The Energon Pub

[Editor]

Hey guys, random question but I see people write 'mould' everywhere. Isn't it just 'mold' ?

Depends on where you live.

Mold vs. mould
American English has no mould, and British English has no mold. In other words, the word referring to (1) the various funguses that grow on organic matter or (2) a frame for shaping something is spelled the same in both uses, and the spelling depends on the variety of English.

Of course, the spelling difference extends to derivatives such as moldy/mouldy and molding/molding and to the verb sense to shape with a mold.

Australian and Canadian English favor the British spelling, though mold is fairly common in Canadian publications.

The same explains a lot of extra "U"s that show up.

My personal peeve is check/cheque. A CHECK is when the girl at Wal-mart needs a price. When someone is giving you a piece of paper instead of cash, that is a CHEQUE.

And while we are at it, you can say Takara "licensed" the toys to Hasbro. But how do you spin that sentence around the other way that makes Hasbro be the subject. Is there a more eloquent way of saying Hasbro bought the license?

That would be licensee. (One to whom or to which a license is granted.)

[Robogeek1973]

Thought it seemed only fitting to pull this image over here to toy town.

To the future!

And this is exactly why Combiners always look too small to me.


In the media they're just too damn big.

[william-james88]

Hey guys, random question but I see people write 'mould' everywhere. Isn't it just 'mold' ?

Depends on where you live.

Mold vs. mould
American English has no mould, and British English has no mold. In other words, the word referring to (1) the various funguses that grow on organic matter or (2) a frame for shaping something is spelled the same in both uses, and the spelling depends on the variety of English.

Of course, the spelling difference extends to derivatives such as moldy/mouldy and molding/molding and to the verb sense to shape with a mold.

Australian and Canadian English favor the British spelling, though mold is fairly common in Canadian publications.

The same explains a lot of extra "U"s that show up.

My personal peeve is check/cheque. A CHECK is when the girl at Wal-mart needs a price. When someone is giving you a piece of paper instead of cash, that is a CHEQUE.

Thanks buddy!!

[Cobotron]

Hey guys, random question but I see people write 'mould' everywhere. Isn't it just 'mold' ?

I've wondered this too. Do some of our English homies write it that way?

And while we are at it, you can say Takara "licensed" the toys to Hasbro. But how do you spin that sentence around the other way that makes Hasbro be the subject. Is there a more eloquent way of saying Hasbro bought the license?

"Licensed the rights".

WJ - do you speak Chinese?

Edit: Sorry Editor, most have responded at the same time.
Thanks for the explanation. Dig the Sig by the way. Yarp!

[Syn_13]

Hey guys, random question but I see people write 'mould' everywhere. Isn't it just 'mold' ?

I've wondered this too. Do some of our English homies write it that way?

Indeedy. We love an extra "u" in England. Mould, colour, flavour, etc. Let's not forget the "er/re" swap (centre, theatre, metre, fibre). My American cousins love that one.

[prjkt]

Depends on if you learnt English spelling or American English spelling.

As for the topic, yay for Defensor's confirmation with the IDW April covers ^_^

Finally be able to have the combined I almost completed as a kid

[Cobotron]

Hey guys, random question but I see people write 'mould' everywhere. Isn't it just 'mold' ?

I've wondered this too. Do some of our English homies write it that way?

Indeedy. We love an extra "u" in England. Mould, colour, flavour, etc. Let's not forget the "er/re" swap (centre, theatre, metre, fibre). My American cousins love that one.

Don't forget Ye Olde Shoppe. You guys did make the rules. Us Yanks are just lazy.

[Cobotron]

Thought it seemed only fitting to pull this image over here to toy town.

To the future!

And this is exactly why Combiners always look too small to me.


In the media they're just too damn big.

Ya. Shouldn't Windblade be the size of his arm?

[Robogeek1973]

Thought it seemed only fitting to pull this image over here to toy town.

To the future!

And this is exactly why Combiners always look too small to me.


In the media they're just too damn big.

Ya. Shouldn't Windblade be the size of his arm?

Yes....yes she should.

[Agamemnon]

Thought it seemed only fitting to pull this image over here to toy town.

To the future!

I can't tell very well....does Hot Spot look anything like a Prime/Motormaster retool to anyone else?

[Wolfman Jake]

My personal peeve is check/cheque. A CHECK is when the girl at Wal-mart needs a price. When someone is giving you a piece of paper instead of cash, that is a CHEQUE.

My personal peeve is that people still write checks/cheques. Use your debit card, people!

Back on topic, my order of the first wave of Combiner Wars from TFSource finally arrived! I don't have the time to open everything up right now, but they won't stay contained for long! Speaking of their packaging, did anyone else note that the plastic bubbles on the deluxe and legends cards are sloped up from left to right on the front face of the package? That's an odd design choice and doesn't seem to add to the presentation aesthetically, especially since you wouldn't notice it looking head on like when hanging from a peg at the store. Wouldn't this just make it more complicated to pack a case as well?

[Cobotron]

Back on topic, my order of the first wave of Combiner Wars from TFSource finally arrived!

How-UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!

Speaking of their packaging, did anyone else note that the plastic bubbles on the deluxe and legends cards are sloped up from left to right on the front face of the package?

Nope. I popped those blisters quicker than a troll getting a make over!

[Editor]

Edit: Sorry Editor, most have responded at the same time.
Thanks for the explanation. Dig the Sig by the way. Yarp!

No worries, we're all friends here.

[Syn_13]

Thought it seemed only fitting to pull this image over here to toy town.

To the future!

I can't tell very well....does Hot Spot look anything like a Prime/Motormaster retool to anyone else?

Nope, not at all. If anything the torso looks more like that of Superion's as the Prime/Motormaster torso either has a closed rounded chest or the opened halves of that rounded bit with a car sitting in the middle.

I'm positive that Hot Spot will be a new mould, along with Groove and possibly either First Aid or Rook. I reckon one of the latter 2 will be an Offraod retool. Streetwise and Blades will be retools, no doubt.

[munkimus prime]

Thought it seemed only fitting to pull this image over here to toy town.

To the future!

Thank goodness Hotspot seems to be a new mold. The OP mold just wouldn't of worked for a Fire Engine. It also seems to be atleast 2 or 3 new mold in this group, Hopefully.

[Jelze Bunnycat]

Thought it seemed only fitting to pull this image over here to toy town.

To the future!

I can't tell very well....does Hot Spot look anything like a Prime/Motormaster retool to anyone else?

Nope, not at all. If anything the torso looks more like that of Superion's as the Prime/Motormaster torso either has a closed rounded chest or the opened halves of that rounded bit with a car sitting in the middle.

I'm positive that Hot Spot will be a new mould, along with Groove and possibly either First Aid or Rook. I reckon one of the latter 2 will be an Offraod retool. Streetwise and Blades will be retools, no doubt.

I think Blades' tail in that pic is proof enough: it matches Alpha Bravo's to a tee.

Speaking of Defensor, have we got a clue of what Rook is already? Given recent trends he could be anything from a car, to a jet to tank.

If he really is a tank, silly as it may seem, that would give some indirect evidence to a theory I have: that the Combaticons were in the plans originally, plus additional pretools, but for some odd reason the limb molds are shuffled between the other teams: Alpha Bravo could have been Vortex (possibly with Blades' vehicle parts, resulting in a hybrid), Offroad could have been Swindle with the alternate head. All we need now is a tank and space shuttle.

[chuckdawg1999]

Thought it seemed only fitting to pull this image over here to toy town.

To the future!

I can't tell very well....does Hot Spot look anything like a Prime/Motormaster retool to anyone else?

Not really. Keep in mind since day one artists have taken great license over the years, as it pertains to toy designs.

[Mindmaster]

Thought it seemed only fitting to pull this image over here to toy town.

To the future!

I can't tell very well....does Hot Spot look anything like a Prime/Motormaster retool to anyone else?

Nope, not at all. If anything the torso looks more like that of Superion's as the Prime/Motormaster torso either has a closed rounded chest or the opened halves of that rounded bit with a car sitting in the middle.

