A Prime Problem, The Core, The Insecticon Syndrome, and Dinobot Island Parts 1 and 2

Hello and welcome to the seventh episode of the

TFG1 podcast recorded on March 6 2009. I am your

host Michael Blanchard This is Michael Blanchard

with the TFG1 podcast. Welcome to episode 7 Let's

see. I'm all moved into my new apartment. It's

a nice two -bedroom apartment very big I have

four closets tons of storage space my bedroom

is actually three times as larger as the the

original apartment I had the one bedroom I had

over You know down the street Not really too

much to talk about I kind of pretty much goofed

on episode sex episode sex holy crap episode

six There's nothing wrong with the episode itself

I just thought I hadn't finished recording it

and apparently I did and I sent it to Steve Steve

slash Megatron from Predacon Empire calm From

the all things transformers podcast Which apparently

I already did I thought I only had a partial

episode anyway It's been kind of stressful kind

of fun last couple weeks. I just celebrated my

birthday I'm now 29 years old. Oh shit. I'm one

year closer to 30. Holy fuck So yeah, I am all

moved in There are boxes everywhere My desk is

in the living room like it was in the old apartment

So my living room will probably be my office

most likely because the second bedroom is too

small to hold the desk The master bedroom is

very very large. I like it. It's really cool

Had to give up my direct TV which sucks Really

liked having them as a service provider for television.

I'm back with insight cable which Basically sucks

balls But yeah, I've made several purchases this

week. I believe it was the 10th of February I

think you know the 10th of the 11th I don't know

go over to the Predacon Empire comm forums and

look at the host blogs Under the podcast network,

and you'll see my adventure I went to Walmart

and Target. I wanted to go to Subway for lunch

that day. So I went up to Walmart and went and

looked at their electronic stuff, went and looked

at their toys, and their Transformers shelf is

very lacking. The only animated deluxe figures

they had was Bumblebee. and I was going to say

blockhead which I guess bulkhead could be a blockhead

but yeah bulkhead bumblebee they mostly had activators

they did have two of the transformers universe

25th anniversary prime figures optimus prime

I was going to pick that up but I didn't want

to have to shell out 70 bucks for it at the time

needed to spend my money on more prudent things.

So after pretty much striking out at Target,

or Target at Walmart, went to Target, which is

right across the street from Walmart, and their

transformer shelf was filled with Universe stuff,

Universe Cheetor, Universe Dinobot. They actually

had two Universe Cyclonuses, which I got one

of them. I was going to get them both, seeing

as how they were the last two that were there,

as far as I could tell, but... Excuse me in the

interest of saving money. I didn't And Let's

see what else was over there. I saw the 25th

anniversary Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Figures

I was going to get for those Leonardo, Donatello,

Raffaele, Michelangelo with the four DVDs But

I didn't I Don't know I just didn't again money

you know I really shouldn't have spent anything

but you know whatever so I actually didn't um

wasn't too impressed with universe cyclones at

first before I actually saw him in the store

I had seen several YouTube reviews of him And

it seemed to me the color was off or whoever

was doing the review, the camera was bad or something.

So I wasn't really too thrilled. When I went

to Target and I saw him, I really liked it. He

is not actually on my desk at this time. He is

in the second bedroom, which right now is the

catch -all room. But it will eventually become

a den slash display room, where hopefully I can

put up some shelving and... start displaying

my collection. So yeah, that's pretty much all

that's going on with me. I still need to get

two more DVD shelves to put up in the bedroom

for my DVD collection. So I think right now the

Transformers collection, the toy collection,

and the DVD collection will most likely stay

in their boxes in the kitchen. Yeah, and the

catch -all room, the second bedroom right now,

looks like crap. There's stuff everywhere. There's

furniture in there, there's just a whole bunch

of crap, so yeah. So, um, let's get into some

episodes today. Laserbeak, you tinfoil turkey!

Laserbeak, hold your fire! I want holographic

views of Optimus Prime from every angle! But

do not harm him! The Autobots themselves will

punish him for us when the time is right. Excellent!

