All Things Transformers: Episode 15

Well, yes. Welcome back to All Things Transformers.

Episode 15. Recorded Saturday, March 7th, 2009.

Oh, and by the way, I resurrected Steve slash

Megatron for this episode. Yes. Waspinator does

not understand. Why do you bring Fleshybat back

to life? Shut up, Wasp. Anyways, back to the

episode. and I am yes back from the dead from

the last episode and joining me this week is

Mike from the TFG1 podcast welcome back thank

you I'm just gonna say one thing and then I'm

not gonna say anymore because the last time I

tried talking about it something really really

bad happened let's hope that since this is episode

15 let's hope my computer lasts Yes, that's hope

yeah, and then that's it our yeah, yeah, so we

don't waste another hour But yes anyhow and yeah,

I did that last -minute clip with Megatron killing

me A little spoiler surprise type thing in the

start of this episode you know and That'll explain

how I'm back for this episode But yeah, anyways,

we've got a little bit of Transformers news some

of it was almost covered in the last episode

some of it that We have yet to get to I believe

we'll start off with Transformers animated, which

is premiering next Saturday with a feature -length

episode at 8 a .m. Yes it is it will I actually

just found this when I woke up this morning I

was looking through my guide and I saw a rerun

of Animated, Survival of the Fittest from Season

1 was going to be coming up at 8 o 'clock. So

I was like, ah, whatever. I'll watch it to kill

time. So in the middle of the third commercial

break, I see an episode, or not an episode, a

commercial for Transformers Animated Transwarped.

And at first, when I saw this, I thought, OK,

it's an hour and a half. But it looks like they've

just combined three of the previous episodes

that we've seen Which it isn't I went online

and looked through different I did a Google search

on it and found the article on TFW about it and

Season 3 starts this Saturday as Steve said So

yeah, that'll be pretty good. I guess Yeah, hopefully

it is considering that this is the third and

final season of the series and In a way, it's

kind of sad to see it go but on the other hand

I'm not sad to see it go because I think I'm

ready for a more adultish themed Transformers

series similar to the GI Joe resolute that I

found a preview to on YouTube Yes, and it's pretty

kick -ass because you actually see People die

Yeah, they've got Duke and I think Gung Ho or

Heavy Duty or something like that and getting

chased into Shaq in like the Middle East and

then all of a sudden their ambushed by like 20

guys. All of a sudden the Snake Eyes comes in

there and starts stabbing the shit out of them,

cutting their heads off and everything else.

Okay, I don't think Cartoon Network will be showing

that. No, I think that's an online thing. Oh,

okay. I was going to say, wait a second. That's

a little risque for Cartoon Network. Well, it's

not really cutting their heads up, but you still

see them stab them and twist the knife around

and everything else. Pretty bad, but it'll be

pretty awesome. Anyways, back to the Transformers

animated. The next three episodes after Transwarp

are Where is Thy Sting? 5 Servos of Doom and

Predacons Rising. Now, some of these episodes

will be scripted by Bob Ford and Larry Dottilio

of the Beast Wars fame. Now, Dottilio has had

other fame besides Beast Wars. He was actually,

um, he actually did a lot of writing on He -Man.

He actually was part of the series Bible on He

-Man writing for that show back in the 80s. So,

he's not just known for Beast Wars stuff, um,

but, uh... From what I saw this morning. I mean,

I'm sure I could find it on YouTube if I so chose

to but right now I just don't care It looked

okay. Like I said, it looked like it looked like

they spliced together Three old episodes now,

I don't know cuz it because obviously, you know

commercials they go especially commercials for

shows They go by really fast Yeah, like 30 seconds

and boom you're done, and so I don't really know

I mean I'll probably look forward on YouTube

later, but at least we know What the hell is

that noise? You just keep talking Ladies and

gentlemen Steve is plugging his nose hairs during

the podcast. Oh my god Anyways, oh wait. He's

no stupid vibrating phone Turn your damn phone

off, dammit! Anyway, um... So, Season 3, at least

we know that it will be... ...coming, instead

of just saying spring. At least we know that

there's an official date. It's next Saturday,

March 14th, 8 a .m. to 9 .30 a .m. I almost said

8 a .m. to 9 .30 p .m. Holy crap! A 10 -hour

Transformers animated show? I don't think so.

That's not gonna happen. So yeah, I guess see

other news Just on the TFG one podcast side It

really isn't transformers news, but seeing as

how Steve Just has to you know leave almost every

episode that we've recorded Seems like it done.

Yeah Let's see it was either you were shaving

you were pulling your nose hairs or your cell

phone rang now, which was it? door number three

So like I said, I'm a very busy person. Yes.

