The Energon Pub

Wolfman Jake wrote:That's disappointing with Galvatron. That purple color is...not good. The unpainted Titan Master partner is a bummer too. Looks like I will be getting the Takara version after all. It's not quite the right purple either, but it's closer, and it has some history, at the very least.

I'm not too worried about the head. The gray alone covers the Megatron look in both modes. As Galvatron, the color contrast will be added by the the face & crest piece.

Still a curious choice for the shade of purple. I wonder what the basis for it was.

ZeroWolf wrote:Did they do any shots of what pm op looks like with different titan masters and the helmet on?

Not in the video, nope.

Boy that is a weird shade of pink for Galvatron. Has he ever even been that color?

william-james88 wrote:

Being reminded of Energon animation is a bad sign.

Well Ima little disappointed by galvatron' sco lour in the vid tho it might be due to the lighting used. It's also similar to a an iteration or two I recall from something or other when I was a kid.

Otherwise well done to hasbro for the video. Hopefully they up the ante on the marketing. I feel they don't get enough promotion or quality shop placements etc outside of the movies. Getting a feeling they're realising that ones like combiner wars and headmasters can appeal to kids more than say generations toys have in the past

Noideaforaname wrote:Boy that is a weird shade of pink for Galvatron. Has he ever even been that color?

Closest I could find was the color of the 3" Titanium Galvatron:

Noideaforaname wrote:Boy that is a weird shade of pink for Galvatron. Has he ever even been that color?

william-james88 wrote:

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Being reminded of Energon animation is a bad sign.

This is why we keep you around, Noid!

Oh when the day will come when we see Takara's touch on all these awesome looking figures...'nuff said!

Nemesis Destron wrote:Oh when the day will come when we see Takara's touch on all these awesome looking figures...'nuff said!

We've seen several of them, people weren't overly enthusiastic about them, so, not sure what you're expecting from the other figures

Nemesis Destron wrote:Oh when the day will come when we see Takara's touch on all these awesome looking figures...'nuff said!

Since the Seibertron pics of them are currently offline, here's the original source - http://hobby.dengeki.com/news/172290/

Nemesis Destron wrote:Oh when the day will come when we see Takara's touch on all these awesome looking figures...'nuff said!

You say this like everything they do is amazing or something.








"Grumble"

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Nemesis Destron wrote:Oh when the day will come when we see Takara's touch on all these awesome looking figures...'nuff said!

We've seen several of them, people weren't overly enthusiastic about them, so, not sure what you're expecting from the other figures

This is true. It was newsed maybe 2 weeks ago and the responses were subpar. the greater amount of enthusiasm was for the hasbro guys this time so far. Takara chose a weird purple for Galvatron as well

I don't entirely trust these ads either, we'll have to see the toys in hand to make a final judgment about the colors.

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Nemesis Destron wrote:Oh when the day will come when we see Takara's touch on all these awesome looking figures...'nuff said!

We've seen several of them, people weren't overly enthusiastic about them, so, not sure what you're expecting from the other figures

This is true. It was newsed maybe 2 weeks ago and the responses were subpar. the greater amount of enthusiasm was for the hasbro guys this time so far. Takara chose a weird purple for Galvatron as well

It's called lilac, and it definitely doesn't fit any of his established personalities. TT uses it on their Galvatrons, and everyone collectively scratches their heads that TT is still going that route

That Bot wrote:I don't entirely trust these ads either, we'll have to see the toys in hand to make a final judgment about the colors.

I think this is the appropriate stance to take. Though, I must say that Galvy was the only one whose colors looked way off, everyone else looked pretty properly colored, this may be worrying

Hellscream9999 wrote:

That Bot wrote:I don't entirely trust these ads either, we'll have to see the toys in hand to make a final judgment about the colors.

I think this is the appropriate stance to take. Though, I must say that Galvy was the only one whose colors looked way off, everyone else looked pretty properly colored, this may be worrying

That's not entirely true, Galvatron's head and Squeezeplay's head were also off in paint and color respectively. I'm going to chalk it up to lighting for the time being.

A red-orange-yellow Prime with black feet and dual cannons? They might as well have called him Rodimus.

Rodimus Prime wrote:

A red-orange-yellow Prime with black feet and dual cannons? They might as well have called him Rodimus.

Would you of been happy though if they had this as rodimus to be fair the colours are similar but they are supposed to be based off idw sentinel

Hellscream9999 wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Nemesis Destron wrote:Oh when the day will come when we see Takara's touch on all these awesome looking figures...'nuff said!

