The Energon Pub

From our old friend Down_Shift.

FansProject: Assualter, two of their Stunticons(?), Deluxe Insecticon Repaints
MakeToys: More PCC Upgrades
MMC: Hexatron

Oh hell yeah !!! If the world dont end on Dec 21, Im goin for Broke in 2013 !!! Real Stunticons !!! Deluxe Insecticons !!! (make Venom dammit) Broadside !!! Sixshot !!! Hasbro has been upstaged again !!!

I'll take almost all of that please! With the exception of that PCC guy. Everything else there is win.

Sixshot you beautiful thing you.

*Fangasms into shock*

Absolutely cannot wait to see the rest of the Stunticons and Menasor. I only hope that it's on scale with Maketoys Devastator.

*edit* Only question I have though.. what's up with the portholes in the crotch plate region?

I suspected FansProject would repaint their Insecticons this way from the beginning, but I have to admit they look even better than I had anticipated. Hope they can figure out a way to give us Venom too, I would even settle for another repainted and retooled Backfiery.

I'm assuming the Stunticons are Dead End and Breakdown, both look great. Hope they give us a look at the rest before the convention is over, but that's probably wishful thinking.

MMC need to hurry up and sell me that damn Hexatron!

Not extremely interested in the PCC from MakeToys, but I'll probably still get them all.

Here's some more images from Peaugh's twitter account, pretty much the same stuff.

A few updates: The Stunticons are Wildrider and Breakdown, they hope to have these guys out by November with about a $50 price tag. They hope to have the whole team out by May of next year. Assaulter is scheduled for October with a $90 price tag.

Deluxe Insecticons? Cooool! Also, love how Broadside is coming along. Great work, FP

oh yeah, those all look really quite spiffy. I have and really like the normal Insecticons, but those ones are very tempting. Broadside is okay, not too worried about him. Stunticons could be damn good, Steel Core in the new, muted colours isn't wow-ing me, but I do like his little guy in orange. Sixshot is amazing. Consult me some ninja!

Lots of awesome stuff for my wallet to cry about. What a wuss.

I can't get over how good the Insecticons look in those colors. It almost as if these were their intended character with the originals being the repaints.

All of these things look great but at the top for me are FP's work. Assaulter continues to impress me. The Causality Insect bots look great in alternate Insecticon colours. Are they homaging Rampage, Chop Shop, and Barrage?

I must say that I'm most excited by the Stunticon looking prototypes. The use of the Lambhorgini Ankonian for an alt mode is very cool. I'm looking forward to seeing more prototypes!

Convotron wrote:All of these things look great but at the top for me are FP's work. Assaulter continues to impress me. The Causality Insect bots look great in alternate Insecticon colours. Are they homaging Rampage, Chop Shop, and Barrage?

Ransack, Chopshop and Barrage. I'm willing to bet they'll get around to pushing a new mold out for Venom as well. Just a matter of when.

These are all great looking figures, but what's up with the guy that has an Octopunch helmet and enough arsenal to take out Unicron?

The new insecticon guys took me by surprise, I thought they would've repainted as the black and red e-Hobby versions.

Nice to see Hexatron make an appearance, hopefully that'll be available by the end of the year.

Finally, I love some Stunticons! I'd like to be extremely hopeful like some and wish for a Motormaster reveal by the end of the weekend.

So much want!

Never really cared about the deluxe Insecticons but seeing these guys in those colours with the clear wings and what looks like horns on Thundershred I'm tempted.

The Stunticons are awesome. So long as they're deluxe sized to go with the Classics Autobot cars then I'm over them like a rash.

Assaulter does look pretty good, and I'm guessing this is only a rough paint job for the show, but please god don't let them add those yellow and blue lines on the legs of the final figure.

I've got a rumor to add from TFCon. The guy at the FP booth said another 3rd party company will be making a car Arcee.

Those deluxe Insecticons are awesome. Going to have to get that Chop Shop!

I grabbed these from TFW2005.

Menasor



Ferocicus (Predaking)












Goodbye money, it was fun to have you in my wallet for a while. Now we know why Hasbro pulled out of TFCon. They would have been upstaged big time. I will buy everything shown and Hasbro was a little bit meh. The only thing official I want this year is the Masterpieces. The rest of my cash is going straight to 3rd Parties.

Rated X wrote:Oh hell yeah !!! If the world dont end on Dec 21, Im goin for Broke in 2013 !!! Real Stunticons !!! Deluxe Insecticons !!! (make Venom dammit) Broadside !!! Sixshot !!! Hasbro has been upstaged again !!!

They are. Venom will be a wee bit more feminine then we're use to but will look awesome.

Mitch Santona got some video footage of the FansProject booth at TFCON:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT0Z8lqUpPY

Thanks for posting my pics guys!

I have plenty more where that came from and (as much as I hate to say this) a lot of info I'm not really at liberty to share yet. But, with that aside I have my report!

Let's start off where it matters. FansProjectCore

Steel Core. Amazing figure. Will come with a trailer in the future. Saw a sample, looks good. Will get a green and orange repaint/remould. There will one additional detail revealed tomorrow. Can't say just yet, but once you see it you'll think "I knew it!"

