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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 7, 2015 18:29:13 GMT
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Post by Llama God on Sept 7, 2015 19:57:56 GMT
And that's a big "no" from me. Thankfully. :-)
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Post by Bogatan on Sept 7, 2015 20:27:53 GMT
I like the years of just the way they are. Take a Prime at random and give it a deco that make slight to no sense.
Pair it with a random other release with equally nonsensical colour scheme.
If anything using a primal mould for year of the monkey is just to sensible. Should have been saved for year of the rooster.
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Post by Bogatan on Sept 7, 2015 20:28:53 GMT
Also primals colour scheme looks a bit too sensible.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 8, 2015 16:41:06 GMT
The only 'Year Of' I'd like to track down is Snake Omega Supreme so I can combine him with Snake Energon Prime.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 8, 2015 16:50:20 GMT
That's a $$$$ toy unfortunately :-(
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 8, 2015 16:59:43 GMT
I never owned any version of it. At the time of the original I refused to pay £50 for a toy. So expensive! If only I knew What Was To Come.
It always looked fun though.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 8, 2015 17:04:49 GMT
Twas fun.
The improvements to the Platinum make it very desirable.
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Post by blueshift on Sept 8, 2015 17:11:39 GMT
It always looked fun though. Don't worry, it's not. Well, the claw arm is nice. It's big. That's about it, really. |
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 8, 2015 17:37:28 GMT
Nooooo you lie. Boat + train = headmaster. How can it fail?
-Ralph
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Post by Llama God on Sept 8, 2015 17:44:21 GMT
Does the Year of the Snake one actually have a headmaster..?
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Post by blueshift on Sept 8, 2015 18:19:12 GMT
He does not!
Also his new claw-hand doesnt have the shooty-out grabby gimmick that was the best part of the original.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 8, 2015 19:56:30 GMT
WHAAAAAAAT.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Sept 8, 2015 19:57:51 GMT
Nooooo you lie. Boat + train = headmaster. How can it fail? -Ralph Or Train+Earth Federation Cruiser from Mobile Suit Gundam. I've always quite liked the look of Energon Omega Supreme. To be honest as a ludicrously huge toy he appeals to me more than the Giant Cybertron Starscream or either of the releases of Unicron. And on the Wing-ed Munky front... Actually really like that Deco on it. It is rather daft and strange, but I think it is so in an entertaining way. Karl |
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 8, 2015 21:15:00 GMT
I'll second that. I wish I'd bought one when they were $100 on bbts. I'd rather have a proper new Generations Omega, but the snake reworking of the Energon one looked pretty good.
I've got a Takara Energon Prime and a Hasbro Energon Omega which still has a Woolworth's £24 Sale sticker on it. Both sealed. Never got round to opening them!
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 8, 2015 22:20:49 GMT
Gasp. I covet your Omega.
Prime from Energon is a really fun toy. I never quite understood The Hate for him.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 8, 2015 22:25:26 GMT
Think the slightly chubby smaller mode had fans set against him from the start.
I agree it was a fun toy though.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 8, 2015 22:29:30 GMT
He is overdue a re-appraisal. There have been many far shitter Prime toys since.
-Ralph
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Post by Toph on Sept 8, 2015 22:31:40 GMT
E Prime is not a pretty toy.
But it *is* one of the most FUN Optimus toys in the franchise.
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Post by Llama God on Sept 8, 2015 22:58:11 GMT
Agreed. That was the first ever (well, first ever since having my own, independent anyway) Optimus that I'd not gone out and bought immediately, because it looked awful. I finally picked it up on clearance... And damn, it *is* a fun toy. Not at all pretty, but satisfying, and fun. It's like it's an actual, I dunno, toy, or something...
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Post by blueshift on Sept 9, 2015 18:50:11 GMT
Gasp. I covet your Omega. Prime from Energon is a really fun toy. I never quite understood The Hate for him. -Ralph Energon Prime is a strange thing. Again, like Armada Prime I think time has been kind to him, as half of the blow struck with this figure was how ridiculously expensive it was. I remember being shocked at seeing the price (something like £40 or £50, comparable to Armada Prime if not more). Of the three Primes of this era though, it's really hard to see where the value lies. Armada Prime has his autotransform feature, which love it or hate it, it had infra-red receivers and motors and stuff. Cybertron Prime was a big chunky figure with a nice big supermode that looked great. Energon Prime was... uh... a box with tiny stick arms and legs. I genuinely can't work out where the budget went for this figure. It can't be in the engineering (he's just a box whose arms and head tuck behind him and a bum flap hides the legs), it's not the drones which are simplistic lumps of plastic, and it certainly isn't the trailer which was an empty box. He had electronics but I don't remember them being anything special, and certainly not justifying why the main robot mode had to be a giant box to hold it all (if Armada Prime can hide his circuitry so well, Energon Prime didn't need the giant box). Part of me wonders if something else was supposed to be going on inside him that got gutted at a late stage - has anyone ever opened one up? He looked horrible too, with his flappy flat feet and giant thighs (look at the deluxe, which had sliding thighs so you could at least give him more traditional proportions). Everything about him was sacrificed for the drone mode, which was ho-hum. Honestly if the drones were more exciting or each had a brilliant feature then I might have understood, but they weren't. They also all felt like they were made out of really cheap plastic. So odd. (And yet Wingsaber looked great with Prime, but it felt too little too late, especially as they were rare as hen's teeth!) |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 9, 2015 19:07:44 GMT
The extra vehicles/limbs were cheap as chips too, just lumps of one coloured plastic.
The main Op is just fat too!
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Post by Toph on Sept 9, 2015 19:35:07 GMT
I think they had intended more toys to combine with Optimus, than what we got.
Given how intigrated the concept of combination was through energon, but for whatever reason, those toys never materialized.
And Wingsaber was really rare, here too. I only ever saw it once, at a KB Toys store for full price. (KB Toys were massively overpriced when they were full price)
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 9, 2015 19:37:51 GMT
We didn't get him at all here :-( Thanks mainly to the Wave 1 & 4 disaster.
It always annoys me we didn't get more limbs for CYBERTRON Prime
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Post by Toph on Sept 9, 2015 20:04:19 GMT
That may be a blessing in disguise, as Leobreaker was one of the worst toys in the last twenty years
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 9, 2015 20:07:19 GMT
TRU Glasgow was stuffed full of Wing Sabers. I almost bought one.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 9, 2015 20:07:22 GMT
Been far worse toy than Leobreaker. Other limbs could have been better though!
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 9, 2015 20:08:30 GMT
I had a version of the Leobreaker mould and thought it was ok.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 9, 2015 20:08:52 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 9, 2015 20:11:27 GMT
I know and TRU Parkhead was full of them. Both of those toys!
-Ralph
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