The Energon Pub

by **Delta Supreme** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 12:01 pm

Just a word of advice to anyone who owns / finds a copy of movie Overcast (the black/neon green repaint of the video game jet) - his nose cone is of a very very hard rubber, almost no give at all...

If you manage to get a hold of a copy of him I'd suggest keeping him away from the little ones...

by **Sportimus Prime** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 12:52 pm

Oww...my eye!!!

News Credits: 1452 · by **Blurrz** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 1:50 pm

Ugh.. I never thought by compensating for cheap plastic, Hasbro would use hard rubber. But alas, that is that fate of the Movie Toys.. and most likely the rest of the Tformers for years.

News Credits: 3 · by **DISCHARGE** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 1:56 pm

I don't understand, what is so bad about it?

by **Thyunda** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 1:57 pm

I thought your warning would be about his verrry loose arm. I like his hard nose. It's cool. Besides, his projectiles suck, so he should replace them.

News Credits: 767 · by **Dead Metal** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 3:31 pm

What's so bad about a hard nosecone?

News Credits: 2 · by **Justicity** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 3:54 pm

Dead Metal wrote:What's so bad about a hard nosecone?

Nothing if you know how to use it :wink:

by **Thyunda** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 3:57 pm

Justicity wrote:
Dead Metal wrote:What's so bad about a hard nosecone?

Nothing if you know how to use it

Close your eye, Overcast. This won't be pleasant.

News Credits: 335 · by **Down_Shift** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 9:17 pm

I thought the warning was going to be that Overcast is a total piece of crap.

News Credits: 668 · by **Autobot032** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 10:11 pm

Hard rubber? It's not even plastic at this point?

...

Didn't they do the same thing with Animated Bumblebee? I hear he's kinda rubbery all over.

I'm hoping it's just a cost cutting measure for the time being and not a permanent thing. That would be enough to get me to quit collecting them. I won't pay money for crap quality products.

News Credits: 387 · by **Nekoman** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 10:39 pm

Just so everyone knows most modern TF jets have rubber nosecones as a safety measure, Classics Seekers, I think the movie SS mold, Cybertron Thundercracker, ect.

Thanks for telling us though.

News Credits: 335 · by **Down_Shift** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 10:45 pm

Nekoman wrote:Just so everyone knows most modern TF jets have rubber nosecones as a safety measure, Classics Seekers, I think the movie SS mold, Cybertron Thundercracker, ect.

Thanks for telling us though.

Ya, rubber killed what could have been a perfect 10 in Cybertron/GF

by **Delta Supreme** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 5:23 am

Nekoman wrote:Just so everyone knows most modern TF jets have rubber nosecones as a safety measure, Classics Seekers, I think the movie SS mold, Cybertron Thundercracker, ect.

Thanks for telling us though.

Thanks - that's the part I was having a hard time thinking of...

Most modern TF jets have a "softer" rubbery nosecone (ie, you can bend it)...

Overcast doesn't. His will probably pop off faster than it'll bend (think old-school G1 strength rubber)

News Credits: 767 · by **Dead Metal** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 5:37 am

Nekoman wrote:Just so everyone knows most modern TF jets have rubber nosecones as a safety measure, Classics Seekers, I think the movie SS mold, Cybertron Thundercracker, ect.

Thanks for telling us though.

I think the Classics seekers have all plastic, at least Ramjet.
Movie SS has a rubber one, but I don't get it, a kid could still put its eye out with it if it tried, kids must be total retards today.

News Credits: 387 · by **Nekoman** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 12:31 pm

Dead Metal wrote:
Nekoman wrote:Just so everyone knows most modern TF jets have rubber nosecones as a safety measure, Classics Seekers, I think the movie SS mold, Cybertron Thundercracker, ect.

Thanks for telling us though.

I think the Classics seekers have all plastic, at least Ramjet.
Movie SS has a rubber one, but I don't get it, a kid could still put its eye out with it if it tried, kids must be total retards today.

Ramjet is plastic but his nosecone is much more blunt than the SS mold, so when Jimmy goes on a stabbing rampage there may not as many casualties if its blunt!

Anyway, the Classics SS mold has a rubber/cheesy nosecone but the Cone heads don’t.