All Things Transformers – Origins of Steve Megatron and TFG1Mike

WEBVTT

00:00:01.960 --> 00:00:05.299
This is Optimus Prime, and you are listening

00:00:05.299 --> 00:01:20.939
to all things Transformers. It's a crime. Hey,

00:01:20.980 --> 00:01:36.299
I wonder what these gizmos are for. Hey! How

00:01:36.299 --> 00:01:44.579
do you work these things? In fact, I think it's

00:01:44.579 --> 00:01:54.239
time to shred some prey. Hello and welcome to

00:01:54.239 --> 00:01:56.560
an all -new generation of all things Transformers

00:01:56.560 --> 00:01:59.219
as we get the origins of any and all TF fans

00:01:59.219 --> 00:02:02.359
that we can. I am TF2 and Mike and joining me

00:02:02.359 --> 00:02:07.239
is Steve Megatron. Hello. Hello. And today's

00:02:07.239 --> 00:02:09.439
guest is us, folks. We're going to have a Transformers

00:02:09.439 --> 00:02:13.139
discussion on how we got into Transformers. Basically

00:02:13.139 --> 00:02:16.680
porting the origins over from the pull bag, I

00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:19.680
will have... a link to the original pullback

00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:21.639
episode where Steve and I talked about our comic

00:02:21.639 --> 00:02:24.479
origins. Basically what this is going to be is

00:02:24.479 --> 00:02:27.699
us discussing how we got into or out of Transformers,

00:02:27.699 --> 00:02:30.960
how we enjoyed it as kids and that kind of stuff

00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:33.020
and everything else. And going forward after

00:02:33.020 --> 00:02:37.879
this, when we actually have guests on. I have

00:02:37.879 --> 00:02:41.300
20 Transformer questions that we'll be asking,

00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:43.740
that we'll rotate. So if I ask the first question,

00:02:43.800 --> 00:02:45.900
Steve asks the second, and blah, blah, blah,

00:02:45.939 --> 00:02:47.319
blah, blah. And then we'll just have a whole

00:02:47.319 --> 00:02:51.120
conversation with whatever guest that we have

00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:55.099
on the show. So that's the plan. That's the plan

00:02:55.099 --> 00:02:57.580
that I had been mentioning the last couple ATTFs.

00:02:59.180 --> 00:03:01.979
This is going to be outside the numbers. It's

00:03:01.979 --> 00:03:05.400
just going to be Origins episodes. That way,

00:03:05.439 --> 00:03:10.060
Steve, if we have news or any other stuff that

00:03:10.060 --> 00:03:11.780
we want to put in the regular numbered episodes,

00:03:11.840 --> 00:03:16.120
we can. This is probably going to be a monthly

00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:19.240
feature or maybe every other month. It just depends

00:03:19.240 --> 00:03:22.659
on what guest we can get. Schedulings, people.

00:03:23.240 --> 00:03:26.379
Schedulings. Yeah, well, I'm saying, like, I

00:03:26.379 --> 00:03:28.939
want this to be like a specialty thing for ATTF,

00:03:28.979 --> 00:03:31.599
something that you guys are going to want to

00:03:31.599 --> 00:03:37.199
listen to. every once in a while kind of thing.

00:03:38.060 --> 00:03:40.159
I'm not going to sit here and say we're doing

00:03:40.159 --> 00:03:42.240
this every single week because we're not. I'll

00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:44.500
tell you that right now. I want this to be one

00:03:44.500 --> 00:03:46.680
of those kind of limited edition kind of things.

00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:51.240
But I think it's going to be fun. Some of the

00:03:51.240 --> 00:03:55.919
questions that I've come up with, you know, what

00:03:55.919 --> 00:03:58.580
Transformers generation is your generation and

00:03:58.580 --> 00:04:04.349
why? I laughed. Which generation is my generation?

00:04:05.349 --> 00:04:07.930
Well, obviously, yeah, we'll talk about that

00:04:07.930 --> 00:04:09.270
a little bit. But I'm just saying I'm giving

00:04:09.270 --> 00:04:13.490
people a preview here. One of the more interesting

00:04:13.490 --> 00:04:15.849
questions that I thought I came up with was number

00:04:15.849 --> 00:04:18.509
five. Growing up, did your friends ever pretend

00:04:18.509 --> 00:04:21.870
to play Transformers at, say, school recess or

00:04:21.870 --> 00:04:27.170
something like that? So essentially, folks, you

00:04:27.170 --> 00:04:29.670
know, before live action role play was actually

00:04:29.670 --> 00:04:32.970
called live action role play. Because I do remember

00:04:32.970 --> 00:04:37.089
at recess, all of my friends and I saying, oh,

00:04:37.110 --> 00:04:39.089
no, I'm this character. No, I'm that character.

00:04:41.990 --> 00:04:48.910
Another question that we have on here. Was there

00:04:48.910 --> 00:04:51.009
ever a moment in your life where you were through

00:04:51.009 --> 00:04:53.230
with everything Transformers? Because we've all

00:04:53.230 --> 00:05:01.240
had those moments. Yeah. Yeah. Another interesting

00:05:01.240 --> 00:05:02.860
one that I think is going to be a lot of fun

00:05:02.860 --> 00:05:05.899
for people. What is your Transformers personal

00:05:05.899 --> 00:05:09.399
anthem song? So whether you relate to the touch

00:05:09.399 --> 00:05:14.680
or dare or some other form of the music from

00:05:14.680 --> 00:05:16.500
any of the generations, so that kind of thing.

00:05:16.579 --> 00:05:20.000
So it's going to be an interesting, interesting

00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:24.360
thing. As I said, for us here, because we're

00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:27.079
doing this more discussion style than question

00:05:27.079 --> 00:05:31.620
and answer style. I think the earliest I remember

00:05:31.620 --> 00:05:37.720
was 85. I think it was 85 that I remember really

00:05:37.720 --> 00:05:42.579
watching Transformers. I remember having a lot

00:05:42.579 --> 00:05:47.879
of the toys. The sad thing is, I remember, and

00:05:47.879 --> 00:05:51.120
I can't believe I'm about to say this, and it's

00:05:51.120 --> 00:05:53.379
not because they came first, but it's because

00:05:53.379 --> 00:05:57.009
I was... Crazy four - and five -year -old. I

00:05:57.009 --> 00:06:01.209
actually was into GoBots before Transformers.

00:06:01.370 --> 00:06:05.110
If anyone has listened to ATTF or TFG1 or any

00:06:05.110 --> 00:06:07.610
of the other podcasts on GCRN over the last seven

00:06:07.610 --> 00:06:09.790
years, seven, almost eight years now, you'll

00:06:09.790 --> 00:06:13.490
know I am very anti -GoBots at this point. But

00:06:13.490 --> 00:06:18.189
I remember having LeaderOne, PsyKill, all that

00:06:18.189 --> 00:06:21.389
stuff. And what I used to do is... You remember

00:06:21.389 --> 00:06:24.720
those old giant metal Tonka trucks? Oh, yeah,

00:06:24.759 --> 00:06:28.620
I loved that stinking thing. Right. So I had

00:06:28.620 --> 00:06:33.660
a Tonka dump truck, and I had a Tonka backhoe

00:06:33.660 --> 00:06:36.600
and a Tonka crane. So I had three giant metal

00:06:36.600 --> 00:06:39.279
Tonka things. So I would take the GoBots and

00:06:39.279 --> 00:06:41.600
have them, you know, place them all over various

00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:46.220
things and whatever else on those. But for Transformers,

00:06:46.259 --> 00:06:52.579
it... 85 is probably the first I can remember

00:06:52.579 --> 00:06:56.300
because, I mean, I remember 84, but it wasn't

00:06:56.300 --> 00:07:01.180
until 85 until I hit syndication that I had really

00:07:01.180 --> 00:07:03.759
started to see and catch up. And I watched the

00:07:03.759 --> 00:07:07.360
episodes all out of order because I did not,

00:07:07.439 --> 00:07:11.060
I was too young to be paying attention to air

00:07:11.060 --> 00:07:15.220
dates. I just knew at 6 or 6 .30 in the morning

00:07:15.220 --> 00:07:17.259
before school, I could go into my mom's room

00:07:17.259 --> 00:07:19.589
or I can go into the living room and watch. 30

00:07:19.589 --> 00:07:21.310
minutes of Transformers before I had to dash

00:07:21.310 --> 00:07:29.290
out the door to catch the bus. So, yeah, I was

00:07:29.290 --> 00:07:32.790
five years old at that point, and you weren't

00:07:32.790 --> 00:07:35.170
even around yet. I wish a twink was in the eye.

00:07:36.050 --> 00:07:39.170
Yes. You're a little sparkling in the eye of

00:07:39.170 --> 00:07:42.490
your parents. Yeah, I was born in 80. Steve was

00:07:42.490 --> 00:07:48.060
born in 86. So, yeah. Steve came into it a little

00:07:48.060 --> 00:07:51.420
bit late. I would say Generation 1 is my generation,

00:07:51.639 --> 00:07:57.959
but over the years, I have become a fan of most,

00:07:58.060 --> 00:08:01.839
if not all of, with a few exceptions, of the

00:08:01.839 --> 00:08:06.000
US -based release Transformers generations. So,

00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:11.430
G1, Beast Wars, Beast Machines. animated prime

00:08:11.430 --> 00:08:16.930
that kind of stuff where i shy off is like rid

00:08:16.930 --> 00:08:20.949
and energon and cybertron and and then for me

00:08:20.949 --> 00:08:23.350
personally it's and people will know this because

00:08:23.350 --> 00:08:26.829
i've said this for years if it's not spoken in

00:08:26.829 --> 00:08:29.230
english i won't watch it so any of the japanese

00:08:29.230 --> 00:08:31.709
stuff that happened i did not watch any of that

00:08:31.709 --> 00:08:35.769
stuff so that's just not for me uh what was your

00:08:35.769 --> 00:08:44.039
first memory Of Transformers. Surprisingly, do

00:08:44.039 --> 00:08:49.019
you remember the UPN Power Block? Yep. Yeah,

00:08:49.100 --> 00:08:54.220
that was my introduction to Transformers. And

00:08:54.220 --> 00:08:59.139
in doing so, I got to see shows like G .I. Joe

00:08:59.139 --> 00:09:04.139
Extreme, Beast Wars. I can't remember. I think

00:09:04.139 --> 00:09:08.559
Reboot was in that block. and then they had uh

00:09:08.559 --> 00:09:11.059
you know it was kind of a rotating panel for

00:09:11.059 --> 00:09:15.120
the other one like shadow raiders or uh um there

00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:17.120
was another show that they had cycling in there

