3D Printing Custom Transformers Diorama Pieces

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This is episode 194. I'm, of course, TF2 and

Mike. And joining me, not always, as always,

but as always, is Steve Megatron. Hello, sir.

How are you? Hello. The last time you were on

here, we were doing something about Countdown.

or something. I don't remember when you were

on before then. Something about a beastly Megatron,

I think. Probably, something like that. But since

then, folks, this is, I don't know how many parts

this is going to be, but this is part one of

Megatron's Masterful Creations, because holy

crap. You've been 3D printing for how long now?

Since June of last year, of 2023. Almost a year.

Yeah. And you found the Decepticon from the Nemesis,

and you're like, hey, I mean, I've heard this

read, and I'm like, okay, cool. And I'm like,

all right. So what was the process? I mean, obviously,

most people know, but for those that don't know,

you have to get the... the filaments, you have

to get the patterns, and just walk me through

the process of how you started doing this. This

specific chair thing that I had. This specific

one. Okay, so I had to hunt for, because you

were like, I'd love to have a chair for my, you

know, because you were like, at the time, you

were going to get the MDLX Megatron or something.

And... I started searching around to different

places because, I mean, one, I'm frequenting

a lot of the different 3D printing sites anyway

because, I mean, hello, I'm printing Star Trek

ships and Transformer upgrade kits and add -ons.

So I started looking and there was a multitude

of different Megatron chairs or even, I mean,

they have the Beast Wars one from... you know,

the dark side. They have, you know, J -Axis's

chair from G2. They have a couple of different

G1 -ish chairs that are either associated with

Starscream or with The Nemesis or just things

of that nature. And I started kind of doing some

digging. I found one that pretty much fit all

the you know the check boxes of the what megatron's

chair should be and it just happened to be free

which is my favorite time of a favorite type

of uh 3d print file because predominantly like

i don't want to pay for any and i try and find

a free option for just about everything and for

the most part you can talk about that for a minute

yeah how was it like The 3D print files, what

kind of files are they? Talk about that. So they

can range from different file formats. The majority

of the ones that I download are STL files. I

have no idea what it means, but it's something

about how it slices the files, though. They're

basically prepared and ready for 3D printing

in most cases. Sometimes they're an object file,

like an OBJ file, or I think there's like MFM

or something files too, or MFE files, something.

Predominantly, most of mine have been either

STLs or OBJ files, which convert into the STLs.

And you import them into software. There's a

bunch of different ones. Some are free, some

cost. Most of the time, you get the one that's

associated with your printer. So I have a Creality,

and they have a Cura. It's like Cura Ultimaker.

I don't know if Cura makes a printer or if Ultimaker

is part of Creality. Either way, I use that software

predominantly to convert my files. they had this

particular like the chair um like i said it was

free and i found it there's there's a bunch of

different resource websites like uh thingiverse

or uh cults 3d or there's like makerspace or

there there's there's a couple other ones like

printables i found a couple of of good star trek

ships on there most of my stuff has come from

thingiverse or cults 3d and A lot of the groups

for Star Trek or for Transformers or things like

that, they predominantly use a lot of those because,

one, they can make money, or two, they have some

free items, some paid items. So I downloaded

the chair files, converted them in the software,

because you still have to slice them. Right.

When you import it, you have to position it how

you want it. You can rotate the file. I can rotate

the pieces. I can shrink them, stretch them,

whatever needs to happen. I can tell it how much

plastic to fill in. I can tell it how little

to fill in, what direction to build it. So you

can have it do zigzags or straight lines. The

zigzags kind of build stronger parts. You can

have more infill, less infill. The thing I didn't

realize was how to do all that before I printed

the bottom half of your chair. So when I printed

the bottom half of the chair, I burned 250 grams

of purple filament because I had it filling in

massively, which is why the base is kind of heavy.

At the time, I didn't have like that's why like

part of the back is a little like stringy looking

is because I didn't I think it was laying down

and I didn't have like I don't have I didn't

have the the print bed filtered down as tightly

as I have it now, which is why the back printed

better. I did less infill. And so it was able

to be a little bit lighter. but still just as

strong. And I was able to like get it in there.

But yeah, they can take a while to print depending

on what you're trying to print or how in depth

it has to go or how much filament it has to use.

So like the bottom half of the chair, I think

took 23 hours. Oh, wow. And the back half of

the chair took 12 because it said originally

18. And then when it hit a certain point, I was

like, screw this noise. I'm going to speed it

up and see what happens. And I started manually

tweaking it. I was like, okay, we started at

100%. I jacked it up to 120. Then I was like,

oh, it's still printing fine, 150. And then I

think I hit it up to 200%, which is kind of pushing

it for the printer. This particular one, anyway.