Well, you know, no actually I was being told

to pre -order Twilight for my fiance so off of

Best Buy with my gift card so Anyhow, anyhow

So basically, I don't know if you heard Steve

when you were busy there, you know, it's nice

to know that we have definite thing for season

3 a definite date instead of just saying oh it'll

be out in the spring will the spring last anywhere

from the end of February to the beginning of

April well I think their plan is to end this

before the movie comes are you serious yeah I

think honestly I think that this show will be

done before the movie because if it starts with

a three episode start on next saturday that's

three out of the 10 or 13 gone already and then

so you have uh the next 10 weeks which will run

right up until the end of may and or beginning

of june and that will end the series probably

two three weeks before the movie starts if they

do if they do one episode a week the 12th episode

will be May 30th which is a Saturday and if they

did a 13th episode it will be June 6th which

is two weeks before the movie comes out so I

mean yeah that seems kind of short but then again

you never know how they're gonna do it I honestly

think though that it will be out before the movie

or be done before the movie and then yeah so

it's there won't be anymore. Now I don't know

how the and I'm sorry to go off on this but I

don't know how the the Armada energon Cybertron

shows I don't know how they in their run I don't

know how Hasbro or whoever was in charge of doing

the toys for those series I don't know how that

they advertised for those because I didn't watch

those shows but advertised like with the toy

line in line with the show but we all know that

animated completely fucked up with advertising

for the toy line during the show because it didn't

it advertised pretty much either when the show

wasn't on or in between seasons for the toys

so unless they're going to be coming out with

all new toys for the new characters for season

three I don't see that much going on in the toy

line end of it either before the movie comes

out no I and I think they'll probably do a little

bit more toys unanimated before the movie and

then I think they're gonna throw it all in a

hiatus for a while and then release what they

do have in stock well after the movie probably

around Christmas time to liquidate what they

have left oh yeah I mean, cause every time that

my mom, and I know this is again going off, a

little bit off topic, but every time my mom and

I go to Walmart, I just stopped by the toy aisle

and there's nothing. There's maybe six or seven

universe Dinobots. There's maybe four or five

universe Cheetors. And the rest of it's all animated

activators. and Elite Guard, Bumblebee, Blurr,

and Bulkhead. That's it. Of course, that's just

one Walmart, but, I mean, I don't know. Yeah,

I... I don't know. I'm still not gonna buy any

damn toys. I'm done buying anything. I mean,

there's some that I wish I... had the money to

pick up like the Megatron specifically because

I collect pretty much all the Megatrons but I

yeah I don't really care about the toys so much

or comics for that matter since actually IDW

the only thing I like that they've produced has

been the Beast Wars series on the comics and

other than that I like the Dreamwave writing

better because it was consistent and the uh...

style of it was better but that's about all i

would buy yeah i really can't comment on on the

comics as i've said before but the toys granted

now i have no extra income i have one monthly

income now so yeah i probably won't be picking

up stuff but mainly i look at youtube reviews

for some toys and just see if it's something

that That I would like to pick up And I know

I've talked about this before but universe cyclonus

Which just the toy when I saw it in the store

when I saw it in the package just kind of blew

me away So I picked him up and I will Probably

we will probably do a display case section in

Episode 10 of TFG one which will be later on

down the line seeing as how episode 7 just got

released Yeah Yeah, so what else is in the news?

Let me get back to that they have Yeah, this

is really starting to become a train wreck. They

have Transformers animated all spark key. Unicron

.com reveals another new item for their sixth

accessory set. Sari's all spark key. Yes, they

have a little accessory. You know Hamsperl if

they would actually make the accessories for

all these lines could make a shitload of money

similar to how Star Wars did it so that you actually

had some of this gear like such as in Beast Wars

if they'd made stasis pods or the bridge of the

Axelon or the bridge of the Predacon ship or

you know for instance part of the Ark in G1 or

you know just random stuff like that or you know

specifically like their weapons or energon cubes

and everything else they would make a shitload

of money but they don't do anything with it.

Hezbro does not have fan minded people within

their company like if you took okay I understand

companies have to have like a president CEO board

of directors whatever if you took all the designers

and everybody else and just fired them all and

hired a whole bunch of fans like these guys at

fans project now I didn't pick up the the commander

set the city commander for Magnus but I've seen

those pictures of it and it looks pretty cool

and I've heard a whole bunch of people talk about

it and that have it that say it's just amazing

if you took those people at fans project and

put them on as designers builders, whatever,

makers of the toys at Hasbro. Hasbro would be

a lot more popular and have a lot more stuff,

like you were saying, like release all the accessories

and everything else. But no, they just want to,

you know, be all... anal retentive is the best

way I can put it. Well, and I would buy... Like,

for instance, if they came out with stasis pints

that could fit some of the beast figures or just

random stuff like that, if they would come out

with it, I would buy it. Yeah. I don't know.

I mean, there's always been a war going on with

Hasbro and the fans and negatively between either

side over the years. But I mean, it just, if

they would actually take into consideration It

just seems like they don't want to put forth

any effort extra than just making the figures.

