The Energon Pub

[Shockwave7]

I hear you, but we also thought that there were always way too many Autobots available per Decepticon (both Bumblebee and Optimus being autobots helps that) and yet every fan poll thus far has resulted in the masses asking for more autobots. I think in your case, the collectors got the silverbolts but the masses will eventually buy those optimuses. I still remember the week before Christmas when I went to toysrus and saw all the parents stripping the shelves of the smash and change optimus which until that point had been shelfwarming. I really think what you mentioned is more a case of two portions of the market and their buying tendencies rather than Optimus being less of a selling point than he used to be.

There's a reason he can't stay dead.

You may be right - time will indeed tell. I check walmart periodically (and will for Leader Megatron especially), so I'll keep a close eye and see if the Optimus figures move over the next week or so. I predict one or two will probably sell, but more figures will come out in the meantime, and the last Optimus will stay on the shelf in favor of the newer ones, and remain there until the box is battered, and probably re-taped because some dumb kids tried breaking into it to play with it.

If any of the CW line wind up on discount at Ross or TJ Maxx, it will probably be the voyager optimus.

[ZeroWolf]

To be fair in my local toys'r'us there was one silverbolt left but no ops left. Moral of the story: you can't speak for everywhere. I don't believe in "character over saturation" if anything hasbro should watch out for transformers over saturation with multiple toylines clamouring for attention.

[william-james88]

To be fair in my local toys'r'us there was one silverbolt left but no ops left. Moral of the story: you can't speak for everywhere. I don't believe in "character over saturation" if anything hasbro should watch out for transformers over saturation with multiple toylines clamouring for attention.

Then again, I think a lot of the robots in disguise critique is coming from the fact that Hasbro is avoiding oversaturation of the transformers brand by having distinctive lines for different target audiences. Rescue Bots for toddlers, RID 2015 for young kids and Generations for older kids and collectors. The RID line may be simple but at least it isnt taking away any sales from the generations line.

[albnok]

I dub thee... PEGATRON!



All legit, all 5mm pegs. Pegatron has a 5mm post on the inside of his diaper. Bombshell's robot knee pegs are used to hook onto his left arm.



Windcharger's the only odd one, with no connector ports on his bottom.

As for how his cannon is supposed to be, according to Hasbro:



Note that they forgot to tell you to turn it around, but all box artwork tells you that the missile launcher is towards his fist.

[Peridot]

Aren't they Mini-Con compatible? I remember seeing some stock photos to that effect.

[william-james88]

I dub thee... PEGATRON!

Oh man, this will be so good in armada colors. It really gives a sense of this:

[albnok]

Aren't they Mini-Con compatible? I remember seeing some stock photos to that effect.

I barely had any Mini-Cons but I happen to have Nightcruz and Nightscream from Rapid Run (Energon) out on the table, and I can confirm that it does work! The male pegs on Megatron all have hollow centers to allow the pins inside the Mini-Con female port to enter. The female ports on Megatron don't have any pins so it accepts anything 5mm.

[william-james88]

Aren't they Mini-Con compatible? I remember seeing some stock photos to that effect.

I barely had any Mini-Cons but I happen to have Nightcruz and Nightscream from Rapid Run (Energon) out on the table, and I can confirm that it does work! The male pegs on Megatron all have hollow centers to allow the pins inside the Mini-Con female port to enter. The female ports on Megatron don't have any pins so it accepts anything 5mm.

Are these the widely accepted terms for pegs?

[SW's SilverHammer]

Aren't they Mini-Con compatible? I remember seeing some stock photos to that effect.

I barely had any Mini-Cons but I happen to have Nightcruz and Nightscream from Rapid Run (Energon) out on the table, and I can confirm that it does work! The male pegs on Megatron all have hollow centers to allow the pins inside the Mini-Con female port to enter. The female ports on Megatron don't have any pins so it accepts anything 5mm.

Are these the widely accepted terms for pegs?

Yeah male/female are widely used. In electrical and mechanical trades and manufacturing, each half of a pair of mating connectors or fasteners is conventionally assigned the designation male or female. The "female" connector is generally a receptacle that receives and holds the "male" connector.

