The Energon Pub

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Sat Sep 03, 2016 10:38 am

Maybe the Enigma of Combination is gonna be found in the cartoon.

News Credits: 79 · by **Sigma Magnus** » Sat Sep 03, 2016 10:44 am

Judging from the pictures...Energon-style two-bot combination? And on closer inspection, I think there's a lot of partsforming involved...

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Sat Sep 03, 2016 1:21 pm

Remember that time we newsed a new Trademark application involving "combiner force?" Well, it appears as though we finally have our answer as to what this is meant to be.

Thanks to Seibertronian RAR we have news from the Transformers: Robots In Disguise mobile app that combiner force will actually be a new subline within the greater Robots in Disguise toyline. Among the things revealed by the game are characters and some maps.

Considering how reliable the game is for the toyline characters, it appears as though there are 3 new names Robots in Disguise fans should become aware of: Combiners, Crash Combiners, and Activators. We don't have any information about what the Combiners line will be yet, though it does feature the standard main cast of Autobots. Crash Combiners seem to be a new name for Power Battlers, or something similar to it. Activators appear to be a new name for minicon-like characters.

Among the new characters shown off are Skyhammer, Great Byte, Stuntwing and Trickout. Check out the screenshots below, and let us know what you think in the comments section below.

“The War rages on, but we have a new weapon against the enemy. The COMBINERS are one of the the largest, most powerful robots on the team. Our victory is assured?” – Optimus Prime

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Sat Sep 03, 2016 1:22 pm

That would be quite a thing if they ended up as the Energon styled powerlinx design

News Credits: 191 · by **Kurona** » Sat Sep 03, 2016 1:28 pm

Bumblebee, Strongarm and Sideswipe now appear to share a very similar body shape; something similar to CW Skydive and Firefly. Also note the massive kibble Bumblebee has on his legs, that implies a gimmick to me.

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Sat Sep 03, 2016 1:32 pm

Kurona wrote:Bumblebee, Strongarm and Sideswipe now appear to share a very similar body shape; something similar to CW Skydive and Firefly. Also note the massive kibble Bumblebee has on his legs, that implies a gimmick to me.

Yeah, now that I look closer, they literally share the skeleton. And I'm thinking the energon route

News Credits: 79 · by **Sigma Magnus** » Sat Sep 03, 2016 1:35 pm

Neat, I always liked Energon's combination. Just needed to be done a bit better...hopefully these don't disappoint.

News Credits: 3 · by **Decepticon Stryker** » Sat Sep 03, 2016 2:53 pm

Okay, I like the look of Skyhammer, and I want a recipe of Greatbyte into Skybyte.

News Credits: 174 · by **Hellscream9999** » Sat Sep 03, 2016 3:09 pm

Fascinating stuff, I am very interested in seeing how this all pans out. Gonna need some awesome

's, the same, lame

's aren't gonna cut it with me [-(

News Credits: 54 · by **Deadput** » Sat Sep 03, 2016 3:52 pm

First of all Autobot shark plane.

Secondly I'm looking forward to seeing Skyhammer in the show outside of a few minicons everyone who has shown up in this game playable wise has or will have some role in the show even Scatterspike and Paralon who I thought would just be redecos have shown up in the season 3 trailer.

We honestly need more new main characters in shows like Strongarm and Bulkhead (not their characters or traits specifically but I mean mostly show original characters)

Skyhammer at least is probably going to be a recurring character like Wheeljack in Prime or he could be one of the characters on Cybertron since Optimus, Ratchet and Windblade were going there to face the council at the end of Season 2.

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Sat Sep 03, 2016 3:57 pm

"Primestrong"? "Beeside"? One thing comes to mind:

FUSION... HAH!

Looking at them more closely, I have a feeling the Crash Combiners are non-transforming figures, but can swap body parts like the current Hero Mashers. And the Combiners proper should be akin to the Energon Powerlinx Autobots aka Victory Multiforce.

And speaking of Multiforce, does anybody think Skyhammer is based on WingWaver?

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Sat Sep 03, 2016 4:00 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:"Primestrong"? "Beeside"? One thing comes to mind:

FUSION... HAH!

Looking at them more closely, I have a feeling the Crash Combiners are non-transforming figures, but can swap body parts like the current Hero Mashers. And the Combiners proper should be akin to the Energon Powerlinx Autobots aka Victory Multiforce.

And speaking of Multiforce, does anybody think Skyhammer is based on WingWaver?

