The Energon Pub

I hope Artfire will be stocked at Canadian Gamestops soon.

Mine should be arriving Wednesday from Gamestop. They have stepped up in a big way this year for my orders, I have cancelled almost all of my marvel Legends preorders thanks to them, and they have been good on Black Series as well. I actually got my Waspinator and Shadow Panther from them too.

Will be my first experience with the Grapple/Inferno mold too

o.supreme wrote:There was a time when it was only those getting "adult reading material" delivered would want unassuming packaging... now its us adults purchasing toys

Other than possible theft by other interested parties I couldn't care less about who knows what I'm buying.

sol magnus wrote:

o.supreme wrote:There was a time when it was only those getting "adult reading material" delivered would want unassuming packaging... now its us adults purchasing toys

Other than possible theft by other interested parties I couldn't care less about who knows what I'm buying.

Of course, it was more of a joke than anything else....

o.supreme wrote:

sol magnus wrote:

o.supreme wrote:There was a time when it was only those getting "adult reading material" delivered would want unassuming packaging... now its us adults purchasing toys

Other than possible theft by other interested parties I couldn't care less about who knows what I'm buying.

Of course, it was more of a joke than anything else....

Over the years I'm sure we've all had our fair share of judgement on our chosen hobby. For me, that time of even slight concern for the thoughts of the small-minded is long over.

Yeah, for me it was called Jr High and Highschool (1988-1994), while I still read the ciomics,I stopped collecting toys entirely. But with the coming of G2 in a mostly pre-internet, pre-eBay world, that's when I really tried to reconnect. That was a very fun and interesting time to be a collector.

ScottyP wrote:Mine arrived yesterday from an Entertainment Earth preorder. Not much to say about it, it's a repaint. If you got Inferno you know what to expect.

EE's shipping boxes though, let me tell you, those are some absolute cringe. "Who's ready for an unboxing?" plastered on the side makes me suddenly not want to unbox anything, rather, it makes me question some of my life choices.

As a FedEx Enployee, the first time I found out Pokémon Center has a box tape decorated with Pokeballs Pikachus and CHarizards wearing postal satchels was in the middle of the sort when like 20 of these boxes showed up and I had to fight so hard to keep my geek flag from totally unfurling right there with 50 complete strangers

Flashwave wrote:

ScottyP wrote:Mine arrived yesterday from an Entertainment Earth preorder. Not much to say about it, it's a repaint. If you got Inferno you know what to expect.

EE's shipping boxes though, let me tell you, those are some absolute cringe. "Who's ready for an unboxing?" plastered on the side makes me suddenly not want to unbox anything, rather, it makes me question some of my life choices.

As a FedEx Enployee, the first time I found out Pokémon Center has a box tape decorated with Pokeballs Pikachus and CHarizards wearing postal satchels was in the middle of the sort when like 20 of these boxes showed up and I had to fight so hard to keep my geek flag from totally unfurling right there with 50 complete strangers

I can't imagine how you'd be in my local convenience store.



Even the alcohol has anime on it...

primalxconvoy wrote:

Flashwave wrote:

ScottyP wrote:Mine arrived yesterday from an Entertainment Earth preorder. Not much to say about it, it's a repaint. If you got Inferno you know what to expect.

EE's shipping boxes though, let me tell you, those are some absolute cringe. "Who's ready for an unboxing?" plastered on the side makes me suddenly not want to unbox anything, rather, it makes me question some of my life choices.

As a FedEx Enployee, the first time I found out Pokémon Center has a box tape decorated with Pokeballs Pikachus and CHarizards wearing postal satchels was in the middle of the sort when like 20 of these boxes showed up and I had to fight so hard to keep my geek flag from totally unfurling right there with 50 complete strangers

I can't imagine how you'd be in my local convenience store.

IMG_20211113_215554.jpg

Even the alcohol has anime on it...

Man, there's so much that would be illegal about that display in the US. Gotta love Japan.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

primalxconvoy wrote:

Flashwave wrote:

ScottyP wrote:Mine arrived yesterday from an Entertainment Earth preorder. Not much to say about it, it's a repaint. If you got Inferno you know what to expect.

EE's shipping boxes though, let me tell you, those are some absolute cringe. "Who's ready for an unboxing?" plastered on the side makes me suddenly not want to unbox anything, rather, it makes me question some of my life choices.

