Masterpiece Rodimus Convoy and Transformers News

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Transformers Episode 50. I'm your host, Steve

Megatron Phillips, and joining me as always is...

Steve, you and Mike. Hello. Hello. Yes. It's

been a while since we've done one of these things,

and there's been a lot of news since we have,

and congratulations on number 50, sir. Even though

we've done more than 50 episodes, it's still

number 50. Yes, and granted it's been postponed

trying to get listener feedback, but of course,

none. So... You people suck. Yes. But no matter,

the show must go on. So, yeah. Not too worried

about it. But, nevertheless, like you said, there's

been a crap ton of news. So, we probably should

get into that. Yes, we probably should. And yes,

I know a lot of the other Transformers podcasts

have talked about this already, but seeing as

how we're not like all the other Transformers

podcasts, we're going to talk about it again.

And the first thing we're going to mention is,

Masterpiece Erotimus confirmed to transform from

Hot Rod to Erotimus Prime. That's very cool.

In a move that is likely to please all Hot Rod

Rodimus Prime fans, Takara Tomy has revealed

recently that the upcoming masterpiece Rodimus

Convoy will have four modes of transformation.

They are as follows. Hot Rod, Car Mode, Rodimus

Convoy, Rodimus Prime. Space Winnebago, part

of which in turn transforms into Battle Station,

like the original. The speculation about the

toy being able to transform from Hot Rod to Rodimus

Prime since the revelation of the initial design

sketches emerged turned out to be true. The figure

is truly more than meets the eye. Now, I love

this. This is so awesome. you know for sometimes

don't really care per se for uh... some of the

uh... some of this you know kind of masterpiece

news this is definitely one of the butter ones

this is probably the most ambitious they've gotten

with a masterpiece toy ever yeah i would have

to definitely say so And there's another news

story. I don't have it pulled up, but GFW did

another one where it's more of a rumor. Nothing

has been confirmed yet, but supposedly. You know

how you have the Takara Tomy release and then

you have, like with Masterpiece Grimlock, you

have the US release of Toys R Us that doesn't

have the apron or anything like that. It doesn't

have the accessories, but it has something else.

Yes. That isn't included in the Takara version.

There's a rumor going around, the same thing

with Rodimus, there's a rumor that possibly the

US version, he won't have his trailer. Which

I think is stupid. They better have his trailer.

Well, that's for the US version, is what I'm

saying, when they release it here in the US.

But, I mean, honestly, if you go to... Masterpiece

toys on BBTS, they're 200 bucks. That's about

what you're gonna pay anyways, so you figure

Why not just go ahead and pay the 200 get the

Japanese version with everything that comes with

it But So there's that rumor going around and

it is just a rumor we don't have any confirmation

yet or anything like that But this one is just

wow Man if I could afford this I would so get

and this isn't one of those things that I need

two or three or four of because it is four different

modes This is one of those this is probably a

toy that I would transform all the time Yeah,

I know But this is the it's the funny thing the

g1 stuff like I think my two favorite g1 toys

well at least out of the ones I still have Optimus

and Astrotrain. Optimus and Astrotrain are, you

know, just like that. They're very easy to transform.

Granted, Astrotrain's legs are... whatever. But

this thing is so freaking cool and I'm so glad

that Takara is doing this one. Yeah, this definitely

is going to be one to look forward to. Only thing

that I kind of wish that there there was and

I know you know People are you know all you optimist

prime lovers and wish he'd never died in the

movie the only you know people are probably gonna

lash out at me for this I wish erotimus would

come with a matrix We don't know if he's coming

with a matrix or not Yeah, that would be something

that he could definitely use But yeah, like you

said There's there's probably no telling if he's

actually going to come with it. Yeah, actually

there was um Someone, I don't remember. I'm sorry.

I don't remember who you are, but someone on

the on the tformers .com website did a little

pictorial review of animated Rodimus and this

little side note and One of their captions was

you know this toy is great, but You really, if

you're a, you know, a super big fan of Rotomus,

you really only got this toy so we could do this.

