The Energon Pub

[william-james88]

The 2017 Australia Toyfair is where Hasbro chose to unveil Titans Return Slugslinger and Misfire, but there was a lot more present than just those two. We got to see many of the upcoming Titans Return toys in their packaged, which we had not seen before, like Cosmos and Blitzwing. There was also a fantastic Trypticon display with him in an angled action pose, showing you his stability and poseability.

Ozformers site owner Griffin took these images and brought some G1 toys as well for comparisons, which you can see below amongst the many pictures. The toys from Transformers The Last Knight were also present, like the newly revealed Armour Grimlock toy. There were also many Robots in Disguise toys such as Legion Heatseeker in package and warrior Twinferno.

Enjoy!

[Alpha Dominus]

Oh my gosh! WANT! Dig the OG G1 comparisons and dat vinyl section with the 30th anniversary dbl LP and official Transformers turntable slipmats.

[Railbomb]

Why is Gigastorm there? Could they not get a reissue Trypticon from a few years back?

[prjkt]

Just a heads up, Gigastorm (and probably a couple of the other G1 figures) were brought in by Lzformer members just for the comparison shots

[RAR]

I am not going to complain to loudly that The Last Knight Barricade is a Prime Smokescreen repaint as it means he matches the Funpub Deluxe now (or nearly so). So I'm kinda OK with that bit of Hasbro cheapness.

I will say though I EXPECT NEW MOVIE LEGIONS for either the Bumblebee Movie of the next main movie's toyline. as they won't have the excuse of RID then.

Optimus' legion looks rather like one of the exclusives too.
Bee will have some small excuse if he's a paler yellow - otherwise i'll just look at the complete lack of vehicle mode paint and despair.

I really wish they'd sell Hunggrr as Twinferno or something so I can at least get a bit closer to making a frankenstein combiner out of all the stray Predacon repaints - just need some torsos.

I think they need to bring back Cyberverse commander class make the main dinobots in that size as new moulds and make the tiny cute versions from superbowl in one of the other lines.

I hope some of those items on display are indications of reissues as I never did find a Patrol Strongarm so a reissue of her would be useful.

The Negative colour Strongarm is interesting - might have worked better in black or white instead of blue though as the Transforming parts would have been better in white. I'm surprised to see he made with that Transformation though - I wonder if they can get a Ratchet out of that too.

Looking forward to 3-step and one-step Soundwave. I might even open 3-step Soundwave and I usually don't bother opening 3-steps.

Trypticon next to Gigastorm really does show how similar they are and really would hammer down how naff it would be if they didn't offer that minor remould/repaint as one of the exclusives .

P.s. Nice to see RID Bludgeon is there too.

I wonder if they have considered making a purple RID Blurr at all ?

[Jelze Bunnycat]

I am not going to complain to loudly that The Last Knight Barricade is a Prime Smokescreen repaint as it means he matches the Funpub Deluxe now (or nearly so). So I'm kinda OK with that bit of Hasbro cheapness.

I will say though I EXPECT NEW MOVIE LEGIONS for either the Bumblebee Movie of the next main movie's toyline. as they won't have the excuse of RID then.

About that... only Wave 1 Legions are all redecos. The rest will be new molds, including Dragonstorm.

[RAR]

About that... only Wave 1 Legions are all redecos. The rest will be new molds, including Dragonstorm.

These days I wouldn't dare to hope.

Have any of them been shown then ?

[Jelze Bunnycat]

About that... only Wave 1 Legions are all redecos. The rest will be new molds, including Dragonstorm.

These days I wouldn't dare to hope.

Have any of them been shown then ?

Check the NYC Toy Fair 2017 Galleries

[Mechastrike]

pls let that be a voyager class Rodimus...

[william-james88]

pls let that be a voyager class Rodimus...

Its deluxe hot rod with rodimus head.

[Jelze Bunnycat]

pls let that be a voyager class Rodimus...

Its deluxe hot rod with rodimus head.

Which brings me to an interesting question: Rodimus and Thunderwing from the box sets are shown off... but where's the rest?

[william-james88]

pls let that be a voyager class Rodimus...

Its deluxe hot rod with rodimus head.

Which brings me to an interesting question: Rodimus and Thunderwing from the box sets are shown off... but where's the rest?

They only had the heads as part of the trypticon playset to have as much titan master variety as possible. Griffin thinks it was an oversight.

[Shockwave7]

Must have Trypticon....

[Overcracker]

Slugslinger looks awesome.

So lets talk about movie Drift:

He was a Bugatti Veyron in AOE and turned into a blue robot.

He is now a Mercedes SLS, and turns into a red robot. Is he the movie's version of Frenzy and Rumble?

Drift is blue, no Drift is red, Drift was blue...


Octane looks pretty close to his G1 design, not sure why people are complaining about it.

and I'm loving Blitzwing. definitely a much better use of the mold over Megs.

Will definitely track him down, and add him to my Blitzwing display which consists of 2 Blitzwings at this time.

[william-james88]

About that... only Wave 1 Legions are all redecos. The rest will be new molds, including Dragonstorm.

These days I wouldn't dare to hope.

Have any of them been shown then ?

Yes, a bunch:

[WreckerJack]

I know they are for the movie, but who thinks a skateboard based on Tailgate's hoverboard would have been a hit?

[fenrir72]

FullTilt is a headmaster? Could he be Trypticon's mobile personality like that of Fortress/Cerebros?

[Jelze Bunnycat]

FullTily is a headmaster? Could he be Trypticon's mobile personality like that of Fortress/Cerebros?

Who knows? What we do know is that the Titan Master is called Necro, and is designed after a rather obscure partner of Trypticon: Wipe-Out.

[fenrir72]

FullTily is a headmaster? Could he be Trypticon's mobile personality like that of Fortress/Cerebros?

Who knows? What we do know is that the Titan Master is called Necro, and is designed after a rather obscure partner of Trypticon: Wipe-Out.

Necro? So Ominous.Pun intended