The Energon Pub

Mon Jun 24, 2019 6:22 pm

00Stargrave00 wrote:Ah my jolly green friend, you’ve come a long way...

Just found him this morning myself

Mon Jun 24, 2019 6:41 pm

Ah, the launchers from the Tomahawk-retool Springer

Mon Jun 24, 2019 6:45 pm

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Ah, the launchers from the Tomahawk-retool Springer

BINGO

I always keep my old weapons

News Credits: 1646 · Mon Jun 24, 2019 7:20 pm

Ugh, of course Greenlight is a Prime exclusive.

well, I guess just like Nemesis Prime I'll have to hope she goes on sale on the regular Amazon in a few months. Not that I bought Nemesis, but I do want Greenlight.

And The packaging art for the Firestormers (I'm still calling it that) is great! I'm looking forward to more info on the set

Mon Jun 24, 2019 8:32 pm

I'm starting to fear I won't be able to get my hands on Skywarp.

News Credits: 56 · Mon Jun 24, 2019 9:04 pm

Skritz wrote:I'm starting to fear I won't be able to get my hands on Skywarp.

Was it the current Prime ordeal that scared you off, or was it the price tag?

News Credits: 1646 · Mon Jun 24, 2019 9:12 pm

Nathaniel Prime wrote:
Skritz wrote:I'm starting to fear I won't be able to get my hands on Skywarp.

Was it the current Prime ordeal that scared you off, or was it the price tag?

I'm gonna guess Prime.

Prime exclusives suck. some of us do not order enough from amazon to justify Prime or don't worry about it or need it or even want it. So it sucks that it's a Prime members only thing, and that'll be bad news if others follow the trend.

News Credits: 340 · Mon Jun 24, 2019 9:17 pm

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:
Nathaniel Prime wrote:
Skritz wrote:I'm starting to fear I won't be able to get my hands on Skywarp.

Was it the current Prime ordeal that scared you off, or was it the price tag?

I'm gonna guess Prime.

Prime exclusives suck. some of us do not order enough from amazon to justify Prime or don't worry about it or need it or even want it. So it sucks that it's a Prime members only thing, and that'll be bad news if others follow the trend.

Yeah you know I didn’t see that coming. I currently got free Prime with my new phone otherwise I wouldn’t have it.

This isn’t cool though I mean we can all network and get everyone a Greenlight and a Skywarp right? I’ve never done something like that and certainly don’t want to get burned but Till all are ONE dammit there’s gotta be a way.

News Credits: 340 · Mon Jun 24, 2019 9:31 pm

News Credits: 3 · Mon Jun 24, 2019 9:51 pm

I just added her to my list. I'd be a bit more miffed about dropping 25$ on this mold but that's about what I had to spend to get Novastar so...

Edit: and now I've realized I'll probably have to pay more, now that I've noticed she's an Amazon Prime Exclusive, which is a pain in the ****ing neck. Guess I'm getting her second hand. Damn it Hasbro I skipped Nemesis Prime because of this but I'm already too far gone as far as Orthia is concerned so I just have to keep going.

News Credits: 340 · Mon Jun 24, 2019 10:11 pm

Wireless_Phantom wrote:I just added her to my list. I'd be a bit more miffed about dropping 25$ on this mold but that's about what I had to spend to get Novastar so...

Edit: and now I've realized I'll probably have to pay more, now that I've noticed she's an Amazon Prime Exclusive, which is a pain in the ****ing neck. Guess I'm getting her second hand. Damn it Hasbro I skipped Nemesis Prime because of this but I'm already too far gone as far as Orthia is concerned so I just have to keep going.

Hey where does that Orthia name come from? I know I’ve heard that in reference to the female Autobots before.

And I should clarify I referred to Elita Infin1te by another name in the article it’s just my preference as I think the other lacks a little oomph, coulda used a little more imagination there.

News Credits: 56 · Mon Jun 24, 2019 10:17 pm

00Stargrave00 wrote:

Finally, a meme to express how I feel toward people who try to justify 60$ Legends class figures, but give flak towards a 50$ Siege Shockwave.

News Credits: 51 · Mon Jun 24, 2019 10:37 pm

Wireless_Phantom wrote:Edit: and now I've realized I'll probably have to pay more, now that I've noticed she's an Amazon Prime Exclusive, which is a pain in the ****ing neck. Guess I'm getting her second hand. Damn it Hasbro I skipped Nemesis Prime because of this but I'm already too far gone as far as Orthia is concerned so I just have to keep going.

