The Energon Pub

News Credits: 5 · by **dahpadre** » Sun Dec 25, 2011 2:09 pm

Seasons Greetings!!

by **3.8TransAM** » Sun Dec 25, 2011 3:11 pm

Merry Christmas folks.

May your Transformer haul be large this year

News Credits: 2 · by **First-Aid** » Sun Dec 25, 2011 8:40 pm

Merry Christmas to all!

No Transformers here, but I did score two Leslie Nielsen movies :-)

News Credits: 9 · by **Hip-Hoptimus Rime** » Mon Dec 26, 2011 7:47 pm

Home earlier today from the in-laws in Lowell, picked up TF Prime Bee and Arcee, along with the Walking Dead on DVD and, as a surprise, a Get Fuzzy book. Awesome.

Not too happy with the way Bee's chest parts flop, but he's ncie. Arcee is quite excellent, she's posing with her Movie and ROTF sisters now.

News Credits: 3600 · by **Seibertron** » Sun Jan 01, 2012 1:24 am

Happy new year my fellow Illinoisans! Hope you're having a great night!

News Credits: 9 · by **Hip-Hoptimus Rime** » Sun Jan 01, 2012 12:20 pm

Verily, Happy New Year! If anyone needs HA Leadfoot, Target Rosemont has about a dozen, 29.99. A couple Gens Junkheaps and Sky Shadows still, too, 12.49. I get the feeling we may be paying full price for a while after the big holiday markdowns.

News Credits: 5 · by **dahpadre** » Sun Jan 01, 2012 1:29 pm

Happy New Years Seibertronians!

News Credits: 2 · by **First-Aid** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 12:10 am

dahpadre wrote:Happy New Years Seibertronians!

...what a horrific headache... :sad:

News Credits: 3600 · by **Seibertron** » Tue Jan 03, 2012 1:03 pm

Thought you guys might like this: http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... ves/23600/

News Credits: 2 · by **First-Aid** » Tue Jan 03, 2012 5:07 pm

Finally found Sky Shadow and Junkheap at the Target on E. State in Rockford today. There is one Junkheap left as I procured one plus the Sky Shadow. Nothing else at any other E. State locations (wally world, TRU)

News Credits: 2 · by **First-Aid** » Tue Jan 03, 2012 9:39 pm

Has anyone got an extra E-Hobby Scrapheap they would be willing to sell/trade? Since I have Junkheap and Wreck-Gar I feel the need for a third Junkion.

...of course this has nothing to do with the fact that I am watching "The Three Amigos" with my wife right now... :roll:

News Credits: 9 · by **Hip-Hoptimus Rime** » Tue Jan 03, 2012 11:01 pm

That reminds me, I need to get a hernia check... :grin:

On topic- swung by Target Rosemont, and all the Rescue Bots were gone, WTH?

by **3.8TransAM** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 4:24 pm

Nothing of note near me.

Scattered Junkheap and Skyshadows floating around, TRU and Target.

Saw some Rescus Bots stuff at TRU and Targets.

Other than that I got nothing

News Credits: 3600 · by **Seibertron** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:23 pm

I'm wondering how much longer of a "drought" we're going to be in. Part of the issue seems to be the onslaught of toys that came out during the first two months for DOTM. I have a feeling that a lot of those products were intended for release later in the year but it was decided at some point to release all of them as fast as they could, probably to keep up with retailer demand.

The good news is that Toy Fair 2012 is just around the corner so hopefully we'll be getting a bunch of peeks at upcoming products for the next year.

News Credits: 9 · by **Hip-Hoptimus Rime** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 8:20 pm

Des Plaines KMart had some TFs on clearance again, mainly the DOTM Human Alliance Flush Freezer Attack set ($11) and the Autobot Stunt Show Spectacular-rama set ($8).

Also the Bash-Bots, $5.50. I bought the Bee/Megatron set, I wanna find the others while I'm at it. What, they're fun.

by **3.8TransAM** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 1:15 am

................. Generations figures are on clearance at Meijer's in Nw In.

Not a good sign, glad I got my Sky Shadow and Junk Heap

News Credits: 2 · by **First-Aid** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 3:12 am

Is it just me or did they make lass figures than they ever have for this movie? I just don't remember a drought ever being this long without anything new...we're not even getting prototype leaks or upcoming figure updates. Are they betting on the playsets selling to make up the difference? Because they sure aren't selling around here...even Ultimate Op is selling pretty well.

News Credits: 3600 · by **Seibertron** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 10:13 am

First-Aid wrote:Is it just me or did they make lass figures than they ever have for this movie? I just don't remember a drought ever being this long without anything new...we're not even getting prototype leaks or upcoming figure updates. Are they betting on the playsets selling to make up the difference? Because they sure aren't selling around here...even Ultimate Op is selling pretty well.

Part of the problem is that they came out with too much product too quickly when the DOTM toys first came out. They probably released six months worth of figures between May and July.

I'm hoping beyond hope that their move to the Vietnam factories has put an end to prototype leaks and that's what why we're not seeing any new products that are coming down the pipes.

Worst case scenario, Hasbro's annual Toy Fair 2012 event should be 1 month from yesterday so hopefully we'll know a lot more as of then.

by **3.8TransAM** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 5:02 pm

Nothing worth a darn in the Nw In area.

Pretty picked over still, was at a Target and a Wally World yesterday.

I'm hoping with Toyfair and then Botcon we will get some toy news then.

by **OMEGAPRIME1983** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 10:29 pm

Does a anyone here want to buy an MP-04?? I need to sell it for bills :/.. I'm hoping to get around the $400 mark

. I'm open to offers too. Something is better than nothing :/...

News Credits: 3600 · by **Seibertron** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 12:06 am

OMEGAPRIME1983 wrote:Does a anyone here want to buy an MP-04?? I need to sell it for bills :/.. I'm hoping to get around the $400 mark . I'm open to offers too. Something is better than nothing :/...

If it's still sealed, I'd recommend trying it on eBay for that amount.

by **OMEGAPRIME1983** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 12:52 am

yea, unfortunately my ebay account is sealed at the moment... though I could just try to make a new account there, but then it would be paypal stopping me unless I create a different account with them as well.. thanks though..

by **OMEGAPRIME1983** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 10:20 pm

OK, so no go with MP-04.. Is anyone looking for anything G1?? I'll have a pretty comprehensive list together by the end of the weekend with pictures I'm hoping.

News Credits: 3600 · by **Seibertron** » Thu Jan 26, 2012 11:04 am

Time for the hunt to begin.

http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... med/23798/

News Credits: 2 · by **First-Aid** » Thu Jan 26, 2012 11:51 am

I tell you, I am getting thoroughly disgusted by Hasbro's distribution network. After a few FE figs in December, no one has see anything- no Cliffjumper FE, and definitely none of the Voyager FEs which were the ones I was looking for the most. Someone needs to go there and beat up whoever is making those decisions...