The Energon Pub

News Credits: 4880 · Thu Jul 07, 2016 6:58 am

That Ratchet is far from being a decent improvement over the Hasbro one. The Alt modes are just as bland, here's the Hasbro one.

Quite dissapointed with this.

News Credits: 13 · Thu Jul 07, 2016 9:14 am

Is it just me or does Birk look a lot like the same engineering as Prime Vehicon? Looks very similar except the forearms.

News Credits: 462 · Thu Jul 07, 2016 11:42 am

Wait, is Takara doing two releases of the Power Surge OP mold?

News Credits: 4880 · Thu Jul 07, 2016 11:44 am

Sabrblade wrote:Wait, is Takara doing two releases of the Power Surge OP mold?

Yes. With different accessories (and maybe deco). TAV 61 and TAV 50 are 2 different releases of th same mold. I may go edit that in the news post to make it more clear.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Thu Jul 07, 2016 2:34 pm

I was going to say, that's a "level-up" from the original and nothing like the Hasbro version. Hard to tell if the image is grayscale or painted that way.

Emerje

News Credits: 131 · Sat Jul 09, 2016 7:56 am

News Credits: 4880 · Mon Jul 11, 2016 6:39 am

TAV 50 Hyper Surge Optimus has been out for a little while now and yet hasn't had much coverage. This is probably due to him being more for a younger audience and even more because the Hasbro version was out at the same time and doesn't require importing for the west. However, we were able to find a fun stop motion video of this toy from youheidx. This video shows the play-ability aspect of this toy in its Takara premium deco. Enjoy!

News Credits: 3 · Mon Jul 11, 2016 6:05 pm

Really tempted by this figure. If it weren't for that vehicle mode I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

News Credits: 19 · Mon Jul 11, 2016 11:40 pm

These figures really ain't for me at all but I just like stop motion animation with Transformers figures.

News Credits: 6188 · Thu Jul 14, 2016 5:46 am

After the finding of Starscream in the Robots in Disguise line in Canada, we also have confirmation -via Loopaza Mega Store on Facebook - on what the Transformers Adventure mystery figures we have seen solicited previously will be: TAV57 Hypersurge Starscream and TAV62 Starscream! The latter is probably the closest to the one we just saw from Hasbro in the Clash of the Transformers exclusive line, so feel free to speculate about the new deco in the Energon Pub - and indeed, Starscream's presence on the Robots in Disguise show here!

News Credits: 191 · Thu Jul 14, 2016 6:45 am

Takara's retools are really getting impressive. They've managed to turn the Starscream mold into a circle and an oval.

Thu Jul 14, 2016 7:03 am

Cool, I can wait for TakTom's version then.

News Credits: 2 · Thu Jul 14, 2016 7:17 am

Obvious as soon as I saw the tru robots in disguise exclusive starscream this morning

News Credits: 7 · Thu Jul 14, 2016 7:22 am

Interesting timing.

Kurona wrote:Takara's retools are really getting impressive. They've managed to turn the Starscream mold into a circle and an oval.

ARMADA HOMAGE!

News Credits: 191 · Thu Jul 14, 2016 7:54 am

Noideaforaname wrote:Interesting timing.

Kurona wrote:Takara's retools are really getting impressive. They've managed to turn the Starscream mold into a circle and an oval.

ARMADA HOMAGE!

And here I was, thinking this mold couldn't get any more Starscream references if they tried.

News Credits: 1646 · Sun Jul 17, 2016 4:00 pm

I cannot wait for Bisk to come out. Him and Ratchet. The vehicle mode on Ratchet still needed some more paint though

News Credits: 4880 · Sun Jul 24, 2016 1:07 am

Wonderfest Summer 2016 has some more Takara reveals for us, and this time we are looking at the Transformers Adventure TAV line. We now have the reveal of:

TAV 57 Hyper Surge Starscream
TAV 56 Windblade
TAV 58 Sideswipe Weaponiser in clear Plastic
TAV 56 Hyper Surge Nemesis Prime

The images also contain the upcoming figures Scorponok, Ratchet and Bisk.

