The Energon Pub

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 7:27 pm

I managed to grab Repugnus this morning. 2 down, 4 to go for exclusives.

I am shocked Nemesis was not in stock today at all. Shocked and disappointed.

I don't have Prime, so my repugnus is showing August 7-10 for shipped. But I've been catching up on TPBs to equal out the free shipping: ROM vs. TF went with Punch, TAAO Volume 3 with Repugnus, and OP V2 will go with Blastoff when he comes.

Also, I am surprised to report that in my area, JAZZ is the shelfwarmer. There are some slugs and Swoops, but Dreadwind is gone, and there are 5 or 6 Jazzes

News Credits: 102 · by **Qwan** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 8:14 pm

Cyberpath wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
Burn wrote:
Price: $24.99 + $69.30 Shipping & Import Fees Deposit to Australia

FFS...

Its because it uses the weight written in the listing which is 10 pounds and obviously wrong. So by the time it comes out, the shipping price will be lowered and repaid to you. Not guaranteeing that will happen, but its what should happen.

Amazon finally fixed that (now says 4.8 ounces) -- pre-ordered!

This is good to know! I also balked at the absurd shipping, but this is much more tolerable - though $45 is still a little above what I'd really like to pay for a Deluxe. Mneh, guess I'll pre-order anyway..,

Also, forgive me for forgetting but, do we know yet how/when Blast Off is being released? Is he an Amazon exclusive too? Just don't wanna miss out and pay even more absurd prices for him; he's the only one of the three that I actually feel like I need.

((EDIT: Oh, nevermind. I forgot about this whole "buying things from outside Australia" mess. I'm not too familiar with Amazon - anyone know if there's a workaround? Available on Amazon AU (seems unlikely)? Anything?))

by **Skritz** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 8:43 pm

I've preordered Punch. Hopefully I'll actually get him and not get a message that they're out of the guy and can't refund me. >:oP

News Credits: 60 · by **fenrir72** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 9:59 pm

SillyMcGilly wrote:Okay so, just got a MAGA Jazz last night at Walmart. I can confirm that stock is still around for him. Compared the tiny symbols under the insignias and yes, it's actually MAGA Jazz. And yano what? I'm happy to have this meme in toy form.

The JP version of him has removed MAGA

and replaced it with "energon" (updated tfwiki with that info)

And yes, got Repugnus and Punch at Amazon (getting to be a bad habit now :lol:

)

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 10:07 pm

fenrir72 wrote:
SillyMcGilly wrote:Okay so, just got a MAGA Jazz last night at Walmart. I can confirm that stock is still around for him. Compared the tiny symbols under the insignias and yes, it's actually MAGA Jazz. And yano what? I'm happy to have this meme in toy form.

The JP version of him has removed MAGA and replaced it with "energon" (updated tfwiki with that info)

"Energon" has always been part of the original deco, the "MAGA" has just been blacked out like on the US running change.

News Credits: 60 · by **fenrir72** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 10:36 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
fenrir72 wrote:
SillyMcGilly wrote:Okay so, just got a MAGA Jazz last night at Walmart. I can confirm that stock is still around for him. Compared the tiny symbols under the insignias and yes, it's actually MAGA Jazz. And yano what? I'm happy to have this meme in toy form.

The JP version of him has removed MAGA and replaced it with "energon" (updated tfwiki with that info)

"Energon" has always been part of the original deco, the "MAGA" has just been blacked out like on the US running change.

The is no "blacked out" part in the logo of my JP Jazz unlike the previous image shown many weeks ago by one of our members.

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 10:39 pm

fenrir72 wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
fenrir72 wrote:
SillyMcGilly wrote:Okay so, just got a MAGA Jazz last night at Walmart. I can confirm that stock is still around for him. Compared the tiny symbols under the insignias and yes, it's actually MAGA Jazz. And yano what? I'm happy to have this meme in toy form.

The JP version of him has removed MAGA and replaced it with "energon" (updated tfwiki with that info)

"Energon" has always been part of the original deco, the "MAGA" has just been blacked out like on the US running change.

The is no "blacked out" part in the logo of my JP Jazz unlike the previous image shown many weeks ago by one of our members.

Think you can post a pic of that?

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Mon Jul 16, 2018 11:19 pm

fenrir72 wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
fenrir72 wrote:
SillyMcGilly wrote:Okay so, just got a MAGA Jazz last night at Walmart. I can confirm that stock is still around for him. Compared the tiny symbols under the insignias and yes, it's actually MAGA Jazz. And yano what? I'm happy to have this meme in toy form.

The JP version of him has removed MAGA and replaced it with "energon" (updated tfwiki with that info)

"Energon" has always been part of the original deco, the "MAGA" has just been blacked out like on the US running change.

The is no "blacked out" part in the logo of my JP Jazz unlike the previous image shown many weeks ago by one of our members.

The MAGA part was printed in the black space directly under the

symbol. The "Energon" part is in its own black box below the box that contains the

symbol.

News Credits: 60 · by **fenrir72** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 12:34 am

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
fenrir72 wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
fenrir72 wrote:
SillyMcGilly wrote:Okay so, just got a MAGA Jazz last night at Walmart. I can confirm that stock is still around for him. Compared the tiny symbols under the insignias and yes, it's actually MAGA Jazz. And yano what? I'm happy to have this meme in toy form.

The JP version of him has removed MAGA and replaced it with "energon" (updated tfwiki with that info)

"Energon" has always been part of the original deco, the "MAGA" has just been blacked out like on the US running change.

The is no "blacked out" part in the logo of my JP Jazz unlike the previous image shown many weeks ago by one of our members.

Think you can post a pic of that?

