The Energon Pub

Took Crankcase to work today. His weapon suck, but I like the figure. I wish his weapons had been extensions for his shoulder cannons. i like how beefy he is, especially in the upper body.

Went to 2 different Walmarts today. I am now all but convinced that because of Velocitron & the Legacy Beast Assortment, they opted not to order any Legacy Deluxe Wave 2.

Both stores looks like they got at least 2 cases each of the Deluxe Beast Assortment from earlier this year. I guess we know what they will be clearing out in January .

I don't believe stores choose which WAVE to order as much as they say "hey distro, we're running low on product X" so the distribution center sends them more product x, which may be wave 1 because they over-ordered it and it hasn't moved as much, or wave 2 is buried under residual wave 1 (first in first out after all), or distro never got wave 2 in themselves because they never needed more inventory after the initial push. Now the legacy beasts and velocitron are almost certainly a factor in the lack of need to order more, because they take of space both on the shelf and in storage, but it's not "we have enough wave 1 so we don't need wave 2" as much as "we have enough transformers, we don't need more."

I transformed Legacy Dragon Megatron without instructions and he was pretty fun to figure out. The bot is bad-ass with a clever use of the dragon claws that become the ribcage. As a dragon, he does have a very different shape than the bot, but he's still pretty much upright. So I consider him to have two bot modes rater than a bot and beast mode. He's also quite imposing and feels solid in hand, like T-Rex Megatron.

TlDr; No regrets paying full price. He's worth it.

Somehow PrimeVsPrime has acquired a Voyager Tarn figure and uploaded a video review. It's normally against my religion to watch anything by him but in this case I HAVE to make an exception! It'll be on mute though.

Also, was this video by Kuro shared here previously?

I missed this before, but:

Rysquad wrote:But realizing because of the medical tie-in, this might be a Walgreens exclusive hurts my soul. lol.

If Medix already has enough samples in production currently that the person who leaked him managed to acquire 3 of him (which they did), then he should be coming out much earlier than Walgreens exclusives typically do, meaning he's probably releasing some other way.

Nemesis Primal wrote:I missed this before, but:

Rysquad wrote:But realizing because of the medical tie-in, this might be a Walgreens exclusive hurts my soul. lol.

If Medix already has enough samples in production currently that the person who leaked him managed to acquire 3 of him (which they did), then he should be coming out much earlier than Walgreens exclusives typically do, meaning he's probably releasing some other way.

I heard a rumor that he is another holiday special figure

This ant mode is really good

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:I missed this before, but:

Rysquad wrote:But realizing because of the medical tie-in, this might be a Walgreens exclusive hurts my soul. lol.

If Medix already has enough samples in production currently that the person who leaked him managed to acquire 3 of him (which they did), then he should be coming out much earlier than Walgreens exclusives typically do, meaning he's probably releasing some other way.

I heard a rumor that he is another holiday special figure

I saw that too and am honestly unconvinced, as I would think that if that were the case, he would have been revealed by now so he could actually ship in time for the holidays.

I could also see someone who didn't know the character looking at the figure's color scheme and just assuming it was Christmas-related and inadvertently starting that rumor.

Nemesis Primal wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:I missed this before, but:

Rysquad wrote:But realizing because of the medical tie-in, this might be a Walgreens exclusive hurts my soul. lol.

If Medix already has enough samples in production currently that the person who leaked him managed to acquire 3 of him (which they did), then he should be coming out much earlier than Walgreens exclusives typically do, meaning he's probably releasing some other way.

I heard a rumor that he is another holiday special figure

I saw that too and am honestly unconvinced, as I would think that if that were the case, he would have been revealed by now so he could actually ship in time for the holidays.

I could also see someone who didn't know the character looking at the figure's color scheme and just assuming it was Christmas-related and inadvertently starting that rumor.

Hasbro has been making lots if holiday themed figures in other kinds like Star Wars. These medix colours probably made him jump to conclusions, rather than thinking of medix since many fans, even of the rescue bots show, wouldn't know of that particular reference.

Saw the Tarn review, love it love it love it love it

We saw that Tarn was out in Asia so it was only a matter of time before reviewers would get their hands on them. Which leads us to these two reviews below. Fans asking for larger voyager figures would be really happy. Enjoy!

