The Energon Pub

[Blurrz]

Several teasers have popped up on 2chan featuring e-Hobby Transformers United sets. The first image shows the three-packs we've seen before in a new angle. The Autobot set features Hot Rodimus, Kup and Scrap Heap. The Decepticon side has Galvatron and his goons, Cyclonus and Scourge. The second image shows a surprise. Power Core Combiner mini-cons have been taken under the wing of Takara! Variations of Mini-cons Chainclaw, Airlift, Caliburst, respectively as Fracas, Recoil and Haywire. They await you when you purchase Transformers from e-Hobby. We'll give you more details after our translators get to work, so for now, drool over the images!




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[Blurrz]

OH SHI-

Counterpunch, Razorclaw0000.

3 of us on a plane to Japan.

Bob, you're the driver. Mike, you hit on the female e-Hobby factory manager. I'll take out the security cameras.

GGPO.

[Jazz-1982]

Can't wait to see the paint apps on these guys.
I would imagine that Cyclonus will be just like the version released already this year in that multi pack but I wonder about the rest. If the paint apps are just the same I might not bother but on the other hand a movie accurate Cyclonus + Scourge would be too much to resist and if they do a better job of Hot Rod than the one that came with Cyclonus (that version sucked) then I'd buy it.

I already own Galvatron, Cyclonus and Hot Rod and have pre-ordered Kup, WreckGar and Scourge but will cancel the pre-order for Kup and sell the Galvatron and Hot Rod I already have if the paint apps are more like Transformers the Movie.

[Dead Metal]

OH SHI-

Counterpunch, Razorclaw0000.

3 of us on a plane to Japan.

Bob, you're the driver. Mike, you hit on the female e-Hobby factory manager. I'll take out the security cameras.

GGPO.

Can I come? I'll "organise" the coffee and luggage.

Those mini-cons look a million times better than the original clear releases. I wants them.

Also it looks like Rodimus, Galvatron and Cyclonus will be very similar to the Henkei versions, you can see the chrome on Rods wings, Galvatrons arm, and Cyclonus wings and targetmaster.

[Sodan-1]

Brainstorm: "Six rebel sharpshooters?"

Spike: "Six Autobots. Let's do this."

Targetmasters baby!

[horus]

so... we're gonna get targetmasters to issue to any transformer we want? (hot rod, scourge, kup, blur)

[Hal7300]

Bob, you're the driver. Mike, you hit on the female e-Hobby factory manager. I'll take out the security cameras.

[Counterpunch]

OH SHI-

Counterpunch, Razorclaw0000.

3 of us on a plane to Japan.

Bob, you're the driver. Mike, you hit on the female e-Hobby factory manager. I'll take out the security cameras.

GGPO.

Can I come? I'll "organise" the coffee and luggage.

Those mini-cons look a million times better than the original clear releases. I wants them.

YOU GOT IT!

[Razorclaw0000]

OH SHI-

Counterpunch, Razorclaw0000.

3 of us on a plane to Japan.

Bob, you're the driver. Mike, you hit on the female e-Hobby factory manager. I'll take out the security cameras.

GGPO.

Can I come? I'll "organise" the coffee and luggage.

Those mini-cons look a million times better than the original clear releases. I wants them.

YOU GOT IT!

It's on.

[feeiq90]

will bumblebee be included in United line???the one on the pic looks more chromed even for a henkei..

[Mkall]

oh wow. Minicons were a surprise. A pleasant one that's for sure.

[Dead Metal]

OH SHI-

Counterpunch, Razorclaw0000.

3 of us on a plane to Japan.

Bob, you're the driver. Mike, you hit on the female e-Hobby factory manager. I'll take out the security cameras.

GGPO.

Can I come? I'll "organise" the coffee and luggage.

Those mini-cons look a million times better than the original clear releases. I wants them.

YOU GOT IT!

It's on.

Of to the Dethcopter!

[kirbenvost]

Gotta admit, those minicons do look pretty good.

[T-Macksimus]

OH SHI-

Counterpunch, Razorclaw0000.

3 of us on a plane to Japan.

Bob, you're the driver. Mike, you hit on the female e-Hobby factory manager. I'll take out the security cameras.

GGPO.

Can I come? I'll "organise" the coffee and luggage.

Those mini-cons look a million times better than the original clear releases. I wants them.

YOU GOT IT!

It's on.

Of to the Dethcopter!

