Transformers Customization and Recent Geek News

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like to hear next. So a little bit of housekeeping.

We haven't had a single episode in... 2021. 2020

was a bit of a cluster between things that Mike

and I were saying on the podcast, things that

me and my cohorts were spouting from the mouth.

It's kind of like this. Peter we have got to

prove Lois is innocent. That's right And the

best way to crack any high -profile crime case

is to do a podcast before you have all the facts

Okay, and the key to any podcast is poor sound

quality and tons of commercials So yeah, that's

pretty much how 2020 was with a lot of stuff

and it's still to that extent on some places

just not here So yeah that being said I didn't

really feel right about doing an episode up till

this point. Honestly, it's taken me quite some

time to decide when I was going to do another

episode. And it more so had to do with the fact

I just completely am lacking of motivation. as

well as I just didn't know what to talk about

on the podcast. So rather than record a bunch

of lackluster podcasts about nothing, I decided

that it was better to not record one in that

regard. So in everything, I've been keeping busy

with and I don't know what you guys have been

keeping busy with because we've kind of lost

this little bit of communication we've had back

and forth but I've been keeping busy with recording

all things transformers. I've been I Don't know

if anybody had paid attention in the end of January.

I was a panelist on a icon online a transformers

convention that was done through twitch and It's

I pre -recorded my my segment which was an hour

long about Beast Wars and 25 years later why

it's still relevant and so if you want to check

that out That's on the Geekcast radio website

as well as our YouTube channel, so be sure to

check that out So that being said I've done that

I've done a bunch of all things transformers

episodes a bunch of the pull bag with transformers

Studio 2009 episodes and I've been pretty much

not producing anything unless it's all things

Transformers and that's twofold. One, Beast Wars

has come back full force with Kingdom that's

coming out this summer in July and so if you're

just wondering what's going on I've recently

gotten into the Transformers customization spectrum

and We're we're also doing a top 100 Transformers

countdown where we're we're basically just having

a bunch of Transformers websites podcasters Pretty

much anybody that's involved with with geekdom

that that wants to be a part of it and we're

doing a top 100 countdown of Transformers and

so That is going to be an undertaking for sure

so As I stated before, we're going to undertake

that in June and July, so stay tuned for that.

But in addition to that, I've been getting into

this land of customizing toys and why, you might

ask. I used to do this when I first started collecting

Transformers and when I got... a lot of the transmetals,

for instance Rampage or the original Megatron

from 96, 97 and the Machine Wars figures, I just

something was missing just paint app -wise and

I was just totally incompetent at the time so

I painted them and I ruined the figures because

I didn't know what I was doing but if you would

have looked at any of the alterations that people

had at the time and their customs they all sucked

Now you look at the stuff that people can do

now between custom parts with 3D printing and

just paint apps or just developing their own

version of a figure. I say that because there's

a guy that's been making masterpiece versions

of Inferno, Scorponok, and Terror -Saur and Hasbro

can't seem to get some of their figures correct.

So I say that again because fans are just Blowing

it out of the water with custom stuff custom

figures custom apps so like kingdom cheetor didn't

have his guns and For some reason hasbro. I know

it's a cost -cutting thing even though the prices

are double or triple of what they would have

been 25 years ago but they leave a lot of holes

and gaps in the figures where you can see a lot

of the the metal pieces a lot of the innards

of the figures legs and arms For whatever reason

they deemed it not necessary to Patch those or

fill them in so fans have been 3d printing the

parts and selling them That fit in these figures

and you're able to fix your own figure except

for the fact that you're talking you're adding

in another 15 to $30 to your figure to make it

what Hasbro should have done from the start So

I I've been having fun watching a lot of the

fan stuff I I customized the kingdom cheetor

the first one that came out and he had the play

school blue and yellow and Just look terrible

They came out with a Netflix version with darker

yellow and blue, which is what it should have

been from the start But they didn't paint the

shins. So again, I painted him I customized him

and if people are interested in that I'm thinking

about writing blogs as well as doing some live

streams of me just customizing the figures as

I work on them. I have quite a few that I've

been working on. So I customized a Kingdom Cheetor

and I sold it on eBay. I flipped it for almost

triple of what I paid for it just by paint apps.

