Optimal Situation, Deep Metal and Changing of the Guard

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podcast. This episode of the Beast Unleashed

podcast features Stephen C. Phillips, Mike Blanchard,

and Michael Wilson. Hello and welcome to the

world's first ever Beast Wars Beast Machines

Review podcast. This is the Beast Unleashed podcast

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I am your host, TFJone Mike, and I'm joined by

Steve Megatron, hello. Hello, hello, hello. And

Pecan Court Michael. Today, oh hello. Hey, how's

it going? I'm screwed up a little bit. Yeah,

do your little catchphrase thing again. I can't

now. Just say it. You've derailed my train. Just

say it already. Hey, how's it going? Yes, and

today we will be reviewing the first three episodes

from Beast Wars Season 3. I've had some things

going on in my personal life that I really don't

want to bring into this show because it just

doesn't... It's probably going to be a headshot

and it most definitely will be a very lengthy,

probably over a thousand -word blog post. I saw

money in that post. Yes. So, I will bring up

the positives. I got War for Cybertron for the

PC. and playing it uh... kind of getting pissed

at it as i keep dying even on the even on the

easy level are you serious? yes i suck i am i

am but see the thing is i'm a button masher and

first of all i play video games with just my

left hand so on the on the computer i have to

go between the mouse and the keyboard the mouse

and the keyboard so it's like i can do it and

i can play it it's just it's one of those things

where it's difficult Let's just say it's difficult

at the least. So I did get more for Cybertron

for the PC. I love it so far. No problems with

it. I really don't care. I'm actually more interested

in the story of the game than actually having

an exclusive character to play as, because I

don't play online multiplayer. I also picked

up X -Men Volume 5 for completing my X -Men DVD

collection. Let's see, Lupus Convoy sent me a

package in the mail with two RCs. Yay, I now

have RC. Hey, he rocks. Yes, he does. Very much

so. And this toy, wow. Yeah. It's kind of like

Rodimus where it's like, where'd the car go?

It drove away. You may have gotten the last two

in the world, too. No, I don't think so. Um,

and when people say that she has amazing light

piping, that is an understatement of the year.

I mean... Go ahead. No, no, no, no. Light piping.

Get your mind out of the gutter, Megatron. Oh

my god. So Steve, what's been going on with you?

Okay. Well, currently right now I am working

on certain things for the GCR, like hats, shirts,

whatnot. Also, I'm working on something possible

project between us and behind the voice actors.

So which I will not name yet because I don't

know if they want that public so Okay, but yes,

that is what I've been doing Awesome. What about

you Michael? buying toys You mean stealing them

no I got in there apparently after they restocked

so they They, as in Target, I wrote a blog post

about this. Everybody should have read it by

now. Go read my blog post, dammit. But yeah,

I bought a lot of toys and I called Chrissy ahead

of time and said, you know, hey, they have all

the new toys here at Target. Can I buy them?

And she's like, well, she just spent a buttload

of money. So she's like well, you know, let's

reciprocate a little bit I just spent a bunch

of money go ahead and buy him so I said, alright

Yeah, I got like Nine deluxe's And and then the

the two power core combiner five packs and And

then after that I went back like a couple days

later over to Toys R Us and got the the rest

of the power core combiners the first wave So

yeah, I bought a whole lot of toys and and As

opposed to letting them pile up in where the

pile used to be I'm actually opening them Oh

my god a first Michael Wilson actually opens

toys before four years from now. I know opening

my toys and The ones I opened first actually

were the power core combiners. These guys are

so cool. There's a lot of play value here with

the fact that their minicons become weapons for

the vehicle, weapons for the robot, armor for

the robot, and little robots themselves. They

finally got minicons right after I don't know

how many years since Armada. You know now we've

got mini cons that just do everything they're

like super uber mini cons Mm -hmm, but yeah,

I dig it Even the mini cons have mini comports

on them. It's insane so you can like combine

your mini cons Yes, yeah anyway, but I dig it

I would recommend everyone go out and get them

Even if you don't want to do it do it now do

it Get to the choppa. I like the fact that they

are playing up the whole kid angle for having

more towards kids as far as the power core combiners,

but I do not want them anywhere near my collection.

Really? Seriously? Yeah. I don't dislike them

and I don't hate them like I hate the movie line,

but at the same time I don't like them either.

Aside from the movie line... There's not a whole

lot you left. I mean they have generations But

honestly generations is gonna be epic Generations

started off nice. I've got the war for Cybertron

Prime the war for Cybertron Bumblebee I got thrust

Autobot drift and Honestly, I think that's That's

it for now exactly so I mean there aside from

the park where combiners in the movie line. What

else is there? There's not a whole lot. I mean

they're gonna have more coming, you know at the

end of the year toward Christmas, you know, but

There's not a whole heck of a lot going on Transformers

wise if you don't like power core combiners and

they're already releasing pictures of like wave

2 and wave 3 and You know, it's it's mostly repaints,

but they're doing it interesting they're taking

the they're repainting you know the commanders

that they have and they're swapping their mini

cons and repainting them and then like the five

pack you know you've got the combaticons and

you've got the the aerial bots they're taking

the the general or the commander or whatever

from the center of the body right the one that

actually turns into a robot and they're pulling

them out of the package and making them their

own two -pack commander. They won't come with

limbs anymore, but they're going to be repaints.

I think they probably put an awful lot of thought

into how many limbs do we put in there, who gets

limbs, who doesn't have limbs. Two -packs versus

five -packs. Because they're literally dismantling

the five packs and then repainting them and putting

them back out as two packs. Yeah, I could care

less. It's like I said, I don't hate them. I'm

just not interested whatsoever. It doesn't appeal

to me at all. I've seen several video reviews,

mostly from Spada, and I just don't care. I mean,

they're not movie line. And like I said, there's

a lot of play value. I think they're great. Have

you, Mr. Wilson, listened to episode 15 yet?

I have. You have? Yeah. Did you find anything

interesting in episode 15 of the Beast Unleashed

podcast? You mean at the end? Yeah. Yeah. I thought,

well, actually, if you're talking about the recap.

That was like the funniest thing ever. I'm talking

about the whole recap episode because of the

outtakes. Yeah, no, I mean at the end there's

the outtakes. It was hilarious. I laughed so

hard. I mean, you don't realize how much funny

shit we say until you take all the funny shit

out and line it up in a row. Yeah, mostly I did

that specifically because I wrote out the order

for Steve to edit it and I did it specifically,

I tried to have like me say something, you say

something, and him say something, and vice versa.

So it's like a whole, like we're actually having

a conversation. Yeah. Out of context, it's a

little strange, you know, because it's like,

what the hell? Why would I say that? That makes

no sense. But yeah, it was hilarious. It was

really funny. The reason why I asked you about

that is in the episode 15 post over on productonempire

.com slash nexus, Godspeed replied to the episode

15 thread saying, good show, love the host clips

at the end, lol. And Godspeed actually asked

us a question for this podcast. Hey guys, love

the show, I know you don't get the feedback you

deserve, so for what it's worth, I say this is

always one of the first listens for me every

time it comes out. The chemistry is always good

for a laugh or two, and the Barney bit just kills

me. Anyway, my question is, what do you expect

from Hasbro now that they have publicly acknowledged

an interest in revisiting the Beast Wars remakes,

new figures, With beast modes unrelated to Beast

Wars, thanks for your time and keep up the good

work. Godspeed. Now I did reply to him on the

forums saying that we would answer the question.