Stuff I got it off eBay that were made 25 years

ago The BotCon I don't did Hasbro make the BotCon

stuff or was that by a different company Well

if if they did or if they didn't It's Transformers

toys. I have the BotCon set They're all great

one of the features that I've absolutely loved

about most of the figures is the heel on the

feet so instead of just having a flip out foot

it has a flip out heel to to stabilize it to

be able to stand up more and they did that with

universe cyclonus I know Hasbro did that with

that because I've got that figure and I really

enjoy that which that that's great because if

you look at a lot of the older figures you don't

have that no you know so I think that was a feature

that that improved but I mean Again, the whole

thing goes back to if they would actually listen

to the fandom. Which, they're a large conglomerate

company and they probably won't. Oh yeah, why

would they? You know, well the thing is, you

know, take BotCon. Why have a, now I know Hasbro

created them, Transformers, whatever. But why

have a Hasbro panel at the most famous Transformers

convention ever? If they're not gonna listen

or take it anything into consideration At all

from the fans why even have that panel even if

it's just to show off something that they might

be working on I mean, that's just ridiculous

why show us something that you're gonna work

on if you're not gonna take our feedback and

You know, I don't know it just pisses me off

Yeah, I know what you mean there I mean it's

And while we got off on a tangent, but anyways

You know, it's just it would make more sense

if they Listen to us and at the same time the

fans can't bash everything Hasbro either but

uh You know, it's just it's a back -and -forth

thing that We can't help them, you know raise

their sales if they aren't giving us shit we

want or having good quality control Mean I'd

be interested to see what the next transformer

series if there is gonna be one would be about

yeah, I Think they need to switch it up a little

bit and not keep trying to rehash g1 and Find

some other outlet Yeah, I am And I mean, I'm

not really trying to bash Hasbro as a fan at

all. I mean, I'm I'm glad we have the stuff that

we have, but I mean, and the majority of it is

the fact that, you know, we have the internet

now. And like I was talking earlier, half the

time when I'm looking at figures, it's not through

pictures on websites. It's through YouTube reviews.

I mean, I watch reviews from Spada all the time

and If I before my little adventure on the 11th

of last month if I had seen spay to do a YouTube

review of universe cyclonus, which he hadn't

had it out yet I would have immediately gone

and tried to find the figure because it just

it it just looks so damn good and I like the

way that they're doing that universe line the

25th anniversary universe line I mean, yeah,

the universe I would have to say would be the

only line I would probably purchase a figure

from at this point. I wasn't really into the

Cheetor. I saw Spada's review from TFWire, and

it wasn't that I didn't like Spada's review.

It was, you know, he always does his reviews

really well. It's just I don't like that figure.

I've never, I mean, I even have a... over there

in one of the boxes. I have a... I bought it

off eBay for like 14 bucks. I have a Beast Wars

Transmetal 2 Cheetor. It's still in the package.

It's probably going to stay in the package because

when I read the instructions on the back of it

on how to transform them, I'm like, yeah, okay.

I'll never get that transformed correctly. You

know? But, I mean... I don't, like I said, I

don't really pay attention to commercials for

toys anymore. I don't really you know like I

said go looking for pictures of toys. I would

much rather see somebody review it on a video

than either having to read a review about it

or something like that because when you read

a review of a toy you can't really You can't

really get the gist of the toy unless you actually

see what's going on with it No, even if you do

like I know on our forums anyway, we do well

and I know some other sites do it too but we

do comprehensive like shots so many shots of

the figure in various angles on our toy reviews

granted we don't have that many but at the same

time you know you pretty much have to you know

like you said see it in motion to get the idea

I mean I can look at a picture of a toy and see

that I want it Or whatever, but I don't if I'm

gonna actually look for something like like I

said before You know like with universe cyclones

I actively sought out YouTube reviews of the

figure before I and I mean I I just randomly

found him at Target It wasn't like I was searching

for him. I was just seeing I was turned that

day I was trying to compare what Walmart had

to what Target had and Target had Shitload more

stuff than Walmart did I mean, so, you know,

and I just happened to see Universe Cyclonus

and I remember seeing a couple of, actually at

the time, bad reviews of it. But I said, oh what

the hell, it's only, you know, $12 .99, whatever,

$11 .99, it wasn't, you know, I mean, it was

fine. So I picked him up and he's actually, I

think he's in the other room, I think he's sitting

atop, or he's standing atop Castle Grayskull,

so. Talking about combining genres. Hell it works.

