The Energon Pub

Tue Mar 31, 2020 11:09 am

Now its just me but I think on some level we should appreciate the original Super Megatron concept art a bit more: as far as I can tell, it started the now very commonplace idea of Megatron-as-an-alien-jet/spaceship seen in Energon, Cybertron, 2007 movie, DOTM, TLK, Animated and Prime. Overall a very common choice of altmode for the 2000 to mid 2010.

News Credits: 462 · Tue Mar 31, 2020 11:11 am

aronjlove wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
aronjlove wrote:Thank you! Just watched the intro to Master Force on Youtube and gonna try to find the rest.
Here you go.
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Though, the important epilogue clip show episode at the end of the series is missing, which can instead be watched here.

News Credits: 10 · Tue Mar 31, 2020 11:14 am

When I was a kid, we had the Seacons gift set. We got Nautilator seperate and pretty much made him the gun.

News Credits: 23 · Tue Mar 31, 2020 11:20 am

Sabrblade wrote:
aronjlove wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
aronjlove wrote:Thank you! Just watched the intro to Master Force on Youtube and gonna try to find the rest.
Here you go.
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Though, the important epilogue clip show episode at the end of the series is missing, which can instead be watched here.

Your rank of "God of Transformers" is very appropriate!

News Credits: 462 · Tue Mar 31, 2020 11:22 am

aronjlove wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
aronjlove wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
aronjlove wrote:Thank you! Just watched the intro to Master Force on Youtube and gonna try to find the rest.
Here you go.
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Though, the important epilogue clip show episode at the end of the series is missing, which can instead be watched here.
Your rank of "God of Transformers" is very appropriate!

Post count only. Not my choosing. :oops:

News Credits: 2 · Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:08 pm

Digging this new design. If he is, in fact a Voyager, then that'll be even better for me. He'll fit perfectly with my custom TR Voyager Star Convoy.

:BH-PREDACON:

News Credits: 56 · Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:13 pm

Seacons on Pulse- I'm glad for those who couldn't pre-order. I paid more for mine, because Hasbro gave no indication they'd be available again. I wish they'd be more transparent with such things, but such is life.

King Poseidon! (I just feel compelled to yell it every time)

as a character has little depth. Like any other combiner, he is just brute force in MF, although he ends up getting beat pretty bad by Ginrai, and even Metalhawk :-?

towards the end. But he does have a pretty awesome voice, and one of the best combination sequences in all of Transformers IMHO.

As for Super Megatron, I am really *hoping* the rest of Zone, Return of Convoy, and Operation Combination will be included (I assume) in the 3rd TF Manga volume Viz is releasing later this year.

News Credits: 1350 · Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:34 pm

What Manga exists for those toylines will be included, just don't expect much from them in terms of content. They won't give you the full story.

Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:35 pm

Know what would be cool with Return of Convoy and Zone getting some love in SELECTS? Somehow, Big Bang getting a figure. Don't know who he'd be a retool of (POTP Rodimus?) but this obscure fella deserves to finally get a toy.

News Credits: 462 · Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:41 pm

o.supreme wrote:As for Super Megatron, I am really *hoping* the rest of Zone, Return of Convoy, and Operation Combination will be included (I assume) in the 3rd TF Manga volume Viz is releasing later this year.

Volume 3 contains Victory, Zone, and The Battlestars. Operation Combination had no manga.

Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:48 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
blackeyedprime wrote:Hoping he's leader scale to with g1/selects star convoy but doubting it. Looking forward to the reveal even if I might skip this figure.
The TR Galvatron mold is a Voyager.

Could be a Studio Series Shockwave situation.

News Credits: 241 · Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:52 pm

Sentinel_Primal wrote:On the one hand, that's awesome that we're seeing Super Megatron, but on the other, I'm still waiting for Takara to officially reveal anything regarding Armada Prime since the last we heard was from someone at the booth, not Takara themselves

It was just a test to gauge interest. They currently have no plans on doing anything more with him I'm afraid.

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
blackeyedprime wrote:Hoping he's leader scale to with g1/selects star convoy but doubting it. Looking forward to the reveal even if I might skip this figure.
The TR Galvatron mold is a Voyager.
Could be a Studio Series Shockwave situation.

Voyager figure with extras to bump it into Leader Class is still a Voyager figure.

News Credits: 12 · Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:59 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Sentinel_Primal wrote:On the one hand, that's awesome that we're seeing Super Megatron, but on the other, I'm still waiting for Takara to officially reveal anything regarding Armada Prime since the last we heard was from someone at the booth, not Takara themselves

It was just a test to gauge interest. They currently have no plans on doing anything more with him I'm afraid.

Not trying to be rude, so I apologize if it comes across that way, but have Takara themselves officially confirmed that? Because I thought it was just a booth attendent that had said they didn't have much info, but that the prototype may have just been to guage interest?

News Credits: 1350 · Tue Mar 31, 2020 1:18 pm

I think complete lack of appearances (even Super Megatron had been hinted at in the Manga that came with Star Convoy and the Seacons.) backs up the theory that Takara had no solid plans for it. I can't see Takara officially announcing that it was to gauge interest, but certainly, evidence (or lack of) does prove it.

