The Energon Pub

[-Crossfire-]

Gotta say, WFC 2: G1 Boogaloo is really appealing to me. So much for saving up money. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Chromia: I like her, buuuut not enough to get her. Really dislike all the tech greebles around her bustline and waist. Probably will just get FireNova if she ever shows up.

Cog: Really digging his (its?) look, tho I like him better as an individual than as weapons haha. He'll look great with TR Fort Max.

Hound: Looks great. I still think my CW Hound is neat but I might have to consider getting this one.

Ironhide: GEEWUN BOCKS VAN MODE YUS. TR Kup was one of the molds I (sadly) never messed with so Ironhide will be a nice sub.

Magnus: A-Mazing. Love the '01 RID altmode (RID and UT need more love) and the seperate robot mode. I've come to really like the Minimus Ambus/Magnus Armor concept, but it's good to get back down to basics.

Lionizer: He's back! Is he packed with anyone, or is seperate like Firedrive?

Micros: Glad to see MMs getting some love. I'll prob get Red Hot & Stakeout.

Looking forward to more from this line...

[william-james88]

It seems like fans just can't get enough of the upcoming "2019" Transformers War for Cybertron Siege line, which should be available toward the end of this year. So, for you all we have a complete gallery of the display shown during the SDCC 2018 breakfast event.

So amongst that seemingly civil war carnage (where are all the Decepticons at?) you can find:
Hound
Battle Master Lionizer
Micromasters two packs Battle Patrol, Race Patrol, Rescue Patrol
COG
Ironhide
Chromia
Leader class Ultra Magnus

You can also see the official renders here.

For a view of the whole gallery, you can click on any of the images below. And be sure to let us know, if you have not already, which of these you are most looking foward to.

Also, we have a video of the display so be sure to check that out too.

[Nathaniel Prime]

I am loving that new Ironhide. Everyone looks fantastic but there are some needs and wants(though "need" technically leans towards "want"). Prime, Sideswipe, and Ironhide are needs because I don't have any version of them yet for CHUG. Wants are Ultra Magnus, but I have the CW Leader, Hound, but I have the Universe Deluxe. Everyone is a want though. I love everything here and this line shows that Hasbro DOES listen to the fans, and loves them too.

BTW, weapons-oriented gimmicks are definitely fine with me. I prefer it actually.

[ZeroWolf]

Okay...I'm going back on what I said earlier but ironhide as won me over, I love his hammer. Hound is making me reconsider as well...still want to know if you could put magnus armour on prime...

[Overcracker]

I need that Magnus in my life.

White Cab, that is not a repaint of Optimus + Armor / Trailer.

At least Ironhide is suitably Cybertronian.

[Hydrargyrus]

I’m not sure about all the greebling, especially on Mags. Still looks like a great line on the whole, though.

[TF-fan kev777]

still want to know if you could put magnus armour on prime...

I'm going to say that is a no. Look at the arms. The armor slides over UM's arms. Prime arms have truck kibble that would be in the way.

[ZeroWolf]

still want to know if you could put magnus armour on prime...

I'm going to say that is a no. Look at the arms. The armor slides over UM's arms. Prime arms have truck kibble that would be in the way.

Aww, that's a shame as that would have been quite fun and enhanced playability between the two. Especially since it looks like the white cab started life as the op mold before the changes were done to make the rid2001 alt

[william-james88]

So...who wants to translate the Cybertronian (or is it Japanese...I cant tell...) on Stakeout's Car Door, being so obvious this time around, I would hope it would not be something offensive to some, or at least it could be caught in time for Hasbro to make the change...

I think it says Trump 2020

jk it says Police

Okay...I'm going back on what I said earlier but ironhide as won me over, I love his hammer. Hound is making me reconsider as well...still want to know if you could put magnus armour on prime...

I highly doubt that since voyager optimus is a very different mold from the smallr inner white prime.

Lionizer: He's back! Is he packed with anyone, or is seperate like Firedrive?

Seperate like Firedrive

[leokearon]

Still waiting for some Cons, otherwise it isn't going to be much of a war (unless it is going to be an Autobot Civil Wa)

[o.supreme]

Where is the confirmation that she does not combine?

Bad News....I'm not seeing a 5mm on the front bumper, pretty sure Chromia is not a combiner component .

This is what Hasbro said at the panel:

Removing the gimmick element Prime Wars moved into paying attention to the characters, in terms of pose ability, articulation and more in the engineering, as the weaponizing element of Micro and Battle Masters allow for playability.

She is. But it doesn't make up for all the sacrifices that Elita-1's design had to make in order to combine. Just so that they could give us a Chromia, from a combining mold, that doesn't combine. It feels like a decision made with malice....

Trust me, as probably the biggest fan of combiners here, I get the sentiment. But I don't know if it was done with malice, it seems often there are so many "cooks in the kitchen", things easily get overlooked.

Developer: OK we want to recreate the pair Ironhide & Chromia.
Developer 2: -OK we have a great fembot mold,but we aren't doing combiners for this line so we just have to remove that.

I don't know...I know it goes against Hasbro's MO for the past several lines, especially since there was bleeding over form T30 into CW, and every line after that. One would think it would require more effort to remove the Combiner functionality, but who knows...Even if the 5MM holes are gone, if that Combiner Port is still there (which it probably isn't), I'm definitely going to try to find a way to alter Chromia to make her a limb .



