The Energon Pub

-Kanrabat- wrote:Why not customise this... thing... into Optimus's decaying corpse found on a riverbank? Paint him as if he was rotting and add a fistfull of rubber worms and bugs for effect!

Well, that's one way to polish a turd.

Arctorro wrote:Good ideas on the alt modes, a drill tank would probably be a given if the Technobots are really going to happen next year. Can't be that many repaint/retool options there.

I just remembered something. Hasbro doesn't usually let Fun Pub do things as club exclusives if there's an impending official release that covers the same/similar ground, right? So with them offering up an Afterburner (albeit a non-transforming one), I'm not sure the Technobots are on Hasbro's list.

Arctorro wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:I guess that's kinda why I want it to look like the real thing, because it'd be something you don't see anywhere, especially in Hollywood. Particularly the drill part itself, I want a terrifying mass of interconnected augers that looks like it chewed its way out of hell, rather than a single elegant drill.

For an Autobot?

Why not? There's been Autobots with unfriendly-looking alt-modes before, though admittedly most are beast modes rather than vehicle.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Cobotron wrote:

shajaki wrote: but isnt he kinda just a display case for legion class figures? which i dont have....

Ahhhh... ya. He is kinda one of the dumbest Transformer toys ever made. His Alt mode is him, sitting down. that being said, I like him, 'cause I got a bunch of guys to climb on him. I can say with all confidence, you don't need him.

Starting to ponder taking a stab at my first custom paint job.

Why not customise this... thing... into Optimus's decaying corpse found on a riverbank? Paint him as if he was rotting and add a fistfull of rubber worms and bugs for effect!

You (almost) found a reason for this thing to exist!

Nemesis Primal wrote:

Arctorro wrote:Good ideas on the alt modes, a drill tank would probably be a given if the Technobots are really going to happen next year. Can't be that many repaint/retool options there.

I just remembered something. Hasbro doesn't usually let Fun Pub do things as club exclusives if there's an impending official release that covers the same/similar ground, right? So with them offering up an Afterburner (albeit a non-transforming one), I'm not sure the Technobots are on Hasbro's list.

I'd swear that there was a mention of the Technobots at some point, that's why I mentioned them. Hope they are done.

Nemesis Primal wrote:

Arctorro wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:I guess that's kinda why I want it to look like the real thing, because it'd be something you don't see anywhere, especially in Hollywood. Particularly the drill part itself, I want a terrifying mass of interconnected augers that looks like it chewed its way out of hell, rather than a single elegant drill.

For an Autobot?

Why not? There's been Autobots with unfriendly-looking alt-modes before, though admittedly most are beast modes rather than vehicle.

Just makes me think of 'a terrifying mass of interconnected augers that looks like it chewed its way out of hell' showing up, scaring the crap out of everyone and saying, "Don't worry Humans, I'm here to save you. Continue to cower in fear!

Computron was mentioned at toy fair but it will be next year. So yeah, technobots are coming but we just don't know who their line up will be.

Though I do bet we'll get afterburner though, after all, takara need something to retool into Groove for their Defensor

ZeroWolf wrote:Computron was mentioned at toy fair but it will be next year. So yeah, technobots are coming but we just don't know who their line up will be.

Though I do bet we'll get afterburner though, after all, takara need something to retool into Groove for their Defensor

Oh, such wishful thinking.

Arctorro wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:

Arctorro wrote:Good ideas on the alt modes, a drill tank would probably be a given if the Technobots are really going to happen next year. Can't be that many repaint/retool options there.

I just remembered something. Hasbro doesn't usually let Fun Pub do things as club exclusives if there's an impending official release that covers the same/similar ground, right? So with them offering up an Afterburner (albeit a non-transforming one), I'm not sure the Technobots are on Hasbro's list.

I'd swear that there was a mention of the Technobots at some point, that's why I mentioned them. Hope they are done.

Hope is reasonable, I'm just saying I wouldn't take it as a solid fact just yet

Arctorro wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:

Arctorro wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:I guess that's kinda why I want it to look like the real thing, because it'd be something you don't see anywhere, especially in Hollywood. Particularly the drill part itself, I want a terrifying mass of interconnected augers that looks like it chewed its way out of hell, rather than a single elegant drill.