News Credits: 241 · Tue Mar 31, 2020 1:20 pm

Sentinel_Primal wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Sentinel_Primal wrote:On the one hand, that's awesome that we're seeing Super Megatron, but on the other, I'm still waiting for Takara to officially reveal anything regarding Armada Prime since the last we heard was from someone at the booth, not Takara themselves

It was just a test to gauge interest. They currently have no plans on doing anything more with him I'm afraid.

Not trying to be rude, so I apologize if it comes across that way, but have Takara themselves officially confirmed that? Because I thought it was just a booth attendent that had said they didn't have much info, but that the prototype may have just been to guage interest?

That's what I head, don't know the source other than it had some connection to TakaraTomy. Does explain why we haven't heard anything, or why he hasn't appeared in any media to promote him unlike Super Megatron...

Grabbing my TR Galvatron I got from my nephew for Christmas, from the looks of it he's not that extensive of a retool compared to the Seacons. If anything, he reuses everything from the waist down and the lower arms.

News Credits: 2 · Tue Mar 31, 2020 1:32 pm

Here's what the Japanese characters say. (Hint- It's not much.)

About a year since the silhouette disclosure

Generation Select Next Item April 2 lifting-

Please wait for the next report!

:BH-PREDACON:

Tue Mar 31, 2020 2:56 pm

How funny. I was just thinking yesterday that Super Megatron should've already been released ages ago. But, then suddenly this news popped up today. Nice!

Tue Mar 31, 2020 3:04 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
blackeyedprime wrote:Hoping he's leader scale to with g1/selects star convoy but doubting it. Looking forward to the reveal even if I might skip this figure.
The TR Galvatron mold is a Voyager.
Could be a Studio Series Shockwave situation.

Voyager figure with extras to bump it into Leader Class is still a Voyager figure.

He's nevertheless larger than the Voyager he shares parts with.

News Credits: 6 · Tue Mar 31, 2020 4:51 pm

ZeroWolf wrote:What Manga exists for those toylines will be included, just don't expect much from them in terms of content. They won't give you the full story.

What else is there to say about Super Megatron? Other than essentially Bad fan fiction... >:oP

News Credits: 22 · Tue Mar 31, 2020 4:55 pm

I was hoping he'd be a leader, considering Star Convoy, but it definitely looks like a retool of TR Galvatron.

Tue Mar 31, 2020 5:09 pm

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:
ZeroWolf wrote:What Manga exists for those toylines will be included, just don't expect much from them in terms of content. They won't give you the full story.

What else is there to say about Super Megatron? Other than essentially Bad fan fiction...

Care to elaborate?

Here's a more useful answer: Super Megatron is Galvatron after his frozen presumed dead (Thanks to shenanigans in The Headmasters) butt got thawed out by Dark Nova and then simultaneously reverted to Megatron while being further upgraded.

Super Megatron is the design inspiration for Animated Megatron. His robot mode is heavily based on Super Megatron, his Cybertronian altmode (in its real form from the show, not the idiotic completely-wrong toy) is essentially a somewhat-tweaked version of Super Megatron's altmode, and his Earth altmode is a helicopter reimagining of it.

News Credits: 174 · Tue Mar 31, 2020 5:15 pm

Just got my turtler and gulf, and they are so nice

Gulf is big and heavy thanks to the giant new fish face he got; and someone must've worked some magic at the factories, because the gestalts thighs are so tight, he could probably handle any pose;

Super megatron looks cool from here, that is a chonky cannon :shock:

News Credits: 6 · Tue Mar 31, 2020 5:21 pm

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:
ZeroWolf wrote:What Manga exists for those toylines will be included, just don't expect much from them in terms of content. They won't give you the full story.

What else is there to say about Super Megatron? Other than essentially Bad fan fiction...
Care to elaborate?

He is bad fan fiction in the same vein as the insulting trash that was IDW's Transformers: Deviations IE A sad attempt to reset the changes made by The Movie, by some who just can't accept change. Even the televised seasons of the Takara series moved far beyond Prime and Megatron. Which should be applauded, given how things have stagnated since.

News Credits: 1 · Tue Mar 31, 2020 5:31 pm

Super Megatron from TR Galvatron, huh?

A part of me really wants to be all over this, but I guess my feelings about the character have changed after there have been so many different versions of G1 Megatron out already. But it really is a great character choice. Oldschool. Kind of obscure. And it goes with Star Convoy, even if it's way too small to present a credible threat.

Give me Guiltar. Someone made a very convincing custom of him by smashing together Siege Megatron and Prime. With a few remoulds it could work even better. I'd buy that for a dollar!

News Credits: 10 · Tue Mar 31, 2020 5:31 pm

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:
ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:
ZeroWolf wrote:What Manga exists for those toylines will be included, just don't expect much from them in terms of content. They won't give you the full story.

What else is there to say about Super Megatron? Other than essentially Bad fan fiction...
Care to elaborate?

He is bad fan fiction in the same vein as the insulting trash that was IDW's Transformers: Deviations IE A sad attempt to reset the changes made by The Movie, by some who just can't accept change. Even the televised seasons of the Takara series moved far beyond Prime and Megatron. Which should be applauded, given how things have stagnated since.

Stagnated...for you.

FWIW, I agree with you on Deviations. Total fanfic. Bad fanfic.