The Energon Pub

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Sun Aug 03, 2025 9:29 am

TerranPrime wrote:The Titan Grimlock looks like trash. Is the Titan design team just spinning their wheels until Unicron? A new Metroplex would have been a better choice. ('86 Metroplex?) Who wants a huge ugly Bay-verse Grimlock?!?

Maybe the Titan line has a reduced budget this year so they can use extra budget next year for a Unicron?

Weird.

This IS the Titan for next year, Star Optimus Prime was the Titan for this year.

Emerje

News Credits: 1 · by **Brokebot** » Mon Aug 04, 2025 6:33 am

Cheetron wrote:This entire year is an easy pass. Nothing said wow to me. Mostly ugh. Repaints, re dos (barricade) odd alt modes. Easy 2026 to save me some money

Yeah, same for me. Motormasterasor and Silverboltion pretty much killed any optimism I may have had for the new combiner teams, which SHOULD have been right up my alley. Twin Mill and Boneshaker are my only two bright spots for the coming year.

News Credits: 2 · by **Nemesis Destron** » Mon Aug 04, 2025 10:20 pm

Cheetron wrote:This entire year is an easy pass. Nothing said wow to me. Mostly ugh. Repaints, re dos (barricade) odd alt modes. Easy 2026 to save me some money

Whoa save money? Lucky!!! :-P

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Thu Oct 09, 2025 11:42 pm

If you were looking forward to the exclusive Armada Nemesis Prime with Star Saber you may find yourself disappointed by some changes since being first revealed a few months ago at SDCC. For starters the figure is now available locked behind a Pulse Premium paywall for nearly a month, for everyone else orders will be available on November 3, assuming there are any left. The other big change is the price. Originally announced at $75 the figure, which is officially listed as a Voyager, with Mini-cons is now $90, the same price as Commander class Armada Optimus Prime. This could be a bad indication for future Commander class figures if a Voyager ($43) and what could arguably be a Deluxe price point set ($28) can be sold for Commander class price at a time when Hasbro rarely charges a premium for exclusives like they did in the past.

Still planning to buy it regardless of the changes or is this your way out? Let us know in the Energon Pub forums!

News Credits: 1 · by **Cheetron** » Fri Oct 10, 2025 5:58 am

I wanted him so bad. $75 was a lot. Now $90 for him plus a subscription? Screw you hasbro. Im done.

Also, Deluxe transformers at Walmart are $29.95. I snagged Seapray and was shocked at the price increase.

by **Savvy Sphynx** » Fri Oct 10, 2025 8:56 am

This was the fig I was most looking forward to this year. I felt $75 was a bit much. $90 is asking a whole lot.

$50 for pulse premium is definitely not worth it, so I'll wait and see.

I guess I'll see if it's in stock when November rolls around and decide. I'm working on collecting all the Nemesis figures, and I was going to get this for Armada- at this price point, I might just get the original, even though I like this one better.

News Credits: 10 · by **Omegatron.** » Fri Oct 10, 2025 10:22 am

This is most likely a tariff-related markup, in the UK it is £75.99. Hasbro have historically listed items for the same numeric price (I.E. an item costing $25 is listed for £25 because apparently exchange rates don't exist).

News Credits: 2 · by **Hero Alpha** » Fri Oct 10, 2025 12:08 pm

I bought it as soon as it went up. Very excited to finally have a Nemesis Prime. 40 years of collecting and I passed them all up waiting for a great Armada one. It looks pretty much perfect to me. Head and face on it are just the right amount of brutal. Yes I am disappointed the price went up. Still, I bet I have spent less on Nemesis Prime's than most

The new price is lame, but somehow I didn't know it came with this ion cannon and that is sweet. I always have a Pulse sub anyway. It has saved me quite a lot on shipping each year since I buy 98% of figures there. Now I am going to need to find a good red sword for him.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Fri Oct 10, 2025 4:16 pm

Cheetron wrote:Also, Deluxe transformers at Walmart are $29.95. I snagged Seapray and was shocked at the price increase.