And the picture is, I'll have to send you the

link later, but the picture is animated Rotomus

holding the Masterpiece Optimus Matrix in his

hands. Nice. Yeah. Well, man, that's great. I'm

sure there'll be more talk of Masterpiece Rodimus

whenever I get Proto Man on again for another

toy cast. So I guess moving on, do you want to

talk about the Arachnid stuff? Yes. Recently

there's been the, you know, the application anyway

for the trademark for the... Air arachnid and

they spelled it with you know a ir a ch and ID

so that it would Kind of be a play on arachnid,

but some pretty much the same, but it's it's

got the beast era Predacon insignia however there

are differences between the actual insignia of

Beast Wars Predacons and this one which It's

subtle differences. It's not really that big

of a difference other than like the antenna and

the kind of cheeks of the picture. But they tend

to do this anyway whenever they update a faction

symbol. But it was denied. So whatever was going

to be laid to rest with this or used with this

is probably on hold or They're going to call

it something else if they're going to use it.

Well, they can't use it. That's the thing. Well,

I'm saying if they use the symbol. Okay. Let's

see the... They would call it something different.

Right. That's all they could do at this point

because it got denied because of arachnoid from

some other company. Well, let me see. It was

Afrikaans Marker, right? Because it sounds too

much like arachnoid. Yeah. Yep, that sucks. Which

sucks, but I mean that does kind of bode well

for something kind of Beast Wars related to be

resurfacing. Hopefully not in TF Prime though.

Because if they try and mesh Beast Wars with

movie verse and animated verse, it's going to

look like ass. Just saying yeah And I guess on

more trademark news Hasbro has also filed for

new transformers trademark applications Uh, thanks

to Transformers of the Moon, we now know that

during last week, Hasbro has filed trademark

rights for some new names. One particular name

is Autobot Alliance. We know it as the Japanese

equivalent of Hunt for the Decepticons. In addition

to that, there's also Destination Earth, Spark

Your Summer, and Unlock the Secrets. And you

know, one can only guess at what any of these

are. Yeah, because Hasbro doesn't exactly have

a Good set of running names for anything well,

I mean If you you know regardless of my hatred

of the movie line obviously you have to call

The movie line toys whatever the movies called

like you know you had transformers the movie

for 2007 you had revenge of the yet transformers

were into the fallen for the second movie line,

which now is Hunt for the Decepticons. So it's

still movie based. The spark your summer thing

could be something for next year when the film

comes out. I don't really know. Maybe it's a

contest or something that Hasbro's gonna do.

I don't know. I'm just speculating here. It sounds

closer to a contest. Yeah. And Destination Earth,

that makes no... unless... They're gonna play

more off of the War for Cybertron continuity

if they go off the book Transformers Exodus.

That makes no sense with the movie because they're

already on fucking Earth. Yeah, that's true.

I don't know. I mean... I don't know. It's just

one of those weird -ass stories. And continuing

with movie news... We've got, uh, Transformers

3 character description, Hardcore Eddie. We have

with us a look at the upcoming human character

from the third Transformers movie, thanks to

an exclusive interview by MovieMikes .com. Hardcore

Eddie, we all know him as someone who is rumored

to bring an end to a certain Cybertronian. We

all know and love and Transformers 3. If you

want to know exactly who Hardcore Eddie is, all

you have to do is click on the title. Uh, okay,

well... I really don't care about human characters

in these films. I honestly don't. Um... Myself

personally, I give two shits less on this character

because it's just another human that's going

to blow away the Cybertronians, regardless of

the fact that they're so - supposedly so advanced

that they could squish them. Kill it! Kill it

with fire! And warning, you know, to anybody

that actually gives a rat's ass about this particular

section, uh, he's rumored to kill... Starscream.

Starscream. Which... Why? I would rather see

Megatron get pissed at him and say, fuck you,

and blow his head off. I mean, that would be,

that would be a good send -off, or have Prime

say, give me your spark, or something, and, you

know, just... A human killing Starscream... Who

says Starscream would let him get close enough

to kill him? He's a weasel. Right now it's like

Michael Bay would have been more suited and someone

said this to me. I Don't remember who it is.

So I'm sorry if I steal the line Michael Bay

would have been more suited directing GI Joe

than Transformers because he's in love with all

the military stuff and everything else Yes, I

think that they botched GI Joe in my opinion.