Now I have a question of my own....Does anyone think this line will have a Titan, if so what should it be....

[william-james88]

On a side note, now I’m wondering if William-James and company has ever done a top five list for best/worst gimmicks.

We did Top 5 Best https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... oys/35702/

As for Top 5 worst, I dont really think the gimmicks are bad themselves its just that they are poorly executed on some toys.

[ZeroWolf]

Where is the confirmation that she does not combine?

Bad News....I'm not seeing a 5mm on the front bumper, pretty sure Chromia is not a combiner component .

This is what Hasbro said at the panel:

Removing the gimmick element Prime Wars moved into paying attention to the characters, in terms of pose ability, articulation and more in the engineering, as the weaponizing element of Micro and Battle Masters allow for playability.

She is. But it doesn't make up for all the sacrifices that Elita-1's design had to make in order to combine. Just so that they could give us a Chromia, from a combining mold, that doesn't combine. It feels like a decision made with malice....

Trust me, as probably the biggest fan of combiners here, I get the sentiment. But I don't know if it was done with malice, it seems often there are so many "cooks in the kitchen", things easily get overlooked.

Developer: OK we want to recreate the pair Ironhide & Chromia.
Developer 2: -OK we have a great fembot mold,but we aren't doing combiners for this line so we just have to remove that.

I don't know...I know it goes against Hasbro's MO for the past several lines, especially since there was bleeding over form T30 into CW, and every line after that. One would think it would require more effort to remove the Combiner functionality, but who knows...Even if the 5MM holes are gone, if that Combiner Port is still there (which it probably isn't), I'm definitely going to try to find a way to alter Chromia to make her a limb .



Now I have a question of my own....Does anyone think this line will have a Titan, if so what should it be....

I think this titan should be omega supreme, complete the devey/omega rivalry and then in the second part of wfc, give us scorpy.

As for chromia...couldn't you just get a spare moonracer or nova star and do a head swap and a nice new paint job?

[Carnivius_Prime]

Still not really a fan of any of these. I don't mind the aesthetic with all that detailing and such, it's just there aren't really many characters here I've ever had much interest in and those vehicle modes are mostly just too blocky for me. Oddly my fave bit is those transparent bits used to make the weapons look like they're firing. I've always liked that kind of thing on action figures and occasionally made some crappy attempts at my own addons for my TFs.

Yeah mine look crappy but you get the idea.

[o.supreme]

I think this titan should be omega supreme, complete the devey/omega rivalry and then in the second part of wfc, give us scorpy.

As for chromia...couldn't you just get a spare moonracer or nova star and do a head swap and a nice new paint job?

That could be a way to go...I'm not really a talented painter however so I'd have to commission it. Also 100% Agreed on who the Titan should be, for obvious reasons (also it fits especially with the Cybertron setting)...as to whether we'll get one or not...that remains to be seen.

[Cobotron]

I think this titan should be omega supreme, complete the devey/omega rivalry and then in the second part of wfc, give us scorpy.

As for chromia...couldn't you just get a spare moonracer or nova star and do a head swap and a nice new paint job?

That could be a way to go...I'm not really a talented painter however so I'd have to commission it. Also 100% Agreed on who the Titan should be, for obvious reasons (also it fits especially with the Cybertron setting)...as to whether we'll get one or not...that remains to be seen.

I wonder if there would be a way to just kit bash a combiner port back into Chromia and forgo having to paint anything?

OF course that would all depend on if you could find a spare Moonracer.

[angtre]

Loving this line.

I'm especially fond of the RiD-esque Ultra Magnus (probably "THE" Ultra Magnus, speaking of IDW comics continuity) and Cog, which might transform into some weaponry for Fortress Maximus (and if that is the case, I want a Sixguns for Metroplex too).

I also like the new Micromasters.

[blackeyedprime]

Easy passes for me on half of them. Liking the RID look Ultra Magnus but not sure if it can carry cars. Haven't picked up a Chromia yet, so that might be a purchase down the line tho it's between her and hound that are the worst looking of the line so far to me.
Cogs the one must for me so far.

I wouldn't mind if the Titans of this line are completely made up/purpose deigned bases/toys for the micromasters.

[william-james88]

Just to give the names of the micromasters and show their combined forms

[Skritz]

Two of them look good, but the Race Patrol is just two cars stuck on top of each others. Ugly.

[Sabrblade]

As a friendly reminder to everyone in this thread, I before E except for C.

[o.supreme]

As a friendly reminder to everyone in this thread, I before E except for C.

Eighty feisty, ableit dreich, reigning sovereign sheikhs' heirs, deifing society, inveigled a weird foreign leisurely scientist's fanciest eight rottweilers to forfeit sufficient obeisance, veiling a heinous seismic gneiss vein heist, wherein they abseiled heights of neighboring ancient lithofacies, heigh-ho-ing their weighty freight with beige greige skeins, later efficiently surfeiting on stupefacient codeine.

But yeah Siege...

[blackeyedprime]

As a friendly reminder to everyone in this thread, I before E except for C.

Also a friendly reminder that English is a Bastard language, used by Bastards...

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category ... ter_C_rule

[-Kanrabat-]

So far, I'm pretty please by most EVERYTHING in this line. That's not happening often.

[Skritz]

Maybe it's the already blocky shapes, maybe it's the military design or maybe it's the complimentary color scheme but the Military Patrol looks damn solid in weapon mode. They really do.