Masterpiece Dinobot, Titans Return, and Hasbro News

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 Phillips, and in this episode of the

podcast, I'll be talking about the first three

episodes of Titan's Return, as well as some of

the new... Information regarding Masterpiece

DinoBot, a possible future Masterpiece figure,

as well as the Perfect Effect knockoff Transformers

Transmetal figures, and some Transformers Generation

1 soundtrack restorations, and the result of

Mattel and Hasbro possible acquisition. So without

further ado, we'll jump into the comment on last

week's episode, which states from Brad Mull saying

that DinoBot looks awesome and he's pre -ordered

it. I hope I can add the green Lego lightsabers

to his eyes so he has 3D eye beams. It does sound

like he's gonna have the eye beams. I don't know

if you'll be able to use Lego light... Light

beams for it, but yeah He says as you said you

paid $60 for mp1. I bet people complain about

mp10s price also Which yeah, they probably did

I I'm just really really cheap He says so yes

Dino bit is on the expensive side But the figure

looks worth it on the Hasbro Mattel thing Hasbro

just gave Mattel the Jurassic license I hope

this buys out news. It's just rumor clickbait

Well since you mentioned the bit about Dinobot,

we'll cut into that first, and then go right

into the Mattel and Hasbro. So there was a bit

of images from the Transformers Generation book

2018, which shows, of course, more of Dinobot,

however, with the entire team. You see Optimus

Primal Masterpiece, Cheetor Masterpiece, Dino

Bot Masterpiece, which is freaking hulking and

huge, which is about right. Which makes you think

that, and then they show the 30th anniversary

Rattrap and Rhinox, which are really well detailed.

However, I see with them doing the Masterpiece

line, Rhinox is technically not to scale at this

point. So I see them potentially doing him, but

I love the shots that they show of the side,

the front, the back, and where his tail and sword

and everything go while he's in robot and not

using it. And just the facial reactions alone.

There's one, two, three, four, five, six different

facial features you can do with his robot mode.

which is pretty slick. And then the fact that

the head clicks up and pops so you can change

out the eyes is pretty awesome as well. And you

can do the different poses with the head doing

the tilted back head ability. I think this figure,

just seeing what I'm seeing here on this is spectacular.

Only makes me wonder what they're going to do

later on. when they get to, well, when they get

to some other Transformers Beast Wars figures.

And since we kind of talked about that, the designer

who did Masterpiece Dinobot would like to tackle

Beast Wars Megatron next. I guess he included

it in an interview with Takara Tomy. That was

done with the Transformers Generations 2018 book.

As for the Beast Wars masterpiece, I felt the

first goal was Dinobot and the next one was Megatron,

so I'd like to do my best there. And yeah, it

doesn't really confirm anything as far as that,

but I would love to see a Beast Wars Megatron

come down the pipe next. And if he's anything

at all realistic like Primal, Cheetor, and Dinobot,

I'm all in. However, it scares me because Megatron

is... Taller yet than Dinobot and with Dinobot

being in the $250 edge or ish range there $260

Megatron is probably gonna be like 350 just based

on size alone, so I'm a little scared on that

aspect I Sincerely doubt if he's over the 130

there's gonna be no way I'm gonna be able to

afford it I would love nothing more than get

my hands on it. I wish Hasbro would send me one

because I would love to Review it but I Yeah,

I just don't see any possible way. I'm gonna

be able to afford that figure. I would love to

have my hands on it though So yeah moving on

into Some other ground. I am very happy about

a Masterpiece Megatron possibility. Moving into

the Mattel Hasbro acquisition. Mattel, in a interview

with Bloomberg, CNBC, Reuters, all that, seems

to inform that Hasbro has been rejected by Mattel

for the acquisition approach. This is, we had

informed previously that Hasbro was in merger

talks with Mattel, but it won't happen anytime

soon. Mattel refused the proposal to a low offer

from Hasbro, despite the fact that it slipped

in trading on a report that it rebuffed a takeover

approach from rival Hasbro. Spurning India, that

could have created the largest US toy maker.