00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:21.480
um it wasn't mask it was the uh like revoltech

00:09:21.480 --> 00:09:24.980
or something like that something like that it

00:09:24.980 --> 00:09:30.600
was it had like a mask vibe to it um but uh yeah

00:09:30.600 --> 00:09:32.779
that was my my initial and i remember catching

00:09:32.779 --> 00:09:36.509
the very first episode of beast wars television

00:09:36.509 --> 00:09:40.750
and I was like hmm what is this because it was

00:09:40.750 --> 00:09:43.710
animals and I was like this is pretty cool and

00:09:43.710 --> 00:09:50.809
I had no real knowledge of Transformers prior

00:09:50.809 --> 00:09:55.049
to that but shortly thereafter I mean I caught

00:09:55.049 --> 00:09:56.909
episodes here or there but it wasn't really a

00:09:56.909 --> 00:10:02.250
staple of things to watch but my parents were

00:10:02.250 --> 00:10:06.009
at the time uh, going through a divorce and everything

00:10:06.009 --> 00:10:10.509
else. And, uh, I ended up catching on the sci

00:10:10.509 --> 00:10:14.730
-fi channel. Um, they had the amp animation block,

00:10:14.950 --> 00:10:17.629
um, that played on there. And it was kind of

00:10:17.629 --> 00:10:20.669
like this goofy, weird, uh, claymation thing

00:10:20.669 --> 00:10:23.929
that they had going with, uh, a space reel of,

00:10:23.990 --> 00:10:26.669
of film going on the space station and, uh, show

00:10:26.669 --> 00:10:28.769
transformers generation one. And I got to see

00:10:28.769 --> 00:10:31.429
various episodes between season one, two, and

00:10:31.429 --> 00:10:36.769
three. Um, And I was pretty much hooked after

00:10:36.769 --> 00:10:40.629
that. And so when we would go to my dad's house,

00:10:40.690 --> 00:10:42.730
we would watch, you know, we would go to the

00:10:42.730 --> 00:10:45.549
video store, rent some movies usually. And kids'

00:10:45.610 --> 00:10:48.490
stuff was typically free. So we went to the Transformers

00:10:48.490 --> 00:10:53.549
and we rented a lot of those. Rented the movie.

00:10:55.370 --> 00:11:01.830
Learned how to bootleg a VHS. Which is more time

00:11:01.830 --> 00:11:05.409
-consuming than you would think. Yeah, I remember.

00:11:05.490 --> 00:11:06.850
Because, you know, you have to actually rewind

00:11:06.850 --> 00:11:08.690
them and then play them and then hit the record

00:11:08.690 --> 00:11:10.269
button. Kind of like what you would do if you

00:11:10.269 --> 00:11:12.490
ripped a cassette to a computer. Oh, wait, I've

00:11:12.490 --> 00:11:16.090
done that recently. Yes. Like an audio cassette.

00:11:16.929 --> 00:11:21.110
Yeah. Because they don't make them on CD or MP3.

00:11:24.639 --> 00:11:26.860
So, yeah, I mean, I remember doing that stuff

00:11:26.860 --> 00:11:29.259
and watching the crap out of it. And then, you

00:11:29.259 --> 00:11:31.139
know, I got more hooked into Beast Wars, of course.

00:11:31.159 --> 00:11:34.419
And then I kind of pigeonholed from there, started

00:11:34.419 --> 00:11:38.559
getting the toys. And, yeah, it started with

00:11:38.559 --> 00:11:40.559
watching it on the UPN PowerBlock, though. And

00:11:40.559 --> 00:11:45.879
that was kind of the main go -to for me. Yeah,

00:11:45.919 --> 00:11:51.539
I... For me, it was all about Generation 1. It

00:11:51.539 --> 00:11:54.809
was all about... That first generation, it was

00:11:54.809 --> 00:11:59.070
all about Optimus, Megatron, Soundwave, Blaster,

00:11:59.149 --> 00:12:05.090
Jazz, Cliffjumper, Ironhide, Hound. It was all

00:12:05.090 --> 00:12:10.570
about that stuff. And I had... I had a lot of

00:12:10.570 --> 00:12:12.629
Transformers toys, but there were a lot that

00:12:12.629 --> 00:12:15.309
I didn't have. There's a lot I still don't have

00:12:15.309 --> 00:12:17.210
because I've gotten rid of them over the years.

00:12:17.350 --> 00:12:19.710
Well, yeah, I know, I know, but I'm saying as

00:12:19.710 --> 00:12:26.149
a kid, I had an amalgamation of toys. I had Castle

00:12:26.149 --> 00:12:29.730
Grayskull with various He -Man figures. I had

00:12:29.730 --> 00:12:35.860
Thundercats. I had Mask. I had... batman stuff

00:12:35.860 --> 00:12:38.259
i had superman stuff i had spider -man stuff

00:12:38.259 --> 00:12:45.100
and then i had transformers and i don't know

00:12:45.100 --> 00:12:49.980
why but my mom would only she only bought me

00:12:49.980 --> 00:12:53.659
blaster and don't get me wrong i love blaster

00:12:53.659 --> 00:12:56.080
and his cassettes but i mean come on soundwave

00:12:56.080 --> 00:12:58.639
is where it's really at people i had a soundwave

00:12:58.639 --> 00:13:03.350
but we went to a uh um Right around the time

00:13:03.350 --> 00:13:05.210
that we started getting into Transformers, we

00:13:05.210 --> 00:13:09.389
went to a comic shop that was local to us. It

00:13:09.389 --> 00:13:13.389
was about a 45 -minute drive, but my stepdad

00:13:13.389 --> 00:13:16.679
was like... I wouldn't say geeky, but he was

00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:19.220
a collector and he liked like Marvel comics and

00:13:19.220 --> 00:13:22.120
he liked Star Wars and he got into a little bit

00:13:22.120 --> 00:13:25.799
of Transformers because of us. And so we went

00:13:25.799 --> 00:13:27.779
out there and he would look for, you know, Marvel

00:13:27.779 --> 00:13:29.879
figures and some comics that he was missing for

00:13:29.879 --> 00:13:34.740
his collection. And we would look for Transformers

00:13:34.740 --> 00:13:36.980
through these like junk boxes of stuff that people

00:13:36.980 --> 00:13:39.299
just traded in. And of course, you know, the

00:13:39.299 --> 00:13:41.360
early days of the internet, we really knew what

00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:45.970
we were looking for. It was a lot harder to research

00:13:45.970 --> 00:13:48.429
back then, but we knew what we were looking for

00:13:48.429 --> 00:13:51.529
and what iteration it was, which was even more

00:13:51.529 --> 00:13:55.909
interesting. Yeah, you want to talk about early,

00:13:56.070 --> 00:13:58.669
you know, you want to talk about being able to

00:13:58.669 --> 00:14:00.730
find stuff. See, that's the thing, like, and

00:14:00.730 --> 00:14:02.549
again, the age difference between the two of

00:14:02.549 --> 00:14:05.450
us is going to come into play here, folks. We

00:14:05.450 --> 00:14:09.960
used the JCPenney and Sears wish books. to find

00:14:09.960 --> 00:14:13.159
out oh i used that for batman and ninja turtles

00:14:13.159 --> 00:14:15.799
so well yeah yeah but but that's what i'm saying

00:14:15.799 --> 00:14:18.620
is like you know we grew up in an era where like

00:14:18.620 --> 00:14:21.700
kids nowadays you can go on their parents can

00:14:21.700 --> 00:14:24.120
go online and look for any toy that they want

00:14:24.120 --> 00:14:26.639
i know there was there was jc pennies and sears

00:14:26.639 --> 00:14:29.419
and it was like uh or you go to toys r us or

00:14:29.419 --> 00:14:31.840
uh they had this place called like kids castle

00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:33.940
or kids palace or something like that at the

00:14:33.940 --> 00:14:38.009
time yeah up in new england we had um We had

00:14:38.009 --> 00:14:41.149
two competing stores and sadly one lost, obviously.

00:14:41.210 --> 00:14:44.909
We had Toys R Us and we had a store called Child

00:14:44.909 --> 00:14:47.789
World. Child World was exclusive to Massachusetts.

00:14:48.950 --> 00:14:52.850
They went out of business, obviously. But I always

00:14:52.850 --> 00:14:57.070
preferred Child World over Toys R Us. Toys R

00:14:57.070 --> 00:15:01.450
Us was just, it was the overpriced giraffe that

00:15:01.450 --> 00:15:04.470
ate everybody up. It's not even the fact that

00:15:04.470 --> 00:15:07.649
Toys R Us stuff was overpriced. It was just the

00:15:07.649 --> 00:15:12.090
fact that it was too damn big. I mean, there

00:15:12.090 --> 00:15:18.269
was too much stuff. I would go through and look

00:15:18.269 --> 00:15:21.429
at various Transformers and things like that,

00:15:21.549 --> 00:15:24.690
and for me, growing up as a kid in the G1 era,

00:15:25.799 --> 00:15:29.679
There's nothing like the G1 packagings for the

00:15:29.679 --> 00:15:34.620
toys. Oh, I realize that because you remember

00:15:34.620 --> 00:15:39.980
KB Toys? Yep. I used to go to those because we

00:15:39.980 --> 00:15:42.159
had one in each mall and we have two malls in

00:15:42.159 --> 00:15:45.519
our city. And they unfortunately had gone out

00:15:45.519 --> 00:15:49.799
of business. But what was fun about it this one

00:15:49.799 --> 00:15:56.250
particular time was I went. On this one weekend,

00:15:56.450 --> 00:16:00.570
and no, it was after school. That's what it was,

00:16:00.629 --> 00:16:03.610
because it stuck with me all these years. They

00:16:03.610 --> 00:16:08.529
had the entire Generation 2 line, entire, on

00:16:08.529 --> 00:16:14.509
an entire aisle at KB. Wow. And I'm sitting there

00:16:14.509 --> 00:16:16.429
looking at everything, and I'm just losing it.

