Transformers Toy Pricing and Comic Updates

This is Optimus Prime, and you're listening to

all things Transformers. Hello and welcome to

All Things Transformers. I'm your host Steve

Megatron and joining me For the first episode

of 2020 TF2 on white. Yes from where the heck

are you located now? I'm in the Pacific Northwest.

I am in Vancouver, Washington You've changed

time zones twice I would rather be I would rather

be in the Pacific time zone than the Central

time zone. My number one is still Eastern. I

still like Eastern. You want to know what's really

difficult? I'm casting for another season of

the program that I work on, the audio drama series.

They've cast Australian actors for a couple of

roles. Mm -hmm, and I'm very excited for that

because one you get to hear an Australian accent

and two The logistics of trying to figure out

how to make it work and I'll tell you this with

scheduling For an audio production series, it's

very difficult Dealing with amateur actors I'm

not saying dealing with as in like oh, I have

to suffer through it. Oh, it's no no no What

you're yeah, what you're talking about is dealing

with them in the sense of the time zone thing

Yeah, and and what's funny is is we've had people

audition either through the website or want to

do them while we're in production and So mind

you we're in Mountain Standard Time Mm -hmm,

which is two hours Behind Eastern Time and I'm

still partially thinking easter time some of

the time and and so when i get somebody that's

in central time or eastern time or pacific time

i have to like jumble how the schedule works

and then keep it straight my head the the thing

i noticed was when you're dealing with uh...

casting with australians they're actually in

the next day so they're eighteen hours ahead

of you which means if you want them on the fourth

February you're actually getting them on the

fifth fifth of February so if it's 3 p .m. Our

time it's 9 a .m. Their time yep, so Keeping

that straight. I just I made myself like a little

visual format of this thing so that I could kind

of keep it straight and Then I said just so you

know we're gonna. We're gonna talk in your time

zone so that nothing gets confused Exactly, I'm

like I will translate later Pretty sure I have

it locked down to what I need We're gonna talk

in your time zone, and then this is how it's

gonna go and so It's it's very different to say

the least to to cast that way I often wondered

about the Like the armada and an energon and

all that the damn space bridges Like how the

hell do they deal with time zones and transformers

like I know they never dealt with that in g1

But they went to Japan several different times

kind of thing and it was, you know, kind of strange

watching the old cartoons just thinking about

time zones and how the Transformers would deal

with them. Go J -Raw! Yeah. If you've noticed,

I can be loud, my family is not here. Yay! Thank

you for telling me this time! So anyways, they're

doing a thing at the church. backlogging a few

episodes of Altered Geek at the same time. And

in the process, I have to also pack some things

in the house. And I'm doing a little bit of stuff

for work still, because I had to miss half the

day to sign on my house that I just got, where

I'll have a formal studio. Yay. You do realize

this is the wrong podc - that's the wrong voice

for the wrong podcaster. Oh yes, I know. Well,

get off my show! Bloody buffoon! Extract your

spark. You wouldn't dare! I'll put him in the

smelting pool. Mm -hmm. With Waspinator. Waspinator

just had one crazy clown with him! Um... I haven't

done that in a while. I have to say, like, I

know the last episode we did was back in October

of last year, the last decade, whatever you want

to call it, and we talked about the Enjoy the

Tunes, Enjoy the Ride Records soundtrack thing.

I have to say, though, since then, even with

everything that's been going on with Karen and

I moving from Chicago to Washington State and

everything else, there, other than the comics

and trying to keep up with that, There really

isn't anything in Transformers that... No, I

agree. I don't want to say I'm over it or anything

like that. I don't want to say I'm, oh my god,

I'm leaving the fandom. I'm not. I'm still, I'm

always going to be a fan. What you're saying

is there's not much to talk about. No, not really,

I'm sure there's plenty to talk about. Well,

I'm saying as far as the news -wise, there's

very little. Yeah, I mean... If it's not comic

-related, you're getting a bunch of toy news

of, oh, there's this prototype, oh, there's this

figure that's coming out, oh, this is the new

price, oh, a new reissue, oh, the only other

thing going on is cyberverse. Yeah, and prices

don't get me started. Today's prices are just

horrible. It's funny, because you can go to the

store... And they have these little cheap, cheap,

CHEEP stinking robots that they want $9 for.

