The Energon Pub

[chuckdawg1999]

I like your "unofficial" transformation! The problem with the official transformation is definitely the fact Streetwise looks weird in comparison to First Aid.

Here's my Defensor with his mate Superion. I gotta say, he is so much better than Menasor! The Stunticon was just all wrong in terms of body proportions, but Defensor and Superion are pretty damn good!

Hotspot and Defensor review is uploading now, so stay tuned

Haven't researched it or anything yet but is there a reason Streetwise's front end is folded back/down instead of pointing upward? I feel like G1 had a double hinge or something so the hood formed a knee-cap like the other bots do..

G1 Streetwise's hood was just a flap that had a double hinge that allowed it to fold back the way you described. The Dead End mold can do that too, but only for robot mode. To access the combiner port his head/chest needs to fold completely back, and thus the hood can't hinge forward like it does in robot mode.

[ThunderThruster]

Depends how you do it.
Someone on TFW has it "up"

[Cobotron]

Knees up! ^^^

[koolkollectibleskhai]

Here's my review of the final Protectobot with Hot Spot, and the combined Defensor. Definitely an improvement over Menasor, and looks great with Superion. Hope you can check out the review

[Sabrblade]

Put Ruination-from-Bruticus with TFCC Scourge and Generations Sky Byte and you've got the makings of a good Classics RID villain lineup.
Now I'm thinking about how they could to the rest of RID.
*Optimus from Inferno
*Side Burn has a TFCC toy
*X-Brawn from Offroad or something
*Prowl from Streetwise
*Towline from Hoist
*Spy Changers from some of the Legends.
*Build Team from the upcoming Devastator. Leave out Scrapper and Mixmaster since they don't have analogues.
The rest of the Predacons are a bit difficult.

All repainted. They want my money, they've got to be all new molds.

Then you might as well be better off buying the originals since many/most of them still hold up and don't need CHUG updates.

[galvatron00]

Haven't researched it or anything yet but is there a reason Streetwise's front end is folded back/down instead of pointing upward? I feel like G1 had a double hinge or something so the hood formed a knee-cap like the other bots do..

Looking at it on my desk right now. Dead End's can point up, so I would assume Streetwise's can as well.

G1 Streetwise's hood was just a flap that had a double hinge that allowed it to fold back the way you described. The Dead End mold can do that too, but only for robot mode. To access the combiner port his head/chest needs to fold completely back, and thus the hood can't hinge forward like it does in robot mode.

Knees up! ^^^

Awesomeness and thanks ThunderThruster for the Defensor pic!

[Nemesis Destron]

I'm counting the days for the release of Takara's Powerglide and Bombshell.


Is it possible we may get a Takara Blackjack? I just bought him and ready to open away. But if Takara is adding him to be released then back to Target I go.

[galvatron00]

I'm counting the days for the release of Takara's Powerglide and Bombshell.


Is it possible we may get a Takara Blackjack? I just bought him and ready to open away. But if Takara is adding him to be released then back to Target I go.

How much better do you think they'll be? Can't be too many paint apps/mold colors to change right?

[prjkt]

I'm counting the days for the release of Takara's Powerglide and Bombshell.


Is it possible we may get a Takara Blackjack? I just bought him and ready to open away. But if Takara is adding him to be released then back to Target I go.

Takara are releasing the Blackjack mould as Runabout, just like they're releasing Groove as another name too...

[Cobotron]

[Sabrblade]

Those colors aren't final. That looks to be the Hasbro figure as a placeholder.

[shajaki]

Those colors aren't final. That looks to be the Hasbro figure as a placeholder.

While it might be a placeholder image, those colors are definitely not Hasbro's. Which confuses me... cause you know your stuff Sabr....

[Sabrblade]

Those colors aren't final. That looks to be the Hasbro figure as a placeholder.

While it might be a placeholder image, those colors are definitely not Hasbro's. Which confuses me... cause you know your stuff Sabr....

Looks to me to just be a blue lighting filter affected the colors a bit.

[Autobot032]

Those colors aren't final. That looks to be the Hasbro figure as a placeholder.

While it might be a placeholder image, those colors are definitely not Hasbro's. Which confuses me... cause you know your stuff Sabr....

Looks to me to just be a blue lighting filter affected the colors a bit.

Dude, it's clearly red, black and some form of blue. It's not a matter of filtering, those are the intended colors. My guess is it pairs with the Nemesis Prime redeco of the Optimus mold.

[Sabrblade]

My guess is it pairs with the Nemesis Prime redeco of the Optimus mold.

But it's being released in the unrelated-to-Unite-Warriors Adventure line.

[prjkt]

Those colors aren't final. That looks to be the Hasbro figure as a placeholder.

While it might be a placeholder image, those colors are definitely not Hasbro's. Which confuses me... cause you know your stuff Sabr....

Looks to me to just be a blue lighting filter affected the colors a bit.

Dude, it's clearly red, black and some form of blue. It's not a matter of filtering, those are the intended colors. My guess is it pairs with the Nemesis Prime redeco of the Optimus mold.

you'd be amazed at what a slight shift in colour temperature/tone and a bit of tweaking can do can do to an image - in that promo pic of Runabout, look at the colour of his sigil - it's not the tradtional purple (that coincidentally matches the colour of Blackjack groin/thighs, weapon and hands) - it's the same tone of blue those body parts are in the image.

A quick and nasty edit of that TFwiki image kinda proves my point



EDIT: As stated above, it might be the intended colours, but they're not finalised yet.

[peaces]

someone is smoking crack. that is red and blue.

