The Energon Pub

[DedicatedGhostArt]

Why's onslaught got a red head? I don't know what to make of that! but hopefully Takara will bring their version out & it won't have a red head.

These are just prototype shots. Obviously, we will see the real colors popping up eventually, as the rest of the combaticons.

Yep, cuz we all know he's not gonna have white wheels.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

Who knows what Takara might do with their set.

Include a new-mold Blast Off instead of that redeco of Quickslinger.

Yes, but I was talking about Onslaught. Is it too much to hope for a proper cannon battery?

I do wish he came with new and better cannons, but at the same time I am very glad we are getting a proper gun shockwave and that he'll work with this set. That excites me to no end

[Shuttershock]

This is a test shot. The colours are nowhere near final.

(Though a mostly-white arctic camo set of Combaticons would be AWESOME)

Like this?

[Hellscream9999]

This is a test shot. The colours are nowhere near final.

(Though a mostly-white arctic camo set of Combaticons would be AWESOME)

Like this?

White with purple camo?

I'm so in!

[chuckdawg1999]

Who knows what Takara might do with their set.

Include a new-mold Blast Off instead of that redeco of Quickslinger.

Yes, but I was talking about Onslaught. Is it too much to hope for a proper cannon battery?

I do wish he came with new and better cannons, but at the same time I am very glad we are getting a proper gun shockwave and that he'll work with this set. That excites me to no end

Yeah but how many times did Bruticus actually use Shockwave as a gun? Most of the time it used an up-sized version of Onslaughts gun.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

Who knows what Takara might do with their set.

Include a new-mold Blast Off instead of that redeco of Quickslinger.

Yes, but I was talking about Onslaught. Is it too much to hope for a proper cannon battery?

I do wish he came with new and better cannons, but at the same time I am very glad we are getting a proper gun shockwave and that he'll work with this set. That excites me to no end

Yeah but how many times did Bruticus actually use Shockwave as a gun? Most of the time it used an up-sized version of Onslaughts gun.

Even so, I like it better than getting a new recruit combaticon

[DedicatedGhostArt]

Who knows what Takara might do with their set.

Include a new-mold Blast Off instead of that redeco of Quickslinger.

Yes, but I was talking about Onslaught. Is it too much to hope for a proper cannon battery?

I do wish he came with new and better cannons, but at the same time I am very glad we are getting a proper gun shockwave and that he'll work with this set. That excites me to no end

Yeah but how many times did Bruticus actually use Shockwave as a gun? Most of the time it used an up-sized version of Onslaughts gun.

Even so, I like it better than getting a new recruit combaticon

Seconded. As long as it's not a Decepticon holding an Autobot, it's cool.

[Sabrblade]

This is a test shot. The colours are nowhere near final.

(Though a mostly-white arctic camo set of Combaticons would be AWESOME)

Like this?

Or this:

[Hellscream9999]

This is a test shot. The colours are nowhere near final.

(Though a mostly-white arctic camo set of Combaticons would be AWESOME)

Like this?

Or this:

Yes please! We finally got our combiners, can we please milk these molds for the epic-paint-job box sets?

[fenrir72]

I don't mind the back cannons doubling as his guns as much as I do them being exact copies of Hotspot's, the hoses make no sense here.

That's honestly my only complaint about combiner wars, the reuse of weapons. I honestly don't mind the mold reuses but the weapon reuse choice is a little annoying.

Agreed. Cyclonus having Silverbolt's weapon is kinda irritating.

This. Cyclonus should have had his own "personal" styled corrosive spewing weapon.

[Zeedust]

Man, Sky Lynx looks so F$%KING AWESOME

I cannot wait to get him, but he seriously needs an evil, nemesis version, maybe with a sigil, and he can be, like, black, with dark purple and gold accents, and look amazing!

We need to start a petition to hasbro to at least make an evil version of that mold, as the combined mode head and 'beast' mode scream / (evil) to me.

I'll be honest, I'd rather have a G1-ized version of Underbite. Though I'd imagine just for saying that, I'm not gonna be popular around here.

[megatronus]

They made a movie-style Lugnut... So anything's possible, I guess.

[SW's SilverHammer]

They made a movie-style Lugnut... So anything's possible, I guess.

I think 2010 lugnut can be considered a pseudo generations figure, rather than a movie figure.

[RAR]

Hasbro did address that at Botcon and they said essentially that the toys they made were made to be ambiguous as the Movie thing was what was being done at the time so the ROTF and RTS things were supposed to be attributed as you wished.

I'd say yeah RTS Lugnut is a bit less Movie looking than the older style Lockdown or Mindwipe are though. But looking at some of toys of that era I can see some elements to them that does distance them a bit from the absolute Movie style especially on some of the scouts.

RTS Lugnut featuring in the United brand sort of cements him as a CHUG a bit more too I guess, but that a Movie Optimus Prime was also sold in the same style I don't think you can 100% nail down HFTD or RTS to one set thing in all cases.

Heck I even use Mindset as a Classics toy even though I know that is a bit silly as he's the wrong faction/colour and has a movie look to him - but Mindset was a G2 character so I sort of feel it makes "some sense" to do so.

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I'm still not 100% sure yet how Combiner Wars will play out long term, will it be seen just as a continuation of Generations or as a Prelude to Titan Wars.
Also if Titan wars might prove to distance itself from the Generations subset themes into a movie child-friendly gimic line of it's own over time.

That may depend on how the animation handles it I guess how it's seen long term.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

I don't mind the back cannons doubling as his guns as much as I do them being exact copies of Hotspot's, the hoses make no sense here.

That's honestly my only complaint about combiner wars, the reuse of weapons. I honestly don't mind the mold reuses but the weapon reuse choice is a little annoying.

Agreed. Cyclonus having Silverbolt's weapon is kinda irritating.

