The Energon Pub

[aronjlove]

A viewer gave me a tip when transforming Astrotrain into train mode; rotate the panels on the legs 90° from the body, that will allow the train wheels that are under the wings to rotate into place.

Good tip
This guy is probably the most complex triple-changer of the bunch. Little pieces here and there that flip over or push down. Definitely happy with my purchase! I have both TR Optimus and Megatron and wasn't really happy with either. The only reason I have Octone is the Takara Legends version came with a Ghost Starscream headmaster. And because I bought the Legends version, I paid just as much for Octone as I did for Siege Astrotrain. With that in mind, the money is better spent on Astrotrain, imho. Heavier figure with more accessories. I know a lot of people aren't happy with the Siege Leader class concept of Voyager figure plus stuffs but I definitely feel like I got my money's worth, in both complexity and pure volume of paint and plastic. Here's some pics of Astro and Octone for comparison...

[Rodimus Prime]

aronjlove, I know those pics are supposed to feature Astrotrain, but for some reason they make me want to fiddle with Octane instead.

[william-james88]

And that's without his coal car or weapons.

Question for everyone, is it still a coal car if it doesn't look like one nor have any coal? While the locomotive part looks earthly in general, when you attach the supposed tender, it gives it more of a sci fi look to me. Especially due to the treads on both the top and bottom of the weapon wagon.

[aronjlove]

aronjlove, I know those pics are supposed to feature Astrotrain, but for some reason they make me want to fiddle with Octane instead.

While I definitely didn't like the TR Optimus, Octone is a sweet figure. His tank trailer look is nicer than the Optimus one and the jet wings are actually wings and not just little stubs lol.

And that's without his coal car or weapons.

Question for everyone, is it still a coal car if it doesn't look like one nor have any coal? While the locomotive part looks earthly in general, when you attach the supposed tender, it gives it more of a sci fi look to me. Especially due to the treads on both the top and bottom of the weapon wagon.

The part the connects Astrotrain to the tender spins so you can rotate it 180 degrees and it looks even weirder.

[Emerje]

And that's without his coal car or weapons.

Question for everyone, is it still a coal car if it doesn't look like one nor have any coal?

Steam train Tenders carry more water than coal (about six times more by weight according to Wikipedia) so it isn't too much of a stretch to think of it as a covered tender since only small part of it would be actual fuel. But you're right, it's far too cybertronian to be a Earth train tender so maybe it's actually an energon tender?

Emerje

[D-Maximal_Primal]

And that's without his coal car or weapons.

Question for everyone, is it still a coal car if it doesn't look like one nor have any coal?

Steam train Tenders carry more water than coal (about six times more by weight according to Wikipedia) so it isn't too much of a stretch to think of it as a covered tender since only small part of it would be actual fuel. But you're right, it's far too cybertronian to be a Earth train tender so maybe it's actually an energon tender?

Emerje

It's still a tender to me, it just can't go by the nickname "coal car" anymore since Cybertron

[Jelze Bunnycat]

OK, does anyone pay close attention to the packaging of their toys? If so, can anyone tell me why the new waves are in EU packaging all of a sudden?

[no-one]

OK, does anyone pay close attention to the packaging of their toys? If so, can anyone tell me why the new waves are in EU packaging all of a sudden?

Ah, so that's what's going on. I noticed a bunch of different languages when I got Impactor last month and just checked the Apeface box I picked up this weekend and it's the same thing.

[Sentinel_Primal]

OK, does anyone pay close attention to the packaging of their toys? If so, can anyone tell me why the new waves are in EU packaging all of a sudden?

Ah, so that's what's going on. I noticed a bunch of different languages when I got Impactor last month and just checked the Apeface box I picked up this weekend and it's the same thing.

Is that why the weapon names are in Cybertronian now?

[Rodimus Prime]

I noticed that as well, but didn't give it much thought. It's what's inside that counts.

[no-one]

I noticed that as well, but didn't give it much thought. It's what's inside that counts.

Yeah, but unlike people, it's not pink and squishy

[Wolfman Jake]

My guess is that the packaging has been "standardized" for all of the Hasbro markets so that they can just design one package per unique item, allowing them to cut costs on developing multiple packages with different languages and making it easier to distribute products worldwide.

