The Energon Pub

News Credits: 6 · Fri Feb 20, 2009 5:09 pm

buh....

*I'm Wheeljack! =D*

News Credits: 5 · Fri Feb 20, 2009 6:49 pm

If you're the real Wheeljack then how come there are no stress-marks on yer launcher clips? :-B

News Credits: 2 · Fri Feb 20, 2009 6:54 pm

And why aren't you swearing like a trooper?

News Credits: 6 · Fri Feb 20, 2009 7:26 pm

Duh, because I'm dead

News Credits: 2 · Fri Feb 20, 2009 7:32 pm

Hey WHEELJACK! You and Windcharger are dead together. Eeehehehehehe.

"F**k you Huffer."

News Credits: 7 · Fri Feb 20, 2009 10:57 pm

**** day at work with last night's vindaloo repeating on me all day, great night at the pub, home at silly o'clock to have my hopes of a kick ass Wreckers set (which there are ideal moulds out there for) dashed. What's the point of putting out a teaser that has f\ck all to do with the set. Asuming for the moment that it's Animated, and I love Animated, I am seriously unimpressed. I've been planning to grab a boxed plus loose package with the intention being to resell but I am seriously reconsidering at this point.

B\llocks.

News Credits: 6 · Sat Feb 21, 2009 7:24 am

Tekka wrote:Hey WHEELJACK! You and Windcharger are dead together. Eeehehehehehe.

"F**k you Huffer."

Nobody likes Huffer, his opinion doesn't matter.

They even replaced him with a blue duplicate that hardly shows up at all, and people STILL prefer him over Huffer.

Sorry to hear that mate. Why do you people insist on consuming vindaloo! We all know what it does to your insides!

While the idea of an animated set is pretty awesome, the animated figures themselves really aren't of the quality or calibre to make them that desirable.

Having said that, I shall have to hunt down a Kup to go with Ultra Magnus, Wreck Garr, Hot Rod and Arcee. Now where's Springer!

News Credits: 2 · Sat Feb 21, 2009 7:39 am

What the heck happened to all the pages?. I'm pretty sure there we're more than this yesterday. Wait the new wave of universe has been released at argos, damn I was there yesterday.

News Credits: 2 · Sat Feb 21, 2009 9:52 am

Rather than the animated figures themselves being the problem, the major issue that I can see is that the characters which have been chosen don't have the same general appeal that the characters from the last two years have had.

Let's face it, they're never going to top the '07 and '08 sets for a long long time.

News Credits: 2 · Sat Feb 21, 2009 10:54 am

munkimus prime wrote:What the heck happened to all the pages?. I'm pretty sure there we're more than this yesterday. Wait the new wave of universe has been released at argos, damn I was there yesterday.

The number of posts per page has been increased from 10 to 25, thus the page count has shrunk, but all the posts are still there.

News Credits: 1 · Sat Feb 21, 2009 10:58 am

munkimus prime wrote:What the heck happened to all the pages?. I'm pretty sure there we're more than this yesterday. Wait the new wave of universe has been released at argos, damn I was there yesterday.

I think that they have just increased the amount of posts that fit on each page.
I haven't noticed a huge drop in my post count, which happened when we lost a load of pages due to us being corrupt!

News Credits: 1 · Sat Feb 21, 2009 11:00 am

Yeah, what Tekka said!

News Credits: 2 · Sat Feb 21, 2009 11:03 am

Echoooooooooooooo~o~o~o~o~.

News Credits: 1 · Sat Feb 21, 2009 11:06 am

And a delayed one at that!

Got to stop playing with my pussy whilst replying to a post.

News Credits: 2 · Sat Feb 21, 2009 11:08 am

Dude, your keyboard is going to smell like day old salmon.

News Credits: 1 · Sat Feb 21, 2009 11:08 am

http://www.justitoys.hk/hybrid/hybrid_style.htm

Interesting.

News Credits: 1 · Sat Feb 21, 2009 11:10 am

Tekka wrote:Dude, your keyboard is going to smell like day old salmon.

And smeared with blood.

Yes, my pussy just bit me a tad too hard.

News Credits: 2 · Sat Feb 21, 2009 11:16 am

Oh man, I was always worried that some of those things might be hiding sharp teeth. You never know what to expect when you're playing around with one.

