The Energon Pub

Albatross250 wrote:Looks like everyone is HYPED on the Trypticon/Dinosaurer mold
Also, that Full Tilt is an IDW Based and now a Headmaster, my predictions are correct

I'm really confused where you've been getting IDW-based from - he only made a single cameo appearance in all of IDW, wherein he sported no design differences to the rest of his fictional appearances or toy.

Titan Class Trypticon talk goes here, plus it's already on the front page.

Oh my gosh, Nautica. I'm so happy you exist at last.
Hoping that the slightly odd colours are just a result of the spotlight shining right on her (as well it oughta ).
Looks like I'll be among the many searching the aftermarket for her individually (or saving up to buy the whole set and selling most of it)
Very curious also to get a better look at Windblade, none of her toys so far have quite done it for me so perhaps third time will be the charm?

Kurona wrote:

Albatross250 wrote:Looks like everyone is HYPED on the Trypticon/Dinosaurer mold
Also, that Full Tilt is an IDW Based and now a Headmaster, my predictions are correct

I'm really confused where you've been getting IDW-based from - he only made a single cameo appearance in all of IDW, wherein he sported no design differences to the rest of his fictional appearances or toy.

It's on Megatron Origins

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Titan Class Trypticon talk goes here, plus it's already on the front page.

well... my bad

Albatross250 wrote:

Kurona wrote:

Albatross250 wrote:Looks like everyone is HYPED on the Trypticon/Dinosaurer mold
Also, that Full Tilt is an IDW Based and now a Headmaster, my predictions are correct

I'm really confused where you've been getting IDW-based from - he only made a single cameo appearance in all of IDW, wherein he sported no design differences to the rest of his fictional appearances or toy.

It's on Megatron Origins

Yes... but again, this doesn't differ from his toy design or any of his other fictional appearances at all. It's not that TR Full-Tilt is IDW based, more that Full-Tilt in both IDW and TR are based on the same thing.

Kurona wrote:

Albatross250 wrote:

Kurona wrote:

Albatross250 wrote:Looks like everyone is HYPED on the Trypticon/Dinosaurer mold
Also, that Full Tilt is an IDW Based and now a Headmaster, my predictions are correct

I'm really confused where you've been getting IDW-based from - he only made a single cameo appearance in all of IDW, wherein he sported no design differences to the rest of his fictional appearances or toy.

It's on Megatron Origins

Yes... but again, this doesn't differ from his toy design or any of his other fictional appearances at all. It's not that TR Full-Tilt is IDW based, more that Full-Tilt in both IDW and TR are based on the same thing.

hmmmm, i think you're right, and i need to learn more about their apperances

Hmmmm
I've seen Octane (rather blurred)

Albatross250 wrote:Hmmmm
I've seen Octane (rather blurred)

Where?

william-james88 wrote:

Albatross250 wrote:Hmmmm
I've seen Octane (rather blurred)

Where?

If it's in the back, that's the boxset redeco of Voyager Optimus Prime, in G2 colors apparently.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Emerje wrote:

Nuclearxpotato wrote:I know that everyone is excited over Nautica, but uh, what mould does Fastlane come from?

Fastlane.jpg

I thought it was Chromedome, but the legs become the front. So is it Full-Tilt or something? 'Cause his arms are like 3x the thickness of Full-Tilt

Fastlane (2).jpg

It isn't the Full-Tilt mold, the proportions are all wrong (FT is rather skinny) and the wheels on Fastlane don't come up to his knees. Plus he appears to be a Legends figure, he's a lot shorter than Nautica next to him. Still not sure what his base mold is, maybe the Clones are getting unique shared molds?

I'm more interested in whether or not he has a Titan Master cockpit. If he doesn't, it means one of two things:

- It's a retool of an older mold
- Instead of having a cockpit, he is a Triple Changer like the tablets. Which means we may get both Clones in a single toy.

pretty sure its a mistransformed chromedome

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

ScottyP wrote:

o.supreme wrote:

ScottyP wrote:Quite interested to see more of Quickswitch. Guess it's a given that Takara will probably tackle that as Sixknight, yeah?

Well TT tend not to release the same mold twice, however I would rather hope for Great Shot rather than Sixknight since the Sixshot mold is closer to Greatshot.

They release molds twice all the time Blaster/Soundwave, both Leader Megatrons happened, there have been several repaints of TAV Bee, Unite Warriors did this plenty whenever it felt like it - yeah, they do less redecos than Hasbro but to say it's a tendency is a bit extreme.

