Transformers News and Collection Talk

This is All Things Transformers, Episode 9, recorded

Saturday, December 13, 2008. Thank you for listening

to All Things Transformers, this is your host

Steve slash Megatron, and joining me this week

is... Michael Blanchard from the TFG1 podcast.

And anyways, Master Galvatron will not be here

this week, because he's not online. Anyways,

I guess we'd better get to the news before I

make this another episode of Trainwrecks. Yeah,

pretty much. Because I did last week pretty bad.

It wasn't as bad. Well, I was running on four

hours sleep, so That's the whole reason I know

we're not to the interview yet But that's the

whole reason why I started my podcast was because

I slept too much just out of boredom So, you

know running on four hours sleep. It ain't no

big deal No, not entirely So anyways The first

bit of Transformers news. Simon Furman, November

Transformers question and answer on the Revelations

and the Expansion as well as the 13 is online.

He lists on the IDW publishing boards with the

remaining five covered on his blog. Tells plot

lines and the follow up to the revelations expansion

and Various other fates of characters and his

maximum Dino bots which is something that he

always likes writing about or the Dino bots As

well as the 13 which are supposed to be the 13

core transformers that started at all I'm looking

forward to that 13 though Yeah, is this... I'm

assuming this is comic book stuff, because I

don't get into... The only comic book I have

read since I was 14 was the comic book that came

with my BotCon set, which I paid way too much

for on eBay. Yeah, I used to collect the Marvel

comics until I hit a point where I was jobless

and needed money, so I had to sell them. Unfortunately.

Yeah. Yeah, I may be getting to that point. All

this money I've spent on all these Transformers

toys over the last year and a half, I may have

to end up selling them because I'm going to end

up jobless and homeless by February. Yeah, damn

economy. But yeah, so I ended up collecting the

Dreamwave comics, which I liked very much. And

it was unfortunate what happened to them in the

end, but I did like their plot lines and everything

so I collected every Dreamwave line except for

the Armada and then IDW I never really got into

the IDW series but I did purchase like the first

issue of many of the series and got the Stormbringer

and the Beast Wars ones which are what stuck

out to me. Yeah like I said other than the Other

than the BotCon one, the only one I can remember

actually reading was back when I was in like

middle school. I went to the library and they

had a Transformers comic that actually had Wheely

on the cover of it and it was Wheely's origin

story of how his parents were... Originally got

stranded on Quintessa and how the quintessence

had killed them or whatever I don't remember

what issue number I don't remember what publishing

company But that between then and now is the

only two Transformers comics I have ever read

Wow I Just haven't I never really got into it

and like with like Marvel and stuff like that

I would read an amazing spider -man every now

and then but Was more like in the 90s I was more

into like the x -men cartoon and the spider -man

cartoon and iron man and all that stuff And I

really had nothing the only comics that I actually

still have other than the transformers one from

BotCon That I wanted to collect was the DC versus

Marvel for issue thing that they did back in

the 90s Which I think went along it kind of went

along with the spider -man animated series secret

wars storyline. I think I don't know But yeah,

that's pretty much it for me in comics. Yeah,

I used to be a big collector in comics, but then

I didn't have time for comics anymore. And even

less time for buying the toys because I didn't

have any money. And didn't have time to actually

go and mess with them. So now I pay for DVDs

and stuff for my site. Yeah, DVDs don't even

get me started. I just put three orders. Most

of it was for Christmas stuff for my mom. She

got a dog. I know this is way off topic, but

she wanted a dog last Christmas because she was

lonely. I just moved her down here from Massachusetts

here in Kentucky. The dog's name is Snow White.

This dog is pure white. It's a border collie

lab mix. I mean, this dog, if you're in a snowstorm,

you would not be able to find this dog unless

you saw the dog's nose. My mom is into all this

Snow White stuff, so I found the now out of print,

two disc platinum edition of Snow White and the

Seven Dwarfs Disney movie on Amazon, which I

paid way too much money for, but that's... That's

a whole other can of worms. That's a given for

Disney movies that are out of print. Oh, yeah.

Well, like I said, DVDs and stuff, I just spent

over, I think, 300 and something dollars at ColumbiaHouse

.com. For TV sets that I have been wanting so

and the great thing about the Columbia house

club is they let you bill it So you don't have

to pay for it So so that's the best part so right

now between my last order which was last month

and this order now I own like five hundred and

something dollars Nice Yeah, it's it's crazy.

It's just crazy. I have two shelves Filled with

DVDs the top of one of my shelves has about three

giant sets I have the big set of the 007 movies

all 21 movies I have the Batman 89 anthology

set and I have the Batman animated series complete

set and that is almost touching my ceiling nice

Yeah, yeah, I have a lot of DVDs I don't have

I don't have as many as Birdman though Birdman

Mike the Birdman dot he posted a thing on Twitter

a Couple of months ago about some of his friends

helping him organize over six thousand DVDs I

was like holy cow or not six thousand. He said

six hundred. That's what it was. Sorry. Oh, yeah

He said like six hundred and that's a lot. I

don't even have that man Yeah, I'm not gonna

make comment on that cuz I got more than him

Because I own just about every new movie that

comes out plus I'm buying old TV series I used

to watch and I buy them slowly so So I don't

buy every new movie that comes out like if it's

something that I want or something that I've

seen or something that I know like Obviously

the Dark Knight would be the most recent edition

As far as new movies and stuff like that Which

by the way, I am severely disappointed in the

single disc edition It has absolutely no bonus

features and I will be going to FYE this coming

Wednesday to get the steel box to disc edition

but yeah it just depends on what's out there

I recently got sucked into the whole red box

thing which I was completely against in the beginning

because I'm like oh great another thing that

wants my damn credit card information that's

just great so I just I don't know every time

I go by a red box and I look at the releases

I'm like no I don't want to see that so it's

a good It's a good jumping off point of what

you want to buy and what you don't want to buy

because at least through Redbox they're only

a dollar six here after tax. Yeah. Well, my crazy

ass went out to Black Friday and I bought a Upconvert

DVD player. Most of the Full House series because

my fiancé wanted it. Then on top of it we bought

I think it was close to 15 DVDs for a dollar

99 each Dude, you should have talked to me before

you should have told me about the full house

set because they have a complete series set of

that It's the entire house. It's a whole it's

a whole special edition packaging don't know

what the price is it'll probably vary from site

to site or store to store you go to but it's

it's of the actual house that is the show and

the DVDs are stored inside of it you could have

got the whole series all at once from one giant

price that I love complete series sets now it's

much better than even though you may have to

wait a while before they release it it's much

better than buying the single season sets and

it averages out to about the same price the King

of Queens set is now one ninety nine i think

on target in best buy if you average that out

to forty dollars per season times nine seasons

that's about the price that you're gonna pay

for the complete series i'm waiting for a couple

other ones like home improvement stuff but that'll

be a while off i think they just re i think they'd

not really so i think they just released the

last season of that uh... this month Yeah, I

was gonna say it was sometime this month. I don't

remember exactly when Of course I get all my

my info from TV shows on DVD calm I love that

website ever since I found that place. That's

where I look for for all my releases for the

info anyway Yeah, I go to coming soon net Yeah,

I yeah, I heard Birdman talking about that and

I I went there just to see about like coming

soon as far as theaters and stuff like that.

