The Energon Pub

News Credits: 15 · Sun Aug 26, 2012 11:51 pm

Jazz
Mirage
or
Smokescreen

Megatron has a new arm

Breakdown's back...barely...

More Shockwave.

Yep, Season 2 is going to be the boss.

News Credits: 5 · Mon Aug 27, 2012 12:06 am

Hmm, Smokescreen would be a very interesting character choice.

Mon Aug 27, 2012 2:59 am

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They took Prowl's colors, added a racing deco and tossed my favorite character's iconic number on it. I thought I couldn't dislike Prime anymore. I thought that Smokescreen getting a retool of Knock Out for a toy was the final insult. I was wrong. Bravo.

Mon Aug 27, 2012 5:02 am

lol i was thinking of the new guy is gonna be some dude whose familiar to bulk head. but after this image & the vid, i think its gonna be mirage or jazz. (my opinion)

News Credits: 335 · Mon Aug 27, 2012 5:11 am

Looks like the rumored Smokescreen to me.

News Credits: 251 · Mon Aug 27, 2012 5:28 am

Gunna say either Jazz or a Sideswipe akin to Armada Sideswipe.

News Credits: 2 · Mon Aug 27, 2012 5:43 am

Soooo... this is a trailer for Hurt, Out of the Past, New Recruit and the Human Factor (and possibly Legacy as we don't have a description for that)
Here's my two cents:
Hurt- seen it, great episode, good to finally see some serious character development for Miko, but at the end Ratchet said 'he will never be the same again' or something similar. if i recall correctly, one of the directors said to expect characters to get upgrades and changes, and i think Bulk is the perfect candidate for that, whatever it is
Out of the Past- SHOCKWAVE! I have a feeling that the whole episode will be an experiment of shockwave's, rather than a flashback, and it's good to see cliffjumper again.
New Recruit- My money is on Smokescreen given all the chatter, but i would have preferred him to be red. I'm also not surprised by them introducing a new autobot though, as tfp tends to give us two opposing characters at a time. and i hope that starscream finally has his t cog back (maybe shockwave could do it?)
Human Factor- Silas seems to be relatively intact, leading to believe Breakdown is more of an exo-suit rather than a completely new body for him. Breakdown himself seems to have some pretty huge shoulder cannons now, and also to be sporting a new Rust and Grey colour scheme. and i noticed that there is a short scene where BD is trying to stomp Jack, at what appears to be a forest right next to Autobot HQ
Legacy- seeing as none of the other scenes seem to match with the above episodes, i'm going to presume that this is the episode with Megatron's arm upgrade. At the end of the trailer Optimus is wielding what i can only hope is the Star Saber, and Megatron may have the Dark Saber, or the Skyboom shield, or maybe something else entirely. Either way, Meg's sword is attached at his shoulder by a Purple and Gold armour piece, rather than being a full arm upgrade.

News Credits: 119 · Mon Aug 27, 2012 6:07 am

Smokescreen???

Stitched up Silas.. :grin:

Mon Aug 27, 2012 6:38 am

Looks like Jazz to me. That number on the side could be anything, it's far too blurry to tell what it is.

Mon Aug 27, 2012 7:46 am

knockout working on megatron?

Mon Aug 27, 2012 8:10 am

It's going to be Smokescreen, there's no reason he'd have the #38 if it weren't going to be him. The other Autobot cars all have different numbers.

And I suspect that he'll end up being a lighter blue, given the shot of him. It's all tinted a shade of blue, so it would wash his color out if he were a similar shade.

News Credits: 6 · Mon Aug 27, 2012 8:50 am

So am I the only one who saw Optimus' massive buster blade there? Matrix Sword anyone?
And Silas has one screwed up face.

News Credits: 1 · Mon Aug 27, 2012 11:02 am

dappeppad wrote:

38...

so, could be Smokescreen! I would never have even thought of that, Dappeppad

News Credits: 15 · Mon Aug 27, 2012 11:06 am

I'm probably the only one thinking this...

but with Megatron's new arm's color scheme, what if this is the seed to a plot where he was completely torn apart and upgraded into Galvatron?

iWant Prime Galvatron

News Credits: 7 · Mon Aug 27, 2012 11:39 am

daimchoc wrote:Stitched up Silas..

Thread by thread... stitching it together...

Mon Aug 27, 2012 1:26 pm

This will be the most greatest season that we will watch.

Mon Aug 27, 2012 1:34 pm

daimchoc wrote:Smokescreen???

Hmmm.... well he looks enough like Prowl that if they don't screw up this figure, and they don't release a real Prowl, some paint or a nice Reprolabels kit and a few extra parts could give me the Prime figure I've always wanted!

News Credits: 1 · Mon Aug 27, 2012 2:04 pm

based on the "38" and the fact that there is a smokescreen repaint of Knockout rumored, as well as the noticeable similarity to knockout in his robot mode (check out the upper chest/torso), Smokescreen seems almost inevitable.

