ATTF v2.0 – Episode 01 – Transform and Transcend

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with Steve Megatron and TFG1 Mike. You're listening

to All Things Transformers, version 2 .0. Transformers

episode 1. This is actually All Things Transformers

version 2 .0. I'm your host Steve Megatron Phillips

and joining me this week is... Mike TFG and Blanchard.

Hello. Hello. And Optimus Solo. Hello guys. Hello.

How are you guys doing this week? Well Mike's

hopefully doing better than he was yesterday.

Yeah yesterday was kind of rough. Yeah. All I

can say is, I'm never, ever eating Big Macs anymore.

Okay, too much information. No, it's not too

much information, but anyway, yeah, I'm worried.

Yes, and as for me, I've been going through a

massive revamp of the show, and as you will hear

throughout the progression of the show, new intro.

now listen to. Very much in approval of the new

intro. Yes, it is much better than the old intro

I believe. The old one Mike did not approve of

because part of it was from the original TFWire

intro. I hate that song. I liked the intro and

I think that's why I stuck with it for so long

but I think now that I've got this new one I

don't think I'll ever use that old one again.

throwback type thing not like a older episode

thing but something just as a Space filler somewhere.

Yeah, and obviously not the entire clip But yeah,

other than that I've done that I've done the

artwork for the show Completely redone. I have

four different versions Which will be included

in the post when it's published One including

much of the original element one with a Predacon

Empire element from beast machines one with Megatron

spark And I have another one with the dark glass

fan version Megatron face in the middle Nice,

I've only seen two of those, but I liked them.

Yes It's all new yes all new like the show Yes,

and so this show will run in varying elements

throughout the Hopefully we'll get more guest

hosts as we progress. And much more fan submissions,

which we will get to later. So for now, I think

we will jump into the latest Transformers news.

First up on the Transformers news list is Transformers

Prime upcoming episode titles and air dates.

MSN .com posted various episodes of upcoming

Transformers Prime episodes. Starting with February

11th, we have Masters and Students, where Starscream

uses a distraction to find something far more

intriguing, is what their lame summary happens

to tell us, which actually basically says nothing.

Yes, the actual description that I found on my

actual TiVo or DVR or whatever it is, is a little

more interesting because the description on my

TV says, because I can view up to the 12th so

far, and for the 11th it says, Starscream pursues

other interests while Skyquake battles Optimus

Prime and Bumblebee. Which leads you to believe,

who the hell is Skyquake? Yeah, and I had to

look it up. Apparently Skyquake was a... Generation

2 figure or something that came at the end of

Generation 1 and he was like this brightly colored

plane of sorts, but I don't remember him at all.

He was also later repainted into Machine Wars

Starscream. All black and blue. So I'd be very

interested to see what kind of color scheme they

use on this one. And what kind of style they

use because if they used anything similar to

the... a machine -warred G2 -styled robot, that

would be definitely something cool to see. Or

are they going to just make him look like a Starscream

clone? Hopefully not, because I think they're

supposed to have Jetfire in the show, so that

would be cool to have two big jets. Either way,

it's cool that the very first episode that's

going to air in the, I guess what you can call

the series proper, is for sure at least going

to give us one new character. Yes, especially

to the Decepticons. Yeah, because they needed

a couple. They're a little short. And next on

the list of it is Scrap Heap, which comes to

218. And again, they have, although this description

is a little bit better, Bumblebee and Ratchet

eliminate a swarm of scraplets. I have no idea

how to react to that. I don't know what the scraplets

are unless they're referring to something from

the UK or G1 Marvel comics. Back when that was...

Back when this was first announced, I saw a bunch

of people on Twitter, GeneralTechno and a bunch

of people going nuts over that word, but I have

no idea what it's referencing. I think it could

mean just like a bunch of things that are infused

with like DarkhunterJohn that are just like a

bunch of non -transformers, but I don't know.

So zombie toasters. Yeah. Yeah, according to

the Marvel comics, they're robotic parasites,

semi -sentient robot life forms. about five centimeters

tall. And they're capable of transforming between

two modes, varying between human, animal, nuts,

or bolts. They're going to get attacked by a

swarm of nuts and bolts. Spare parts. It's robot

ants. And it's also a derogatory term for miniature

robots, apparently. Interesting. Yes. Scrap.

That's what I should start calling people when

they irritate me at work. Stupid Scraplet. See

how they react. And then they have two more episodes

listed, Con Job and Convoy. Which, of course,

the word convoy has all kinds of connotations

to it, so that's leaving a lot of people to all

kinds of speculation. Yeah, it's also the Japanese

name of Optimus Prime, but it can also mean a

whole fleet of vehicles, so it's kind of hard

to... Yeah, and obviously con job is probably

something to do with the septicons and who knows

maybe it starts Maybe it starts screaming Megatron

having their little feud of some sort who knows?

That would be cool But I'm just glad to see that

we're almost approaching the time when TF prime

is gonna hit the airwaves again Yes, and we will

definitely be talking about that every episode

in all things transformers Yes, so if you want

to hear our reactions of TF Prime episodes, make

sure you keep tuning in. Yes. And next up on

the news... The Dark of the Moon Super Bowl trailers?