00:16:16.879 --> 00:16:20.200
and uh i find optimus prime i find megatron i

00:16:20.200 --> 00:16:22.820
find you know like various combiners i start

00:16:22.820 --> 00:16:25.039
finding you know all different versions of everything

00:16:25.039 --> 00:16:28.399
and because it was like i didn't know it was

00:16:28.399 --> 00:16:34.139
the premiere clearance section um because we

00:16:34.139 --> 00:16:37.019
went back two days later there was not a transformer

00:16:37.019 --> 00:16:40.840
in the store and i didn't have any money on me

00:16:40.840 --> 00:16:43.240
i had it at home and they're like well you should

00:16:43.240 --> 00:16:45.159
have carried your wallet with your money in it

00:16:45.639 --> 00:16:48.600
And I was like, I was at school and they're like,

00:16:48.679 --> 00:16:50.940
yeah, I guess you're not getting it. So we went

00:16:50.940 --> 00:16:53.360
back two days later to buy it with, um, with

00:16:53.360 --> 00:16:56.120
my dad and, uh, I had my money and there was

00:16:56.120 --> 00:17:00.379
nothing. And I was so mad. Um, but we ended up

00:17:00.379 --> 00:17:02.919
going to the, that, that comic shop again and

00:17:02.919 --> 00:17:05.619
bought, um, we were digging through the boxes

00:17:05.619 --> 00:17:07.660
and this guy had like tons of this stuff, like,

00:17:07.680 --> 00:17:11.359
um, in, in cases and everything. And, uh, we

00:17:11.359 --> 00:17:14.819
were looking through it all and we, We've got

00:17:14.819 --> 00:17:17.700
ourselves, like, I found a pretty much complete,

00:17:17.920 --> 00:17:20.440
actually it was complete in pretty decent condition,

00:17:20.599 --> 00:17:24.779
of Generation 2 Optimus Prime. I found a G1 Optimus

00:17:24.779 --> 00:17:27.599
Prime that was, like, missing hands and kind

00:17:27.599 --> 00:17:32.059
of damaged. I found a Soundwave. And then I didn't

00:17:32.059 --> 00:17:33.960
really pick any other figures up because I just

00:17:33.960 --> 00:17:36.779
didn't care. I was going for the big shots. Right.

00:17:38.880 --> 00:17:42.579
My brothers went for the Bumblebee, the Constructicons,

00:17:42.579 --> 00:17:46.880
Skywarp, Thundercracker, and stuff like that.

00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:51.900
I didn't care. We went to Florida later in the

00:17:51.900 --> 00:17:54.359
next year, and I ended up getting the G2 Megatron

00:17:54.359 --> 00:18:00.279
for $2 at a flea market. I still have it. It's

00:18:00.279 --> 00:18:03.920
missing the bullets and the gun and whatnot,

00:18:04.099 --> 00:18:07.180
but I still have it. The only G2 figure I have

00:18:07.180 --> 00:18:09.140
because I sold all the rest of the stuff at one

00:18:09.140 --> 00:18:10.980
point because I went so broke I had to get rid

00:18:10.980 --> 00:18:14.960
of it all. Right. But I don't even have a Generation

00:18:14.960 --> 00:18:17.420
1, actual Generation 1 figure anymore because

00:18:17.420 --> 00:18:20.980
I've gotten the Generations or the Masterpiece

00:18:20.980 --> 00:18:24.680
because they're so much more detailed now that

00:18:24.680 --> 00:18:27.079
I just can't see. I mean, I understand it from

00:18:27.079 --> 00:18:29.359
a nostalgia and from, yes, I had this kind of

00:18:29.359 --> 00:18:31.440
viewpoint, but being I didn't grow up with them.

00:18:32.539 --> 00:18:35.000
It can't hold that much of an attachment to me.

00:18:35.039 --> 00:18:38.539
Whereas Beast Wars, it killed me to get rid of

00:18:38.539 --> 00:18:42.839
my Optimal Optimus recently. Among other figures,

00:18:42.920 --> 00:18:45.119
I still can't get rid of my Transmetal 2 Megatron

00:18:45.119 --> 00:18:49.400
because that was the first toy that I actually

00:18:49.400 --> 00:18:51.700
went out with my own money and bought, not just

00:18:51.700 --> 00:18:55.980
received for Christmas or my birthday. And it's

00:18:55.980 --> 00:18:59.819
Megatron, so it's the only Beast Wars figure

00:18:59.819 --> 00:19:03.160
I have. I shouldn't say that. I have the Rat

00:19:03.160 --> 00:19:05.599
Trap, Waspinator, and Dinobot from the Generations

00:19:05.599 --> 00:19:08.740
line, but soon I'll have Masterpiece Optimus

00:19:08.740 --> 00:19:14.160
Primal to join. I haven't subscribed to that

00:19:14.160 --> 00:19:16.920
one yet. I've got to see how the funds are doing.

00:19:17.380 --> 00:19:22.759
I'm really holding off because I have a feeling

00:19:22.759 --> 00:19:27.089
Megatron is down the pipe. Yeah. Um, and I'm

00:19:27.089 --> 00:19:29.430
really wanting a Megatron that's fully detailed.

00:19:29.690 --> 00:19:33.230
Um, cause I, in, in the near future, like, cause

00:19:33.230 --> 00:19:36.990
my, my stepdad bought and he's planning on offloading

00:19:36.990 --> 00:19:39.450
like a lot of his collection stuff. Um, and a

00:19:39.450 --> 00:19:41.430
lot of his transformers and a lot of his comics

00:19:41.430 --> 00:19:44.390
and a lot of that stuff. Um, just now, just because

00:19:44.390 --> 00:19:45.849
he doesn't want to hold onto it and has nothing

00:19:45.849 --> 00:19:50.190
to display it at. Um, and he bought what, what's

00:19:50.190 --> 00:19:53.630
funny is the original, um, Optimus Primal that

00:19:53.630 --> 00:19:56.299
he got. And I'm sorry for, controlling the conversation

00:19:56.299 --> 00:19:59.440
here but no it's really good um but the the original

00:19:59.440 --> 00:20:02.519
optimus primal that he has which is the the the

00:20:02.519 --> 00:20:06.720
gorilla yeah i traded it when i was younger because

00:20:06.720 --> 00:20:09.039
he gave me the option we we had these chore charts

00:20:09.039 --> 00:20:13.740
and i could get the transmittal optimus primal

00:20:13.740 --> 00:20:17.940
if i traded him my old optimus primal right so

00:20:17.940 --> 00:20:20.079
i traded him so i could get the transmittal optimus

00:20:20.079 --> 00:20:22.039
primal well i've since gotten rid of that too

00:20:22.039 --> 00:20:24.940
but He's still got my original Optimus Primal,

00:20:25.000 --> 00:20:27.700
which is not even comparative to the Masterpiece

00:20:27.700 --> 00:20:34.539
one. Yeah. As a kid, I used to... At one point,

00:20:34.559 --> 00:20:36.880
I got an allowance, but at another point, we

00:20:36.880 --> 00:20:41.400
used a token system. So, you know the generic

00:20:41.400 --> 00:20:44.460
red, white, and blue poker chips you can get?

00:20:44.599 --> 00:20:50.819
Oh, yeah. White was $1. Blue was $5. Red was

00:20:50.819 --> 00:20:56.849
$10. whatever various things or behaviors i did

00:20:56.849 --> 00:21:01.609
well or chores or whatever i could amass however

00:21:01.609 --> 00:21:08.029
many tokens you know like if i did you know if

00:21:08.029 --> 00:21:09.769
i opened the door for somebody that would be

00:21:10.329 --> 00:21:14.009
you know one white chip or if i wash the dishes

00:21:14.009 --> 00:21:16.829
without being asked or if i you know what you

00:21:16.829 --> 00:21:18.769
know whatever it is if i took the trash out or

00:21:18.769 --> 00:21:20.630
what you know whatever it was or if i cleaned

00:21:20.630 --> 00:21:24.009
my room i would get various chips and i could

00:21:24.009 --> 00:21:26.670
save them up and essentially i would you know

00:21:26.670 --> 00:21:29.130
find stuff whether it's in the wish books or

00:21:29.130 --> 00:21:33.569
whether i saw i had on tv or whatever and i would

00:21:33.569 --> 00:21:36.250
then go to my mom and say okay here's this many

00:21:36.250 --> 00:21:39.650
tokens let's go to the toy store so i can get

00:21:40.619 --> 00:21:44.859
Whatever it was that her monetary value to each

00:21:44.859 --> 00:21:48.140
of those that... I remember going through various

00:21:48.140 --> 00:21:55.579
toy stores as a kid, and for the longest time

00:21:55.579 --> 00:21:58.599
between the time I was 4 and 84 and the time

00:21:58.599 --> 00:22:01.839
I was 7 and 87, pretty much the whole run of

00:22:01.839 --> 00:22:07.269
the G1 series. It was all Transformers. I mean,

00:22:07.289 --> 00:22:09.390
yeah, I was still getting He -Man toys and that

00:22:09.390 --> 00:22:11.190
kind of stuff, but every time that I would go

00:22:11.190 --> 00:22:13.630
to the store, I would be looking for Transformers.

00:22:14.250 --> 00:22:19.029
And it wasn't until... I don't know if it's still

00:22:19.029 --> 00:22:21.230
there. There used to be a store up north in Massachusetts

00:22:21.230 --> 00:22:24.410
called Benny's. I'm sure people have heard about

00:22:24.410 --> 00:22:27.750
this store, but it's kind of like Big Lots, but

00:22:27.750 --> 00:22:34.799
it wasn't Big Lots. I don't know. In 87... Two

00:22:34.799 --> 00:22:38.259
of those stores in Massachusetts had, or not

00:22:38.259 --> 00:22:40.500
87, I should say 88, because the toys didn't

00:22:40.500 --> 00:22:44.579
hit until 88, in 88 had the Turtles toys. So

00:22:44.579 --> 00:22:49.000
by the end of 87, going into 88, I was kind of

00:22:49.000 --> 00:22:51.140
done with the whole Transformers thing and ready

00:22:51.140 --> 00:22:53.220
to go on to Turtles. But for me, going through

00:22:53.220 --> 00:22:56.329
the store and looking for Transformers, I was

00:22:56.329 --> 00:22:58.529
really looking for the biggest and the most expensive

00:22:58.529 --> 00:23:00.569
ones, even if they weren't characters that I

00:23:00.569 --> 00:23:04.049
did. Like, I remember getting the Constructicon

00:23:04.049 --> 00:23:08.170
gift set, but I don't think I ever made Devastator.

