The Energon Pub

News Credits: 118 · by **megatronus** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 5:52 pm

peaces wrote:so, this happened. http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/prod ... ode=retail

Who cares? This ALSO happened: http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=HAS24238&mode=retail

by **peaces** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 6:05 pm

now it makes sense

News Credits: 118 · by **megatronus** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 6:06 pm

peaces wrote:now it makes sense

News Credits: 1 · by **len_d69** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 6:34 pm

by **Wh33l Jck** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 6:45 pm

Ooh wow, he looks really nice with the MP decepticons!!!! Thanks for the pics everyone!!!!

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 6:47 pm

Does anyone know if pictures exist that show him along side other list lighters from MTMTE?

News Credits: 6 · by **Dr. Caelus** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 9:16 pm

Combiner Wars stuff has started turning up at the Wal-Marts around me, without the last wave of Generations ever showing up. Yay Combiner Wars, but, dang... :-/

News Credits: 4835 · by **william-james88** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 9:26 pm

Caelus wrote:Combiner Wars stuff has started turning up at the Wal-Marts around me, without the last wave of Generations ever showing up. Yay Combiner Wars, but, dang... :-/

Same with all of Canada

News Credits: 118 · by **megatronus** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 10:22 pm

william-james88 wrote:
Caelus wrote:Combiner Wars stuff has started turning up at the Wal-Marts around me, without the last wave of Generations ever showing up. Yay Combiner Wars, but, dang... :-/

Same with all of Canada

Same with New York, even - I haven't seen any Brainstorms, Arcees, or Chromias anywhere. Not even Gears or Acid Storm.

News Credits: 41 · by **Cobotron** » Wed Feb 11, 2015 12:31 am

megatronus wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
Caelus wrote:Combiner Wars stuff has started turning up at the Wal-Marts around me, without the last wave of Generations ever showing up. Yay Combiner Wars, but, dang... :-/

Same with all of Canada

Same with New York, even - I haven't seen any Brainstorms, Arcees, or Chromias anywhere. Not even Gears or Acid Storm.

Wow. This is may be the first time the Midwest has gotten something before the coasts. It's the opposite here. Strange. :-?

News Credits: 4835 · by **william-james88** » Wed Feb 11, 2015 12:32 am

megatronus wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
Caelus wrote:Combiner Wars stuff has started turning up at the Wal-Marts around me, without the last wave of Generations ever showing up. Yay Combiner Wars, but, dang... :-/

Same with all of Canada

Same with New York, even - I haven't seen any Brainstorms, Arcees, or Chromias anywhere. Not even Gears or Acid Storm.

Yup, not even those as well. With so many of us not getting them yet, I am sure they are going to come eventually. The opposite would be the more nonsensical outcome.

News Credits: 118 · by **megatronus** » Wed Feb 11, 2015 12:52 am

Cobotron wrote:
megatronus wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
Caelus wrote:Combiner Wars stuff has started turning up at the Wal-Marts around me, without the last wave of Generations ever showing up. Yay Combiner Wars, but, dang... :-/

Same with all of Canada

Same with New York, even - I haven't seen any Brainstorms, Arcees, or Chromias anywhere. Not even Gears or Acid Storm.
Wow. This is may be the first time the Midwest has gotten something before the coasts. It's the opposite here. Strange.

It's a bit weird, but things tend to move fast here, and just because I personally didn't see it, doesn't mean it never existed.

Sigh.

william-james88 wrote:Yup, not even those as well. With so many of us not getting them yet, I am sure they are going to come eventually. The opposite would be the more nonsensical outcome.

This is very true. I've only seen Roadbuster in the past month, and Skybyte in the past week. If the rumors are true that the multilingual Combiner Wars figures we got were meant for international markets, but got redirected/reallocation to the US while the rest of that stock is being manufactured, I hope we'll see late-2014 Generations on the shelves as filler soon.

News Credits: 60 · by **fenrir72** » Wed Feb 11, 2015 1:28 am

megatronus wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
Caelus wrote:Combiner Wars stuff has started turning up at the Wal-Marts around me, without the last wave of Generations ever showing up. Yay Combiner Wars, but, dang... :-/

Same with all of Canada

Same with New York, even - I haven't seen any Brainstorms, Arcees, or Chromias anywhere. Not even Gears or Acid Storm.

Everything you mentioned but the fembots have shown up (well, Windblade in limited amounts) here at SEA. Megs not yet.

by **Syn_13** » Wed Feb 11, 2015 1:42 am

You know, Leader Megs actually looks good next to the MP guys. He'd make a good stand-in until Takara ever get round to re-doing MP Megs.

Not an avid MP collector but I do have a few iconic MP characters that I couldn't say no to so might add this big guy to that shelf.

Regardless of my disappointment that he's not quite the right size to go with Voyager Prime, I take my hat off to Hasbro for producing a great looking Megatron.

