Transformers Toy News and EarthSpark Discussion

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Um, no. Hello and welcome to... All Things Transformers,

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

on this adventure into the Transformers fandom

is TFG1 Mike. Hello, how are you? Good, good,

good. It's been a couple weeks. Yep. Well, that's

how it usually is around here. We let the news

build up. We don't have to, you know, instantaneously.

And you've been busy. Like, you have not had

time to record anything. No, well, not for GCRN

anyway. Well... Yeah. There was one night we

were actually recording. We were recording from

like 8 a .m. till 9 p .m. That was a long day.

What have I told you? I know this is your job

and you can't control this, but what have I told

you and I've told everybody? Don't try to be

TFG1 Mike because being me is not something anyone

should aspire to. These long ass days, these

long ass recordings, these multiple recordings.

Like look. As long as we're doing something simple

and quick and whatever, fine, sure. I can get

through three podcast recordings, but a recording,

one recording that lasts three hours? I'm dead

to the world for two days and I can't do a damn

thing. Well, you can't help it sometimes. Sometimes

you have a five hour recording and you just can't.

I had a few of those. They weren't too bad though.

There was I got to play Talking Bird at one point,

so that was kind of fun. I also got to play it

getting knocked over. For those that don't know,

Steve is now full -time voice actor. Producer

voice actor. Okay, yes, but you are actually

working... You're not at the car lot. You're

not at Little Caesars anymore. For those of you

who are listening that don't know, tell them

just briefly who you work for and what you're

working on if you can. I'll keep it off grid,

but as far as it's like a children's audio drama

and I play an exorbitant amount of characters.

As you should yes, but we've also gotten I mean

we got a lot of volunteers and then because like

the voice actors are not paid Yeah, they're they're

all volunteers unless you're staff and then you're

automatically drafted as I put it So I play like

four three human characters one talking parakeet

So yeah, yeah, yes, absolutely Yeah. But anyways,

we just wrapped that and now it's back to monotony.

Same old, same old paperwork, stuff I don't like

doing, but it has to get done. So now I'm back

to the fun portion until the next recording that

we do. 15, 16 years of podcasting. I never thought

you'd ever say, oh, the monotony of recording.

Well, it's not the monotony of recording. It's

the monotony of paperwork. I don't like paperwork.

Nobody does. I mean, come on. Who likes that?

I mean, I know there are those people out there.

Yeah. So, all right. Anyways, so to the fun stuff.

Yes, to the fun stuff. We are starting with,

and I don't believe this, but... Super 7, Reaction

Transformers Wave 6, New Stock Images. We have...

Meh. Yeah, okay, again. Yeah, I'll finish my

meh after you. Unicron, Sharkticon, Ultra Magnus,

Cyclonus, Quintesson, and Redcar. Okay? Unicron

is based off of the non -existent original Generation

1 design that we were supposed to get back in

Generation 1 when they were going to make an

Orson Welles looking Unicron in Generation 1.

I am not a fan of number one of the price of

these Super 7 reaction figures and number two.

It's just ugly. Let me put it this way. All of

these Super 7 reaction figures are crap. Especially

for the price. These are dollar store toys. They're

better engineered than a dollar store toy. For

instance, the Sharpticon. Do I care that it transforms?

No. The Quintesson, do I care that it transforms?

No. They're very well done. Now, I will say If

you're going to get like, you know, for instance

cyclonus or ultra Magnus or some of these they

just look Cheap, they look like dollar store

toys. Now if I was going to buy a transformer

that doesn't transform. Yeah, you'd buy Well,

no, well even the even the Funko pops look better

than this And or they get the red figures the

Reds. Yeah. Yep Because the Reds come with the

accessories and they at least look show accurate

for the robot mode. Yeah And and that I can at

least get behind because they're like they're

like 22 bucks. Okay, you know It's not unreasonable.

They're all you know, the Voyager size or the

leader, you know size as far as all of them are

concerned, but they I mean even those plastics

look cheap like they look rubbery. They look

cheap. I I've seen some of the the super seven

stuff I want to say on BBTS, they had like a,

and I was slightly tempted, I want to say Generation

2 Megatron. I'm looking this up right now because

I could have swore they had them on here. But

yeah, I don't know if it was Super 7, but I want

to say it was though. I don't like these, number

one, like I said, because of the price point.

