The Energon Pub

It was almost two years ago now, images of three Scout class figures surfaced as a part of the original Transformers movie line. For those who are new, all of the Scout class toys were sold as Target exclusives, unlike now with Revenge of the Fallen where Scout class figures were available at most retail outlets. At the time, the then new Allspark Power sub-line was out and in it's prime, with Transformers Animated soon to follow. Reverb, Gunbarrel and Backtrack never appeared in stores which suggested they were canceled releases.

Time has passed since then, and we are still unsure they were canceled, but thanks to a batch of production samples coming from China, Seibertron.com now presents to you the Transformers "that never were". You can view the galleries for the previously unreleased Backtrack, Gunbarrel, and Reverb. These figures were meant to be the last wave of Target Exclusive Movie Scouts. Apparently these are overstock intended for the Mexican marketplace and have recently become available.

Backtrack:



Gunbarrel:



Reverb:

Well, the MR-37 seals it: Backtrack is a homage to Gobots Night Ranger, whose Machine Robo original "Harley Robo" had the designation MR-37! Wicked!

Nice to see galleries of figures that never were, keep up the good work

If you ask me, Gunbarrel is the best out of the three. The tank is my favorite mold out of the combiner limbs, and this is an excellent color scheme.

Cool. Great galleries. Kind of dissapointed there are no pics of Gunbarrel and Reverb combined with any version of Onslaught though. Just to see how the colors mesh.


Anyway great galleries.

It's amazing (at least to me) that Hasbro would cancel figures at all - due to the cost of designing figures, making prototypes, and making production molds. You would think they'd carefully decide what gets green-lit before a single mold is made.

These three don't look very movie-ish to me. Maybe we might see them in Generations or Power Combiners?

Overcracker wrote:Cool. Great galleries. Kind of dissapointed there are no pics of Gunbarrel and Reverb combined with any version of Onslaught though. Just to see how the colors mesh.


Anyway great galleries.

There'll be some shots of them with the "Combaticon" molds soon enough. I just wanted to get these galleries up ASAP since I've been working on the galleries for these, the rest of the movie scouts, the tfu/rotf Superion and Bruticus sets since April 23rd. Here's a teaser of things to come ...







Basically, these three figures gave me reason to do 32 other galleries that I hadn't planned on doing for quite some time. It's funny how things work out like this.

I wonder what will give me reason to do the rest of the Real Gear galleries one day???

Ooh, awesome Ryan. Great stuff. Can't wait to see them.

originaldave77 wrote:It's amazing (at least to me) that Hasbro would cancel figures at all - due to the cost of designing figures, making prototypes, and making production molds. You would think they'd carefully decide what gets green-lit before a single mold is made.

These three don't look very movie-ish to me. Maybe we might see them in Generations or Power Combiners?

These are not new molds, and they are not movie molds. They are in fact and were already when they were supposed to be released, old molds. They come from the Energon/Superlink line.

They are 2 of the Bruticus Combiner parts.

Besides the molds where eventually released again for ROTF, in the form of the ROTF Bruticus gift set.

I'd like to know what was planned next. I'm sure that there had to be some plans for the Aerialbot scouts in another possible wave. Seems like if you're doing Gunbarrel and Reverb, that you'd do the other two Energon scouts as well.

Interesting, too bad these were never released. I really like the colors for Reverb, but unfortunately the "Allspark Blue" is a little too intrusive on the others.

But that is some great silver plastic on Backtrack! Why can't Hasbro stick with a formula they've done before, one they know looks good? It's so weird to me how the silver varies so much from figure to figure, some are almost white, others are kind of brownish, some even almost blue.

Looking forward to the rest of the combiner galleries!

Seibertron wrote:I'd like to know what was planned next. I'm sure that there had to be some plans for the Aerialbot scouts in another possible wave. Seems like if you're doing Gunbarrel and Reverb, that you'd do the other two Energon scouts as well.

