The Energon Pub

Wow, finding those must have been like a return to the pre-internet days! Helps that Starscream looks really cool too.

I've got to wonder who's really supervising the RiD product line these days. The toys and show (app too, unless I missed an update that Starscream isn't in it) are almost entirely off-the-rails out of sync at this point.

given screamers design there, and the way the last season of R.I.D. ended, makes me wonder if they are going to try and parallel the comics/combiner was toon. i.e.: starscream survived an obvious beatdown from predaking and has now taken over cybertron somehow.

What's funny to me about that is that this weirdly seems to be a thing now. Like, at first it was IDW having a fresh new idea and taking Starscream's vies for leadership to the absolute fore - and now not only the machinima, but the main animated series is doing it. Makes me wonder if it'll start to define him as a multiversal character and concept as much as betraying Megatron has.

What cracks me up is these came out before the original versions of the molds.

Starscream? Since when was this a thing?

This is the Starscream I have been needing!

Nic'd some pics. Slightly more clear.

Looks like the arms stow away under the wings in jet mode...

Thanks Shajaki!

I really hope this mold gets repainted into Acid-storm, and Sun-storm. Those characters need more love.

SillySpringer wrote:Sun-storm

SillySpringer wrote:Thanks Shajaki!

I really hope this mold gets repainted into Acid-storm, and Sun-storm. Those characters need more love.

Acid Storm's gotten an insane amount of love; getting a Legends, a Classics redeco and a Masterpiece in the past 5 or so years - none of those being outside the mainline.
Now Sunstorm? Sunstorm would be nice considering his only toys are either a Masterpiece or exclusives.


It's also nice to see Starscream comes with two short null-rays. I hope I'll be able to make those somehow compatible with Gen Armadascream.

Also, that's a pretty nice head on Paralon there. ... about as much as I can say.

ScottyP wrote:Wow, finding those must have been like a return to the pre-internet days! Helps that Starscream looks really cool too.

I've got to wonder who's really supervising the RiD product line these days. The toys and show (app too, unless I missed an update that Starscream isn't in it) are almost entirely off-the-rails out of sync at this point.

Its because its toysrus exclusives. This has been very common the past few years. Look at MP Bumblebee, he was found in stores before being actually revealed by hasbro. And same for last year's wave of Clash of the Transformers with that first Megatronus toy (whose legion toy turns out to still be exclusive to toysrus). If anything, its more common than uncommon with TRU toys, at least since I have been collecting (which isnt long).

Autobot N wrote:Starscream? Since when was this a thing?

Since today

Kurona wrote:Also, is it just me, or does Starscream look to actually have good paint apps?
Considering the paint apps in this line have been a bit... ah... crap; he looks really standout from what I can see. I mean okay yeah, this is a blurry image and maybe it'll be a horror story once I actually see it, but right now he looks beautiful.

The Clash of the Transformers figures usually have good paint apps. They had a ton last year compared the the normal deluxes.

Autobot N wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:Sun-storm

william-james88 wrote:

Kurona wrote:Also, is it just me, or does Starscream look to actually have good paint apps?
Considering the paint apps in this line have been a bit... ah... crap; he looks really standout from what I can see. I mean okay yeah, this is a blurry image and maybe it'll be a horror story once I actually see it, but right now he looks beautiful.

The Clash of the Transformers figures usually have good paint apps. They had a ton last year compared the the normal deluxes.

Oh cool.
... so I should probably expect a normal retail version or repaint (like skywarp or thundercracker) to go the way of Windblade?

Kurona wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Kurona wrote:Also, is it just me, or does Starscream look to actually have good paint apps?
Considering the paint apps in this line have been a bit... ah... crap; he looks really standout from what I can see. I mean okay yeah, this is a blurry image and maybe it'll be a horror story once I actually see it, but right now he looks beautiful.

The Clash of the Transformers figures usually have good paint apps. They had a ton last year compared the the normal deluxes.

Oh cool.
... so I should probably expect a normal retail version or repaint (like skywarp or thundercracker) to go the way of Windblade?

Yes although I dont think there will be a normal retail version. The Cash of Transformers have had exclusive molds in the past. This is the first deluxe, sure, but I went in depth about their exclusive retools for the 3 step ones, the legion emgatronus was never released wide and neither was the big megatronus toy either. I am thinking this will stay as a TRU exclusive. Plus this wouldnt be the fisrt time Hasbro releases a Starscream without his repaints. In Prime, only starscream was released by hasbro. No other seeker.

william-james88 wrote:

Kurona wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Kurona wrote:Also, is it just me, or does Starscream look to actually have good paint apps?
Considering the paint apps in this line have been a bit... ah... crap; he looks really standout from what I can see. I mean okay yeah, this is a blurry image and maybe it'll be a horror story once I actually see it, but right now he looks beautiful.

The Clash of the Transformers figures usually have good paint apps. They had a ton last year compared the the normal deluxes.

Oh cool.
... so I should probably expect a normal retail version or repaint (like skywarp or thundercracker) to go the way of Windblade?

Yes although I dont think there will be a normal retail version. The Cash of Transformers have had exclusive molds in the past. This is the first deluxe, sure, but I went in depth about their exclusive retools for the 3 step ones, the legion emgatronus was never released wide and neither was the big megatronus toy either. I am thinking this will stay as a TRU exclusive.

