The Energon Pub

[galvatron00]

Mixmaster doesn't bother me. So long as he's still a truck with a giant barrel. Though I do think its odd that everyone else is so faithful to the source and he isn't.

You know what bothers me that no company has addressed? The side mounted head gun.

[Sabrblade]

Mixmaster doesn't bother me. So long as he's still a truck with a giant barrel. Though I do think its odd that everyone else is so faithful to the source and he isn't.

You know what bothers me that no company has addressed? The side mounted head gun.

The one he didn't have in most fiction?

[Arctorro]

Mixmaster doesn't bother me. So long as he's still a truck with a giant barrel. Though I do think its odd that everyone else is so faithful to the source and he isn't.

And that is what bothers me about Mixmaster. The alt mode itself is fine, and if all the others had been given the same treatment I'd be thinking, "Cool modern update, they will go well with all the other Classics/Generations toys I have". Having one modern update and five that try to be as close to the fiction as possible (with a few obvious tweaks) makes Mixmaster stand out badly and look worse for it.

It is worse still when you consider his bot mode looks faithful to the fiction. So of the twelve modes (not counting combined), only one is a modern update, and the other eleven are very close to the fiction

[galvatron00]

Mixmaster doesn't bother me. So long as he's still a truck with a giant barrel. Though I do think its odd that everyone else is so faithful to the source and he isn't.

You know what bothers me that no company has addressed? The side mounted head gun.

The one he didn't have in most fiction?

Yes, but look at your G1 Devastator!! It's there!! It would be nice for a "Then and Now" picture, that's all

[Sabrblade]

Mixmaster doesn't bother me. So long as he's still a truck with a giant barrel. Though I do think its odd that everyone else is so faithful to the source and he isn't.

You know what bothers me that no company has addressed? The side mounted head gun.

The one he didn't have in most fiction?

Yes, but look at your G1 Devastator!! It's there!!

My yellow KO from the old KB Toys Outlet? No it isn't.

[galvatron00]

Mixmaster doesn't bother me. So long as he's still a truck with a giant barrel. Though I do think its odd that everyone else is so faithful to the source and he isn't.

You know what bothers me that no company has addressed? The side mounted head gun.

The one he didn't have in most fiction?

Yes, but look at your G1 Devastator!! It's there!!

My yellow KO from the old KB Toys Outlet? No it isn't.

I just got Sabrbladed.

[shajaki]

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[Stuartmaximus]

No point in us Brits getting too excited! Coz we probably won't see him hitting here in the UK anytime soon, this side of Christmas anyway, at least where the bricks & mortar stores are concerned!(TRU, Smyths, The Entertainer, A1 Toys ect) with the exception of him maybe turning up at any UK Comicon(the Glasgow one is coming up) or toyfair....that is.

[Burn]

No point in us Brits getting too excited! Coz we probably won't see him hitting here in the UK anytime soon, this side of Christmas anyway, at least where the bricks & mortar stores are concerned!(TRU, Smyths, The Entertainer, A1 Toys ect) with the exception of him maybe turning up at any UK Comicon(the Glasgow one is coming up) or toyfair....that is.

If it's any consolation, TRU Australia will also be importing Takara Tomy's Devastator.

[ZeroWolf]

Stu, we got metroplex not long after release everywhere. Granted it was only tru (I can see that being the same for devy mind) but let's just wait and see what happens

[Stuartmaximus]

Stu, we got metroplex not long after release everywhere. Granted it was only tru (I can see that being the same for devy mind) but let's just wait and see what happens

As i've mentioned before....it WASN'T everywhere! Toys R Us in Glasgow, Scotland NEVER got Metroplex in! I had to get mine at Comicon, Glasgow, last year! so I'm skeptical if Toys R Us G L A S G O W!!! will be getting Devy in, but I'm more hopeful that I may get it at Comicon AGAIN this year, in Glasgow.

But I was just banging on about how stores like Toys R Us in places LIKE Glasgow.....seem to miss out on those exclusive releases that other Toys R Us stores in OTHER parts of the country, seem to enjoy.

[ZeroWolf]

Yeah but your post before made it seem like the whole of the UK may miss out when it's...unlikely. as to why there is different distribution in one part of the landmass to the other well, that's just typical hasbro UK isn't

[Syn_13]

No point in us Brits getting too excited! Coz we probably won't see him hitting here in the UK anytime soon, this side of Christmas anyway, at least where the bricks & mortar stores are concerned!(TRU, Smyths, The Entertainer, A1 Toys ect) with the exception of him maybe turning up at any UK Comicon(the Glasgow one is coming up) or toyfair....that is.

Speaking of Toy Fair. It appears that Hasbro have pulled out of UK Toy Fair 2016. Not surprised, shows how much they care about us over here!

[ZeroWolf]

No point in us Brits getting too excited! Coz we probably won't see him hitting here in the UK anytime soon, this side of Christmas anyway, at least where the bricks & mortar stores are concerned!(TRU, Smyths, The Entertainer, A1 Toys ect) with the exception of him maybe turning up at any UK Comicon(the Glasgow one is coming up) or toyfair....that is.

Speaking of Toy Fair. It appears that Hasbro have pulled out of UK Toy Fair 2016. Not surprised, shows how much they care about us over here!

Didn't realise they were there thus year or in the past...

