The Energon Pub

[Ironhidensh]

While I am packing, I've spotlighted some of my figures and posed some questions and thoughts.

To you here, I have a hard time deciding which of these designs I like more. I really like both! But they are pretty different



also, this guy is ready to meet his update

You know, Barricades TLK design is one of my favorite movie designs. That toy though, is just generic trash. I'm desperate hoping for a SS or MPM version. The SS I think has a good chance, but a MPM is probably a good 20 years away.

[Ig89ninja]

While I am packing, I've spotlighted some of my figures and posed some questions and thoughts.

To you here, I have a hard time deciding which of these designs I like more. I really like both! But they are pretty different



also, this guy is ready to meet his update

Personally, I prefer the original trilogy design for Barricade, and I too am looking forward to an updated Devastator.

[Rodimus Prime]

Gonna disagree with you on that, D-Max, I think Barricade from TLK looks better on screen and in toy form than from the OT.

[Tuned Agent]

While I am packing, I've spotlighted some of my figures and posed some questions and thoughts.

To you here, I have a hard time deciding which of these designs I like more. I really like both! But they are pretty different



also, this guy is ready to meet his update

I think I prefer Barricade from the first movies, though it may have something to do with TLK Barricade getting all of about 30 seconds of screentime.

[Sentinel_Primal]

While I am packing, I've spotlighted some of my figures and posed some questions and thoughts.

To you here, I have a hard time deciding which of these designs I like more. I really like both! But they are pretty different



also, this guy is ready to meet his update

I think I prefer TLK as a design, but as Barricade I do prefer the first movie's design, though I feel the SS figure is a bit too skinny. I might be wrong, but I thought Barricade was bulkier in the movie

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

also, this guy is ready to meet his update

I sold off that version of Devastator a bit ago. I've still got the Legends-class version, though. I'm more interested in matching up SS-Devastator with Titan-Class Devastator from G1!

[D-Maximal_Primal]

Gonna disagree with you on that, D-Max, I think Barricade from TLK looks better on screen and in toy form than from the OT.

I didn't say which I thought was better, that's the point! I don't know which is better to me!

I think I prefer TLK as a design, but as Barricade I do prefer the first movie's design, though I feel the SS figure is a bit too skinny. I might be wrong, but I thought Barricade was bulkier in the movie

I agree, I feel like the SS is too small

I sold off that version of Devastator a bit ago. I've still got the Legends-class version, though. I'm more interested in matching up SS-Devastator with Titan-Class Devastator from G1!

I'm looking forward to SS Devastator destroying every other combiner and Transformer that exists, he is going to be epic!

[Rodimus Prime]

Yeah, I mistook your post for the post after yours. Even though I think Bayverse Devy is hideous in all forms, my morbid curiosity wants to see the newly released SS figures in green and purple to see how that would look. I remember we got a legends class RoTF green Devastator, I want to see the big version.

[ZeldaTheSwordsman]

@D-Max He'd still get run over by the Ultrazord

@Rodimus Prime Well, Movieverse Decepticons in general look like monstrosities by design. I'm personally okay with the movieverse's reinvention of Devastator - it works within that universe and plays up the horrifying side of the Decepticons. And his bestial nature kinda fits with the way Marvel presented combiners, especially with how many members he has.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

Yeah, I mistook your post for the post after yours. Even though I think Bayverse Devy is hideous in all forms, my morbid curiosity wants to see the newly released SS figures in green and purple to see how that would look. I remember we got a legends class RoTF green Devastator, I want to see the big version.

You're also making me think that, once I move, I should get the legends version so I can have all 3 versions of Devy. He is awesome for me, I love him

[Sabrblade]

The beauty about so many of the Movieverse designs looking nothing like their G1 namesakes is that, if one wanted to, one could repurpose them as all new separate characters with new names to both set them apart from and allow them to interact with their G1 namesakes in the world of one's own headcanon.

For example, I originally bought SS Grimlock to use him not as "Grimlock", but as an all new character named "Lockjaw".

[TF-fan kev777]

The beauty about so many of the Movieverse designs looking nothing like their G1 namesakes is that, if one wanted to, one could repurpose them as all new separate characters with new names to both set them apart from and allow them to interact with their G1 namesakes in the world of one's own headcanon.

For example, I originally bought SS Grimlock to use him not as "Grimlock", but as an all new character named "Lockjaw".

I'm actually doing that with my entire movie collection.

Characters like Scorn, Dropkick or Shatter that don't have a G1 counterpart can keep their names, others get new names. Sometimes I'm lazy with the names. DOTM Leader Megs and TLK Leader Megs are a duo, Shotgun and Blowtorch. (I really like my laziness in this case).

[D-Maximal_Primal]

The beauty about so many of the Movieverse designs looking nothing like their G1 namesakes is that, if one wanted to, one could repurpose them as all new separate characters with new names to both set them apart from and allow them to interact with their G1 namesakes in the world of one's own headcanon.

For example, I originally bought SS Grimlock to use him not as "Grimlock", but as an all new character named "Lockjaw".

I'm actually doing that with my entire movie collection.

