Transformers Revenge of the Fallen and Toy News Update

You're listening to All Things Transformers,

Episode 5, recorded Saturday, October 18th, 2008.

This is Steve slash Megatron coming to you again

solo this week. Not sure where Master Galvatron

is this week, but anyways, you're still going

to get an episode. So, let's get it started with

Transformers Animated News. Derek Wyatt has posted

on his blog giving a small insight into the production

of Transformers Animated. He explains to Hasbro's

lead designer for the animated toys and is considered

part of the team for the cartoon show. And he

also tells of how Marty Eisenberg is involved

in all the aspects of the show, the fiction,

and the producing of the universe in general.

He also mentions a lot of his concepts that he

wants to be used. and hopefully some of them

do. Coming up also is new Transformers Revenge

of the Fallen movie news. The first set of movie

news I've got here is Transformers 2 caught at

Air Force Base and it shows that the Chevy Beet

is so far being labeled as skids based on a license

plate that's on it and a decal apparently. The

pictures come from Jalopnik and it shows not

only the beat but the Camaro as well as the Chevy

Trax. Honestly the vehicles look pretty damn

nice. Hopefully they have a decent transformation

considering how small of a vehicle they are.

Just wondering if that's actually Trax or if

it's just skids. or if that's what they're just

calling him for now. Only time will tell on that.

Up next is, in the film ads, there's going to

be movie trailers for various 2009 movies being

shown on the Oscars this year. And apparently

among them is Transformers Revenge of the Fallen,

G .I. Joe, and the new Terminator movie. So,

looking forward to seeing the first official

movie trailer of Revenge of the Fallen as well

as the G .I. Joe trailer. Both of those personally

are probably two out of the many movies slated

to come out next year. Among them also is Star

Trek that I'm looking forward to. Hopefully we

actually get to see some robots and some transformations

and some new characters in the first trailer

that they show us. Also is Transformers Revenge

of the Fallen. Soundwave's Cybertron mode is

revealed. It's revealed that he's to be a Cybertronian

satellite and that his Earth mode is to be a

pickup truck. Now they haven't stated which pickup

truck it is yet. But I'm probably leaning towards,

I think it might be the Nest vehicle, if that's

not a new Sector 7 division. But I think it'd

be really cool to have it as the Nest vehicle

because I think it might have, because it's the

Hummer 3 truck, it could have the capabilities

for the communications arrays that go perfectly

well with Soundwave. But hopefully it'd be cool

to see the images of him soon and hopefully he

doesn't look like crap. Anyways, I'm just kind

of rambling on so I think I'm going to jump onto

the next subject. Some official pictures of Shia

LaBeouf, Megan Fox, John Turturro, and Rodriguez

sighted at the Davis -Monham Air Force Base.

and Fox is at the Tuscan Airport. And these come

from onlocationnews .com and it shows the various

pictures of them at the Air Force bases and there's

I think roughly about 16 pictures on the site.

It doesn't show too much other than a couple

American aircraft carriers, yeah, airline carriers

as well as the actors and actresses. Up next

is Amari Nalaskos. I'm pretty sure I brutaled

his first name, but his character is to be alive

and may return in Transformers 3. Recently on

the MTV movie blogs, he had an interview with

them and it appears that he survived the battle

with Scorponok and he was going to be in the

Revision of the Fallen. but he's in the show

Prison Break so they had him turn down the role

and so he possibly will be back for the third

movie. More transformer related news on the movie.

