Transformers 40th Anniversary and 2027 Toy Updates

Hi, this is Jim Meskimen, and you are listening

to the Geekcast Radio Network. 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. You know,

there was this one time where there was only

a dark awakening, and there was a zombie Optimus

Prime after they killed him 40 years ago. I just

watched that. I was like trying to explain it

to my kids. I was like, you know that Prime came

back once before the return of Optimus Prime.

And I was like, Zombie Prime. Revived by the

Quintessons. It's a Quintesson trap. Do not believe

them. Yes, exactly. Yeah, so it was an interesting

episode, to say the least. It was like a bait

and switch, too, I'm sure, for the kids of the

80s, watching that go down. Being like, oh, they

brought Optimus back, and then they're like,

ha ha ha, he's a zombie, he's not actually alive.

Yeah, no. Exactly. And people wonder why I'm

not into zombies nowadays, because zombies ruined,

well, Technically, fake tentacle robots ruined

Optimus Prime for me by turning him into a zombie

when I was a kid. There you go. That's why I

don't like zombies now. Although I am very interested

in this new Optimus Prime awakening clip, which

begs to wonder if this is like a post -death

scenario. or he's like in the other side of the

matrix if it's like a what else you know an else

world type story or you know it it'll be interesting

to see where they go with this i think it's meant

to before mr cullen passed away i think it was

meant as A teaser for something. I think that's

what it is. Now that he is no longer with us,

I think it is meant as a standalone 12 minute

short of the way it's stuck in my head. And I'm

probably going to send you the audio because

I can't do it justice. But all is I have in my

head is. Well then Joker, I guess I get to do

the thing. I, you know, I, I guess I get to do,

you know, I, I get to go out by being, but like

all I have stuck in my head is the end of a crisis

on infinite earths where Joker and Batman are

going up against each other for one final time.

And it's Mark and it's, I go out being Batman.

Yeah. And it's, it's him punching the timeline.

It's him punching the Joker and it's Mark and

it's Kevin. And it's Kevin Conroy's final voice

performance as Batman. That's all I have in my

head when I think about whatever this 12 -minute

short is going to be. And I'm glad that Hasbro

has finally revealed what this is going to be,

because I'm so happy I was so wrong as to what

this... Because my buddy Mike Seibert of the

Mike Seibert Radio podcast and Two Mics Too Furious

and all the stuff that he does. I'm glad. The

trailer that we saw, the amazing trailer that

they did for the 40th anniversary back in theaters.

one shall stand one the way they the way they

re -edited and redid the trailer for the 40th

that is one of the best re -edits of a trailer

i have ever seen and how they did so good but

the ending to that trailer is oh but it's kind

of like it's like a duke scene from gi joe where

it's like well is he alive Yeah, but it is, but

it's one of those things where at the end of

it, it's kind of like, but wait one more, just

one more thing. It's kind of like a, the kind

of like pull the Steve jobs on us, even though

Steve jobs hasn't been with us for years now

anyway, but it's kind of like a, like an Apple

product end video thing, but wait, there's just

one more thing kind of thing. And you're right.

They kind of, but the way they did it and the

way what they showed it. All it reminded me of

was, oh, let me guess, that's an advertisement

for a new Robosyn sleep mode Optimus Prime or

a dead Optimus Prime for a new $1 ,000, $3 ,000

Robosyn gray Optimus Prime figure that no one's

going to be able to afford. You know, the super

robotic Robosyn figures, etc. Because really,

that's what I thought. I thought it was an advertisement

for some new figure of that caliber of Robosyn

caliber. I just thought it was an advertisement.

And I can safely say now that we know more about

what this 12 minute, it's going to be a 12 minute

short, supposedly either continuing on or continuing

the adventure. Of course, continuing the adventure

was before Peter had passed on. You know, I'm

glad that Hasbro finally revealed details of

what it actually is. And I'm kind of glad that

it's the way that Hasbro is currently marketing.

It is come out to theaters September 17th. I

think it's 17th to the 21st. I don't have that

information in front of me, but I'm the 24th.

