The Energon Pub

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Mon Nov 20, 2017 7:43 pm

carytheone wrote:The wolfie look neat. So from cute to fierce, I get it. So do you consume any of their related media? Just toys?

Other than video games I tend to be toys first then maybe dip my toes into the media.

I was a Digimon cartoon baby, never watched the Pokémons. If you were to try getting into the series, start from the start, avoid the first movie (unless watching it in its Japanese original short films instead), and keep in mind that after Adventure and Adventure 02, the story almost reboots. Current movies in the Adventure Tri. series follow on from after 02, with cast of first series.

You know I'm not a gamin' guy.

News Credits: 41 · by **Cobotron** » Wed Nov 22, 2017 8:42 am

That's right! Va'al don't play no games! All business. All the time.

That's a nice looking 'mon. I bet he feels real good with all that metal.
I have a little crate of Digimon toys from the way back stoed down in the collect-o-dungeon. Always appreciated the way the toys "digivolved". Kinda makes me want to pull them out and revisit them.

I still think my favorite Digimon is this one though.

Djimon Hounsou

:lol:

News Credits: 15 · by **galvatron00** » Wed Nov 22, 2017 9:22 am

DIGIMON!!! DIGITAL MONSTERS!! WOOOOOOOOOOO!!

I used to watch the cartoon on Sunday mornings while working at the driving range. Wasn't much "work", so there was more Digimon than anything :lol:

That was easily 18 years ago. Dang.

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Thu Nov 23, 2017 6:55 pm

Cobotron wrote:That's right! Va'al don't play no games! All business. All the time.

That's a nice looking 'mon. I bet he feels real good with all that metal.
I have a little crate of Digimon toys from the way back stoed down in the collect-o-dungeon. Always appreciated the way the toys "digivolved". Kinda makes me want to pull them out and revisit them.

It's a nicely hefty figure, and a heckuva improvement on the original critter! Wotafa did a nice comparison in Japanese, just a couple of days after I picked up mine (there was literally one review as I bought it, I was that fast to the scene). He's so excited about it too!

I still think my favorite Digimon is this one though.

Djimon Hounsou

Djimon is indeed a nice looking specimen. :saint:

itscramtastic wrote:DIGIMON!!! DIGITAL MONSTERS!! WOOOOOOOOOOO!!

I used to watch the cartoon on Sunday mornings while working at the driving range. Wasn't much "work", so there was more Digimon than anything

That was easily 18 years ago. Dang.

I said it on Twitter, and I'll repeat it here: Digimon > Pokémon.

News Credits: 295 · by **WreckerJack** » Thu Nov 30, 2017 2:37 am

While Pokemon had the better game, Digimon had the better show. Of course there was a Digimon game called Digimon world but I never had a PS1 so I have never played it. The Pokemon cartoon was the same stuff in every episode - Ash sees a Pokemon, catches or battles it. Gets interrupted by a rival trainer or team rocket. There is maybe another Pokemon battle and then team rocket blasts off the end. Plus Ash always stays 10.

In Digimon the characters actually grow and learn. The plot builds on itself and things change. There are new heroes and villeins and it isn't just the same stuff over and over. I wish that Digimon were more popular but lets face it, Pokemon was much more marketable with it's "Gotta catch em all!" motto, trading card game, gameboy game and toys. Digimon was more about partnership and finding one's unique role but Pokemon is about collecting and competing.

I have fallen out of interest with Pokemon over the years. (Can't say I liked any Digimon seasons after S3 tbh) I think the series just changed too much for me, being there since the beginning. While I still do enjoy the series X and Y was the last gen I played. I'd rather put my energy into other series and hobbies anyways. I'd rather not stick around and get salty.

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Mon Dec 04, 2017 4:31 am

WreckerJack wrote:While Pokemon had the better game, Digimon had the better show. Of course there was a Digimon game called Digimon world but I never had a PS1 so I have never played it. The Pokemon cartoon was the same stuff in every episode - Ash sees a Pokemon, catches or battles it. Gets interrupted by a rival trainer or team rocket. There is maybe another Pokemon battle and then team rocket blasts off the end. Plus Ash always stays 10.