[RhA]

Those colors aren't final. That looks to be the Hasbro figure as a placeholder.

While it might be a placeholder image, those colors are definitely not Hasbro's. Which confuses me... cause you know your stuff Sabr....

Looks to me to just be a blue lighting filter affected the colors a bit.

Dude, it's clearly red, black and some form of blue. It's not a matter of filtering, those are the intended colors. My guess is it pairs with the Nemesis Prime redeco of the Optimus mold.

you'd be amazed at what a slight shift in colour temperature/tone and a bit of tweaking can do can do to an image - in that promo pic of Runabout, look at the colour of his sigil - it's not the tradtional purple (that coincidentally matches the colour of Blackjack groin/thighs, weapon and hands) - it's the same tone of blue those body parts are in the image.

A quick and nasty edit of that TFwiki image kinda proves my point



EDIT: As stated above, it might be the intended colours, but they're not finalised yet.

Is the dress blue and black? I say it's gold and white.

Also RIBFIR.

[Agamemnon]

Those colors aren't final. That looks to be the Hasbro figure as a placeholder.

While it might be a placeholder image, those colors are definitely not Hasbro's. Which confuses me... cause you know your stuff Sabr....

Looks to me to just be a blue lighting filter affected the colors a bit.

Dude, it's clearly red, black and some form of blue. It's not a matter of filtering, those are the intended colors. My guess is it pairs with the Nemesis Prime redeco of the Optimus mold.

you'd be amazed at what a slight shift in colour temperature/tone and a bit of tweaking can do can do to an image - in that promo pic of Runabout, look at the colour of his sigil - it's not the tradtional purple (that coincidentally matches the colour of Blackjack groin/thighs, weapon and hands) - it's the same tone of blue those body parts are in the image.

A quick and nasty edit of that TFwiki image kinda proves my point



EDIT: As stated above, it might be the intended colours, but they're not finalised yet.

Is the dress blue and black? I say it's gold and white.

Also RIBFIR.

[koolkollectibleskhai]

I'm not overly impressed with Cyclonus myself. The bot mode is OK, and the alt mode does pay a decent homage to the G1 toy. Even the Galvatronus mode is OK, with a decent Galvatron styled head sculpt.

But I'm not particularly liking the normal head sculpt, which I think reminds me more of the Wicked Witch of the West than anything lol.




Not really sure of the purpose of Galvatronus either. I sold off my Stunticons, so here he is with the Aerialbot limbs.

[Editor]

If it does end up looking like that and the price is right, I'd pick one up.

[Autobot032]

The Official Transformers YouTube channel has updated with a brand new Designer Desk video aimed at Australia, giving us another peek into the Aerialbots and Stunticons, AKA Superion and Menasor. This is not the first they've been featured in the Designers Desk video series, as we've just recently reported on their appearance, which you can read about here.

Design Manager John Warden takes center stage yet again to briefly discuss the two combiner teams and you can see the video by clicking on the embed below:



You can see all of the currently US released Combiner Wars figures in stunning detail in our in depth galleries by clicking right here: Combiner Wars Galleries

Keep your optics tuned to Seibertron.com for the latest in news and updates, plus the best galleries around!

[Cobotron]

I've noticed that John Warden has taken the lead on this last batch of Design Desk videos. Where did Joshua Lamb go?
I really hope my old signature didn't discourage him from being a part of these vids.

My old sig.


Dear Joshua,

I just want to apologize for any harm I may have done to your feelings. You did a fine job on the video. Although your facial expression may not have matched the sentiment you were conveying, that gave me no right to make you the butt of my joke. In fact a truer statement could not have been made. It is indeed, "a real fun way to play with Transformers". I haven't had this much fun with my Transformers in a long while.
Let's chalk it up to misguided hero worship. Heck, I would kill to have your job. Why you, John, and the rest of the TF design staff are not treated as Rock Gods is beyond me. I wish you and your crew much success. Keep up the great work. You guys are killing it right now!

No hard feelings?
With much respect and admiration,
your #1 fan,
Cobotron

[Autobot032]

I've noticed that John Warden has taken the lead on this last batch of Design Desk videos. Where did Joshua Lamb go?
I really hope my old signature didn't discourage him from being a part of these vids.

My old sig.


Dear Joshua,

I just want to apologize for any harm I may have done to your feelings. You did a fine job on the video. Although your facial expression may not have matched the sentiment you were conveying, that gave me no right to make you the butt of my joke. In fact a truer statement could not have been made. It is indeed, "a real fun way to play with Transformers". I haven't had this much fun with my Transformers in a long while.
Let's chalk it up to misguided hero worship. Heck, I would kill to have your job. Why you, John, and the rest of the TF design staff are not treated as Rock Gods is beyond me. I wish you and your crew much success. Keep up the great work. You guys are killing it right now!

No hard feelings?
With much respect and admiration,
your #1 fan,
Cobotron

Duuude. Seriously, that's awfully nice of you, but I think you give yourself too much credit. You weren't the only one who made comments on his appearance in the video, so if it was such a thing, it wasn't just you. Still, cool that you'd take that step.

No, most likely what happened was he's either behind the scenes now or moved onto a different department. It's not uncommon for Hasbro to play Musical Chairs with their staffers, a lot of the teams are moved around and broken up from time to time. Although, getting rid of Kyde and Archer was pretty big...

[Evil Eye]

You know what would be a great third party upgrade for these guys? Adapters that allow Energon (and by extension TFC) limbs to connect to CW torsos. That way you could put TFC Groove on Defensor if you don't like rook, or buy the Uranos limbs and replace the godawful TFC Silverbolt with the CW version.