The Energon Pub

[Jelze Bunnycat]

バトラ batora... Battler? Batra? Certainly not Butler, not without a suit. Ah, Japanese Engrish...

[Kurona]

バトラ batora... Battler? Batra? Certainly not Butler, not without a suit. Ah, Japanese Engrish...

It's the new workplace ethics. While a suit is still preferred, you can now show up to work dressed as a tank or a plane.

[Agamemnon]

バトラ batora... Battler? Batra? Certainly not Butler, not without a suit. Ah, Japanese Engrish...

It's the new workplace ethics. While a suit is still preferred, you can now show up to work dressed as a tank or a plane.

[Jelze Bunnycat]

バトラ batora... Battler? Batra? Certainly not Butler, not without a suit. Ah, Japanese Engrish...

It's the new workplace ethics. While a suit is still preferred, you can now show up to work dressed as a tank or a plane.

As a Dragon or Dino you mean

:EDIT: Ok, settled on "Batra" for now, as a combination of "battle" (バトル batoru) and "dragon" (ドラゴン doragon).

[Nemesis Destron]

Can we expect a Sentinel Prime in this line soon perhaps...any indications?

[Jelze Bunnycat]

Can we expect a Sentinel Prime in this line soon perhaps...any indications?

Not really. Not only does Sentinel Prime have no real basis in Japanese G1 lore, they're going to release his retool Astrotrain first. TakaraTomy usually follows Hasbro's release order, so this means either Sentinel has been skipped, or is planned for a later release as an exclusive.

[Cyberpath]

[D-Maximal_Primal]

Thanks to an alert by Seibertronian Cyberpath and our favorite source of Transformers Takara product TFYuki, we bring to you a new image of the upcoming Legends Hardhead, who is clearly ready to roll out to your collectors shelf! But, one big piece of information is now revealed: Takara is sticking with the Headmaster title instead of the "Titan Master" title of the Hasbro line. The title Headmaster can be seen on Hardhead's box. Check out the new image, and prepare, for Hardhead is gonna be busting up onto the scene here very shortly!

[Kurona]

Not particularly surprising; Takara loved adhering to the past and I'm not actually sure why Hasbro renamed them Titan Masters anywho.
In any case I'm adoring that retro packaging, especially with how the Headmaster is shown off in it's own little corner

[Tigertrack]

Looks awesome to me. Hard to not leave this one MIP.

[Randomhero]

Not particularly surprising; Takara loved adhering to the past and I'm not actually sure why Hasbro renamed them Titan Masters anywho.
In any case I'm adoring that retro packaging, especially with how the Headmaster is shown off in it's own little corner

They already stated that all masters themed figures starting now will be called Titan masters. That includes headmasters, target masters and possibly even power masters IF they do that. And like I said somewhere else, who cares. You'll call it whatever you want when you have it.

[william-james88]

Not particularly surprising; Takara loved adhering to the past and I'm not actually sure why Hasbro renamed them Titan Masters anywho.
In any case I'm adoring that retro packaging, especially with how the Headmaster is shown off in it's own little corner

They already stated that all masters themed figures starting now will be called Titan masters. That includes headmasters, target masters and possibly even power masters IF they do that. And like I said somewhere else, who cares. You'll call it whatever you want when you have it.

Only Hasbro stated that, not Takara.

[Randomhero]

Hasbro usually is the only one who actually does business promotions and will tell us stuff like that. Let's not kid ourselves, Takara has terrible advertisement for transformers. Their toy announcements are magazines and tweets. Once in a while we will find out something at a toyfair in Asia but let's be honest most stuff is found by tweets and magazine scans.

This toy is out in like a couple weeks and we're just now seeing the packaging and finding out theyre using the name "headmaster" and whos surprised? It's takara

[william-james88]

This toy is out in like a couple weeks and we're just now seeing the packaging and finding out theyre using the name "headmaster" and whos surprised? It's takara

No, they revealed the packaging a month and a half ago at tokyo toy show http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... age/35585/





They reveal their figures at shows, just like Hasbro does.

