The Energon Pub

I dunno why, but I've really liked these recolours since the e-hobby set. I may have to grab these!

~ Grim

The new head sculpt is pretty interesting, not just because we got one, but because it's based her Fun Publications (BotCon) Timelines design.



I wonder if that means we could get another three pack in the future?


Just need new Seaspray and we can have a set of Man-O-War (Seaspray), BuggyMan (Beachcomber), and Rest Q (Cliffjumper).

Also this is the early Takara image that inspired the e-Hobby set members Bad Boy and Path Finder, along with Timelines BuggyMan and Man-O-War and FunPub Nacelle.



Emerje

Looks cool , but man I wish we could get actual Gobot reissues.

Emerje wrote:The new head sculpt is pretty interesting, not just because we got one, but because it's based her Fun Publications (BotCon) Timelines design.

Which was itself based on her Hanna-Barbera cartoon face.

As an avid gobot fan why oh why Is she orange lol. I was hoping for red. I get it it’s timeline stuff but man I’m ready for real modern gobot toys

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As an avid gobot fan why oh why Is she orange lol. I was hoping for red. I get it it’s timeline stuff but man I’m ready for real modern gobot toys

I'd love that too, I just watched the whole series along with an old college friend, and we plan to try out my Battle of the Rock Lords VHS on his birthday. There IS enough of a following, but there's also the 3-way legal tug-of-war between Hasbro owning the characters, Bandai owning the original Machine Robo toys and related designs, and Time Warner owning the cartoon and likeness rights that would be necessary to produce Gobot toys in the Generations/Masterpiece style emphasizing accuracy to vintage fiction that Transformers have been enjoying for 2 decades now. Gobots deserves it, but 3 parties each demanding their pound of flesh just doesn't make it economically viable.

As for orange, I think it comes from this Ladybird illustration I mentioned before:

If someone interpreted blue representing black, in the mighty Marvel tradition, this should explain Road Ranger's Huffer repaint as well, but if anyone has better information that refutes this, please chime in.

I think all Hasbro would need is the rights to the cartoon since those designs were and are different enough from the toys. Hence why Action Toys and Megahouse are able to make toys but based on the Revenge of Cronos Anime.

Wait, why is this new Small Foot orange when the original toy was yellow?



Transformers e-Hobby Exclusives Smallfoot Gallery

Yeah, interesting it’s not more of a straight yellow…. Especially since there aren’t exactly a lot of characters who are a common yellow.
Although there aren’t a lot of characters who have a main color of orange either.
Plus that’s a Yellow-Orange.
Most people don’t realize that the legit orange color is darker and closer to Red-Orange.


If Hastak could ever make updated GoBots, I would most likely buy them. Or at least some of them.
I wasn’t really impressed with the new Crasher.
But from what it sounds, there may be a couple too many hurdles for this to ever happen.

Sowndwave76 wrote:But from what it sounds, there may be a couple too many hurdles for this to ever happen.

Actions Toys was somehow able to get away with making an animation-accurate Cy-Kill face for one of their updated Bike Robo figures in their official Machine Robo: Revenge of Cronos line, so it seems other companies working directly with Bandai instead of Hasbro might have it easier.

Sabrblade wrote:

Sowndwave76 wrote:But from what it sounds, there may be a couple too many hurdles for this to ever happen.

Actions Toys was somehow able to get away with making an animation-accurate Cy-Kill face for one of their updated Bike Robo figures in their official Machine Robo: Revenge of Cronos line, so it seems other companies working directly with Bandai instead of Hasbro might have it easier.

Yeah, I have that figure, it's amazing. Those GoBot faces were more like an unofficial bonus than anything.

Sabrblade wrote:Wait, why is this new Small Foot orange when the original toy was yellow?

Timelines colors to go with the Timelines face sculpt.

Plus M Sipher's photos show her as orange instead of yellow.



Emerje

I'll give them points for the new head on Small foot, but it does still looks a lot like Gears with the red front body. If that was a different color or even a much lighter shade I'd be more tempted.

I wonder if that means we could get another three pack in the future?


Just need new Seaspray and we can have a set of Man-O-War (Seaspray), BuggyMan (Beachcomber), and Rest Q (Cliffjumper).