Yeah, but I can kind of see it too because Mattel's

concerns were that the transaction could be challenged

on antitrust grounds and the fact that it would

be literally the main number one toy resource

being that these are the two big players in the

game for various types of figures so it's yeah

it's kind of a touchy ground there but Yeah,

I mean I could I could kind of see them merging

That would be kind of the best of both worlds

as far as the toys are concerned But it would

kind of suck because there would be a monopoly

and nobody really to challenge the pricing or

Yeah, that in Hasbro is cheap so that's that's

why it got mostly rejected so which is funny

because They they love the monies, but they don't

want to give it up And then we get into Titan's

return and I just caught up on all three episodes

yesterday and I have to say that I'm impressed

with it so far. I like the Titans being there.

I love Optimus Prime and Megatron's banter back

and forth. Prime's not really saying a whole

lot, but he's kind of getting into it. Hot Rods

or Rodimus's actions as he gets his new arm built

and relinquishes himself of the Matrix. Sorry

if nobody's seen it yet, that's not really giving

away too much. There's a nice little twist with

Trypticon. And yeah, I mean, it's pretty interesting

so far. I wish they would fix the battle damage

on Megatron and Prime though, because it's driving

me nuts seeing the cracked windshield. Because

it's like, you've been around this long, why

don't you have it? Fixed by now, but it's nice

to see Peter Cullen come back and portray his

character yet again And then we've got I think

another Seven or nine episodes left of this before

we go into next year having the the finale of

the the Prime Wars trilogy with Prime Wars with

like Optimus Primal and characters such as that

So I'll be looking forward to that as they get

into the beasts This would be an interesting

way if they they kind of tied this into part

of G1 in a sense, but without the Galvatron aspect

and without the Headmasters or any of that aspect

and it just kind of had its sideline here But

yeah, I mean, I'm more engrossed in this than

I was in Combiner Wars. I still find a couple

of the characters a bit annoying and kind of

lacking, but I'm digging the animation because

it kind of reminds me of the Transformers Devastation

video game. And then the Heaven Prime. I wish

that Welker was Megatron, honestly, but I can

kind of get past it. Perceptor's interesting,

as will Eaton. Although not what exactly I was

hoping to hear, but I can kind of get it. They're

trying to kind of edge people towards the younger

crowd with different actors and whatnot. But

yeah, I think that this series is going a lot

better, like I said, than Combiner Wars. Granted,

not a lot's happened in it in the first three

episodes. Other than kind of picking up where

combiner wars left off or several months after

combiner wars left off But Yeah, who knows what

it's gonna go from here I just wonder what the

the end game is going to be for this this particular

saga of the the trilogy So continuing on we have

the There was released earlier in the week a

Transformers robots in disguise character art

reveal where they kind of go through a list of

alternate designs as well as Other character

kind of decos they have Transform they have prime

they have bumblebee They've got a little bit

more gritty look to them you get The junkyard

kid I can't remember his name and then amongst

others you get a bunch of the the other autobots

and in decepticons like drift Grimlock The spider

thing Basically bug based combiner chop shop

transformation Bunch of various characters a

steel jaw alternate design Among a few others

in color differences and You get jet storm and

slipstream Micronus jazz jazz is pretty slick

Thunder hoof scowl Stockade which looks kind

of interesting glow strike Polar Claw Ratchet

2 .0. I love the updates of the Transformers

Prime characters. I think that they're by far

the most interesting redeco's that they have

in the entire line. Then you get Side Swipe.

You get Blur. You get Heat Seeker. Soundwave

3 .0, which was awesome showing up in the show.

Shadow Raker, Laser Beak 3 .0, you get a nice

variety. You get Aerobolt and a bunch of the

little smaller beast -based minicons. You get

Starscream Toy 2 .0, and then 2 .0 with the armor,

the power surge. So yeah, all those things that

were in there were pretty awesome to see. I wish

we would have gotten a Megatron in this line.

I think that even if it was just in these test

footage images, I think I would have been happy

to see what Megatron would have looked like had

he returned to robots in disguise, as I was hoping

would happen for the finale, and didn't happen.

But I'm not really sure where else that would...

I mean, the designs are cool and seeing them

without a background, I do love that aspect.

But one thing I did notice, Perfect Effect, a

third party group, revealed their interpretation

of Transmetal 2 Megatron on their Facebook page.