The Fallen Gladiator is very photogenic. Transmet

holograms! process it is Optimus Prime nonsense

this is a clone of our enemy a perfect replica

down to the last transistor but there is one

important difference I control this Optimus Prime

I am Optimus Prime. I am Optimus Prime. Leader

of the Autobots. Leader of the Autobots. And

at Megatron's command. And at Megatron's command.

I will lead them to their doom. Optimus! You

okay? I will be. Must have charred my equilibrium

chips in the fall. But they're stabilized. Now,

let's finish these Decepticons. Hey, perfect

timing! The creeps are retreating! Autobots,

transform! Return to headquarters! I must have

blacked out - First up today is a prime problem

to synopsize this episode. We open this episode

with Megatron, Soundwave, and Starscream standing

in a crevice in the earth where raw energy is

emitting from. Soundwave sends a scout cassette

down to the crevice to investigate what the energy

is. They find out that it is corlonium crystals,

whatever the hell those things are. the most

dangerous and raw energy on Earth. Megatron warns

Starscream to stay back, because the energy is

very unstable. Then Starscream suggests that

they trick Optimus Prime and the Autobots into

heading into their doom to the deadly crevice

of Corlonium crystals. Megatron states that the

real prime would never do something so foolish

the Autobots arrive at Boy was I really screwing

up on this script at the crystal crevice and

cliff jumper wants to jump right in and see what

the energy source is Prime stops him and says

take readings first to see what they're up against

Then Starscream and the rest of the Decepticons

attack them Inside the temporary Decepticon base,

Megatron tells Sonowave to release Laserbeak

and have him attack Optimus Prime. After doing

this, Megatron instructs Laserbeak to get holographic

images of every angle of Optimus Prime. The evil

Decepticon leader then makes a clone of the Autobot

leader that only he can control. The clone is

sent out and takes the Autobots back to their

base. Excuse me, folks. I wonder if I can go

through an episode without actually freaking

yawning. Meanwhile, the real Optimus Prime awakens

and wonders where everyone is. The fake Prime

cannot get Teletran working, and he mistakes

Ironhide for Bumblebee. The real Prime is entering

the base, but the alarms go off. The Autobots

and Spike can't tell them apart as to who is

the real, so they set up some tests. to see who

is the genuine article. The Decepticons produce

false readings for Teletran to pick up, sending

the Autobots in both primes to the Energy Gravis.

Spike and Wind Charger see Starscream and Laserbeak

come right out of the mountain, and they want

to try and get in... get into it. Laserbeak returns

Starscream... Oh yeah, what happened was Starscream

ran off... He ran off and Megatron wanted him

back and whole you know the whole power struggle

thing So Megatron sent Laserbeak after him so

Laserbeak brings Starscream back to Megatron

and the leader tells him I'm sorry folks. I just

slept like I don't know nine and a half hours

I don't know why the hell I'm tired, but anyway.

The auto... Let's see... The leader tells him

of the plan for the Prime clone to kill the Starscream

clone. That way the Autobots will trust the clone

and follow him into the energy crevice. Windcharger

and Spike attempt to escape the Decepticon base,

but Laserbeak grabs Spike as Windcharger falls

out the door and into the crevice. Starscream's

clone challenges the Optimus Prime clone to a

battle. And when the prime clone wins, the Autobots

then decide to follow him. However, when Windcharger

comes up from the crevice, he says that they're

being led into a trap. The only reason why he

did survive was that he transformed and his rubber

tires insulated him from the dangerous energy.

of the Corlonium Crystals. The Autobots destroy

the clone, and the Decepticons escape in their

ship, but not without dropping Spike into the

air. Powerglide saves him, and he asks if it's

really Optimus Prime, and the episode ends. Now

for my thoughts on this episode. Let's see, this,

uh, let's see, episode first, this time around

we see Powerglide at the very end, when he saves

Spike. Also, I believe this is the first episode

we see Inferno, the fire truck. um... other than

that i really don't have any more notes this

is one of those episodes where i just started

watching again and as i said in episode six i

swear i'm not slacking off it's just i haven't

watched these in so long that uh... yeah i just

kinda just kinda started watching them so on

to the next episode We're fortunate this time,

Megatron. Next time, your wild steam to tap the

Earth's core could destroy us all! But if I succeed,

Starscream, and I will, we Decepticons will possess

an energy source richer than any in the galaxy!

