The Energon Pub

Hi guys! Name's Bombshell. I've been lurking in the forums for a while now and finally decided to join. I actually signed up several weeks ago, but haven't had the chance to post until now due to projects (college and stuff).

Anyways, I first got into Transformers because of the Michael Bay movies (yeah, yeah, I know). I'm actually the main admin on a TF Facebook page (here's the link: https://www.facebook.com/BombshellDaBug/?ref=hl).

So yeah, new to the forums, not so new to the fandom. I look forward to actually being involved in the forums here.

qcjoe wrote:Hello all Im Joe from the Cincinnati are. Im 40 and married with a daughter/Sith Lord five year old daughter. I normally post on the TFW2005 forum. Ive also purchased twice from members on there with two good reviews.

Welcome man! Been collecting for long? What sort of figures are you into, been enjoyin' Combiner Wars?

Hellscream9999 wrote:

qcjoe wrote:Hello all Im Joe from the Cincinnati are. Im 40 and married with a daughter/Sith Lord five year old daughter. I normally post on the TFW2005 forum. Ive also purchased twice from members on there with two good reviews.

Welcome man! Been collecting for long? What sort of figures are you into, been enjoyin' Combiner Wars?

I just got back in the game late last year. I grew up with the G1 cartoon. Ive not liked any other version until Prime dropped. Im really only collecting the MP line. I do like come of the Combiners but have yet to buy any.

qcjoe wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

qcjoe wrote:Hello all Im Joe from the Cincinnati are. Im 40 and married with a daughter/Sith Lord five year old daughter. I normally post on the TFW2005 forum. Ive also purchased twice from members on there with two good reviews.

Welcome man! Been collecting for long? What sort of figures are you into, been enjoyin' Combiner Wars?

I just got back in the game late last year. I grew up with the G1 cartoon. Ive not liked any other version until Prime dropped. Im really only collecting the MP line. I do like come of the Combiners but have yet to buy any.

Aw man, you're missing out, you should try to at least get a team you like, or 5 figures you like, and make yourself a combiner. I would suggest the aerialbots, or cyclonus with offroad, swindle, dragstrip, and blast-off; as that gives you the best balance of the best molds from the line.

I've never gotten any of the mp's, but they look really nice for the most part, but I don't care enough for the G1 characters to warrant buying them.

Hellscream9999 wrote:

qcjoe wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

qcjoe wrote:Hello all Im Joe from the Cincinnati are. Im 40 and married with a daughter/Sith Lord five year old daughter. I normally post on the TFW2005 forum. Ive also purchased twice from members on there with two good reviews.

Welcome man! Been collecting for long? What sort of figures are you into, been enjoyin' Combiner Wars?

I just got back in the game late last year. I grew up with the G1 cartoon. Ive not liked any other version until Prime dropped. Im really only collecting the MP line. I do like come of the Combiners but have yet to buy any.

Aw man, you're missing out, you should try to at least get a team you like, or 5 figures you like, and make yourself a combiner. I would suggest the aerialbots, or cyclonus with offroad, swindle, dragstrip, and blast-off; as that gives you the best balance of the best molds from the line.

I've never gotten any of the mp's, but they look really nice for the most part, but I don't care enough for the G1 characters to warrant buying them.

Its more about space then any thing. Im also trying to keep my self on one line. If I dont I go crazy buying things. I have been thinking about Devastator though. He really looks close to G1 to me.

qcjoe wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

qcjoe wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

qcjoe wrote:Hello all Im Joe from the Cincinnati are. Im 40 and married with a daughter/Sith Lord five year old daughter. I normally post on the TFW2005 forum. Ive also purchased twice from members on there with two good reviews.

Welcome man! Been collecting for long? What sort of figures are you into, been enjoyin' Combiner Wars?

I just got back in the game late last year. I grew up with the G1 cartoon. Ive not liked any other version until Prime dropped. Im really only collecting the MP line. I do like come of the Combiners but have yet to buy any.

Aw man, you're missing out, you should try to at least get a team you like, or 5 figures you like, and make yourself a combiner. I would suggest the aerialbots, or cyclonus with offroad, swindle, dragstrip, and blast-off; as that gives you the best balance of the best molds from the line.

I've never gotten any of the mp's, but they look really nice for the most part, but I don't care enough for the G1 characters to warrant buying them.

Its more about space then any thing. Im also trying to keep my self on one line. If I dont I go crazy buying things. I have been thinking about Devastator though. He really looks close to G1 to me.

