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Welcome to All Things Transformers. I'm your

host, Steve Megatron, and joining me on this

adventure into the Transformers fandom is TFG1

Mike. Holy crap, folks. It is literally, when

we're recording this, it's probably five days

away from my 46th birthday. Holy crap. This old

man. so old i'm older than the transformers themselves

oh god well it is a new year we this is our first

episode of the new year actually i think because

we have not i don't think we did one uh we did

we did an attf but i don't or maybe it was just

AG. I don't know. One of, one of the two. I think

we just did an AG. I don't think we've done.

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i'm working here i'm working over here geekcastradio

.com unleash the geek in you uh comics tf con

guests and all that episode was in november wow

we haven't done one since november no this is

the first episode of 2026 welcome to the 40th

anniversary of transformers the movie and the

30th anniversary of beast wars ladies and gentlemen

we have got plans for 2026 and you're not going

to know about them until they release oh come

on you can do better than that yes there you

go yeah yeah so the first the first thing we

have up here i mean a lot of this is just mostly

toy news uh yeah we got we got three stories

tonight i wanted to keep it simple i kind of

wanted to keep it like a 20 minute blitz kind

of thing and there wasn't really anything Between

the November episode and now, there wasn't anything

that just knocked my socks off. There wasn't,

like, I still haven't gotten the Beast Wars Funko

Pops yet. I'm still waiting on getting those.

I need to get those and whatever. There hasn't

been any new, like, I got the Thundercracker.

I got the Skywarp and the Thundercracker Funko

Pops. from that set and i got springer out of

that new generation one set i haven't gotten

cup yet and i'm not getting that new nemesis

prime because the old one is better but i haven't

gotten the beast wars pops yet and there just

isn't anything like oh my god we have to talk

about this oh my god this is going to shatter

the glass of the transformers world glass that's

right So, before we get into the figures that

I know we're going to talk about and probably

rant about, I did get a knockoff Megatron. It's

actually really nice. Yeah. It looks just like

the official. Yep. Same colors, same everything

comes with all the gear that the regular one

does. What's funny is I have him in prime because

I rearranged how they all my autobots and maximal

stand in the cabinet. Right. I move the stasis

pod down with the maximals and I move the autobots

and Decepticons around and I put Megatron and

prime side by side while they sit. Like they're

truly leader class. Whereas a lot of the War

for Cybertron said they were and they were not.

They were Voyager class. So all of the like the

G2 Megatron, the War for Cybertron, Optimus Prime,

they're the same height as J -Axis, which is

a Voyager. Right. So these these leader class

commander class Megatron and Optimus Prime actually

sit like a whole head taller. And they look awesome.

So I got the knockoff of it because it was kind

of multifaceted here. I got it because I wanted

the figure, but I also didn't want the $60 price

tag or the weight. i literally more of the waiting

thing because i was gonna get this for you and

then you're like no no no i i'd rather have the

kirk that's coming out in december i'm like okay

fine yeah or like the uh the stranger things

van that i'm gonna yep modify to ultimis yep

um so i i was like you know i'll get this and

it's it was the same price as my prime came from

china it got here pretty quick i was still i

still had my megatron pre -ordered on bbts in

case something heaven forbid happened yep and

when it arrived i canceled it i was like okay

i mean the only difference is is it doesn't come

with a decepticon symbol yeah and i have repro

labels or toy hacks labels that yeah i just repurposed

yeah you can get those yeah yeah so i i have

a ton of them sitting around Because they came

with like BBTS orders or they came with. The

other transfer shows the store. Yep. So anyways,

I had a bunch of them and. So I. I think the

figure is pretty stellar. I have not transformed

either of them to know how difficult they are.

Right. But I don't have any intention of ever

doing so. Yeah, you're buying these for display

in robot mode. You did not buy these for playtime.

You did not buy these to, and again, Megatron

tank. It's kind of cool. It's kind of okay, but

Megatron really isn't a tank to us. He never

has been. He never will be. So that's one good

thing about having Transformers packaged in robot

mode. You already now have the mode that you

want it in, and you're never going to play with

it again other than to display it, move it, pose

it the way you want in robot mode. Yeah. I mean,

especially Optimus. Optimus. Put him in what

mode? Did yours come with the trailer or no?

My Optimus? Yeah. No. Okay. I could have got

the other knockoff of Prime for the same, like

for like 50. And he would have come with even

the IDW arm. Right. Or like the Starscream head.

Like it would have had a lot more stuff with

it. Right. I had no intention of ever getting

the trailer because I'm like, okay, it's going

to eat space on my shelf. I already have shelf

space, and so I opted to not get that version.