Assulter. Huge & bottom heavy. Very easy to stand and pose. NOT THE FINAL COLOR. Might not show Battleship mode right away, but are eager too. Two different faces on the same head, very clever. Detail is amazing. Best part - comes with a "missile tree" of very tiny vehicle modes that go on the deckk of the battle ship. One of Steel Core w/ trailer, Defender in both modes, the green & orange repaint of Steel Core, two very familiar motor cycles, and a very familiar orange dune buggy.

Deluxe Insecticons. So amazing. There is a very good chance there will be a fourth insecticon, but it might be up to fans and it may by a lady bot. Who knows?! All get new heads & weapons. Some get new insect mode parts, like pincers and the like. THEY ARE GETTING BAD ASS VEHICLE MODES. Thunder Shred will be a pill box missile tank, Storm Bomb will be a tank-ish kinda thing, and Back Firey will be a jet of sorts. Will all come with guns.

Stunticons. On hand were robot and vehicle mode test shots of Breakdown & Wildrider. A keen eye can tell who's who. Will be scramble city style to go WITH OTHER UPCOMING G1 COMBINERS. May be a while before we get more mind you. Don't worry wheels will spin, they are just molded solid in the prototypes. Wheels will be split wheels (half solid, half spin). Holes in crotch may play a part in combination. I saw Motormaster pics the night before, looks fantastic. Will be larger then the cars, but also to scale. Gonna be pretty big!

Function x or f(x) - have been in the making for quite a while. Very detailed. Very clever head gimmick. Can't go into details just yet, but you're gonna love it. Chromedome might be first! (YES!) Head robots can ride, drive, or fly vehicle mode. Alligator Prime is a repaint/remold of Skullcruncher. Minerva too... woo hoo.

Lots more coming down the pipe then what was shown. Got a few little peeks here and there, but out of respect for the people showing the pictures I won't be able to go into details just yet. If I get the go ahead tomorrow, you bet your ass I will go DEEP into details!

Maketoys - Fallen was on hand, unpainted combined as the fallen. Two styles of PCC combinations shown with Bombshock and Undertow. Looks really good painted on the PCCs, but I don't know if it will look that great as the Fallen. We'll see. Green Giant on display and for sale. Expect to see many reviews and box sets on eBay! ha ha ha. Nothing else really to mention by them sadly.

BTS - Nova Lord. There version of Overlord. I wasn't thrilled by it. It almost reminds me of Tidal Wave. They originally toyed with the idea of lights and sound but then it would be "too expensive". Hopefully they have learned a lot from their last few really really awful figures. I'm not getting my hopes up. Oh, and it's supposed to be around the same size as Unicron. Pass.

Mastermind Collectibles. HOS Seekers on hand. All of them look amazing. All have different heads and arm cannons. Will be able to "tow behind" on a KM figure on tracks. Kinda cool. Looking really good in hand. Hexatron on hand. Much better then I thought, but also very... fragile looking. Maybe delicate is the word I'm looking for. It looks easy to brake. Mind you, if you want an updated G1 Six Shot he's a damn good candidate. Might be doing a Prima/Nova Prime figure, but we already knew that. Showed there versions of the Predicons - the Ferocicons. Well, blacked out versions. Also showed Blacked out combined mode. Looks okay, but waiting to see better and non-blacked out pics.

A new comer! Mech Ideas. Demolition Crue Apex (Top Spin) & Geminus (Twin Twist). Look really good. Eager to see prototypes. Had holographic iPhone cases. Prime and Soundwave. Very cool.

Head Robots. Nothing really new. Showed the same image of Big Road from months ago.

IGear. Nothing new either.

TFC. Sadly nothing new. I was really hoping to see more from them, but I'm not really surprised either.

Any questions feel free to ask. I'll be more than happy to answer any and all that I can. More pics can be found on mah Facebook page, I won't be uploading them here tonight because I'm eff'n beat.

Slightly related. Hasbro sucked today. Every year for the past ten they roll out new ish' and treat fans like they should be treated. I remember on several occasions getting to play with figures six months before they hit a shelf or real pics of even touched the interwebs. But this year we got a damn kiddie table... it was really pathetic. Just my opinion, but if someone comes into my house that I built and starts to threaten it, then I step up my game. I feel like Hasbro should have at least tried to bring something to the table, not just a few kreons. Hopefully next year they can find their big boy pants and give a little something to the fans once again.

xyl360 wrote:Mitch Santona got some video footage of the FansProject booth at TFCON:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT0Z8lqUpPY

That vid just confirmed the height of the Stunticons. They are Scout class (look at Warbot Defender behind them). With a total height of 11.5 inches, that would make him roughly the height of Hasbro Energon combiners. I'm so excited to see the other 3 members of the Stunticons.

Oh.. Oh... Oh... Jenny.....

Was/is PE (PerfectEffect) at TFCON this year?

I'm dying to hear any news about their teased IDW Beast Wars Neo Big Convoy and IDW Beast Wars II Lio Convoy.

xyl360 wrote:Was/is PE (PerfectEffect) at TFCON this year?

I'm dying to hear any news about their teased IDW Beast Wars Neo Big Convoy and IDW Beast Wars II Lio Convoy.

Nope

And to confirm, Breakdown & Deadend are in scale with Scout class figures. That will be their "deluxe" class size.

Shoot I'm already broke THIS year. Almost a good job Hastak are making nothing I want beyond the MP's (they are expensive enough) as most of this stuff is going to have to find it's way onto my shlves. Stunticons!!!YAY!!!