The Energon Pub

[Skritz]

Zetar might come with the little barrel on Brunt retooled/replaced with a drill.

[william-james88]

Still want Lancer.
I'll have to preorder her at BBTS because I'm not allowed to buy it at Entertainment Earth.

Why not wait for it to show up at a canadian retailer? You are stucj waiting months regardless

It will? When, and especially, who will carry the Selects?

I already told you

https://www.agesthreeandup.ca/search?q= ... ons+select

[-Kanrabat-]

Still want Lancer.
I'll have to preorder her at BBTS because I'm not allowed to buy it at Entertainment Earth.

Why not wait for it to show up at a canadian retailer? You are stucj waiting months regardless

It will? When, and especially, who will carry the Selects?

I already told you

https://www.agesthreeandup.ca/search?q= ... ons+select

I meant a standard brick and mortar store. Any online store, even Canadian ones, doesn't count.
Still, that's an option. But the price may be not even better than BBTS overall.

[william-james88]

Still want Lancer.
I'll have to preorder her at BBTS because I'm not allowed to buy it at Entertainment Earth.

Why not wait for it to show up at a canadian retailer? You are stucj waiting months regardless

It will? When, and especially, who will carry the Selects?

I already told you

https://www.agesthreeandup.ca/search?q= ... ons+select

I meant a standard brick and mortar store. Any online store, even Canadian ones, doesn't count.
Still, that's an option. But the price may be not even better than BBTS overall.

Generations select are mostly online exclusive, like may mayhem. Canadian online retailer counts just as much as bbts. 9.99 cad shipping and no extra customs fee makes ages3andup an obvious choice for ordering all exclusives in one go.

[-Kanrabat-]

Generations select are mostly online exclusive, like may mayhem. Canadian online retailer counts just as much as bbts. 9.99 cad shipping and no extra customs fee makes ages3andup an obvious choice for ordering all exclusives in one go.

Taxes are like death. There is no escape. Still, that extra 10$ of "handling fees" won't happen. So it's at least that.

Now on Preorder for the normal 30$CAN. Not too shabby.

[Vic Zanzibar]

Got Screamer. Quite a delight and the chest piece stays on pretty fine for me. I’ll be happy to buy this mold at least a dozen more times.

I'm glad to hear that the chest issue has been resolved. I have played with handled the figure, and it is quite possibly the best Starscream we have to date (Yup, better than the MP)

Just tabbed and untabbed the panel on and off of his chest about ten times with no issue. I've only fully transformed him twice and while one of the hinges came partially out of the socket, it never fully flew off. However, I don't know if I can say that the issue was resolved or not. It could just be that mine is in fact just like all the others, but I'm being more gentle with it than other people (That may sound a bit snobbish, but I've seen Youtube reviewers who are more intense collectors than me handle figures pretty roughly.) and am thus avoiding the problem. In any case, after actually seeing what it is like in person, I do feel that even if it pops of all the time for most copies, people are indeed exaggerating how bad it is. It couldn't possibly be figure-ruining levels of annoying. Like, it isn't the doors on Universe Prowl/Bluestreak/Smokescreen levels of obnoxious; nowhere close.

[william-james88]

Generations select are mostly online exclusive, like may mayhem. Canadian online retailer counts just as much as bbts. 9.99 cad shipping and no extra customs fee makes ages3andup an obvious choice for ordering all exclusives in one go.

Taxes are like death. There is no escape. Still, that extra 10$ of "handling fees" won't happen. So it's at least that.

Now on Preorder for the normal 30$CAN. Not too shabby.

I escaped quite a bit of taxes with ages 3 and up, check out that sweet total:



This is WAY better than whatever you'd end up baying through BBTS. We actually have a canadian version of BBTS with this, meaning cheaper shipping, no exchange rate fee and no customs, so I am baffled as to why you would not use it first or use anything else.

[william-james88]

Most reveals at SDCC were for exclusives in the Transformers Siege line. While many preorders went live shortly after the announcement, that was for the US. There was no mention of any country aside from the US, which is typical. That is where we come in to find out where others can get their exclusives. And we have news for Canada right now.

Firstly, Ratchet can be preordered right now at EB Games stores. You have to leave a $5 deposit. The price is $29.99 and he is dated for a September 1st release in Canada (the US will have to wait untill the holiday season).

As for the online exclusives, like Refractor, Galactic Man Shockwave and Lancer, all three can be preordered from Ages Three and Up. For Canadians unaware, they are basically the Canadian version of the typical US collectable online retailers like BBTS and TFSource. But you don't have to worry about exchange rates or customs and shipping is cheaper.

While Amazon.ca does have pages for their exclusives (G2 Sideswipe pack and Skywarp pack), they are not currently available for preorder. Amazon.ca tends to be later than Amazon.com for exclusives.

