The Energon Pub

fenrir72 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/review?scode=FIGURE-010089&page=top%2Fsearch%2Flist%3Fs_cate3%3D986%24s_originaltitle%3DTransformers%24pagemax%3D40%24getcnt%3D0%24pagecnt%3D1

Transformers Unite Warriors Late June 2015

@ Y 11,300 not including shipping.

For that price, roughly $95, I'm strongly considering canceling my BBTS preorder and switching to AmiAmi. But I've never ordered from them before and am unfamiliar with their shipping costs and such. How good are their shipping costs to the U.S.?

I get it shipped to South East Asia. Excellent packaging. Recommend SAL Parcel if you want tracking.

For preorders, do they have customers pay upfront or do they wait to charge them until the item gets in stock?

Sabrblade wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/review?scode=FIGURE-010089&page=top%2Fsearch%2Flist%3Fs_cate3%3D986%24s_originaltitle%3DTransformers%24pagemax%3D40%24getcnt%3D0%24pagecnt%3D1

Transformers Unite Warriors Late June 2015

@ Y 11,300 not including shipping.

For that price, roughly $95, I'm strongly considering canceling my BBTS preorder and switching to AmiAmi. But I've never ordered from them before and am unfamiliar with their shipping costs and such. How good are their shipping costs to the U.S.?

I dont know but I took a chance and ordered it anyway. Apparently, if we pick the shipping option with longest time, it should be less than 20$ but I am not sure.

Sabrblade wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/review?scode=FIGURE-010089&page=top%2Fsearch%2Flist%3Fs_cate3%3D986%24s_originaltitle%3DTransformers%24pagemax%3D40%24getcnt%3D0%24pagecnt%3D1

Transformers Unite Warriors Late June 2015

@ Y 11,300 not including shipping.

For that price, roughly $95, I'm strongly considering canceling my BBTS preorder and switching to AmiAmi. But I've never ordered from them before and am unfamiliar with their shipping costs and such. How good are their shipping costs to the U.S.?

I get it shipped to South East Asia. Excellent packaging. Recommend SAL Parcel if you want tracking.

For preorders, do they have customers pay upfront or do they wait to charge them until the item gets in stock?

I just bought it and will only have to pay once its in stock.

Sabrblade wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/review?scode=FIGURE-010089&page=top%2Fsearch%2Flist%3Fs_cate3%3D986%24s_originaltitle%3DTransformers%24pagemax%3D40%24getcnt%3D0%24pagecnt%3D1

Transformers Unite Warriors Late June 2015

@ Y 11,300 not including shipping.

For that price, roughly $95, I'm strongly considering canceling my BBTS preorder and switching to AmiAmi. But I've never ordered from them before and am unfamiliar with their shipping costs and such. How good are their shipping costs to the U.S.?

I get it shipped to South East Asia. Excellent packaging. Recommend SAL Parcel if you want tracking.

For preorders, do they have customers pay upfront or do they wait to charge them until the item gets in stock?

Pay only when it's in stock. Avoid cancelling orders too much though or you'll get blacklisted.

Huh. I asked around elsewhere too and they said they had to pay upfront for AmiAmi preorders.

Though, HLJ has it up too, and for cheaper than AmiAmi - http://www.hlj.com/product/TKT83168/Sci

Sabrblade wrote:Huh. I asked around elsewhere too and they said they had to pay upfront for AmiAmi preorders.

Though, HLJ has it up too, and for cheaper than AmiAmi - http://www.hlj.com/product/TKT83168/Sci

That IS categorically NOT true! You pay upfront for their pre-owned items only. Whoever said that you had to pay upfont for pre-orders IS a LIAR!

Depending on the availabilitty, I get either from hlj,hobbysearch or amiami. (Amiami sometimes get sold out fast)

amiami and hobbysearch has a point accumulation system where you accumulate certain points which can be exchange as discounts to a particular product.

Sabrblade wrote:Huh. I asked around elsewhere too and they said they had to pay upfront for AmiAmi preorders.