Some of the newer ones, you can print at 500x.

Oh, wow. So like I could have printed like the

chair and probably the entire chair and probably

like five, six hours, maybe seven, like the entire

chair though, not just the bottom or the top.

Yeah. So, so I'm laying like some of the newer

printers are appealing for that reason alone,

but I also don't want to spend 600 plus dollars

on a new. printer when there's theoretically

nothing wrong with mine i will say it's a headache

to print with a printer especially one that's

not like they make ones now where people can

pretty much print and go this particular one's

not one of those it's it requires a lot of work

and a lot of upgraded parts and I've had to update

how it pulls the filament into the machine, the

print bed, because they come with a glass print

bed, and mine got scraped to crap just because

the needle for the nozzle of it scraped against

the print bed at one point and just kind of grinded

on it, and so it ruined the print bed. And so

I bought a magnetic aluminum that... I can literally

pull the print bed off because it's a piece of

metal that's magnetic to the piece that I stuck

to the heating element of the bed. And so now

I can pull it off of there instead of chiseling.

And I learned, too, that when you're waiting

for it to cool, it's better to just let it cool

than to try and chisel it off because you're

just going to scrape the print bed and you're

going to mess up the leveling. of the printer

which i discovered the hard way so now i just

kind of wait or i pull the the thing off and

it affects nothing and i just can bend it slightly

and then it pops off which is nice and um so

yeah so like when i printed your your chair specifically

the uh i had the glass print bed for the bottom

half and then i think i had the aluminum for

the top uh and Then there's the element that's

difficult, which is trying to fit the pieces

together. Because often when you print something

at different calibrations or just in general,

it's supposed to have parts that are supposed

to fit together and they don't. So you have to

often chisel something or like sand away or something

like that. uh there's a part of the base where

it sticks up like there's some pegs that stick

up and are supposed to attach to the backer as

it goes in there and the backer was too thick

where it needed to attach and so i had to chisel

away enough so that it would latch in there and

then i had to super glue it in place because

usually with that kind of stuff you have to anyway

it's not like a five millimeter peg where you

bolted in and it's like, okay, we're done. Yeah,

man, this thing is amazing. I've seen the pictures.

Yeah. Look here, folks, just listen to this.

All right. And I'm not trying to drop it. I'm

not trying to do anything, but I am going to

let it go here. That's pretty heavy for a 3d

print. Considering the other thing I have 3d

printed is a Funko sign. It's very hollow. The

Funko sign is the Funko sign, though, so it's

not like it needs to be as thick as Megatron's.

Like, literally, this base, folks, you could

poke somebody's eye out with it. Or maybe the

top. Yeah, but, oh, this is, how did you, now,

I see that the buttons are red. How did that,

was that in the print? Was that in the font?

No, I hand -printed that, or hand -colored it.

Oh, okay. Yeah, I have a lot of paints, although

some of them are starting to dry out because

I've had them for like two, three years, in which

case I typically buy another one because I can

go to Hobby Lobby and they're like $1 .99, so

it's not stupid expensive. It's like, oh, it's

$2, so I'll go buy another one. Typically, I

use a lot of the same colors. I love the gold.

I love the silver, red flake metallic. which

is what I've been using on my Dragon Megatron,

along with the gold. I still need to finish my

Dragon Megatron. I've got one arm and part of

his back to do at this point. I've done all of

the rest of it. And then I've hand -painted a

lot of stuff. A lot like my Thrilling 30 Rattrap,

to a lot of the War for Cybertron Kingdom figures,

to some of the Legacy figures, the Power of the

Primes Optimal Optimus. I've added some color

detail that was missing, like some of the orange

stuff. I've 3D printed two different heads for

Optimal Megatron. The recent one I actually like

better than the first one. And I think I paid

a couple bucks for the head sculpt on both. Like

on one and then the other one came out later.

Because the guy that did this one made the head

actually in scale with the original Optimal Optimus

head that went to it. But he also made it so

there's two different face sculpts. So one with

his grimace and one with the scowl. And then

it's got the eye, the back of the head attaches

to either one. So like I could paint that piece

separately and then insert it and change the

head out as necessary. And so that's been nice.