And I sold it and the person that bought it was

extremely happy. And I was happy to get rid of

it and I was able to for half of the profit go

and buy a 10th anniversary cheetor So it's basically

a reissue of the original 96 that they came out

with in 2006 and it had the correct yellow and

blue paint apps According to the show and so

all I had to do was add the gold paint app with

just gold paint to the figure and voila I had

my own version of a masterpiece and then I painted

his guns and whatnot. So I started off with that

figure. I repainted Transmetal Rat Trap. I repainted

Kingdom Dinobot. I'm not quite done with him

yet but I'm still working on it. I'm also working

on Kingdom Eraser and Thrilling 30. Waspinator

and part of Tarantulas' visor. So I mean I'm

kind of going through multiple figures and kind

of customizing them to make them my own budget

version of a masterpiece where I'm happy enough

with them that I don't have to spend the extra

for the masterpiece you know the 80 to 400 dollars

on a figure and so I'm loving this time with

with collecting and with transformers and with

customizing and I find the whole painting thing

very relaxing So that's that's what I've been

doing in my off time in in addition to watching

Like we had the Mandalorian Season 2 which was

awesome loved Luke showing up we had WandaVision

Where that was? Totally unexpected, but I'm really

liking Falcon and the Winter Soldier It's it's

been a really good show as well. I've seen the

Zack Snyder Justice League which in Honest opinion

was entirely too long Not that it was bad. It

was better than the original cut, but I just

I don't know if I really needed it I Think I

was kind of over that so I don't know I've been

kind of skimming and watching various shows lately

just to kind of Get a taste for him I haven't

Really touched on on this show. I watched the

the Transformers Earthrise that came out at the

end of 2020 It wasn't too bad. I liked how it

ended, but it definitely was grading on me at

certain points I'm looking forward to Kingdom

just to see what they do with the Beast Wars

figure characters, but nevertheless I'm expecting

to be disappointed in the vocal department apartment

in some regard there are some actors that I prefer

and then they're I think it's mostly the voice

direction that bothers me so other than that

that's that's pretty much all that's going on

there so other than that I'm watching a lot of

shows not really a lot but Last Man Standing

Shark Tank The Flash Supergirl trying to think

what other shows pretty much anything Star Trek

that comes out I've been following Star Trek

Picard season 2's teaser where they're gonna

have Q and Guinan and possibly the EMH and Possibly

some of the other TNG casts. So I'm looking forward

to that lower decks looking forward to season

2 because again more Jonathan Franks and The

Titan and things we didn't get in it after nemesis

Discovery season 4 not really looking forward

to it They kind of left it at the end of season

three where they could have just left it alone

and started a new track show and left it But

I am looking forward to strange new things or

strange new worlds with Captain Pike on the bridge

of the enterprise so a Lot of different shows

that I'm looking forward to and kind of perusing

Been I watched the the documentary of the last

blockbuster which was quite interesting because

about two years ago I wrote an article for a

tech website that I worked for at the time about

blockbusters and there was only two left at the

time there was one in I think Alaska and then

the one in Oregon and the one in Oregon still

the only one left and it's quite amazing to say

the least on that so I don't know just a lot

of stuff just kind of going on but not really

too important I wouldn't say What have you guys

been up to like sound off? Let me know on the

the comments on the website hit me up on social

media at SCP -21 Just kind of let me know what

what you guys have been doing. What's been keeping

you entertained? What's what's been fueling your

geekdom in the last four months since we really

haven't conversed and Actually, it's been about

five months and so I'm just kind of curious what

you guys have been doing Anyways, this show will

be kind of turning into more of a soapbox, more

of a discussion, more of a one -on -one with

you and me. I'm looking forward to more feedback

looking forward to that conversation and If you'd

like to send in voice clips, you can send them

feedback at geek cast radio comm Subject line

altered geek and just let me know and I'll play

them on the show and and we can we can have that

conversation I'm thinking about doing some live

streams to this year as things progress Like

I said, I might do some where I'm customizing

my figures and kind of messing with that just

so that I can have a conversation and kind of

Converse as well as have Just somebody watching