That would have been a $3 .99 figure back in

the day, and they're only 3 inches tall. And

it kills me because the next stage up, the ones

that would have been the basic figures, are $16

.99. The ones that were deluxe are now $20. The

ones that were mega they're 30 and the ones that

were ultra are 60 So it's like it's like where

do you get off? Like I understand prices go up

Because of not only inflation but oil prices

and you know all that stuff But it seems like

a lot of instances like the quality has gone

to crap too unless you're getting a masterpiece

which are insanely outpriced because Getting

them the original mp01 optimus prime when it

came out was $60 mm -hmm not one since that time

has come out for that price point they started

they jumped to 120 and then you go to Beast Wars

Megatron and he's like $320 for this figure that

honestly like I would love to have it But for

$320, I could buy multiple monitors from my computer.

I could buy a streaming setup. There's a lot

I could do with $300. Exactly. And while I would,

if I was still collecting stuff other than Funco,

if I was still, because you know how Facebook

is. Facebook's like, hey, here's your ... 50

memories of the day or whatever and you go back

and you look over the last 10 years or whatever

else Lately, I've seen some of my old toy collection

photo things pop up and I'm like, oh, yeah, that

was circa 2008 to 2011 because I had already

I had sold the collection off by 2011 by the

end of 2011 and Yeah, I mean I at this point

if I was still in the actual action figure collecting

game I would rather save my money and get masterpieces

than anything else. I think the cheapest, I don't

want to say cheapest, but the less expensive,

the least expensive masterpiece toy I had seen,

and I was like three months away from having

it, of having the money to get it, I was gonna,

this was a couple years ago, I was gonna get

you the Cheetor for your birthday, and I just

didn't end up. stuff happens, you know, shit

happens, whatever. And but like Cheeto on Big

Bad Toy Store at the time was like under $80.

Like $74 .99, $75 .99. That was the least expensive

masterpiece figure I've seen. And I understand

their masterpiece. It is the gold standard of

Transformers at this point. And I Just like everybody

else will bulk at a $349 price point, but I understand

why Because of the size because of the show accuracy

because of everything that they put into those

things I think that's a good investment a deluxe

figure at 1699 or a Voyager figure at 2099 or

a leader class or whatever whatever there whatever

Hasbro's Doing look with the class like the last

time I looked at Hasbro transformers action figures

there was Voyager, it was Deluxe, Voyager, and

Leader. Those were the three classes I remember.

Deluxes were like the three inch, five inch,

whatever it is. And then Voyager were a little

taller. And then Leader classes were the tallest

of the three at the time until they introduced

Ultra, I guess. And it's just... It's just crazy.