And number two, like you've been saying, they're

really ugly. Yeah. And what's... Oh, okay. The

other one I was talking about, they weren't...

They're still Super 7, but they're the Ultimates.

Yeah, that's the... Don't even get me started

on the Ultimates. At least the Ultimates look

better than these. These are like highly overpriced.

stand -up action figures. In Super 7, I don't

know how they've managed to get so many of these

contracts with toy companies. I've seen the Star

Trek ones. I've seen various superhero ones.

I'm like, in GI Joe, and I look at him and I'm

going, yeah, it's a bit much. Not when I can

spend the same amount and get a Transformable.

Not that that matters to me anymore. As far as

that, but... Okay, so cycling through these,

yeah. Cycling through these, based on the in

-package and actually supposedly seeing the toy

in -package for renders or for whatever, Unicron,

even though it's ugly as hell, looks better in

the package than it does the actual, like, display,

the model. picture. Sharkticon looks really good.

Sharkticon looks the best out of them all. Quintesson

- And the Quintesson even looks halfway decent.

Yeah, the Quintesson looks halfway decent too,

but - Cyclonus looks like crap. Cyclonus and

Ultra - Ultra Magnus looks worse. He looks like

somebody took a Lego character and they slapped

a bunch of plastic on it. Okay, so these pictures,

and I will hopefully remember to put these in

the post. Or to at least link the article in

the post from TFW2005 .com. But I'm looking at

Cyclonus. Yes, his ears stick out. Yes, his wings

and shoulder and arm wings stick out. But the

center of his body, from his chest down to his

legs, if you laid him flat and you didn't have

all the other pointy bits on him, he would be

a moldy piece of bread. That's what he looks

like he and ultra Magnus is fucking worse. I'm

sorry design. You know what folks? I'm way past

putting an explicit tag on this these shows so

Deal with it, but I'm sorry ultra Magnus looks

like a piece of garbage He looks like ret gar

spit him out of a garbage disposal. It looks

like crap It looks like a graphic image somebody

put together on Microsoft paint. Yeah It looks

like clipart! It does not look like - and I understand

these are renders of what the - but I mean, we

have in -package images of what these toys are

supposed to look like, and the toys in the package

look fine! But if you're trying to get me excited

over a render? Uh, this ain't it, Chief. Sorry

about your luck. The most dynamic thing on Ultra

Magnus is his shoulder missiles, and that's it.

Yeah, sadly, I have to agree and I I'm just not

a fan of Super 7. Yes, their ultimates look really

good But again, they're overpriced. Yeah, I have

no ambition. I have no ambition to Like Yeah,

I mean you're talking like yeah, they have Star

Trek the next -generation ultimates do they look

pretty good compared You know look like they're

their characters from the show Yes, do they have

you know, they're like the red figures of? Yeah

of Transformers and they have different hands

different face different, you know accessories

that go with them. Do they look awesome? Yes,

not for 60 bucks No, hell no. Hell no. I Won't

okay. So again folks that have been listening

for a while last couple years know that my toy

collection is Funko pop Based on what characters

I like from whatever I like I don't buy everything

I will never buy everything I I am too old and

too poor to be a completionist on any of this

stuff Yeah, but I will try my best to complete

certain lines But at least they're done at like

60 bucks for an ultimates figure Is way too much

when a $40 jumbo size ten and a half inch unicorn

based off the has lab design I'm looking at it

right now It looks much better and I don't mind

paying $40 for something that's ten and a half

inches because the normal funko pops are anywhere

from ten to twenty dollars depending on don't

get me wrong the the super seven ultimates of

like Power Rangers or Ninja Turtles, or the original

Masters of the Universe, or some of the G .I.

Joe, Pinky and the Brain. Yes, they look cool.

I still wouldn't spend 60 bucks on a toy that

does nothing. It's very accurate as far as aesthetically,

but it just doesn't excite me for that price

point. Not unless it's something major. She like,

like I said, you know, most of the Funko pops

I have, I do have a, they have three to four

inches, which is the normal size. They have six

inches and they have 10 inches, or they have

a couple larger than that, but there's few and

far between of the larger than 10 inches ones.

