The Energon Pub

Lots of reveals.
Including a brand new SS86 Seeker mold. Released first as Thundercracker.
Shureshot, Amalgmaous Prime, Animated Wreckgar from the Junkion garbage truck, Studio Series Last Knight Barricade, Big Convoy, Yes Mr. Mammoth and lot’s more.

Lots of stuff

I have the original Razorclaw. May get the new one too. I collect Junkions, but I may just ... stop. I have a lot of them.

Windcharger is cool.

I feel torn on new Seekers.

I collected Classics Seekers.

I have Siege (minus the main three) and Earthrise Seekers.

And now we got Studio? Do I really want to get six new voyagers for guys I already have? NGL, I dunno. Maybe I'll keep it on preorder and really think about it. They didn't even get to Sunstorm.

Wow, was not expecting this much Bay stuff!

TLK Barricade looks awesome, I love the finally licensed alt mode and how much more accurate they got the bot mode! Especially with how they got the grill section to change.

TLK Nemesis Prime is a very welcome addition, the AOE Prime sculpt rocks so I’m glad we’re getting the version with the knight forearms. Also surprised that he also has both the quadbarrel shotgun and the wrist blade!

And TITAN Grimlock along with confirmation that the remaining AOE Dinobots are finally on the way! Was a little concerned about the render image but the prototype model looks great. I really like how they’re able to use additional panels to bulk up the legs for robot mode rather than use the same ones for both modes like the old leader.

A few comments...

Interesting that the Junkions from Legacy Evolution are coming back in 2026. Retooling Trashmaster as Animated Wreck-Gar is a no brainer. But unfortunately, its not the ones I need to make faction aligned Junkasaurus. I still need one more autobot from the Crashbar mold. Also for the Decepticons, Id need an evil Trashmaster, a second evil Crashbar, and one more evil Scraphook/Axlegrease mold.

Brawl & Swindle being Voyagers: I figure they would not be part of a skeleton, but Mark said "I cant wait for you to see how these guys fit in the skeleton of Bruticus" has me a bit concerned. I figured the upper part would be like Superion/Menasor, but the lower half would be more like CW/UW where those bots WERE the whole lower leg. Them "plugging in" makes me wonder why they are Voyagers?

While I am not a collector of Bayverse SS, I wonder what the overall fan reaction to Titan Grimlock is...Now they are rescaling things which makes the first Leader AoE Grimlock release (and subsequent re-release) kind of pointless. Are you willing to commit the next 4 years (assuming 1 Titan per year) to get the AoE Dinobots? Are you willing to pay $150 (assuming small Titan starting price, but will likely go up) for each of them? Again, while I'm not a collector, I think more people would have wanted Startosphere as the first SS Titan

I will say props to the Hasbro team for revealing all they did, while its not ahead of the leaked listings, it is the first visuals, before some people on YT can get their hands on stolen samples for photos or video, which is a nice change.

Lastly, here are all the Primes that have been revealed, and to the best of my knowledge, what they are based on:

1 Prima Covenant of Primus
2 Solus PotP
3 Alchemist Cyberverse
4 Micronus RiD15
5 Alpha Trion Original Sunbow Cartoon
6 Megatronus DW
7 Onyx IDW
8 Star Optimus Battlestars Story pages/Manga
9 Quintus Earthspark
10 Vector Prime Cybertron
11 Amalgamous Prime ???

I have no idea what Amalgamus is based on. Also that only leaves Liege Maximo (which I think fans are hoping will more resemble his G2 appearance), and Nexus (the only one I'm actually interested in). I wonder what his appearance will be? As a voyager it seems kind of small to be a self contained combiner. I wonder if he will be some sort of retool of a PotP Voyager/Torso that has the ability to combine with other random bots.

I have SS Coronation Screamer, so the other 2 are probably an easy purchase

I'm also curious about Bruticus, I still have high hopes. Vortex and Brawl look great.

AoE Grimlock should've been a commander, not a Titan. I really wished the 1st SS Titan would be the game deco version of Tidal Wave. Or even WFC Omega Supreme. Since games are included now.

o.supreme wrote:Are you willing to pay $150 (assuming small Titan starting price, but will likely go up) for each of them?

I think Grimlock at 15" in bot mode and with a dino mode that looks like it might rival Trypticon we'd be extremely lucky if he was a "small Titan". I think Grimlock and Skorn (at perhaps 16") as large Titans and Slug ang Strafe as small Titans works. We'll be approaching 2030 when they finish these (assuming they don't make Strafe a Commander instead, that'd be too small and we just had that debate with the G1 Dinobots).

Again, while I'm not a collector, I think more people would have wanted Startosphere as the first SS Titan.

I think of all the things that could have the first SS Titan I don't think many people will complain that properly scaled Dinobots took the spot. Only reason Stratosphere's name kept coming up was because people didn't believe Hasbro would ever do Dinobots larger than Leaders.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:I think Grimlock at 15" in bot mode and with a dino mode that looks like it might rival Trypticon we'd be extremely lucky if he was a "small Titan".

I believe they said AoE Grimlock was 15 inches tall in Bot mode (so the same as Star Optimus), so Id imagine his Dino mode would only be *maybe" 10 inches off the ground. The length will be mostly tail. TR Trypticon in Dino Mode is 18 inches is you stand him straight up. So I dont think SS AoE Grimlock will rival him in size, and in Dino Mode he will be long, but again most of that will be tail. So the mass wont be there. But by next year they could be charging 160 or even 170 for a "Small Titan" s who knows.....

Also, one last thing I forgot in my first post. Im pleasantly surprised they got the name "Big Convoy". As opposed to Big Prime (which would have been pretty dumb) or Mammoth Prime which wouldn't have been as bad.... but still weird. Finally Ill have a complete collection of Original Universe Heroic Leaders from the modern line. For the Evil ones, I just need BWII Galvatron. *Maybe" in 2027....

Getting the name "Big Convoy" had to be out of necessity if they were going to release him next year, otherwise calling him Big Prime would have clashed with Age of the Primes only having 13 Primes in it.

More importantly, did they manage to get the name Ultra Mammoth?

Emerje