However, had I wanted it, I probably still would

have gone that route of the knockoff version

that came with it and gotten all the other perks.

Yeah, exactly. Well, that's what I'm trying to

say is that even if you got the trailer version,

the full trailer version, you're still going

to want Optimus in robot mode and have the trailer

open as the base or as the stand -up recharge

chamber thing or whatever the hell it is used

for or whatever kind of thing. Like, I don't

know, man. I just never... What are we at now?

It's 40 years for the movie. 42 years. Oh, God.

42 years ago. Boy, 84 was 42 years. 42 years

ago in 84, when the original Optimus came out,

I didn't get one until probably late 86, early

87. And as a kid, I would want to transform Optimus

Prime. When I got back into Transformers in 2006,

when I was 26, 27, 28, right before I started

podcasting, and I started collecting Transformers

as a 20 -something adult, yeah, I kind of wanted

to still transform them. Now, like I said, I'm

five days away from my 46th birthday. Give me

the stuff in robot mode. Very rarely do I care

about alt modes these days. Very, very rarely.

Give me it in robot mode. Let me pose it the

way I want to pose it. And that's that for me

when it comes to a lot of the Transformers figures.

Generation 1 Astrotrain is an exception because

he's so easy to transform. Generation One Soundwave

is sometimes an exception because he's so easy

to... I don't know. I'm here to have him displayed.

I'm not here to fiddle -faddle with him all the

time. No, and I agree with you. I'm just to the

point now that I... I'm just, I want them displayed,

but I also want them posable. Yeah. And I do

want the option to transform them. If I'm like,

Hey, I'm bored of how they look. I want to do

something different. Yeah. Majority of them.

I'm never going to ever touch. Like I've, I've

transformed like even the war for Cybertron stuff.

I've transformed them a handful of times, like

all of them. And then I've kind of never done

it again. And then. So these two were like. These

and my Transmetal. Megatron and. Masterpiece

Megatron, like both those masterpieces, I've

never transformed. Right, because I just I'm

like, it's not something I want to mess with.

Even when I had the dragon Transmetal to Megatron

masterpiece, I was like, no, not not doing it.

came in robot it's staying in robot yeah yeah

exactly uh the more complicated it is the more

i'm like no i'm good i'm i'm old i don't i don't

care now i just i just want a display piece and

uh so yeah i'm it's kind of funny that hasbro

sold these you know optimus prime and mechatron

and now we're getting to the point of their demise

versions yes okay so i hasbro does this all the

time and the way they used to do it was i think

cooler so you take um even though it was more

expensive back in the day you take mp10 which

was, or you take MPO one or MPO for take MPO

four. Okay. Cause MPO four was optimist with

the trailer. You take MPO four and you turn them

into MPO four B MPO four B or MP 10 B without

the trailer or whatever is usually optimist gray

or optimist black or whatever. And it's not to

turn them into nemesis prime is to show that.

Hey, look, kids, Optimus went gray. That means

Optimus is dead. Now they're doing even more

sadistic stuff. I almost said the other S word,

but I didn't say it because I know. Anyway, they're

doing even more sadistic stuff where you actually

have a hole in his stomach where you can put

the steak in there to recreate the death seat.

i understand teaching children about death this

this is how i learned about death when i was

six years old 40 years ago but damn this is what

they're selling to adults in 2026 the really

and what's so crazy to me and i know i don't

know if you are going to do a specific special

podcast art for this episode but please if you

do make it that image because that is so stupid

so i can understand it from two vantage points

for this if you want the battle damage version

of prime and megatron where they're having their

last holdout battle or you want to do the autobot

city battle yeah i could understand it like i

i really could yeah i still don't love the head

sculpt of prime because it still doesn't look

it's still not the correct one yeah and i you

know you get megatron with the scowl and you

know he's got the chest damage i mean all they

did for megatron was really change the head yeah

and the chest plate and then prime they just

put some cracking on the the glass change the

head and then change like part of the waist yeah

and then put a stick in him yeah but like i don't

know dude like i okay so i sent you the the um

the truck image here in our little discord chat

with the, with the thing in his, in his grill.

