Comics, TFcon Guests, and Favorite Episodes with Steve Megatron & TFG1Mike

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Hello and welcome to... All Things Transformers,

I'm your host, Steve Megatron, and joining me

on this adventure into the Transformers fandom

is TFG1 Mike. Yes, I am here, and it's Thanksgiving

week, everybody. It is. There ain't no turkey

formers, thank God. Ain't nothing to gobble here.

Nope. No roast goblin. yeah roast goblin let's

just hope it ain't green that would just be weird

yes yes it would green and purple goblins i don't

think so although it's it's been interesting

like this last week i don't know if you've paid

attention but like bbts has had a bunch of like

daily sales yeah because it's black friday week

instead of black friday day yep yeah i've been

just paying attention just because i'm like on

the off chance if there's something decent enough

yeah exactly although everything like okay so

this is just off on a tangent here for a moment

yeah uh but the it's funny because the deluxe

class stayed the same price yeah the leader class

went up a couple bucks voyager class is now 42

.99 wait wait wait okay voyager wow really yeah

i remember back in the day when those were like

15 bucks but uh and when deluxe was like nine

and now they're like 27 oh my i don't buy transformers

anymore other than funko pops but ow my non -existent

wallet Yeah. The blaster that's out now, like

the SS -86 Voyager blaster, he's $42 .99. Oh!

And Ultra Magnus Studio Series 86 is $89. I mean,

he's Commander class, but Commander, I think,

is kind of a rip for what size they are. Yeah.

Considering Grimlock is more of a, you know,

larger than they are, and he's $60. Wait, wait,

wait, wait. Grimlock is a commander class? No,

no, no, he's leader class. But he's bigger, physically.

Okay, okay, okay. But he's cheaper. Physically,

he's bigger. Wow, he's... So these classes are

all out of whack. I think they just put commander

class on anything that they want to charge more

on. Yeah, that's true. Because the Voyagers were

$34 .99. Now they're $42 .99. wow that's so i've

noticed him in the store i've seen him in the

store and i'm like uh uh like i mean i get inflation

i get like tariffs i get all this you know crap

they're still gonna pass it on to the the customer

and and i see that of course yeah but it's kind

it kind of sucks just because it's like well

you've essentially priced yourself out You can

get Studio Series 86 Galvatron and BBTS for like

$46 now. Which, not bad. I think I paid something

like $70, but I have the reformatted version

of SS86 Galvatron. Yeah, I got the regular one,

and then I promptly repainted him into Megatron.

yeah i mean looking back i probably would have

left him as just galvatron yeah and just you

know picked a different source figure for megatron

but yeah well it is what it is now i'm not gonna

make another one yeah still waiting for 86 megatron

to come out yeah i looked at that again i looked

at that again and i was like oh my god so he's

out other places it's just bbts that got theirs

delayed till february of next year well i haven't

even seen him in the store oh really okay because

i've looked i've seen that now this is the funny

part i've seen the whatever the the latest you

know g2 version of grimlock is right i've seen

him in the store and he just came out yeah according

to the news he just came out and i've seen him

in the store but i've not seen a megatron okay

granted i never saw studio series 86 prime hit

the store either huh so it's really weird like

a lot of the the crap figures get into the store

and then and i say crap and they're not really

crap they're just they're not the ones that like

everybody's clamoring for you know they're not

the primes they're not the megatrons or you know

i feel like anymore the the store people are

scalping them that does not surprise me because

i'm fairly certain they've been doing that since

like 2001 or earlier but let's just say 2001

but yeah i mean so there's that and then I I've

had fun just kind of seeing what has gone on

sale with their, their black Friday week deals.

