The Energon Pub

Woot woot! (I gotta get me a job with MMC so I can get the Employee Discount. They are taking too much of my money right now...)

Autobot Genocide wrote:

"Q3 2014"

But yeah, you just bring these ladies out when THEY are ready. I'll be waiting. Also waiting to find out what Venksta's surprise with the MMC folks is.

necr0blivion wrote:Also waiting to find out what Venksta's surprise with the MMC folks is.

I thought that had to do with Feral Queen? Guess we'll know soon enough.

Hoping Hasbro reveals test shots of Generations Deluxe Arcee at Botcon this weekend. Want Hasbro to steal fans buying interest away from these MMC Femmebots. So MMC cancels the Fembots and releases Carnifex Over Lord in 2014 or early 2015.

Speculating Hasbro at Botcon this weekend. Reveals retools and recolors for the Windblade toy that turns it into other fembots toys. Hoping this steals away more fans buying interest in those MMC Fembots.

Tsutsukakushi wrote:Hoping Hasbro reveals test shots of Generations Deluxe Arcee at Botcon this weekend. Want Hasbro to steal fans buying interest away from these MMC Femmebots. So MMC cancels the Fembots and releases Carnifex Over Lord in 2014 or early 2015.

Speculating Hasbro at Botcon this weekend. Reveals retools and recolors for the Windblade toy that turns it into other fembots toys. Hoping this steals away more fans buying interest in those MMC Fembots.

Given the staggered streams of revenue 3rd Parties bring in, and given that MMC has invested a lot of time, treasure, and effort developing and tooling their Fembots, there is the possibility, however slight, that their cancellation would cause MMC to shutter their doors for good.

Then no one would get their Carnifex Overlord. In other words...

This is what I wanted. Screw arcee, use that mold for these two and do firestar, chromia, greenlight, and lancer too.

megatronus wrote:

Tsutsukakushi wrote:Hoping Hasbro reveals test shots of Generations Deluxe Arcee at Botcon this weekend. Want Hasbro to steal fans buying interest away from these MMC Femmebots. So MMC cancels the Fembots and releases Carnifex Over Lord in 2014 or early 2015.

Speculating Hasbro at Botcon this weekend. Reveals retools and recolors for the Windblade toy that turns it into other fembots toys. Hoping this steals away more fans buying interest in those MMC Fembots.

Given the staggered streams of revenue 3rd Parties bring in, and given that MMC has invested a lot of time, treasure, and effort developing and tooling their Fembots, there is the possibility, however slight, that their cancellation would cause MMC to shutter their doors for good.

Then no one would get their Carnifex Overlord. In other words...

Omnigonix MP Sunstreaker is getting bashed by some who say it's bad to compete with Stuff Hastak might release years from now. Why don't the same rules apply in this thread with the MMC Fembots, 3oth arcee, windblade and all the fembots repaint and retools Hastak has planned.

Just think MMC needed to release these fembots months ago to get higher sales. Releasing these at the same time or after the Hasbro releases their 30th fembots will result in less paying 3rd party prices. Some are speculating Hasbro will repaint plus retool 30th arcee and 30th Windblade into more fembots.

Fact is kushi there's just not enough fembots in this hobby , by the time i'm finished there will be enough Fems to start a cybertronian orgy

Tsutsukakushi wrote:

megatronus wrote:

Tsutsukakushi wrote:Hoping Hasbro reveals test shots of Generations Deluxe Arcee at Botcon this weekend. Want Hasbro to steal fans buying interest away from these MMC Femmebots. So MMC cancels the Fembots and releases Carnifex Over Lord in 2014 or early 2015.

Speculating Hasbro at Botcon this weekend. Reveals retools and recolors for the Windblade toy that turns it into other fembots toys. Hoping this steals away more fans buying interest in those MMC Fembots.

Given the staggered streams of revenue 3rd Parties bring in, and given that MMC has invested a lot of time, treasure, and effort developing and tooling their Fembots, there is the possibility, however slight, that their cancellation would cause MMC to shutter their doors for good.

Then no one would get their Carnifex Overlord. In other words...

Omnigonix MP Sunstreaker is getting bashed by some who say it's bad to compete with Stuff Hastak might release years from now. Why don't the same rules apply in this thread with the MMC Fembots, 3oth arcee, windblade and all the fembots repaint and retools Hastak has planned.

Just think MMC needed to release these fembots months ago to get higher sales. Releasing these at the same time or after the Hasbro releases their 30th fembots will result in less paying 3rd party prices. Some are speculating Hasbro will repaint plus retool 30th arcee and 30th Windblade into more fembots.