00:23:08.170 --> 00:23:11.569
I think I transformed the guys back and forth,

00:23:11.589 --> 00:23:13.490
back and forth, but I don't think I ever built

00:23:13.490 --> 00:23:16.750
Devastator as a kid. I mentioned earlier about

00:23:16.750 --> 00:23:18.769
Blaster and his cassettes. While I love those

00:23:18.769 --> 00:23:22.390
guys... As I said earlier, Soundwave was where

00:23:22.390 --> 00:23:24.690
it was at. So I had Blaster in his cassettes.

00:23:24.690 --> 00:23:27.970
My buddy Jonathan at the time, Jonathan Bond,

00:23:28.329 --> 00:23:36.210
had Soundwave in his cassettes. This was my best

00:23:36.210 --> 00:23:38.529
friend growing up. Old Jerk would never let me

00:23:38.529 --> 00:23:43.029
play with Soundwave. Hey, don't worry. If you

00:23:43.029 --> 00:23:45.390
were my best friend as a kid, I wouldn't have

00:23:45.390 --> 00:23:49.299
either. Because I never give up the command of

00:23:49.299 --> 00:23:56.380
my leading bots. But, no, I, like, yeah, funny

00:23:56.380 --> 00:23:58.660
you should say that, because, like, I always

00:23:58.660 --> 00:24:01.359
head -to -head the leaders. And for you, it's

00:24:01.359 --> 00:24:04.019
a little different. Okay, so, again, behind the

00:24:04.019 --> 00:24:06.640
scenes here, folks, I'm an only child. Steve

00:24:06.640 --> 00:24:09.059
has three brothers, so talk about that a little.

00:24:09.240 --> 00:24:11.839
Well, okay, yeah, there's three. Two brothers.

00:24:12.670 --> 00:24:15.029
Steve has two brothers, so talk about that a

00:24:15.029 --> 00:24:17.849
little bit. Like, how is that dynamic between

00:24:17.849 --> 00:24:21.230
you and your brothers and your all's toys? I

00:24:21.230 --> 00:24:25.730
kind of was the Megatron of the group. Meaning,

00:24:25.930 --> 00:24:28.309
I was the dictator. I told them what they could

00:24:28.309 --> 00:24:34.670
have. Which one was Starscream? Nobody. I was

00:24:34.670 --> 00:24:39.019
also Starscream. Oh, come on! You can't be both!

00:24:39.019 --> 00:24:44.859
I traded on them all. But it sometimes bit me.

00:24:46.160 --> 00:24:48.779
I ended up with... I had every Optimus and Megatron.

00:24:50.599 --> 00:24:53.019
Literally every... I would not let them have

00:24:53.019 --> 00:24:55.519
them. Same thing with Star Trek characters. I

00:24:55.519 --> 00:24:58.000
had the Captain Kirks. I had the Captain Picards.

00:24:58.779 --> 00:25:01.500
I did not let them have the leaders. I was the

00:25:01.500 --> 00:25:05.109
leader, always. Which was kind of a... crappy

00:25:05.109 --> 00:25:09.650
thing to do but um that's just kind of how my

00:25:09.650 --> 00:25:11.990
personality was and it's still kind of that way

00:25:11.990 --> 00:25:14.450
i have a hard time with it but i'm being humbled

00:25:14.450 --> 00:25:17.890
the more i have kids growing older um because

00:25:17.890 --> 00:25:22.230
i have to let them do that and uh kind of grow

00:25:22.230 --> 00:25:25.789
into that themselves and not be overbearing and

00:25:25.789 --> 00:25:28.970
push them over um like i did when i was a kid

00:25:28.970 --> 00:25:31.390
and it's sometimes hard to differentiate that

00:25:31.390 --> 00:25:35.170
uh when you're playing with toys And, uh, cause

00:25:35.170 --> 00:25:37.230
like even, you know, Batman, I'm always Batman

00:25:37.230 --> 00:25:39.829
and Joker. Like there's no, there's no compromise.

00:25:39.910 --> 00:25:42.650
I'm always the leader. Um, and of both sides.

00:25:43.130 --> 00:25:46.710
Um, so like my brothers, um, like Brian would

00:25:46.710 --> 00:25:50.109
have like sky, he loves sky warp and he loves

00:25:50.109 --> 00:25:52.289
sound wave. Of course I had sound waves. So he

00:25:52.289 --> 00:25:55.369
had blaster, um, which he did end up fixing his,

00:25:55.390 --> 00:25:57.329
the door never opened when we got it from that

00:25:57.329 --> 00:26:01.109
used store. And he fixed it and got it to work.

00:26:01.230 --> 00:26:07.109
But he got Skywarp. He got various other characters.

00:26:07.269 --> 00:26:10.210
He had Bumblebee. He had Hubcap. Because we also

00:26:10.210 --> 00:26:12.269
got Machine Wars figures, too, because it was

00:26:12.269 --> 00:26:17.210
a KB exclusive. And he got Sandstorm and stuff

00:26:17.210 --> 00:26:19.369
like that. And I opted, when we went Machine

00:26:19.369 --> 00:26:23.710
Wars, to get Megatron Starscream and Soundwave.

00:26:23.890 --> 00:26:28.359
I did not get any of the others. And again, Brian

00:26:28.359 --> 00:26:31.660
got Sandstorm and Hubcap and guys like that.

00:26:32.039 --> 00:26:34.680
And then some of the Cyberjets. And Kevin got

00:26:34.680 --> 00:26:38.019
the Primes. Basically, if it wasn't Beast Wars

00:26:38.019 --> 00:26:41.779
or if it wasn't Generation 1, Kevin got the Optimus

00:26:41.779 --> 00:26:46.339
Primes. And I always... It didn't matter. I always

00:26:46.339 --> 00:26:50.099
had the Megatrons. But he got those. He'd get

00:26:50.099 --> 00:26:54.960
the Ultra Magnuses. He'd get the... He was basically

00:26:54.960 --> 00:26:59.140
the only one I would let. get leader class figures

00:26:59.140 --> 00:27:03.720
of you know like um he got this if he got a megatron

00:27:03.720 --> 00:27:06.859
it was megaplex that's what we called him like

00:27:06.859 --> 00:27:09.599
he was megatron's clone which wasn't far off

00:27:09.599 --> 00:27:12.960
because the machine wars figure megaplex was

00:27:12.960 --> 00:27:15.799
a repaint of the megatron jet and it was supposed

00:27:15.799 --> 00:27:20.559
to be a clone of megatron and so when he got

00:27:20.559 --> 00:27:23.740
the alligator megatron we called him megaplex

00:27:23.740 --> 00:27:27.619
because i had all the other megatrons Um, so

00:27:27.619 --> 00:27:32.660
in, in, uh, somehow captain Kirk would end up

00:27:32.660 --> 00:27:36.680
coming in and destroying them all. But, um, the,

00:27:36.859 --> 00:27:40.460
uh, yeah, I mean, so like, and then Kevin got

00:27:40.460 --> 00:27:43.460
like rampage and Brian got depth charge. I wanted

00:27:43.460 --> 00:27:45.839
both of those figures and they're like, they're

00:27:45.839 --> 00:27:49.859
like, you have a choice. And I was like, huh?

00:27:50.059 --> 00:27:51.680
And they're like, you can either get optimal

00:27:51.680 --> 00:27:56.359
optimus. and not get the other two or you can

00:27:56.359 --> 00:27:59.099
get one of the other two and they get optimal

00:27:59.099 --> 00:28:03.339
optimus and i was like no and then so they got

00:28:03.339 --> 00:28:07.140
to have the other ones um and then because my

00:28:07.140 --> 00:28:10.460
parents were separated i was i buy whatever i

00:28:10.460 --> 00:28:13.180
didn't have at the other house at the opposite

00:28:13.180 --> 00:28:15.660
house and then i would buy the same toy again

00:28:15.660 --> 00:28:18.359
so i actually had doubles of certain figures

00:28:18.359 --> 00:28:21.099
um because it didn't matter i could get whatever

00:28:21.099 --> 00:28:25.619
i wanted um at the opposite house So long as,

00:28:25.740 --> 00:28:29.680
you know, my money didn't run out. Exactly. But,

00:28:29.700 --> 00:28:32.799
you know, I mean, it was a struggle to play that

00:28:32.799 --> 00:28:37.099
way for a while. And I was kind of a dick about

00:28:37.099 --> 00:28:43.759
it. And I regret some of it. Because, like, even

00:28:43.759 --> 00:28:47.160
the Legos. I did that with Legos, too. I would

00:28:47.160 --> 00:28:51.200
build Transformer Legos. I built a Stasis Pod.

00:28:51.299 --> 00:28:56.480
I built the Ark. I built the Axalon. Just the

00:28:56.480 --> 00:28:59.880
command centers, not the whole shit. I had at

00:28:59.880 --> 00:29:03.579
one point about 20 different Generation 1 Transformers.

00:29:03.680 --> 00:29:07.259
They didn't transform, but until later on, I

00:29:07.259 --> 00:29:10.619
created this jet. It was actually cloned off

00:29:10.619 --> 00:29:13.720
of Brian's Starflame character he created, which

00:29:13.720 --> 00:29:17.420
was supposed to be a clone of Skywarp. Much like

00:29:17.420 --> 00:29:22.480
the Starscream thing that happens later. and

00:29:22.480 --> 00:29:26.059
animated but um i i made it actually transform

00:29:26.059 --> 00:29:29.980
and i made mine twice the size of his enough

00:29:29.980 --> 00:29:33.799
so that i had a lot of the special pieces hidden

00:29:33.799 --> 00:29:38.119
inside the limbs um and i used a lot of them

00:29:38.119 --> 00:29:41.200
on him so when i actually uh broke that figure

00:29:41.200 --> 00:29:44.740
out about a year ago that lego transformer um

00:29:44.740 --> 00:29:47.720
i transformed it one last time for posterity's

00:29:47.720 --> 00:29:52.240
sake um And then I had Ian help me disassemble

00:29:52.240 --> 00:29:56.980
it. I have enough for two large Lego buckets.

