The Energon Pub

[Sabrblade]

We really need a group therapy lounge here.

Tell me about it. Full wave 1 2016, Titan UW Devvy, Platinum Dinobots. This is a month of pure wallet destruction if I get everything I want.

Hi everyone. My name is Memphis, and I am a CHUGaholic.

Aren't we all 助けて

No.

[Hellscream9999]

We really need a group therapy lounge here.

Tell me about it. Full wave 1 2016, Titan UW Devvy, Platinum Dinobots. This is a month of pure wallet destruction if I get everything I want.

Hi everyone. My name is Memphis, and I am a CHUGaholic.

Aren't we all 助けて

No.

Nope

[Wolfman Jake]

We really need a group therapy lounge here.

Tell me about it. Full wave 1 2016, Titan UW Devvy, Platinum Dinobots. This is a month of pure wallet destruction if I get everything I want.

Hi everyone. My name is Memphis, and I am a CHUGaholic.

Aren't we all 助けて

No.

Nope

It's okay, guys. The first step is the hardest: admitting you have a problem.

[william-james88]

I get heavily depressed when I realize I cant afford all these beautiful Takara toys. A support group would be nice.

[Sabrblade]

We really need a group therapy lounge here.

Tell me about it. Full wave 1 2016, Titan UW Devvy, Platinum Dinobots. This is a month of pure wallet destruction if I get everything I want.

Hi everyone. My name is Memphis, and I am a CHUGaholic.

Aren't we all 助けて

No.

Nope

It's okay, guys. The first step is the hardest: admitting you have a problem.

Oh, make no mistake, I like Generations toys and have a fair number of them (Classics and Universe, however, I barely own any). I just don't feel that it should be the main Transformers line that it's become.

To be perfectly honest, there are often times I even wish that Classics (and its successor lines) had never even existed.

[william-james88]

To be perfectly honest, there are often times I even wish that Classics (and its successor lines) had never even existed.

I think I get where you are coming from and, with how the brand was built around toys reflecting a current fiction and not toys as a result of a previously established fiction, but I would be happy if you explained your view a little more.

I will say this though, the golden age of Transformers toys is between 2005 and 2010 and the CHUG stuff is a small fragment of why that era is referred to as the golden age.

[Hellscream9999]

We really need a group therapy lounge here.

Tell me about it. Full wave 1 2016, Titan UW Devvy, Platinum Dinobots. This is a month of pure wallet destruction if I get everything I want.

Hi everyone. My name is Memphis, and I am a CHUGaholic.

Aren't we all 助けて

No.

Nope

It's okay, guys. The first step is the hardest: admitting you have a problem.

Oh, make no mistake, I like Generations toys and have a fair number of them (Classics and Universe, however, I barely own any). I just don't feel that it should be the main Transformers line that it's become.

To be perfectly honest, there are often times I even wish that Classics (and its successor lines) had never even existed.

I wish the thrilling 30's line could have lasted forever - it's diversity was welcomed and relished; Though, I don't know how much longer I could have gone without cw... I really needed this line in my life

But I both know the feeling sabr and often agree with that sentiment.

[Delicon]

I'm not a huge Takara guy but I only have a few Hasbro CW figures (other than Devastator) that I got at the start because I decided it's a lot easier just to get the Takara versions in one shot with all the proper team members.

[Wolfman Jake]

To be perfectly honest, there are often times I even wish that Classics (and its successor lines) had never even existed.

I think I get where you are coming from and, with how the brand was built around toys reflecting a current fiction and not toys as a result of a previously established fiction, but I would be happy if you explained your view a little more.

I will say this though, the golden age of Transformers toys is between 2005 and 2010 and the CHUG stuff is a small fragment of why that era is referred to as the golden age.

I'd love to weigh in on this issue as too. I've got some perspective coming from a collector who collects outside of the Transformers line as well. There are great comparisons and contrasts to be made between what Hasbro has done with Classics/Universe/Generations and what other toy companies have done with similarly revitalized 1980s properties done in a "Classics" style, but I think it would be best saved for another thread.

[Sabrblade]

I've often considered writing an editorial about why I feel the way I do about Classics and its ilk, but it's never come to fruition due to a lack of time and effort, and due to having other more important priorities.

[william-james88]

I've often considered writing an editorial about why I feel the way I do about Classics and its ilk, but it's never come to fruition due to a lack of time and effort, and due to having other more important priorities.

Could you run a few key pooints by us, just for fun?

