The Energon Pub

Rodimus Prime wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Heh, in addition to SG Trailbreaker, DK-3 Breaker could also work as Marvel Trailbreaker.

*checks Wiki*

How did I miss that...? I guess I'll be picking up DK-3 and letting go ER Trailbreaker...

Of course, there were times where Marvel Trailbreaker was correctly colored black instead of blue.

Well, that depends on your definition of correct. Seeing as how the comic came out before the cartoon,

And the toy (which was black) existed before the comic was made.

Rodimus Prime wrote:as well as his Diaclone having been blue before the Transformers version.

The Diaclone toy used to make Trailbreaker's toy was black.

Hmm... I thought I saw a blue version in photos or a video about Diaclone before...

And yeah I'm aware that a lot of characters had blue on them in lieu of black due to the ink used in comics back then.

It did come in blue; both black and blue in Diaclone and blue only for the US Diakron. The alternate variant was used for Transformers.

Rodimus Prime wrote:Hmm... I thought I saw a blue version in photos or a video about Diaclone before...

There were three color variants of the Diaclone toy. A black one, a blue one, and a yellow one. Hasbro picked the black one to used for Transformers, while the yellow one and the blue were left out.

Ok I knew I saw blue Trailbreaker before the Selects reveal.

Rodimus Prime wrote:Ok I knew I saw blue Trailbreaker before the Selects reveal.

Now we just have to wait for someone to make the yellow one a Transformers charater.

Sabrblade wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:Ok I knew I saw blue Trailbreaker before the Selects reveal.

Now we just have to wait for someone to make the yellow one a Transformers charater.

I would hope Selects would make it happen in some capacity. We are pretty close to having the full Diaclone lineup outside the combiners/insecticon teams

Jelze Bunnycat wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:And I say that fully acknowledging the horrendous miscolorations of the early issues of the comic.

Don't forget the color limits, as blue almost always stood in for true black in comics.

Thisssssss. This is the same reason Jazz and the Dinobots' heads were usually blue shaded with black and - reaching outside of Transformers - Venom used to be inked more blue than black half the time. And yet, to my knowledge, we don't have anybody arguing blue is the "correct" color for him.

I have a suspicion Hasbro chose the black deco for Trailbreaker specifically because of the abortive Diakron import line using blue. I also suspect that Diakron is responsible for the late-development change of Sideswipe to being the red New Countach LP500S and Sunstreaker to a made-up-for-Transformers yellow deco of the Countach LP500 Super Tuning.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:Ok I knew I saw blue Trailbreaker before the Selects reveal.

Now we just have to wait for someone to make the yellow one a Transformers charater.

I would hope Selects would make it happen in some capacity. We are pretty close to having the full Diaclone lineup outside the combiners/insecticon teams

Yellow might be a job for the Velocitron or Buzzworthy line, since we already got blue in Selects.

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Yellow might be a job for the Velocitron or Buzzworthy line, since we already got blue in Selects.

Trailbee? Bumblebreaker?

Jelze Bunnycat wrote:

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Yellow might be a job for the Velocitron or Buzzworthy line, since we already got blue in Selects.

Trailbee? Bumblebreaker?

Sunbreaker!

Sabrblade wrote:

Jelze Bunnycat wrote:

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Yellow might be a job for the Velocitron or Buzzworthy line, since we already got blue in Selects.

Trailbee? Bumblebreaker?

Sunbreaker!

I actually like this one

Got an email saying Hasbro's gonna do another Pulse Premium 10/27 reveal stream. Since last year's stream was where we saw the packaging for Black Zarak and got Lift-Ticket revealed and put up for pre-order, I figure this is potentially the most relevant thread to bring this up in (although I think best-case scenario is we get the Skyquake reveal that had to be cut from Pulsecon, which would make this the wrong thread).

I hope Magnificus is revealed during the pulse live stream.

I anticipate Minerva will officially go up.

I brought Breaker to work. He is real nice

This mold desperately needs thighs and arms filler. Those hollow bits are unsightly.

-Kanrabat- wrote:This mold desperately needs thighs and arms filler. Those hollow bits are unsightly.