But they're basically your standard three to

four inch collectibles that are anywhere from

10, like I said, 10 to $20, whatever. Fine. You

know, whatever. If they make something like if.

Um, I think there's one, I think it's still a

tour with it. They do this thing called pop towns.

So they'll do like Scooby -Doo with the haunted

mansion, or I actually have one. It's, uh, uh,

Funko HQ, which was, I don't know what the M,

but it was more expensive, but like, yeah, no

60. And I'm, I'm staring at this ultra Magnus.

The super seven reaction figure and my reaction

to this reaction figure. And I hope to God you

do this. If you removed his missiles out of the

image, I'm not talking about the, I'm talking

about the actual product shot, not the impact

and shot, remove his missiles, color him entirely

Gumby green. He would look just like motherfucking

Gumby and where is pokey. Seriously. I'm staring

at this thing and I'm looking at the legs and

I'm like, yeah, that's Gumby. What the hell so

like for instance, I like the G2 Megatron Mm

-hmm, but it makes me wonder why Hasbro didn't

make an actual transformable one. Yep, that looks

like this Yep, because I I like it. Mm -hmm,

but not enough again for 60 bucks. Like I got

G2 Megatron the generations For 30 yeah And then

I got the chest add -on for another, like, eight.

All right. Enough of Super 7. They suck. Shattered

glass. Transformers shattered glass sound wave

in hand images. I love this thing only because

of two very, very cool things. Number one. I

never had Shatterglass Soundwave from the BotCon

2012 whatever and number two they molded in his

headband but for me as a display person right

now I will get this for display purpose in tape

deck mode display purposes only because I think

it is super cool and super awesome I mentioned,

I think it was the last episode and you're like,

yeah, that's what they make constructions for.

Look, I'm disabled and I know I try my best not

to bring this up every episode, but trying to

transform Kingdom Rodimus one handed, not an

easy job. And I still, he's still on the operating

table back here behind me. I still haven't figured

out how to get him into robot mode and that's

fine. But this is why. I look at some of these

things and I look at Shadowglass and I'm like,

oh, that's awesome. They molded in the headband.

That's a great way to get the thing. So you don't

have to have a separate piece. That's great.

And yeah, I really, really dig him. And I think

him next good. Well, the thing is with with Soundwave

one, I like what they've done with Ravage. Like

they've made them actually so he can stand up

because the other ones are so thin that I have

the original like I have the one that came out

with covert agent Ravage, which is basically

a replica of the original because I had the original.

It can't stand on its own very well. I love the

laser beat character. I love how they made Ravage

and how they can fit in him. What I like about

Soundwave, no matter which era, he transforms

the same because I had the original. And I have

the the core class Yeah, and my kid was like,

how did you and I says it transforms exactly

the same as the one eyes I had as a kid. Yep

Therefore I like it Absolutely Absolutely All

right. Yes, I I'm waiting for BBTS to have a

pre -order of that because I pre -ordered the

sound blaster Because essentially I want rival

cassette decks in my apartment. So you got the

Shattered Glass Sound Blaster? Is it Shattered

Glass Sound Blaster? Whatever that Core Class

one was, we talked about last time. Oh, yeah.

Oh, you're talking about Sound Blaster. Yes,

the Core Class one. That is? I'm looking it up

right now. Keep talking. Yeah, it's the Headmaster's

Sound Wave, like after he and Blaster got in

a big battle and they blew each other up. and

they rebuilt both of them and blaster becomes

twin twist and is blue and sound wave becomes

sound blaster and is black yeah this is the black

and purple yeah this is the one that oh good

i am not canceling that pre -order i'm looking

at big bag toy store because i looked at my order

to see where what it was and whatever. Pre -orders

have sold out at $12 .99, so I am not canceling

that pre -order. March 2023 is when Transformers

Legacy Evolution Core Sound Blaster will be here.

I like the original, but I do like the detail

work on this. The gold on him strategically placed.

I mean, he's essentially the same figure, but

I do like the color palette. Yeah, absolutely.

All right, folks, even though Thanksgiving, all

Thanksgivings matter, I've said that for years

now, but we have to talk about Transformers,

Holiday, Optimus Prime, stock images. Hasbro

has just sent our first stock images of the recently

revealed Transformers Holiday Optimus Prime.