Okay. But, yeah, I mean, I got I got tickets

for the 20th. Cool, cool. But the way they're

marketing it is come out to see Transformers

the movie for the 40th anniversary in theaters

and make sure you stay after the movie to see

the 12 minute short Optimus Prime Awakening.

So they are marketing it as. Come to see the

movie in theaters if you haven't before for its

40th anniversary and stay for the event that

is Optimus Prime Awakening. They are not marketing

it as come to see Transformers the movie plus

the new ending to the movie Optimus Prime Awakening.

They are marketing it as Come see the movie which

you know and love and have known and loved for

the past 40 years. And this new thing which is

separate from what you've known for the past

40 years. So it's almost like you're getting

two shows for the price of one. True. I mean,

I'm just excited to be able to see it in theater

to begin with. Absolutely. And, you know. When

I say this, I don't say this to be a Debbie Downer

or a Decepticon Downer. I've already had my theatrical

experience with the movie. I had it for the 35th

anniversary. I'm good. I've got the pre -order.

I'm assuming the 12 -minute short Optimus Awakening

will be on the physical media sets. Again, I

will reference because we three mics talk all

the time in our group chat. Cybert pointed out

that we all hope that Hasbro only puts Optimus

Prime Awakening on the physical media releases

and does not put it on. Like, it's fine to put

this this like. 35 second clip. of the thing

on their YouTube channel, do not put the 12 minute

short on your YouTube channel. Put this on the

release of the movie for people to buy the physical

media. Don't put it on your YouTube channel for

people to watch it because I think that defeats

the purpose of having people go to see it in

theaters. Now me, I, I already pre -ordered the

40th anniversary set. Because I can't get to

the theater kind of thing. So I'm already buying

the 40th anniversary set anyway. But I'm assuming

this will be a bonus feature on there. It will.

But I don't think that Hasbro should put Optimus

Prime Awakening on their YouTube channel, even

for premium members. Like, even if you pay for

YouTube premium, I don't think this should be

on YouTube at all. I agree with you. Should not

be. Because, you know, it's going to happen even

if it is on YouTube for premium members exclusively.

Even as a premium member, you can still hit that

download button and you could go put it else.

Not that you should. Don't do that. That's wrong.

but you know what i mean there are people out

there that would do that that like we don't i

don't want this thing even though i'm sure people

will do this because you know it's how the way

the world of the internet works i want this thing

to be on exclusive discs only like if you want

to see optimus prime awakening if you're able

to do so Get your ass out of the house and go

to the theater. If you're not able to do so,

like me, wait until November when the physical

media release releases. But yeah, the 35 second

clip. Very cool. I'm not exactly sure why this

is in the clip. This will be in the show notes,

folks. Not exactly sure why Bumblebee is wearing

a Decepticon symbol. Shattered glass. Yeah, yeah.

Galva Bumblebee. Galva bug. Wow. All righty then.

He's got the horns of Galvatron. Yeah, yeah,

yeah. Yeah, that's true. It's very true. And

then to... That's, uh, yeah, to, uh, piggyback

off of this, uh, we got a one, two punch of 40th

anniversary movie things before we move into

the 2027 info, but, uh, the, um, 40th anniversary

early world premiere. Thanks to board members,

LRJ 2007 and Drew ski. along with some Reddit

user, whatever, whatever, a couple of Reddit

users. Images and information about the recent

Transformers, the movie 40th anniversary early

world premiere. This was a limited event organized

by Hasbro Collider. Oh, so Hasbro's in bed with

Valnet. Yay. And again, who? Yeah, that's why

my sarcasm. Yay. Of course, who isn't in bed

with Val Nant? We aren't, thank God. Well, I

mean, a lot of people used to be in bed with

them, but... Yeah, no. They used to do porn.

Yeah, exactly. And along with Fathom Entertainment

in California. So what this... Obviously, it's

an early world premiere screening. Limited event.

The screening had some rules for the guests.

First, no spoiler embargo. Oh, that's interesting.

