The Energon Pub

ZeroWolf wrote:I forgot about nycc...

They have a toy fair and a comic con. Lucky New Yorkers

Bumblebee21 wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:I forgot about nycc...

They have a toy fair and a comic con. Lucky New Yorkers

Mwahaha.

Sigma Magnus wrote:

Bumblebee21 wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:I forgot about nycc...

They have a toy fair and a comic con. Lucky New Yorkers

Mwahaha.

you're one of them

Trypticon looks AMAZING!

william-james88 wrote:
The next show with reveals will be NYCC October 6th, just 2 months away.

thnx!

AutobotAlvaron wrote:Is TR Fort Max cheaper than the regular retail release Titan Metroplex was? $149.99 seems very reasonable for him, but I remember Metroplex was closer to $175.00, wasn't it? Maybe I'm "mis-remembering" things , but I definitely paid much more than that for my HK ACG-Con Metroplex. What was his regular MSRP anyway?

$149.99 has been the US MSRP for Devastator and Fortress Maximus. Metroplex was $129.99. Thanks inflation!

Bumblebee21 wrote:We might be getting dinobots
http://tformers.com/cybertron-con-2016- ... /news.html

I read it and it just says that the dinobots are refrenced in the line, but we already knew that, we have Clobber and Ptero. Us getting something beyond that is an assumption the author made. We hypothesised as much here too. Nothing new.

Sixshot looks amazingly badass. Does this mean that Overlord(cant wait ) will be the other Leader class in that wave?

Kickback, finally, been waiting forever it seems like to finish up the Insecticon trinity.

Bumblebee looks cool, I am hoping for a Goldbug.

Doublecross may be my fav of these wave, cant wait to get him. He was always one of the coolest bots from my childhood.

Hot Rod looks awesome as well, it will be nice to replace animated Rodimus in my CHUG collection.

I will be waiting for the Octane repaint on the Optimus mould.

Trypticon, what can you say but SWEEEET! I haven't bought a Titan class figure yet, because of moneys and mostly no space. But he looks awesome. Planet X was just showing off their FoC Trypticon a couple days ago too.

By the by, it must make the original G1 engineers proud that despite everything the so called modern takes of these iconic characters, the base designs harkens back to the original concept back in 1986.

Trypticon looks so gojira!

I don't even know how to deal with this line, there are so many good figures. I want the majority of what I've seen so far. Megatron and OP are really tough decisions because the molds are clearly intended to be Blitzwing and Octane, but they look so good... I might get Prime to go on my OP shelf, Megatron I'll have to decide on. He at least makes a good replacement for the Nerf gun Classics mold.

Meanwhile, Sixshot, Rodimus and Kickback are must-haves. I'm surprised that Sixshot is so close to his G1 self.

You can see Trypticon's head in that Highbrow picture and it measures up to be about the same width.

I just found TR Scourge with Fracas at TRU, as well as all those small guys that were shown earlier.

Tigertrack wrote:

SureShot18 wrote:Well this is amazing. I don't know what else to say besides that. Also that sculpted detail is just . If the final product is as impressive as these 3 cropped grey model pics he'll be a definite buy.

Speaking of grey sculpted details.

A.) That hip joint clear plastic looks like it has planet key detailing (coincidence?), although I'm not positive it is the beast planet key outline or not...and there seems to be a tiny molded Decepticon symbol on it's grey part as well.

B.) I believe I caught a glimpse of grey model full-tilt sitting on top of Trypticon's city mode (above High Brow).

I'm not sure about the cyber key outline but there is definitely a vehicle in that picture. It is probably Full-Tilt.

SureShot18 wrote:

Tigertrack wrote:

SureShot18 wrote:Well this is amazing. I don't know what else to say besides that. Also that sculpted detail is just . If the final product is as impressive as these 3 cropped grey model pics he'll be a definite buy.

Speaking of grey sculpted details.

A.) That hip joint clear plastic looks like it has planet key detailing (coincidence?), although I'm not positive it is the beast planet key outline or not...and there seems to be a tiny molded Decepticon symbol on it's grey part as well.

B.) I believe I caught a glimpse of grey model full-tilt sitting on top of Trypticon's city mode (above High Brow).

I'm not sure about the cyber key outline but there is definitely a vehicle in that picture. It is probably Full-Tilt.

I thought that at first, but it also looks like it could be the hinge/gears from transformation.

YoungPrime wrote:You can see Trypticon's head in that Highbrow picture and it measures up to be about the same width.

Yeah, he's shaping up to be massive



But I gotta wonder, is he going to be on par - scale-wise - with metroplex and fort max in beast mode? Will he stand 2 feet tall total in beast mode, or will he be 2 feet long from head to tail, and that will be how he's sized, this is key to me

Hellscream9999 wrote:

YoungPrime wrote:You can see Trypticon's head in that Highbrow picture and it measures up to be about the same width.

