The Energon Pub

News Credits: 3 · by **DISCHARGE** » Sat Jan 08, 2011 12:08 pm

Yeah yeah, you've seen the little bugs that jump around and battle I'm sure, these are different.

: front of box

: back

I have just seen these last night and was wondering of anyone else has picked them up.
Not officially a Transformer, they do transform. There seem to be 4 of them: Venox-black widow spider, Vesperus- a wasp, Crytox- a cockroach(?) and Scarbiton- a beetle.
I snagged Venox, may go back for the rest. Very thin legs so it takes a while to get the hang of making it stand. Lots of ball joints so articulation is pretty good, and nice detail on the spider mode make it creepy. About the size of a scout. All in all a good stand in if you want some new recuits to your Insecticon army.

: spider mode

: robot mode

You also get a warranty card(90 days) and you can register either by snail mail or online for a chance to win a free toy. Hope this helps fuel everyones plastic crack addiction.

News Credits: 1 · by **adamassc** » Sat Jan 08, 2011 12:39 pm

interesting little molds, for sure. I'll pick up the beetle and the widow for sure. How much did you pay for him, if I may ask?

News Credits: 3 · by **DISCHARGE** » Sat Jan 08, 2011 1:20 pm

adamassc wrote:interesting little molds, for sure. I'll pick up the beetle and the widow for sure. How much did you pay for him, if I may ask?

They are about 8 bucks

by **WarGraver** » Sat Jan 08, 2011 2:00 pm

That's a good price.

And the monstercon section of my collection is getting outnumbered, in that I only have Hulk, Venom, and Grimstone so far. I may have to add one of these.

Thanks for pointing these out to us.

News Credits: 3 · by **DISCHARGE** » Sat Jan 08, 2011 2:25 pm

WarGraver wrote:That's a good price.

And the monstercon section of my collection is getting outnumbered, in that I only have Hulk, Venom, and Grimstone so far. I may have to add one of these.

Thanks for pointing these out to us.

No problem, I found them at Walmart by the way.

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Sat Jan 08, 2011 2:28 pm

Great, even more repurposed Insecticons

Call me crazy, I'm slowly falling in love with insect transformers...

by **WarGraver** » Sun Jan 09, 2011 1:04 am

I hunted down some more pictures of these, and they seem to have squishy non-faces. Which, for me, prevents them from working as robots. Too bad.

News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Sun Jan 09, 2011 3:43 pm

When I first read the title of this thread I thought is said Legends of Narnia and was completely confused. Not bad looking figures though.

by **WarzoneBeta** » Mon Feb 21, 2011 6:13 am

Ok got them all.

They are one big awful ball joint laden mess and fall apart worse then a door hit with a rocket launcher.

That said the wasp-former kicks abdomen, but at the same time its waist breaks apart worse then a couple on a soap opera.

The best in the line though...is the Cockroach!
It just rocks; it has a convincing alt mode and a decent robot form that actually looks almost like the bugs from "Mimic". Oh and its antennae can be used as whips!

on a different note....DON'T BUY THE SCARAB BEETLE!
It falls apart worse then the Spider and Wasp combined.

The Spider is ok but sucks at the same time, and is an absolute mess in bot mode.

News Credits: 3 · by **DISCHARGE** » Mon Feb 21, 2011 6:35 pm

WarzoneBeta wrote:Ok got them all.

They are one big awful ball joint laden mess and fall apart worse then a door hit with a rocket launcher.

That said the wasp-former kicks abdomen, but at the same time its waist breaks apart worse then a couple on a soap opera.

The best in the line though...is the Cockroach!
It just rocks; it has a convincing alt mode and a decent robot form that actually looks almost like the bugs from "Mimic". Oh and its antennae can be used as whips!

on a different note....DON'T BUY THE SCARAB BEETLE!
It falls apart worse then the Spider and Wasp combined.

The Spider is ok but sucks at the same time, and is an absolute mess in bot mode.

The spider can be hard to stand , but the ball joints on mine are pretty good.
Also picked up the wasp a while ago. He looks pretty good in wasp mode. Even my brother, who usually mocks my collection thought it looked neat when he was out for a visit. I haven't had either fall apart though. Might pick up the cockroach now though.