The Energon Pub

I realized while watching a TF Animated episode from the first season, that Lugnut actually squats down in one episode, and opens up a missile arsenal and fires a bunch up into the air. So THIS is why Generations Lugnut has that missile firing feature, it's meant to fire in bot mode with lugnut squating down and firing it over his back.
Squat... whata wierd, and sorta gross word...

Just noticed the bigger screw holes on the back of Gen. Blitzwing's shoulders can be used as his weapon storage.

Not something the toys do, but as I am cleaning up the toy room I came across G2 boxes for Megatron, Laser Rod Optimus Prime, Dreadwing, and the Hero versions of Megs and Op. All of the toys were marked down when bought - I didn't pay more than $50 after taxes for all 5 toys, which had a MSRP of $145.

Was still a surprise, and something I apparently didn't realize (or quickly forgot) about the purchase.

BH Ultra Magnus has (Or has what looks like) BH Optimus' back wheels molded into his jetpack as detail. Kinda irks me honestly.

The Fallen has some sweet chest light piping.

^Dang. That kinda makes me want him more after deciding to pass...

kirbenvost wrote:^Dang. That kinda makes me want him more after deciding to pass...

You shouldn't pass, it's a great figure. If you have Unicron, the fallen goes perfectly with him, all demonic and evil, and scultped beautifully. Due to limited funds, I cancelled my Hextatron for this, and I am sure it was the right decision as even though Sixshot has six modes and is probably fun that way, the design is aaalllrright, not bad. Doesn't compare to how good this looks imo.

It does look cool for sure, but I'm trying to cut back on 3rd Party items in general. There's just too much out there and I can't afford it all.

kirbenvost wrote:It does look cool for sure, but I'm trying to cut back on 3rd Party items in general. There's just too much out there and I can't afford it all.

I hear ya buddy. I've just given up on Menasor and Predaking completely for now, haha. Maybe one day soon.

Oh yeah. If I had the money for MMC's Predaking I'd be all over that. SO BADASS. But after having spent so much money on Maketoys Giant I realize I really can't be dropping that much on my hobby. MPs are going to have to be the big purchases from now on, especially since 3rd Parties are ALWAYS coming out with something awesome.

If you use brawl as an arm on foc bruticus, you can position his turret in a way to give him an arm cannon.

njb902 wrote:If you use brawl as an arm on foc bruticus, you can position his turret in a way to give him an arm cannon.

I do like that, especially when you place Brawl's or Top Spin's handgun in the center. Fills out the cannon a little bit. I do prefer Bruticus and Ruination as "suicide kings", though this is a nice way to mix it up.

I never realized Beast Machines Cheetor could stand unassisted. I gave up years ago but my wife and I tag-teamed the toy this afternoon and got him to stand awkwardly.

Really, he's about to pounce and not poop in this picture. Maybe.

I just realised today that, when Armada jetfire's sheild finally decides to clip onto Armada Prime for combination, it looks kinda like God Ginrai's chest. Slight Homage?

Not really something that he can do, but DOTM deluxe Starscream looks way better with classics Screamer's null rays.

BeastProwl wrote:BH Ultra Magnus has (Or has what looks like) BH Optimus' back wheels molded into his jetpack as detail. Kinda irks me honestly.

What annoys me is that his jetpack is more accurate than the character than actually has it in the cartoon.

i found out that the grimwing moldsshoulder pad parts can be removed. i have no idea why either.

Doubledealer93 wrote:

Unf! Unf! Aww yeah! FEEL THE BURN!

Maybe this is an old news, but I just found out that in vehicle mode, you can store FE Vehicon's gun on the tab on his chest (the tab that's supposed to tab his chest in robot mode)

Knee swivels, anyone? *note* created using one extra gears of war chainsaw gun.

MINDVVIPE wrote:Knee swivels, anyone? *note* created using one extra gears of war chainsaw gun.
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And people said those Cyberverse accessory weapons were useless. Well done!