This figure is a special Christmas themed Optimus

Prime new mold which includes the Earthrise Optimus

Prime trailer with matching Christmas colors.

We finally have a clear look at the new mode.

The robot mode, alt mode, and packaging as well

as the trailer Holiday Optimus Prime will be

on sale on Hasbro Pulse November 1st, so... It's

already been on sale, so it probably sold out

by now. I don't necessarily think I'd buy this,

but I love it. I saw this picture when it came

out and okay, I don't love the color palette.

I'll just be honest about that. Okay. However,

I do find that I'm very entertained by the Not

only the cab, and this is one of my gripes with

these primes like laser prime and this prime.

I wish they'd just sell them without the trailer

because I don't want the trailer on either, which

is the only thing that stopped me from laser

prime. I've always wanted a laser prime because

when I was a kid, My parents took us to like

KB Toys right after school, didn't have my wallet.

They had an entire wall of G2, like tons of them.

And I saw Laser Optimus Prime and I was like,

oh, I got to get that. And they were like, yeah,

we're not lending you money. And I was like,

I have the money. It's at home. And they're like,

well, you should have brought your wallet. And

went back the next week with my dad, nothing.

They had no Transformers. And so it just ate

away at me for years. And so now I've seen like

three different laser primes. And the most recent

one is the one that I'm like, okay, I really

like that, but I don't want the trailer. And

it's not like you can sell the trailer by itself

because it won't go anywhere. But that's the

same scenario with this. Like I really like the

cab. And I really like how like, you know, you've

got prime with the wheels behind them, you have

the simulated, you know, front of the old prime

trailer or, you know, the old semi truck in the

front of him. His gun is basically the same from

the Earthrise and all those, just repainted because

the way it folds up. His feet open up to basically

swallow the legs for the transformation. I really

like this. I really like this. I like the dark,

like that deep blue that they have for his head

and the green eyes and just the detail work on

this is spectacular. And I love the transformation.

So I've actually seen people, believe it or not,

take this prime and convert him, like repaint

him, digibash him basically, into a hero Optimus

Prime, like G2 hero Optimus Prime. And if you're

not familiar with that, there was another cab

that he transformed into that was very similar.

So what I'll do is I'll send you the link and

then if you want to post it, you can. I found

it on Twitter the other day. But somebody digibashed

it and made it look like this other version of

Prime, this Hero Prime that came out around the

time that the Hero Megatron came out. It was

like a purple tank Megatron that came out and

then the Hero Prime was this type of cab. So

I have a feeling they may repaint it because

why not? It's Prime. They'll resell it. Exactly.

But I really I really like this design like a

lot I almost like it more than laser prime Yeah,

because I just like the way the wheels are on

his back and I like I just like the whole way

it looks on the torso Yeah, I But I like the

Christmas version too. So I again, it's not a

detractor there I'm looking at the robot mode

of the holiday prime I love the red and I love

the red in the green because it's a green matrix.

I think that's hilariously awesome. And we have

an Optimus Prime here, folks, with a candy cane

blaster. That's the best part about this entire

image of him in robot mode is the candy cane

colored gun. Yeah, I just I don't know something

about it. I just really like it. Yeah, absolutely

Alright folks, we're gonna move on to something

I Didn't really realize that These were It was

a couple number of years ago now at least half

a decade or longer Segways were all the rage

back in 2007 and 2008 And now, here in 2022,

rolling out soon, stay tuned, is Transformers

X Segway teaser images and videos. So, yeah.

We are getting a C8 Bumblebee and a Go Kart Pro,

or C8 Bumblebee Go Kart Pro and a Go Kart Pro

Optimus. And I'm just like, what? Plus a GT2

Megatron, whatever the hell that is. Yeah, Segway

.com slash Transformers. I, really, seriously,

I'm curious. Anyone listening to the sound of

my voice, please email us. Feedback at GeekCastRadio

.com and let us know if anybody even thought

of a Transformers crossover with Segway. Now,

I'm almost guaranteeing it's stickers attached

to the segue. Probably. So, ultimately, I think

it's going to be lame. I honestly do. Yeah. I

mean, it could be tamponed on. That could be.

I mean, I could see like a print tamponed onto

it. I don't think it's paint. I know that. I

don't think it is. I think it's... Either like

you're saying stickers or I think it could be

I Think it'll be a decal of some kind. Yeah.

