The Energon Pub

Website · by **RK_Striker_JK_5** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 4:58 pm

Man, can't wait for these guys!

It'll be the first time I order from the Club. Hopefully preorders for Marissa and Old Snake show up soon, too. :???:

News Credits: 174 · by **Hellscream9999** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 5:17 pm

Do we know how frequently and how severe the qc issues are? I wouldn't necessarily bring it up, but I do remember that previous tfss figures have had some problems; most recently nacelles massive issue. I won't pay $300-400 for a combiner with qc issues that keep it from being a decent figure.

News Credits: 16 · by **It Is Him** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 6:50 pm

necr0blivion wrote:
ScottyP wrote:
It Is Him wrote:Can someone provide a price or a price estimate for the subscription? Being able to budget for this would be helpful.
This post on the last page of the thread mentioned it being comparable to 3.0, so thanks to shipping/etc I'd budget yourself about $425, which assumes a minor increase in price from 3.0 (better to plan for more, right?)

Basically, about the same price as a Botcon set for more or less the same amount of figures. Makes sense to me.

If it's comparable to 3.0, then it was $297 + shipping + installment fees (if you choose to not pay the lump sum up front). I just got charge $117 for the 2nd installment of 3.0, so hopefully closer to $375 or less.

$300 would be a lot easier to swallow. Do you have to pay shipping on each piece? I haven't done a full subscription before, and I hadn't even considered that cost.

by **thundershot** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 7:02 pm

I hope the 7th one is either:

Crankcase from Swindle
Guzzle from Brawl
Quake from Brawl (with Targetmasters and new head) (I think Pete said no on this one..)
Ironfist from First Aid (new head)

Logically, the 7th figure will be a repaint of one of the others. Who knows, though...

News Credits: 8 · by **Flashwave** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 7:39 pm

ScottyP wrote:
Counterpunch wrote:I think that's meant to be G2 Roadblock: http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Roadblock_(G2)
Primarily, yep, but the Minicon buddy at least looks marginally like the Humanoid Pretender shell, so for at least a temporary amount of time this is my "Classics" G1 Roadblock. Basically once something better comes along, off to the G2 shelf it goes.

Funny, all the uses the little guy gets. i'm using the Micron as Fistfight, for no other reason than he matches the colors on Prime Shockwave.

News Credits: 8 · by **Flashwave** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 11:05 pm

It Is Him wrote:
necr0blivion wrote:
ScottyP wrote:
It Is Him wrote:Can someone provide a price or a price estimate for the subscription? Being able to budget for this would be helpful.
This post on the last page of the thread mentioned it being comparable to 3.0, so thanks to shipping/etc I'd budget yourself about $425, which assumes a minor increase in price from 3.0 (better to plan for more, right?)

Basically, about the same price as a Botcon set for more or less the same amount of figures. Makes sense to me.

If it's comparable to 3.0, then it was $297 + shipping + installment fees (if you choose to not pay the lump sum up front). I just got charge $117 for the 2nd installment of 3.0, so hopefully closer to $375 or less.

$300 would be a lot easier to swallow. Do you have to pay shipping on each piece? I haven't done a full subscription before, and I hadn't even considered that cost.

Shipping is included either in the up-front cost, or the installments. It's not an unreasonable shipping price domestically unless you pay for the better options. If you are out of country, well, you probably know what to expect.

Where they get you is a "transaction fee". If you pay the all at once, it hits you one time. If you do the installments, they hit for each installment. It's like an extra 8 bucks. Or it was. Using the above example, the $117 installment price is probbaly the $7 transaction fee, $10 shipping fee, $100 for the two figures.

Someone else asked about how m,uch Impactor was.

Individvually, if yu break down the set price, about 55 or 60 bucks. A Voyager=2 deluxes in price, and we have the 7th figure, so you have 6 deluxes and a voyager or "8 deluxes", 400/"8"= $50 each.
On BBTS, or another, $80 Definately the high price like Scourge and Slipstream were, cause it's Freakin' Impactor and leaving aside the close but no cigar FOC fig, this is the first IMpactor figure.
On Ebay, IF he get's leaked, youy might be able to nab him for 55.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 1:29 am

Hellscream9999 wrote:Do we know how frequently and how severe the qc issues are? I wouldn't necessarily bring it up, but I do remember that previous tfss figures have had some problems; most recently nacelles massive issue.