A lot of text attempting to prove arbitrary rules that don't exist based on patterns followed to maximize economic return for the Japanese market.

Just stop. Please, there aren't rules to everything. Let us have fun imagining cool repaints!

Bumblebee21 wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Emerje wrote:

Nuclearxpotato wrote:I know that everyone is excited over Nautica, but uh, what mould does Fastlane come from?

Fastlane.jpg

I thought it was Chromedome, but the legs become the front. So is it Full-Tilt or something? 'Cause his arms are like 3x the thickness of Full-Tilt

Fastlane (2).jpg

It isn't the Full-Tilt mold, the proportions are all wrong (FT is rather skinny) and the wheels on Fastlane don't come up to his knees. Plus he appears to be a Legends figure, he's a lot shorter than Nautica next to him. Still not sure what his base mold is, maybe the Clones are getting unique shared molds?

I'm more interested in whether or not he has a Titan Master cockpit. If he doesn't, it means one of two things:

- It's a retool of an older mold
- Instead of having a cockpit, he is a Triple Changer like the tablets. Which means we may get both Clones in a single toy.

pretty sure its a mistransformed chromedome

See I was thinking he shared chromedome parts, the legs in particular, but as Emerje points out he seems to be a lot smaller- is it possible they just downsized the same (leg) mold maybe? Otherwise I'd say it's just another case of similar engineering like with CW Prowl, but even the foot shape and wheel placement seem to be a very close match from what I can make out in the photo

Is anyone else waiting on Six Shot from TFSource? I've noticed BBTS and Toy Dojo have it in stock, so hoping TFS gets it soon.

ScottyP wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

ScottyP wrote:

o.supreme wrote:

ScottyP wrote:Quite interested to see more of Quickswitch. Guess it's a given that Takara will probably tackle that as Sixknight, yeah?

Well TT tend not to release the same mold twice, however I would rather hope for Great Shot rather than Sixknight since the Sixshot mold is closer to Greatshot.

They release molds twice all the time Blaster/Soundwave, both Leader Megatrons happened, there have been several repaints of TAV Bee, Unite Warriors did this plenty whenever it felt like it - yeah, they do less redecos than Hasbro but to say it's a tendency is a bit extreme.

A lot of text attempting to prove arbitrary rules that don't exist based on patterns followed to maximize economic return for the Japanese market.

Just stop. Please, there aren't rules to everything. Let us have fun imagining cool repaints!

It's simply a recognition of patterns - Takara is just known to not re-use molds unless the characters are known to share molds (seekers et. al) or it's an exclusive. There's nothing wrong with realising this and coming to a conclusion of what's likely and unlikely to happen

nycPrime wrote:Is anyone else waiting on Six Shot from TFSource? I've noticed BBTS and Toy Dojo have it in stock, so hoping TFS gets it soon.

Give it a few days or a week or 2. TFsource is usually a few weeks behind everyone else, but that's the price of free shipping!

Okay... this is pretty great.

https://www.shapeways.com/product/28ZG3 ... areProduct

Nuclearxpotato wrote:I know that everyone is excited over Nautica, but uh, what mould does Fastlane come from?

Fastlane.jpg

I thought it was Chromedome, but the legs become the front. So is it Full-Tilt or something? 'Cause his arms are like 3x the thickness of Full-Tilt

Fastlane (2).jpg

Who's the 'bot in the extreme left?

I've been staring at this photo for longer than I care to admit and I'm fairly confident that fastlane is a new deluxe mold. He's short yes but he's way too chunky for a legend. Plus his vehicle mode is just as big as Nautica's.

The red bot next to twintwist (who looks incredible) is definitely windblade. The alt mode is right next to her and it's more VTOL jet than Cybertronian jet so I don't think it's Misfire.

I think it's really cool that they went with the g2 deco for prime and I really hope the star convoy head is released so I can put that on regular Optimus to differentiate them even more.

Quickswitch seems to look cooler than I thought he could with being a Sixshot redeco. But that's one I'll definitely need to see better pictures of to see just how well it works. I hope there's a bit of retooling but it won't be the end of the world if there isn't.

Since Nautica is the most obscured one due to lighting I won't say much, however I think the silhouette looks pretty damn good. I do think it's interesting how no one's mentioned how her alt mode is just a purple blurr and I don't see the shoulder fins anywhere.

All in all I can't wait for official images tomorrow. Hopefully we get a look at the strength set as well as speed but I fear that we won't. They still have to officially reveal the other 3 deluxe figures from wave 4, all of wave 5 and the speed pack along with all the rid and TLK stuff. Tomorrow's going to be a big day.

