The Energon Pub

by **YoungPrime** » Tue Dec 04, 2018 8:12 am

Soundwave is a buy on site! I do wish that G1 cassettes could fit in him but I doubt it though. I'm not really feeling those Spy Patrol, Laserbeak is okay but Ravage looks terrible. The MP cassettes will still remain my defaults regardless.

Still not a fan of Prowl in either mode. Rescue Patrol is cool and So is Chromia.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Tue Dec 04, 2018 8:39 am

Cobotron wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
Cobotron wrote:IS that the first time we've seen Ironhide in physical form, and not a render? He was shown at Toy Fair, right?

Hope those forearms are gonna be red.

We have seen painted samples before, where they were red.
Ok. I thought so. They look like prototype grey in those shots, so hopefully that's just a factory sample.

I'm hesitant to say that's the case just because a bunch of figures on display had these "Deco Sample (Not Final)" stickers which I suspect they would have stuck on Ironhide if he wasn't finished.

And the fact that the gray arms are on both the bot and the vehicle and both are in molded colors and factory painted I'm just not so sure these are samples. Hopefully they're simply supposed to be painted red instead of molded and they yanked these out of the factory before it could be done. I also wish the light gray on the shoulders and wheels were darker, but who knows.

And man, Soundwave is armed to the teeth. Shoulder canon, rifle, microphone(?) gun and all three combining into one long gun thing (probably looks better treated like a shoulder mounted bazooka or something) plus a pair of guns that can flip out from under his forearms. Pretty good for a communications officer.

Emerje

News Credits: 19 · by **blackeyedprime** » Tue Dec 04, 2018 8:59 am

Soundwave really could have used slide out hands like the G1 toy rather than the hollows

but probably picking him and his cassettes up All the others not for me. might wait to see the studio series Bumblebee movie version (tho i'm pretty sure a SS or bumblbee movie toy will have a tape deck mode tho I like the Siege one for having a cybertronian mode)

by **Nemesis Maximo** » Tue Dec 04, 2018 9:08 am

Oooh, Prowl is lookin fine. So sleek compared to the rest of the overly wrinkly-looking Siege line so far.

News Credits: 4857 · by **william-james88** » Tue Dec 04, 2018 9:15 am

YoungPrime wrote:Soundwave is a buy on site!

Which site will you buy them on?

The MP cassettes will still remain my defaults regardless.

But arent those obscenely huge for a voyager soundwave?

by **Nemesis Maximo** » Tue Dec 04, 2018 9:21 am

william-james88 wrote:
YoungPrime wrote:Soundwave is a buy on site!

Which site will you buy them on?

Hehehehehehehehe

[quote=“william-james88”][quote=“YoungPrime”]The MP cassettes will still remain my defaults regardless.[/quote]
But arent those obscenely huge for a voyager soundwave?[/quote]
Lord knows Ravage ain’t too huge.

And what is the deal with trying to do multiple quotes from the same post? I can’t get it to work right.

News Credits: 3 · by **Dannshinigami** » Tue Dec 04, 2018 9:29 am

Loving Soundwave but not overly keen on the combo is guns make though :/

News Credits: 14 · by **DecepticonFinishline** » Tue Dec 04, 2018 9:33 am

Oh man, that backpack on Chromia was really minimized after removing the combiner peg... :roll:

Soundwave looks awesome. It's going to take me a while to get used to the cassetteybois, though.

News Credits: 17 · by **AcademyofDrX** » Tue Dec 04, 2018 9:52 am

Has there been any confirmation that Bumblebee's Cybertronians will come to the movie lines including Studio Series? It doesn't seem like a good fit, especially with all of the G1 characters in the other lines. If you want Cybertron Soundwave, I think Siege will be your best bet.

I'm also guessing that the Cybertron sequence is just a couple minutes in the movie, but that's even more off-topic.

I plan to use TR Rumble and Frenzy with Soundwave since I think they'll still scale better than Micromasters would, but I'm eager to replace Ravage and Lazerbeak with their Siege counterparts.

by **frogbat** » Tue Dec 04, 2018 10:18 am

Just received my first siege figures yesterday... sideswipe and hound and they're solid, fun toys. The worn paint marks battle damage isn't too jarring,

They have a certain heft and an improvement on the classics releases (I didn't bother with the Combiner wars iterations). For their time the classics were pretty awesome but a lot of the transformations were too fiddly something the seems to have improved since CW...

re these prototypes, looking forward to them.. TR sound wave was a good figure but totally out of place scale wise. Also like the fact he has a g1 inspired hand gun. His alt mode is a bit weird but it kinda fits in with deceptions being flyers...

Not quite understanding chromia's disappearing back pack in the pix... seems like it's removed completely in some shots.

Prowl reminds me of prime's smokescreen

Hope they release a larger variety of micromasters.

by **RiddlerJ** » Tue Dec 04, 2018 10:32 am

DecepticonFinishline wrote:Oh man, that backpack on Chromia was really minimized after removing the combiner peg...

The best thing that could've been done was have a combiner peg that could attach or detach from the figure.

News Credits: 331 · by **chuckdawg1999** » Tue Dec 04, 2018 11:17 am

The rescue patrol seems to be a retool of the combat patrol

News Credits: 18 · by **Immortal Starscream** » Tue Dec 04, 2018 11:20 am

Looking at Soundwave's articulation and transformation joints I think I can safely say... Cassette player mode it completely do-able. Maybe even intended

by **ZeldaTheSwordsman** » Tue Dec 04, 2018 11:51 am

Nemesis Maximo wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
YoungPrime wrote:Soundwave is a buy on site!

Which site will you buy them on?