Yeah. Um, but like, they've had like iron hide

from, you know, the transformers bumblebee movie

they've had, uh, number of other figures from

different lines, you know, not just transformers,

but, um, like bumblebee. Uh huh. uh one of the

junkions they've had uh i think there was a prime

or something at one point uh j axis which is

funny because j axis is like 14 bucks now yeah

i remember when you were full price yeah but

yeah so i don't know i'm just i'm entertained

by seeing how these things are going and then

I'm waiting to see where you know where we end

up with some of the the figures and things as

they kind of go with Black Friday week I'm hoping

some other ones hit a mega sale that I'm eyeballing

but I'm like I'm pretty much holding out for

Megatron and then that captain kirk even though

he's like tailing the next year and then probably

that stranger things van just to turn him into

like a gcrn vehicle that becomes ultimus yeah

yes that would be so i think that's i think i

may actually do that i i triple dog dare you

i know you don't need the the motivation of a

triple dog dare from a christmas story and i

know thanksgiving is before christmas folks but

i triple dog dare you because i think that would

be hilarious Well, and I would print, you know,

I would have, I would use our, our online store

and print some decals and, you know, adhere them

to the figure. And then, you know, I don't know

if I would keep them as a van. Like, I don't

know if I would turn them into, you know, a truck

or keep them as a van or, or what? Like, I don't,

I don't know what's involved with that. Cause

I've never seen the back side of the figure to

know how ingrained it is in the figure. Yeah.

It's, if it's requiring a lot of. you know reconstructive

engineering i probably won't yeah i think just

keep him as a van anyway because it's a radio

station van i mean it that's just it's just a

thing uh but yeah no that would be super cool

oh all right folks it's uh comic book time comics

come first this time around and i know we normally

don't talk about void rivals on here but i wanted

to bring this up because uh void rivals is the

new arc uh coming up in december uh issue 25

arrives and it begins with the quintesson war

oh boy Holy crap, war comes to the Sacred Ring.

The Quintesson War begins. No one could prepare

for an all -out assault from the Quintessons.

Derek and Salila must lead their people in the

deadliest war they've ever faced. When the dust

is settled, the status quo of Void Rivals will

be forever changed. Dun -dun -dun -dun -dun.

So, as I've mentioned before on the show, the

coolest thing to me about the new Energon universe

from Image Comics slash Skybound Entertainment

is that Void Rivals is a wholly unique series

unto its own that has Transformers stuff on the

edge of the precipice. I think the first issue,

the first two or three issues... had jet fire

in the background but the main crux of the story

is focused on derrick and salila the two main

characters avoid rivals um so that's what is

so cool to me about this and we've been building

up to this 25th issue these last these last two

years i can't believe the energon universe is

two years old they just celebrated to the two

-year anniversary of the energon universe And

the fact that they are bringing in the Quintessons

in this way is just crazy to me. So issue 25

is coming up in December. And then we have the

February solicitations for both Void Rivals and

Transformers. For Transformers, we have February

brings issue 29 for Transformers. February brings

issue 27 for Void Rivals. It's Autobots versus

Decepticons. And only, insert spoiler, can turn

the tide. Oh, boy. And then over on Void Rivals,

the Quintesson War continues. The Quintessons

gain the upper hand in the brutal war being waged

on the Sacred Ring. But could Pythona and her...

Could Pythona, out of all people... Hold the

key to victory. So that's what's coming up in

February of 2026. Love these covers from these

upcoming issues. Very, very awesome. So those

are the comics. And then we will be on this show

and the pull bag next year, hopefully. As long

as I can get Joe Reed off his duff and get us

caught up on turtles comics. That's a whole other

discussion for another day. But yeah, the pull

bag hasn't had a comic review episode since March

of this year. We've been trying to get turtles

comics done and it hasn't happened. But then

again, I've had health issues this year anyway.

And then we have Robosyn Soundwave official reveal

date announced. It's December 4th of this year.

When the Robosyn stuff started happening, and

I'm sure everyone hearing the sound of my voice

knows what the Robosyn stuff is. It's automatic.

robotic stuff with transformers they've got optimus

prime they've got megatron i think they have

bumblebee too i remember bumblebee got released

because it's peter cullen frank welker and dan

gilvazan doing their respective characters i

thought it was cool but i was like there's no

way in hell i would ever be able to afford any

of these things Their latest teaser is something

I would basically do the best that I could to

save up as much as I could to get it because,

oh, my God. Coming December 4th is Robeson's

Soundwave. Ah. Sagalai is pretty cool. Like.

