The Energon Pub

News Credits: 462 · Sat Mar 28, 2015 10:31 pm

Madeus Prime wrote::roll: Anyways, I actually really like that vehicle mode for Prime, gives me some Armada nostalgia.

The altmode kinda reminds me of Machine Wars Hubcap/Machine Wars Hoist/Car Robots Wrecker Hook/RiD 2001 Tow-Line.

Sat Mar 28, 2015 11:07 pm

mirageandjazz1197 wrote:Bumblebee looks like he wants to kill us all!

Sat Mar 28, 2015 11:14 pm

These look so much better now than when I first saw them. I still won't be picking them up since I have a lot of Generations and RiD warriors to catch up on, but if they were Legends class, I would have definitely picked them up.

News Credits: 4877 · Sat Mar 28, 2015 11:39 pm

griftimus prime wrote:both will be mine. hope the megatron is as big. LOVE that prime art.

Sorry man, but Megatron will be smaller since he's part of the 7 inch line.

News Credits: 101 · Sat Mar 28, 2015 11:41 pm

Optimus: Eh...
Bee: Do want!

Now, what price would these be?

News Credits: 54 · Sun Mar 29, 2015 12:16 am

Shuttershock wrote:
mirageandjazz1197 wrote:Bumblebee looks like he wants to kill us all!

My version of that figure was literately the devil in plastic form.

I woke up this one morning a couple years ago and the figure looked like it was staring at me and among some other creepy things that only happened while I had that figure convinced me to sell it on Ebay after that things were back to normal.

It was legitly frightening time had the figure for about 5-6 months.

News Credits: 332 · Sun Mar 29, 2015 12:22 am

These figures really look awesome. I can't wait to get my hands on them.

News Credits: 226 · Sun Mar 29, 2015 12:23 am

mirageandjazz1197 wrote:My version of that figure was literately the devil in plastic form.

pffffft. Amateur. Call me when you have a figure that smells of sulphur.

Which ... if you want one, I can send you Whirl.

Sun Mar 29, 2015 12:58 am

mirageandjazz1197 wrote:
Shuttershock wrote:
mirageandjazz1197 wrote:Bumblebee looks like he wants to kill us all!

My version of that figure was literately the devil in plastic form.

I woke up this one morning a couple years ago and the figure looked like it was staring at me and among some other creepy things that only happened while I had that figure convinced me to sell it on Ebay after that things were back to normal.

It was legitly frightening time had the figure for about 5-6 months.

I bought him and thought "this thing has evil in it's eyes, it's WAAAY too evil to be Bumblebee", so I did this:

This is Skeletron. He is a monument to all your sins.

News Credits: 41 · Sun Mar 29, 2015 1:08 am

Oh MAN! Skeletron is awesome. :michaelbay:

No bones about it.

News Credits: 8 · Sun Mar 29, 2015 2:51 am

head sculpts looks awesome but thats about it

News Credits: 13 · Sun Mar 29, 2015 3:02 am

Shuttershock wrote:

Oh my! It's Edward Cullen from Twilight!

News Credits: 54 · Sun Mar 29, 2015 3:55 am

OptimalOptimus2 wrote:
Shuttershock wrote:

Oh my! It's Edward Cullen from Twilight!

But it doesn't sparkle...

News Credits: 54 · Sun Mar 29, 2015 4:00 am

Burn wrote:
mirageandjazz1197 wrote:My version of that figure was literately the devil in plastic form.

pffffft. Amateur. Call me when you have a figure that smells of sulphur.

Which ... if you want one, I can send you Whirl.

I'm fine on Whirl but I do wonder about the smell of that Cloud Shockwave repaint.

Probably smells like grapes, cake and death by logic.

News Credits: 54 · Sun Mar 29, 2015 4:03 am

Burn wrote:
mirageandjazz1197 wrote:My version of that figure was literately the devil in plastic form.

pffffft. Amateur. Call me when you have a figure that smells of sulphur.

Which ... if you want one, I can send you Whirl.

Jokes on you by the way I don't have a sense of smell :grin:

This is the actual truth by the way I really don't have a sense of smell due to my nose being completely blocked off resulting in me only being able to breath with my mouth.

News Credits: 767 · Sun Mar 29, 2015 4:21 am

I like the general designs of these, but I am not a fan of the cheapy hollow plastic nature of them, or the lack of essential articulation like knees.

That Optimus essentially looks like a G1 version of the current RID Optimus.

News Credits: 293 · Sun Mar 29, 2015 11:17 am

mirageandjazz1197 wrote:
OptimalOptimus2 wrote:Oh my! It's Edward Cullen from Twilight!
But it doesn't sparkle...

Easily solved

News Credits: 3 · Mon Mar 30, 2015 8:54 am

i like them.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Mon Mar 30, 2015 5:51 pm

The lack of knees is completely baffling. The shoulder, elbow, and hip articulation is as good as any leader class figure in range of motion (though I bet they aren't built as well), and Bee (and maybe even Prime) also has ankle articulation. Bicep swivels would have been nice, but some other recent large figures haven't had them either and why I prefer ball joints for cost cutting. Knee articulation could have easily been incorporated since the legs are clearly molded from two different pieces of plastic, not just one long solid piece.

In Prime there's a perfect seam in the blue and gray plastic. They could have easily placed a bending point right behind the knee pad. Bee is a little trickier, but if they extended the yellow lower leg up to the fake knee joint they could have put in a real joint and still have a solid piece below the knee. Probably wouldn't have cost them any more plastic to mold in a chunky ball joint since they seem to be avoiding all metal except for thin pins.

I'll probably still try to get Prime, but I don't really understand why these are being sold in boxes without windows. Just how bad are the final figures going to look? Definitely going to want some Reprolabels for these.

Emerje

Mon Mar 30, 2015 6:29 pm

Kind of interested in that Megatron, but want to know a little more of what his articulation will be before deciding if I really want him or not.

News Credits: 4877 · Mon Mar 30, 2015 7:55 pm

Emerje wrote:The lack of knees is completely baffling.

The shoulder, knee, and hip articulation is as good as any leader class figure in range of motion

Emerje

I dont know what you are trying to say there.

Mon Mar 30, 2015 7:58 pm

Me neither. Do they have knees or don't they?

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Mon Mar 30, 2015 8:42 pm

william-james88 wrote:
Emerje wrote:The lack of knees is completely baffling.

The shoulder, knee, and hip articulation is as good as any leader class figure in range of motion

Emerje

I dont know what you are trying to say there.

Oops, meant elbow, not knee the second time. :oops:

Emerje

News Credits: 4877 · Mon Mar 30, 2015 9:04 pm

Emerje wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
Emerje wrote:The lack of knees is completely baffling.

The shoulder, knee, and hip articulation is as good as any leader class figure in range of motion

Emerje

I dont know what you are trying to say there.

Oops, meant elbow, not knee the second time.

Emerje

Ah, that makes sense, thanks! And hey you are from Tomopop, thats great! This list is what got me into transformers collecting and inspired me to make my own lists, which are now published on this site.

You know, at first I thought you were exagerating heavily on the articulation of those points being as good as a leader. But then I looked closely and sure enough, yeah, Shoulder, hip and elbow articulation on these are the same as on the leader class of last year. How sad for the leader class (but great for these!).