Second, they got to watch it early. In exchange,

had to consent to being filmed to do post -screen

interviews so that they can use the footage on

social media. Guests were able to watch the new

Optimus Prime Awakening short film as well. The

short animation is 3D, but looked like 2D. So

that's freaking... As much as I like the story

of the Spider -Verse films, I hate the Spider

-Verse films for doing this whole 2D, 3D combo

of animation. That's the one thing I don't like

about Optimus Prime Awakening. is in the animation.

Most of it looks 3D, but the effects of it, like

when Soundwave shoots at him and the blasts hit

Optimus, the smoke effects are all 2D smoke.

That's just ugly. Don't do that. Pick 2D or 3D

and stick with it. There was a Q &A with the

director of the event, too. The director of the

short film said, This was a labor of love spearheaded

by Zeb Foreman of Hasbro Films. Some Studio Series

Deluxe toys were given away to the audience,

to the attendants, one figure per person, including

Kranix, Sunstreaker, Windcharger, and Wheeljack,

for example. Optimus Prime Awakening official

posters were also given away. So, yeah, very,

very cool. Anyone who lives out there in the

sunburnt state of California who got to got to

attend the early premiere of Transformers, the

Transformers, the movie. There you go. So, yeah,

this. This this particular. Part of the movie

stuff. Mm hmm. I'm excited for the disc. Yep.

Because of, you know, various Q &As, various,

you know, the clip. But I also have the 20th

anniversary DVD and the 35th anniversary Blu

-ray. Yeah, I've got the... I've turned away

from the microphone because I'm trying to find

the dang thing, which... Should be easy enough

because it's the fifth one down and it's still

in it. Yeah, I have the 4K Ultra Blu -ray. Which

one is this? The year is 2005. 4K Restoration.

I don't even know which one this is. This is

the one with the... Yeah, I mean, I have the

4K Ultra HD and the Blu -ray. Two discs set.

Yep. From five years ago. But I remember buying

the 20th anniversary version at like Kmart. Oh,

yeah. 20 years ago. Yeah. I bought this and it

had two discs. It had the theatrical and the

full version. And I don't know if you know this.

They had you remember the Scramble City commercials?

Oh, yeah. Yep. So we tried to get, like, I think,

and I'd have to go back and look, the Scramble

City episode. I want to say that was our fan

dub. Yeah. I think it was. Which, if it was,

and I'd have to go back and look at the disc,

if it was, I was in it. Yeah. Very cool. So.

I just watched Scrambled City, the episode, the

fandom earlier with my kids. And they were like,

wait, you were in this? And I was like, yeah.

Yeah. I was like, I played Blades and I played

Superion in it. So, yeah. I don't know. I'm excited

to see this, even though this will be like third

time's a charm, like triple dipping. yeah i'm

kind of done after this i'm a little irritated

that they keep re -releasing it like this like

every five years um like i get the 20th anniversary

get like 40th you know 35th i was kind of like

is this really necessary but i mean i get it

technology and stuff changes really the only

reason i want this is because of the awakening

clip yeah I don't like, I feel like the 35th

anniversary is perfect. Like you got the 4k restoration,

you got, you know, uh, some of the, the musical

stuff, you got the documentary, you got the looking

back, you got all these people that are doing

commentary on it. And I, I really don't know

how much you could really improve upon it, but

yeah. I'm looking forward to it strictly from

the reason of I want the clip with it. And I

love the cover artwork compared to, you know,

with the prime. Yeah. Like I like the cover artwork

out of the three. So the cover artwork. Is, I

don't know. I'm one of those types of people

that I will specifically for Transformers the

movie. I didn't on this one be on the 30th or

35th or whatever version. Or maybe I did. I don't

remember. Did I buy multiple versions of this?

I probably did because I got the posters. Um,

yeah, I did. I bought the steel books. So I bought

this multiple, the, the shout fact, well, it's,

it's shout factory this time too, because they

have the, they have the stuff. They have the

touch as, as the kids say, 40 years ago. Uh,

but, uh, I usually buy steel books for the most

part when I can. And the thing with Transformers

the movie 35th anniversary is Shout Factory offered,

oh, if you buy the steelbook, you get this poster.

