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I am the Chaos Bringer! Bwa -ha -ha -ha -ha!

You sound like, uh, what's that, uh, singer.

Who's like, uh... I don't know, what's that singer?

There's a song where, uh... It's, uh, where he

goes, Bwa -ha -ha -ha -ha! It's a rock song.

Oh, it's probably it's probably kid rock. No,

it's late 90s early 2000s. It was like Yeah,

I think it's kind of like Yeah, a little bit

of that kind of country rock, but it's not kid

rock. It's something else like Yeah, I don't

know they they played it in super troopers. Oh

We'll talk about that later. Yeah, that's fine.

I'm forced to you and Mike And I am here. And

he is waiting. No, not anymore. So. When I initially

got my Transformers, the movie. 35th anniversary

edition, it was the Steelbook 4K Blu -ray set

that came with the poster. I kept the poster

at the time, and I still have the poster, and

I sold the Blu -ray, because I didn't have a

Blu -ray player at the time, to my buddy Jason

Duvall from Toy World Order. I just out of sheer

curiosity was curious if the poster for the...

because they have two posters. They have one

where it's just Rodimus doing his Matrix thing.

And then they have one of everybody from the

Matt Ferguson DVD cover. So I knew that the poster

for the other one was there, but I already had

that. So I went on Shout Factory's website and

I'm like, hmm, I now actually have a Blu -ray

player. I would like to have this back. Oh, and

yay, I get to get the other poster too. So now

I have two Transformers The Movie posters from

Shout Factory. Absolutely amazing. I have the

4K Ultra HD plus Blu -ray so I can watch the

movie on Blu -ray finally. Nice. And this also

ties into the things that I've had since I want

to say 2009 -2010. I don't remember. It might

be longer than that. But I have been lugging

around with me like... Four different framed.

I believe it's either 27 by 30 Whatever the standard

movie poster like 24 by 3rd. I forget what the

hell it is. Anyway, there's these giant movie

posters So I have I say I have four of them and

I do two of them are from actual 2007 movie.

I Don't really care for those posters all that

much the other two though. One of them is one

of the original TFTM theatrical posters. The

other one is a poster from the show. So I essentially

have now, even though the Shout Factory posters

are 18 by 24 and the other ones are larger, I

essentially can now make my entire apartment

Transformers movie posters or Transformers posters

in general. So, nice. That happened. And then

GameStop decided to released that hence why my

intro I spent $40 on a 10 and a half inch Funko

pop of Unicron and the only reason why I'm even

saying this is because I think I've mentioned

this before on the show the way the license that

Funko has from Hasbro to do retro toys is they

can do any Funko pop of the toy design of the

character So the only animation designs, I think,

are the Optimus and Megatron with the energy

axe and energy mace, but really they still look

like, that's the only difference. Instead of

having their guns, they have their weapons from

that episode, from that part of More Than Meets

the Eye, but the rest of it still looks like

the 84 Optimus and Megatron. So Unicron here,

Is based off of the has lab unicorn Why spend

$600 for something that you have to figure out

where you're gonna put it when I can spend 40

on something and only Need to have it be ten

and a half inches tall Not a bad no trade -off

I I have no ambition to get that giant unicorn.

I want to hear from people. I seriously I really

want to hear from people Like, where do you put

it? That, yes, anyone that backed the HasLab

Unicron, the actual, like, where do you, do you

display it in robot mode? Do you display it in

planet mode? Do you only have it in one mode

or are you constantly transforming it and putting

it around your house? Seriously, email us, feedback

at geecastradio .com and let us know because

we need to know where you put that $600 piece

of plastic. Or more. Oh, God, the aftermarket

prices on that thing? It's like $1 ,500. I've

seen some people say $2 ,000, but yeah, essentially,

yeah. And I haven't even opened the box yet,

but this is the biggest Funko box that they have

ever done, I believe. And the funny thing is,

is that the 10 and a half inch Unicron is a half

inch more. I don't buy a lot of the bigger Funko

Pops. I don't buy the Jumbos. I really don't.

I have two. Out of the almost 200 Funko Pops

I have, I have two of the Jumbos. I have Unicron

and I have Soundwave. Soundwave is a 10 -inch

Funko Pop because his tape deck opens, you can

put the cassettes in there, yadda yadda. Unicron

is a half -inch bigger. Why? Why did he have

to be 10 and a half inches? I Don't know. I don't

care. I like having the stuff. That's fine. Whatever

but oh my god What have you gotten recently?

What haven't I gotten? Good thing your wife doesn't

listen to this show. Mm -hmm. So transmetal Megatron

Masterpiece yes He is Still smaller than the

dragon masterpiece that I once had Wow But he's

smaller and he doesn't take up as much real estate

because the wings like honestly the other one

there was nothing wrong with it except for the

fact that the wings Couldn't fit in the cabinet

and created the issue. It wasn't the figure itself.