[Wolfman Jake]

So, I got around to opening Siege Spinister last night. He's great overall, but there is one big flaw in my copy, at least. the bottom "cockpit leg" won't tab into place correctly. There is a big gap left between the cockpit and the fuselage above. No amount of fiddling will close that gap and let the tabs stay in place in their slots. Every other tab and slot on the figure works perfectly fine. It's a shame, really. Otherwise, he's a terrific addition to the Siege line. I've got him dual wielding "Shrute" and Singe right now, with his blue and purple guns attacked to his forearms. He's ready to do some damage. I hope Needlenose is coming up in Earthrise!

[Sentinel_Primal]

I hope Needlenose is coming up in Earthrise!

I think Hasbro is too considering they've put him into the polls twice now

[Jeddostotle7]

So, I got around to opening Siege Spinister last night. He's great overall, but there is one big flaw in my copy, at least. the bottom "cockpit leg" won't tab into place correctly. There is a big gap left between the cockpit and the fuselage above. No amount of fiddling will close that gap and let the tabs stay in place in their slots. Every other tab and slot on the figure works perfectly fine. It's a shame, really. Otherwise, he's a terrific addition to the Siege line. I've got him dual wielding "Shrute" and Singe right now, with his blue and purple guns attacked to his forearms. He's ready to do some damage. I hope Needlenose is coming up in Earthrise!

I've got that same problem, and I don't know how to fix it.

[SiegeFan]

Same here with Spinister.

[Jelze Bunnycat]

So, I got around to opening Siege Spinister last night. He's great overall, but there is one big flaw in my copy, at least. the bottom "cockpit leg" won't tab into place correctly. There is a big gap left between the cockpit and the fuselage above. No amount of fiddling will close that gap and let the tabs stay in place in their slots. Every other tab and slot on the figure works perfectly fine. It's a shame, really. Otherwise, he's a terrific addition to the Siege line. I've got him dual wielding "Shrute" and Singe right now, with his blue and purple guns attacked to his forearms. He's ready to do some damage. I hope Needlenose is coming up in Earthrise!

I've got that same problem, and I don't know how to fix it.

Have you tried transforming that cockpit before the fuselage? Once the panel with the rotor is snapped in you won't have any wiggle room.

[Hellscream9999]

So, I got around to opening Siege Spinister last night. He's great overall, but there is one big flaw in my copy, at least. the bottom "cockpit leg" won't tab into place correctly. There is a big gap left between the cockpit and the fuselage above. No amount of fiddling will close that gap and let the tabs stay in place in their slots. Every other tab and slot on the figure works perfectly fine. It's a shame, really. Otherwise, he's a terrific addition to the Siege line. I've got him dual wielding "Shrute" and Singe right now, with his blue and purple guns attacked to his forearms. He's ready to do some damage. I hope Needlenose is coming up in Earthrise!

I've got that same problem, and I don't know how to fix it.

So I was having this issue too, and just figured it out, I swiveled his thigh at the pelvis for his vehicle mode, and not his actual thigh swivel which raises his legs far enough for everything to tab into place, hope this helps

[aronjlove]

So, I got around to opening Siege Spinister last night. He's great overall, but there is one big flaw in my copy, at least. the bottom "cockpit leg" won't tab into place correctly. There is a big gap left between the cockpit and the fuselage above. No amount of fiddling will close that gap and let the tabs stay in place in their slots. Every other tab and slot on the figure works perfectly fine. It's a shame, really. Otherwise, he's a terrific addition to the Siege line. I've got him dual wielding "Shrute" and Singe right now, with his blue and purple guns attacked to his forearms. He's ready to do some damage. I hope Needlenose is coming up in Earthrise!

I've got that same problem, and I don't know how to fix it.

So I was having this issue too, and just figured it out, I swiveled his thigh at the pelvis for his vehicle mode, and not his actual thigh swivel which raises his legs far enough for everything to tab into place, hope this helps

Are you all talking about the space circled in the attached pic? Website I uses for inline image is down

[Wolfman Jake]

So, I got around to opening Siege Spinister last night. He's great overall, but there is one big flaw in my copy, at least. the bottom "cockpit leg" won't tab into place correctly. There is a big gap left between the cockpit and the fuselage above. No amount of fiddling will close that gap and let the tabs stay in place in their slots. Every other tab and slot on the figure works perfectly fine. It's a shame, really. Otherwise, he's a terrific addition to the Siege line. I've got him dual wielding "Shrute" and Singe right now, with his blue and purple guns attacked to his forearms. He's ready to do some damage. I hope Needlenose is coming up in Earthrise!