I mean, I really don't care, I like the mold like this. hollow bits don't bother me too much in most cases

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:This mold desperately needs thighs and arms filler. Those hollow bits are unsightly.

I mean, I really don't care, I like the mold like this. hollow bits don't bother me too much in most cases

Also, it's two years old. That same energy should have gone into the Hoist, Trailbreaker, Lift-Ticket threads. LOL

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:This mold desperately needs thighs and arms filler. Those hollow bits are unsightly.

I mean, I really don't care, I like the mold like this. hollow bits don't bother me too much in most cases

In person, maybe not. But in dynamic poses in big pictures like these, the gaps are really in-your-face.

I have all 4 of them, meaning Hoist, Trailbreaker, Lift-Ticket, and Blue Breaker. Appart Hoist who have white limbs, all of the others have the same gray I think. I already Repro'd Hoist and Trailbreaker. I'll do the other two too. So might as well getting all the fillers.

sol magnus wrote:Also, it's two years old. That same energy should have gone into the Hoist, Trailbreaker, Lift-Ticket threads. LOL

Already?
And of course, those things are all sold out.
Oh well...

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:This mold desperately needs thighs and arms filler. Those hollow bits are unsightly.

I mean, I really don't care, I like the mold like this. hollow bits don't bother me too much in most cases

Agreed. I think people make way too much of them - even with how they look in pictures...

And yet the titchy gaps in Generations figs get fillers made for them while gaps big enough to seriously need filling get neglected, like Cybertron Optimus' leg cannons or (on a non-TF note) Titanus' tail cannons get NOTHING.... Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

In the meantime, while we're waiting to hear about more developments on the Selects toy front, there's finally been some developments made on the Selects fiction front.

Minor update: JTPrime now says that despite Magnificus showing up for a bit in the Target systems, he is actually the identity of that Deluxe Selects listing we have and not a separate Legacy Target exclusive, and Magnificus stock is now hitting the US ports. That probably means he's gonna be shown on 10/27 like Lift-Ticket was, or at the very least it means he's more likely compared to the other options for reveals.

Nemesis Primal wrote:Minor update: JTPrime now says that despite Magnificus showing up for a bit in the Target systems, he is actually the identity of that Deluxe Selects listing we have and not a separate Legacy Target exclusive, and Magnificus stock is now hitting the US ports. That probably means he's gonna be shown on 10/27 like Lift-Ticket was, or at the very least it means he's more likely compared to the other options for reveals.

Already hitting ports, I guess that means he'll be released immediately instead of put up for pre-order.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:Minor update: JTPrime now says that despite Magnificus showing up for a bit in the Target systems, he is actually the identity of that Deluxe Selects listing we have and not a separate Legacy Target exclusive, and Magnificus stock is now hitting the US ports. That probably means he's gonna be shown on 10/27 like Lift-Ticket was, or at the very least it means he's more likely compared to the other options for reveals.

Already hitting ports, I guess that means he'll be released immediately instead of put up for pre-order.

Emerje

Not necessarily, if I'm remembering older JTPrime posts correctly then most of this years Selects & exclusives have hit US ports and then sat around for varying periods of time before Hasbro actually announced the figures (Velocitron Wave 1 stock started arriving in Spring, BB Silverstreak I think showed up in ports in 2021 still, Galaxy Shuttle got to ports on the last day of August, Haslab Victory Saber has apparently been on 3 shipping manifests since September thus far), which is why I gave everything a hard maybe initially.

I'll be very bummed if 1027 is just Magnificus and no Minerva

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I'll be very bummed if 1027 is just Magnificus and no Minerva

Hopefully it'll be both.

sol magnus wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I'll be very bummed if 1027 is just Magnificus and no Minerva

Hopefully it'll be both.

Hopefully so

So turns out MCM London had the Magnificus reveal we were expecting all along: As well as...this, which isn't a Selects figure but I don't know where to put it:
(Photos came from @ZakuFan0079 on Twitter)

Also according to Ben/BMac from Hasbro (by way of an @SixoTF tweet), this Prime is an all-new mold but uses the ER trailer & gun, and this is not the only time this mold will be used.