Transformers Season 1 Recap Review

Hello and welcome to the TFG1 Podcast, Episode

4. the season one recap recorded january twenty

third two thousand nine my name is michael blanchard

i'm your host and i just want to let people know

on this episode i have two different clips for

people they were recorded at two different times

one is with myself and mike the birdman dot with

this weekend geek in this weekend geek dot net

he also does stuff on the game heroes dot com

uh... and he does other uh... radio stuff i don't

Remember, off the top of my head, he works for

some radio station in Ohio. Anyway, the second

clip is Steve Megatron and I from PredaconEmpire

.com talking about and reviewing the entire first

season of the Generation 1 cartoon. Please enjoy.

Transformers To open this recap show of the TFG

one podcast there will be two different clips

This coming week this coming Friday when it airs

on iTunes one of the clips will be Steve slash

Megatron and I discussing the recap of season

one and as a special gift and guest this week

Mike the Birdman Dodd from This Week in Geek

joins me now and we're going to discuss season

one. Hello Mike how are you? Hey Mike how's it

going and thank you to all the listeners of This

Week in Geek that have migrated over to this

show and to you Mike for inviting me on. Oh no

problem it's just a great pleasure having you

on buddy. um... basically the in this uh... this

little recap episode i've got listed several

of my favorite episodes uh... the more than meets

the eye three -parter that started the series

uh... i thought it was a really good story telling

i thought it was a really great way to actually

tell and you know bring across to the people

what transformers are and and how they came from

cybertron to earth uh... When I first started

out doing the podcast, I hadn't actually watched

the DVDs that I have for a while, and just watching

these and going back through them, it's just

amazing how much... how much different animation

was in 1984. Whoa, yeah, I mean, Transformers

Generation 1 was basically, I think, the finest

example of what animation was in that era. Now,

this is, I think... one of the first properties

to ever be based on a toy line. But that didn't

stop it from having great storytelling. And a

lot of the voice work in this series was fantastic,

especially from Frank, Frank Welker, Chris Lada,

and of course, Peter Cullen. Yeah. Yeah. I mean,

it's just... It was just great Peter Cohen has

got to be the best voice for Optimus Prime no

matter what form I mean He could have done not

to take anything away from any of the other people

that have played him like in Beast Wars And and

stuff like that, but he could have played any

version of Optimus. I thought I think the thing

about Peter Cullen is he brought an air of nobility

to it and it just it really sold the character

for him having a Serious voice and it really

wasn't cartoony in the regards that it wasn't

over -the -top except when maybe He was taken

over by somebody and he laughed like like an

idiot, which I think happens in season two But

yeah, there was just there was a lot of great

voice work on this show and Casey Kasem he played

cliff jump right? Yeah, he played Cliffjumper.

Casey also played a number of other characters.

He played Cliffjumper. He played Dr. Arkeville

in The Ultimate Doom. I'm trying to think. He

was tons of voices in this series. I mean Casey

has always done, you know, not to take anything

away from his Scooby -Doo days with him being

shaggy, but Casey has always done multiple voices

of... of different characters. Another episode

that kind of spoke out to me on the Season 1

set was Transport to Oblivion. This is the one

where basically Megatron gets a whole bunch of...

Stockpiled energon cubes and he I think this

was the first episode that they built the space

bridge. They had the space bridges and They were

going to actually they had captured spike and

bumblebee and they were gonna send them over

the space bridge to Cybertron I actually like

seeing the Cybertron stuff more than the earth

stuff now that I'm going back and rewatching

all these cartoons I actually like seeing Cybertron

more than I do the earth stuff. See some of the

stuff on Cybertron I always liked us. I had this

really weird sound I know exactly what you're

talking about. One voice actor that I do have

to mention that did not have a whole lot of speaking

lines, only he was the narrator, was Victor Carolli.

I mean, he... Just his voice is narrating that.