The teaser video that they have here doesn't

really show the teaser video that Robeson put

up on their YouTube channel doesn't really show

anything. Obviously, it's just a teaser. But

everybody knows. And yes, it's going. I cannot

wait to see how this is going to work. I just

hope it's a mother. It's Robeson. I'm pretty

sure they're going to secure whatever rights

they have to secure to make sure it's a dang

tape deck. At least I hope. But yeah. So there's

that. And then this past week. We had discussed

the TFCon LA announcement that from March 13th

to 15th out in LA next year for 2026 that they're

going to be doing Beast Wars 30th anniversary

and they're going to be getting a bunch of guests

together. including gary chuck david k they're

going to be getting neil caplan for the 24th

yeah okay so next year it'll be the 25th anniversary

of rid right now in this year as we're talking

about it's the 24th anniversary but 25th anniversary

of rid 30th anniversary of beast wars They're

also going to get Daniel Reardon, who is the

voice of Megatron, Galvatron, and Omega Prime

in Transformers RID, so the 25th anniversary

of RID. And then the most recent additions to

that, the most recent one single addition for

30th anniversary of Beast Wars is none other

than Mr. Richard Newman himself, Rhinox. He will

be joining. TFCon Los Angeles March 13th to the

15th. 4025. Sorry. It's late. I'm old. I don't

know. I'm kind of I'm very excited for the fact

that they're bringing these guys together. I'm

just waiting for the Ian James Corlett and the

Venus Terzo announcement. And Scott McNeil. And

Scott McNeil. Because you know, if that happens,

that script reading, whatever script reading

they end up doing, is going to be beyond amazing.

Oh, for sure. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. You just know.

I'm honestly surprised Scott hasn't already been

asked. He probably has been. It just probably

hasn't been figured out or logistics or whatever.

Maybe the others have been asked already as well.

Or it's just not been announced. Yeah, maybe.

Probably. Most likely. And then the other last

bit of news we have is that. Stan Bush and Vince

DiColo will be performing Saturday, March 14th,

2026 at the world -famous Whiskey -A -Go -Go

out in Hollywood, California to celebrate the

40th anniversary of Transformers The Movie. You

can use code TFCon for $5 off your ticket at

TicketWeb .com. The performance will take place

over the TFCon LA 2026 weekend. So I guess it's

part of TFCon, but it isn't. I don't know how

this is working. I have no idea. Okay, so this

reminds me. It's story time, folks. Yay! No,

seriously. This reminds me of 2016 when they

did the last BotCon. At the time, it was the

last BotCon. And I was there. No, you weren't.

No, I was at the year before. Yeah, you were

in 2015. 2016, they had the last BotCon in Louisville,

Kentucky. I don't remember where the hell the

last BotCon was held. All I know is Vince and

Stan were performing live down at 4th Street

Live in Louisville. 4th Street Live used to be

this whole... It is an entertainment complex

on 4th Street. It used to be the Louisville Galleria,

but they, in the last 30 years, they've changed

it all and did a whole bunch. It's a whole thing.

Anyway, so it was going to be a free concert

where people could come down and watch Stan and

Vince do their thing. So Lady Wreck had come

to go to BotCon. So she went to BodCon and I

went with her to the free concert because that's

all I could afford at the time. And I have pictures

of I have pictures of myself in front of the

Hard Rock Cafe down there on 4th Street. And

I have a picture with myself and her and all

that and everything else. And they put on this

free concert beforehand. So this kind of reminds

me of that where it's Stan and Vince kind of.

They're there because it's a BotCon weekend,

but they're not there because they're not actually

at the convention itself kind of thing. So even

though this says the performance will take place

over the TFCon LA 2026 weekend, they're not there

because of TFCon LA. They're just there performing

live, celebrating. the 40th anniversary. None

of this is reading to me that they're there as

part of TFCon LA. Hey, I'm glad they're out there

doing their thing. That's awesome. I would love

to see it. I would probably go to that first

for my own proclivities than anything else with

the convention because I'm not a people person.

I don't know. But yeah, no. Stan and Vince. 40th

anniversary performance. Yeah, I think that's

very cool. For one, I love both their music.

Yep. Like, hands down. I still need to listen

to Stan's new one. Yep. CD. Yep. So. His record.