[Randomhero]

Not most of the time though. Yes sometimes well get a "reveal" but it's rare. Cheetor, inferno and weirdwolf were the only reveals there. Most of the time it's the magazines and tweets from tfyuki. That's how we found out about all their adventure line, all the combiners, almost all their headmasters.

Then again it's getting ridiculous now over here with the leaked blueprints and color schematics that are getting leake now. I still have a laugh thinking about all the people who claimed fortress Maximus was a fake. Yup, he's looking pretty good on my coffee table right now.

[Kurona]

Not particularly surprising; Takara loved adhering to the past and I'm not actually sure why Hasbro renamed them Titan Masters anywho.
In any case I'm adoring that retro packaging, especially with how the Headmaster is shown off in it's own little corner

They already stated that all masters themed figures starting now will be called Titan masters. That includes headmasters, target masters and possibly even power masters IF they do that. And like I said somewhere else, who cares. You'll call it whatever you want when you have it.

Yeah but there's no targetmasters or powermasters in this toyline so far despite characters who would have them - Blurr, Scourge, Triggerhappy, Powermaster Optimus Prime - being the ones that would have them, so it seems a bit pointless.
And I'm not exactly complaining, I'm just confused over the decision.

[Randomhero]

Not particularly surprising; Takara loved adhering to the past and I'm not actually sure why Hasbro renamed them Titan Masters anywho.
In any case I'm adoring that retro packaging, especially with how the Headmaster is shown off in it's own little corner

They already stated that all masters themed figures starting now will be called Titan masters. That includes headmasters, target masters and possibly even power masters IF they do that. And like I said somewhere else, who cares. You'll call it whatever you want when you have it.

Yeah but there's no targetmasters or powermasters in this toyline so far despite characters who would have them - Blurr, Scourge, Triggerhappy, Powermaster Optimus Prime - being the ones that would have them, so it seems a bit pointless.
And I'm not exactly complaining, I'm just confused over the decision.

Yet. There's none of them yet. It's not off the table. If they're saying all -masters will be called Titan masters then it's entirely possible were getting other stuff too and who cares if certain target masters and PM prime are headmasters. There still plenty of other characters

We don't know what's coming after Titans return just like we didnt know what was coming after combiner wars. Honestly I don't want another gimmick. Powermasters might come it. Just as long as it's not pretenders

[Sabrblade]

Yeah but there's no targetmasters

Sure there are. The Titan Masters' vehicles have Targetmaster-esque weapon modes that are wielded in hand by the larger Deluxe and Up figures.

[Agamemnon]

Yeah but there's no targetmasters

Sure there are. The Titan Masters' vehicles have Targetmaster-esque weapon modes that are wielded in hand by the larger Deluxe and Up figures.

Indeed. And aren't the vehicles also reminiscent of Action Masters?

[Kurona]

Yeah but there's no targetmasters

Sure there are. The Titan Masters' vehicles have Targetmaster-esque weapon modes that are wielded in hand by the larger Deluxe and Up figures.

That's true, but those aren't exactly the Titan Master characters themselves, are they? They're just equipment.

[Jelze Bunnycat]

Yeah but there's no targetmasters

Sure there are. The Titan Masters' vehicles have Targetmaster-esque weapon modes that are wielded in hand by the larger Deluxe and Up figures.

That's true, but those aren't exactly the Titan Master characters themselves, are they? They're just equipment.

To Hasbro, they're just vehicles. To TakaraTomy, they're sentient drones and as such they have names (Batra and Tankette). Think of them like Action Master partners, without the Action Master.

[Cyberpath]

Looks awesome to me. Hard to not leave this one MIP.

They don't like it in the box. :/ He wants to sing..

[Cyberpath]

New comics finally!

http://tf.takaratomy.co.jp/toy/event/2014/06/web.html

[Professor Smooth]

I had high hopes for Takara's Legends version of PM Prime, but this is even better than I had dreamed.

[Burn]

I had high hopes for Takara's Legends version of PM Prime, but this is even better than I had dreamed.

Damn! So many little differences here and there which all come together to just make him that little bit better looking.

Definitely will be getting him.