I gotta tell ya, movies other than like my two

for this summer that I wanted to go see in theaters

was Iron Man and The Dark Knight. I have not

seen, I have not gone to see anything else other

than those two movies. It's just, I don't know,

they're just churning out really really bad movies

lately. Of course, supposedly Hollywood's going

on strike. What else is new? That was last year

too. The only other ones I pretty much go and

see are the Adam Sandler flicks. The Adam's Family

flicks? No, Adam Sandler. Oh, Adam Sandler. Big

difference there. They only made two of those.

But yeah, next year my movie picks that I want

to see are the new Transformer movie, G .I. Joe

and Star Trek. Yeah, I would say mine would be...

Transformers 2, and probably Wolverine, X -Men

Origins Wolverine. Yeah, that'll be awesome too.

I'm not really into the whole Star Trek thing.

I've seen a lot of the different TV shows. I've

seen several of the different movies. I think

my favorite movie out of all of them would be

First Contact. Well, see, the funny thing is

they had to go back to the original crew because

that's the only one that actually made the money.

I can imagine that. But anyways, yeah, we kind

of flew off way off on a tangent there. Yeah,

there's going to be a lot of editing for that

segment there. No, I'll just leave it in there.

Something fun to listen to later. Yeah, ain't

that the truth. New images of Shadow Commander

by Fans Projects. They've surfaced from a Japanese

transformer board. And they show it fully assembled

with a new head, a sword of fury, and various

other aspects with the comic and decals. Huge

-ass gun. The gun includes elimination marks?

What the hell is that supposed to mean? Oh, the

number of... Okay, okay, I got it. I didn't read

the whole... I didn't read the end of the thing.

The end of the story there. Wow. I, uh, I don't

know about this, the Shadow Commander. I've heard

so many things about City Commander and everything

else, and I just, to be honest, I never really

liked Magnus. I liked Magnus when I saw him in

his white prime form. You mean the 80s toy? Yeah,

well, not the 80s toy, but the newest, like with

the Dreamwave, they had him. Basically when his

armor got destroyed he looked just like prime

but white Yeah, I I have a very specific toy

set that I was after when I first started Spending

hordes and hordes of money on eBay. I was specifically

after G1 stuff I have and I'll list them on my

podcast because I'm gonna eventually on mine

I'm gonna do like a toy roundtable thing and

or a display case or whatever the hell you want

to call it But yeah, that that was my set. I

wanted to get everything that I lost when I was

a kid back so I all these other toy lines they

look really cool some of the stuff like I I mentioned

to you off the air that I had gotten the That

I like the toy arena series 9 Hasbro reissues

and I have that astro train which he's white

and black and I like him but Other than that,

I don't think I'll be picking up the the the

Shadow commander or the city commander. I don't

know Yeah, I I didn't actually buy any of the

classics which i feel kind of retarded for now

because i want the mechatron but uh... i'm trying

to work on that with toy arena right now and

uh... but yeah toy arena they're they're pretty

cool there uh... actually know the owner of it

probably won't get any of the shadow commander

sets or anything i just it's just another nemesis

prime basically Yeah, see I never had the Nemesis

or anything else. The closest thing I have obviously

is the Shattered Glass Optimus, which I absolutely

love. I mean, it's just a new paint scheme on

Nemesis, I think. I don't know. I've seen the

Nemesis photos on the TFW website, but I just,

in between, out of the entire bot concept, my

two favorite characters are the Prime and the

Rodimus. because I just love those color schemes

and the only one that is probably never going

to be either transformed back into his alt mode

or his robot mode is the Grimlock. I tried transforming

this thing and it is right now I can pick it

up and look at it his legs are halfway almost

falling off and his head is not even close to

where his body is supposed to be I don't even

know what the hell I did with this thing I just

couldn't figure it out once I got like because

his mouth forms his you split his neck and his

mouth apart it forms his legs and his feet and

then the the chest is supposed to be this green

and orange thing but his arms I don't know what

the hell I did to it It's it's ridiculous. So

yeah, he's the only one out of the set that is

mistransformed and the rest of them like jazz

and ricochet will never be transformed out of

car mode because Can't figure out how to do it.

I was lucky. I got the the the side swipe slash

wrench thing transformed Yeah I haven't transformed

any of mine in a long time. Although I do remember

how to do most of them I don't really want to

touch them because I don't want to risk having

them break Yeah, since I've had my sound wave

I found a I found a g1 sound wave and Since I've

had him he is You know how spade always talks

about waste articulation and everything else.

Yeah, well My sound wave his waste articulation

his whole upper torso Is faced downwards. I don't

know why I've only transformed. I've had this

thing for like six months I've only transformed

him like ten times for display purposes only

it's not like I'm sitting here You know throwing

him against the wall, and he won't work anymore,

but he just won't his there's something I don't

know if it was his legs or what the deal is Is

it where his knees like where his legs they just

kind of bend down and drip over? No, it's it's

the upper part. It's the waist. It's right there

where? Oh, I know what you're talking about right

where his leg split from it Well, no Well kind

of right right with right where the legs split

But it's like right where the tape deck buttons

are his whole waist right there in that area

it just It's completely loose and it's falling

down. I don't even know why I have them in robot

form anymore. I should just transform them back

to the stupid tape deck. I did that with mine

before I got rid of it because it was just falling

apart. I'm waiting for a, uh, hopefully a classics

one. Yeah, I was looking on, uh... I was looking

at the sound blaster version because I had heard

Jesse and them talking about that on tfy or the

the the I don't know what it is the the updated

version of what he's supposed to be and I was

looking at looking I was like I don't think so

I'll stick with the regular g1 version yeah at

least that looks normal I think that the truth

that dark coloring on that on that sound blaster

is ridiculous Yeah, I'm not a big fan of those

particular figures anyway, yeah I'm pretty much

a G1 and Beast Wars Beast Machines fan the only

Well the only beast beast toy that i have is

uh... deluxe cheer or uh... transmittal cheater

transmittal to cheater and he is still in the

package and he will not be coming out of the

package because i read the instructions and yet

it would be another grimlock episode i guarantee

that he would he would end up being half transformed

so yeah i'm not even opening that i just you

know just i can put up a little from tech on

the wall and just hang him up Yep, that's what

I do with mine pretty much anymore. Yep. Alright,

what have we got? Full revised artwork for Transformers

Revenge of the Fallen Megatron and Ravage. Have

you seen the new concept designs for those? I

have not, other than whatever's on IMDB or other

than what I hear out of, like, the TF Wire crew.

or the twig crew, I have not seen or heard anything

about the new movie other than when it's coming

out. I don't even buy into, I would much rather

just wait and see it than to even deal with any

of these quote unquote false rumors or true rumors

or whatever until Michael Bay actually says what

the hell they are after the movie comes out,

I'm not even gonna pay any attention to it. Looks

like I got this jumbled in my notes, but have

you seen the new color images of the transformer

animated wheel jack and perceptor as well as

the hot shot? I saw the wheel jack and perceptor

through the TFW podcast and they look really

good. I only remember having one friend that

had the original G1 perceptor mold. It was it

was alright And I had my problem with the g1

line They are small as hell Yep, I mean, you

know It's like micro masters means transformers.

