All Things Transformers: Episode 03

You're listening to All Things Transformers,

Episode 3, recorded Saturday, September 27th,

2008. You're listening to All Things Transformers,

Episode 3. I'm your host, Steve slash Megatron.

And joining me this week is... And I... And I'm

your co -host, um... Master Galvatron. And we're

here to bring you all the news that is Transformers,

by the fans, for the fans, and just generally

fan stuff. Would you like to head us off on the

news? Well, I guess I can. The first tidbit of

news that we have is... Anime news! Derek Wyatt!

Don't believe what you have heard about Transformers

Anime in Season 3! So... What, everything is

false information or... They're just taking things

out of contrast. Well, he's saying that basically,

uh, take everything that you've been reading

as, um, a grain of salt because there's a lot

of information that's inaccurate out there. Well,

that can be a bit problematic. But then again,

who can really trust anybody because it could

just be a cover story. Yeah. You know, to make

the fans believe that everything's false. Kind

of a jump there the hoops are making this jump

through on the new movie Yeah At least we know

we're getting this yeah, hopefully it's good.

It's got a Two of the writers from the Beast

Wars series in it Speaking of Beast Wars, I'm

currently downloading it via torrent. Yes. I

am a pirate deal And on the next set of news

from Derek Wyatt's blog He also has the animated

Prowl concept images. Oh, I saw those. Those

were awesome. I know, it's like he almost tried

starting out with the original Prowl and then

working his way to the current one. I know, I

mean, it almost looked like we were going to

get a very futuristic police car Prowl. That

would have been cool. And let me tell you, that

first concept was, that would have been awesome

to see, that first concept. But I'm not complaining

about the one we got now. He's very awesome.

Yeah. I mean, if I recall right, the last concept

was him with his samurai armor and they added

that in. That's true too. Of course. Of course

it was only for just one episode. Oh good, that

did. Yeah. On the first one, he's got... And

they have jagged edged shoulders, wherever he's

supposed to be there. Looks like they mixed the

old Prowl with the new one. Yeah. Oh they, he

also had a, yeah they did mix him because he's

got two sets of horns. Yeah. Then in the second

one, he's a bit different because they got rid

of the second set in the jagged areas. And then

they made him a more sleeker version. And then

they gave them the armor. Well, overall, I'm

happy with what they did. With what they used

the last... Yeah. It's nice. Though, now that

someone's seen this, they're probably gonna do

a kit basher. Probably. It'd be neat to see.

You hear that, anyone? If anyone who is listening

to this podcast is a kit basher, there's your

inspiration. Yeah. Just don't charge 50 bucks

for it! Well, it does take them a lot of time

considering they're not using a full -blown factory

to make them. Well, yeah, but still that $50,

that's, what, a Unicron? I can get a Unicron

or a Primus or a Supreme Starscream for that

amount. Yeah, but you're also paying for the

guy's time too, so. I guess... $40, $30 is reasonable.

Yeah, but we're going off to it now Transformers

animated season 2 box it coming January 6 2009

That's one already came out No, wait, that's

just a DVD of the first three episodes. Yes This

is a whole well the season 1 is already out season

2 is slated to come out Uh, just after New Years.

Um, I think they said January 6th. Oh yeah, that's

right. And among... And... There's only 13 episodes.

I don't see why they didn't just save up and

just pack it all into one box and... Extra money.

No, that's probably not gonna s... Yeah, they're

probably gonna do it anyway. They're just trying

to milk it. Yep. And it looks like there's...

Like a cow. And it looks like there's a photo

gallery going to be on it and three, um, like

short animations. I've seen two of them. No,

wait, one, which I believe is a Bumblebee short

which was posted on TFW2005. It included a mime.

They just get into everything these days. Of

course, now someone's going to say, ooh, I've

got an idea to draw a mime transformer. Yeah.

Hey, look. It's Mimemist Prime. It's Mimetron.

Well, hopefully, it's not as annoying as Bumblebee

or some of the other idiocracy they got in there.

Oh, it's... Fair warning, Bumblebee breakdances

in that show. Wow. Yeah. This is not the 80s.

I don't know why they think that'd be popular.

