The Energon Pub

News Credits: 1235 · by **LOST Cybertronian** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 12:00 pm

Erik Araña of Boss Fight Studios has posted some unused designs on his Facebook page. Both figures would have included a new head and weapon. The first is a G2 Megatron using the Universe Galvatron figure with a head based on the IDW Megatron mini series and sword based on the original Takara G1 Megatron sword. Triggerhappy would have used the Universe Cyclonus mold with a new head and quad cannons. Check out what could have been.

Coming across all sorts of cancelled product! Here's a Megatron Exclusive that got cancelled before sculpts were done. Using the Galvatron body we were gonna do a G2 style Megatron. I designed a new head based on the IDW Megatron mini series and a new sword based on the original Takara Megatron. Would have been cool.

In the same wave we would have done a Trigger-Happy using the awesome Cyclones mold with a new head. The head shape needed to fit into the transformation but would have places the quad cannons on either side of the nose cone. Man this guy woulda been boss!!

by **RiddlerJ** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 12:04 pm

Triggerhappy would've been interesting, but I'm not lamenting the lost of the Megatron figure. That Galvatron Mold was awful.

News Credits: 1 · by **RhA** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 12:07 pm

Galvatron should serve as a black page in Hasbro's big book of stink-ups, always remembered, never revisited.

You owe me a proper Galvatron, Hastak! Internetrage!

by **frogbat** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 12:24 pm

Like they did with scoop I hope they revisit the lesser known characters from the master series of toys.

And yes galvatron or gal stop as my iPad corrected me did suck.. Don't mind his look but his size and transformation made him a poopy addition compared to many others cyclones in fact was one of my fave releases.

by **Stryfe Convoy** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 12:54 pm

The Triggerhappy I remember had the quad cannons be his arms. They were massive. I'm not sure I personally like the cannons being on his head. They look like little pistols instead of WMDs. Just my opinion though, take it for what it is...

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 1:16 pm

Not the first time a Galvatron would have been turned into a Megatron, see BotCon 2008 SG Megatron. Not really something I'd have been all fangirly over, though.

Triggerhappy would have been a real curveball, choosing the Cyclonus mold was excellent given the overall shape and the wings:

Plus, having an opportunity to give him Blowpipe should have pushed at least that one through. Shame it wasn't.

by **Rated X** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 1:42 pm

Nope...thats not triggerhappy. Hasbro has been sleeping on triggerhappy for a couple of years now. They have the perfect mold : FOC seeker mold with new head and a nightstick repaint as blowpipe.

by **RiddlerJ** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 2:42 pm

Rated X wrote:Nope...thats not triggerhappy. Hasbro has been sleeping on triggerhappy for a couple of years now. They have the perfect mold : FOC seeker mold with new head and a nightstick repaint as blowpipe.

Holy S***. How did I not see that?

Though there would have to be some remolding unless they want to make Triggerhappy part of the seeker gang.

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 2:51 pm

Rated X wrote:Nope...thats not triggerhappy. Hasbro has been sleeping on triggerhappy for a couple of years now. They have the perfect mold : FOC seeker mold with new head and a nightstick repaint as blowpipe.

Which makes me wonder: what line were those canceled ideas meant for? I'm guessing before Generations FoC.

by **CrankyOldTruck** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 3:08 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Not the first time a Galvatron would have been turned into a Megatron, see BotCon 2008 SG Megatron. Not really something I'd have been all fangirly over, though.

Triggerhappy would have been a real curveball, choosing the Cyclonus mold was excellent given the overall shape and the wings:

Plus, having an opportunity to give him Blowpipe should have pushed at least that one through. Shame it wasn't.

It would have been simplicity itself to take that jet design and re-do his figure with the same mold as the FoC Seekers. That looks an awful lot like my Thundercracker from that line. Certainly would have been a hundred times better than recycling Cyclonus for that. Glad they didn't release that figure.
Also glad they didn't update the G2 Megatron. The Galvatron mode would have been horrible for him. I see no reason why they couldn't have kept the tank style the same as his G2 incarnation and just given him better articulation. Oh, yeah, that's right. That would have involved effort. Can't have Hasbro ditching their pattern of lazy repaints now can we?

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 3:27 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Which makes me wonder: what line were those canceled ideas meant for? I'm guessing before Generations FoC.