The molten might of this planet itself! It's

too dangerous! The Earth is a sphere like this

boulder, and it too will shatter, eradicating

everything! Including us! You underestimate me,

Starscream! Come! Follow me! Sure! Right through

that solid rock, I suppose! That's the general

idea! Wait! The rock wall is a hologram! A projected

image! Designed to hide this secret from prying

optical senses. A space bridge to Cybertron.

It is our emergency escape route. Then if the

drill does shatter the Earth... So be it! We

will be safe each and every last one of us! Those

Autobots must be annihilated before they can

transmit our location! Constructicons! Transfer

on that merging crew! Devastator! Up next is

the core. The Decepticons have a drilling operation

in progress to drill into the Earth's core, but

the drill almost explodes. There is a patrol

of Autobots nearby and they investigate the rerouted

river. Devastator attempts to kill the Autobots

and Mirage sneaks into the drilling operation

and gets critical information that Optimus Prime

needs. The Autobots patrol the Autobots. The

Autobot patrol heads back to base, and Wheeljack

and Chip have come up with a dominator disk.

What they've done is they've come up with dominator

disks to control all six of the constructicons,

so once these things are placed on each individual

constructicon, and they merge to become Devastator,

it will allow the Autobots to control him. The

Autobots head out to the falls and the drilling

site. The Autobots head out to the falls and

the drilling site where the Decepticons are.

They hide and plant the Dominator Disks on the

Constructicons, however Megatron is wise to their

plan. He has allowed the Autobots to think that

they have constr - they have the Constructicons

under their control. However, he has a nullifier

control unit to disrupt the Autobot's dominator

discs at any time he chooses. Megatron has also

stored enough water so the drilling can continue

for the Decepticons last run to reaching the

Earth's core. Back at Autobot Headquarters, the

Constructicons are helping the Autobots with

repairs. Earthquakes start up again, and the

Autobots realize that somehow Megatron has resumed

drilling. They head for the drill site with Devastator

in tow, and the battle begins, but Megatron brings

Devastator back under Decepticon control, and

the Autobots attempt to get control to save themselves,

but it overloads Devastator's circuits. And he

goes berserk, destroying the drilling controls.

The Decepticons are going to escape in their

secret space bridge as the entire cavern comes

down on both Autobots and Decepticons. The two

factions must work together to bring Devastator

back under control, even though both sides are

reluctant to work together. It's the only way

to save themselves. The Constructicons emerge

once more and Devastator stops the drill, but

the Decepticons escape without him and he follows

after them. Chip was hoping that Devastator would

be an Autobot and Prime tells him to hold on

to his dreams. That wraps this one up now for

my thoughts on this episode. This episode there

weren't too many firsts like any new characters

showcased, however it was primarily a Constructicon

slash Devastator episode. Which... That in itself

is pretty cool. Megatron had a really good backup

plan and even though Starscream was very skeptical

it would have worked if Devastator wouldn't have

went berserk. I know that these early seasons

of the show were set to show the struggle on

Earth, but I would have loved to see more battles

between the Autobots and Decepticons on Cybertron.

I think that would have been really really cool.

And the transfer is nearly complete. And, when

it is, we will be able to bite into the energy

reserves of the wild world! A bold concept, insectoclowns!

But your game is over! No! He'll set off the

nova powering - seconds and the insecticons go

off I think... They seem to bug Megatron even

more! Up next is the Insecticon Syndrome, to

synopsize this episode. We begin this episode

with Bumblebee, Beachcomber, and Hound racing

to where some large trees have been destroyed.

Beachcomber is carrying a couple of forest rangers,

and the ranger is very skeptical of giant insect

robots. The insecticons are still hungry, so

they head for the redwood section of the forest.

The rangers at the ranger station do not believe

what they are seeing, Megatron, and the Decepticons

are searching for the insecticons. Even though

the leader doesn't trust them, he needs them

for his plan. Afterwards, he'll double -cross

them. and exterminate them. The insecticons cause

a tree to rumble and roll down the hill to where

the Autobots are running. And we see them going

over the waterfall nearby. However, it is just

one of Hound's holograms. And Spike and Bumblebee

overhear the Decepticon plan to feed the insecticons

at the Nova Power Plant. Because Megatron wants

them to break into the defense military base

at Iron Mountain. The Autobots back at the base

get this news and they roll out to stop the Decepticons.