As a FedEx Enployee, the first time I found out Pokémon Center has a box tape decorated with Pokeballs Pikachus and CHarizards wearing postal satchels was in the middle of the sort when like 20 of these boxes showed up and I had to fight so hard to keep my geek flag from totally unfurling right there with 50 complete strangers

I can't imagine how you'd be in my local convenience store.

IMG_20211113_215554.jpg

Even the alcohol has anime on it...

Man, there's so much that would be illegal about that display in the US. Gotta love Japan.

Emerje

What would be illegal?

primalxconvoy wrote:

Emerje wrote:

primalxconvoy wrote:

Flashwave wrote:

ScottyP wrote:Mine arrived yesterday from an Entertainment Earth preorder. Not much to say about it, it's a repaint. If you got Inferno you know what to expect.

EE's shipping boxes though, let me tell you, those are some absolute cringe. "Who's ready for an unboxing?" plastered on the side makes me suddenly not want to unbox anything, rather, it makes me question some of my life choices.

As a FedEx Enployee, the first time I found out Pokémon Center has a box tape decorated with Pokeballs Pikachus and CHarizards wearing postal satchels was in the middle of the sort when like 20 of these boxes showed up and I had to fight so hard to keep my geek flag from totally unfurling right there with 50 complete strangers

I can't imagine how you'd be in my local convenience store.

IMG_20211113_215554.jpg

Even the alcohol has anime on it...

Man, there's so much that would be illegal about that display in the US. Gotta love Japan.

Emerje

What would be illegal?

Cartoon characters used for selling alcohol (doesn't matter if the cartoon character is for adults, too) and alcohol being displayed with products intended for children. The first one is definitely a big no-no, the latter would probably just get a lot of complaints and most stores around here wouldn't do it in the first place.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

primalxconvoy wrote:

Emerje wrote:

primalxconvoy wrote:

Flashwave wrote:

ScottyP wrote:Mine arrived yesterday from an Entertainment Earth preorder. Not much to say about it, it's a repaint. If you got Inferno you know what to expect.

EE's shipping boxes though, let me tell you, those are some absolute cringe. "Who's ready for an unboxing?" plastered on the side makes me suddenly not want to unbox anything, rather, it makes me question some of my life choices.

As a FedEx Enployee, the first time I found out Pokémon Center has a box tape decorated with Pokeballs Pikachus and CHarizards wearing postal satchels was in the middle of the sort when like 20 of these boxes showed up and I had to fight so hard to keep my geek flag from totally unfurling right there with 50 complete strangers

I can't imagine how you'd be in my local convenience store.

IMG_20211113_215554.jpg

Even the alcohol has anime on it...

Man, there's so much that would be illegal about that display in the US. Gotta love Japan.

Emerje

What would be illegal?

Cartoon characters used for selling alcohol (doesn't matter if the cartoon character is for adults, too) and alcohol being displayed with products intended for children. The first one is definitely a big no-no, the latter would probably just get a lot of complaints and most stores around here wouldn't do it in the first place.

Emerje

The first one would never get past the label approval. The requirements are ridiculously strict. My neighbor owns a brewery that uses a mythical beast theme (centaur, satyr, etc.) and they can't use any of their trademark characters even though they have zero connection to anything for kids, and their products can only be sold in their brewery and liquor stores.

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

Emerje wrote:

primalxconvoy wrote:

Emerje wrote:

primalxconvoy wrote:

Flashwave wrote:

ScottyP wrote:Mine arrived yesterday from an Entertainment Earth preorder. Not much to say about it, it's a repaint. If you got Inferno you know what to expect.

EE's shipping boxes though, let me tell you, those are some absolute cringe. "Who's ready for an unboxing?" plastered on the side makes me suddenly not want to unbox anything, rather, it makes me question some of my life choices.

As a FedEx Enployee, the first time I found out Pokémon Center has a box tape decorated with Pokeballs Pikachus and CHarizards wearing postal satchels was in the middle of the sort when like 20 of these boxes showed up and I had to fight so hard to keep my geek flag from totally unfurling right there with 50 complete strangers

I can't imagine how you'd be in my local convenience store.

IMG_20211113_215554.jpg

Even the alcohol has anime on it...

