The Energon Pub

Twinferno: Absolute slam

Hot Rod: HIT!

Triggerhappy: HIT!

Getaway: Prick

Hellscream9999 wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:Why is triggerhappy's crotch assembled backwards

Him and Fort Max need to seek medical help.

Unless he's such a lazy pre-tool for the magenta guy that they didn't bother to re-design his crotch

Don't think so. I think it was assembled by someone with a d***-tail fetish.

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:Twinferno: Absolute slam

Hot Rod: HIT!

Triggerhappy: HIT!

Getaway: Prick

Breakaway is the only one that I'm looking forward to from the wave

Oh hey, Twinferno keeps his new name from that blind bag thingy. Which is nice because it's a GREAT name.

Hot Rod looks absolutely beautiful as usual... not sure about Triggerhappy's face. Paint looks a bit off there. Either way both are easy pick-ups

Hellscream9999 wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:Twinferno: Absolute slam

Hot Rod: HIT!

Triggerhappy: HIT!

Getaway: Prick

Breakaway is the only one that I'm looking forward to from the wave

I have him as a Cybertron toy already, I will already have this mold as Chromedome, and most of all, he is a @#%#@% Q#% Q#%Q$% $^$W^&&% ##!% in the comics, so I hate him and his cybertron toy is worthy of his status

Also, bit of a note about the names - Blowpipe and Firedrive are obviously the same as G1 (Firedrive just being the oh-no-we-lost-the-copyright version of Firebolt), but Daburu and Throttle are new.

Getaway's Powermaster partner in G1 was called Rev... but what makes this name change notable is that Throttle was the name of one of the two Decepticon Powermasters; Darkwind. I'm tempted to say it's a bit like how 'Nightstick' was thrown onto pretty much every single Targetmaster a few years back just because they couldn't go around scrambling for copyrighted names for Targetmaster partners, but this one is especially notable considering Getaway's... recent morally dubious antics.

Daburu is basically Japanese for double. Not sure where the randomly using Japanese words for guys now comes from - especially since Doublecross barely had a few cameos in Headmasters - but I like it!

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:Twinferno: Absolute slam

Hot Rod: HIT!

Triggerhappy: HIT!

Getaway: Prick

Breakaway is the only one that I'm looking forward to from the wave

I have him as a Cybertron toy already, I will already have this mold as Chromedome, and most of all, he is a @#%#@% Q#% Q#%Q$% $^$W^&&% ##!% in the comics, so I hate him and his cybertron toy is worthy of his status

I'll likely be skipping chromedome for him, as he looks cooler, and has a more interesting personality, I love the anti-hero 's

Hellscream9999 wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:Twinferno: Absolute slam

Hot Rod: HIT!

Triggerhappy: HIT!

Getaway: Prick

Breakaway is the only one that I'm looking forward to from the wave

I have him as a Cybertron toy already, I will already have this mold as Chromedome, and most of all, he is a @#%#@% Q#% Q#%Q$% $^$W^&&% ##!% in the comics, so I hate him and his cybertron toy is worthy of his status

I love the anti-hero 's

In that case why're you skipping Twi--

Sorry, sorry. *ahem*



TWINFERNO

Stop Hb and Takara! My wallet needs to rest!

In all honestly, while i love Hot Rod (and really need him) and Triggerhappy, Twinferno is my most anticipated deluxe of the wave (though Sixshot clearly takes the cake on most anticipated)

TWINFERNO is a must-have!!

And this Hot Rod will be my first version of him, honestly. I think I've finally forgiven him for getting Prime killed in The Movie.

Hot Rod's my most anticipated purely because IDW Rodimus is currently my favourite Transformers character period. It's also why I'm really anticipating Nightbeat, Megatron and Nautica (my second, third and fourth favourite of MTMTE respectively).

bodrock wrote:TWINFERNO is a must-have!!

And this Hot Rod will be my first version of him, honestly. I think I've finally forgiven him for getting Prime killed in The Movie.

Go for it mate; he's a pretty fun character once you get passed Hasbro's amazingly shoddy and ham-handed way of introducing him

Definitely want a full body for the Nightbeat Titan Master!

Kurona wrote:

bodrock wrote:TWINFERNO is a must-have!!

And this Hot Rod will be my first version of him, honestly. I think I've finally forgiven him for getting Prime killed in The Movie.

Go for it mate; he's a pretty fun character once you get passed Hasbro's amazingly shoddy and ham-handed way of introducing him

Really though! I could never accept him as the new Autobot leader, either, but I swear it wasn't me who protested Prime's death by locking myself in a room for weeks.

But yeah, I've only recently started buying Transformers again, thanks to Combiner Wars (and my kids finally being old enough to "get it")....always liked the concept, even if I got sick of the retooling!

bodrock wrote:Definitely want a full body for the Nightbeat Titan Master!

Funny story about that...

Holy macaroni!

Can't express my joy

Vibrating
So
Much
!

Kurona wrote:

bodrock wrote:Definitely want a full body for the Nightbeat Titan Master!

Funny story about that...

Welp! Guess I can hope he's get a more SERIOUS BIZNESS face with the full-bodied release....!