I've got that same problem, and I don't know how to fix it.

So I was having this issue too, and just figured it out, I swiveled his thigh at the pelvis for his vehicle mode, and not his actual thigh swivel which raises his legs far enough for everything to tab into place, hope this helps

Are you all talking about the space circled in the attached pic? Website I uses for inline image is down

Yes, that's the spot I'm talking about.

So I was having this issue too, and just figured it out, I swiveled his thigh at the pelvis for his vehicle mode, and not his actual thigh swivel which raises his legs far enough for everything to tab into place, hope this helps

I'll have to try it when I get home tonight!

[Hellscream9999]

So, I got around to opening Siege Spinister last night. He's great overall, but there is one big flaw in my copy, at least. the bottom "cockpit leg" won't tab into place correctly. There is a big gap left between the cockpit and the fuselage above. No amount of fiddling will close that gap and let the tabs stay in place in their slots. Every other tab and slot on the figure works perfectly fine. It's a shame, really. Otherwise, he's a terrific addition to the Siege line. I've got him dual wielding "Shrute" and Singe right now, with his blue and purple guns attacked to his forearms. He's ready to do some damage. I hope Needlenose is coming up in Earthrise!

I've got that same problem, and I don't know how to fix it.

So I was having this issue too, and just figured it out, I swiveled his thigh at the pelvis for his vehicle mode, and not his actual thigh swivel which raises his legs far enough for everything to tab into place, hope this helps

Are you all talking about the space circled in the attached pic? Website I uses for inline image is down

Yes, that's the spot I'm talking about.

So I was having this issue too, and just figured it out, I swiveled his thigh at the pelvis for his vehicle mode, and not his actual thigh swivel which raises his legs far enough for everything to tab into place, hope this helps

I'll have to try it when I get home tonight!

I have everything transformed correctly and tabbed together, and I still have that gap, I think it's a clearance thing for the torso to collapse in bot mode, I can tell cuz the leg does sit flush to the body in vehicle mode

[Jelze Bunnycat]

So, I got around to opening Siege Spinister last night. He's great overall, but there is one big flaw in my copy, at least. the bottom "cockpit leg" won't tab into place correctly. There is a big gap left between the cockpit and the fuselage above. No amount of fiddling will close that gap and let the tabs stay in place in their slots. Every other tab and slot on the figure works perfectly fine. It's a shame, really. Otherwise, he's a terrific addition to the Siege line. I've got him dual wielding "Shrute" and Singe right now, with his blue and purple guns attacked to his forearms. He's ready to do some damage. I hope Needlenose is coming up in Earthrise!

I've got that same problem, and I don't know how to fix it.

So I was having this issue too, and just figured it out, I swiveled his thigh at the pelvis for his vehicle mode, and not his actual thigh swivel which raises his legs far enough for everything to tab into place, hope this helps

Are you all talking about the space circled in the attached pic? Website I uses for inline image is down

Yes, that's the spot I'm talking about.

So I was having this issue too, and just figured it out, I swiveled his thigh at the pelvis for his vehicle mode, and not his actual thigh swivel which raises his legs far enough for everything to tab into place, hope this helps

I'll have to try it when I get home tonight!

I have everything transformed correctly and tabbed together, and I still have that gap, I think it's a clearance thing for the torso to collapse in bot mode, I can tell cuz the leg does sit flush to the body in vehicle mode

So for it to work:

1) Hips facing forward (robot mode position)
2) Thighs facing out

[Hellscream9999]

So for it to work:

1) Hips facing forward (robot mode position)
2) Thighs facing out

this is how I orient everything to get the best result:

[Jelze Bunnycat]

Is that how it's shown in the instructions?

[Hellscream9999]

Is that how it's shown in the instructions?

Dunno, but everything fits together better than any other configuration I've tried *shrugs*