The Energon Pub

News Credits: 1 · Wed Mar 01, 2017 6:15 pm

This paint job looks utterly amazing, but then I remember just how floppy and messy the Generations Windblade mould is.

It has gotten me thinking; maybe a custom based on the current RID one would do well. Just a thought. I'll go ask Steamshield on TFW.

News Credits: 101 · Wed Mar 01, 2017 10:20 pm

Windblade as Sari?
Well, this could work VERY well!

But I have a better idea. Make her a titant master. On a clearly feminine body. That was my hope in Animated. But the show abruptly ended. Oh well.

Wed Mar 01, 2017 10:48 pm

i wouldve bought that sari if it been released

News Credits: 462 · Thu Mar 02, 2017 12:05 am

DecepticonFinishline wrote:?!?!?! But I WANT IT!!

Was this supposed to be the secret figure in this set?

Do we even still get a secret figure?

It was part of a proposal that never got off the ground. Scroll up to my previous post to see exactly what this was figure concept was for.

News Credits: 8 · Thu Mar 02, 2017 12:46 am

But... The last Botcon used the Windblade md, right? It was an Airazor, I believe? I woilda passed on that Airazor since I had the original from Energon Slugslinger, but I woulda LOVED a Botcon Sari. I understand where Marketing woulda said "Airazor works better", but Sari is a figure we'll never see relwased.

News Credits: 462 · Thu Mar 02, 2017 12:53 am

Flashwave wrote:But... The last Botcon used the Windblade md, right? It was an Airazor, I believe? I woilda passed on that Airazor since I had the original from Energon Slugslinger, but I woulda LOVED a Botcon Sari. I understand where Marketing woulda said "Airazor works better", but Sari is a figure we'll never see relwased.

This was not a BotCon 2016 toy that got replaced by the finalized Airazor figure. It was part of a "Transformers: Unanimated" proposal that never even got off the ground.

News Credits: 1646 · Fri Mar 03, 2017 10:47 pm

A Sentinel Prime as Optimus Primal would have been really cool.

And that Sari is wicked! Man, some good ideas that went kaput

News Credits: 462 · Sat Mar 04, 2017 1:33 am

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:A Sentinel Prime as Optimus Primal would have been really cool.

And that Sari is wicked! Man, some good ideas that went kaput

Well, not so much "kaput" as "nah". These weren't so much "canceled" ideas as they were just "suggested" ideas that simply didn't go any further than the idea stage.

News Credits: 1646 · Sat Mar 04, 2017 4:25 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:A Sentinel Prime as Optimus Primal would have been really cool.

And that Sari is wicked! Man, some good ideas that went kaput
Well, not so much "kaput" as "nah". These weren't so much "canceled" ideas as they were just "suggested" ideas that simply didn't go any further than the idea stage.

Still, brilliant to me. And cool

News Credits: 462 · Sun Mar 05, 2017 12:45 am

Here's a fan digibash of what the Headmaster Starscream from the "Transformers: Unanimated" set (which this Sari mock up was proposed for) might have looked like:

News Credits: 1646 · Sun Mar 05, 2017 1:02 am

Sabrblade wrote:Here's a fan digibash of what the Headmaster Starscream from the "Transformers: Unanimated" set (which this Sari mock up was proposed for) might have looked like:

I'm actually in love with this. Why couldn't this have been a thing???

News Credits: 462 · Sun Mar 05, 2017 2:18 am

Aside from Sari being the Windblade mold, Wreck-Gar being the Prime Breakdown mold, and Yoketron also being the Voyager Brainstorm mold, we can only guess as to which molds the "Unanimated" versions of Optimus, Ratchet, Sentinel, Lugnut, and Elita would have been.

Though, the molds for the Beast Wars-themed set are pretty easy to deduce. Fractyl and Terrorsaur each from the Swoop mold, with Inferno and Antagony each from the Waspinator mold.

News Credits: 33 · Mon Mar 13, 2017 11:43 am

Almost within reach...

Hello subscribers!

Believe it or not the container is FINALLY here!
We will be preparing your first of three shipments this week so we need you to log in and verify your address on file by 5 pm on Tuesday March 14.
We have packed this final version in sets of two so you will only receive 3 shipments instead of 6.
Also for those of you on the installment payment plan, the billing dates will be April 3rd and May 1st. Please make sure your CC on file is current and correct.

Thanks for your patience!

Brian

News Credits: 1646 · Mon Mar 13, 2017 11:53 am

We have an update for you on the shipping progress of the TFSS 5.0 set of figures. As you remember, the figures have been delayed, but we can pass along the word that the container containing the figures has arrived and orders are to be sorted this week! If you ordered these figures, you do need to log in and verify your address before 5pm Tuesday to receive the figures. We have quoted the full email below.

Hello subscribers!