I Would almost argue this one's pretty close

in size. Mm -hmm But it's pretty spectacular

and it comes I have not transformed it yet just

because I've enjoyed looking at it in robot mode

because it's so perfect Like I had I had the

original figure and it was all I glued it together

like No other because the thing was it shattered

when I tried to repair it. It was I got it for

like ten bucks and I Was aware it was broken.

I just I repainted it and painted over the glue

Give it to my son after I got this one But the

fingers are articulated the The arms the shoulders

the face like you can pop off the face and change

it out like the beast mode stays the same but

the robot mode you have three different faces

you have the yes, you have the the the grimace

that's angry and then you have one with like

the the kind of scowl and He's got you can change

out the fingers on it to the ones that shoot

silver bolt incoming diffusers part one and The

vertical takeoff and landing Aspects that that

he uses in beast mode and in robot actually rotate

so that you can do that move nice very cool because

it's on a ball joint instead of a hinge like

it used to be and the the I've seen some issues

with this. Mine doesn't have it too much. Some

of the feet in the packaging got rubbed off.

Some of the paint, some worse than others. Mine

was just a slight scuff and it's because it's

rubbing on the plastic and the shipping. So it's

kind of unavoidable. Some people have mistransformed

him partially and snapped parts of it. just because

they didn't do it in the proper order. He has

an energy blast that comes like a blast effect,

but it's got a magnet in it. And so when you

use that magnet on his head, it lights up. Oh,

wow. Which I was able to take the epic picture

that I sent you the other day. And I just took

it from inside the cabinet. I didn't move them.

I didn't take them out. I just turned on the

lights and I didn't turn on flash and I took

the shot and it looked almost, if you wouldn't

have seen the cabinet, it looked like it came

from the show. Wow. I was going to say, how'd

you get his eyes to light up? Yeah, it actually

lights up. Oh, okay. There's an LED in there.

However, when I got it, it was dead on arrival,

the battery. Yeah. Okay. So I had to figure out

how to get it out. Oh, okay. Because they stick.

So what they do to make sure that it doesn't...

slide around in there because they keep it purposefully

loose -ish. It's tight, but it's loose so that

you can get it out. They put a little piece of

almost silly putty on the back of the LED light

portable piece to hold it in place in the head

so it doesn't move around. Then you use this

magnet on the top of the head and it lights it

up. Then if you do it a second time, it blinks

like his eyes flash. Oh nice, that's cool. And

it does the same in beast mode. It's a different

battery compartment so I'm assuming that one's

gonna be dead too when I transform it. But I

have like a five pack of batteries, I'll be able

to fix it. I'm thinking it's the same battery

that's with optimal because my optimal never

lit up. And his blaster, like his chest piece,

is supposed to light up. His head doesn't light

up. Right. But the chest piece does. And so I

think that's dead, too. Same issue, but it's

a relatively easy fix. Cheap. So having the Golden

Disk pterosaur, I put the Golden Disk in his

hand. So he's holding onto it. Very cool. And

it just looks epic. There's a couple of gripes

with it that people have had and I've noticed

it too. There's a little bit of a discoloration

on the head. It's all a solid, the helmet is

a solid color. There's variants in around the

eyes where there's this gunmetal graphite metallic

that's there and then the eyes, it's missing

the iris in the middle. There's the other great

business that he has two tails One for robot

one for beast and the one for robot is smaller

and it's got a hinge system that you fold his

his hand Mm -hmm kind of in on itself so that

it can so like his his wrist is kind of folded

Horizontally instead even with the rest of his

hand so it fits in in the the piece and it clicks

into his wrist and holds on And it's the tails

very much like the original in the in all intents

and purposes. But the the the bigger tail only

connects in beast mode. Yeah. And look, I am.

So everyone always talks about how fragile the

original toys are, especially that one. I mean,

it's been what, 22 years or 21 years now, whatever

it is like. Seriously, I don't see why that would

be a gripe. They're giving you a tail for robot

mode, hence why it's smaller to act as the gun

that he used to use. Then they're giving you

the bigger tail for when you do want to put him

in beast mode so the bigger tail doesn't end

up getting screwed up. Some people are arguing

it's like parts forming. The funny thing about

it is it's still parts forming because you have

to attach it to that little clip that sits on

his waist. And whereas even in the program, in

the show, it does the same thing. It's still

parts forming no matter what way you go about

it, because unless he holds onto it with his

wrist, there's no way around it. Some people

have created a 3D print replacement grip piece

for the bigger piece so that you can just use

that one 100 % of the time and not need the other

tail. But what I like about the bigger tail Is

I can store the additional faces in it There's

literally a slot in there even when it's like

transformed there's a spot where the additional

faces plug in inside the tail the base of it

and because it goes in deep enough and then there's

a spot for the extra fingers for his dinosaur

Beast mode hands. That's cool where you swap

them out so that they're, you know, the straight

so that he can blast effect shoot out of them.