This confuses me, why would you have to pay more? If you already have it in your cart, I would assume that you have Prime, so why would it suddenly cost more than the usual price for this kind of exclusive? The other Amazon exclusive Deluxes were $25 like Greenlight is, and Nemesis was retail price for a Leader upon release. I would understand if you didn't have Prime, but you lost me.

Mon Jun 24, 2019 11:26 pm

And the list of reasons to flog Jeff Bezos continues to grow...

00Stargrave00 wrote:Hey where does that Orthia name come from? I know I’ve heard that in reference to the female Autobots before.

And I should clarify I referred to Elita Infin1te by another name in the article it’s just my preference as I think the other lacks a little oomph, coulda used a little more imagination there.

So you think 1337speak is better than being named after a deity?

Orthia comes from SIEGE promotional material, and is specific to Elita combining with the other Female Autobots. Elita Infin1te is the "combined with whoever" name.

News Credits: 340 · Mon Jun 24, 2019 11:32 pm

But Orthia just sounds like an angry old lunch lady's name. Lots of names come from theological origins that doesn’t make them necessarily not suck. I think a whole new name would have been best, not really either of the others.
“Another scoop of the mystery meat there please Orthia...” yikes.

News Credits: 4877 · Mon Jun 24, 2019 11:32 pm

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:
Nathaniel Prime wrote:
Skritz wrote:I'm starting to fear I won't be able to get my hands on Skywarp.

Was it the current Prime ordeal that scared you off, or was it the price tag?

I'm gonna guess Prime.

Prime exclusives suck. some of us do not order enough from amazon to justify Prime or don't worry about it or need it or even want it. So it sucks that it's a Prime members only thing, and that'll be bad news if others follow the trend.

So far, the prime exclusives for TFs were only temporary. They eventually get tossed to the lowly masses. These are still mass market toys afterall, the production number is pretty high and they will have to get rid of them eventually.

Mon Jun 24, 2019 11:55 pm

00Stargrave00 wrote:But Orthia just sounds like an angry old lunch lady's name. Lots of names come from theological origins that doesn’t make them necessarily not suck. I think a whole new name would have been best, not really either of the others.
“Another scoop of the mystery meat there please Orthia...” yikes.

Yeah, well, that's you.

I think Orthia sounds cool. So nyeh. :-P

News Credits: 340 · Tue Jun 25, 2019 12:00 am

I was just trying to get a chuckle out of you dude ;)^

News Credits: 3646 · Tue Jun 25, 2019 1:28 am

The Amazon.com exclusive Transformers War for Cybertron SIEGE Deluxe Class Greenlight with Battle Master Dazzlestrike is now available publicly for pre-order on Amazon.com. This item is due to be officially available on June 25th, 2019 (today) so the page may switch from a pre-order to a regular product listing later today.

Some clever Transformers fans were able to figure out how to trick Amazon into adding this item to our shopping carts early by adding the item to our Wish Lists (as described here). Shipping notifications have already gone out to those who were able to trick Amazon.com a short time ago.

If you want to get your hands on the latest Amazon.com exclusive, click here or on any of the images below.

News Credits: 332 · Tue Jun 25, 2019 2:17 am

Some people were able to order the figure yesterday and are getting delivery today while some of us who pre-ordered in May won't see the figure until Thursday.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Tue Jun 25, 2019 2:47 am

Free one day shipping with Prime, yet I ordered Monday and it isn't scheduled to arrive until Thursday. We'll see what happens.

Nathaniel Prime wrote:Finally, a meme to express how I feel toward people who try to justify 60$ Legends class figures, but give flak towards a 50$ Siege Shockwave.

I'm terribly guilty of this.

"$60 5" Japanese anime figure? I can't hit the pre-order hard enough!"
"$90 Japan exclusive Leader class figure? Take my money!"
"$50 retail Leader from Hasbro? I'll wait for a sale..."

Emerje

News Credits: 388 · Tue Jun 25, 2019 3:05 am

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Some people were able to order the figure yesterday and are getting delivery today while some of us who pre-ordered in May won't see the figure until Thursday.

I actually did both- preorder in May, preorder yesterday (one to keep in package), and both are arriving today.

News Credits: 3 · Tue Jun 25, 2019 3:41 am

On Amazon.de, too

News Credits: 3 · Tue Jun 25, 2019 7:19 am

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Some people were able to order the figure yesterday and are getting delivery today while some of us who pre-ordered in May won't see the figure until Thursday.

Yeah well some of us managed to order it yesterday and won’t ship till July so I ain’t sympathizing with you getting it Thursday