That's because he is really G1 looking And I hear ya about the space, been decreasing the purchases I made in case a line came out where I had to get a large portion of figures, and here we are

But I think at least getting a combiner would do you well, but as devs scales well with mp's I guess that's a good choice

Greetings all, I'm a 28 year old life-long fan.

I've gotten many Transformers toys here and there over the years.

I've always loved the original animated Transformers movie and I was obsessed with Beast Wars as a kid and much more recently I enjoyed Transformers: Prime quite a bit and I enjoyed both War for Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron.

I have only recently started collecting again with Combiner Wars, I've gotten Leader Class Megatron, Ultra Magnus and Jetfire, Vogaer Class Optimus and a bunch of Legends figs as well as 4/6ths of Defensor (Just missing Blades and Streetwise).

I've also recently gotten Sharkticon Megatron from TF:Prime and the Collector's Club Rampage and Trans-Mutate figures.

My shelf is filling up fast.

Tyberion wrote:Greetings all, I'm a 28 year old life-long fan.

I've gotten many Transformers toys here and there over the years.

I've always loved the original animated Transformers movie and I was obsessed with Beast Wars as a kid and much more recently I enjoyed Transformers: Prime quite a bit and I enjoyed both War for Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron.

I have only recently started collecting again with Combiner Wars, I've gotten Leader Class Megatron, Ultra Magnus and Jetfire, Vogaer Class Optimus and a bunch of Legends figs as well as 4/6ths of Defensor (Just missing Blades and Streetwise).

I've also recently gotten Sharkticon Megatron from TF:Prime and the Collector's Club Rampage and Trans-Mutate figures.

My shelf is filling up fast.

Welcome friend

It's great to hear that you're getting so many figures you like; diverse one's at that

Hellscream9999 wrote:

qcjoe wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

qcjoe wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

qcjoe wrote:Hello all Im Joe from the Cincinnati are. Im 40 and married with a daughter/Sith Lord five year old daughter. I normally post on the TFW2005 forum. Ive also purchased twice from members on there with two good reviews.

Welcome man! Been collecting for long? What sort of figures are you into, been enjoyin' Combiner Wars?

I just got back in the game late last year. I grew up with the G1 cartoon. Ive not liked any other version until Prime dropped. Im really only collecting the MP line. I do like come of the Combiners but have yet to buy any.

Aw man, you're missing out, you should try to at least get a team you like, or 5 figures you like, and make yourself a combiner. I would suggest the aerialbots, or cyclonus with offroad, swindle, dragstrip, and blast-off; as that gives you the best balance of the best molds from the line.

I've never gotten any of the mp's, but they look really nice for the most part, but I don't care enough for the G1 characters to warrant buying them.

Its more about space then any thing. Im also trying to keep my self on one line. If I dont I go crazy buying things. I have been thinking about Devastator though. He really looks close to G1 to me.

That's because he is really G1 looking And I hear ya about the space, been decreasing the purchases I made in case a line came out where I had to get a large portion of figures, and here we are

But I think at least getting a combiner would do you well, but as devs scales well with mp's I guess that's a good choice

Yeah hes so G1. Im just not sure if I would do Hasbro or the Takara one. I really wanted the SDCC one. That was off the hook. Of course for the price people are charging it sure as hell better be.

qcjoe wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

qcjoe wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

qcjoe wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

qcjoe wrote:Hello all Im Joe from the Cincinnati are. Im 40 and married with a daughter/Sith Lord five year old daughter. I normally post on the TFW2005 forum. Ive also purchased twice from members on there with two good reviews.

Welcome man! Been collecting for long? What sort of figures are you into, been enjoyin' Combiner Wars?

I just got back in the game late last year. I grew up with the G1 cartoon. Ive not liked any other version until Prime dropped. Im really only collecting the MP line. I do like come of the Combiners but have yet to buy any.

Aw man, you're missing out, you should try to at least get a team you like, or 5 figures you like, and make yourself a combiner. I would suggest the aerialbots, or cyclonus with offroad, swindle, dragstrip, and blast-off; as that gives you the best balance of the best molds from the line.

I've never gotten any of the mp's, but they look really nice for the most part, but I don't care enough for the G1 characters to warrant buying them.

Its more about space then any thing. Im also trying to keep my self on one line. If I dont I go crazy buying things. I have been thinking about Devastator though. He really looks close to G1 to me.