Of course, seeing a robot breakdance is something

kind of new. Shall we go on to movie news? Yes,

let's. Alright, the buff not to be charged in

Crash. Well, duh, he's a star. I mean... Seriously.

Well, at least he's not gonna be a... I think

we all kind of saw him. Go ahead. First he's

not held responsible. Now they're not gonna charge

him. Uh, the power of Hollywood. Yep. Although

if that were us, you know, where would we be?

Yeah, we'd be screwed up the rear, you know.

Up the aft, shall I say. Well, at least he's

not gonna be taken away from the movie anymore.

True. More time that - Whoa whoa whoa! Or was

it no no no that he said? Oh wait, it was no.

That he said really fast. How does he do that?

I don't know. But seriously, it's the buff. Who

really cares anymore? Yeah, he's just getting

a lot of publicity for random things like the,

uh... being arrested in a car crash. Yeah, somehow,

that's a popular trend among celebrities. Do

something bad, get a lot of publicity. Used to

be they didn't have to do that stuff. All you

had to do was just say hi. Anyway, on to the

next news. Transformers Blu -ray diss still at

number two on sales charts in third week of release.

Darn it, I was hoping it'd be number one. Well,

at least it's still... Why did it take the number

one spot? Yeah, at least it's still sitting strong

at number two, though. Nobody wants to be number

two, and I think everyone knows the insinuation

number two is. Well, that's pretty good for Transformers,

especially the fact it's already been out on

DVD for over a year. That, and it's in...how

old of a franchise? Over 25 years. I think it's

close to 30 now. Yeah, 25 years. or getting close

to it yeah probably about probably about 30 years

that's pretty impressive for a franchise to have

a number two movie yeah it just goes to show

you people dig giant robots that beat the crap

out of each other though i would have been shocked

appalled and horrified that speed racer had topped

it Because really, that movie is crap. Yeah,

I watched about the first ten minutes of it and

was like, okay, I've seen enough, it reminds

me of the old show. I didn't think it reminded

anyone of the old show, it's just something new.

I mean, Speed doesn't didn't, was a, wasn't he

a full -grown man and not a teenager? Uh, I don't

think so. In the movie? I don't know. Well, about

between the two, he didn't even look it. By the

way, this is not the speed racer podcast. No

I'm pretty sure there's one out there next article

is the I mean there's Transformers blu -ray disc

live material revealed it includes a live feature

video called robot ninjas for the transformer

blu -ray disc On it is a battle between bumblebee

and barricade and various other animatics gathered

from the stunts. Well, I think what the fans

really want to see is Prowl versus Barricade.

No, Bumblebee versus Barricade was a good fight.

People just want to see a good cop, bad cop go

at it. And the majority of fans will probably

want Prowl to win because they're familiar with

him. But Prowl's not in the movie, so... Kind

of weird if he showed up in the final installment

of the three -part franchise Only time will tell

on that one. But hey Anyway, not much there Chevy

volts sighted at white sands film set I forgot

what the Chevy volt look like I'm pulling it

up. It's uh I don't believe Jazz was a Chevy.

No, Jazz was a Pontiac Solstice. Yeah. Or not

a Solstice. Yeah, it was a Solstice. The Volt

is the new Chevy vehicle that's coming out in

2011. Isn't that silver car that we mentioned

earlier? What's that? Yeah. What? Is it silver

or is it blue? Can't remember. Yeah. It's silver?

Wonder who the volts gonna be and let's just

Her speculation that might be side swiped no

actually in a later News it's confirmed that

a side swipe is the new bicentennial Corvette.

Oh That's the silver one the blue one is the

silver car Yeah Well, it's blue. Blur might be...

I mean, Bay might throw us a curve ball and make

it blur. Of course, again, I don't think the

boat is very fast. Well, it's supposed to be

pretty decently fast, but still, uh, it's not

gonna go like over 100 miles an hour or anything,

but because it's supposed to be a, uh, battery

-operated car. Yeah. For the most part. Oh, it's

one of those Econ, uh... Yeah, it gets 40 miles

to the charge and then it uses its gas tank after

to charge the battery. Well, I think I just started

a fan rumor here. The volt is blur. That's what

people are going to start saying. That'd actually

be really cool. Kind of a futuristic. Of course

he'd be kind of small. Yeah, because environmental

cars are pretty futuristic. Though, how are they

gonna keep him to his fast -paced fastness that

he's known for? Of course, they didn't really

make him fast in Armada, but I don't think it

was called blur in the Japanese version of Armada.

