The Energon Pub

[Rodimus Prime]

My Wal-Mart has 5 or 6 Netflix Elitas, and I've been debating getting her, because I really liked the character from the series, but i heard mixed things about the mold.

If you pick one up, just make sure to look at the shoulders. The pin should be recessed in the shoulder joint and not flush. If it sits flush the pins in the arms, and maybe the arms (early morning preggo brain ), are installed backwards and it reduces the articulation by about half in the shoulder, also she won't be able to "transform" as well. I somehow managed to get extremely lucky with, still the only one I've seen, mine and got the correctly oriented arms when the issue was showing up on reviews all over the place.

Alright I'll keep that in mind, thanks.

[Emerje]

Unicron arrived today! Thankfully FedEx dropped it off without requiring a signature as it states it does on the tracking info since it showed up about 6 hours earlier than my FedEx packages usually show up and I wasn't around. Wont be able to get into the box until later in the week unfortunately.

Emerje

[TF-fan kev777]

I found SS Bee Movie Starscream today and Selects Deep cover arrived from Pulse as well.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

Secured myself some decent stuff lately thanks to Target, amazon, walmart, and Toyhax

[X3ROhour]

Dropped my beloved wifebot at work a little while ago
Stopped into Wal-Mart for some Dr. Pepper and pineapple chunks.
I never expect anything from this store... EVER!
The action figure aisle has been dead since last Easter!
I mean, unless you need tiny Batman or rainbow colored Xenomorphs, it's as if the good toy aisle caught COVID and died!

Anyway, I digress...
Tonight was a MOTHERLODE!!

I got Kingdom INFERNO & DINOBOT!
Netflix CHEETOR, DEESEEUS ARMY DRONE, BLUE DEEP COVER, & A SPARKLESS BOT!!

I also picked up McFarlane's DC Multimeter figures!
BIZARRO, DARK KNIGHTS METAL EVIL BATMAN: THE DROWNED & DAMIAN WAYNE ROBIN (not pictured).
AND
MARVEL LEGENDS
HOUSE OF X
WOLVERINE
(not pictured)

It was a good, good night.
*contented sigh*

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[-Kanrabat-]

Went to my Geek Store today to trade-in some TF that I no longer care about. With a few dollars to pay I got some good stuff.

G2 Devastator, 100% complete with its original and unused labels sheets (to use or not to use, that is the question.) Interestingly, some labels were already applied and the are G1 on the sheets. Also, the instructions to combine Devastator 6 times.

Next is Beast Wars Claw Jaw. He's a ton of fun! Plus both of my Skylas will have their "boyfriend".

Finally, ER Allicon. May be my last chance to get him before missing out for good.

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[Bucky]

Unexpected Target find!

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Was hoping for Cyclonus, but I’ll take these guys. Didn’t even know they had hit shelves already.

[-Kanrabat-]

This time, I had to fetch my package at the post office instead of having it on my porch. Oh well.

I sniped a lot on eBay and here it is.

Movie 2007 Barricade in blue, Starscream, Longarm, and even the rare Incinerator! Plus a random Energon Arcee.

All complete and unbroken except some serious yellowing on Barricade, Screamers, and Incinerator. A tiny bit on Longarm.

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Guess what did this lot cost me?

....

13$can plus 20$can of shipping! And it arrived in 3 days!

[Sowndwave76]

So today I made a random stop off to a Walmart that I don't get to much on my way to lunch...
I may regret passing on the Sparkless Bot, but I found these 4 and was completely happy enough.

Finally got a Huffer! Also, this was the first and only Inferno I've seen.
Lastly, they had 2-3 of each of all of the Headmasters!!!!
I had seen Hardhead a couple times before and passed on him, but with getting Weirdwolf and having Skullcruncher already, I figured I'd get 2 of each faction (found Brainstorm about a week ago).

Nice start to the weekend!!!!

[Burn]

I got a big ball of doom.

My cat got a big box.

[Emerje]

Unexpected Target find!

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Was hoping for Cyclonus, but I’ll take these guys. Didn’t even know they had hit shelves already.

Almost the same experience. Was hoping to find Cyclonus with no luck, but after all the hype I picked up Bee movie Starscream and BB SS74 Bumblebee (would have grabbed Dino if they had any Deluxes other than BB stuff).