We've seen several of them, people weren't overly enthusiastic about them, so, not sure what you're expecting from the other figures

This is true. It was newsed maybe 2 weeks ago and the responses were subpar. the greater amount of enthusiasm was for the hasbro guys this time so far. Takara chose a weird purple for Galvatron as well

It's called lilac, and it definitely doesn't fit any of his established personalities. TT uses it on their Galvatrons, and everyone collectively scratches their heads that TT is still going that route

He does often appear super light coloured in the cartoon:







And the colours chosen for the pic below are interesting. Takara is going for the colours on the left while Hasbro is going for the colours on the right which are not only of a more purple colour (away from blue) but also much brighter.



And here is a question, if the lighting is off in the video then why is there some dark purple plastic still showing on the toy?

ZeroWolf wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:

A red-orange-yellow Prime with black feet and dual cannons? They might as well have called him Rodimus.

Would you of been happy though if they had this as rodimus to be fair the colours are similar but they are supposed to be based off idw sentinel

Not to mention that the original Sentinel Prime had those colors as well:

The colors on Galvatron look pretty bad
So I will definitely go Takara for him

william-james88 wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Nemesis Destron wrote:Oh when the day will come when we see Takara's touch on all these awesome looking figures...'nuff said!

We've seen several of them, people weren't overly enthusiastic about them, so, not sure what you're expecting from the other figures

This is true. It was newsed maybe 2 weeks ago and the responses were subpar. the greater amount of enthusiasm was for the hasbro guys this time so far. Takara chose a weird purple for Galvatron as well

It's called lilac, and it definitely doesn't fit any of his established personalities. TT uses it on their Galvatrons, and everyone collectively scratches their heads that TT is still going that route

He does often appear super light coloured in the cartoon

And here is a question, if the lighting is off in the video then why is there some dark purple plastic still showing on the toy?

Maybe one's painted plastic and the other is purple plastic? My question is, if they just made a galvatron, could they not simply secure the same plastic again for this figure?

And the show is more blue, whereas TT's is definitely soft lilac, liek pastel lilac, no where near similar to the show, I think we can all agree it's based off of the toy and it just doesn't work for Galvatron. My favorite deco's for him are still armada and energon, thye rocked

Hellscream9999 wrote: I think we can all agree it's based off of the toy and it just doesn't work for Galvatron.

Based on the toy? What toy? The G1 grey toy?

william-james88 wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote: I think we can all agree it's based off of the toy and it just doesn't work for Galvatron.

Based on the toy? What toy? The G1 grey toy?

I dunno, the lilac re-issue? All I know is that they keep using it and we keep scratching our heads 'cos of it

10-1 says any mp galvatron we get is also going to be in that stupid lilac, so I guess we should just accept it

Hellscream9999 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Nemesis Destron wrote:Oh when the day will come when we see Takara's touch on all these awesome looking figures...'nuff said!

We've seen several of them, people weren't overly enthusiastic about them, so, not sure what you're expecting from the other figures

This is true. It was newsed maybe 2 weeks ago and the responses were subpar. the greater amount of enthusiasm was for the hasbro guys this time so far. Takara chose a weird purple for Galvatron as well

It's called lilac, and it definitely doesn't fit any of his established personalities. TT uses it on their Galvatrons, and everyone collectively scratches their heads that TT is still going that route

He does often appear super light coloured in the cartoon

And here is a question, if the lighting is off in the video then why is there some dark purple plastic still showing on the toy?

Maybe one's painted plastic and the other is purple plastic? My question is, if they just made a galvatron, could they not simply secure the same plastic again for this figure?

And the show is more blue, whereas TT's is definitely soft lilac, liek pastel lilac, no where near similar to the show, I think we can all agree it's based off of the toy and it just doesn't work for Galvatron. My favorite deco's for him are still armada and energon, thye rocked

I think all shows of the unicron trilogy did awesome on all the galvatron decos, I mean amarda galvy with energon tidal wave goes down really well.

ZeroWolf wrote:I think all shows of the unicron trilogy did awesome on all the galvatron decos, I mean amarda galvy with energon tidal wave goes down really well.

While I agree, I am still really surprised with that reversal of colours we all accepted at that time. The megatrons would have purple (RID, Armada, Cybertron) and the Galvatrons would all be white/ silver.

By all accounts on the current mindset, the one below should be Megatron


Transformers Cybertron Galvatron (Master Galvatron) Gallery


Transformers Cybertron Megatron (Master Megatron) Gallery

While the one above should be Galvatron, no? Especially since he also homages Unicron armour in proper colour.

Energon Megatron was grey BUT as I pointed out once, the whole point of that toy was that it was an homage to Galvatron.

Sorry for going off topic but you guys are bringing up such fun stuff that I love discussing. makes the day at work more fun