The Energon Pub

Sun May 17, 2015 12:03 pm

prjkt wrote:To anyone who thinks Groove's legs are just that little bit too long, just imagine he's wearing a pair of these to catch up with the other Protectobots, it's worked wonders for my slightly sleep-deprived mind.

Long Fall Boots? Guess he dodged the big glow-y mono-eye.

News Credits: 2 · Sun May 17, 2015 1:24 pm

Anyone else think Blackjack figure could be repainted with a new head into Goldbug? I've been wanting a good new legends size or even really small deluxe Goldbug.

Sun May 17, 2015 1:34 pm

Moonshot wrote:Anyone else think Blackjack figure could be repainted with a new head into Goldbug? I've been wanting a good new legends size or even really small deluxe Goldbug.

Why not use the one that came out last year? It's deluxe sized.

Sun May 17, 2015 2:53 pm

Moosey wrote:
Moonshot wrote:Anyone else think Blackjack figure could be repainted with a new head into Goldbug? I've been wanting a good new legends size or even really small deluxe Goldbug.

Why not use the one that came out last year? It's deluxe sized.

That mold leaves a lot to be desired.

I could definitely see a great Goldbug from Blackjack, I think I'd be all over that.

Sun May 17, 2015 3:13 pm

yea, he'd look good as a chest piece too

News Credits: 10 · Mon May 18, 2015 9:02 am

So, yeah, thanks to shipping my POL last Friday, the CW Voyagers just dropped into my POL.

[Edit] Actually, I just received my 7-10 day warning. But still. The timing!! :sad:

Mon May 18, 2015 9:21 am

which cw voyagers?

News Credits: 4877 · Mon May 18, 2015 9:29 am

peaces wrote:which cw voyagers?

I'm guessing Hotspot and Cyclonus.

News Credits: 4877 · Mon May 18, 2015 9:59 am

Now that the Wave 2 Combiner Wars deluxes have hit Canada, a complete set of promotional cards for the deluxe stunticons is now achievable. Below you will find the artwork found on the cards that came with the 4 deluxe stunticon toys (three of these cards are not available in the United States since those deluxes were packaged with comics instead):

Deadend
Decepticon Dragstrip
Decepticon Offroad
Breakdown

If someone can do a similar scan for the deluxe Aerialbots, please send it to us at this link.

Mon May 18, 2015 10:26 am

well this american would rather have the cards than the comics

News Credits: 10 · Mon May 18, 2015 10:41 am

william-james88 wrote:
peaces wrote:which cw voyagers?

I'm guessing Hotspot and Cyclonus.

Indeed, sorry. I hadn't had my coffee yet. BBTS will ship the wave with Hotspot and Cyclonus within a week or two...

Mon May 18, 2015 10:50 am

i still have no idea what you're talking about

News Credits: 18 · Mon May 18, 2015 11:52 am

Moonshot wrote:Anyone else think Blackjack figure could be repainted with a new head into Goldbug? I've been wanting a good new legends size or even really small deluxe Goldbug.

Well the Hasbro TF App showed a pic of Bumblebee seemingly based on the Blackjack mold so maybe

News Credits: 1 · Mon May 18, 2015 11:56 am

leokearon wrote:
Moonshot wrote:Anyone else think Blackjack figure could be repainted with a new head into Goldbug? I've been wanting a good new legends size or even really small deluxe Goldbug.

Well the Hasbro TF App showed a pic of Bumblebee seemingly based on the Blackjack mold so maybe

He looks like a lot of Throttlebots to me. We could get white, read and blue versions and you know what? I'd buy 'em. IMO recoloring him into Hotrod is a missed opportunity.

News Credits: 18 · Mon May 18, 2015 12:11 pm

RhA wrote:
leokearon wrote:
Moonshot wrote:Anyone else think Blackjack figure could be repainted with a new head into Goldbug? I've been wanting a good new legends size or even really small deluxe Goldbug.