Mon Aug 27, 2012 2:14 pm

Hooooly sh*#@! Silas looks friggin scary =P~

And the first time i saw the car i thought Jazz, then when i saw the bot mode i thought Prowl, but now i actually think that Smokescreen is more likely to appear. Prime is rather notorious for bringing in and focusing on character names with little to no established backstory, i.e. Skyquake, Dreadwing, Breakdown, Knockout, kiiiiind of Cliffjumper, Tailgate, Arcee, and new namedropped Wreckers

News Credits: 1 · Mon Aug 27, 2012 2:16 pm

noodles2go wrote:based on the "38" and the fact that there is a smokescreen repaint of Knockout rumored, as well as the noticeable similarity to knockout in his robot mode (check out the upper chest/torso), Smokescreen seems almost inevitable.

I'm not wondering if the "repaint" part of the Smokescreen toy is false. Vehicle mode looks nothing like Knockout, in fact it looks similar to Wheeljack. And given the few amout of characters in the show, if they cheapen a (supposedly) long term new character to just a repaint, I'll be a bit disppointed (especially since the KO mold isn't that great to begin with)

News Credits: 462 · Mon Aug 27, 2012 2:28 pm

Bubbah wrote:
noodles2go wrote:based on the "38" and the fact that there is a smokescreen repaint of Knockout rumored, as well as the noticeable similarity to knockout in his robot mode (check out the upper chest/torso), Smokescreen seems almost inevitable.

I'm not wondering if the "repaint" part of the Smokescreen toy is false. Vehicle mode looks nothing like Knockout, in fact it looks similar to Wheeljack. And given the few amout of characters in the show, if they cheapen a (supposedly) long term new character to just a repaint, I'll be a bit disppointed (especially since the KO mold isn't that great to begin with)

At the Tokyo Toy Show, in the display of new Transformers: Prime toys coming from TakaraTomy, we saw an unpainted prototype of the Knock Out toy mold labeled as Smokescreen.

News Credits: 1 · Mon Aug 27, 2012 2:40 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
Bubbah wrote:
noodles2go wrote:based on the "38" and the fact that there is a smokescreen repaint of Knockout rumored, as well as the noticeable similarity to knockout in his robot mode (check out the upper chest/torso), Smokescreen seems almost inevitable.

I'm not wondering if the "repaint" part of the Smokescreen toy is false. Vehicle mode looks nothing like Knockout, in fact it looks similar to Wheeljack. And given the few amout of characters in the show, if they cheapen a (supposedly) long term new character to just a repaint, I'll be a bit disppointed (especially since the KO mold isn't that great to begin with)
At the Tokyo Toy Show, in the display of new Transformers: Prime toys coming from TakaraTomy, we saw an unpainted prototype of the Knock Out toy mold labeled as Smokescreen.

Hmmm, any chance that was just a place holder figure? I'm just surprised they'd use Knockout. He's got a fairly large, rounded front end, and the clip shows the new guy having a much more sharp and thin front end. Plus KO doesn't have the air vents in front of the rear wheels like the new guy has. Unless maybe TT is going to use a different name for either the KO repaint or the character in the show, I just see a real stretch tieing Smokescreen as a Knockout repaint, ya know?

News Credits: 462 · Mon Aug 27, 2012 2:44 pm

Bubbah wrote:Hmmm, any chance that was just a place holder figure? I'm just surprised they'd use Knockout. He's got a fairly large, rounded front end, and the clip shows the new guy having a much more sharp and thin front end. Plus KO doesn't have the air vents in front of the rear wheels like the new guy has. Unless maybe TT is going to use a different name for either the KO repaint or the character in the show, I just see a real stretch tieing Smokescreen as a Knockout repaint, ya know?

They could remold the figure's car parts to make it more unique. Like what Hasbro's doing to Generations Jazz for Sideswipe.

News Credits: 1 · Mon Aug 27, 2012 3:31 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
Bubbah wrote:Hmmm, any chance that was just a place holder figure? I'm just surprised they'd use Knockout. He's got a fairly large, rounded front end, and the clip shows the new guy having a much more sharp and thin front end. Plus KO doesn't have the air vents in front of the rear wheels like the new guy has. Unless maybe TT is going to use a different name for either the KO repaint or the character in the show, I just see a real stretch tieing Smokescreen as a Knockout repaint, ya know?
They could remold the figure's car parts to make it more unique. Like what Hasbro's doing to Generations Jazz for Sideswipe.

it would not be to hard to remold knockout either. change the chest a bit, rework the legs, new weapon, and a new head.

News Credits: 251 · Mon Aug 27, 2012 3:32 pm

njb902 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Bubbah wrote:Hmmm, any chance that was just a place holder figure? I'm just surprised they'd use Knockout. He's got a fairly large, rounded front end, and the clip shows the new guy having a much more sharp and thin front end. Plus KO doesn't have the air vents in front of the rear wheels like the new guy has. Unless maybe TT is going to use a different name for either the KO repaint or the character in the show, I just see a real stretch tieing Smokescreen as a Knockout repaint, ya know?
They could remold the figure's car parts to make it more unique. Like what Hasbro's doing to Generations Jazz for Sideswipe.

it would not be to hard to remold knockout either. change the chest a bit, rework the legs, new weapon, and a new head.

My thoughts exactly.