The Walmart exclusives are not on the Walmart.ca site yet and it is currently unknown if Walmart Canada will be stocking them or not (Walmart does not have a great track record for stocking exclusives in Canada).

The Target exclusives are unaccounted for, but several in the past have shown up at Toysrus stores, which is a significant retailer that usually has exclusives in Canada. The fact that these exclusives are so spread out in the US is because they do not have a big toy giant, unlike Canada. So we can expect Toysrus Canada to have some of these exclusives.

[Stargrave]

Thanks to fellow Seibertronian Chuckdawg1999 we have a fresh review of War for Cybertron Seige Thundercracker!

What better way to down shift from the Seeker revealing madness that was this last week than to sit down and appreciate one of the original three. This is one of the nicest regular retail versions of Thundercracker to come around in quite a while, so if you're a fan of the dog owning, script writing, charming and witty bot in blue who found more beauty in humanity than any other bot in the IDW-verse, then you should enjoy this review.

Per Chuck:
"Thundercracker is a repaint with a new head of Starscream, that was repainted and released earlier this month as Red Wing. Other than the new head Thundercracker sports the same battle damage pattern as the other two released seekers but a classic blue paint scheme indicative of the G1 character. Since Thundercracker is a mainline release it's a tad easier to recommend it over Red Wing, who just became a Target Redcard exclusive."

And if you're hungry for even more then visit Soundwave 8084's review which has been up for a few weeks now. Both are great rundowns of this G1 original.

And as always after the peruse share your views with the Seibertron crew in the forums, and stay tuned to Seibertron for all the latest in Transformers news!

[Ultra Markus]

Tfsourçe needs to get off their ass and ship the damn seige figures that are supposed to be released in June and July
Everyone else seems to be getting them already

[ZeldaTheSwordsman]

A comparison between G1 Red Alert's gun and SIEGE Red Alert's gun, showing that there are indeed corresponding details. Not as strong as with Prowl's gun but still.

[Stargrave]

Little extra oomph for Smashdown:

[ZeldaTheSwordsman]

Optimus has a handle on this load of bull.

[ZeroWolf]

Little extra oomph for Smashdown:

Hmm if you could put them on at another angle you could try to recreate his axe from Animated with the rocket boosters.

[pcgc]

Hi guys!
I'm a portuguese Transformers G1 fan. I have some toys from childhood but I want to start a new one.
I'm looking forward for this WFC Siege collection, particularly the voyager class.
I have some doubts, and you guys might help.
1- Is the voyager class a good bet? Short and long term?
2- Should I wait for american limited editions (like walmart Optimus and Megatron) or these voyager "rusty painted" transformers are ok too?
3- Are the sizes compatible with deluxe and titan class? (just saw an Ultra Magnus Leader class and look a bit bigger than it should, near to Prime)
Thank you!! G1 for Life

[-Kanrabat-]

I escaped quite a bit of taxes with ages 3 and up, check out that sweet total:
.

Just preordered mine before I saw your post and effectively, we only have to pay the TPS. No Quebec tax at all. So instead of paying 4.50$ in taxes, it was only 2$.
Too bad about the 10$ of shipping but eh...

Regrettably, all their regular TF are more expensive for reasons. Still a nice... Source... in finding 3P and such.

[Hellscream9999]

Tfsourçe needs to get off their ass and ship the damn seige figures that are supposed to be released in June and July
Everyone else seems to be getting them already

heh, yeah, only ordered one thing from them, and noticed this, and haven't ordered from them since

[Nathaniel Prime]

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Thew summarized the line best with this

[william-james88]

Transformers Siege Ratchet was revealed officially at SDCC 2019 but only now are we getting the official images that were first shown in the Transformers panel. While he is essentially the same mold as Ironhide, with different sculpted details, the designers went an extra step with Ratchet and showed that he can have a third mode. This third mode is a repair station, to homage his G1 sled. His new weapon becomes a surgical tool and attaches itself onto this repair station where you can place a bot who is in dire need of help. Well either that or he is operating on himself, you choose. The images come from Autobase Aichi.

This figure will be coming to Walgreens in the US in the 2019 holiday season and as for Canada, EB games are currently taking in store preorders. This toy is already out in Hong Kong, exclusively at Toysrus.

[Sabrblade]

Robot Mode
Vehicle Mode
Naptime Mode

[Dr. Caelus]

Just for fun.

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[Nathaniel Prime]

Haven't noticed that Ratchet had a different front end from Ironhide before.

As for med bay mode, I would probably just open up the back panels of van mode (the ones that reveal the additional ports) and plug in the weapons onto the arms.

[Sabrblade]

Haven't noticed that Ratchet had a different front end from Ironhide before.

Lots of other parts on Ratchet are different as well.

[sol magnus]

Just for fun.

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The Refraktor is amazing, man. Just amazing.

[joevill]

nice! too bad most are sold out by now. My bad for not acting fast.