Huh. I'm just rambling. Did you see the, uh...

Entertainment tonight and insider exclusive look

at the oh, yeah Yeah, I saw it and I think I

can speak for every Transformers fan that saw

the movie Megan Fox is hot Did you see the way

she was looking over at the buff? The buff while

he was talking and they were sitting around Yeah,

actually... I mean, that is just pure hotness.

Yeah, unfortunately I was working so I didn't

get to watch, but... Eh, you didn't miss much.

We got to see some jets fly over the, uh, Middle

Eastern town. Some explosions, actors running.

Nothing too exciting. Although we did see a very

small tidbit of a... camera, uh, screen that

had two robots fighting in it. One looked like

Ratchet. You can't tell who they are. Wow, that'd

be much more screen time than the first movie.

Yeah. And, of course, lots of Transformers moving

without the U .S. military. Yeah, of course,

they gotta showcase them. Where'd they get their

butts beat again? by giant alien robots. But

they still went down fighting. Of course they

did. Yeah. Can't think of it, how, in the first

movie, that kinda confuses me. How can a round

from a human -made weapon shot through the crotch

of a transformer kill it? Huh. It's probably

because of the kind of, uh, missile it was. No,

it was, if I recall right, It was a sable round

or something like that. Of course, dang it, this

is Bay. Nothing's really supposed to make too

much sense. It's all about these functions. Exactly.

Bay. Who cares? Yeah. The next one is, uh, Optimus

Prime is to combine with Jetfire and Transformer

2. What do you think about that? Oh, great! Jetfire

says... Jetfire... Fire is Optimus Prime's bitch

again. As we are. True. Very true. And if those

who don't know why I'm saying Jetfire is Optimus

Prime's bitch again, um, watch Armada. You'll

find out why I said that. Of course in Anon he

was. It was Armada. No, he was probably his bitch.

Then in Energon, he was Iron Man's bitch. Normally

I don't curse, but seriously that's about all

I can describe my ass. Alright, next one. Revenge

of the Fallen will not feature triple changers.

Well, I don't think anyone was speculating that.

Do you? Not yet, anyway. Maybe by the third movie.

Yeah. Uh, hopefully they'll have all the triple

changers in there. Sandstorm, um, Blitzwing,

Astral Train, and, well, they might not be able

to do Astral Train. I mean, we've got kind of

weird diesel engines that don't really look like

they could have shuttle kibble on them. Unless

they go to Japanese and do a bullet train And

then there's octane That might be possible If

you're wondering why I didn't say broadside Seriously,

where are they gonna find an aircraft carrier

that they that they can make? Look like it can

turn into a jet. Yeah Seriously broadside has

got to be the stupidest triple changer there

is. I mean, the guy turns into an aircraft carrier

in a jet. That just doesn't make sense. No. You

turn into a landing pad for your second alt form.

Seriously. And pictures of Transformers Revenge

of the Fallen Megatron. He looks like one mother

-loving tank with jets. That's going to be badass.

I know. I mean seriously, he just looks like

he's ready to own someone, though. It kind of

makes me wonder, how did he change from a jet

sort of thing to a tank in just no time? I'm

wondering if these are… Especially since it's

not Earth. I'm wondering if these are flashbacks

of Cybertron. I think that's actually why he's

gonna be in the movie. Because if I recall right,

they said that he and Optimus Prime are gonna

team up to fight the Fallen. Or maybe they bring

him back so that he can fight the Fallen. But

that still doesn't explain how he changes his

alternate form. Well, it's the same as how Bumblebee

did it. It's a Cybertronian tank. There ain't

no Cybertronian tanks on Earth. Maybe the Decepticons

took him back or Soundwave rebuilt him into it.

True, or he could just already have it in his

database and compensated with what he lost of

his first alt mode and just changed it to what

he had in his data banks. Yeah. Kinda like, okay,

I don't have stuff to change into a jet now,

pull out the data for a Cybertronian tank, done.