[william-james88]

Aren't they Mini-Con compatible? I remember seeing some stock photos to that effect.

I barely had any Mini-Cons but I happen to have Nightcruz and Nightscream from Rapid Run (Energon) out on the table, and I can confirm that it does work! The male pegs on Megatron all have hollow centers to allow the pins inside the Mini-Con female port to enter. The female ports on Megatron don't have any pins so it accepts anything 5mm.

Are these the widely accepted terms for pegs?

Yeah male/female are widely used. In electrical and mechanical trades and manufacturing, each half of a pair of mating connectors or fasteners is conventionally assigned the designation male or female. The "female" connector is generally a receptacle that receives and holds the "male" connector.

You learn new things every day.

[Jelze Bunnycat]

Aren't they Mini-Con compatible? I remember seeing some stock photos to that effect.

I barely had any Mini-Cons but I happen to have Nightcruz and Nightscream from Rapid Run (Energon) out on the table, and I can confirm that it does work! The male pegs on Megatron all have hollow centers to allow the pins inside the Mini-Con female port to enter. The female ports on Megatron don't have any pins so it accepts anything 5mm.

Are these the widely accepted terms for pegs?

Male and female? I'd say so, the words are also used for plugs and the like.

[albnok]

Aren't they Mini-Con compatible? I remember seeing some stock photos to that effect.

I barely had any Mini-Cons but I happen to have Nightcruz and Nightscream from Rapid Run (Energon) out on the table, and I can confirm that it does work! The male pegs on Megatron all have hollow centers to allow the pins inside the Mini-Con female port to enter. The female ports on Megatron don't have any pins so it accepts anything 5mm.

Are these the widely accepted terms for pegs?

I have no idea! In fact I didn't realize that Mini-Cons were meant to do that to Armada Megatron, since I only started collecting seriously from Energon onwards, and very few Mini-Cons. TFWiki is inconsistent where they call it port/peg hole/hole for what I call 'female port' and post/peg for what I call 'male peg'.

[Agamemnon]

Aren't they Mini-Con compatible? I remember seeing some stock photos to that effect.

I barely had any Mini-Cons but I happen to have Nightcruz and Nightscream from Rapid Run (Energon) out on the table, and I can confirm that it does work! The male pegs on Megatron all have hollow centers to allow the pins inside the Mini-Con female port to enter. The female ports on Megatron don't have any pins so it accepts anything 5mm.

Are these the widely accepted terms for pegs?

I have no idea! In fact I didn't realize that Mini-Cons were meant to do that to Armada Megatron, since I only started collecting seriously from Energon onwards, and very few Mini-Cons. TFWiki is inconsistent where they call it port/peg hole/hole for what I call 'female port' and post/peg for what I call 'male peg'.

Yeah, it is a little less...awkward...to call them pegs and ports. Yet, as said before, and I'll add the IT industry, they are frequently referred to as male and female connections. It gets really confusing when talking about VGA and Serial connections as when saying male, does it mean the posts in the VGA connector or the overall connector. [Edit] In essence, is the one on the left or right in the pic below the male end? The posts are on the left, but the outside grounding shield accepts the entirety of the connector on the right. I believe the one on the left is actually considered female and the one on the right is male. Confusing, I know.[/edit]


This is a similar aspect of the old minicon connectors from Armada. Are they male or female...or both...

[Nemesis Maximo]

I wonder if that's where baby transformers come from.

[Cobotron]

I wonder if that's where baby transformers come from.

Yup. and by the looks of Silverbolt, he's expecting.

[Wolfman Jake]

I wonder if that's where baby transformers come from.

Yup. and by the looks of Silverbolt, he's expecting.

Apparently, he's carrying Superion's head in his robowomb.

[Cobotron]

I wonder if that's where baby transformers come from.

Yup. and by the looks of Silverbolt, he's expecting.

Apparently, he's carrying Superion's head in his robowomb.

[Nemesis Maximo]

I wonder if that's where baby transformers come from.

