The Energon Pub

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Fri Sep 18, 2020 2:07 am

I said this before, it's shocking that ER and Cyberverse Arcee came out at the same time and from the same company. They have similar transformations but the Cyberverse executes it so much better.

Emerje

News Credits: 42 · Fri Sep 18, 2020 8:58 am

Beware anyone who pre-ordered from Target on the BOGO sale back in February. Anything that hasn't shipped yet might be in jeopardy of losing the sale price. Target was making me update my payment info, but when you do, you lose the sale/promotion price.

Looks like it will mainly affect the wave 3 Earthrise items and some of the October Studio Series releases.

News Credits: 23 · Fri Sep 18, 2020 9:22 am

TF-fan kev777 wrote:Beware anyone who pre-ordered from Target on the BOGO sale back in February. Anything that hasn't shipped yet might be in jeopardy of losing the sale price. Target was making me update my payment info, but when you do, you lose the sale/promotion price.

Looks like it will mainly affect the wave 3 Earthrise items and some of the October Studio Series releases.

I received Smokescreen and Snapdragon but they have not yet shipped the Voyager Quint and today I approved a third shipping delay. Thankfully I haven't been asked to update payment info but who knows when or if the Quint will actually ship.

News Credits: 42 · Fri Sep 18, 2020 9:57 am

aronjlove wrote:
TF-fan kev777 wrote:Beware anyone who pre-ordered from Target on the BOGO sale back in February. Anything that hasn't shipped yet might be in jeopardy of losing the sale price. Target was making me update my payment info, but when you do, you lose the sale/promotion price.

Looks like it will mainly affect the wave 3 Earthrise items and some of the October Studio Series releases.

I received Smokescreen and Snapdragon but they have not yet shipped the Voyager Quint and today I approved a third shipping delay. Thankfully I haven't been asked to update payment info but who knows when or if the Quint will actually ship.

I received Snapdragon and 2 of the 3 quints I ordered. The 3rd quint they just cancelled on me with no warning. Same thing happened with the mistake priced $30 SS Overload, which really would have irritated me if I didn't hedge my bets and also order one from Amazon at the mistake price, which I already received.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Sat Sep 19, 2020 7:32 am

I've had two delays on my one quint order so far. Going to be pretty annoyed with Target if they cancel it knowing some people were able to get more than one. I still have a bunch of stuff in open pre-orders I'm waiting for. I use a Red Card so they haven't asked me to update my payment method.

Emerje

News Credits: 9 · Sat Sep 19, 2020 11:50 am

I'm kinda surprised I haven't been able to get ahold of Smokescreen yet...
But of course now, there are 5 Seeker 2 packs at my Target.

News Credits: 56 · Sat Sep 19, 2020 1:13 pm

Amazon has Fasttrack on pre-order for $18.88 USD. I placed an order even though I already have one pre ordered with Target, after my last experience, and others with Target, I'll see which is more reliable/efficient come November.

Sat Sep 19, 2020 4:47 pm

Picked up a couple Doublecrossers today too add to my base building. My Target is now well stocked with the Earthrise battle masters and micro masters, so I have hope that I'll start seeing the deluxes soon.

News Credits: 1646 · Sat Sep 19, 2020 4:56 pm

Emerje wrote:I've had two delays on my one quint order so far. Going to be pretty annoyed with Target if they cancel it knowing some people were able to get more than one. I still have a bunch of stuff in open pre-orders I'm waiting for. I use a Red Card so they haven't asked me to update my payment method.

Emerje

I use redcard as well, but they still required me to change my payment method

News Credits: 56 · Sat Sep 19, 2020 5:39 pm

Just some pics of ER connectivity so far. Hothouse, Sheeldron & Fangtron Giza forthcoming...

Phase 1.

Phase 2 will include other Leader & Titan Class toys with the Airlock system.
Phase 3 will use Omega Supreme to expand to all toys with the previous TR connection system

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Sat Sep 19, 2020 8:05 pm

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:
Emerje wrote:I've had two delays on my one quint order so far. Going to be pretty annoyed with Target if they cancel it knowing some people were able to get more than one. I still have a bunch of stuff in open pre-orders I'm waiting for. I use a Red Card so they haven't asked me to update my payment method.

Emerje

I use redcard as well, but they still required me to change my payment method

That's odd, how often do you use it? I've used mine several times online since February, to say nothing of in-store purchases. Plus a bought a new phone a few months ago and Target had me update the app and card security so maybe that helped? Either they wont ask me to update or they'll ask me to update tomorrow, who can tell with Target?

Emerje

News Credits: 23 · Sat Sep 19, 2020 8:18 pm

I finally received a shipping confirmation from Megalopolis.toys yesterday for an order placed on July 27th. I can actually look at FedEx tracking and see the package has been picked up with a delivery date of Tuesday, so it is truly physically on the way.

So happy to finally have ER Starscream and really excited to have Sky Lynx. Seriously doubt I will use Megalopolis again, mine is one of many horror stories. With them being in Utah and me in Arizona I figured it would be nice and quick as my first order. Boy was I wrong :BANG_HEAD:

News Credits: 1646 · Sat Sep 19, 2020 10:07 pm

Emerje wrote:
D-Maximal_Primal wrote:
Emerje wrote:I've had two delays on my one quint order so far. Going to be pretty annoyed with Target if they cancel it knowing some people were able to get more than one. I still have a bunch of stuff in open pre-orders I'm waiting for. I use a Red Card so they haven't asked me to update my payment method.

Emerje

I use redcard as well, but they still required me to change my payment method

That's odd, how often do you use it? I've used mine several times online since February, to say nothing of in-store purchases. Plus a bought a new phone a few months ago and Target had me update the app and card security so maybe that helped? Either they wont ask me to update or they'll ask me to update tomorrow, who can tell with Target?