Okay, I'm ready. That's the quick way to change

your alt form. Don't need to scan those dang

tank. It's already in my data banks. Maybe he

had the plans already embedded in his head and

reconfigured himself. That's what I'm talking

about. It's already in his head. Yeah. Which

would be the first for a transformer. They already

have an alt mode, secondary alt mode stored just

in case of emergencies. Of course Megatron is

always prepared. He's like a... He's like a Boy

Scout Nat Manor. An evil Boy Scout of death.

Transformers 2009 wall calendars. Um, is this

supposed to be animated or movie? Think it's

movies looking like it's the live -action and

a Classic g1 calendar I am so gonna try to get

it Cuz honestly who doesn't want a transformers

calendar I need to get me one for work Yeah That'd

be awesome to have a calendar like that pimp

out of course mine My ideal counter would be

all Decepticons. I'm gonna use mine to pimp out

the new movie, leaving it in my, uh, work bay.

Because there are a lot of people that like the

movie that I work with, so. Yeah. Well, that

isn't very much news except for, hey, it's a

wall counter. Get it if you want it. Did bit

producer Lorenzo de Bonaventura Yeah, I don't

know how to pronounce that last part talks transformers

to three times as many robots who's ah But honestly,

I'm with beta and On this how are they gonna

fit? Characterization into three times the robots.

Well, you could figure that the I mean they could

very do it with what they had in the first film

Well, I'm thinking that they're gonna probably

Pick up a few of the old characters and characterize

them more and Then introduce some new ones and

at the same time probably have like the constructed

cons as drones Six of them might be drones, one

might be the leader of them. And odds are it

might be Longhaw, since he's the biggest so far.

And finally Longhaw gets respect. Among the...

Because Longhaw was just only used to haul things,

and he never got much respect from the Constructicons.

Or the Decepticons, in that matter. Yeah. And,

um, let's see here. Let's just go on to the next.

Transformers 2, the Fallen to be a new character.

Well, duh. I mean, it's the Fallen. If you see

Revenge of the Fallen, I mean, sure that might

insinuate the Fallen Transformers, but honestly...

The falling has to be a new character. Well initially

I figured it was gonna be and Bay's gonna have

a And Bay is just gonna have a field day with

that character Because he's gonna be all on fire

and that is right up Bay's ass. I'm wondering

if I mean I originally thought it was gonna be

Megatron But since he's been confirmed to be

back and this is a new character I'm wondering

if it's going to be the same Fallen from the

War Within comics or a completely new Fallen.

Either way, he's most likely to be on fire in

some manner. That'd be cool. Or maybe he just

has, yeah, they will probably have him spitting

out flames from all areas. Completely engulfed

in flames. It's like I'm the foreign are you

a Transformers knockoff of the human torch only

much cooler? Though I came first yeah And he's

probably gonna own everyone Probably that's probably

like megatron spec. I were priming Megatron or

one the two Yeah, and they'll probably say Well,

in order to be a badass, we're gonna have to

get an even more of a badass here to kick his

butt. Oh, I know this! Bring back Megatron! I'm

sure that won't bite us in the butt. Not right

away. Sure. And bear one evil than the other.

At least you know you can beat Megatron. You

don't know if you can beat the fog. Well, he

technically didn't beat Megatron either. True...

But if the Fallen is anything like his comic

counterpart, he's just gonna be plain unbeatable.

At least with Megatron, you have a slight chance

of beating him. Yeah. And that's still a chance.

And, um... I'm not sure we should really do this

next, uh... news thing about the Transformers

full trailer attached to Star Trek because I

think that's been announced as not gonna happen

because Star Trek's been pushed back so much.

Yeah, Star Trek's been pushed into March of next

year now so they'll probably have the trailer

I'm guessing probably in December with some other

movie now. Yeah, so that's a mute point. We don't

need to go over that. Roberto or or key Transformers

Revenge of the Fallen wrap in five weeks plus

what Soundwave is not I Didn't see this yeah,

it says that uh the movie is almost done filming

and Soundwave is not gonna be the ice cream truck

done or an iPad Well duh that be kind of stupid

Wait in five weeks from what I've seen from the

entertainment tonight. They were still working

on the debt on the Middle Eastern village scene,

how can they be done so soon? Since May of this

year Like the filming part of it that was fat

Yeah. Something don't seem right, because this

is kind of fast for a movie to be done. I just

hope it ain't crappy if it's already done. Well,

they did most of the filming in the same towns

too, so. True, so you didn't have to go through

a lot of red tape there. But still, if you're

gonna have three times the robots as the first,

this is kind of soon to be stopping filming.