For an Autobot?

Why not? There's been Autobots with unfriendly-looking alt-modes before, though admittedly most are beast modes rather than vehicle.

Just makes me think of 'a terrifying mass of interconnected augers that looks like it chewed its way out of hell' showing up, scaring the crap out of everyone and saying, "Don't worry Humans, I'm here to save you. Continue to cower in fear!

What kind of reaction do you think the Dinobots get?

Okay, "chewed its way out of hell" may have been a bit of an exaggeration, but still, rougher-looking than Nosecone.

Nemesis Primal wrote:Hope is reasonable, I'm just saying I wouldn't take it as a solid fact just yet

I never take these kinds of announcements as fact, always wait for official confirmation before getting excited.

Nemesis Primal wrote:What kind of reaction do you think the Dinobots get?

Okay, "chewed its way out of hell" may have been a bit of an exaggeration, but still, rougher-looking than Nosecone.

Sure the Dinobots would be a little scary, but they still don't have the 'hell' look to them I can understand wanting something that looks rougher than Nosecone though! The Technobots never really looked overly tough.

william-james88 wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:Computron was mentioned at toy fair but it will be next year. So yeah, technobots are coming but we just don't know who their line up will be.

Though I do bet we'll get afterburner though, after all, takara need something to retool into Groove for their Defensor

Oh, such wishful thinking.

Well to be fair we've seen them go G1 accurate with Superion, I doubt menasor will be any different, which leaves Takara in a dilemma with Defensor, and a viable option to that is to take a motorcycle mold that hasbro are working on and using that to create groove. Let's face it, it's either that or they repaint rook and rename him groove which I don't think takara's would be happy with.

Arctorro wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:Hope is reasonable, I'm just saying I wouldn't take it as a solid fact just yet

I never take these kinds of announcements as fact, always wait for official confirmation before getting excited.

I think that's probably the right approach.

Arctorro wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:What kind of reaction do you think the Dinobots get?

Okay, "chewed its way out of hell" may have been a bit of an exaggeration, but still, rougher-looking than Nosecone.

Sure the Dinobots would be a little scary, but they still don't have the 'hell' look to them I can understand wanting something that looks rougher than Nosecone though! The Technobots never really looked overly tough.

The movieverse Dinobots sorta do, but I'd rather not talk about Age of Extinction. Just siting through it depressed me.

Nemesis Primal wrote:

Arctorro wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:Hope is reasonable, I'm just saying I wouldn't take it as a solid fact just yet

I never take these kinds of announcements as fact, always wait for official confirmation before getting excited.

I think that's probably the right approach.

Arctorro wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:What kind of reaction do you think the Dinobots get?

Okay, "chewed its way out of hell" may have been a bit of an exaggeration, but still, rougher-looking than Nosecone.

Sure the Dinobots would be a little scary, but they still don't have the 'hell' look to them I can understand wanting something that looks rougher than Nosecone though! The Technobots never really looked overly tough.

The movieverse Dinobots sorta do, but I'd rather not talk about Age of Extinction. Just siting through it depressed me.

I've always been a bit 'meh' towards the movies. Watch em every once in a while for something different, but AoE sunk to new levels of SH**! I don't ever consider the movies when thinking about the TF franchise, they don't deserve it IM(NotSo)HO.

Age of Extinction wasn't that bad.
.I much preferred it over Dark of the Moon

I've really been thinking on my previous statement before and I figured there's two possible ways to go about it.

Option A) Use Superion, make Skyquake the torso, 3/4 Aerialbots for limbs, and make Snare the gun from Powerglide.

Option B) Use the upcoming Hot Shot as Stalker (replace that ladder with a missile), Aerialbots as limbs once again, then use the upcoming leader class Thundercracker for Skyquake. I mean yeah you lose the edge in having a coherent team, but Skyquake commanding that monstrosity would still be pretty cool.

Here's an outside-the-box one... Combiner Wars Leobreaker/Nemesis Breaker Not part of a combiner, per se, but they're dudes that turn into arms. Re-engineer them a bit so they can be legs, too, and they'd work as CW deluxes.