Perhaps, but... it is a seeker mold. Practically by law they have to make a Thundercracker, Skywarp and at least one more redeco out of it and I doubt they'd all stay TRU exclusive. Megatronus is a unique character and whose mold I can't see applying to anyone else, at least in the context of the continuity.

Kurona wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Kurona wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Kurona wrote:Also, is it just me, or does Starscream look to actually have good paint apps?
Considering the paint apps in this line have been a bit... ah... crap; he looks really standout from what I can see. I mean okay yeah, this is a blurry image and maybe it'll be a horror story once I actually see it, but right now he looks beautiful.

The Clash of the Transformers figures usually have good paint apps. They had a ton last year compared the the normal deluxes.

Oh cool.
... so I should probably expect a normal retail version or repaint (like skywarp or thundercracker) to go the way of Windblade?

Yes although I dont think there will be a normal retail version. The Cash of Transformers have had exclusive molds in the past. This is the first deluxe, sure, but I went in depth about their exclusive retools for the 3 step ones, the legion emgatronus was never released wide and neither was the big megatronus toy either. I am thinking this will stay as a TRU exclusive.

Perhaps, but... it is a seeker mold. Practically by law they have to make a Thundercracker, Skywarp and at least one more redeco out of it and I doubt they'd all stay TRU exclusive. Megatronus is a unique character and whose mold I can't see applying to anyone else, at least in the context of the continuity.

Umm...

william-james88 wrote:Yes although I dont think there will be a normal retail version. The Cash of Transformers have had exclusive molds in the past. This is the first deluxe, sure, but I went in depth about their exclusive retools for the 3 step ones, the legion emgatronus was never released wide and neither was the big megatronus toy either. I am thinking this will stay as a TRU exclusive. Plus this wouldnt be the fisrt time Hasbro releases a Starscream without his repaints. In Prime, only starscream was released by hasbro. No other seeker.

I'm really REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY excited about this.

Sabrblade wrote:

Kurona wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Kurona wrote:Also, is it just me, or does Starscream look to actually have good paint apps?
Considering the paint apps in this line have been a bit... ah... crap; he looks really standout from what I can see. I mean okay yeah, this is a blurry image and maybe it'll be a horror story once I actually see it, but right now he looks beautiful.

The Clash of the Transformers figures usually have good paint apps. They had a ton last year compared the the normal deluxes.

Oh cool.
... so I should probably expect a normal retail version or repaint (like skywarp or thundercracker) to go the way of Windblade?

If there even is a normal retail version.

I think he's this wave's Megatronus: a possible normal retail version will have a slightly different deco, and a slight tweak in the head (battle mask, or smirk!).

Kurona wrote:Practically by law they have to make a Thundercracker, Skywarp and at least one more redeco out of it and I doubt they'd all stay TRU exclusive. Megatronus is a unique character and whose mold I can't see applying to anyone else, at least in the context of the continuity.

So then did Hasbro break the law by not releasing a thundercracker and Skywarp in Prime? Nothing is set in stone. And in show continuity, Thundercracker and Skywarp do not exist, the only other seekers are Skyquake and Dreadwing.

william-james88 wrote:

Kurona wrote:Practically by law they have to make a Thundercracker, Skywarp and at least one more redeco out of it and I doubt they'd all stay TRU exclusive. Megatronus is a unique character and whose mold I can't see applying to anyone else, at least in the context of the continuity.

So then did Hasbro break the law by not releasing a thundercracker and Skywarp in Prime? Nothing is set in stone. And in show continuity, Thundercracker and Skywarp do not exist, the only other seekers are Skyquake and Dreadwing.

I apologize.

william-james88 wrote:

Kurona wrote:Practically by law they have to make a Thundercracker, Skywarp and at least one more redeco out of it and I doubt they'd all stay TRU exclusive. Megatronus is a unique character and whose mold I can't see applying to anyone else, at least in the context of the continuity.

So then did Hasbro break the law by not releasing a thundercracker and Skywarp in Prime? Nothing is set in stone. And in show continuity, Thundercracker and Skywarp do not exist, the only other seekers are Skyquake and Dreadwing.

The closest Hasbro got was that Skywarp homage in the Dark Energon series. If anything, TakaraTomy is the one pumping out those redecos, as they did with the Arms Micron series (and they released a Skywarp for Dark of the Moon, which Hasbro skipped!).

I just noticed something... I really hope the arms don't actually have to fold under the wings like this.



That is pretty bad underkibble.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Kurona wrote:Practically by law they have to make a Thundercracker, Skywarp and at least one more redeco out of it and I doubt they'd all stay TRU exclusive. Megatronus is a unique character and whose mold I can't see applying to anyone else, at least in the context of the continuity.

So then did Hasbro break the law by not releasing a thundercracker and Skywarp in Prime? Nothing is set in stone. And in show continuity, Thundercracker and Skywarp do not exist, the only other seekers are Skyquake and Dreadwing.

The closest Hasbro got was that Skywarp homage in the Dark Energon series. If anything, TakaraTomy is the one pumping out those redecos, as they did with the Arms Micron series (and they released a Skywarp for Dark of the Moon, which Hasbro skipped!).

And even then, those arms micron releases were not wide releases, they were exclusive to Yodobashi Camera, Yamada Electronics and EIDON group stores.