Confirmed is the three motorcycles shown previously

combined to form RC. That ought to be a very

interesting thing because they're going to have

a lot of combiners in the movie. Among them is

Devastator, but it'd be pretty neat to see how

those three form the character of RC. So I'm

taking it that they'll have probably brand new

toys shown for her for the new toy line instead

of that one basic motorcycle. And it says that

the Three motorcycles are seen on the onset day

one video at the Walmart take home a hero promotional

site and for More detailed images you can go

to TFW 2005 Also up next is toy news It appears

that transformers collectors club nightbeat pre

-orders are arriving in the To all of you now,

and I'm not very Detailed on the information

on the Club exclusives considering. I don't buy

any of them I pretty much just collect the optimus

and Megatron characters and some other basics

that I like in the process, but For those that

are wanting to know about night beat I guess

pre -orders are coming in and so You should be

seeing him soon Up next is Sunstorm and Black

Megatron, our eHobby reissue exclusives. It appears

that the original Megatron and Starscream, or

Sunstorm, are redecoed and the Megatron actually

looks pretty sweet looking. It looks a lot more

detailed than the silvery one, so it gives them

some diverse looks to them. a little bit closer

to show quality on some of the coloration, but

yeah, if you're looking for that, that's pretty

cool. Also is Beast Wars Optimal Optimus Unpainted

Black Prototype on eBay. I'm pretty sure by the

time that I've listed this that it's no longer

on there, but It's a unpainted, injected, molded

hard copy of the prototype. It came from one

of Hasbro's designers, and I believe there's

only one or two in existence. Whoever won that,

that's pretty sweet buy. Encore 13 and 14 reveal

to be Trailblazer and Hoist. Kapowtoys, the...

One of our site sponsors has confirmed that the

Chinese wholesalers have started taking pre -orders

for them from Takara Tomy and no release date

is official as of yet. The next two Transformer

Henkai characters are Hound and Cheetor and this

is also released by Kapow Toys. They're slated

to be released around December 27th this year.

So look for them around Christmas time. Now the

Cheetor figure looks kind of goofy in my opinion.

I honestly... I mean some of the detail on some

of the character looks a lot nicer. And some

of the parts look like they're from the original

Cheetor. But as for the... from like the knee

down on his feet in robot mode... I don't like

that at all. And I don't like that they don't

have his gun. They have some sort of looks like

a cutter and they use his tail. So I'm not too

fond of the detail on that. I kind of like the

original Cheetor in style of how it transformed

in robot mode. But some of the other aspects

of this figure look a lot better. And then there's

the masterpiece Grimlock. slated to arrive in

March of 2009 For a price tag of around 130 bucks,

and then you figure shipping handling probably

you'll end up about 180 Just kind of guessing

not really sure Also, there is the alternative

Megatron in the works of the Nissan Fairlady

Z car it's a Similar model Towards the from what

I'm reading the 1980s original prowl and blue

streak and smoke screen figures, so Expect that

out as well around that time Transformers universe

25th anniversary Bruticus maximus tfo8 net has

Shown that the transformers universe line is

going to have the new Bruticus figure It's going

to be in the same stylization of the Classics

Constructicon Devastator. I saw two of the molds

in August and it seems that the recolored Superion

Maximus will also be re -released as a gift set.

BigBadToyStore .com has the masterpiece Grimlock

pre -order available now. They don't have any

official picture yet, but a teaser image. And

still no notice of exactly what day in March

of 09, but he's still to be released around then.

Also, BigBadToyStore .com has pre -orders for

the Alternaty Megatron and Blue and Silver, the

Henkai Inferno, Dinobot from Beast Wars and Smokescreen,

but again no pictures are shown. City Commander

trailer set is now sold out on various sites.

He's also to be... It appears that the City Commander...

armor will be released is a repaint and a slight

remold for the Shadow Commander set. I haven't

seen any images of this yet but I can imagine

that it'd be kind of cool for the Nemesis Prime.

And I must have missed this, but first images

of the prototype of Masterpiece Grimlock have

also surfaced, as well as an image of Mickey

Mouse Transformer. He turns from a subtractor

trailer to a robot of Mickey Mouse. Kind of neat

when you think about it, but... That's definitely

more of a kid's toy and something I would not

personally pick up. The Grimlock is very, very

likely, but again, I probably still won't pick

it up because I don't have any money. There's

also the silhouette of the Alternity Megatron

robot mode and confirmation of more Hinkai figures.

