The Energon Pub

News Credits: 7 · Fri May 24, 2013 12:03 pm

Package from Electron arrived. That gives me this many Lockdowns.

News Credits: 4 · Fri May 24, 2013 4:49 pm

oh yeah. i need that movie lockdown. axor needs a buddy/rival

News Credits: 7 · Fri May 24, 2013 5:20 pm

I really like that posing the legs and neck differently gives them fairly different silhouettes while leaving both still towering over other deluxes. The asymmetry in robot modes is nicely reminiscent of the CR/RiD cars as well.

Fri May 24, 2013 7:28 pm

Been away from home but whilst I was gone mister postman delivered me my Blitzwing.

Hmm, straight out of the box I had to do surgery on him, before even getting to transform him, I did the take apart, shave the insides down mod on him, worked like a treat, but his legs were floppy as hell, had to tighten them up with superglue :/

Then his 3 faces were too tight to pull down, had to take his head apart and shave off all the excess paint and now it works great. After all of this work he is near perfect, absolutely great figure! I recommend him as long as you don't mind taking the time to do surgery on him.

As for sightings, it seems like all of the prime line is reduced across different stores, the entertainer has deluxes at something like £7.80, voyagers for £15. Spotted two vehicons in the Warrington entertainer.

News Credits: 7 · Sat May 25, 2013 11:28 am

Out shopping for new boots today and got a better deal than I was expecting so I popped my head into Home Bargains on the off chance of a cheap Vehicon. Then this kinda happened...

I've left the mechtech off Starscream entirely, locked it open on Magnus and got the other 2 secured with the clear bands from the packaging. Seriously considering grabbing a second Magnus just for the extra missile since there's the option to shoulder mount them. I'm thinking with a bit of trimming to the head the second figure would paint up into a pretty sweet Huffer.

News Credits: 4 · Sat May 25, 2013 12:28 pm

congrats! How you liking Thundertron?

as a Visionaries fan I'm fond of clear blue lions with facial hair, but was impressed enough with the mold that I keep considering the Lio Prime AM version.

anyway, Kapow have a sale on, and I was able to get the BH Ratchet for a tenner. Really wanted that, since the first version of the character was a pretty awesome fun toy, and the new one has his BW Dinobot thing going on. Gonna be repurposing him as a Junkion medic. TFSource only had him as part of a wave set, so I'd already been eyeing up the Kapow site for him, but at this price, I couldn't say no!

They've also got Fort Max for £250. That's pretty tempting, but I'm holding out hope that there'll still be Metroplex pre-orders when I get a cheeky wee bonus on my paycheck at the end of next month.

News Credits: 2 · Sat May 25, 2013 12:45 pm

I saw a beautiful Sentinel Prime custom from the Magnus mold, so that's another idea
Starscreams weapon can be tied out as well, but its a bit tricky to do. Its also not that stable. However, if you extend it and then push the battery compartment forwards, it stays locked out and turns the light off

News Credits: 5 · Sat May 25, 2013 4:30 pm

My favourite thing about Thundertron, apart from the fact that he only cost me £4.99, is this.

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/radicons- ... d-mod.html

News Credits: 2 · Sat May 25, 2013 4:56 pm

ATTENTION STEVE LOVERS!

http://www.toysrus.co.uk/Toys-R-Us/Toys ... on(0100980)?searchPosition=28

Don't think they will be there long...

News Credits: 7 · Sat May 25, 2013 5:18 pm

That's cool. I won't be stripping the awkward weapon for the moment but the parrot sits nicely with just friction on the shoulder claws.

What are the rest of his crew like in the book? Any toys out there that'd make good stand ins for them?

http://www.youtube.com/user/waspshot23 · Sun May 26, 2013 5:51 am

Just a heads up guys, people on fullmetalhero have reported sightings of beast hunters deluxe wave 2 and voyagers wave 1 at Southampton TRU.

The hunt begins.

But, for me it's sod's law, cos I ordered a BH Bumblebee from the Kapow toys sale minutes before this news came to light. Still, I don't think we'll be finding new deluxes for under a tenner anytime soon...

News Credits: 6 · Sun May 26, 2013 10:14 am

I checked the Leeds TRU today and they had very little other than Prime deluxes and voyagers on sale. Also quite a few masterpiece OPs. Considered getting Knockout for £8.00 but I have read some bad reviews of the toy online, so I went for the Generations Frenzy and Ratbat pack in preparation for getting Soundwave. £12.99 is a complete rip but what can you do. Also got RTS Grappel this week for £20 so all in all I can't complain! Shame that's not true for the wife...

For anyone in the Yorkshire area we apparently now have an Entertainer toy store in the new Trinity shopping centre. Their website has BH OP and Predaking available for £23, along with several BH deluxes so will be having a look in town myself later in the week. Anyone seen any more Generations stuff? I'm starting to get twitchy. =P~

News Credits: 2 · Sun May 26, 2013 12:20 pm

Afternoon all.

Loving the Thundertron Parrot. I have mine on his shoulder as we speak

In more of a sightings news...