However, we're not going to go into great detail

about it because an episode at the end of this

podcast's lifespan will be dedicated to nothing

but the Beast Era toys. So Michael, what do you

think about Hasbro acknowledging they're still

interested in Beast Wars? I... Well, first of

all, I think it would be terribly cool, again,

if we got an X9 toy. If Hasbro's gonna do anything

with the Beast Wars, that should be, you know,

job one. You know they're not gonna do that.

The first thing they're gonna do is probably

re -release the 10th anniversary toys, the ones

that were repaints of the 1996 line, and repaint

them in their Japanese colors. Yeah, I can imagine

them doing that. Yeah, exactly. Because when

they came out a few years back, we got them and

we looked at them and said, wow, these look really

good. And then Japan got them and re -repainted

them, and they looked amazing. And that's just

really good, but like, oh my god, I want to import

them. So the first thing Hasbro is going to do

is they're going to think about re -releasing

those, which again, this is going to end up being

a 15 -year -old toy that they're re -releasing

in a paint job that's already been done in Japan.

They could go that route. They might try to re

-release them in two packs, like Versus sets.

Each guy has their own nemesis. You've got Rattrap

and Tarantulas and that type of thing. So they

might try to re -release them like that. Could

see that happening. Of course, they're gonna

re -release the leader size toys and the paint

job You know, I which I you know, I've already

got enough of those I don't think I need any

more and Yeah, and again what I would really

like to see is an x9 toy maybe I Don't know if

Steve was gonna say this but I would say like

an axel on playset That would definitely be something

I'd want to see including like stasis pods the

Predacon base Oh big accessories. Yeah, I mean

just I mean any any of the little equipment that

they used in the show I would say would be a

bonus. Yeah, you know, I mean hell have a You

know a custom waspinator that has you know Starscream's

You know something with Starscream on it. I mean,

I know it's not much of a stretch from the regular

Waspeneer, but I mean or you know have some More

accurate toys for instance because a lot of them

weren't Very show accurate till they at least

hit transmetal That would be the last thing I

would expect anything in a remold Yeah, but I

mean I would still I would want to see figures

that we haven't been able to get thus far Yeah,

yeah Ravage would definitely be one of them.

Maybe, I don't know, there's a lot of missed

opportunities that they could have done the first

time around that they did not do. My only problem

with Ravage if they're going to use an existing

mold, I think, and this is just speculation on

my part, I think they would repaint the universe

2 .0 Cheetor as Ravage. I'm still not entirely

sure what the difference is between X9 and the

Transmetal Cheetor. The head. Just the head?

I'm pretty sure it's just the head and the hands.

Yeah, you'd think it would be easy to produce

something like that, though. That I would think

would be relatively cheap to produce. I think

just because it was like a bot -con, you know,

kind of set, You know, that's why I didn't have

it here. If they made repaints for BotCon, you

know Hasbro has the rights to it somehow. They

could do it. They just don't want to. They just

want to screw us all over and make us squirm.

Another neat thing would be... I want to say

that during the course of our... you know, podcasts

here, every time there's a paint deco in the

show that we've never seen before, we go, oh

my god, wouldn't it be awesome if they made that

paint deco? Like when Blackarachnia took over

the floating island. Or Rhinox becoming a prod.

Exactly, yeah, things like that. I mean, you

know, little nods to the fans. They probably

wouldn't sell well enough to justify banking

or actually producing them. But, you know, still.

Some of the problems really good True the problem

is I read this on TFW I think it was a I think

it was part of the TF con Hasbro answering question

and answer thing Because as of this recording

TF con was this past weekend Someone asked them

about do they talk to fans of directly about

toy design and they said we do not get unsolicited

feedback or anything from fans as far as making

toys. So we can say as much as we want that we

want a figure of it. Unless it's like a public

vote that they put out on their website, we're

not gonna see it. True, and I'm not saying that

people - I mean, I love Beast Wars, I love Beast

Machines. Now that I know what they are and all

that stuff, sorry. I know - I love Judas's use

of Mute. I know, hey, I've been places over the

last day and a half since we've been recording

this that just, I never want to ever go again,

and I'm sitting here drinking Diet Coke and eating

Mike and Ike's deal with it. Places that cause

me not to be able to hit the mute button Anyways

That's uh, let's move. Are we done with this?

I hope that answered Godspeed's question In other

words, we'll discuss more details later, but

for now, let's get to the show Silverbolt, what?

That's just prime what's left of them anyway

Our ancestor we got to get him repaired or we're

goners We'll never make it his spark is already

joining the matrix with the repair trauma will

lose it for sure Then we'll have to move it his

spark can't exist outside a living body I know.

What are you, nuts? You can't hold two sparks

in your body? This spark has the Matrix with

it. It's too powerful. Like we have a choice?

First up today in episode 16 as we start the

final season of Beast Wars here is optimal situation

The original air date was October 24th 1998.

It was written by Bob forward The Maximals are

unconscious as the time stream begins to unravel,

a direct result of Megatron attacking the original

Optimus Prime in his dormant state. Optimus Primal

attempts to merge Prime Spark into his own, keeping

it safe while Rhinox performs surgery. But the

extra soul is too much for Primal to handle,

and his body undergoes a startling transformation.

Dun dun dun! Okay, first of all, I gotta say,

this is probably outside of the other, like,

possession and the agenda. This has got to be

the most fan -wanky episode of the entire Beast

Wars series, the three seasons. Yes, Primal looks

up at Prime and says, hello, give me your spark.

My first note was, yay, new title sequence! Yes,

and in my opinion, this is the best one yet.

Oh, yes, but the intro yes, I think the intro

Borrowed a little more from season two than season

three I think I would have liked to have seen

more of some season three stuff going on in the

intro to foreshadow What's to come? Well, and

they did they had a little bit But they they

actually I liked how they started it off with

the very first episode of Beast Wars granted.

This was a Awesome reimagining of that first

episode part with much much better detail um...

but they they did a good job with having a kind

of transition from season one two to three throughout

the uh... intro no it was very well done i i

i liked it i was surprised to see it at first

and i don't see why because it's a new season

but it was like hey new intro My biggest thing

that I love about this is Optimal Optimus at

the end. Before the Beast Wars type shows up.

I love that. That's so awesome. So technically,

Black Arachnia is Predacon no more. Well, she

keeps saying I'm a Predacon. I'm a Predacon Yes,

she keeps helping the Maximal Maximal and she's

help and nobody seems to question That she's

helping. It's not like hey, isn't she a bad guy?