I'm nowadays paying like you said for what they're

doing with them and don't get me wrong Anyone

that is a toy designer at Hasbro They're doing

good work. The problem is the work and where

Hasbro is putting the focus and again It's a

kid's thing. It's not it's not really made. That's

why masterpiece should be for us and all of that

but It just, it's crazy, these prices. Yeah,

I mean, I... While I want to support things that

I enjoy, the pricing of a lot of it is just redonkulous

anymore. And it makes it difficult because I

liked collecting certain things, like I still

have my masterpiece Optimus Primal, but you're

talking, it was $130 and I traded in like eight

figures. to even put down the first hundred dollars

and pay the other thirty out of my pocket, just

to get that figure. And granted, the figures

I got rid of, like I got rid of Optimal Optimist,

I got rid of a lot of other figures, the thing

was with them is they're not so accurate. And

that was, and as much as I loved a lot of those

toys, they weren't so accurate. And if they're

not so accurate to me anymore, like I just don't

see the point in them because... I want that

accurate representation. Like, if I could get

a Beast Wars Megatron, whether in his Transmetal

form or his Dragon form, and, you know, say for

like 150 bucks, 160 bucks, then great. Yeah,

I mean, I'd be all for it. But all of them can

incrementally get more expensive. And it's almost

to the point that unless you're like this super

fan that has, you know, disposable income, kind

of like the whole Unicron debacle, Like, you

really can't afford them, and they've priced

them out. And if you can't afford something,

it's the garbage that they sell in the store

anyway. Yeah. I'm not going down the political

road, but I'm just going to say this. You have

to be somebody like Donald Trump to have the

access of money. buy all of the masterpiece stuff

that you may want all the characters you love

all the whatever you You have to have assloads

of Disposable income well the other thing just

don't well the thing is is if I was single And

making the kind of money I am you know now or

even before I could afford them Because it's

only one mouth to feed and I wouldn't need as

much house or I wouldn't need as much of really

anything Right, but you've grown up, you've been

married, but you've grown up, you and Mary were

in your relationship, you eventually got married,

you decided to have children, and at this point,

you buy them the $16 pieces of crap. Well, I

don't even buy them the pieces of crap, because

even if I let them have stuff like that, the

stuff is so cheaply built. When we did start

experimenting with that stuff, with the transformers

and everything, and letting them have them, the

thing was is the blasted limbs popped off all

the time, or they'd get stuck in a mode, or they

didn't want to transform all the way, even when

they were the easy things, and so the kids were

constantly coming after me to fix them, and I'm

like, these are supposed to be for kids. It was

just ridiculous. Even the stuff that I had as

a kid, half of it wasn't really built for kids,

it was built for collectors because you look

at the Transmetal Megatron, if you didn't transform

him just right, his whole shoulder and arm would

snap right off. Well, you know that old saying,

die -cast construction. It's a lost art. Yep,

it's true. Because it really is. Well, what's

funny is I sold that masterpiece MP01 Optimus

Prime on eBay for almost triple of what I bought

it for. Wow. And originally. And it's because

one, he's completely die -cast, other than the

few plastic parts that were on him. And two,

like he had rubber wheels. He had, you know,

I mean, so it was a lot of it was just, it was

good quality figure. granted i could have kept

him and i probably would have but again like

for me like transformers was always beast wars

and so like it i i was my first beast wars in

my actually my first transformer was optimus

primal and so it's fitting that my final transformer

is optimus primal this problem but he's a masterpiece

instead of the other one and so Well, see here's

the thing you were born in 1986 by the time Beast

Wars came out you were 10 years old or about

to be 10 years old You know and as a 10 year

old You're grab you're gonna gravitate towards

those cartoons or whatever cartoons are on at

the time and in 1996 Beast Wars was the thing

G1 was over whereas I I was born six years earlier

than you were I was you know born in 80 I was

five years old when trans you know four or five

years old and six years old when Transformers

was on in 86 and the movie came out and whatever

So that's what I grew up with so we are technically

of two generations of Transformers, you know,

but the thing was this I grew up with both around

the same time as well though because And I say

that because when we started watching Beast Wars,

G1 was on the sci -fi channel. Right. On their

cartoon block. And so I watched both. And the

thing was is I couldn't get the toys. Yeah, because

again... It was, even though it was still in

syndication, even though the show was still being

shown, the toys were long gone at that point.

Well, and the thing was is, KB Toys actually

had them one time when I was like 12. Jeez. And

they had them, like an entire like aisle. And

it was great. And that particular day that my

parents are like, we're going to the mall. And

I'm like, OK, so I see it. And then I look and

I'm confused. And then I go. I forgot my wallet,

and I asked him I says can you buy this for me?

I have the money in my wallet at home, and they're

like no oh And I was like so the next weekend

when I went to my dad's house. I asked him I

says hey can we go to KB toys? I have my money

Can I buy this and he's like yeah, whatever so

we went up to KB toys all of them were gone Gone

literally every transformer figure was gone,

and I was like I had enough money to get optimus

prime for $25 and he wasn't there. I was so like

livid about that. So like my son now when he

wants something at the store and like for instance

if it's in the clearance aisle or something like

that and it's not a regular rotation thing. He'll

grab it. I'm like we'll buy it you have to buy

it off us to pay us back. Yep. But you know But

we will buy it, you know, and so we did that

for something for him this weekend for it was

a clearance item for $10 and he's like, I have

$10 at home. And so we're like, OK, so he he

paid it at home. And then. You know, so it was

it was it was the whole process of, you know,

just, I don't know, I told him I says, I'm not

going to do to you what happened to me, you know,

over something stupid like you have the money

that you've saved. If this is what you want,

then yay. Yeah. See that's the thing when I was

a kid at one point my mom tried to do this token

system with me For behavior. Mm -hmm. You know

if you do the dishes or if you take the trash

out or if you clean your room Whatever the difficulty

of the task is you either get a white blue or

red token White tokens were worth a dollar blue

tokens were worth five red tokens were worth

ten bucks So by the end of the week If I had

X number of tokens, we'd go to the toy store

and whatever, you know, I would say, oh, here,

I would say to her, here's my tokens. This is

what I want. The one thing I noticed about the

toy stores and you just mentioned it, regular

rotation, rotation sucks. I understand because

either people buy them and then they have to

restock or they don't restock the same things.

I never went to a Toys R Us, a child world, a

KB toy, any toy store you can think of. I never

went to one of them and they had the same stuff

each time. If I went into Toys R Us and they

had two Optimus Primes, four Megatrons, and seven

sound waves, the next day or the next week, they

would have two Cyclonus or two Hot Rod, and I'm

just pulling those names out of my ass here.