That's because he is really G1 looking And I hear ya about the space, been decreasing the purchases I made in case a line came out where I had to get a large portion of figures, and here we are

But I think at least getting a combiner would do you well, but as devs scales well with mp's I guess that's a good choice

Yeah hes so G1. Im just not sure if I would do Hasbro or the Takara one. I really wanted the SDCC one. That was off the hook. Of course for the price people are charging it sure as hell better be.

It depends, if you want devastator go for hasbro - get it from their ebay store, or hts for free shipping - if you want devastator and the constructicons go for TT (this only applies if articulation/weapons are preferred). Otherwise getting the hasbro one at a lower price (i.e. less than $150, or whatever you feel comfortable paying, since he is pretty hollow, and has lackluster paint apps) is probably your best option either way.

Hope this helps

qcjoe wrote:Hello all Im Joe from the Cincinnati are. Im 40 and married with a daughter/Sith Lord five year old daughter. I normally post on the TFW2005 forum. Ive also purchased twice from members on there with two good reviews.

BombshellDaBug wrote:Hi guys! Name's Bombshell.

So yeah, new to the forums, not so new to the fandom. I look forward to actually being involved in the forums here.

Tyberion wrote:Greetings all, I'm a 28 year old life-long fan.

My shelf is filling up fast.

Wassup! Welcome to the nuttiest nutty boards around, we'll make sure you feel as welcomed as possible - as Hellscream is already doing up there, I see.

If you have any questions about the boards, Burn's the person you want to bother, and if you have any news tips, drop me a line via the link in my signature. Glad to have you join us.

Va'al wrote:If you have any questions about the boards, Burn's the person you want to bother,

nah, leave me alone. Bug Cobotron. He gets all giddy when people pm him with problems.

Va'al wrote:We'll make sure you feel as welcomed as possible - as Hellscream is already doing up there, I see.

Just tryin' my best to help get people onto the boards - though I wouldn't say no to being the 'official greeter' of the site

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Va'al wrote:We'll make sure you feel as welcomed as possible - as Hellscream is already doing up there, I see.

Just tryin' my best to help get people onto the boards - though I wouldn't say no to being the 'official greeter' of the site

I'm just glad you don't use the stupid "greeting" that some people were trying to make "official" but was really just lame and stupid.

Don't ask about it, just don't ever do it. I will ban you.

Burn wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Va'al wrote:We'll make sure you feel as welcomed as possible - as Hellscream is already doing up there, I see.

Just tryin' my best to help get people onto the boards - though I wouldn't say no to being the 'official greeter' of the site

I'm just glad you don't use the stupid "greeting" that some people were trying to make "official" but was really just lame and stupid.

Don't ask about it, just don't ever do it. I will ban you.

Yeah, I didn't get it, so I decided to not use it; besides, it's better to just come out and be friendly and start a conversation with them, they'll get an email about it, and presto: instant inclusion

Hi everyone,

I came here searching for discussions on Transformers. What a source of information related to epic Transformers. I am a fan from Switzerland. Looking for places to buy toys in Switzerland. Found one related to Transformers, surprisingly known as Xmen

Adam35 wrote:Hi everyone,

I came here searching for discussions on Transformers. What a source of information related to epic Transformers. I am a fan from Switzerland. Looking for places to buy toys in Switzerland. Found one related to Transformers, surprisingly known as Xmen

'Sup man, you definitely came to the right place for conversation

What sort of tf's are you into? Old school, combiner wars, mp?

Hope to see you 'round the boards

Teknomage here, 38 year old IT Director from Texas. I've been in to Transformers since the show came to TV here in the US in the 80s. Unfortunately I got rid of my G1 collections when we had to downsize after having our first daughter in the mid 90s. I'm into pretty much every line except for the Michael Bay movie ones.

Hi folks,

My name is Rich, just joined the forum today whilst looking for some TF info and also trying to source a particular model.

As my formative years were in the 80's, I grew up with G1 toys and cartoons, though somehow I managed to miss the cartoon movie entirely until this year! Not sure how I managed that, but have now finally caught up!

Turning the big 4-0 next year, and I think I must be going through some kind of mid-life crisis already, because since finding out about the Takara Masterpiece line I've been collecting them obsessively (almost fanatically!), presumably trying to cling on to my childhood nostalgia!

All the best,
Rich

penchant76 wrote:Hi folks,

My name is Rich, just joined the forum today whilst looking for some TF info and also trying to source a particular model.