So the head fits more in scale with the body

at this point. I have options as well for the

Legacy Transmetal 2 Megatron. uh that i could

print and do the same thing uh there's like three

different head sculpts that somebody made they

actually look more accurate than what is in there

that i got from other methods but um but yeah

so i mean i've i've printed g2 megatron uh his

canon uh in elements so that when he transforms

to tank mode it'll actually look more authentic

to the g2 original g2 figure i've printed a stasis

pod which that sucker's huge i can fit a deluxe

figure in it it relatively comfortable but if

i made it any bigger i could make i could probably

fit my masterpiece optimus primal if i made it

a little bit bigger wow um yeah i'm tempted to

do like Megatron's chair from Beast Wars, but

at the same time, I'm like, that's going to take

up a lot of real estate, and I'm like, I don't

really care enough to do that. I'm more so waiting

for the guy that did the head sculpt for the

Optimal Megatron and the Transmittal 2 Legacy

figure to... He's working on a conversion kit

for Legacy Transmittal 2 Megatron to turn him

into Beast Machine's cloaked Megatron. And from

what I've seen so far, he's got the harness part

of it, but he's, I guess, making it so that you

can hide away the wings and the rest of the body

inside of it, like to convert the wings or something,

somehow. I don't know how, but I'm waiting to

see what that is, because he's also going to

have a kit where you don't necessarily need that

figure to make this, which I'm excited about

just as much, because I'm tempted to just...

3d print the whole figure. Like I've done with

my IDW beast Megatron. That is cool. Yeah, no,

I took the pictures and whatever else I, cause

most of the time the Funko pops don't leave the

boxes folks, but when they do, it's four pictures.

And right now we just, they just finished up

a Funko pop digital NFT transformers wave two.

So those will be coming later this year. The

legendary or the grail or whatever. No, it's

the grail. The grail on that was King Starscream.

So there is a Starscream Funko Pop already. It's

in my hand as I speak. But they're going to do

a King version with his crown on it. I have never,

since I've owned it, I've never taken the Starscream

Funko Pop out of the box. And taking it out of

the box now, I just now realize he has Megatron.

as a gun in his right hand. And I'm like, Oh,

that's cool as hell. Because most of the pictures

I've taken are obviously I have the generation

one buckethead Megatron Funko pop. I have the

Energon mace version, which is the one where

it's referencing more than meets the eye. When

he and Optimus with the orange acts had the battle

above Sherman dam. So I put Megatron in the chair,

and then I put Starscream in the chair, and then

I had Soundwave and everybody else around it

and whatever else. Yeah, even though I was initially

looking at this for either the 3 .0 MDLX Megatron

or even the new, I need to get and test out and

see the Yolo Park AMK Pro Series Megatron. To

see how that would fit. If it would fit. But

Funko Pops fit perfectly in this. Just standing

up. It's only the 4 inch ones. I'm not trying

to put 10 inch Optimus. Into this tiny chair.

That's not going to happen. It's funny because.

I also looked at. I took a picture of it. When

I was kind of previewing it. And showing it to

you. I was like hey look. G2 Megatron sitting

in his throne. yep that's right that's right

because i was like oh this looks kind of neat

i'll you know i'll throw them in there and see

see how well it looks and i don't fit with it

honestly um i just don't need a throne for him

necessarily yeah Well, and again, like for me

right now, even though most of the Funko Pops

I do have don't come out of the box, the ones

that do are specifically for display. So having

a display piece like this specific to whatever

the franchise, like not that you're going to

3D print a battle cat, but you know what I mean?

Like something that fits it. And I was like,

oh, this is cool. And when I put the pictures

up. My buddy FunEmployed, him and his partner

Random Hat Studio, they were on episode... They've

been on two episodes. They were on the last episode

when we were ranting about a bunch of stuff toy

collecting -wise, and then they did their Origins

episode right before the countdown that we did,

the Time Warner Toys countdown. I showed it to

them. I put the pictures online, and as soon

as I put the pictures online, he messages me

like, I'd love to have that for my King Starscream.

And I'm like, well, I'll ask Steve how much he

wants, because how much would you charge for

this exact how you did mine? See, I don't know.

I mean, I have the... See, I figured out it costs...

It's about 500 grams of the purple filament.

And then it can take, like I said, it takes,

depending on how it's printed, it can take like

two days to print. Right. And then of course

it was like 12 bucks shipping. And then, you

know, the, the paint decor stuff for it. Like,

yeah. So. I mean, just, just obviously you're

going to charge for shipping. That should not.