me work on the figures that I'm planning on doing

anyway So yeah, like I said not not a ton going

on however, I do have Various articles that I

I've been saving for whatever reason on my phone

for months So One of the things that's been kind

of coming out is Mass Effect, the legendary edition,

improves the original's graphics. And if anybody's

seen that, I guess the legendary edition comes

out May 14th of this year. And it's putting a

lot of work mostly into that first game that

came out in 2007 and feels really dated. So they

fixed a lot of the eyes, they fixed a lot of

the... The face a lot of the wrinkles in the

clothing a lot of you know Just those aspects

that get kind of lost when you don't have the

technology at the time so it's also going to

come with The definitive mass effect experience,

so you get most almost all the DLC save transfers

between titles and So yeah, it's going to be

targeting 4k and having Xbox one X ps4 pro and

i'm sure the ps5 and series x consoles and i

hope that it comes for the pc because i actually

did enjoy that game when i had the 360 but yeah

they've they've definitely done a lot of updating

as far as the graphics and the the graphical

user interface elements sounds just looking at

the character profiles there's so much more depth

the the Colors the backgrounds the imagery They

put a lot of work into it. I I'm I'm a huge fan

of the the trilogy. I'm not really so much beyond

that But yeah So another thing I've been kind

of doing is browsing various Different Forums

I've been I've been hanging out with the the

all spark crew and their discord channel would

would opening up a discord channel be something

you guys would be interested in like to have

more of that conversation piece where we're able

to converse more more openly more frequently

and and have this one -on -one dialogue or have

this this kind of discussion group where it's

closed to fellow fellow geeks and Where we can

all get geeky together in there. Would that be

something you guys would be interested in? Let

me know and I'll I've actually been working on

that anyway But if that's something you guys

would love to see I would like to get that in

motion sooner than later So in addition to a

lot of other things going on There's another

Star Trek movie, of course being slated for 2023

among other things I don't know. I'm kind of

just enjoying what I'm enjoying and just leaving

the rest behind. It's been different to kind

of go that route because I'm used to commentating

on literally every aspect of things that kind

of pop up. But I've kind of decided that I'm

just not. going to anymore if i don't have anything

positive to say just because then otherwise it's

just a waste of a podcast and nobody wants to

hear me complain right speaking of complain there's

a lot of people that have been complaining about

the uh host for jeopardy and i guess levar burton

promoted a petition aimed at getting him to host

jeopardy which honestly i would be the most down

for that out of uh anybody That they've had behind

that podium since Alex Trebek died. I honestly

think that Levar Burton is is probably the best

choice To put behind that he's he's got this

Image of learning behind him anyway from doing

reading rainbow for years and his Levar Burton

reads and and all of these various educational

Prospects and and I think that having him in

jeopardy would be great And then of course there's

there's rumors of a Batman the animated series

revival Which may or may not happen on HBO? Again

kind of looking forward to seeing what they do

if they do it If you've not checked out the Beast

Wars comic And you've listened to the pole bag

and you've listened to all things transformers.

You really should check it out It's been spectacular

if you're a fan of transformers It really has

So anyways, I think that before this episode

becomes a total trainwreck. I'm going to Call

it a day. So in the future, there will probably

be segments there were probably be like a Kind

of like how we used to do the 10 minute blitz

like probably like a top three main Ideas or

articles of the week and then like a discussion

point. I might do a review periodically Just

because I've been kind of trying to watch some

different stuff on Netflix Hulu Disney Plus I've

been watching for instance, the Mighty Ducks

the game changers and It's not too bad. I actually

went back and rewatched the original Mighty Ducks

in the second one And it kind of fits in with

that. I mean, it's the same type of motif that

they've got going on. So I'm really enjoying

that. But like I said, not much else to go on

this week. So without further ado, again, let

me know what you guys would like to talk about

next week. And until next time, get altered,

get geeky with the Altered Geeks. A lightsaber.

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you. Affirmative.