The Energon Pub

[LinaNui]

Just finished my update to Scrapmetal - did some weathering on the figure (model wash for the body, dirt weathering on the treads) and a lot of new detail work. I feel like it's up to par with the other Constructicons I've painted now!

That looks fantastic. I always love to see your work. It makes me go back and revisit the figures. Please keep up the great work!

[EvasionModeBumblebee]

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That looks fantastic. I always love to see your work. It makes me go back and revisit the figures. Please keep up the great work!

Thank you so much, glad you like it!

[SirWhozit]

Greetings fellow Seibertronians!

Fellow Seibertronian Dominus Prime has alerted that youtube reviewer Ton Ton Reviews has once again managed to get their hands on an upcoming figure, this time Studio Series 86 Slag. Although the Leader class Dinobot has yet to be officially revealed by Hasbro, some early images of the figure have been circulating for a few weeks. Check out the video below!



Hoping Hasbro is going to give all the Dinobots Leader class toys? Mostly excited for the included Daniel figurine? Let us know in the comments below!

[Notimus Crime]

Mostly excited for the included Daniel figurine?

This has conjured an image in my head and now I genuinely want to know if there's someone who's like the mirror universe version of basically everyone I've seen talk about Wheelie and Daniel, either uncaring or unhappy that they keep having to get leader class dinobots with their small barely articulated figurines.

[Sentinel_Primal]

So, apparently there's some "traced art" of a picture of "SS86 Wreck-Gar" going around. It looks like fan-art of Wreck-Gar honestly, but it has got me thinking: Is this going to be the new way of leaking things? Like, leaking pics of prototypes or samples might be traced back to the employee (in rare cases I'd imagine, but still possible), but technically a drawing wouldn't be as easy to trace. If so, I'd honestly love to see that because I think it avoids some of the issues that leaking has been making lately of people seeing poorly transformed copies, or misassembled copies, but with a drawing, it gets the idea across without possibly creating negative press for a figure before it's revealed

[EvasionModeBumblebee]

A couple pictures of Grindor leaked, these were posted by wreckgar39 on TFW:

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So Ravage has ball jointed limbs which is nice, and they fixed the hands from Blackout! So far I’m impressed. If they do any remolding to vehicle mode to make it look like the CH-53 then I’m sold.

[Nemesis Primal]

Man, why couldn't Blackout have had those hands?

[Tuned Agent]

Ravage looks quite nice, I'm glad he's getting articulated legs. Grindor's hands are a big improvement over Blackout, too. I wonder if that's a 5 mm peghole molded in his finger?

[D-Maximal_Primal]

I'm excited to see Grindor get fully revealed!

Have some more Crankcase/Dreadbot

[EvasionModeBumblebee]

Found the files on Thingiverse for Sentinel Prime’s shield and printed it- and it looks great! My Sentinel feels complete now!

There are files for the sword on there as well, so I may try that as well at some point.

[william-james88]

While we have a good idea of what the rest of 2021 has to offer in terms of Studio Series toys, we never know which toys may get repacked. This is very important for people who have had local retailers skip the first wave of 2021. Those toys were produced at the worst part of the pandemic for manufacturing so Hasbro probably preemptively decided those toys would be repacked and indeed they are. So below you will see a breakdown of the next two waves yet to be on shelves this year, with case assortments and which toys are getting repacked. All of this is of course tentative and not yet confirmed by an actual retailer listing like Entertainment Earth. But our source, JTPrime17 has been very reliable in the past.

Wave 13: release 8/1/2021

Deluxe:
2x TF2 Jolt
2x TF2 Bumblebee with sam
2x 86 Gnaw
2x 86 Jazz (repack)

Voyager:
1x 86 Wreck Gar
2x TF6 Thrust

Leader:
1x TF2 Grindor with Ravage
1x 86 Slag

Wave 14: Release 11/1/2021

Deluxe:
3x TF2 Sideswipe
2x 86 Kup (repack)
1x TF6 B-127 (repack)
2x 86 Blurr (repack)

Voyagers:
2x 86 Sweep
1x 86 Wreck Gar (repack)

Nemesis Primal did the math on our boards and reasoned that this is a very similar output to the previous 3 years of the Studio Series line (yes, this is the line's 4th year!)

Year 1: 11 Deluxes, 6 Voyagers, & 2 Leaders across 4 waves
Year 2: 11 Deluxes, 6 Voyagers, & 3 Leaders across 3 waves
Year 3: 10 Deluxes, 6 Voyagers, & 3 Leaders across 3 waves
Year 4 (this year): 9 Deluxes, 6 Voyagers, & 3 Leaders across 4 waves

[Bounti76]

Why is Wreck-Gar, a main character of the 86 Movie, packed once in each case he comes in, and Bee Movie Thrust, who had a scant literal few SECONDS of screen time (and no speaking lines) is packed two to a case?? Especially when the Bee Movie Starscream mold is clogging shelves anywhere I find him??