And the other the other version is like the ones

that twitch because those are on a ball joint,

too. So, I mean, you can lock them in and the

other tail. So that's what I've got them doing

currently. Just because he's in robot and I have

no intention on modifying it at all yet. Yeah.

And then so that's that's kind of my my grail,

I would say. of my Beast Wars figures of any

Transformer or toy figure because that was obviously

my favorite. I have Primal and Transmetal Primal

and Optimal. What's funny is this Megatron is

taller than Optimal by an entire inch. It's kind

of sad as far as the scaling. A lot of people

were mad about Optimal scaling. I don't really

care. I hope that the dragon Is in scale with

optimal and not with the show cuz if it's with

the show he's like 13 inches tall yeah instead

of like the one i did have. Yeah there's also

cheetoor. I have masterpiece knockoff cool. And

it's very nice. The the spots are a little grainy

because you can tell they're kind of computer

generated. Yeah. It's less, it's more blurred

which looks fine from a distance unless you're

like right up to it eye to eye. Like you're not

going to notice. And it comes with three faces

and three beast mode heads that you can change

out. Oh, very cool. He's got his tail gun. He's

got his gun. They fold up nicely. He transforms

really well. He's got the shoulder communicator

for robot and beast. that he used in the episode.

I forget what it's called. It's the one with

the energon storm. Oh, yeah. It's the one where

he transported. The other visits or other voices.

It's one of those. No, it's not that. It's before

the web. Really? Yeah, it's after Beast Wars

part two. It might be money after the web but

it's yeah, and it wouldn't have to be after the

web because the web was season 1 episode 3 Yeah,

this is this is like episode 4. It's before the

probe. Oh Okay, yeah, I know where he transports

over the energon beacons Yes, yes the relay station.

So so anyways, he's got that It was super easy

to get into robot mode Cool because I did it

without the instructions now beast mode. I may

need them But it does have a faux head for the

the the chest Like the real beast head folds

in underneath the fake chest Equal measures small

placing communication relay. Yeah. Okay. Yep

that one and So anyways It scales well, it looks

nice easily tad bit taller than Kingdom, Dinobot,

and Tigatron, but not by much. Scale -wise, he's

off, but I gave my son my 10th anniversary version.

Right, right. Here you go. He's like, I like

the cats and Beast Wars. I was like, all right,

he's yours. There you go. That's what I've got,

but mostly just waiting on some of the ... Wave

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dial. Well, you heard the bot, folks. It's time

to talk about the news. And first up, we've got

in hand images of legacy leader class transmittal

to Megatron. Yep. I still hate the face. I still

hate the face. Well, you know what? I figured

this out pretty quickly looking at it because

obviously I'm a Beast Wars Megatron aficionado.

Yes, so Looking at the face. It's gigatron. Yep

from Robots in disguise 2001 or car robots. Yep

It's the same face like literally underneath

that helmet the sides of the helmet and the face

are From that Megatron. Yeah, and it's been a

pretty good gripe. I mean so some of what the

Designer said is the mouth actually was supposed

to have a regular teeth doing the grimace of

the original toy Okay But what happened is the

factory screwed it up Okay, and they attempted

to fix it and that's why he's got the sharp pointy

teeth. Okay the other thing is is the The little

mandible things that are kind of on the top and

the bottom of his helmet Mm -hmm like or the

middle around his cheekbone and the chin Little

mandible things that was on the original Megatron

the Transmetal and Transmetal 2 The the yellowy

gold part that's between those mandibles That

matches the car robots Gigatron as well as the

original Beast Wars Transmetal 2 Megatron toy

Okay, and so they kind of max mixed a little

bit of the show with a little bit of the actual

original action figure To create this figure.

I'm still a little puzzled Why the face is silver

not gray like cuz it's like kind of an off -gray

like they take the black The blackish purple

look that he had is a transmetal and knocked

it to like a subdued grayish purple more gray

But wait wasn't his face maroon when he turned

dragon. No was it okay? It's been a while. Okay

fine. Yeah I'll have to go back and watch that

episode again, but that's fine. That's neither

here or there. If I was into like still getting

the full figures and transforming and whatever,

the only reason why I would get this figure is

the second to last image, which is image eight,

according to this article on here on TFW 2005

.com. It is the image where he is standing over

primal with the fire effect coming out of his.

I love that. That's the only if I was to have

this toy, that's the only way I would display

him is in fire breathing dragon mode. Yeah, I.

So you've you've made your piece about the figure.

So for me. You know, kind of looking at the original

toy, looking at the show. If you're wanting a

spectacular show quality, transmittal to Megatron.