What the hell I mean As far as the new ones the

the wheel jack and everything else. I don't know

if there's gonna be in In the picture I saw on

the TFW podcast it looked like his like light

up ears or whatever the hell they are that shows

him talking. It looks like they're gonna light

up so maybe he'll have electronics which I've

never really... I've never really gotten into

the whole electronics thing. I had I had the

original G1 off model Galvatron The gray and

purple one. Yeah, and I and I sold it on eBay

and I just I actually bought it on eBay and I

sold it on eBay because I had found I think it

was through toy arena actually I'm not yeah,

it was through toy arena. I found the the movie

mold the Japanese one the the purple Oh crap,

I can't even see him. I don't even have my lights

on. He's next to Blaster. It's the one that comes

with the Matrix necklace. He's got red on his

knees. I'm sure his electronics work. I don't

know. I've never even looked for the battery

compartment to even try it out. Yeah, I don't

really care for most of the original G1 figures,

but it looks like the... New wheel jack looks

pretty close to his original Perceptor looks

pretty close except for his kind of goofy nerdy

looking head Well, Perceptor is a nerd, you know,

yeah, but they didn't have to make him look that

bad I mean look at the new wreckers comics. So

they made him look all beefy and tough and now

look at this and Yeah, doesn't look like he could

hurt a fly Yeah, I I'm not really sure I don't

really I watched. I may end up getting the animated

season sets on DVD. I don't know yet. I tried

watching the cartoon, but half the time I never

would remember to watch it at 10 .30 in the morning

on Saturdays. So I would end up trying to find

it on YouTube and I liked it. It's an alright

cartoon, but it's no G1 and it's no Beast. It's

no Beast series. I would love to see, ever since

I read that BotCon comic, I would love to see

somebody put together a Beast Wars type animation

style cartoon with the Shattered Glass universe.

That would be completely awesome. A good Beast

Wars Megatron. That would be awesome. I'd have

to own it. with with David K doing the voice

yeah I don't know if he could do a good Megatron

he does such a good bad Megatron if that makes

any sense yeah well it's like I don't know how

a good G1 Megatron would sound so yeah I don't

think mr. Welker could could pull it off It's

funny. I actually didn't know that he was the

one that did the Galvatron voice after the movie

until I looked it up at one point and I looked

it up and I'm like, oh, okay, and I actually

like cuz I watch and everybody Most everybody

I've heard podcasts from completely does not

like the rebirth series the three -part Ender

to the 84 cartoon or the cartoon. I love it I

love it. I think it's the best thing that they

ever did. At least they're giving the Autobots

a fresh start, even though they're still in the

back of their minds. There's the threat of Galvatron

and Scorponok at the end, but at least they're

okay, they're surviving, whatever else. But the

voice, I never really noticed the difference

until then, and I like watching Rebirth more

than I do the movie now. I'm not really too keen

on Leonard Nimoy's Galvatron. Mr. Spock. Well,

considering Mr. Spock didn't even acknowledge

the role, I've heard that, that he doesn't even

acknowledge doing that movie. IMDB does. Well,

yeah, I know IMDB does, but yeah, it's... It's

just ridiculous. I don't know where I heard it

or read it. It's probably on one of the various

Transformers podcasts. Somebody said that he

does not acknowledge that role having done that

at all. That's very, very sad. Yeah, I've heard

that too. I've also heard Walker didn't really

care for the post -movie Galvatron either. He's

like doing the Megatron voice. Right. I did hear

that. But the difference between the two, at

least Welker acknowledged that he did the voice.

What I've heard about Nimoy is he completely

does not acknowledge having anything to do with

that project. And that's just ridiculous. You

can dislike it. You can not like the way you

perform. But this is not the CIA. Don't completely

disavow something that is in your filmography.

If it's listed somewhere on the internet, you

did it, dammit. So, what do we got next? Next

BotCon set to include three molded heads. The

Transformer Club newsletter, for some, has arrived.

I haven't gotten mine yet, which kind of irritates

me. But anyways, it says... It's not clear what

the theme of the box set will be. It will be

a universe classics theme or a Transformers animated

or possibly something new. The guy that I bought

my shattered glass set from asked me because

he had actually gone to Botcom with his brother

and a friend of his and they each got a set and

his brother didn't want his set so the guy was

going to sell it on eBay. Can't believe I'm admitting

this but I paid close to nine hundred dollars

for that set. Holy crap. Yeah, I paid eight sixty

six ninety nine including shipping But he in

after I had gotten the set and I emailed him

back and told him yeah, you know, it's great

I love it, you know, thanks for the set and everything

else He had mentioned to me about the 2009 set

and I just told him I said, you know, it just

depends on what it is Because I have looked through

the BotCon archives, and I don't want any of

the older sets. Nope I wish that they would have

just continued shattered glass I had a question

is there because according to my shattered glass

comic it is the third issue is there Is there

an ongoing shattered glass series outside of

BotCon or was that? Okay, there is it's in the

Transformer Club comic. It's it's kind of mixed

in there with the um what the hell is it called

uh it's the failed attempt before beast machines

whatever the hell they called that i can't remember

right now trans tech yeah or was that after beast

machines okay because i wasn't really sure because

after i read the comic i was like holy shit they

can't end it like that because they ended it

like on a on a like a cliffhanger type of deal

I'm like wait a second there's gotta be more

oh wait this is the last page I don't want to

rip the comic book now do I? Speaking of comics

IDW is going to offer a Transformers animated

slash GI Joe comic as free comic book day 2009

offering on May 2nd so yeah it'll be 11 page

stories of both and the transformer animated

one will feature young optimus prime at Autobot

Academy and Yeah, I just I don't know I'll pick

up the free comic, but I'm not gonna buy any

more comics I mean, I don't really well like

I said before I Have been so out of like comic

knowledge and for so long, but you know picking

up free stuff There's nothing wrong with that

But I don't understand why they did not in the

animated series in that episode Autobot camp

why they did not put him in there Every almost

every Autobot that we see generally in the animated

series other than prowl Like bulkhead and bumblebee

were in the Autobot camp episode I don't understand

why they wouldn't have put prime in there at

some point because he was in command camp with

Sentinel Oh, that's right. Okay. Well, see, I

didn't realize that because we never actually

see Optimus. We just see that jackass sentinel.

Yeah, I'm not too... I don't like him. No, I

don't like him either. I don't know who does

his voice. I'd have to look it up, but that has

got to be the... I think it's... I don't know.

Let me look it up. I'm not really sure who does

it, but I think it's somebody that I've heard

before. I'm sure we've heard them all before.

Well, no, but I mean, it's like, okay, like,

um, with the, with the, with the brain interview

that Twig just did, there's some voices that,

that Maurice did that I didn't even know that

he had done until I, until I listened to the

interview. Sentinel is voiced by Townsend Coleman.

I have all the voice actors listed on my site,

so... Yeah. Of course my damn computer is way

too slow. Tom Kenny and Corey Burton and David

Kay seem to be doing a crapload of voices for

the series, though. As well as Terrence John.