I wasn't super fond of the gameplay of Transformers Universe but adored several of the character designs. I'd love deluxes and voyagers of these guys. Maybe if the RID cartoon goes long enough we can see more of these Aligned Decepticons.



Conduit




Rampart




Switchblade



And my personal favorite, Deadheat

3.75" cartoon and comic humans. It's not in scale, but I'm also not a huge scale nazi. Scale is a nice idea, but it often causes more problems than it's worth. I'd rather have decent looking humans than poorly done Masterpiece or Human Alliance humans. I've always thought it'd be neat to do accessory packs with humans and weapons/accessories from the cartoon/comics. Or alternate head pack-ins!

Quintessons would be high on my list of figures I'd like official versions of so I can get rid of my 3rd party ones. Generations versions of Alicon and the Sharkticons would also be great. The Quintessons could be part of the human/accessory line as well.

Going further with my idea above ... what if they did build-a-figures with this? Who wouldn't like a Chaos BAF from the 3rd season of G1 to go with Kup, Grimlock and Wheelie? Or a giant Kremzeek BAF? How about Autobot Spike BAF??? C'mon! This would be a fun line to have.

I would really like to see official Nightbird and Paradron medic figures. I'd like to see Hasbro do the Impossible Toys route to give us repaints/remolds of Generations Arcee.

Combiner Wars Predaking.

Mostly because Predaking is my absolute favorite, and I'd love to have an articulated version that doesn't cost a small fortune to get.

Henry921 wrote:I wasn't super fond of the gameplay of Transformers Universe but adored several of the character designs. I'd love deluxes and voyagers of these guys. Maybe if the RID cartoon goes long enough we can see more of these Aligned Decepticons.



Conduit




Rampart




Switchblade



And my personal favorite, Deadheat

*sigh* you make me wish TF Universe was still online. You're right, it would be so awesome if Hasbro made these someday.

Oh yeah I'd definitely go for a voyager Rampart.

Seibertron wrote:Quintessons would be high on my list of figures I'd like official versions of so I can get rid of my 3rd party ones. Generations versions of Alicon and the Sharkticons would also be great. The Quintessons could be part of the human/accessory line as well.

I could DEFINITELY get behind some Quintessons and junk.

Seibertron wrote:Going further with my idea above ... what if they did build-a-figures with this? Who wouldn't like a Chaos BAF from the 3rd season of G1 to go with Kup, Grimlock and Wheelie? Or a giant Kremzeek BAF? How about Autobot Spike BAF??? C'mon! This would be a fun line to have.

That's a cool idea. Though I wonder if making an Autobot Spike were achievable within the Hero Masher line?

(Autobot Spike is that frankenbot from G1 right?)

I'd love to see Titan class Metroplex redone as a stage and/or tourbus for the Knights of Unicron.

Another weird one: One of the Power Core Combiners guys redone for Combiner Wars as a Voyager. Smolder would probably be the most reasonable, as he'd work for a Hot Spot retool and he's the only one who showed up in basically anything, even if it was just a lousy Cyber Mission.

Kyleor wrote:I'd love to see Titan class Metroplex redone as a stage and/or tourbus for the Knights of Unicron.

I'd rather it be for a rival band headed by KoU-verse Windblade. The Cityshriekers!

These:
Masterpiece Devastator
Masterpiece Sunstreaker
Deluxe Dino
Screen-Accurate Sideways
Voyager class Lockdown
Triple-changing Drift
DOTM Soundwave with shiny metalic paint like ROTF Sideswipe
Voyager class Western Star Optimus

Combiner Wars Starscream Combiner: Starscream as the combiner torso, with Starscream's head enlarged for the combiner's head, and Seekers for all the limbs.

I would really like an updated leader class Optimal Optimus figure

LegendaryAntiHero wrote:I would really like an updated leader class Optimal Optimus figure

Leader class would be too big, it needs to be in scale with the recent Rhinox and rattrap.

What I would like to see are IDW gift sets, like a lost light set with a new deluxe rodimus, tailgate, deluxe rung, etc. They could do repaint sets easily enough like a windblade set with windblade, chromia, armada starscream and rattrap.