Meh! they're just heavy retools or repaints of existing molds

Triggerhappy......heavy retool of either Highbrow or Brainstorm

Breakaway.....obviously just a repaint of Chromedome(albeit probably with a new TM head! if it's not just the same one)

Twinferno......looks like a heavy retool of a Deluxe CW figure? hmmm...prob either Alpha Bravo or one of the other Arielbots or something

Hot Rod......again! looks like a heavy retool of a CW figure.....my guess.....someone like the Ironhide/Trailbreaker mold

Stuartmaximus wrote:Meh! they're just heavy retools or repaints of existing molds

Triggerhappy......heavy retool of either Highbrow or Brainstorm

Breakaway.....obviously just a repaint of Chromedome(albeit probably with a new TM head! if it's not just the same one)

Sinnertwin......looks like a heavy retool of a Deluxe CW figure? hmmm...prob either Alpha Bravo or one of the other Arielbots or something

Hot Rod......again! looks like a heavy retool of a CW figure.....my guess.....someone like the Ironhide/Trailbreaker mold

I honestly can't tell if you're joking or not, but only Breakaway is derived from any previous mold. The others are completely new.

Kurona wrote:Also, bit of a note about the names - Blowpipe and Firedrive are obviously the same as G1 (Firedrive just being the oh-no-we-lost-the-copyright version of Firebolt), but Daburu and Throttle are new.

Getaway's Powermaster partner in G1 was called Rev... but what makes this name change notable is that Throttle was the name of one of the two Decepticon Powermasters; Darkwind. I'm tempted to say it's a bit like how 'Nightstick' was thrown onto pretty much every single Targetmaster a few years back just because they couldn't go around scrambling for copyrighted names for Targetmaster partners, but this one is especially notable considering Getaway's... recent morally dubious antics.

Daburu is basically Japanese for double. Not sure where the randomly using Japanese words for guys now comes from - especially since Doublecross barely had a few cameos in Headmasters - but I like it!

Good call on the names, Kurona, you'll soon end up like me and Sabrblade One thing though: it's TRADEMARK

Sorry, it's a pet peeve of mine when people use "copyright" for "trademark"...

"Daburu" is a creative way of circumventing trademark problems, as "Double" may be considered too generic of a moniker and thus undesirable as a trademark. We have too many "Double-"s as it is:

Doubledealer
Doubleheader
Doublecross
Doubleclouder
Double Clutch
Double Punch
Double Face

And wouldn't you know it, ThrottleRev is yet another retool of poor Stylor, counting Japanese releases it'll be nr. 5!

Kurona wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:Meh! they're just heavy retools or repaints of existing molds

Triggerhappy......heavy retool of either Highbrow or Brainstorm

Breakaway.....obviously just a repaint of Chromedome(albeit probably with a new TM head! if it's not just the same one)

Sinnertwin......looks like a heavy retool of a Deluxe CW figure? hmmm...prob either Alpha Bravo or one of the other Arielbots or something

Hot Rod......again! looks like a heavy retool of a CW figure.....my guess.....someone like the Ironhide/Trailbreaker mold

I honestly can't tell if you're joking or not, but only Breakaway is derived from any previous mold. The others are completely new.

Nah...c'mon! are you trying to tell me that Triggerhappy doesn't look like he's been retooled from Highbrow? or even Brainstorm?

with Twinferno.....you can tell by the molding of the torso it certainly looks like it's been retooled from someone like Alpha Bravo

with Hot Rod it's around the arms & legs....deffo looks to me like the retooled arms & legs from the CW Ironhide/Trailbreaker mold.

i dunno if anyone else noticed that, or maybe i'm going senile

Stuartmaximus wrote:

Kurona wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:Meh! they're just heavy retools or repaints of existing molds

Triggerhappy......heavy retool of either Highbrow or Brainstorm

Breakaway.....obviously just a repaint of Chromedome(albeit probably with a new TM head! if it's not just the same one)

Sinnertwin......looks like a heavy retool of a Deluxe CW figure? hmmm...prob either Alpha Bravo or one of the other Arielbots or something

Hot Rod......again! looks like a heavy retool of a CW figure.....my guess.....someone like the Ironhide/Trailbreaker mold

I honestly can't tell if you're joking or not, but only Breakaway is derived from any previous mold. The others are completely new.

Nah...c'mon! are you trying to tell me that Triggerhappy doesn't look like he's been retooled from Highbrow? or even Brainstorm?

with Twinferno.....you can tell by the molding of the torso it certainly looks like it's been retooled from someone like Alpha Bravo

with Hot Rod it's around the arms & legs....deffo looks to me like the retooled arms & legs from the CW Ironhide/Trailbreaker mold.

i dunno if anyone else noticed that, or maybe i'm going senile

If you're trying to make it obvious it's a joke I'm afraid you just confused me more. Tone's just a bit hard to communicate over the internet without a really obvious wink or something.
But no, I can't see a single similarity between them and what you're saying they're retooled from.

Agh....forgettit! I'm sure it'll come out eventually that they're retools/repaints! or someone else may see it! + we haven't yet seen what the engineering of them are like(how they transform)

Stuartmaximus wrote:Agh....forgettit! I'm sure it'll come out eventually that they're retools/repaints! or someone else may see it! + we haven't yet seen what the engineering of them are like(how they transform)

... well, if you aren't joking, then I suppose this means one of two things. Either that you really need to go back to bed and get a lot more sleep, or you must be congratulated for somehow achieving a higher sense of cynicism about Hasbro and mold re-use than Ironhidesh.

Seriously, go back and look at the toys you're comparing them to. They hold nothing in common aside from... I guess a few shapes in places, alt-modes and a bipedal body structure? At which point we might as well say CW Hook is a retool of Cybertron Mudflap.