The previous image posted here ( had a very overt blacked out portion beneath the Autobot symbol), I already reprolabled mine over ( no incentive to keep the MAGA exposed anymore being gone that is) #-o

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 12:46 am

So it was a bit of a misunderstanding here concerning the location of the offending acronym?

News Credits: 60 · by **fenrir72** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 12:52 am

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:So it was a bit of a misunderstanding here concerning the location of the offending acronym. O well, it happens.

Gomenasai

. Maybe I should have kept an image first for posterity except, well Jazz and the rest of the PotP were so dang plain nekid! :BANG_HEAD:

News Credits: 65 · by **Wolfman Jake** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 12:52 am

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:So it was a bit of a misunderstanding here concerning the location of the offending acronym?

That's what I'm assuming.

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 1:01 am

fenrir72 wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:So it was a bit of a misunderstanding here concerning the location of the offending acronym. O well, it happens.

Gomenasai . Maybe I should have kept an image first for posterity except, well Jazz and the rest of the PotP were so dang plain nekid!

I have no complaints about that... :oops:

In other news, I got Hun-Gurrr! Spotted Elita-1 (hopefully with fixed shoes), so Voyager Wave 2 has been restocked in my area... with Starscream and Grimlock keeping them company.

News Credits: 60 · by **fenrir72** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 1:50 am

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
fenrir72 wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:So it was a bit of a misunderstanding here concerning the location of the offending acronym. O well, it happens.

Gomenasai . Maybe I should have kept an image first for posterity except, well Jazz and the rest of the PotP were so dang plain nekid!

I have no complaints about that...

In other news, I got Hun-Gurrr! Spotted Elita-1 (hopefully with fixed shoes), so Voyager Wave 2 has been restocked in my area... with Starscream and Grimlock keeping them company.

Not shilling for reprolabels but the figures (Prime and Rodimus look great and have a lot of details) but the bling is so blah! So every time reprolabels go to 30% off, I get a whole lot of them.Those guys and gals are really doing us a service! :APPLAUSE:

My Dinobots package is just clearing customs and waiting to enjoy them (not planning on merging them as Volcanicus though). Slash is a cute thang too! Detailed in a itty bitty package. Her Autobot sigil is kinda dopey........you can barely tell it's there on her chest.

Also, Takara must really be hurting to go with this unification business model (cut on cost for the general release and bleed us dry on MP line :lol:

). All they added aside from the package decals are those lottery like inserts (must be a game or something). The paint apps are a bit neater but really......when youc ompare the Hb and Legends line :-(

)

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 2:09 am

Takara are probably putting the money they are saving into their awesome diabattles line...the money I could spend there...not to mention their other two transforming robot franchises (which they don't have to share profit on either!)

One thing I'm annoyed at is amazon UK...we don't have any of the listings (other than nemesis prime who is never in stock) and we don't have any tf figures included in the prime day sales :-(

by **RiddlerJ** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 11:30 am

I'm not up on my lore but if he's a Prime now, Shouldn't Optimal Optimus be named "Something Prime"? Optimal Prime?

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 11:39 am

RiddlerJ wrote:I'm not up on my lore but if he's a Prime now, Shouldn't Optimal Optimus be named "Something Prime"? Optimal Prime?

Alpha Trion, Liege Maximo, Prima, and Megatronus are all Primeless-named Primes too.

News Credits: 12 · by **nycPrime** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 11:48 am

Blastoff available for PO on Amazon

Transformers Combiner Wars Blast Off and Megatronus Prime Master https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077YYP738/re ... tBbSYA8WEF

News Credits: 42 · by **TF-fan kev777** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 11:53 am

3,
2,
1,
BLAST OFF!!!!!

News Credits: 61 · by **EvasionModeBumblebee** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 12:23 pm

I just ordered Blast Off! :DANCE:

News Credits: 65 · by **Wolfman Jake** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 1:35 pm

And now, the Amazonian trifecta is complete! (Quadfecta, including Nemesis Prime, I suppose.)

News Credits: 41 · by **Cobotron** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 1:38 pm

Bagged a Blast Off too!!!

This whole thing with the Amazon exc. has been fun!

News Credits: 10 · by **Agamemnon** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 1:44 pm

Cobotron wrote:Bagged a Blast Off too!!!

This whole thing with the Amazon exc. has been fun!

O_O

Lore Keeper in the Preorder/Instock thread wrote:Still waiting on the Nemesis Prime I ordered to have a ship date. Very weird that it's a Prime Day exclusive that isn't officially in stock on Prime Day. Between this, Blast Off being a phantom, and the glitches upon the start of the event, I'd say Amazon really screwed the pooch on this one. I know this is more negative than my usual posts, but the whole situation has left a bad taste in my mouth.

And this is just an example of several I've seen over the last couple of weeks. I bet that whether or not this has been fun depends greatly on success rate.

That and not having to sell a kidney for shipping costs...

P.S. I kinda had fun too. It was like the old days before I got everything from BBTS when I would hunt Target, Walmart, and Toys R Us...

News Credits: 41 · by **Cobotron** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 1:51 pm

Agamemnon wrote:[ I bet that whether or not this has been fun depends greatly on success rate.

True. True. It will also depend if the three pending Deluxes get shipped without a hitch.

Most of the problems seem to be happening for non Prime members. I will no longer take my membership for granted.

News Credits: 65 · by **Wolfman Jake** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 2:36 pm

Cobotron wrote:
Agamemnon wrote:[ I bet that whether or not this has been fun depends greatly on success rate.
True. True. It will also depend if the three pending Deluxes get shipped without a hitch.

Most of the problems seem to be happening for non Prime members. I will no longer take my membership for granted.

With that said, I'm glad I signed up for the 30 day free trial last week. Here's hoping I can cancel it before the trial ends and still get what I ordered, complete with free two-day shipping. If not...then I guess I'm going to have to shop Amazon a LOT more often.