This is rather interesting. While the three Legacy Prime Universe figures we had so far were a G1-ified version of the Transformers Prime characters, they weren't a mix of their Prime selves and any other version of themselves (ie. Arcee wasn't a mix of Prime Arcee and G1 Arcee), but Skyquake is a whole different kind of beast. While the toy is still Prime Universe Skyquake, you can see from the images below that both the robot mode and the alt mode are a combo of his Prime self and his G1 self. In bot mode, it's mainly the chest area, but his alt mode is far more reminiscent of the G1 toy than the original Prime jet with only the cockpit area and colour being more "Prime". The rest is all G1, like the rows of vents at the centre and the jet engines integrated into the wings. It is cool to see that this toy bucks the trend of leader class bots being voyager sized with him standing much taller than your standard voyagers.

We all know Hasbro has more than one head planned for each release, so could the alternate head be G1 Skyquake. Remember that the G1 mold has plenty of redeco potential, such as Machine Wars Starscream and King Atlas. And we know this mold will also be used for leader class Prime Universe Dreadwing coming out later in 2023. With the redeco potential for both a more faithful Prime Skyquake and a more faithful G1 Skyquake, would you have preferred two seperate molds? Or are you content with this one mold potentially servicing any of your Skyquake needs? Let us know!

Here are the image courtesy of Sonic Bomber, who presented them with the following blurb:

Leader class Skyquake is really cool. I will say, though, that I may have mistransformed or missed some things here. It is clearly pre-tooled for an eventual G1/2 Skyquake and possibly even some other figures. I ran into several odd features, like the tabs on the top-rear of the alt-mode, which seem to have no real function on this figure. The jet cockpit is also able to rotate 180°, seemingly for no purpose, as it does not appear to actually contribute to the conversion. I am very interested to see the future uses of this mold, and feel like it is a great CHUG version of the original Prime character

I hope he gets a G1 colour version. The altmode’s growing on me but the original was one of my childhood toys so he has a lot to live up to, for me at least!

Definite buy for me
Though with all these potential uses of the mold I'm wondering if I should wait before getting this one. I prefer dreadwings colors over skyquakes, and if they make a zombie version of this guy I'd prefer that more as well

I can already tell this is a figure I'm going to want all five (better be five) versions of. I hope there's some wiggle room for replaceable parts, I'd rather G1 Skyquake, Starscream and King Atlas have heads more like their original figures and different shoulder pads. Diehard Prime fans are probably going to hate this interpretation, especially the default head, but I was never a fan of the original Prime head design so I'm fine with this.

Emerje

Okay wow, this looks really good. I appreciate them amalgamating the G1 and Prime designs juuuuuuust enough to give a really slick looking design without betraying the Prime style too much.

That jet mode is sexy
Weapons look dope too

That Skyquake looks to have achieved the perfect fusion and that head don't look out of place on that body contrary to Bulkhead.

I'm sure I'm going to get him, but I also really hope for a Machine Wars Starscream repaint. I'm sure it will happen but as a regular Select, or Velocitron Part II exclusive?

I REALLY like this. Even with the obvious pretooled elements and the boxer, less angled sculpt this still feels like Prime Skyquake like they have learned from their mis-steps with Bulkhead, Arcee, and Knockout. I need this. And Dreadwing.

I'm not digging the head design on this Skyquake, I'm sure I am the minority on this.

But it's great to see a figure wield a blade with both hands as this is a much needed aesthetic for all figures that have a blade/sword....IMHO.

Looks great, at leader price poimt I'll likely only pick up a G1 or machine wars starscream version and pick up the original prime skyquake. Jet modes small compared to voyager starscream but not a deal breaker.

Great G1 Skyquake, but useless as a Prime version. Really makes it clear that they're going to complete mess it up with the Animated figures. Not even half-assed, they're going to non-ass it.

I can't tell if I like this one or not. From some angles it looks good and actually seems like a solid attempt, but others it just feels like we're back to Titans Return where the repaint is released first to get people to buy the mold twice... I might pick him and the Dreadwing repaints up to serve as muscle for Jhiaxus, but I'll need to see more of the mold. Might just wait for the whole selection of repaints and choose from there

Wow... ya learn something new every day. I never knew that mold was Skyquake in the original Transformers. I thought it was a new mold in Machine Wars for Starscream, and then later repainted as Universe Dai Atlas.

o.supreme wrote:Wow... ya learn something new every day. I never knew that mold was Skyquake in the original Transformers. I thought it was a new mold in Machine Wars for Starscream, and then later repainted as Universe Dai Atlas.

Yup. The OG was Skyquake... complete with delicious GPS.