The Energon Pub

News Credits: 295 · Wed Mar 01, 2017 3:24 pm

It's time for the Transtopia Round-up! We apologize for missing the roundup for the last of 2016. We hope that you will forgive us for being busy this holiday season. With no further ado we bring you: customization jobs, creations, fanart, comics, paints, builds, stickers, WIPs and more cool things users like you have made.

If you like what you see, make sure to also comment on the original thread and send the author some robo-love. It feels good to be appreciated!

CUSTOMIZATIONS

Insurgent - COMBINER WARS LIOKAISER

jcartwork - Custom Transformers Megatron

MR Optimus Prime - Titans Return Laserbeak

Klejpull - IDW TESARUS REPLICA

FAN FICTION

Sheba - What if Sheba intervenes?

deceptispoon - Space Vagabonds

Apollo-XL5 - Prime Effect

FAN ART

Deadput - FOC styled Hotshot & Ricochet

BeastProwl - Untitled

SillySpringer - SillySpringer face avatar

Sat Mar 04, 2017 10:32 pm

Finally!

News Credits: 2 · Sun Mar 05, 2017 12:03 am

Are you joking? Your first round-up for the year and you've missed BOTH of my pieces of artwork. And they're not small pieces either. Days of work have been put into them by the line artist and colourist. Days!

Do you know how hard it is to get your artwork in front of discerning fans? It's bloody hard. Round-ups like these should be a perfect tool to help in that endeavour, but it seems that whoever puts them together can't even give a cursory glance to your own art section.

News Credits: 1646 · Sun Mar 05, 2017 12:19 am

Verno wrote:Are you joking? Your first round-up for the year and you've missed BOTH of my pieces of artwork. And they're not small pieces either. Days of work have been put into them by the line artist and colourist. Days!

Do you know how hard it is to get your artwork in front of discerning fans? It's bloody hard. Round-ups like these should be a perfect tool to help in that endeavour, but it seems that whoever puts them together can't even give a cursory glance to your own art section.

The site has been undergoing massive updates, which is why this is so separated from the last roundup.

The roundup was also compiled by a freshman newstaff member. I'm sure Burn or Va'al will check in on things and make sure your art was not missed.

Sun Mar 05, 2017 2:12 am

If its not a bother, I wouldn't mind my fan fiction's new chapter up here as well. No worries if not though.

News Credits: 54 · Sun Mar 05, 2017 2:18 am

Verno wrote:Are you joking? Your first round-up for the year and you've missed BOTH of my pieces of artwork. And they're not small pieces either. Days of work have been put into them by the line artist and colourist. Days!

Do you know how hard it is to get your artwork in front of discerning fans? It's bloody hard. Round-ups like these should be a perfect tool to help in that endeavour, but it seems that whoever puts them together can't even give a cursory glance to your own art section.

Maybe they did not see your work at the time?

Making a tantrum is probably not going to make them want to go out of their way to find your stuff.

News Credits: 54 · Sun Mar 05, 2017 2:18 am

Anyways since some of my art was posted I'll post another in this post the WFC Ds Autobot Rookie who is the playable tutorial character although he is nameless in game I call him Evac and since he shares the design of the Generic Autobots in WFC my headcanon is that he is a fresh Autotrooper trainee which all share the blue colors before being promoted and gaining the white colors of regular Autotroopers.

News Credits: 226 · Sun Mar 05, 2017 2:41 am

Want to know the process of putting together these round-ups?

It includes going through each sub-forum of the Transtopia area, looking for posts made since the last round-up was posted.

We missed months. For that, we're sorry.

Va'al normally compiles these, when he's busy he'll normally ask me to do it. In this particular instance we passed it onto someone else.

Anyone who has compiled one of these knows how much of a mammoth task it is. It's not something you can do in one sitting, it takes HOURS to prepare. Hours of UNPAID VOLUNTARY TIME.

Vern, we've known each other for years, from our days on TAAU, I know first hand how much work you've put into your work, I've seen how far you've come over the years and I will tell you now that missing your work was accidental. We decided to round-up only from February, and even then we managed to miss you, and for that I do apologise to you and to anyone else we may have missed.

We dropped the ball, plain and simple.

News Credits: 8 · Sun Mar 05, 2017 2:44 am

Welp.

There's always a next time, I guess.

News Credits: 295 · Sun Mar 05, 2017 4:41 am

Verno wrote:Are you joking? Your first round-up for the year and you've missed BOTH of my pieces of artwork. And they're not small pieces either. Days of work have been put into them by the line artist and colourist. Days!

Do you know how hard it is to get your artwork in front of discerning fans? It's bloody hard. Round-ups like these should be a perfect tool to help in that endeavour, but it seems that whoever puts them together can't even give a cursory glance to your own art section.

I spent many hours this week doing this roundup. I started Wednesday morning and it took me until Saturday afternoon to have it finished. Please keep in mind that I have a life outside of Seibetron and am a regular person just like you and I don't appreciate being snapped at.

I am also new to news staff and I took this endeavor upon myself because others could not. Our site has been undergoing many updates and we have also been spending many hours working to make this site a great place to be.

I myself write some short stories about Transformers so I can understand the work that does go into it. That is part of the reason that I chose to help out this month even though it was a daunting task to look through everything.

All of this being said if you did make something in the month of February and it got missed all you needed to do was ask and post the link.

News Credits: 2 · Sun Mar 05, 2017 5:38 am

Cool. I made it. Thanks for the inclusion.

News Credits: 2 · Sun Mar 05, 2017 6:37 am

So as not to inflame the situation any further, I'll thank Burn for his comments and move along. The two of us do indeed go quite a long way back.