No. yep yep yep um but yeah i mean i don't gonna

be wrong i uh they did announce venus turzo i

think did they i didn't see that that was today

was it really i think yeah all right it's been

announced oh okay well yay yeah yeah venus turzo

has been announced that wasn't in the convention

news when i psych okay this must yeah okay yeah

it was announced yeah you know why i didn't see

that why it's not in the script it was announced

at 9 36 p .m when i was still asleep yeah my

alarm didn't go off until 10 minutes before the

show so yes okay no absolutely yeah uh venus

will be coming so there you go now we just need

to get Scott McNeil and... And James Corlett.

And James Corlett. Then the whole band will be

back together again. Well, they could still...

They could still get... Yeah. Inferno and Parasaur

and... Yep. Quickstrike and... Yep. Rampage has

passed away. Tarantulas is still around. Depth

Charge. Alec Willows and David Sobeloff. Born

for Battle is Stan's new album was released September

5th of this year. Yeah, I still need to listen

to it. Yep. Got 11 songs. It's 42 minutes long.

So as we wind down the news, because I don't

suspect there'll be much. Into the holiday season

outside of, you know, new figures coming out,

maybe. We decided to discuss, you know, five

of our favorite Transformers episodes that, you

know, either fun or, you know, groups or. Things

that just we kind of go to for Transformers.

Yep. More so episodes that we watch. Yes. And

are the ones that you just kind of, you know,

cut the brain off and have a good time with it.

And with as many as whether it's Autobots, Decepticons,

Predacons or Maximals, with as many robots as

we have in the US. And again, folks want to make

this clear. We are looking at the US based cartoons.

At least I am. Anyway, I don't know about you,

but I am. There's a lot of turkeys in a lot of

turkey characters in all those cartoons over

the last 41 years. But there are no actual Thanksgiving

episodes. There are Christmas episodes aplenty.

Human error parts one and two, which I left off

my list from animated is one that I can think

of. Which. Yeah, but why don't you run down your

list, sir? So. My like one of my kind of go to

favorite episodes are. Fire in the sky. Really?

From G1. Yeah. Yeah, I know. OK, you get, you

know. oh you know not snowman you know spike

snow bot uh i mean you get scatman in there you

get them you know having fun doing a snowball

fight you get you know jet fire or sky fire yeah

and so that funny enough the first i think the

first episode of g1 that i saw was this and then

like the plague of the insecticons or something

i think it was just the way that they had them

bundled and at the VHS tapes. Uh -huh. And we

saw this, uh, while I was at my dad's house and

we were, we rented, you know, movies or cartoons

or whatever. And we watched this and I was like,

Oh, this one's fun. Like I like this one, you

know, and, uh, got to see a little backstory

and star scream. And at the time I liked star

scream more than I liked Megatron. So it was

kind of fitting. And then. I don't know, just.

It ends with like the, you know, the very Christmassy

green at the end, you know, with with Skyfire

in the ground. Yeah. Even though it was kind

of sad. Yeah. Very sad for Skyfire. It was snow.

It was snow. So it was fun. It was snow. My number

five is the only episode in the entire 41 year

history that I can remember that actually reminds

me of Thanksgiving. Because those damn wild baked

bean vines always makes me think of Thanksgiving.

You always got to go down the low road, man.

yeah you're gonna go there hey at least it's

only at least it's only number five at least

it's only number five and not any higher true

true that episode like That's as scared as you're

ever going to see Megatron. The rest of that

series and Into Beast Machines, I've never seen

Megatron as scared as I saw him when he had Rhinox's

ass right in front of his face. Not wild bean

vines! No. No. Anything but that. No. Yep. Absolutely.

Yeah. It was a fun episode despite the explosive

flatulence. Yes. And we all know some crazy uncle

that has the explosive flatulence at Thanksgiving.

Yep. He be blowing chunks, yo. So nobody come

in the bathroom for about 35, 45 minutes. Somebody

open the window. Do not go in there. That's right.

That's right. So, yeah, my number four is Return

of Optimus Prime Part 2. More so because it's

like, oh, we get a gift. We get Optimus Prime

back. Yeah. It wasn't, I mean, Season three wasn't

going very well, and then season four was kind

of a crapshoot because they were just like, we

need to sell toys. Put as many characters as

you can in here. And then the Matrix was kind

of a crapshoot too in this, but I liked the fact

that they brought Prime back, and then my original

idea for Optimus actually stemmed from this Optimus

Prime being all painted in the impervious metal.