I gotta tell you, between Welker and Burton...

They could be Megatron forever other than other

than Kay in the in the in the in this yeah in

this specific beast series as Far as just like

a general overall non beast Megatron between

the two of them They can do it as long as want

to in my book Cory Burton does and has done a

lot of voices and he's had a stellar voice career

Yeah lot of them have that have been involved

with the original G1 because they've all been

passed on through various series and most of

them all get to stay together through various

series. Yeah, that's like um, and this will be

something that's off topic, that's like the DC

animated universe with Batman, Superman, Justice

League and all that. Pretty much all of those

voice actors that did any of those cartoons all

crossed over in the other cartoons. Yeah. I'd

seen some of those. Let's see what he did. You

can go on, if you want to go on to the next one,

we can, because I'm just looking up what else

Mr. Coleman has done. Okay. Yeah. Wasn't sure

if that was a picture of a man or a woman. Audio

interview with Transformers Animated Story Editor

Marty Eisenberg. is online at art and story it's

cvc or cvcomics .com slash art and story but

they posted an interview on there with him discussing

various writing aspects of the Transformers animated

and most of the interviews featuring Transformers

I actually have not seen this yet but I'll probably

check it out after the show I haven't really.

When it comes to animated, after the movie and

they started promoting it, after the 2007 live

action and they started promoting the animated

series, I was like, what in the hell are they

doing? That does not look anything like what

we're even remotely used to. And something that

really, really steams me is the whole Optimus

Prime face where the... I guess you could call

it a visor or some sort of mask, where it doesn't

show his mouth and it keeps opening and closing.

That makes me so mad. That is not Optimus Prime.

Well, they're pulling the beast towards Beck

basically with Optimus Prime. I know, but I never

even saw... I don't think... At all in the entire

beast war series him have the regular g1 prime

Head or not not not the head, but the face itself

No, he never looked exactly like prime, but he

did have the faceplate that Covered his mouth

okay when he went into battle mode I know where

I remember Mr. Coleman from. That's why Sentinel,

like, that's why I can't stand Sentinel's voice.

He was the tick! You know, that's actually pretty

funny because Sentinel looks just like the tick

in Transformers 4. Well, in robot mode anyway,

yeah. Yeah. Wow. I knew there was a reason why

he looked and sounded familiar. Wow, he did Michelangelo

in the 80s to 90s. I was going to say Transformers.

Michelangelo is not a Transformer. No, Ninja

Turtles, the cartoon. He did the voice of Michelangelo.

Oh, dang. Yeah, he's got a lot of stuff on him.

And it's stuff that you wouldn't even think that...

Holy crap, he was Waldo in the Where's Waldo

cartoon. I remember watching that. Not very much

because it was kind of boring. I think I'd seen

it like once or twice. A book adapted into a

cartoon. Yeah, that's kind of boring especially.

Oh god, I can't believe I just saw that. He plays

a voice in the cartoon Jam. He plays Cisco, whoever

the hell that was. I saw it off and on, but I'm

not watching it on a regular basis. Oh, he was

a - he was a - he was a Fraggle Rock person,

too. Uh, Gobo, Wrench, and Architect. I miss

Fraggle Rock. I gotta get that DVD set. Well,

supposedly, according to TV shows on DVD, they,

uh... with some of the discs when they first

released the complete series set uh... apparently

some of the discs did not plan you had to do

the whole you know send it back and we'll send

you a replacement so i'm just waiting it out

to the fact that they produce correct ones and

not have to worry about sending crap excuse me

back New images of Master Priest's MP08 Grimlock

Dino Mode have surfaced at AmyAmy .com and it

shows him in his T -Rex mode with various angles

as well as his robot mode in full color and it's

due out in March of 09. I like the Dinobots in

both animated and G1, the cartoons. But I never

really liked the toys. I mean, I had a G1 Grimlock

a long time ago, but I never really liked them.

My brother had had the original G1 Grimlock toy,

and I never really cared for it at all. But this

new one looks pretty badass for the MP08. For

a Grimlock, anyway. As long as you can do so

much with Grimlock, you can't really do like

what they're gonna eventually try to do with

Megatron in the new movie. Like, you know, change

his alt mode. You really can't do anything with

Grimlock other than make him a T -Rex, because

that's what he is. One thing I want to see him

Hasbro do is make a show accurate Galvatron and

Show accurate sound wave from G1 Not the change

me into a tank thing. No, I want to see the actual

cannon Like they're doing the new sound or doing

the new Cyclonus for classics and made only mean

you want to see a G1 accurate sound wave and

Galvatron they are accurate They're not color.

Now, the original G1 toy was not color accurate

to the cartoon or the movie, but the transformation

was kinda. He's not... Well, I mean, like, updated

a little bit, but keep the same form. And the

Galvatron looked like the head's the same and

the cannon's the same, yeah. But his transformation

as the original G1 toy sucked. Yeah, the transformation

on the... I think I have the box. It's sitting

somewhere where I cannot reach it. I'd have to

look at it again. Of course, it's written in

freaking Japanese and I can't read it, but...

The reissue that I got from Toy Arena, the movie,

accurate colors and face... I don't know if it's

e -hobby or not. I thought it was a... Takara

told me thing. I don't know I would have to go

grab the box and I would have to actually put

the headset down and that's not gonna work right

now, but I'm kind of looking at this thing and

Nope I'm looking at this thing from a distance

and The only thing that they added to the g1

toy whether it's a reissue or not is The fact

that you could use it as a laser pistol that

was the only only difference as far as I could

tell now Soundwave I can I think I can I didn't

put him too far away Soundwave is pretty much

G1 accurate I think he's got the same gun as

he had in the animated series he's got the same

head of course his little radar thing won't stand

in the hole here damn it you know the door that's

the problem I had I got several different cassettes

to go along with him and none of them fit inside

his tape deck. Only Buzzsaw and Laserbeak fit

inside the deck. I don't know why. Soundwave

is pretty much the same thing as his G1 animated

version is. The only real difference to him actually

he and blaster have the same problem the g1 blaster

they have at the arms they have rods so they

can so the arms can go back in and in his in

his tape deck alt mode there's like wires that

not wires but like rods like i said that show

up i'm actually transforming this thing back

into the tape deck because i'm sick of having

his look like he's bending over to reach for

something but it's pretty much yeah It's pretty

much the same thing as you see in the G1 cartoon

as far as the the robot and the Crap I just opened

the door The robot and that in the tape deck

mode. I mean there really isn't anything Too

different they even on the on the toy they even

have you know once you apply the stickers obviously

they even have the record stop thing at the bottom

where his waist is and they have the volume control

on the side and like a power button on the side

but that's to I think in robot mode that's for

dealing with his arms but it is pretty much G1

accurate to the cartoon the other thing you gotta

remember is though the toys came out first and

then they created the cartoon That is true. Yeah,

blaster's a nightmare. I don't even want to deal

with blaster. Yeah, my brother had that one and

the tape deck was broke on it so he tore it apart,

fixed it. Yeah, after I got mine I couldn't get

the tape deck open to save my life. Tried to

get it open and finally I just pressed the button

hard enough and it popped open. Yeah, he ended

up doing something like that. Well, I think it's

time for the last article before, uh... Yep.