And there's of course then again You got CGI

to do most of the work Plus their budgets huge

I guess they're Yeah So kind of thinking about

it it probably wouldn't take long to get all

the real stuff in this is probably just for the

real stuff Yeah And then they're just probably

gonna start working on the CGI. That's probably

what it is. They're also saying that uh... And

I think we're all... I think we're all speculating

that Soundwave is probably gonna be an army communications

video. I wonder if he's that new Hummer that

shows up in the movie. That's what we're all

thinking here. Oh, I'm still at this website

about the Chevy Volt. I scroll down and I can

make out the two Transformers that were on the

little screen. It's Bumblebee and Barricade.

Huh. So are they gonna explain where Barricade

went during the last part of the first movie?

Well, obviously he didn't die, so. Maybe he ran

into a pole and got shut down for the last part.

Or it could have been just a blooper. Who knows.

True. Of course, Ironhide might have, you know,

deep, uh, smashed him out, off, and just, done.

You know, into railing or something. On the way.

Fan fictions to ensue about what happened to

Barricade in the first movie. Like I said, it's

a Bay movie, and there's not a lot of things

that are supposed to make sense. Devastator confirmed

for the new movie. TFW 2005 received information

on it and I guess there's gonna be seven Constructicons

that form Devastator, although how they're gonna

use the Devastator name I don't know because

they used it on Brawl and this is Actually that

was confirmed but they never fixed it on the

DVD release Yeah They were too lazy to do that.

I think they're gonna You know, just say in the

new movie, this is Brawl, he's dead. Well, as

long as they can pull off the multicolor, I'm

fine with it. And if I recall right, they said

he was going to be about the size of a supreme

figure. That is going to be one tall gestalt.

Hopefully he don't look like a power ranger.

And hopefully he has articulation. Because seriously,

with that tall of a gestalt, who would not want

to put him in a cool pose? Especially looking

down over saying and if you got classes Devers

Yeah If you have classes Devers error hurt you

can always just calm Construct the con maximum.

Yeah Of course seven robots, okay, that's two

for the Legs and feet two for the arms and hands

one for the main body, one for the head, so where's

the seventh one going? They'll probably have

one for the stomach and one for the torso. Yeah.

Or one could turn into their weapon. So that's

one, two. Yeah, that's... Yeah. ...like Veronica.

And we'll just see how this turns out. Because

honestly, as long as he's cool... Who cares?

No. Let's just hope that red and yellow are the

only extra colors. If they have a bright neon

pink, I am gonna die. Of course, the person who

might be doing the colors might be a bit fruity,

so eh. Alright, next one. Chevrolet Trax. This

robot mode revealed more evidence of Jazz return.

Didn't they always continuously say that Jazz

is dead, he's not coming back? Yeah. So why are

people continuing to say here's evidence that

he's returning? Because they keep discovering

pictures of what appears to be Jazz. So it may

not even be Jazz. It could just be a civilian

in a car who gives a crap. Jazz is dead, they

keep saying he's not coming back, deal with it.

But they also killed Megatron and you see where

he's coming. Well, true, but he had the entire

Allspark put into his chest. I mean, that's bound

to bring him back at some point. True, but Jazz

is torn in half and Bumblebee had half of him

ripped off too. True that. He didn't go one -on

-one with Megatron. True. Plus, Megatron had

those spike fingers. He might have dug into something

while he was ripping him apart. By severed his

severe connection while he had his fingers dug

into him. Because really, those are sharp fingers

if you look at it. Yeah. In Chevrolet tracks,

does that mean we're gonna get tracks? I don't

know. I know it's a really small, uh... That'd

be kind of funny. That'd be kind of funny. Is

it Chevrolet tracks? It's tracks. Tracks! Transforms

into a tracks! How suiting. And I think I just

ran that into the ground. Yeah, pretty much.

