The Energon Pub

[Rodimus Knight]

Wild Wheel's Car design looks like it borrowed heavily from the Female Autobot Combiners, which I thought was a lazy and boring design to start with.

[Ballistic90]

Wild Wheel's Car design looks like it borrowed heavily from the Female Autobot Combiners, which I thought was a lazy and boring design to start with.

At least Wild Wheels' back end looks better designed.

[Sabrblade]

Wild Wheel's Car design looks like it borrowed heavily from the Female Autobot Combiners, which I thought was a lazy and boring design to start with.

At least Wild Wheels' back end looks better designed.

And unlike the fembots, he's a flying car.

[ScottyP]

New characters seem like they got the short end of the stick here. Wild Wheel looks pretty cheap in bot mode and Meteorfire's alt mode looks like a box with wings. Happy to see new characters but hope they get sonething additional down the line.

I shouldn't complain too much, still infinitely better treatment than a ton of RiD's characters! Never getting a good Saberhorn, are we

[Bumblevivisector]

The last few eps that ran on CN have sold me on the two new guys, but it is a shame these will probably be their only toys.

I've now had enough bad experiences with forgetting batteries until they were long corroded that I'd just as soon never see another TF with an electronic gimmick again, but this voice activation feature reminds me so much of those Allspark Tech figures that I foresee these guys mostly showing up in Marshalls and TJMaxx, though Ollie's may also answer said "Battle Call".

Of course, just when the former two stores actually reopen in Michigan, that I cannot foresee.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

The big Prime has a pretty wicked face sculpt for the armor.

Shame these are meteorfire and Wild wheel's only toys, they have such cool designs and are getting some mediocre toys. These are 2 of only maybe 6 figures left from the line I want

[chuckdawg1999]

Wild Wheel, while kinda cheap looking, looks nice, and I appreciate his stetson being removable. Probably be the only one I get, and I’d kill for a dark blue, 19th-century US Army Cavalry themed redeco. Still curious how the armor thing works. I know it’s voice activated but how does it pop out?

You may not want to hear this, but the spring-loaded armor is only on the bigger Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, with the rest simply being attached (look at the fins on the shoulders). According to the box, the lights on the figures and sounds on the bigger Prime and 'Bee are voice-activated, but the armors are not. It's possible there are different sounds depending on whether the armor is deployed or not (like a button being kept pressed), but I can't find any clues to that.

I think the spring loaded armor is controlled by the weapons. When they're pulled out from the back they trigger a catch.

[Sabrblade]

You know, it just hit me that the black-colored Hot Rod toys in this line might have beem an attempt to homogenize his look with the colors of his live action movie counterpart.

[william-james88]

You know, it just hit me that the black-colored Hot Rod toys in this line might have beem an attempt to homogenize his look with the colors of his live action movie counterpart.

I thought it was more for that covert stealth look since he's the one to always go near the quints.

[Sabrblade]

You know, it just hit me that the black-colored Hot Rod toys in this line might have beem an attempt to homogenize his look with the colors of his live action movie counterpart.

I thought it was more for that covert stealth look since he's the one to always go near the quints.

I was mainly talking about the toys themselves since those came out long before the show had colored him black.

But in the show itself, his black deco wasn't something that he himself chose for any stealth missions. His body was turned black by a toxic pool of energon waste after he inexplicably miraculously survived being dunked in it.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

You know, it just hit me that the black-colored Hot Rod toys in this line might have beem an attempt to homogenize his look with the colors of his live action movie counterpart.

I thought it was more for that covert stealth look since he's the one to always go near the quints.

I was mainly talking about the toys themselves since those came out long before the show had colored him black.

But in the show itself, his black deco wasn't something that he himself chose for any stealth missions. His body was turned black by a toxic pool of energon waste after he inexplicably miraculously survived being dunked in it.

I realized that a while ago, it is nigh identical to the TLK Hot Rod paint job from the Bumblebee legion 2-pack, plus the keeping of red/orange/yellow with the black clearly pointed to him.