This. Cyclonus should have had his own "personal" styled corrosive spewing weapon.

It is actually working out to where I am giving cyclonus' weapon to Defensor and Cyclonus gets a left over blaster

[Hellscream9999]

Man, Sky Lynx looks so F$%KING AWESOME

I cannot wait to get him, but he seriously needs an evil, nemesis version, maybe with a sigil, and he can be, like, black, with dark purple and gold accents, and look amazing!

We need to start a petition to hasbro to at least make an evil version of that mold, as the combined mode head and 'beast' mode scream / (evil) to me.

I'll be honest, I'd rather have a G1-ized version of Underbite. Though I'd imagine just for saying that, I'm not gonna be popular around here.

Well he probably isn't as cool as this:



...so... no, I'll take my epic Sky Lynx repaint

[Sabrblade]

And Underbite doesn't have wings.

And with how different Sky Lynx is from Underbite, Underbite would be best getting his own mold for such an endeavor.

[chuckdawg1999]

Who knows what Takara might do with their set.

Include a new-mold Blast Off instead of that redeco of Quickslinger.

Yes, but I was talking about Onslaught. Is it too much to hope for a proper cannon battery?

I do wish he came with new and better cannons, but at the same time I am very glad we are getting a proper gun shockwave and that he'll work with this set. That excites me to no end

Yeah but how many times did Bruticus actually use Shockwave as a gun? Most of the time it used an up-sized version of Onslaughts gun.

Even so, I like it better than getting a new recruit combaticon

Oh so do I. This might be the best Shockwave we've gotten in a long while.

[Wolfman Jake]

They made a movie-style Lugnut... So anything's possible, I guess.

I think 2010 lugnut can be considered a pseudo generations figure, rather than a movie figure.

Reveal the Shield Lugnut IS a movie character, actually...from the 1986 The Transformers: The Movie, that is!

The RtS "Battle in Space" Rodimus and Cyclonus two-pack came with a comic book called "Rodimus vs. Cyclonus," made by IDW no less, that details some events of the 1986 animated movie and adds a "deleted scene" of sorts that takes place while Hot Rod and Kup rendezvous with Ultra Magnus' team on Planet Junk after commandeering a Quintesson vessel.

What does this have to do with Lugnut? He's depicted as fighting among the Decepticon ranks in the comic, at Autobot City and a few other scenes (I believe). Check this out, courtesy of TFWiki:



So, there you go. RTS Lugnut is a retroactively a G1 character, and so can be considered part of the "Classics/Universe 2.0/Generations" line of figures. Oh, and as RAR pointed out above, he's also in the Transformers United line from Takara Tomy. Need any more proof?

By the way, it would be nice if Lugnut's Seibertron.com gallery were moved to the correct subheading in RTS/Transformers 2010.

[fenrir72]

https://www.facebook.com/constarscream?fref=nf

From Stanley Cheug

Prototype image of Scattershot

[fenrir72]

They made a movie-style Lugnut... So anything's possible, I guess.

I think 2010 lugnut can be considered a pseudo generations figure, rather than a movie figure.

Reveal the Shield Lugnut IS a movie character, actually...from the 1986 The Transformers: The Movie, that is!

The RtS "Battle in Space" Rodimus and Cyclonus two-pack came with a comic book called "Rodimus vs. Cyclonus," made by IDW no less, that details some events of the 1986 animated movie and adds a "deleted scene" of sorts that takes place while Hot Rod and Kup rendezvous with Ultra Magnus' team on Planet Junk after commandeering a Quintesson vessel.

What does this have to do with Lugnut? He's depicted as fighting among the Decepticon ranks in the comic, at Autobot City and a few other scenes (I believe). Check this out, courtesy of TFWiki:



So, there you go. RTS Lugnut is a retroactively a G1 character, and so can be considered part of the "Classics/Universe 2.0/Generations" line of figures. Oh, and as RAR pointed out above, he's also in the Transformers United line from Takara Tomy. Need any more proof?

By the way, it would be nice if Lugnut's Seibertron.com gallery were moved to the correct subheading in RTS/Transformers 2010.

Something was bugging me about this retcon. If this occured during Galvatron's raid on Autobot City and he included Devastator, again(?).

It must have been a fast raid. So while Devs was stomping around Autobot City, do you think Galvatron waited (?) for Devs to finish before pursuing Kup and UM's team? Out of character as Galvs must have immediately pursued those two escaping shuttles.

Why'd I split hairs? 'cause in Junkion, Scavenger was also among the raiding party together with Sharpnel harassing Daniel in his Exo-Suit.

[Hellscream9999]

https://www.facebook.com/constarscream?fref=nf

From Stanley Cheug

Prototype image of Scattershot

Nothing new to see here folks, move along


But seriously though, Scattershot's lookin' up nicely; I can't wait to add yet another of these exceptional torso bots to my collection. And the vehicle mode looks appropriately badass to boot

[Va'al]

Fellow Seibertron.com member fenrir72 has been keeping an eye on a regular news source, Hong Kong-based fan Stanley Cheung, and spotted two new prototype images after yesterday's Combiner Wars Combaticons: upcoming Voyager Scattershot! Check out below how the figure will differ from previous mold Silverbolt, refresh your memory on its almost finalised look for Betatron's torso and let us know what you think in the Energon Pub.

[Burn]

meh ... seems too similar to Silverbolt for my liking.

[Crosscheck]

meh ... seems too similar to Silverbolt for my liking.

He has exactly five remolded parts. The head, each wing, the cockpit, and the vertical stabilizer. Not even remotely worth it. Unfortunately, they are probably going to release the rest of the Technobots at some point (probably with a retool/repaint of Deluxe Groove as Afterburner), so then I will end up needing this waste of plastic to complete him.