Prime]

I used to have the majority of the Alternators line, but financial difficulties forced me to sell them years ago. Now I'm in better shape, so I think I will try to reacquire them this year as well, as the Legacy line isn't really impressive to me.

[Starseeker]

Shattered Glass haul!

[-Kanrabat-]

It arrived.



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[ZeldaTheSwordsman]

Congrats on your recent hauls, Kanra! Especially that Nucleon Quest Super Convoy, holy crap!

The two Transformers I was gifted for my birthday arrived in the past couple days.




First, Kingdom Cyclonus. Very happy to have him, an excellent upgrade from the Universe: Classics 2.0 Deluxe-class figure (especially in altmode, ye gods).

And now... Drumroll please...


Cybertron Primus! Heck. Yes.
He's sadly not complete, he's missing the "coattail" panel that completes his planet mode, his Cyber Key, and the Omega Lock (I used G1 Scorponok's rifle barrel as a surrogate to transform him; forgot to take a pic of the planet mode first). But he does at least have the Stellar Converter Cannons and both missiles.

I have been wanting him for what, 12? 13? years now, and that's finally happened. I am happy.

I have a few more TFs coming too, these ones ordered myself with birthday money and recycling money. You'll see when they arrive.

[-Kanrabat-]

Congrats on your haul, Zelda!
Cyclonus is pretty amazing.

And for fellow Canadians who still hadn't got him yet, how 20$CAN at Amazon sound?

https://www.amazon.ca/-/fr/Transformers ... 182&sr=1-2

("Ship in 1 or 2 months" ... wat?)

[-Kanrabat-]

Went to my geek store last Friday and I had a nice deal.
Beast Wars Drillbit, Transquito, and TM Scarem for only 80.85$can total! Based on eBay prices, it's as if I had the little guys for free.

Everyone 100% and unbroken!..... That is, until I was an idiot and forced the rotation of the purple arm panel of Transquito's left arm that was a bit stuck and broke off the brittle plastic.

So I did a rough repair job. Not the prettiest thing, but effective.

[ZeldaTheSwordsman]

Oof, shame about having to do a repair so soon.

Drillbit, hm? Wonder how long he was sitting there?

[-Kanrabat-]

Oof, shame about having to do a repair so soon.

Drillbit, hm? Wonder how long he was sitting there?

Drillbit and that Transquito must have been gathering dust on his shelves since the store open some years ago. There were traces of the tiny grocery store price stickers under their feet he used before he modernized his system. He did around 2 years ago with barcode labels attached with rubber bands instead of those tiny classic stickers.

Regarding Transquito's repairs, I think "Ordinary Old Plastics Syndrome" or OOPS can now be a thing.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

Got a bunch over the last week. Sideswipe and Skywarp were with an Amazon gift card and were $7 thanks to a warehouse deal with the gift card. The Amban Phase Pulse blaster was essentially a birthday gift to myself over a year in the making. And the Cores were gifts from my Mom.

[ZeldaTheSwordsman]

Nice haul, D-Max.


This lot arrived today. Armada Starscream, Energon Treadbolt, and Cybertron Jetfire.
Starscream is missing everything that normally detaches from that mold plus one of the teeny leg wheels; tempted to repaint him and get another Starscream down the line to be the non-Powerlinx version. Treadbolt is missing her missile, roll cage, and Mini-Con. Jetfire is missing his key and his weapons, but is otherwise intact. And he was the main draw of the lot.

Pity nobody's doing casts or print-replicas of the Cyber Keys (especially the Autobot version of the Cybertron key, because Jetfire and Overhaul) right now... Regardless, I'm happy to have this lot. Especially Jetfire. And there's two more acquisitions on the way!

[Till-all-R1]

To my surprise I came across Blaster today at Walmart, first time I found something I was actually looking for at retail in over three years. Well not counting Origins Bumblebee. At least now I can rest at ease knowing that nothing else is coming for a long while.

[-Kanrabat-]

Nice haul, D-Max.


This lot arrived today. Armada Starscream, Energon Treadbolt, and Cybertron Jetfire.
Starscream is missing everything that normally detaches from that mold plus one of the teeny leg wheels; tempted to repaint him and get another Starscream down the line to be the non-Powerlinx version. Treadbolt is missing her missile, roll cage, and Mini-Con. Jetfire is missing his key and his weapons, but is otherwise intact. And he was the main draw of the lot.

Pity nobody's doing casts or print-replicas of the Cyber Keys (especially the Autobot version of the Cybertron key, because Jetfire and Overhaul) right now... Regardless, I'm happy to have this lot. Especially Jetfire. And there's two more acquisitions on the way!

I didn't know that repaint of Armada Scavenger existed. Looks way better. And she's a girl too? Eh, why not? The TF world needs some more big mammas.