The Energon Pub

by **Valandar** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 1:27 pm

shonenfan4 wrote:
Razorclaw0000 wrote:Well, Bludgeon was a tank, or a least his inner robot was.

I just found that out in another thread.

http://www.tfu.info/ <-- A godsend for looking up characters, even if it's just to see if that name has been used before.

As for why Hasbro makes a lot of tanks? Well...

1 ) Kids like army men, and tanks are the biggest, toughest componant of any army.

2 ) Tanks are blocky, with plenty of different ways to transform them (unlike most jets which get by with some variant of the "Veritech/Valkyrie" transform scheme).

News Credits: 7 · by **Chaoslock** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 2:07 pm

Valandar wrote:1 ) Kids like army men, and tanks are the biggest, toughest componant of any army.

Jets are better and more lethal - anybody can learn to drive a tank, but flying a jet takes skill.
But yeah, jets have some parts that cannot be as well concealed in robot mode -such as the wings- Also, tanks have even less variety - the tower either goes to the back of the robot, or on the arms.

Like magnusalpha on Facebook · by **magnusalpha** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 5:34 pm

shonenfan4 wrote:
Razorclaw0000 wrote:Well, Bludgeon was a tank, or a least his inner robot was.

I just found that out in another thread.

Yeah, I forgot what Bludgeon's alt. mode was at the time.

News Credits: 1 · by **Agent 007** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 6:13 pm

looks pretty nice. Dumb question but why does the back open?

News Credits: 1 · by **shonenfan4** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 6:37 pm

Agent 007 wrote:looks pretty nice. Dumb question but why does the back open?

To store his sword.

News Credits: 7 · by **Chaoslock** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 7:00 pm

shonenfan4 wrote:
Agent 007 wrote:looks pretty nice. Dumb question but why does the back open?

To store his sword.

As it is a must for every nonhuman ninja...

by **Valandar** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 9:16 pm

Chaoslock wrote:
shonenfan4 wrote:
Agent 007 wrote:looks pretty nice. Dumb question but why does the back open?

To store his sword.

As it is a must for every nonhuman ninja...

"The video is not available in your country for copyright reasons"

What clip was it?

News Credits: 1 · by **shonenfan4** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:53 pm

Valandar wrote:
Chaoslock wrote:
shonenfan4 wrote:
Agent 007 wrote:looks pretty nice. Dumb question but why does the back open?

To store his sword.

As it is a must for every nonhuman ninja...

"The video is not available in your country for copyright reasons"

What clip was it?

I got that error msg too, was it a Japanese video?

News Credits: 1452 · by **Blurrz** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 12:10 am

It was a TMNT reference. Canada only.

by **Ungie** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 10:01 pm

Swiftpaw wrote:I am honestly impressed, Hasbro. Not only have you produced a badass new version of a character we've been waiting to resurface, but you actually paid attention to explain why there's been two figures with the same name AND tie it in with another new figure coming out? Well played, well played indeed.

Yeah, its all well and dandy that they put real american effort into it... but not it will be all suck for the rest. Sadly... like why bring barricade into the HA line? That probably wont be answered.