What "massive issue"? Neither of the two minor misassemblies were big enough deals to inhibit any of the figure's functionality and playability.

by **necr0blivion** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 10:56 am

Flashwave wrote:
It Is Him wrote:
necr0blivion wrote:
ScottyP wrote:
It Is Him wrote:Can someone provide a price or a price estimate for the subscription? Being able to budget for this would be helpful.
This post on the last page of the thread mentioned it being comparable to 3.0, so thanks to shipping/etc I'd budget yourself about $425, which assumes a minor increase in price from 3.0 (better to plan for more, right?)

Basically, about the same price as a Botcon set for more or less the same amount of figures. Makes sense to me.

If it's comparable to 3.0, then it was $297 + shipping + installment fees (if you choose to not pay the lump sum up front). I just got charge $117 for the 2nd installment of 3.0, so hopefully closer to $375 or less.

$300 would be a lot easier to swallow. Do you have to pay shipping on each piece? I haven't done a full subscription before, and I hadn't even considered that cost.

Shipping is included either in the up-front cost, or the installments. It's not an unreasonable shipping price domestically unless you pay for the better options. If you are out of country, well, you probably know what to expect.

Where they get you is a "transaction fee". If you pay the all at once, it hits you one time. If you do the installments, they hit for each installment. It's like an extra 8 bucks. Or it was. Using the above example, the $117 installment price is probbaly the $7 transaction fee, $10 shipping fee, $100 for the two figures.

Thank you for that, I'm having difficulties finding the terms & conditions for 3.0. What I *can* say is that I've been hit with 2 transactions of $117 and expect a 3rd in August or September. That should be the end of it. So: 7 figures, shipping, and installment fees should total $351.

News Credits: 174 · by **Hellscream9999** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 1:27 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
Hellscream9999 wrote:Do we know how frequently and how severe the qc issues are? I wouldn't necessarily bring it up, but I do remember that previous tfss figures have had some problems; most recently nacelles massive issue.
What "massive issue"? Neither of the two minor misassemblies were big enough deals to inhibit any of the figure's functionality and playability.

In-so-far as I know, it cannot be fixed without breaking the leg; also there is the whole 'paying ~$60 for a mis-assembled deluxe' thing. It may not seem massive, but what happens if something similar happens to bludgeon? You would then be unable to combine him theoretically.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 3:00 pm

Hellscream9999 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Hellscream9999 wrote:Do we know how frequently and how severe the qc issues are? I wouldn't necessarily bring it up, but I do remember that previous tfss figures have had some problems; most recently nacelles massive issue.
What "massive issue"? Neither of the two minor misassemblies were big enough deals to inhibit any of the figure's functionality and playability.

In-so-far as I know, it cannot be fixed without breaking the leg; also there is the whole 'paying ~$60 for a mis-assembled deluxe' thing. It may not seem massive, but what happens if something similar happens to bludgeon? You would then be unable to combine him theoretically.

It's rare that there comes a misassembly so severe as to ruin the figure on such a large scale, and in the off chance that such a case does occur it usually isn't a widespread case, instead being a isolated case or so, in which case the Club can replace one's "broken" figure if the problem is reported and taken care of quickly enough.

News Credits: 8 · by **Flashwave** » Sun Jul 26, 2015 3:54 pm

Hellscream9999 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Hellscream9999 wrote:Do we know how frequently and how severe the qc issues are? I wouldn't necessarily bring it up, but I do remember that previous tfss figures have had some problems; most recently nacelles massive issue.
What "massive issue"? Neither of the two minor misassemblies were big enough deals to inhibit any of the figure's functionality and playability.

In-so-far as I know, it cannot be fixed without breaking the leg; also there is the whole 'paying ~$60 for a mis-assembled deluxe' thing. It may not seem massive, but what happens if something similar happens to bludgeon? You would then be unable to combine him theoretically.

I agree with the price concern, but Nacelle's wing fins are a far cry from say someone's reversed thigh that prevents the vehicle halves from snapping together.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Sun Jul 26, 2015 5:26 pm

I just had a thought. Regarding the mystery 7th figure, with the Club having stated that they worked with Hasbro on it, what if it's something that Hasbro knows people want but won't put out at retail themselves, and so view this Club release of it as the official Hasbro version of whatever it is. Like, what if it's something like the UW Deluxe Groove mold by itself?

Or what if it's something like the UW Deluxe Groove redecoed as the G1 Triggerbot Override, as a sort of karmic reaction to how Takara handled the Legends Groove situation (i.e - Hasbro makes Groove a Legend --> Takara responds with a Deluxe, Takara redeco the Legends Groove as Override --> Hasbro/TCC responds with a Deluxe)?