What's the her deal over here? I mean rat trap

brings it up and You know Silverbolt promptly

shuts him down Yeah, it's like it's anybody but

rat trap who does nothing but complain mention

anything about the bad lady Who seems to be doing

all, you know, wandering in and out of places

she shouldn't be, and... Yeah... I'd say, yeah,

it would've been good to bring that up somehow.

Yeah, I guess we could say it's a lack of story,

but... Well, I mean, they're eventually gonna

make her a Maximal anyway. True. So maybe this

could just be considered foreshadowing. Yeah,

it could be. Well, that's just prime. Or what's

left of him anyways. D 'oh! He didn't look nearly

as torn up as what I thought he would. I was

expecting to see, like, exposed teeth under his

faceplate or something. That was horrific. Um...

Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Primal... Okay. We all

know of the Transformers Star Wars crossover

toys, correct? This is where Transformers and

Star Wars cross over in universes because Primal

using the Force to open Prime's chest. What the

fuck? He's like, open sesame! I thought Black

Arachnia was plugged into Prime, or at least

plugged into the... uh, repair, yeah, plugged

into the teletrain, but more precisely, plugged

into the repair diagnostics. Well, she was, but

in that scene, Primal has his hand above Prime's

chest, and he pulls his hand back, and the thing

opens. It's like he willed it to open, he was

using the Force. Just go with it, dude. I see

your Schwartz, it's as big as mine! But isn't

it powerful? I don't think so. It's not the size

of the Schwartz, it's how you use it. Yes, there

should be some sort of godly music with my next

matrix out and like that whole scene where primals

holding it. Yeah, and then all of a sudden his

chest opens up and then he gets like Power bombed

with it. Yeah Yeah, I Want to give myself a matrix

hadoken. Yeah, I was actually thinking matrix

bukkake, but yeah, okay that works, too And then

he starts groaning until he like starts mutating

a reverse bukkake Yes, and then it becomes prime

time. A prime Bacocky? Yes. Alright, I'm going

to have to explain to you people what Bacocky

is, and that's just not somewhere I want to be.

Yeah, we're not going to go there for this show.

And in regards to Steve's bringing up optimists

mutating or transforming or whatever he's doing,

rut row optimist, because yeah, I just find it

easier to take bullet point notes for me. I don't

know why. Did you notice that now? No, no, I've

intentionally done it since DFG1. But anyways,

optimal optimus, yes. Yes. I like how Cheetor

asks him, you know, how do you feel big button?

He stands up all of a sudden, you know, he was

this crouched over guy and now he's like four

times the size he once was and he's like in a

word. prime and then he just stands up and like

slams his foot down. Then of course Megatron

has to interrupt shit with his bestest buddy

in the world, Inferno. His bestest buddy? Who's

quite, you know, hollow looking at this point

considering you can see through part of his head.

Yeah, you know, he really should have died. I

was kind of I mean I could see rampage and rampage

looked cool. They actually cut over to introduce

well reintroduce each of the minions Let's say

the protocols and you know inferno stumbling

out Rampage is you know crispy critter. He would

even the the damage model on him was insane He

was completely crumpled and just black It was

very cool. You know considering the fact that

He can't die and that he had a missile the size

of a house dropped on him. The damage model looked

pretty appropriate. And it was atomic. Exactly.

But no, they should have left Inferno dead. So

Japan wasn't the first one to see the nuclear

bomb. Take out your own trash, Akihiro. Was that

another bullet point? No, that's a That's called

an auto name from Al April as a traveling comedian.

He takes the first letter of Like Toyota take

out your own trash Akihito or today oriental

yuppies often. Thank America Makes a sentence

a sentence out of car names Anyway, that's completely

One of the reasons - I'm glad you explained that

to me, because now it's funny. Yes. Um... In

quite so many ways. I forgot, um, with this episode,

I forgot to grab my buddy that Michael sent to

me. I forgot to grab Optimal Optimus to have

on the desk with me while we're recording season

3 episodes. Aw, he's gonna watch TV with you.

My buddy, my buddy. I'm pleased with his buddy.

But anyway... Oh god. Oh god, Silverbolt, you're

such a bonehead at times. And that was in reference

to the whole, um, thinking she was dead thing.

Silverbolt just ends up... Yeah. And then he's

like, she's just in stasis, like, dipshit. Yeah.

Yeah, dumbass. Well, what I thought was interesting

is there's actually two nos, so you get double

the cliché in this episode. Yes. Um, the look

on Megatron's dino face is priceless when Transform

Up shows up. He's like, huh? Okay. What? I'm

sorry, it sounded like somebody was rolling over

in bed there and I didn't catch what you were

saying. Oh, I said what? It was probably Steve.

What I said was, I love the look on Megatron's

dino face as they're flying away because it's

just priceless when transformed optimal optimus

shows up. He's like, huh? Oh. He's like, how

many forms does this guy have? Oh no, just wait.

Stay close, Maximals. It's time to transform

and roll out. I love that. That's just so awesome.

You know what Megatron was really thinking in

that scene? Tell us, Megatron. Good lord. That

Autobot, Maximal Hybrid, loons into body faster

than Tarantulas could crap out spiders. I always

wondered where those spiders came from. They

came from Tarantulas' rear end. Oh no! Did you

notice why his tires were splattered open? Yeah.

Anyway, when Primal turns into Prime, basically,

he adopts all of his catchphrases. Starting with,

freedom is the right of all sentient beings.

You know, still, I'm sorry, I'm gonna have to

go back and watch my G1 Shout Factory set, because

I do not ever remember him saying that in the

cartoon. It doesn't, it's on the back of his

package. Oh. That's not his tech spec. Yeah,

his motto on the tech spec says, freedom is the

right of all sentient beings. Okay. I don't think

he actually ever says it. In the movies he does.

Well, yeah. Oh, well, in the, what, the Bayformer

movie? That doesn't count. Yes. Oh, well, he

says it there because, you know, at that point

everybody knows it's attributed to... Yeah. Yeah.

Anyway. but yeah so you get freedom is the right

of all sentient beings you get transform and

roll out uh yeah i i enjoyed it but yeah it was

fan winking oh yeah but that's what's so cool

about it yeah the only thing was is they still

didn't get that uh i mean technically they made

it look like primal's or prime's uh spark is

the matrix technically that's not true true and

technically prime although they never showed

it until the movie the matrix was never even

known about yeah that's true still they had to

find a good way to introduce it with this and

I thought it was fairly what done well oh yeah

but I mean it's it's Still one of those things

that it was just kind of like ooh convenient

plot device we can transfer prime spark easily

now Well, that's all the matrix ever was was

a MacGuffin. So yes piece of shit metal box Jumping

gyros optimus sure loon learns a new body fast.

What'd you expect? He changes them often enough

insert drums here dun -dun -dun -dun There actually

was drums. I know that's why I said insert shots

here Yeah, I was actually expecting Megatron

to pipe in with that but end up being something

about crap and tarantulas. Yeah Damnit Megatron

Optimus's hands Let him speak this is the best

part of the show Stupid ass red dragon I don't

think I kept it through the next show. Yeah,

the next show you're just basically almost ahead.