Walmart didn't have Cyclonus either though they did put the Voyager shelf tags back up (Leader tags for SS and Kingdom are still MIA). Did find a Quintesson Drone to complete Netflix Deluxe wave 3 so that's good.

Didn't get a chance to post that last Monday Pulse dropped off both Selects Deep Cover and Kingdom Beast Megatron. If I could just find Cyclonus I would have wave 1 complete.

Emerje

[Evil Eye]

So no pictures but I've gotten a fair few figures in recently. First off as mentioned in the SS thread I got Kup, who now that I've gotten him exchanged for a properly assembled one I love. He's really, really cool, looks great in both modes (even with the slightly derpy face) and a really interesting transformation.

I can't remember if I mentioned but I FINALLY got Siege Shockwave in! Absolutely amazing figure- I don't see how they could top this for another one short of just redecoing him in a slightly lighter purple and making the gun barrel silver? And even then that's highly subjective as to whether it would improve him.

Also around the same time I got TAV Lockdown. He's a bit dated in articulation (his knees kinda suck) but I love how he goes from a regular sized car to a towering robot, and his colours are delightful.

Finally, I got Ractonite and Bugbite in yesterday. Bugbite is pretty cool- really nice engineering for a bot of his size. He's destined to become police Bumblebee once my airbrush booth is set up (which will involve little more than some extra black, a few stickers and a "cherry light") but regardless, a very cool figure. I did get that de-partsforming upgrade for him, which whilst cool does make his transformation quite fiddly. Ractonite, however, eh. He's OK I guess. Some nice sculpting and the beast mode is great but the robot mode is strangely limited and his weapon configurations are nowhere near as fun as Paleotrex.

Oh, also I have HFTD Sunspot coming in soon (got him for £19!) but he hasn't arrived yet.

[Bucky]

Unexpected Target find!

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Was hoping for Cyclonus, but I’ll take these guys. Didn’t even know they had hit shelves already.

Almost the same experience. Was hoping to find Cyclonus with no luck, but after all the hype I picked up Bee movie Starscream and BB SS74 Bumblebee (would have grabbed Dino if they had any Deluxes other than BB stuff).

Walmart didn't have Cyclonus either though they did put the Voyager shelf tags back up (Leader tags for SS and Kingdom are still MIA). Did find a Quintesson Drone to complete Netflix Deluxe wave 3 so that's good.

Didn't get a chance to post that last Monday Pulse dropped off both Selects Deep Cover and Kingdom Beast Megatron. If I could just find Cyclonus I would have wave 1 complete.

Emerje

Eh, bummer about no Cyclonus for either of us. But those other finds were nice.


Also forgot that I got Wal-Mart’s Hardhead and Brainstorm headmasters. Kingdom Airazor also came in from Pulse. Ractonite is floating around in the mail somewhere......

[M. Spector]

My current haul leaves me pretty well caught up for a lil bit here! Haven't opened up the two Selects yet, but plan on giving Exhaust extra paint detail and some grimey wear spots. Of the two pick pack will only be keeping Cordon, Spin-out is going to a friend.

[X3ROhour]

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HUFFER!!!
I love this dude so much that when I saw him again out in the wild, I had to buy him again!
I have a supper love for the MINIBOTS!
I think it is because when I was little, they where all my parents could afford on a non-holiday day.
So I had mostly MINIBOTS as a kid.
Heck, my first, EVER bot was WINDCHARGER.

[Starseeker]

Been enjoying my Sunday with this haul.
This Blitzwing in particular is off the hook! All modes look great and I love the 3 different faces. The black jack-o-lantern one is my favorite. He can be like, "Happy Halloween, Autobrat" as he shoves his sword through an unsuspecting victim!

[-Kanrabat-]

Randomly went at Toys R Us because 10% off coupon.

And SCORE!

SS86 Hotrod and ER Sunstreaker! I have given up on Sunny but TrU restocked that wave! And HotRod was the only one they had.

That was lucky!

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[Emerje]

A 7:00AM stop at Walmart after work paid off this morning. Was able to finally get myself a Kingdom Huffer! They had Airrazor and Ractonite, but I was able to pre-order those on Amazon at the discounted price, it was just Huffer that's been elusive. That just leaves Cyclonus as the only released figure I haven't seen from Kingdom.