If you buy the regular edition, you get this

poster. So people can't see this because it's

an audio podcast. But on my wall is the poster.

of one of these covers and then the steelbook

had a poster of rodimus opening the matrix yeah

because that was the cover of the steelbook the

steelbook was rodimus opening the matrix the

thing about the 40th anniversary is that Again,

as much as I love, just like, and again, I echo

my buddy Mike Seibert. He has, like this dude,

almost more than me. He lives, breathes, eats,

drinks, sleeps Transformers the movie. It's his

drug of choice. If the dude did drugs, his drug

would be Transformers the movie, anything and

everything. And I say that with love and with

factual accuracy, and he'll tell you the same

thing. So he leaned in to the curve on the apology

before Peter passed away with the apology tour

marketing. Full tongue in cheek, all the way

in, into the skid, into the curve, all the way.

I have the poster, the apology tour poster. I,

you know, so when they revealed that the steel

book 4k edition of the 40th was going to be,

the cover was going to be the apology tour poster.

Everybody was like, okay, cool. Awesome. That's

great. Peter Cullen passes away. They should.

And Mike wasn't thinking this. He, he was more,

okay. It hurts, but it kind of still makes sense

with what they've already done. Don't change

it. Use it to honor him, but they're still going

to change it now. And I think if I have this

right, I think the art is still currently not

final. And what is there on Amazon is the, I

don't want to say it's a, it's a placeholder.

It's the placeholder art. And it still says art,

not final. So we don't, I think they pivoted

though, because the original one was of his,

you know, dead corpse. Yeah. That's what I'm

saying. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I, yeah, that's

what I'm saying. They are pivoting, but we don't

still know what the pivot to is going to be.

That's the, that's the issue. Well, if you check

the DVD version of it on Amazon. It is a finalized

cover art. It's the 4K Steelbook edition that

doesn't have it finalized. Yeah, that's what

I'm saying. The 4K doesn't have a finalized art.

DVD, let me look. I'm trying to click it. It

won't let me click it. Stupid Amazon. Well...

At least on Amazon here, it shows the 20th anniversary

version. That's sad. Oh, you see the 20th anniversary?

Yeah. Yeah, I have that. Yeah, I know you do.

The Blu -ray shows some weird Transformers the

movie Blu -ray, which is... That's not it. Yeah,

I know that's not it. I don't know what that

is. Cause they're not going to do a separate

Blu -ray. I think it's just 4k and Blu -ray.

Yeah. Let me, let me look. There's a second.

Yeah. Both, both DVD versions that I just clicked

on. Yeah. Both DVD versions show the 20th anniversary

version. So they haven't, they haven't even figured

it out yet. or they haven't updated it yet so

i don't know uh but again still looking forward

to it and we will do a full uh film reaction

once you uh get out of theaters uh once you go

see it which will be in a couple of which is

why i was surprised we even did this episode

but yeah next week so um i'm excited to go see

it to be honest yeah september you got your tickets

for the 20th right yeah yeah so 30 showing yep

yep yep yeah so we uh we might have to do a monday

episode or a tuesday episode next because i want

that immediate raw reaction oh i don't think

i'll soon forget i'm not saying you would but

we old man i get it we old we old all right let's

see here we got uh okay we got these uh 2020

new 2027 info found yes Cybertron, TM1 Megatron,

exclusives, and more. The only reason why we're

even bringing this up, because there are no,

right now, yeah, these are just listings. There

are no photos other than the gamer edition looking

one photo there. The only one I'm discussing.

I don't care about any of the other ones. But

you wanted to talk about the TM1, Stragen Leader

TM1 Megatron. Speak. Yeah, so, I mean, I'm excited

for this particular figure because, one, it's

30th anniversary of Beast Wars. But, two, it's

about dang time. We got some transmetals, man.

Like. We've gotten Diffusors with Quickstrike

and Silverbolt. We've gotten Transmetal 2 Dragon

Megatron, which they botched the head, which

is why a third party had to come out with a better

edition of it. And then we haven't really gotten

anything Beast Wars other than Season 1. And

to me, this is like a sign that they're at least

dipping their toes. And I think they're starting

with Transmetal One Megatron for the sole purpose

that the original had gold plastic syndrome.