Soundwave and Rhinox to be future universe releases.

It's in a interview printed in Toy Fair number

138, a February 2009 issue. Which is odd that

it's being printed now, but regardless. Universe

designer Bill Raleigh talks about the future

of the Universe line. He states that it's going

on hiatus next year for the movie line and may

return in some way shape or form after the movie.

And basically it says that the top two that he

wants on his wish list are Generation 1 Soundwave

and Beast Wars Rhinox to get a re -envisioned,

at least Voyager sized figure. This is there's

no confirmation that it will return nor Yeah,

I don't know With all the reissues out there

of sound wave like like the sound blaster and

And all that you're even though it's gonna cost

you an arm and a leg like mine did even though

it's probably halfway broken now you're better

off finding the G1 accurate original 80s toy

than going after some reissue that you just don't

know I had a question what is the deal like I

always I always hear I keep referencing TFYR

which is really all I listen to half the time.

They always reference like molds and size classifications.

For G1 what the hell were the size classifications

because the two out of all the G1 toys I have

the two tallest ones are Galvatron and Blaster.

And Soundwave does not come anywhere close in

robot mode to Blaster's size. Well... Probably

they just kind of made him as they went or made

however They could to get the same figure or

to at least look like the show if they didn't

have a figure by the show But I'm pretty much

guessing that they started at tiny small Little

bit bigger little bit bigger. Yeah, really and

super size, you know And I never understood the

entire time whether it's now or whether it's

the one I used to have the Optimus Prime figure

Why in the hell would they not make his doors

on the back close? I hate that. His... When you

transform him into robot mode, his doors where

his stacks are to get his arms out, they open

up and it's just an open space in the back. There

is no... It's not like Soundwave where you transform

him and he has the back like battery part where...

where the supposed accessories are supposed to

go. I never understood why they didn't put an

actual back on that figure. Because crime can

be shot to the chest and still survive. I'll

rip out your optic sensors! I'll rip out your

optics! Yeah, I haven't seen it in a while, but

I just like doing the G1 Meg's voice and B -Store's

Meg's voice so any chance I get I like doing

them. It was funny when I got the sound wave

it showed on eBay the pictures of what all included

while the guy that sent it to me neglected to

put the the blue things for his gun and for his

little thing that goes on his shoulder. Well

no wait, the story's not done yet. It shows in

the picture all that stuff, but neglected to

put it in the bag so I... I sent him a message

on eBay I said where are these things and he

goes oh well they're supposed to be like batteries

in his back so if you undo his back they're in

there so I popped it open from like oh shit he

goes yeah I know I should have I should have

put it in the bag sorry but I was like I just

spent three hundred and something odd dollars

on this thing and he left something out that's

messed up Yeah, luckily I got a local hobby shop

that's about half hour away that I can go to

that they have all kinds of busted transomers

toys and three big bins. That's the same here.

We have a store called Great Escape here in Louisville,

Kentucky and I got an AstroTrain there from once

which I resold on eBay for like eight dollars.

I paid 15 for it, so at least I made half my

money back, but it was like just in a bag, included

no gun, and it was completely loose. It wasn't

loose to the fact that the figure was gonna fall

apart, but like the wings when you transform

them You could pretty much move them Like a contortionist

would move their body. I mean it was just ridiculous

Yeah, I don't know I never really got into the

whole I never have gotten into the line figures

like universe line movie line and what you said

about Them putting the universe line on hold

for the movie line. I started snickering at that

because the first movie line sucked Yeah, I didn't

I almost picked up some figures, but I kind of

decided against it I Didn't really care for the

design the only thing I have of the action other

than the the two disc edition DVD of the movie

I have three different posters I have an Autobot

poster that was at Walmart a matching Decepticon

poster which are hanging on my wall and I have

the Optimus Prime spec poster from the movie

and I don't even like that it's a nice decoration

but would never buy any of the movie line figures

I just don't like the way that they did the transformation

and everything I just don't like the way they

look yeah I don't really care for me either I

I probably won't pick any up unless they're really

good quality for the next movie Although that

mags if he's if Megatron is a tank and he looks

halfway decent robot form I might pick that up,

but I'm not paying 40 bucks for a damn figure

but that's just me because I'm kind of cheap

and I'm used to paying for like Like back in

the day when Beast Wars was out and I paid 30

bucks for optimal optimus and I don't care to

spend 60 bucks for a figure. That's pretty much

that size and But that's because I I just don't

have the money to blow on anymore and if I'm

gonna buy am I buy the optimus or Megatron? Mostly

Megatron, but when I when I first started my

collecting again and I started buying the stuff

off eBay. I called my mom up after I got my blaster

because on the box, because I collect the boxes

as well, because what I'll do is I'll put the

boxes out as display and I'll put whatever figure

goes with that box on top of it, whether it's

in alt mode or robot mode. Well, I look at the

blaster box and it still has the original, whatever

store it came from, sticker on it. was twenty

three ninety nine and i paid three hundred and

thirty dollars for off the off of the bank itself

all this so well i told her this and she goes

yeah i used to go to a whole bunch of of uh...

old like i think what would be here they used

to go to yet not know not really sales like stores

like kmart and they had a store of the bennies

but she said i used to go those type stores all

the time and they would get brand -new transformers

the the 80s line for like 799 1499 Yeah Well,

you gotta remember at the decline of g1 after

80 87 88 the toy line obviously would decline

because they're not Producing the cartoons and

they weren't producing the cartoons anymore of

that of the g1 us release through rebirth, so

But yeah, I I'd seen quite a few years ago probably

Around time B stores was out About 10 12 13 years

ago something like that. I'd seen the entire

g2 line on sale regular price in a KB store and

I wanted one and didn't have any money cuz you

know I was a kid parents wouldn't buy it cuz

yeah, well it was at home and so I went back

the next week and yeah, they were all gone. So

I was like, damn you. But I did end up going

to Florida a couple years later and my aunt used

to go to flea markets and so we went with her

and I'd bought, well my brother's got ripped

off, they bought a bunch of little fallen apart

constructicons and bumblebee and everything with

lakes falling off so they had to glue them. But

I bought a G2 Megatron which was in tank mode

and the guy didn't know what the hell he had.

and I bought it for two dollars. Missing the

bullets and his little handheld gun but the rest

of them was there and the sounds function and

everything and I still have it to this day. Yeah,

uh, I... After Rebirth ended, I remember when

Power Master Prime came out. and i remember seeing

i don't know if it was the g two cartoon or not

i remember seeing additional cartoons with prime

and everybody but it was coming split up kind

of like the super mario bros super show is like

you have live action stuff and then you have

the cartoon so i don't know if that was g two

or not but after g one i went into other cartoons

uh... and Like, 97 was when I finally saw an

episode of Beast Wars and I'm like, what in the

hell is this? So I started watching it and I

got to like most of it. They should have definitely

continued with that series and skipped the whole

Beast Machines ordeal, but... Or at least postponed

it. I hate to call them out, but when I first

started listening to TFYR, I sent Jesse an email

about the differences between... Rebirth and

Endgame which is the last beast machines episode

and if you watch those two episodes the last

the very last parts part threes if you watch

them together or if you watch one before the

other they are amazingly similar in the g1 rebirth

you have Galvatron getting the The the plasma

energy chamber opened and this that and the other

thing and everything else and at the end spike

goes and has this, you know, sucks in the energy

of the sun and re -energizes Cybertron. And in

Endgame, in the Beast Machine series, you have

basically the same thing where the Oracle, or

whatever the hell it's called, reformats the

entire planet and it's all organic. It's almost

the same thing. They're re -energizing Cybertron

in both series. Yeah, they are pretty similar.

