The Energon Pub

Rated X wrote:I disagree with your logic. TRU is a toy store not a Transformers store. Sure Hasbro has a lot of money invested in TRU, but a lot of that money is invested in products that are not Transformers. What if Jeff Bezos decides to save TRU? Will we start seeing all kinds of Amazon news get front paged too? Will Amazons feud with Trump become front paged because it might raise toy prices? Do you see my point? Time to get back to the basics and just cover Transformers related news. Every time the CEO of TRU farts is not newsworthy.

Toys R Us news is huge for the toy industry. We do not cover every single bit of TRU news. We have selectively chosen what news to cover. I assure you, there is a ton of news pertaining to Toys R Us that we have glossed over from the past couple of months.

If you don't get the domino affect here and how this affects the hobby that we all love so much, I don't know what to tell you. It all goes hand-in-hand. We will continue to provide coverage about Toys R Us because it is really big frikkin' news. Probably the biggest retailer news ever to happen in the 18 year history of Seibertron.com.

Enough's enough with your posts against our coverage of TRU and counterfeit products on eBay. These are absolutely bad things for the toy industry and specifically the Transformers brand. If you don't get it at this point, don't care, or you just want to buy your KO products, have at it. But for goodness sake, please quit harping on us about our coverage of the largest toy retailer in the world going out of business and our take on illegal counterfeit products. We've all heard you loud and clear that you are content with TRU going out of business and that you think you should be able to buy whatever illegal counterfeit products you desire -- laws and morals be damned apparently!

Movie Inferno was a great TRU exclusive that can plug into your brain and fix hurt feelings. I think we all need a little Inferno this morning.


Transformers (2007) Inferno Gallery

Another very significant and cool TRU exclusive forgotten in the list was the Commemorative Series Powermaster Optimus Prime with Apex Armor. Not only were G1 reissues a big deal at the time, but this was the first release of Godbomber in the US!

I remember seeing this and being confused. Why did PMOP have an extra trailer and more armor now? Was this in issue 78 or one of the handful of comics I missed on the road to 80 when certain issues just didn't show up near me? Off to the internet I went, soon learning of the Japanese post-Season 3 shows for the first time

Pretty much all the commemorative series from 2002-2004 (or however long it ran).... would be on my list. Also the recent TR Chaos on Velocitron set.

Is a 5 worst TRU exclusives list far behind? If so I know what would definitely be on there. That God Awful TLK Primus repaint selling for 3X its asking price from 13 years ago...No thank you.........

o.supreme wrote:Pretty much all the commemorative series from 2002-2004 (or however long it ran).... would be on my list. Also the recent TR Chaos on Velocitron set.

Is a 5 worst TRU exclusives list far behind? If so I know what would definitely be on there. That God Awful TLK Primus repaint selling for 3X its asking price from 13 years ago...No thank you.........

No worst list coming.

And there were way more than 5 commemorative sets, so if you could only pick 5 toys for a list, what would be your top 5 TRU exclusives?

One minor nitpick quibble with this otherwise superb list: Air Attack Optimus Primal was a Robots in Disguise toy, even though he was still the Beast Era character (complete with a RiDverse bio that did confirm his Beast Era identity).

That Optimus Primal has NO PLACE on this list.

Sabrblade wrote:One minor nitpick quibble with this otherwise superb list: Air Attack Optimus Primal was a Robots in Disguise toy, even though he was still the Beast Era character (complete with a RiDverse bio that did confirm his Beast Era identity).

While I knew that and describe that in the list I link to in the artle, I realize that the Seibertron gallery title doesnt allude to it, and I simply use the gallery titles (when available) as the titles for my entries. And yeah as it turns out our dear site owner has chosen to have him as part of Beast Machines rather than Robots in Diguise (and I can understand why in terms of fan searches).

And Scotty, thanks for mentioning that Power Master Prime special release, that is an excellent addition! I do wonder though (since I have only ever dealt with the Japanese versions), which tooling does it use for Power Master Prime, the original Hasbro or the Ginrai tooling?

william-james88 wrote:And Scotty, thanks for mentioning that Power Master Prime special release, that is an excellent addition! I do wonder though (since I have only ever dealt with the Japanese versions), which tooling does it use for Power Master Prime, the original Hasbro or the Ginrai tooling?

I have that set. It's basically a direct import of the God Ginrai reissue Takara did at the time in 2002, with the exception of the missiles being elongated to two inches in length for safety reasons.

And new Hasbro packaging, of course.

I had a chance to get a good deal for the god ginrai reissue (hasbro version of course) set a few years back but stupidly passed on it.

I actually prefer that MP10 packaging to the reissue "Soundwave style" packaging. I even prefer the Year of the Horse MP10 packaging. I like to see the actual figures inside and everything you get.

I do agree that Soundwave is a masterpiece of an exclusive. One thing I always hate is having to find the minions and buying them separate.

Unfortunately I was waiting for the eventual re-release of the commemorative series from ToysRUs to get a G1 Ultra Magnus. But alas, it won't be.