The Energon Pub

[King Kuuga]

They didn't label Sky Byte as being from RID, they don't have to label this. Just call it some form of Optimus Prime. I mean, it's not happening, but that's what I would do.

That was a year ago. The current RID series wasn't around back then.

They knew it was coming, we knew it was coming, and RID the comic was already renamed at that point. Sky Byte was not labeled as RID, and a hypothetical RID Prime out of Hot Spot wouldn't have to be labeled RID. I think Universe 2.0 has been the only CHUG line that's gone out of its way to say "This figure represents a character from [x]". So hypothetically speaking, an RID Prime released concurrently with RID 15 would not be the conflict of interests you claim it to be.

"Any" optimus prime, maybe, but not THIS Optimus Prime, one of only two who turns into a fire truck.

O rly?

http://s12.postimg.org/66h8gdvvh/275338 ... de_rid.jpg
http://s12.postimg.org/bvxh0p21p/275338 ... de_rid.jpg
http://s12.postimg.org/nmbei2uu5/275338 ... de_rid.jpg

Sure looks like it would be "good enough for Hasbro" to me.

Good enough for Hasbro, maybe, but not good enough for me! *shakes fist*
But okay, I admit that Hot Spot's default head works better than I thought it would. You got me there.

Anyway, it's already been confirmed to be a fan custom, so all this talk is moot anyway.

Nothing wrong with hypothetical discussion. There's not a lot else to discuss until the wave 1 2016 stuff drops.





ACTUALLY. I recently got First Aid and Dead End and I found some problems with mine in particular. My First Aid's handfootgun seems to have been misassembled. The four-finger portion is missing the slot between the knuckles that lets it attach to the back of First Aid's vehicle mode. And my Dead End seems to be a tiny bit shorter as a leg than my other figures. Has anybody else encountered these particular problems? Any known solutions?

[william-james88]

For all this talk of Computron, I highly doubt that he will get a retail release next year, as individual limbs. Hasbro said they would never release a torso without all the limbs since they found messing up with the first two waves a mistake. And they also stated (in what I still find a weird statement) that he symbolized an early version of Computron ( ). What this tells me is that IF Computron is released next year, it would be as a box set with an upgraded Scattershot torso (not much difference, but better paint apps for sure). But yeah, Hasbro already revealed the first 3 quarters of next year so there isnt space for individual limbs at retail (Bruticus first quarter, skyreign second quarter, titan returns third and 4th quarter).

Did anyone actually confirm that tw is starting 3rd quarter, or is that just something we made up and rolled with?

Hasbro confirmed it: fall 2016. We usually get the toys way before the indicated official date, which deals more with the time of saturation (aka a conservative estimate of when they will be easily found all over retail). So yes, THIRD quarter which would mean anytime between July and September.

[Hellscream9999]

For all this talk of Computron, I highly doubt that he will get a retail release next year, as individual limbs. Hasbro said they would never release a torso without all the limbs since they found messing up with the first two waves a mistake. And they also stated (in what I still find a weird statement) that he symbolized an early version of Computron ( ). What this tells me is that IF Computron is released next year, it would be as a box set with an upgraded Scattershot torso (not much difference, but better paint apps for sure). But yeah, Hasbro already revealed the first 3 quarters of next year so there isnt space for individual limbs at retail (Bruticus first quarter, skyreign second quarter, titan returns third and 4th quarter).

Did anyone actually confirm that tw is starting 3rd quarter, or is that just something we made up and rolled with?

Hasbro confirmed it: fall 2016. We usually get the toys way before the indicated official date, which deals more with the time of saturation (aka a conservative estimate of when they will be easily found all over retail). So yes, THIRD quarter which would mean anytime between July and September.

Okay, cool, just making sure

[william-james88]

Okay, cool, just making sure

Oh I get you, and its all good. I do understand why people see a gap though, because the protectobots did appear during the summer rather than the beginning of fall, but both those dates end up within the third quarter.

[Hellscream9999]

Okay, cool, just making sure

Oh I get you, and its all good. I do understand why people see a gap though, because the protectobots did appear during the summer rather than the beginning of fall, but both those dates end up within the third quarter.

Well I thought the g2 box sets (sups and menasor) might fill out the chirstmas gap, then victorion and computron could fill out the cw -tw transition phase... but if the online pre-order dates end up being true for bruticus being out this month, it would point to some wave shenanigans somewhere along the lines

[william-james88]

Okay, cool, just making sure

Oh I get you, and its all good. I do understand why people see a gap though, because the protectobots did appear during the summer rather than the beginning of fall, but both those dates end up within the third quarter.

Well I thought the g2 box sets (sups and menasor) might fill out the chirstmas gap, then victorion and computron could fill out the cw -tw transition phase... but if the online pre-order dates end up being true for bruticus being out this month, it would point to some wave shenanigans somewhere along the lines

There is no christmas gap so far since the latest CW wave has not reached saturation. None have gotten to my area yet.

And anyways, this year has thought us that the retail release and online release are not related.

But none of this means we wont get a boxset, it just means we wont get the technobots released individually at retail like the previous combine waves.