I'm positive that Hot Spot will be a new mould, along with Groove and possibly either First Aid or Rook. I reckon one of the latter 2 will be an Offraod retool. Streetwise and Blades will be retools, no doubt.

I think Blades' tail in that pic is proof enough: it matches Alpha Bravo's to a tee.

Speaking of Defensor, have we got a clue of what Rook is already? Given recent trends he could be anything from a car, to a jet to tank.

If he really is a tank, silly as it may seem, that would give some indirect evidence to a theory I have: that the Combaticons were in the plans originally, plus additional pretools, but for some odd reason the limb molds are shuffled between the other teams: Alpha Bravo could have been Vortex (possibly with Blades' vehicle parts, resulting in a hybrid), Offroad could have been Swindle with the alternate head. All we need now is a tank and space shuttle.

Just throwing it out there: if we do not get Bruticus at all, I'm going to be very depressed. Fall of Cybertron Bruticus, while a decent attempt at an official modern-day combiner, felt like a handful of pubes in my milkshake. Replace Blast Off with a similarly colored Aerialbot, I don't care! Just give me the big bad battlin' dudicus that is Bruticus!

[Cobotron]

while a decent attempt at an official modern-day combiner, felt like a handful of pubes in my milkshake.

[prjkt]

I think we will get Bruticus, only later (next year?) as we "just" got the FOC version.

Probably the same reason Air Raid was chosen to be the token Aerialbot left behind.

Plus there has to be some "big" name combiners in later waves to stop the line from trickling to nothing - you don't put out the whole A-list cast at the start, and expect everyone to keep grabbing the B-team at the end of the line...

[Editor]

Rook
verbinformal
1. take money from (someone) by cheating, defrauding, or overcharging them.

Could Rook be a Swindle replacement? Possible reuse of Firefly to add a jet to that team?

[Wolfman Jake]

Back on topic, my order of the first wave of Combiner Wars from TFSource finally arrived!

How-UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!

Speaking of their packaging, did anyone else note that the plastic bubbles on the deluxe and legends cards are sloped up from left to right on the front face of the package?

Nope. I popped those blisters quicker than a troll getting a make over!

Finally had the time to take everything out of their packages and play around with them, transforming each figure into each mode at least one time. That's 10 figures with 31 different modes in total! I haven't put together a gestalt yet, because including a Decepticon in an Autobot combiner is just silly. I'll wait. I'm liking the sculpts, paint applications, and quality of the materials used. Most transformations were intuitive as well. The most difficult, getting the deluxe instruction booklets to fold back up properly.

[chuckdawg1999]

Back on topic, my order of the first wave of Combiner Wars from TFSource finally arrived!

How-UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!

Speaking of their packaging, did anyone else note that the plastic bubbles on the deluxe and legends cards are sloped up from left to right on the front face of the package?

Nope. I popped those blisters quicker than a troll getting a make over!

Finally had the time to take everything out of their packages and play around with them, transforming each figure into each mode at least one time. That's 10 figures with 31 different modes in total! I haven't put together a gestalt yet, because including a Decepticon in an Autobot combiner is just silly. I'll wait. I'm liking the sculpts, paint applications, and quality of the materials used. Most transformations were intuitive as well. The most difficult, getting the deluxe instruction booklets to fold back up properly.

That by far was the most difficult step. I must say though you owe it to yourself to transform Silverbolt into torso mold at least once; utterly brilliant.

[Wolfman Jake]

That by far was the most difficult step. I must say though you owe it to yourself to transform Silverbolt into torso mold at least once; utterly brilliant.

Oh, believe me, I did! It was amazing to see it all come together. I had heard before that the torso turns Silverbot upside-down to use his arms for the combiner thighs, but actually watching it happen in my hands was almost magical. Every little thing about the process is just pure satisfaction, and the end result it amazing. If I have one complaints, it's that the antennae for Superion's head are WAY too soft.

[prjkt]

Better to be soft than break off.

I really like how Silverbolt's let's end up looking like G1 Superion's original chest plate, right to the edges - they did well there.