Though, HLJ has it up too, and for cheaper than AmiAmi - http://www.hlj.com/product/TKT83168/Sci

Its cheaper by less than 1$ US. I will stick to amiami, I like their combined shipping for toys released the same month option as I will be getting some TAVs that come out in June as well.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Seibertron wrote:

Amelie wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Do you know any other famous G1 shuttle Transformers?

Sky-Lynx?

Spay-C?

Oh wait. He's a Gobot. Nevermind!

http://counter-x.net/gobots/reviews/series1/spay-c.html

She is a Go-Bot

A long-serving Guardian, Spay-C was present during the first Renegade revolt, the capture of the Gobotron Fortress and the planet's take-over by Cy-Kill and the Master Renegade.

She was later appointed administrator of Gobotron's Spa Moon, and would be part of the escort for the captured Fitor (making an unwilling journey to Earth when under Cy-Kill's control soon after).

Only 3 real shuttles, and one of them is white and a dino. Not much of a choice there

Kind of late but do you count Galaxy Shuttle from Victory?

fenrir72 wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Seibertron wrote:

Amelie wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Do you know any other famous G1 shuttle Transformers?

Sky-Lynx?

Spay-C?

Oh wait. He's a Gobot. Nevermind!

http://counter-x.net/gobots/reviews/series1/spay-c.html

She is a Go-Bot

A long-serving Guardian, Spay-C was present during the first Renegade revolt, the capture of the Gobotron Fortress and the planet's take-over by Cy-Kill and the Master Renegade.

She was later appointed administrator of Gobotron's Spa Moon, and would be part of the escort for the captured Fitor (making an unwilling journey to Earth when under Cy-Kill's control soon after).

Only 3 real shuttles, and one of them is white and a dino. Not much of a choice there

Kind of late but do you count Galaxy Shuttle from Victory?

I would count him, but he was a minor character with a generic name (he would fit with typical Yuusha toys though)

fenrir72 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Huh. I asked around elsewhere too and they said they had to pay upfront for AmiAmi preorders.

Though, HLJ has it up too, and for cheaper than AmiAmi - http://www.hlj.com/product/TKT83168/Sci

That IS categorically NOT true! You pay upfront for their pre-owned items only. Whoever said that you had to pay upfont for pre-orders IS a LIAR!

I see what happened. They thought I linked to Anime-Export instead of AmiAmi.

Sabrblade wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Huh. I asked around elsewhere too and they said they had to pay upfront for AmiAmi preorders.

Though, HLJ has it up too, and for cheaper than AmiAmi - http://www.hlj.com/product/TKT83168/Sci

That IS categorically NOT true! You pay upfront for their pre-owned items only. Whoever said that you had to pay upfont for pre-orders IS a LIAR!

I see what happened. They thought I linked to Anime-Export instead of AmiAmi.

Get them while available sabr. They sell out quickly.

fenrir72 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Huh. I asked around elsewhere too and they said they had to pay upfront for AmiAmi preorders.

Though, HLJ has it up too, and for cheaper than AmiAmi - http://www.hlj.com/product/TKT83168/Sci

That IS categorically NOT true! You pay upfront for their pre-owned items only. Whoever said that you had to pay upfont for pre-orders IS a LIAR!

I see what happened. They thought I linked to Anime-Export instead of AmiAmi.

Get them while available sabr. They sell out quickly.

Already preordered at HLJ.

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Though these are just placholders of the Hasbro toys (as mentioned in the news post), it's interesting to see that Adams apparently doesn't come with Payload/Blast Master, even despite Takara turning Swerve's Flanker/Sky High into Blast Master's partner Phaser. So, did Takara do a redeco meant to go with a toy sold exclusively in Hasbro markets?

I had to reread that last sentence several times to get what was going on. You explained it well, its just that it would be ...so ...odd

Yeah, Phaser has no Blast Master in Japan, and the opposite is true for the US. Japan did get the Payload mold in the form of Micron Astrotrain though.