Man, there's so much that would be illegal about that display in the US. Gotta love Japan.

Emerje

What would be illegal?

Cartoon characters used for selling alcohol (doesn't matter if the cartoon character is for adults, too) and alcohol being displayed with products intended for children. The first one is definitely a big no-no, the latter would probably just get a lot of complaints and most stores around here wouldn't do it in the first place.

Emerje

The first one would never get past the label approval. The requirements are ridiculously strict. My neighbor owns a brewery that uses a mythical beast theme (centaur, satyr, etc.) and they can't use any of their trademark characters even though they have zero connection to anything for kids, and their products can only be sold in their brewery and liquor stores.

Weird, at least in Canada we can have mythical beasts and other cool stuff, like a Kraken.

But Captain Morgan is a cartoon Pirate (on the label) and he's available in the US. I guess the requirements are less strict when you pay in dubloons.

william-james88 wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

Emerje wrote:

primalxconvoy wrote:

Emerje wrote:

primalxconvoy wrote:

Flashwave wrote:

ScottyP wrote:Mine arrived yesterday from an Entertainment Earth preorder. Not much to say about it, it's a repaint. If you got Inferno you know what to expect.

EE's shipping boxes though, let me tell you, those are some absolute cringe. "Who's ready for an unboxing?" plastered on the side makes me suddenly not want to unbox anything, rather, it makes me question some of my life choices.

As a FedEx Enployee, the first time I found out Pokémon Center has a box tape decorated with Pokeballs Pikachus and CHarizards wearing postal satchels was in the middle of the sort when like 20 of these boxes showed up and I had to fight so hard to keep my geek flag from totally unfurling right there with 50 complete strangers

I can't imagine how you'd be in my local convenience store.

IMG_20211113_215554.jpg

Even the alcohol has anime on it...

Man, there's so much that would be illegal about that display in the US. Gotta love Japan.

Emerje

What would be illegal?

Cartoon characters used for selling alcohol (doesn't matter if the cartoon character is for adults, too) and alcohol being displayed with products intended for children. The first one is definitely a big no-no, the latter would probably just get a lot of complaints and most stores around here wouldn't do it in the first place.

Emerje

The first one would never get past the label approval. The requirements are ridiculously strict. My neighbor owns a brewery that uses a mythical beast theme (centaur, satyr, etc.) and they can't use any of their trademark characters even though they have zero connection to anything for kids, and their products can only be sold in their brewery and liquor stores.

Weird, at least in Canada we can have mythical beasts and other cool stuff, like a Kraken.

But Captain Morgan is a cartoon Pirate (on the label) and he's available in the US. I guess the requirements are less strict when you pay in dubloons.

Captain Morgan has a realistic design that gives no impression of him being a children's character.

Emerje wrote:

primalxconvoy wrote:

Emerje wrote:

primalxconvoy wrote:

Flashwave wrote:

ScottyP wrote:Mine arrived yesterday from an Entertainment Earth preorder. Not much to say about it, it's a repaint. If you got Inferno you know what to expect.

EE's shipping boxes though, let me tell you, those are some absolute cringe. "Who's ready for an unboxing?" plastered on the side makes me suddenly not want to unbox anything, rather, it makes me question some of my life choices.

As a FedEx Enployee, the first time I found out Pokémon Center has a box tape decorated with Pokeballs Pikachus and CHarizards wearing postal satchels was in the middle of the sort when like 20 of these boxes showed up and I had to fight so hard to keep my geek flag from totally unfurling right there with 50 complete strangers

I can't imagine how you'd be in my local convenience store.

IMG_20211113_215554.jpg

Even the alcohol has anime on it...

Man, there's so much that would be illegal about that display in the US. Gotta love Japan.

Emerje

What would be illegal?

Cartoon characters used for selling alcohol (doesn't matter if the cartoon character is for adults, too) and alcohol being displayed with products intended for children. The first one is definitely a big no-no, the latter would probably just get a lot of complaints and most stores around here wouldn't do it in the first place.

Emerje

Oh that, lol. You should see the what types of magazines they have a child-height in the same shops...

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

Emerje wrote:

primalxconvoy wrote:

Emerje wrote:

primalxconvoy wrote:

Flashwave wrote:

ScottyP wrote:Mine arrived yesterday from an Entertainment Earth preorder. Not much to say about it, it's a repaint. If you got Inferno you know what to expect.

