The Energon Pub

by **Raymond101** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 2:06 am

E.g. Energon Prime. He pretty much gets a mobile assault base mode. So does Machine Wars Prime. Anyone else?

by **Bonger** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 2:38 am

God, theres so many. :-(

I'll get the list started. Off the top of my head:

Omega Supreme
Metroplex
Metrotitan
Trypticon
Fort Max + repaints
Scorponok + repaints
Countdown
Hothouse
Ironworks
Airwave
Greasepit
Unicron + repaints
Primus
Powermaster OP + repaints
Laser Prime
RID Scourge
Motormaster
Autobot headquarters

Ok, I'm tried of typing, someone else take over now. :grin:

by **Raymond101** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 2:52 am

By Metroplex do you mean Cybertron Metroplex?

by **Bonger** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 2:55 am

Raymond101 wrote:By Metroplex do you mean Cybertron Metroplex?

No, I mean the real Mertroplex.

With the excpetion of Unicron, and Primus, this is a G1, G2 list as I dislike most of Armada, Energon and Cybertron.

I included RID Scourge and Metrotitan as they were repaints of G1/G2 figures, but have anough exposure to be considered a seperate character.

News Credits: 7 · by **shortround** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 3:00 am

you forgot star convey wasn't he a base as well.

by **Raymond101** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 3:07 am

Bonger wrote:
Raymond101 wrote:By Metroplex do you mean Cybertron Metroplex?

With the excpetion of Unicron, and Primus, this is a G1, G2 list as I dislike most of Armada, Energon and Cybertron.

Hey Bonger, this doesn't have much to do with the topic, but if you don't mind me asking, do you think this new movie line is any good? BECAUSE - it seems to me that Armada, Energon and Cybertron were loaded with all sorts of quirky gimmicks and stuff to play with eg. minicons, energon weapons, planet keys. This is only my general impression; I only have Galaxy Force Vector Prime, and the 2007 redecos and Skyblast, Arcee and signal Flare.

Now the movie line seems to be returning to the old days of just one or two gimmicks. Even Leader Prime only has 2 gimmicks, Bumblebee 08 is hailed as the best movie figure yet he doesnt evne have a projectile, etc. If you do like the movie line, more than the Armada/Energon/Cybertron line, what are your reasons?

The reason I ask this is that my intuition tells me that my Protoform Prime + Leader Prime are the best toys I'll get in a long time, while the child in me is begging me to get at least some more Cybertron toys.

News Credits: 10 · by **Lapse Of Reason** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 3:09 am

Bonger wrote:God, theres so many.

I'll get the list started. Off the top of my head:

Omega Supreme
Metroplex
Metrotitan
Trypticon
Fort Max + repaints
Scorponok + repaints
Countdown
Hothouse
Ironworks
Airwave
Greasepit
Unicron + repaints
Primus
Powermaster OP + repaints
Laser Prime
RID Scourge
Motormaster
Autobot headquarters

Ok, I'm tried of typing, someone else take over now.

G1 Optimus Prime
G1 Rodimus Prime
G1 Ironhide/Ratchet (mobile base)
Energon Towline/Botcon Ironhide/Botcon Ratchet
Dai Atlas
G1 Silverbolt http://www.toybin.org/cache/1986/Autobo ... 2_base.jpg

G1Onslaught http://members.wri.com/jeffb/transforme ... htBase.jpg

G1 Motormaster http://mywebpages.comcast.net/mathewign ... aster3.jpg

by **Nujevad** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 3:16 am

Isn't the topic about Transformers who came with bases, not transformed into one?

by **Bonger** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 3:58 am

Raymond, I was actually quite shocked to find that I do like the Movie line. I think this is the best they have done with TFs, as a line, since Car Robots, which was mostly just a mish mash of lines anyway.

I don't neceasarily feel that the number of gimmicks is the detractor. It is what is sacrificed to make the gimmicks possible. Every hand given up for a built in blaster is, imo, too much of a sacrifice. Look at the Armada Prime review Sywarp just did. You can see the sacrifices made to make althe combinations possible very clearly there. The side shot of Prime is just an abomination.

Then again, it may just be that I like these as the toys actually have personalities that I am familiar with due to watching the movie. Whereas with Armada, Cybertron and Energon, the shaky toy lines were supported by a very weak cartoon.

I take it you have just gotten into collecting with the movie line. I assume you originally got into TFs via G1?

News Credits: 1 · by **Redimus** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 4:58 am

shortround wrote:you forgot star convey wasn't he a base as well.

A base, WITH A HEAD!

by **Raymond101** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 5:08 am

Bonger wrote:
I take it you have just gotten into collecting with the movie line. I assume you originally got into TFs via G1?

Yeah, I have just gotten into collecting toys from the movie line (although I do have Vector Prime), but I didn't get into TFs via G1. I've seen the cartoons, but my first exposure was to Beast Wars. I enjoyed beast Wars and then passed over Machine wars (although I do want to get Megatron just because he's so pathetic in that line) and the final straw for me was buying Mega Cheetor from Beast Machines. Horrible, horrible toy.

I saw Cybertron Primus, Vector Prime and all the other Cybertron toys i ntheir heyday in Hong Kong TRU but I wasn't interested back then. since the movie I really remember how much fun Beast Wars was and to my delight, this movie line's pretty awesome too.

But i have to say the gimmicks from the past 3 lines looked quite fun. I'm an easy person to please.

News Credits: 10 · by **Lapse Of Reason** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 11:12 am

Raymond101 wrote:
Bonger wrote:
Raymond101 wrote:By Metroplex do you mean Cybertron Metroplex?

With the excpetion of Unicron, and Primus, this is a G1, G2 list as I dislike most of Armada, Energon and Cybertron.

Hey Bonger, this doesn't have much to do with the topic, but if you don't mind me asking, do you think this new movie line is any good? BECAUSE - it seems to me that Armada, Energon and Cybertron were loaded with all sorts of quirky gimmicks and stuff to play with eg. minicons, energon weapons, planet keys. This is only my general impression; I only have Galaxy Force Vector Prime, and the 2007 redecos and Skyblast, Arcee and signal Flare.

Now the movie line seems to be returning to the old days of just one or two gimmicks. Even Leader Prime only has 2 gimmicks, Bumblebee 08 is hailed as the best movie figure yet he doesnt evne have a projectile, etc. If you do like the movie line, more than the Armada/Energon/Cybertron line, what are your reasons?

The reason I ask this is that my intuition tells me that my Protoform Prime + Leader Prime are the best toys I'll get in a long time, while the child in me is begging me to get at least some more Cybertron toys.

You are derailing your own thread.

by **Raymond101** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 11:42 am

Well I'm sorry. I'll open a new thread about this then.

by **DREWCIFER** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 12:27 pm

Even though this may have already been derailed, I'll throw some more out there that have yet to be mentioned.

Overlord
Sky Garry
Grandus
Big Powered (Dia Atlas[already mentioned], Roadfire, and sonic Bomber)
Star Saber(not a playset but he rides the platform)
All of the MM playsets

All mentioned are G1.

:DEVIL:

News Credits: 127 · by **Counterpunch** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 12:31 pm

Redimus wrote:
shortround wrote:you forgot star convey wasn't he a base as well.

A base, WITH A HEAD!

Basehead?

Now that's a lifestyle.

News Credits: 1 · by **Duke of Luns** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 10:18 am

Since when does Unicron have any kind of a base mode? :???:

News Credits: 1 · by **Duke of Luns** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 8:50 pm

Bumping cause I'm curious, and Bonger listed it as having a base/platform mode.

News Credits: 10 · by **Lapse Of Reason** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 9:07 pm

Duke of Luns wrote:Bumping cause I'm curious, and Bonger listed it as having a base/platform mode.

I do not think of his planet mode as a base mode, but I can see how it'd be interpreted as such.

By the way, in your motto, it should be 'there' not 'their'.

News Credits: 1 · by **Duke of Luns** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 9:12 pm

Lapse Of Reason wrote:
Duke of Luns wrote:Bumping cause I'm curious, and Bonger listed it as having a base/platform mode.

I do not think of his planet mode as a base mode, but I can see how it'd be interpreted as such.

By the way, in your motto, it should be 'there' not 'their'.

Crap, for like three years I've had a grammatical error in my motto, and I never noticed it. Oh well, thanks for the heads up, I'll go change it now.