Hehehehehehehehe
[quote=“william-james88”] [quote=“YoungPrime”] The MP cassettes will still remain my defaults regardless.

But arent those obscenely huge for a voyager soundwave?[/quote]
Lord knows Ravage ain’t too huge.

And what is the deal with trying to do multiple quotes from the same post? I can’t get it to work right.[/quote]
This site seems to like to mess with that, doing stuff like randomly delete the bracket from one of the tags or inject an extra closing tag. In this case it seems to be outright ignoring an opener tag and possibly double-counting a closer.

MP Ratbat's the same size as his original toy

News Credits: 12 · by **Evil Eye** » Tue Dec 04, 2018 12:01 pm

I doubt it but I really, really hope the new cassettes are compatible with the MP/G1 cassettes. I do love me some cross compatibility.

News Credits: 42 · by **TF-fan kev777** » Tue Dec 04, 2018 12:24 pm

RiddlerJ wrote:
DecepticonFinishline wrote:Oh man, that backpack on Chromia was really minimized after removing the combiner peg...

The best thing that could've been done was have a combiner peg that could attach or detach from the figure.

Except a combiner peg won't do you any good if there is no 5mm port to attach a hand or foot. That was the other thing removed when Siege Chromia was designed.

News Credits: 4857 · by **william-james88** » Tue Dec 04, 2018 12:59 pm

Black Hat wrote:I doubt it but I really, really hope the new cassettes are compatible with the MP/G1 cassettes. I do love me some cross compatibility.

These casettes are much smaller.

News Credits: 12 · by **Evil Eye** » Tue Dec 04, 2018 1:10 pm

william-james88 wrote:
Black Hat wrote:I doubt it but I really, really hope the new cassettes are compatible with the MP/G1 cassettes. I do love me some cross compatibility.

These casettes are much smaller.

Ah, that's a shame, bother.

News Credits: 56 · by **o.supreme** » Tue Dec 04, 2018 1:16 pm

william-james88 wrote:
Black Hat wrote:I doubt it but I really, really hope the new cassettes are compatible with the MP/G1 cassettes. I do love me some cross compatibility.

These casettes are much smaller.

I was hoping to say the same about them being compatible with TR Leader Class SW & Blaster, but obviously for the same reasons, they are much smaller.

News Credits: 3 · by **TFmonkeybiz** » Tue Dec 04, 2018 1:41 pm

The amount of translucent plastic in Prowl's legs worries me. I don't think they've changed it for the Mass market release either.

News Credits: 2 · by **Bonfireben** » Tue Dec 04, 2018 1:58 pm

HasbroToyShop.com has Siege Deluxes for $10 plus 20% off with code ALLNEW and free shipping if you order enough.
This price may be a mistake and may not last.

I just got Hound, Cog and Skytread for about $25 total shipped free!

I submitted this as a news item already.

News Credits: 194 · by **RodimusConvoy13** » Tue Dec 04, 2018 2:11 pm

Bonfireben wrote:HasbroToyShop.com has Siege Deluxes for $10 plus 20% off with code ALLNEW and free shipping if you order enough.
This price may be a mistake and may not last.

I just got Hound, Cog and Skytread for about $25 total shipped free!

I submitted this as a news item already.

Thanks! I got Hound and Sideswipe for 16.94! Wish I'd waited one day on Cog.

News Credits: 56 · by **o.supreme** » Tue Dec 04, 2018 2:13 pm

Bonfireben wrote:HasbroToyShop.com has Siege Deluxes for $10 plus 20% off with code ALLNEW and free shipping if you order enough.
This price may be a mistake and may not last.

I just got Hound, Cog and Skytread for about $25 total shipped free!

I submitted this as a news item already.

Awesome, that is a heck of a deal. i only wanted Skytread, but even paying shipping it was less than $15. However someone could potentially get all four deluxes for $32 shipped, that is amazing!

Of course one has to wonder, if it's not an error, is Hasbro aware that perhaps there is some severe defect with this product and they are just trying to unload it quickly? I mean I know I just ordered Skytread, which has known defects, but I'm not sure about the others.

by **RiddlerJ** » Tue Dec 04, 2018 2:26 pm

TF-fan kev777 wrote:
RiddlerJ wrote:
DecepticonFinishline wrote:Oh man, that backpack on Chromia was really minimized after removing the combiner peg...

The best thing that could've been done was have a combiner peg that could attach or detach from the figure.

Except a combiner peg won't do you any good if there is no 5mm port to attach a hand or foot. That was the other thing removed when Siege Chromia was designed.

They could've left the ports attached too.

What I meant was when they were retooling Chromia, to basically leave the option for her to be a combiner but if people weren't interested in that feature or hated the backback, to just be able to slide that part off.

News Credits: 42 · by **TF-fan kev777** » Tue Dec 04, 2018 2:29 pm

o.supreme wrote:
Bonfireben wrote:HasbroToyShop.com has Siege Deluxes for $10 plus 20% off with code ALLNEW and free shipping if you order enough.
This price may be a mistake and may not last.

I just got Hound, Cog and Skytread for about $25 total shipped free!

I submitted this as a news item already.

Awesome, that is a heck of a deal. i only wanted Skytread, but even paying shipping it was less than $15. However someone could potentially get all four deluxes for $32 shipped, that is amazing!

Of course one has to wonder, if it's not an error, is Hasbro aware that perhaps there is some severe defect with this product and they are just trying to unload it quickly? I mean I know I just ordered Skytread, which has known defects, but I'm not sure about the others.

Cog appears to be out of stock already, added him to the cart, but wouldn't let me proceed. I did just order the other 3 at the discount and once they arrive, I'll be returning them to Target where I found all 4 deluxes last week.