I went to Toys R Us at Lakeside in Essex today and picked myself up Smokescreen, Ripclaw and Prime Voyager. They had Bee and Screamer as well as Predaking, but I figured the Mrs would disapprove of me picking them all up in one go

Voyagers were £22.99 and Deluxe were the usual £12.99. That was all they had, was surprised to see it was wave 2 rather than 1. As far as standard Prime deluxes go they had a lot, including Knock Out, Frenzy/Rumble, Airachnid and a couple of Steves. I would have picked them up but I needed new toys instead.

I'm loving Ripclaw, very nice figure. Smokescreen is pretty much as expected and I am eternally grateful that the armor comes off! That said, it doesnt look quite as bad as I thought. Badassimus Prime just looks awesome in bot mode, a big meaty p***ed off bot

Love the sword, hate the missle launchers. Vehicle mode looks like a Tonka Truck. Major downside for me is that he looks very plastic if that makes sense...

I also popped into Smyths, but they didnt have anything special.

http://www.youtube.com/user/waspshot23 · Sun May 26, 2013 12:42 pm

Crankcase79 wrote:I checked the Leeds TRU today and they had very little other than Prime deluxes and voyagers on sale. Also quite a few masterpiece OPs. Considered getting Knockout for £8.00 but I have read some bad reviews of the toy online, so I went for the Generations Frenzy and Ratbat pack in preparation for getting Soundwave. £12.99 is a complete rip but what can you do. Also got RTS Grappel this week for £20 so all in all I can't complain! Shame that's not true for the wife...

Aww dude, 8 quid for Knock Out is a bargain. He's actually very nice. A cool, fun little figure that most people seem to frequently mistransform, and thus give bad reviews of, because they don't think to actually fiddle with it.
I also say aww, cos Kapow has that Ratbat set for £6.99. I know cos I got one...
I was not going to spend £12.99 on data discs. Total rip off any day of the week.

News Credits: 6 · Sun May 26, 2013 2:45 pm

Wasp-shot23 wrote:
Crankcase79 wrote:I checked the Leeds TRU today and they had very little other than Prime deluxes and voyagers on sale. Also quite a few masterpiece OPs. Considered getting Knockout for £8.00 but I have read some bad reviews of the toy online, so I went for the Generations Frenzy and Ratbat pack in preparation for getting Soundwave. £12.99 is a complete rip but what can you do. Also got RTS Grappel this week for £20 so all in all I can't complain! Shame that's not true for the wife...

Aww dude, 8 quid for Knock Out is a bargain. He's actually very nice. A cool, fun little figure that most people seem to frequently mistransform, and thus give bad reviews of, because they don't think to actually fiddle with it.
I also say aww, cos Kapow has that Ratbat set for £6.99. I know cos I got one...
I was not going to spend £12.99 on data discs. Total rip off any day of the week.

Awwwww....! :BOOM:

News Credits: 4 · Sun May 26, 2013 5:00 pm

I'll second the KnockOut mold as being good. The paint on both red versions of it is still beyond-poo but if you can overlook that or are considering a repaint or retrolabels touch-up, he's nice. I have the Dark Energon version and he was the one I was 3rd least interested in. Thankfully getting him out of the packaging I discovered he's a cool toy, with loads of great posability and quite a fun sculpt.

Mon May 27, 2013 4:21 am

As has been said, Knock-out is a cool figure once you get him in hand and start fiddling with his transformation.

News Credits: 1 · Mon May 27, 2013 6:33 am

Very lucky birthday boy today thanks to my wonderful wife

Tue May 28, 2013 8:06 am

my (dad's) eBay account has been updated with a few of my TFs if anybody is interested. I'm having a small collection clearout of unwanted figures so take a look if you want

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/dirtychef/m.html

Tue May 28, 2013 12:26 pm

Think i'll snap up that Menasor!

Been looking for a cheap one for a while, regardless of missing parts

thanks for the post Crosshairs.

News Credits: 7 · Tue May 28, 2013 12:33 pm

I could do with an extra of those for an Omega repaint. Not a priority and I'd be looking for a complete one (bar the Minicon) though.

News Credits: 6 · Wed May 29, 2013 5:58 am

Saw some kreo combiner sets in my local asda living today, predaking, devastator and superion, £7.99 each.

Also have an original g1 blitzwing, complete with box and instructions, and a reissue g1 prowl complete and boxed which I was thinking of selling on ebay. If anyone fancies either PM me. Might also stick them on the selling thread too! 8-}

Wed May 29, 2013 7:24 am

Lockdown91 wrote:Think i'll snap up that Menasor!

Been looking for a cheap one for a while, regardless of missing parts thanks for the post Crosshairs.

Menasor is on his way

News Credits: 1 · Wed May 29, 2013 4:58 pm

Crankcase79 wrote:Saw some kreo combiner sets in my local asda living today, predaking, devastator and superion, £7.99 each.

Have searched 6 different Asdas in my vicinity for a Bruticus with no joy what so ever. :BANG_HEAD:

News Credits: 3 · Wed May 29, 2013 5:50 pm

My local tesco's had a thrilling selection of two cyberverse commander nightwatch optimuses (optimi?), with a reduction of about a single pound or two, to £8
They stayed on the shelf-I don't have a cyberverse prime but atm Magnus is doing a fine job as commander. Might pick one up next time I go in as they'll inevitably still be there.