He looks like he spent some time at the Oil House before going hunting.

 

Nice stuff. I suppose if the Oil Slick repaint is not to be released, I can live with it. (I might feel worse about it if the repaint was closer to the animation colors.)

 

So beautiful. These need to be on shelves now!
Oilslick, is well, slick and kick ass. Loving the new paint highlihts.
Rodimus? It's FRICKING rodimus. Insta-buy with arcee. Now if only they had done animated kup and springer, for a true animated TFTM dio.

 

Rodimus is not that dark at all. It's the photoshopping.

 

Rodimus looks cool and Oil Silick is doing well for a bot that only had one line  

 

I'm prepared to dodge the stones and boulders that get thrown at me for this, but honestly..IMO, with or without photoshop, Rodimus looks like a biig thumbs down >_>;; I'd buy Energon Rodimus over him.

Oil Slick however, may have just won me over along with Electrostatic Soundwave..

 

Rodimus will be mine!

 

I think Hasbro forgot to add a freaking nose on Rodimus Prime's face.

 

Oil Slick has excactly the same colors in a different layout. I don't really qualify that as a redeco unless it has a damn good reason, which it doesn't seem to have.
Rodimus looks good, although the difference in width between his waist and torso is a bit yikes. Face is also a bit messed up but that will be easy to fix.

 

Anyone care to explain why he is called Rodimus Minor? And I want to see Blackout now damnit!

 

Cuz he aint a Prime?

 

It seems to be a rank thing: Minor, Prime & Magnus. My guess is that Rodimus outranks a lot of the other bots, which is why he is leading his own little platoon, but hasn't quite hit Prime status yet. But I'm sure I'm wrong.

If it IS a rank thing, then I'm really confused about the Magnus title since it would mean that Ultra Magnus' normal name is... well... Ultra. Or who knows, maybe the whole rank title is Ultra Magnus and his real name is Dion... which could mean there were other Ultra Magnus' before and there will be after.

I don't claim to know what I'm talking about   Just speculating.

 

Energon Rodimus ... better than Animated Rodimus?

 

 

Oilslick? Interesting.

 

To add to what's been said already, Hasbro doesn't want to generalise the 'Prime' suffix. SO they called him Minor. Frankly if they're had just stuck with the three primes I don't think that'd have been too bad. Rodimus, Sentinel and Optimus are all a bit hollow without their proper titles, IMHO. I guess 2 out of 3 isn't bad.

 

Im loving these especially Rodimus at Botcon they did say there could be a couple of animated exclusives released throughout 2009 and '10. This could be one of them possibly another battle set or single release. Im saying they will be released at target right around black friday, target does get the better run of animated figures. I say bring on the animated exclusives long live animated. I need a new wave of animated =)

 

At first glance that Oilslick hardly looks any different from the first one...If they're really going to do a repaint of that guy, I think they could have done something better then that.

Rodimus looks awesome. Though I am kinda disappointed that his bow sticks out so much in his alt-mode. I was kinda hoping it folded back behind his spoiler a bit more then that...Eh well, he still looks like a great figure.

You know, I wouldn't be surprise if this turns out to be a two pack of Rodimus and Oilslick together. Slick's paint does kinda look like his deco did in the show, now that I think of it. Maybe they're doing this up as a representation of that scene.
I'd be a little bummed out though, because I really would rather not have to buy another Oilslick just to get Rodimus.

 

I would too i just want a rodimus but if there is any chance of getting him even if they might be a battle set im down. they could possibly be released a bit earlier as a target exclusive. i might be wrong but i think they might be holding off on animated figs so they could be tied in with the release of the season 3 dvd, just a massive release of what could be the last of animated.

 

Look great, but man they need to cut it out with the overkill 'doesn't look anything whatsoever like the actual physical toy' photoshopping already. It's just getting worse and worse with the false representation.

 

Oil slick again   ! For the record Arcee, Rodimus, Blackout, C.Ratchet, Ironhide and E.Soundwave really should be given priority over him.

Rodimus looks great though at first I thought his mouth was low on the face but it`s growing on me. I will get him for sure.

Is there any chance of an animated comiccon exclusive this year?