00:29:57.880 --> 00:30:01.640
And I have all the special pieces in an extra

00:30:01.640 --> 00:30:06.960
large Ziploc bag. So he's set when he gets old

00:30:06.960 --> 00:30:11.160
enough to play with Legos. But yeah, as far as

00:30:11.160 --> 00:30:14.799
the Transformers though, it was... It didn't

00:30:14.799 --> 00:30:17.019
start out with each one having leaders or having

00:30:17.019 --> 00:30:19.220
other figures, but it was still a struggle to

00:30:19.220 --> 00:30:20.720
figure out who got to play with what and who

00:30:20.720 --> 00:30:24.259
got what figure. We all fought over each other's

00:30:24.259 --> 00:30:27.039
toys. I never cared for the combiners, so of

00:30:27.039 --> 00:30:34.940
course they got those. I think for me, let's

00:30:34.940 --> 00:30:38.200
go into characters. Everyone should know by now.

00:30:38.480 --> 00:30:40.380
If you've been listening to DCRN, if you've been

00:30:40.380 --> 00:30:42.779
listening to ACTF since 2008, everyone should

00:30:42.779 --> 00:30:45.380
know Steve's favorite overall character is Beast

00:30:45.380 --> 00:30:48.920
Wars Megatron. And my favorite overall number

00:30:48.920 --> 00:30:51.740
one character is Hot Rod slash Rodimus Prime.

00:30:52.140 --> 00:30:54.839
So because we're doing this character discussion

00:30:54.839 --> 00:30:57.640
now, we need to leave those off. And for you

00:30:57.640 --> 00:30:59.779
specifically, you can't cheat and use Starscream

00:30:59.779 --> 00:31:03.180
either because I know you love him. But besides

00:31:03.180 --> 00:31:07.920
those two, what would be your end -all, be -all?

00:31:08.349 --> 00:31:10.930
character outside of the ones that you know really

00:31:10.930 --> 00:31:14.829
are oh you mean you're saying like any megatron

00:31:14.829 --> 00:31:21.109
any because like for me it's any welker voiced

00:31:21.109 --> 00:31:25.109
megatron or david k voiced megatron but primarily

00:31:25.109 --> 00:31:28.450
the beast era megatron okay is my number one

00:31:28.450 --> 00:31:32.549
uh my number like and i break down beast wars

00:31:32.549 --> 00:31:34.410
and i break down generation one is like two different

00:31:34.410 --> 00:31:37.150
things They are two different things. Because

00:31:37.150 --> 00:31:41.609
they are. I mean, there was that whole tie -in

00:31:41.609 --> 00:31:44.789
thing, but yeah, no, they are two different things.

00:31:44.809 --> 00:31:49.490
Yeah, but I think it would be better summed up

00:31:49.490 --> 00:31:53.450
if I told you my top three on each. Okay. If

00:31:53.450 --> 00:31:57.470
I were to do Generation 1, it would be Megatron.

00:32:00.309 --> 00:32:05.410
Kind of tied with Optimus Prime. Because, like,

00:32:05.529 --> 00:32:09.569
I don't know, I got this strong affinity for

00:32:09.569 --> 00:32:13.609
both of them. Right. But I would almost say Prime

00:32:13.609 --> 00:32:16.190
is my number one and Megatron is my number two

00:32:16.190 --> 00:32:18.970
on Generation 1. With Starscream being a number

00:32:18.970 --> 00:32:21.170
three and then, like, Soundwave being number

00:32:21.170 --> 00:32:23.750
four. Or, like, if I had to choose an Autobot,

00:32:23.750 --> 00:32:27.960
it would be Ironhide. Right. I don't know why

00:32:27.960 --> 00:32:30.119
I like Ironhide. I just like the color red, and

00:32:30.119 --> 00:32:32.700
I like the fact that he's just kind of a southern,

00:32:32.859 --> 00:32:35.960
you know, and just kind of a smart butt. And

00:32:35.960 --> 00:32:39.660
then, you know, he could almost be Prime's number

00:32:39.660 --> 00:32:46.059
two. Technically, I mean, if Jazz, in the cartoon

00:32:46.059 --> 00:32:50.519
series, if Jazz wasn't the one always, you know,

00:32:50.519 --> 00:32:54.559
giving the commands from Prime, technically Ironhide

00:32:54.559 --> 00:32:57.900
would have been the number two. For the most

00:32:57.900 --> 00:33:01.660
part. For me, outside of Hot Rod, Rodimus Prime,

00:33:01.980 --> 00:33:08.259
and outside of Soundwave, for the Decepticons,

00:33:08.279 --> 00:33:14.359
I gotta go with Galvatron. G1, TFTM, and Season

00:33:14.359 --> 00:33:19.220
3 Galvatron. I like... Season 3 Galvatron, a

00:33:19.220 --> 00:33:22.940
little bit more than movie Galvatron, but that's

00:33:22.940 --> 00:33:26.000
because it was so crazy. And it's Frank Welker

00:33:26.000 --> 00:33:31.059
just being nuts. And it's just so fun. For the

00:33:31.059 --> 00:33:38.619
Autobots, I gotta go with Swoop. I always loved

00:33:38.619 --> 00:33:46.259
Swoop. as a kid, I always loved Michael Bell's

00:33:46.259 --> 00:33:50.339
voice for Swoop, and I just love that character.

00:33:50.619 --> 00:33:53.740
I love all the Dinobots, but if I could only

00:33:53.740 --> 00:33:56.099
pick one, it would be Swoop. Absolutely love

00:33:56.099 --> 00:34:00.319
that guy. Now, as for Beast Wars for me, I don't

00:34:00.319 --> 00:34:02.640
know Megatron's my number one, so that's just

00:34:02.640 --> 00:34:05.440
point taken. Optimus Primal is my number two.

00:34:07.900 --> 00:34:14.199
And I assume a wall, Flower character. Are you

00:34:14.199 --> 00:34:18.320
talking about Tarantulas? No. I'm talking about

00:34:18.320 --> 00:34:22.639
the one that always gets shot to shreds. Waspinator?

00:34:23.019 --> 00:34:29.780
I enjoy him, but he's not my favorite. He'd be

00:34:29.780 --> 00:34:32.159
in my top five for sure. He'd be my number five.

00:34:32.940 --> 00:34:36.659
But I would almost have to say Rat Trap would

00:34:36.659 --> 00:34:40.179
have to be my number three. Just because he's

00:34:40.179 --> 00:34:45.989
so snarky and He's sarcastic. He's belligerent.

00:34:46.889 --> 00:34:48.650
I mean, I know those all fall under the same

00:34:48.650 --> 00:34:53.329
title, but he's also, like, ingenuitive. He can

00:34:53.329 --> 00:34:57.210
figure things out. He's, you know, he's cocky,

00:34:57.210 --> 00:35:00.789
but he knows how to do his job. And then you

00:35:00.789 --> 00:35:07.550
have, I always enjoyed, I mean, I like Tarantulas

00:35:07.550 --> 00:35:14.480
as well. But I also like Tigatron. And it's just

00:35:14.480 --> 00:35:17.099
because he was a more mature version of Cheetor.

00:35:18.159 --> 00:35:22.460
And I like the color palette a lot better. Like

00:35:22.460 --> 00:35:24.699
the white and green. It just kind of fit really

00:35:24.699 --> 00:35:28.219
well. So I always liked his character. And Dinobot

00:35:28.219 --> 00:35:44.440
rules. For me, with Beast Wars, everyone should

00:35:44.440 --> 00:35:47.239
know by now, I'm all about Cheetor and his evolution

00:35:47.239 --> 00:35:49.860
throughout both series, Beast Wars and Beast

00:35:49.860 --> 00:35:51.960
Machines, because he essentially grows up throughout

00:35:51.960 --> 00:35:58.599
both series. Besides Cheetor, on the maximal

00:35:58.599 --> 00:36:08.599
side, it would probably be... Rhinox? Yeah. I

00:36:08.599 --> 00:36:11.380
love Rhinox, and it has nothing to do with the

00:36:11.380 --> 00:36:14.099
low road. It has all to do with dark designs.

00:36:14.159 --> 00:36:20.519
When Rhinox went bad, oh, man. He gave Megatron,

00:36:20.579 --> 00:36:23.639
what, four in dark designs. That was just awesome.

00:36:23.699 --> 00:36:26.079
No, he was, like, watching a horror movie going,

00:36:26.159 --> 00:36:30.019
like, through that. Like, it's like watching

00:36:30.019 --> 00:36:33.400
Hollow Man or something. This guy's picking them

00:36:33.400 --> 00:36:39.000
all off from the inside. Yep. For the Predacons...

00:36:39.000 --> 00:36:43.860
I should have cheated and said Starscream. No.

00:36:44.340 --> 00:36:48.360
And Beast Wars. No. That doesn't count. It's

00:36:48.360 --> 00:36:53.380
his ghost still. I gotta go with Waspinator.

00:36:53.519 --> 00:36:58.420
I just... I just love the way that little bug

00:36:58.420 --> 00:37:04.659
gets squished all the time. Him and finally getting

00:37:04.659 --> 00:37:09.059
his comeuppance at the end, even though they

00:37:09.059 --> 00:37:15.960
still blast him. Out of G1 and Beast Wars, those

00:37:15.960 --> 00:37:20.920
would be my favorites. What? Besides G1 and Beast

00:37:20.920 --> 00:37:26.760
Wars, what other... have you really enjoyed over

00:37:26.760 --> 00:37:31.239
the last 10 or 15 years? Really, the only one

00:37:31.239 --> 00:37:37.559
I've enjoyed has been... Prime. Yeah. And again,

00:37:38.579 --> 00:37:42.679
Megatron is probably my favorite in that. I like

00:37:42.679 --> 00:37:47.019
Prime, but he's not really my favorite until

00:37:47.019 --> 00:37:50.820
he gets the upgrade. Just because I think he's

00:37:50.820 --> 00:37:54.550
kind of a, I don't know, a wimp. uh up until

00:37:54.550 --> 00:37:57.090
that point once he gets like beefed up and ready

00:37:57.090 --> 00:38:00.190
to kick butt then i'm like okay he's good and

00:38:00.190 --> 00:38:06.030
then um but i i would say almost arguably arguably

00:38:06.030 --> 00:38:10.469
before that that i enjoyed that starscream rendition

00:38:10.469 --> 00:38:14.190
right uh even though it's it's different than

00:38:14.190 --> 00:38:20.250
uh than uh chris latta's But it's different in

00:38:20.250 --> 00:38:23.269
a good way because he's not imitating the original.