Although I was not too thrilled with the ending

of Beast Machines that lasts like two minutes

of the show. Yeah, with Cheetor taking over.

Cheetor's too irresponsible to be taking over.

But they can't kill Megatron. Oh, that's the

only part you're concerned about. They can't

kill Megatron. Well, they did. Yeah, but he came

back. Because I said so. But, yeah. Anyways,

I guess I'll get on to the interview now. Okay.

So we're closing on 55 minutes now. Oh really?

I haven't even noticed. Oh yeah, we are. I haven't

even had the destiny window open. I just had

it minimized because I was learning a whole bunch

of other stuff. Alright, for the beginning of

the interview for the TFG1 podcast, I guess just

tell everybody pretty much who you are. Yeah.

Well, my name is Michael Blanchard. I am originally

from Boston, Massachusetts. As you can tell from

the earlier segments of this podcast, I am a

huge G1 fan. It was pretty much the only thing,

as far as Transformers went, that I was interested

in for a long time. And I had had a lot of the

toys when I was younger. I actually had more

He -Man toys than anything else until my dad

sold them when I was six and he told me that

I was too old to play with toys, which that was

a very earth -shattering experience, but I still

have my Castle Grayskull. It's not in the greatest

condition, but it's traveled with my mom for

the last 27, 26, 27 years. I'm living in Louisville,

Kentucky now and I just have so much time on

my hands that... Wanted to pick something that

I could I kept thinking and thinking and thinking

what can I talk about? What could I do a review

style show on and I? Recently just as I said

in the first episode of the podcast go to iTunes

and download that please search for the TFG one

podcast Of course if Steve gets the feed right

Amongst all the other things that I've overspent

on eBay I Spent which is the lowest amount that

I've ever seen a g1 DVD set for the US release

Rhino sets Paid like three hundred and something

dollars for the five box sets and I like I said

before I love watching rebirth I love watching

the 86 movie and I figured why not start a podcast

no one else seems to be like someone would start

it like Recently since I first told you this

I have seen several different review Podcasts

on iTunes, but whoever's been doing them has

never actually finished like there's one that's

titled Transformers g1 or something Transformers

lovingly reviewed by somebody I don't know who

it was I tried downloading an episode of that

and it just it would not download I don't know

so I figured you know I watched the shows. I'm

gonna watch the shows Basically the podcast will

I don't know how long it's gonna run So far I

have a 24 episode lineup set up I am going to

be reviewing them five episodes per episode of

the podcast with hopefully a 86 2007 and 2009

movie round tables in there which Steve, I'd

like you to be in on and I'm going to try to

get a couple of other people in on those for

Roundtable. Yeah, try to get Birdman. He's not

exactly the easiest person to get a hold of.

And I still say, you keep ignoring us, the Twig

fandom will revolt. We will come after you. That's

right. We will fly to Canada and we will take

our lightsabers to you and your Jedi powers will

be useless against us. uh... well that's really

off -topic uh... so originally i had started

when i first get into podcasting as far as listening

to podcasts i was into the justice league cartoon

and the batman cart Batman the animated series

and Superman the animated series and those DC

animated cartoons so i was looking around just

seeing if there was any kind of podcast dedicated

to this thing So I found this podcast called

World's Finest Podcast and the only thing in

iTunes that it said was the artist was called

Project Cadmus. Well Project Cadmus is a story

line, it's an 8 episode story arc in the Justice

League cartoon at the end of I think it's the

Justice League Unlimited Season 1 is the ender

of that. So I thought okay well this is going

to be a podcast dedicated to Project Cadmus they

ate the eight episode story arc Lo and behold

I download this thing and these guys Michael

David Sims and James Doe are reviewing every

episode of the entire DC anime universe starting

out with Batman the animated series Superman

the animated series Batman Beyond the Zeta project

static shock Justice League and Justice League

Unlimited So, I've been listening to this, listening

to this, and as I said before, I have so much

time on my hands, I figured I would actually

do something about it. And that's where this

came from. So, yeah, it's gonna be a lot of hard

work. I've already got, I think, through episode

five, I've got the scripts written up. So, yeah,

that's pretty much where it all started. Other

than that, I mean, I would love to get... I've

been dying in... trying to find somebody that

can get Peter Cullen for an interview. I know

that this man is very open to the fandom. I've

seen interviews with him saying that he is, you

know, he just loves the way the fans react to

him and I would love to have Optimus Prime on

my podcast. I'd love to have David Kay and Frank

Walker. Yeah. That would be kind of weird though

having many generations of Megatron. as well

as someone who can imitate both. Yeah, that's

true, but that would be a very, very off the

wall podcast. Can you just imagine having Welker

and Kay fight it out as Megatron? Oh, that would

be awesome. Or you could have Welker fight down

his Galvatron. Yeah, I can't do the Galvatron

too well, so I'll do the G1 Megatron. Kagan can

do the Beast Wars, and he can do Galvatron. Yeah,

I don't know how he does that voice. The Galvatron

voice, that just amazes me. Yeah, I'm still working

on that one. yeah eventually down the line if

I ever get the DVD sets I will be doing Beast

Wars I don't know if it will be a separate podcast

or if it will just be episodes in addition to

G1 I'm not really sure most likely it would be

a separate podcast that way it would you know

you could choose either or and have two different

artworks and everything else Yeah, I don't know

what else to say It would be much easier I'd

like I'd like to point this out to everybody

that may listen to Steve's podcast if you would

like to be a podcast host with me it would be

much easier on me than having to do it by myself

the only requirement that I have is you must

either own or have access to the five set seasons

or the five DVD set box sets of g one u .s. release

cartoon uh... that's the only requirement i have

uh... as far as being a podcast host with me

uh... it would just make it a hell of a lot easier

yeah all right and uh... what got you into transformers

the cartoon really Like I said, I had had some

of the toys. I didn't have all the toys, but

it was basically G1. It was basically the G1

cartoon and of course the movie, the 86 movie.

And I admitted this on the first episode of my

podcast, that I absolutely bawled, screamed through

a fit in my living room when... Saw prime die

and I'm not talking about the death scene with

all of them guarded around him I'm talking about

when Megatron shot him the last time and he went

end over end and and whatever else and I Knew

he was dead right there, and then I didn't need

to see the death scene Yeah, that was a pretty

intense fight Yeah, and I've noticed going back

and through the cartoon shows, almost every other

episode is an epic battle between the two of

them. between prime and megatron at some point

over some energy source there is some sort of

battle that they get into it's not as epic as

the one in the movie where they both die obviously

but there was one episode I can't think of what

it is off the top of my head I believe it's coming

up in either episode two or three of TFG one

where Is that the one where Megatron steals the

powers of everybody? No, that's Heavy Metal War.