Fusion is seriously one of my favorite words.

I figured the crash combiners would be the new hero mashers of sorts. But I really look forward to the possibility of powerlinxers. I want that very badly if done right.

And I was thinking technobot Strafe when I saw Skyhammer

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Sat Sep 03, 2016 4:10 pm

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:And I was thinking technobot Strafe when I saw Skyhammer

I'll give you that

However, the characters in the Crash Combiner category seem all to be combined forms, and I was simply thinking Skyhammer followed suit. We got plenty of names with "sky" and "hammer" anyway :lol:

News Credits: 191 · by **Kurona** » Sat Sep 03, 2016 4:14 pm

Technically the original Skyhammer combined with a lot of stuff.

Ultra Pretenders were friggin' weird

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Sat Sep 03, 2016 4:18 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
D-Maximus_Primal wrote:And I was thinking technobot Strafe when I saw Skyhammer

I'll give you that However, the characters in the Crash Combiner category seem all to be combined forms, and I was simply thinking Skyhammer followed suit. We got plenty of names with "sky" and "hammer" anyway

I want to see what all this is going to come to. I'm kinda stoked!

Kurona wrote:Technically the original Skyhammer combined with a lot of stuff.

Ultra Pretenders were friggin' weird

Oh my.....

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Sat Sep 03, 2016 4:23 pm

Kurona wrote:Technically the original Skyhammer combined with a lot of stuff.

Ultra Pretenders were friggin' weird

Yeah, Ultra Pretenders were nothing more than Transformer Matryoshka dolls. :lol:

Shame both Skyhammer and Roadblock suffer from GPS...

News Credits: 331 · by **chuckdawg1999** » Sat Sep 03, 2016 4:24 pm

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
D-Maximus_Primal wrote:And I was thinking technobot Strafe when I saw Skyhammer

I'll give you that However, the characters in the Crash Combiner category seem all to be combined forms, and I was simply thinking Skyhammer followed suit. We got plenty of names with "sky" and "hammer" anyway

I want to see what all this is going to come to. I'm kinda stoked!

Kurona wrote:Technically the original Skyhammer combined with a lot of stuff.

Ultra Pretenders were friggin' weird

Oh my.....

It was oodles of fun

News Credits: 15 · by **PrymeStriker** » Sat Sep 03, 2016 7:42 pm

Primestrong? Beeside?

If they utilize these piss poor shipping titles in the show, I swear to f**king God..... :BANG_HEAD:

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Sat Sep 03, 2016 9:18 pm

PrymeStriker wrote:Primestrong? Beeside?

If they utilize these piss poor shipping titles in the show, I swear to f**king God.....

Very well. Their names shall instead be Armoptimus and Swipebumble!

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Sat Sep 03, 2016 11:45 pm

Yeah, I'm definitely getting an Energon vibe from these guys. I'm thinking the ones that simply say "Combiner" are Warrior class figures that can combine while the ones that say "Crash Combiner" are like Acivators in that you get two vehicles that you smash together to auto combine.

Based on the colors I REALLY hope half of Skyhammer is Skyfire.

Emerje

News Credits: 19 · by **Stuartmaximus** » Sun Sep 04, 2016 2:32 am

Skyhammer? erm....wasn't he a helicopter :-?

+ the size of him in the game....he looks more like he should be Jetfire

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Sun Sep 04, 2016 3:35 am

Stuartmaximus wrote:+ the size of him in the game....he looks more like he should be Jetfire

That's because he's two mystery characters smooshed together making him huge.

Emerje

News Credits: 11 · by **RAR** » Sun Sep 04, 2016 4:52 am

Crash Combiners look like Mash-ups a bit to me.
Perhaps the licensing show will reveal a bit more.

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Sun Sep 04, 2016 5:55 am

D-Maximus_Primal also spotted another Australian TV ad - via the official Transformers YouTube channel - for Transformers: Robots in Disguise Power Surge Optimus Prime, also featuring Starscream, in a very moody, thunderstormy setting. Check it out embedded below!

News Credits: 191 · by **Kurona** » Sun Sep 04, 2016 6:01 am

Stuartmaximus wrote:Skyhammer? erm....wasn't he a helicopter
+ the size of him in the game....he looks more like he should be Jetfire

This is the same series whose main villain is Steeljaw, a Decepticon carformer with a wolf motif as opposed to the original (... and FoC toyline) Autobot Lion Cassetteformer. They're just re-using the names if they find them fitting of the characters.