I'll set your guys' extraction team up just in case plans go south on ya, but you better at least have a case or 2 of these buggers stashed somewhere when we arrive and you best be ready to move out in a hurry.

[Counterpunch]

OH SHI-

Counterpunch, Razorclaw0000.

3 of us on a plane to Japan.

Bob, you're the driver. Mike, you hit on the female e-Hobby factory manager. I'll take out the security cameras.

GGPO.

Can I come? I'll "organise" the coffee and luggage.

Those mini-cons look a million times better than the original clear releases. I wants them.

YOU GOT IT!

It's on.

Of to the Dethcopter!

I'll set your guys' extraction team up just in case plans go south on ya, but you better at least have a case or 2 of these buggers stashed somewhere when we arrive and you best be ready to move out in a hurry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ_2q-_ra3s

[Blurrz]

will bumblebee be included in United line???the one on the pic looks more chromed even for a henkei..

Yes, Classics Bumblebee will be re-released and redeco'd in both RTS (Hasbro) and United (Takara).

[Editor]

Great news but nothing I find too exciting.

Then again, I've been treating the PCC 2-packs as Targetmasters since I picked up Smolder. No one said they had to keeped or displayed together.

[RiddlerJ]

and Scrapheap?

Wouldn't Hot Rod, Kup, and Blurr make more sense?

[OptiMagnus]

Not bad. But no way I'd ever pay all the dough for them.

[Rated X]

How many times are these mini-cons gonna get repainted ??? I just saw a couple new PCC 2 packs in wal-mart but I passed because the mini-cons are repaints and the new figures are nothing special. Im not a big mini-con fan anyways, Im more into 80's Classic G1 characters and the movie line is pretty cool as well.

[Court Jester]

Goldbug United is mine. Target Masters United will go perfectly with Scourge United. Rubsign free FTW. Takara wins this round.

[Powered Convoy]

Also it looks like Rodimus, Galvatron and Cyclonus will be very similar to the Henkei versions, you can see the chrome on Rods wings, Galvatrons arm, and Cyclonus wings and targetmaster.

That's because the images thus far are just their Henkei stock photography blackened out. They're not actual pictures of the new redecos.

so... we're gonna get targetmasters to issue to any transformer we want? (hot rod, scourge, kup, blur)

These won't fit Hot Rod/Rodimus' hands, because he has 4mm hand holes while these Minicons have 5mm pegs.

will bumblebee be included in United line???the one on the pic looks more chromed even for a henkei..

Yes as it was mentioned earlier he is in United (and in Reveal the Shield - though both are different than each other and all other releases).

He's not chrome but metallic gold paint (like with most of the TakaraTomy Animated figures).

and Scrapheap?

Wouldn't Hot Rod, Kup, and Blurr make more sense?

Yes, but Blurr might not have been done because he's based on the comic appearance rather than the toy (TakaraTomy's version even tries to recreate the comic colors more than Hasbro did).

Plus this is probably the only way that TakaraTomy was going to release the other Junkion (Scrapheap).

How many times are these mini-cons gonna get repainted ??? I just saw a couple new PCC 2 packs in wal-mart but I passed because the mini-cons are repaints and the new figures are nothing special. Im not a big mini-con fan anyways, Im more into 80's Classic G1 characters and the movie line is pretty cool as well.

Well these are the FIRST time they're getting a release in Japan, and who would have thunk, they're 80's Classic G1 characters (Fracas, Recoil, and Haywire were all in G1 in 1987).

The mold for Haywire has already been redecoed twice, and once Salvage comes out (he's not out yet) the mold for Fracas will be redecoed twice in the US.

As for Recoil, the original version of this mold isn't even available yet as he comes with Skyhammer and he hasn't been released.

So I wouldn't make any complaints about these molds yet, especially since these are the first time they're coming out in Japan.

Randy

[Blurrz]

Ah crap.

The mini-cons(targetmasters) names are Fracas, Recoil and Haywire.

Well good game, now I really need these guys.

[Down_Shift]

Yup. I'll be getting this set for sure.

I'm cool with the minicon targetmasters but I won't be one bit surprised when FansProject or iGear come out with a new target master set to go along with all of the Targetmaster characters.

[Megatron Wolf]

So have they been retooled so that they have an actual handle or are these the only PCC minicons that have real gun modes? I have the one that came with huffer and i dont see how they can get a real gun mode out of it wothout some retooling.