Yes. Yeah. Apparently there's no need to set

up your recorders, folks. Nelson, the administrator

of Michael Bay's official... website says that

the transformers dark of the moon super bowl

trailer will be available on said site right

after it's shown on tv so basically there's no

use in having the super bowl trailer i do find

interesting the movies that they're going to

be previewing during the super bowl besides dark

er besides the um dark of the moon yeah the pre

-game before the like right right after the pre

-game they're gonna premiere their trailers for

the eagle just go with it Battle Los Angeles,

Priest, Kung Fu Panda, Kaboom of Doom, and then

after like during the game is Rango, Limitless,

Thor, Pirates of the Caribbean 4, Super 8, Dark

of the Moon, Captain America, and Cowboys and

Aliens. I've seen the trailer for Cowboys and

Aliens already, and I'm so confused by why that

was made. But maybe it'll be alright. We'll have

to see. But I don't know. There's a few of those

movies that I'm definitely interested in. I want

to see what they do with Captain America. I've

seen the preview for Thor, but I want to see

what that looks like. And obviously I want to

see the preview for Dark of the Moon. So that'll

be cool. Yeah, I'm going to go see Just Go with

It, which actually comes out I think February

15th or somewhere around there. I'm going to

see that for sure. Thor's got me a little wondering

because for the most part, other than the mythological

part of it, I have no previous knowledge with

Thor, so I'm kind of looking forward to that.

The Pirates of the Caribbean, I liked the first

one and the third one. The second one was kind

of meh to me, so I'm hoping the fourth one goes

back to the dynamic of the first film. Yeah,

I liked most of those. Dark of the Moon, I'm

hoping they have something more extravagant than

the 30 -second crap pile we got before. Well,

last year with Revenge of the Fallen, didn't

we get like a two -and -a -half -minute or two

-minute -twelve -second trailer for Super Bowl?

Somewhere around there. Yeah, so they'll do something

more than just some old dude's eye on the moon.

Hopefully they'd like focus in on Shockwave.

Yeah. At one point. For me, I'm most looking

forward to Thor. Like you guys, I don't know

a whole heck of a lot of his background and all

that, but it just, the trailer, when I first

saw the trailer, looked really good to me. I

could care less about Pirates of the Caribbean.

Captain America, I haven't seen, I'm looking

forward to seeing that trailer. And then after

the post -game, I can't believe, I really don't

want to have to bring this up on this brand new

show, but After the post game, we're gonna see

Justin Bieber, Never Say Never 3D, Take Me Home

Tonight. I don't know what any of those are,

but I know that I will never, ever see that movie.

Well, Never Say Never is the name of his movie.

Oh, okay. Yeah, he's saying Never Say Never that

you'll never see my movie. How about we just

go with this? Something happened to the original

reel. And it's unusable. It's like our own Justin

Bieber movie. The horrible thing about the Justin...

It would start with him starting to sing and

then Megatron stepping on him. The end. The horrible

thing about the Justin Bieber movie is I've heard

rumors that there is a 3D hair flip. Nice. Someone

just facepalmed. That was Mike. Nice. In the

next news story, we have some more or some info

on the mainline of the, staying with our little

theme of Transformers 3 Dark of the Moon, mainline

toy info. Basically, I guess there's four different

categories that are going to be out for these

toys. One of them is called Mech Tech, which

is like a weapons, it has to do with like the

weapon system and like how they interact with

each other with their weapons and deployable

weapons and seems like a pretty... much of a

gimmick here that we haven't seen, I guess, as

far as the mainline goes. Then there's the cyberverse,

which to me is kind of completely ambiguous.

I mean, I don't know what that means. And they

don't really give much away as far as what that

means. So I don't know. That's like the Scout

and the Legends figures, but... It's kind of

like putting them in into one category for it.

That's the way I see it. Then there's the robot

heroes, which is kind of deceiving because there

is no robot heroes listed under it. As far as

what I think of when I hear the term robot heroes,

but there's like some action master type things

called robo fighters. There's activators. They're

actually calling these go -bots, which you pull

back and let go and they go forward or whatever.

I don't know. This robot hero part is not very

much Interesting me at all this one This one

seems like they just have to Keep trademarks.

Yeah, like like using robot heroes as a name

of a line That's to keep a trademark Go bots.

That's to keep a trademark obviously I do find

it interesting though the couple of them because

it says one of them is called optimus prime cyber

blaster The only reason I find that interesting

is because it says, key weapon that Optimus uses

to take out the Decepticon threat and save Earth.

So is that giving away something about the movie?