And they kind of teased it back in August and

somehow I missed this. I did see the Optimal

Optimus figure that they made, which is like

directly spot on to the cartoon. This Megatron

however does not. I really wanted to like this.

They don't have them in color yet. Was looking

at the the figure and while he is epically cool

and you have the different blaster and in his

dragon head The the posable fingers and the difference

his feet and his legs do not match the show whatsoever

his wings are slightly off And then he looks

more They call it perfect beast in this aspect

He looks the optimal optimus one in the eye the

optimal optimus one looks pretty spot -on to

the show The Megatron however does not like I

said, and he looks more Gundam Based than he

does Beast Wars based which you know they give

him a greedier look I get it it probably made

more sense as far as the aesthetics are concerned

And then they show the Megatron with swords that

he takes out of his wings. And you have the dragon

tail behind him, which is pretty cool because

it actually has the three prong where he grabs

Primal by the head and launches him. Not to say

I don't like this figure because if this were

Color Deco and I could own this, I would most

assuredly do so. But he doesn't... He looks like...

Like he's like he's something from generation

one turned to beast rather than a beast wars

or a transmetal beast wars But like I said, I

really enjoy it for what it is But I I Don't

know really what to think about it other than

the fact that I would love nothing more than

to have Megatron in any aspect in Masterpiece

form. I actually want his original Beast Wars

form, his Transmetal and his Dragon form. I would

be perfectly set with just owning those three

figures and ending my collection with that. just

because it's Beast Wars. And if I could get the

Beast Machines version of the dragon that goes

into the cloak and has the headpiece that covers

up his head, I'd really love that as well. But

trying not to be picky, so. But yeah, there's

not really a lot else going on in the Transformers

world as of late. And I mean, you've got... You've

got some third party, you've got some masterpiece,

you've got the new Titans Return series, however,

it's... I don't know, it's just kind of a blah

time right now other than those little aspects.

And I know the comics are going and I realize

that and I know that there's... you know, the

Transformers Bumblebee movie, which I could care

less about. But I think where it's at is the

fact that we're getting more quality toys now

at this point, which is definitely a welcome

sight. And as I've mentioned before, I would

gladly trade the nostalgia of the original figure

for a masterpiece any day of the week. I know

that it comes with a premium price tag, which

I wish I had the money to buy these because I

would like to... I would love nothing more than

to get the entire Beast Wars line and just have

them on display. I would love to actually get

half the G1 line. I also want to mention something

else. We just... I just started this. Funny enough,

I was actually approached by Teespring. And you

can actually order... It's basically a t -shirt

merchandise shop, and I created one for AlterGeek,

which this podcast is housed on, as well as allthingstransformers

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the episode post on all of those locations, I

will have links to some All Things Transformers

gear, and I have it for Future Imperfect and

for AlterGeek as well. But you can get a t -shirt,

you can get a hoodie, you can get a mug. There's

five different things in there. One of them is

just the All Things Transformers logo with Ultimus

Prime. Maybe I should delve into that one of

these days. The whole story behind my Ultimus

Prime. Maybe I'll do that next episode. in why

that character came about and why it's in the

art. But I'm sure it came up with a long time

ago and I mentioned it in the show. But anyways,

you can get the t -shirts for, I think it's $23,

the hoodies for like $45, and then the mugs for

$15. And they come in a variety of colors and

whatnot. I just put this store together in between

last episode and this episode. So if you're wanting

to contribute to the show, this is probably the

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or whatnot. But at least this, you get gear.

And that's kind of what, I love mutual reciprocation

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swag. And I also have some with not only the

logo in it, but I have some with just my Transformer

character of Ultimus Prime. And if you go to

the back, it just has his name, Ultimus Prime.

There's no all things Transformers on it. It's

just the character. And so if you order right

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you get free shipping from now until the end

of the month. So, if you're interested in doing

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but, well, I mean, it's free shipping, so, you

don't pay, so, just order. Flat fee. So... You

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for that because it's based off my old 1980s

S15 pickup and it looks cooler in a dark color

than a bright color. Which, I'm gonna have to

get my hands on one of these too, now that I

have it. It's the premium tee, so it's one of

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