The Energon Pub

[jamesbenjamin]

You know, saying "G2 Superion was found at North American retail" is just going to confuse people and send people living in the US that don't know better out to waste gas and bug their local TRU employees. We know that Canadian and US TRUs have different warehouses and sometimes even don't stock the same stuff, so you should really put "Canadian retail" instead of "North American" retail in the news story. I've also seen stuff turn up in Mexico and you don't call those news stories "North American retail."

Mexico is Central America....

I'm looking forward to this release, had ummed and ahhed for a while, but decided to get this and Menasor for my NeoG2 collection.

WTF? No, Mexico is part of North America. Always has been:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_America

[william-james88]

It can't be Liokaiser, as you can tell that the upper leg is an arm of the Silverbolt mold, and the rumored Liokaiser is supposed to have Sky Lynx retooled into Deathsaurus as the torso. As such, the most likely explaination is that this is a picture with the new pieces put on old figures just to see how they look or something.

Care to eat some crow

[Insurgent]

My brain! My lovely beautiful brain!!! But is it a proper 6 man team, or will they exclude Jaruga in favour of making Leozak a voyager torso?


Yeah, I thought it was Silverbolt as well, but look closely at the connection port. There is a hook claw thing on a hinge at either side of the cconnection port. That's not on Silverbolt.

[Autobot N]

It can't be Liokaiser, as you can tell that the upper leg is an arm of the Silverbolt mold, and the rumored Liokaiser is supposed to have Sky Lynx retooled into Deathsaurus as the torso. As such, the most likely explaination is that this is a picture with the new pieces put on old figures just to see how they look or something.

Care to eat some crow

That image does look pretty cool. Regardless, I stand by my previous points. While I suppose that the TP people got the torso wrong, you can clearly see in the image that the Killbison (I think that's what his name is) leg has the stock hand/foot thing.

[Starsaber468]

Oh MY PRIMUS! I am dreaming cause A Liokaiser from hasbro....
Anyway looks like hasbro and takara WANT OUR MONEY!
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY ALREADY HASBRO OR TAKARA

[ScottyP]

Cool way to use the Sky Lynx torso again. Wonder if this will also be a boxed set release? Seems to be the way they're going with 2016 CW outside of Sky Reign.

[steals_your_goats]

HA! SUCK IT NON BELIEVERS!!

[william-james88]

My brain! My lovely beautiful brain!!! But is it a proper 6 man team, or will they exclude Jaruga in favour of making Leozak a voyager torso?


Yeah, I thought it was Silverbolt as well, but look closely at the connection port. There is a hook claw thing on a hinge at either side of the cconnection port. That's not on Silverbolt.

In retrospect the images are not immediately related. They both feautre the same molds, but different torsos, which have just been revealed in another image:




Which means that Liokaiser will be a 5 man team plus a legends figure, with no combining Jagular and Leozak as a voyager torso.

All I have to say is this, in less than 24 hours, the amount of uses of the Brawl mold went from 2 to 5

Repaint wars cotinues!!!!!

[steals_your_goats]

Looks like air raid got retooled, cool. Getting nervous about the torso now though. Looks like the Betatron scattershot...

[mtma]

Ooooookayyyy Didn't expect that...

I have no attachment to Liokaiser whatsoever and even then he looks AWESOME. It's always good to have more 'Con Combiners and add to their numbers. as for the B&W image, maybe it's really a very early pic of how Computron would look like, using Brawl as a placeholder. I can see enough remolding being done to the Silverbolt mold in order for the arm do look like that.

[ZeroWolf]

I am saddened and happy about liokaiser, happy because liokaiser us finally getting recognition from hasbro (this is hasbro isn't it? ) but saddened by the fact that leozack has been reduced to sky lynx redeco (yes, the sky reign head is cool but I'd be happier if they stuck that head on a silver bolt redeco) leozack is not a robotic shuttle dinosaur. ..though trypticon would look cool in that mould (or to be precise, the sky lynx mould would look cool in tryp colours)

So far those black and white photos just seem to be computron work in progress pics.

[steals_your_goats]

I am saddened and happy about liokaiser, happy because liokaiser us finally getting recognition from hasbro (this is hasbro isn't it? ) but saddened by the fact that leozack has been reduced to sky lynx redeco (yes, the sky reign head is cool but I'd be happier if they stuck that head on a silver bolt redeco) leozack is not a robotic shuttle dinosaur. ..though trypticon would look cool in that mould (or to be precise, the sky lynx mould would look cool in tryp colours)

So far those black and white photos just seem to be computron work in progress pics.

The Liokaiser torso is actually rumored to be Deathsaurus

[Lunatic Prime]

My brain! My lovely beautiful brain!!! But is it a proper 6 man team, or will they exclude Jaruga in favour of making Leozak a voyager torso?


Yeah, I thought it was Silverbolt as well, but look closely at the connection port. There is a hook claw thing on a hinge at either side of the cconnection port. That's not on Silverbolt.

Hopefully that won't be a boxset and we will see if he gets a sixth member when wave 6 is released (Sky Reign + Reck-Gar or not?).

[Cobotron]

GIGITY, GIGITY, GIGITY!

Hey, I know little to nothing about Liokiaser. Other than he rocks a dope animal theme, is a non-scramble combiner, and a toy I would like to have. Is he a Decepticon (Destron)?


HEY HELLSCREAM! There's your awesome evil-esque repaint of Skylynx! Give the man a prize and a pre-order!

[william-james88]

leozack is not a robotic shuttle dinosaur

But Deatsaurus is a Dragon and bigger than the individual members...

[Lunatic Prime]

leozack is not a robotic shuttle dinosaur

But Deatsaurus is a Dragon and bigger than the individual members...

So the Sky Lynx mold fits very well but since when does Hasbro care about size or scale?

[william-james88]

Is he a Decepticon (Destron)?

Yes. Hellscream should be happy about that.

[alexison]

[ZeroWolf]

Not really one to knock the negative Nancy theme but I think that deathsarus (he'll always be dezsaras to me) deserves his own mold and again his alt mold may be a dragon but he's a not a dragon to a space shuttle. Sigh, but in the end ill swallow my problems..I mean, I just keep liokaiser in combined mold. ..actually that will keep sky lynx happy as well so he doesn't kick off about a decepticon sharing his mold

[william-james88]

leozack is not a robotic shuttle dinosaur

But Deatsaurus is a Dragon and bigger than the individual members...

So the Sky Lynx mold fits very well but since when does Hasbro care about size or scale?

Sicne the time they denied us a deluxe groove due to him being out of scale with the other alt modes!

[Mkall]

NEAT! However I don't know if I want to get this as it may not contain all 6 members of the Breastforce (7 if you count Deathcobra).

This may be that rare time where I'll take a 3rd Party over Hasbro.

[shajaki]

Does he have... NUNCHUCKS???

[Cobotron]

Ok, bare with me here.

Look at the gun attached to Strafe Raid.


Now look at the gun in Lionking's hand.


It looks to me like that is the same gun, and in the Liokaiser art they are combined to make a bigger gun.
Two things:
A. COOL!
B. Finally some combining weapons!

...maybe?

[ThunderThruster]

That LioKaiser artwork is glorious!

[Cobotron]

Does he have... NUNCHUcKS???

It looks like that whole thing is one big flail nunchuck thingy-ma-ouoch!

look at the spikey end.