The Energon Pub

The official BotCon website has updated with a new preview for Clench. Clench features a newly-remolded head resembling the original figure.





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Hehe, I was just gonna post this.

It's a good news day isn't it?

Hmmm, so no shield for Clench huh? Or maybe just not pictured. Feet mistransformed slightly, but I like it. Like it a lot!!

kinda disappointing for me but then, me not wanting a Botcon figure is also a good thing (damn you Pyro and your shininess!)

Better than I expected. Cool!

Prime Evil wrote:Hmmm, so no shield for Clench huh?

Only TakaraTomy leaves out pieces for repaints, but not Hasbro

His head kinda looks like the devil doesn't it? I love it... except the striping on his chest. It's like Breakdown's roof, is there a significance to that in the storyline?

Looks great. No, looks really great.

Why can't anyone transform his feet properly?

This and Skybyte have me really pumped for this year's set.

Why are they all neon colored!? Its like they all got high and are in a paralell universe of highness forever ! Was G2 like this? Because I thought all G2 was was G1 with stupid animations added in the foreground.

Counterpunch wrote:Looks great. No, looks really great.

Why can't anyone transform his feet properly?

Everyone wants to make sure he can swim well?

LOVE IT! Clench & Breakdown must make their way into my collection, I have no desire for any of the others. The head doesn't look as good as the concept art did(looked more like G1 Pirahnacon's head), but still great.

Razorclaw0000 wrote:

Counterpunch wrote:Looks great. No, looks really great.

Why can't anyone transform his feet properly?

Everyone wants to make sure he can swim well?

I didnt know his feet went in intil I read this comment! And thats a long freking time! I never really did anything with my Universe Onslaught anyway, but now that I know his feet go in, hes just slightly awesome!

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:I love it... except the striping on his chest. It's like Breakdown's roof, is there a significance to that in the storyline?

Not sure if there is significance in the story, but his old toy has the same markings on his chest/abs.

SlyTF1 wrote:Why are they all neon colored!? Its like they all got high and are in a paralell universe of highness forever ! Was G2 like this? Because I thought all G2 was was G1 with stupid animations added in the foreground.

Mostly yes. There where many figures in G2, with these awesomely loud color schemes.

G2 Clench / Colossus
http://www.tfu.info/1993/Decepticon/Clench/clench.htm

G2 Pyro / Spark
http://www.tfu.info/1993/Autobot/Pyro/pyro.htm

There's something about the Neon schemes there that's very appealing.

EDIT: Fixed Pyro's Link.

This guy's actually pretty cool looking.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:His head kinda looks like the devil doesn't it?

More like Wolverine...

Overcracker wrote:

SlyTF1 wrote:Why are they all neon colored!? Its like they all got high and are in a paralell universe of highness forever ! Was G2 like this? Because I thought all G2 was was G1 with stupid animations added in the foreground.

Mostly yes. There where many figures in G2, with these awesomely loud color schemes.

G2 Clench / Colossus
http://www.tfu.info/1993/Decepticon/Clench/clench.htm

G2 Pyro / Spark
http://www.tfu.info/1993/Decepticon/Clench/clench.htm

There's something about the Neon schemes there that's very appealing.

G2 Pyro / Spark
http://www.tfu.info/1993/Autobot/Pyro/pyro.htm

Nothing says evil like pink and sparkley.

I kid, of course. He looks great as a G2 homage

SlyTF1 wrote:

Razorclaw0000 wrote:

Counterpunch wrote:Looks great. No, looks really great.

Why can't anyone transform his feet properly?

Everyone wants to make sure he can swim well?

I didnt know his feet went in intil I read this comment! And thats a long freking time! I never really did anything with my Universe Onslaught anyway, but now that I know his feet go in, hes just slightly awesome!

First and foremost, I am an educator, an enlightened tutor if you will.

Forgotten wrote:

Overcracker wrote:

SlyTF1 wrote:Why are they all neon colored!? Its like they all got high and are in a paralell universe of highness forever ! Was G2 like this? Because I thought all G2 was was G1 with stupid animations added in the foreground.

Mostly yes. There where many figures in G2, with these awesomely loud color schemes.

G2 Clench / Colossus
http://www.tfu.info/1993/Decepticon/Clench/clench.htm

G2 Pyro / Spark
http://www.tfu.info/1993/Decepticon/Clench/clench.htm

There's something about the Neon schemes there that's very appealing.

G2 Pyro / Spark
http://www.tfu.info/1993/Autobot/Pyro/pyro.htm

Opps! Must have not copied the link after pasting Clench's. Its fixed now. Thanks.

Was just rearranging some of my collection and noticed a figure that I wish they would have used for this set. Am I the only one who would have loved to see a G2 styled Scorponok using the Energon mold? It would have looked great in neon green, neon pink with pink transclucent bits, & purple.

Forgotten wrote:Was just rearranging some of my collection and noticed a figure that I wish they would have used for this set. Am I the only one who would have loved to see a G2 styled Scorponok using the Energon mold? It would have looked great in neon green, neon pink with pink transclucent bits, & purple.

Will Action Master Elite Double Punch do?

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Forgotten wrote:Was just rearranging some of my collection and noticed a figure that I wish they would have used for this set. Am I the only one who would have loved to see a G2 styled Scorponok using the Energon mold? It would have looked great in neon green, neon pink with pink transclucent bits, & purple.

Will Action Master Elite Double Punch do?

That'd do it. But i'd still like to see the energon mold in that scheme. I think it might be either A:) sheer awesomeness B:) So horrible you can't look away C:) The community's leading cause of blindness.

Looks rather accurate to the concept picture on Botcon.com. I do want to see if they do anything special with the shield though. From the pic, there's going to be at least two green stripes on it. I'm kind of hoping for a large G2 Decepticon symbol that makes Club Exclusive Astrotrain's symbol look small...

Fender Bender wrote:Looks rather accurate to the concept picture on Botcon.com. I do want to see if they do anything special with the shield though. From the pic, there's going to be at least two green stripes on it. I'm kind of hoping for a large G2 Decepticon symbol that makes Club Exclusive Astrotrain's symbol look small...

That would be awesome! I love the ridiculously large faction symbols. It screams arrogant and bad-ass.

Also, I'm slightly disappointed that the head is not as wide as the concept art. I understand that it's got to fit for transformation, but I was hoping the horns would fold up.

I like the blue. Its basically the G1 color Onslaught but with (UGHHHH) pink...Since the 2 gun barrels are removable, its tempting to take the ones off of Onslaught for display. If the figure wasnt so damn expensive, Id make a hybrid from the 2 to create a Clench without pink.