The Energon Pub

Nice shoes.

I love how Blastoff looks more like an unmanned air vehicle rather than an actual tiny space shuttle, suits him and blends better with the other combaticons. I want this set.

Boxes look decent and look to be a pretty good size.



On a side note - the photographer looks like he needs some new kicks.

*Edit* Damn beaten with the shoe joke

When I first saw the pic, I looked at the box, then looked at the shoe and thought, "Wow! The box is huge!" Then I noticed it was on a stool. "Oh, depth perception."

These need to get here like today!

Unicronic wrote:These need to get here like today!

You are wrong. These need to get here yesterday.

Want. NOW!

So do we have a confirmed release date? My shelf-spot for 3rd parties is very vacant...

Nice! I was actually hoping for a little more cohesion with the past releases, but this still look very cool. A little more G1 too, which I certainly don't mind. Eagerly awaiting these sets. Hopefully it does turn out that they are released sooner rather than later. And I have some space on my credit card when it happens.

Cool, this means they should be for sale at Botcon. And since all the die hard collectors ordered online, there hopefully will be a good supply.

I've had mine pre-ordered, which is highly unusual for me.

eh.. I like the Warbot packaging better.. much better...

That said, I can look the other way since the the contents of the packaging are just plain awesome

Seeing these is quite nice, but it would be better if they were just shipping.

This is excellent news. Means we're a lot closer to the finished product than we thought.

I'd imagine we will see these in July as it's been suspected.

I highly doubt they'll be ready for a June shipment. Unless they've already begun shipping to BBTS and the like, but we've heard nothing about it yet.

I still want them to get crackin' on Protector and the Wreck-Gar figure.

Yeah i preorderd 2 from BBTS one set to attach to Bruticus and another to keep separate but for some reason i feel like i need a 3rd set for hoarding.

Waiting for these to be shipped is brining back memories of City Commander.

Autobot032 wrote:This is excellent news. Means we're a lot closer to the finished product than we thought.

I'd imagine we will see these in July as it's been suspected.

I highly doubt they'll be ready for a June shipment. Unless they've already begun shipping to BBTS and the like, but we've heard nothing about it yet.

I still want them to get crackin' on Protector and the Wreck-Gar figure.

Mike over at Digital-Toys will give me a ring when they are being shipped to him. So I will let you know when that happens.

looks little bassic to me but nice g1 look to it cant wait and protector armor

I've checked my email everyday for the past 2 weeks to see if there's any word from TFsource about these bad boys. I preordered them and I can't wait to make the old "switcharoo" with my ROTF Bruticus.

HighPrime wrote:eh.. I like the Warbot packaging better.. much better...

That said, I can look the other way since the the contents of the packaging are just plain awesome

I agree. The Warbot packaging was really something else. Though I'm guessing that's part of what drove the cost up.

Did anyone else notice that their logo is missing from the corner of the box? You can see the outline for it, but it's not there. What's up with that?

kenm2474 wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:This is excellent news. Means we're a lot closer to the finished product than we thought.

I'd imagine we will see these in July as it's been suspected.

I highly doubt they'll be ready for a June shipment. Unless they've already begun shipping to BBTS and the like, but we've heard nothing about it yet.

I still want them to get crackin' on Protector and the Wreck-Gar figure.

Mike over at Digital-Toys will give me a ring when they are being shipped to him. So I will let you know when that happens.

Thank you. We all appreciate that.

Autobot032 wrote:Did anyone else notice that their logo is missing from the corner of the box? You can see the outline for it, but it's not there. What's up with that?

Possibly they are producing silver foil logos to go there. Anti-counterfitting and all that...

These will work with the Energon version of Bruticus too, right? I never picked up the RoTF version.

009* wrote:These will work with the Energon version of Bruticus too, right? I never picked up the RoTF version.

Yep, it's the same mold.

do any of you guys get the feeling that some of these 3rd party companies are in cohoots with hasbro/takara? I mean seriously why would these amazing, obviously resembling, figures be able to get out with out these toy factories? They need to make the molds with the plastic and the assembly etc.. You dont mean to tell me some young college kids are makin this stuff at home, do ya? These 3rd party companies are makin way more profet off of our hard earned dollars by jacking up the prices on their side branch 3rd party companies. I say down with third party companies! Hasbro! Give in to our demands!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! & yes i am very high. But it makes sense, right?

im ruined wrote:do any of you guys get the feeling that some of these 3rd party companies are in cohoots with hasbro/takara?

No....

im ruined wrote:I mean seriously why would these amazing, obviously resembling, figures be able to get out with out these toy factories? They need to make the molds with the plastic and the assembly etc.. You dont mean to tell me some young college kids are makin this stuff at home, do ya?

Of course they're using professional equipment and utilizing a factory, even if it's just leasing it out for a single production run or so. They had molds created, etc. College kids can't do something of that level in their dorm room closet, but no one's claimed that FansProject is anything more or less than that.

im ruined wrote:These 3rd party companies are makin way more profet off of our hard earned dollars by jacking up the prices on their side branch 3rd party companies. I say down with third party companies! Hasbro! Give in to our demands!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! & yes i am very high. But it makes sense, right?

Wow. Um. Hmm.

Okay...

1.) Hasbro and TakaraTomy have no involvement with these 3rd party companies. Just because they don't prevent them from continuing their business, doesn't mean they're in cahoots or support them.)

2.) Down the the 3rd party folks? No. They're giving us what we want, giving us what we never dreamed of with Hasbro and TakaraTomy. Why on Earth would we want that to change??

3.) To be honest, no, your post doesn't make much sense. Plus mentioning that your high is probably a big no no. (I'm almost certain that discussion of that nature is frowned upon...) And in all honesty, I think you might've gotten a bad batch, because you may not know it, but you're being paranoid here.

Must be strong stuff, lol

EDIT: You've posted this same thing three times, I've counted. It's gone through, seriously. Please stop reposting it. Please? Your posts will end up getting yanked, don't get yourself into trouble, man.

This is my first post. Hi everyone.

Can't wait to put Bruticus together with these guys taking their rightful place.