I mean, I sent you that voice clip of the intro

to the 86 movie where he goes, it is the year

2005. No one else could have done that. You know,

it's funny you mention that, Ashley. Now, maybe

you can find this for me. I don't know. There

was a clip. Sorry, there was a song somebody

made, and it was all these Transformers clips

set to this year 2005 beat, and I kept having

that guy's voice repeat over and over again,

but it was this beautiful piece of audio techno,

and I really wish I could find it. If you guys

know where it is, feedback of thisweekendgeek

.net, I'd love to have that for my personal collection,

but do you know what song that I'm talking about?

No, the only songs that I know are whatever's...

Whatever the instrumental stuff is that's on

the cartoon and the soundtrack for the movie.

That's that's pretty much all I know I don't

know if this was a completely fan made thing,

but yeah, that's another thing too a lot of the

music for the cartoon Yes, it was very bland

in a lot of ways very GI Joe esque but it worked.

You know what I mean? Yeah, I see what you're

saying but I have to disagree with you because

now that I'm going back and like I said watching

all these shows again the music actually, like

the instrumental stuff, it actually fit whatever

scene it was doing. Like the best example that

I can give you is in the movie. When they're

doing the battle before prime gets to gets to

earth before blaster calls prime that whole thing

that Vince da cola did with the Autobot decepticon

battle Okay, but i'm talking the tv show the

music in the movie was awesome. Yeah, actually

We interviewed him last year on this week in

geek and yeah a lot of his compositions are really

really neat In fact, he was originally going

to compose a theme for this week in geek, but

I couldn't afford him. Yeah I don't think a lot

of people can afford him Still, that would have

been really friggin' cool. Yeah, that would have

been awesome. But one of the things I did like

was, I don't know, like I said, it's a lot of

the voice acting that really made the series

come alive. It became more than just your standard

Saturday morning action cartoon. And just a lot

of the voice actors gave the characters a lot

of good presence, like Scatman Carruthers as

Jazz. Yeah, actually, I have a clip, I don't

know if, I don't think I sent it to you. I have

one, one of the clips from one of the episodes

of season one where he's like, he's doing like,

rap and rhyme it's really cool i'll have to send

it to you that'd be kind of neat but yeah i mean

overall season one was a great beginning to the

transformers franchise it got a lot of kids hooked

i remember watching this when i was a kid on

tv over the air before we had cable and all that

sort of crazy stuff yeah and it was just it was

a fantastic tv show i want them to re -release

the dvds yet again remastered in hd if that's

possible Or Blu -ray? Dude, don't even get me

started, because then it's just going to be me

bashing Hasbro. Because I actually, when they

released the 20th anniversary 2 -disc of the

movie, it has a... clip in there that says coming

in 2007 generation one two DVD Sony and BMG who

owned the rights at that time their division

that they had it under was called Sony wonder

well those offices shut down in the rights ended

up up in the air Hasbro spent from some some

company I saw it on I saw it on TF wire heard

on TF wire so company Hasbro struck a deal with

them I forget what the name name of the company

is to get half of their library back Which include

they spent like seven point five billion dollars

to get the the rights back to their library And

it's just sitting there. I mean how can you how

can you have a property as as famous as generation

one and As nostalgic as it is and just sit on

your ass and do nothing with it You wait until

the revenge of the fallen comes out. Yeah, I

got a feeling you're probably gonna see something

now with Transformers like I said, it's a franchise

it will never die But I think they're almost

a little bit leery because I don't know how well

Transformers animated is performing on DVD because

personally like I said on the TF wire that show

sucks balls Animated, I like some of the stuff.

I mean, this is way off topic, but I did like

some of the nostalgic stuff and some of the things

that they did with some of the characters like

Rekgar and stuff like that. I did like some of

the G1 -esque stuff, but yeah, animated was just

ridiculous. Yeah, and you see, Mike, that's actually

a good example of 2000 era storytelling. I mean,

if you look back at Generation 1, 1984, for what

it was, it was a toy commercial. but they tried,

right? In this one, it was what stupid situation

can we do this week? And this little eight -year

-old girl or whatever the hell her name is from

the cartoon show. Sorry. Sorry. I would love

nothing more than to drop a piano on her, and

Bumblebee should be dismembered. I'm sorry. That

show is so horrible. But it transforms at the

same time. It's funny you mention that. On TFY,

they mention the human figures that are coming

out, the fan -made projects. You can actually

drop a piano on Sari's head if you choose to

buy her. And for any of you that wish to donate

this figure to me I will make an epic video maybe

with a laser a real laser blowing through sorry

so feedback of this week geeked on oh damn that

reminds me of Snowball did a twit pic the other

day. I think it was last week He had done something

with Photoshop where he's got he's got this pose

and he's got like lightning or laser beams coming

out of his fingers It's his very it's his attempt

to go super saiyan. Unfortunately. He is only

a half saiyan No, I'm wrong there. So ignore

that Dragon Ball that's yet another show. Yeah,

we oh, yeah, that was the other thing That that

I need to get you on that all cartoon supplemental

which I wanted to put out by the end of the month

I think the record where Steve and I were gonna

do the record on that Steve slash Megatron I

think we're gonna do the record on that for Saturday

the 24th So I will see what I can do to free

up my schedule now that you mentioned. Yeah Let's

see other episodes that were memorable for me

the dot the two Dinobots episodes SOS Dinobots

and war the Dinobots I just love watching them

in action. It's just funny as hell. It is. It

really is. Actually, you know what's weird? Those

are the first two episodes I ever saw on VHS.

Really? And the first ones I ever rented on beta.

God, I'm old. Mike, you're showing your age,

buddy. Oh, damn. You kids are your fancy laserdiscs.

See, I'm lucky, because when I was growing up,

I, uh... Beta was just going out and VHS was

just coming in so They have to worry about beta.

Let's see, the next episodes that I have on here

is The Ultimate Doom, the three -parter. That

was awesome. That was awesome, but it really

gave a lot of character depth, I thought, too.

And I said this in the synopsis, or in my thoughts

for that episode, because I've already gone through

and reviewed those cartoons on earlier episodes.

The Ultimate Doom gave very much a lot of character

depth to Spike and Sparkplug. Now, I know a lot

of Transformers fans are like, we don't need

no stinking humans, but it's like, those two

from that, and even Daniel, even though I know

a lot of people don't like Daniel, all the humans

from Generation 1, it wasn't just like, you know,

Kicker from Armada and a whole bunch of other

kids. It was specific people. that were in the

series to help the Autobots. And they had drivers

licenses and it wasn't so ridiculous, you know

what I mean? Yeah, actually there was an episode

that I just, because what I've done with mine

is I've gone ahead and written, I've got my scripts

written through like episode 11. So I've gone

ahead and I'm right now in the middle of season

2 part 2 as far as watching and reviewing and

writing down thoughts. There was an episode where...

Bumblebee was driving and spike was in the passenger

seat and and the cop pulls him over and says

is there a problem officer Yeah, your age son.

Oh, but I'm not driving and bumblebee transforms.

He's like see I'm driving I know exactly what

episode you're talking about. Is that where they

do some weird race thing like they're racing

or something Yeah, I think it was the Autobot

run, but I'd have to go back and look Memories

there But now that we've gone off on a complete

tangent. That's okay. Returning back to the Ultimate

Doom. Yeah, you see, I really wish they brought

back Dr. Arcoville, because I thought he was

a really cool villain. But they kind of did in

the Binal Tech series. He was mentioned in some

of the tech specs. Oh, really? See, I was always

very specific with what I watched when I was

younger. And Generation 1 was it. Once Generation

1 was over, I didn't... Really watch anything

else until I had found actually it was in the

middle of 1996 I found Beast Wars and I get into

that but that's a whole other topic Let's see

the other the last three episodes I liked were

Countdown to Extinction a plague of insecticons

and according to the DVD Set the season end or

heavy metal war heavy metal war I have to say

could have Almost been now. I know that they

wrote that the writers and creators and everything

wrote the movie in the first season But that's

probably where they got the battle for for prime

and Megatron in the movie because the battle

that they did with all the Autobots and Decepticons

watching was just Just horrendous. It was just

knocked down dragon one of course Megatron cheated

by creating this machine that All of his Decepticons

gave them gave him their powers, but it was just

really really weird the Constructicons were in

that episode and I I like the Constructicons.

I like Devastator, but the origin stories it's

like oh my god what were these writers thinking

there's an origin story in season one where they're

they're built in a cave megatron says we did

a good job building you in the cave and then

like another episode down the line it's a different

origin story and then another episode down the

line is a different origin story it's just like

What the hell were they smoking? I mean come

on, get it right. Stick with one thing. Now I

can see maybe it was a reboot and they wanted

to give the Constructicons more of a story. Like

in the episode I just wrote up the secret of

Omega Supreme. I actually like that origin story

for the Constructicons the best where they were

friends of Omega on Cybertron and Megatron got

a hold of the Constructicons and turned them

bad. and they destroyed everything, and that's

why Omega talks the way that he does, that, you

know, bizarro -type talk. He doesn't talk like

a normal Autobot. And it was just really, really,

it just really irks me about the Constructed

concept. They don't have a specific origin story,

that it varied so much. So yeah, I said that

was the weakness of producing cartoons in the

80s because no one took the art form Seriously,

there wasn't usually a level of continuity that

you could really connect with so and something

better came along They just retconned themselves

and they could get themselves out of that corner

because it was a better story. Yeah Let's see

other notes I have the season the season 1 DVD

set of Transformers generation 1 cartoon was

very good The storylines like we said were really

thought out there you know if you really look

at it there a lot of those eighties cartoons

had some good life lessons in them i mean other

than the fact that you know he man had a had

a public really good public relations message

every at the end of every episode but that's

another uh... topic the uh... uh... i've noticed

a lot of animation folks i mean a lot there was

one episode where uh... multiple things that

keep occurring is the jets all the seekers like

star scream sky warp and thundercracker in one

scene you'll have star scream talking and then

thundercracker will walk up next to him and he'll

be the exact same color scheme as star scream

He won't be his blue and yellow and gray and

black. He'll be Starscream's colors. See, that's

why I'm hoping if they re -release this series,

they go back and fix these. It's a possibility.

It's not likely, but it's a possibility. want

to talk about the uh... the menus and special

features a little bit on the set i know you don't

you don't have the center you haven't seen in

a while but i've got it i've got a uh... a chinese

bootleg of this series oh so do i but it has

no special features but anyway uh... as far as

the box that goes it It's really cool. The outside

of it is basic. When you're looking at it, just

like holding it in your hand, it's basic silver

and it has the classic 80's Transformers logo.

You open it up and you get an image of Megatron

on one side and Optimus on the other. You open

it up another panel and you get like part of,

I think, I think it was when we were in More

Than Meets the Eye when the The, um, what the

hell is it called? The oil rig fell on them.

You got, I think it's Jazz or Wheeljack standing

on it. And, um, the DVDs themselves have really

held up over time. And there's a whole bunch

of imagery underneath the DVDs. Um, the special

features, I wasn't that impressed with it. I

really wasn't. Um, it showed like... preview

of BotCon 2002 one of the I think it was one

of the very first BotCons the rest of it is like

original scripts the bumpers like for the commercials

I I don't like any of those those images I don't

like anything cuz it'll like it'll show jazz

in the end Victor Karolyi will go and you know

transformers will be right back or however the

hell it said and I just never really liked it

see but it's it's it it is good to have those

because those can get lost in any number of television

stations because they got those to play before

the episodes. So it's a good piece of Transformers

history. Could something have been done with

it? Oh yeah. But you see, a lot of cartoon series

usually get jipped when it comes to special features.

However, that's not always the case, though,

because I looked at the new Batman The Animated

Series box set, and that had some really nice

stuff in it. But Transformers should have got

a lot more, though. Yeah, don't make me turn

around and pick that up, because I have it sitting

right behind me. It is well worth it, as you

well know. No, I know. So that about wraps it

up for this clip of episode 4. I'd like to thank

Mike for being on here with me. It was a great

pleasure having you. Love This Week in Geek.

Go to the website thisweekingeek .net and just

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They're doing wonderful stuff over there at TWIG.

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So anyway guys, thanks a lot and live free or

die hard. See ya Megatron must be stopped no

matter the cost Why throw away your life so recklessly?

That's a question you should ask yourself, Megatron.

No! I'll crush you with my bare hands! sensor

sight. Hello, this is Michael Blanchard with

the TFG1 Podcast. This is episode four. This

will be the second piece of audio that the listeners

will hear today. I am with Steve slash Megatron

of PredaconEmpire .com. Hey, Steve. Hey, what's

going on? Not much. It's just way too early.

In this second part of the episode, Steve and

I are going to be doing the same thing Mike the

Birdman -Dot and I did yesterday. That is talking

about Season 1 of the Generation 1 cartoon on

a whole. Just recapping it and just giving general

thoughts. I know you don't have the DVD sets,

do you? No. I do. And I've said this before,

I spent three hundred and something dollars to

get them back on eBay. Rhino releases and First

thing I want to talk about is the actual packaging

when you first pick it up. It's Silver it has

the trend it actually says the original Transformers

on it. Why the hell it says the original I have

no idea I don't know why they just didn't put

transformers generation one, but anyway, it was

made by Rhino. So go figure It's basically silver

kind of like metallic looking in color and on

the spine it has the name and on the back it

has all the episodes listed and special features

when you open it up you get a picture of Megatron

on the left and Optimus Prime on the right you

open it up again you get a picture of Wheeljack

and then I believe there is pictures under no

there's just colors under the actual DVDs where

the DVDs sit One of the good things about this

set they all come with actually all this all

the Rhino sets come with Like episode booklets

Describing what each episode is and they also

is a special thing They also came with two animation

cells each so the entire series the five DVD

boxes you get two animation cells each and I

actually took all of them out and I framed them

all so because I figured out I don't want to

get these messed up or get them fingerprints

all over them and stuff like that so to begin

the recap the episodes that I have listed for

as favorite ones of mine were The More Than Meets

the Eye three -parter, I thought that was a really

great way to start out the series. It was a good

way to introduce them to people. I always, and

I'll say this again when we get down to the Ultimate

Doom ones, I always liked the Cybertron scenes

in G1 more than I did the Earth scenes. Because

it has that really eerie music when you first

see the planet and it's like, oh, what are we

gonna... What are we going to get out of these

people? Let's see, another one of my favorite

episodes was Transport to Oblivion, which was

the first episode in which Megatron and the Decepticons

built a space bridge because actually they caught

Bumblebee and Spike spying on them and they were

going to send them over the space bridge. Another

one was the two Dinobot episodes, Always Make

Me Laugh. I watched those for an earlier episode

of the podcast here and it's just funny as hell.

Because in War of the Dinobots, the second Dinobot

episode of Season 1, the Grimlock, Slag, and

Sludge go berserk and they basically don't want

to do anything that the Autobots say or anything

else. Well, Optimus has Wheeljack and Ratchet

build to more. Yeah, I think so. was just fucking

amazing. It had great animation. I thought it

really did great with the storytelling as far

as character development, especially with Spike

and Barkplug with the whole, you know, your father

is a slave now and no dad save me and this that

and the other thing and everything else. So I

thought that was really cool. And, you know,

most, most Transformers fans that I've heard

other podcasts from don't like humans. in...

in the... in the cartoons or whatever. But at

least with Generation 1, at least they made Spike

and Sparkplug a... you know, two centric characters

as far as character development. It wasn't just

like throwing a bunch of kids in there like they

did with Armada. Yeah, I definitely like the

humans a lot better from Generation 1. They don't

bother me. They actually fit... into the flow

of the story, whereas in later generations of

Transformers, basically from right on, the kids

in the show were the most annoying part besides

the fact that they tried to do it Pokemon -style

Transformers. I have never seen RID. I've never

seen that show. I saw two or three episodes of

Armada and... two or three episodes of energon

and two or three episodes of Cybertron, but I

Will not watch those I Just won't Well, I actually

suffered through like a couple episodes of each

series the only one I actually watched more of

Out of since we're into Cybertron was energon

and I think I only watched until Megatron came

back and after that I didn't watch anymore You

Megatron stalker The next one that I have listed

on here is countdown to extinction I believe

this is the one where this takes yeah basically

instead of Instead of naming this like the ultimate

doom part four they just named it countdown to

extinction because it basically takes up where

the ultimate doom left off the part three left

off and it you know so they were doing really

good in this first season as far as overall storylines

as far as keeping continuity throughout the episodes

um... next one is a plague of insecticons introducing

the insecticons which you know insecticon episodes

are like The Decepticons have a plan to do something

the insectic the insecticons come in they they

double cross them or the Decepticons double cross

them and the Autobots have to clean up the mess

Basically, that's the way I view that And as

I said to Mike in the other in the other clip

that the listeners heard on this podcast the

way that I separated the episodes for TFG one

podcast was I looked at the back of the DVD box

and I looked at what what order they were listed

in and I just counted them off 1 2 3 4 5 split

1 2 3 4 5 split so according to the DVD heavy

metal war is the season finale of season one

but that's not how it's listed on IMDB as as

airing so I don't know if the list on here is

by production or if it's by air date I don't

know Frankly, I don't care. I just went by whatever

I Just went by whatever was on the DVDs, and

I just separated them into five episodes It's

actually between Four and six episodes per part

per podcast like the season or season episode

three The episode that came out last week or

two weeks ago actually for when this goes up

on iTunes, it'll be two weeks. It was actually

six episodes to get season one out of the way.

Heavy Metal War I really liked. I think that

they got, now I know the movie was written in

the first season of the cartoon, but I really

think they took a lot of cues from the battle

between Prime, the ultimate battle between Prime

and Megatron in this. Even though Megatron, a

dirty little bastard, cheated and took all his

Decepticons powers with some device, some power

chip transfer, some crap like that. But, I mean,

when I was watching that episode, it just seemed

like it was just like the movie. I mean, you

know, it had some of the same actual animation

looks as far as the way Prime and Megatron were

fighting each other. As I said to Mike in the

clip that we did, the Constructicons are in this

episode, which I like the Constructicons, I really

do. But what pisses me off so much is the writing

that happened for them. Because you have in one

earlier episode in Season 1, you have Megatron

specifically saying... we did good building you

in the in the caves and then i believe an episode

that they're in in season two uh... they say

that they're it you know completely another completely

different storyline and then i had just read

i just watched and reviewed the secret of omega

supreme where the construct a cons uh... were

actually on cybertron and friends of omega until

uh... Megatron get a hold of them and turn them

to evil which the secret of Omega Supreme is

the only time in the entire series that Omega

Supreme does not talk like Bizarro and and it

gives a It gives a backstory for Omega and the

constructicons, and I actually like that origin

story the best, but I mean I understand retconning

everything, you know, maybe the writers didn't

feel that they had a good enough story for the

constructicons in the first place as far as origin,

but good lord, three different origin stories?

That's just ridiculous. Yeah. Um, the special

features, move on to the special features on

this, it's nice to have them on here, it's nice

to have them as far as, you know, the generation

one, you know, history, timeline stuff, but...

I never liked the bumpers in season 1. Like the

commercial out and ends, like, we'll be right

back. You know, um... They mainly used Laserbeak,

Optimus, Jazz, and Starscream for the bumpers

as far as imagery. Um, what else is on here?