You know, I never understood why they called it astrotrain. I get that one of Astrotrain's modes is a shuttle, but come on. The word "train" is a big part of his name, and speaking of Big, Astrotrain is usually a big guy. I just found it wasn't the best character to reference.

Similarily, the G1 episode "Triple Takeover" had Astrotrain create a small team of trains called the "Astroforce".

And, in a case similar to the Micron Astrotrain, the TCC had previously released a remold of Armada Jetfire as Astrotrain.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Do you know any other famous G1 shuttle Transformers?

Blast Off?

Sorry to bring this back up, but yeah, why couldnt the payload redeco have been Blastoff instead. It makes more sense than Astrotrain since he was principally a shuttle and also had a third more functional mode that you know, wasn't a train.

william-james88 wrote:Sorry to bring this back up, but yeah, why couldnt the payload redeco have been Blastoff instead. It makes more sense than Astrotrain since he was principally a shuttle and also had a third more functional mode that you know, wasn't a train.

Astrotrain might be the more popular of the two, so he'd possibly generate a higher demand.

Also, making it Blast Off runs into the situation of "Why did they make this into a Combiner Team character if he's not a Combiner mold and by himself?" which, while similar to the "Why did they make this into a Triple Changer character if he's not a Triple Changer mold?" issue with Astrotrain, but I kinda feel that the former might be a greater offense than the latter.

And the Payload mold at least does have three modes (robot, shuttle, gun), so Astrotrain would still be some kind of Triple Changer.

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Sorry to bring this back up, but yeah, why couldnt the payload redeco have been Blastoff instead. It makes more sense than Astrotrain since he was principally a shuttle and also had a third more functional mode that you know, wasn't a train.

Astrotrain might be the more popular of the two, so he'd possibly generate a higher demand.

Also, making it Blast Off runs into the situation of "Why did they make this into a Combiner Team character if he's not a Combiner mold and by himself?" which, while similar to the "Why did they make this into a Triple Changer character if he's not a Triple Changer mold?" issue with Astrotrain, but I kinda feel that the former might be a greater offense than the latter.

And the Payload mold at least does have three modes (robot, shuttle, gun), so Astrotrain would still be some kind of Triple Changer.

Well put I guess I just think too much of astrotrain as a train.

Courtesy as always of Takara Tomy Transformers designer and dedicated fan Hisashi Yuki, we get a look at an upcoming character from the Transformers Adventure line - TAV 03 Strongarm! Yuki claims the figure will be released in the coming month, but you can take a look at the toy and how it looks compared to the Legends Arcee, Chromia and Windblade predecessors below.

Looks good! I'll want to see what Reprolabels does for her though (like cover up that scanning thing).

I was kinda hoping that the Takara version would do something about that, because it's such an ugly blemish on an otherwise decent figure.

WTF ??? "Strongarm" is a chick ?

Rated X wrote:WTF ??? "Strongarm" is a chick ?

What's wrong with that?

Rated X wrote:WTF ??? "Strongarm" is a chick ?

Yes, believe it or not, women indeed have arms. I know it is a startling revelation but we'll have to consider Strongarm ,and any other name with "arm" "elbow" or even "wrist" to be gender-neutral from now on.

Regrettably it appears She has some trouble with developing proper hands, so that may remain masculine for the time being.

Rated X wrote:WTF ??? "Strongarm" is a chick ?

Wait, you didn't know? There's been trailers for the show with her in them. She says stuff in the trailers! There's pictures of her in the galleries! How could you have not known the character was female yet?

And the show begins....

SKYWARPED_128 wrote:And the show begins....

Hand some over, will you?

and i still have that strong urge of shipping her with Bumblebee.

Mechastrike wrote:and i still have that strong urge of shipping her with Bumblebee.

Part of me is afraid that they'll make her (the uptight lady) and Sideswipe (the edgy bad boy) "a thing" in the show. UGH SO CLICHED