The Energon Pub

[ZeldaTheSwordsman]

I just hope they'll tweak the wing shells when they do.

[Microbot]

..another question, these are all models show for this SDCC? Or will we get more maybe? Also, the new chapter for war for Cybertron will be "the Ark" it's right? Thanks

[ZarenPRIME]

I wish we had actual product shots of these two animated versions. Other than brightening up the colors I can't see there will be much difference? ANyone?

[TF-fan kev777]

In other news, we're now only missing anywhere from 2 to 5 Siege figures/sets and at least 1 Selects release, and we have leaks pointing to 4 of those figures, so that's awesome.

Turns out the micromaster 10 pack contains S58-S62, so I think we have Siege in its entirety revealed unless they are going higher than the 35th anniversary guys at S63-S66. This assumes Rung, the other battlemaster and the 2 micromaster packs on display are S44-S47. What is weird is that the G1 Reflector 3-pack doesn't appear to have a number. Unless they aren't siege, but GS-04 in the selects line.

[SpikeyTigertron]

Refraktor 3pk: https://hasbropulse.com/collections/pre ... eam-3-pack

Is this a Pulse exclusive, or will it find it's way into brick an mortar stores? Like Walmart or TrU in Canada, for example?

No brick and mortar for those. And there is no french on those boxes. But keep an eye out on ages 3 and up, they usually have those and they are the canadian equivalent of BBTS. I already sent you a link to show you that you could buy the generations select exclusives from them.

The price will match for sure.
I wonder if Pulse can "hold on" items so that they ship at the same time. I'd want my Refraktor set and Lancer to ship together because it WILL be 30$ to ship regardless if it's just one figure or both.

It is my experience that Pulse ships *everything* seperately as it comes in, no bulk orders... I've had 2-3 boxes come in at once from there... it's a PITA.

[The_Cryptid_Person]

Seeing the cooperation among everyone here to get the links was really encouraging. Makes me feel like a dingus for F5'ing Hasbro and Amazon, thinking scalpers would devour everything like in the old days.

Hot takes on the new reveals:
Camera Refraktor works surprisingly well, Kremzeek makes it a killer set! Sticking with my doofy KO, but very happy for other, more loyal collectors. The camera mode on mine has made for a great display piece and I see this doing the same for lots of other fans.
Seeing Skywarp and the Firestormers up for pre-order is encouraging, hopefully Redwing gets the same treatment outside the US...? That Redcard business still has me peeved. On a similar front, I'm curious to see if people will be reselling Slamdance separate from the other firestormers, and how much he goes for on the aftermarket. With more paint, his color reversal could have been minimized but... it wasn't.
Soundblaster is not for me, definitely prefer the FoC version since it's a better double for Logos Prime. Bluestreak would be tempting since he's something of a hole in my collection, but the mold is out-scale with said collection. C'est la vie. Wonder if they'll make blue+yellow alternators/prime Smokescreen, or diaclone bluestreak?
I genuinely did not expect cel-shaded prime and megatron. The amount of paint is... shocking. I honestly thought they would start a line of minor/damage-free variants, then throw Soundwave in there to twist the knife a bit. As it stands, I love they exist but won't bite for fear of starting a weird micro-collection made of overpriced exclusives.
For Wave 5 (seriously WHAT and HOW) I pre-ordered apeface and crosshairs. Shame Rung wasn't pre-orderable, I'm sure he'd have sold through. If I ever see a Rung for SRP or less I'm buying - just too weird and the novelty factor overrides all my frustration with battlemasters NOT being worth $6. Really helps when there's a character attached to the toy, instead of just a gimmick. I'm not keen on re-buying the same characters over and over, though, so Astrotrain and Spinister, for all their engineering glory, are out. The sheer volume of amazing product means there will be other chances to own transformers of that caliber in the main line - heck, maybe retools of those two.
The Micromaster 10-pack is a neat idea, but not enough to pull me to Target - same for the rainmakers I've jabbered on about before.

Now comes the part where I give up on all my griping over Siege and fork over a ton of cash for probably-tiny figures. The fan vote three-pack had me in awe, so I pre-ordered it immediately. I don't care much for Mirage, though the head looks nice. Recent photos have shown that he's an absolute shrimp of a deluxe, so I might resell him. I was surprised by how much better Impactor looked with the IDW spartan helmet and caution stripes. Even the strange chest design looked better once he had the proper noggin. Encouraging to see him stand over a head above mirage, but who knows what that even means for size. My Universe Onslaught custom undoubtedly dwarfs him. And then there was Aragon.

