The Energon Pub

News Credits: 10 · Mon Sep 30, 2019 4:29 am

emlit wrote:Nice pics. A rifle is needed so badly...

Anyone heard if a weapons pack is on the horizon?

How about a battlemaster or micromasters?

News Credits: 101 · Mon Sep 30, 2019 4:43 am

Rainmaker wrote:Seeing as Reprolabels now does plastic parts, I wonder if they'll ever decide to make weapon or effect part packs

Shapeway is always a thing.
But their stuff is very expensive.

Mon Sep 30, 2019 8:29 am

-Kanrabat- wrote:
Rainmaker wrote:Seeing as Reprolabels now does plastic parts, I wonder if they'll ever decide to make weapon or effect part packs

Shapeway is always a thing.
But their stuff is very expensive.

Well, there’s this:

https://www.nonnef.com/collections/upgrades/products/legends

Mon Sep 30, 2019 12:52 pm

TFSafari has listings from Matrix workshop for the newly released bots: Ratchet, Mirage, Impactor, Smokescreen and Barricade.

https://www.tfsafari.com/collections/mw-matrix-workshop

News Credits: 54 · Mon Sep 30, 2019 4:22 pm

thebigfantastic wrote:TFSafari has listings from Matrix workshop for the newly released bots: Ratchet, Mirage, Impactor, Smokescreen and Barricade.

https://www.tfsafari.com/collections/mw-matrix-workshop

I've ordered from there before, got my stuff a couple weeks later and everything I bought was included (I bought like 10 or so weapon packs for my siege guys, I even got some lego Avenger mini figures with them which I presume was either an accident or they appreciated the order, the Ironhide one is my fave with the cannons for his arms as well as some standard weapons for my figures.)

Anyways point is these guys are pretty cool at least from my experience.

News Credits: 1646 · Mon Sep 30, 2019 5:56 pm

I'm hoping Amazon gets Mirage by midmonth. I'm hoping to buy him at the same time I get the 3-pack and offroad patrol to wrap up wave 4 in 1 nice quick blow

News Credits: 42 · Mon Sep 30, 2019 8:03 pm

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I'm hoping Amazon gets Mirage by midmonth. I'm hoping to buy him at the same time I get the 3-pack and offroad patrol to wrap up wave 4 in 1 nice quick blow

Its weird that they got Barricade in right away without much of a pre-order, but Mirage from the same wave cases are not shipping yet. I've had Mirage on pre-order since August 20, but no updates since they missed their original September 1st date, whihc we all assumed was wrong.

News Credits: 6 · Mon Sep 30, 2019 11:45 pm

So what’s the story on Ratchet? I’ve had a pre-order for sometime now. Initially it said ‘end of August’, now the listing is the nebulous ‘Q4 2019’??

News Credits: 241 · Mon Sep 30, 2019 11:54 pm

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:So what’s the story on Ratchet? I’ve had a pre-order for sometime now. Initially it said ‘end of August’, now the listing is the nebulous ‘Q4 2019’??

Walgreens Holiday Shopping Season Reset... which is sometime near Thanksgiving or Black Friday. Canada already has him as an EB Games exclusive.

News Credits: 101 · Tue Oct 01, 2019 4:45 am

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:So what’s the story on Ratchet? I’ve had a pre-order for sometime now. Initially it said ‘end of August’, now the listing is the nebulous ‘Q4 2019’??

Walgreens Holiday Shopping Season Reset... which is sometime near Thanksgiving or Black Friday. Canada already has him as an EB Games exclusive.

And he's selling pretty well on Ebay at double the price.

News Credits: 3 · Tue Oct 01, 2019 7:08 am

Just snagged Thundercracker at a local Walmart here in Virginia. First time seeing him in the store.

SGM

News Credits: 6 · Tue Oct 01, 2019 7:54 am

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:So what’s the story on Ratchet? I’ve had a pre-order for sometime now. Initially it said ‘end of August’, now the listing is the nebulous ‘Q4 2019’??

Walgreens Holiday Shopping Season Reset... which is sometime near Thanksgiving or Black Friday. Canada already has him as an EB Games exclusive.

So once again we have International fans/buyers held hostage by bizarre exclusivity deals of Japanese toys with isolated US retailers... :BANG_HEAD:

News Credits: 10 · Tue Oct 01, 2019 7:57 am

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:So what’s the story on Ratchet? I’ve had a pre-order for sometime now. Initially it said ‘end of August’, now the listing is the nebulous ‘Q4 2019’??

Walgreens Holiday Shopping Season Reset... which is sometime near Thanksgiving or Black Friday. Canada already has him as an EB Games exclusive.

So once again we have International fans/buyers held hostage by bizarre exclusivity deals of Japanese toys with isolated US retailers...

Just hang in there, dude. I'm sure you'll get your Ratchet.

News Credits: 6 · Tue Oct 01, 2019 8:05 am

If I were buying it for me, I'd be perfectly fine to wait.

I am extremely patient and it has become apparent to me over the last year or so, that Hasbro doesn't really grasp that there is more to being a Global retailer than shipping to Japan and the US. As it isn't for me, but a friend of mine, I get asked for an update at least once a week. It's not his fault, nor mine and delaying a release by at least a month or two for some arbitrary US holiday is meaningless to me. Considering I already paid for the pre-order in full.

News Credits: 17 · Tue Oct 01, 2019 8:10 am

Walmart is processing my payment for my Bluestreak preorder, so I expect to have that in hand by the end of the week. Today is the nominal Hasbro Pulse release date for the next wave of Siege figures, so hopefully they'll get shipped soon, too.

News Credits: 1350 · Tue Oct 01, 2019 8:24 am

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:So what’s the story on Ratchet? I’ve had a pre-order for sometime now. Initially it said ‘end of August’, now the listing is the nebulous ‘Q4 2019’??