And it says, heroic blaster with light, sound,

and multiple projectiles help children play out

the climactic battle scene. So to me, that's

giving away something about the end. And then

the other one is energon shock sword, which says,

key weapon used by the Nest forces and a key

character in the movie Three Battles. So automatic

converting weapon converts from cyber turning

weapons into the energon shock sword used to

protect earth from the Decepticons So to me,

it seems like those are things that we have possibly

gonna see in the movie. Yeah So, I don't know

how I feel about it, but at least it seems like

it's giving away something there Yes, and then

the last category of toys is a movie speed stars

and stealth force I Don't know I've seen commercials

for the speed stars They're kind of like action

masters slash activators. I guess I Sounds like

there's stuff where you push buttons and they

go. Yeah pretty much But that they're pretty

small. Yeah, like for the stealth force assortment

It says transform and rollout easy pull activation

for partial transformation weapon reveal and

vehicle battle mode so I don't know like These

four classes of toys for the movies, I don't

usually get excited about movie toys whatsoever,

and this isn't helping much. Because, I don't

know, the mech tech just seems like a weapon

gimmick. Yeah, the mech tech is the weapon gimmick,

kind of like what you had on Revenge of the Fallen

with the, oh, what the hell is a gimmick called?

What do they call that stupid gimmick? The mech

alive gimmick that because I have ratchet not

ratchet ravage that has the mech alive gimmick

where you press a button in his mouth opens and

closes So that's probably what tech is to me

what they're doing with this one. I think they've

kind of realized them Most collectors aren't

into the movie toys, it doesn't seem like as

much. So it seems like they're just going all

out towards the kids. I can see kids getting

into the mech tech stuff and weapons being deployable

and being able to mix and match and doing all

that stuff. So it seems like with the movie lines,

they're keeping the tradition of trying to really

go after that new generation of kids. Outside

of the mech tech deluxe Voyager leader stuff,

like the cyberverse and the robot hero stuff

and the movie speed stars in stealth force those

are all marketed for kids but the the actual

mech tech lines of the voyagers deluxes and and

leader you know collectors will will get those

probably yeah but it seems like even with those

though it seems like you know if you're doing

lots of stuff that where you can like mix and

match your weapons and you can like I don't know,

deploy your weapons and stuff like that. Even

those, they seem like they're somewhat gearing

towards the kids. Collectors will buy them too.

I don't know, I'm not going to be jumping up

and down waiting for any of these toys. It just

seems like they're trying too hard to categorize

everything and instead of just focusing on one

section or two, up to three sections in the line,

they're like, hmm, let's make anything we can

possible to try and make money. Yeah, it's almost

like when the first prequel of Star Wars came

out and like you needed like two aisles in the

toy aisle for Star Wars memorabilia type stuff

and like the figures were actually only about

eight feet and then you had like a thousand different

other things. Well the other thing is there's

no denying Revenge of the Fallen as long as it

did last that toy line made them a lot of money.

So, I mean, I know specifically, and I hate to

call him out on this, but it's true, I know specifically

Spada put six hundred and something dollars into

the Revenge of the Fallen line. So, people are

buying the movie toys, whether we, I mean, me

specifically, whether I like them or not. It

is going to be popular because it is a movie

tie -in toy line. For me, it boils down to the

type of collector I am. I have to pick and choose

what I'm going to buy and what I'm not going

to buy. This is an easy one for me to be like,

okay, I can go without these because I'd rather

have money at some point for whatever. I completely

agree. I'm getting specific figures here or there.

I'm not like complete gung -ho, yeah, I'm not

gonna buy anything, or I am gonna buy everything.

Either way, I'm more so, it's specific figures

have to catch my attention, and if they do, then

I'll buy them. If not, then I'm not worried about

it. It just sounds like they're trying to figure

out new ways to market the same damn toys that

they've had for two movies. Yeah, there is one

good thing and one bad thing I see as far as

the new movie toys. Number one, I will not have

to look at the old movie toys anymore, hopefully.

But the bad thing is, unfortunately, it will

mean probably no more of the, whatever you want

to call it, classic universe 2 .0 generations.

I don't think so. I have to disagree with you.

Hopefully it doesn't. Well, what I'm saying is

that one of the greatest things about Transformers

right now since September, October of last year,

whenever they... premiered generations in the

war for semitron toys and all that stuff there

is a lot right now in transformers so people

can pick and choose what they want to collect

you're still gonna have the generations waves

you're still gonna have the power core combiners

you're still gonna have the movie stuff so i

don't think they're gonna take generations away

to promote well and that could be true because

that's also maybe why they have started putting

the the Classics generations universe whatever

you want to call it in the same type of style

package as the movie of toys And that that could

give me a little hope that they're gonna keep

putting those figures out plus We have a bunch

that are still rumored to come out. So right.

Yeah So that's my news about the yeah Continuing

on the Dark of the Moon franchise part of the

movie we have the official campaign of them with

a life -size mech tech gun and bumblebee. And

in this image, they actually have a roped off

Camaro with a huge gun on the top. How does that

gun not crush the car? It's gotta be styrofoam.

I'm just saying that's the only thing that makes

sense to me because the roof of any car, if you

sit on it, it starts bending. You can see it

has a sunroof. Yeah. So evidently it must be

some kind of a, you know, cardboard or Styrofoam

sitting on top of the vehicle as a way to show

off what the movie may possibly show. So we're

going to have a bunch of cars running around

with like these massive guns coming out of them.