The winged dragon Third party figure is probably

the best you'll ever get Just hands down and

yes, I did have it at one point but the sucker

was huge if if the scaling was down by like two

to three inches like basically in matched with

the optimal optimus trans trans art figure right,

I would have kept it but It's so stinking big

that again, I think that we're going for the

show accuracy of it all because if you Know this

you you're what the third party figure. Yeah

And and and I get it like they were going for

the more of the show accuracy the the scale and

everything else What I you know, so this this

figure is a double -edged sword for me one. I

don't have a dragon Megatron To he's very affordable

in his current state three It doesn't look terrible.

There's some paint apps that I disagree with,

some decisions in the transformation and some,

mostly it's the face for me, like the robot mode

face drives me bonkers. What I will say is the

robot mode does look pretty stinking close to

the animation model. As far as design, as far

as colors, it does not. And the CG model that

they showed, Originally for this on the Instagram

page of Sam Smith looks much better than the

toy I'll give it that like the shading is better

the Even the even the robot mode face doesn't

look as jarring just because the teeth yeah,

what I noticed is the Just from those photos

alone of the like the test photos that they used

for the reveal Look way worse than the ones that

Sam Smith posted with the optimal optimist figure

Wow So so for instance the the images that they

showed the the red is more of a metallic red

High gloss like dark deep red And it looks spectacular

on the figure and then the wings have more of

a translucent Yellow instead of or gold instead

of the kind of yellowy plastic that they are

in the revealed photo So, I mean I think if they

would have just darkened the red yeah, I think

it would have made it pop a lot more than it

does the other thing is is like the the little

knee poker things or the the toes or The the

beast mode hands they have like the beast mode

hands are just terrible Yeah, like I love how

it how it locks in and be in robot mode. Yeah,

they're not They just look stupid in beast mode.

Like he's he's got three fingers like yeah, but

it's more of a thumb and two fingers like Yeah,

and the original toy it was designed better.

The other thing is is the beast mode the way

that the arm connects to the torso. There's a

couple of little gripes with that. Now, was the

original figure perfect? No. But I did feel the

original transformation was a lot cleaner and

elegant when it transformed, whereas this arm,

a lot of what people are complaining about is

it's very narrow. There's no bulk to it, so it

looks kind of scraggly instead of... You know

kind of mean and menacing and beast mode. The

other thing is is where the shoulder is on that

arm where it connects It should be touching the

torso and it's not like the first nub of the

of the neck kind of transformation on it is showing

Yep, and the shoulder is up like a notch instead

of down touching it like flush with it And I

a lot I've seen a lot of grapes about that. I've

seen a lot of grapes that When it's transformed

in beast mode, there's this opening around the

beast mode arms That like you can clearly see

like a big opening it's like a box Like there's

no like there's a like they didn't print an extra

piece of plastic to cover that hole, right? I've

seen a lot of grapes about that too. My general

consensus is that there's going to be a third

party company, which that's typical with anything

Hasbro comes out with now. Hasbro seems to be

fine as long as they're doing third party stuff

that's adding onto their toy. They don't care

because they're not knocking it off. They're

just making it better. They're counting on these

companies to do it for them because they're like,

eh, it's good enough. Part of I love the articulation.

I love the capabilities of this. I love the height

the height of it Because it does scale well with

their power the primes optimal It's it's still

like two head shorter Than then opt up their

optimal that they came out with years ago But

it does scale pretty decently well with it that

it's realistic to the the animation where he's

where he's battling in the nemesis. I love the

blast effect. I love the better pictures that

Sam Smith was able to post with the optimal next

to his swimming pool where he's got Megatron

fighting in the backyard. Yeah, that's hilarious.

All the explosions. I still think that he's a

little gangly in beast mode, but it's not terrible.

It could have been a lot worse the robot mode

is still really good other than the head for

me so obviously when they come out with a third

party company. As soon as one of them gets her

hands on this figure it's there gonna be all

over the place like probably dna's designs probably

end up modifying this. My guess is there will

be a third party. Face replacement. To match

the animation model. That'll be key number one

that I'm going to assume. Key number two, there

might be wing replacements to look more in line

with the show, is what I'm guessing. And then

key number three is I'm thinking there might

be some things to bulk up, like maybe even a

dragon head replacement or something or arm replacement

or something to bulk up or fill in the gaps on

the chest in beast mode. So I'm thinking there

might be some add -ons like that that actually

stay on the figure that you'll be able to use

and So I'm waiting to see what comes out of that.

The other thing is is I'm gonna repaint this

sucker Like just in all honesty seen that seen

the production Part of it because they said that

it's higher scale than even their Titan class

or their masterpiece figures that they scaled

this down from which is kind of disappointing

that it's lacking in some of the colors and some

of the in the face is kind of like they intentionally

did what they did with the face. And so like

for me, the the toes and the little the little

nail things on his knees below the purple part,

they're supposed to be black. Like there's no

gold on that from the from the show. The tips

of the. of the wings at the very top are supposed

to be gold. The wings are supposed to be gold.