I Think GI Joe. I mean they did good on it with

the exception of some of the effects they used

and Cobra commander's face. I'm not gonna get

into this. It's different show regardless of

the fact I I Do agree with you. I think it would

he would have been a better fit for that over

Stephen Summers I Think that Michael Bay was

needed for the first film in this franchise To

show what could be done and brought to light

because the first film was really good. The second

film could have been better had they had writers

that were fully committed to it, not had the

writers strike, and kicked Michael Bay off. The

second film was halfway decent. I'm not going

to say it was horrible, because I have seen worse,

but it was not one that I would sit there and

continuously rerun. And moving on here, past

hardcore Eddie's stupid ass. So apparently someone

seriously got injured on Transformers 3 set.

That's not good. No! A person working on the

filming of Transformers 3 was seriously injured

on the set in Indiana. Oh great, only in Indiana

would this happen. Wednesday night, sources tell

NBC Chicago the person, a female, was transported

via helicopter to a Chicago area hospital after

being injured. On the set shortly before 7 p

.m. in Indiana State, police spokesmen did not

provide any information as to the person's condition,

what happened, or what hospital they were taken

to. We wish her a speedy recovery. The crew will

be filming for the last time in Chicago on Thursday.

Millennium Park will be the site of the pyrotechnic

explosions beginning in about 6 a .m. So we don't

really know anything about who this person is

or what actually happened. I guess we can talk

about cursing Michael Bay if you want to take

that one. Alrighty. Michael Bay denies the $400

million Transformers 3 budget rumor. Why does

it matter? Anyways, it says Leister is censored.

He has no clue about how much other than to try

to get internet hype. He's been on the movie

a total of 10 days. The guy is just letting his

ass talk. Movie is money just above Revenge he

knows not to talk about this movie So it sounds

like Michael Bay's got broken English He's extremely

pissed when he says this He's denying the rumor,

which is probably true Because somebody let the

cat out of the bag, you know and This tells me

that this is You would think with the budget

or with this being the final film and the franchise

that He would do it, right? We all know it's

Michael Bay. He doesn't do stuff, right? He just

blows it up real good. Yep, but uh I'm hoping

for his sake that he ends it similar to and on

the lines of the first film like as far as writing

style Yeah, because that was a good film Yep,

if he doesn't he's a man creates another revenge

of the fallen Guarantee and within five years

we will see another reboot of this show As sad

as that is I do see a reboot in the make if this

bombs Because it's all about the writing Yep,

why don't they just hire some generation one

fucking writers? Because it's Michael fucking

Bay. He wants people he can control Because I

have no confidence in this writer for this third

film All right, yes, I don't know who the hell

he is. Yeah, that's the thing. He he shadow wrote

Half of the half of revenge but who knows how

much he even wrote even then because Michael

Bay wrote part of it Yeah, the other guys wrote

part of it while they were writing Star Trek,

you know, and you can tell which one they put

their full effort into Yeah, because that film

Revitalized the other franchise to the point

that they get signed on for a second and possible

third film. Yeah, so I mean this This Transformers

3 to me, I'm not gonna like go too much into

it but It looks to me like this is gonna be another

revenge of the fallen and I'm just hoping to

God that it's not So I'm going to wait until

I see trailers before I make any more, you know,

legitimate decisions on this show Yeah, because

everything that we're getting from here on out

and since the beginning of this, you know confirmation

of this film is going to be all rumors and speculation

there's no fact whatsoever you know other than

who's in it until i see you like unofficially

to two -and -a -half minute trailer with a lot

of good footage in it i'm not making anymore

judgmentary i don't want and i know i do i hope

to god this doesn't but i know that this film

is just going to turn into the whole revenge

of the fallen debacle of oversaturating it and

that's the problem that's why you know i've said

you know that this is your show steve but i've

said i will not report on moving news if it's

just filming locations that's just stupid yeah

see it's not a news item well on the one hand

i can see the point of it on the other and more

so i'm leaning towards this the same as you would

be Could give two shits less where they're filming

Yeah, I just want to know actual factual information

about the film The film location doesn't tell

me anything about the film other than oh, hey,

we're shooting part of the movie here Yeah, I

mean they've done, Indiana. They've done. You

know Chicago. They've done Washington DC Washington

DC. They've done Detroit, Michigan You know it's

And you could tell how much I cared, you know,

because they had, you know, extras and information

on it for Michigan like no other and I didn't

care enough to even go. If this were, you know,

some other movie, yeah, I probably would have

cared a little bit more. But regardless of the

fact, I mean, I am pumped for Transformers 3.