News Credits: 7 · Sat Feb 21, 2009 2:09 pm

I went through to York today to enter the beard competition that forms part of the Viking Festival. There were some most impresive beards on display but I made it through to the last four, and to be honest I am chuffed just to have not gone out in the first round. Next year my beard should be even more impressive...

Had a look in Fenwicks, no joy on TFs. Went home the long way and hit the out of town spots. Universe deluxes for 6 quid at Asda, nothing that I really needed but I grabbed the 2 Acid Storms on the shelf for my generic Seeker army bringing the running total up to 4 camo Seekers backing up the Henkei SS/SW/TC and Hasbro/Botcon RJ/D/T.

Had a look in Tesco. All that they had that I needed were the Stealth and Rescue exclusives, unfortunately still marked at full price. Ummed and ahhed about them and eventually decided to get both on the grounds that it's the first time I've seen them anywhere around here (I've been checking my 2 more local Tescos for months). Ratchet's not as bad as I was expecting and Lockdown is awesome, though I'm a little worried about modding the hands since they're clear plastic. Havn't put them together as a group yet but the Legends should look alright alongside Activators Bulkhead. Only reductions were on ROC Prime and the Ani Leaders, both half price.

Next stop was TRU. Got rather excited when I spotted Roadbuster Magnus on a shelf with a 20 quid tag, but on closer inspection it was the Leaders with the bonus Activators that were reduced. Harrassed the staff to make sure and right enough Roadbuster was 40. Pass for the moment, if I'd held off on the earlier Leaders for a bit I could have had far better prices (regular Magnus excluded since we seem to have skipped past him over here). Shadowblade Megs looks great up close and was specificly marked down to 30, tempting but I can wait a little while and see if he comes down too. The Movie packaged Voyager exclusives from last year were marked down to 15, I've already got those (when the 3 for 2 was on) but still not a bad price for a Classics Erector. Ended up walking out with 2 sets of the Ani twins (one set to display individually the other combined).

Almost a ton blown on toys today, but a damn good haul feeling, all warm and fuzzy. I've been saving like crazy for the Botcon toys but after yesterday's announcement I'm not sure how much I care at the moment. I think I've definately decided that I'm not going to bother with a loose set to sell and may well not bother with the boxed set either. I'll see how I feel over the next couple of weeks (don't see them selling out quite as fast this year) but it just felt like the financial pressure that a Wreckers set would have caused had lifted and I could indulge myself.

News Credits: 1 · Sat Feb 21, 2009 2:17 pm

waaaaghlord wrote:I went through to York today to enter the beard competition that forms part of the Viking Festival.

Sorry, just an unusual thing to read!

waaaaghlord wrote: Universe deluxes for 6 quid at Asda, nothing that I really needed but I grabbed the 2 Acid Storms on the shelf for my generic Seeker army bringing the running total up to 4 camo Seekers backing up the Henkei SS/SW/TC and Hasbro/Botcon RJ/D/T.

£6?
May have to pop to an Asda tomorrow.

News Credits: 7 · Sat Feb 21, 2009 2:26 pm

oddsey wrote:£6?

That is correct, got one of those 'Roll Back' tags on the shelf ticket with the Ironhide/Sideswipe/Bluestreak/Acid Storm wave seeming to be their current stock. If this is still on if and when they get the Cyclonus wave I'll definately be looking at picking up half a dozen Uni Cycloni to form an Armada. Hell I'll probably be looking to pick up half a dozen of them anyway...

News Credits: 767 · Sat Feb 21, 2009 4:25 pm

Tekka wrote:Oh man, I was always worried that some of those things might be hiding sharp teeth. You never know what to expect when you're playing around with one.

News Credits: 1 · Sat Feb 21, 2009 5:10 pm

Those from your own personal collection?!

Sat Feb 21, 2009 8:33 pm

City Commander - Mess not with tha vindaloo!

Waaarghlord - indeed, bummer about the wreckers thang (and the beard competition, but I know what you would have been up against) but happily for me I was never gonna be able to afford a set anyway. Glad to hear you've had a great plastic crack fix instead though.

Sideswipe for £6.00 at asda! I'm so doing the shopping this week! Hope they've restocked!

Opened Ani Swindle, lovely figure. A few niggles but generally great. Not opened henkei megs yet though, most expensive figure I've bought so far so gonna I'm savour it.

Mini-collider is well in my good books today - not only has he only been playing with his Playskool Gobots but he's also been dancing to Opeth and playing one of my basses.