News Credits: 295 · Sun Mar 05, 2017 9:02 pm

Verno wrote:So as not to inflame the situation any further, I'll thank Burn for his comments and move along. The two of us do indeed go quite a long way back.

I don't have any hard feelings. I just wanted to show that there was a nicer way to ask.

I think it might be a good idea for those whom wanted to share artwork that got missed during the updates would be to post it in this thread along with a link to your main thread(s).

I know it's not as nice as being featured but I would like to see everyone's work. I think the same goes for everyone else who is scrolling these threads. I know I would check out what everyone has worked on.

News Credits: 8 · Sun Mar 05, 2017 10:20 pm

viewtopic.php?f=145&t=108234

there ya go.

News Credits: 226 · Sun Mar 05, 2017 11:17 pm

pssst...Sammy. Go read our forum rules for the signature guidelines. You're way over the file size limit.

Mon Mar 06, 2017 10:54 am

Foximus wrote:If its not a bother, I wouldn't mind my fan fiction's new chapter up here as well. No worries if not though.

Why would you expect anyone with a perfect hatred for G1 to add your work into their creative round up?

News Credits: 6188 · Mon Mar 06, 2017 1:38 pm

To all those of you who are patiently being patient with new news staff, and not piling on something that I haven't been able to do: please keep being patient. We are redeveloping and rethinking how Transtopia can be improved too, and that includes the round-up.

I will find a way of featuring those we have missed across February, but anything in 2016 will have to be left behind. As Burn says, we're sorry this is the case, but it was impossible to get to them at the time, and the task is insurmountable right now with everything else going on.

I understand the disappointment, but name calling and abrasive behaviour is not ok. WreckerJack did me a massive favour by doing this, and instead of celebrating what people have been creating, we're still bickering about the reasons behind why certain things were not included.

The only, sole reason is: I was stupid busy from September to January, Burn was stupid busy too, WreckerJack offered to help, but both of us being busy these past weeks (Toy Fair and all) means he only got part of the whole job as we usually do it.

News Credits: 295 · Mon Mar 06, 2017 6:38 pm

1984forever wrote:
Foximus wrote:If its not a bother, I wouldn't mind my fan fiction's new chapter up here as well. No worries if not though.

Why would you expect anyone with a perfect hatred for G1 to add your work into their creative round up?

I don't think anyone here hates G1. G1 is awesome. I occasionally go back and watch some of my favorite episodes because they have got Ratchet, Wheeljack and all of the Dinobots. Can't forget Soundwave and his cassettes either.

News Credits: 54 · Mon Mar 06, 2017 8:25 pm

WreckerJack wrote:
1984forever wrote:
Foximus wrote:If its not a bother, I wouldn't mind my fan fiction's new chapter up here as well. No worries if not though.

Why would you expect anyone with a perfect hatred for G1 to add your work into their creative round up?

I don't think anyone here hates G1. G1 is awesome. I occasionally go back and watch some of my favorite episodes because they have got Ratchet, Wheeljack and all of the Dinobots. Can't forget Soundwave and his cassettes either.

To add to this I don't hate G1 either but in the last 2-3 years I've been getting G1 burned out by how it's the only thing that has a lot of effort these days sacrificing quality of the modern lines like Prime and Rid.

Only the movies get as much attention and even then they have some downs like most of AOE and the repaints of said toys for TLK.

News Credits: 226 · Mon Mar 06, 2017 9:08 pm

Deadput wrote:
WreckerJack wrote:
1984forever wrote:
Foximus wrote:If its not a bother, I wouldn't mind my fan fiction's new chapter up here as well. No worries if not though.

Why would you expect anyone with a perfect hatred for G1 to add your work into their creative round up?

I don't think anyone here hates G1. G1 is awesome. I occasionally go back and watch some of my favorite episodes because they have got Ratchet, Wheeljack and all of the Dinobots. Can't forget Soundwave and his cassettes either.

To add to this I don't hate G1 either but in the last 2-3 years I've been getting G1 burned out by how it's the only thing that has a lot of effort these days sacrificing quality of the modern lines like Prime and Rid.

Only the movies get as much attention and even then they have some downs like most of AOE and the repaints of said toys for TLK.

So how about all that work that we managed to NOT miss hey? Bloody awesome work or what?

News Credits: 54 · Mon Mar 06, 2017 9:40 pm

Burn wrote:So how about all that work that we managed to NOT miss hey? Bloody awesome work or what?

The work here is great never said otherwise! :BOWDOWN:

Also I'm grateful and thankful for you guys featuring my art which I thought was going to be ignored due to being in a kinda obscure forum.

I'm talking about the overuse of G1 in media these days mostly in toys I'm good with using the same characters in a different story but not the same characters and the same story but with a couple small "twists".

News Credits: 226 · Mon Mar 06, 2017 10:00 pm

Deadput wrote:The work here is great never said otherwise!

Never said you did. :wink:

I'm talking about the overuse of G1 in media these days mostly in toys I'm good with using the same characters in a different story but not the same characters and the same story but with a couple small "twists".

And I was trying to get the conversation back to the thread in a nice subtle way. Guess I'll stick with being an abrupt asshole like everyone expects me to be.

So yeah, back on topic. Save the overuse of G1 chat for another thread. I'm sure D-Max will love to join in on it. :-P

News Credits: 6188 · Tue Mar 07, 2017 4:10 am

Can we talk about Klejpull's impressive, and constant, work? How is everyone else not talking only about that?

(Note: next edition of round-up is being prepared, doing it early this time, and it includes the ones we missed in February.)

News Credits: 295 · Tue Mar 07, 2017 4:58 am

I picked his work for the thumbnail because you hardly see Helex get any love, much less a custom figure! I was amazed at the details on it. Plus I am also chomping at the bit for hasbro to make MTMTE toys (if they ever do).