Maybe they were proposed for the Universe line itself, but came too late in the game to get any progress on them.

News Credits: 60 · by **fenrir72** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 4:58 pm

by **Rated X** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 6:32 pm

RiddlerJ wrote:
Rated X wrote:Nope...thats not triggerhappy. Hasbro has been sleeping on triggerhappy for a couple of years now. They have the perfect mold : FOC seeker mold with new head and a nightstick repaint as blowpipe.

Holy S***. How did I not see that?

Though there would have to be some remolding unless they want to make Triggerhappy part of the seeker gang.

It's been done as a custom before. They chopped Jazz's forehead and Bumblebee's jaw to make a toy accurate head. But I would much rather have the cartoon accurate faceplate.

by **Optimum Supreme** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 10:47 pm

RiddlerJ wrote:Triggerhappy would've been interesting, but I'm not lamenting the lost of the Megatron figure. That Galvatron Mold was awful.

Yep. It was apparently originally designed as a voyager with a third mode, and they really did a terrible job downsizing it (assuming it would have good as a voyager in the first place) and removing the third mode (some, but not all, of the parts of which are still on there for no purpose on the two remaining modes). Remolding that into Megatron would have just been a disaster.

News Credits: 10 · by **Agamemnon** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 11:17 pm

RhA wrote:Galvatron should serve as a black page in Hasbro's big book of stink-ups, always remembered, never revisited.

You owe me a proper Galvatron, Hastak! Internetrage!

QFT, and it doesn't even matter if you are talking about G1 or Clasics/Generations... :lol:

(I own the G1 figure, and while fun in it's own way, it resembles cartoon Galvy in a very important way:

not at all...)

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 11:23 pm

News Credits: 10 · by **Agamemnon** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 11:29 pm

Sabrblade wrote:

Touche...though he has two fusion cannons, and an Armada Megatron Tank cannon on the arm. And doesn't transform into his iconic cannon mode.

Still, I do like that version...

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 11:32 pm

Agamemnon wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:

Touche...though he has two fusion cannons, and an Armada Megatron Tank cannon on the arm. And doesn't transform into his iconic cannon mode.

Still, I do like that version...

You can make an unofficial dual-barreled cannon mode out of it if you wanted to. Similar in transformation the G1 figure.

News Credits: 1 · by **RhA** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 3:31 am

Sabrblade wrote:

Close, but no cigar. A proper Galvatron has a proper backside. The wings are a no-go. I love that toy, but my mind insist on it being Megatron.

by **Peridot** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 6:55 am

Sabrblade wrote:

Why do people always neglect Energon Galvatron? That toy was great! And he's very nearly MP-scale!

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 9:13 am

Metro Prime wrote:Why do people always neglect Energon Galvatron? That toy was great! And he's very nearly MP-scale!

RhA wrote:Close, but no cigar. A proper Galvatron has a proper backside. The wings are a no-go. I love that toy, but my mind insist on it being Megatron.

News Credits: 1 · by **SkyWarpt** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 9:44 am

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Not the first time a Galvatron would have been turned into a Megatron, see BotCon 2008 SG Megatron. Not really something I'd have been all fangirly over, though.

Triggerhappy would have been a real curveball, choosing the Cyclonus mold was excellent given the overall shape and the wings:

Plus, having an opportunity to give him Blowpipe should have pushed at least that one through. Shame it wasn't.

Looks like Vector Prime's target companion

by **Desslok2201** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 2:20 pm

I'd love to see a new Triggerhappy, but we need a new targetmaster mold, and stop beating the dead horse that is Nightstick

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 4:38 pm

Desslok2201 wrote:I'd love to see a new Triggerhappy, but we need a new targetmaster mold, and stop beating the dead horse that is Nightstick

Scoop gave us Holepunch and Tracer Caliburst.

by **Desslok2201** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 9:12 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
Desslok2201 wrote:I'd love to see a new Triggerhappy, but we need a new targetmaster mold, and stop beating the dead horse that is Nightstick
Scoop gave us Holepunch and Tracer Caliburst.

Yeah, but they were '88 double targetmasters. I want more '87 style. Nightstick was awesome, but you can't just repaint him over and over. Give the full size targetmasters some love!