In the end. He was ahead of his time. Soon, but

I became optimal. Yes. Oh, spoiler. Optimus'

hands are bigger than your weapon's Megatron.

But mine are more powerful. I took down Optimus

Prime with a... How should I say it? Give me

your face, Prime. No. Yes. Yes. I'll take your

face now. Waspinator and Inferno Splat Alert.

What else is new there? Inferno got it good.

Oh yeah. I love his splat alerts. Yeah. He's

getting them more frequently now and Waspinator's

getting them less and less. Waspinator actually

gets away with not being splatted at all in the

next one. Yeah, I, um... That'd be true. Yeah,

true. I find myself going into Twitter talk with

this next one. Optimus done need no guns against

you, Rampage, because he just smacks him in the

face. I love the... The look on Rampage's face

when Optimus appears, he's like, oh, fuck. He's

like, well, I'll shoot him anyway. Look at the

size of this guy. This is just wrong. He just

looks up, up, up, up. OK, there's a face. Well,

seeing as how, well, Optimus is just ridiculously

powerful, in retrospect, it probably would have

made more sense to kill off Quickstrike. kill

off Inferno and let Ravage stick around. Ravage.

Ravage. Because Ravage was just ridiculously

powerful. He took out pretty much everybody in

the few scant minutes that he was on screen.

But, you know, they had to kill him because he

was just too powerful. But now you've got Optimus,

who's just, again, way too powerful. Yeah. So

what do they do? They take the base with them.

Well, what I was going to say was cue the violin

quartet or the violin trio because that ship

sure won't fly now with it going the Titanic

route. It was a pleasure playing with you gentlemen

as they go into the sea. Yes. And my final note

is the most epic note of this episode. We're

moving in. And the last note of the episode?

Yes. I wouldn't say it was epic. I would say

this episode was a pretty good continuation of

the end of Agenda. Yeah. And it was nice to see

all the Preds with the exception of Ravage. coming

back despite the fact that they all should have

been dead. Very dead. Well, Quickstrike and Inferno.

Rampage, sure, bring him back. He can't die.

And Waspinator, yeah, because he got infected

with Starscream's Indestructible Spark. You could

use that as an excuse, sure, but... I mean, technically

you could use that as an excuse, but look at

him. He functions with just a head. He was ahead

of his time. With his hand. Hmm. Put hand overhead

now. Let's call Mr. Freeze here. He could facepalm

himself all day. And it wouldn't hurt? Without

the use of the rest of his body. Mm -hmm. But

yeah, there were some nice key points though

in the episode besides the great many awesome

quotes that were brought up. Where Primal's voice

becomes considerably deeper. When he gets his

new form, kind of sounding like Optimus Prime.

Puberty. Yes, he hit massive puberty. He grew

in such large proportions. He says I'm now fully

erect. That's one large trans monkey. Trans monkey?

That's kind of gross. Anyways. No, no, no. Not

a tranny monkey, a trans monkey. There's a big

difference. Yeah, but he changes looks four times

and you know Never mind But um, yeah, it was

it it was nice to see primals Pieces that he

had on his arms and used as deflector shields

Which if you notice he never really uses those

very much in the future Like he uses them to

guard a couple things once or twice, but he doesn't

use them Well, the only thing he really has to

guard, I mean, obviously, is the Matrix, or,

well, Prime Spark. Well, just build a wall around

it. Ugh. That's basically what his arm... what

his arm... arm... armor? Arm armor is what I'm

looking for, and it just didn't come out, I'm

sorry. Uh, yeah, that's what the arm armor is

for. But here, he's basically, you know, proclaiming.

He should just carry around a sign that says...

Look at all the cool things the toy can do, kids.

He's doing it for the sake of selling the toy,

not so much for the sake of the story. This is

another issue. I wish they would have made a

100 % accurate optimal optimus based on the cartoon

version. It is! 100 % accurate? It looks like

it is. If you look at it, his head is so freaking

small. Okay, yeah, I will agree with that and

the gun barrels should Be able to fold underneath

somewhere in that front so that they aren't sticking

out So damn far so that you can still have them

look halfway decent the only problem with that

is they come with This whole front piece of the

toy this whole thing that moves with the head

because it's a whole piece It's not just his

head that move that can I realize that? The whole

point of it was because they have missile launchers

on it. That's the problem with the toy. And this

is one of the few Beast Wars toys that you can

actually shoot your eye out with. You'll shoot

your eye out with that transformer, Johnny! Because

when I got the bullets in there, to begin with,

when I first purchased it, I could not figure

out how to get the damn bullets out. I can't

either. And shot myself in the face. I don't

know which button is either, and Michael won't

tell me. How to get them out? You don't know

how? No, I don't want to know how because I don't

want to shoot my own eye out. I thought you downloaded

the instructions on it. That little lever on

the back? Yeah. With the two knobs on it and

the little bar? I got it and it just went behind

the desk. Well shit, there goes the missile.

It's behind my desk now. I'll never find that

until I move out of this apartment in god knows

how many years. That's what they give you for.

Well Michael... Michael? didn't have the other

missiles he only sent me one and the one i have

now is gone under the desk on behind the desk

it in the black hole that is behind the desk

so if you've only got one then you know you might

as well not have any right yeah i know i'd like

to reach this is a little droids they were like

transmedal versions uh... it is the first time

you see them in since uh... season one and uh...

they have their own little special insignia yes

i saw the picture on the tf wiki i didn't notice

uh... online are on it on the actual show see

i did i'd i've gotten quite uh... not for a little

information just because I've watched season

3 so many times that it is actually my favorite

season of Beast Wars. I like at the end where

Optimus Prime, when his spark gets returned to

him, he reactivates, leans up, looks at Primal,

and then he goes back to Stasis Lock. Yeah, that.

Now, there's another thing. The art for this

episode of the Beast Unleashed podcast will actually

be Optimal Optimus holding the Matrix, as right

before he puts it back into Prime's chest. The

alternate art, much like with the Starscream

episode, will be Optimus Prime's glowing eyes.

That'll be cool. Yes, it will. You know, it's

funny about the head sculpt of optimus prime

and optimal optimus in this episode What's that?

It's exactly the same with a few minor tweaks

to primal's head. Yeah, like very minor Yeah,

I Still love that quote at the beginning though,

we're Optimal and Megatron start arguing in the

middle of the arc Oh yeah, take it outside. You

wouldn't dare fire in here. It might upset history.

We have four million years to clean you off the

walls, Megatron. I might risk it. Considering

that Megatron just tried to blow up Optimus Prime's

head, I don't think he really cares about altering

history. You'd think he would be trying to provoke

a firefight. Exactly. And then Rattrap jumps

in. Oh, for bootin' up cold, why didn't you just

shoot him? I'm trying to not resort. I'm trying

not to resort to that Rattrap. Well, here, let

me do it. Boom. And he's like, no! And he basically

bitch slaps Rattrap around. Well, he just uses

his big ass hand and slaps him and he flies away.

