The Energon Pub

by **peaces** » Wed Sep 23, 2015 7:52 pm

brawl already? awesome. he looks amazing. like 3p. glad he is a real world color and not tutty fruity like foc.

News Credits: 4835 · by **william-james88** » Wed Sep 23, 2015 8:56 pm

Mkall wrote:Must wait for Takara
Must wait for Takara
Must wait for Takara
Must wait for Takara
Must wait for Takara
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After this year's events I put a new spin to that shared mantra:

Must wait for Takara (unless TTMall exclusive)
Must wait for Takara (unless TTMall exclusive)
Must wait for Takara (unless TTMall exclusive)
Must wait for Takara (unless TTMall exclusive)
Must wait for Takara (unless TTMall exclusive)
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SillySpringer wrote:Quick-Off?

That's what my wife and I call it these days ... since we are both so busy.

by **Shuttershock** » Wed Sep 23, 2015 9:00 pm

SillySpringer wrote:Quick-Off?

That's what my wife and I call it these days ... since we are both so busy.

That sounds so British for some reason.

"Fancy a quick-off before I pop off, luv?"

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Wed Sep 23, 2015 9:26 pm

Burn wrote:
SillySpringer wrote:Quick-Off?

*snort*
He's bound to be a hit with the ladies.

He's still young, still has time to learn.

Just noticed something: BRAWL HAS ANKLE TILTS!!!!!! Rook, Swindle, Hound and Brawl all have ANKLE TILTS!!!!!

Look and ye shall see

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Wed Sep 23, 2015 9:29 pm

william-james88 wrote:
SillySpringer wrote:Quick-Off?

That's what my wife and I call it these days ... since we are both so busy.

I think Burn said it best when SS made an Obama comment related to Rated X:

W........T...........F.............

News Credits: 3 · by **DedicatedGhostArt** » Wed Sep 23, 2015 9:36 pm

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
SillySpringer wrote:Quick-Off?

That's what my wife and I call it these days ... since we are both so busy.

I think Burn said it best when SS made an Obama comment related to Rated X:

W........T...........F.............

Yep. Don't blame me and say I'm perverted William...

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Wed Sep 23, 2015 9:43 pm

SillySpringer wrote:
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
SillySpringer wrote:Quick-Off?

That's what my wife and I call it these days ... since we are both so busy.

I think Burn said it best when SS made an Obama comment related to Rated X:

W........T...........F.............

Yep. Don't blame me and say I'm perverted William...

I'm not blaming you, I merely was mentioning an equally as ridiculous situation involving you. :lol:

Ok, we're done here, nothing to see people. Innuendos are no more

News Credits: 3 · by **DedicatedGhostArt** » Wed Sep 23, 2015 9:47 pm

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:
SillySpringer wrote:
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
SillySpringer wrote:Quick-Off?

That's what my wife and I call it these days ... since we are both so busy.

I think Burn said it best when SS made an Obama comment related to Rated X:

W........T...........F.............

Yep. Don't blame me and say I'm perverted William...

I'm not blaming you, I merely was mentioning an equally as ridiculous situation involving you.

Ok, we're done here, nothing to see people. Innuendos are no more

BE GONE INNUENDOS! THIS IS SEIBERTRON!!!
Ok ok I'm done. Anyone mention Brawl's wide hips? Kinda strange, especially since his hips are a bit thin...

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Wed Sep 23, 2015 9:51 pm

SillySpringer wrote: Anyone mention Brawl's wide hips? Kinda strange, especially since his hips are a bit thin...

I noticed he had very short forearms

News Credits: 3 · by **DedicatedGhostArt** » Wed Sep 23, 2015 9:56 pm

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:
SillySpringer wrote: Anyone mention Brawl's wide hips? Kinda strange, especially since his hips are a bit thin...

I noticed he had very short forearms

...yeah that too. He's a bit weird proportion-wise, but HEY, at least he's a new mold right?

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Wed Sep 23, 2015 10:04 pm

SillySpringer wrote:
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:
SillySpringer wrote: Anyone mention Brawl's wide hips? Kinda strange, especially since his hips are a bit thin...

I noticed he had very short forearms

...yeah that too. He's a bit weird proportion-wise, but HEY, at least he's a new mold right?

Eh, yeah sorta. I'll hold off on opinions until reviews start coming in

News Credits: 174 · by **Hellscream9999** » Wed Sep 23, 2015 10:08 pm

SillySpringer wrote:
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:
SillySpringer wrote: Anyone mention Brawl's wide hips? Kinda strange, especially since his hips are a bit thin...

I noticed he had very short forearms

...yeah that too. He's a bit weird proportion-wise, but HEY, at least he's a new mold right?