And see, this is the thing too, is like, I almost

wonder like. because the War for Cybertron or

whatever version of the figure he is, Starscream,

I believe, is going down in price. I don't know

if it's the same as the chair that comes with

it, I guess is what I'm saying. So I don't know.

I would think I would be charging pretty close

to around what it costs to get the Starscream

that comes with the chair. just because it's

a 3d print and, you know, time and all of that.

Yeah, no, that's what I meant more. So I like,

again, obviously shipping is shipping. That's

fine. But like, what would you charge somebody

for your time to make someone this? That isn't

me, obviously. Uh, probably like 60 or 70 bucks

just because of all of the things included. Like

that just kind of like the, custom paint and

then you know the time and everything else so

absolutely it's not a it's not a bad deal now

the stasis pod somebody was like i'll give you

i think they were trying to like buy it off me

for like 50 bucks or something i'm like yeah

right oh that's more like like 300 i'm like that

was that was literally a week of hell yeah that

thing was was monstrous I printed my son a smaller

version of it, of the same pod. I think I still

have it or something, or it might still be here.

The console screen doesn't flip. Because it's

so small, it didn't print with the right parameters

to stick a paperclip in it, whereas this one

does. And it can fit a Core Class figure if you're

lucky, more so like a Minicon type thing. And

that one, his took me, I think, a couple of days

to print. More so just because I had to print

a bunch of little parts and the infill was probably

higher than it needed to be. And I was just learning

how to do it. The big stasis pod, though, that

sucker took me literally about two weeks between

like printing and painting. Just because the

massive amount of parts that come with that.

So that thing I would like completed. I see why

some of the, like there's a place that does that

fun B studio thing and they literally charge

you about $300 for the, the fully painted, um,

thing. And now mine's not as pristine as theirs

is. Um, but I felt like some of theirs was kind

of lackluster in color, whereas mine's not. And

I have some decals on it and stuff like that.

But, um, again, it's like, super uber hand printed

and or hand painted and stuff and i didn't polish

it like enough to smooth it out and things like

that just more so because it's for me and i don't

really care um but yeah i mean i i wouldn't do

that one for less than like a couple hundred

just because that's such a pain i would sell

probably the one i have for like 150 or something

but i yeah I don't know if I would do a stasis

pot again. Yeah, that's, that's big. Yeah. Well,

like I was, I was tempted to print like a, uh,

um, the dragon sword. And I was like, no, I'm

like, I really don't want to go through that.

Cause it's like a million parts. I could print

like a masterpiece optimist prime that doesn't

transform or like a power master prime from like

the Marvel comics. But again, it kind of falls

into that boat of too big, too many parts, and

I don't want to mess with it. I've done now,

like, Star Trek ships. Those usually come in

a couple of parts, and I have no problem throwing

those together. There's some people that have

done kits where, like, they actually break down

each part based on what color you need, and then

it all snaps together. And they're like 20, 30

parts or something. But then, I mean, you have

a fully complete don't need to paint starship,

which I'm toying with the idea of doing. But

I also don't mind painting because I don't want

to spend a lot of time assembling like I did

the Xenizer from Power Rangers Zeo. Now, what

actually started this all, folks, is a Transformers

action figure, like how it always starts, but

the Takara Tomy Transformers Dramatic Capture

Series Nemesis Bridge Shockwave Megatron and

Soundwave official images. This is from... Don't

they come with the chair, too? Yeah, that's what

started this, was because I was like, ooh. Chair.

I don't necessarily need the Megatron Shockwave

and Soundwave, but ooh, chair, because the chair

at the time looked cool. And I'm looking at the

chair, and it has a lot more... It's got a Decepticon

logo embossed into the back of it. It's got a

lot more stuff in it as far as the... Yeah, I

mean, there's a lot more detail. It's got a lot

more grooves and crevices and things on it. And

it does look spectacular. Don't get me wrong.

I do like me some polished additional components.