At the Nova Power Plant, the Insecticons break

in while the Decepticons stop the humans and

Autobots. The battle begins and during the battle

Soundwave spies on the Insecticons. He finds

that they plot treason. However, they capture

him and make him their slave with Bombshell's

Cerebro Shell. The Autobots find out that the

Nova Power Core that the Insecticons fed on is

incompatible with their stomachs. and they'll

explode at any time. If they explode inside Iron

Mountain, it will blow the installation sky high.

After gaining access to the Iron Mountain computers,

Megatron and the Decepticons proceed to turn

on the Insecticons, but Bombshell has them all

under his control except Megatron. The Autobots

and Decepticons must work together to get the

Insecticons back under control and not have them

explode. Shrapnel explodes, however, but the

Insecticons bring him back to life and fly off.

The Decepticons give chase and the episode ends.

Now for my thoughts on this episode. This was

a very fast and short synopsis, I know. This

wasn't an episode that I... I didn't really...

I was pretty much indifferent on this episode.

I like seeing the Decepticons every now and then.

They're pretty cool, so... The episode... Oh

yeah, this episode introduced Beachcomber. It's

funny, even though this season two opening sequence

shows Blitzwing and Astrotrain, I have yet to

notice them in any of the... Excuse me, season

two episodes. Astrotrain has always been my favorite

Decepticon because he is a triple changer. As

I stated way back in episode two or three of

the podcast, these Decepticon power struggles

are wearing thin on me. For Starscream and Megatron,

now Megatron and the Decepticons versus the Insecticons.

Uggggg. Up next is... Now we come to Dinobot

Island Part 1. To synopsize this episode, we

start this episode with Powerglide and Bumblebee

who has a jet pack flying out to investigate

some energy waves that are sending teletrans

readings off the scale. Powerglide decides to

do some fancy flying and both he and Bumblebee

hit the energy waves and are transported to an

island with real life dinosaurs on it. They are

very puzzled by this and begin exploring the

island a bit. However, a T -Rex comes upon them

and they fly out. of the air. Back at Autobot

headquarters on the other side of the energy

waves, Wheeljack is trying to convince the other

Autobots that he can teach the Dinobots to be

more agile and have some finesse. He demonstrates

this with Grimlock's laser breath. Oops, that's

the wrong key The problem is blasters choice

in music it confuses slag and sludge and they

get into it with Grimlock and all hell breaks

loose Prime gets Grimlock to the end Prime gets

Grimlock to end the chaos But Prime also says

that the Dinobots are just too big to train in

the base. Bumblebee suggests the prehistoric

island that he and Powerglide found. Prime thinks

that it's an excellent idea. Soundwave and Ravage

spy on the Autobots heading to Dinobot Island.

Megatron wants to learn more about the mysterious

island and he has Soundwave send Laserbeak to

investigate. All the Dinobots love the island.

Spike wanders off and gets caught by a flying

dinosaur who must save him, and Spike promises

to be more careful, but he gets trapped again

in a pool of water with a Brontosaurus. Spike

gets free and swims towards Sludge. Powerglide

and Spike leave to go back to headquarters. The

Decepticons learn of Dino - of what Dinobot Island

is and they want to plunder the resources so

they leave for the island. On Dinobot Island,

the Dinobots are practicing their skills, honing

them so that they can come back to Autobot headquarters.

Grimlock instructs the other Dinobots on what

tests to perform. The Decepticons arrive at the

island and Starscream is still very worried and

skittish about being there because of the energy

waves that they pass through to reach the island.

Swoop sees the Decepticons on the island. and

reports this back to Grimlock. They then decide

to get rid of the Decepticons back on the right

side of the planet where all types of time warps

are opening up with strange things coming out

of them like woolly mammoths and cavemen and

British soldiers from the 1800s. The Autobots

realize that this is caused by the Decepticon

energy draining operation on Dinobot Island Megatron

gets the real dinosaurs to stampede the Dinobots

into a tar pit and this brings this episode to

a thrilling conclusion as it is to be continued

Now for my thoughts on this episode oh wait never

mind episode end sorry whoops stop As the Decepticons

plunder the island's resources, strange time

warps appear in the rest of the world. And the

Autobots must find a way to stop Megatron, all

in the exciting conclusion of Dinobot Island.