But transformers 2 didn't leave me much to want.

Yeah, I Would have been fine after transformers

1. Yep. I mean it's Although I am glad they did

too. I and 2 is slowly growing on me these little

like fart jokes Need to die Yeah, I'm you know,

no wheelie. No fucking Devastator balls. No One

will be peeing on somebody although that was

more I could see that one more so than the other

two Yeah But yeah, I'm just hoping that this

doesn't bomb the last time I'm watched revenge

on because I have the DVD the last time I threw

it in to watch it I I Made it halfway through

I that movie Because of all the crap that they've

that Michael Bay put into it like all the fart

like the humping wheelie bit I laughed at that

but All of dick and fart jokes and the Devastator

balls and seeing Simmons's ass Thank God my monitor

is not high def You asshat Moving on, we have

some very sad news actually. It's not really

like sad, like somebody passed away sad, but

it's just very disappointing news. Dan Gilvazan

not in the future for Transformers. I know. Sad

news friends, the voice of beloved and super

popular Cooler in the animation series from 1980's

Pound Puppies, Dan Gilazan, has not been approached

for any upcoming roles for the Transformers,

whether it be television or video game related.

In an interview with 20x20 -x .com Dan Gilvazan

states that he has not been approached for a

role in anything Transformers related and he

believes it is due to the fact that Volkswagen

wants nothing to do with Transformers and thus

Bumblebee is forever a Camaro and that his voice

was that of the old character not anything related

to the new Bumblebee and so he is forgotten I

think this is so stupid, but for those that don't

remember or recall to any clever introduction

to the story, Danny Gilmazan voiced Generation

1 Bumblebee, Hotspot, and later Gold Bug and

Snapdragon. Some may ask, how is this no news

story considered news? Well, my friends, Danny

Gilmazan is a class act, a real stand -up guy,

and great with the fans and collectors. Those

who attended BotCon 2004 should know what I'm

talking about. Any chance to get the guy's name

on the internet is a chance no one should pass

up. But you never know. After all, Judd Nelson

reprised his role in Ezrodamus, and Dan Gilvaezan

has reprised his role of Spider -Man in the upcoming

Spider -Man Shattered Dimensions as Spider -Man

2099. Do you want Dan Gilvaezan back in Transformers?

Uh, yeah, duh. That's kind of a no -brainer there.

Why wouldn't people want him back? I Don't know

I mean the guy Dan is one of those guys who I've

seen the the TF con Toronto videos from last

from 2009 on on YouTube and he's just a class

act he tells a lot of good stories and He's another

one of those voice actors like Barry Gordon who

voiced Donatello in the original Turtle series,

who doesn't really have to change his voice.

I mean, G1 Bumblebee is pretty much Dan's own

voice. He may go a little higher or a little

lower, but I mean, it's pretty much his own voice.

It's not like, you know, Welker where you have

to change to something else. But this is kind

of really sad. I mean, you know... Yeah, it is

kind of sad to see... you know him get kind of

pushed by the wayside considering you know cullen

and welker have just been thriving on you know

the franchise again yeah and you can tell dan

would like to get back into the mix but there's

no shot in hell right now in that yeah at least

he's been able to regain uh you know jump into

spider -man stuff Yeah. I mean, granted, he's

not his original, you know, 70s voice or whatever

in there, but... Well, see how I... Which wouldn't

have worked in anything nowadays anyway. Right,

but see, I would... See, that's why I like it

so much, is because it's Spider -Man, played

by Dan Gilvazan, but it's not the Spider -Man

you remember. It's well, it's a brand new spider

-man from the year 2099. Well the 29. Well, he's

not brand new. I mean 2099 spite He's been around

for a while. It's been around a while, but yeah,

but I mean as far as like bringing him into Video

games or animation. Yeah, you're right But when

I heard Dan's voice on that I know we're getting

off the topic of transformer stuff, but when

I heard Dan's voice and I'm like, oh that That

is so not the original role he did. And I like

it in a good way. Kind of like when we talked

about Welker doing a deeper, darker Megatron.