Windblade and Nemesis Prime are the big reveals here since it was unknown how Takara would release the warrior Power Surge Optimus Prime mold. As it turns out, they will be releasing this warrior figure in Nemesis Prime colours, as they did with their release of the original Warrior Optimus mold. This means that, like the original mold, every main deco of this figure will be its own regional/retail exclusive: The Standard Optimus colours will be a Hasbro exclusive, the Nemesis Prime deco will be Takara Exclusive and the Clash of Transformers deco will be Toysrus exclusive. If anyone wants to know more about the Power Surge Warrior remold, feel free to check out this recent picture filled review.

Onto Windblade, the reason this toy's reveal was so anticipated was to compare it with the Hasbro release which seemed to be lacking paint applications to make it less red. The Takara one does indeed have black paint applications over the red plastic on the head (hair), hands, shoulder pads, sides and near the rotors in vehicle mode. Pictures of the Hasbro version have bee included for comparisons below. Let us know which of these you intend on picking up and if you will stick with the Hasbro version for any of these.

Hasbro version of Windblade:

News Credits: 11 · Sun Jul 24, 2016 7:01 am

How does this compare to Takara's LEGENDS range Windblade? If the details are the same, then perhaps I'll pick this version up as my CHUG version. I ought the Decepticon repaint (Slipstream?) of her, and wasn't really impressed by the mold (hard to stand up, bits don't really clip together well in alt mode, etc) already.

News Credits: 4880 · Sun Jul 24, 2016 7:32 am

primalxconvoy wrote:How does this compare to Takara's LEGENDS range Windblade? If the details are the same, then perhaps I'll pick this version up as my CHUG version. I ought the Decepticon repaint (Slipstream?) of her, and wasn't really impressed by the mold (hard to stand up, bits don't really clip together well in alt mode, etc) already.

They are totally different molds, forget the details.

You can compare the two molds at your liesure:

Legends Windblade mold: http://www.seibertron.com/transformers- ... de/3616/1/

RID Windblade mold: http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... and/35828/

News Credits: 12 · Sun Jul 24, 2016 7:52 am

The lack of wrists still sucks, but that is some pure-grade TAKARA WINS AGAIN on Windblade there. I might actually be tempted to buy that (though I'll still be looking for a way to articulate those wrists).

News Credits: 1 · Sun Jul 24, 2016 8:16 am

Delta Magnus wrote:The lack of wrists still sucks, but that is some pure-grade TAKARA WINS AGAIN on Windblade there. I might actually be tempted to buy that (though I'll still be looking for a way to articulate those wrists).

"Pure-grade"? It looks like the Hasbro figure with a purple sword to me.

News Credits: 12 · Sun Jul 24, 2016 8:17 am

Gunmetal wrote:
Delta Magnus wrote:The lack of wrists still sucks, but that is some pure-grade TAKARA WINS AGAIN on Windblade there. I might actually be tempted to buy that (though I'll still be looking for a way to articulate those wrists).

"Pure-grade"? It looks like the Hasbro figure with a purple sword to me.

Tsk tsk. Someone isn't looking very hard it would seem.

News Credits: 191 · Sun Jul 24, 2016 8:24 am

That paint is so much better; looks like I've got two choices for Windy now

Can anyone who already has the RiD Windblade mold tell me if it's better than the Generations one? Just the mold itself, ignoring the paint apps.

News Credits: 1 · Sun Jul 24, 2016 8:28 am

Delta Magnus wrote:
Gunmetal wrote:
Delta Magnus wrote:The lack of wrists still sucks, but that is some pure-grade TAKARA WINS AGAIN on Windblade there. I might actually be tempted to buy that (though I'll still be looking for a way to articulate those wrists).

"Pure-grade"? It looks like the Hasbro figure with a purple sword to me.

Tsk tsk. Someone isn't looking very hard it would seem.

The pictures are right next to each other; are we not seeing the same ones?

Oh, black hands. That changes everything. :roll:

Edit: okay, now I see the dabs on the head, but that's something I could do myself and save the import costs and wait. Leader Prime it's not.

News Credits: 4880 · Sun Jul 24, 2016 8:35 am

Kurona wrote:That paint is so much better; looks like I've got two choices for Windy now

Can anyone who already has the RiD Windblade mold tell me if it's better than the Generations one? Just the mold itself, ignoring the paint apps.

It hasn't been widely released yet.