The Energon Pub

News Credits: 3 · Sun Feb 23, 2020 3:34 am

I'm just happy that I finally get a Blue Rumble to go with my Red Rumble. Gotta say, though. Knok and Skar as tapes is pretty inspired.

News Credits: 1646 · Sun Feb 23, 2020 11:05 am

Samsonator wrote:I'm just happy that I finally get a Blue Rumble to go with my Red Rumble. Gotta say, though. Knok and Skar as tapes is pretty inspired.

Agreed with this, I finally have a good posable set of cassettes

Thu Feb 27, 2020 7:00 pm

carytheone wrote:
TF-fan kev777 wrote:
carytheone wrote:
TF-fan kev777 wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Well, on the bright side of these delay announcements...

*records the ID codes and product numbers*

Hang on a second... With Star Convoy as TT-GS01 it's supposed to end with TT-GS07, not TT-GS08... Ah, TT-GS05 is missing!
I have been wondering about that. Could TT-GS05 be the Siege Nemesis Prime?
Now that is some wishful thinking I can get behind. I'd love to get my hands on that deco.
You might have missed the boat, or at least the least expensive boat to avoid 3rd party sellers. He was announced back in September and was the one TT Selects offering that I don't think Hasbro Pulse carried so far. Looks to be pretty much sold out everywhere else. He was due in 1st Quarter 2020, putting him in the right timing for TT GS05, but it is weird that they would split up a pair of seacons to insert Nemesis Prime in between.
Oh that ship has sailed and sunk. I was just saying that I'd be happy if Siege NemmyP showed up on Pulse under the Selects line.

Maybe that ship is still afloat. Looks like it's available on RobotKingdom (https://www.robotkingdom.com/sg06.html), and numbered as SG-06 with a release of March 2020, $60 shipped. I was able to successfully place a pre-order for it so we'll see how that goes, I've never ordered anything from them or internationally for that matter but I've read they're pretty good from multiple sources and didn't want to risk missing out if Pulse never gets it in.

News Credits: 462 · Sun Mar 01, 2020 10:09 pm

My Turtler and Gulf arrived this weekend.

Mon Mar 02, 2020 6:09 pm

So I guess getting the Seacons without spending a small fortune is not possible anymore, yes?

News Credits: 241 · Mon Mar 02, 2020 6:24 pm

Vic Zanzibar wrote:So I guess getting the Seacons without spending a small fortune is not possible anymore, yes?

At this point, no. Just keep an eye out on all avenues and a good deal will eventually pop up.

Mon Mar 02, 2020 7:00 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Vic Zanzibar wrote:So I guess getting the Seacons without spending a small fortune is not possible anymore, yes?

At this point, no. Just keep an eye out on all avenues and a good deal will eventually pop up.

Or just forget about it and keep my fingers crossed that a God Neptune set happens.

News Credits: 241 · Mon Mar 02, 2020 8:37 pm

Vic Zanzibar wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Vic Zanzibar wrote:So I guess getting the Seacons without spending a small fortune is not possible anymore, yes?

At this point, no. Just keep an eye out on all avenues and a good deal will eventually pop up.

Or just forget about it and keep my fingers crossed that a God Neptune set happens.

With Halfshell adopting the same body style as Turtler, and Tentakil being a heavy retool of PotP Moonracer, thus ideal for Scylla, I'd say...

... TakaraTomy are being teases right now. 8-|

News Credits: 56 · Tue Mar 03, 2020 1:12 pm

So I did it....I managed to order the Generations selects Seacons despite Hasbro's extremely unfair window of opportunity.

Well Not Everything, but certainly more than I ideally would have liked to have spent. I'm getting the first 4 direct from Asia (shipped yesterday should arrive by the end of the month), and the last 2 from TFSource. Does anyone happen to know, will 3P sites be getting the ones with the Hasbro packaging, or the TT Packaging? Not that it really matters I am just curious.

News Credits: 1646 · Tue Mar 03, 2020 7:05 pm

I think they all have the same packaging

News Credits: 241 · Tue Mar 03, 2020 8:43 pm

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I think they all have the same packaging

They do, the Hasbro ones just have an extra sleeve over the TakaraTomy one. :roll:

Wed Mar 04, 2020 8:54 pm

Been thinking of other Cybertron figures they could homage. Came up with Arcee into Override, Hoist into Dirt Boss, and Grapple into Mudflap.

News Credits: 51 · Thu Mar 05, 2020 5:03 am

Vic Zanzibar wrote:Been thinking of other Cybertron figures they could homage. Came up with Arcee into Override, Hoist into Dirt Boss, and Grapple into Mudflap.

Crosswise from Smokescreen and CD Red Alert from Doubledealer have been mentioned on other threads, both of which I think are good options. I also had the thought of Mudflap, I'd especially love it if his accessories and crane hook were translucent green like the OG figure. I don't really think Override and Dirt Boss would work from those molds though, Arcee is way too different from Override in terms of proportions and Dirt Boss had a unique enough alt mode that none of the Earthrise molds really match in addition to not having Hoist's dad bod.

I also still reeeally want Impactor retooled into both Demolishor and CD Scattorshot, but Hasbro won't do that because apparently fan vote character molds can't get fun reuses.