That could be interesting. Oh, it just got knocked

off the top of the vehicle. I just went underneath.

A low -rise area, you know. That's why it's on

Bumblebee and not on Prime. Low bridge. Prime

would be like, well I have no guns. My styrofoam

fell off. The wind blew it. Darn it. It doesn't

look terrible. It doesn't look terrible, but

it just looks ridiculous. It looks kind of cool

in a sense, but it does look ridiculous having

this Sleek stylized car and a big monster freaking

gun. It looks it looks ridiculous to those of

us that know how physics work It's an a resizing

shockwave that jumped on top of bumblebee. That's

a good transition actually. Yes Apparently they're

more clear images of the Dark of the Moon shockwave

toy And looking at this thing, I gotta say, this

is really tempting me to buy this toy. This is,

by far, maybe the coolest movie toy I've seen.

I honestly have to agree. Because something about

the face, and then when you fold it down, it

just looks... It doesn't look like there's a

lot of extra robo kibble, and it looks like it's

a badass figure. His chest almost reminds me

of Skeletor. Oh, yeah, the only thing I really

have to complain about is the alt mode. The hose

thing or the gun thing or whatever that black

weapon is, the way that it's sticking out and

on top, I don't know if I really care for that.

See how it's plugged into the alt mode there?

I don't know if I really care. for that, if that

was somehow removable or something like that.

I mean, the toy is awesome. I'm not going to

deny, but that's just my one complaint is that

weapon thing. Yeah. In the robot mode though,

I like that weapon because it's like that little

homage to G1 where you had the tube going to

his gun and whatnot. Like I said, I like his

face. His chest is all new. I've never seen that

on a Transformer and I like it. Don't know. I

just love this figure and I usually hate all

movie figures and he's got real freaking hands

Oh, yeah, that's awesome Megatron arm cannon

Yeah, basically. Yeah The feet are that of The

Megatron from the movie. Yeah, it looks like

he's got an impaler spike on one arm and The

only thing I think they could do better in the

vehicle mode is if that tube were somehow movable

to the rear end of the vehicle somewhere so that

it could still stay on the cannon but it would

be more uniform with the sleekness of the vehicle

form instead of standing straight up. The other

part I like is the, if you're looking at him

in robot mode, on his inner leg, like the calf

part. Little tread type things and then up on

his arms like around his shoulders the same thing.

I like that. Yeah That's very awesome on the

alt mode Look at those front wheels those front

wheels are tiny as hell, but they're awesome

Yeah, I just I don't know something about this

figure. I like yeah, I really like this one Honestly,

I may have a figure I may actually go out and

buy. On the movie line. And I'm not even exaggerating,

it's just... Yeah, I'm not either. I mean, I'm

really digging this figure And you know people

have heard me before On other podcasts I've said

that I'm not a fan of the movie line the only

movie line toy I ever would ever own is is the

ravage that I have from revenge of the fallen

But this thing is I'm seriously thinking about

going out and getting this thing this thing is

awesome and this has to be something that I know,

Steve, you're a person that usually collects

all the Megatron stuff and whatever. For those

people out there that collect Shockwave stuff,

they have to be happy with this. Yeah. And it

does have a nice movie aesthetic to the original

design. Something that will keep fans of the

character very pleased, whereas Megatron, they

butchered him. A lot of the characters in the

films, they butchered. I think maybe they finally

got the hint. They finally got the hint that

we don't like just jagged pieces of metal pointing

everywhere. And if this is any kind of consolation

to what they're capable of doing for the third

film, maybe some of the new designs and new characters

will bode well for the film and maybe they'll

actually do something right. Hopefully. I will

say because I did look at another angle image

that's in the article here. of the alt mode for

shockwave and looking at it from like the the

right side of the left side of the vehicle and

seeing the tube that way it doesn't turn me off

so much but just the way it was in the other

image just was like okay that's kind of weird

but looking at it from a different angle it's

not as bad as I thought this figure says one

thing to me and it says that somebody involved

in the movie is finally opening their eyes and

seeing that, how popular was the War for Cybertron

game? How much did people get hyped up just on

the first five episodes of Prime? Maybe they're

starting to see that some of these other designs,

people like better. Hopefully. Keep my fingers

crossed. Hopefully. Shifting into some other

non - Dark of the Moon, which I still feel weird

every time saying that, but shifting into some

other news, it was just revealed what the mystery

theme for BotCon would be, and I'm going to let

Mike talk about it because it's more up his alley

than mine. As far as I know, none of us have

ever been to BotCon, correct? Correct. For me,

I almost went to BotCon 06. which was going to

be held in Lexington, Kentucky. That was the

year the Beast Wars set was out. Arguably 2006,

the Beast Wars set in 2008, the Shattered Glass

set are BotCon's most popular sets. 2009 with...

Oh God, what was it? Elite Guard, a G1 Elite

Guard, whatever it was, and then last year was

supposedly G2. Weren't that popular, but this

set is going to sell out. It has been revealed

that Transformers Animated... will be the style

of figures that they're going to be using for

BotCon 2011. This is awesome. For Mike. Well...

