The Energon Pub

[Evil_the_Nub]

Windblade looks great, but I'm sure that sword is going to have the rigidity of a spaghetti noodle.

Those AoE figures though...

I don't mind simple transformation, but don't use it as an excuse to make garbage. Those look like they have 2 points of articulation, that is unacceptable. What's the point of having a figure you can transform quickly, if you can't actually do anything with it in robot mode?

[spiderbob007]

Looks like refugees from the planet UGLY.

[ZackRoyer]

For kids or not, they look bad. REALLY bad, I was expecting something bad. But this is a complete new level of bad that I was not prepared for.
Drift is a joke, a fat square joke. Grimlock looks like Darth Vader. And the others are Legends/Cyberverse that gone wrong.

[SlyTF1]

Please tell me this isn't the main line.

[AutoBorst]

Wow, this makes me embarrassed to be a TF fan. These make the previous film toys look like Masterpieces in comparison.

[OptiMagnus]

I really hope there is something else besides this, because these figures are atrocious. Even the Fast Action Battlers and the 2010 Activators looked much better than these for simplified toys. Hell, First Edition Optimus Prime is simplified but he still doesn't fit in with the rest of these at all.

And what I don't understand is why this movie line is aimed exclusively at ages 4-10, when the film itself is rated for a 13+ audience. Are four-year-olds really going to see this movie?

[Grahf_]

I wanted to not hate on these but it's difficult not to. I wanted to like that Grimlock more too even knowing what it was going to be. It is better than Power Rangers Time Force's Q-Rex though.

I can get behind simple Transformers. Armada Overload, Tidalwave, Megatron, Cyclonus, Thrust, Sideways, Demolisher, Jetfire, Hoist, Red Alert, Wheeljack, Starscream Optimus, even Scavenger was kinda cool in all his derpiness and that's just Armada. There are so many other simple yet effective figures out there in other lines. I can even get behind one step transformations. Machine wars basic figures and the early Beast Wars basics are all fun little guys without looking like crap.

I was a very grateful child and appreciated all my gifts but if I got these as a child I would've thrown a fit. They don't do anything. I fondly remember my Pretenders back in the day and the play factor that those brought but these bring none of that. I don't want to be grumpy old 30 something but damn, these are just that bad. At least G1 figures had some playability in them. Something to keep you coming back for more despite how bland they were. These just don't have that.

Now that I think about it, I can kinda see the fun in smashing the toy and it transforming but that novelty would wear out far too quickly when the robot doesn't do anything. I can smash my Beast Wars Optimus vs Megatron too and have them transform just as fast but at least they could do things in robot mode and had weapons. These just remind me of the RPM hot wheels cars things. At least they look like they'd have cool designs if they were made into standard Transformers.

[skidflap]

If you guys read the article (given the reaction, my guess is no) you would have notice that nowhere does it say that these are deluxe or voyagers. these are those one step figures that we saw a couple months back (I recognize hound from the same prototype images.) Once again the fans cried wolf.
Also anyone notice that lockdown's face looks like a realistic version of his animated counter?

[stoltobot]

I can't say I was ever satisfied with a TF with less than a 3 step transformation and a butt ugly bot mode when I was between the ages of 4-10. I can understand how the leader figures from the other movie lines might have been too fiddly to seamlessly play with but these figures are just belittling to kids' intelligence. Also, the robot mode of the leader Optimus looks like a weird Japanese doll from the 1970s, and Grimlock isn't far behind.

I foresee very low sales for this towline. Or many disappointed children.

[ZackRoyer]

Wait wait wait!!! That grimlock thing will be the $79 toy? Look at the "holder" in the back of Dinossaur mode. Are you serious? At first sight I thought it was a legend (or oversized legend). Are you serious hasbro? As I think it is for children blahblah (I don't think bad design = for children) But that certainly isn't $80 cool, not even $30 cool. What it do besides transforming itself? It play with itself without the kid help too?

[Genocide G2.0]

I don't believe these are the main line , meaning the Deluxe and Voyager figures were used to from the movie lines , These are nothing but legion class transformations .

I'm not gonna kick up a fuss just yet . wait and see what happens this weekend i sure we will get some proper "collectors" movie transformers .

[KapikoArt]

Ok these are the toys for maybe 3 year olds. How about some more serious stuff for collectors?

[chaosmage42]

ok all i can say is these look bad not just bad but terrible the design is crap -and grimlock looks like blugeon in robot mode (predender shell) what in the 7 hells is going on at hasbro are they all tripping on acid.

[chaosmage42]

the canceled stuff is rummor nothing more don't worry about it till it becomes something more -honestly though i think hasbro is about to commit a massive blunder with the movie toys but we will see.

Those 2 are perfect i must have them in my collection -also glad their doing a jet fire i don't have one missed the classic one -didn't have money at all back then and no place here carried it -that i knew of

[Madeus Prime]

Blech. Double Blech.







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[Mindmaster]

So how closely does the Collectors' Club work with Hasbro?

They shared the same USA Today article featuring these... things, and this is what they commented with later:



This single comment just dissolved any hope I had for Age of Extinction toys. I bet the movie will be pretty good... but the toys are a complete disaster.

[Convoy]

"It's easy to be cheesy!"

[megatronus]

CYBERTRON MONDAY!!!

[MGrotusque]

Impressive head sculpt in bot mode for Grimmy there.

(trying to be positive)

[skidflap]

Blech. Double Blech.







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It ain't easy being cheesy.

[PrymeStriker]

Windblade looks really good.

[SlyTF1]

So how closely does the Collectors' Club work with Hasbro?

They shared the same USA Today article featuring these... things, and this is what they commented with later:



This single comment just dissolved any hope I had for Age of Extinction toys. I bet the movie will be pretty good... but the toys are a complete disaster.

Why, Hasbro, why?

[Actar]

I really despise the fact that they just relegated the entire line to one age range. How about multiple age-ranges for the same line?

Regardless, as an adult collector who actually likes the movie designs, this is disappointing on a whole new level. There had better be some movie characters, especially Drift and Grimlock in the Generations line.

Heck, even as a parent, I highly doubt I'd get these for my kids. For me, entertainment must be at least meaningful and in my opinion, we've been talking down to kids way more than we should and they need to be treated with more respect.

[Wh33l Jck]

I think that TFCC post is a mis typo...it doesn't really make sense as it is.

I'm sure we will see better toys revealed tomorrow...

[Kibble]

These things make Gobots look cool...