Yeah, and then Barracade as a Deluxe torso part, and we'd have gotten a mix matched combiner? That;s just what my thought was, but we probably had these guys cancelled when Superion and Bruticus were decided to be rereleased.

Seibertron wrote:I'd like to know what was planned next. I'm sure that there had to be some plans for the Aerialbot scouts in another possible wave. Seems like if you're doing Gunbarrel and Reverb, that you'd do the other two Energon scouts as well.

They probably wanted give us a really mixed combiner for the Allspark Line.

It would have been interesting to get these 2 molds from Bruticus, the 2 planes from Superion, and then just to mix it up the core from Constructicon Maximus/Devastator.

That would have been an interesting set, in completely random color schemes.

Overcracker wrote:

Seibertron wrote:I'd like to know what was planned next. I'm sure that there had to be some plans for the Aerialbot scouts in another possible wave. Seems like if you're doing Gunbarrel and Reverb, that you'd do the other two Energon scouts as well.

They probably wanted give us a really mixed combiner for the Allspark Line.

It would have been interesting to get these 2 molds from Bruticus, the 2 planes from Superion, and then just to mix it up the core from Constructicon Maximus/Devastator.

That would have been an interesting set, in completely random color schemes.

One problem though: no instructions?

Maybe they where going to include them with the Torso.

Im happy somebody finally had the guts to take them out of the package !!!

Overcracker wrote:Maybe they where going to include them with the Torso.

Where would the deluxe-sized torso end up though?

Anybody remember how some Energon limbs and torsos were re-released in Universe (1.0) for discount chains? No mention of any combining ability what-so-ever.

I opened mine up.

Ballin' son.

Ballin.

I'm mexican and I would like to ask if these guys were ever released in Mexico or were just intended?

[quote="JelZe GoldRabbit"]Well, the MR-37 seals it: Backtrack is a homage to Gobots Night Ranger, whose Machine Robo original "Harley Robo" had the designation MR-37! Wicked! /quote]

D'oh . I'm liking these GoBot homages. Wish they would have released it, but then again I may not have been into the homages at the time, and might not have bought it. Moot point now though.

Duke of Luns wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Well, the MR-37 seals it: Backtrack is a homage to Gobots Night Ranger, whose Machine Robo original "Harley Robo" had the designation MR-37! Wicked!

D'oh . I'm liking these GoBot homages. Wish they would have released it, but then again I may not have been into the homages at the time, and might not have bought it. Moot point now though.

Yeah, the Gobots need a bit more love. Me thinks there's a Gobot enthusiast on the Hasbro design team, would he please step forward?

Jetstorm9221 wrote:I'm mexican and I would like to ask if these guys were ever released in Mexico or were just intended?

As far as I know they weren't released anywhere.

But I have seen the ROTF Superion, and Bruticus gift sets in Mexico. Mainly "Sears" though at really high markups. $1000.00 pesos if I'm not mistaken for whatever reason. (for those playing along in English that's about $80 US)

So you can get the tank and helicopter molds. The Bike mold haven't seen one since Cybertron anywhere sorry.

Overcracker wrote:

Jetstorm9221 wrote:I'm mexican and I would like to ask if these guys were ever released in Mexico or were just intended?

As far as I know they weren't released anywhere.

But I have seen the ROTF Superion, and Bruticus gift sets in Mexico. Mainly "Sears" though at really high markups. $1000.00 pesos if I'm not mistaken for whatever reason. (for those playing along in English that's about $80 US)

So you can get the tank and helicopter molds. The Bike mold haven't seen one since Cybertron anywhere sorry.

Thank you, so far, I've only seen the Superion gift set (at 20% discount $800.00) but nothing about the Bruticus gift set, was it released at the same time as the Superion one or later?

I think they were released somewhat close to each other.

I'm really diggin those combiner limbs! Reverb is probably mt favorite of the group. The blue bits are a nice color. I'd definitely be curious to see what color and figure combos we could have gotten for an allspark combiner.