Yup. and by the looks of Silverbolt, he's expecting.

Now I want somebody with photoshopping skills to make a picture of Silverbolt, Swerve, and one of the fembots emulating the cover of Junior.

[Wh33l Jck]

Has there been any pics of CW Megs with MP-Starscream or MP-Soundwave yet?

[albnok]

Aren't they Mini-Con compatible? I remember seeing some stock photos to that effect.

I barely had any Mini-Cons but I happen to have Nightcruz and Nightscream from Rapid Run (Energon) out on the table, and I can confirm that it does work! The male pegs on Megatron all have hollow centers to allow the pins inside the Mini-Con female port to enter. The female ports on Megatron don't have any pins so it accepts anything 5mm.

Are these the widely accepted terms for pegs?

I have no idea! In fact I didn't realize that Mini-Cons were meant to do that to Armada Megatron, since I only started collecting seriously from Energon onwards, and very few Mini-Cons. TFWiki is inconsistent where they call it port/peg hole/hole for what I call 'female port' and post/peg for what I call 'male peg'.

Yeah, it is a little less...awkward...to call them pegs and ports. Yet, as said before, and I'll add the IT industry, they are frequently referred to as male and female connections. It gets really confusing when talking about VGA and Serial connections as when saying male, does it mean the posts in the VGA connector or the overall connector. [Edit] In essence, is the one on the left or right in the pic below the male end? The posts are on the left, but the outside grounding shield accepts the entirety of the connector on the right. I believe the one on the left is actually considered female and the one on the right is male. Confusing, I know.[/edit]


This is a similar aspect of the old minicon connectors from Armada. Are they male or female...or both...

Interesting! According to Wikipedia the left VGA plug is male.

As for whether Mini-Con ports are male or female, we should look at the 5mm versions.

A robot's fist hole is female and accepts a Mini-Con post even though it has a hole in the middle for a pin. So the Mini-Con post is male.

A Mini-Con port with a pin is female, and will not take a regular 5mm male peg gun.

Power plugs are designed for safety that the power source is always female. So when Mini-Cons attach to a robot, they become a power source. Transformers: Energon toys also had Energon 'stars' that had female ports to mount on the robot's spark crystal (again, transferring power to the robot.) Transformers: Cybertron toys had Cyber Keys so those are male and don't transfer power.

[Nemesis Maximo]

Sure, but wouldn't the unlock mechanism of the Cyber Keys be seen as a kind of power transfer? Also, now anytime I put a weapon in my Transformers' hands', the only thing I'll picture is a female hand grabbing a certain un-female part. This thread has effectively RUINED TRANSFORMERS FOREVER for me.

[albnok]

Has there been any pics of CW Megs with MP-Starscream or MP-Soundwave yet?

Very rudimentary edit from the earlier photoshoot:



Sure he's just a bit shorter than MP-10 but he still feels right with these tall guys. My only real problem with him is that he feels like Leader class Jetfire - Masterpiece-sized, but not as solid and weighty. At least they covered up most hollow parts, unlike Jetfire!

[Cobotron]

Boy! That works for me. Now I'm not sure where he's gonna go, other than in a sack and back to my house, ASAPronto.

[megatronus]

This is the kind of Megatron that, to me, only really looks right with several other G1-decoed Megatrons.

(specifically, SE02 Megatron, voyager United Megatron, WFC Megatron, Takara Legends Megatron, and Cloud Megatron... and maybe even the CH02 Megatrons, for kicks)

[fenrir72]

Has there been any pics of CW Megs with MP-Starscream or MP-Soundwave yet?

Very rudimentary edit from the earlier photoshoot:



Sure he's just a bit shorter than MP-10 but he still feels right with these tall guys. My only real problem with him is that he feels like Leader class Jetfire - Masterpiece-sized, but not as solid and weighty. At least they covered up most hollow parts, unlike Jetfire!

One huge maderf@rker! May 2015 May 2015.............

Btw, not so much with the scale but Leader Jetfire fits good with the G1 figs but Megs......he now towers Optimus. Seems kind of unfair