The Energon Pub

[blackeyedprime]

I would rather Trailbreaker and Hoist gut their own mold.

Me too, it kind of works for trailbreaker but I want a hoist looking hoist. A diaclone black version of iron hide would be okay for me if they really wanted to squeeze another use from the mold.

[Albatross250]

Spinister just got revealed so high chance that Wheeljack will be on WFC2 line.

[ZeldaTheSwordsman]

Here’s to hoping Wheeljack’s altmode will look like how he appeared in the first episode of the G1 cartoon.

I think that in Wheeljack's case that won't be happening. If it does it will involve shellforming shenanigans.

But I think Wheeljack might be more in line with his original transformation scheme (or that of the Generations toy), with Sunstreaker as a reshell.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

I saw this digibash online and wondered if you guys would like it if this idea came to fruition

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Not good enough for me. Trailbreaker AKA my favorite bot needs an original mold, but similarly sized to Ironhide. He needs to have size and presence.

Btw anyone a bit weirded out that Crosshairs has the cartoon/comics head and not his toy-accurate head when usually Hasbro tend more toward the toy designs. Maybe its because his regular head design was too much like Ironhide?

i find it weird, but it is welcome. I may be one of 12 people in the world who liked Rebirth, so I am OK with cartoon faces for all from those episodes.

On the official Transformers Amazon store, Reflector is $30 while Brunt and the rest of the Deluxes are $20, what am I missing here?

Isn't it enough that we have to get three exact copies of the same action-figure in order to get the full character?

BTW, anyone got him yet? Any good?

I did! Got 2 of them last week in stores, still trying to get my 3rd.

They are really cool and really fun. As individuals they are great, but I really want to see the camera mode. That is the mode I plan to display them in and use for photos. (haha, puns).

I plan to focus on my new Siege guys next week and the week after for my deskbot shots and thoughts, I'm on the Beast high right now.

Is it wrong I'd totally want Siege Wheeljack to wield some bigass cyber-wrentch as a melee weapon to clobber Decepticons with?

I am with you. Wheeljack needs wrenches and such! and he needs a spare wrench so I can give it to Nautica!

[Skritz]

Here’s to hoping Wheeljack’s altmode will look like how he appeared in the first episode of the G1 cartoon.

I think that in Wheeljack's case that won't be happening. If it does it will involve shellforming shenanigans.

But I think Wheeljack might be more in line with his original transformation scheme (or that of the Generations toy), with Sunstreaker as a reshell.

Yeah, this being the kind of line that tries to double as vaguely Earth mode-esque, Wheeljack will definitely remain a car. Maybe a much more cubic one with details that call back to his pilot episode altmode but there is no way we're getting that cubic hovercraft thing. Unfortunately.

[ZeldaTheSwordsman]

Here’s to hoping Wheeljack’s altmode will look like how he appeared in the first episode of the G1 cartoon.

I think that in Wheeljack's case that won't be happening. If it does it will involve shellforming shenanigans.

But I think Wheeljack might be more in line with his original transformation scheme (or that of the Generations toy), with Sunstreaker as a reshell.

Yeah, this being the kind of line that tries to double as vaguely Earth mode-esque, Wheeljack will definitely remain a car. Maybe a much more cubic one with details that call back to his pilot episode altmode but there is no way we're getting that cubic hovercraft thing. Unfortunately.

Exactly. They could pull it off well enough with a Cybertronian robot mode, but because they're using his Earthly robot mode with its rounded windshield chest doing the boxy car mode would take shellforming.

[Stargrave]

Thanks to site member JTPrime17 we have a heads up on some nice official images of the Transformers Autobot Alphastrike Counterforce! The images come from Twitter member tagoal. Nothing majorly new here but it is some nice crisp images of Covert Clone Sideswipe, Raindance and Grand Slam, and Trenchfoot.



















And also via Robotkingdom.com we have some nice clean images of the package, this time without all that pesky glare. Robotkingdom has the item listed at $56.90 but is currently out of stock. They also list the item as was previously reported, the Cybertron Firestormer Pack.

Enjoy the images and share your view with the Seibertron crew in the forums!