Here's the robot mode version where he's damaged

and he's holding it. Like I get it. If you want

to have that on your shelf where he's damaged,

but man, I just, this is taking me back to when

I was six years old and I like, just like dan

you know optimus no do not grieve soon i shall

be one with the may like no like why would you

and again these are the exact same figures as

the ones they already released they're just damaged

versions of them like this is just hasbro you

already bought the other ones buy these too i

don't know i i audience People comment on the

episode post on geekastradio .com and let us

know who's buying this. Who wants to recreate

the death scene, the battle scene between in

toy form between Megatron and Optimus when you

can just pop your DVD in the DVD player and watch

the scene over and over and over again. Like,

I don't know who wants to have this on their

shelf in toy form. I don't know. I mean, I. Again,

I can see people wanting it. So, I mean, I don't

have anything against it. but i mean in the long

run people are gonna buy what they want to buy

and hasbro is gonna do what they're gonna do

because they're hasbro and whatever but and we

know that they do this stuff all the time they

want us to double dip and double buy and whatever

but it's like i just don't know like oh Hasbro,

you crazy. And then we head on down to Yolo Park

with their Transformers AMK series, Beast Wars,

Optimus Primal, and Dinobot, the color prototypes.

Coming to them via Yolo Park's social media accounts,

they have shared the first looks at the color

prototypes of their new Transformers AMK series.

Beast Wars, Optimus Primal, and Dinobot, which

were on display at the Toy Fair Germany event.

So we have two photos here from this, a more

wider shot where you see two other bots. The

two other bots are movie figures, but the close

-up is of Optimus Primal and Dinobot. I like

the Yolo Park stuff. I think it's cool. I really

do because it's just the robots. Like you don't

have to do anything with them. That's what Yolo

Park does the best. Along with some other companies

that do this kind of stuff. What do you think

of these? I mean, I'm a fan. Yeah, I really am.

I think it's kind of neat what they're doing

with these. However, like. I question primals

a little bit just because the shoulder pads look

really janky and. The head, I mean, the rest

of it looks. Pretty much like the masterpiece

figure. Yeah, because I mean, I have the masterpiece

and then Dinobot obviously is not fully colored

yet. Yeah, not yet. And I know these are prototypes

like I get it. So there's going to be some stuff

that's off. I I love the Dinobot just from the

fact that I don't have a masterpiece of him.

And so like he's kind of tempting, however. It

these these I could see being really nice if

like, say, you wanted to transform your masterpiece

figures. Yeah. And then have this as their battle

mode. Right. Yeah. And so like I am. I'm very

interested in the beast Megatron that's coming

out. Yeah. For that sake alone, just because

I'm like, oh, I could transform my, my masterpiece

Megatron. Yep. And then have that as the, yeah.

What I like about this, even though it's a prototype,

you're absolutely right. The shoulders are, oh,

they're all off. Like, yeah, they're right. They're

really weird. Yeah, the right one is angled wrong.

The left one is is like they're not even I know

they're attached, but they're so far from his

body. I'm like that. That's crazy. But what I

love is the head sculpt. It's not the true. It's

the Optimus Prime. It's not the primal. It's

not a split mask. It's the prime mask. Well,

it's his flight mode mask. Right. I understand,

but I'm saying that, yeah, I'm so used to seeing

Optimus Primal with the not flight mask. So those

are coming. Good remarks that these are not final

products and some changes could be made in the

future. Does not give a date at this time. And

then apparently I missed a Transformers Age of

the Primes fan stream. I don't know how I missed

it, but I missed it. This happened yesterday,

February 3rd, 2026. They went over a bunch of

stuff. They went over. Transformers. Age of the

Primes Deluxe Class Autobot Powerglide, Deluxe

Class Swerve, Deluxe Class Cliffjumper from Prime,

Deluxe Class Smokescreen from Prime, Autobot

Ratchet from Animated, Voyager Class the 13 Nexus

Prime, and Leader Class the 13 Liege Maximo.

So we're going to start here. What do you think

of this? uh first image the new kind of banner

here with optimus and megatron soundwave bumblebee

jetfire what do you think of that art yeah okay

it's okay i mean it's i've i've seen better like

this is just weird cell shading and cheap animation

art like i don't love it compared to like stuff

we've gotten in the past yeah kind of reminds

me of g1 I kind of wish that they would, like,

I know the whole red Transformers thing is the

whole Autobot thing, and they want to obviously

promote the good guys first and whatever else,

but I wish they would mix it up a bit and, I

don't know, go purple for a while. So we got

Evan, Mark, and Nate that were at the stream

doing the promotion. So Evan and Mark are the

designers, and Nate is one of the marketing teams.

So we got prime cliff jumper. Can you smell what

cliff jumper is cooking? Well, cause the rock

voiced cliff jumper in the one episode he was

in because he got killed off at the beginning

of the series. Um, these all look great. I don't

have any issues with any of these, that power

glide though. I wish he came with an Astoria.

I wish that was his accessory, an Astoria figure.