Yeah it does work. So yeah. I guess we'll jump

ship over to the convention end of it. BotCon,

this is their non -attending packages and loose

sets of the figures are now sold out. It says

also that the customizing classes for both Wednesday

and Thursday is full That doesn't surprise me

And it says only a matter of time before the

attending convention sets are gone Which is crazy,

I mean because it's over in California, I mean

I'm not going to be going I should have gone

last year, but I didn't have the money But yeah

It's crazy that it's already sold out that far

they only oh wait, what's home? Well cool they

put up Pictures of the second exclusive figure

on BotCon calm it's Scourge yep Yep, they've

got It's a repaint of sideways with a new head

okay I like Scrooge for my own personal reason,

but that's because that was the first voice character

I got in a fan dub. Cool. So, but, you don't

look too bad in that form. I... I mean, I'm not

digging the robot mode so much, but uh... I'm

actually, from what they've released so far of

the exclusive figures, I'm not digging either

one of them. Well, the cup one looks even worse

because... Cup should look technically closer

to his original Cybertronian form and even that

I mean it The the alt mode the car mode. It doesn't

look like cup from I mean, I don't know what

exactly they're going for for this bot cons It's

supposed to be like a young records or something

or like the elite guard g1 style. It's not It

has no g1 Whatsoever in in cups alt mode if it

was supposed to be g1s even a little bit It wouldn't

be it wouldn't look like a elongated Bumblebee

from animated because that's basically what the

car mode looks like to me. It's a four -door

version of bumblebee It's almost like a station

wagon. I mean and the color is all wrong. It's

not the aqua Turquoise green he never was he

was he had a little bit of light green But I

mean this color actually looks more like the

original g1 toy that they came out with which

sucked But what I'm saying about the back on

the car they should have had them I guess The

best way I can describe it is it should have

been an El Camino They're not an El Camino. Sorry,

you know, whatever shut up Sorry Mean something

that looks like a car truck or whatever like

he normally looked and Scourge the the jet mode

or whatever he's supposed to be. I don't know.

It just looks too It's like a Cybertronian space

looks way too fat to me. I don't even know I

would have to see more figures. They're gonna

have to They're gonna have to show me more This

year's there's only gonna be a five. Oh, well,

there's there was a five figure set last year

wasn't there? It was usually there it's like

well, I know cuz I bought the I bought the the

2008 said I think Yeah, there was five and then

there was like six exclusives or something or

seven exclusives. There was twelve figures altogether

But I mean I would want to see like you were

saying those those Packages or whatever are sold

out for the exclusive for the the at show. I

want them to release pictures of those The the

exclusive Figures which these are supposed to

be exclusive figures when I'm talking about like

the act like like Evil Rodimus he was an exclusive

at the show figure Yeah Yeah, I wanted to go

last year and Cincinnati is only an hour and

a half away from me, but I added up all the cost

and it would be like $1 ,200 for two people.

No, I don't think so. Yeah, I was gonna try and

go, but yeah, wasn't gonna happen. Nope, nope.

But I guess we'll jump over to movie news real

quick because I only have two items for this

and it is Hugo weaving is back as Megatron for

revenge of the fallen He's been confirmed now,

which we can already figured he was going to

be in the movie Michael Bay also confirms that

Megatron is in revenge of the fallen but teases

with a quote -unquote spoiler which He says that

Megatron's role in the new movie is small. He

says he's basically a flashbacks type character,

which I think is complete bullshit. I think he's

a major player. Yeah, I don't know. It's like

I said in a few of the other episodes, that we've

recorded, you know, I'm not putting any stock

into anything Michael Bay says until any, you

know, anything anyone says that's attached to

that damn movie until I see it. I mean, it's

just ridiculous. I don't underst - It's - We've

already had one Transformers movie from him,

and yes, that was the - Big a big big huge thing

first -ever live -action Transformers film I

understand that and you know secrecy is key with

that kind of big thing But this is a friggin

sequel. We already know what they look like.