I'm not saying that's what it was. I'm just saying

like the same figures were never there. Every

time we would end up going back So if you didn't

get it at the time that it was there your sol

oh Yeah, I understand that completely and then

the other thing is is like it's crazy and this

this isn't just transformers But every toy has

literally gone up. Oh, yeah because looking at

Legos They used to be used to be look at like

a huge bucket for like 20 25 bucks You can't

even get the same size bucket anymore for 20

bucks. Like, you can even get it for 60. Like,

they don't even sell them. They make you buy

them in these little tiny things now, or they're

all themed with, like, some TV series. Star Wars

or whatever, yeah. It's like, what if you just

want to build bricks? You know, I mean, they

do sell them, and then they put them in these

cheap cardboard containers instead of the plastic

ones you could actually sit on. Yeah, I don't

know it's crazy to me like how much the stuff's

gone up like I buy stuff We use Facebook Marketplace

because that's what my wife finds everything

on sale for and you know, I got a $2 ,000 desk

for $250 like it again, it's It's that type of

thing. Like she bought an entire laundry basket

full of Lego stuff that was built and we tore

it all apart And put them in the boys Lego thing

and boom they have a ton of Legos. There you

go Yeah, I mean You know, even though we're talking

more general toys than just specifically transformers

at this point. I have to say There is one decade

maybe two maybe three between the 70s and the

90s That was the booming That that era those

three decades were the boom for toys For quality

for what you could get for the money like I remember

going to this Play, I think it was called Benny's.

I don't know. It was like a Trying to think what

I could equate it to today It was kind of like

a big lots but it was not big lots kind of thing.

Mm -hmm on opening week On premiere week of TMNT,

when the toy line dropped, I got Leo, Mikey,

Donnie, Raph, and Splinter all for $5 each at

this store. You can't get a turtle's figure for

five bucks now. And I know, like, They just announced,

because Toy Fair is coming up, they just announced

the TMNT Turtles in Time figures. I get it. They're

bigger figures. They're not the same figures

as they were 30, 40 years ago. I understand that.

And God knows what the price is going to be on

them, because I'm not looking at it right off

the top of my head. But I'm glad that there are

toy companies like NECA out there doing that,

because That's our market. That's the collector

Market. Oh, yeah, totally to toy collectors or

will always be toy collectors whether you want

the originals from the 80s and 90s or whether

you want These new, you know fully articulated

whatever versions of them Although now they've

got a lot of bricks of a lot of series to like

that Things that don't move and then they're

they're like, oh and they're they're pulling

like that late not 80s early 90s gimmick that

Essentially just created a bunch of garbage figures

that nobody wanted. Yeah. Shellformers. Yep.

Shellformers, there's nothing here to see. They're

less than meets the eye. They're exactly what

you see. And that was kind of the thing, you

know. At the beginning of the last decade in

20 at the end of the end of the previous decade

to the last end of 2009 beginning of 2010 When

I had my big all and I can tie this into transformers

because there were transformers figures of these

things When I was into the mighty mugs, and I

know you didn't understand this then and I know

you still don't understand it now, but I At that

point in my life. I was 29 going on 30. I did

not need a transforming toy to have the character

that I wanted. I could get the Optimus Prime.

I could get the Shockwave. I could get the Megatron.

And they were cool little PVC figures. Fast forward

10 years later. And now instead of Mighty Mugs,

it's Funko. Granted, Funko only actually has

one Transformers figure. It's one of the movie

bumblebees, which kind of sucks. But it is what

it is. And toy collecting will always be toy

collecting, whether you're doing it with your

kids, whether you're doing it for yourself. We'll

always have what we grew up with, whether we

have the actual toys or not. But we can have

the memory of saying, hey, I played with this

until it broke. Not that I broke it. but I played

with it so much that it eventually wore out.

I have a picture of myself. I think it's, I was

nine or 10. I have this giant toy box. I have

Castle Grey skull. I have like two or three He

-Man figures. I have a James Bond figure. I have

two mass cars. I have a couple of Transformers

around there. I don't remember which ones they

were, but I had this whole play area set up with

the Castle Grayskull as like the base of operations

and the Mask Boulder Hill, the Mask place that

was also there. And, you know, I could make up

all these adventures and I just feel like toys

today for kids. here's an iPad go play a game

go watch something or like that I don't know

it just doesn't it's never going to be the same

but it just feels like we had the golden age

of toys oh yeah for sure so I mean it's it's

just crazy now because like it's yeah I mean

you just you don't even know where the toy industry

is going No clue But yeah, I mean getting back

into transformers though. There's literally nothing

that's happened other than like the toys cyber

verse You know you've had like David Kaye doing

his annual Christmas video as Megatron Or or

Gary Chalk because Gary Chalk does one too. Yep.

