The Energon Pub

by **Rated X** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 11:57 am

Im not seeing anything here we havent already known for months. This is the wave illl probally just buy in retail.

News Credits: 4854 · by **william-james88** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 11:59 am

Rated X wrote:Im not seeing anything here we havent already known for months. This is the wave illl probally just buy in retail.

You knew Blackwing and Moonracer would be shortpacked?

News Credits: 11 · by **Lore Keeper** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 12:01 pm

I'm used to the usual websites tacking on a few dollars here and there. That's nothing new to me. But, the sheer scale of the price raising on the PotP line has been glaring. I'd love to hear the rationale behind it all. God knows, it's not due to improved quality.

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 12:21 pm

At least with wave 2 taking its sweet time and actually getting us back on track time wise for waves, I can save up the money for it and spend time enjoying the new guys I have. Though I am super stoked for Blackwing so I can combine him and Dreadwind and the final 2 dinobots.

Rodicron is so cool looking, I need him now. that's the one I don't want to wait for.

Another advantage to waiting another 2 months or so: all those legends and MP releases in the next 2 months, can focus on them too!

News Credits: 1 · by **Asepticon** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 12:33 pm

Strange, BBTS has their preorder listing for Alita 1, not Moonracer.

News Credits: 56 · by **o.supreme** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 12:38 pm

Asepticon wrote:Strange, BBTS has their preorder listing for Alita 1, not Moonracer.

They are probably trying to decide if they will even offer the short packed Moonracer & Blackwing separately at an increased priced, or just stick with the entire wave 2 assortment.

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 1:03 pm

Wait... Metalhawk and Landmine, pretools, are shipped together? Wow, color me surprised. And it just figures the Beasts would be shipped in bigger quantities

by **Rated X** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 1:08 pm

william-james88 wrote:
Rated X wrote:Im not seeing anything here we havent already known for months. This is the wave illl probally just buy in retail.

You knew Blackwing and Moonracer would be shortpacked?

Yes I did. It was in Hillary's e-mails. :-P

News Credits: 8 · by **Mr.MicroMaster** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 1:52 pm

It is a good thing I saved up the my birthday money.

by **Gambitgreen** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 2:41 pm

Pre-ordered everything so just a matter of waiting for those leaders to finally get in. TF source always seems to be 1-2 weeks behind on items getting listed or in stock. Any idea why that would be?

News Credits: 3 · by **Bradimus** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 2:48 pm

On the one hand this break is good because most of my purchasing is in waves 1 and 2. On the other hand I hate the waiting around to complete my Dinobots and get Elita-1 and 2 more Prime Masters. I just hope HTS has them on a good sale with free shipping or allows me to make a good sale and get automatic free shipping. Either way if I'm saving money the wait is worth it for this fun line. 8-)

News Credits: 10 · by **Agamemnon** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 3:05 pm

Gambitgreen wrote:Pre-ordered everything so just a matter of waiting for those leaders to finally get in. TF source always seems to be 1-2 weeks behind on items getting listed or in stock. Any idea why that would be?

Might be how stuff is shipped. The literal slow boat from China is the cheapest method. My suspicion is that BBTS does a bulk order that way and pays extra to get a few cases in earlier by air.

I don't have proof of this, only experience in working for a company who used to do exactly this when receiving product manufactured in Asia.

News Credits: 3 · by **Lunatic Prime** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 3:32 pm

Just got my OP (now available in Germany I can confirm) and I have some questions/issues:

1. His stickers arent't applied even but I guess that's common.

2. There are a lot of clearance issues when I want to open his outer chest panels. Feels like they'll break some day.

3. His chin is scratched right out of the package.

4. His shoulders do not really pack in. When I want to use his bicep swivels the whole shoulder moves forward.

And that's just right out of the package without even having transformed him for once

I hope there won't be any more surprises. But I really like that his blaster has a lot of 5 mm ports (not the only thing I like about the figure of course but something I haven't realized before). I already ordered some melee weapons and an Arms Micron for him so even more options to combine weapons :DANCE:

News Credits: 3 · by **Lunatic Prime** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 4:34 pm

Just got my OP (now available in Germany I can confirm) and I have some questions/issues:

1. His stickers arent't applied even but I guess that's common.

2. There are a lot of clearance issues when I want to open his outer chest panels. Feels like they'll break some day.

3. His chin is scratched right out of the package.

4. His shoulders do not really pack in. When I want to use his bicep swivels the whole shoulder moves forward.

And that's just right out of the package without even having transformed him for once
I hope there won't be any more surprises. But I really like that his blaster has a lot of 5 mm ports (not the only thing I like about the figure of course but something I haven't realized before). I already ordered some melee weapons and an Arms Micron for him so even more options to combine weapons