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Wed Feb 11, 2015 5:25 am

Syn_13 wrote:You know, Leader Megs actually looks good next to the MP guys. He'd make a good stand-in until Takara ever get round to re-doing MP Megs.

Not an avid MP collector but I do have a few iconic MP characters that I couldn't say no to so might add this big guy to that shelf.

Regardless of my disappointment that he's not quite the right size to go with Voyager Prime, I take my hat off to Hasbro for producing a great looking Megatron.

Secon'd. Megatron DESERVED to be leader sized and is indeed, a great place-holder until a proper MP Megs redux is produced.

Anyone who want a voyager sized megs that is awesome should consider Hegemon.

News Credits: 60 · by **fenrir72** » Wed Feb 11, 2015 6:10 am

-Kanrabat- wrote:
Syn_13 wrote:You know, Leader Megs actually looks good next to the MP guys. He'd make a good stand-in until Takara ever get round to re-doing MP Megs.

Not an avid MP collector but I do have a few iconic MP characters that I couldn't say no to so might add this big guy to that shelf.

Regardless of my disappointment that he's not quite the right size to go with Voyager Prime, I take my hat off to Hasbro for producing a great looking Megatron.

Secon'd. Megatron DESERVED to be leader sized and is indeed, a great place-holder until a proper MP Megs redux is produced.

Anyone who want a voyager sized megs that is awesome should consider Hegemon.

Amen to that! Megs is so objectifiably mucho machismo bad@ss! Leader size or none at all! :BOWDOWN:

ALL HAIL MEGATRON!

News Credits: 118 · by **megatronus** » Wed Feb 11, 2015 9:54 am

I still think CW Megatron should have been a voyager...

by **RiddlerJ** » Wed Feb 11, 2015 11:24 am

Don't know if this has come up before, but what is the proper way to position Skydive's arms. One way makes him look like he has a really wide chest. Other pics I've seen place the arms under the red pieces as if they were shoulders which looks better but limits posibility.

News Credits: 41 · by **Cobotron** » Wed Feb 11, 2015 11:36 am

That looks like a case of, there is no really correct way. I'd say most important is, how do YOU like 'em?

by **peaces** » Wed Feb 11, 2015 11:44 am

yea, correct is whatever you like best.

News Credits: 10 · by **Agamemnon** » Wed Feb 11, 2015 12:52 pm

RiddlerJ wrote:Don't know if this has come up before, but what is the proper way to position Skydive's arms. One way makes him look like he has a really wide chest. Other pics I've seen place the arms under the red pieces as if they were shoulders which looks better but limits posibility.

First, let me say that I agree with peaces and Cobotron. But, if you are asking what the official way to transform Skydive, then according to how he was packaged and the instructions, it is the configuration on the left of that picture.

It wouldn't be the first time that I'd have used a configuration outside of the "official" in order to make the figure look better (with Energon Scorponok and Unicron being prime examples...)

News Credits: 293 · by **shajaki** » Wed Feb 11, 2015 1:00 pm

fenrir72 wrote:
-Kanrabat- wrote:Anyone who want a voyager sized megs that is awesome should consider Hegemon.
Amen to that! Megs is so objectifiably mucho machismo bad@ss! Leader size or none at all!

ALL HAIL MEGATRON!

i disagree.
megatron should be voyager size to fit in with the rest of the bots, and hegemon is not nessesarily the one to fill that gap. hegemon hits the G1 nail on the head a lil too hard, as he almost ends up being a mini-MP. and C/G to me, is all about modern re-interpretations of classic characters. to which classics/henkei/united megatron still fits the bill.

not trying to rain on the leader megs parade, still love em and still buyin em

News Credits: 4835 · by **william-james88** » Wed Feb 11, 2015 1:57 pm

Agamemnon wrote:
It wouldn't be the first time that I'd have used a configuration outside of the "official" in order to make the figure look better (with Energon Scorponok and Unicron being prime examples...)

Now you got me curious, how do you configure your Unicron?

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Wed Feb 11, 2015 2:03 pm

A very quick note in here: I picked up a Firefly today, and had to return it due to a production defect.

More details here: transformers-toy-haul-thread-p1649628.php#p1649627

News Credits: 10 · by **Agamemnon** » Wed Feb 11, 2015 2:17 pm

william-james88 wrote:
Agamemnon wrote:
It wouldn't be the first time that I'd have used a configuration outside of the "official" in order to make the figure look better (with Energon Scorponok and Unicron being prime examples...)

Now you got me curious, how do you configure your Unicron?

I do not remove the planet surface shells. The instructions call for popping them off of the post and flipping them around. (I never like this for fear of breaking the plastic in that area.) Instead, they sit on the back in what I think are more natural looking "wings" that tend to be more hidden from the front. Here's a few pics: