The Energon Pub

by **ThunderZap** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 9:53 am

with those poseability, plug is awesome for a minicon

by **Lord T** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 9:56 am

Todays one is so awesome. Very nice details and posability.

by **Kriszilla** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 10:09 am

It's Sparkplug's northern cousin! :-P

Seriously, nice looking fig, great posability, if only I could track one down.

News Credits: 2 · by **Insurgent** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 10:10 am

Sweet mould. Best looking mini con ever. Although the pure white makes him look unfinished.

by **MegaDave** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 10:31 am

Kriszilla wrote:It's Sparkplug's northern cousin!

Seriously, nice looking fig, great posability, if only I could track one down.

Try one of Plugs regular retail release homies from the Cyberton and armada street speed team. (both named oval in america, in japan they are Cyanna and nitro)

Both can still be found pretty easily as it was an overlooked team of minicons for the most part other than in hte japanese afforemention awesome Linkage comic

Thanks for all the support guys see if you can spot on each minicon so far the :MINI:

symbol - (on every one but detectus)

News Credits: 6 · by **City Commander** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 10:48 am

Ah street speed. My most fave minicon team ever.

News Credits: 2 · by **Justicity** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 11:53 am

Does anyone else see Hasbro's inspiration for Movie Jazz's transformation in the unfortunately-named Plug???

Of course it wasn't really the inspiration, but I see a bit of Jazz's transformation in him.

News Credits: 8 · by **Liege Evilmus** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 11:58 am

I see it also alot of the CLassics MiniCons mine as well be rough drafts of movie bots.

by **toxicity** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 2:42 pm

plug's white body and red visor-eye kinda reminded me of autorooper/autolooper. pretty neat

by **MegaDave** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 2:57 pm

good point on the autotrooper scheme dude.

This is one of the minicons that wold work great scaled up. The whole street speed team have quite unique transformations for a car alt mode and would look excellent scaled up to something like deluxe size with more sculpt details and paint apps.

I think this is the first time ive said a name for a japanese minicon and its stuck - if only they were all so comical

News Credits: 23 · by **Energon** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 3:28 pm

MegaDave wrote:
Robot mode is excelent on plug Very poseable!

He looks like he should be on the minicon cheerleading team!

I just read the Armada comics over the past couple of days. There are much fuller developed personalities in the comics than the cartoons.

News Credits: 1452 · by **Blurrz** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 1:07 am

Plug is pretty sweet. Since we're 9 days in all ready, I'm thinking we're gonna see a Linkage Mini-con/Mini-con team.

News Credits: 127 · by **Counterpunch** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:34 am

Looks good MegaDave. You should know that I'm entirely jealous of your ability to get these pictures up!

I had planned to do something similar with my Minicons, then we were robbed and having exactly zero digital cameras hurt my ability to take pictures significantly. :-(

When the insurance money hits, I'll be happy to help out! :grin:

by **MegaDave** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 2:19 pm

Whats Next?

Next up is a team of minicons

From Micron Booster Volume 1
Another blind packed set so makes getting a whole team a little more difficult if you were to buy the minicons individually.
The blizzard saber team.
A recolour of the energon saber team from .....er energon

Every team from now on will be required to do a ginyu force style pose

Starting up with lens.

Lens is a repaint of skyboom who in turn is a remold of sonar.

Lens can and will 'raise the roof' at any given time

Next up Quantum.
With a name like that he must have to be some kind of geek really. A lot of transparancy on this minicon and it works well on the eventual combined mode and also looks pretty cool in robot mode too

For some reason this robot mode give me a slightly insecty vibe

Rather cool futuristic jet mode that looks quite differnt to the origonal more realistic version of this mold

Finally beacon

My least favorite of the 3 actually very little posability and the robot mode looks very stiff and static

And now for the main event

The Blizzard saber!
A very cool weapon (possitivly frigid infact)

A lot nicer than the energon saber colouration and holds together a lot more studily than the origonal star saber mold

You must be at least this baddass to weild the blizzard saber

Or even for the most fitting choice i could find

Hope you enjoy todays offering. best served chilled

As allways keep discussing, commenting, ranting, and making some noise in the form of your much valued imput!