We already know a lot of stuff Why the hell would

you still continuously feed us false? Information

or disinformation or just crap that isn't even

you know, oh god, it pisses me off That's why

I don't even like hearing about movie news Well,

I mean I like reporting on some of it But at

the same time a lot of its bullshit just because

they don't want you to know well No, I know you

like reporting on and that's fine. I'm not saying

anything about that. I'm just talking about the

actual news itself That's that's just fucking

ridiculous Yep, they just like running us around

and Bastards. Trying to get us to figure out

what the hell is going on. Which most of the

time sucks. Yeah. Let me look in... Do you have

any other movie news? No. Okay. I was looking

on when I found the... What was it? Oh the the

article on TF what not TF wire TFW 2005 about

animated third season I Saw a thing called toy

arcs. I was like, oh, okay. Well, I'll click

on it and I found a Link to a back to the future

to Hover conversion DeLorean toy this thing looks

fucking awesome. Yes, I know this isn't transformers

related But it just looks sweet as hell and I

would so buy this And I had sent you that link

earlier, what'd you think of it? Oh, yeah. Oh,

I thought it was pretty nice. I mean Granted

I probably won't get it, but I mean it's dead

Well for 35 bucks it's $34 .99 to order it. It

said on the order sheet that it's coming August

of this year. I believe it said it's got light

and sounds doesn't it? Yep it does. I mean I

don't even really care about that. I just like

the way the thing looks. It just looks really

really cool but yeah it does have lights and

sounds. Of course you probably have to get some

sort of small micro size battery to power the

damn thing but... That's one of the things I

never understood like the best example I can

give you is the g1 and e hobby re -release of

Galvatron With the cannon and the light up sounds

and the light up and all I don't understand why

they just don't put the batteries in with the

toys Well, I think it has to do so it doesn't

corrode if it's true And then the other news

item which I found which yes you can go ahead

and intro that because that is uh... your forte

there i uh... oh wait that's the wrong website

hang on uh... the other day i was checking my

email and i get regular email updates on certain

tv shows from www dot tv shows on dvd dot com

i found this website a few years ago I joined

their little it's not a forum so much as it's

just like you know TV voting what shows you want

to see or whatever so I joined their website

and every now and then I'll you know look at

the the news items and on the 5th of March there

was a news item let me pull it up here I'm not

gonna read the entire thing but June June 16th

of this year Transformers release date details

and possible cover art found for the complete

first season 25th anniversary edition DVDs. G1

is finally being re -released, basically. Last

May we brought you an exclusive story with Hasbro

answering questions about their deal to reacquire

various Sunbow properties, including the original

cartoon series for both Transformers and G .I.

Joe. Both properties are getting new live -action

films this summer. With the theatrical debut

of Transformers Revenge of the Fallen hitting

June 24th, G .I. Joe The Rise of Cobra follows

on August 7th. Since December, rumors have run

all over the internet to expect new DVD releases

of the classic animated shows to tie in with

the summer releases of the films. Frankly, that's

a no -brainer. And for that reason, along with

a lack of solid info about the particulars, we've

held off saying anything here. In the past...

Go ahead. I found this just a second ago. Walmart

on their website has it listed for $19 .86. It's

listed for $19 .86, which you save $10 .13, whatever.

But it's not sold in stores or online yet. For

20 bucks, I'll drop 20 bucks. Yeah, the rest

of the news thing says in the past couple of

weeks information started coming into focus about

a transformers related release However this morning.

We've had something this was March 5th We've

had some fan emails telling us exactly where

to look and a pre -order listing at walmart .com

for the transformers the complete first season

25th anniversary edition on DVD is now showing

with a June 16th release date and a list price

of $29 .99 SRP The studio description indicates

that this is the first release will contain the

three part more than meets the eye introductory

story plus the 13 regular episodes that all made

up the first season of the generation one version

of the legendary program. And then it goes on

to give a description of the actual show at the

end of the description it says Autobots Decepticons

includes 16 episodes from season 1 on 3 discs.

The running time listed there is 370 minutes

with video, full frame, and audio in English.

No details about the sound format are provided.

Who's putting this out? The studio's listing

shown at walmart .com is UMVD, which is short

for Universal Music Video Distribution. And it's

basically another way of saying Vivendi. Vivendi

Entertainment distributes for several independent

studios, most notably Shout Factory. We've been

hearing whispers for a little while that Shout

was eagerly pursuing this property, but there

had been no announcement from the studio that

they had gotten it. This may be an indicator,

however, that they did. Since the studio hasn't

been talking about it yet and neither has property

owner Hasbro, we asked our own sources in the

home video biz what they have heard. Well, we've

had word from industry sources and the information

posted there at walmart .com may not actually

be 100 % finalized info. So don't be surprised

if we update our readers later on to say that

any or all of the provided info has changed.

Still, the info is very public over there and

we thank our readers who wrote in notably I don't

know, some guy, whatever, who was first. And

we were passing it along to our readers right

away, including the front box art shown below,

taken from Walmart's listing. That is just some

temp art though, we're certain this is not finalized.

as soon as we can provide them. Now I posted

this under the TFG1 thread over on Earth2 .net

in the forums and I posted it over at the CafeSparkPredaconEmpire

.com forums. The artwork, it basically is Megatron

and Optimus with the classic Transformers logo.

At the bottom you see like Autobot red and orange

and at the top you see Decepticon purple the

only problem I have with this art Hopefully,

it's not the finalized version at all because

Megatron's fusion cannon is on his left arm which

that was never on his left arm in the cartoon

and Optimus's rifle was in its being held by

his left hand which that was never as far as

I can remember seeing as how I'm watching the

cartoons I've never seen Optimus Prime hold his

his rifle in his left hand No, it's always been

the other direction So maybe this was just mirror

art or something that they got backwards or and

it specifically says in white on the on the picture

It's not the final It's not the final art. Excuse

me. So at least At least they're getting a rerelease

at least they're putting it back out on official

DVD Tying in with the 25th anniversary tying

in with the movie release At least people now,

regardless if you have the old G1 sets, regardless

if you bought them when they first came out,

or regardless if you're like me, having to spend

300 or more fucking dollars on eBay to get them,

at least they're gonna be officially released

and it's not gonna be totally out of print like

it is now. The Rhino sets are out of print, and

like I said, unless you find them on eBay, but

at least we're gonna have something that's...

