The Energon Pub

william-james88 wrote:
I have no clue where this white and purple thing is coming from aside from speculation. So far the only thing being backed up by people "in the know" is that Hasbro's TR Asrotrain will be grey and purple like he was in the G1 cartoon. That's it. We dont know about Takara. What they will propably do is use a similar colour pallete but put more paint apps, like they did with Legends Ultra Magnus.

Judging from the little we know, it seems no one will be doing a white and purple Astrotrain. If anyone has evidence supporting the opposite, please bring it forward.

I asked the Transmissions podcast guys on twitter on what colors the Hasbro Astrotrain will be according to their source. Their source says that he will be in the G1 toy deco (white / purple).

Generator_G1 wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:Relax though, we will get a decepticon titan class titanmaster figure in a few years after all fort max is going to need his rival...

I still think that the rivals will follow the release schedule of the earlier Titans. For example:

Metroplex - Devastator - Fort Max - 1st wave of Titans
Trypticon - Omega Supreme - Scorponok - possible 2nd wave arrangement of Titans.

All they need to do is to either release a newer version of Primus and Unicron or rerelease the older versions in G1 colors and the big city/planet bots are set for newer fans / collectors.

Maybe I missed something, but why did they make a vote between Trypticon, Scorponok and Omega Supreme when they release all three?

Lunatic Prime wrote:

Generator_G1 wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:Relax though, we will get a decepticon titan class titanmaster figure in a few years after all fort max is going to need his rival...

I still think that the rivals will follow the release schedule of the earlier Titans. For example:

Metroplex - Devastator - Fort Max - 1st wave of Titans
Trypticon - Omega Supreme - Scorponok - possible 2nd wave arrangement of Titans.

All they need to do is to either release a newer version of Primus and Unicron or rerelease the older versions in G1 colors and the big city/planet bots are set for newer fans / collectors.

Maybe I missed something, but why did they make a vote between Trypticon, Scorponok and Omega Supreme when they release all three?

To provide the order in which they will be released. The speculation is that they would have to have at least some form of design work done for all three to make the timing of releases work. Since the design work is likely done, to account for the cost of said design work, it is speculated that Omega and Scorponok will come in the future.

I don't know if this speculation has been confirmed by any inside sources...

Regarding Trypticon as a Titanmaster, they could get creative with Full-Tilt and Brunt.

As far as more deluxes, I doubt there'll be as many repaints as Combiner Wars, because the parameters for designing the figures are much less restrictive - they don't need to worry about integrating a standardized arm mode and a standardized leg mode into each and every Deluxe class figure.

Hasbro's gotten really good at reshells and pretools, so some of the mold reuses may not be obvious, either. And, obviously, a new heads don't even require pretooling or retooling this time.

Japan's Headmasters seem like a good bet, but there might be other possibilities. Generic Allicon from Skullcruncher? Moonracer from Blur? Tankor from Chromedome? Devcon from Scourge?

Caelus wrote:Devcon from Scourge?

There is a new rumor out there about another platinum set including cyclonus and two sweeps, one allegedly using the botcon Devcon head.

Generator_G1 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:
I have no clue where this white and purple thing is coming from aside from speculation. So far the only thing being backed up by people "in the know" is that Hasbro's TR Asrotrain will be grey and purple like he was in the G1 cartoon. That's it. We dont know about Takara. What they will propably do is use a similar colour pallete but put more paint apps, like they did with Legends Ultra Magnus.

Judging from the little we know, it seems no one will be doing a white and purple Astrotrain. If anyone has evidence supporting the opposite, please bring it forward.

I asked the Transmissions podcast guys on twitter on what colors the Hasbro Astrotrain will be according to their source. Their source says that he will be in the G1 toy deco (white / purple).

I guess we'll find out soon enough but I prefer to remain optimistic that hasbro will release the grey version since a lot of people apparently believe it to be that one.

It will be gray.

Generator_G1 wrote:All they need to do is to either release a newer version of Primus and Unicron or rerelease the older versions in G1 colors and the big city/planet bots are set for newer fans / collectors.

Yes! finally someone that agrees that there should've been a Unicron in the Titan Wars

or even a Primus

Stuartmaximus wrote:

Generator_G1 wrote:All they need to do is to either release a newer version of Primus and Unicron or rerelease the older versions in G1 colors and the big city/planet bots are set for newer fans / collectors.

Yes! finally someone that agrees that there should've been a Unicron in the Titan Wars

or even a Primus

You maybe getting ahead of yourself, as they didn't say that they should of been in titan returns if they'll be titan sized then they'll be stuck years down the line, and re-releases would probably fall as platinum editions which are a line on to themselves

Stuartmaximus wrote:

Generator_G1 wrote:All they need to do is to either release a newer version of Primus and Unicron or rerelease the older versions in G1 colors and the big city/planet bots are set for newer fans / collectors.

Yes! finally someone that agrees that there should've been a Unicron in the Titan Wars

or even a Primus

Pretty sure we wouldnt be getting a titan of each for titan wars. The Prime Trilogy is ending by 2018. And we already know the titans being released till then. And they arent Unicron or Primus. Not saying they wont be in the comics or accompnaying media, but there wont be titan toys made of them till omega supreme and scorponok are done. Which means we are covered for titans till 2019.

Agamemnon wrote:

Lunatic Prime wrote:

Generator_G1 wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:Relax though, we will get a decepticon titan class titanmaster figure in a few years after all fort max is going to need his rival...

I still think that the rivals will follow the release schedule of the earlier Titans. For example:

Metroplex - Devastator - Fort Max - 1st wave of Titans
Trypticon - Omega Supreme - Scorponok - possible 2nd wave arrangement of Titans.

