The Energon Pub

by **RiddlerJ** » Thu Dec 25, 2014 9:14 pm

SW's SilverHammer wrote:I know I give the club a hard time, I do, because Im fickle. However, I'm going to be amazingly pissed if the secret figure is G2 nightracer from generations tailgate. That mold sucks, so hard, and I genuinely adore nightracers character design from before timelines #9 where they screwed it all up by giving her a new body based on generations tailgate.

They should use the Animated Arcee mold. That's what it looked like before the Tailgate switch.

Of course, they could wait a few years and just use the new Generations Arcee mold.

On another note, TFCC really needs to produce new figures for the rest of the Action Masters that never had transforming figures before. I think those are the most inventive of their repaints.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Thu Dec 25, 2014 9:16 pm

RiddlerJ wrote:They should use the Animated Arcee mold. That's what it looked like before the Tailgate switch.

No, she just looked like her G2 toy but stylized in the art of the comic.

And the Club likely won't use Animated molds for anything that isn't Animated.

News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Thu Dec 25, 2014 9:37 pm

RiddlerJ wrote:On another note, TFCC really needs to produce new figures for the rest of the Action Masters that never had transforming figures before. I think those are the most inventive of their repaints.

Agreed. They are some of my most favourite Club offerings in recent years.

News Credits: 118 · by **megatronus** » Thu Dec 25, 2014 10:20 pm

Mkall wrote:
RiddlerJ wrote:On another note, TFCC really needs to produce new figures for the rest of the Action Masters that never had transforming figures before. I think those are the most inventive of their repaints.

Agreed. They are some of my most favourite Club offerings in recent years.

100% agree - the Club's action masters have been some of their strongest work.

Crook and Carzap are really looking great. I really hated on 3.0 when they first revealed the characters, but it's turning out to be a fairly cool subscription line. I'm very happy I signed up.

by **Rated X** » Fri Dec 26, 2014 12:55 am

Sabrblade wrote:And the Club likely won't use Animated molds for anything that isn't Animated.

In my opinion, the Jackpot repaint was aimed to fit either on a classics or Animated shelf. The head isn’t too far off from the G1 toy even with the Animated aesthetic. I also use Toxitron on my classics G2 shelf. The faceplate gets rid of the goofy face and the toxic “mutation” helps justify his animated aesthetic as being deformed.

News Credits: 387 · by **Bounti76** » Fri Dec 26, 2014 3:35 am

Krok and Carzap are the main reason I signed up for the Subscription service this year after skipping last year. Color me very impressed with the work on these two. Krok's altmode looks like it was made for him- his original toy has a starship bridge chest thing going on. And I'm digging Carzap's new head and what is that? A chromed weapon? Very nice.

News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Mon Jan 26, 2015 2:01 pm

eBay seller lena81822 has come through again, this time with the upcoming Transformers Collectors Club free membership figure for 2015 - Lio Convoy

The auction can be found here or by clicking the image above.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Mon Jan 26, 2015 2:18 pm

Gotta wonder whose side he's on if he's part of Uprising.

News Credits: 118 · by **megatronus** » Mon Jan 26, 2015 2:29 pm

Ugh. I'm excited for this guy, but getting two predominantly white versions of this mold really makes me want a "Nemesis Pax." I know that makes sense in no continuity, even the name makes no sense... but I just want it.

by **gothsaurus** » Mon Jan 26, 2015 2:41 pm

As a side note, I do wish we'd have gotten a more traditional Orion Pax (read "gheee-wuuuunnnn") head on that mold... maybe as a Takara release.

BUT gotta agree. So glad I subscribed to 3.0. While I was skeptical at the start, these have come out looking really nice... and the deep-rooted, well-researched, sometimes-obscure choices were like a slow-starting now out-of-control wildfire. I'm really, really excited about those... especially the action masters and unreleased character reduxes. :KREMZEEK:

Lio Convoy looks fantastic as well. As long as I keep those two white trucks FAR apart on the shelves... all will be cool. heh.

Great to get some BW vehicle bots to flesh out that lineup/shelf. (I know people say they are different universes, but hey... it's my shelves. I'll put them where I wanna.) >:oP

News Credits: 1 · by **durroth** » Mon Jan 26, 2015 3:30 pm

anyone know how orion pax scales next to Robot Masters lio convoy?

by **gothsaurus** » Mon Jan 26, 2015 3:35 pm

interesting though. Seems like they are close to the same height by my memory. Orion Pax was a painfully short deluxe. (yeah, I said deluxe) Like Trailbreaker/Hoist, I could have had that guy a head taller. Sigh.

News Credits: 21 · by **dragons** » Mon Jan 26, 2015 4:01 pm

Looks horrible should have kept him as lion

by **Rated X** » Mon Jan 26, 2015 4:02 pm

Nice. Im happy with this. I bought the subscription service but Ill be skipping the nova prime since I already own an original mold for the character.

News Credits: 118 · by **megatronus** » Mon Jan 26, 2015 4:29 pm

Rated X wrote:Nice. Im happy with this. I bought the subscription service but Ill be skipping the nova prime since I already own an original mold for the character.

I am impressed by the level of diplomacy here.

News Credits: 461 · by **mooncake623** » Mon Jan 26, 2015 5:32 pm

Headsculpt looks small.. meh to be expected i guess.

News Credits: 3 · by **prjkt** » Mon Jan 26, 2015 6:27 pm

Probably had to be small to fit in for transformation.

Looks kinda cool, looking forward to the Nova Prime version too strangely enough. I know it's too small to really be and IDW Nova Prime, but the mockups looked pretty cool.

by **gothsaurus** » Mon Jan 26, 2015 8:00 pm

eh. Looks in proportion and pretty good to me. I'd like to see it from some other angles before judgement. >:oP

News Credits: 293 · by **shajaki** » Mon Jan 26, 2015 8:23 pm

lena also has carzap!

by **Robogeek1973** » Mon Jan 26, 2015 8:24 pm

That Lio Convoy looks pretty cool.

I may hafta keep an eye on one of those auctions.

News Credits: 2 · by **Nemesis Destron** » Mon Jan 26, 2015 8:48 pm

I'm so getting this Lio Convoy. I love how he's been baptized into full machine ditching the beast alt-mode. ;)^

News Credits: 25 · by **SW's SilverHammer** » Mon Jan 26, 2015 9:18 pm

Oooooh, that headsculpt's hella gummy.

News Credits: 4835 · by **william-james88** » Mon Jan 26, 2015 9:33 pm

Looks like this is a day for new TFSS (Transformers subscription service) images. On the same day, the Transformers Club official facebook page has posted a picture of the upcoming Serpentor figure while E-bay seller lena81822 has posted images of Carzap and Lio Convoy, the later we've already reported earlier.

Here are the mirrored pictures of Serpentor and Carzap who use the Generations Ratbat and Generations Bumblebee (deluxe).

by **RiddlerJ** » Mon Jan 26, 2015 10:21 pm

I like that Serpentor.

I would totally eat up a Botcon set with G.I. Joe Transformers.

News Credits: 387 · by **Bounti76** » Mon Jan 26, 2015 10:46 pm

Carzap looks great...I hope we get a repaint of him as Windbreaker.

Sepent O.R. looks worse than his first revealed pictures. His "gold" is the color of earwax. Cannot unsee that.