Actually it is awesome because that means I don't

have to spend any money trying to get any of

these figures. Well, this set I guarantee you

will sell out and they've... They had a... They

played a game on Twitter the other day, BotCon

and Derek J. Wyatt, of throwing out words to

some sort of surprise reveal. And the first figure

they revealed was Dead End, which is a repaint

of Animated Jazz. And I am super surprised at

how much paint apps is on Dead End, because I've

got Jazz here, both in Alt and Vehicle mode.

Jazz is a good figure for Animated. It's a great

car mode. But the paint apps, because they're

Jazz -centric colors, they don't pop to me. Like

they should. What? They're pretty plain. Yeah,

they kinda are, but when they reused him for

Dead End, I mean, there's... He's got purple

headlights. He's got this... I don't really care

for the Decepticon symbol they're using on these,

but he's got a Decepticon symbol in the front

of his chest. He is a maroonish color. He's got

yellow everywhere. I mean, it's just so awesome

that they're doing this. That's part about him

for me is his face and his nunchucks. The nunchucks,

I believe, are the same as what's on Jazz. They're

a little bit darker. The face is an all -new

head mold. Yeah, I don't mind the face mold.

That's what saves the figure for me. I still

will never buy it. a hundred percent enthused

about the BotCon set although they are doing

much better in recent years within the last five

years they've been doing really well with paint

apps and remolds and just the designs in general

for BotCon. Myself personally I'm not that stoked

about it but that's because I'm more so a classics

or a Beast Wars fan than I am animated as far

as toys are concerned. Yeah, the only bot cons

that I've ever been excited about was the seeker

classic seekers But I wasn't gonna spend eight

thousand dollars to get them. So yeah This set

the the five -figure box set will be all of these

stunta cons Too bad they couldn't make them so

they could actually combine Yeah Yeah, there's

no way they they are non combining but just having

them in the animated style I cannot wait Derrick

you know why I also dropped a bomb on Twitter

the other day he mentioned motor master and then

right after that the bot con Twitter said oh

Yeah, it's gonna be all five stunna cons for

the box set. I can't wait to see what they use

for motor master Yeah, because motor master is

supposed to have an all -new head as well Prime

with a new head. I I I don't know Not sure but

it's definitely nice to see them actually thinking

things out more and not having like obscure characters

you've never heard of? See, that's the problem

with 2009 and 2010. You know, they're really,

really obscure characters and the only thing

that was G2 about last year's set was the breakdown

figure. The rest of it was either all UK exclusives

or some really, really obscure character. Well,

and let's be honest, G2, using G2 as a theme

It's not the brightest thing in the world because

that's got to be the least sought after. There's

people like Steve and a lot of other people that

love the Beast Wars and Beast Machines. There's

people that love, and I'm happy for the animated

fans that they're getting their turn here. There's

people that love the G1 stuff, but how many people

really are yearning for G2 stuff? Yeah, really.

Myself, I'd love to see them go back to Beast

Machines since they have done a Beast Wars related

one. and maybe do redesigns of the figures, doing

something better. That'd be interesting. Because

all the figures are kind of ass. Yeah, that would

be very, very interesting. Now I'm looking at

this color sheet that was on the actual dead

end article on TFW. And yeah, that face is just

amazing. And just the overall design of it is

awesome. Again, it kind of makes me wish we had

a Season 4 for animated so I could actually see

these characters in animation. Yeah, I'd be interested

to see, I'm interested to see what all five of

them look like together and how they, because

the trick here for me is if I was an animated

fan, which eventually I might be once I actually

watch the show, but the trick here for me is

can they do five of these figures and make them

look like they belong together and not just like

they're five separate repaints of other figures?