That's one thing Hasbro, I feel like, misses

the boat on. It's like, don't give us a million

repaints. And again, they're trying to milk the

design in the molding. But give us some accessories

that go with them. Give us some of the playset

stuff. That's one thing that they've always been

terrible at and Playmates has always been really

good at. So I just put the old photo of the dramatic

crap. I can't talk. It's in the text window for

the thing here. And I'm looking at this thing

and I'm like, yeah, okay, sure. I kind of like

that mine doesn't have the... It has horizontal

lines at the bottom of it with just one little

black piece underneath. The back of it doesn't

have these veins in it. I think you did a hell

of a lot better job. The only thing, and I'm

not complaining at all. He's not complaining

whatsoever. I'm like, ooh, Decepticon logo. I

can probably find a... I actually have a ton,

so don't spend your money. If you really want

one, I will send you one. No, no, no. I have

a ton. But I'm looking at this thing, and I'm

like, ooh, Decepticon logo in the back of the

chair. But honestly, not really, because when

I have Starscream or Megatron standing there,

nobody's going to see it. they'll be staying

like so no it's not but i'm just saying like

looking at just comparing the two as far as the

quality goes like i don't know what hasbro i

mean hasbro obviously use plastic and use whatever

on this and it's a little like this is more matte

purple it's decepticon purple but compared to

that image that image looks more glossy on the

purple as far as the the outer shell and whatever

and i'm like yeah Versus better. Like, I don't

need to pay whatever the dramatic... And again,

like, that was the whole genesis behind, like,

me saying to you. You're like, oh, if you ever

want anything 3D printed, let me know. I'm like,

no, I want a Decepticon chair. And because I

don't care about siege shockwave, siege sound.

What is in the... Siege, Soundwave, Shockwave,

Earthrise, Megatron, and War for Cybertron, Netflix,

Soundwave. Yeah, I don't care about any three.

Yeah, I don't either. It's funny because I like

the idea of some of them, but it's kind of humorous.

I'm looking at it now, and I'm realizing that

had I been smart, I should have, like when I

was making the pre... beast megatron i should

have gone for j -axis for a mold because his

legs fold up and his feet fold forward and do

the exact thing i need them to do the arms fold

around the back and i could remove easily the

wings and some of the stuff that makes him an

airplane and he would basically be a hover tank

And all I would have to do is take them apart,

clean them, paint them, and then put a different

head on them, and we would be good. And it's

funny because I'm looking at, because I have

J -Axis, and I have that Megatron that I made,

and then I have G2 Megatron, and I have, basically

my Prime is G2 Prime, because I turned the Netflix

Optimus Prime into G2 Prime. Like I repainted

him and I made him glossy and I made him kind

of fit the aesthetic and then put G2 decals on

him. Uh, just to kind of make it work. But I,

yeah, I look at the J axis and I'm like, Hmm.

I'm like, if he ever went down in price and went

on clearance somewhere, I might pick one up just

to screw with it and see what happens. Because

like I said, like his proportions are just right.

I, you know, the chest wouldn't be identical,

but I could paint over enough of it. And then

there's like the little, um, he kind of fits

the look of the, like the IDW Megatron, but also

like kind of the previous Megatron look. So,

I mean, I feel like I could make him fit the

look a lot better. Plus he would transform. Yeah.

Very cool. Very cool. Yeah, man. Oh, this thing

is awesome. And like I said, folks, it's, uh,

it's sturdy. Like it's heavy. Yeah. And that

was kind of the intent. I was like, I really

want this thing to not tip over if you put something

in it or not to be, cause I've printed some stuff

and you can, you can literally hold onto it and

squish it in it and it will crunch. Like I printed

a, um, and this one isn't terrible. I printed

a, uh, uh, one of my, bucket list things to print

is an Enterprise E. It's just one of those ships.

I've never owned one. Well, I shouldn't say never.

I owned the Playmates one as a kid. And it was

hot garbage. It made sound effects. It lit up.

But it was a brick. And there was no definition

to it. Nothing substantial. My Enterprise D was

better. My 1701 Enterprise was better. Um, and

my enterprise E was just like, I always kind

of felt underwhelmed by what it was. And I've

been trying to print this sucker since I got

the printer and I printed, I scaled one down

and it's not horrid. Um, the underside didn't

print very well. And then the, um, the part that

holds the, uh, nacelles on printed so paper thin

that when i went to get it apart like you can

see through part of it it just like flaked off

um so like i could probably repair it and it's

smaller than some of my other prints so i feel

like if i scaled it up a little bit and then

kind of thicken the infill i feel like i could

get more detail out of it and reprint it and

be fine but um i it's it's a halfway decent print

but it's not enough that i'll do anything with

it But I've been printing the different morphers.

I've been printing add -ons for stuff I've got

on my shelf. Bases for some of my Starships I've

3D printed. I still have a giant Enterprise -G

that I'm... When I say giant, I mean it's like...

It's almost a foot long compared to the one that

I printed that's a smaller scale that's like

five... five or so inches in my display case,

but I'm doing a different paint work with it,

so I'm kind of toying with different methodologies

for it. But yeah, I'm looking forward to what

people build or create the 3D print files for,

and then I can print from there. Absolutely.