You know the one thing, and I really don't want

to get too much into this as far as the toys

go because I'm going to be talking about the

toys, but I noticed about the toys, especially

since I have it right here next to me, he has

opposable thumbs on both his hands, which makes

no sense. Yeah, it helps him hold his gun, which

you don't actually have. Well, send it to me.

See, that's another thing you never see optimal

use that gun. Yeah. No, he just uses the chest

guns. Well, yeah, he has his boob guns. Wow,

talk about a third nipple. Does she really have

a third nipple? Yeah, you need to look at that.

Look, it's got laser sight. It's a functional

nipple. Lock, load, fire, wind, ready. It's a

firing nipple. It's a firing nipple, oh my god.

so you say there's a burning sensation around

the nipple no i'm saying there's fire fire coming

out the nipple that's what i'm saying i just

can't control it give him some preparation h

as opposed to preparation a through f we are

creating the season three outtakes right now

right Just put a little bit of baby powder on

it and a little vaseline, you'll feel much better

in the morning. You'll be fine. So, uh, anyway,

um, yeah. I think that's it for this episode.

To digress a little bit, I don't know where the

hell we were going, but, uh, I was surprised

to see that they moved the entire bridge of the

Axilon into the volcano. Yeah, that was a pretty

cool feature to see them actually do because

it kept their their main room that they were

always in anyway The problem I have with this

The problem I have with this will come up with

the third episode We'll be reviewing today in

changing of the guard if they move the entire

bridge of the axel on in this episode Why the

fuck didn't they bring Sentinel with them because

Sentinel went down with the ship? It was in the

core Right there was that whole episode with

Rattrap the ninja as he surfed his way down to

the core I know that but I don't ever remember

Sentinel being in the core I always remember

him being in the main console part where that's

how they that's how they Controlled it, but it

was actually inputted into the core because that's

what Rattrap had to press to deactivate it Before

he got hit with a massive cannon. It's been a

while since I've seen season one. So, okay, I'll

give it to you Yeah, but that's uh, that's about

it except for the the the crispy ice -cold -slag

quote I like so much Ice -cold -slag, it would

have been cool to see them actually continue

beast wars up until g1 Can you imagine that?

Yeah, don't even go there. I want them to go

there. No bring back the original voice cast.

Let's do it No, these machines didn't happen.

That's an alternate timeline shut up People who

say that Well, I mean I still like these machines

don't get me wrong. I just I would have liked

to have seen them continue This for at least

another season. There was so much more possibilities.

They could have done with the g1 characters It's

just that Hasbro cut them cut them short wanted

to change gears Well, you know, kind of screw

the rest of the cast. I think the further adventures

of Waspinator on Earth with completely voiced

by Scott McNeil would be an awesome show. Just

give them back Dinobot and Waspinator and have

them go back and forth on the planet trying to

see who can rule who for the next four million

years. That would be interesting. Last one standing

gets to meet the Autobots. This game's not for

you, kitty. Cheater to Optimus! We got... Now

it's you and I, old friend. Activating emergency

transformation. Scanning now. Activating transformation

sequence. Alert! Autobot X detected. Vector 9,

5, 8. He's here. Depth charge, maximize! Up next

is Deep Metal. Original air date, November 1st,

1998. Written by... Oh, what? It says written

by written by Larry DiTillio. Geez, Rhino, nice

way to fuck up the booklet. Heh heh heh heh heh.

Losers. We need Shout Factory. Not with this

BS. Are you done? I don't know. Why don't you

check back in ten minutes? In space, a Cybertronian

ship with a mysterious occupant is tracking the

lost Protoform X, the science experiment now

known as Rampage. The ship is pulled into a wormhole

and crashes on prehistoric Earth, where the pilot

is reformatted and emerges as Depth Charge. Depth

Charge and Rampage meet at the trade and trade

blows. What is the lost history between these

two bitter enemies? Slag the High Council. Yes,

slag them. Slag them all to hell. We don't care

what they have to say. They're no longer important.

As much as I really could care less about Rampage,

and I will be saying that through the next two

episodes, I made it I found it very interesting

when he Stops, and I and he looks up into the

sky. He's like ooh Rampage remembers something

or someone I thought that was kind of cool I

I thought it was kind of inexplicable because

it's like Death Church isn't even in the same

Time yet and yet. He's like whoa somebody's coming

Somebody's coming for me, and it's like well.

What makes you think that what? You know you

just got a feeling on the back of your head that

somebody's floating around nine million years

from now Who wants to come back in time to find

you? Somebody's coming somebody tasty It always

interests me how the scanners pick up the life

forms and replicates them. I've always found

that really cool. I found the original opening

Beast Wars two -parter of them going into the

little chamber thing. I found that cool. Especially

when we haven't seen one underwater. The underwater

scan is very awesome, I thought. Well, this is

the first time that we didn't get an alt -mode

hint before the scan. You saw a manta ray fly

by before the yes. Yep. Okay. I must have missed

that because I'm also There's a hint to his beast

form or his Vehicle form look at his star hopper

Yeah, it's exactly how his metal form is when

he got hit with the The blast it Altered his

superstructure to take on that Yeah, they never

really explained what what that time warp was

it's just He was following the the trail into

the past and then into the the same way the The

Maximals followed there and he hit the trans

war signal It's a very convenient trans warp,

you know Oh yes, it was very convenient. Floating

through space. But the only thing I can put together

with that is that maybe he came through a different

part not hit by Cybertron, like one of the satellites

somewhere else in the galaxy, and ended up intercepting

it on its way back to the past, like one of the

residual shockwaves. Well... that would kinda

explain why he got trans -metalized on his way

through but it wouldn't you know explain that

you know as far as if that's how he got through

time if that's the same you know residual trans

-warp that the axelon and the nemesis went through

then uh... i think it's one of those things when

you trans -metalize that's the question well

true but i think it's one of those things where

you have to just do suspension of disbelief.

Yeah, I suppose. The writing in this series is

so well done that you don't normally have to

suspend your belief. True. Suspend disbelief.

And normally we wouldn't, well see normally I

think we would if we weren't reviewing it. So,

I don't know. Because normally in a, like if

somebody's normally watching this cartoon, They're

not doing it for review purposes. They're doing

it to enjoy it and even though According to Steve

there are some horrible episodes like the low

road, which is just awesome You know The low

road is awesome Yes, it is no it's not Why universe

hate waspinator You were born. Waspinator has

no room to bitch in this episode, because he

doesn't get splatted once. Yes, he does. Oh,

no, he doesn't. Okay, okay. No, no, the Why Universe

Hate Waspinator line came after Megatron sent

him out to do something. Yeah. Waspinator doesn't

like to work anymore. He likes to mooch off the

system. Yeah. I'm really surprised he gets any

lines in this episode at all. Dang, Cheetor never

gets a break, man. I'm so sick of that. I'm so

sick of Cheetor never getting a break. Oh, okay.

Oh! Oh! Do you ever use mute? No. Sorry. If I

have to blow my nose before the record, then

you have to plug your face when you do it. We'll

fix it in the editing. Bullshit. No, you won't.