I think they can. Hopefully. It needs to be some

type of thing that ties them all together. Well,

I don't know if there's going to be something

that ties them all together, and yes, the Stunacons

are a team, but if you look at the Shatter, and

I always keep going back to Shatterglass, but

if you look at the Shatterglass Autobots from

the 2008 set, those were all tied together very

well for the most part between... uh... gremlock

and gold bug and rodimus and uh... i was in megatron

uh... rodimus and optimus those were all tied

together very well so i think because the stuntacons

have majority of them have this kind of same

dark kind of color scheme it will work well again

it depends on what molds from animated what other

molds they're going to use i mean obviously they

would use Probably use the optimus the Voyager

optimus prime mold for Motor master. I don't

know though, but this is just This is just so

cool You must be in heaven with the stuff the

new the news items that are Coming out recently

for transformer stuff Because you got the animated

thing as the theme for BotCon you have the next

story Which, again, I think it only is appropriate

if you talk about it. But, I mean, you must be

in heaven with all this stuff. Yeah, I kinda

am, but at the same time, I can't afford any

of this crap. That's the problem. It's too much

at once. That is the only pain. You know, it's

like, you know, everybody's, ever since BotCon

announced this stuff on Twitter about the set,

it's like... Oh my god because seriously if people

want this set you're gonna have to set the money

aside now and and grab it up because I guarantee

you the secondary market for this set because

animated regardless of how Kevin feels or whatever

regardless of how people that don't like animated

feel animated was very very popular There's no

denying its popularity and this set is going

to sell out in the secondary market. I guarantee

you this set will go for thousands and thousands

of dollars Yeah Considering the highest priced

item of BotCon to date is Beast Wars Dawn of

Future's Past Megatron Which generally goes anywhere

between a thousand and fifteen hundred dollars

on eBay by himself Crazy talk. Yes, it is crazy

talk. I wish I would have bought one and ordered

it at the time. I Could have bought one for a

hundred thirty dollars. I'm kicking myself in

the nuts now for it And well, and while Steve

is doing that really quick Masterpiece MP09 Rodimus

convoy or Rodimus Prime has been released Very

very cool. I actually talked with protoman the

goddamn protoman and asked him about this like

how they were able to make hot rod and Rodimus

as one figure and It turns out that the front

of Rodimus Prime is actually the rear of hot

rod There's um, it's not in the I don't think

it's in the images that are in the article here

but there was images of like where the dual heads

and all that stuff is like if you look at that

at that one all image that has like the like

the back of the box stuff on the left side is

the hot rod and on the right side is the Rodimus

Prime where that that piece is on his front end

it's just sitting on the legs of the hot rod

figure so the hot rod figure actually drives

into the trailer head first so yeah that's gonna

be extremely cool and again dammit I wish I was

rich yeah I mean I love all the masterpiece figures

because they look awesome and they take so much

attention to detail and whatnot but it's something

that I basically will never own any of them and

number one because they're expensive and number

two because they're not American made but or

American available you've got to get them online

well now I've only ever seen two in the store,

one being Optimus Prime and the other being Starscream.

I did not pick up Starscream, but I did go out

and spend the $68 to buy Optimus Prime at Target

when I saw him out. Yeah, they generally will

release the Takara version, which is the MP09

Ramus Convoy, which is what he's being called

for them. Nowadays, they're all about Toys R

Us exclusives, so Toys R Us is getting a US version,

but it's without the trailer. It's just the actual

figure. It's kind of like the whole Grimlock

situation, where Grimlock was released as a masterpiece

figure over there, and he was released here at

Toys R Us. One of them had a crown, the other

one had an apron, so there's going to be a different

accessory with the US version. Gotcha. Well that's

at least they're available in the US then. I

forgot that they were. I've seen the Grimlock

one, I forgot that. It's way expensive though.

Yes. So, we will be right back with Ask Megatron.

Now we're back with Ask Megatron. In this section,

because we have no fan submission for this particular

section, this episode, It will be the host asking

the questions to Megatron, with Megatron answering.

So, yes. I believe Mike has a question for Megatron.

What do you think of all the BotCon 2011 news,

Megatron? I could care less. I think animated

is not a good line. Care to elaborate, Mike?

You'd be wrong on that. I think he just... I

highly doubt it. Because Animated does not feature

any primary Decepticons. I would have liked to

have seen the Constructicons. Um, let's see.

Me. Well, Beast Wars Megatron, you couldn't be

featured in Animated, but your descendant was.

He was a badass helicopter. They could have used

TF Animated Grimlock for my... That wouldn't

be a bad repaint actually change the head and

use Grimlock Well, yeah, I saw an image of it

somewhere. They could animated protocols Where

are you right now Megatron I am floating in the

abyss at this current point in time because somebody

Locked me in the all things transformers logo

That's kind of I don't know, that's kind of weird.

Well, it's better than being a drone. Yes, it

is better than being a drone, being that I do

have my regular body. Yes, I will actually be

getting Optimal Megatron hopefully in the mail

here soon in Puggleformer form. What do you think

of the Puggleformer's Megatron? It looks like

a purple Optimus Primal. You mean a blue Optimus

Primal? In any case, it does not look like me.

There is no substitution. Well, you did steal

Optimus' body. Yes, but it had my perfect face.

At least I have a blasted mouth. Sorry. And I

think I'm going to cut Megatron short. I just

closed off his portal. He can't attack anymore

this episode. To hear more comments from Megatron,

please submit. And Megatron will answer your

questions. I wonder if he's either going to escape

from the logo. Yes, I cannot help and be responsible

for anything that Megatron says. Nor will Geekcast

Radio be responsible for anything Megatron says.

He's got his own mind. It's kind of like if you

fail, the CIA will disavow all knowledge of your

existence. Well, that's why he's locked in the

logo. for him to come attack me yes yes in any

case we will be back right after this with the

fan submissions we are here we are waiting and

now we're back in the fan submission area this

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the episodes And I believe Mike has a little

bit of information information on iTunes oh yeah,

actually this has nothing to do with the the

the reformatting of all things transformers version

2 .0 here, but I frequent our Listings on iTunes

regularly for the most part to see if we have

any new reviews and to my surprise There was

a new review for the TFD one podcast This is

by Lord Bruticus. He says great show. It's five

-star review. It was left January 22nd 2011 I

hope you all make more episodes. Sorry, dude.