Corvette Centennial concept that is appearing

in Transformers Revenge of the Fallen is sideswipe

and we already mentioned this. And Ravage is

also confirmed. Well, anyway... Yeah. So, why

is Ravage gonna be one of Soundwave's tires?

Could be. Or he could be, like, the CD player.

Or his grill? True. But anyway, about Side Swipe.

He's silver. Wasn't he supposed to be red? Yeah,

he's red in the original. Of course they ain't

even... Yeah. But iron... If I recall right,

Bay said they couldn't... They couldn't make

Optimus Prime completely red because it wouldn't

show up that well. Well, it's like Ironhide used

to be completely red, and uh... Pretty much the

only ones staying their original color, Bumblebee

and Prime. Well, Prime was... Yeah. Anyway, let's

just go on to toy news. Transformers Soundwave

Statue Pro Attack. I'm not one for statues. I'm

more the action figure for that. But the detail

on it is pretty nice too, though. Yeah. If you're

gonna make it Soundwave, though... Make a classic

sound wave that turns into a cassette deck. That'd

be nice. Yes. People would buy that. You hear

me, Hasbro? Make a classic cassette tape sound

wave. People will buy that. I mean, come on.

Hound comes with an articulated ravage that turns

into a cassette. Wait, I just mentioned some,

uh, universe toys. Oops. Oh, well. I mean, it's

not very on here on the show notes, but yes.

Universe toys are upcoming. Cyclonus, Inferno,

Hound with Ravage, and a new Starscream. Figures.

How many times are they gonna make Starscream?

I can't tell the difference between this one

and the last Starscream they did. Well, they're

also making the new universe They're like special

edition figures Coming as very very nice looking

case and More detail on them Oh, you're talking

about the Megatron Prime and Overkill. Yeah,

they're doing that with all of them, apparently.

I'm... Oh, and then there's Dragstrip. I might

get Dragstrip and an Overkill. I'm not sure about

Megatron. If I get him, it's only probably to

get him recolored as Bludgeon. Because really,

Bludgeon's a tank, and... Hey, why not? I'm thinking

about getting that Tank Megatron Universe Special

Edition. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.

I mean, sure, he's the original colors, but honestly,

why not just repaint him as Bludgeon? I'm sure

they will. Because we... I mean, come on, we

haven't had a Bludgeon toy since when? Robots

in disguise. And it was a repaint. Yeah. But

I think we kind of, um, sidetracked from the

Soundwave statue. Yeah. But really it's a statue,

if you want, get it, who cares, it's a statue.

just sits there looking at you in a cool pose.

But if you're not intending to transform him

and you want a nice robot mode of him, then I'd

go for it. Get him. Anyway, let's just talk about

these special editions right here. Overkill is

a repaint of Classic's Grimlock. And he's very,

very G1 Accurate Paint Scheme of Overkill. I

am definitely getting him. And I do not have

a Classic Slash Universe Grimlock. Don't see

the point in getting him. Yeah. The Megatron,

like I said, I'll probably pick up, but I'll...

Well, that's the nice... But other than that,

I probably won't get any of the other special

editions. Yeah, prime is still kind of crappy

Well, I have my Because honestly, it's a bad

g1 attempt. I have my g1 masterpiece Oh one prime

That I leave sitting out by my desk all the time.

So I don't need to buy another one of those primes

Yeah MP07 Thundercracker. Honestly, it's Starscream

Blue. Stealing looks awesome. The Seekers are

like crack. You can't stop. I might pick up the...

Because it's a jet. Everybody loves jets. Yeah.

The jets are awesome. It's like an ice cream.

There are 40... There are like 52 different flavors

of Seekers. Pretty much. I guarantee you someone

will be accidentally be Doing their art on a

seeker for a transformer show Accidentally do

a wrong paint scheme and say oh, I made a new

seeker. Let's call him. Well, he's brown. Let's

come earth pounder Or brown scream, yeah really

cares. As long as Hasbro keeps doing them right,

we'll keep buying them. Yep. Because we just

can't get enough of the Seekers. Starscream's

going to have his own little army of Air Force

jets. Anyway, let's see. Have you seen the uh.

Transformers 25th Anniversary Prime on eBay?

Uh huh. Just now, but honestly sure it's the

first Prime that was ever made but still no articulation.

Although you get roller and that's pretty cool.