00:38:23.349 --> 00:38:26.130
He's got a little bit of that squeakiness in

00:38:26.130 --> 00:38:28.929
there and a little bit of that persona, but he's

00:38:28.929 --> 00:38:30.849
not trying to channel the voice to add to the

00:38:30.849 --> 00:38:36.090
persona. So I enjoy that version of Starscream

00:38:36.090 --> 00:38:38.929
a lot more. I enjoy this Megatron because he's

00:38:38.929 --> 00:38:41.369
kind of a cross between, if you mix Beast Wars

00:38:41.369 --> 00:38:46.530
and G1, that's what you get. Because unlike G1,

00:38:46.730 --> 00:38:49.929
his plans for the most part succeeded. Yeah,

00:38:49.949 --> 00:38:52.869
for the most part. Megatron and Beast Wars still

00:38:52.869 --> 00:38:56.510
rules them all for most succeeded plans. Yes.

00:38:56.769 --> 00:39:03.170
But, yeah, and then, I don't know, I kind of

00:39:03.170 --> 00:39:14.090
liked Ratchet in it. In Prime, you mean? Yeah.

00:39:16.000 --> 00:39:18.940
Good old Ratchet in Prime. Good old Jeffrey Combs.

00:39:19.019 --> 00:39:22.760
Yeah, he was pretty awesome. As I said before,

00:39:23.000 --> 00:39:27.940
I liked pretty much all the iterations, but over

00:39:27.940 --> 00:39:31.800
the last, I would say, 10, 15 years, it'd have

00:39:31.800 --> 00:39:35.559
to be animated in Prime. I like RID, but RID

00:39:35.559 --> 00:39:40.500
is more... It's a continuation of Prime, but

00:39:40.500 --> 00:39:44.820
it's more Transformers animated than... Yeah,

00:39:44.860 --> 00:39:49.039
it's more kiddified. And I like Rescue Bots from

00:39:49.039 --> 00:39:52.320
what I've seen of Rescue Bots. Michael Wilson

00:39:52.320 --> 00:39:54.900
and I have talked with Boulder. I think it was

00:39:54.900 --> 00:39:58.579
you and I. No, you and Michael Wilson. I talked

00:39:58.579 --> 00:40:02.440
to Starscream. Yeah, Michael Wilson and I talked

00:40:02.440 --> 00:40:07.179
to Steve Bloom and Amari K. Williams. Amari is

00:40:07.179 --> 00:40:09.579
the voice of Boulder on Rescue Bots. I like those

00:40:09.579 --> 00:40:16.389
shows. Animated for one thing. For two things,

00:40:16.530 --> 00:40:19.809
actually. How they handled Shockwave, because

00:40:19.809 --> 00:40:21.969
that was just epic and awesome. And I remember

00:40:21.969 --> 00:40:26.050
watching the Saturday morning when Shockwave's

00:40:26.050 --> 00:40:28.750
true color... I remember literally almost falling

00:40:28.750 --> 00:40:32.909
out of bed. I like the Beast Wars knockoff episode,

00:40:33.030 --> 00:40:36.929
too, though. The Beast Wars... Oh, yeah, yeah,

00:40:37.010 --> 00:40:41.670
yeah. With Wasp. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the Transwarp.

00:40:42.639 --> 00:40:46.360
yeah yeah yeah trans war yeah that you know that

00:40:46.360 --> 00:40:49.420
for me season three trans warped i mean hello

00:40:49.420 --> 00:40:56.659
it's judd nelson as rodimus come on now uh would

00:40:56.659 --> 00:40:59.840
you say that beast wars is the one series you

00:40:59.840 --> 00:41:02.500
can go back and watch over and over again yeah

00:41:02.500 --> 00:41:04.780
that beast machines like i can go back and watch

00:41:04.780 --> 00:41:07.420
most of that of both like there's episodes i'll

00:41:07.420 --> 00:41:12.389
still skip um yeah but uh But, yeah, I mean,

00:41:12.409 --> 00:41:17.329
I predominantly love the Beast era itself. Yeah.

00:41:17.889 --> 00:41:21.789
Yeah. For me, there's, like, I could go back

00:41:21.789 --> 00:41:24.510
and watch Beast Machines all the time if I really

00:41:24.510 --> 00:41:26.969
want. I love watching Beast Machines. I just

00:41:26.969 --> 00:41:30.710
think that that show is just amazing and very

00:41:30.710 --> 00:41:34.179
well done and still holds up today. I like Beast

00:41:34.179 --> 00:41:37.199
Wars for its various comedy bits, but I can pretty

00:41:37.199 --> 00:41:39.940
much pick and choose episodes of that. But Beast

00:41:39.940 --> 00:41:44.059
Machines, I will watch all 26 of those in a two

00:41:44.059 --> 00:41:48.980
-day span, just back to back to back. With G1,

00:41:49.280 --> 00:41:54.900
again, it comes down to choosing episodes. And

00:41:54.900 --> 00:41:59.000
it just depends on which ones I want to remember

00:41:59.000 --> 00:42:03.480
my childhood with. like Heavy Metal War and,

00:42:03.500 --> 00:42:10.079
you know, Search for Alpha Trion, Burden Hardest

00:42:10.079 --> 00:42:12.860
to Bear, obviously, Return of Optimus Prime.

00:42:14.059 --> 00:42:17.139
When it comes to the movie, I can watch the movie

00:42:17.139 --> 00:42:21.300
on loop. You know, you were saying earlier about,

00:42:21.320 --> 00:42:24.659
you know, recording from cassette to blah, blah,

00:42:24.739 --> 00:42:27.119
blah, and all this and all that. I remember as

00:42:27.119 --> 00:42:31.130
a kid, I've always... You kind of know this already,

00:42:31.250 --> 00:42:35.969
but I've always been an audiophile. I'd rather

00:42:35.969 --> 00:42:40.570
listen to something than sit here and watch.

00:42:40.690 --> 00:42:42.750
It's one of the reasons why I'm not that big

00:42:42.750 --> 00:42:46.369
of a guy on, why I'm not that big on watching

00:42:46.369 --> 00:42:49.670
stuff on YouTube. If I sit here and I play it

00:42:49.670 --> 00:42:55.389
and I can just listen to it, like, if people

00:42:55.389 --> 00:42:58.440
put podcasts on YouTube, fine. I don't necessarily

00:42:58.440 --> 00:43:00.920
have to sit there and stay on the video and watch

00:43:00.920 --> 00:43:05.920
it. I can minimize my internet and just still

00:43:05.920 --> 00:43:09.579
listen. So as a kid, I always wanted a cassette

00:43:09.579 --> 00:43:14.940
of the whole movie. And I just could never get

00:43:14.940 --> 00:43:17.719
it done. It's not that the tapes didn't have

00:43:17.719 --> 00:43:20.940
enough memory. People in my house would never

00:43:20.940 --> 00:43:23.219
shut up long enough for me to record anything.

00:43:27.119 --> 00:43:30.280
I remember when I first got my new computer,

00:43:30.420 --> 00:43:34.639
this was back in 2009, 2010, the computer that

00:43:34.639 --> 00:43:39.900
I have now. One of the first things I did with

00:43:39.900 --> 00:43:43.619
it was I threw in the 2007 25th anniversary DVD,

00:43:44.099 --> 00:43:49.760
shut all other sounds off, hit record on Audacity

00:43:49.760 --> 00:43:52.920
and just walked away for however long the movie

00:43:52.920 --> 00:43:57.409
is. And I have to this day. I have an MP3 file

00:43:57.409 --> 00:44:03.650
of the entire film. And... Yeah, it was last

00:44:03.650 --> 00:44:08.469
Christmas. Last Christmas, my monitor decided

00:44:08.469 --> 00:44:12.869
to die on me. Yeah, I remember that. Yes. I know

00:44:12.869 --> 00:44:14.530
you know this because it ties into you getting

00:44:14.530 --> 00:44:15.949
me the new one that I got for Christmas last

00:44:15.949 --> 00:44:17.630
year. Thank you, by the way. Obviously, I've

00:44:17.630 --> 00:44:19.130
already thanked you. But it's one of those things

00:44:19.130 --> 00:44:22.960
where... I'm trying to figure out what can I

00:44:22.960 --> 00:44:25.019
do even though I can't see anything. I still

00:44:25.019 --> 00:44:27.159
need something to do, something to listen to.

00:44:27.300 --> 00:44:29.900
And I don't remember if I had iTunes open or

00:44:29.900 --> 00:44:34.519
not. So my old monitor at the time, I could only

00:44:34.519 --> 00:44:37.380
leave it on for five seconds before the screen

00:44:37.380 --> 00:44:41.099
would just go black. So I would have to keep

00:44:41.099 --> 00:44:42.699
turning it on, turning it off, turning it on,

00:44:42.760 --> 00:44:45.599
turning it off. I eventually got to a point where

00:44:45.599 --> 00:44:49.500
I could just open. tftm full movie audio clip

00:44:49.500 --> 00:44:55.579
in windows media player i had that on repeat

00:44:55.579 --> 00:44:59.519
and i just ended up tweeting outlines from the

00:44:59.519 --> 00:45:07.119
movie that whole day on twitter i just love i

00:45:07.119 --> 00:45:09.960
just love transformers the movie it's the single

00:45:09.960 --> 00:45:13.920
greatest thing g1 ever had it really really is

00:45:14.760 --> 00:45:17.380
And I can't wait until Shout Factory puts that

00:45:17.380 --> 00:45:20.099
30th anniversary release out. That's going to

00:45:20.099 --> 00:45:22.019
be so awesome to see what they've done with that.

00:45:24.199 --> 00:45:30.280
Was there ever a point where you decided to leave

00:45:30.280 --> 00:45:33.500
Transformers, where you just wanted to do other

00:45:33.500 --> 00:45:36.239
things or just didn't really? Not that really

00:45:36.239 --> 00:45:38.440
that you lost interest, but you just would rather

00:45:38.440 --> 00:45:44.239
do other stuff. I lost interest about 2002. And

00:45:44.239 --> 00:45:50.760
then I came back to it in 2004. It was very brief.

