The Energon Pub

[Nekoman]

TF08.net's Yizhi521, has posted many new images of various figures from the upcoming Transformers Revenge of The Fallen toy line. Click here and here, to see what appears to be an official image of Human Alliance Bumblebee, Fast Action Battlers Sideswipe and a previously unseen Fast Action Battlers Blackout redeco.

[Lapse Of Reason]

It looks like they got Bumblebee right this time.

[cheeser82]

Don't forget to mention we get our first look at Mixmaster's robot mode.

I can't believe how awesome these individual Constructicons toys look compared to Devastator. Definitely skipping him to buy the pieces, whether or not they combine.

[Barrelass]

Mixmaster looks great, and Devastator is starting to grow on me. Still don't know about the $100 pricetag. Maybe Target will have a sale on him

[Solrac333]

Seems like every bot has one hand. Don't like that.

[wolverinetodd]

I think that creating all the individual Constructicons and not having them combine to form Devastator is a major disappointment and a major failure on Hasbro's part. Can you imagine how big that Devastator would have been with five Deluxe figures connecting to one Voyager? Major coolness. Now we just need to hold out for three more Constructicons' Deluxe robot modes - Scrapper's, Long Haul's (not counting the FAB's mode), and Hook's (Hightower).

Just how old is Jetfire supposed to be? With his landing gear out like that in robot mode, it's like he has a walking cane especially with him being all slouched over like that. Kind of lame looking.

Though they're not pictured, what's up with the Twins' faces? Their faces are kind of deformed. Can anyone explain?

[emeraldbeacon]

Though they're not pictured, what's up with the Twins' faces? Their faces are kind of deformed. Can anyone explain?

The best explanation we have to date is "Michael Bay is a moron". Maybe the film will give enough rationale for the twins getting beat with the ugly stick... but likely, it'll be as much of a plot point as Jazz's death was emotionally moving in the first movie. "Oh, Jazz... ah well, the token black 'bot is dead, but now we have human friends and Bumblebee can talk again, so I say we came out ahead!"

[Baha08]

Though they're not pictured, what's up with the Twins' faces? Their faces are kind of deformed. Can anyone explain?

The best explanation we have to date is "Michael Bay is a moron". Maybe the film will give enough rationale for the twins getting beat with the ugly stick... but likely, it'll be as much of a plot point as Jazz's death was emotionally moving in the first movie. "Oh, Jazz... ah well, the token black 'bot is dead, but now we have human friends and Bumblebee can talk again, so I say we came out ahead!"

Actually the best explanation is the fact that this is more, how to say realistic in a way that alien robots wouldn't look like the G1 Transformers but more alien like taking on for the most part, human vehicles. Since a creative out look would show that some of these are clearly good designs for a new audience and maybe fans. Though most fans love to get on their high seat by complaining about designs or change which is why anything before the movie (the first one) will always be bellow average when the fact is you can't keep something like that up and not change it.

Which what scares fans the most is change because it has to be watched. If they worked on these movies with a better director but kept the basic look I bet the films will get a positive look, with the exceptions of Devastator because he really seems stubby in design.

Same idea of change also messes with cartoons as I think more people complained about animated then they did the entire Unicron series.

[Megatron Wolf]

Bumblebee looks cool but Mixmaster looks like an ape. I like the color scheme and alt mode but other than that its crap. Ill have to see how the toys actually transforms. If it has a cool/interesting transformation then maybe ill buy it. But as of now its a pass.

[typh0id]

I can't believe how awesome these individual Constructicons toys look compared to Devastator. Definitely skipping him to buy the pieces, whether or not they combine.

Wow I feel exactly the opposite...Seeing the individual robot modes for the non-combining constructicons has continually reaffirmed my descision to just by the vehicle-only combiners...Because even if they DID turn into the robots I've seen so far, I'd never even bother transforming them...I think Devestator looks 100 times better than any of the individual constructicons...

[Bumblebeast]

Individual Constructicons: WIN

Deformed Monkey Voltron: FAIL

[kingjovius]

damn.... i thought that the constructicons could come individually to make a big one...... OR MAYBE THEY DO!!! lol i duno id preferr individual

[Dr. Caelus]

Just how old is Jetfire supposed to be? With his landing gear out like that in robot mode, it's like he has a walking cane especially with him being all slouched over like that. Kind of lame looking.

That's the idea, because for some reason, even though they're supposed to be completely alien and in no way similar to humans, when they get old they grow beards and require canes for support.

Though they're not pictured, what's up with the Twins' faces? Their faces are kind of deformed. Can anyone explain?

No official explanation, but my theory is that they 'powerlink' with eachother (combining seems to be the gimmick for this movie), with the combined form's head being the larger half of each of their faces.



Given the apparent articulation, does anyone else think Sam might be GIJoe scale afterall?

[Ravage XK]

Does anyone else think that the new Bumblebee looks better in the grey than the yellow? Looks less toy like.

[Mykltron]

Does anyone else think that the new Bumblebee looks better in the grey than the yellow? Looks less toy like.