The white metal. yeah that was what spawned the

idea for ultimus and i was like i give him a

fusion cannon do this you know and then he's

a clone of prime and and i created that you know

in the late 90s and then uh so i actually painted

a junkie g1 prime that i had nice to look like

it because i didn't realize that if you got like

an ultra magnus it came with a white prime right

so it was like early on when I was into my transformers

fandom. And so, uh, I don't have either of those

anymore. So like when I recollected, I got the

warfare Cybertron, uh, ultra Magnus, I sold the

armor and I kept the underbody, which was, you

know, white. And then I changed the color of

like the helmet and, uh, you know, the hands

and the, uh, the, the legs. And I made them the,

uh, kind of like, um, kind of a brushed metal

kind of a graphite metallic yep very cool very

cool uh oh boy the series finale for animated

um would be my number four end game parts one

and two It's more specifically for part two,

and it's only one thing, at least this time around,

for this list. That ending music by the composer

Sebastian Evans II, that is some of the... It

really has nothing to do with Thanksgiving or

holidays or anything else, but that Heroes Welcome

track. And it's funny because... I didn't even

know that, like, I didn't think the animated

score was anywhere. And it was maybe a year,

couple of years after animated had gone off the

air. I was bombing around SoundCloud of all places

and platforms online. And I just so happened

to look up Transformers animated score. And all

of a sudden I find Sebastian Evans the second.

And I'm like, huh? Oh. So he was the composer

on the show. Oh, he's got all of the tracks from

the show. Okay, I guess I have to use SoundCloud

more. But that last bit is called Heroes Welcome.

It's when they go back home to Cybertron. And

I just love that end music there. So, yep, that's

that one. Number three for you, sir. Next one

is Endgame Part 3. Because you get the ultimate

battle royale of Optimus Primal and Megatron,

and Megatron is seemingly winning, and Primal

has to have a last -minute save. You know, like

a football game, he has to have, you know, the...

Have to have the ultimate coach come in and,

you know, save his bacon because he's getting

his butt mopped. Mm hmm. He really was optimal

Megatron here. Mm hmm. Took out the whole planet.

Not once, but twice. Twice. Yeah. Yeah. You can't

say that for any other villain in Transformers

history. Nope. This Megatron was by far the most

like he started off as a gangster. And then became

by far the most brutal Megatron in all of Cybertronian

history. Like to the point that he took out everyone

when he hit the planet with a virus. And then

he took everyone out again by taking their sparks.

Yep. So do we know how much time it was between

the time that Megatron hit Cybertron? And the

time that the Maximals hit Cybertron? So we don't.

However, I estimate that there's a good, you

know, I'm assuming because Megatron's in like

the state of repair that he is and he's had so

much time to take over factories and to send

his virus. And I'm assuming he's been on the

planet for about 100 years because you're thinking

he's doing it solo. Yeah. Okay. wow that's that's

crazy yeah that's crazy folks he he hit them

while you know before the honestly it seems like

right around the maximal upgrade like it it it's

kind of crazy because you still see g1 style

robots sitting in the junkyard yeah exactly because

you yeah which they should be gone yeah they

should be yeah so yeah That's that's nuts. Well,

my number three is also the same because the

seeds of the future lie buried in your ass. So,

you know, same thing. This episode just. And

Beast Machines as a whole. It's. The one like,

yes, Beast Wars is an awesome show. It's what

started the era. It's what gave us what led way

to Beast Machines. Beast Wars had amazing stories

in it. But when you get that hope of... What's

the... I'm not looking it up, but I'm not typing

anything. What's the finale to Beast Wars? What's

the title? I forget. I should know this. You

should know this, Megatron. I should know this.