He does one too He did like here comes Megatron

Yep with lyrics by Candice and himself So Yeah,

it's it's funny either way listening to him and

then of course TF con taking over everything

Hey, if it's the only thing out there and if

Hasbro isn't gonna do anything Oh Hasbro sucks

on their conventions like I will point -blank

admit that All as I'm saying is and I you know,

we haven't talked to Daniel Proto Man Daniel

in a while but And I know they're fine doing

their own thing. And so far as I know Hasbro

is fine with them doing their own thing. I wish

that Hasbro would just say, TFCon is the official,

without having to take over too much of it. Just

let them. They've been doing stuff successfully

to this. They've had it in Canada. Well, they've

taken over all the ones around the US that were

failing. Yep. And gotten their locations and

everything else. So like that brand is doing

very well. Yes The other thing too is I don't

know if you saw this Flint Dilley, uh -huh came

up with a book on Amazon It's books out now,

yeah It's listed on Amazon the game games master

my life in the 80s geek culture trenches Yep.

Yep. It's this is you can pre -order. It looks

like it's on Amazon. It comes out in June 22nd.

Oh Okay, cool But yeah, so like you get to hear,

you know, obviously like Transformers GI Joe

and humanoids visionaries you know, it's a 312

page hardcover book and With everything that

he's ever done pretty much with great info and

stories from the original Transformers cartoon

and much more It's a narrative memoir chronicling

in the life and career But yeah, I mean that's

that's pretty awesome actually so Might be something

for people to look into and pick up because he's

been a huge chunk of pop culture history Yes,

yes he has The other thing is Hasbro Completed

some acquisition. I guess they bought out Entertainment

one which Wasn't even aware that this was something,

but it's it's the new company dubbed as one Hasbro

Will produce entertainment content based on Hasbro

property such as Transformers Power Rangers GI

Joe my little pony and more I Forgot Hasbro has

Power Rangers now. Yeah, which could be a good

thing Yeah, it can't be any worse than Disney

Disney screws like some of those series Just

look at the Star Wars movies I had to go there.

I'm so sorry like the the the streaming like

Mandalorian's you know good, but like you get

to the other stuff like Say what you will like

I enjoyed the final movie of that not to jump

on the Star Wars bandwagon For what it was, but

it will that entire trilogy was a mess Yeah,

it was so Transformers and Power Rangers Yeah,

I mean so right now currently IDW is doing a

Power Rangers Turtles crossover comic series.

Hmm That's it's I haven't read it yet But I'm

very optimistic about it because I like the boom

studios Power Rangers comic and I like what obviously

I mean Joe and I have been covering Turtles from

IDW since I think 2014 maybe mm -hmm You know,

so that's that's kind of cool I think you might

have seen this, because I know I posted it to

Geekcast Radio's Facebook page and the pullback

and everything else. I think later this year,

IDW is going to be doing a Transformers vs. Terminator

series. So that, just like we did with the Transformers

vs. Star Trek, we'll have to cover that at some

point. Yeah, I mean, it's... It's just so interesting

the comic landscape now. I have not read the

new universe yet The only thing I've read is

the Transformers galaxy book the constructicons

rising the first Three issues because the fourth

issue is now yet But I haven't actually read

the main ongoing yet. I want to because obviously

Ryan and I finished up the Other the previous

universe's coverage on the pull bag Last year

whenever it was that we finished it But I'm interested

in the new universe. I want to check it out.

I want to give it a fair shake I will say that

I have been talking with Tyler I hope I don't

mess his name up Blazinski He's the dude writing

the first four issues of Transformers galaxies.

Here's the interesting thing Galaxies is set

up as what the old spotlights were Hmm. So it's

an ongoing series, but there are going to be

different arcs to it with different writers and

art teams. So various people can put their stamp

on it. So the first four issues are the Constructicon's

rising story that's done by Tyler and Livia Ramandali

on art. The next one is by somebody else and

another artist, and it'll focus on other characters.