All they need to do is to either release a newer version of Primus and Unicron or rerelease the older versions in G1 colors and the big city/planet bots are set for newer fans / collectors.

Maybe I missed something, but why did they make a vote between Trypticon, Scorponok and Omega Supreme when they release all three?

To provide the order in which they will be released. The speculation is that they would have to have at least some form of design work done for all three to make the timing of releases work. Since the design work is likely done, to account for the cost of said design work, it is speculated that Omega and Scorponok will come in the future.

I don't know if this speculation has been confirmed by any inside sources...

weird then how Chela & Carcer haven't been included in that speculation?(yes! granted that they weren't part of the vote) but they ARE however.....part of IDW continuity! of which these lines are coming from(as well as G1).

if & i stress IF! we ever did see a Chela & Carcer......then maybe just maybe...we'd also see a Devisiun too!

& then there's other titans! such as Caminus, Prion, Navitas & Tempo

Dang, Astrotrain's looking good! I hope he has some purple in the color scheme, and I'll probably skip Sentinel in favor of this, since he does appear to be the intended use.

Stuartmaximus wrote:

Agamemnon wrote:

Lunatic Prime wrote:

Generator_G1 wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:Relax though, we will get a decepticon titan class titanmaster figure in a few years after all fort max is going to need his rival...

I still think that the rivals will follow the release schedule of the earlier Titans. For example:

Metroplex - Devastator - Fort Max - 1st wave of Titans
Trypticon - Omega Supreme - Scorponok - possible 2nd wave arrangement of Titans.

All they need to do is to either release a newer version of Primus and Unicron or rerelease the older versions in G1 colors and the big city/planet bots are set for newer fans / collectors.

Maybe I missed something, but why did they make a vote between Trypticon, Scorponok and Omega Supreme when they release all three?

To provide the order in which they will be released. The speculation is that they would have to have at least some form of design work done for all three to make the timing of releases work. Since the design work is likely done, to account for the cost of said design work, it is speculated that Omega and Scorponok will come in the future.

I don't know if this speculation has been confirmed by any inside sources...

weird then how Chela & Carcer haven't been included in that speculation?(yes! granted that they weren't part of the vote) but they ARE however.....part of IDW continuity! of which these lines are coming from(as well as G1).

if & i stress IF! we ever did see a Chela & Carcer......then maybe just maybe...we'd also see a Devisiun too!

& then there's other titans! such as Caminus, Prion, Navitas & Tempo

I also doubt we will be seeing them any time soon and why is it weird they weren't included in the speculation? Omega, Scorponok and Trypticon are heavy hitters, those guys you mentioned? Not so much...like at all

Just when you thought you had had enough of those half-images teasing upcoming toys, we now have another one! Courtesy of our typical source zmultiplier on weibo we now have the bottom half (yes, not the left or right half) of what appears to be Titans Return Brainstorm! This is anticipated to be a brand new deluxe class figure, different from his Generations version, and rumor has it that this mold is to be an extensive retool of our old friend Blurr. What do you make of this new image? Sound off in the comments section below and as always stay tuned for even more news regarding the Transformers.

Brainstorm, calling it!

Getting tired of this guy's inability to photograph the entire image at one time....

Looks pretty cool so far and with him being a retool of Blurr at least we get a good look at the detailing in Blurr's legs.

Rant moment:

This person has all of the images in their entirety. They are, for some reason, leaking them because they .. I dunno.. want to feel relevant to the fandom in some way. We know where the images are, media outlets already have all of them, and WE ARE ALL KEEPING TO THE EMBARGO DATES. But nnoooooooo, let's leak half-arsed crops and tinkered low-res ones, because issues. MBLFGLASLfdfsdgsfdfhedrd



End rant. Carry on.

Hmm is it hardhead? The colour scheme looks green

Well, looking at both pictures, those are definitely Blurr's legs.

mblase75 wrote:Getting tired of this guy's inability to photograph the entire image at one time....

Va'al wrote:Rant moment:

This person has all of the images in their entirety. They are, for some reason, leaking them because they .. I dunno.. want to feel relevant to the fandom in some way. We know where the images are, media outlets already have all of them, and WE ARE ALL KEEPING TO THE EMBARGO DATES. But nnoooooooo, let's leak half-arsed crops and tinkered low-res ones, because issues. MBLFGLASLfdfsdgsfdfhedrd

End rant. Carry on.

I made a similar rant the second time he "leaked" this nonsense. Doesn't he know he'd get more admiration if he leaked WHOLE images? But instead we all kinda hate him

Brainstorm through and through. Do I really need another one? Hell yes

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Brainstorm through and through. Do I really need another one? Hell yes

I dont, especially if this is a retool (which it seems to be).

That reminds me, there hasnt been any redeco/retool of Brainstorm, nice!

The legs are the same as Blurr



Curious to see how they will integrate that jet nosecone in what was once a car.

shajaki wrote:

Va'al wrote:Rant moment:

This person has all of the images in their entirety. They are, for some reason, leaking them because they .. I dunno.. want to feel relevant to the fandom in some way. We know where the images are, media outlets already have all of them, and WE ARE ALL KEEPING TO THE EMBARGO DATES. But nnoooooooo, let's leak half-arsed crops and tinkered low-res ones, because issues. MBLFGLASLfdfsdgsfdfhedrd

End rant. Carry on.

I made a similar rant the second time he "leaked" this nonsense. Doesn't he know he'd get more admiration if he leaked WHOLE images? But instead we all kinda hate him

I'm not even a staff guy in any way, and I share your irritation.

What is this guy's problem? Toyfair is what, 5 days away?, I'd rather get the whole bunch at once at a big event, it's kind of exciting but it's kind of killing the hype. (disclaimer: personal opinion).