Thu Mar 05, 2020 6:11 am

Nemesis Primal wrote:
Vic Zanzibar wrote:Been thinking of other Cybertron figures they could homage. Came up with Arcee into Override, Hoist into Dirt Boss, and Grapple into Mudflap.

Crosswise from Smokescreen and CD Red Alert from Doubledealer have been mentioned on other threads, both of which I think are good options. I also had the thought of Mudflap, I'd especially love it if his accessories and crane hook were translucent green like the OG figure. I don't really think Override and Dirt Boss would work from those molds though, Arcee is way too different from Override in terms of proportions and Dirt Boss had a unique enough alt mode that none of the Earthrise molds really match in addition to not having Hoist's dad bod.

Dirt Boss' altmode is a monster truck, but it's still a pickup like Hoist. And besides...

...his chest's closer to Hoist's...

...than Mudflap's is to Grapple's.

Nemesis Primal wrote:I also still reeeally want Impactor retooled into both Demolishor and CD Scattorshot, but Hasbro won't do that because apparently fan vote character molds can't get fun reuses.

Megatron makes a better CD Scattorshot anyway IMO. What with having his arms become a turret and all.

News Credits: 8 · Thu Mar 05, 2020 6:34 am

My second lot of Seacons arrived today (Seawing and Nautilator) and they're pretty great. Nautilator has a problem being an arm though, as certain parts don't have enough clearance so you can't move the arm in and out, its stationary (even slightly bent towards the main body). So I reckon he is going to be the gun of the group!

Thu Mar 05, 2020 7:14 am

There should be a way to make him work as an arm. Given that the standard King Poseidon config has him as one, I'd be a bit surprised if Takara flubbed that part.

News Credits: 8 · Thu Mar 05, 2020 7:16 am

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:There should be a way to make him work as an arm. Given that the standard King Poseidon config has him as one, I'd be a bit surprised if Takara flubbed that part.

Yes, it was my mistake, after a bit of fiddling I managed to find the correct orientation for the Lobster head to allow shoulder movement. I think there may have been an error in the instructions as the way it tells you to position it doesn't allow for movement, but if you fiddle enough you can get it to work.

Edit: Yes, the instructions have an error. Here is a comparison of how to configure it for shoulder movement versus how they tell you to configure it:

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The configuration it shows on the instructions is how you are meant to have it in robot mode, so its likely they just copied it over.

I've noticed a few steps in both Lobclaw and Kraken's instructions were missing (not that they are hard to figure out).

Thu Mar 05, 2020 7:24 am

Well, glad you got it sorted. Shame about the instruction errors.

By the way, here's the perfect redeco character for the Hoist/Trailbreaker mold:

Scorch

News Credits: 8 · Thu Mar 05, 2020 7:34 am

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It's all coming together!

News Credits: 1350 · Thu Mar 05, 2020 7:50 am

Looking good there ;)^

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Well, glad you got it sorted. Shame about the instruction errors.

By the way, here's the perfect redeco character for the Hoist/Trailbreaker mold:

Scorch

I'd be down with that, though I'd love to see the Predators and Turbo masters all again in the generations line, though would they have to change the name of the con sub group due to the name? :-?

News Credits: 8 · Thu Mar 05, 2020 7:51 am

So now that we know we can get full combiners in the Selects lines, what are the chances of getting Monstructor? Would love to complete the combiner line-up.

Thu Mar 05, 2020 8:06 am

ZeroWolf wrote:Looking good there

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Well, glad you got it sorted. Shame about the instruction errors.

By the way, here's the perfect redeco character for the Hoist/Trailbreaker mold:
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Scorch

I'd be down with that, though I'd love to see the Predators and Turbo masters all again in the generations line, though would they have to change the name of the con sub group due to the name?

Depends on trademarks and the PR department.
I specifically thought of Scorch because he's so obviously based on the Diaclone Hi-Lux mold. I mean, just look at him!

News Credits: 1350 · Thu Mar 05, 2020 8:16 am

LeAwesome1 wrote:So now that we know we can get full combiners in the Selects lines, what are the chances of getting Monstructor? Would love to complete the combiner line-up.

Well there is already alternate head sculpts seen for Cutthroat that turns him into one of the monster pretenders but we have the issue of how to handle the number of members. King Posideon is easier because his extra member just turns into a gun, while on Monstructor and Dino King, their torso is made up of two team members. Its not beyond Takara to sort it out but would they do it?

I've always secretly dreamed the foolish dream that Hasbro would make the smallest combiner into a titan class, to reflect how Monstructor was the first gestalt featured in the old IDW continuity. Would it ever happen? Nope but fun to think about.

News Credits: 56 · Thu Mar 05, 2020 10:11 am

I'd take either or. We've seen how Hasbro *altered* Liokaiser to be 5 members instead of 6, I could see them doing the same for Monstructor/Dinoking (PotP Grimlock remold into Goryu etc...)

But also an all-new Titan Class Monstructor would be great as well, to scale with Devastator (also 6 members) & Predaking, and we can recreate the IDW battles of Monstructor vs Omega Supreme. It would be awesome!

The only thing I would not want is a tiny Monstructor/Dinoking. Fansproject had 2 great releases. I'm being patient and holding out for something official that looks just as good, if not better.

News Credits: 1350 · Thu Mar 05, 2020 10:39 am

I think that was the plan at one point based on prototypes seen, retool terrorcons to Monstructor and the Dinobots to Dino King...then watch the complaints roll in :lol: