The Energon Pub

[Sarahthecutevixen]

Better look at the construction insignia

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I like it

[PrimeVsPrime]

Ready to fly kick Bumblebee

[Sarahthecutevixen]

Ready to fly kick Bumblebee

do you not fear eventual breakage from such pose?

[no-one]

"Feed me Seymour!"

[Sarahthecutevixen]

For whomever it concerns or was curious here is how the posability of BB optimus compaires to Siege in a few areas, note bicep, thigh and wrist rotation was omitted do to them all being 360 swivel joints

stock pose

Waist rotation, siege can do a 360limit of forward hip movement and knee bendoutward Hip movement, backwords hip movement and knee bend again ankle rocker limit and what ever that thing is where they pose with their first punching each other infront of them chest doors open pose
slight neck rotation my copy of BB optimus' neck moves upwards at that point do to the neck molding upper neck movement both necks can theoretically do a 360 side to side rotation so it was omitted,
upper shoulder and elbow bend limitations on both figures approximation of a two handed gun holding pose
BBOP appears to be more able to do such a pose despite limitations of articulation
Dynamic running pose

So far which is better is if you prefer dynamics pose options do to weight distributions or articulation options

[Nemesis Maximo]

"Feed me Seymour!"

[no-one]

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"Feed me Seymour!"

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We are talking about Decepticons.

[Nemesis Maximo]

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"Feed me Seymour!"

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We are talking about Decepticons.

Lol oh Carry, you so sirry

[Sarahthecutevixen]

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"Feed me Seymour!"

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We are talking about Decepticons.

and what is pretty much mecha Kirby gestalt...go with the vacuum or the destroyer of worlds if you want on what i am referencing

[D-Maximal_Primal]

While I still wish he had elbows, that Rampage is gorgeous! I can't wait to get him fighting Bee

[Sarahthecutevixen]

While I still wish he had elbows, that Rampage is gorgeous! I can't wait to get him fighting Bee

Monday for those pictures,

[-Kanrabat-]

While the toy came out in Asia, there was still very little known about the distribution of Transformers Studio Series 31 Voyager Class Movie 2 Battle Damaged Megatron in the west. Target is rumored to get it in the US, but there is no listing yet. However, we now know that it will be a Toysrus exclusive in Canada thanks to a listing that just popped up. It will be $40 CAD, the same price as non exclusive leaders, meaning a price point of $30 USD if it comes to the US. It can be preordered right now and will ship out August 2019. You can see the official images below which give us a really good look at the deco in tank mode.

While this toy only ships within Canada (including Quebec, yay!), it is possible for people outside Canada to ship it to their address though a shipping forwarding service (as it is for any item that doesn't ship to your country).

That's a good news. I want to buy him and I probably will. Unfortunately, it mean that my original SS ROTF Megs will have to be sold for dirt cheap. My evil side would like to make a toy-swap, but I'm against the principle.

[Sarahthecutevixen]

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You do realise you made it worse, right? That makes 5 releases for 2020

my apologies, I didn't do anything except provide facts and reference a meme i always wanted to say

O no, I didn't mean it like that.

With your correction, it only shows even more that the costs per year for Devastator is really lopsided in favor of 2020. Not quite fair I'd say.

only if you forgo getting the Takara tomy version of Scrapmetal who releases in a couple months

Which is odd... unless Hasbro goofed with printing the release date. The numbering seems in favor for a 2019 release. In order:

37 Constructicon Rampage
41 Constructicon Scrapmetal
42 Constructicon Long Haul
47 Constructicon Hightower

Costs are still lopsided

Well i can admit when I am wrong, seems Fc203 on Tfw2005.com has found scrapmetal at retail in Texas https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/ ... l.1170308/

[Hellscream9999]

Man, pre-orders aren't even up for those guys, how messed up does distribution have to be to have these guys stateside before e-tailers even have orders up for them

[Ultra Markus]

i wish they hadnt made rampage with a pogo stick bottom half
instead i think having his vehicles dozer tracks for a bottom half would have been cooler

[Sarahthecutevixen]

i wish they hadnt made rampage with a pogo stick bottom half
instead i think having his vehicles dozer tracks for a bottom half would have been cooler

so like G1 Bonecrusher, seems boring to be honest, I mean I like the ROTF constructicons because they are so weird and freaky, but hey I may be wrong on what looks good

[Hellscream9999]

;)^

i wish they hadnt made rampage with a pogo stick bottom half
instead i think having his vehicles dozer tracks for a bottom half would have been cooler

so like G1 Bonecrusher, seems boring to be honest, I mean I like the ROTF constructicons because they are so weird and freaky, but hey I may be wrong on what looks good

No way, they were awesome

[Ultra Markus]

;)^

i wish they hadnt made rampage with a pogo stick bottom half
instead i think having his vehicles dozer tracks for a bottom half would have been cooler

so like G1 Bonecrusher, seems boring to be honest, I mean I like the ROTF constructicons because they are so weird and freaky, but hey I may be wrong on what looks good

I'm not talking like G1 bone crushed
Like this

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[Carnivius_Prime]

;)^

i wish they hadnt made rampage with a pogo stick bottom half
instead i think having his vehicles dozer tracks for a bottom half would have been cooler

so like G1 Bonecrusher, seems boring to be honest, I mean I like the ROTF constructicons because they are so weird and freaky, but hey I may be wrong on what looks good

I'm not talking like G1 bone crushed
Like this

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Nah, that's been overdone by other robot stuffs and doesn't have the agility. I wasn't too keen on Rampage at first but I've really warmed to him. I do kinda wish the lower half could split into pincery leg things like on previous figures of him but I quite like this one too. Devastator is gonna be a costly project but damn he does look pretty awesome all combined and I ain't even a fan of combiners (though I do love how RotF Devs makes a lot more sense structurally than most)

SS Jetfire and the Starscreams really are my fave jetformers ever made. I love their unique robot modes a lot but also their jet modes are pretty gorgeous and relatively kibble free (ignoring Jetfire's whiskers) and they transform beautifully too and securely.

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Weird thing. Day after i took these photos, the RotF Starscream had fallen down (his stand is a lil weak, i should swap it out for one of my spares) but had landed on the floor still with the stand on bottom holding him up in jet mode). Very odd and kinda cool.

Again I love 5mm weapon compatibility. Jetpower Prime wielding G1 Powermaster Optimus Prime's black guns. I sometimes use G1 Starscream missile launchers (no missiles though) on the SS Starscreams too.

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Annoyingly my G1 Powermaster Optimus Prime has succumbed to the dreaded trailer post breakage but I've managed to push the broken post far into Prime himself (as there was space to do so and I couldn't get it out) and sliced a 5mm post of a Wolfwire gun (from a half-assed Carnivac repaint) cos similar size and colour that I've superglued onto the trailer's bit. It fits well enough that it stays hitched on the shelf in truck mode but not too tight that it would break off again. Frustrating this happens now just as I made an eBay auction to sell the figure after 30 years. Have removed the eBay auction for now and will rewrite it later on mentioning the repair job i had to do. :/

[Ig89ninja]

Man, pre-orders aren't even up for those guys, how messed up does distribution have to be to have these guys stateside before e-tailers even have orders up for them

Actually, they did show up for a littl but on HLJ for pre order, but they had to stop because of over demand

[Carnivius_Prime]

Man, pre-orders aren't even up for those guys, how messed up does distribution have to be to have these guys stateside before e-tailers even have orders up for them

Actually, they did show up for a littl but on HLJ for pre order, but they had to stop because of over demand

Is the dog nose essential to complete Devastator?

[-Kanrabat-]

Is the dog nose essential to complete Devastator?

At least it's available. ᖗ¬ω¬ᖘ

[EvasionModeBumblebee]

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Awesome paint on that Optimus! Can I ask what paint you used? I can’t wait to start painting my DOTM Optimus when I finally get him.

Also, wave 6 is at retail now?! I haven’t even seen wave 5 in-person yet. Hoping to pick up Sideswipe and Megatron soon, though.

[Carnivius_Prime]

Awesome paint on that Optimus! Can I ask what paint you used? I can’t wait to start painting my DOTM Optimus when I finally get him.

Thanks. Is a lil rough in places due to anxiety-related shakey wrists but since I like my movie bots to look a bit worn that works well for me and deliberately add a bit of silver to some of the edges to give it that worn metal look too like they often have in the films. I used Tamiya gloss model paints. On past paintings I had to use matte paints for general coloured areas that weren't silver or gold or something cos that's all there was available locally to me but they've got the range of gloss paints in now which are so much better so I grabbed those for Prime here so his red and blue were shiny (though matching the blue has been tricky so have left some of those areas the original plastic colour). The flames aren't painted on as I can't do those and so they're just using the SS05 Toyhax stickers as placeholders until they do a SS32 set (one of the chest ones went wonky on the pic of Jetpower Prime above cos it's stickiness ain't so great since I peeled it off my SS05)
Here's Prime without the Jetfire parts.

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Hope everyone is having a good weekend. Enjoy your Transformers.

Will be cool to see your DotM Prime later in the year.

[DedicatedGhostArt]

Well I have 38 Optimus Prime (From the BBB movie) preordered from Amazon, and SS Clunker Bumblebee should be showing up on Monday. The original 2007 Clunker Bumblebee was the very first Transformer I ever saw, so it's kind of a must for me. (I know, feel old feel old.) I hope Toyhax has a reprolabels set for him to give him the blue windows to hide the robot parts, and also some yellow stickers for his arm cannon and belly. (And maybe his thighs.)