The Energon Pub

ZeroWolf wrote:I greatly prefer TR Blurr, but I also enjoyed the titan master play feature

Same. TR Blurr for me is still the best Blurr mold.

I am still looking forward to IDW Blurr, but I hope they fixed the arm sleeve issues and tightened the leg joints after SG Blurr. At least this one has a good head sculpt unlike SS86 Blurr too.

Last night I took my TR Blurr off the shelf and played with him, transforming him back and forth. Honestly, his bland deco kinda hit me harder than before. I was gonna pass on the new Blurr, but I think I'll be picking him up.

Rodimus Prime wrote:Last night I took my TR Blurr off the shelf and played with him, transforming him back and forth. Honestly, his bland deco kinda hit me harder than before. I was gonna pass on the new Blurr, but I think I'll be picking him up.

Shattered Glass Blurr's deco is anything but bland. I recommend that you pick him up.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:Last night I took my TR Blurr off the shelf and played with him, transforming him back and forth. Honestly, his bland deco kinda hit me harder than before. I was gonna pass on the new Blurr, but I think I'll be picking him up.

Shattered Glass Blurr's deco is anything but bland. I recommend that you pick him up.

He's on the list.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Shattered Glass Blurr's deco is anything but bland. I recommend that you pick him up.

I was definitely tempted, out of all the SG repaint he appealed to me the most. Fortunately I waited long enough that it sold out taking the decision out of my hands.

PvP put up a review of Hauler, confirming 2 things:
1. The claw accessory has zero retooling done to it, so the back-of-the-box render having a conjoined claw/nozzle was a render error (they probably just layered those accessories on top of each other or something).
2. Hauler has the fixed pegs from Inferno/Artfire despite using all of the rest of Grapple's tooling.

Nemesis Primal wrote:2. Hauler has the fixed pegs from Inferno/Artfire despite using all of the rest of Grapple's tooling.

Isn't that a good thing?

Sabrblade wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:2. Hauler has the fixed pegs from Inferno/Artfire despite using all of the rest of Grapple's tooling.

Isn't that a good thing?

Yes, why are you asking?

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:2. Hauler has the fixed pegs from Inferno/Artfire despite using all of the rest of Grapple's tooling.

Isn't that a good thing?

Yes, why are you asking?

The "despite" made it sound negative.

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:2. Hauler has the fixed pegs from Inferno/Artfire despite using all of the rest of Grapple's tooling.

Isn't that a good thing?

Yes, why are you asking?

The "despite" made it sound negative.

It's just a turn of phrase, not indicative of opinion. I find it more eloquent than "even though"

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:2. Hauler has the fixed pegs from Inferno/Artfire despite using all of the rest of Grapple's tooling.

Isn't that a good thing?

Yes, why are you asking?

The "despite" made it sound negative.

It's just a turn of phrase, not indicative of opinion. I find it more eloquent than "even though"

I understood from the start that he meant "even if they used all of Grapple's parts, the pegs issue that was fixed on Inferno/Artfire remains."

BTW, I fixed my Grapple by drilling the problematic holes just a tiny bit.

We have in hand images of Transformers Legacy Velocitron Speedia 500 Collection Road Hauler to share with you (man that is a loooooong name). While he is a essentially a redeco of Grapple, there are several things to note:

1. He comes with a screaming face version of the Grapple head sculpt.
2. The peg issue in the back of the truck mode has been fixed (so slight retool there).
3. The windows have a blue tint rather than the ever so slight purple tint of the original this is homaging.

Also, I see quite a bit of confusion regarding this character online. While the name given to this toy is Hauler, which refers back to the ark crew bot seen before Grapple's introduction, it is not animation accurate at all, because that bot was in Grapple's colours (it was just an animation error, showing Grapple's model too early). An E-Hobby release later released a green redeco of the G1 Grapple toy and named it Hauler, after that bot. This is an updated version of that E-Hobby release, which you can see below. The images of the new Road Hauler come to us from a Prime vs Prime review.







































Transformers e-Hobby Exclusives Hauler (Road Hauler) Gallery

Looks like screen-caps from that thief's youtube page. Why can't someone else get this stuff early and preview it instead of this wanker and his annoying voice (I once watched a review a long time ago befor I realized he gets stolen transformers).

Needless to say Ill pick this guy up when I find him, even with the "I'm taking a crap" or "STELLA" face.

Cyber Bishop wrote:Looks like screen-caps from that thief's youtube page. Why can't someone else get this stuff early and preview it instead of this wanker

It wouldn't fix the issue. Someone else would just do the review of the "stolen goods" instead.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Cyber Bishop wrote:Looks like screen-caps from that thief's youtube page. Why can't someone else get this stuff early and preview it instead of this wanker

It wouldn't fix the issue. Someone else would just do the review of the "stolen goods" instead.