Yeah, he's shaping up to be massive



But I gotta wonder, is he going to be on par - scale-wise - with metroplex and fort max in beast mode? Will he stand 2 feet tall total in beast mode, or will he be 2 feet long from head to tail, and that will be how he's sized, this is key to me

I believe that they said he won't be as tall, but will make up for it in mass.

Sigma Magnus wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

YoungPrime wrote:You can see Trypticon's head in that Highbrow picture and it measures up to be about the same width.

Yeah, he's shaping up to be massive



But I gotta wonder, is he going to be on par - scale-wise - with metroplex and fort max in beast mode? Will he stand 2 feet tall total in beast mode, or will he be 2 feet long from head to tail, and that will be how he's sized, this is key to me

I believe that they said he won't be as tall, but will make up for it in mass.

He looks pretty dense in the pics, one of the first things that I noticed about him

Picked up Hardhead, Skullsmasher, and the second wave of Titan Masters at TRU today. They did not have the Voyagers, Legends, Leaders, or the first wave of Titan Masters for some reason. In any case, I was wondering what the typical level of floppiness of Skullsmasher's legs is? Mine are noticeably less tight than Hardhead's, but it stands up and can be posed just fine. Is that typical, or is mine better than most?

Vic Zanzibar wrote:Picked up Hardhead, Skullsmasher, and the second wave of Titan Masters at TRU today. They did not have the Voyagers, Legends, Leaders, or the first wave of Titan Masters for some reason. In any case, I was wondering what the typical level of floppiness of Skullsmasher's legs is? Mine are noticeably less tight than Hardhead's, but it stands up and can be posed just fine. Is that typical, or is mine better than most?

Dunno, but most figures' qc issue's run the spectrum of crap to not-quite-as-crap, so you may have lucked out.

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Vic Zanzibar wrote:Picked up Hardhead, Skullsmasher, and the second wave of Titan Masters at TRU today. They did not have the Voyagers, Legends, Leaders, or the first wave of Titan Masters for some reason. In any case, I was wondering what the typical level of floppiness of Skullsmasher's legs is? Mine are noticeably less tight than Hardhead's, but it stands up and can be posed just fine. Is that typical, or is mine better than most?

Dunno, but most figures' qc issue's run the spectrum of crap to not-quite-as-crap, so you may have lucked out.

I have bought both Leaders, both Voyagers, Rewind, Stripes, and the ones I mentioned earlier and none of them have had any quality issues at all; the only issues I've had is that the Stripes figure itself is just bad. This is only my own personal experience, but this line is off to a pretty good start quality wise.

Vic Zanzibar wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Vic Zanzibar wrote:Picked up Hardhead, Skullsmasher, and the second wave of Titan Masters at TRU today. They did not have the Voyagers, Legends, Leaders, or the first wave of Titan Masters for some reason. In any case, I was wondering what the typical level of floppiness of Skullsmasher's legs is? Mine are noticeably less tight than Hardhead's, but it stands up and can be posed just fine. Is that typical, or is mine better than most?

Dunno, but most figures' qc issue's run the spectrum of crap to not-quite-as-crap, so you may have lucked out.

I have bought both Leaders, both Voyagers, Rewind, Stripes, and the ones I mentioned earlier and none of them have had any quality issues at all; the only issues I've had is that the Stripes figure itself is just bad. This is only my own personal experience, but this line is off to a pretty good start quality wise.

Yeah, it seems like it was just skullsmasher that suffered from a lot of noticeably bad qc issues, everything else mainly falls into the realm of issues with the headmaster guy, or the connector port, or both

Optimus looks FUGLY as hell. I bet money he is going to be repainted as Octane.

I came so close to getting Skullcrunch and Hardhead at my TRU yesterday. I mean, Skullcrunch just looks frikkin boss, so I'll get him eventually, and Hardhead is going to be painted as the predator Stalker. But I just didn't want to spend $23 to get them.

Somebody did a digibash of Skullcrunch as Dinobit Snarl, and it looks so good that I'm going to be really disappointed if Hasbro doesn't make that happen.

HilltopOfKaon wrote:Optimus looks FUGLY as hell. I bet money he is going to be repainted as Octane.

Chances to that are really high. In fact, the only one higher is Megatron into Blitzwing, as his Titan Master Doomshot is designed after the latter. Prime's on the other hand seems to be based on a Diaclone pilot, hence the name "Diac".

HilltopOfKaon wrote:Optimus looks FUGLY as hell. I bet money he is going to be repainted as Octane.

He probably won't be an repaint plus optimus is a pretool they retooled octane into optimus and release him first since he will be the less popular retool plus optimus isn't that also its forgive able even more due to the fact hes a star convoy homage as well