Characters like Scorn, Dropkick or Shatter that don't have a G1 counterpart can keep their names, others get new names. Sometimes I'm lazy with the names. DOTM Leader Megs and TLK Leader Megs are a duo, Shotgun and Blowtorch. (I really like my laziness in this case).

I'm debating allowing my AOE Scorn to venture over to my generations shelf and stand alongside my PotP Volcanicus and Slash, but I'm not sure yet (I have TLK Scorn as the primary movie Scorn).

[Sabrblade]

The beauty about so many of the Movieverse designs looking nothing like their G1 namesakes is that, if one wanted to, one could repurpose them as all new separate characters with new names to both set them apart from and allow them to interact with their G1 namesakes in the world of one's own headcanon.

For example, I originally bought SS Grimlock to use him not as "Grimlock", but as an all new character named "Lockjaw".

I'm actually doing that with my entire movie collection.

Characters like Scorn, Dropkick or Shatter that don't have a G1 counterpart can keep their names, others get new names. Sometimes I'm lazy with the names. DOTM Leader Megs and TLK Leader Megs are a duo, Shotgun and Blowtorch. (I really like my laziness in this case).

I'm debating allowing my AOE Scorn to venture over to my generations shelf and stand alongside my PotP Volcanicus and Slash, but I'm not sure yet (I have TLK Scorn as the primary movie Scorn).

Were I to have SS Devastator and a version of G1 Devastator coexist, I'd probably make SS Devastator be some new Constructicon combiner built to be an even more monstrous successor to his predecessor, probably named something like "Ultra Devastator" even though the G1 guy would still be around. The similar and superior-sounding name would simply get on G1 Devastator's nerves, causing the two to constantly butt heads with each other when they're supposed to be on the same side.

Or, perhaps, something like "Menastator", with his backstory being that some of Menasor's savagery was used in the new guy's programming, much to Devastator's further aggravation since he wouldn't like his successor/new partner having any Stunticon data in his programming when they are Constructicons.

[Sentinel_Primal]

The beauty about so many of the Movieverse designs looking nothing like their G1 namesakes is that, if one wanted to, one could repurpose them as all new separate characters with new names to both set them apart from and allow them to interact with their G1 namesakes in the world of one's own headcanon.

For example, I originally bought SS Grimlock to use him not as "Grimlock", but as an all new character named "Lockjaw".

I'm actually doing that with my entire movie collection.

Characters like Scorn, Dropkick or Shatter that don't have a G1 counterpart can keep their names, others get new names. Sometimes I'm lazy with the names. DOTM Leader Megs and TLK Leader Megs are a duo, Shotgun and Blowtorch. (I really like my laziness in this case).

I'm debating allowing my AOE Scorn to venture over to my generations shelf and stand alongside my PotP Volcanicus and Slash, but I'm not sure yet (I have TLK Scorn as the primary movie Scorn).

Were I to have SS Devastator and a version of G1 Devastator coexist, I'd probably make SS Devastator be some new Constructicon combiner built to be an even more monstrous successor to his predecessor, probably named something like "Ultra Devastator" even though the G1 guy would still be around. The similar and superior-sounding name would simply get on G1 Devastator's nerves, causing the two to constantly butt heads with each other when they're supposed to be on the same side.

Or, perhaps, something like "Menastator", with his backstory being that some of Menasor's savagery was used in the new guy's programming, much to Devastator's further aggravation since he wouldn't like his successor/new partner having any Stunticon data in his programming when they are Constructicons.

I like the idea that Shockwave was trying to replicate the original Constructicon's ability to combine and the SS Constructicon's are the result of constant tinkering and reconstructing with the resulting combiner being named "Scrapyard" or something similar

[Sabrblade]

The beauty about so many of the Movieverse designs looking nothing like their G1 namesakes is that, if one wanted to, one could repurpose them as all new separate characters with new names to both set them apart from and allow them to interact with their G1 namesakes in the world of one's own headcanon.

For example, I originally bought SS Grimlock to use him not as "Grimlock", but as an all new character named "Lockjaw".

I'm actually doing that with my entire movie collection.

Characters like Scorn, Dropkick or Shatter that don't have a G1 counterpart can keep their names, others get new names. Sometimes I'm lazy with the names. DOTM Leader Megs and TLK Leader Megs are a duo, Shotgun and Blowtorch. (I really like my laziness in this case).

I'm debating allowing my AOE Scorn to venture over to my generations shelf and stand alongside my PotP Volcanicus and Slash, but I'm not sure yet (I have TLK Scorn as the primary movie Scorn).

Were I to have SS Devastator and a version of G1 Devastator coexist, I'd probably make SS Devastator be some new Constructicon combiner built to be an even more monstrous successor to his predecessor, probably named something like "Ultra Devastator" even though the G1 guy would still be around. The similar and superior-sounding name would simply get on G1 Devastator's nerves, causing the two to constantly butt heads with each other when they're supposed to be on the same side.

Or, perhaps, something like "Menastator", with his backstory being that some of Menasor's savagery was used in the new guy's programming, much to Devastator's further aggravation since he wouldn't like his successor/new partner having any Stunticon data in his programming when they are Constructicons.