Well for one thing, his knuckles are part of the tread (I can virtually guarantee they won't be painted) so they have to be the height of the tread, so there's that.

As for his thighs, we haven't seen the arm mode, so, since his is an unorthodox transformation, many choices had to be made to get his arm mode to have approximately symmetrical elbows, but can also condense into a predefined height for the leg mode, all while looking G1 accurate and having a nice looking robot and tank mode, so it actually becomes very complicated when you think about it.

I have no problem with it, and he will probably be combined most of the time, so even if I did, it would be a non-issue >:oP

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Wed Sep 23, 2015 11:51 pm

Hellscream9999 wrote:
SillySpringer wrote:
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:
SillySpringer wrote: Anyone mention Brawl's wide hips? Kinda strange, especially since his hips are a bit thin...

I noticed he had very short forearms

...yeah that too. He's a bit weird proportion-wise, but HEY, at least he's a new mold right?

Well for one thing, his knuckles are part of the tread (I can virtually guarantee they won't be painted) so they have to be the height of the tread, so there's that.

As for his thighs, we haven't seen the arm mode, so, since his is an unorthodox transformation, many choices had to be made to get his arm mode to have approximately symmetrical elbows, but can also condense into a predefined height for the leg mode, all while looking G1 accurate and having a nice looking robot and tank mode, so it actually becomes very complicated when you think about it.

I have no problem with it, and he will probably be combined most of the time, so even if I did, it would be a non-issue

Same on the combined mode part, but its still something I noticed that just looks a bit off. Like Rook is a little bit short in the arms, but it's not terribly noticeable to me. This is just a bit different.

Funny Thing: Since i got them, the protectobots have switched pretty equally between Defensor, vehicle and robot modes. They are great the whole way round

News Credits: 174 · by **Hellscream9999** » Thu Sep 24, 2015 12:04 am

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:
Hellscream9999 wrote:
SillySpringer wrote:
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:
SillySpringer wrote: Anyone mention Brawl's wide hips? Kinda strange, especially since his hips are a bit thin...

I noticed he had very short forearms

...yeah that too. He's a bit weird proportion-wise, but HEY, at least he's a new mold right?

Well for one thing, his knuckles are part of the tread (I can virtually guarantee they won't be painted) so they have to be the height of the tread, so there's that.

As for his thighs, we haven't seen the arm mode, so, since his is an unorthodox transformation, many choices had to be made to get his arm mode to have approximately symmetrical elbows, but can also condense into a predefined height for the leg mode, all while looking G1 accurate and having a nice looking robot and tank mode, so it actually becomes very complicated when you think about it.

I have no problem with it, and he will probably be combined most of the time, so even if I did, it would be a non-issue

Same on the combined mode part, but its still something I noticed that just looks a bit off. Like Rook is a little bit short in the arms, but it's not terribly noticeable to me. This is just a bit different.

Funny Thing: Since i got them, the protectobots have switched pretty equally between Defensor, vehicle and robot modes. They are great the whole way round

Yeah, they're pretty great, I just love hotspot's alt mode, much the same way I love magnus' alt mode. If my streetwise weren't made of 2 different shades of plastic, he'd be out here too; but now I have Prowl 8-)

And, yeah, I was simply pointing out that, engineering wise, the standard (aerialbots) design yields nice, standard figures, but once you stray away from it, things start to get a little iffy, just look at breakdown.

But I just love rook and first aid as limbs, they make for really bulky arms and first-aid makes the best leg, it's so sleek 8-)

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Thu Sep 24, 2015 12:30 am

Hellscream9999 wrote:
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:
Hellscream9999 wrote:
SillySpringer wrote:
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:
SillySpringer wrote: Anyone mention Brawl's wide hips? Kinda strange, especially since his hips are a bit thin...

I noticed he had very short forearms

...yeah that too. He's a bit weird proportion-wise, but HEY, at least he's a new mold right?

Well for one thing, his knuckles are part of the tread (I can virtually guarantee they won't be painted) so they have to be the height of the tread, so there's that.

As for his thighs, we haven't seen the arm mode, so, since his is an unorthodox transformation, many choices had to be made to get his arm mode to have approximately symmetrical elbows, but can also condense into a predefined height for the leg mode, all while looking G1 accurate and having a nice looking robot and tank mode, so it actually becomes very complicated when you think about it.

I have no problem with it, and he will probably be combined most of the time, so even if I did, it would be a non-issue

Same on the combined mode part, but its still something I noticed that just looks a bit off. Like Rook is a little bit short in the arms, but it's not terribly noticeable to me. This is just a bit different.