Absolutely, absolutely. Anything else you want

to bring up, sir? Anything else you want to talk

about? I 3D printed Green Ranger armor because

I can't find a Red Ranger remaster. Hasbro stopped

selling it. And it won't go in stock until the

end of the year. So and it's it's like 100 plus

just to get that stupid figure. And I'm like,

well, I want the Red Ranger. I want that version

because it comes with the armor. I want that

version because the head sculpt is like the helmet

isn't like squished. Like it's normal proportions.

And then that would finally like kind of round

up my MMPR group. I have my entire Zeo crew.

I have all the Tommies. uh just missing his armor

but i 3d printed one and it's kind of crap because

of whatever and i've noticed this too with like

3d print files depending on who makes them and

how well they're designed depends on how well

they print because if they're missing details

or if there's no way for that thing to um although

what i might do because i found out microsoft

actually has a 3d builder software built into

the computer and windows 10 and 11 you can If

your 3D printing software doesn't have a slicer

that allows you to split the files, like cut

them down the middle or cut them in half, you

can import it in there and you can determine

where you want to cut it. Oh, nice. That's cool.

And then you can re -glue it or use magnets or

attach it however you want later once it's printed.

I say that because I got a... Beast Wars Megatron

helmet file. Excellent. Yes. Yes, that will be

in part two, folks, or part three, or part four,

or whatever. Yeah, depending on when I can get

that one started. So I'm trying to figure out

what the best way to print, because I only have

so many inches of space in diameter on the print

bed and height. I think it would be fine if I

flipped it for height. The main issue is thickness

and then of course uh it won't print the entire

head like the entire helmet on my print bed to

where it will actually fit my head so i figured

out by using this 3d builder software in microsoft

that i can cut the file in half so like i can

cut the head down the middle so i can have a

back half and a front half in which case usually

what those people do when they do those um Like

I've seen guys with 3D printing stuff, they'll

print like helmets or like, you know, like the

Spider -Man or Deadpool or, you know, different

things. And then they'll use like these magnets

that they've grafted into certain areas. And

then so that it will attach by magnets so they

don't have to glue it together. And so they can

take it on and off and it's very modular. looked

at that and i'm like hmm that might be in my

future and then they've showed how to like i've

been watching like files on how to make the helmet

so where the eyes are mesh and you can have them

light up and still see through it so that's my

goal is like i want to try and print a megatron

helmet have it light up and see through it and

wear it that's if i can make it print properly

and i have enough filament for it i really want

to try it um some of it i would try and print

purple and then some of it in gray Uh, but it

would depend cause it's kind of all one file.

Like there's not a spot. Some files are built

with multicolor and some are not. And this is

not one of those. Like they literally put it

together. It's like one file and they're like,

all right, have fun. So yeah, I would, I would

probably more than likely just paint it, like

print it one color and just paint it. But, um,

yeah, that's, that's one of those things I'm

kind of looking forward to. Yeah. Very cool.

Very cool. I think that's all I got. Yeah. There's

other, TF news things, but this is all about

Steve's Customs, and I'm just kind of scrolling

through TFW here, and I'm just like, oh, God,

oh, God. Well, most of Hasbro's toy news was

kind of a nothing burger. Yeah, pretty much,

which I don't know why. Why would you spend,

and that's a whole other rant. A whole other

day. Transformers. What I will say here on ToyCast

is this ToyCast episode will be out before the

next episode of All Things Transformers. As of

today, Monday, March 18th, as we're recording

this, they put out a story that Transformers

movie writer Ron Freeman has cancer and needs

our help. So there's a GoFundMe up to help Ron.

And it's not being organized for him. by other

people. Ron and Val, his wife of 51 years, need

help. Ill health and the mounting bills that

follow mean that they need to move urgently to

a less expensive rental near the hospital on

which they both rely for their care. Yeah, I

will have the GoFundMe link in the show notes

for this episode. That's so sex. Cancer sucks.

Well, age comes for us all and it sucks. Yeah,

but like, fuck cancer. Like, seriously? Yep.

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so. All right. Well, thank you for the chair.

It is awesome. It is amazing, and looking forward

to seeing whatever things I... I kept looking

at the 3 .0 MDLX, and I'm like, okay. And I've

got a couple of the other ones of those. I've

got the Nemesis. I've got the Goldbug and the

Cliffjumper. And I haven't even taken the Nemesis

Prime out of the box because it's just too much

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Park. Simple assembly and blah, blah, blah. No

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