Yeah, but I like When I was preparing for the

show The last news article I ever thought to

see was Transformers crossing over with Segway

Last time I saw anybody on a Segway was Phil

Lewis as mr. Mosby in the Suite life on deck

Yikes Come to Colorado, you'll see lots of people

on those and on the electric scooters and electric

bikes because they're parked everywhere and they

have Uber and the other company attached to it.

Yeah, Lyft and you have to use an app to activate

the device. Jesus. Because people just park them

wherever. But it snows in Colorado. You think

that they'd die after? It melts quickly. Oh,

I know, I know. Like we got snow tonight, it'll

be gone tomorrow morning. All right. Let's head

to the Earthspark, folks. New promotional video,

character roles, et cetera, et cetera, from Transformers

Earthspark. Now, I don't know if this is Hasbro

or if this is somebody else trying to do this,

but somebody's trying to say that this show is

going to be in continuity with Generation 1.

Okay, so misconception there. It's not. Right.

They did, however, use footage on Twitter. Yes.

To show the lead female characters or the lead

kid characters mother. Mother fought in the,

yeah. Fought in the original Great War with Optimus

and they show like Optimus Prime and Bumblebee

from G1 aesthetic. However, I don't think that

it's actually tied to G1. I think they're just

using that to show kind of like that time period.

Yeah. Or they're trying to hook us in because

even though it's a kid's show. Uh, which is fine.

Hook as many audience members in as you want,

and they are actively... Or they could just do,

um, you know... Yes, yes. Do the original G1

all over again with, you know, since they've

shown they can do the animation. Yeah. Give us

something decent to look at. So... I have no

gripes against EarthSpark, just mind you. I'm

just saying, as far as like giving something

decent to look at, I meant like in as far as...

I mean, this falls in line with Nickelodeon's

other stuff that they've done over the years

as far as the design of the humans and the whatever,

so I'm okay. And I still call bullshit on features

the first Transformers bots born on Earth. Beast

Wars did it first. Technically G1, but they were

built, not born, but yes, right, Beast Wars did

it first. They were protoforms. I do like that

they're finally embracing their robot heritage

with Twitch being the first Transformers bot

with a drone alternate mode. I think that looks

really cool. I like the fact that Robbie and

Mo are emotionally connected to Twitch and Thrash

by their cybersleeves. Cybersleeves are a little

stupid, but at least it's not like the biggest

whatever. But having a brother -sister duo as

the stars of the show, I think that's really,

really cool. And obviously, even though Megatron

is still a Decepticon, he is now working with

Optimus Prime and... I'm hoping they break down

why the emblem changed. Yeah, I hope there's

at least one line in the show that says why...

And the only thing I can think of, again, is

the IDW continuity of when he went to being an

Autobot in IDW, but that's not in the same continuity

as this. Okay. But yes, November 11th, I think,

is when the show debuts, I think. God, that's

not far away, folks. No, there's a lot of new

stuff coming out around within the next week.

Yep, yep. Here's hoping I get this episode out

by then, which I most likely will, but just,

yeah. Alright, well, so, let's see if I remember

this right. Star Saber slash Victory Saber is

the hero, and Deathsaurus is the villain, correct?

Correct. Okay, this is not my Transformers, folks,

and that's okay, but I just wanted to make sure

I had the general gist of it. Well, this is the

same series that I think that they had, or no,

that's Master Force I'm thinking of. Master Force

had basically the Prime that's God Jin Ray and

becomes Victory Leo. Yeah. Okay. Yep, yep. Who

combines with Star Saber to become Victory Saber.

Yeah. Anyways, so anyway, we have Deathsaurus

coming to Hasbro Pulse. It's in crowdfunding

currently and it's received just under or just

over 50 % being funded. Which is interesting.

I don't have anything against him. I really like

the design. Don't get me wrong. I really do.

It shows a premium character that otherwise probably

wouldn't get made. Yep. At the same time, I don't

see that it wouldn't sell if they sold it. Yeah.

But I get the fact that it's an 11 -inch masterpiece

figure, basically. Yeah. Plus, it's very niche.

I mean, it is for those of us, even though...

