The Energon Pub

News Credits: 293 · by **shajaki** » Fri May 19, 2017 2:43 pm

Not to be mixed up with Zeta Toys :lol:

News Credits: 293 · by **shajaki** » Fri May 19, 2017 2:49 pm

These two are incredibly slavish in their rendition of the G1 toon. If I go for a 3P MP Bruti, this'll be it. I'll be watching this hard.

News Credits: 191 · by **Kurona** » Sat May 20, 2017 10:11 am

Lol. What are the chances that two third party companies reveal their plans for a Bruticus at the same time and each show off two different components? :lol:

News Credits: 12 · by **Evil Eye** » Sun May 21, 2017 1:15 pm

Looking nice! Swindle looks so characterful- I don't really want or need an MP Bruticus as I want my MP collection fairly small, and the only MP scaled combiners that interest me are ones that work for CHUG as well (Gravity Builder, TFC's Piranacon etc), but I'd be tempted to get Swindle on his own. He's so smug!

News Credits: 293 · by **shajaki** » Tue May 23, 2017 2:08 pm

Kurona wrote:Lol. What are the chances that two third party companies reveal their plans for a Bruticus at the same time and each show off two different components?

Right?!

News Credits: 191 · by **Kurona** » Wed May 24, 2017 6:31 am

Talking of which, how many third party Bruticuses are there now? There was the Colossus kit, Warbotron, something in between those, the multiple FoC Bruticus kits... and now this and the other one revealed at the same time. They do look cool but Combaticons are quickly overtaking the Dinobots in third party market oversaturation :HEADHURTS:

News Credits: 12 · by **Evil Eye** » Wed May 24, 2017 11:04 am

And yet there's still no equivalently sized CHUG scale alternative to CW/UW Bruticus. Come on MakeToys, get on with it!

News Credits: 293 · by **shajaki** » Sat May 27, 2017 3:04 pm

Alright folks! New pics! Combined mode! Onslaught truck mode! Optional chest pieces? Comparison with Zeta! Digibash!

News Credits: 12 · by **Evil Eye** » Sun May 28, 2017 5:02 am

Oh wow, the truck mode is articulated! Neat.

News Credits: 293 · by **shajaki** » Sun May 28, 2017 1:00 pm

Black Hat wrote:Oh wow, the truck mode is articulated! Neat.

Right?!

And I don't wanna jinx anything, but I'll bet you a beer that he doesn't partsform the thighs :-?

News Credits: 12 · by **Evil Eye** » Sun May 28, 2017 1:42 pm

shajaki wrote:
Black Hat wrote:Oh wow, the truck mode is articulated! Neat.
Right?!

And I don't wanna jinx anything, but I'll bet you a beer that he doesn't partsform the thighs

It'd be cool if not. Partsforming hands and feet I can tolerate (though after the magic of MakeToys Defensor and his ridiculously well integrated kibble, it's harder...). Chestplates, yeah no big deal. Entire hip assemblies...no thanks Jeff. That said I quite liked Warbotron's approach where the hips and thighs formed Onslaught's trailer bed in vehicle mode. That was clever.

Actually, a bit off topic here, but I'd like to see a Devastator that pulled that trick. The hips/thighs could form a trailer that could be pulled by another Constructicon, and the forearms could form little treaded drill-tank things which could be transported on said trailer (and also keep the drills flipped out in combiner mode for DRILL FISTS. Or flip out the hands in separate mode for...mobile hands?).

News Credits: 23 · by **Bumblebee21** » Sun May 28, 2017 4:54 pm

Partforming is the best way to do it. Constructor is the perfect example. Without integrating then into a bot they can work on better joints and there's the bonus of added height.

News Credits: 293 · by **shajaki** » Fri Jun 23, 2017 7:09 pm

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News Credits: 191 · by **Kurona** » Tue Jun 27, 2017 6:22 am

Eyyyy, he's got the working rotor thing!

Shame he's not completely cartoon-accurate because of the toy shoes, but I consider that an improvement

News Credits: 293 · by **shajaki** » Tue Jun 27, 2017 10:45 pm

News Credits: 293 · by **shajaki** » Fri Aug 04, 2017 7:04 pm

Not that it's a big deal, but I think think packaging sucks :lol:

News Credits: 191 · by **Kurona** » Fri Aug 04, 2017 7:07 pm

They're... they're packaged in the pose their G1 toys are permanently stuck in.

It's dumb and I love it.

News Credits: 12 · by **Evil Eye** » Sat Aug 05, 2017 7:24 am

OK, I'm stealing those names for some of my 40K Daemons. :lol:

News Credits: 293 · by **shajaki** » Sun Sep 24, 2017 4:32 pm

Picture dump!

News Credits: 293 · by **shajaki** » Sat Sep 30, 2017 10:34 am

Sooooooooooooo.... where's the alternate (Blast-off) chest piece? If it doesn't come with Blasty himself... I might have to reconsider this. The best thing this set had going for it was it's cartoon accuracy.