The Energon Pub

Has anyone heard anything from Captured Prey? Last I heard was an email they were getting the shaft from the supply end.

Agamemnon wrote:Any loosening of the PCC connectors yet, Va'al? Hoping mine come in soon. I have Paladin/Chaos and Jungle coming...

Nope, all seems fine here. And trust me, I've been fiddling with the figure all day!

For proof: http://www.seibertron.com/energonpub/awesome-pictures-and-poses-thread-post-customs-in-customizations-forum-p1500093.php#p1500093

Sabrblade wrote:Okay, what is taking BBTS so long with getting this thing in stock? I preordered this thing from them way back in May, when the preorder originally said "July 2013", yet we're in the middle of September with still no sign of it at BBTS. What gives?

Reading FB comments, I don't think it's just BBTS. I think BBTS got in a very small shipment initially. But it appears that none of the North America retailers has gotten in the regular shipment...

Where is he ? I held this thing in my hand at botcon. I almost bought it but decided not to so i could pack light. Now i wish i had just got him there instead of waiting on bbts

Sabrblade wrote:

Rated X wrote:Where is he ? I held this thing in my hand at botcon. I almost bought it but decided not to so i could pack light. Now i wish i had just got him there instead of waiting on bbts

I know, right?

Come on, BBTS! I had the money for this thing back when I first preordered, but now it's getting harder to hang on to my preorder. Get with the program and get this thing in stock, already!

I think you are asking the wrong entity. Look to MakeToys, not BBTS.

Agamemnon wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Rated X wrote:Where is he ? I held this thing in my hand at botcon. I almost bought it but decided not to so i could pack light. Now i wish i had just got him there instead of waiting on bbts

I know, right?

Come on, BBTS! I had the money for this thing back when I first preordered, but now it's getting harder to hang on to my preorder. Get with the program and get this thing in stock, already!

I think you are asking the wrong entity. Look to MakeToys, not BBTS.

No, he's asking the correct entity. You see, BBTS simply needs to construct a massive vacuum with a very long Paladin sized hose that crosses the ocean and leads directly into the factory where these are being produced and then activate it and suck those figures directly into the BBTS warehouses so that they can start filling our POLs with them .

BBTS has updated their listing saying it'll be released in early November. Looks like MakeToys have finally got things sorted at long last.

Sodan-1 wrote:BBTS has updated their listing saying it'll be released in early November. Looks like MakeToys have finally got things sorted at long last.

I hope this applies to the other retailers as well. I had switched to CP some time ago so the money'd be committed already.

Requiem Prime wrote:

Sodan-1 wrote:BBTS has updated their listing saying it'll be released in early November. Looks like MakeToys have finally got things sorted at long last.

I hope this applies to the other retailers as well. I had switched to CP some time ago so the money'd be committed already.

Seriously. I'm disappointed in MT. No communication at all - and not just the normal lack of communication, but to retailers as well. It'd be nice to know what the problem is with this.

Well, here's hoping they get to CP soon.

still waiting on TFSource's "October" release date.

Sodan-1 wrote:BBTS has updated their listing saying it'll be released in early November. Looks like MakeToys have finally got things sorted at long last.

Aha! They must have built the vacuum !

I guess getting all those figures vacuumed in from overseas takes a while.

I can't wait to get this guy in hand .

Sabrblade wrote:Well, wait, how is BBTS's updating their listing this time different from their previous updates to it? As each month went on, BBTS kept updating the month listing to the very next one, which it sounds like they just did once more here. What's special about this particular update?

Because this time they didn't just bump the month, they also posted an image of the figure along with the link/text Maketoys Chaos Arriving Soon meaning they probably actually heard something from the vendor. You can see it for yourself on their homepage here if you scroll down the page to the Featured Preorders section.

Normally when a release just misses the mark and they update their listing to push it out to the following month they don't do anything like this in the listing or on their homepage. It just silently changes when you view the listing for the preorder of the product itself.

Can't wait to finally get him! I wonder if he is going to reappear in the new Dark Cybertron comics. If he does I hope he looks like this toy.

It's about damn time. I almost bought one at Botcon but didn't have room in my luggage. Was expecting it to appear in my POL the next week, dammit...

Sabrblade wrote:

mooncake623 wrote:Can't wait to finally get him! I wonder if he is going to reappear in the new Dark Cybertron comics. If he does I hope he looks like this toy.

But... this is a 3rd party toy. Why would they use an unofficial design in an official comic?

And, what would The Fallen have to do with Shockwave's Regenesis project?

I always thought Mobine was base off of an IDW design, but it was based off of a Dreamwave design.

The Fallen has nothing to do with Shockwave's Regenesis project that we know of. but would be cool if he made an appearance (to me anyways). Kind of like how Starsaber had nothing to do with anything either but they rewrote his character and put him in MTMTE.

Sabrblade wrote:

mooncake623 wrote:Can't wait to finally get him! I wonder if he is going to reappear in the new Dark Cybertron comics. If he does I hope he looks like this toy.

But... this is a 3rd party toy. Why would they use an unofficial design in an official comic?

And, what would The Fallen have to do with Shockwave's Regenesis project?

wouldn't be the first time

I'd like to point out that while Chaos/Paladin is listed as early November, Jungle and Marine are now listed 4th quarter, 2013.

Sabrblade wrote:

Banjo-Tron wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

mooncake623 wrote:Can't wait to finally get him! I wonder if he is going to reappear in the new Dark Cybertron comics. If he does I hope he looks like this toy.

But... this is a 3rd party toy. Why would they use an unofficial design in an official comic?

And, what would The Fallen have to do with Shockwave's Regenesis project?

wouldn't be the first time

How embarrassing of Hasbro to have not caught that.

I'm going to assume they didn't provide suitable reference to the artist who did a google search and picked the best looking Huffer he could find.

Banjo-Tron wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

mooncake623 wrote:Can't wait to finally get him! I wonder if he is going to reappear in the new Dark Cybertron comics. If he does I hope he looks like this toy.

But... this is a 3rd party toy. Why would they use an unofficial design in an official comic?

And, what would The Fallen have to do with Shockwave's Regenesis project?

wouldn't be the first time

Lol this reminds me of my classics shelf....filled with Igear mini warriors ! Hasbro should be proud. They git-r-dun !

I'm not sure I understand... Are buyers still waiting for their Chaos/Paladdin figure to ship? I got mine from Kapow about 3 months ago so that surprised me a bit...