You can go to a Best Buy or a Walmart or a Target

or go online to one of those stores and you can

actually order G1. So now, out of however many

listeners I have over on the TFG1 podcast, they

can actually watch the shows and listen to the

podcast at the same time. Yeah, that's quite

nice to actually be able to get the series. I'm

actually looking forward to getting it. Because

I wouldn't pay the outrageous prices that were

out before for the Rhino discs, but I will definitely

pay for This particular set just because it's

so cheap and Something I remember from the early

90s anyhow Yep, yep. Yep. So I actually when

I first saw this I actually called Steve and

I almost fell out of my chair because like the

article said it's been a while since they even

excuse me since they even uh... made mention

of it and normally when i see transformers news

on tv shows on dvd it's normally bad news yeah

usually that geiger associated with the same

well they're both hasbro properties so Well,

both of them have kind of been intertwined off

and on throughout their entire lifespan anyhow.

Ghostbusters is coming out though. Ghostbusters?

The original. Huh? The original Ghostbusters

DVD is coming out? You talking about the cartoon?

Yeah. You talking about the real Ghostbusters?

It's already out, the complete series. Yeah,

it's been out. do we have any other news nope

okay that's it for the news folks TFG one news

let's see obviously we just talked about the

new set coming out before the movie does finally

after It was supposed to be released, I don't

know, a month and a half ago. What would a TFG1

episode be without screwed up audio? So it was

fixed. It is fixed now. Yes, I did fix episode

7. Supplemental 3 was a train wreck to start

out with. I mean, it wasn't to start out with,

but it was once... Once you started slowing stuff

down. Well, I don't even know how that happened.

I'm calling you out on that. That's complete

bullshit because at the end where I said... My

intro where I said you're gonna hear the song

shakedown at the end of the podcast the actual

regular version song Was in there not slow motion

down, so I'm calling bullshit on you, buddy Because

I think you you did some audio crap with that

which is fine. I don't care That's fine that

you know you wanted to make it different and

make you know people listen to it or whatever

But I was assuming under the assumption that

the original shakedown song you know, at regular

speed was gonna be in there, of course it is

at the end, but when I first heard that and I'm

like, oh my god, what the hell did he do? Is

that what's at the beginning, it's in slow motion?

I don't know how the hell that happened, honestly.

Like, I edited the episode together partially

to begin with, and I think because I started

over again at one time. Somewhere between there

something messed up. It's all good, but I just

wanted to let people know the hopefully that

they're listening to all things transformers

that Supplemental episode 3 please ignore the

entire end speech where I'm saying what's coming

up next as far as the next review episodes because

They've already happened Another bit of news

Steve and I as most people would know we have

been talking over the last Four months about

doing a movie review podcast Several titles have

been thought up and I've actually done some work

on writing up Guidelines crap like that. I took

the guidelines that you had posted From PE and

just kind of added my own stuff to them The way

I'm wanting to do this it just me personally

is it's basically an all -movie Podcast that

there's not a specific genre It's not just geek

movies. It could be anything The only thing that

I really don't want to do is horror and westerns.

I'm not really into those So yeah, I think right

now I'm leaning towards movies we can review

or movie we can review or some crap like that

uh... the m wire i guess you can call it so that'll

be pretty cool yeah hopefully that turns out

alright because uh... i mean i know i sent some

rough ideas about it to you and uh... because

i thought about it on tf wire's site a long time

ago for a new podcast to uh... headline and of

course he didn't do squat with that so If I can

see I was trying to think do you have a portable

DVD player Yeah, a portable one or just just

an outside source see I was thinking we could

do I Have a DVD player. No, no, I know see that's

the thing I was thinking the way we could do

M wire would be Have us actually do commentaries

Like talk as we're watching the movies, but obviously

we wouldn't be able to do that Through the computers

because we'd have to actually hear each other

Through Skype so I was thinking if we had if

we both had outside sources like a portable DVD

player another TV next to the computer which

I don't but I don't either, but I could sit here

and watch it I can turn its volume down on the

computer and watch both. Yeah, I don't know Don't

know if your computer I don't know Either that

or we could just watch it and just write like

little notes I think So And like I said before

we could we could pick, you know One of us could

pick one movie one week and then the next one

the next week. I know I have specific plans for

Christmas movies Don't know how you feel about

it, but I was gonna do Christmas vacation I was

gonna do the Charlie Brown like have a like have

a Charlie Brown special with the like The the

holiday specials what else is that I was thinking

like summer movies we could do like I mean just

off the top of my head like I know summer catches

a summer movie I don't know if you have it or

if you've ever seen it But it's basically a baseball

movie or we could do different. You know stuff

like that I was thinking like different themes

like each month have a different theme of movie

like whether it's a summer baseball movie or

if it's a Action flick or something like that.