Yeah. Well I'm pretty sure I have a gene what?

prime somewhere around here I got from a cousin.

Not this 25th anniversary one, but I'm talking

about the original one. I used to have one that

I got from a pawn shop, but I don't have it anymore.

And honestly, who really does want this? I mean,

you got the 20th anniversary articulated prime.

I don't know, I'll stick with my masterpiece.

Although you do get a cool comic. Yeah, it's

the first issue of the, uh... You get a comic

and a DVD with it. It's the first issue of the,

uh, Marvel comics. Although that is a nice bonus,

that does not make up for the lack of articulation.

No. Oh, let's just see here. Oh yeah, Encore

Metroplex. You're just making encores of everything.

Well, it's a nice reissue line. True. Plus, Metroplex

is pretty freaking huge. And if I recall right,

doesn't he have batteries that you put in him

and he walks a bit or something like that? Um,

I don't know. I've never had one, so I don't

know. Well, he's huge. That kind of... That compensates

for the lack of articulation. Because he's huge.

You can just have him stand there, guns facing

at someone. Like, go ahead, make my day. I dare

you. Not much to say there. I mean, Metroplex,

good toy. I don't have one, but it's a good toy.

Go get it. If you can find it cheap. Yeah. Cause

everybody's got to own at least a Metroplex one

time in their life. I know, I'd like to have

one. I just can't afford one. If only to. Yeah.

pretty much it for the news and I suppose we

don't have any listener questions. Um, unfortunately

not. I wish we did. Come on, people, we've given

you two weeks. Two freaking weeks and no questions?

What is wrong with you people? make us feel like

we're not loved. I'm also thinking about opening

up a new section on the podcast which is called

Ask Megatron, in which I will, because I can

do the Beast Wars and Generation 1 Megatron voice,

try to answer it as best I can in their voice.

as if they were answering it. Wait, you can do

beast mode with Megatron? Yeah, I've done it

in the past, and still can. Huh. Well, if you're

gonna do Megatron, then I'm gonna do Starscream.

Neither one. We could alternate on them. Week

by week. Or episode by episode. Of course, that's

about the only voice people say I can do. Well,

it doesn't have to be perfect. I'm not sure I

can do Waspinator, but, so, yeah. So I'll just

have me a little ass start screaming Waspinator.

Yeah, Waspinator's a fun voice, too. Yes. The

two robots that never get a break in the Transformer

continuity. future discussions for round tables

that we could end up doing in the future and

also You know just stuff to add to our show and

make it better for all of you oh Recently I asked

robot feeny of I'm not sure I got the name right

Robofini, there we go, Robofini of YouTube. He

is a great Transformers reviewer. He does just

about every kind of review you can think of and

he is very knowledgeable with the franchise.

I tried to get him, but he's not really into

it. He's a cool guy, check him out. www .youtube

.com slash robofiend and also I'd like to plug

our new site affiliates or partners Predacon

Empire now has toyarena .com which he has all

of the Japan import toys of Transformers from

Alternators, Beast Wars, Vinyl Tech Henkai, Ehobby,

Encore, and all the rest of them. And, uh, Kapow

Toys. Yeah. And I know the guy from Toy Arena,

and he's a pretty cool guy. Wait, you know the

guy? Yeah. Building his, uh, Encore, uh, site

at the moment. How are you not getting free toys?

How are you not getting free toys? Oh, those

are coming. No, I'm working on his site. In exchange,

I'm getting some figures. Darn you! You just

made every Transformers fan, including me, jealous.

Sorry, dude. Which ones are you getting? I missed

the first time when they came out. I missed the,

uh, uh, Classics Megatron and Prime, and I wanted

both of those, but I couldn't afford them. But,

uh, also the Henkai ones are better, so I'm getting

those. You son of a glitch! What else are you

getting from me? No, that's it. For now. I'll

probably buy some stuff on there when I get some

more money, but... Do you know how much those

hink eyes go for how much those things you're

gonna be getting death threats? Yeah, I doubt

that They go for like 54 bucks on eBay Wow, I

Know you can get him on Well his site the Henkai

Megatron is actually like 40 bucks and the optimist

primes 40 bucks, but they have them ranging all

over. He's got like Bumblebee for $22, and Grimlock

for $22, Starscream for $25. He's got some really

good deals on his site. Still, that's expensive.