Emerje

Since I got the card, I have not used any other payment method at Target

News Credits: 19 · Sun Sep 20, 2020 4:25 am

My silver centurion with earthrise accessories has been shipped along with profiteer Destro (still kinda feel weird being tricked into preordering a standard retail wave figure - would have been better for me to have preorder the full 2nd wave of Gi Joe classified) but centurion is the important thing anyhoos.

News Credits: 2 · Sun Sep 20, 2020 11:40 pm

Damnation after opening Snapdragon I found a paint flaw on his mouth. :BANG_HEAD:

Anyone else find that similar flaw? It's gonna bug the crap out of me so I'm returning it...'nuff said! :VEHI:

News Credits: 8 · Mon Sep 21, 2020 5:26 am

Hi all, I am really on the fence about Allicon, because part of me wants to get it to go with my Judge, but another part of me thinks it looks really simple and a bit quirky in beast mode. Is he worth it?

News Credits: 174 · Mon Sep 21, 2020 5:40 am

LeAwesome1 wrote:Hi all, I am really on the fence about Allicon, because part of me wants to get it to go with my Judge, but another part of me thinks it looks really simple and a bit quirky in beast mode. Is he worth it?

I love him, has a ton of character and is actually quite big in beast mode cuz he's pretty squat, also his ankle articulation is insane and he even comes with a bonus weapon I never knew about (his tail dagger)

News Credits: 11 · Mon Sep 21, 2020 8:53 am

My pre-ordered Arcee and Megatron arrived today, to be honest I had low expectations for Arcee after hearing how bad she supposedly is, but she turned out to be a lot of fun, the only real complaint I have about her is some of the panels in vehicle mode don't stay in place very well. Megatron is nice as well, this is the first version of the War for Cybertron Voyager Megatron mould I've owned, and while battle damage decalls are one of the big things that put me off Seige initially, I think they work just fine on Megatron's tank mode. Not as good as the Combiner Wars Megatron, but I still consider it a good purchase.

Mon Sep 21, 2020 7:27 pm

Here in the north I am still patiently waiting for the Deluxe wave to land. Badly want Smokescreen and maaaybe Airwave after the iron stacks oil rig mechanic base turned out to be such a banger. Every other figure has shown up, all the Voyagers, Leaders,Decpticon Micromasters, two packs and Commanders have been spotted on shelves but not. The damn. DELUXES. AND THE ASTRO PATROL. :-(

News Credits: 19 · Tue Sep 22, 2020 2:54 am

Interesting oddity (or not), Argos (an online catologue store) has Earthrise Wheeljack in store/order online, they only have Wheeljack listed and available which means that for some bizarre reason they are able to, and have only ordered Wheeljacks from Hasbro. If it was the wave it would be listed as deluxe assortment. Weird times.

On the plus side he will probably be reduced at some point and I might consider getting one to some how customise into looking right.

News Credits: 1350 · Tue Sep 22, 2020 4:16 am

That is peculiar :-?

Id assumed that Argos had given up on Generations completely. They never got Titan's Returns in, did they?

News Credits: 19 · Tue Sep 22, 2020 4:39 am

ZeroWolf wrote:That is peculiar Id assumed that Argos had given up on Generations completely. They never got Titan's Returns in, did they?

Nope, no titans return or generations stuff for eons, they've only really stocked the younger audience ranges for a while now with Bumblebee soundwave or just his cassettes being the last 'generations' figure they had if I'm remembering correctly.

News Credits: 4877 · Tue Sep 22, 2020 7:22 am

Thanks to fellow Seibertronian WonkoTheSane, we now know that Kremzeek Reviews posted a review for Transformers Earthrise deluxe Runabout. This completes the duo with Transformers Earthrise Runamuck, who is also in the review. He does have a different head, in line with the G1 toy. However, it is a straight redeco for the rest of the car. The G1 versions were actually different cars and they do paint it differently in the front to form some kind of illusion of difference.
While we use the "Earthrise" moniker, it is just used here as a placeholder name until we know how this is actually getting released. It could be a Generations Selects for all we know.

News Credits: 65 · Tue Sep 22, 2020 10:28 am

M. Spector wrote:Here in the north I am still patiently waiting for the Deluxe wave to land. Badly want Smokescreen and maaaybe Airwave after the iron stacks oil rig mechanic base turned out to be such a banger. Every other figure has shown up, all the Voyagers, Leaders,Decpticon Micromasters, two packs and Commanders have been spotted on shelves but not. The damn. DELUXES. AND THE ASTRO PATROL.

Yeah, something weird is definitely up with the distribution of the Deluxe figures. Everything else has been slowly trickling out, but not Deluxe Wave 2. I managed to get the Wave 2 Micromaster sets last week, The Astro Squad and the Race Track Patrol, but now all that I see is Wave 1 Micromaster leftovers and Wave 3, which is apparently just a repack of Direct Hit and Power Punch. I've only spotted the Wave 2 Battle Masters once so far, and in that case, it was just a bunch of leftover Rung repacks and no sign of Slitherfang.

News Credits: 8 · Tue Sep 22, 2020 10:38 am

So I've been trying to get out of collecting but all the new Studio Series figures basically changed my mind, so I impulse bought Smokescreen and Quintesson Judge. Smokescreen is one of my favourite figures as of yet, absolutely love it. However, I can honestly say I regret getting the Judge. Its just, not fun. I don't know what I expected from an egg with faces and tentacles, but normally I'm able to find some enjoyment in every purchase but not this one. Already considering selling it to be honest, but I'm going to think on it first.