You and I really aren't in the camp. But it's

for those of us who watch that show or have an

attachment to that. It's like you with your Beast

Wars Megatron love. I'm sure, you know. You'd

be all over this if this was a. Beast machine

Megatron. Yeah. Hello, Hasbro, please. We were

pre -Beast Megatron and in proper form with out.

uh without the uh the beast form or the armor

mm -hmm yep so hasbro please if whatever you

do next on hasbro pulse please let it be beast

machines cloaked megatron anyway death saris

it's available or it is it it's available for

fundage if people want to fund it So there's

that. And then we get to your pre -orders that

you're excited about. So why don't you talk to

us about the pre -orders that you were excited

about from show .zstore. Okay, so this is the

Trans Art Toys. Okay. And for those that are

unfamiliar with them, which most that collect

Beast Wars would know, they specialize in making

masterpiece transmetal Beast Wars characters.

They kind of pick up the ball where Hasbro dropped

it. Because Hasbro is never going to finish the

Masterpiece line with Beast Wars. And so these

third parties are like, hey, let's pick up that

ball and start running. Because there's a third

party company, I don't know what they're called,

but they have a Masterpiece Terror sort coming

next year. Which that is a feat in itself because

it's supposed to actually transform the show,

which you know, they've kind of parts formed

to make him do what he does. So anyways, trans

art, like I said, specializes in the art of the

trans metals. And so they started off with like

a transmutate masterpiece, which I didn't care

for. Then they had like Optimus Primal. the first

Transmetal. And they had two versions, one that

was kind of based on the Takara and one was based

on the US, the Hasbro version. And the Hasbro

version is the one I have. The Takara version

is the one where it has more of a shiny glaze

to the colors and has more of like a translucent

purple for like the hands, the shoulders, the

waist. the pelvic area and like the lower legs,

which I've heard there's been issues with the

plastic because again, translucent doesn't seem

to do well. So people actually want the first

version, which I have. And it's super nice. Like

they take the original because the trans metal

is the nice, the beautiful thing that is about

it is they basically take the original model,

blow it up, you know, make it to scale with masterpiece.

and then they improve upon all of the detail

work. So you get all this added articulation,

you get the changeable heads like so I can change

the beast mode heads to different faces that

he has during the show. I can do the same with

the robot mode head. There's a lot that's nice

with it. Not to say that there aren't pitfalls

too. Like that primal, the way his gun attaches

to his hip is not the same as the original and

it falls off. Or he cannot hold his gun in his

hand because the hands are pitiful. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I had to stop you. You

mentioned his gun on his hip and all I can think

of is your gun is digging into my hip. Then,

of course, we have Cheetor, Transmetal. He has

his mouth hands for robot mode. He can actually

clasp them to do the blaster thing. His tail

is actually bendable. There's articulation in

the face and the mouth opens and stuff. There's

a lot of stuff going for him too. Highly detailed,

nice. Then they have Ravage. And then they had

an original version of Optimal Optimus at one

point, which was basically a slightly modified

version of the original toy. It's a better head

sculpt. It has ankle pivots and then the chest

cannons folded in. But it was very much like

the original toy. It wasn't like the show. Right

and they came up with a newer one That is like

verbatim from the show. Oh Wow, like all the

details like you can change the face you can

you know all that stuff so that I have that and

then they came out with Obviously the lowest

common denominator like they repainted him into

primal prime From the the universe comics and

things like that then they made like a jungle

guardian version of optimal optimus where he's

like black and gray and kind of like they did

for Power of the Primes. Yep. So there's that.

And then, of course, they go down in price incrementally.

So if you want the same body but not the paint

job, you can get the cheaper, the Jungle Guardian.

And then they had Transmetal Megatron, which

is like the crown jewel of Beast Wars fans because

the original, the Hasbro one, breaks. It disintegrates.

And I happen to have one that I gave to my son

and the shoulders pop off. All the brown plastic

is brittle. You gave him a broken toy? I glued

it together. Okay. But he was fine with it. And

I told him, I says, you can toss it if you want.

And he's like, yeah, it's fine. So I have this.

Not only is he like... two to three inches taller

than the Transmetal Primal, which makes no sense

because in the show they were kind of head -to

-head at that point. Primal got the upgrade.