Now for my thoughts on Dinobot Island Part 1.

This is the second episode we see Inferno. In

the first episode we see... Blitzwing, Blaster,

and Red Alert. Seeing the Dinobots amongst other

dinosaurs was really cool, and seeing them attempt

to train was a good character development for

them. Other than that, I really don't remember

too much about this episode being either good

or bad. As I've said before in other podcast

episodes, the animation is slowly getting better

throughout the series, throughout Season 2. So,

yeah. Those are my thoughts for, uh, Dinobot

Island Part 1. But has he sealed the fate of

the earth as well as that of the Dinobots? Up

next is Dinobot Island Part 2. To synopsize this

episode we begin the conclusion to the Dinobot

Island saga with the Decepticons still proceeding.

with the energy draining operation. Even though

Starscream is still skeptical about the time

and space ramifications, Megatron has no time

for such scientific gobbledygook. And yes folks,

that is a direct quote from Megatron. On the

other side of the planet, the Autobots learn

what is going... on with the time warps. The

Autobots get to where Spike and Bumblebee were

and they learn of the time warp and prehistoric

man and woolly mammoth appear through the warp.

The Autobots try to do something with these creatures,

but they don't want to hurt them. The Autobots

load them into Optimus Prime's trailer, but the

Autobot leader sees that the time warp is closing.

They need to get the animals and cave people

back through the time warp so they are not trapped

in today's world forever. Back at the Autobot

base, we are introduced to Perceptor. And Teletran

1 alerts the Autobots that two time warps have

opened at the same time. Seaspray, Trax, and

Cliffjumper arrive at one of the warps and get

the pirate ship back through the warp as it closes.

Red alert, Jazz, Prowl, and Inferno get the cowboys

back. in the second time warp. Back at the Autobot

base, Chip learns that and informs Optimus Prime

that the energy disruptions are on Dinobot Island.

Optimus and a few of the other Autobots head

out for the island. To stop the energy draining

operation by the Decepticons, the Dinobots escape

the tar pits and go after the Decepticons. The

Autobots arrive on Dinobot Island and the battle

begins between the two armies. Let's see, the

Dinobots get the real dinosaurs to help them

beat the Decepticons. The Decepticons are defeated

and the Autobots release the energy that was

collected to restore the time equilibrium. The

Dinobots have proven their worth in battle and

they can control their powers so they remain

at Autobot Headquarters from now on. And the

episode ends. Now for my thoughts on this episode.

New characters introduced. I had mentioned it

earlier. Perceptor, Smokescreen, Seaspray, Warpath,

Durge, Thrust, and Ramjet. I like this episode

the most out of the ones I've reviewed today,

because of all the new characters that have been

introduced. Watching the Dinobots harness their

power and become better at fighting was very

cool. I liked seeing Grimlock be a leader, sort

of, and seeing the prehistoric creatures and

people and dinosaurs was very cool too. Spike

is always getting in the way even more so in

these episodes. He just... I don't know he's

just like I hate to compare him to any of the

humans from like armada or energon but I mean

spike is like really just getting on my nerves

he needs to hurry up and grow up so up next is

if that stolen energy is taken from this area

this entire galaxy could crumble Yeah, try telling

that to them. You are a fool to come here, Optimus

Prime! And fools pay a heavy price! Prime! I'm

okay. Repair systems already compensating for

damage. Great! Then let's make the Decepticons

Decepticrons! Retreat Decepticons! This battle

has been lost! Now perhaps we can restore the

time flow to normal by releasing the energy stolen

from this island. also demonstrated that they

have great value to our cause. They will remain

at Autobot headquarters from now on. Well that's

all for this episode of the TFG1 Podcast. Join

me next time when I'll be reviewing Five more

episodes from Transformers generation one season

two those being the master builder auto berserk

Microbots Megatron's master plan part one and

Megatron's master plan part two. Thank you for

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