Yep. And the other one was so blasted brittle

that I actually saw on TFW about three months

ago. Somebody created a 3D print of all of the

parts that shatter. Oh, no. Like, and it looked

good. I was quite surprised. I looked at it,

and I was like, okay, this has promise. I was

tempted enough to find a broken Megatron for

as cheap as I could get one. I didn't buy it.

I bid on a few, but they ended up going beyond

what I was willing to pay. I was like, I'll pay

like $15, maybe $20 for it shipped, just so I

can 3D print the components and then put it back

together. Just so I can say, oh, I've got a Transmetal

One, Hasbro, you know, trans metal Megatron.

Yeah, I have the trans art trans metal Megatron.

Don't get me wrong. I love that figure. Yeah,

but you want probably the pinnacle, the favorite

figure of my entire collection. Like I loved

that figure as a kid, but it was so small by

comparison. Like now it's scaling wise. The original,

you know, mega trans metal Megatron. was perfectly

scaled to optimal optimus based on the show.

Yeah. This other one, the trans art one is like

10 inches tall. So like all of them are there.

He's, he's bigger than optimal almost, which

is kind of a travesty. So like I, I've always

wanted another one of this Megatron and I've

owned four of those trans metal Megatrons over

the years and they all broke every single one

of them. No matter how much I tried to salvage

them, they did not survive. So that being said,

I am super stoked for this. The only thing that

I hope that they can do with this is turn it

into a true Transmetal. The Transmetal 2 Megatron,

as much as I liked having the figure, the paint

decor on that thing was atrocious. The face sculpt.

was Robots in Disguise Beast Megatron. Yeah,

it was. And I had to source a mask, like a faceplate,

on eBay to replace it to have something that

looked like actual Transmetal 2 Megatron because

the original face looked nothing like it. And

then I repainted the entire figure to give it

almost like a shiny paint coat. So it's not like

vac metal, but it's not, not vac metal, but it

also shines when the light hits it. And so like,

I have all of that shine to it. So I, I almost

hope that if Hasbro does not do the vac metal,

give us some very shiny, you know, purpley paint

for that, you know, reflective paint for, for

the transmittal aspects of this figure. Like,

give us something and then and then give it the

engineering that it probably should have had

from the start. Give us a proper face sculpt.

Give us proper, you know, if we can get Studio

Series 86 Megatron and Optimus Prime that look

like they came right out of the cartoon. Yeah,

movie. There's no reason nowadays that we can't

get a beast figure that looks like it came out

of the cartoon, too. And so I hope my hope with

this is and I feel like they've. been wanting

to dip their toe into this particular figure

for a while just based on what's been said over

the years but i feel like this is the one that

they're starting off with the strongest because

people have have been clamoring for this one

specifically with the gold plastic syndrome and

i think you know being that some of the guys

developing these are collectors too yep they're

very aware that there is the gold plastic syndrome

and so they i feel like this is kind of like

themselves giving them the figure that they want

to so i i 110 will be purchasing one of these

when it comes out uh i'm i'm super stoked uh

the the leader class although like some of them

are borderline voyager class or sometimes deluxe,

depending on which ones they are. I hope this

is a true leader class sized figure. Yeah. Yeah.

Because it does say Trojan leader TM1 Megatron.

I don't know. The generations line leaders. Like.

I mean, we're all generations figures. I mean,

even the studio series. Yeah, I know. I understand.

But like, OK, so I have a photo that keeps popping

up because of Facebook memories and everything

else. But like. Remember Optimal Optimus, the

original Optimal Optimus. Yeah, I forget what

ultra figure, not ultra supreme. yeah yeah yeah

yeah that to me supreme back in the day that's

what a leader class figure should be i know it

would be price point oh my god i need to put

it how that's a down payment on a house but these

days especially in this market but like that

size of figure That like, and I know you want

it to scale into, you know, which we're going

to talk about here in a minute when I, when we

talk about the seven pack in hand images, we're

going to talk more about this in a second, but

I'm looking at my kingdom leader class Galvatron.

