The Energon Pub

[Blurrz]

The last time Transformers and Building Blocks had a fully fledged union was Built To Rule, back in 2003 that coincided with the Armada toy line. Unfortunately it did not end so well. Fast forward 7 years, and we look to have another union between building blocks and Transformers, as Takara gives their shot with their Transformers Animated toy line. Optimus Prime and Bumblebee are the first two selections to get the Diablock treatment, images courtesy of Red Leader of Kapow Toys.




The two are set for release in June.

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[Dead Metal]

Those are definitely not LEGO and they look horrible Bumblebee doesn't even look remotely like the character.

[Oilspill]

Thought for the day: Lego is real-life pixelation.

[Hip-Hoptimus Rime]

Oh the humanity.

[1337W422102]

Thought for the day: Lego is real-life pixelation.

Not if done properly by MOCcers who know what they're doing. This is just really crap.

[Lord Onixprime]

at least you can vaguely see the resemblance with prime, but Bumblebee, what in the world? it looks awful. not even close.

[Seibertron]

And my wallet sighed relief.

[Swiftpaw]

Sad thing is despite only being so-so, they still look better than Build To Rule did.

I don't mind the visible building block look to the bodies, but they really should of just made seperate pieces that look like the heads and maybe the hands so they'd at least be reconizable who they are.

As much as I <3 both transformers and legos, pass here.

[Overcracker]

Did not work with Armada, and fails even harder with Animated. Lego and Transformers just don't go well. You really need a very large amount of pieces with some specialty parts and hinges to pull of a decent representation.

[Requiem Prime]

Meh,

I get turning Animated to blocks is probably more evil than most, but they could try a little harder on the faces.

[Hard Hacker]

Cute attempt guys.




But very no.

[Tigertrack]

There was a transforming G1 Prime done a few years back, Japanese market also, much more detailed, just trying to remember who made it...closer in style to the old 'Lokblocks' type of blocks rather than LEGO. These look to be smaller, but by the same company.

[nemesis-prime]

that looks the KO **** no way no how

[Jelze Bunnycat]

There was a transforming G1 Prime done a few years back, Japanese market also, much more detailed, just trying to remember who made it...closer in style to the old 'Lokblocks' type of blocks rather than LEGO. These look to be smaller, but by the same company.

That would be Kawada, under the "Diablock" line in 2007, and it was licensed to boot. With that, the news item is slightly incorrect.

[Tigertrack]

There was a transforming G1 Prime done a few years back, Japanese market also, much more detailed, just trying to remember who made it...closer in style to the old 'Lokblocks' type of blocks rather than LEGO. These look to be smaller, but by the same company.

That would be Kawada, under the "Diablock" line in 2007, and it was licensed to boot. With that, the news item is slightly incorrect.

Yes, Diablock. Thanks! I have it at home with my Primes.

[Kibble]

I've seen fan-made lego TFs that looked vastly superior to these...at least I'm pretty sure they weren't official TF releases.

[Liftgate]

Yeah, these certainly arn't genuine Legos. If they were actually made by Lego I'm sure they would look ALOT better, they make some pretty sweet looking stuff these days. But am I the only one who thinks Bee in robot mode looks like movie version?

[Forgotten]

uhhhh, NO.

[Narc]

Hell NO!

[rpetras]

Lego and Transformers go together like tuna and gum.

[Jelze Bunnycat]

Lego and Transformers go together like tuna and gum.

Actually, those are just generic building blocks, not exactly "legos" as Lego has no involvement as far as I can tell. In fact, upon further inspection I see the word "Diablock", which could mean they're new entries for Kawada's line.

On a side note, Lego did request people not to refer to building blocks as "legos" in order to keep their trademark from becoming generic.

[Artakha Prime]

I don`t think these are fo`real...

Why would LEGO support another toy line by making sets like these? Simple; they wouldn`t.

I think these are MegaBloks... MegaBloks is a rip-off toy company, that makes money by copying other toy lines ideas. They, for an example, have copied the LEGO brick, and used their "MegaBloks" to themes as "MegaBloks Halo" and "MegaBloks Marvel".

With other words, these figures suck. Hard. Only MegaBloks would be stupid enough to do such a bommer.

Or at least i hope so...

P.S. I`m a LEGO fan, thereore my knowledge. I especially collect Bionicle...

[Megazarak]

Optimus? Ya, I could see that. Bumblebee? Nope. That doesn't look like him in either mode. Actually, as a drone it doesn't look that bad, but as Bumblebee? It couldn't be farther from the character unless they made him green.

I'm pretty sure this isn't Lego's doing. Maybe it's the same group of people that made this

[Blurrz]

Changed the topic since everyone seems to be getting so antsy about it this not being Lego.

That would be Kawada, under the "Diablock" line in 2007, and it was licensed to boot. With that, the news item is slightly incorrect.

Nuuuuuu I mean like an entire toy line, not some one time only thing.. I expect an entire toy line out of this from Diablock

I don`t think these are fo`real...

Why would LEGO support another toy line by making sets like these? Simple; they wouldn`t.

I think these are MegaBloks... MegaBloks is a rip-off toy company, that makes money by copying other toy lines ideas. They, for an example, have copied the LEGO brick, and used their "MegaBloks" to themes as "MegaBloks Halo" and "MegaBloks Marvel".

With other words, these figures suck. Hard. Only MegaBloks would be stupid enough to do such a bommer.

MegaBlocks isn't a KO company, they're legit, they have contracts with various companies to produce figures for them. Halo and Marvel are as legit as anything Lego has produced, heck I'd say it's even better. Regardless, this is Diablock, not any of the European/American building block companies.


Sorry guys, guess I wasn't exactly immersed in the building block knowledge like I thought I was. Time to go slit my wrists with lego bricks. Wait I mean MegaBlock bricks.

[Jelze Bunnycat]

Changed the topic since everyone seems to be getting so antsy about it this not being Lego.

That would be Kawada, under the "Diablock" line in 2007, and it was licensed to boot. With that, the news item is slightly incorrect.

Nuuuuuu I mean like an entire toy line, not some one time only thing.. I expect an entire toy line out of this from Diablock

I don`t think these are fo`real...

Why would LEGO support another toy line by making sets like these? Simple; they wouldn`t.

I think these are MegaBloks... MegaBloks is a rip-off toy company, that makes money by copying other toy lines ideas. They, for an example, have copied the LEGO brick, and used their "MegaBloks" to themes as "MegaBloks Halo" and "MegaBloks Marvel".

With other words, these figures suck. Hard. Only MegaBloks would be stupid enough to do such a bommer.

MegaBlocks isn't a KO company, they're legit, they have contracts with various companies to produce figures for them. Halo and Marvel are as legit as anything Lego has produced, heck I'd say it's even better. Regardless, this is Diablock, not any of the European/American building block ocmpanies.

Us? Antsy? Nah I admit, I can be very antsy...

One final thing: the patent for the original basic Lego brick has expired, thus the design for the most basic of figures and brick are now public domain, meaning any company can use the designs as they see fit.