News Credits: 11 · by **Overcracker** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 2:40 pm

Very *Cool* . Love the Team, unfortunately both of mine seem to be a little loose when in Saber mode, and come apart easily.

Still One very cool weapon.

And Soundwave really looks incredibly spiffy with it.

sorry can't think of a He-Man connection for this one. so I let someone else come up with one. Unless He-Man had a Translucent Power word at some point. Well he would have looked really cool with a see through sword.

News Credits: 127 · by **Counterpunch** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 2:51 pm

C'mon now, who out there is getting hooked?

Looking for "Rare Minicons" on eBay?

Are there others out there waiting to join the "Gotta catch 'em all Club?"

News Credits: 3 · by **DISCHARGE** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 3:08 pm

WTF!
I have never seen that before.
This is my new fav minicon sword.
You rock MegaDave! So do your minicons.

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 3:23 pm

Another nice looking gallery

One correction though: E-Skyboom (bottom/hilt) is based of Sonar, not Scattor. Scattor was part of the Night Attack repaint of the Land Military team. In case you need names:

Runway -> Wreckage -> Beacon
Jetstorm -> Scattor -> Quantum
Sonar -> Skyboom -> Lens

I know, all those names get confusing... 8-}

by **MegaDave** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 3:24 pm

hmm you know what you know i said theres a :MINI:

on all the unicron trilogy minicons - weirdly enough i dont know if or where it is on beacon (the 3rd one pictured)
Anyone with any version of the mold that can help me out here?

Cheers counterpunch i hope this has worked to get some others hooked on these awesome little blighters but then again its gonna drive the prices up on the rare minicons i want if more people know about em

by **MegaDave** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 3:26 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Another nice looking gallery One correction though: E-Skyboom (bottom/hilt) is based of Sonar, not Scattor. Scattor was part of the Night Attack repaint of the Land Military team. In case you need names:

Runway -> Wreckage -> Beacon
Jetstorm -> Scattor -> Quantum
Sonar -> Skyboom -> Lens

I know, all those names get confusing...

Thanks dude TFinfo is also wrong in this case as thats where i got the info. Weird huh - correcting it now

Just had to admitt my nowledge of minicons is less than totall and ive used props thus far to fill in the gaps.

by **ThunderThruster** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 3:49 pm

Counterpunch wrote:C'mon now, who out there is getting hooked?

Looking for "Rare Minicons" on eBay?

Are there others out there waiting to join the "Gotta catch 'em all Club?"

did you not see me post the lil'formers strip with that phrase?

News Credits: 23 · by **Energon** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 4:41 pm

Aw, now I am going to have to look for more than just rotor.

by **DJs in Disguise** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 5:47 pm

Mega Dave this is a amazing thread i only just read it and ive had 9 days of Minicon goodness in one this is much better than my chocolate calendar i'll be checking this daily from now on, i have a request maybe once your done can we get a shot of all your Minicons having a big Xmas party your collection must be incredible

by **toxicity** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 5:48 pm

MegaDave wrote:Whats Next?

Next up is a team of minicons

From Micron Booster Volume 1
Another blind packed set so makes getting a whole team a little more difficult if you were to buy the minicons individually.
The blizzard saber team.

Dude...come on...
that is just...-sigh- WAY TO FRIGGIN COOL
Best minicon(s) yet.wow. This set looks amazing, now why couldnt hasbro release at least ONE form of a saber, be it star or energon, in blue?! man. what a great way to start the afternoon/night

News Credits: 972 · by **i_amtrunks** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 6:23 pm

Man this is far better than getting cheap nasty chocolate in a cardboard calendar.

You should end the thread with a pic of the minicons looking out from a cardboard advent calendar!

Thanks for all the pictures of rarer minicons too, good chance its the only time we will be seeing these figures, as minicons do noy get the amount of appreciation as their Micromaster buddies did 20 years ago.