Maybe a little, but nowhere near as bad as Universe Hot shot! It probably doesn't help that they haven't finished the chest and his legs are backwards. And wouldn't it be better for sam to ride on the shoulder? Riding on a gun might get a bit hot and riding on an arm would mean a lot of swinging around.

[munkimus prime]

Human Alliance Bumblebee looks great and the Sam figure is a nice touch, I'll be getting him when he's released.

Devastator makes me wan't to BBBAAAAAAAAWWWWWWW!!!!

Mixmaster looks good.

[robotrik]

I love the new designs but why can't they ever transform BB right ?
is it so hard to lift up his chest peices and rotate his legs around ? you can clearly see his toes are facing the wrong way.
now as for mixmaster i need to see a better picture.

[zero-kaiser]

Has anyone else noticed the picture of the inside of HA Bumblebee?,.. you can clearly see the red prototype Sam figure sat in the drivers seat... but look closer and you can see a pink/purple figure sat next to him.. wonder who that might be? -scratches chin-

Either way, I'm definatley picking this up, cant wait to see if they do more HA figures and if so, who.

[First-Aid]

I'm going to give Hasbro the benefit of the doubt on the combiners. My belief is that they are simply too complicated in robot modes to allow for both a detailed bot mode and an accurate combination. That's not saying they won't come up with a better version down the road that DOES combine and is accurate, but with the allotted time frame the engineering may have been impossible.

What will be interesting to see is how many people who are dissing the Constructicons now will "love" the inevitable bright green repaints Hasbro will do to appease the G1 fans.

[Hip-Hoptimus Rime]

OK, I am really starting to love that HA Bumblebee mold, it will be a definite buy, maybe even a first-day buy (will it be out on the first day of Movie 2 toys?). I do see the pinkish mini-fig in the passenger seat, I wonder if it is/was supposed to be Mikaela? Maybe a feature they have since removed, or maybe the her fig from another Human Alliance set. Speaking of which, is there going to be an Ironhide/Lennox set? I thought I read a rumor about that, would def buy that as well. I love their connection in Off-Road Ironhide's bio.

As far as Devastator vs. individual Constructicons, I would buy all of them, the separate robots and Dev, if I had the money. As it is, I'll prob. start with the Constructicons, and wait for Dev's price to come down. I like his design, and of course I wish his components had their own robot modes, but for whatever reason they don't, so I'm choosing to appreciate them as they are: the separate Constructicons are realistic, detailed constructions machines that transform into awesome alien robots; Devastator is a huge, nigh-unstoppable alien wrecking machine. And those are pretty cool things to be in my book...

[Flashback77]

Mixmaster looks good, but why do all the Decepticons need giant gorilla arms?!

Devastator and HA Bee are easy passes.

[Head Shot]

Though they're not pictured, what's up with the Twins' faces? Their faces are kind of deformed. Can anyone explain?

The best explanation we have to date is "Michael Bay is a moron". Maybe the film will give enough rationale for the twins getting beat with the ugly stick... but likely, it'll be as much of a plot point as Jazz's death was emotionally moving in the first movie. "Oh, Jazz... ah well, the token black 'bot is dead, but now we have human friends and Bumblebee can talk again, so I say we came out ahead!"

Actually the best explanation is the fact that this is more, how to say realistic in a way that alien robots wouldn't look like the G1 Transformers but more alien like taking on for the most part, human vehicles. Since a creative out look would show that some of these are clearly good designs for a new audience and maybe fans. Though most fans love to get on their high seat by complaining about designs or change which is why anything before the movie (the first one) will always be bellow average when the fact is you can't keep something like that up and not change it.

Which what scares fans the most is change because it has to be watched. If they worked on these movies with a better director but kept the basic look I bet the films will get a positive look, with the exceptions of Devastator because he really seems stubby in design.

Same idea of change also messes with cartoons as I think more people complained about animated then they did the entire Unicron series.

Nope, all of you are wrong.

In one of the trailers, a few transformers crash in France, the autobot twins happen to be 2 of them. They crash near the Louvre museum, and some of the first things they see are pablo picasso paintings. Hence the deformed/rearranged faces.

I love if when people don't know the real reason and blame Bay for it all like he's some kid with down syndrome. Some of you need to get over yourselves and realize that you're not kids anymore and that this isn't g1. I grew up with g1, and many of you probably did too, but how about acting your ages, rather than acting like stubborn kindergardeners. (Not directed at anyone specific here, I'm talking about friggin' everyone.)

[Nekoman]

Don't forget to mention we get our first look at Mixmaster's robot mode.

Thanks, not quite sure how I missed that, but the news post is updated now.

Given the apparent articulation, does anyone else think Sam might be GIJoe scale afterall?

I thought (but could just have easily thought wrong) that it was confirmed he's about a inch smaller. Close, but not of the same size.

I'll need to see more, but Mix Master isn't looking so good...

[huffer2009]

Everytime I look at Devastator's face, I think of the Green Goblin truck from Maximum Overdrive.

[Bouncy X]

its good to see Devastator has an actual normal face. So i guess he opens up his mouth and either shoots some sorta laser/beam thingy or he swallows transformers whole and they get mulched to death....that would be fun to see. lol