The Energon Pub

by **Valandar** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 3:02 am

magnusalpha wrote:I finally opened my Target-exclusive Bruticus Maximus and assembled him today. He looks pretty cool, but his legs as suggested by the box art look lopsided, with the tank being much larger than the chopper. I think I'll switch the limbs around so he looks less goofy.

I normally have the choppers as the legs, and the tanks as the arms - they look MUCH better as arms if you rotate the treads back a bit, so they end up looking like pauldrons in Bruticus mode.

News Credits: 1 · by **shonenfan4** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 1:31 pm

Animated Starscream, Skywarp, and Sunstorm to alt mode to wait for Thundercracker.

by **Warrant** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 4:30 pm

Valandar wrote:
magnusalpha wrote:I finally opened my Target-exclusive Bruticus Maximus and assembled him today. He looks pretty cool, but his legs as suggested by the box art look lopsided, with the tank being much larger than the chopper. I think I'll switch the limbs around so he looks less goofy.

I normally have the choppers as the legs, and the tanks as the arms - they look MUCH better as arms if you rotate the treads back a bit, so they end up looking like pauldrons in Bruticus mode.

I have mine with the Choppers as Arms (mostly cause of the hands and I leave the blades open), and I set up the Tanks as the Legs but I put the turret back on their chests instead of the center of the tank mode so it looks like he's got armored knee pads. I think it looks really good this way cause even the knee pad look from Onslaught's feet just fit together.

News Credits: 2 · by **Convotron** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 7:02 pm

HA BB yet once again. I removed the battle mask to build up the plastic nubs with some super glue to hopefully make it be a little tighter in the grooves on the helmet.

Energon Dreadwing. Cool alt mode. People usually don't like shellformers but in this case a shell component would have been beneficial to the alt mode since the bottom is fairly open, ruining the illusion of a watercraft design if you look at the bottom.

News Credits: 1 · by **shonenfan4** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 11:30 pm

Got stuck in traffic on the way home from work today, played around with Gravity Bot BB while in the car.

News Credits: 2 · by **Convotron** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 12:51 am

Got around to Cybertron Unicron and RiD Ultra Magnus.

Unicron is a great Deluxe figure! The transformation is straight forward but the process is full of nicely designed sequences that make great use of the parts in alt and bot modes.

UM is a fun figure as well. The transformation is straight forward but I love all the bits and pieces that are to be used for combining with RiD OP to form Omega Prime.

News Credits: 1 · by **Galvatron X** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 1:00 am

I started cleaning up a G1 Whirl and Pretender Crossblades. I'm probably going to buy some Reprolabels for them and get all the missing pieces from Ebay.

by **Valandar** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 1:39 am

Turned Movie Bruticus Maximus into his respective separate robot modes. And did anyone but me notice that this repaint of Onslaught would make a great "G1 colors tank megatron" type with a different head?

News Credits: 1 · by **shonenfan4** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 2:14 am

Valandar wrote:Turned Movie Bruticus Maximus into his respective separate robot modes. And did anyone but me notice that this repaint of Onslaught would make a great "G1 colors tank megatron" type with a different head?

I didn't know that, but someone will prob make that come true in kitbashing.

News Credits: 2 · by **Convotron** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 10:44 am

TFA Voyager Grimlock. He's such a chompy fella.

News Credits: 1 · by **shonenfan4** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 11:12 am

TFA Prowl to be displayed in uber poses.

News Credits: 9 · by **Hip-Hoptimus Rime** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 9:23 am

I wanted to gather all my ROTF Optimus Primes in alt modes, so (yesterday, not actually today) it was Leader (glorious), FAB (I had modded his arm panel kibble to come off in robto mode, and I just discovered I lost them- grah!), and Gravity Bot (almost accidentally).

News Credits: 2 · by **Convotron** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 10:02 am

Cybertron Unicron and HA BB(The super glue mod for the battle mask tabs works great!)

News Credits: 1 · by **shonenfan4** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 11:31 am

Classics Cyclonus for Sweeps.

News Credits: 2 · by **Stockade** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 1:14 pm

Assembled the combaticons to form Bruticus Maximus and he his stand over TFU 2.0 Starscream last night before going to bed. Transformed ROTF Stalker Scorpy, Bludgeon and whirl before i left work this morning.....

by **ryan.j** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 2:46 pm

last night i re-arranged the revoltech valks to be fighting an overwhelming swarm of robot heros, and somehow managed to twist one of the valk's fists off leaving the peg stuck tight in the hole. i was so irritated i just glued his hand back on and went to bed without even bothering to try and fix it. stupid toys.

News Credits: 2 · by **Convotron** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 3:25 pm

Universe Legends BB. Wheeee!

by **Mousesi2k** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 4:00 pm

shonenfan4 wrote:Animated Starscream, Skywarp, and Sunstorm to alt mode to wait for Thundercracker.

Cant wait for him to :grin:

Activators Bumblebee has been in and out of alt mode all day long :lol:

News Credits: 5 · by **--B--** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 4:03 pm

shonenfan4 wrote:Classics Cyclonus for Sweeps.

Huh??

by **godzill216** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 4:38 pm

SDCC 2005 Skywarp -- to dustless mode, then to Alt mode and finally back to Robot mode (now he's actually posed and ready to blast away at the Patrick Roy mini-mask he's standing next to)

Power Up VT6 -- to robot mode. He needed to stretch out a bit.

News Credits: 1 · by **shonenfan4** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 6:38 pm

RID Bludgeon and 2007 Movie Signal Flare for repurpose.

News Credits: 2 · by **Convotron** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 7:39 pm

HA BB once again. Now he's facing down Universe Legends BB.

News Credits: 1 · by **shonenfan4** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 8:01 pm

Convotron wrote:HA BB once again. Now he's facing down Universe Legends BB.

Guess we all know who the winner of that one would be.

News Credits: 2 · by **Convotron** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:13 pm

shonenfan4 wrote:
Convotron wrote:HA BB once again. Now he's facing down Universe Legends BB.

Guess we all know who the winner of that one would be.

Yup. Dan Quayle. QUAYLE!!!!

After a busy day of tidying up my room and other parts of the house, I've treated myself to trying out some new figures.

Just transformed 07 Wreckage and Landmine. Awesome figures, though I wish there was a way to secure Wreckage's upper torso and back kibble components.

Landmine is such a cool design. It's so machinery laden, a definite anti-G1 design, but I love it. The articulated hands are awesome, especially considering it's a Deluxe class figure. The feet design are definitely cool. I like Landmine's wheel-feet much more than RotF Sideswipe's.