So I love. I absolutely love how IDW brought

the spotlights back without really bringing the

spotlights back. They actually have an ongoing

series that allows creators to tell stories with

the characters that they want to tell stories

with. And it all does tie into the current ongoing

at some point as well. Somehow, I can't. I don't

know how, because obviously I haven't read the

main ongoing yet, but it's an interesting time

to be a Transformers comic fan. Yeah, totally

So yeah, I mean it's on a whole like there's

again like I said not much other than the comics

yeah And if we're not interested in people should

know this by now if you've been listening to

all things transformers since 2008 You should

know if Steve and I or if just if it's just Steve

You know if we're not interested in a topic Why

are we gonna bring it up? Well, it's like why

are we gonna waste the time to record an episode?

Oh, there's toys this week show. It's that's

all these companies and blah blah blah like it's

yeah It's like why are we wasting everyone's

time like nobody? I mean, yes, there are people

that care about the toys. I'm not saying that

I'm saying that You don't listen to the show

to know about the news on the toys. Like you

listen to the show because you want to hear us

complain or you want to hear us like have a commentary

on something. But, you know, realistically, I

think Transformers, I think it has a lot of life

still in it. I think they just need to re -engineer

how they're doing things and stop making a bunch

of the plastic crack that, you know, nobody cares

about in a sense. What they need to do is go,

but I know it's going to cost more. but it would

justify the higher prices what they need to do

is they need to go back to diecast construction

it's a lost art i know that's the sad thing about

it um unfortunately they'll never do so sadly

um but yeah i mean this year uh even though i'm

on this episode now i currently don't have my

computer it's in storage We foolishly did not

put it in the car because the car was getting

transported and they're like don't put too much

in your car if you can help it so my computer's

in storage and I'm currently not I Wish I had

a transporter beam me up Scotty You know if you

say that to Google if you say if you say okay

Google beam me up Scotty it'll say energizing,

and then it'll play the sound effect, and then

at the end it'll go, did it work? That's cool.

So I'm currently on a podcasting hiatus, and

it's literally killing me. The cool thing is,

the new apartment that we just got... It's soundproof.

Well, a little bit, yes. You might be able to

hear the train every now and then or a plane.

But the living room, I'm going to eventually

mount my TV on the wall and my desk is gonna

go right under that wall. So I'm gonna say this

right now. We gonna end up doing some commentaries

again because I can have the TV on low volume

and record everything that's through the computer

without having to have the movie audio or whatever

audio coming out of the computer as well, because

it'll be on the TV separate from my computer.

So Commentaries are coming back to ATTF and GCRN

and all that stuff at some point I want to get

back to doing ATTF origins episodes. I've got

About Five or six people not really lined up

because they don't really know yet But I've got

people in mind that I can have more episodes

of that. I just started listening to Married

with Comics presents the Rod Pod. This is John

and Maggie, they're a married couple, and they

talk about comics. They're in the midst of going

through all of the IDW stuff, which is what I've

already done. So it's interesting to hear their

opinions on stuff that I've already covered.

And I've talked to them about being on the show

at some point and yada, yada, yada. John just

messaged me earlier today saying oh if you want

to be on the rod pod sometime Just let us know

I said just let me know what I need to know Let

me know what issue you guys are covering so I

can go back and refresh my memory So very cool

to connect with them everybody go listen to married

with comics you can find them on Spotify and

all that other stuff You want to do more character

spotlights now, how do you want to do this? I'm

not entirely sure Okay, but yeah I don't want

to do like a Chris McFeely deep dive that's that

that was my when you mentioned that to me off

air I was like hmm I don't want to tread on somebody

else's territory right exactly yeah I don't know

they'll be away yeah we'll find a way and then

of course and this is great because this is the

first time we've been able to even say anything

about this coming soon the top 100 transformers

excellent yes we have plans and you guys will

know about it as soon as we get it all sorted

out yeah that'll be something i work on after

i move yeah well obviously yeah But, yeah, the

general concept is there, though. Mm -hmm. Absolutely.

Well, I mean, we at the GCRN, we've done animated

series, animated films, video games, TV shows,

wrestlers, a bunch of other stuff, so... It's

time to do Transformers. Romance on the Scowls.

That's right. Anything else? I'm trying to think.

I don't think so. I honestly don't know. Yeah,

I can't think of anything else off the top of

my head. If I had the IDW solicits pulled up,

I could go through those, but that's alright.

We already talked about the comics. Just go read

them, folks. They're really good. They are here.

They are waiting Mm -hmm, or they are there and

they are waiting. Yeah. Yes, so until next time

Transform and roll out That's not your line,

but it should be You're not a truck you're a

monkey. I'm no monkey Tyrannosaurus Rex! Oh boy.