Funny Thing: Since i got them, the protectobots have switched pretty equally between Defensor, vehicle and robot modes. They are great the whole way round

Yeah, they're pretty great, I just love hotspot's alt mode, much the same way I love magnus' alt mode. If my streetwise weren't made of 2 different shades of plastic, he'd be out here too; but now I have Prowl

And, yeah, I was simply pointing out that, engineering wise, the standard (aerialbots) design yields nice, standard figures, but once you stray away from it, things start to get a little iffy, just look at breakdown.

But I just love rook and first aid as limbs, they make for really bulky arms and first-aid makes the best leg, it's so sleek

Rook is magnificent and the real winner of the wave. First Aid just screams MTMTE which is awesome. Streetwise has an amazing headsculpt and Hot Spot is pretty spot on too. Love the torso mode. Blades and Groove are pretty cool in their own ways too (head and overall design respectively)

News Credits: 174 · by **Hellscream9999** » Thu Sep 24, 2015 12:48 am

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:
Hellscream9999 wrote:
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:
Hellscream9999 wrote:
SillySpringer wrote:
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:
SillySpringer wrote: Anyone mention Brawl's wide hips? Kinda strange, especially since his hips are a bit thin...

I noticed he had very short forearms

...yeah that too. He's a bit weird proportion-wise, but HEY, at least he's a new mold right?

Well for one thing, his knuckles are part of the tread (I can virtually guarantee they won't be painted) so they have to be the height of the tread, so there's that.

As for his thighs, we haven't seen the arm mode, so, since his is an unorthodox transformation, many choices had to be made to get his arm mode to have approximately symmetrical elbows, but can also condense into a predefined height for the leg mode, all while looking G1 accurate and having a nice looking robot and tank mode, so it actually becomes very complicated when you think about it.

I have no problem with it, and he will probably be combined most of the time, so even if I did, it would be a non-issue

Same on the combined mode part, but its still something I noticed that just looks a bit off. Like Rook is a little bit short in the arms, but it's not terribly noticeable to me. This is just a bit different.

Funny Thing: Since i got them, the protectobots have switched pretty equally between Defensor, vehicle and robot modes. They are great the whole way round

Yeah, they're pretty great, I just love hotspot's alt mode, much the same way I love magnus' alt mode. If my streetwise weren't made of 2 different shades of plastic, he'd be out here too; but now I have Prowl

And, yeah, I was simply pointing out that, engineering wise, the standard (aerialbots) design yields nice, standard figures, but once you stray away from it, things start to get a little iffy, just look at breakdown.

But I just love rook and first aid as limbs, they make for really bulky arms and first-aid makes the best leg, it's so sleek

Rook is magnificent and the real winner of the wave. First Aid just screams MTMTE which is awesome. Streetwise has an amazing headsculpt and Hot Spot is pretty spot on too. Love the torso mode. Blades and Groove are pretty cool in their own ways too (head and overall design respectively)

Yeah, you gotta plug mirages sword and ironhides ax into rooks hand ports, he looks so cool 8-)

News Credits: 331 · by **chuckdawg1999** » Thu Sep 24, 2015 1:36 am

Does this mean there are Brawls to be bought somewhere out there?

News Credits: 22 · by **Rodimus Prime** » Thu Sep 24, 2015 2:06 am

I think he's gonna make a much better leg than arm.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Thu Sep 24, 2015 4:53 am

Rodimus Prime wrote:I think he's gonna make a much better leg than arm.

Logically he would. A tank or a jet/shuttle supporting all that weight? Yeah, I know which one I'd go with.

News Credits: 11 · by **RAR** » Thu Sep 24, 2015 5:31 am

Did Hasbro ever explain why there was 2 distinct colours of Bruticus on display ?
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Remembering the Scout class Brawl being an APC and thinking about the Decepticon Gutcruncher and also thinking about Rook, Alpha Bravo and Off Road.

How about repainting/ slightly remoulding Rook as Gutcruncher and making him an official bonus Combaticon team member ? I can't suggest Bludgeon as he's coming out another way, but Gutcrunchers' little vehicle he sat in looked a little bit like an APC when he's not in it.

If you didn't want to go the Alpha Bravo route and just wanted to make a Decepticon Military vehicle then I'd say go with (either version) : http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Dropshot_(G1).

I just like the back up team member idea to me it just gets around so many of the disadvantages of the combiners with regard to mission roles their use in combat and the consequences of casualties.

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Thu Sep 24, 2015 7:03 am

After yesterday's appearance of in-package Generations Combiner Wars Combaticons images, we have another update today from T3 Hobby Shop on Facebook - notified via fellow Seibertronian ATR. We've mirrored the images of unboxed toys and Bruticus itself below, check them out!