That's the season -ender. No, it's not Heavy

Metal War. It's the one where... Divide and Conquer,

that's what it is. Where they have to go where

Prime... rushes in to defeat Starscream and the

other Seekers and Megatron tells them to gang

up on him while he hits the computer and he shields

the the blast from spiking it was either spike

or chip or somebody I don't remember it was one

of the kids one of the damn humans that wouldn't

get out of the way he shields the explosion from

them but he is badly damaged and the only way

that they can repair him is to get some Cosmetron

apart from Wheeljack's shop on Cybertron. I remember

that one. So, you know, he did... he was on a...

he did a really good... I'm telling you, Peter

Cullen can do good death scenes as Optimus Prime.

Oh yeah. That just is great. What would your

favorite aspect of the series be? It'd be a tie

between the movie and rebirth I did like I Would

have to say because I I really can't choose either

side Yes, I yes, I know the decepticons are evil

and I understand that But still there are some

decepticons that I like like take Take astro

train for example. He is by far my my favorite

g1 toy He is always been I never Never really

liked the Megatron toy It just I've seen video

reviews of it, and it just looks completely Completely

impossible to transform even though the people

in the video reviews did it quite well But as

far as the overall cartoon series, it's a tie

between the movie and rebirth Because I like

those two the best out of all of them. I haven't

gotten to it yet in my watching. There is an

episode. There's actually two episodes that tie

into each other. Autobot Spike, when they have

to transfer Spike's brain into Autobot X to save

his life. And at the end of that episode, Bumblebee

says, I wonder what it would be like if a robot's

brain was transformed... transferred into a human's

body and Lo and behold later on down the line

after them season 3 season 3 there is an episode

I don't remember the name of the episode I will

get to it and I will note it in the podcast there

is an episode where Magnus RC Springer and and

Rodimus all get their minds become human become

human and the funniest thing about that is they're

all color correct They're all color -coded to

what their robot colors are. And the funniest

part is, Cobra Commander's there. Yeah, I mentioned

it in... Episode one of my pot of TFG one it

just amazes me I did not know how many voices

a lot of actually did I know I know that they

take a Lot of voice actors and have them do different

voices. I did not know he was the voice of wheeljack

in G1 Yeah, I know that's a completely oddballish

voice. It just doesn't It just doesn't sound

like Starscream slash Cobra commander, whatever

Yeah, I don't know. But yeah, it's amazing how

much that they went back and looked at and took

storylines from the first couple of seasons and

redid them with the new characters. Yeah, they

did a lot of stuff with them, that's for sure.

Voice actors have a lot of talent, especially

for jumping between various series and having

different voices or variations of the same voice.

Cobra commander and Starscream are pretty much

the same closest. Yeah, it's the same thing except

for a little a bit of a Lisp with Cobra commander.

Yeah. Yeah, I Said I don't know if I've said

it in in episode 1 it might be episode 2 but

I at this point I am so sick of the Megatron

Starscream power struggle Well, they just keep

dragging it out series after series after series

and that's just Come up with a new dynamic. I

mean, yeah, it's great to see it, but it's not

G1. No, I'm not even talking about that. I'm

not talking about the fact. I'm talking about

in G1. Yeah, that's true. They did it way too

much. Throughout the entire first season, every

other episode, they had a power struggle. Just

like Prime had to die in almost every episode.

Yeah, that's true. I think they were... They're

practicing. They should have just made the movie

first and then done the cartoon. Well what's

funny about that is the movie was written within

the first season. Yeah before season two even

came out and Scramble City was supposed to be

a filler between them which they never finished

and it was also a Japan only series. Man I can't

say that word. Yeah, I was a part of the Fandub

project that re -did Scramble City episode 1.

Yeah. And basically it helps bridge it and they

took parts from the movie and some CG and some

mixed it together and created the bridge between

season 2 and the movie. See, I wish they would

have done that over here and not just over in

Japan. Because that would have been kind of cool.

Opening up... I thought they never finished it.

Yeah, that's true. Well opening up with season

3 it doesn't really bridge the gap it just starts

off where the movie ended like the movie ended

with them all shouting it you know Cybertron

you know Cybertron's ours and this that and the

other thing and then the season 3 opener opens

with them doing that and then they're going off

doing something else I don't know I haven't even

gotten to that yet I think, where am I? I'm only

at... Right now I am on the immobilizer in season

two. So that's where I've gotten so far. But

it looks like I've answered a couple of the other

questions within the other questions. Like what

made you decide to make the podcast? You've already

stated that. So what are your plans after this

series? At this point I have no clue. There were

several and I hate to keep pimping this. these

guys out but michael david sims runs a website

called earth www dot earth dash two dot net it

is a website dedicated to geek culture they on

their forums they talk about comic books movies

uh... cartoons video games uh... horror sci -fi

everything and uh... They were someone had asked

him what what plans are for after the him and

James finish up world's finest podcast and Someone

had mentioned several different topics and he

had said no to one of them, which was a Knight

Rider podcast Now I have been a big fan of Knight

Rider ever since I was little now I may end up

doing a Knight Rider podcast reviewing the entire

80s series the 2000 the 1990 reunion movie and

then the 2008 series but that is like way down

the line I don't even know I'm just focused on

this right now and that's that's pretty much

it for me already and how can people contact

you for feedback comments or suggestions for

your podcast for the podcast I have set up an

email address it is tfg1 at gmail .com Or you

can find me on the TFWIRE forums. My forum name

is TFFAN1051. Or if people would like to join

the Earth2 .net forums, my handle on there is

DCAUFAN1051. Just email in and let me know what

you think, folks. If you'd like to submit listener

questions to my podcast, you can send them to

podcast at PredaconEmpire .com. Also, you can

post them in the CafeSpark, which is the forums

for PredaconEmpire .com. And I can be contacted

on things like Facebook, Twitter. My Twitter

name is scp21. Look forward to seeing people

on there, too. Be sure to leave comments, feedback

on iTunes for both. Yeah, both there and the

Predacon Empire forums and the TFG1 podcast email.

and let Mike know what you think about his podcast.

Yes, please, please write, I hate to pimp the

show, but please write reviews in iTunes. That

is the best feedback that people can give is

writing reviews in iTunes. Even if you're just

going to rate it as far as the star ratings,

just write a review in iTunes for it. Uh, yeah,

you can find me on Twitter as well, uh, TFG1Podcast.

I think is what I changed it to. I don't know.

Yeah, I think that's what you had. I don't remember.