I don't know I Definitely want yeah, yeah That's

one of my my big favorites from the 80s and obviously

we're not gonna do Ferris Bueller No, we already

did it, but That's yeah, that's why I'm trying

to hold off on the suck the reason why I stopped

doing supplementals with TFG one was because

number one at the time I was having computer

issues and number two I Because Steve and I were

talking about doing the movie podcast. I wanted

to hold off on reviewing like Iron Man and the

Dark Knight so that way it could be in the movie

podcast and not on the Transformers podcast.

So, yeah. Yup. This... And eventually, once TFG1

is almost done, or whichever, there will be a

Beast Wars... Podcast it's not when TFG one's

almost done It's whenever either I can get my

hands on the DVDs or somebody is nice enough

to buy the fucking things for me When TFG one's

almost done, we'll be recording a view store's

podcast Bullshit That's the end of the year,

you'll be able to get it I don't know release

all those in one box set. Yeah, okay. Look how

long it's taken them to do G1. And now... It's

G1. Well, the Beast Wars thing, I specifically

blame you. It's all your fault. You made a fucking

comment a couple weeks ago, a couple podcasts

ago, about those official releases by Rhino going

out of print. Everywhere I've fucking gone to

find them, Season 1 and Season 2, or all three

of them, Either temporarily back -ordered or

out of stock How'd I know I knew if I didn't

I know but you're not supposed to say shit like

that because then it'll fucking happen Kind of

like beast machines that's still around some

that I can get that that that just came out the

last year so readily so But that one sucks in

comparison to Beast Wars, though. Oh, shut up.

It was alright. It was better than Energon, Armada,

Cybertron, and Animated combined. No, I wasn't

comparing to those. I was just saying to Beast

Wars. To those other four series. It stops them

in the dirt. Yes. I wish they'd come out with

new G .I. Joe re -releases of their series. I

want the Sunbow series because I've never seen

all of it, and I've seen some of them, and I

know those are a little bit more darker than

the series done by Deke. I don't know about the

Deke series coming out. I'm sorry to cut you

off. I don't know about the Deke series coming

out, but the article I just read, the G .I. Joe

ones, they're going to be releasing them, but

it didn't have specifics on G .I. Joe because

it was a Transformers article. Yeah Man, I can't

wait. I hope that uh Like cuz I know in the original

GI Joe it was just Cobra commander with the silver

plated face Mm -hmm pretty much like the yeah

blue helmet and though but um and then after

the movie like they screwed it up and then Deep

got the series and they started it back off with

Cobra commander having this silver battle armor

and he'd rotate between that and the blue cape

face. See, I never... I want... I love the silver

combat suit. I don't think I ever saw the Deke

series. I think I saw the Sunbow series a couple

of times, but I just wasn't... I don't... Like,

I specifically remember watching Transformers.

I, and I specifically remember watching He -Man

and Thundercats and Voltron and all that stuff

and Mask and Jim and all that stuff. I do not

remember watching G .I. Joe. I just don't. And

I have nothing against G .I. Joe whatsoever.