[Skritz]

I'd love to see some front/hood decal or moldings which reference the front of his Cybertronian mode, as well as a big square spoiler in the back to vaguely evoke his 'floating box mode' even as a car. Or just making him a very square car.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

Those Alphastrike guys are gorgeous! Trenchshots colors are really sweet on him, and I am so excited to have a Slamdance. And Sideswipe will look great with some neon reprolabels

[Randomhero]

What the hell!!?!?

I posted about wheeljack four days ago on the siege thread and was told it’s old news and nothing new.

Guess it just matters who’s running the site on certain nights....

[blackeyedprime]

Torn on the alpha strike set, sideswipe needs some paint on his unsightly red bits for alt mode and then it will be great figure. Then slamdance kind of detracts from the uniqueness of the duocons by just being a repaint of them. I like bots having rivals (rewind/eject etc) but seeing as they aren't the duocons rivals or have their own sculpt it does nothing for the cassette based characters.

[Hellscream9999]

What the hell!!?!?

I posted about wheeljack four days ago on the siege thread and was told it’s old news and nothing new.

Guess it just matters who’s running the site on certain nights....

did you submit it to the news team?

[Randomhero]

What the hell!!?!?

I posted about wheeljack four days ago on the siege thread and was told it’s old news and nothing new.

Guess it just matters who’s running the site on certain nights....

did you submit it to the news team?

Every Time I’ve done that in past I’ve never gotten a reply. I’ve even tweeted first sightings on the sites twitter no reply. Nothing.

Just found springer. So...Wheeljack is on the side of the box in the background art...that’s a thing

You didn't catch that? It was from the beginning.

Though, to be fair, I just discovered Sunstreaker on that art as well.

Right here, I said it days ago and was just shot down that is was old news.

I mean you guys live on here. I’ve seen people just post stuff on threads and it gets credited

[Stargrave]

Well that’s lame and I lost track of that amidst the news of the day. I’m just as responsible as anybody and I apologize. Nothings ever done to sleight anyone deliberately I promise you. Hey, I am truly sorry and I want to say we always appreciate any and all help with news. I think things do get mixed up as humans are apt to do.

[Stargrave]

To be clear I meant ‘lame’ in sympathy I totally feel your frustration and feel terrible about that. We always value everyone’s input here. I certainly do and if you were here I’d hope we could shake on it.

[Nickster563]

This isn't new at all, Wheeljacks been showing up in siege artwork ever since the optimus prime siege poster handed out last year...

[Cobotron]

This isn't new at all, Wheeljacks been showing up in siege artwork ever since the optimus prime siege poster handed out last year...

And to make it more interesting, I'd wager that drawing of Wheeljack on the poster is the exact same file cut and pasted into a layer for the art on Springer"s box art.




Just like Dazzlestrike on Greenlight's packaging is the exact same art as Lionizer on his.



Ahhhhh! The wonderful cheats of digital painting!


Edit: Even the poor bot getting blasted on the Prime poster and the Springer box is the same drawing mirrored!

[Seibertron]

What the hell!!?!?

I posted about wheeljack four days ago on the siege thread and was told it’s old news and nothing new.

Guess it just matters who’s running the site on certain nights....

It was definitely news and happy to give you credit, though it was something I noticed on my own today while cropping photos of Springer's box. Generally, news submissions are sent via the contact form at https://www.seibertron.com/contact/inde ... bject=news or directly via email at news@seibertron.com, but we don't have anything from you. Can you post a link to the post where a staff member told you it was old news and nothing new?

[Seibertron]

Every Time I’ve done that in past I’ve never gotten a reply. I’ve even tweeted first sightings on the sites twitter no reply. Nothing.

I have zero emails sent from your username or from your email address registered with your Seibertron.com email account. I have every email everyone has ever sent me (minus spam/junk mail) dating all the way back to at least 2005. Not saying that we haven't missed an email from you, it's just not being sent from the contact form and it's not being sent to our public group email addresses.

I mean you guys live on here. I’ve seen people just post stuff on threads and it gets credited

We do live on here, or specifically, I definitely live on here. But things go unnoticed, we miss things. We are, after all, human. Everyone on this site's staff, other than me, is a volunteer. They help with Seibertron.com in between their jobs, their relationships, their families, their kids, their lives, etc. Things fall between the cracks. Please don't take it personally when that happens.