RAcast wrote:

MINDVVIPE wrote:Knee swivels, anyone? *note* created using one extra gears of war chainsaw gun.
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And people said those Cyberverse accessory weapons were useless. Well done!

Thanks dude! I was not going to stand for the crappy hasbro setup. When I first put it together and saw how the knees were, I was very dissapointed. But thanks to those extra weapons, you can actually get some sick poseability, propotions, and stability. It holds together quite well, and any lose joints can be fixed with a lil super glue.

I also just messed with Blot's connection a bit and found a way to hide the hammer handles better. Stands even on each leg, and each arm is decently close to the same length, as well as hangs clear of the body in neutral poses. Abominus rules.

MINDVVIPE wrote:

RAcast wrote:

MINDVVIPE wrote:Knee swivels, anyone? *note* created using one extra gears of war chainsaw gun.
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And people said those Cyberverse accessory weapons were useless. Well done!

Thanks dude! I was not going to stand for the crappy hasbro setup. When I first put it together and saw how the knees were, I was very dissapointed. But thanks to those extra weapons, you can actually get some sick poseability, propotions, and stability. It holds together quite well, and any lose joints can be fixed with a lil super glue.

I also just messed with Blot's connection a bit and found a way to hide the hammer handles better. Stands even on each leg, and each arm is decently close to the same length, as well as hangs clear of the body in neutral poses. Abominus rules.

And as an added bonus, that's my ideal G1 Abominus configuration. I love Cutthroat, but he will just never be a good arm.

MINDVVIPE wrote:Thanks dude! I was not going to stand for the crappy hasbro setup. When I first put it together and saw how the knees were, I was very dissapointed. But thanks to those extra weapons, you can actually get some sick poseability, propotions, and stability. It holds together quite well, and any lose joints can be fixed with a lil super glue.

I am astounded by how optimistically disappointed you can be about a figure set! You simultaneously lament the set, while also downplaying the flaws and talking about how awesome it is.

I respect your will to love Abominus (I love the G1 version far more), but I'm still completely shocked by your enthusiasm for what many would consider a "bad" product. Me? I hate this Abominus and expect Hasbro to do better. GLUE may "fix" the problems, but I don't spend $25 on something, just to have to glue it properly (unless it's a model kit, obviously).

Metrosuplex wrote:

MINDVVIPE wrote:Thanks dude! I was not going to stand for the crappy hasbro setup. When I first put it together and saw how the knees were, I was very dissapointed. But thanks to those extra weapons, you can actually get some sick poseability, propotions, and stability. It holds together quite well, and any lose joints can be fixed with a lil super glue.

I am astounded by how optimistically disappointed you can be about a figure set! You simultaneously lament the set, while also downplaying the flaws and talking about how awesome it is.

I respect your will to love Abominus (I love the G1 version far more), but I'm still completely shocked by your enthusiasm for what many would consider a "bad" product. Me? I hate this Abominus and expect Hasbro to do better. GLUE may "fix" the problems, but I don't spend $25 on something, just to have to glue it properly (unless it's a model kit, obviously).

Uhm... okay. Well, I liked the concept of a cheaper, quick/easy to transform gestalt that happens to be monsters, and therefore had lee way for being crazy looking. After actually putting it together, I was dissapointed at the fact that the knees don't swivel, each leg stands akwardly due to different heights, making it all look gimpy once I could hold it in hand and can actually tell it was gimpy, rather than see photos of it taken to make it look better than it really was. The arms were always okay to me, and the rest was okay too, considering the other stuff i said I already liked.

Then, after I had modified it to have giant arms with conceivable fingers, and legs that were quite poseable, I now love it coz it takes 5 surprisingly cool looking, albeit rigid robots (if you like G1, then this shouldn't really bother you), and gives them a combiner mode that has better poseability than any G1 combiner.

