The Energon Pub

I really don't like these guys. They look ugly to me. That and I'm afraid of the quality of them. But knowing my stupid luck I'll see Megs or Skids and think wow, he's cool. Until I open it that is

If they combine (which still hasn't been confirmed) I'm hoping Hasbro learned from the Energon fiasco and releases all of the combiner pieces in the same wave, rather than spread them out. Some folks never received the other limbs as needed (and Hasbro knows this, it's been brought to their attention in the past.) and with ROTF bringing casual collectors and fans in...I'd imagine they want their combiner to be complete and ready to go in one purchase.

If (and that's a big if) they spread them out...it's a waste of time and will lead to a LOT of pissed off people.

I have a feeling they'll drag their feet on releasing Jetfire (probably why Prime's packaging and instructions leave out any information about the ability to combine) which is also stupid and a waste of time.

I realize they need to drag the line out as long as possible to help keep it going, but enough's enough. Cut the crap and put the damned figures out together.

Besides, if they overstock on Optimus Prime and Megatron, Jetfire won't have any shelf space if he's wave 2. We know Prime will sell, but let's face it...Megatron's going to shelf warm like a nuclear powered microwave set to disintegrate. (I'll buy him, and quite a few others will, but our sales won't even make a dent in his availability.)

Take Animated Megatron for example. Great figure, not selling. No room for Ultra Magnus (in either color), no room for Megatron's repaint, and surprisingly...no room for Bulkhead. (Yes, even he sold out before Megatron did, which is a shocker. A lot of people seem to dislike Bulkhead, which is a shame...GREAT figure.)

I really would prefer not to have to go through the internet this time around. I will if I absolutely have to, but seriously...just give us the figures.

I hope that black hood is final on skids. I was getting worried with all the video reviews.

I'll get them all besides Nemotron.

Another one legger, well, I still like them all

If I was warming up to Skids' face (Thinking of the unpainted teeth as mandibles helped), the face-art on his packaging just made me retch back all the way to 'utter hate'. Oh, his brother's is just going to look significantly worse. Picasso bots, anyone?

I am NOT going to get Skids or Mudface unless I get paid to keep them and even then, I'll melt the offensive, hideous heads together into plastic ooze so nobody else has to suffer from looking at them, throw it away and plonk on significantly better-looking heads from other figures on their pretty-okay bodies. I still can't believe how their face designs got approved.

Other than that, I think the face art of everyone else is pretty awesome(especially Soundwave's and Chromia's, pity about her robot-mode stock photography), can't wait for pictures of the bike combiner if it does exist and believe that the toy line is going to do pretty okay (I still ponder if all of Devastator's gimmicks will save him from all the "NO INDIVIDUAL ROBOT MODES!?!?" flaming when he comes out).

Warbreaker wrote:I am NOT going to get Skids or Mudface unless I get paid to keep them and even then, I'll melt the offensive, hideous heads together into plastic ooze so nobody else has to suffer from looking at them, throw it away and plonk on significantly better-looking heads from other figures on their pretty-okay bodies. I still can't believe how their face designs got approved.

So in other words, they'll come out like this...


I'm just curious, could one of you folks that despises the wheeled or one foot concept on the movie toys please explain to me why it is that so many folks are adamantly against this idea? I guess I'm so open to change that I don't see many of the things that others are percieving as flaws and I would like a different perspective.
I 'm asking for this viewpoint in all seriousness and I don't mean to put anyone down by my "open to change" remark, I just didn't know how else to put it and would truly like somone elses P.O.V. To me, the reactions are coming across as more emotion based in thier dislike rather than logic based and I'm having difficulty understanding why.

T-Macksimus wrote:So in other words, they'll come out like this...

Well, actually, that's not the result I had in mind. I'd keep applying a mini-blowtorch to their faces until both of them merge and become a formless, smooth lump of plastic with no features suggestive of their horrific visages at all, yesss.

As for the wheel-former concept, I'm not against it (constantly leaning back and forth about Demolishor, a seller in my local ebay has him for sale and I can't decide whether to buy or not), the only reason that makes sense (other than the anything-without-2-legs-is-fail mentality) I know for all this spite is the difficulty in posing wheelformers/one-legged Transformers without them constantly toppling to one side due to weight balance issues, something I quickly discovered while trying to pose my TFA Safeguard sliced in half by Megatron.