The Energon Pub

News Credits: 17 · Sat Jul 14, 2012 12:28 pm

Autobot Genocide wrote:He's never really had a face just a black visor and lips , God knows what happened to the kre-o.

Lips? on Predaking?

Whatever you're smoking, I suggest you stop smoking it, sir. :???:

News Credits: 2 · Sat Jul 14, 2012 1:29 pm

What no official image of Thundertron?. Thats a shame. :-(

News Credits: 6188 · Sat Jul 14, 2012 1:39 pm

munkimus prime wrote:What no official image of Thundertron?. Thats a shame.

My thoughts precisely.

News Credits: 409 · Sat Jul 14, 2012 9:34 pm

Hot Spot had fireball canons. The missle launch weapon should have been red/orange.

News Credits: 462 · Sat Jul 14, 2012 11:45 pm

Va'al wrote:
munkimus prime wrote:What no official image of Thundertron?. Thats a shame.

My thoughts precisely.

My only guess is that he doesn't have one here since he isn't a new reveal for this convention. He was first shown at BotCon, so his official image would have had to come from there.

Sun Jul 15, 2012 1:07 am

Xephon0930 wrote:I am liking the colors for Ruination over the retail and G2 Bruticus.

Me too. Once I get my hands on him, I will have to part ways w/ the G2 Bruticus I preordered.

Sun Jul 15, 2012 4:34 am

I am not feeling the love for these at all. The robot modes are fine, but the vehicle modes look thrown together and the combo mode is just......proportions are shite.

News Credits: 402 · Updated Oct 21, 2022

Stormrider wrote:Hot Spot had fireball canons. The missle launch weapon should have been red/orange.

Actually his bio says he "bursts of 2000 degrees Fahrenheit blue flame 1.5 miles" so the missile colour is actually accurate.

News Credits: 6188 · Sun Jul 15, 2012 8:34 am

Sabrblade wrote:
Va'al wrote:
munkimus prime wrote:What no official image of Thundertron?. Thats a shame.

My thoughts precisely.
My only guess is that he doesn't have one here since he isn't a new reveal for this convention. He was first shown at BotCon, so his official image would have had to come from there.

That is likely, yes. Still, we have yet to see a Thundetron stock photo.
I want to see how good/awful they can make him look.

News Credits: 3 · Sun Jul 15, 2012 3:49 pm

I'm puzzled as to how Magnus' hammer will work. And is anyone else getting a Kre-On Sentinel Prime vibe from his head?

Repaint and new weapon Hasbro?

News Credits: 1 · Sun Jul 15, 2012 3:50 pm

I am really looking forawd to all the figures show I want Skyquake

Sun Jul 15, 2012 4:52 pm

FOC is a BIG pass for me, for the most part. Only want Blaster, Soundwave, and Starscream.
Bot Shots: PASS
Kreon: BIG PASS
MP Thundercracker and Prime: Must have
The Asia exclusive turned TRU exclusives: Hotspot, Wheelie, and G2 Megatron: Must have. The rest: PASS

Looks like I'm gonna be saving A LOT of money this go around when it comes to Hasbro.....

Sun Jul 15, 2012 4:55 pm

that optimus doesn't have a faceplate!

Sun Jul 15, 2012 5:57 pm

Sodan-1 wrote:How disenchanted I feel.
...
As far as Generations goes: what a load of crap. A load of cheap remolds and repaints and a collection of tiny cheap looking figures based on a game.
...
How disappointing.

Would it be nice if every character got a unique mold? Of course.

But would it be economically feasible? Most likely not.

At least they've got remolded parts, not just repaints.

I find it understandable for HasTak to milk these molds for all they can get. It makes perfect economic sense.

Besides, I find that I like some remolds or recolors better than others.

And in this case, we also get TWO references to TFs fiction ("Wreckers, combine" & Emirate Xaaron).

News Credits: 4 · Sun Jul 15, 2012 6:15 pm

I have absolutely no problem with repaints. Plenty of characters started out as repaints. There's plenty of characters who work good enough as repainted versions of another. I do like new heads when something wasn't originally a direct repaint, and more expansive retools can be cool too, like the Wheeljack/Tracks thing in Generations.

Sometimes we do get repaints and retools that don't make any sense. Imagine an orange and green version of the Classics Bumblebee mold being called Ultra Magnus, for example. That sort of thing can and does happen, but thankfully it's fairly rare, or at least not overwhelmingly more prevalent than those repaints that work well.

News Credits: 462 · Sun Jul 15, 2012 8:10 pm

Va'al wrote:That is likely, yes. Still, we have yet to see a Thundetron stock photo.
I want to see how good/awful they can make him look.

Technically we have seen one. Just not one shown on a clean white background.

Manterax Prime wrote:I'm puzzled as to how Magnus' hammer will work.

How do you mean?

Manterax Prime wrote:And is anyone else getting a Kre-On Sentinel Prime vibe from his head?