That would be so cool. Instead of the mask that

he comes with, give him an Astoria. That would

be fun. Any that stick out to you? I like the

Ratchet. Yeah, animated Ratchet looks really

good. Cliffjumper looks okay. The smoke screen.

I mean, he's kind of what I expect. Yeah. Yeah,

the power glide, it's I mean, you're getting

basically a G1 power glide. Yep. Which I'm not

a huge fan of him anyway, so it doesn't really

impact me whatsoever. obviously it goes over

my head cause I'm not aware of like where the

mask thing comes in. Yeah. I wasn't aware of

that either. Like I know power glide, but I don't

know where the mask thing comes in. It, yeah,

it's just weird. So, um, but ratchet ratchet

is pretty cool. If you know, to go with that

Optimus prime that we got a couple, like last

year or the year before. Um, so he's very, very

fitting and up to date. And then we get. You

said Swerve is the other Autobot, the yeah, the

little car. Yeah. Yeah, I I've not paid attention

too much to the little microbot, so I wasn't

aware of him either. And then we get the. The

guy that's the airplane. Yep. It's Nexus. Yeah.

Nexus Prime. Yeah. I'm like, I swear they're

just slap on names and just put prime at the

end. And they're like, OK, we got a prime. It

looks kind of neat. Like I comes with his own

little matrix. He's got the little backpack of

the, you know, the almost the Starscream ish

thing on the back with the wings and. Kind of

looks interesting. They're definitely planning,

you know. Big combiner type thing with them.

And they they show him is that is that Silverbolt

that they have him tied to or guy links because

I didn't watch the. No, I didn't watch it either.

Who do they have him tied to? It looks like Silverbolt.

Yeah, that looks like Silverbolt. And then they've

got a special in the Matrix. They get a special

logo in it. Yeah, and. Then we're getting Liege

Maximo, which originally was like a G2 thing.

Yep. Super creepy. Very. Definitely looks like

something that like a like a Unicron or like

a techno organic thing. Yeah, but I mean, you

straight out of the G2 comics. Yeah. When I saw

his alt mode, I was like, what in the hell kind

of? Oh, he's some kind of spaceship. OK. But

that's that's actually who like. Like all the

G2 Decepticons kind of hail to. Yeah, like J

-Axis and all those kind of guys. Yep, definitely

has the G2 vibe because all the little coils

and wires and stuff that go through different

parts. I'm not I'm not like anti G2 like I do

love G2. I would love to see them visit like

Machine Wars. Like as far as like a redux of

some of those things or do some old BotCon stuff

and revive it. Yeah, like I think they've done

over the years. But I and I really would love

to see Beast Wars and Beast Machines get some

love because like Transmetals and then like all

of the Beast Machines figures have been like

screwed. Yeah, over the years. Gotta have something

up their sleeve for this year for Beast Wars.

It's the 30th anniversary of the part of the

franchise that saved the company, that saved

the brand. I mean, Beast Wars brought it back.

Like, come on, you guys. You've got to give us

something. And I'm not saying this because I'm

trying to be negative against the Yolo Park stuff

that we just talked about a little while ago.

You've got to give us something besides these

Yolo Park releases. Like, you can't just... I

don't know. I don't know what they're doing,

but they've got to do something. Exactly. Gotta

do something, you guys. Gotta catch them all.

No. Yeah. Just put them in a bar. Put them in

a ball. Catch them all. Transformer, I choose

you. Astral train. Yeah. So I think that's it,

though. Yeah, I think so. There's, like, not

a ton. Yeah. I mean, there is. There's always

a ton, but as far as Transformers. But there's

nothing, like, really newsworthy, per se. Yeah,

like, so the first major thing on the TFW2005

.com website is that the panel we just talked

about, like, that's the biggest news. So there's

an update to the power glide thing where they

show an image of where you can open up his heart

chamber thing. And he has his little circuits.

And so see, that's what I'm saying. Like, why?

Why isn't there an Astoria little minifigure

attached to him? Because if you're going to open

up his chest and show that he has the heart,

that's the Astoria episode. You bastards. Give

him Astoria already. I skipped the Battersea

Power Station meet and greet with Greg Berger

event thing because Battersea Park is over in

the UK and we don't have something that friggin'

cool here in America. Unfortunately. So yeah,

there's nothing really else that are... And I'm

skipping the comics this time because there isn't

any really new, because I think I went over the

April solicitations last time. So you guys can

go back to the November episode and listen to

the April solicitations for that. I will say,

though, that it is getting really good. If you're

not reading the Skybound Entertainment Energon

Universe comics. You need to be. It's getting

so good. So yeah, that's what's going on. So

yeah. So if you guys have anything that you want

to hear us on a future episode, let us know.

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