The Energon Pub

News Credits: 1 · by **njb902** » Fri Jan 11, 2013 7:37 am

He reminds me of the gundam piloted by wufei in gundam wing.

News Credits: 2 · by **xyl360** » Fri Jan 11, 2013 8:59 am

Dear Hasbro,

When we asked for more Beast Wars figures, this is NOT what we meant. But perhaps your dedicated Cybertron fans will be happy.

Sincerely,

Dedicated Beast Wars fans

News Credits: 15 · by **PrymeStriker** » Fri Jan 11, 2013 9:50 am

xyl360 wrote:Dear Hasbro,

When we asked for more Beast Wars figures, this is NOT what we meant. But perhaps your dedicated Cybertron fans will be happy.

Sincerely,

Dedicated Beast Wars fans

Dear xyl,

This isn't Beast Wars.

Sincerely,

Transformers Prime.

:roll:

News Credits: 2 · by **xyl360** » Fri Jan 11, 2013 11:21 am

PrymeStriker wrote:
xyl360 wrote:Dear Hasbro,

When we asked for more Beast Wars figures, this is NOT what we meant. But perhaps your dedicated Cybertron fans will be happy.

Sincerely,

Dedicated Beast Wars fans

Dear xyl,

This isn't Beast Wars.

Sincerely,

Transformers Prime.

Yes, I'm aware, but they're doing nods to BW here, and that's all I'm pointing out. The faction are called Predacons after all

.

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Fri Jan 11, 2013 11:28 am

xyl360 wrote:
PrymeStriker wrote:
xyl360 wrote:Dear Hasbro,

When we asked for more Beast Wars figures, this is NOT what we meant. But perhaps your dedicated Cybertron fans will be happy.

Sincerely,

Dedicated Beast Wars fans

Dear xyl,

This isn't Beast Wars.

Sincerely,

Transformers Prime.

Yes, I'm aware, but they're doing nods to BW here, and that's all I'm pointing out. The faction are called Predacons after all .

Except they're more colored like the G1 Predacons with the reds, yellows and blacks. Twinstrike doesn't count, he's a Terrorcon.

News Credits: 15 · by **PrymeStriker** » Fri Jan 11, 2013 12:17 pm

xyl360 wrote:Yes, I'm aware, but they're doing nods to BW here, and that's all I'm pointing out. The faction are called Predacons after all .

Because Beast Wars was the first time they used the faction "Predacons?" No.

They're not doing any nods to Beast Wars here. The Predacons are a bunch of dragons, which is a nod to the G1 Terrorcons. But since the Terrorcons are already the name of Dark Energon Zombies in Prime, they chose the next best name. >:oP

Prime Predacons are also a prehistoric race of Cybertronians.

News Credits: 2 · by **xyl360** » Fri Jan 11, 2013 12:38 pm

PrymeStriker wrote:
xyl360 wrote:Yes, I'm aware, but they're doing nods to BW here, and that's all I'm pointing out. The faction are called Predacons after all .

Because Beast Wars was the first time they used the faction "Predacons?" No.

They're not doing any nods to Beast Wars here. The Predacons are a bunch of dragons, which is a nod to the G1 Terrorcons. But since the Terrorcons are already the name of Dark Energon Zombies in Prime, they chose the next best name.

Prime Predacons are also a prehistoric race of Cybertronians.

Beast Wars was the first time it was used as a faction (the gestalt team was just that, a team of Decepticons, not their own faction).

I get your point though. Some of these are like the Terrorcons, but not all. As the pic I posted above clearly illustrates, Predaking himself is a nod to Cybertron Fire Convoy/Scourge.

by **edoggz2011** » Fri Jan 11, 2013 1:13 pm

He looks like Scorponok from the Beast Wars series.

News Credits: 1 · by **Vectorshot** » Fri Jan 11, 2013 5:12 pm

This thing is UGLY. There is no way to hype this up. Hasbro should just hire all of the third party figure makers and put out all of there stuff.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Fri Jan 11, 2013 9:56 pm

xyl360 wrote:I get your point though. Some of these are like the Terrorcons, but not all. As the pic I posted above clearly illustrates, Predaking himself is a nod to Cybertron Fire Convoy/Scourge.

Flame Convoy. Fire Convoy was G1's RiD Optimus.

News Credits: 37 · by **SlyTF1** » Fri Jan 11, 2013 11:46 pm

Why did it have to be Voyager? Should have been bigger. MUCH bigger.

by **RAcast** » Fri Jan 11, 2013 11:49 pm

SlyTF1 wrote:Why did it have to be Voyager? Should have been bigger. MUCH bigger.

There's a leader class version on the way. Gotta keep up with the thread, friend.

There's the CV Commander version, which I find to be WAY too orange in altmode.
The Voyager version here, whose gun-heads I find to be WAY too orange, lol.
And the Leader/Weaponizer/Whathaveyou version, which looks amazing from what little we've seen.

News Credits: 2 · by **xyl360** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 12:00 am

Sabrblade wrote:
xyl360 wrote:I get your point though. Some of these are like the Terrorcons, but not all. As the pic I posted above clearly illustrates, Predaking himself is a nod to Cybertron Fire Convoy/Scourge.
Flame Convoy. Fire Convoy was G1's RiD Optimus.

, good catch (as usual) Sabrblade

!

News Credits: 37 · by **SlyTF1** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 12:01 am

RAcast wrote:
SlyTF1 wrote:Why did it have to be Voyager? Should have been bigger. MUCH bigger.

There's a leader class version on the way. Gotta keep up with the thread, friend.
There's the CV Commander version, which I find to be WAY too orange in altmode.
The Voyager version here, whose gun-heads I find to be WAY too orange, lol.
And the Leader/Weaponizer/Whathaveyou version, which looks amazing from what little we've seen.

Yeah, I just read back and recognized that...