00:45:52.539 --> 00:45:54.460
Because I started messing with the site again

00:45:54.460 --> 00:46:01.119
while I was at school. And it kind of pigeonholed

00:46:01.119 --> 00:46:04.159
into the 2005 starting of the voice acting on

00:46:04.159 --> 00:46:08.619
TFCOG as Scourge and the Headmasters Project,

00:46:08.820 --> 00:46:13.360
which I'm still coincidentally doing. as they

00:46:13.360 --> 00:46:15.559
produce new episodes which it takes them a while

00:46:15.559 --> 00:46:17.400
because it's like two guys doing all the work

00:46:17.400 --> 00:46:21.260
so um right they they have audio files from like

00:46:21.260 --> 00:46:22.860
a year and a half ago that i recorded and i'm

00:46:22.860 --> 00:46:26.480
like oh it's still working um because like i

00:46:26.480 --> 00:46:28.619
i'm we're on episode like nine or something now

00:46:28.619 --> 00:46:31.480
i'm headmasters i don't know how far scourge

00:46:31.480 --> 00:46:34.239
goes but you know there's eventually i'll get

00:46:34.239 --> 00:46:37.590
another role but once he disappears but It's

00:46:37.590 --> 00:46:40.829
been fun. That's actually how I learned how to

00:46:40.829 --> 00:46:42.929
do a proper Megatron was by doing a Scourge.

00:46:44.309 --> 00:46:48.889
It shot off from that. The deep part is where

00:46:48.889 --> 00:46:57.429
that came from. I did that and then did the podcast

00:46:57.429 --> 00:47:04.010
and then I kind of had this down period between

00:47:06.130 --> 00:47:08.190
Well, not even really a down period. I think

00:47:08.190 --> 00:47:10.329
I kind of fell out of it a little bit when we

00:47:10.329 --> 00:47:12.329
started doing Geekcast Radio because we stopped

00:47:12.329 --> 00:47:16.530
really doing the other stuff. I stopped doing

00:47:16.530 --> 00:47:18.449
my Transformers side. I stopped doing a lot of

00:47:18.449 --> 00:47:19.929
the extra stuff. I stopped doing a lot of the

00:47:19.929 --> 00:47:22.550
voice acting. I was doing some stuff here or

00:47:22.550 --> 00:47:26.230
there. And then I did part of the Beast Wars

00:47:26.230 --> 00:47:31.750
Dark Class, which is on a weird hiatus. I won't

00:47:31.750 --> 00:47:36.860
get into that here. I don't know. It's kind of

00:47:36.860 --> 00:47:39.460
come and gone, but whenever it's to do with the

00:47:39.460 --> 00:47:41.780
movie, I just don't care anymore. Or whenever

00:47:41.780 --> 00:47:45.400
it comes to the news, I kind of dodge it anymore

00:47:45.400 --> 00:47:51.099
because I find that it irritates me. Predominantly,

00:47:51.099 --> 00:47:53.420
I like it, but I haven't really gone back to

00:47:53.420 --> 00:47:55.219
watch any of it since we've done a lot of the

00:47:55.219 --> 00:47:57.760
podcasts. I've gone back to watch Beast Wars

00:47:57.760 --> 00:48:00.079
and Beast Machines and TFTM and some other stuff

00:48:00.079 --> 00:48:05.230
like that. I haven't really gone back to... I

00:48:05.230 --> 00:48:07.949
mean, I've watched RID and Prime and stuff as

00:48:07.949 --> 00:48:11.489
it's aired, but I don't go out of my way to watch

00:48:11.489 --> 00:48:14.610
anything with it anymore because I don't want

00:48:14.610 --> 00:48:22.829
to burn it out. Yeah, yeah. For me, I'd say there's

00:48:22.829 --> 00:48:29.309
probably about a period of... Is it really that

00:48:29.309 --> 00:48:35.760
long? No, it can't be that long. I want to say,

00:48:36.000 --> 00:48:41.599
yeah. I mean, I caught Beast Wars as it aired

00:48:41.599 --> 00:48:44.000
here and there, and I've told this little nugget

00:48:44.000 --> 00:48:47.360
over the last seven, eight years. I always got

00:48:47.360 --> 00:48:50.039
Beast Wars and Reboot mixed up. I thought Reboot

00:48:50.039 --> 00:48:52.320
was the Transformers series and Beast Wars was

00:48:52.320 --> 00:48:54.079
something else. I didn't know what the hell.

00:48:55.599 --> 00:49:00.199
1996, I wasn't really paying attention. So I'd

00:49:00.199 --> 00:49:04.460
say the last time I really paid attention to

00:49:04.460 --> 00:49:11.840
Transformers and that kind of stuff was probably

00:49:11.840 --> 00:49:16.019
1990. And I picked it back up again, I think.

00:49:17.159 --> 00:49:22.199
2006? So that would be... Yeah, I was out of

00:49:22.199 --> 00:49:26.760
it for 16 years. It's not that I didn't care

00:49:26.760 --> 00:49:30.579
anymore. It's just that there was no cartoon

00:49:30.579 --> 00:49:33.960
between... I mean, there's G2, but... Gee, I'm

00:49:33.960 --> 00:49:37.300
sorry. Anyone that loves G2, I'm sorry. If you

00:49:37.300 --> 00:49:40.000
disagree with this, then that's fine. G2 is nothing

00:49:40.000 --> 00:49:44.260
but recycled G1 episodes. That's all it is. In

00:49:44.260 --> 00:49:47.159
the magic of the cybernetic space cube, which

00:49:47.159 --> 00:49:51.059
is the stupidest MacGuffin ever, besides the

00:49:51.059 --> 00:49:56.320
Matrix of Leadership. So there was no new cartoon

00:49:56.320 --> 00:50:00.139
between the end of G187 to the beginning of Beast

00:50:00.139 --> 00:50:04.340
Wars in 96. I moved on to other stuff. We had

00:50:04.340 --> 00:50:08.980
Disney Afternoon, we had Turtles, we had Batman

00:50:08.980 --> 00:50:11.639
the Animated Series, Spider -Man, Iron Man, X

00:50:11.639 --> 00:50:16.420
-Men, all that stuff. I moved on. I picked it

00:50:16.420 --> 00:50:22.219
back up 10 years ago, 2006, because BotCon was

00:50:22.219 --> 00:50:24.159
going to be here in Lexington, Kentucky, an hour

00:50:24.159 --> 00:50:27.360
and a half away from where I live. And I kind

00:50:27.360 --> 00:50:29.659
of got back into it, and at the time I had a...

00:50:30.090 --> 00:50:33.690
Decent paying job and had a bunch of extra money,

00:50:33.789 --> 00:50:36.550
so I figured, hey, I'm going to get my childhood

00:50:36.550 --> 00:50:41.690
back. I spent over $3 ,000 in total, not all

00:50:41.690 --> 00:50:45.829
at once, but in total on getting toys back that

00:50:45.829 --> 00:50:49.829
I had as a kid. I bought an Optimus Prime for

00:50:49.829 --> 00:50:56.280
$125. I got the 2008 BotCon set plus all the

00:50:56.280 --> 00:51:02.039
souvenir stuff for like $850, $900. I spent,

00:51:02.179 --> 00:51:09.159
I think, $130 each on several Transformers. I

00:51:09.159 --> 00:51:12.820
know that I spent, I don't know why, but at the

00:51:12.820 --> 00:51:15.320
time I spent $300 and something on a Blaster

00:51:15.320 --> 00:51:19.579
for some odd reason. Yeah, this is years. I remember

00:51:19.579 --> 00:51:23.019
some of it. Yeah, I've got tons of pictures.

00:51:23.119 --> 00:51:24.880
They're still out there online somewhere of all

00:51:24.880 --> 00:51:26.659
my toys that I have. That's how I own a lot of

00:51:26.659 --> 00:51:29.960
my stuff is vicariously through an image. Yeah.

00:51:30.099 --> 00:51:35.139
I mean, and for me, you know, I still love Transformers

00:51:35.139 --> 00:51:38.320
to this day. I love various iterations of it.

00:51:39.239 --> 00:51:42.599
I'm not one of these people that you'll see on

00:51:42.599 --> 00:51:45.719
certain Transformers message boards and forums

00:51:45.719 --> 00:51:49.019
where, gee, what is the best? There's nothing

00:51:49.019 --> 00:51:52.280
other than, no. I've come to the point where

00:51:52.280 --> 00:51:56.840
each generation is its own thing. Is there generations

00:51:56.840 --> 00:52:00.460
that I flat out refuse to even acknowledge? Sure.

00:52:00.860 --> 00:52:05.880
But I'm to the point now at 36, almost 37 years

00:52:05.880 --> 00:52:09.380
old, where I don't want to have an argument on

00:52:09.380 --> 00:52:14.039
an online forum with somebody debating which

00:52:14.039 --> 00:52:16.639
is better. You like what you like, I like what

00:52:16.639 --> 00:52:19.440
I like, and you like what you don't like, and

00:52:19.440 --> 00:52:21.099
I don't like what I don't like. You know, that's

00:52:21.099 --> 00:52:23.679
really all there is to it. Can we sit here and

00:52:23.679 --> 00:52:25.739
have an intelligent, interesting, fun discussion

00:52:25.739 --> 00:52:28.619
on what we do like? Sure. Are we going to agree

00:52:28.619 --> 00:52:30.599
to disagree on what we do or what we don't like?

00:52:30.659 --> 00:52:34.980
Sure. That's fine. But there's so many people

00:52:34.980 --> 00:52:40.900
online on specific, that I won't name, forums

00:52:40.900 --> 00:52:48.630
that are just so anally focused on this is the

00:52:48.630 --> 00:52:51.530
best no matter what, blah, blah, blah. You know,

00:52:51.630 --> 00:52:55.869
and I just, I don't have time for that. To quote

00:52:55.869 --> 00:52:58.670
Ultra Magnus, I don't have time for that anymore.