Maybe I forgot that:
:???:

DOES ANYBODY ELSE HAVE THOSE ISSUES? :???:

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 5:44 pm

Shame about Moonracer. Blackwing at least gets a second run in wave 4, but Moonracer is only getting the one (unless she shows up in wave 5 or 6). They really shouldn't have crammed five new figures into wave 2, maybe they should have done two Blackwings in wave 2, move Moonracer to wave 3 in place of the second Jazz run, and move Jazz to wave 4 in place of Blackwing's second run. Very strange that they would make Blackwing short when Dreadwing got a normal run and isn't getting a second one. It's like whoever decides these things doesn't even know those two go together. Strange stuff.

Emerje

News Credits: 3 · by **bodrock** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 6:08 pm

We need pics of Elita-1, asap. :/

News Credits: 30 · by **DeathReviews** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 6:56 pm

Hmmm. I liked the wave 1 Prime Masters, but that Alpha Trion just looks like a repaint. Same gun barrel and everything. I'd need some persuading in that case. The shark one though? Need that one, at least the weapon attachment is different.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 6:58 pm

bodrock wrote:We need pics of Elita-1, asap. :/

What is she, bigfoot? She isn't that elusive.

I think that's everything we've seen.

Emerje

News Credits: 3 · by **bodrock** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 7:08 pm

OMG, had no idea the toy pics were out there! Thank you, Emerje.

She's a day-one purchase for me.

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 8:53 pm

DeathReviews wrote:Hmmm. I liked the wave 1 Prime Masters, but that Alpha Trion just looks like a repaint. Same gun barrel and everything. I'd need some persuading in that case. The shark one though? Need that one, at least the weapon attachment is different.

That's because he actually is. Expect every Prime Master to used twice, 6 molds for 12 Primes. We already have Waverider out of Cloudburst and Landmine out of Metalhawk, I'm expecting Bomb-Burst out of Skullgrin.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 9:28 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:I'm expecting Bomb-Burst out of Skullgrin.

Yep, and Octopunch out of Submarauder. Anyone's guess who'll share Bludgeon's mold.

Emerje

News Credits: 388 · by **Bounti76** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 9:37 pm

I don't get the distribution for this case. It would have made more sense for all the Terrorcons to have been in the same wave, at 2 per case, and for Wave 2 to have been 2 each of Blackwing, Sludge, Snarl and Moonracer.

I get that she's not nearly as popular or anticipated as Arcee was, but shortpacking her in a case, when she's never had a mass-released toy, and this is her first toy in over 33 years of having appeared in fiction.... just rubs me the wrong way. Also makes me think that Firestar will get the same treatment in Wave 4.

by **Gambitgreen** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 9:43 pm

Lore Keeper wrote:Let the price gouging on Rodimus begin!

Entertainment earth had him at 49.99 for preorder. However long he's available.

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 9:56 pm

Bounti76 wrote:I don't get the distribution for this case. It would have made more sense for all the Terrorcons to have been in the same wave, at 2 per case, and for Wave 2 to have been 2 each of Blackwing, Sludge, Snarl and Moonracer.

I get that she's not nearly as popular or anticipated as Arcee was, but shortpacking her in a case, when she's never had a mass-released toy, and this is her first toy in over 33 years of having appeared in fiction.... just rubs me the wrong way. Also makes me think that Firestar will get the same treatment in Wave 4.

I do get the need for more variety compared to Combiner Wars, but there may may be factors in play that made Wave 2 the way it is:

- The release of Hun-Gurrr in Wave 2 necessitates the release of another Terrorcon
- The release of Elita-1 in Wave 2 resulted in Moonracer added into the mix
- With the apparent goal of having a combiner completed in two waves (Dreadwing and Volcanicus), Blackwing and the final 2 Dinobots are thrown in.

About Moonracer and Blackwing being shortpacked, that may stem from beasts being new and a possible bigger sell. What may also play is the trend of female characters in boy's toy lines not selling. No kidding, I'm seeing RiD Windblades en masse compared to the rest of the line's leftovers. Worse, a certain competitor has started shortpacking female character toys for its lines for boys, so it's not limited to Transformers.

News Credits: 8 · by **Flashwave** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 10:06 pm

Hmm.so this morning I preordered the Dinobots. But now I am wondering if I shouldnt have gotten the case for Blackwing.i am not interested in Moonracer, and could go either way on Abominus, am I better off trying to sell those when I get mine in (at the same time as everyone else) or am I gonna get stuck with two figures I am meh on and lose out some bucks?