The beast hands that are on his chest are supposed

to be gold, but the only way to do that in a

different way is to not... You're going to have

gold hands in beast mode as well because there's

no way around it. Then the red on it, I felt

like should have been a lot deeper. Yeah, it's

like it's it's it's it's too in don't get me

wrong. It's looking at the the toy Production

shots not not the CG model. It is the same exact

color as the original figure Yeah Because I had

that and I realized that but I guess for the

For what it is, I would expect I Don't know just

richer colorations, I guess. I mean, they did

great on the gold coloring on the toes and the

beast fingers and on the part around his cowl.

They really did. The gold looks, it's obviously

gold paint. It's not shiny and reflective like

training, but it is reminiscent. They did do

it right. I'm not knocking that. I do like the

figure. I think it's really awesome. and it will

go nicely with the TransArt Optimal Optimus because

he's gonna be bigger than the Kingdom Megatron,

but not by much. And so I think he'll scale pretty

nicely still with the TransArt Optimal Optimus

masterpiece. It's just, I think I'm gonna have

to take it apart and use some kind of like a

metallic spray paint to get it proper. Well,

that's fine. I mean, you, yeah, I mean, you,

hello, you can do that now. You've been doing

that for a while now with your customizations.

All right, folks, as for the rest of the reveals,

other than Beast Wars, Megatron Dragon, we had,

are these the same images or are these new images

of Inferno? Because I've seen Inferno now every

episode we've talked like. I think it's I think

they finally have newer. new images. These are

more of the final production shots of him. I

feel like I've seen them, but not to this extent,

but they did reveal that he does have all four

propellers for his rocket part on his rear, which

people were a little concerned with because the

original reveal they didn't show. It only shows

three and because his legs actually fold up into

it in beast mode, which is partly why that you

don't see it, but it also folds up differently

a little bit. And that's why his rocket part

is on his back in beast mode rather than in the

back. However, it does attach for his propeller

rocket launch. So that he can have it in robot

mode and fly. However, it is the same as his

weapon. So So what I'm assuming is going to happen

Is that again another third party just like they've

done with like terror star with his guns or his

shoulder cannons There'll be a proper inferno

flamethrower Right. Yeah for robot mode and then

this can actually stay in his butt propeller

The colorations on this are great. The head sculpting

is perfect, like masterpiece quality. Yes, some

of the ant mode are more realistic to a real

ant than some would like, but I'm fine with it

because the robot mode looks epic and looks just

like the show or good enough to be. It's what

I tell my kids. I tell them that these modern

toys that are coming out, that look very close

to the show model. I tell them that they're the

poor man's masterpiece. Right, yeah. Because

that's what they are. Yeah, yeah. It's funny

because until they showed that fourth propeller

and what is capable on this, and I guess they

changed a lot of the production shots show Inferno's

ant eyes being black on the chest, and they changed

it to that dark bluish hue that was on the original.

Mm -hmm as well as like the show so it's not

like kind of dead black eyes that are on it Yeah,

heaven forbid we get a Get a Funko pop inferno

Actually, you know what? I'd kind of dig that

anyway It'd be kind of cool, but yeah, so I mean

I'm super excited for that one as well as Many

of the others that have kind of shown up. I mean,

I love the core Core class ratchet. Mm hmm. Yep.

Very good figure for for a ten dollar figure.

I really, really like the iron hide. So much

show accuracy. Finally, thank God. Well, it's

funny, too, because somebody was complaining

online. They're like, he doesn't have the yellow

stripe. And it's like, OK, yeah. And so like.

Somebody was like, yeah, they're like, he didn't

have it in the movie. And I says, yeah, he did.

I took a screenshot and I said, but ultimately

that'll be a toy hacks. Yeah. I mean, look, some

of the details, like I can overlook some details.

Like if it's like an aesthetic, like it's a sticker

or it's a specific color that's missing. Yeah.

I'm going to more than likely repaint or use

a toy hacks, but it's when you botch the entire

face. that it makes it hard. Sure, very sure.

But yeah, I mean, for the most part, like, I

mean, this iron hide, like people that have the

Earthrise one and the other ones, they're like,

oh, I'm so trading this in for this one. Yep,

exactly. Yeah. They're like, I'm dumping that

for this one. No problem. And then people are

really loving the Armada Starscream. Yeah, that

Armada Starscream is looking pretty fancy. He

does. The three that we're probably not going

to spend a heck of a lot of time on is Crosshairs,

The Fallen, and Hot Rod. Now, these are all from

the movie, from the live -action movie. I have

seen Protoman's Transformers Slag podcast video

talking about The Fallen, and he said on there

that this is probably the last The Fallen figure

we will ever get because... They have only, I

think, I believe he said it, that they only ever

released one at the time when that movie was

out. And this looks good, it looks alright. Hot

Rod, I prefer the car over the actual robot mode.