You can just follow Steve and then you can find

me under Steve's followers. It just has the podcast

artwork. Yeah, well, it'd be kind of hard to

find, uh... You on on mine. I have like so many

followers, and I'm following like a bazillion

people yeah But I'm in the I have them you and

the favorites for at least one so I can get to

yours pretty quick Because usually you write

me a message a little bit quicker than in birdman

but uh... yes i'm sorry to pick on you mike but

it's true yours yeah i'm just having fun messing

with you i sent you a message a couple months

ago Every week I'm supposed to hear from I asked

him before I even get into the podcast I asked

him for his email because I wanted to email him

stuff on the books of poetry that I have published

Because I figure the guys in media he could help

me figure out some way to promote my books other

than just telling people about it online and

selling them myself And he never answered back

So he is pretty busy so I completely understand

that he is extremely busy but he out of everybody

that I've Met online or whatever doing podcasts

or listening to podcasts. He's got to be the

busiest person out of them all I mean this guy

does not go Without doing something at least

ten times a day Oh, I know every time I try and

get a hold of him. He's he's like I sent him

an email I think a couple months ago with a demo

and Never heard nothing back for you and then

all of a sudden I got a phone number in there

and he's like yeah I didn't have time to send

an email, so I'm just contacting you real quick

and then Yeah, so I was supposed to get a message

on Twitter, or I got a message on Twitter saying

that they have plans for me, which still confuses

the hell out of me. When I first saw that...

I'm waiting to see what that's going to be. Yeah,

when I first saw that Twitter message, he's like,

we talked about you in a meeting today, we have

plans for you. It's like, oh crap, they're going

to kidnap him and take him to Canada, holy shit.

Hell, that'd be awesome, because... You're pretty

close to Canada though, aren't you? Yeah, I'm

in Michigan, so I'm only about four hours away,

so a little bit of drive time, a little bit of

drive time. I'm surprised you and Jesse haven't

met yet, face to face. He's in Michigan, too.

Yeah, but he's like two, three hours north of

where I'm at, so. But I have talked to him on

a podcast before on Play On, episode six, where

we discussed Super Smash, and also in episode

93 of TF4. I tried listening to some of those

other ones that they have retired. I tried listening

to the Roundtable one. I didn't try War Stories,

but I don't know. It's just some podcasts, if

I start to listen to it, I just cannot get into

it. I just... It's because of the host voice.

I just cannot get into what they're talking about.

And it's like, oh god, I need to listen to Nickelback

now. But yeah, I never really listened to the,

what is it, the anime one. And I listened to

the fangirls on site play on. I didn't listen

to a taco bot. Roundtable, I listened to. war

stories, I don't listen to you but that's because

I was the voice. Yeah, that's the weirdest part

about doing this podcasting thing. When you sent

me the final thing, I'm like, why am I sitting

here listening to my own voice? Yeah, I find

myself doing that quite often as well. That's

why I kept mentioning to people about doing a

G1 review show. I was hoping they would take

up the mantle and do it themselves so I could

actually be a fan and listen to it, but here

we are. Yeah, I was glad to do the war stories

thing and it was supposed to be a bi -weekly

show and well You saw how that went there should

have been probably 20 some episodes and no there

was 15 but that was due to my laziness, but Not

only that but I work a lot so I work like 14

hour days Monday Tuesday Wednesday because I

work two jobs and then Thursday Friday I work

my normal nine hour days and then go home and

I spend time with my fiance on the weekends.

Mostly when I record this, it's when either she's

still at work or which is today. She likes to

sit there and pick on me while I record. I can't

concentrate. Hell, I can't concentrate and I

don't have anybody here at all either. Either

way just to let people know TFG one podcast will

be a fortnightly podcast every other week every

other Friday episode 1 premiered this past Friday

the 12th Episode 2 will be up. Hopefully if Steve

gets the feed right this time on boxing day December

26 the day after Christmas So yeah, that's that's

pretty much what's what's happening with TFG

one. It will be every other Friday hopefully

before noon but uh... most likely before midnight

the next day yet i don't understand why didn't

show up on itunes and don't understand it either

i have no clue i can open well if i had my iphone

on here which i don't seeing is how on the first

episode of the podcast uh... when somebody called

me and came through the recording So but I can

pull up iTunes now and I can search for it and

I'm I'll be willing to bet you ten bucks It still

has your feed listed under my episodes because

the last time you're gonna owe a lot of people

money that But no, I'm not gonna be only anybody

money It's still in there. I don't know why I've

already uploaded the thing. Well, I I went to

this I think it's I think it's how slow they

do it. It just I don't understand Oh don't even

get me started with iTunes crap I bought three

season passes of three shows for this year for

TV shows I got Knight Rider Smallville and something

else I don't remember what it was and according

to iTunes it is supposed to be 24 to 48 hours

after the show is aired well it'll show up where

you can buy it in the iTunes store but My automatic

download did not start. So I had email wars with

the iTunes store for a while. Let's see what

we can find here for TFG1 and iTunes. Yeah, I

just found it, but it's still got my feed for

whatever reason. See, I told you. You owe me

10 bucks. Let's go. No. I take PayPal. I take

PayPal. But, uh, surprisingly, my feed's at the

top of the top, like, 12. which is amazing well

I went here I went on the site I went on Predacon

and yep still shows yours I went on PredaconEmpire

.com because you told me that you posted it on

there And I went and copied the feed link and

I posted it on the R2 .net forums. I have a topic

on there called the TFG1 podcast by DCAUFAN1051.

And I posted it on there for everybody so that

way they could actually get to the direct feed

which actually does work. But in iTunes, it's

still showing all things Transformers. Yeah,

you want to hog the number one spot I don't think

so actually what's funny about that is you've

got more subscribers than I that almost than

I do it already And my show is not good so far

well, no you've got like eight subscribers so

far and I've got 18 So, yeah, I was like, oh

yeah, people must be downloading because I see

like 25 copies download and then like 40 copies

of an episode and then I'm like, oh yeah, it's

doing good and then I look at the actual who

subscribed and it's like, nobody. Yeah, the only

problem I had when I first found your podcast

was, and I think you fixed this, I hope you have,

the artwork thing. When I subscribed to your

podcast, It would download the episode, but it

would not download the artwork. And there's an

option in iTunes where you can go to, I think

it's controls or settings or store or something,

where it says you can get album artwork. And

every time I click on that, nothing happens.

Well, it's not just mine. It's like, because

there's a couple other ones that I subscribe

to that have artwork that just doesn't show up.

Because like I subscribe to like voiceover experts

and then I've subscribed to Some various other

ones and they don't show up I don't know if it's

something with iTunes or something or if it's

just my stupidity that can't figure it out but

I Don't know Yeah But I guess we'd better end

this episode. We're getting pretty damn close

to an hour and a half. And my dog's going ape

shit on me right now. I'm biting the hell out

of my hand. So she's like, damn it, get off.

You may want to rephrase that. That didn't sound

right. Yeah, you know that's not going to get

edited. Oh, crap. That's funny. Alright, well

it was a pleasure being here on all things transformers

Please great having you on please listen to both

of our podcasts even though we ramble on a lot

I'm actually reading feedback on our two net

forums, and it's not looking too good from one

person, but I'll take any and all suggestions,

and I will incorporate them and try to work on

it. Like I said, I'm new to this whole podcasting

thing. Hell, before last week I never even had

a headset. I was going to say a hot set. What

the hell is a hot set? I don't know what it is,

but that sounds cool. No. Something that burns

your ears, maybe. Fire in my ears! But anyways.

This is Steve slash Megatron signing off. Yeah,

this is Michael Blanchard from TFG1 signing off

and hope to see your feedback soon.