The Energon Pub

[GetRightRobot]

The more we learn about the Fall of Cybertron Combaticons, the more the team seems to increase in brightness. Some slight variations on what we have seen from Toy Fair. These images have been posted on the Official Transformers Facebook page. Check out some of the pictures below or click here to view the originating post. Be sure to check all of the extensive coverage from Toy Fair 2012 here.

Blastoff






Vortex






Brawl






Swindle




Onslaught



Bruticus

[Burn]

The more I see, the less I like.

[TulioDude]

They look nice.

Not sure about Blast-off vehicle mode,havent seem it in the game yet.



Cant wait for Seibertron Gallery of him.

[all_the_primes]

[all_the_primes]

[Doubledealer93]

call it a hunch but they all look severely mis-transformed. but they do look nice. still getting them. want me a FOC/WFC collection. WFC megaton and soundwave are looking pretty out of place on the classics shelf... as are WFC prime, cliffjumper and bumblebee....

[Lord Onixprime]

Neoncon's form, Noenicus

Seriously, Why did Hasbro up and decide that Bruticus and the Comabticons color's needed changing? Suddenly we have lime green Brawl, neon yellow Swindle, blaze orange Vortex and purple Blastoff. Only Onslaught is more accurate.

I want these figures to look like they do in the game!

[kirbenvost]

Too bright. :/ I hope they do a repaint version that looks more like the in-game model. A box set would be cool but kind of expensive.

[MasterSoundBlaster]

The more I look at these the more I want them...

I have finally accepted the fact that vortex is red now because we've got blackout,grindor,movie-verse vortex,and skyhammer who are all a grey/blueish color

[El Duque]

I totally stole this of a guy at TFW05's signature, but it's too hilarious not to share.

[necr0blivion]

I'm still getting these, but I'm gonna need some sunglasses to look directly at them!

[Mindmaster]

Not real crazy about Vortex's colors. But I still want to get the team.

[craggy]

Well, Onslaught looks okay.

[RhA]

Hasbro needs to fire the guys that make these photo's. They're driving away the customers.

[Doubledealer93]

Hasbro needs to fire the guys that make these photo's. They're driving away the customers.

i think its because they are heavily photoshopped.

[WolfDawg]

Blastoff's arm is mistransformed, and Swindle's chest isn't pushed down enough. These promo pics look worse than the ones released earlier. I'll never understand why Hasbro has to photoshop the hell out of every picture of their mistransformed products.

Anyways, I've come to terms with Vortex's colors since it's similar to the game's design, but I just hope Blastoff isn't too deep of a purple color. When I glanced at the pics, I thought Blastoff was Shockwave with a remolded head.

[Mindmaster]

Hasbro needs to fire the guys that make these photos. They're driving away the customers.

Right on, sistah!

But I think the molds could've been a little better...

[Rated X]

OWWWWWWW MY EYES !!!

Takara please when you do the United versions, use proper G1 paint schemes.

[1111111222233333]

**Hasbro meeting regarding Bruticus, King Hasbro addresses his generals.**

"Gentlemen, we have a problem. The transformers fans have had a lot of disappointments lately, and have been hit pretty hard. They generally have pretty lukewarm feelings towards Bruticus, with the only positive being the colors. I cannot have that! I demand neon! All around horrible colors! Do it immediately and take new shots I don't care!"

**Later that night in his chambers**

"Between shrinking and simplifying all figures, trading engineering and paint apps for giant/obnoxious weapons, and eliminating the best figures from reaching the fans...I SHALL RESURRECT BOTH G2 AND ACTION MASTERS IN ONE FELL SWOOP!!MUAHAHAHAHA!!"

[Genocide G2.0]

It Looks like a rainbow took a ****

I was gonna say onslaught looked good untill those f*cking PCC pegs caught my eye with disgust

The only one i actually dont like is vortex , whats that grass skirt hes wearin it looks like hes AWOL form snake mountain.

[robotmel]

Plug me in and turn me on! It's G2 PCC!
Just look at those new combiner plugs

[GetRightRobot]

I feel confident that a "united" styled release of these guys is coming as well as a store exclusive stateside that will correct the colors. Sad that it takes a hard to find exclusive or expensive import to justify an Official Transformers purchase.

I'm looking at you too Prime FE's

[Dorkimus]

Yeah...ummm...Yeah. This looks quite awful. Swindle is not that bad, but the rest are quite bad. Almost in every way. Onslaught is giving a good try, but what a hell is he holding. Is that supposed to be a gun of some sort or just a piece of scrapmetal he happened to steal from somewhere?

And what was wrong with the earlier colors we saw? I mean how is this improving things? And those shoulder connectors just look awful. I just don't believe that it is due the mistransformation. They just are like that. The right arm looks still either mistransformerd or it is just as goofy looking as it is. Maybe they should hire someone who can actually transform these for promotional photos, but still I don't believe that this is going to look so much different IRL.

No, hasbro doesn't have to make any formal apologies, for it is just a toy. But it is a toy, that I for one am not going to buy. Shame, for I was expecting to have better official new Bruticus combiner. If this would have looked anything like the one in some of those photoshopped pictures made by a fan (don't remember who did it), this would have been so much better.

At least Shockwave and the rest looks better.

[prowl123]

Sweet.

Ok, not great, but it's better than the Universe/Energon/Whatever Bruticus.

[combiner711]

Im always hoping Hasbro will deliver a better look for their combiners but always they fell short in many occasions. Anyway, I'm still getting this when they comes out in the market and maybe wait for a fansproject upgrade! (just like what happened to bruticus maximus!)