FREAKING

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The main reason I pre-ordered, of all the silly reasons to buy that set, he takes the cake. Sure the head looks ridiculous, almost gobot-like and sure he looks like he's wearing red pajamas, but I am overjoyed to see the weaponizers getting redecoed. Even his name seems unsuited to Transformers, but it just works. Somehow, it works. Only problem is, I'm now roped into trying to get the other two.

Somehow the Transformers team have outdone themselves to make WFC a new golden age - quite literally, given the astronomically rising prices, but golden nonetheless. Since 2018, generations has covered the first decade of Masterpiece releases. It's staggering. I'm not sure which will quit first: SIEGE's barrage of new releases or my keyboard typing this lengthy po

[Lore Keeper]

Hey wait! What ever became of that silver battlemaster we saw in the case? I don't think it's been addressed yet.

[Sentinel_Primal]

Optibotimus posted pics of the display for Ratchet, Mirage and Impactor on his Twitter. I remember that he doesn't want it to be newsed, but I think someone mentioned that it was fine to point things out? Apologies if I got that wrong, but I figured it was worth pointing out

[MaverickPrime]

I don't get it. Why the hell do the Dinocassettes(squeal) come with another Frenzy?! THAT COULD HAVE BEEN RATBAT GOD DAMN IT
And don't give me any "they may not have the mold available" bs when they reissued THE DINOCASSETTES.
The reveals were super duper cool and I want practically everything, but a second, lone Frenzy baffles me.

[-Kanrabat-]

lone Frenzy baffles me.

Me too. Seriously, I thought they would release Frenzy and Rumble together. And if it were me, I would have made impossible to distinguish on the packaging which is which.

That Dino Casette duocon should have been a 2 pack as well with a reduced price.

[ZeldaTheSwordsman]

lone Frenzy baffles me.

Me too. Seriously, I thought they would release Frenzy and Rumble together. And if it were me, I would have made impossible to distinguish on the packaging which is which.

That Dino Casette duocon should have been a 2 pack as well with a reduced price.

Oooor instead of Frenzy they could include Enemy:

Perhaps we should contact Hasbro and ask that they make that change? The pack's not due out til September.

[Nemesis Primal]

In other news, we're now only missing anywhere from 2 to 5 Siege figures/sets and at least 1 Selects release, and we have leaks pointing to 4 of those figures, so that's awesome.

Turns out the micromaster 10 pack contains S58-S62, so I think we have Siege in its entirety revealed unless they are going higher than the 35th anniversary guys at S63-S66. This assumes Rung, the other battlemaster and the 2 micromaster packs on display are S44-S47. What is weird is that the G1 Reflector 3-pack doesn't appear to have a number. Unless they aren't siege, but GS-04 in the selects line.

Yeah, I saw those numbers on the SDCC thread. And Rung and crew don't have to be assumptions anymore, the Walmart page for Soundblaster calls out Ratbat and Rumble as WFC-S46 in the item descriptions. Now granted, said page also incorrectly numbers Soundblaster himself, but it makes sense and it's enough confirmation for me.

At this point my three biggest questions are:
~Who/what the heck is that mystery silver Battlemaster?
~Are Nightbird, Hot Shot, and the other Powerdashers Selects figures then, or is there more past S66?
~Is it worth it to buy that Fan Vote 3 pack for Impactor and Aragon when I hate that Mirage figure? I don't know that I want to spend 70 bucks for an exclusive when I only want 2/3's of it's contents, but Impactor looks so perfect....

[The_Cryptid_Person]

~Is it worth it to buy that Fan Vote 3 pack for Impactor and Aragon when I hate that Mirage figure? I don't know that I want to spend 70 bucks for an exclusive when I only want 2/3's of it's contents, but Impactor looks so perfect....

Probably depends on how many other people do the same thing. If you're willing to go through the effort, selling Mirage could help offset the hefty price of the set. A little bit.

[Rodimus Prime]

After reading through the last 5 pages of this thread, I gotta say I'm happy for you guys, being able to gobble up all this stuff to your hearts' content. For some reason it's not the case most of the time, so I guess Hasbro did it right this time, for the most part.

