The Energon Pub

by **heroic_decepticon** » Sat Aug 18, 2012 11:38 am

Thought you guys might be interested to know.

Something I was investigating with the TF-1 guys on for a month and a bit.

Quoting MAZ below:

In this day and age of vintage Transformers and Diaclone collecting, an age where websites, forums, Facebook, blogs, publications and a strong knowledgeable community have helped expose almost every secret of those venerable toy lines, we don't expect to see anything completely new any more. Maybe the odd Finnish Diaclone packaging variant, a foreign Ceji Joustra release of a favourite with exclusive box artwork or even an Italian GiG pre-Transformer with a mish-mash of Diaclone and Transformers colours or moulding that finally gets confirmed. But to find something completely unheard of and new that nobody knew existed, something that has never been seen by the wider collecting community in approximately 30 years, that is impossible to imagine nowadays, right?

Wrong.

http://www.tf-1.com/articles/pretf_frame.php?art=blackswipe <- CLICK TO READ

My deepest thanks go to my partners in crime Heroic_Decepticon, VF1, Specimen-17 for what was one of the most exciting and enjoyable things that I have ever been a part of in this hobby.

You can read Heroic Decepticon's entry on this same item and its discovery for more backstory on the source and "Project Vanguard" - http://heroicdecepticon.blogspot.hk/2012/08/project-vanguard-pre-transformers.html

All the best
Maz

Article from my blog on different aspects of the piece - http://heroicdecepticon.blogspot.hk/2012/08/project-vanguard-pre-transformers.html

News Credits: 6 · by **BeastProwl** » Sat Aug 18, 2012 11:42 am

Interesting, though I think you need to fix your Links

by **heroic_decepticon** » Sat Aug 18, 2012 11:47 am

BeastProwl wrote:Interesting, though I think you need to fix your Links

Thanks fixed. Somehow, there was a glitch and this was posted twice. Sorry

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Sat Aug 18, 2012 1:11 pm

Next time, leave this to Maz himself

He does post here you know?

News Credits: 6 · by **BeastProwl** » Sat Aug 18, 2012 1:22 pm

When alls said and done, WOW, he looks good in black! =P~

by **alternator77** » Sat Aug 18, 2012 1:28 pm

i would love an homage of this in the masterpiece line along the lines of sunstreaker
come takara you know you want to

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Sat Aug 18, 2012 4:07 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Next time, leave this to Maz himself He does post here you know?

Given that h_d himself was central in this storyline, I can see why he wanted to post himself.

Your post however, was pointless and bordering on condescending.

That being said, Maz did post first so let's consider this a duplicate thread and lock it as such.