In December, I also mentioned the trail Breaker

and Hoist and Cheetor and Hound, but in January

they'll be the Cyclonus figure. February is Ratchet,

Inferno, and Mickey Mouse. And March is Dinobot

Hot Rod and Alternative Megatron. And you can

see some of the prototype shots on TFW's site

in their news. The Cybertron Well for the miscellaneous

news, there's the Cybertron Ultimate Collection

replacement discs now coming in. They fixed the

error with the first part of the episode hidden

and you should be receiving yours anytime now

if you had the screwed up disc. Also Hasbro has

trademarked some new character names as well

as a new wording which I think goes to the Revenge

of the Fallen but they trademarked Leader One

who is not only a character in GoBots but is

also a minicon in Armada. Sparkplug who's also

a character in G1 and a Armada minicon and then

there's cyber glyphics, which I'm thinking is

what they're going to use to describe what Sam

can read in the Revenge of the Fallen movie,

so it ought to be interesting to see how that

stuff looks and My final piece of news this week

is the concept Camaro wireless mouse Tony bacala

of TFW 2005 founded on autoblog .com And it's

a wireless mouse shaped like the Chevy Camaro

and It's by four door media Looks pretty cool.

I actually Depending on the price of this might

pick it up because it actually looks really neat

And it'd be something different But anyways,

that's pretty much all the news I've got this

week. I know it's a very short episode because

as usual without my co -host It's very short

and Anyways, there probably won't be very much

updates on the site of PredaconEmpire .com this

week probably not nor next week because I'm in

the process of moving so There will probably

be a few slight updates during the week this

week but then after that there won't be anything

for about two weeks. There won't be a podcast

episode until after I get back from my vacation

either and so you can expect episode 6 probably

the second week of November and by then I would

have a ton of news on the Predacon Empire site

as well as Transformer 2, and any other news

that comes and surfaces between now and then.

If you want to leave any feedback for the episodes,

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area for listener questions and discussion topics.

If you'd like to join in a future episode, be

my co -host, then feel free to also post that

in there. And if you want to organize a roundtable,

we can see about doing that as well. I'd love

to actually have an episode that's a roundtable

to have us bring our own topics and discuss things.

Also, I want to put a shout out to TF Anonymous,

who mentioned me in their last podcast episode.

And those guys are really cool, funny to listen

to. A little bit different perspective on stuff.

And they answered my probably, I'm guessing,

20 -some questions from June that I sent in before

deciding to start this podcast. So thanks for

answering all those. I forgot some of the ones

I actually did answer. But anyways, as far as

Predacon Empire is concerned, We've hit our five

-year anniversary around the time this podcast

started in August. The site will continuously

be updated. I added the new Master Blaster episode

to the Beast Wars episode list. It's now listed

under the Season 3. I just got that up probably

earlier this week. Also we have plenty of toy

reviews online. The latest ones would be the

Cybertron Menasaur, Cybertron Starscream, and

Universe Overbite. I'd also like to send a shout

out to toyarena .com who has been helping us

with various aspects of the site. And also I

think that's about it, and I'm looking to restart

the Transformers Universe RPG that I had started

about a year and a half ago before I reformatted

it to this site format. Currently it's down.

I have a few members, but a lot of them have

left because it just got kind of stale. If you're

willing to join in on the forums and become a

member of the RPG and Want to become a moderator

for it and help us run it that'd be awesome I'd

be more than willing to you know let you help

with that If you'd like to be a contributor in

any way to the site also let me know in the forums

and I'll get back to you on that Because there's

still plenty of stuff to add to the site that

we haven't gotten to yet also recently I've added

the soundtracks division to the I have the Transformers

1986 movie soundtrack now on the site for download.

You can download the zip file. I'm only missing

three songs from the soundtrack and I added also

the newest Stan Bush one that was recorded for

the Transformers movie in 2007. If you'd like

that and you're interested in that, I have that

available for download as well. Pretty sure that

that's all that I got at the moment. Oh yeah,

and I added the Timeline's Beast Wars comic.

You can get to that by scrolling down on the

main page and going to the Marvel Comics download.

I need to change that, but it's listed in there

at the moment because that's the only place I

had to put it. So, if anybody would like to send

any listener questions or feedback comments go

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want to hear from it again then also post that

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and hear things to change then also post that

so that I can get back to you on it anyways this

is Steve slash Megatron and I'm signing off