I just don't, I think the only thing I remember

is the, you know, the commercials, G .I. Joe,

the greatest American hero, Go Joe, or whatever,

you know, the toy commercials is pretty much

all I remember. I don't ever remember watching

that cartoon. Well in terms of the the deep series

I remember watching that but it was on from 1990

to 1991 it was a one one or two season series

after being got their hands on it and They had

like this toxic waste character. They had this

living Android character in it Destro had a gold

faceplate and new body armor It was it was overall

a neat series, but uh when they reintroduced

Duke he didn't like anything like the original

It was just completely different animation, but

But anyways any other discussion topics to think

of any I know quite possibly we may be in an

episode of the Cybertron Archive podcast which

I now edit slash produce on tfarchive .org. I

have no idea how it's going to get recorded at

this point in time considering the fact that

the guys that usually run it are sick and they

use one recorder for everyone and I do the audacity

route. So I'm not sure how that's going to work

out, but if there is an episode it will be later

today And of course if you know and I'm sorry

to call him out But if Optimus Prime would actually

get off his ass and just join Skype it wouldn't

be that much of a problem Skype is not that bad

MSN and AOL are evil Skype is awesome Yeah, I

mean I use them for somewhat chatting, but I

would never use like the headset over them just

because I have not used MSN chat Messenger whatever

in probably seven years I Don't use either use

trillion which lets me log into AOL MSN and Yahoo

and ICQ at the same time I barely use Yahoo every

now and then I'll use it, but it's very rare

that I'm on Yahoo either And it's very rare that

I'm on Skype that much unless obviously I have

to record something Yeah, so dead air Dead air

and Anything else you want to touch on for TFG

one or any other? episodes eight and nine Will

be coming episode eight will be Not this Friday,

but next Friday And then episode nine will be

the Friday after that No, no there will be nothing

this week and then episode 8 It it's like every

two weeks. It's just like no. We're not doing

them weekly Just like it's been But I'm trying

to think in my head when you and I can get together

for Episode 10 that was what I was trying to

that's why I don't know whatever There really

isn't too much coming up for TFG one Like I said

episode eight and nine will be like in the next

month and a half and I'll you know post on PE

and earth2 .net and whatever else when they're

when they're gonna be up I actually still have

to finish watching the end of season two so I

can finish the episode 14 script I may actually

I May start reading just from the booklets on

the synopsis because I've been having Problems

with actually not being able to yawn during the

synopsis. I don't know what it is I think it's

just reading out loud makes me yawn Especially

like reading from an article like that So I don't

know I've gotten several suggestions of doing

like one -note liners, but I mean I'm looking

in the booklet and they have like a little blurb

of Each episode so I may just start reading from

those or I may just make you do co -hosting So

at least I'll have more to talk about Yeah, that

is true and I will try and guest host in some

more TFG one as well more often and hopefully

because I've never been in a podcast with Birdman

I know I'm going to have to put my foot down

and jump in one at some point when I keep telling

you to put your foot down that's not what I'm

talking about I'm talking about not being able

to record only on Saturday mornings I'm talking

about you know sometime at night when you're

both home that's what I'm talking about yeah

that's what I'm saying I am trying to get together

the All 80s TV episode I meant to last night,

and I meant to this morning before we started

recording to look at your list, and I haven't

yet, which I need to. But, yeah. I have a huge

ace list. Huge list. Outside of Knight Rider,

Airwolf, A -Team, Family Ties, and stuff like

that, my mind was just blanking out. So... Yeah,

I uh... I have no idea what... We're gonna talk

about it again at this point, but... Well, I

mean, just... It's the all 80s TV episode. Anything

that... Any show that you remember from 1980

to 1989 that you liked or you watched, I mean,

it's just like a... It's like a discussion roundtable

about 80s TV basically. It's not like synopsizing

each show or anything like that, it's just, you

know... Yeah, I mean, it's just an overall discussion.

So, you got anything else you want to talk about?

Uh, no, I believe that is all. Yes, so do you

want to close or did you already record a closing

or? No, we'll close it now already then this

has been Mike from the TFG one podcast with Steve

slash Megatron of all things transformers, and

we are out of here. See you folks Hello, this

is Mike and Steve from all things transformers

and TFG one podcast. I'm recording this public

service announcement because steve is currently

going to be uh... redoing the protocol empire

dot com site in the forums and i wanted to basically

put out a shout out to the people that please

start replying on our forums we have like sixteen

active members we have a hundred one total members

so please start replying to the topics I don't

know about Steve, but I don't care how old the

topics are on the forums. If you got something

to say, post on there. It's free. It doesn't

cost you a thing. So what do you want to say

about our little PSA here, Steve? Well... The

forums, for instance, if there's anything that

you guys would like added to the forums to make

it more interesting or to join in, then feel

free to let me know in the suggestions and comments

area. Also, there is a arcade that you can play

just for the hell of it. It's a free arcade that

you just have to have an account with the forums

to log into. And it keeps score, and you can

basically beat each other's scores. And there's

a couple hundred games in there as I seem to

remember and other than that there's I want to

say there's a ton of content to do there's ton

of posts to get into you have an area called

the core which you can have heated debates and

arguments in which is pretty much unfiltered

unless it gets too out of hand Don't feel like

filtering the forums. I like having everybody

have their own thoughts spoken and Not having

everything, you know gone through like I said

a filter I personally overcheck everything as

well. So Yeah, I guess just post in the forums.

Let us know You know just anything that we can

do to make it better and feel free to post in

any of the posts Or to start your own or if there's

something that you would like to add to the site

uh... you personally then i get a hold of this

as well and you can do that by what you can either

email us at podcast at predacon empire dot com

or use the contact us uh... button at the bottom

of the forums which will send an email directly

to me uh... and just let me know your name your

email and uh... what is it you'd like me to and

i did the site Especially if you're transformers

fans. I normally do not accept requests on Twitter

from people I don't know or People that aren't

transformers fans, but if you are a transformers

fan and you'd like to follow us on Twitter My

name is TFG one podcast and you can always at

Reply me on there and give out ideas or whatever

and you can do the same for Steve his His screen

name is SCP 21 Yep And he has way more followers

than I do. So, in closing, this is just something

I wanted to say in addition to episode 15. I

thought of it after we had finished the record.

And it will be on the tail end of the episode

before the outros. Please join the PredaconEmpire

.com forums. It's really fun over there. We have

plenty of people, but just not enough posting.

So please, people, get active. And if you don't,

then Megatron will have to come after you. Yes.

Not really, but I might stick him after you.

Stop.