You never do! I don't edit anymore. This is all

Steve's job now, so I'll make sure he fixes it

in the editing. Let's not go there. Let's just

not go there. I'm really getting sick of Rampage

already. Just because of the whole... And because

of the whole same tune over and over again. I

want to feel your pain and terror and all that

bullshit That's why depth charge is here to put

him out of his misery he's like the the twisted

version of like Bane meets like Scarecrow and

then depth charge is like Batman coming to wipe

his ass on the floor Talk about a slippery fish

Squish squish squish. He's gonna go get crabs.

I think it's No, no, I don't stop I don't care

if you make team rocket references from now till

the end of the show He will not ever say that

ever again on this podcast No I think I touched

a knife. No. It's nice to see the Cybertronian

Adventures in flashbacks. Yes, I do like seeing

that. The what? Cybertronian Adventures. Cybertronian

Adventures. yeah because they flashed when primal's

telling why depth charge and rampage they flash

back to the the um colony omicron yeah oh yeah

okay well ex got hungry and decided to eat all

the depth charges friends and i actually said

my note wrong because i was kind of making i

didn't realize this now but i was kind of making

a pun On Activision, it's nice to see the Cybertron

adventures in flashbacks. Fucking Activision.

Not that anyone would buy a war for Cybertron

for the Wii, but anyway. What's wrong with him?

Eh, probably Rust. You know what this has turned

into? Death Charge, I mean. Because Rattrap is

liking jumping back and forth. This is the new

Dinobot. I mean, essentially it is. He's filling

that gap, plus he and Rattrap are at constant

wit's end with each other, bouncing back witty

banter. I think that Death Charge is just a dick,

kinda. He's also a dick than Dinobot was. Yeah,

Dinobot, at least they were almost playful. Back

and forth even up to the point where he died.

They were still kind of playful back and forth.

Whereas depth charts just like Get out of here

kid. You bother me. Yeah, and he's like you crazy

kids get off my lawn Well, not quite to that

point no, but yeah, he's like alright you guys

all suck and you know He just has open disdain

for primal. Well, he'll reiterate that next episode

Yeah, yeah and my final note So we can actually

move on to somebody else and I can stop talking

is, wow, I really hate Depth Charge's backpack.

His whole... No, not his tail. No, in robot form.

The wing things on his back and everything else.

It just reminds me of a toy... How toys have

backpacks on them. It's a kibble. I'm fine with

it. Whatever. Yeah, it's okay. It's like his

shield. Whatever. Michael? It doesn't look like,

I don't know, rampage. With all the legs hanging

off? Yes. Some kibble is just, you know, a camp

kibble. It's meant to be. It's unforgivable kibble.

Yes, it is. At least he doesn't have lips on,

like, depth charge. Depth charge has big lips

on his face, or on his chest. On his chest. What

could be worse? He could have eight eyes on his

stomach. I could deal with that. Anyways, Michael,

what do you have for this? Oh my god. Oh damn.

This sounds like a bad pop song. Come here, X.

I've got a present for ya. Michael, what do you

have for this episode? Uh, yeah, we start off

with Inferno. Getting a lot of lines. More lines

here than I've heard him say. Aside from Yes

Ruralty or For the Colony, more lines than I've

ever heard him say. Where he's basically having

dialogue with Depth Charge. Or Depth Charge,

I'm sorry. Dialogue with Rampage. Before Rampage

bails on him. Right and he's like, all right

I'm gonna go here and you're gonna go there and

then I'm gonna do this and then you're gonna

do that and Ha ha and he gets down there and

nothing goes as planned This is the only time

I really feel sorry for inferno I agree Well,

yeah on top of that on top of that They don't

start firing on him until Optimus has already

left the base. Adding insult to injury. It's

nice, though, that if they're going to keep Rampage

around, since he doesn't die, they're at least

going to give him something to do. Now he's got

his counterpart. Exactly, he's got a nemesis

of his very own. A bento playing platypus? Wait,

Perry the banjo playing Pataplus? I'm sorry.

Sorry, I can't take your incessant cross cartoon,

whatever. As I was saying, he gets impaled! Woo!

Well, you know, it's neat because you don't normally

see that in a kid's television show. It's like

and despite the fact that he's got this huge

spike going through his chest. It still doesn't

stop him. He keeps coming Mm -hmm And I just

want to say about my cross cartoon References,

it's all your fault because you kept saying nemesis

That's Juffin Schmertz's uh, mm -hmm. Yeah Well,

you know in in Transformers continuity nemesis

has a complete different connotation true but

you're using it in the in the good versus evil

thing curse you parry the platypus no curse you

parry wait is that the baldeedles It's like they're

sitting over there like, what the fuck are they

doing? All I'm hearing is you talking about butt

beetles and something else, so. Blah blah blah

blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. What? Blah

blah blah. So uh, yeah, anyway, the whole episode

ends with Rampage blowing up his ship. They're

very quick to take out the ships. Well, that's

because Rampage is like, oh no, you came, you're

going to be stranded just like me. If anything,

Rampage should have jumped in that ship and took

the hell off. Rampage doesn't want to because

he has more fun torturing people that can't kill

him. He could have flown back to any, you know,

colony and done that. Yeah, but what's the point?

He purposely wanted to torment an already damaged

soul. Megatron still had half his spark, so he'd

kind of still be a little bit screwed. No matter

where he is, it's like a remote control that

keeps on buzzing. Not if he's under the water.

Eh, it works. Well, Megatron was like, whoa,

where'd he go? He's gone, he's disappeared, he's

not on my scanners. But he didn't immediately

reach for the spark chamber to squish it a little.

Well, that's because he's like, where the hell's

he gonna go? Well, for all he knew, he already

got in the ship and took off. For all he knew

the ship was already destroyed He could have

gotten on the ship and attacked Megatron and

Megatron would have shot his balls off because

Megatron blew away Prime's face Well, okay, I

need I need Megatron to say the whole give me

your face thing Fine if rampage were to come

after me I would tell him Give me your face!

Yes! And then I would cut out his spark and make

him eat it. With a spoon. And some fava beans

and a nice Chianti. Nice Chianti. But that's

all I got. Okay, what about you Steve? This was

the first episode to have underwater scenes.

Which I didn't even notice until I saw the bubbles.

I was like, holy shit. They're underwater I love

that that was actually pretty cool to actually

see underwater They've gone three seasons and

finally get the technology to go underwater But

none of the other guys can go under there. Even

the trans metals can't go under there only depth

charging rampage Which leads me to another problem

later in season three with a certain tarantula

being able to build an entire underwater monorail

system but that's Something to be seen later

Yes, yes And yeah, there's Yeah, there's no way

that rampage would just poof disappear from scanners.

That's just retarded if you're underwater Yeah,

that's just a lot screw up. Somebody was writing

it. It must have been on something when they

wrote it Completely forgot what you know was

going on probably took a break, coffee break,

came back, was like, where was I? Oh yes, we

don't know where Rampage is at. Okay, let's go

on. Yeah, that's okay. We can live with that.