Crosshairs, I have no opinion because I just

don't care. Enter the dragon! By the Matrix!

So yeah, we've already talked at length about

Dragon Megatron. But beware! The dragon's wrath!

There's Skullgrin, there's a few other people,

and then there is Rumble, parentheses, blue.

Which means we're going to get a purple or a

red. Well, I mean, he kind of is purple. I mean,

they designate him as blue. But if you look at

that image, he essentially, for the most part,

on his chest looks just like the cartoon. And

I always go with Rumble is purple, Frenzy is

black. That is just me. which is going to roll

us into the next story where, uh, Evan green,

um, sorry, no edit where Evan Brooks, I don't

know where the hell I got green from, but Evan

Brooks, uh, has taken to his Instagram. This

was after the, the stream, I believe. Yeah. This

was the 17th. He says hi everyone. Thanks for

joining us as we revealed a bunch of the upcoming

transformer stuff I saw some questions popping

in various places and I'm gonna do what I can

to answer I'm going to start with SS core rumble

blue the infinite transformer debate on what

color this character is supposed to be ha ha

ha Since this is studio series. We followed the

colors he had in the 86 movie. So he was purple

This will be quicker post and blah blah blah

So yeah, and it shows some pictures that he had

posted on it on his Instagram of what Rumble

blue is gonna look like next to frenzy black

and they look damn good together So they look

damn good together, don't they? Mm -hmm. Yeah,

so that is rumble blue next up for me is from

3 -0 MDLX Megatron. No one does that to me and

continues to function. Full upcoming images of

MDLX Megatron figure Optimus will come in at

seven inches tall and have 45 points of articulation

and feature diecast combined with uh... okay

so trying to see here if there's something specific

about Megatron Supreme leader of the Decepticons,

new series of figures. Yeah, so I'm looking at

this and while I like this, I think his face

is too cheery. Well, the head sculpt is kind

of weird. Yeah. I do like the rest of it though.

Yeah. Because it's just kind of a more of a rounded

more, I don't know, it kind of gives it that

movie style look. of what he might have looked

like. I really do like the design and the concept.

I just don't like the head. I think the best

image we have on the head is that first image

where it's got the Transformers MDLX Megatron

text and it's got him with his hand out. I think

that's the best look on the face. I love the

poses. I just love them. I do love these figures.

I think they are really, really cool. So yay,

3 -0. I wonder how much that is. I will let you

know at the end of the show probably. Next up,

we're going to move away from the toys. We're

going to get into the comics because right before

the Hasbro stream on the 16th, on the 14th, Hasbro

spoke out about the future of Transformers and

G .I. Joe comic book license. Breaking the silence,

Hasbro VP of Global Publishing Michael Kelly

spoke to Nerd Reactor, whoever they are, don't

know, not clicking on that link, not yet anyway.

On the new license for G .I. Joe and Transformers

comic books, this is what he confirmed is that

IDW will indeed lose the rights by the end of

the year this year in 2022. However, he declined

to divulge the name of the new license holder.

Actually, we're in a bit of transition at the

moment, is what he is saying here, as you might

have heard. So we've been with IDW on the comic

book front with Transformers and G .I. Joe that's

going to be ending at the end of this year. We're

not ready yet to announce who our partner is,

but we've already become some creative discussions.

Both brands will step into a new direction after

the transition. Regarding creative decision making

from Hasbro's side, he says, in some regards,

we will do adaptations of TV or movies, obviously.

But a lot of what we're doing is actually original

storytelling, he explained. As far as toys are

concerned, we at times will try to incorporate

some of the artistic designs of toys, but it

is important to us that the integrity of the

storytelling always be what's driving the narrative.

So we will never just going to say, oh, well,

you know, Hasbro is releasing a new toy, so we'll

put it in this comic, like an advertisement.

We don't do that, he said. Mm -hmm, sure you

don't. He also mentions that tie -in comics with

the new animated series, Transformers Earth Spark,

will also take place. When it comes to the kids

properties, we tend to try and use the main characters

that fans are familiar with. If there's anything

that we would do, we would focus more on the

heroism or the adventure of it, less on the violent

side. So we really want to craft that message

so that kids... are reading the stories that

they're ready for and that their parents are

going to be happy that they are reading as well.

What is it? What is what it is about is just

making sure that it is accessible. So certainly,

you know, Bumblebee would be a character that

we would focus on for a younger audience because

he's everybody's best friend and it tends to

resonate well with kids. If we do bring in Decepticons

like Starscream and Megatron, we might play them

a little bit more sort of over the top. Not humorous

necessarily, but scary. I'm not a parent, so

I can't speak to this, but as someone who grew

up reading all kinds of stuff, I like what he

says about it. I do too. I read Nightfall as

a kid. That was probably poor choice. Yeah, fine.