00:53:01.769 --> 00:53:08.650
So I think we can kind of wrap this up. What

00:53:08.650 --> 00:53:17.289
are you, in any medium, over the next 10 years,

00:53:18.539 --> 00:53:21.719
What is the one thing you want to see Hasbro

00:53:21.719 --> 00:53:28.460
and whoever else do with Transformers? You want

00:53:28.460 --> 00:53:30.000
a Beast Wars movie, I know what you're going

00:53:30.000 --> 00:53:36.679
to say. No. No. Leave it alone. Because you know

00:53:36.679 --> 00:53:42.500
it'll happen. We'll get like a bad Godzilla movie

00:53:42.500 --> 00:53:44.820
mixed with the Michael Bay film and that's what

00:53:44.820 --> 00:53:47.880
it's going to look like. Pacific Rim. Sorry.

00:53:48.099 --> 00:53:51.320
But, no, they can leave Beast Wars the heck alone.

00:53:53.579 --> 00:53:56.079
No, I'd like... I don't know. I mean, I don't

00:53:56.079 --> 00:53:57.420
really have a problem with any of the stuff they

00:53:57.420 --> 00:53:59.179
got going on. Like, I play the Earth Wars game

00:53:59.179 --> 00:54:04.239
a little bit too much. And I'm mobile to the

00:54:04.239 --> 00:54:08.360
point I irritate people. It irritates me. I kind

00:54:08.360 --> 00:54:10.139
of wish I never started playing because now it's

00:54:10.139 --> 00:54:13.179
addictive and I'm, like, wrapped up in the stupid

00:54:13.179 --> 00:54:17.869
game. The only thing that it's... And this is

00:54:17.869 --> 00:54:20.710
a side note. It gets irritating because if you

00:54:20.710 --> 00:54:24.849
don't have the time to play a lot during the

00:54:24.849 --> 00:54:31.130
weekend event things that they got, and it takes

00:54:31.130 --> 00:54:34.349
forever to build these stupid points. You might

00:54:34.349 --> 00:54:38.670
get 50 points a round, and you have to get 60

00:54:38.670 --> 00:54:42.170
,000 points to get a 4 -star Galvatron or a 4

00:54:42.170 --> 00:54:47.639
-star whatever. And it's just irritating. Cause

00:54:47.639 --> 00:54:50.559
there's no way that I'll stop generally when

00:54:50.559 --> 00:54:52.480
I get like the first three rewards, which will

00:54:52.480 --> 00:54:55.960
be about 500 or something. And I'm like, yeah,

00:54:56.039 --> 00:54:57.639
I'm not going to hit 60 ,000. So I just quit

00:54:57.639 --> 00:55:00.000
playing. And then I go back to trying to earn

00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:06.360
money to build my base. And so, I mean, I don't

00:55:06.360 --> 00:55:07.599
have a problem with that. I don't have a problem

00:55:07.599 --> 00:55:09.599
with like, I've loved their devastation game.

00:55:09.719 --> 00:55:12.079
I've loved the, you know, a lot of the games

00:55:12.079 --> 00:55:15.059
they've come out with a lot of the storylines.

00:55:15.099 --> 00:55:18.519
I haven't really, i don't know i'd like to see

00:55:18.519 --> 00:55:20.380
them kind of do a continuation maybe do like

00:55:20.380 --> 00:55:27.179
a machine wars yeah um just because i like the

00:55:27.179 --> 00:55:29.940
the the toys and i think that it had potential

00:55:29.940 --> 00:55:33.820
um and it would be a good bridge to kind of tie

00:55:33.820 --> 00:55:39.460
in the other transformers universes um but like

00:55:39.460 --> 00:55:45.909
again that being said i I would like to see mostly,

00:55:46.050 --> 00:55:49.190
like, more Masterpiece Beast Wars and Beast Machines

00:55:49.190 --> 00:55:55.170
figures. Yeah. I think at this point the dream

00:55:55.170 --> 00:55:57.389
for Masterpiece when it comes to the Beast era,

00:55:57.750 --> 00:56:02.269
Beast Machines Megatron. Beast Machines Megatron

00:56:02.269 --> 00:56:04.650
is definitely in that list, but I want to see,

00:56:04.710 --> 00:56:07.650
like, all of the main cast. Because, like, it's

00:56:07.650 --> 00:56:10.730
a lot smaller cast than Generation 1. Yeah. So

00:56:10.730 --> 00:56:12.409
it would be a lot easier for them to do anyway.

00:56:13.050 --> 00:56:15.780
Mm -hmm. I would like to see that, and then maybe

00:56:15.780 --> 00:56:18.340
in their Titans Return thing, maybe having some

00:56:18.340 --> 00:56:22.699
of the Beast Wars figures involved that haven't

00:56:22.699 --> 00:56:24.739
had a decent figure. But if they're going to

00:56:24.739 --> 00:56:26.739
do them as Masterpiece anyway, then why not just

00:56:26.739 --> 00:56:29.920
skip to that point and not buy it? But yeah,

00:56:31.599 --> 00:56:35.840
that's kind of the realm I'm in at this point,

00:56:35.900 --> 00:56:40.659
is really hoping for a lot of that. Yeah, for

00:56:40.659 --> 00:56:43.889
me... I don't know what to expect anymore. I

00:56:43.889 --> 00:56:48.710
know Machinima has that YouTube series they're

00:56:48.710 --> 00:56:52.090
going to be doing. They're still doing it. I

00:56:52.090 --> 00:56:57.469
know. It's okay. I don't mind the voicing. Some

00:56:57.469 --> 00:57:00.130
of it's bad. I hate the five minute episode thing.

00:57:01.489 --> 00:57:07.710
It's clickbait. I am happy for John Bailey who

00:57:07.710 --> 00:57:09.929
got to finally play Optimus Prime legitimately.

00:57:11.599 --> 00:57:14.420
Yeah. And he does a really good job for, you

00:57:14.420 --> 00:57:15.980
know, if they're going to pass the torch to somebody,

00:57:16.179 --> 00:57:20.679
it's only deserving that he gets it. The Megatron,

00:57:20.699 --> 00:57:22.760
I'm kind of so -so. They gave a lot of the roles

00:57:22.760 --> 00:57:24.960
to, like, internet celebrity people or YouTubers

00:57:24.960 --> 00:57:29.079
and, you know, stuff like that, which I get it.

00:57:29.400 --> 00:57:31.900
But at the same time, like, none of them are

00:57:31.900 --> 00:57:35.119
really doing any justice to the characters. Starscream

00:57:35.119 --> 00:57:38.780
sounds like some kind of a weird weasel, because

00:57:38.780 --> 00:57:42.360
they're trying to do a toned -down Chris Lotta,

00:57:42.420 --> 00:57:46.079
and it's just not good. Yeah. I remember when

00:57:46.079 --> 00:57:48.079
Michael and I, I was saying this earlier, when

00:57:48.079 --> 00:57:51.300
we talked to Steve Bloom, one of the questions

00:57:51.300 --> 00:57:57.699
we asked him was, did they ever want you to go

00:57:57.699 --> 00:58:02.400
Lotta? Like, did they ever want you to get that

00:58:02.400 --> 00:58:06.739
hysterical? And his answer was, anytime they

00:58:06.739 --> 00:58:09.539
let me do it, they would use jazz hands as a

00:58:09.539 --> 00:58:18.309
signal. For me, what I want to see out of Transformers,

00:58:18.329 --> 00:58:20.809
I need to get back into the comics. I'm so proud

00:58:20.809 --> 00:58:23.969
of the ICW comics. I did really, really enjoy

00:58:23.969 --> 00:58:27.650
them. And we've done, I think, over nine hours

00:58:27.650 --> 00:58:31.329
of Transformers comic reviews over in the pull

00:58:31.329 --> 00:58:33.909
bag. So I'm going to be getting back into those

00:58:33.909 --> 00:58:37.610
next year and catching up. I do remember reading

00:58:37.610 --> 00:58:40.369
the Combiner Wars event that they had. I think

00:58:40.369 --> 00:58:43.369
it was earlier. This year, earlier last year,

00:58:43.409 --> 00:58:45.690
I forget when it was. But I did really enjoy

00:58:45.690 --> 00:58:49.969
that. I thought that was really fun. I like RID

00:58:49.969 --> 00:58:55.889
and I'll watch RID Season 2 when it's fully online

00:58:55.889 --> 00:59:01.050
or when it's fully released. I'm so beyond the

00:59:01.050 --> 00:59:05.389
point of watching while it airs. I just would

00:59:05.389 --> 00:59:09.590
rather sit here and marathon a cartoon than have

00:59:09.590 --> 00:59:18.789
to wait. and watch, you know, as it airs. I have

00:59:18.789 --> 00:59:24.110
a small, a very tiny sliver, shred of hope for

00:59:24.110 --> 00:59:32.389
some of the movie stuff. Some, not all. I'm sorry,

00:59:32.530 --> 00:59:36.869
that hot rod design is just, that robot design

00:59:36.869 --> 00:59:44.789
is bleh. So, yeah, folks, that's going to do

00:59:44.789 --> 00:59:48.670
it for this All Things Transformers Origins episode

00:59:48.670 --> 00:59:52.889
with Steve and I. We will be having guests on

00:59:52.889 --> 00:59:56.369
in the future, and it's going to be a fun time

00:59:56.369 --> 01:00:04.150
here on ATTF. Please comment in the post and

01:00:04.150 --> 01:00:08.119
let us know what you think of the episode. Shoot

01:00:08.119 --> 01:00:10.599
us reviews on iTunes. You can find us on Blog

01:00:10.599 --> 01:00:15.159
Talk Radio. You can follow us at allthingstfv3

01:00:15.159 --> 01:00:18.719
on Twitter. I am at tf2andmike. You can follow

01:00:18.719 --> 01:00:20.940
at geekcastradio for all the other network updates.

01:00:21.059 --> 01:00:25.460
What is your Twitter? At scp21. Transform and

01:00:25.460 --> 01:00:27.519
roll out, and we'll catch you next time on All

01:00:27.519 --> 01:00:34.739
Things Transformers Origins. I, uh, I come in

01:00:34.739 --> 01:00:44.900
peace. No need for violence, Rhinox. I merely

01:00:44.900 --> 01:00:51.000
wish to talk. Go ahead. It's a free planet. I'm

01:00:51.000 --> 01:00:58.739
busy. Stubborn maximal fool! He'll soon regret

01:00:58.739 --> 01:01:00.059
this impertinence.