The Energon Pub

News Credits: 1350 · Wed Jan 27, 2021 5:53 pm

Greetings Seibertronians! Fellow Seibertron user, Dominus Prime, has let us know that YouTube toy reviewer, TonTon Reviews has uploaded a new video review of Transformers Kingdom Deluxe Class Huffer!

Huffer is part of the wave 2 Deluxes, along with Airazor, Ractonite and the re-release of Earthrise Arcee (in Kingdom packaging). He's also the latest minibot to get upgraded.

We have embedded the review below for your convenience:

What do you think of this review? Will you be getting Huffer? Let us know in the Energon Pub and stay tuned to Seibertron for all the latest news and reviews!

News Credits: 22 · Wed Jan 27, 2021 8:46 pm

Yeah I think i will also wait awhile on Dinobot, see if a different decoed version comes out, like Cheetor. As for the front teeth, my guess it's a child safety thing.

News Credits: 241 · Wed Jan 27, 2021 9:20 pm

Rodimus Prime wrote:Yeah I think i will also wait awhile on Dinobot, see if a different decoed version comes out, like Cheetor. As for the front teeth, my guess it's a child safety thing.

You would think, but look:

The teeth go over the bottom jaw, the gap in the upper jaw gives space for the finger to wiggle the mouth open.

News Credits: 2 · Thu Jan 28, 2021 5:18 pm

I'm content with Igear as Neo-G1 Huffer. >:oP

It's nice to see this one wielding a decent weapon...'nuff said! :VEHI:

News Credits: 462 · Thu Jan 28, 2021 11:30 pm

In case anyone here missed it:

PrimeVsPrime wrote:

News Credits: 23 · Thu Jan 28, 2021 11:32 pm

Not gonna lie, I'm pretty impressed with what they are doing with the Core-class figures.

News Credits: 12 · Sat Jan 30, 2021 9:20 am

I got Vertebreak in. She's pretty nice, very fun to transform and looks great in her raptor mode. Robot mode is fun, but boy she needed thigh swivels. They really should have made her knees balljoints- it wouldn't have reduced her knee range at all and would have given her the thigh swivel. Still a good toy but could have been better.

News Credits: 9 · Sat Jan 30, 2021 12:04 pm

aronjlove wrote:Not gonna lie, I'm pretty impressed with what they are doing with the Core-class figures.

Agreed. Those are tempting... For a while I’ve thought about getting a legends class set of Megs, Soundwave, and seekers (probably the main 3) to pose on a shelf next to my CW Devastator.
Looks like that could possibly happen.

Also, I get why, but it’s unfortunate that Dinobot’s teeth look like mini tic tacs...
He’s a good little raptor!!

News Credits: 2 · Sat Jan 30, 2021 1:01 pm

I just gots core Rattrap in and he is great. His shoulders are no problem to me, I almost say I like them better as they are. Good movement, posing and slight kinda butterfly joint, if u need it. I agree though, the core class seems like good figures. I looked at core Prime in Walmart and he didnt look bad either. Although I only want Rattrap since he is suppose to be small, as I dont collect out of scale figures of characters for the most part.

Speaking of butterfly joints....also Cheetor came in today and he is great. Much better in hand then he looks in pics and videos. I am very pleasantly surprised in him all around. When first seeing the Netflix Cheetor, I almost canceled my pre-order, but glad I kept it. Kingdom has great paint, and more of it in correct places, tight joints, poses well, fun to transform and just looks great in both modes. Only thing that I may do is try to put a bit of gold paint on his thigh armour and head crest. Highly recommend him if anyone is on the fence like I was.

Sat Jan 30, 2021 4:49 pm

Evil Eye wrote:I got Vertebreak in. She's pretty nice, very fun to transform and looks great in her raptor mode. Robot mode is fun, but boy she needed thigh swivels. They really should have made her knees balljoints- it wouldn't have reduced her knee range at all and would have given her the thigh swivel. Still a good toy but could have been better.

