The Energon Pub

[NTESHFT]

BBTS put a comment in their email newsletter that they opened a bunch of these and all the ones they opened had heads.

From what I hear, they are pretty good with customer service. I am sure if there are any issues, they will take care of it.

Any issues, due to me or BBTS, have always been taken care of really quick by them. Jessica and Rita are really nice and quick with response time. I love shopping there, myself.....

[gavinfuzzy]

Just got Mixmaster's "head"...

Actually, Takara was nice enough to provide a WHOLE Mixmaster figure, and not just the head

So now i have 1 headless Mixmaster, and a complete one. I leave the headless one in Devy mode, and display the complete on separately in bot mode.



BTW, anyone knows how to open the coin? It seems stuck in it's package and i don't want to tear it

[NTESHFT]

I can't wait to get mine. I believe my wife has it at her parent's house. She usually ships my presents there so I won't sneak around and find them. And she said a box arrived there for her, so............ MERGE FOR THE KILL!!

[fenrir72]

Just received mine from amiami. No coin but complete. Mixmaster has his head on.

It seems that this snafu might have been isolated for the Asia release. As gavinfuzzy stated, his unit came with a coin........lucky for you they actually replaced the entire unit and not request you to ship the defective part back.

[gavinfuzzy]

Just received mine from amiami. No coin but complete. Mixmaster has his head on.

It seems that this snafu might have been isolated for the Asia release. As gavinfuzzy stated, his unit came with a coin........lucky for you they actually replaced the entire unit and not request you to ship the defective part back.

Yeah... its actually a good thing mine came withought a head

[fenrir72]

Description for Encore #20 compared to the original

Head(Devastar's head) has some slight re-tooling in the mouth area compared to the G1 version.
Arms:( Bonecrusher's connecting slot is kind of loose( the black circle thing underneath him))leading him to pop out most often. And his head locks firmly in place when in vehicle mode.
: Scavenger's right foot tends to pop of his socket

Hook: not so much difference.

Longhaul: mold utilized the full plastic front grill not the hollowed middle slot

Mixmaster: did not loose his head. Still the same misplacement of the rub symbol leading it to be damaged when merged as Devastar.

Scrapper: right hand/arm kind of loose(won't lock properly)

Plastics' condition: verrrrrrrrrrry neat and not like the sorry mess of Bruticus and Piranacon. The mold didn't degrade that much? And the copyright is marked as Tomy + serial numbers.

The fist holders of Bonecrucher and Scavenger, are kind of loose because my version keeps on firing indiscriminately.

The factory applied labels are the same with the decals you attach. paper type based not the foil/metallic type of the original. Decal sheet in Japanese (for the entire crew) but similar to the originals' coming in one uncut compilation.

Obviously, the container is in a transparent molded shape unlike the original styrofoam.

7 biocards for the team.

The chrome though.........................lots of dirty finger prints!

No commemorative coin for the Japanese release(mine is from amiami)

[Lazerface]

So far from my experience, the whole Encore line has QC issues.