Yes very terrifying So yeah, I could have used

more over -the -top like the Batman the animated

series comics. Yeah Where it was just you know,

they're bad, but and they're they're scary but

not in a terrible way. Yes So yeah, I mean I

can relate to that. I like that concept. Yeah,

absolutely Yeah, so and then the good we're gonna

say I was gonna say I I have my My wonder of

who is getting the license. I do too. I have

some theories. I don't want to theorize because

I don't necessarily want to be surprised about

it because obviously we're going to find out

whenever they make the announcement. I'm wondering

if Marvel's getting it back. I don't know. I

honestly hope that it's not Marvel. Me too. I

think the only reason why it would not be Marvel.

is because Marvel isn't Marvel. Okay, they're

Marvel, but they're Disney Marvel now. Like,

that's the thing. Like, does Hasbro want to get

in bed with Disney when they're getting in bed

with Nickelodeon on the sea? Yeah, that's true,

too. I wonder if they would be kind of interesting

if they went to DC. That's what I've been saying.

I have been only because of sheer irony. I wouldn't

mind if it went to Boom Studios. Boom Studios

does a lot of great stuff. The other thing is,

it could go to Marvel just because Marvel does

the Star Wars comics, but Hasbro makes the Star

Wars toys. True, but again, this is media, but

you've already announced a new animated series

on a rival network. You've got to remember, Marvel,

even though they are still... You know sort of

by them. They're not by themselves, but they

are a underling of Disney now I don't think it'll

go to DC though the way that discovery is Shuttering

everything that we're sure it has so I don't

think that they'll get in bed night That scenario

and look there there could very well be boom

be good. Yeah, there are plenty of others Well

boom does Power Rangers. Yep Nickelodeon owns

Power Rangers. Yeah, I think it's gonna be boom

I think so too. Like I've said, I am only saying

the DC thing out of sheer irony and stupidity

because Marvel had it years ago. I do not expect

that to go to DC Comics at all. Well, at the

same time, Star Trek jumped around too. Star

Trek went to Marvel, or not Marvel, DC, went

to Paramount, went to Marvel, went to another

publisher. It's currently at IDW. And then they

went to IDW. Yeah. Yeah. So it's going to be

very interesting to see what happens and to see

who they finally announce their partner to be.

And I saw Don Figueroa on Twitter posting some

rejected or some cancelled Beast Wars comic clips.

Oh, wow. From Dreamwave. Oh, interesting. That

never... made it to the light of day because

the company went bankrupt. He was one of their

big artists too. He had some other issues. They

were at the cusp of Prime getting ripped a new

one and he was going to have Rodimus take over

in the comic or something. Prime was going to

be in a rejuvenation tank being restored. Interesting.

Yes I mean it was kind of it was kind of interesting

the direction they were going I just I wish that

Dreamwave would have got more time because I

did like the storytelling and I did like the

visuals that were presented. But I was really

looking forward to the Beast Wars stuff that

they did but I'm hoping the next whoever gets

it does another run in with Beast Wars. Yeah

absolutely. And lastly tonight for the news I

saved this one because it was on the end of the

panel But wanted to take some extra time because

this has never happened before The Royal Mail

Service over there in England and Europe and

all that they are doing Transformers stamps and

other things now and Wow, these are amazing These

are so cool. So very, very fun. And they're based

off the old comics. Yep. Because I had them.

Yep. They're based off the old comics. And yeah,

it's so very cool that they're doing this. You

can get all kinds of various things with these

characters. I love the the collector's sticker

sheet because I'm actually on the Royal Mail

website looking at these. I'm not on TFW anymore.

The collector's sheet is G1 Optimus and Megatron

with the classic G1 logo with the stamp designs

in the middle. So very, very cool. Absolutely

love that. And I just think it's a fun idea.

It's been 40, almost 40 years in the making kind

of thing. Because if you think about it, there

have been stamps for everything other than...

I don't remember the last time Transformers had

stamps, if they ever did. Couldn't tell you.

Yeah. So that is what's going on in the news,

Megatron. You got anything else you want to...