I wonder if with the aversion to them on figures larger than Battlemaster in the past two lines, they've forgotten some of the usefulness of ball joints.

News Credits: 5 · Sat Jan 30, 2021 6:31 pm

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:
Evil Eye wrote:I got Vertebreak in. She's pretty nice, very fun to transform and looks great in her raptor mode. Robot mode is fun, but boy she needed thigh swivels. They really should have made her knees balljoints- it wouldn't have reduced her knee range at all and would have given her the thigh swivel. Still a good toy but could have been better.
I wonder if with the aversion to them on figures larger than Battlemaster in the past two lines, they've forgotten some of the usefulness of ball joints.

It's something to do with the size and thinness of the knee areas. Though in hand she doesn't really need a thigh swivel since she can balance really well her Ball-joint ankles... it just makes some poses are awkward.

News Credits: 12 · Sun Jan 31, 2021 12:10 am

Picked up Vertebreak today and I gotta say, she's pretty good. Though, thinness of plastic and tight joints kind of make me hesitant to really try posing her too much

News Credits: 4878 · Sun Jan 31, 2021 12:14 pm

We've had many international sightings since the beginning of January and we wanted to give you all a heads up since venturing outside the home may be limited to many and thus you may not be aware of what is in stores.

For Australia, the Transformers Kingdom voyagers and core class figures have been found at Kmart while the voyagers and deluxes have been found at Target. Mr Toys Toyworld (less locations than the other two mentioned) have the Kingdom voyagers and the Back to the Future Gigawatt figure. The sightings come from Thalyn who posed here.

In Canada, the lockdowns have made it that Toysrus is closed in most provinces and while Walmarts remain open some are not allowed to sell toys. But the Walmarts selling toys have recieved new toys since the new year. The entire Kingdowm toyline was released, from core class to leader class. These were all reported on Cybertron.ca.

If you find these toys, let fellow fans know in our sightings board.

Sun Jan 31, 2021 1:57 pm

EB Games in Victoria, BC has had limited stock of some Kingdom figures (sans Megatron) since late December, but Walmart and Toys R Us have been barren wastelands for most War for Cybertron figures in general.

News Credits: 9 · Sun Jan 31, 2021 4:22 pm

Has there been any rumor as to when we'll see photos of Galvatron?

News Credits: 4878 · Sun Jan 31, 2021 6:22 pm

Sowndwave76 wrote:Has there been any rumor as to when we'll see photos of Galvatron?

Nope

News Credits: 18 · Mon Feb 01, 2021 10:02 am

Found Ectotron at target in the Ghostbusters section instead of with the other transformers

News Credits: 14 · Mon Feb 01, 2021 11:14 am

BBTS finally decided to charge me for Primal and Cyclonus.

SS Hot Rod, Grimlock and Megs still pending.

I'll be shipping them now and ship the other 3 together when they come in.

Also no news for Dinobot form Amazon still.

News Credits: 56 · Mon Feb 01, 2021 11:38 am

Dominus Prime wrote:Found Ectotron at target in the Ghostbusters section instead of with the other transformers

In many cases they are right next to each other. I'm sure this will confuse many a Target employee.

News Credits: 12 · Mon Feb 01, 2021 7:17 pm

So as mentioned previously, Vertebreak is alright. Not amazing, but alright. I love how much she looks like an actual, petrified fossil, and the sculpting is top notch. Her arms like to pop off a bit too easily though.

Today, however, I got Blackarachnia and Paleotrex in. Blackarachnia's transformation is a bit fiddly, but that aside is almost perfect. Really great robot mode, fun little spider mode, dead ringer for the character, and unlike the LG retool of Animated Blackarachnia, no GPS or male spider genitalia!

Paleotrex meanwhile, whilst a bit crummy as an actual action figure, is a ridiculous amount of fun as an accessory pack. Megatron seems to have become rather...attached to him.