[Seibertron]

Why is Wreck-Gar, a main character of the 86 Movie, packed once in each case he comes in, and Bee Movie Thrust, who had a scant literal few SECONDS of screen time (and no speaking lines) is packed two to a case?? Especially when the Bee Movie Starscream mold is clogging shelves anywhere I find him??

Probably just character recognition with kids. Wreck-Gar hasn't had a lot of fictional appearances outside of G1 and Animated. The good news is that solid cases of all of these figures are usually available to order. I'll probably order heavily on Wreck-Gar initially for the Seibertron Store if this case assortment stands.

[jtanimator]

I feel like we're breaking records with how many old molds and repack figures they can packed into 1 wave. Wave 14 Deluxes get 3 whopping repacks and 1 remold (assuming sideswipe takes mold from his last SS figure, which he will). That's incredibly sad, especially since we're still waiting for some major characters like Wheeljack (Dotm), Sideways, Skids & Mudflap, Devcons, The Fallen, and SO many more. I'm starting to genuinely wonder what's going on at the Hastak Headquarters with the lack of attention to SS.

[X3ROhour]

Studio 86
GNAW

?

That's gotta be bigger than the other Gnaw we got back in Titans Returns, right?
That Gnaw was cool, but way too small for a deluxe price point.

HasTak might have been able pull those shenanigans with Cliff, Bee & Hubcap, but those guys have fan following.
Maybe if they give you 2 or 3 per pack... ?

[ZeroWolf]

Studio 86
GNAW

?

That's gotta be bigger than the other Gnaw we got back in Titans Returns, right?
That Gnaw was cool, but way too small for a deluxe price point.

HasTak might have been able pull those shenanigans with Cliff, Bee & Hubcap, but those guys have fan following.
Maybe if they give you 2 or 3 per pack... ?

It's a new mould of Gnaw scaled to match the other SS86 guys

[-Kanrabat-]

I feel like we're breaking records with how many old molds and repack figures they can packed into 1 wave. Wave 14 Deluxes get 3 whopping repacks and 1 remold (assuming sideswipe takes mold from his last SS figure, which he will). That's incredibly sad, especially since we're still waiting for some major characters like Wheeljack (Dotm), Sideways, Skids & Mudflap, Devcons, The Fallen, and SO many more. I'm starting to genuinely wonder what's going on at the Hastak Headquarters with the lack of attention to SS.

Well, for once I'm really, REALLY happy for all those repacks. Because the SS86 deluxes never ever shown themselves at my local stores. Heck, anything have barely shown at all! As if only Cyberverse mattered.

Now that things are finally picking up again, maybe, just maybe, my local Walmart and Toys R Us will bother ordering those waves so I can finally buy them at normal retain price without having to pay scalper and shipping fees.

[william-james88]

Especially since we're still waiting for some major characters like Wheeljack (Dotm), Sideways, Skids & Mudflap, Devcons

[Dark Megatron]

Nice to see that Gnaw and Sweeps will be double packed, for all of us troop builders

[LinaNui]

Wow this year has sucked for Bayverse TFs. Only 5 figures with two being repaints (BB and Grindor) and another being a possible retool (TF2 sideswipe). Hopefully next year will be back to normal (but the leaks are not looking good) with G1 getting back to the mainline. I doubt this though since the mainline is going to actually include multiple generations of TFs and there won't be enough room for G1 there. There is maybe a years worth of Bayverse left, I wish they would just finish it.

On another note, with Artfire being revealed this week. It has got me worried about what is going to be shown for the Friday event. I know they have said that SS would be shown off in may, but I would not put it past them to forget about that and just reveal more in kingdom, selects, or more G1related stuff. Hopefully I am wrong here.

[jtanimator]

Especially since we're still waiting for some major characters like Wheeljack (Dotm), Sideways, Skids & Mudflap, Devcons

Not sure why that needed corrected when my point was still pretty clear and generally agreed upon lol. But I guess let me correct myself; “especially when we’re waiting on some *anticipated fan favorites* like...”

[-Kanrabat-]

Not sure why that needed corrected when my point was still pretty clear and generally agreed upon lol. But I guess let me correct myself; “especially when we’re waiting on some *anticipated fan favorites* like...”

The joke is that RoTF Skids and Mudflap are generally hated by the fandom. You should be ashamed to like such vile characters.

That said, gimme A voyager icecream twins two pack and the regular deluxes of them already!

[o.supreme]

Based on an initial count, It seems that there are at least 50 more characters just from movies 1-5 that still haven't been released. I would think the line is far from done. Of course if Hasbro only goes for characters with dialogue, or doesn't have the ingenuity/desire to make some characters , then I guess it could end sooner. But if they are going to do every minor character from BB, and adding in SS86, plus the fact that a 7th film will be out in the next 2 years, this line has a potentially very long lifespan.

[ZeroWolf]

Plus, I wouldn't call Sideways a fan-favourite or major character

[EvasionModeBumblebee]

Plus, I wouldn't call Sideways a fan-favourite or major character

I’m actually super excited for an SS Sideways in the future. He doesn’t do much in the movie, but he’s one of the main playable characters in the ROTF video games and even makes a brief appearance in the ride at Universal.