I know Megatron was slightly taller, but not

that much. But the articulation is great. The

detail works great. There's a couple of paint

app things that are missing, but it's not that

important. They have different faces for robot

mode and then they have where his little finger

cannon things can come out and be exchanged for

the ones that become blasters. The vertical takeoff

landing things on his back that he uses in beast

mode can rotate 360 on the ball joint that they

put on him and his hands have full articulation.

So like I have the golden disc held in his hand

and it's tight. That's what she said. So anyways,

so Trans Art has three new pre -orders going

right now. One of them is Transmetal Rat Trap,

which it seems like they keep having issues with.

It was supposed to come out in June and they're

like, it's supposed to come out in December or

January now because... They had to send it back

to the the factory to get some paint work redone

because it was like goofy but I've seen test

shots of or production shots of what the actual

toy looks like like pieces of them like the head

and the the leg and Like some of the red Transmetal

and it's very much fashioned after the toy but

mixed with some of the detail of the show and

so I'm super excited for that one that one. I've

really because the backpack's in the correct

position, he comes with the belly bombs, he's

got the gun, he's got the tail, he comes with

two tails just like Megatron does of different

sizes for beast and robot use. And then of course

they have Transmetal 2, Blackarachnia, and Cheetor

coming. And they just dropped images of Transmetal

2 Cheetor. And they look pretty freaking spot

on though. Very cool. But they're working on

the rest of the transmetals too. Like I know

that they're Dinobot, Rampage, Depth Charge,

and then a transmetal Tigatron based off of the

same comic that Primal Prime came from. So it's

basically Ravage repainted. So yeah, anyways,

that's those are some of the things I'm like

super excited with with trans art as far as their

stuff is concerned because they just kind of

knock it out of the park with masterpiece trans

metals Very cool. Very cool So before we kind

of close it out tonight, what have you have you

picked up anything recently since our last episode?

Is there anything? Like you just mentioned all

these things that you're looking forward to but

have you gotten anything recently? Not really.

I mean, I've got the Megatron. I've had him for

a while. I've had the Optimal. I've had the Primal.

I had gotten knockoff Cheetor Transmetal, or

not Transmetal, the standard one at one point

to replace my original. And then I think I got

Jay Axis was the last one I got. Oh, and Tarantulas

from Legacy. But yeah, as of right now, I'm just

waiting on three more Transmetal Rattrap from

Trans Art, Legacy Inferno, and Legacy Transmetal

2 Megatron, which oddly enough, third party companies

on eBay right now are making, because the Legacy

Inferno does not come with his signature gun

from Beast Wars, like that big honking... Yep.

Fire flame gun. So third party people on eBay

are already making this. There's two different

versions out there. One of them is like a normal

size for his... I mean, it's still big, but it's

normal size for the size of the figure. Yep.

And it's significantly cheaper. And it's got

like one peg that kind of goes over the hand.

So it's not... quite the same as far as how it's

held, but the rest of it is spot on. And I've

seen one that's like 10 bucks more or something,

and it's even larger, which is in form of some

scenes in Beast Wars. And then the way that it's

held is exactly like Beast Wars. So if you're

wanting one or the other, it's kind of... They

come with these drill things that cover his hands

and people are like... because it's like scavenger,

like the Transmetal Inferno. And people are like,

why can't they just bundle two of the guns together?

Because that would cost more. It would. But they're

like, why couldn't they just do that instead

of the scavenger parts? Yeah. But I've also seen

replacement parts already from third parties

for Transmetal Two Legacy Megatron's tail. Wow,

because the one that comes with it is not long

enough Mm -hmm, and it's not as articulated as

the original toy in some regards. So I've seen

people Making new ones that are on these like

ball joints and they're just basically extended

versions of the same thing but more detail So

I'm waiting to see what they do for because that

if they're doing the tail There's a good chance.

They're gonna redo how it connects to the figure

for the for the dragon head and for the robot

mode head. And I'm waiting for the robot mode

head because I don't care about the rest. I just

want the robot mode head to be accurate. Yes,

to be accurate. Yeah, it'll come. I'm just, I'm

waiting to see when that point hits on there.