Yes, but yeah, as for the other stuff, pretty

much covered it, the banter between Primal in

Depth Charge was pretty cool though, where Primal's

telling Depth Charge, X is not alone, he's a

Predacon now, under Megatron's control, there

are six of them, and then Depth Charge looks

back at him and says, gotta hand it to you Primal,

when you screw up, you do it big time, but thanks

for the tip, and then he leaves. I like that,

when you screw up, you do it big. And he also

says, well this crew needs something. Next episode.

Oh, that's in the next? Oh, I thought it was

in this one. Okay. So should we move on to the

next episode then? Yes, Amasa. Quickly! We must

pursue Aspinator! Out of my way! I got a job

to finish. No! Waspinator has the Sentinel Control

Module. If Megatron gets his hands on that...

That's your war. I got my own. Perhaps you should

remember what it means to be a Maximal. If you

dare call yourself that again. Eh, save your

voice box, Bolt. He's got what he wants. Come

on, let's get after Waspinator. up today is changing

of the guard and this episode original air date

was November 8th 1998 written by Evan Summers

okay hmm right now it's that was a typo no mention

that the TF wiki that it was wrong I don't know

it's correct is it yes Bouncing off wiki and

what I watched earlier with my notes. So What

was I? You're probably looking at Steve's sack

or sacks What an awful I can't imagine going

through grade school with a name like that or

sacks. Yeah Episode description, please Yes,

go on. Rhinox is unable to connect Maximal technology

to the ancient Autobot computer systems, Teletran

1. Rattrap goes searching for Sentinel, the Maximal's

computer automated weaponry defense system, now

at the bottom of the sea. The murky depths prove

to be a dangerous place for Rattrap. Um, hey

look, a blackface joke. Michael you should have

caught on to that considering you were on to

cast episode 23 which was Tom and Jerry In the

very beginning when Rhinox is trying to hook

something up it explodes and his face is all

black He's got soot all over his face yes Yes,

didn't notice that maybe I was looking somewhere

else. I understand the referral though. Yes,

um I see where the problem was there with the

writing It says written by Evan Summers Whereas

the apparently there's only one M in Summers.

Oh, well, whatever Yeah One M We all prefer triple

D's so it doesn't matter anyways Double for me.

Only double? Where's my handful? It means you

have to use two hands. And then that's too much.

Oh, what? Oh, okay. What's wrong with you, boy?

Let's not... Nothing, I was just joking. Oh,

okay, haha! Not, not, no. Cat toy. I love Cheetor.

Cheetor is awesome. And did you notice that they

use in the little flashback of him thinking about

it, they use the original Cheetor design for

the cat? Yeah. That was awesome. That was awesome.

So essentially you're looking at the quote, what

are you grinning about, litter butt? I was just

thinking with you inside, this make a swell cat

toy. Carney music. Is that the underwater music?

Yeah, when Rattrap... It's funny that Silverbolt

hears it through the intercom and then he's like,

what's going on? I never got... See, I thought,

yeah, when that scene first happens, because

it doesn't start happening until Rattrap starts

moving the pedal thing and he gets the hang of

it, I thought it was just music that they put

in there for... For the episode. For the episode,

for that part. And then all of a sudden... It's

getting feedback on Silverbolt's walkie -talkie,

which that's another thing that pisses me off.

They have inner ear comlinks or chest comlinks

or leg comlinks or crotch comlinks. Why the hell

does he have a damn walkie -talkie? Because the

regular system was down. He couldn't contact

anything underwater. Apparently the same glitch

that hit Rampage not being able to be found hit

Rattrap not being able to use his comlink. I

thought it was because he couldn't turn on any

external systems. That was true, too. He's like

in stealth mode. Oh, okay. Despite the fact that

he has a heads -up display. Yeah. Why do I feel

like I'm watching an episode of SeaQuest DSV

when I watch this one? I love SeaQuest. I love

SeaQuest, but this so reminded me of that show.

That was a good show. I liked it. Oh, it is a

good show. It's only because of Ted Raimi. Well,

and Jonathan Brandes, but anyway. Oh god! Hey!

You got the tiger beat cut out up on your wall

or? No way it could be this easy. Stop jinxing

yourself, Rattrap. Yes, and the big eel comes

out and jumps in his face and he starts like

Powering and beating on the glass That was funny

I laughed I laughed at that too I I did too What

this is very interesting is a very serious note

here? and very topical to this episode. Why does

Megatron all of a sudden have such an interest

in Sentinel? It makes no sense. Granted, it would

have been his advantage if the Maximals couldn't

get it back, but still, all of a sudden we've

gone, what, since Season 1 that they've had Sentinel,

and it doesn't take him until Season 3 that he

gets all interested in it? I think he wanted

it primarily so that the Maximals couldn't have

it. Yeah, I think that was more so his ultimate

goal. That and he could protect the base was

something that the Maximals themselves invented

that he got his ass kicked with numerous times.

Yeah, I mean, at this point, the Maximals aren't

going to be attacking anything. They're in full

-on defense mode. Without a shield, that's all

they can do. True. And they even go so much as

say that in this episode. Waspinator 1, Dougiebot

Zippo. Come on! Waspinator 1. Did I actually

watch this episode? I guess you did. I watched

it earlier. What happened during this episode?

It's basically a rat race to get this... Yeah,

red traps underwater, and then... Well, then

when they get them out, I mean, it's just constant.

Somebody's knocking somebody down, shooting somebody

over, and then the next group is grabbing the

device, and then ultimately it ends up with the

Predacons, obviously. Oh, yeah. Because, you

know, let's face it, Depth Charge gets in the

way. Yeah, I haven't gotten to that yet. It didn't

look much like Depth Charge was saving anybody's

butt. No, he was still doing his own thing. Yeah,

it looked like he was thinking... Well, I wonder

what they're up to. It sounds like they're getting

their asses handed to them. And then he kind

of runs into them. Yeah. It doesn't look like

he was saving anybody. Oh, look, I drove off

Waspinator, but, you know, carrying the thing

that we were trying to get. Rat Trap Pinball.

Cheeto was right. It would make an excellent

cat toy. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Tilt.