Not the G1. It's the same thing. I really, truly

like the Spider -Man 2099 voice by Gil Vazan

because it's a lot darker and it's just much

cooler. Oh yeah. And the last story that we're

going to talk about today in episode 50. is also

Transformers Prime related and is also related

to Bumblebee. Apparently, Josh Keaton, who voiced

Spider -Man in Spectacular Spider -Man, has done

an exclusive interview with 20 -X .com. The question

is, is there anything you can tell us about Transformers

Prime, story, characters, etc.? uh... where you

and then goes unable to talk about the mobile

the character at all while working together on

shattered dimensions uh... and josh replies i

can't say anything about the story and i'm pretty

sure it's already out there that peter collin

frank welker will be uh... returning as optimist

megatron dan and i actually did have a little

discussion about me taking uh... taking all of

his roles uh... but i reminded him that it hasn't

actually been confirmed anywhere that i'm going

to be voicing bumblebee So it may still be possible,

but the fact of the matter is most likely not.

Yeah, Bumblebee in the new Transformers Prime

is probably going to be Josh Keaton, which I

have nothing against the guy. I really wasn't

that into a spectacular Spider -Man cartoon,

so I mean, I've heard his voice. However, one

of the things, and I know this will never happen,

one of the things I wish they would have done,

since Hasbro's all about doing this whole going

back and connecting all the continuities with

War for Cybertron and all that, I wish they would

have just adapted War for Cybertron. to animation

instead of making a brand new movie verse cartoon

type of deal. And yes, I know it is going to

follow the War for Cybertron continuity, but

it's still fucking movie design, and I don't

like that. If they had ported over War for Cybertron

to animation, I think that Johnny Young Bosch

should have voiced him. Bumblebee, I mean. Oh,

yeah. But I don't know. Prime is this whole thing

where it for me. It's a just like the movie.

It's a wait -and -see thing but I just I don't

like how they're and and Josh himself is not

disrespecting Dan at all in this little you know

answer he gave but I Don't like the way that

has bro You know they bring back Colin Walker

or you know whoever the production company is

on prime or whatever they They bring back Colin

Walker to voice their main roles, but they don't

bring back the original Bumblebee? That's stupid.

That's dumb. Yeah, I tend to agree with you.

I don't know. I think that's gonna do it for

us today. Unless you want to bring up... Other

than that they've got... Transformer Prime character

designs online. Yeah, I kind of one way or the

other on I Don't really care I Mean The designs

are what they are. I mean there's nothing we're

gonna do to change that there's nothing we can

do to change it They are what they are The whole

aesthetic of the new cartoon is what it is but

I don't know. I guess I would have to see more

than just Bumblebee jumping around and shooting

people for me to make like a final decision on

it. And of course, you know, Michael Wilson's

already done waiting. He already hates it, so.

Which is surprising. Yeah, exactly. He's like...

Coming from a guy that was yelling at you before

you found out anything. He was yelling at both

of us. It's like, don't... You need to keep on

waitin' and before you start hatin' or whatever

the hell he said, and it's like, holy crap, you

know, he already hates it, so. Like, eat it.

Eat your words. Eat it. Just messing with you.

Yes. So I guess we can close this out. Well,

and also for those that... Haven't listened to

the beast unleashed listen to it. We also have

an interview with Christy marks Yeah, and David

civil off up which was last week. Yep, so definitely

be sure to listen to those yes, and We are moving

into beast machines in the next month. Yes. Yes

we are Yay, yeah about damn time those three

seasons took forever but they were so worth it.

Alright, so I have been TF2 and Mike, I'm going

back to bed. And I'm Steve Megatron Phillips,

I'm going to edit this show and finish moving

all my shit into my external hard drive. So,

in closing, you'll hear Depth Charge Fish Pants

once more. Yes, for those that don't know it,

I used it in the Beast Unleashed and in the Depth

Charge interview. So yes, you'll hear that I

need a new chair my ass hurts I wish to speak

to my lawyer.