Believe it or not the container is FINALLY here!
We will be preparing your first of three shipments this week so we need you to log in and verify your address on file by 5 pm on Tuesday March 14.
We have packed this final version in sets of two so you will only receive 3 shipments instead of 6.
Also for those of you on the installment payment plan, the billing dates will be April 3rd and May 1st. Please make sure your CC on file is current and correct.

Thanks for your patience!

Brian

News Credits: 56 · Mon Mar 13, 2017 12:04 pm

I was able to pre-order the 3 I wanted (to complete Wreckage) from BBTS. It will probably take a little while longer, but at least I don't have to worry about getting different figures I have no interest in.

Still no reveal for the 7th "Bonus" figure yet?

News Credits: 462 · Mon Mar 13, 2017 12:26 pm

o.supreme wrote:Still no reveal for the 7th "Bonus" figure yet?

Nope. Not even a hint of it's identity in any of the TCC fiction. This could be the first mystery figure to actually be a complete mystery prior to its arrival at someone's doorstep.

Mon Mar 13, 2017 12:44 pm

Hello, eBay material!

News Credits: 56 · Mon Mar 13, 2017 12:50 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
o.supreme wrote:Still no reveal for the 7th "Bonus" figure yet?
Nope. Not even a hint of it's identity in any of the TCC fiction. This could be the first mystery figure to actually be a complete mystery prior to its arrival at someone's doorstep.

Whoever it turns out to be, I just hope its An Autobot/Maximal, or any "good" robot. My Optimus Maximus is missing a limb and needs it for completion

.

News Credits: 13 · Mon Mar 13, 2017 12:56 pm

My theory is that the mystery figure is Ironclad from the Rook mold with it's alternate head. They said the mystery figure was using a head not released yet and he is the reason that wreckage can combine. I also think it would be cool if he came with a redeco of legends groove as the "energy efficient" afterburner but that's not likely to happen.

News Credits: 462 · Mon Mar 13, 2017 1:06 pm

steals_your_goats wrote:My theory is that the mystery figure is Ironclad from the Rook mold with it's alternate head. They said the mystery figure was using a head not released yet and he is the reason that wreckage can combine. I also think it would be cool if he came with a redeco of legends groove as the "energy efficient" afterburner but that's not likely to happen.

I once thought that too, but was shot down when someone told me that the idea for the 7th figure came about before the time when Ironclad would have been conceived. I'd like it if it turned out to be Ironclad, though. ;)^

News Credits: 2 · Mon Mar 13, 2017 1:10 pm

Do we know which of the six figures will be shipped first?

News Credits: 13 · Mon Mar 13, 2017 1:13 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
steals_your_goats wrote:My theory is that the mystery figure is Ironclad from the Rook mold with it's alternate head. They said the mystery figure was using a head not released yet and he is the reason that wreckage can combine. I also think it would be cool if he came with a redeco of legends groove as the "energy efficient" afterburner but that's not likely to happen.
I once thought that too, but was shot down when someone told me that the idea for the 7th figure came about before the time when Ironclad would have been conceived. I'd like it if it turned out to be Ironclad, though.

Oh, damn that's depressing lol I would've loved to have been able to put together Hasbro's initial concept for computron before deluxe afterburner happened. Plus rook is the best mold from combiner wars

News Credits: 56 · Mon Mar 13, 2017 1:20 pm

Ultra Mad wrote:Do we know which of the six figures will be shipped first?

No clue, but we do know they are shipping in "pairs", and the third shipment would *I assume* have 3 since it will contain the Bonus Figure.

Additionally the CW/UW Deluxe Figures with the fewest uses are the F1 Racer , the Deluxe Motorcycle, and of course the Space Shuttle (which is highly unlikely TFCC would use). But it would be nice if whatever character they make it would be one of those three.

News Credits: 13 · Mon Mar 13, 2017 2:19 pm

Maybe it's not a combiner mold at all. Maybe it's Sunder from CW Buzzsaw.

OH, GOD, PLEASE DON'T LET MY JOKE BE TRUTH!!!

News Credits: 86 · Mon Mar 13, 2017 2:29 pm

o.supreme wrote:
Ultra Mad wrote:Do we know which of the six figures will be shipped first?

No clue, but we do know they are shipping in "pairs", and the third shipment would *I assume* have 3 since it will contain the Bonus Figure.

Additionally the CW/UW Deluxe Figures with the fewest uses are the F1 Racer , the Deluxe Motorcycle, and of course the Space Shuttle (which is highly unlikely TFCC would use). But it would be nice if whatever character they make it would be one of those three.

The TCC wasn't aware of the existence of the Deluxe Motorcycle or Space Shuttle when they were planning out their lineups for BotCon 2016, TFSS 4.0, and TFSS 5.0. Those two molds didn't exist back when they were making their mold selections (remembering these things were being worked on prior to BotCon 2015). There were a number of figures unknown to us at the time (such as Onslaught and Brawl) made known to the TCC, but the TakaraTomy only figures weren't made known to them by Hasbro (if Hasbro even knew that Takara was going to make them back when they provided the info to the TCC).

Randy