Tilt? There always has to be the tilt. In his

eyes. yes okay that power dive was just awesome

and also waspinator splat alert I like that scene

waspinator having good day not get shot once

and then he's you know of course down on his

luck yeah of course it wouldn't be a waspinator

centric you know splat alert if he didn't get

blown up at least once true fucking depth charge

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Do I actually have to... Do I actually have to

give you the line so you can just say it back

to us in Megatron's voice? There you go. Alright,

so Steve, what did you think of this one? It

was interesting to see another rat trap centric

episode for once Being that he hasn't actually

had any Decent you know rat trap times I like

where rampage came up and Tried to pop was there

pop rat trap until depth charge intercepted and

Basically kicked him out. It's like nope. This

is my fight, and then they of course ensue hell

upon each other Rampage actually uses his rampage

terrorize oh yeah in which he never does before

and He might possibly after but I sincerely doubt

it And it should also be noted that this is the

last fairly rat trap centric episode of the entire

show Yeah, pretty much from here on out. It's

either going to be you know it changes from episode

to episode Cheetah will be getting more so the

spotlight than a lot of the other Maximals besides

primal. Oh, yeah Of course, Depth Charge will

get a little bit more time, being that he's the

new guy on the block. But it seems like the older

they are, the less likely they are to get a prime

time. That's not so much the case when we get

to Beast Machines, but yeah, you're right. For

Beast Wars, that's pretty much how the rest of

it's going. Yeah, true. Poor Rhinox doesn't get

much love at all. You get some. Although he should

have turned Transmetal, and then people would

have gave a crap more. Yeah, see? I've been saying

that all along. Well, even in Beast Machines,

they spend the entire series looking for him

and then toward the end he's like, here I am!

I traded! Well, yeah, Dark Designs. So Michael,

what did you have for Changing of the Guard,

the final episode today? Just a few things. The

Predacons got a spy drone. Which you know, we

haven't actually seen since Scorponok died. Yes

This this is very reminiscent of it minus the

beastie looking form to it the little B Yeah,

this one looks like a little ship or something.

Well, it looks like the B just without all the

beast You know aesthetics to it. Yeah Yeah, I

was like, oh I miss Scorponok Nobody else is

going to chime in and be like, I like Scorponok

too! He's dead, he needs to stay dead. Stupid

half -tarded moron always dropping shit on himself.

Yeah, I guess he should stay dead, but Laserbeak,

they could have brought him. Anyway, yeah, I

like the damage model for Silverbolt. You really

enjoy damage models. I do! Whenever they trash

somebody, when they do it really good, I mean,

it's one thing just to, you know, make them look

like they got hurt. Like, I'm on the ground and

I'm holding my head and going, ow, I'm hurt.

But no, this is like, you've just been trashed

and your arm is off, you know? It's just a flesh

wound! Your arm's off! You know, that type of

thing. I like that. I always like it when they

go the extra mile and just... You know, completely

mess somebody up. Because, you know, as far as

3D modeling goes, that's a whole new model. That's

not easy to do. No, because they just duplicate

the one and then they just get to say, okay,

remove this, remove this, put a little glitch

here, damage this, just remove this, damage it,

damage it, burn it, fire, fire. But yeah, but

he, apparently somebody put a lot of effort.

in building this completely unique 3D model of

Silverbolt being damaged, and he's just fine

a minute later. He forgot. I know. It's like,

um, I got better. She turned me into a newt.

Mm -mm, better. I got better. And, uh, yeah,

I crack myself up. This is sad. Yes, yes it is.

By the time you get to the end, did Dep Charge

officially join the team? Or is he still like,

yeah, yeah, yeah? He's more so on their team.

He'll help them if he's around, but he's still

going to keep with his primary objective. I hate

to equate him to this, because the person I'm

going to equate him to is so much more awesomer.

He is but depth charge is pretty much Batman

when it comes to the Justice League. He's not

a full -time member, but he's there when they

need help and they will need help See I was actually

thinking like Tigatron in the beginning Tigatron

was more of a loner, but he was more of a One

of those guys that one of the PETA guys Wait,

PETA has men on it? I thought it was all women.

It's people for the eating of tasty animals.

Oh my god! Don't you know that the only way they

can get people to actually pay attention to those

stupid things is by having a woman's boobs on

them? Yeah, you know what's sad too is I will

find those commercials in the little short videos

online and then eat steak while I'm watching

the boobs. It was like, oh yeah, nom nom nom.

Take that. Take that, that's right. In your face

people for the ethical treating of animals. Actually,

I meant to say people for the eating of tasty

animals and it came out with their actual name.

I don't know what the hell happened. Yeah. Wow.

Is it actually people for the ethical treatment

of animals? No, it's people eating testicles

always. I don't think that the prime rib is from

the nether regions of the world. But they'd like

to think so. I don't like to think so. I'm good.

Steve might have something. They had ace that

scene where inferno Knocked the tree down in

front of rat trap. Yeah and silverbolt his comlink

was on the wrong side Something minor it was

just technical glitch other than that I would

have to say this episode is pretty good despite

the fact that For the most part sentinel doesn't

even get brought back up again until other victories

Yeah, I was actually thinking this is a bit of

a throwaway It pretty much was. It was, uh, hmm,

we don't know what to write about, so we'll write

about Sentinel. Hmm, something that we really

haven't talked about since the agenda, but we

really don't plan on using it again until other

victories for its, uh, five -second, uh... A

MacGuffin, you say? Yes, pretty much. Which is

kind of sad, because Ian James - Sentinel had

so much potential. Well, not only did Sentinel

have so much potential, but - So much. What I

mean to say, if Megatron would stop interrupting

me, you stupid red dragon asshole, is that it's

a shame that Sentinel pretty much dies come other

victories because Ian James Corlett did such

an awesome job with the voice, I thought. You

know, that's something I thought was interesting,

is that he does the voice and you know that he...

He doesn't just regulate a computerized voice

for Sentinel he actually gets excited when there's

something to be excited about like when Transmutate

was in danger. It's like holy shit. Things are

breaking and he's doing it as Sentinel And I'm

surprised that he didn't give a little bit more

personality for to Sentinel when Megatron, you

know kind of Give it, like, a darker tone. Yeah!

Or sarcastic or something, like, yeah, whatever,

you know. Sentinel now online! Take that, Maximal

scum! Now I have the bullhorn surrounded by guns.

Screw you, Rhinox! In your face! In your ass!

Wow. Okay, and we are gonna go to some quotes,

maybe some episode audio, and then the outro.

We will be back after this. Hey, this is Cheetor,

and you're listening to the Beast Unleashed podcast,

Ultra Gear. Here's quote number one. Stay close,

Maximal. It's time to transform and roll out.

Quote number two. Jump in gyros! Optimus sure

learns a new body fast! Yeah, well, what do you

expect? He changes them often enough. End quote

number three. Stand and fight, vermin! Oh, yeah?

Dribble up and die, eh? So, to end that dark

mess of a hole that was our final episode in

this episode of the podcast here, I kinda...

Equaled it off with we'll be back after this.

So Michael, did you have anything else you wanted

to bring up? Oh I had just noticed that in the

last episode we had Rampage and death charge

actually going underwater and it was like whoo

underwater cool But this episode the changing

the garden toward the beginning was Seemed to

me like the writers were trying to figure out

a way of getting somebody other than those two

underwater And here we have Rattrap in a bubble.

Now he's got the means to go underwater and a

reason to go underwater. So we have somebody

other than our two swimmers doing it. It was

neat, probably a little unnecessary. Maybe they

could have asked DepthCharge, pretty pleased

with Sugar on it, to go do that for them. But

yeah. That's about all I had. Okay, then. So,

thank you for joining - Thoughts? What? Thoughts?

What thoughts? You're full of crap, Wilson! Oh.

Nevermind. Well, you tell me that every time

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