Wingblade is a jet, and (we hope) Arcee will be a convertible sports car. These are closer to being cartoon accurate than just getting a new head and paint scheme hasbro style. I would rather have somewhat cartoon accurate fembots than hasbro lazy fembot repaints. Go MMC !

Unf, that Solus Prime is hot.

Tsutsukakushi wrote:Omnigonix MP Sunstreaker is getting bashed by some who say it's bad to compete with Stuff Hastak might release years from now. Why don't the same rules apply in this thread with the MMC Fembots, 3oth arcee, windblade and all the fembots repaint and retools Hastak has planned.

Just think MMC needed to release these fembots months ago to get higher sales. Releasing these at the same time or after the Hasbro releases their 30th fembots will result in less paying 3rd party prices. Some are speculating Hasbro will repaint plus retool 30th arcee and 30th Windblade into more fembots.

The way I see it, there are a few reasons:

1. MMC is an established company, while Sunstreaker is Omnigonix's first attempt; that means a failure for Omnigonix is more catastrophic.

2. Plus, MMC already has several retools in the works to offset the possibility that their Arcee fails. Producing four+ Fembots out of a single basic mold was simply good strategy, even if Hasbro eventually plans to do the same. With Sunstreaker you can do, well, Sunstreaker.

3. Omnigonix is attempting an MP, which is a different class of figure entirely. You can expect HasTak will match or exceed the engineering and quality when competing with a 3rd Party MP, not necessarily so with a 3rd Party Classics-styled figure.

Blurrz wrote:Unf, that Solus Prime is hot.

Yes.

She's really the only one I'm interested in and she's bought. Elita's head looks strange, too flat for my tastes even if it IS accurate, Hasbro offerings win on the others.

Midnight_Fox wrote:

Blurrz wrote:Unf, that Solus Prime is hot.

Yes.

She's really the only one I'm interested in and she's bought. Elita's head looks strange, too flat for my tastes even if it IS accurate, Hasbro offerings win on the others.

The back kibble is killing it for me but the robot it's self is good .

That's Arcee?

Um ... am I crazy for thinking Delicate Warrior might have pulled it off better?

Man alive, I hope they don't come out with these ladies all at once! I'm going to have to get my eBay store going, methinks..

Agamemnon wrote:Man alive, I hope they don't come out with these ladies all at once! I'm going to have to get my eBay store going, methinks..

Same here Aggy . I'm starting to run low on "recently" unwanted toys and transformers to sell , I prefer to sell things as it helps me filter down to the figures i actually want to keep in my collection also giving me more space and since i try really hard not to touch my pay it leaves more funds for those instant must have pre-orders.

Autobot Genocide wrote:

Agamemnon wrote:Man alive, I hope they don't come out with these ladies all at once! I'm going to have to get my eBay store going, methinks..

Same here Aggy . I'm starting to run low on "recently" unwanted toys and transformers to sell , I prefer to sell things as it helps me filter down to the figures i actually want to keep in my collection also giving me more space and since i try really hard not to touch my pay it leaves more funds for those instant must have pre-orders.

Click my eBay icon! 50+ auctions ending today!!!



Oh, shameless self-promotion...

Posted by TFA courtesy of Daim Choc .

Yup, still only in for Solus.


However, if they were to do a Wings-verse style Nightracer...

Gauntlet101010 wrote:That's Arcee?

Um ... am I crazy for thinking Delicate Warrior might have pulled it off better?

There's good things to say about the 'bot mode, but Hasbro's Arcee shines in alt mode! In bot mode, the abdomen looks a little funky, like a diaper. But I sure as hell am going to pick one up, in addition to MMC's version. Go Fembots!

I think I'll get these two from this mold. Good thing MMC preplanned this and made so many repaints/retools out of this, a flop on the Arcee mold might hurt MMC financially otherwise.

necr0blivion wrote:

Gauntlet101010 wrote:That's Arcee?

Um ... am I crazy for thinking Delicate Warrior might have pulled it off better?

There's good things to say about the 'bot mode, but Hasbro's Arcee shines in alt mode! In bot mode, the abdomen looks a little funky, like a diaper. But I sure as hell am going to pick one up, in addition to MMC's version. Go Fembots!

Well, sure, but that's only because most of her alt. mode is hanging off the back in a way that compromises the entire look of bot mode.

Which isn't to say that I won't be picking her up. I mean ... I have PE's Motobot, Delicate Warrior, Valkerie, Energon, and Animated Arcee. What's one or two more? But I can't say they nailed the G1 Arcee look in a satisfactory way for me.

If we wanna talk about the best car Arcees, I think the engineering award may have to go to Animated. They got a nice car mode without resorting to a huge backpack. Yet it's still feminine and, undoubtedly, Arcee.