EDIT: Nevermind. It can't be Deluxe Groove since the 7th figure is an idea that Karl Hartman has wanted to do for a long time.

News Credits: 331 · by **chuckdawg1999** » Sun Jul 26, 2015 9:39 pm

Sabrblade wrote:I just had a thought. Regarding the mystery 7th figure, with the Club having stated that they worked with Hasbro on it, what if it's something that Hasbro knows people want but won't put out at retail themselves, and so view this Club release of it as the official Hasbro version of whatever it is. Like, what if it's something like the UW Deluxe Groove mold by itself?

Or what if it's something like the UW Deluxe Groove redecoed as the G1 Triggerbot Override, as a sort of karmic reaction to how Takara handled the Legends Groove situation (i.e - Hasbro makes Groove a Legend --> Takara responds with a Deluxe, Takara redeco the Legends Groove as Override --> Hasbro/TCC responds with a Deluxe)?

EDIT: Nevermind. It can't be Deluxe Groove since the 7th figure is an idea that Karl Hartman has wanted to do for a long time.

RID Prime as Hot Spot with the super mode as Defensor? In this case use CW Hot Spot as Prime and the torso has a new head that's the super Prime mode.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Sun Jul 26, 2015 9:41 pm

chuckdawg1999 wrote:RID Prime as Hot Spot with the super mode as Defensor? In this case use CW Hot Spot as Prime and the torso has a new head that's the super Prime mode.

The 7th figure is a CW Deluxe.

News Credits: 331 · by **chuckdawg1999** » Sun Jul 26, 2015 9:57 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
chuckdawg1999 wrote:RID Prime as Hot Spot with the super mode as Defensor? In this case use CW Hot Spot as Prime and the torso has a new head that's the super Prime mode.
The 7th figure is a CW Deluxe.

Or is it...? Yeah forgot that. There goes my idea of a repainted Powerglide as a weapon for the combined mode.

News Credits: 86 · by **Powered Convoy** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 12:35 pm

I'm betting it's a deco or character that hasn't been done in a long time but is a good fit for whatever mold they use.

Randy

News Credits: 8 · by **Flashwave** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 1:39 pm

Sabrblade wrote:I just had a thought. Regarding the mystery 7th figure, with the Club having stated that they worked with Hasbro on it, what if it's something that Hasbro knows people want but won't put out at retail themselves, and so view this Club release of it as the official Hasbro version of whatever it is. Like, what if it's something like the UW Deluxe Groove mold by itself?

Or what if it's something like the UW Deluxe Groove redecoed as the G1 Triggerbot Override, as a sort of karmic reaction to how Takara handled the Legends Groove situation (i.e - Hasbro makes Groove a Legend --> Takara responds with a Deluxe, Takara redeco the Legends Groove as Override --> Hasbro/TCC responds with a Deluxe)?

EDIT: Nevermind. It can't be Deluxe Groove since the 7th figure is an idea that Karl Hartman has wanted to do for a long time.

Deluxe class Glide

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Wed Jul 29, 2015 2:08 pm

Impactor!!! Yay!!!

Now if only he was an actual retail release... :-(

News Credits: 33 · by **TF_JW** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 2:08 pm

A new teaser image for TFSS 4.0.

https://twitter.com/The_TF_Club/status/629728713052131328

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 2:23 pm

Via new board member and Transformers Collectors' Club writer TF_JW, we have a new teaser image for the TFSS 4.0, featuring a glimpse at one of the members of the Mayhem Attack Squad, via the Club's Twitter account. Make sure to keep your optics on there or right here at Seibertron.com as the updates come rolling in next week!

MAYHEM IS COMING! #TFSSfourpointzero

News Credits: 86 · by **Powered Convoy** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 2:41 pm

Can't wait to see what the final mockups look like!

Looks like Bludgeon has some swords there.

Randy

News Credits: 650 · by **ScottyP** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 3:27 pm

Is this a tease for the combined mode's head or am I just being dense at the end of a work week?

News Credits: 13 · by **grimdragon2001** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 3:39 pm

hope it lasts a month or 2, really need time to get funds together

by **Rated X** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 4:01 pm

Im not sure exactly theyre "teasing" since the 4.0 figures have already been revealed over a month ago.

The real "mayhem" begins when the 4.0 pre-order site crashes 5 times and Brian sends out a barrage of apology e-mails for a week...

Im still pissed about the purposely missassembled Nacelle tailfins. Yo Brian give us 3.0 buyers a god damn $25 credit or something ! :evil: