The Energon Pub

speaking as someone who grew up with the first generation these look really nice although the five team combiner does make sense with one central robot controlling the add-on counter parts it still would be nice to have them all as separate robots like in the first generation. with that said I really want to see all this line has to offer i bet it will be great some how it takes me back to the head/target/power masters of the fist generation

What are those light neon blue sections all the main bots have? Is that just a connection point for the smaller bots a la minicons? Or could it possibly be (glee!) a combine-with-other-main-robots feature? or is it just to let them take the place of one of the "core" bots from the 5-bot sets?

Ah... cheers!


That's still mighty awesome.

I like Smolder ...

Aw, crap. These are starting to look interesting...

I'll probably get them. I do not like the connector pegs being allspark-blue though...

I am in two minds about this series. I do like the concept of a range of scout class figures that can be the central robot of a combiner, I like the targetmaster/minicon partners returning...
Onslaught's transformation to form the centre of Bruticus there is quite neat, I wonder if the rest are that nice.

But...

I hate the minicons being made from translucent plastic, just brings back bad memories of Energon, and worse, also dredging up the worst of energon, the hand-less combiner limbs. The drones do not have to pull off a robot mode as well, there is no excuse for not having proper hands! If they had given them hands, they could hold the targetmaster guns.

I will be getting Huffer for my classics set definitely, I guess I will evaluate the others when I can see them up close, and get some video reviews.

These are still a definite pass for me. The fact that the combiner limbs have no robot mode completely kills it for me. And the fact that the other figures minicons are clear colored plastic easily makes those an easy pass as well. If they were solid colored with painted details, maybe, but clear = no way.

Dunno if it makes sense to anyone else, but when I see a clear bot, ala ghost starscream, that means, to me, that the bots aren't real made-o-metal robots, just something like energy constructs or something. So partnering the "real" bots with these clear things just makes me not even care.

Im sorry, but the more I see of this line, the more I think that Hasbro has taken two steps back with it. IMO they look pretty weak all around and lack detail. There is enough stuff coming out to keep me broke enough to not need any of this line.

Combaticons for me, thanks. Another Swindle to the slaughter.

Gauntlet101010 wrote:I like Smolder ...

me too

The more i see the more i like. Bring em on already im sick of ROTF.

These power core transformers are a step backwards. Gestalt limbs without robot modes?! You might as well call them micro-machines & a transformer.

I like em fine. I want those Mini-Cons! I don't even LIKE Mini-Cons! Mostly.

The gestalt head looks way tiny. Needs a helmet. Just one more reason to pass on these.

Wasn't as sure about getting the combiners as the individual core-bots, but man that Bombshock & Co. are looking better and better.

Searchlight is a WIN. Smolder is just a ripoff Ratchet. Combaticons, FAIL, not even any real vehicle molds, dismal after Legends Devastator.

Very nice! Although, I do agree with Mkall that the Allspark Blue connection points are annoying.

It's clearer now that all minicons look way out of proportion when attached to the alt modes. I wouldn't mind the lack of robot modes in the combiner limbs if Hasbro hadn't shortchanged articulation and aesthetic. No robot mode in exchange for awkward-not-even-elbow-articulated-clawed-arm? Man, these could've been awesome. Instead, these are worse that G1 combiners, and by 2010, shouldn't we have better?

Wow, Transformers Alt Modes have been catching up well with Go-Bots lately...a dump truck, a fork lift, a Chinnook...I'm hoping we get a Limo and a Cessna soon.

While I like these I do have two complaints:

1 The bloody translucent plastic the minicons are made off.
2 Why remove the robot-mode of the limbs if they still fail at giving them decent looking hands? Claws and stuff, WTF?!