I am the sole account holder for the Twitter account. I rarely receive messages from people on twitter. If you are tagging @seibertroncom in your tweets, I will 100% miss those because I'm not an active Twitter user and I'm pretty sure I have notifications from Twitter disabled, as I do, for my personal account with Facebook.

If you want to convey news to us, please send it via the contact form or to news@seibertron.com. Those are the two ways that we get news from our users. Tagging us in a Twitter post, or even sending a message to us on Twitter, will fall on deaf ears since Twitter does not have a way to filter posts.

For those of you who are huge Twitter and Facebook users, please don't take offense to my uncaring attitude about either of those platforms. I used to love social media but have pretty much walled myself from those platforms as much as possible for much the same reasons as many other people have pulled away from social media. It's too much and I have other/better things to do with my time and life!

Please don't give the staff here a hard time about what gets posted or not posted. They are all volunteers. Giving them a hard time about this is absolutely 100% wasted energy and counter productive. Help us get news, by all means, and share as much with us as possible through the methods with which we request users to send us information. Always happy to give credit to users when they provide us with information.

[Seibertron]

Back on topic, I broke the news on that Optimus Prime SIEGE poster from SDCC last year. With all of the amazing news that came out of SDCC and in our rush to get news out as fast as possible, I completely missed that Wheeljack was shown in the background on that poster. That was extremely newsworthy then and there's nothing wrong with rehashing something that might have been overlooked by many, myself included who broke the damn news about that poster last summer.

[Stargrave]

As noted by one of our news staff the Transformers War for Cybertron Siege Sports Car Patrol Blackjack and Hyperdrive are listed on Amazon.com although there is no image currently attached to it. It appears to be a somewhat non-descript entry for a major retail item but anyone who's shopped Transformers on Amazon before know this is just the modern version of the store-to-store toy hunt. Fun! The item is listed as Just click the link above or any of the images below and it should take you to the correct listing.





















This writer personally dismissed the team as direct repaints of the Autobot Race Car Patrol (although noted otherwise in a previous article here), alas, the torsos and heads are complete remolds to match the original versions of the characters. Personal opinion now changed 180 degrees I myself shall be actively hunting these nifty nanocons down. How about you? Hop on the forums and let us know!

[Sentinel_Primal]

So, I just realized something. So every wave of deluxe and voyager figures this line has had (at least) 3 figures and 2 figures each. So either wave 4/5 is being filled out just enough that retailers will stock it, or we could see a couple of more reveals at SDCC. Personally, I'm hoping we'll get a couple more with either Wheeljack or Tracks filling out the deluxe class and of course Snapdragon filling out voyager.

Do I think it's likely? Far from it. Quite frankly I'm surprised we even got more reveals, but hey, it's always possible

[Stargrave]

Man with Crosshairs now? Just throw that ‘just wishful thinking’ saying out it’s like any and all bots are fair game

[Seibertron]

So, I just realized something. So every wave of deluxe and voyager figures this line has had (at least) 3 figures and 2 figures each. So either wave 4/5 is being filled out just enough that retailers will stock it, or we could see a couple of more reveals at SDCC. Personally, I'm hoping we'll get a couple more with either Wheeljack or Tracks filling out the deluxe class and of course Snapdragon filling out voyager.

Do I think it's likely? Far from it. Quite frankly I'm surprised we even got more reveals, but hey, it's always possible

There's generally a ton revealed at SDCC. It's less than a month a way (20 days to be precise) to when Hasbro has their annual ginormous reveal day on the Thursday of San Diego Comic-Con which is only rivaled by the reveals from Toy Fair in February, and (only recently) NYCC in October, though SDCC reveals are much greater than NYCC.

[AcademyofDrX]

The Siege line itself was revealed at SDCC last year, which is another reason I think we're actually seeing figures from the next WFC line rather than Siege. I would definitely hope for more than four new figures on display in San Diego.

If that is the case, we'll likely see figures tied to the new play features. I think it's notable that no new Battle Masters, Micromasters, or Weaponizers were included in the Screen Rant feature. If the next line has new size classes - say, the reintroduction of Legends, or an armor mechanic like in Cyberverse - they won't be teased until the line is announced.