Emerje[/quote]

It wouldn't surprise me to see Man-O-War in the main line with Seaspray going into an Exclusive multipack with how they handled Hound! lol
That said, I probably wouldn't say no to that suggested three pack as I find the Cliffjumper repaint kind of interesting. I'm still waiting on Beachcomber form EE so if a repaint was released and available before I get that in my hand it might sting a little. I'd also go for that Thrust repaint and anyone's listening. Can't say I'm a big enough fan of GoBots to want them all though, I got Crasher because of the unique and striking look to her.

Emerje wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Wait, why is this new Small Foot orange when the original toy was yellow?

Timelines colors to go with the Timelines face sculpt.

She was yellow in her first Timelines fiction appearance, too.



The same appearance which used the pink color of the face from the toy, while the later one instead made her face the same light gray as her thighs.

Sabrblade wrote:

Emerje wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Wait, why is this new Small Foot orange when the original toy was yellow?

Timelines colors to go with the Timelines face sculpt.

She was yellow in her first Timelines fiction appearance, too.



The same appearance which used the pink color of the face from the toy, while the later one instead made her face the same light gray as her thighs.

I'm sure they had some sort of rationale behind it, either they were trying to meet half way between the yellow and darker orange from Timelines, or basing it on Greg's pic on TFWiki, or maybe it's just bad photography because the truck image looks more like dark yellow than light orange so it might be a little brighter in hand.

Emerje

Is the commander class Armada Optimus prime really that good? My entire collection is a combination of studio series 86 and war for Cybertron figures with an emphasis on an overall G1 aesthetic, but I hate to miss out on something truly special.

Mkdlmr wrote:Is the commander class Armada Optimus prime really that good? My entire collection is a combination of studio series 86 and war for Cybertron figures with an emphasis on an overall G1 aesthetic, but I hate to miss out on something truly special.

Yes, yes he is. He's a truly excellent update.

And a truly great commander figure on his own, even if you don't have experience with the original.

Overcracker wrote:

Mkdlmr wrote:Is the commander class Armada Optimus prime really that good? My entire collection is a combination of studio series 86 and war for Cybertron figures with an emphasis on an overall G1 aesthetic, but I hate to miss out on something truly special.

Yes, yes he is. He's a truly excellent update.

And a truly great commander figure on his own, even if you don't have experience with the original.

Thanks!

Oof...but where to put him in a G1-themed collection?

Looks a bit bad with the mismatcged plastic colors -avoiding yellow doesnt seem to have helped it. The black windows helps hide some mess. Definitely down for these though and no doubt we will see 123 transformers/gobots repaints at some point.

Mkdlmr wrote:Is the commander class Armada Optimus Prime really that good?

In no uncertain terms, yes. An utterly superb figure! My collection has very much become a Legacy collection of characters I love and figures I enjoy. He fits in perfectly!

~ Grim

Big Grim wrote:

Mkdlmr wrote:Is the commander class Armada Optimus Prime really that good?

In no uncertain terms, yes. An utterly superb figure! My collection has very much become a Legacy collection of characters I love and figures I enjoy. He fits in perfectly!

~ Grim

Imo, one of the best, if not THE best commander so far.

I just saw the 2 video review's for Tidal Wave only to find out the idiot's could not engineer a freakin' waist swivel for the figure....WTF ???

What sucks is the original figure has a waist swivel but has poor leg and head articulation which they gave the new figure. Damnation I had intention to part ways with my Armada figure but now I just don't know.

That's a fine DK move , way to go!

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Big Grim wrote:

Mkdlmr wrote:Is the commander class Armada Optimus Prime really that good?

In no uncertain terms, yes. An utterly superb figure! My collection has very much become a Legacy collection of characters I love and figures I enjoy. He fits in perfectly!

~ Grim

Imo, one of the best, if not THE best commander so far.

Really tight with Armada Prime and Magmatron. Both are utterly amazing figures, well worth the money.

~ Grim

^^ Armada Prime is great, I'm installing the DNA upgrade kit right now.

So I can no longer say I've never seen Legacy Toxitron collection Leaders at Walmart, spotted this Saturday morning.



Scanned it with the Walmart app and it was indeed full price. Between seeing this for the first time ever (got mine Pulse and Walmart.com) and the other local Walmart getting the Deluxe figures for the first time a few weeks ago it really does feel like Walmart is restocking these to fill space until the Star Raiders come out.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:^^ Armada Prime is great, I'm installing the DNA upgrade kit right now.
Emerje

How is the DNA kit? I'm not sure it adds enough to warrant a purchase for myself. What're your thoughts?

~ Grim