I'm pretty sure someone else already does. It is what it is at this point...

sol magnus wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Cyber Bishop wrote:Looks like screen-caps from that thief's youtube page. Why can't someone else get this stuff early and preview it instead of this wanker

It wouldn't fix the issue. Someone else would just do the review of the "stolen goods" instead.

I'm pretty sure someone else already does. It is what it is at this point...

Exactly. People want to see the things early and there's only ONE way to see the things early. Unless Hasbro get quicker with their own official "reviewer" that would show the thing in clear details like pro reviewers do on Youtube.

Awkward "show and tell" on potatocam like Hasbro stream do not count.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

sol magnus wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Cyber Bishop wrote:Looks like screen-caps from that thief's youtube page. Why can't someone else get this stuff early and preview it instead of this wanker

It wouldn't fix the issue. Someone else would just do the review of the "stolen goods" instead.

I'm pretty sure someone else already does. It is what it is at this point...

Exactly. People want to see the things early and there's only ONE way to see the things early. Unless Hasbro get quicker with their own official "reviewer" that would show the thing in clear details like pro reviewers do on Youtube.

Awkward "show and tell" on potatocam like Hasbro stream do not count.

I'd argue this is a perfect example of supply and demand. Fans demand faster and faster look at upcoming releases so naturally some supply that to them. Hasbro will only be able to do so much to combat it. I'd argue they have been improving but there's still ground to cover.

Can we just have a dedicated thread for complaining about pre-release reviews instead of taking time out from line threads every single time a first look gets newsed

I'm skipping Hauler because I arbitrarily exclude animation errors from my G1 collection. Rainmakers are legit, I bought Redwing for some reason, Hauler is a hard "no." Could have gotten him for the Wreckers comic, but I'm biased against him for the G1 reasons.

Cyber Bishop wrote:Looks like screen-caps from that thief's youtube page.

The source is written in the article

AcademyofDrX wrote:Can we just have a dedicated thread for complaining about pre-release reviews instead of taking time out from line threads every single time a first look gets newsed

I'm skipping Hauler because I arbitrarily exclude animation errors from my G1 collection. Rainmakers are legit, I bought Redwing for some reason, Hauler is a hard "no." Could have gotten him for the Wreckers comic, but I'm biased against him for the G1 reasons.

Interesting, what other characters do you exclude then under that line of thinking?

-Kanrabat- wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:2. Hauler has the fixed pegs from Inferno/Artfire despite using all of the rest of Grapple's tooling.

Isn't that a good thing?

Yes, why are you asking?

The "despite" made it sound negative.

It's just a turn of phrase, not indicative of opinion. I find it more eloquent than "even though"

I understood from the start that he meant "even if they used all of Grapple's parts, the pegs issue that was fixed on Inferno/Artfire remains."

BTW, I fixed my Grapple by drilling the problematic holes just a tiny bit.

This was my intent, yes. I have seen some people wishing this figure used the Inferno head to match the toy, so I guess for them there may be negative feelings towards using all the Grapple bits except the pegs, but I'm indifferent on that front.

william-james88 wrote:

Cyber Bishop wrote:Looks like screen-caps from that thief's youtube page.

The source is written in the article

About that sentence specifically:

william-james88 wrote:The images of the new Raid Hauler come to us from a Prime vs Prime review.

ZeroWolf wrote:

AcademyofDrX wrote:Can we just have a dedicated thread for complaining about pre-release reviews instead of taking time out from line threads every single time a first look gets newsed

I'm skipping Hauler because I arbitrarily exclude animation errors from my G1 collection. Rainmakers are legit, I bought Redwing for some reason, Hauler is a hard "no." Could have gotten him for the Wreckers comic, but I'm biased against him for the G1 reasons.

Interesting, what other characters do you exclude then under that line of thinking?

Enemy is the other main example that comes to mind, though he was also canonized in IDW2.

Why do they keep giving figures that screaming face?
I mean I appreciate them giving some retooling to an otherwise straight redeco but this doesn't look good. I'd rather the time or budget go to an additional gun or something.

AcademyofDrX wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:

AcademyofDrX wrote:Can we just have a dedicated thread for complaining about pre-release reviews instead of taking time out from line threads every single time a first look gets newsed

I'm skipping Hauler because I arbitrarily exclude animation errors from my G1 collection. Rainmakers are legit, I bought Redwing for some reason, Hauler is a hard "no." Could have gotten him for the Wreckers comic, but I'm biased against him for the G1 reasons.

Interesting, what other characters do you exclude then under that line of thinking?

Enemy is the other main example that comes to mind, though he was also canonized in IDW2.

Was Enemy an animation error? I thought he first appeared as a voice changer toy.

I'm just glad they fixed the back peg issue. My Grapple already broke so I wasn't even considering buying this one