EE's shipping boxes though, let me tell you, those are some absolute cringe. "Who's ready for an unboxing?" plastered on the side makes me suddenly not want to unbox anything, rather, it makes me question some of my life choices.

As a FedEx Enployee, the first time I found out Pokémon Center has a box tape decorated with Pokeballs Pikachus and CHarizards wearing postal satchels was in the middle of the sort when like 20 of these boxes showed up and I had to fight so hard to keep my geek flag from totally unfurling right there with 50 complete strangers

I can't imagine how you'd be in my local convenience store.

IMG_20211113_215554.jpg

Even the alcohol has anime on it...

Man, there's so much that would be illegal about that display in the US. Gotta love Japan.

Emerje

What would be illegal?

Cartoon characters used for selling alcohol (doesn't matter if the cartoon character is for adults, too) and alcohol being displayed with products intended for children. The first one is definitely a big no-no, the latter would probably just get a lot of complaints and most stores around here wouldn't do it in the first place.

Emerje

The first one would never get past the label approval. The requirements are ridiculously strict. My neighbor owns a brewery that uses a mythical beast theme (centaur, satyr, etc.) and they can't use any of their trademark characters even though they have zero connection to anything for kids, and their products can only be sold in their brewery and liquor stores.

Weird, at least in Canada we can have mythical beasts and other cool stuff, like a Kraken.

But Captain Morgan is a cartoon Pirate (on the label) and he's available in the US. I guess the requirements are less strict when you pay in dubloons.

Captain Morgan has a realistic design that gives no impression of him being a children's character.

Gonna disagree big time. He looks like any stereotypical pirate drawing from a kids book. I have a bottle at home and my kids thought it was captain hook at first.

If they didn't have the rhum at the bottom of this photo, I would be sure this was an illustration meant for kids related media.

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

Emerje wrote:

primalxconvoy wrote:

Emerje wrote:

primalxconvoy wrote:

Flashwave wrote:

ScottyP wrote:Mine arrived yesterday from an Entertainment Earth preorder. Not much to say about it, it's a repaint. If you got Inferno you know what to expect.

EE's shipping boxes though, let me tell you, those are some absolute cringe. "Who's ready for an unboxing?" plastered on the side makes me suddenly not want to unbox anything, rather, it makes me question some of my life choices.

As a FedEx Enployee, the first time I found out Pokémon Center has a box tape decorated with Pokeballs Pikachus and CHarizards wearing postal satchels was in the middle of the sort when like 20 of these boxes showed up and I had to fight so hard to keep my geek flag from totally unfurling right there with 50 complete strangers

I can't imagine how you'd be in my local convenience store.

IMG_20211113_215554.jpg

Even the alcohol has anime on it...

Man, there's so much that would be illegal about that display in the US. Gotta love Japan.

Emerje

What would be illegal?

Cartoon characters used for selling alcohol (doesn't matter if the cartoon character is for adults, too) and alcohol being displayed with products intended for children. The first one is definitely a big no-no, the latter would probably just get a lot of complaints and most stores around here wouldn't do it in the first place.

Emerje

The first one would never get past the label approval. The requirements are ridiculously strict. My neighbor owns a brewery that uses a mythical beast theme (centaur, satyr, etc.) and they can't use any of their trademark characters even though they have zero connection to anything for kids, and their products can only be sold in their brewery and liquor stores.

Weird, at least in Canada we can have mythical beasts and other cool stuff, like a Kraken.

But Captain Morgan is a cartoon Pirate (on the label) and he's available in the US. I guess the requirements are less strict when you pay in dubloons.

Captain Morgan has a realistic design that gives no impression of him being a children's character.

Gonna disagree big time. He looks like any stereotypical pirate drawing from a kids book. I have a bottle at home and my kids thought it was captain hook at first.

If they didn't have the rhum at the bottom of this photo, I would be sure this was an illustration meant for kids related media.

Isn't it more to do with using a famous character rather than a childish drawing? In the UK, "alcho-pops" used to feature cartoon-styled mascots, for example.

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

Emerje wrote:

primalxconvoy wrote:

Emerje wrote:

primalxconvoy wrote:

Flashwave wrote:

ScottyP wrote:Mine arrived yesterday from an Entertainment Earth preorder. Not much to say about it, it's a repaint. If you got Inferno you know what to expect.