That's probably just him (and Brawn), that's the price they were originally listed at one Walmart.com before being knocked down to the normal $25. Seems the stores didn't get the memo.

Emerje

News Credits: 1 · by **Solrac333** » Sat Oct 11, 2025 12:27 am

Hasbro really wants me to stop collecting Transformers. I stopped Marvel Legends and then stopped Star Wars Black Series. I can stop collecting Transformers.

News Credits: 1 · by **Brokebot** » Sat Oct 11, 2025 8:34 am

Solrac333 wrote:Hasbro really wants me to stop collecting Transformers. I stopped Marvel Legends and then stopped Star Wars Black Series. I can stop collecting Transformers.

I assumed it was just me. I bitch and moan because they never put out any new characters, and when they do, I don't like them or want to pay the price they're asking. But I'm sitting here waiting for a few obscenely priced third party G1 figures that I hope show up sometime before I die of old age. If they ever get smuggled out of China, that might end my collecting for a while.

News Credits: 30 · by **DeathReviews** » Mon Oct 13, 2025 8:51 am

I'm disappointed that after all the reveals at SDCC, the two figures I wanted up for pre-order haven't made the cut. Brawl and Blastoff were on the display tables along with most of the other reveals, and yet they are nowhere to be seen on Pulse or anywhere else. With that, what is up?

News Credits: 2 · by **Hero Alpha** » Mon Oct 13, 2025 1:44 pm

Yeah I was wondering about Brawl myself. Along with Armada Nemesis here, Brawl was the other I really don't want to miss. He is in wave 1, correct?

News Credits: 4861 · by **william-james88** » Sat Oct 18, 2025 8:06 am

Sorry to pile on some bad news but we wanted to warn you of potential breakage issues on the Armada Nemesis Prime which is now coming out. Multiple fans have posted images showing breakage on the Jetstorm minicon, especially in the chest area. Some have been out of the box while others occurred after a couple of transformations, like the images from Sparkimus Prime.

What makes the breakage more heartbreaking is that this figure has a $90 USD price tag. So just be careful when yours comes in.

News Credits: 1 · by **Cheetron** » Sat Oct 18, 2025 9:55 am

First Omega Prime. Now Nemesis? Come on hasbro! You raised prices beyond belief snd now you can't even make toys right? I wanted both of them. Glad im saving my money.

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Sat Oct 18, 2025 2:02 pm

Yikes! Is that a metal pin in the chest running through the shoulders? Something tells me they goofed with the diameter.

News Credits: 2 · by **Hero Alpha** » Sat Oct 18, 2025 3:17 pm

I am going to guess this is caused by people attempting to rotate the chest piece before they completely pull it either way. The first time I transformed mine, I almost did the same thing thinking it should be moving. Luckily I stopped and pull it out the rest of the way. Mine doesn't have any lose joints or anything though.

Nemesis is completely amazing. This is my 1st time messing with this mould and I get why everyone is so high on it. Just went back and rewatched Armada episode 43 again and he is perfect looking. Been trying to get some good poses running on all fours and its kinda tough, lol. Really need better head/neck articulation, looking up waay more is needed( but I say that about most Transformers these days). I still go back to Animated Wasp, all figures should have at least that much head articulation. Opening hands would help a lot as well.

News Credits: 331 · by **chuckdawg1999** » Sat Oct 18, 2025 5:57 pm

I'm hearing the issue is that people aren't pulling the chest piece out far enough before flipping it over. Some are suggesting using a spudger the first few times.

News Credits: 6 · by **RodimusPrimeUkraine1** » Sat Oct 18, 2025 10:19 pm

Only the highest quality, premium stuff for AUTHENTIC Transformers branded products.

Soon we'll be to a point where KOs have better quality and less hollowness too. :lol: