"Bah, you kids think YOU'RE getting old?! In MY day, we didn't HAVE nostalgia! Ah, I remember those days fondly..."
-And we didn't have it in snow, uphill both ways, because it didn't exist, snow hadn't been invented yet, and 'uphill' was some new-fangled concept we knew would never catch on...
-And we didn't have it in snow, uphill both ways, because it didn't exist, snow hadn't been invented yet, and 'uphill' was some new-fangled concept we knew would never catch on...
I am nostalgic for being 23 years old. 
In all fairness, the Energon toyline was largely pretty good.
Sure, the Autobot side had a few stinkers early in the line, but things got better later. The Decepticons, meanwhile, pretty much had good toys right out of the gate and all throughout the line.
Sure, the Autobot side had a few stinkers early in the line, but things got better later. The Decepticons, meanwhile, pretty much had good toys right out of the gate and all throughout the line.
Energon had some epic toys! The first combiners since Tripedicus, the Terrocons were all great little toys, the first Rodimus toy since G1, the First Scorpnok toy since G1, and the Galvatron version of Megatron was great with his old body being used as a weapon.
The Prowl/Checkpoint set is one of my favorite things in my collection. To this day I'm sad that we didn't get more Autobot 2-packs in matching colors. I want them all.
I wasn't back into buying figures during Energon's run, but I've picked up a few since then and have always been impressed. As I look back, that really was a great toyline.
Its the timeline of chaos, where a bunch of weirdos make a major fuss about a video game and its connection to a woman who wrote a bunch of famous books, while Marvel movies go down the drain, while Transformers fans get toys that look like their cartoon appearances and are awesome for the most part, so pretty much the age of chaos, so is it a good timeline, I have no clue, it depends who you ask!
I really liked Energon's paired combiner gimmick for the Autobots. Seems like Inferno/Roadblock and Downshift worked really well as both tops and bottoms, and Rodimus, Prowl, and TowLine were good as one or the other. I liked Hot Shot in theory, but his combined forms were less than stellar.
Landfill, Rail Racer, and Ruination are now crying in a corner.
I had forgot about the RID combiners, my bad. Although to be fair Ruination was just a repaint with some minor weapons remolding. Landfill and Rail racer however.....
Those were great toys.
Also, there is only one "i" in "Tripredacus".
But due to the bug component, it is a compound eye.
You know I never even saw the beast wars combiners in stores. I honestly didn't know that they existed until years later when I joined the online fandom.
So, just looked on Hasbro Pulse to check on Galaxy Shuttle and saw that: "This product has been discontinued and will not be produced anymore."
This sucks! The figure hasn't even reached stores in mass, yet and it's discontinued? If anyone would like to be a friend and help me get this figure, please PM me.
This sucks! The figure hasn't even reached stores in mass, yet and it's discontinued? If anyone would like to be a friend and help me get this figure, please PM me.
It was part of wave 2 of the Velocitron Speedia 500 collection at Walmart, with some availability online at Pulse. But it sold out pretty rapidly online and hasn't really shown up at stores much, if at all. I've been watching for it, but not had any success (I feel like I got super-lucky when I found Crasher, even)
I'm not sure what the current status of the Speedia 500 line is at the moment. I've been to a few local Wal Marts and there were none in stock and no shelf tags. YMMV though depending on your region. Regardless, I generally do not like store exclusives - especially Wal Mart store exclusives - but I guess Hasbro views them as a necessary evil.