In Digimon the characters actually grow and learn. The plot builds on itself and things change. There are new heroes and villeins and it isn't just the same stuff over and over. I wish that Digimon were more popular but lets face it, Pokemon was much more marketable with it's "Gotta catch em all!" motto, trading card game, gameboy game and toys. Digimon was more about partnership and finding one's unique role but Pokemon is about collecting and competing.

Pretty much yeah! And Pokémon was already a franchise multimedia empire by the time Digimon had any power to do anything lasting.

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Mon Dec 04, 2017 4:47 am

Rust Dust finally got to come along on a trip!

On the way over...

And plenty of days out!

There was a fair amount of food involved, too.

And on the way back..

..to mistreating Optimus Tiny.

Bonus content! Follow up to this post: posting.php?mode=reply&f=206&t=80445#pr1922737

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Mon Dec 04, 2017 4:49 am

Addendum: behind the scenes shots, aka 'the awkward angles of toy photography'.

News Credits: 295 · by **WreckerJack** » Mon Dec 04, 2017 5:05 am

I want a bite of those noodles! And that fruit drink... all your posts make me hungry!

News Credits: 131 · by **no-one** » Mon Dec 04, 2017 4:16 pm

I always love the behind the scene pics. I have a bunch my wife took of me and maybe me and a dude I know playing robits that I don't know what to do with

Anyway, I wanted to point this one out.

Va'al wrote:

I know that feel; that is real life happening right there. I can't tell if that's early am or late pm.

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Thu Dec 07, 2017 7:22 am

Arrived today in the post, a new piece for The Collection!

More like Alpha BAMFo. Thanks Jack Lawrence!

News Credits: 295 · by **WreckerJack** » Thu Dec 07, 2017 8:17 am

Thats neat. How did you get that?

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Thu Dec 07, 2017 8:19 am

WreckerJack wrote:Thats neat. How did you get that?

I paid for it. :-P

It was a commission! Artists usually open up a pre-convention/event list if they know they'll have a lot of work at the event itself, and I got in before Thought Bubble in September. Jack was swamped with work, so it's only just made it over, but I'm happy to finally have it!

News Credits: 15 · by **galvatron00** » Thu Dec 07, 2017 8:44 am

That's pretty dang cool Va'al!! Congrats!!

News Credits: 41 · by **Cobotron** » Thu Dec 07, 2017 9:26 am

Real nice!

Who's Jack Lawrence? IDW guy?

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Thu Dec 07, 2017 2:54 pm

Cobotron wrote:Real nice!

Who's Jack Lawrence? IDW guy?

Hells yeck! Current artist on Lost Light, and has worked on Skylanders and other stuff.
I interviewed him here: https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... nce/36770/

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Fri Dec 08, 2017 1:44 pm

I guess I made myself a treedition.

PRELUDE:
'I think we're ready to start, we got the main ones here. Let's call the others!' '..do you hear that too?'

'WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE..'

'...EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE...'

'...EEEEEEEeeeeee...' '..that bodes well.'

THE WORKS

'READY TO RUUUUUMBLE.' '..and clobber!'

'Come on, AGNU!' *muffled grunting*

'It's just a break, I swear! This is really cool stuff..' 'Mph.'

'We gotsa try this, AGNU.'

'But..!' 'Put. It. Down.'

'How is it always you..?'

'GETIM, AGNU!' *indistinct screaming*

Storytime break

'How is it always you?!'

'Heavy Bipeds - that's you, ya big lug!' 'Don't be mean to him, Ros!'

'I.. I think that's it!'

'Ye-- WAIT! Where's that tiny troublemaker?!'

'WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE..!'

'..and POSE, glitches.'

'You know, all in all, that was less painful than I thought.' 'Yeah, nice work.'
*AGNU noises in background*

News Credits: 295 · by **WreckerJack** » Fri Dec 08, 2017 4:05 pm

Oogles the stack of books and robots.

I finished my book (Fahrenheit 451) and now I don't know what to read next. Gotta let that one mull over in my brain first. So many choices so little time.