Yeah, but there's still some pretty good... Still

expensive compared to store prices. Yeah, that's

true. But for the Henkai figures, you're getting

a... But again, they're Japanese import. So if

I were yeah, you said before we started the podcast

that you were gonna start doing content. Yeah

It's I'm not sure when the first one's going

to start but uh myself and Starscream from the

Predacon Empire forums is working on with our

various sponsors from their toy store sites We're

going to try and create a contest for everyone

to try and get into and possibly win some toys

or whatever else that we happen to be having

in that. We don't have any real details on it

yet, but we're still in talks about it. So you

don't know what the prize for the first contest

is? No, not at this time. Do y 'all have any

idea of what line you might choose from? I think

we're choosing between... I know one of the things

was probably classics or animated or something

around that. You know what people are going to

start saying now, please let BMA Blitzwing or

Shockwave. I take it those are the ones you want?

Actually, it's probably gonna be please let it

be Actually, it's most likely gonna be screams

of please let it be animated leaders The animated

leaders Yeah Because honestly They're not what?

40 bucks people don't want people want to find

any way they can to get him to for free. That's

true I mean, sure they're worth the forty bucks,

but people just don't want to pay that. Well,

some people will. Unless absolutely necessary.

Yeah, those who have free mon - who have spare

money to spend. Those who have good jobs. Pay

well. Well, I work too, and my fiancé works for

her, so... So you're bound to have a lot of free

money. Well... We have very little spare money.

We're actually paying for all kinds of stuff

right now. We had to get new cars and last year

and everything else, so. Pretty broke. Well,

I mean, when all that's over and done, you still

got a lot of spare money. Well, if we didn't

have to pay for all that, yeah. Yeah, well, she's

got four part -time jobs. I got... But yeah,

we'd have enough. Eventually. But I really don't

think anybody cares to hear too much about our,

uh, personal lives, and they want to hear more

about Transformers, but... Well, actually, I,

uh, you've... You forgot. There might be stalkers

listening to this. Well, if they're gonna stalk

me, they can come to the pro... Of course. I

don't think any of your... Yeah. They're probably

just all your stalkers, really, because, hey,

you voice Megatron and whatnot. Well, I know

how, but I'm not THE Megatron. I'm not Frank

Welker or David Kay. Yeah, but still, you're

young enough for them to want to stalk you. True.

But hey, you're on the Predacon Empire podcast,

so you're going to have stalkers, too. Ashley,

I'm a nobody. I just create music videos and

do reviews when I can. I'm not as well known

as you. But I've been online bothering people

since 99, too, so. I might have been on since

99, but I haven't been that well into the internet

to at least the mid -2000s. Or early 2000s. Yeah.

Or something, I don't know. And I think we've

just ran this six feet under. So I guess we'll

just sign off for now. Until we decide to do

another podcast. Unless you don't get sick again.

I couldn't even use my voice, I was so sick.

Yes, it is entirely my fault. I think he's got

a podcast over at TFW. Yank and y 'all's chain.

I mean, Vengeance is a cool guy. He's just nice

to have, like he's a creepy person sometimes.

But yeah, you can send all hate mail and comments

to the Predacon Empire forums under the podcast

area, or you can send them to podcast at predaconempire

.com. And make sure to leave questions whenever

you can, because we kind of need topics here.

I mean, there ain't gonna be a whole lot of news

all the time. Yeah. One day there'll be no news

and then you'll be like, why didn't we send the

questions in? Yeah, because what we want is more

discussions with you the fans and more fan input

than news since everybody else covers news mostly.

We'll still cover... And as Smokey the Bear would

say... Only you can prevent the death of this

podcast. Yes. Or would that be Ravage that would

say that? I don't know. No, it had to be a bear.

Polar Claw. There we go. That's a bear. Yeah,

I guess. But he never had a TV version of him,

nor a speaking part. Beast Wars 2, I don't think

so. Oh, wasn't there a what? Oh, okay. No, wait,

that was an elephant. I'm just rambling. Anyway,

I guess we'll sign off now. This is Master Galvatron.

And this is Steve slash Megatron signing off

for this episode of All Things Transformers.