[DedicatedGhostArt]

http://news.mynavi.jp/news/2015/12/08/227/

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He truly is glorious, isn't he - all that detail

is this a 'bot crush? And yes, TT does know how to push our buttons with redecos......

I fond it funny how we complain about so many repaints and remolds when we still want more because they sometimes just look plain out awesome like a car robots fire convoy

OH MY GOSH THAT LOOKS BADASS! I wannit so badly!

[Burn]

So yesterday I received my shipping notification from RobotKingdom for "Takaratomy Mall Exclusive United Warriors UW-03 Guardian with Exclusive Coin" which is awesome.

Because I don't remember ordering him. Christmas bonus!
And I was stressing about missing out on him as I was waiting for Premium Collectables to open up another order.

[Hellscream9999]

So yesterday I received my shipping notification from RobotKingdom for "Takaratomy Mall Exclusive United Warriors UW-03 Guardian with Exclusive Coin" which is awesome.

Because I don't remember ordering him. Christmas bonus!
And I was stressing about missing out on him as I was waiting for Premium Collectables to open up another order.

Boy, that would have been awkward if 2 showed up (like how I got 2 free hotspots from hasbro that I didn't know were coming) I guess if you had ordered a second, you could've scalped bigroove and the painted wheels

[no-one]

Do you read the comments on YouTube? I've been informed I tend to get a bit repetitive with my dialogue.

No, never. I find the comment sections (especially youtube) to be negative cesspools. In fact I was a member of seibertron for years before I realized it was a forum based site and not just articles with comments, derp I may have to start checking out yours, but I go by a different/older username over there.

We really need a group therapy lounge here.

A support group would be nice.

That would be nice, but you all know it would just turn into "The Enablers Club". Their motto: "Well you've come to the right place then, we have plenty of everything!"

[Agamemnon]

Maybe we just need the support group for plastic crack, and not specifically Classics/Generations...

Oh, and speaking of plastic crack, Defensor just hit my BBTS POL.

Do I wait for United Unite Warriors Devs? (I am still waiting on Onslaught...)

Oh, and I just looked at my plastic crack bill so far this month...

[Cyberpath]

I like these little homages to cartoon from UW. Here's one referencing The Master Builders, The Secret of Omega Supreme, and "Hauler" from MTMtE. (he's Grapple to me. )

Looks like they're rebuilding Crystal City.

Photo by Masabon.

[no-one]

I like these little homages to cartoon from UW. Here's one referencing The Master Builders, The Secret of Omega Supreme, and "Hauler" from MTMtE. (he's Grapple to me. )

Photo_by_Masabon.jpg

Looks like they're rebuilding Crystal City.

Photo by Masabon.

What about Hoist? No shout out? Look how happy everyone looks, love it! Thanks for the pic.

[Cyberpath]

What about Hoist? No shout out? Look how happy everyone looks, love it! Thanks for the pic.

Hoist is on the right. :)

As well as an adult Chip Chase.

[no-one]

What about Hoist? No shout out? Look how happy everyone looks, love it! Thanks for the pic.

Hoist is on the right.

Hahaha, it's a fun pic. I've overlooked someone as well. Who's that dude in the wheelchair?

[Sabrblade]

Looks like they're rebuilding Crystal City.

On Earth, even.

[Shumi Nagaremono]

Unite Warriors Devastator has arrived!

[Hellscream9999]

Cancelled my pre-order for glavatronus. Not sure what it is exactly, but I just don't feel comfortable paying $160 for it as it stands now. Of course, I'm still open to getting him, I guess I'm wary of the clear plastic, and the fact that I'd be double-dipping on 3 of the figures (the remolds are by me though). Depending on when sky-lynx and co. comes out - and the fact that I don't plan on getting much from the tw line - I could probably justify getting it closer to the date...

[Wolfman Jake]

I like these little homages to cartoon from UW. Here's one referencing The Master Builders, The Secret of Omega Supreme, and "Hauler" from MTMtE. (he's Grapple to me. )

Photo_by_Masabon.jpg

Hauler, the long-lost seventh Constructicon? Those greens match perfectly. Now I want a green retool/repaint of CW Hot Spot as Hauler.

[Sabrblade]

I like these little homages to cartoon from UW. Here's one referencing The Master Builders, The Secret of Omega Supreme, and "Hauler" from MTMtE. (he's Grapple to me. )

Photo_by_Masabon.jpg

Uh...that IS Grapple.

Grapple and Hauler are both in that pic together.