[King Kuuga]

I fully expect the Technobots to either be Takara exclusive or not done by Hasbro until late 2016, early 2017, which is kind of frustrating because we know that the Nosecone tooling of the Brawl mold exists, so clearly it got far enough along in planning for there to be a mold made before they reshuffled their plans. I suspect the Technobots would have taken the place of the Autobot cars, and Commander Modesty would have been the free torso. I would have preferred that arrangement, but I guess Hasbro's need to get the classic characters back on shelves trumps the need to complete the classic combiner teams? I'd be curious to be a fly on the wall at that board meeting.

[william-james88]

I fully expect the Technobots to either be Takara exclusive or not done by Hasbro until late 2016, early 2017, which is kind of frustrating because we know that the Nosecone tooling of the Brawl mold exists, so clearly it got far enough along in planning for there to be a mold made before they reshuffled their plans. I suspect the Technobots would have taken the place of the Autobot cars, and Commander Modesty would have been the free torso. I would have preferred that arrangement, but I guess Hasbro's need to get the classic characters back on shelves trumps the need to complete the classic combiner teams? I'd be curious to be a fly on the wall at that board meeting.

I would love to e in those meetings too. Would be a bit more fun than the meetings I attend in my workplace One thing though, while the new weapon drill seems find on Ram Horn, it is WAY too small to replicate the nosecone on Nosecone. It would look pretty bad and quite mediocre.

[Hellscream9999]

I fully expect the Technobots to either be Takara exclusive or not done by Hasbro until late 2016, early 2017, which is kind of frustrating because we know that the Nosecone tooling of the Brawl mold exists, so clearly it got far enough along in planning for there to be a mold made before they reshuffled their plans. I suspect the Technobots would have taken the place of the Autobot cars, and Commander Modesty would have been the free torso. I would have preferred that arrangement, but I guess Hasbro's need to get the classic characters back on shelves trumps the need to complete the classic combiner teams? I'd be curious to be a fly on the wall at that board meeting.

I would love to e in those meetings too. Would be a bit more fun than the meetings I attend in my workplace One thing though, while the new weapon drill seems find on Ram Horn, it is WAY too small to replicate the nosecone on Nosecone. It would look pretty bad and quite mediocre.

Well then, you should either stare at it until you like it, as that's probably exactly what we're getting, or pray to many gods that hasbro releases the technobots and then 3p's release an upgraded drill

[RAcast]

So a buddy of mine found CW Prowl the other day, so I've been searching the last couple days, then lo-and-behold, I found him today! Man. Oh MAN is this mold good. The molded detail is great, and I love the paint scheme, especially with all the detailing and markings on the altmode.

[william-james88]

So a buddy of mine found CW Prowl the other day, so I've been searching the last couple days, then lo-and-behold, I found him today! Man. Oh MAN is this mold good. The molded detail is great, and I love the paint scheme, especially with all the detailing and markings on the altmode.

Is this your first experience with the mold?

[Hellscream9999]

So a buddy of mine found CW Prowl the other day, so I've been searching the last couple days, then lo-and-behold, I found him today! Man. Oh MAN is this mold good. The molded detail is great, and I love the paint scheme, especially with all the detailing and markings on the altmode.

Is this your first experience with the mold?

Even if it isn't, I've noticed that prowl utilizes the mold far better than streetwise. I dunno, just something about it that doesn't do it for me, maybe the cream, maybe the severe disconnect from the character, but it might be prowl's incredible headsculpt, along with the beautiful crisp white; wish they would've painted half of the lightbar blue though, that would have been amazing to look at.

[Sabrblade]

So a buddy of mine found CW Prowl the other day, so I've been searching the last couple days, then lo-and-behold, I found him today! Man. Oh MAN is this mold good. The molded detail is great, and I love the paint scheme, especially with all the detailing and markings on the altmode.

Is this your first experience with the mold?

Even if it isn't, I've noticed that prowl utilizes the mold far better than streetwise. I dunno, just something about it that doesn't do it for me, maybe the cream, maybe the severe disconnect from the character, but it might be prowl's incredible headsculpt, along with the beautiful crisp white; wish they would've painted half of the lightbar blue though, that would have been amazing to look at.

It also helps that the Streetwise chestplate is molded to resemble Prowl's police car front end chest.

[RAcast]

So a buddy of mine found CW Prowl the other day, so I've been searching the last couple days, then lo-and-behold, I found him today! Man. Oh MAN is this mold good. The molded detail is great, and I love the paint scheme, especially with all the detailing and markings on the altmode.

Is this your first experience with the mold?

Even if it isn't, I've noticed that prowl utilizes the mold far better than streetwise. I dunno, just something about it that doesn't do it for me, maybe the cream, maybe the severe disconnect from the character, but it might be prowl's incredible headsculpt, along with the beautiful crisp white; wish they would've painted half of the lightbar blue though, that would have been amazing to look at.

It also helps that the Streetwise chestplate is molded to resemble Prowl's police car front end chest.