We have, um... The animated menus on season one

I cannot stand them all as it is is is like TV

screens inside the Inside the arc that's all

it is And it's very hard like if you're just

gonna watch a single episode or if you're gonna

watch You know just individual episodes. It's

very hard to read the writing the way that they

did the colors and the way that they did the

The titles for that it's very hard to read The

animation out takes let's see what else is on

here animation slates and tests Rhino remastering

process and it also has the Japanese show opening

which I didn't even look at that Seeing so no

no I didn't look at that actually I think I might

have when I first got them But as far as for

like reviewing the series for the podcast no

No, no, I didn't didn't really look at that what

else do I have here in the notes The animation

in the first season was that there are some episodes.

It was really really good but the Thing that

gets me the the worst is the off -model stuff

like you'll have Starscream on screen talking

and Thundercracker will walk up Into the scene

and he'll look he'll have Starscream's colors

There's another episode where Optimus was completely

blue Like his where his stuff is supposed to

be red on his on his arms and on his Like on

his head where it's supposed to be you know that

there's different coloration. He's Excuse me.

He's completely blue. I just yeah, that's not

It's not not good I You know actually for the

most part For season one like like the ultimate

doom when I was writing up the synopsis for that

three -parter I wrote it up, and I wrote it up,

but I just found myself just kind of like yeah,

okay I'm just gonna sit here and watch it now.

You know it was just like just like sheer enjoyment

because I haven't picked these up I mean, I bought

them, but I haven't actually sat down and opened

them and watched them in like probably six months

before I started doing this. It had been a while,

so it's kind of nice to see all the new stuff.

So let's see, where are we going to go from here?

Just on the side for all things Transformers,

is there any news at all besides the movie news

this week? Movie rumors? Nothing. Well, Transformers

3 is slated for June 29th, 2011. The second one

isn't even out yet and they've already... And

they got the teaser poster out yeah, I saw that

I'm not too thrilled with that Well somebody

apparently photoshopped the the teaser poster

and in it is See if I got it here on my computer,

but uh It they brightened it up and in the picture

it shows I don't know if you listen to TF wire.

Yeah, they said that uh like a Decepticon ish

symbol Type thing for it. Yeah, I had seen it

actually one of the earth2 .net forum members

had posted the picture in In the transformers

2 thread over on earth2 .net forums, and I had

seen it and yeah, I'm just not too Not too thrilled

with that poster I'm not too thrilled with it,

but I'm I'm gonna give it a chance and just see

how it goes they need to Come up with a couple

other things first before I start getting excited

about this film. Well, I'm going to wait until

they play the actual trailer at the Super Bowl.

Then I'll know whether I'm going to be jumping

up and down for it. So is that official as far

as when the trailer will be out? It'll be the

Super Bowl? Yes. Yeah, because apparently the

companies that normally do the ads, and I guess

the ads are, instead of however many million

they were last year, they're $30 million now.

For the ads on the Super Bowl and apparently

nobody can afford to pay that and so the movie

studio has stepped in multiple ones and I guess

Paramounts or NBC is posting like the GI Joe

trailer in there the Star Trek trailer the transformer

2 trailer and then various other trailers from

other production companies So we're gonna be

filled with a giant movie fest in the middle

of the Super Bowl Which gives me incentive to

watch it, because I don't normally watch it.

You don't need to tell me. I have to sit through

that entire fucking game just to see a Transformers

trailer. I love Transformers, but seeing as how

the Patriots aren't even in the Super Bowl, yeah,

no. I'll wait until somebody rips it on a camera

phone and puts it on YouTube. Well, that's the

thing. Somebody's going to have it online by

the end of the day anyway, so you might as well

just sit and wait if you're going to wait. Latest

you'll have to wait the next day because somebody

will have it on YouTube. Yep You got anything

else that you want to talk about because I'm

gonna be looking at something here for a second

I need to check The Gmail which I can pretty

much tell you that there ain't gonna be anything

in the inbox Yeah, there's nothing to mine either

for the all things transformers, but uh, yeah,

I won't be recording an episode this week I'll

probably be doing one next week. Okay I mean,

if you want me to record something, I can. It

doesn't really matter to me. Just send me the

news stuff if you want me to talk about the news.

