The Energon Pub

[Va'al]

Via site sponsor RobotKingdom's newsletter, a piece of news you may have missed: official Hasbro Transformers figure stands! The tampo on the base does claim these to date back to 2012, the ones that used a peg to plug into hexagonal ports; this version, however, has a rounded claw and a flexible stand on the base! Also to note that it may be the case that these are Hasbro Asia exclusives, but we'll update you on that as soon as more information comes through!

[Insurgent]

Would be nice to pose some jetformers flying.

[triKlops]

Great to finally see these surface.
Hopefully now that these have come to light, more interplay with toy design will happen.

[Evil Eye]

Oh dear. That doesn't look a very good design. A "cradle" style holder rather than a grabbing claw or a 3mm peg (though to be fair I'd imagine it's attached to such a peg), made of black rather than clear plastic so it'll stick out like a sore thumb, and worst of all the multi-jointed design. If those are ball joints they're not gonna hold much weight at all and that stand is going to flop fairly quickly. If it's a bendy wire it'll eventually wear out and snap, which is not good at all for a stand.

I'll stick with Tamashii stages.