Yeah, absolutely. So for me, I haven't, I'm waiting

on things to come in. I've got a couple of things

that have come in but the only thing transformers

wise finally after God knows how long I currently

out of the ones I want not counting NFTs Because

NFTs are a whole other thing. Well, you know

what NFT stands for, right? Yes. Yes. Yes, not

in there. Yeah, not yet. Not if in there exactly

so with with Funko and transformers there are

Actual redeemable funko pops that they are making

and that they have made they've made gold optimus

Devastator, which is a six inch pop hot rod.

Why in the hell hot rod was relegated to be not?

There is beyond me and I can't believe I just

said not there and I bleeped myself It's cuz

I did it. Well, yes, but So anyway I only need,

out of the ones I want, the only one I didn't

really want is the Jetfire Funko Pop, because

I just wasn't, it's not Skyfire style, it's original

Macross, original Transformer design Jetfire.

It's not Cartoon Skyfire, because the Transformers

licensed with Funko, as far as I understand it,

they can do anything that they want. but it has

to be based on toy design, not anything else.

Hence why the forty dollar ten and a half inch

Unicron is based off of the HasLab Unicron, which

I'm actually glad it is, because it actually

looks like Unicron, not some beer gutted thing

that never got made in 1986. Anyway, as of this

recording, I am only two characters away from

completing my Transformers Funko Pop collection,

that is the original Common Bumblebee. and the

original Common Jazz. I just got in the Target

exclusive Starscream and I don't know what they

did to this design of this tool. I gotta go back

and look at the original Starscream design because

you know who Overlord is, correct? Mm -hmm. Okay,

well. I don't know if it was because of IDW or

if it was because of the way Overlord is designed

in general, but Overlord has unusually giant

lips. Whatever, it is what it is. Point is, is

that this Starscream, his bottom lip is jutting

out so much it looks like a different piece of

molded vinyl on this. Like, literally, I open

this out of the packaging and I'm like... Hello,

I haven't opened it out of the actual toy, but

I opened it out of the box like holy crap His

lip is huge like that's the first like you know

you you don't want to point this out to people

But like like some people might say I have a

big nose, and that's fine You can say that it's

it's not as big as princess Vespa's original

nose was and started spaceballs But like seriously

I looked at this and I'm like there's something

wrong with this toy And yeah, his lip almost

juts out as far as his helmet piece, his side

piece where he has the microphone come down by

his mouth kind of thing. It is what it is. But

I have Starscream now. I have the Megatron and

the Optimus. I actually do have three different,

well one of them is a Nemesis, but I have two

different Optimuses and I wasn't planning on

that. But I have the Amazon exclusive Optimus,

which is just him with his gun, but he's a better

blue color in my personal opinion. So that's

pretty much all I've got for now. There are other

things that will be coming in over the holiday

season that I... I think I mentioned this last

episode, and I know I mentioned it earlier. I

pre -ordered the Core Class Sound Blaster. Along

with that pre -order, I pre -ordered the MDLX

3 .0 Cliffjumper that we talked about. So those

will be here in March. So yeah, I think that's

going to do it for us here on All Things Transformers.

You got anything else you want to say before

we do some sort of closing lines? No, I think

that's it. Alright, take us out Megatron! We

shall see what happens next time. Transform and

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Maybe. He's this UK Transformers person. He recently

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Because it is so the original one, the first

one is so big and now they're coming out with

a smaller auto converting version of this. So.

Yeah, I wow. God. It looks. Okay, but I Don't

get me wrong. I like it. I don't need an auto

transforming prime though Yeah, that's the through

Adams is his name. I don't want to get his name

wrong Legend and beloved British Transformers

toy reviewer, fixture of the UK Transformers

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the PulseCon. Okay, so yeah. So he made a video

and he basically, the reason why he doesn't like

it, and I'll link his video in the show notes,

is that. It takes up so much. Like you can't

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for this thing to the original larger version

of the robust and optimist to transform, to do

its auto conversion. But yeah, I just saw this

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And I mean, the gold version actually looks better

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looks like you also have to have purchased the

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gold elite optimus primes and then when you go

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can download and print this form and send it

to RoboSend for a mail -in entry. Meh, for no

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for the official rules, the Robeson strike gold

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methods, purchase entry and alternate method

of entry the the mail -in entry well at least

you don't have to shell out 750 bucks to enter

a contest i mean i guess i don't know all right

folks we're out of here say good night megatron

good night megatron yes I wish to speak to my

lawyer.