Well the Hasbro TF App showed a pic of Bumblebee seemingly based on the Blackjack mold so maybe

He looks like a lot of Throttlebots to me. We could get white, read and blue versions and you know what? I'd buy 'em. IMO recoloring him into Hotrod is a missed opportunity.

Yeah, My brother and I collected all the Throttlebots when we were kids, it would be great to get new versions of them

A deluxe CW Hot Rod would be better kudos to air-hammer over at Deviantart for this pic http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2015/ ... 8i802b.png

News Credits: 2 · Mon May 18, 2015 12:28 pm

Moosey wrote:
Moonshot wrote:Anyone else think Blackjack figure could be repainted with a new head into Goldbug? I've been wanting a good new legends size or even really small deluxe Goldbug.

Why not use the one that came out last year? It's deluxe sized.

Mainly because it doesnt look like Goldbug to me and its too big. Like someone else said the mould is not the best either and I already have Nightbeat with it. The gold plastic on it would look tight on the Blackjack mould though as Goldbug

Mon May 18, 2015 12:31 pm

blackjack reminds me of an omnibot

News Credits: 2 · Mon May 18, 2015 12:33 pm

RhA wrote:
leokearon wrote:
Moonshot wrote:Anyone else think Blackjack figure could be repainted with a new head into Goldbug? I've been wanting a good new legends size or even really small deluxe Goldbug.

Well the Hasbro TF App showed a pic of Bumblebee seemingly based on the Blackjack mold so maybe

He looks like a lot of Throttlebots to me. We could get white, read and blue versions and you know what? I'd buy 'em. IMO recoloring him into Hotrod is a missed opportunity.

Thanks I had forgotten all about them showing that Bumblebee repaint, so maybe. Goldbug I want mainly but I would also really like a Searchlight if they could mould some lights on him.

Mon May 18, 2015 12:54 pm

steve2275 wrote:well this american would rather have the cards than the comics

Ditto! I wish Hasbro would have been consistent and continued with the cards as I was keeping all my cards (including 3rd party cards) in collectible cards plastic sleeves. Now it's going to look like I have incomplete combiner teams.

Mon May 18, 2015 2:32 pm

Totally agree on the cards. I'm already collecting the comics, so these are just dupes. sigh.

BUT I know it's to try to bring new kids on board with reading comics. Ah well.

News Credits: 26 · Mon May 18, 2015 4:42 pm

While I Really like having collector cards, I think they could've been far better, the cardboard used feels kinda cheap and they should've AT LEAST have included the tech specs :/ or I don't know, artwork of the TOY, as nice as the actual artwork is, most don't resemble the figures at all. ¬¬

Mon May 18, 2015 4:53 pm

Yeah, I remember how sad it was when they stopped giving actual bios and tech specs on packages. I really miss that.... and saving 'em.

News Credits: 10 · Mon May 18, 2015 5:54 pm

peaces wrote:i still have no idea what you're talking about

BBTS already had the rest of the Protectobots to ship. I was just passing on the news that Hotspot (and Cyclonus) will be coming in real soon. Tis a big deal to us collectors using BBTS POL. Sorry if I was unclear before...

News Credits: 3646 · Mon May 18, 2015 6:16 pm

I'm working on the gallery of Combiner Wars Streetwise and the rest of the Protectobots this week. Doing comparison shots of Streetwise with Dead End and Brake-Neck made me realize that it's a shame that Brake-Neck wasn't a remold of Streetwise instead of Dead End. I really wish they had done Streetwise sans police lights. He would have ended up with the shotgun and new head which would have helped differentiate him more from Dead End and to give the appearance of having 5 distinct vehicles. It's a bummer they didn't do this.

I'm OK with Quickslinger sharing the same body and vehicle mode with Firefly because all of the Aerialbot limbs were relatively similar vehicle and robot mode whereas the Stunticons were more distinct.