Didn't think I had to spell it all out, but thats why I appear to dislike the figure, in its hasbro suggested configuration, but love it once I was able to fix my issues myself. It doesn't need glue to hold together, but the weight of each arm tends to draw each one down on the balljoint shoulder of Hun-grr. That is where you add glue for friction, not to have it actually stick in a permanent place. Hope that clears it all up. $25 isn't that much for this novelty. It's the only legends combiner that doesn't blow once I make it work for me, and each figure itself warrants it's purchase, and I usually don't even like legends/cyberverse/smaller and less poseable figures.

BTW, if you've been collecting long enough, you come to realize that even after spending a decent wad of cash on a bot you like, your going to get factory issues or whatever, and you either lump it, or spend the time to fix it and make it reach the potential it has. Just how Transformers are sometimes, especially with hasbro.

Mindvvipe wrote:
Uhm... okay. Well, I liked the concept of a cheaper, quick/easy to transform gestalt that happens to be monsters, and therefore had lee way for being crazy looking. After actually putting it together, I was dissapointed at the fact that the knees don't swivel, each leg stands akwardly due to different heights, making it all look gimpy once I could hold it in hand and can actually tell it was gimpy, rather than see photos of it taken to make it look better than it really was. The arms were always okay to me, and the rest was okay too, considering the other stuff i said I already liked.

Yes, exactly, so why all the positive accolades for something that's admittedly flawed? Some people react with disappointment and frustration, I mean.

Then, after I had modified it to have giant arms with conceivable fingers, and legs that were quite poseable, I now love it coz it takes 5 surprisingly cool looking, albeit rigid robots (if you like G1, then this shouldn't really bother you), and gives them a combiner mode that has better poseability than any G1 combiner.

Disagree completely. The five bits fall apart mind of easy, and are NOT G1 quality. I don't have a G1 Rippersnapper who's head pops off constantly. The G1 limbs held in place, these do not (the connections are undeniably cheap and inedficient).
He's cheap, if you don't mind lousy construction and durability - chinese KOs? You have to wonder how close in quality they could reproduce this tiny Abominus (the KO might even improve on the durability).

Didn't think I had to spell it all out, but thats why I appear to disliked the figure, in its hasbro suggested configuration, but love it once I was able to fix my issues myself. It doesn't need glue to hold together, but the weight of each arm tends to draw each one down on the balljoint shoulder of Hun-grr. That is where you add glue for friction, not to have it actually stick in a permanent place. Hope that clears it all up. $25 isn't that much for this novelty. It's the only legends combiner that doesn't blow once I make it work for me, and each figure itself warrants it's purchase, and I usually?? don't even like legends/cyberverse/smaller and less poseable figures.

Well thanks for the thoughtful response. I think I understood your point. I was only lamenting the lack of collector unity on these issues: seems we CANNOT agree that Hasbro did a lousy job. And if we can't agree, we are not sending the message. I love some Hasbro releases (i.e. Junkheap), but the quality is horribly inconsistent between releases and I want some support on how bad Abominus turned out. I kind of hope they lose their shirt and consider doing a better job next time (i.e. how the free market is supposed to work! Before government bailouts and blind collector support).[/quote]

BTW, if you've been collecting long enough, you come to realize that even after spending a decent wad of cash on a bot you like, your going to get factory issues or whatever, and you either lump it, or spend the time to fix it and make it reach the potential it has. Just how Transformers are sometimes, especially with hasbro.

Yes, this. But if you've been collecting as long as I have, you realize you are not locked into Hasbro's crap, like a poor slave. Playmates, Mattel, Jakks Pacific, and 3rd Parties (if you are stuck on just TFs). My point is that an abusive bf doesn't get better over time. You either demand better or just date other people! I was hoping Disney would buy out Hasbro, just to see someone else take control of the property. Hasbro is running it into the ground. But hopefully they didn't fire all of their creativity, and some things will turn around (like the crappy small figures you mentioned - cyberverse is a poor replacement for scouts and legions/legends).