Repaint and new weapon Hasbro?

He died back in the war for Cybertron, before he could even get a TF: Prime design.

News Credits: 15 · Sun Jul 15, 2012 8:20 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
Manterax Prime wrote:I'm puzzled as to how Magnus' hammer will work.

How do you mean?

He's probably curious as to how the hammer will use it's gimmick. In other words, how will the hammer unfold from the ammo box "gun" that it normally is. I'm rather curious to see if Hasbro will give us the chance to actually lock the weapons starting with Wave 3. Otherwise, Magnus' hammer will serve useless.

News Credits: 1 · Sun Jul 15, 2012 9:02 pm

Joetx wrote:
Sodan-1 wrote:How disenchanted I feel.
...
As far as Generations goes: what a load of crap. A load of cheap remolds and repaints and a collection of tiny cheap looking figures based on a game.
...
How disappointing.

Would it be nice if every character got a unique mold? Of course.

But would it be economically feasible? Most likely not.

At least they've got remolded parts, not just repaints.

I find it understandable for HasTak to milk these molds for all they can get. It makes perfect economic sense.

Besides, I find that I like some remolds or recolors better than others.

And in this case, we also get TWO references to TFs fiction ("Wreckers, combine" & Emirate Xaaron).

craggy wrote:I have absolutely no problem with repaints. Plenty of characters started out as repaints. There's plenty of characters who work good enough as repainted versions of another. I do like new heads when something wasn't originally a direct repaint, and more expansive retools can be cool too, like the Wheeljack/Tracks thing in Generations.

Sometimes we do get repaints and retools that don't make any sense. Imagine an orange and green version of the Classics Bumblebee mold being called Ultra Magnus, for example. That sort of thing can and does happen, but thankfully it's fairly rare, or at least not overwhelmingly more prevalent than those repaints that work well.

Aye, don't get me wrong, I've no problem with repaints as a rule. I realise that a lot of characters wouldn't exist without them or remolds. But these GDO (yeah, what does that stand for?) Generations figures are lazy attempts at pulling in more money using molds, a number of which make less sense than TFCC exclusives. It doesn't help that I have a feeling these will constitute over a quarter of the proposed Generations figures.

News Credits: 3 · Mon Jul 16, 2012 1:26 am

PrimeStriker wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Manterax Prime wrote:I'm puzzled as to how Magnus' hammer will work.

How do you mean?

He's probably curious as to how the hammer will use it's gimmick. In other words, how will the hammer unfold from the ammo box "gun" that it normally is. I'm rather curious to see if Hasbro will give us the chance to actually lock the weapons starting with Wave 3. Otherwise, Magnus' hammer will serve useless.

Exactly, if peaugh or Optibotimus manage to review him before he's released and his hammer doesn't lock, then I'll be getting the Arms Micron version.

News Credits: 6188 · Mon Jul 16, 2012 4:41 am

Sabrblade wrote:
Va'al wrote:That is likely, yes. Still, we have yet to see a Thundetron stock photo.
I want to see how good/awful they can make him look.
Technically we have seen one. Just not one shown on a clean white background.

Ok, let me put this in a semantically non-ambiguous way:

I would like to see a stock photo of the same type as the ones in this thread - i.e. robot mode and alt mode in separate shots, on white background. Mostly to remove the blurriness of the catalogue one.

There. Happy now?

News Credits: 3 · Mon Jul 16, 2012 3:50 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
Manterax Prime wrote:And is anyone else getting a Kre-On Sentinel Prime vibe from his head?

Repaint and new weapon Hasbro?
He died back in the war for Cybertron, before he could even get a TF: Prime design.

Indeed, but perhaps it could be a generations release.

News Credits: 462 · Mon Jul 16, 2012 10:04 pm

Manterax Prime wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Manterax Prime wrote:And is anyone else getting a Kre-On Sentinel Prime vibe from his head?

Repaint and new weapon Hasbro?
He died back in the war for Cybertron, before he could even get a TF: Prime design.

Indeed, but perhaps it could be a generations release.

But the toy doesn't look like him.

News Credits: 15 · Mon Jul 16, 2012 10:44 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
Manterax Prime wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Manterax Prime wrote:And is anyone else getting a Kre-On Sentinel Prime vibe from his head?

Repaint and new weapon Hasbro?
He died back in the war for Cybertron, before he could even get a TF: Prime design.

Indeed, but perhaps it could be a generations release.
But the toy doesn't look like him.

Actually, it almost does. But I seriously doubt they'll ever make it. It's too close of a color for them to do that, unless they wanna call him Zeta Magnus :roll:

News Credits: 5749 · Wed Jul 18, 2012 12:13 pm

The official Transformers facebook page finally gives us an official look at the upcoming Transformers Prime voyager class Thundertron and Dreadwing, who were absent from the official images that were supplied to us during SDCC. Check them out below.