Emerje

[Emerje]

Won and recieved a loose Energon Unicron from eBay. Paid a lot more than I wanted to, but his price doesn't seem to be going down and I really want to display a full set. Appears to be complete as described, but a quick look and the chest canon doesn't want to go back in. It's probably fine, I just need to spend a little more time with him. That brings my Armada mold count up to 4, just missing the two Hasbro G1 retools (obviously not getting the Lucky Draw any time soon), hopefully the price drops on those eventually.

Also got a bunch of eBay upgrade kits and gap fillers. Articulated hands, sword and gap fillers for SS86 Grimlock, extensions for ER Doubledealer, and gap fillers for ER Zarak, SS Sentinel Prime, and SS Leadfoot. Some of these have 3D printer marks, but some look to be properly molded so they should be fine.

Emerje

[-Kanrabat-]

I don't trust my local stores to ever have any Netflix figures so when I saw Mr Rusty on Amazon.jp, I bought two. One for me, one for my close friend. A Super Sonico figure came along for the ride.

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[Jelze Bunnycat]

Heh, a few days ago I said I was already behind with getting Fossilizers, especially with Wingfinger providing a Combiner head. A grocery and pharmacy trip to Walmart later:

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WFC Kingdom Vertebreak
WFC Kingdom Paleotrex
WFC Kingdom Ractonite

Technically I'm still behind with Transmutate and Tricranius... Is there a Predacon version of Wingfinger by any chance?

[Evil Eye]

Got Sunspot in this morning! I really like this little thing, really good articulation, simple but cool transformation and amazing sculpting. Also cool colours! As the toy bio (the sole fiction for this toy) paints Sunspot as a slightly dozy daydreamer but literally nothing else exists in terms of fictional appearances (not even any other name-sharers!) in my headcanon she's a fembot, essentially a giant robot version of Osaka from Azumanga Daioh.

[Spider5800]

Managed to find Netflix Cheetor at the Wal-Mart up the street from my house last week (weirdly, they had three Cheetors and none of the other characters from that wave, which is the opposite of what I would have expected), so snatched him up. I've got Kingdom Dinobot on the way, and I pre-ordered Scorponok, so only have to find an Airrazor and I've got all the Kingdom stuff I wanted (until they announce more, of course).

Then yesterday, checked a nearby Target and they also had the next wave of Studio Series figures, with Dino, B-127 and BB Starscream. Only grabbed Dino, I already have Cliffjumper and Blitzwing and don't really feel the need to double up on those molds, but was pretty excited to be getting new SS stuff either way.

[-Kanrabat-]

Managed to find Netflix Cheetor at the Wal-Mart up the street from my house last week (weirdly, they had three Cheetors and none of the other characters from that wave, which is the opposite of what I would have expected), so snatched him up. I've got Kingdom Dinobot on the way, and I pre-ordered Scorponok, so only have to find an Airrazor and I've got all the Kingdom stuff I wanted (until they announce more, of course).

Then yesterday, checked a nearby Target and they also had the next wave of Studio Series figures, with Dino, B-127 and BB Starscream. Only grabbed Dino, I already have Cliffjumper and Blitzwing and don't really feel the need to double up on those molds, but was pretty excited to be getting new SS stuff either way.

For the N'th time, those two are NOT the same mold by a long shot.

[ZeroWolf]

Managed to find Netflix Cheetor at the Wal-Mart up the street from my house last week (weirdly, they had three Cheetors and none of the other characters from that wave, which is the opposite of what I would have expected), so snatched him up. I've got Kingdom Dinobot on the way, and I pre-ordered Scorponok, so only have to find an Airrazor and I've got all the Kingdom stuff I wanted (until they announce more, of course).

Then yesterday, checked a nearby Target and they also had the next wave of Studio Series figures, with Dino, B-127 and BB Starscream. Only grabbed Dino, I already have Cliffjumper and Blitzwing and don't really feel the need to double up on those molds, but was pretty excited to be getting new SS stuff either way.

I think you'll find that Starscream may look the same (in bot mode only) but is completely different. Screamer isn't a retool anymore then Energon Starscream is a retool of Generation 2 Smokejumper