The show's over I've loved the original transformer

since 1984 when I was a brainy little sixth grader

and have only loved the incarnation of Transformers.

Since then, your show really helped to fill the

void. I can only hope that my new podcast, TFG1

Talk Radio, can live up to some of the great

stuff you've done, except that we will never

be explicit LOL to all I want. Well, you know,

thank you very much for the review. It's great

to have a new review because the last one before

that was... almost two years ago. Even though

TFG1 is dead, it's nice to get new reviews and

people finding us in iTunes and stuff like that.

It's like a TFG1 podcast was locked in a logo

somewhere and just got unleashed. No, this has

nothing to do with Megatron Spark. Thank you

for the review again. As I said, I frequently

check all of our podcasts and iTunes to see if

they have any new reviews. As far as the explicitness,

I've said from day one, podcasting allows me

to curse. I don't normally curse in everyday

life, so it allows me to vent, so that's why

it's tagged explicit for a reason. We're all

adults here. Yes, and we all like to swear. During

podcasts. During podcasts. I sometimes go overboard

out of podcasts, but that is because I'm crazy.

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2 .0. Now we're going to get into the... Since

we don't have any TF Prime news right now, we're

going to skip that. We're going to go to Looking

Forward To... What we're looking forward to in

the transformers world this month There's a lot

of things to look forward to actually in this

month I'll let I'm guessing Mike's gonna be looking

forward to like more Stuff as far as back on

goes, but I'm definitely looking forward to the

premiere here of the regular series of transformers

prime That's the number one thing I'm looking

forward to I am looking forward to that as well.

I One of the reasons why I'm looking forward

to it is because I want to know what kind of

theme they're going to use if they're going to

use an intro theme for the show. Obviously they

will, but it was something that we didn't get

in the five -part miniseries. Right. Again, all

out of my price range, but Masterpiece Rodimus,

Hyper Hobby's Black Animated Rodimus. I haven't

picked up yet. Mike has a crush on Rodimus Prime.

Shut up. Actually, there's another person I have

to throw into the bus for this. My crush on Rodimus

Prime is nothing compared to Protoman's crush

on Rodimus because Protoman has almost every

single thing Rodimus ever and he has multiples

of everything. I will never understand that.

Anyways, well, we don't understand the Springer

thing, so anyway. So yeah, I'm looking forward

to the Black Animator Rotomus specifically because

it's kind of like Shattered Glass Rotomus in

animated style. I'm looking forward to pretty

much... A lot of the stuff in the United line,

the United is Takara's version of Generations

and they're more of a shiny figure than the US

versions are. I have held off on getting Generations

Soundwave because I frankly don't like the way

that the US figure looks. I don't like how dull

the blue is and on the United version it's much

more shiny and vibrant. So I'm looking forward

to that. Mike's looking forward to some toys,

in other words. Yeah. Yes, he's looking forward

to toys. Shut up, Steve. Yes. Myself, I'm looking

forward to Transformers Prime. I'm pretty geeked

about it. I'm also looking forward to hearing

more information on the new trailer for TF3.

Shockwave was impressively, anyway. I'm hoping

that we'll get some good quality information

and a good trailer out of Transformers 3. Yeah,

that'd be cool. A lot of stuff right now. Actually,

it hasn't always been like this, but at this

moment in time, there is a lot of stuff to look

forward to in the Transformers world. Right now

is a perfect time to be a Transformers fan, whether

you like the movie, whether you like the comics.

I know we don't cover a lot of comics, but I've

been hearing a lot of good things about Last

Stand of the Wreckers. Well, just look at all

the stuff that's happening. We've had new books,

we have had new games and more games coming.

We got a new cartoon, we got a new movie, new

toys. I mean, there was a time when you... Transformers

fans had nothing happening. Yes, and see the

nice part about all of them are they're all different

continuities Yeah, so if you don't like one thing

there's at least something else that you can

flock to exactly I don't know if it's coming

out. I think it's coming out in February I know

something Kevin would absolutely die to get his

hands on is generations thundercracker. Yep Yes,

yes finally The one I don't have. Well, at least

you didn't have to waste the money through BotCon

or eBay. I know. I'm glad I waited. Waiting can

sometimes be... I would have been so pissed off

if I had spent the money to get those three Seekers

from BotCon and then seen that they all came

out in another form. You get that nice plastic

bag coverage for it when you get it in BotCon

and a little sticker that says, BotCon. Yes.

I can go without that. Yeah. You can buy that

package. Yeah, the sticker's not worth $800 to

me. But anyways, since we've already transitioned

personally into BotCon, we'll just finish off

the discussion with BotCon. I always look forward

to hearing different things that's revealed at

BotCon. I always kind of wish that I could go.

Mainly the number one reason I'd ever want to

go to a BotCon is actually to run into any of

the voice actors that they have there. That would

be my biggest draw. to go there besides seeing

just sneak peeks at stuff that everybody can't

see but this botcon screams Mike to me. Cool

for the toys, yes. But I'm pretty sure that they'll

probably have some of the animated voice actors

being that this is an animated based one. True.