Kurona wrote:

ScottyP wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

ScottyP wrote:

o.supreme wrote:

ScottyP wrote:Quite interested to see more of Quickswitch. Guess it's a given that Takara will probably tackle that as Sixknight, yeah?

Well TT tend not to release the same mold twice, however I would rather hope for Great Shot rather than Sixknight since the Sixshot mold is closer to Greatshot.

They release molds twice all the time Blaster/Soundwave, both Leader Megatrons happened, there have been several repaints of TAV Bee, Unite Warriors did this plenty whenever it felt like it - yeah, they do less redecos than Hasbro but to say it's a tendency is a bit extreme.

A lot of text attempting to prove arbitrary rules that don't exist based on patterns followed to maximize economic return for the Japanese market.

Just stop. Please, there aren't rules to everything. Let us have fun imagining cool repaints!

It's simply a recognition of patterns - Takara is just known to not re-use molds unless the characters are known to share molds (seekers et. al) or it's an exclusive. There's nothing wrong with realising this and coming to a conclusion of what's likely and unlikely to happen

And changing my quote like that? Not cool.

Back to the topic, or rather the image...

I spy a little Windblade in the lower left corner... next to Topspin and Twintwist? Twintwist is definitely based on Topsin, but Windblade is a bit harder to tell. The way her legs seem to fold up aims at Triggerhappy, but I'm not quite sure.

The speed pack supposedly comes with Nautica from Blurr/Brainstorm, Quickswitch from Sixshot, Fastlane, Star Convoy and a Titanmaster called Thunderclap.

This was mentioned over on the https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/titans-return-box-set-speed-pack-confirmed/37335/ titans return box set speed pack confirmed thread

If so, then that shelf is probably the speed pack making that not g2 prime but star convoy

I also read elsewhere on this site that TR windblade was going to be based on highbrow, fwiw.

Also, yeah for a nautica toy and here is hoping that cloudraker is in the strength pack!

I am also disappointed that they used the Blurr mold over the scourge mold. The alt mold is similar in appearance, and they could have given her a far more feminine figure due to scourge's torso being already rounder and curvier.

TaraTech wrote:

The speed pack supposedly comes with Nautica from Blurr/Brainstorm, Quickswitch from Sixshot, Fastlane, Star Convoy and a Titanmaster called Thunderclap.

This was mentioned over on the https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/titans-return-box-set-speed-pack-confirmed/37335/ titans return box set speed pack confirmed thread

If so, then that shelf is probably the speed pack making that not g2 prime but star convoy

I also read elsewhere on this site that TR windblade was going to be based on highbrow, fwiw.

Also, yeah for a nautica toy and here is hoping that cloudraker is in the strength pack!

There is no mention of star convoy in the news you linked to. The contents to these boxsets was never revealed, it was just rumours so far. So we werent sure if it was star convoy. And now we finally know it isnt. This is our first look at the set ever, and it seems that the deco is G2 prime instead of star convoy. You can tell because the chest windows are red.

ArmadaPrime wrote:

Bumblebee21 wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Emerje wrote:

Nuclearxpotato wrote:I know that everyone is excited over Nautica, but uh, what mould does Fastlane come from?

Fastlane.jpg

I thought it was Chromedome, but the legs become the front. So is it Full-Tilt or something? 'Cause his arms are like 3x the thickness of Full-Tilt

Fastlane (2).jpg

It isn't the Full-Tilt mold, the proportions are all wrong (FT is rather skinny) and the wheels on Fastlane don't come up to his knees. Plus he appears to be a Legends figure, he's a lot shorter than Nautica next to him. Still not sure what his base mold is, maybe the Clones are getting unique shared molds?

I'm more interested in whether or not he has a Titan Master cockpit. If he doesn't, it means one of two things:

- It's a retool of an older mold
- Instead of having a cockpit, he is a Triple Changer like the tablets. Which means we may get both Clones in a single toy.

pretty sure its a mistransformed chromedome

See I was thinking he shared chromedome parts, the legs in particular, but as Emerje points out he seems to be a lot smaller- is it possible they just downsized the same (leg) mold maybe? Otherwise I'd say it's just another case of similar engineering like with CW Prowl, but even the foot shape and wheel placement seem to be a very close match from what I can make out in the photo

mistransformed

I don't think that's windblade, zoomed in on my phone it looks like misfire.