Bring up anything else we missed anything else

you want to discuss? Not to my knowledge other

than the fact that Transformers rise of the beasts

smash changer optimus prime was nominated for

the toy of the year award for 2222 my eyes just

rolled so hard in the back of my head it was

audible across the room well, let's put it this

way nobody's ever seen it in public and TFW somebody

says because Hasbro thought a simple to make

engineered toy that that's bulky and gimmicky

Is a sure win for the Christmas shopping parents

segment these These people don't understand transformers,

but they buy transformers when looking at those

Walmart Target Toys R Us Catalogues that have

them and you know featured the cover with toy

of the year. We're running atop of it And then

says somebody else was like why the heck did

they choose this toy? Yeah, and and somebody

was like menace or from legacy would have been

a better choice in this toy they if they cared

about winning at all and Somebody says now nominated

by Hasbro, maybe Probably yeah Yeah, and somebody

else is like this thing hasn't even shown up

at retail. Why is it already randomly being nominated

for toy of the year? That's ridiculous It's yeah,

I'm like, it's not even. Yeah. That is just so

so ridiculous. Yeah, it's it's pretty stupid

to be honest. I I was kind of rolling my eyes

and going why? Yeah, but somebody else says remember

last year when Kingdom Tigatron won despite not

being widely released and they said it's because

he was simply highly anticipated. Okay, well,

I guess sure is not highly anticipated nobody's

nobody's clamoring for this thing Yeah Alright,

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Things Transformers, and somebody reached out

to me on my Facebook page, on the TFQ and Mike

Facebook page. Brian Carlson is his name, and

when he sent me this message the other day he

said, are you going to BotCon? My first reply

was, BotCon died in 2016. He says, I'll take

that as a no, lol. And then I said, yeah, no,

between life and everything else and all that,

I'm not, I have no, so apparently, but I didn't

know this apparently yet. Apparently I wasn't

paying attention to this. Apparently BotCon is

happening in Nashville, Tennessee this year.

Is it? Supposedly. I, according to him, according

to Brian, so I, you know, don't think, I don't

think it's. Oh yeah, it is in Nashville, Tennessee.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Next week. Yeah, it's, yeah,

it's, it's in, it's in, yeah. So they waited

until TFCon had their event and whatever. So

I had told them in the message that between everything

going on in my life and between how busy you

are, there's probably no way either one of us

are going to be there. finances or not, but just

time. I mean, I wouldn't be just because it's

clear across the country and I don't even go

visit my own family because of plane tickets.

So yes. Yeah. Uh, you know, and he goes on and

says, he's a huge fan of all things, transformers

and that he lives in Nashville. And then it's

obviously, you know, he, he would have loved

to been able to meet up with us. And I said,

perhaps another time. Yeah, don't get me wrong.

I would have loved to have gone, especially because,

uh, I've met Welker. in person. I would have

loved to meet him again. I would have loved to

meet Greg Berger. I've met Bob Budianski once

at TFCon. I would have loved to have met David

Kay in person. In person. But yeah, I mean, it's

it and plus I like I like mingling with Transformers

fans I find Transformers conventions to be like

the wheat the the least weird conventions to

go hang out and talk to people. Yeah, I mean

I I find I find regular conventions very awkward

in kind of like I don't know it just get weirded

out by people. Yeah In general, whereas I feel

like the two Transformers conventions I've gone

to have been to one bot con and one one TF con

I felt like those were some of the most down

-to -earth, easy conventions to go to. Yeah,

it just depends, man. It really does. It depends

on how the convention is. It depends on which

convention it is. Any convention, all conventions.

Brian, thank you for reaching out. Thank you

for sending me the message. Yes, thank you. I

did ask him if he had any questions or any topic

ideas that he would like us to talk about. He

did not respond to that part. Again, Brian, if

you do have any ideas for us here on the show,

anything you want us to talk about, anything

you'd like to ask us, let us know. Feedback at

GeekCastRadio .com. And I think you can close

the show out, Megatron. So yeah, hopefully we'll

have some reviews and some other content covered

in the near future. Obviously the show gets a

lot more releases than some of the other ones,

just because... there's so much for us to actually

talk about and enjoy and I know that I criticize

the Transmental Megatron some hardcore like like

the Transmental to Megatron terribly, but it's

it's I'm overly critical for You know your favorite

character. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so I have my grapes

with like some of the kingdom figures too, but

Overall, I've enjoyed what they've done with

this modern era because the stuff that we had

as kids is not... If you're going for show accuracy,

that stuff is not going to work. Yeah. It's like

Optimus Primal always says. Okay, there's that

too, but that's not what I was going for But

I've enjoyed this modern era of Transformers

figures and my kids have as well Hey, like I

said, even though I'm not really collecting the

actual action if it like Funko pops even though

they only kind of tend to move their head And

that's about it. There's still toys. I love the

new Jada Toys Nano Metal Figs. Still haven't

decided whether I'm opening that or not yet,

because the only fear behind opening it is not

where am I going to display these. It's how am

I going to get these back in the box after the

fact. So I still haven't opened my Series 1 Jada

Toys. I'm waiting for Series 2 to show up on

Walmart's website. So there's that. Megatron,

take us out of the show, please. I've had a change.

For the better. Yes. I wish to speak to my lawyer.