damn it anyway you get the finale for beast wars

where they're everybody getting the ship we're

going home oh boy i'm gonna show you all my my

spare waspinator parts collection nemesis part

one and two nemesis that's what it is how the

hell did i not know that nemesis part one and

two yeah when you get to nemesis part two You

get to the end of that and every Megatron seemingly

defeated and yada, yada, yada, yada, yada. They're

packing up. They're doing all this stuff and

everything else. And then he kind of comes back

and he does this thing and whatever, whatever,

whatever. He ends up on the outside of their

ship and everybody leaves prehistoric Earth and

all this and all that. And they head home to

Cybertron. You expect. You expect. a happy ending

because we see on earth kind of sort of until

waspinator says something stupid and he has the

proto humans come after him waspinator kind of

gets his own happy ending but meanwhile you know

in time and space or in space and time or maybe

it's just time travel you have the ship hurtling

towards cybertron 100 years into the future or

whatever the hell uh you know megatron got flung

off uh and he goes first and then the then they

have to pre -plan and blah blah blah anyway you

assume that when you start the next series it's

gonna be oh everybody no it's dark it's brooding

it's this it's that cybertron's basically a desert

1999 was y2k 2020 everybody knows what happened

in 2020 we're not we're not far enough away from

2020 yet for i can say i'm not saying everybody

knows we're far enough we're 26 years away from

y2k that i can say y2k and we weren't podcasting

back then so only radio free cybertron was quote

unquote podcasting back then anyway uh like it

From event to event. You have one event to the

other event kind of thing where it's like, oh,

right. We have empty cities and empty cities.

We have empty cities on Cybertron in 1999. We

have empty cities on Earth in 2020. Whoops. Well,

I guess fiction. Well, Mike, you're done just.

fucked up right there didn't you well you know

i do these things a lot of times anyway uh but

yeah seeds of the future absolutely love it it

was a perfect ending to a perfect series a beast

machines isn't technically perfect i guess but

it has its moments but overall i i still love

that show i can overlook most of Any of my knit,

most of the things I find wrong with base machines

at the end of the day are just nitpicks. Like

I really don't find anything wrong with it. I

know other people can find things wrong with

it. And after we've talked to Robert and skewer

a couple of times about it over the years, it's

like, Oh, that's what you were going for. Cool.

Hey, once you get the story from the writer's

mouth, folks, you really can't go wrong. So very

true. Number two, what do you got? Optimal situation.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. And I put this one here specifically

because. I. I remember, you know, being hyped

up for, you know, Cartoon Network had taken on

Beast Wars at this point. And I was kind of like,

OK, I am game like I really want. I really want.

This stuff, you know, for Prime to be in it and

we got Prime, we got, you know, Optimus getting

transformed into Optimal Optimus. And then, of

course, I bought the toy and I'm like, oh, this

is awesome. Like the biggest transformer I have.

And he's a, you know, it's a four, you know,

four X transformers in. you know four different

modes and it just by far my favorite transformer

for years um still to this point one of my favorite

like even with having like i have a transart

optimus or optimal optimus which is show accurate

and then i have uh optimal megatron because i

printed a head and put it on the power of the

primes megatron or optimus primal right uh so

I absolutely love this episode. You get all of

the guys coming back together. You get them,

you know, despite all of the, you know, the horrors

of the Predacons and the Decepticons. You get,

you know, kind of the aftermath of it. You get

them recouping together on the Axalon Bridge

in the Ark area. And honestly, it's just... it's

like them coming home and being together, you

know, on a single -minded mission there to protect

the Ark. And I just, I liked how they all came

back together, both sides. It's a good thing

they're robots or else I would put a really dirty

joke in right here. Yep. Yeah, no, absolutely.

absolutely yeah optimal situation is awesome

i forget is it in uh is it in it's is it an optimal

situation or is it not in here take it outside

when when does he say that it was optimal situation

that's what i thought because because megatron

and inferno were standing there uh you know optimal

goes not here take it outside i have four million

years you know he goes oh i wouldn't upset history

you know and he goes i have four million years

to clean you off the walls megatron i might risk

it yep and then uh rat traps like for booting

up cold would you just shoot him i'm trying not

to resort to that well i will no no then he's

like no yeah i love that line optimal situation

rules it was by far one of my favorite episodes

plus it gave it gave optimus primal pretty much

his season one head back with a color change

and like yeah they changed the ear pieces to

be more like optimus prime but yeah but that's

okay they made him they made him look more like

his season one head which is like i liked season

like the season two transmittal body but i love

the optimus uh the original season one body more

and then optimal optimus i like because it's

kind of a nice upgrade you know yeah it's an

amalgamation of both of them yep yep yep yep

all right well we got the uh we got the scoop

uh back in 2010 on this uh but uh Rebirth is

my number two. Rebirth parts one through three

from generation one. We talked to David Wise.