I like the idea that Shockwave was trying to replicate the original Constructicon's ability to combine and the SS Constructicon's are the result of constant tinkering and reconstructing with the resulting combiner being named "Scrapyard" or something similar

Speaking of Shockwave, I've mentioned in this thread before that I could see SS Shockwave as being repurposed as a post-Beast Machines era version of G1 Shockwave, but that's also because I just cannot see that figure as being anything other than a version of Shockwave. It's just too Shockwave-y for me to not think of it as Shockwave, so in these blended realities we're all thinking up here, SS Shockwave is Technorganic G1 Shockwave circa post-Beast Machines.

[MadProject]

I finally got Long Haul, my first constructicon of the set!
I'm really liking him, can't wait to get the others.
Weird thought, here in Europe it looks like it's almost impossible to find Scrapmetal.
Since I can't find him (except a few overpriced copies from Japan and USA) both on Amazon and Ebay, does that particular figure had some distribution problem? The other Studio Series figures I searched can be found quite easily.

[JoeIsNotCool]

I finally got Long Haul, my first constructicon of the set!
I'm really liking him, can't wait to get the others.
Weird thought, here in Europe it looks like it's almost impossible to find Scrapmetal.
Since I can't find him (except a few overpriced copies from Japan and USA) both on Amazon and Ebay, does that particular figure had some distribution problem? The other Studio Series figures I searched can be found quite easily.

Rampage and Scrapmetal were never released over here. Most online retailers that are UK based either imported them both or just didn't sell them in the end. I had to get both of them from Amazon US, cost me extra but at least I got them.
Edit: Speaking for the UK, not sure about all of Europe.

[ZeldaTheSwordsman]

Re: universe blending, for the most part I prefer to just treat them all as their own universe's version of that character/bearer of that name. And have them all hang out in some catchbasin universe. My issue is reconciling past bodies..
In any case, most of my household Decepticons ultimately answer to Cybertron Megatron, because he's so OP (and has hax on G1/TR Galvatron). Also in my headcanon, both sides make sure to upgrade the bodies of movie TFs on arrival.

I finally got Long Haul, my first constructicon of the set!
I'm really liking him, can't wait to get the others.
Weird thought, here in Europe it looks like it's almost impossible to find Scrapmetal.
Since I can't find him (except a few overpriced copies from Japan and USA) both on Amazon and Ebay, does that particular figure had some distribution problem? The other Studio Series figures I searched can be found quite easily.

Long Haul is one of the weakest of the set IMO; he's one who makes me wish they didn't try to cram the combining gimmick in there. Long Haul sucks in truck mode, Rampage's robot mode sucks from behind... (Granted, the 2009 deluxe had a lot of extra junk up there when in "pogo" configuration, but at least it was actually transformed from the vehicle mode)

[Ig89ninja]

On the subject of cross continuity naming, I prefer to have one of each character. That way I don’t have to worry about the issue of names. However, there are very time where I like to double up on a character that has a different mold to help army build my Decepticons, examples include Optimus Prime(DOTM FB and AOE EM), Rampage (09 and SS), and Brawl (CW and SS). In cases like this, I will usually try and come up with a name that still suits the character in some way. So DOTM FB Optimus Prime is Nemesis Prime, the 09 Rampage is Scuttle, and SS Brawl is Barrage.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

I generally do not follow the cross continuity renaming. I like to have my universes cross over, I enjoy characters from 1 universe meeting their alternate universe counterparts. I don't like to rename, it's more fun with varying styles of figures too.

[ZeldaTheSwordsman]

I generally do not follow the cross continuity renaming. I like to have my universes cross over, I enjoy characters from 1 universe meeting their alternate universe counterparts. I don't like to rename, it's more fun with varying styles of figures too.

Same. I'm more likely to use renaming to turn a same-character redeco into a new character.

[Sabrblade]

I generally do not follow the cross continuity renaming. I like to have my universes cross over, I enjoy characters from 1 universe meeting their alternate universe counterparts. I don't like to rename, it's more fun with varying styles of figures too.

That's what I default to as well. The discussed alternative idea of repurposing some characters as new guys is just for occasions where I feel in the mood of playing with my figures in a way like what IDW1, Animated, Cyberverse, and Beast Wars Uprising have done by transplanting other-continuity versions of characters into a single universe.

[ZeroWolf]

I generally do not follow the cross continuity renaming. I like to have my universes cross over, I enjoy characters from 1 universe meeting their alternate universe counterparts. I don't like to rename, it's more fun with varying styles of figures too.

This is what I do too. I did have fun at one point though imagining a continuity where it Cybertron was being fought over by four factions, Autobots, Decepticons, Predacons (under the rule of Predaking, the Prime version) and Maximals (led by the Triumvirate of three new characters based on the magnaboss figures, Athena, Leo and Artemis). I had plans to do a fan fiction based on it but the work I had was lost. As I was freely mixing Transformers Prime Predacons with Beast Wars Preds.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

I love the Transformers Prime Predacons, and having relived some of them in the past week, I really wish we could have gotten some better looking/painted dragon-formers for TLK.

i still hold out hope for a TLK Infernocus and Dragonstorm/other knight in SS