#transformers: superlink

[atomicdarc]

These two....

THESE TWO...

[hozcar]

Laserwave/Shockblast y Grand Convoy/Optimus

[bennett-ametyst]

Change of signature, and new art🎉🎉

[ojamayellow]

I'M SO HAPPY

[jdrider02]

Energon Starscream midnight doodle

3-22-2024

[beforethestory]

"…Nightscream studied, observed, and rediscovered the world; on that face was one of the most lively smiles Alexa had ever seen… but she couldn't smile herself: it was all alien, and too wrong to smile back without pain."

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hooray-hooray for sudden sketches and pieces of text from unfinished fanfiction!!

[panya444]

𓏲 ✦ 🫧 ๋࣭ ࣪ ˖🎐

[jj-gold-falcon]

Did a Redraw Challenge where you draw the image as a Ship you like. I did Demolisher (Ironhide) and Cyclonus (Sandstorm) from Transformers Energon (Superlink)

I think I cooked.

[radicalellska]

[setteidreams]

✿ Transformers: Superlink ┊ 669 sheets ✿

… a 2004 TV series with character & mecha designs by Yuka Takashina, Hideki Fukushima, Hiroshi Ogawa & Shinya Ogura has been added to Patreon.

[blueikeproductions]

A gag I had come up with around the start of the Skybound Energon Universe. Fortunately the rulers of Zertonia and Agorria are more chill in this universe.

[gummyjne]

Rewatching Transformers Superlink.

[laserbread]

[ojamayellow]

Transformers Funnies [Unicron Trilogy Style]

1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / ?

[jdrider02]

Wing Saber to start off October. For some reason

10-1-2024

[siphersaysstuff]

ENERGON BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

February's Patreon @tfwiki pic update is on 2004's ENERGON, the awkward middle child of the Unicron Trilogy. Caught in the early stage of explosive franchise growth and pulled in too many directions. But there's good stuff in there. ROADBLOCK remains a solid, fun toy, turning from robot to crane-truck to heavily-armed half of a two-robot combiner.

The Autobots' two-bot-combiners gimmick was certainly an interesting attempt, but TOW-LINE really took the gimmick to more interesting places than most. He's his own combiner, with the lower half of his vehicle mode turning into a mobile battle-sled-thing separate from his robot mode.

Store exclusives were rare in Armada, but by Energon, Hasbro was ready to start pumping them out again, and boy did they. CHECKPOINT, a rededo of Rodimus, came in a Kmart "SWAT" 2-pack with a similarly deco'd Prowl. Back when Kmart was still a thing.

The Decepticons, rather than combining, got "hyper modes" and alternate vehicle modes that deployed more weapons. SIX SHOT, a redeco of Shockblast, is one of the better attempts, having a considerably-different "satellite" mode on top of his space-tank altmode.

Oh lawd he comin. OMEGA SENTINEL, a redeco of Omega Supreme, splits into a "construction vehicle" and "cruiser", each with a "platform" mode. The two can also join to for a "Cybertronian Armored Supertrain" but that wouldn't fit in the lightbox. Plus he can merge with Optimus Prime! Okay mainly he's a suit Prime wears, but there's attachment points for all of Prime's drone-vehicles as well.

With the franchise taking off, Hasbro looked to fill out Energon with more stuff. This Deluxe version of the Mini-Con HIGH WIRE came with a figure of human ally Kicker, rendered in the style of the then-current G.I.Joe toys. This set seemingly was not engineered by Takara, and it kinda shows.

Speaking of... oof. This set. Not to editorialize too much, but... the MEGA-DINOBOT set of GRIMLOCK and SWOOP is... well. Bad. Originally intended for the Universe line, it got shuffled into Energon, and similarly wasn't engineered by Takara. The result is a floppy, awkward mess. One of the very, very few Transformers toys in its 40-year run I'd call "bad".

(Also... yes, I re-did the Grimlock pic. Back in October, I used archive imagery for that update because, frankly, I'd forgotten I still owned this set. Upon discovery, I decided to redo the pic so it's crisper and better positioned. Still not a good toy though.)

Mind you... it's not like things were all roses on the other hemisphere. Takara made SL GRAND CONVOY, a smaller version of Optimus Prime without any of the good points of the larger figure. What IS that torso mode?! (This is the shinier "SL Grand Convoy & Kicker" 2-pack version. And it broke. Super-tight ankle joints made from clear-plastic? A recipe for disaster.)

Didn't mean to end on a down note. Here, have a pic of one of the line's absolute highlights, the Omnicons and Terrorcons, and their buildable energon weapons.

Energon was kind of all over the map, trying a lot and maybe lacking a strong cohesive theme because of it. Some damn good stuff, but also some genuine misses.

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