May the man rest in peace. He's been gone a number

of years now, but originally Rebirth was supposed

to be a five -parter. It then got cut to a three

-parter because of budgets, whether that be Sunbow

or Hasbro or Marvel or whoever. But I remember

not only on the original Rhino DVDs, as well

as David telling us that, how do you fit 120

characters into blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Well, like he literally did the math on the whole

thing. That's like five characters every 10 seconds.

that's whatever it is whatever the math i forget

what the like literally he had done all the math

on it like i know that's a lot of people's issues

with the rebirth as far as like how they had

to fit all the characters in and i know everyone

is gonna say oh it's just there to sell toys

well it was still a good story because at the

end of the day guess what it got us It got us

a new golden age of Cybertron, even though they

never did anything with it after that, because

it was 1987. And unfortunately, generation one

was going away and we were going to get whatever

the hell we got later. I don't even want G2,

but the cybernetic space cube is not G2. Just

admit that. But what I love Japan, at least.

you know thought ahead yeah yeah masters and

continued it on yeah yeah but what the reason

why rebirth is my number two and not my number

one it was going to be my number one but the

reason why it went to number two is because this

is how i found transformers after the movie I

found it on videocassette in 1988 because I was

watching Power Master Optimus Prime with the

cybernetic space cube on TV two years after the

movie. I didn't even realize I was eight years

old at the time. I was like, oh, okay. I saw

the movie when I was seven on VHS because I think

by that time the movie was out on VHS in 87 and

didn't even know. And I saw at the Adventure

and Video in Kingston, Massachusetts, Transformers

the Rebirth on VHS. And I was like, Transformers

the Rebirth? What is that? And just like with

any of the other VHSs from Family Home Entertainment

at the time, I had my mom rent it, took it home.

And for whatever seven -day rental or whatever,

however many -day rental it was, I watched that

tape until it almost never worked. And no, it's

just, look, man, we did stuff back then. But

literally I watched those three episodes. So

like Decepticons. Yeah. Roll bar, big angry guys,

you know, want to all beat, you know, beat us

down into scrap metal. Like, i i know who they

are i'm just wondering what they want when we

get outside you can ask them like i know those

lines word for word from the beginning of the

first part and i'm not even looking at like i

know rebirth like the back of my hand and i didn't

care about buying the toys like yeah would i

like a target master hot rod did i want a target

master hot rod cup and blur absolutely back then

i think i had a couple of target master hot rods

uh but i mean just it it's just a fun story and

just the one time then and now i like optimus

up to a point i liked him up to a point when

he sacrificed himself on the field of battle

And then he was on life support. And then he

handed his MacGuffin off to the wrong guy. And

then the wrong guy ended up in pieces on the

planet of junk. And then the right guy got the

job. And then they had to give it back to the

wrong guy later. Anyway, but yeah, the rebirth

would be my number two. drum roll what is your

number one favorite episode at the time of this

recording sir this one has been this one has

been uh kind of a combination one that i've enjoyed

for just years it's when i want just fun feel

-good episodes it's coming at the fuser as part

one and two specifically part two but it's kind

of a package deal like i yeah oh yeah i really

enjoy the western motif i really enjoy the sarcasm

the you know chasing space comments with his

mind with rhinox and rat trap taking the lead

and you know having to run around with with cheetor

and uh dino bot and then you got megatron bringing

in silverbolt and quick strike and has inferno

and branchless is coming you know around uh And

then, you know, we end up with, you know, basically

a standoff. The Maximals getting, you know, halted.

And then, of course, they run out of ammo. Yep.

Which never happens in the show. Nope. And then

you get Primal coming back. And then the sheer

shock on everyone's face is they're like, Primal,

destroy him. and primal's got you know the shield

and he's like well that's just prime and then

takes out all the the predicons you know except

for megatron because silverbolt rams them yeah

yeah but i don't know just there's there's a

lot of humor there's a lot of heart there's a

lot of you know them coming back together them

talking to primal it's just all the way around

it's a feel good episode. I, I enjoy. And when

I want to watch beast wars, it's kind of one

of the main ones I go to, even if I'm kind of

casually or passively watching, because I know

what happens, but I always like instantly kind

of pause when, you know, they're like comes the

dawn and then they're all laying on the ground,

pretty much dead. And primal just blows up the

side of the ship and takes them out. Absolutely.