It's super cool to see Hot Rod homaged like that, and it made sense in the story

[Deadput]

I love it when characters like Hotrod and Bumblebee (in TFP for the "Prime" example) take on a black color scheme later on, I wouldn't care that much if it was their main colors or anything but since it's an alternative I love it.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

Cyberverse has proven to be a well loved show, with a really good Season 2 and a really awesome and original take on the Transformers and the Quintessions in Season 3. We have gotten a lot of toys during the show run, and it while almost every toy has been revealed officially with product images and such, there are still 3 figures left to get a proper reveal, and today we have some more information on one of them.

That figure would be Ultimate Class Iaconus, whom was originally listed back at the very beginning of the year, but has remained in the shadows since, possible due to his role in Season 3 of the show and wanted to coincide with his full reveal. Iaconus is set to arrive in a wave that also includes the previously released Optimus Prime and Shockwave, which means he might be stealthily making his way to shelves soon and not stand out right away.

In the show, Iaconus is described as a War Titan, a Titan who is larger than standard Titans and far more aggressive and fierce. Iaconus' design was previously showed to us as well, but how accurate to the show model his toy is is up for debate, considering what the newest Ultimate Class figures have looked like and used as a gimmick. Hopefully he leans more towards the Ultimate Grimlock than the Ultimate Shockwave.

Check out his product information below, courtesy of Entertainment Earth, and let us know what you think Iaconus will end up looking like below! And stay tuned, hopefully he, and the Ultra Class Skullcruncher and Thunderhowl will make appearances soon!

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[Quantum Surge]

I was PUMPED to see it be called Ultimate Class until I realized it's not the Ultimate ones we got from 2018-19.

[Skritz]

How large would such a figure be, anyway?

[SG Roadbuster]

ouch. it sounds like Iaconus is gonna be hampered by a crap gimmick. poor guy. i really wanted the NEW characters to get good toys the way Hammerbyte and Thunderhowl did.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

How large would such a figure be, anyway?

Here is my newly revamped (prior to last night) Cyberverse shelf with Ultimate Grimlock, who would be the same size as Iaconus. Grimlock is posed/hunched some in that photo, so he would be taller yet

[Skritz]

But how big is that in relation to CHUG figures?

[D-Maximal_Primal]

But how big is that in relation to CHUG figures?

The Optimus, Megatron, and Shockwave are all standing more or less straight up in the back row there on a riser, and they are the standard deluxe size (about Ironworks/Mirage height) for comparison

[Emerje]

But how big is that in relation to CHUG figures?

The description says 9", so about the size of "old" leader scale like during the Prime Wars trilogy. Ultimate Grimlock is slightly shorter than PotP Optimus Prime (or in my case, Star Convoy).

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Emerje

[D-Maximal_Primal]

Got the 5th member of the Resistance! Took more effort and money than I would like, but it's Whirl, he deserved it.

[Ultra Markus]

But how big is that in relation to CHUG figures?

not big enough not by a long shot

[Skritz]

But how big is that in relation to CHUG figures?

not big enough not by a long shot

Yeah that's a tad small for a Titan.

[Sabrblade]

But how big is that in relation to CHUG figures?

not big enough not by a long shot

Yeah that's a tad small for a Titan.

Yeah, unfortunately, the Cyberverse toyline doesn't have any larger size classes than Ultimate class. It would take a Generations release for Iaconus, Croaton, or the Dweller to receive toys that do their sizes more justice.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

But how big is that in relation to CHUG figures?

not big enough not by a long shot

Yeah that's a tad small for a Titan.

Yeah, unfortunately, the Cyberverse toyline doesn't have any larger size classes than Ultimate class. It would take a Generations release for Iaconus, Croaton, or the Dweller to receive toys that do their sizes more justice.

And hopefully someday we get those. The former 2 certainly deserve it, they ended up being major characters wholly original to the lineup.