As my formative years were in the 80's, I grew up with G1 toys and cartoons, though somehow I managed to miss the cartoon movie entirely until this year! Not sure how I managed that, but have now finally caught up!

Turning the big 4-0 next year, and I think I must be going through some kind of mid-life crisis already, because since finding out about the Takara Masterpiece line I've been collecting them obsessively (almost fanatically!), presumably trying to cling on to my childhood nostalgia!

All the best,
Rich

Welcome Rich! I think you'll fit in nicely as you describe many here, including myself, though I'm heavy into Classics/Generations instead of Masterpiece. There's lots of great discussions and knowledge. Just watch out for the crazy nuts like me.

And Burn as I just skirted closely to an old sore for him.

(The only character I love more than Burn is Alpha Bravo, and that's just to get on Va'al's good side. Yeah, we have some really awesome, nutty characters around here!)

Teknomage wrote:Teknomage here, 38 year old IT Director from Texas. I've been in to Transformers since the show came to TV here in the US in the 80s. Unfortunately I got rid of my G1 collections when we had to downsize after having our first daughter in the mid 90s. I'm into pretty much every line except for the Michael Bay movie ones.

Hi Teknomage! Sorry, I missed your intro when I was saying Hi to penchant76. Like him, you are of an age with several around here, including myself. Have you ever thought about going back and getting som of your old G1 collection back? I have been heavy into the Classics/Universe line, but I have gotten most of the G1 figures I had as a kid, plus several my friends had. I'm just curious if you have the same sort of urges.

Welcome! This community is really awesome!

Agamemnon wrote:(The only character I love more than Burn is Alpha Bravo, and that's just to get on Va'al's good side. Yeah, we have some really awesome, nutty characters around here!)

What is it with people sucking up to Va'al? All he does around here is post News, so it's not like he actually does anything.
(FYI, that's a joke in case some of the new folk don't get the back and forth ribbing Va'al and I give each other)
(But in all seriousness, the News Crew don't do anything)

Agamemnon wrote:

Teknomage wrote:Teknomage here, 38 year old IT Director from Texas. I've been in to Transformers since the show came to TV here in the US in the 80s. Unfortunately I got rid of my G1 collections when we had to downsize after having our first daughter in the mid 90s. I'm into pretty much every line except for the Michael Bay movie ones.

Hi Teknomage! Sorry, I missed your intro when I was saying Hi to penchant76. Like him, you are of an age with several around here, including myself. Have you ever thought about going back and getting som of your old G1 collection back? I have been heavy into the Classics/Universe line, but I have gotten most of the G1 figures I had as a kid, plus several my friends had. I'm just curious if you have the same sort of urges.

Welcome! This community is really awesome!

I've been getting G1 unless I like a mold better in one of the new lines. A lot of the new combiners I like the look of. I'm currently trying to decide between the reissue of Grapple or buying a G1. He was my very first transformer that was bought for me by my grandfather.

Teknomage wrote:Teknomage here, 38 year old IT Director from Texas. I've been in to Transformers since the show came to TV here in the US in the 80s. Unfortunately I got rid of my G1 collections when we had to downsize after having our first daughter in the mid 90s. I'm into pretty much every line except for the Michael Bay movie ones.

penchant76 wrote:Hi folks,

My name is Rich, just joined the forum today whilst looking for some TF info and also trying to source a particular model.

As my formative years were in the 80's, I grew up with G1 toys and cartoons, though somehow I managed to miss the cartoon movie entirely until this year! Not sure how I managed that, but have now finally caught up!

Turning the big 4-0 next year, and I think I must be going through some kind of mid-life crisis already, because since finding out about the Takara Masterpiece line I've been collecting them obsessively (almost fanatically!), presumably trying to cling on to my childhood nostalgia!

All the best,
Rich

Welcome, both of you

I hope your time on the boards here is enjoyable, I look forward to talking to both of you

Hi folks,

Thanks for the welcome!

I must admit I've been tempted to dabble with the G1 classics, try to recover all the models I had when I was a kid - more nostalgia! Seems to be a bit more of a minefield finding genuine originals or genuine re-issues though, loads of KO out there, and genuine ones can go for silly money. Loving the look and feel of the Takara Masterpiece line though, for me it's a great balance between cartoon accuracy and some great looking alt modes. Hence spending far too much money on them recently

Re-watching the cartoons at the moment, another nice nostalgia trip! Ah, happy memories!

R