I'm almost wondering if they're going to have

David Kay back again. I would assume so. I would

assume so. I've heard rumors that I think that

he's going to be at TFCon as well this year.

I think so, yeah. Definitely, that would be one

reason why I'd want to go. I pretty much would

just love to be able to get autographs, pictures,

and just talk with the voice actors. That's mostly

my thing. I may not care for the figures and

care for all that money related thing, but I

would care to do the games and to the ... the

voting and the seeing the new stuff and just

meeting people. Exactly. I've said it plenty

of times. If I ever got to go to BotCon, I would

want the full experience. I know of some people

that have said you can go to BotCon for under

$200 if you don't get, not including your...

your package for the convention, but if you don't

get all the extra exclusive stuff, if you just

go bare bones, you can do that. But for me, I've

said this before, I would want the full package

and the full experience of it, being able to

catch all the panels, being able to see all the

voice actors and the other guests that they may

have, whether those are comic book writers or

Stan Bush, for Christ's sake. And that's the

thing about Vakon. The last two years, 2009 it

was in Pasadena in California. Last year it was

at Disney World and then this year it's going

to be at Pasadena again. So I'm wondering if

they're stopping the BotCon is wherever. Like

BotCon 06 was in Lexington, Kentucky. BotCon

08 was in Cincinnati, Ohio. They may have found

their home. What? They may have found their permanent

home. Kind of like TFCon. I mean, I know why

they put it in California, obviously, because

it's a movie year and that's where all the movie

people are. But I wouldn't mind going down to

Disney World one year to a BotCon. That would

be awesome. And apparently a BotCon is 123 days,

20 hours, and 46 minutes away. Because they have

a clock. counting down at BotCon .com. That is

awesome. So if you want information, they don't

really have much information posted yet, but

you go to BotCon .com slash BotCon2011 and they

actually have a clock ticking down until June

2nd. Definitely awesome. They're doing something

with the characters that were elected in that

first class of Transformers Hall of Fame or something,

right, this year? They're probably going to have

a second class of Hall of Fame characters. I

don't know who they would pick this year. I would

assume that they would run it the way they did

last year, where they have four... Well, not

really one from each group, but I mean last year

you had Optimus, Megatron, Starscream... and

Bumblebee, and then Dinobot was the fifth character.

What I'm saying is I think they'll do the same

thing they did last year. They'll have four inductees

as far as characters already, and then the fifth

inductee character will be another fan vote.

Is this something that they're going to continue

doing every single year? I'm assuming they are.

Until we have a thousand people in the Hall of

Fame? What what I'm hoping is that they include

Some of the not so known like not soundwave not

Starscream, you know for the Hall of Fame. Well

Starscream is already in so um, yeah, see I forget

these things but uh Yeah, I'm hoping that they

and I know it's a biased thing I'm just hoping

they put Beast Wars Megatron at least on the

consideration list I'm hoping they fix the vote

because apparently what went on last year is

people could vote multiple times They could they

could only vote once per character, but they

could vote for all five, right? Yeah, and I'm

hoping they whoever's doing their website learns

how to fix that because it's kind of Not really

giving any of them a fair chance at winning.

Yeah Think this Hall of Fame thing. I think it

was so popular last year at the convention I

think they're gonna keep this up for a couple

of years They're gonna do anything though with

the people the characters that get elected are

they gonna give them like some type of special

toy or I don't think so, but basically what it

is is it's it it's kind of like The best thing

I cannot can equal it to is the WWE Hall of Fame

where they have a dinner and they have a speech

thing or whatever where in this case with the

Transformers Hall of Fame last year what they

did was like they would show the nominee videos

and then they would pick the winner and then

who like say Optimus Prime got inducted so they

would have Peter Cullen come up there and say

something the only thing that really pissed me

off about last year was Dinobot won the fan vote.

Scott McNeil was at BotCon. They never had him

come up and make a speech or anything about it.

So as far as Steve wanting Beast Wars Megatron

in there, I'm assuming that this is gonna go

on for a couple of years So he'll be in there

at some point whether it's this year next year

the year after I don't know Unless they figure

that since Megatron's in that's it for that character.

I don't think so It's a different character though.

It's a different I know I know it's a different

character I can see them being like, oh that's

double dipping or something. I don't know. We

already got a Megatron We don't need another

one right? I mean I can see that but hopefully

not Hopefully not. I'm hoping that they do something

with that and I'm hoping they get a lot of varying

guests and hopefully some voice actors from animated

itself. That would be cool. I didn't know they

did the whole speech and the introduction type

thing and that's kind of cool. With having the

animated voice actors, hopefully they have Townsend

Coleman maybe. I know when I interviewed Tara

Strong she said she would love to go to it to

it again as long as it wasn't you know somewhere

in a cold cold place because the only one she's

been to is the 08 podcom which was in Cincinnati

so. Ouch. Yeah. Nice. But alright I guess we

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