EE's shipping boxes though, let me tell you, those are some absolute cringe. "Who's ready for an unboxing?" plastered on the side makes me suddenly not want to unbox anything, rather, it makes me question some of my life choices.

As a FedEx Enployee, the first time I found out Pokémon Center has a box tape decorated with Pokeballs Pikachus and CHarizards wearing postal satchels was in the middle of the sort when like 20 of these boxes showed up and I had to fight so hard to keep my geek flag from totally unfurling right there with 50 complete strangers

I can't imagine how you'd be in my local convenience store.

IMG_20211113_215554.jpg

Even the alcohol has anime on it...

Man, there's so much that would be illegal about that display in the US. Gotta love Japan.

Emerje

What would be illegal?

Cartoon characters used for selling alcohol (doesn't matter if the cartoon character is for adults, too) and alcohol being displayed with products intended for children. The first one is definitely a big no-no, the latter would probably just get a lot of complaints and most stores around here wouldn't do it in the first place.

Emerje

The first one would never get past the label approval. The requirements are ridiculously strict. My neighbor owns a brewery that uses a mythical beast theme (centaur, satyr, etc.) and they can't use any of their trademark characters even though they have zero connection to anything for kids, and their products can only be sold in their brewery and liquor stores.

Weird, at least in Canada we can have mythical beasts and other cool stuff, like a Kraken.

But Captain Morgan is a cartoon Pirate (on the label) and he's available in the US. I guess the requirements are less strict when you pay in dubloons.

Captain Morgan has a realistic design that gives no impression of him being a children's character.

Gonna disagree big time. He looks like any stereotypical pirate drawing from a kids book. I have a bottle at home and my kids thought it was captain hook at first.

If they didn't have the rhum at the bottom of this photo, I would be sure this was an illustration meant for kids related media.

He's drawn realistic enough to pass legal.

Compare him with someone like Disney's version of Captain Hook with his exaggerated chin, nose, and other facial features, and his simplified under-detailed attire that gives him a rather two-dimensional and almost rubbery plastic look compared to Captain Morgan's more three-dimensional, real cloth-looking clothing that's also aided by more realistic shading that Hook's brightly-colored design doesn't have nearly as much of.

I think the real difference that people are overlooking is Captain Morgan was a real person, not somebody invented by an ad company to sell rum and been doing so since 1944. Captain Morgan probably got a lot more freedom than, say, Joe Camel did.

Wow, we've really gone off topic.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:Wow, we've really gone off topic.

Always love seeing staff contribute to keeping a topic off-topic.

Just checked EB Games, looks like they have Artfire so hopefully he rocks up at my local store for collection soon.

I just got charged for my Selects Galvatron from Pulse, rather inconveniently. For some reason I remembered the date to be in mid-December. Hopefully I'll get the figure in a week, I've been looking forward to it for months.

Same, got charged this morning, spent a little while trying to figure out which figure I was charged for. Hasbro really needs to improve their user accounts to make finding open orders more intuitive.

Emerje

got my notice, too.

https://hasbropulse.com/collections/back-in-stock/products/transformers-takara-tomy-generations-selects-tt-gs05-abominus-hasbro-pulse-exclusive

was there ever any discourse over the Abominus set? God I felt like that flew way under my radar (and shocked to see it in stock no less).

Also, do we think any more of the Pulse-Con Galvatron (unicron add-ons) will come in? I'd dropped the ball there, and almost feel like if you purchased Uniron through Haslab, they should have given you first crack. *sigh*

SpikeyTigertron wrote:https://hasbropulse.com/collections/back-in-stock/products/transformers-takara-tomy-generations-selects-tt-gs05-abominus-hasbro-pulse-exclusive

was there ever any discourse over the Abominus set? God I felt like that flew way under my radar (and shocked to see it in stock no less).

Also, do we think any more of the Pulse-Con Galvatron (unicron add-ons) will come in? I'd dropped the ball there, and almost feel like if you purchased Uniron through Haslab, they should have given you first crack. *sigh*

Keep checking Pulse every Friday, that appears to be the day they add new back in stock items. Typically they are available to those with Pulse Premium for a few hours before opening up to non-premium members.