...I'll get my coat. :lol:

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Tue Feb 02, 2021 3:08 am

o.supreme wrote:
Dominus Prime wrote:Found Ectotron at target in the Ghostbusters section instead of with the other transformers

In many cases they are right next to each other. I'm sure this will confuse many a Target employee.

My store didn't have them in the Ghostbusters or Transformers section (which, yeah, are right next to either other) despite having tags there. Instead they were on an endcap in the main aisle with a bunch of other collectibles like Hasbro Marvel stuff and NECA TMNT.

My Target and Walmarts have already sold out of Kingdom figures. Haven't seen SS86 at all and Walmarts here haven't restocked Netflix yet. (Really just need SS86 and Kingdom Megatron and Cyclonus, I've got the rest).

Emerje

News Credits: 19 · Tue Feb 02, 2021 6:14 am

Had my first play with Optimus Prime in hand sans trailer (shattered glass version of earrthrise/Kingdom leader). Bot modes pretty nice, the legs don't seem to have much transformation despite looking like they do from having some of Sieges traits.
He's pretty much forced to have the back feet sticking out, shame their wast something more to them to be able to leave it hidden as the legs could probably take the weight for some poses just from his toes. His feet can be angled down to give him heels and get almost a cm more height to him. Sure the legs arent as basic as G1 but with even less wizardry than of the G2 chug deluxe it would have been nice to have an option to hide/show the wheels.
The holes in the smokestacks are still ugly but hey.

Vehicle mode has some issues, mainly from the lack of any leg transformation, the barrels dont stay out and could have done with something to keep them in place (sadly shattered glass has no tail light painting). The cab looks like it is leaning forward ever so slightly and the arms seem like they needed a little more to line up and not have gaps in the panneling. With out the trailer it feels like something is missing in vehicle mode but not sure I like the vehicle mode enough or that he would spend any time as it to get the kindom/earthrise version over the netflix

News Credits: 1646 · Tue Feb 02, 2021 8:10 am

this Jurassic world 2049 movie is looking really wicked

News Credits: 42 · Tue Feb 02, 2021 9:00 am

blackeyedprime wrote:The cab looks like it is leaning forward ever so slightly and the arms seem like they needed a little more to line up and not have gaps in the panneling.

If you also have the Siege version, are you flipping open the 2 small panels on the knees that hide the 5mm port that ends up in the center on Siege, but on the side for ER? Those panels help lock in the arms on the ER version.

News Credits: 14 · Tue Feb 02, 2021 10:11 am

blackeyedprime wrote:Had my first play with Optimus Prime in hand sans trailer (shattered glass version of earrthrise/Kingdom leader). Bot modes pretty nice, the legs don't seem to have much transformation despite looking like they do from having some of Sieges traits.
He's pretty much forced to have the back feet sticking out, shame their wast something more to them to be able to leave it hidden as the legs could probably take the weight for some poses just from his toes. His feet can be angled down to give him heels and get almost a cm more height to him. Sure the legs arent as basic as G1 but with even less wizardry than of the G2 chug deluxe it would have been nice to have an option to hide/show the wheels.
The holes in the smokestacks are still ugly but hey.

Vehicle mode has some issues, mainly from the lack of any leg transformation, the barrels dont stay out and could have done with something to keep them in place (sadly shattered glass has no tail light painting). The cab looks like it is leaning forward ever so slightly and the arms seem like they needed a little more to line up and not have gaps in the panneling. With out the trailer it feels like something is missing in vehicle mode but not sure I like the vehicle mode enough or that he would spend any time as it to get the kindom/earthrise version over the netflix

The only separation I see is ion the bicep swivel, and its really very minor.

For the cab leaning forward, I've found that not opening the knee panels makes it sit better, than actually opening the knee panels.

Panels closed:

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Panels opened:

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I usually keep the panels closed onto his knees. The wheel panels, and the stiffness of his thighs keep everything in place.

And yes, the barrels do not like to stay out. since the don't actually clip anywhere when rotated out.