Having said that, I'm also glad that most of these reveals and new figures don't interest me, I'm saving a lot of money. The only ones I'm interested in basically are Spinister, Apeface, Crosshairs and Ratchet right now, and I can wait until they're actually available to buy instead of pre-ordering.

My only thought, is there a possibility that Ratchet with a comic-accurate head (red helmet, white visor) might show up later somehow, somewhere as an exclusive, or is this the only version of the figure we'll ever get, since it's a Walgreens exclusive and not directly from Hasbro?

[sol magnus]

"Firestormers": https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07P2JB241/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Skywarp: https://www.amazon.com/Tra-Voyager-Skywarp-Battle-Pack/dp/B07NZ86GJP/ref=olp_product_details?_encoding=UTF8&me=

Fan-Vote Pack: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07PZY481L/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1&tag=transformers-20

The price for the newly announced set seems a bit high to me, I'm undecided about it, but I got a preorder on the Firestormers.

Ordered Skywarp as he's priority. May pre-order Firestormers later, but Fan pack is gonna have to be a pass.

[sol magnus]

There's no link for Ratchet and he is NOT on Walgreens.com.

One thing I have to say with all this repro goodness happening is, I definitely would purchase a Delta Magnus Siege figure should they give that the go ahead.

[william-james88]

~Is it worth it to buy that Fan Vote 3 pack for Impactor and Aragon when I hate that Mirage figure? I don't know that I want to spend 70 bucks for an exclusive when I only want 2/3's of it's contents, but Impactor looks so perfect....

Sadly, we are not all as unique as we think, meaning that if you share these feelings so do many others. And we all have finite disposable income. All to say that this pack is not likely to sell out so quick. As with most other exclusives on amazon (especially those that garner less excitement), I have found it pays off to just wait and get it for cheaper. Wait for it to be 20$ off, buy it then and consider Mirage a freebie.

[TF-fan kev777]

~Is it worth it to buy that Fan Vote 3 pack for Impactor and Aragon when I hate that Mirage figure? I don't know that I want to spend 70 bucks for an exclusive when I only want 2/3's of it's contents, but Impactor looks so perfect....

Probably depends on how many other people do the same thing. If you're willing to go through the effort, selling Mirage could help offset the hefty price of the set. A little bit.

I'm in the same boat as Nemesis Primal and that is probably what I'll end up doing.

[blackeyedprime]

I'd only want the power dasher from it so I'm likely to just buy one separately like I did with orion pax from the tribute pack so I didn't end up with a wfc video game optimus. I'll pick up the regular impactor and leave mirage be. Not the best way of going about it but at least it cuts down on clutter.
Delta magnus would be an easy pass too, unless the trailer gets redesigned to hold cars which isn't happening any time soon. Tho never say never on it holding micromasters now that ratchet has a cross play function.

[Vic Zanzibar]

So are the Rainmakers generally available yet, or is it just a few instances here and there?

[Rodimus Knight]

Looking at some of these, I ordered from TF source to get the free shipping in my stack for a couple, but like the Galactic Man shockwave is a pretty easy pass for me at that price. I don't thing I'll be bothering with pregnant Soundwave, I mean Soundblaster either.

I think the fan vote three pack, I like Impactor, but I'm not too concerned about the the other two in it. I'll wait for a sale maybe.

[gothsaurus]

Rodimus Knight, there IS supposed to be a general release Impactor, too. Depending on if you're okay with the head sculpt, you can probably just get that one on the cheap.

[TF-fan kev777]

So are the Rainmakers generally available yet, or is it just a few instances here and there?

They are just starting to show up. The east and west coasts have had some sightings already, and in my area they appear to be in transit and should be showing up within the next week or so. I used the DCPI code 087-16-9185, and had an employee look them up.

[o.supreme]

Not that I was intending on getting them anyway, but the prices on those Amazon exclusives do seem a bit high. Phantomstrike and Alphastrike are only marked up 2 and 3 dollars respectively. But the *Fan Vote* one marked up by $10 seems a bit much. Hopefully since I only want Aragon to be my Grand Max Cog, I can sell the other two and recoup some of the cost.

[Rodimus Knight]

So are the Rainmakers generally available yet, or is it just a few instances here and there?

They are just starting to show up. The east and west coasts have had some sightings already, and in my area they appear to be in transit and should be showing up within the next week or so. I used the DCPI code 087-16-9185, and had an employee look them up.

I'm still waiting for Refractor to show up in my area.