Walgreens Holiday Shopping Season Reset... which is sometime near Thanksgiving or Black Friday. Canada already has him as an EB Games exclusive.

So once again we have International fans/buyers held hostage by bizarre exclusivity deals of Japanese toys with isolated US retailers...

Japanese toys? Aren't they dual nationality? After all American designers helped bring these to life as well in partnership with Tomy Takara

News Credits: 42 · Tue Oct 01, 2019 8:48 am

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:So what’s the story on Ratchet? I’ve had a pre-order for sometime now. Initially it said ‘end of August’, now the listing is the nebulous ‘Q4 2019’??

Walgreens Holiday Shopping Season Reset... which is sometime near Thanksgiving or Black Friday. Canada already has him as an EB Games exclusive.

So once again we have International fans/buyers held hostage by bizarre exclusivity deals of Japanese toys with isolated US retailers...

I'm not sure that is actually the case here. Hasbro isn't delaying the release to the rest of the world, as evidenced by EB Games in Canada already having him out (I believe Robotkingdon already had him as well). In the US it is Walgreens that is delaying things, not Hasbro, for whatever their reasoning is to make everyone wait until they reset their stores for Thanksgiving/Christmas. Dumb, but whatever.

What I have no idea on is how the rest of the world outside the US and Canada are getting Ratchet. But in any case there, I don't think they would be affected by the late release by Walgreens. If anything, the Haslab Unicron showed us that Hasbro really doesn't have great relationships in place for the UK/EU fans. My guess is the delay is just a result of them having really poor distribution relationships in UK/EU rather than them being intentionally delayed because Walgreens is weird.

News Credits: 6 · Tue Oct 01, 2019 8:48 am

ZeroWolf wrote:Japanese toys? Aren't they dual nationality? After all American designers helped bring these to life as well in partnership with Tomy Takara

News Credits: 6 · Tue Oct 01, 2019 8:54 am

TF-fan kev777 wrote:What I have no idea on is how the rest of the world outside the US and Canada are getting Ratchet. But in any case there, I don't think they would be affected by the late release by Walgreens.

Personally, I found the best price via Collecticon Toys. As it is a US site, I assumed the delay must be linked?

News Credits: 42 · Tue Oct 01, 2019 9:00 am

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:
TF-fan kev777 wrote:What I have no idea on is how the rest of the world outside the US and Canada are getting Ratchet. But in any case there, I don't think they would be affected by the late release by Walgreens.

Personally, I found the best price via Collecticon Toys. As it is a US site, I assumed the delay must be linked?

Hmm, that is weird, but I'm guessing they would probably have to get theirs from some outlet outside of the US. I know BBTS/TF Source has had the Walgreens exclusives in past years and they were available before Walgreens had them out. The temptation was really hard on the clones to wait out Walgreens. My best guess is that Collectiontoys is just waiting on their middleman/shipment to deliver and this it probably isn't related to Walgreens.

News Credits: 42 · Tue Oct 01, 2019 9:03 am

TF-fan kev777 wrote:
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:
TF-fan kev777 wrote:What I have no idea on is how the rest of the world outside the US and Canada are getting Ratchet. But in any case there, I don't think they would be affected by the late release by Walgreens.

Personally, I found the best price via Collecticon Toys. As it is a US site, I assumed the delay must be linked?

Hmm, that is weird, but I'm guessing they would probably have to get theirs from some outlet outside of the US. I know BBTS/TF Source has had the Walgreens exclusives in past years and they were available before Walgreens had them out. The temptation was really hard on the clones to wait out Walgreens. My best guess is that Collectiontoys is just waiting on their middleman/shipment to deliver and this it probably isn't related to Walgreens.

Edit: Holy Crap! $49.99! Maybe they are just waiting for Walgreeens to put them out and are buying right from their local store. No clue here, but if that was the price they gave you, you might want to keep an eye on BBTS and TF Source. Might get a better price whenever they show up there.

News Credits: 6 · Tue Oct 01, 2019 9:12 am

I believe when I made the pre-order a couple months ago it was $39.99, so it looks like the pre-order has had a slight price hike since the release date vanished.

...This is why I stick to the Masterpiece line. Do you know where you can buy MPs from? EVERYWHERE!
My first - MP Optimus Primal - I bought from a Hong Kong based retailer. The rest have been locally from Kapow & ID Toys ever since.

To get all seven Tetrajets, I had to put in an exception amount of sourcing. More than anything else I've bought in recent years. Hasbro seriously needs to fix their distribution arm, as they are clearly as inept as Hasbro UK...

News Credits: 332 · Tue Oct 01, 2019 6:24 pm

For those interested in Siege Barricade:

News Credits: 1646 · Tue Oct 01, 2019 6:40 pm

Thanks to both Seibertronian chuckdawg1999 and Youtuber PrimevsPrime, we have a pair of video reviews to share with you today for the newest Decepticon addition to the Siege family: Barricade!

Barricade is a retool of Siege Prowl, featuring a new head that is the basis for his repaint and Selects release, Smokescreen. He also features a pair of new guns that can serve as shoulder cannons or combine to form a new hand held weapon. Barricade is an homage to the Movie Barricade, and is the realization of long running fan customizations of Smokescreen into a G1 version of Barricade.

Barricade is part of Wave 4 of Siege, and should be widely available right around the time of this writing, along with his wave mates Impactor and Mirage, the 2 winners of the Siege Fan Vote. You should be seeing them shortly coming to stores near you.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Barricade is a repaint of the Generations Selects Smokescreen figure and it is gorgeous, the best looking Transformers figure that I can remember in a long time. My favorite aspect of the figure's deco has to be the gray/lavender combo that's used on the limbs. Highly recommended.