So they, in their infinite wisdom, Hasbro, when

did they do this? They did this, I forget when

they did this off the top of my head. They released

a Beast Wars soundtrack, finally. I believe it

was only a certain number of tracks. Yeah, it

was like 10. Yeah. I was kind of. I wish they

would have done more. But I think it's a combination

of Hasbro and like mainframe being a pain. Yeah,

so. They released this. Yeah, it was 14 songs.

It was 27 minutes. They released this last year.

And the one thing I don't understand is why isn't

the stuff from this episode, from Coming of the

Fusors, the Western motif, why isn't that on

this score? I wish we had all of the seasons

represented, you know, in the show. Yeah, yeah,

absolutely. Well, that's why Hasbro, and if you're

listening, Hasbro, which I hope you are, but

I highly doubt you are, because whatever. I know

we're just a lowly network that's only been around

for 16 and a half, almost 17 years. Anyway, if

you're listening, Hasbro. team up with la la

land records all in records .com if they would

team up with them and actually do instead of

hasbro presents the transformers beast wars original

soundtrack and have it under their own like okay

so the and i know we've already gone through

this before but just to remind people the 14

tracks that are on here are the opening and closing

themes so the original theme songs uh we then

have the probe possession which possession is

season two or three that's not from season one

that's season one it possession is season really

yes okay that's star scream yeah i know it's

star scream yeah it's season one they're all

in there's no transmetals okay into battle the

web other voices fallen comrades guerrilla warfare

call of the wild the low road One unusual planet,

victory, spider's game, and that's it. So, yeah,

I wish they would do more and do it better. And

the only way you're going to do it better, Hasbro,

is if you team up with La La Land Records. And

I know that means technically physical CD releases,

but La La Land Records has done digital releases

before. So, I don't know. I don't care. I would

want a physical release if they did it. Yeah,

absolutely. Because, you know, folks, if Megatron

gets his hands on AWS again and everything goes

down, we all going to be needing physical media.

Yeah. Could be. You never know. When all else

fails, blame the artificial intelligence and

blame the robots. Exactly. That's right. And

your last episode, sir? Oh, that's right. I forgot

my last episode. Whoops. That would be the burden

hardest to bear. Because that is the one emotional

journey that Hot Rod slash Rodimus Prime goes

on. That would be my number one favorite for

right now. Kind of always is my number one because

it's his journey that he goes through and everything

else. Is that the one where he actually has to

go through the whole thing with the thing? Is

that the one where he goes through the Matrix?

I think. No, that was not it. But anyway, you

know, in that one, Cup talks to him about Optimus

Prime losing his yitty and yitty in a Japanese

word is a Japanese word, supposedly, according

to the episode where he's, you know, losing the

will to do whatever. Really, T .F. Mickey? There

we go. Well, usually you type in their search

thing and it'll immediately pull it up of blah,

blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, so he loses the

matrix and he wakes up. You no longer possess

the matrix of leadership. And this is where Scourge

steals it from him and he has to get it back.

And it sends him on this one. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We get the deformed Scourge because Scourge tries

to... So in this, on Earth, Hot Rod, while watching

a martial arts class, gets some perspective and

learns some wisdom from the Kendo instructor

and realizes that he needs to get the Matrix

back. Meanwhile, Scourge arrives in Japan, yada,

yada, yada. But, you know, he loses his focus.

He loses his... way of, you know, of, of life

kind of, he loses his purpose in life. That's

what I mean to say, not his way of life. And,

uh, and yeah, so I just really enjoy that one.

And, and these episodes always change folks.

That's why I said, these are our favorites at

this moment right now in 2025, our lists fluctuate

a lot. Uh, so. There's that. That they do. Yep.

So I think that about rounds out this episode.

Mm -hmm. Yep, yep. So if the peoples would like

to hear specific things on the next episode of

All Things Transformers, let us know if you'd

like certain topics or a certain discussion on

things. I could always review a couple of my...

Transformers figures or printed figures. Yup.

Yup. But, uh, yeah. So anything for you, sir?

Uh, I don't know anymore. I've, I've, I, I honestly

don't know anymore. Um, I, no, No clue. Alrighty

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