There's a little bit of news, but there isn't

a whole lot worth spending time on this week,

but I'm sure that coming closer to next week

we'll have a little bit more, plus various other

announcements. Yeah, I wasn't too thrilled with

the BotCon announcement. It was Spada. I agree

with Spada when he said because the movie's out

there and it's probably gonna be cheaper for

them to get The you know voice actors and stuff

since you know, it's it's out there. Yep Send

me email people damn it TFG one podcast gmail

.com The only thing it's in here is the welcome

to gmail gmail is so much more different. Yeah

They're all the same in my opinion. I got my

own web server built in with my website for Predacon

Empire. I've gotten, I think, one email and that

was because I had a section on the forum called

Ask a Character. So yeah, I ended up getting

some for that, but other than that, I haven't

gotten any questions. Yeah, I actually did my

first forum posting on CafeSpark the other day.

I was pimping out my second evil Autobot Rodimus

bot gun figure. Of course, only three people

have looked at the damn thing. And nope. Well,

I think people have looked at it, but I don't

know if you have much of a response. Probably

not. But you would think that since it took me

about... three weeks even before I even was into

that whole bot the the the entire set before

I even found that you know I just wanted that

figure just from seeing pictures of them and

stuff like that it took me three weeks to find

them at least at a halfway you know decent even

though a hundred seventy five fifty is a horrible

price but you know at least it wasn't like three

hundred four hundred dollars and it took me three

weeks to find out so yeah Yeah, all right, but

but yeah as for the g1 episodes I think I like

the three party of more than meets the eye because

obviously that's what started it all and a little

bit of animation flubs and and differences in

designs compared to later in the series, but

again, that's the first episode so there's gonna

be mistakes and Yeah, I know when Spada was talking

about when Mike the Birdman Dodd was either on

TFY or Spada and Jesse were on Twig. Spada had

talked about after the movie, Season 3 is kind

of where they went more scientific. I would almost

have to disagree with that because I am in the

middle of Season 2 right now and it's like very

outer space type stuff. I think the episode that

I'm on now is... Where is it? Well, Season 3

is more so at Killfast. Yeah, that's true, too.

Yeah. I mean, pretty much. I just finished up,

um... I just finished up The God Gambit, Make

Tracks, Child's Play, Quest for Survival, and

The Secret of Omega Supreme. And the next one

that I have to write up a review for, I started

watching The Gambler, which, um... And Krimzik

will be in the next one that I write up. Won't

be in the next one that I talk about. I think

we're going to end this, folks, because it's

very early in the morning and we're both very,

very tired. My neighbors are just... I'm sorry,

thank God they don't listen to the show, but

they're just fucking assholes. They just are.

I'm sorry, you do not sit there and play rap

music at ungodly amounts of sound, you know,

at ungodly amounts of time, in the middle of

the night when somebody has to get up at five

o 'clock in the fucking morning to record. Welcome

to my room. No, I used to have to deal with that

when I lived in an apartment, but now that I

don't live at one. Oh, it's so nice. They live

in the trailer and it's quiet. So, thank you

for listening to the TFG1 Podcast. Please tune

in next time when I will be reviewing five episodes

starting Season 2 of the Generation 1 cartoon,

those being Autobot Spike, Changing Gears, City

of Steel, Attack of the Autobots, and Traitor.

Email may be sent to tfg1podcast at gmail .com.

Please send me email people, let me know how

I'm doing with the podcast. I'd like to thank

my guest hosts for this episode, Mike the Birdman

Dodd and Steve slash Megatron. It was great pleasure

having them on the show. Hope to have the three

of us sit down and record together on future

episode. For now, I am Michael Blanchard saying

in the immortal words of Optimus Prime, transform

and roll out until next time.