Yes, it's my first version of this mold; I haven't had any interest in previous iterations. I also agree that Streetwise's color choice was a bit...odd. It definitely took away that he was the only Protectobot not cast in a nice crisp white.

And that head sculpt is just so, so good.

[Hellscream9999]

So a buddy of mine found CW Prowl the other day, so I've been searching the last couple days, then lo-and-behold, I found him today! Man. Oh MAN is this mold good. The molded detail is great, and I love the paint scheme, especially with all the detailing and markings on the altmode.

Is this your first experience with the mold?

Even if it isn't, I've noticed that prowl utilizes the mold far better than streetwise. I dunno, just something about it that doesn't do it for me, maybe the cream, maybe the severe disconnect from the character, but it might be prowl's incredible headsculpt, along with the beautiful crisp white; wish they would've painted half of the lightbar blue though, that would have been amazing to look at.

It also helps that the Streetwise chestplate is molded to resemble Prowl's police car front end chest.

Yes, it's my first version of this mold; I haven't had any interest in previous iterations. I also agree that Streetwise's color choice was a bit...odd. It definitely took away that he was the only Protectobot not cast in a nice crisp white.

And that head sculpt is just so, so good.

Well I guess it doesn't help that mine was made of two different shades of cream

[King Kuuga]

ACTUALLY. I recently got First Aid and Dead End and I found some problems with mine in particular. My First Aid's handfootgun seems to have been misassembled. The four-finger portion is missing the slot between the knuckles that lets it attach to the back of First Aid's vehicle mode. And my Dead End seems to be a tiny bit shorter as a leg than my other figures. Has anybody else encountered these particular problems? Any known solutions?

Bringing this back up because Prowl is the same mold. Is yours the same leg length or shorter?

[william-james88]

ACTUALLY. I recently got First Aid and Dead End and I found some problems with mine in particular. My First Aid's handfootgun seems to have been misassembled. The four-finger portion is missing the slot between the knuckles that lets it attach to the back of First Aid's vehicle mode. And my Dead End seems to be a tiny bit shorter as a leg than my other figures. Has anybody else encountered these particular problems? Any known solutions?

Bringing this back up because Prowl is the same mold. Is yours the same leg length or shorter?

It depends if That Bot is using Drag Strip as the other leg. Drag Strip's fin in the back must be brought to the front to make him shorter so that he ends up being the same size as dead end and the rest. All of these limbs are the same size.

[King Kuuga]

I know how to position Drag Strip as a leg. My Dead End is still slightly shorter in leg mode than all my other figs, and I now own one of every deluxe mold.

[Cobotron]

I know how to position Drag Strip as a leg. My Dead End is still slightly shorter in leg mode than all my other figs, and I now own one of every deluxe mold.

I haven't noticed that the mold is actually shorter. But, because Dead End's legs won't stay tabbed together in car/limb mode, he is always slowly getting shorter as Menasor's weight separates the legs. I have to go squeeze his calf every couple of days.
Lousy turd doesn't deserve to be an arm.

[william-james88]

I know how to position Drag Strip as a leg. My Dead End is still slightly shorter in leg mode than all my other figs, and I now own one of every deluxe mold.

I haven't noticed that the mold is actually shorter. But, because Dead End's legs won't stay tabbed together in car/limb mode, he is always slowly getting shorter as Menasor's weight separates the legs. I have to go squeeze his calf every couple of days.
Lousy turd doesn't deserve to be an arm.

He makes an awesome arm!

[Cobotron]

Blades is thinking, "As soon as you chumps get off me, I'm gonna rip off that crappy arm, and then I'm gonna psycho slaughter you fools with it."

edit: Looks back at picture "Oh! The rest of you are my Guys. Good! I got back up."

[MemphisR56]

Some guy over at the 4chan /toy/ transformers general has posted a bunch of photos of a combiner wars abominus reveal. Reaction has been pretty universal in saying that they're fake. Just as a heads up, there'll probably be a rumour circulating about that shortly.

[Autobot N]

Some guy over at the 4chan /toy/ transformers general has posted a bunch of photos of a combiner wars abominus reveal. Reaction has been pretty universal in saying that they're fake. Just as a heads up, there'll probably be a rumour circulating about that shortly.

Read that again please.

[MemphisR56]

Some guy over at the 4chan /toy/ transformers general has posted a bunch of photos of a combiner wars abominus reveal. Reaction has been pretty universal in saying that they're fake. Just as a heads up, there'll probably be a rumour circulating about that shortly.

Read that again please.

Yes, I'm fully aware it's not a reputable news source, hence why I haven't submitted a news tip and I said I was giving a heads up on the origin of a potential bogus rumour.

[steals_your_goats]

Some guy over at the 4chan /toy/ transformers general has posted a bunch of photos of a combiner wars abominus reveal. Reaction has been pretty universal in saying that they're fake. Just as a heads up, there'll probably be a rumour circulating about that shortly.

Read that again please.

Yes, I'm fully aware it's not a reputable news source, hence why I haven't submitted a news tip and I said I was giving a heads up on the origin of a potential bogus rumour.

Could you post a link to this? Just for fun