[fenrir72]

No point in us Brits getting too excited! Coz we probably won't see him hitting here in the UK anytime soon, this side of Christmas anyway, at least where the bricks & mortar stores are concerned!(TRU, Smyths, The Entertainer, A1 Toys ect) with the exception of him maybe turning up at any UK Comicon(the Glasgow one is coming up) or toyfair....that is.

Speaking of Toy Fair. It appears that Hasbro have pulled out of UK Toy Fair 2016. Not surprised, shows how much they care about us over here!

Didn't realise they were there thus year or in the past...

Is the UK market that small?

[Bouncy X]

much cheaper than i expected as our prices oftentimes suck.

[Burn]

A challenge for all those who don't like Mixmaster being given the alt mode of a "modern" cement truck.

One of the biggest reasons for not liking it is because none of the others got a "modern" update. Would some of those people care to post some pictures of some "modern" alt modes for the other five Constructicons?

[Sabrblade]

A challenge for all those who don't like Mixmaster being given the alt mode of a "modern" cement truck.

One of the biggest reasons for not liking it is because none of the others got a "modern" update. Would some of those people care to post some pictures of some "modern" alt modes for the other five Constructicons?

All six of them are modern. It's just that the other five are based on vehicle types whose designs haven't changed as much in appearance as the look of that type of cement mixer has.

Though, Mixmaster is done as that kind of cement mixer not simply to be modernized, but also because that type of design is what the great big mining cement mixers look like, and all six of the Constructicons in this set are rendered as the giant mining versions of their respective altmode vehicles. The rear-mounted cement mixer design nowadays is used on the smaller-scale ones, while the bigger-scale mining ones use the front-mounted mixers. It's because they're all giant mining construction vehicles now that Mixmaster got his new look.

[Burn]

So complaining about Mixmaster's modern take is pointless because all the others have been updated as well. Concrete trucks have changed the most in the last 30 years.

Sorted.

[fenrir72]

So complaining about Mixmaster's modern take is pointless because all the others have been updated as well. Concrete trucks have changed the most in the last 30 years.

Sorted.

And yet the complaining continues. I wonder why?

We didn't get much complaints when Metroflex came without Slammer or Six-gun.

Some complaints on Jetfire's faux cockpit.

Only one member complained when we got A/B. OffRoad not to much.

Then we also have the scale issues and the elbows now that TT released an updated version of the update.

Is familiarity with a particular symbol/person/vehicle so deep routed? That the particular psychological comfort zone so much disturbed that the crutch it serve to root one to reality has been so destabilized?

Makes a good case study in Psychology/Psychiatry. OCD to the max? Neurosis to the next level?

[william-james88]

I think the fact that it is modern or not doesnt matter to some people. Some wanted a G1 version to the max and are not getting it, and of all the components because it is Cement Mixers that have changed the most, that is the one that sticks out the most. If he was turned the other way would there be different arguments for him not being G1 enough? Maybe.

[Arctorro]

So complaining about Mixmaster's modern take is pointless because all the others have been updated as well. Concrete trucks have changed the most in the last 30 years.

Sorted.

You keep spouting that you hate that Hasbro are taking traditionally non combining characters and making them combiners then vigorously defend your right to express that opinion. However, whenever anyone says they don't like Mixmaster's alt mode, by expressing their opinion, you call it pointless? Right.

Though, Mixmaster is done as that kind of cement mixer not simply to be modernized, but also because that type of design is what the great big mining cement mixers look like, and all six of the Constructicons in this set are rendered as the giant mining versions of their respective altmode vehicles. The rear-mounted cement mixer design nowadays is used on the smaller-scale ones, while the bigger-scale mining ones use the front-mounted mixers. It's because they're all giant mining construction vehicles now that Mixmaster got his new look.

You keep mentioning alt mode scale. Why? Look at the deluxe class, sure a couple of cars scale well with each other and a couple of jets scale well with each other, but when you look at the entire line there is NO alt mode scale. As Burn would say, pointless.

[fenrir72]

So complaining about Mixmaster's modern take is pointless because all the others have been updated as well. Concrete trucks have changed the most in the last 30 years.

Sorted.

You keep spouting that you hate that Hasbro are taking traditionally non combining characters and making them combiners then vigorously defend your right to express that opinion. However, whenever anyone says they don't like Mixmaster's alt mode, by expressing their opinion, you call it pointless? Right.

Though, Mixmaster is done as that kind of cement mixer not simply to be modernized, but also because that type of design is what the great big mining cement mixers look like, and all six of the Constructicons in this set are rendered as the giant mining versions of their respective altmode vehicles. The rear-mounted cement mixer design nowadays is used on the smaller-scale ones, while the bigger-scale mining ones use the front-mounted mixers. It's because they're all giant mining construction vehicles now that Mixmaster got his new look.

You keep mentioning alt mode scale. Why? Look at the deluxe class, sure a couple of cars scale well with each other and a couple of jets scale well with each other, but when you look at the entire line there is NO alt mode scale. As Burn would say, pointless.

You can't please them all I guess............humans....

[ZeroWolf]

I believe the point was that the constructicons, in their little gift set, actually scale wothb

[ZeroWolf]

I believe the point was that the constructicons, in their little gift set, actually scale with each other like the others do in their own little groups.