Cause I have the, um, reformatted all purple

version of, of that version of Galvatron. And

he looks fine as a leader class figure for today's

age. I forget when that originally came out a

couple of years ago to maybe 23, I think, or

22. I forget originally when the kingdom Galvatron

mold came out, but I don't know. I just, I'm

wondering like, How, like, Transformers Generations,

specifically since we're talking about this,

like, all of these other listings are, because

this is 2027 listings, so you can't do, there

are Studio Series 86, poof, gone, because it's

no longer 86. It's no longer 40 years. So it's

just now Studio Series. plainly deluxe and they've

distinguished them because you know we're not

going to talk about any of the rest of these

because specifically we were here to talk about

tm1 but we've got idw bumblebee based on the

all hail megatron design of the character we've

got tf1 bumblebee which gamble on which version

of tf1 bumblebee is that the 2010 camaro is that

the beat -up old volkswagen yeah it doesn't really

say yeah no but that that's my point is it doesn't

say but i'm saying it's tf1 then we got tf4 crosshairs

we got uh fall of fall of cybertron jetfire we

get fall of cybertron optimus prime fall of cybertron

megatron but all of these listings here Trojan

studio series. There is no other specific designation

because 2027, 1987, unless you're going to do,

unless you're going to give us 40 years of jump

starters. Ooh, an updating of twin twist and,

and, and, Oh, Oh, what was his name? Twin twist

and jump jet. No. What was the, anyway, but the

point is like 1987 was the end of generation

one's cartoon, even though the toys continued

on, even though the comic continued on, but essentially

87 was the end of the cartoon series. There really

isn't anything to. have a studio series year

marker celebration of blah, blah, blah, blah,

blah. So now we have to figure out what else

are we going to be celebrating? And which is

why they're just using Trojan studio series,

which I'm not even sure why they're still using

studio series. Cause like the rest of this is.

Like Megatron himself, tri -gen leader TM1 Megatron.

You don't even need Studio Series for Megatron.

It's just tri -gen leader and then leader new

prime blue Onyx retool. I'm not even trying to

get into the rest of these. I'm just trying to

legislate. Yeah. So maybe... Hello? Yeah. Yeah?

Did I break up or something? Yeah, it cut out.

It may have recorded it, though. I don't know.

Oh, great. So I just went on a tirade for nothing.

Maybe. Did you hear any of it? I heard part of

it. Okay, I went on a tirade about Hasbro's hellish

brand naming. Yeah, I heard about part of that.

It's just... Yeah, about that it's kind of pointless

to go into the Studio Series. Yeah, like, it

just is. I don't know. You want me to summarize

it for you? Sure. Okay. So, edit point. What's

Hasbro going to do in 1987? Why are they still

using Studio Series if they still have... Try

Jen leader TM one Megatron. Great. That's awesome.

But then they have leader new prime blue Onyx.

And then I don't know. It just, there's nothing

to celebrate in 1987. It was the end of the cartoon.

The comic was still going on. The toys were still

going on. Unless you're going to do the, a new

version of the jumpstart or I don't know, dude,

it just. Hasbro and their hellish branding just

gives me a headache. But TM1, yay, tri -gen leader

TM1 Megatron. Hopefully he'll pair nicely with,

I think this was one or two or might have been

longer than that months ago when we got first

packaging reveal of the Beast Wars 7 pack. We

now have in -hand images of the Beast Wars 7

pack. So how tall do you really want them to

be once you see these images? I mean, I would

like Transmetal Megatron to be, you know, in

scale with Generation 1 Megatron, or, you know,

G1 Megatron and Optimus Prime. Because, like,

I feel like none of these Beast Wars characters

were leader class. No. They were all, you know,

except for Megatron. Like, Beast Megatron. He

was the only leader class. Like, everybody else

was Deluxe, Core, or Voyager. Yep. And, like,

I felt like Cheetor was too small. Rattrap was

too small. The others were pretty much right

on. But, again, like, I love that they finally

gave them the paint job they should have gotten.

Yes. For these. Because, like, I mean, just looking

at them, I really like the decor that they finally

did that should have been on them from the start.

Because I repainted all of mine. Now, mind you,

I only had Tigatron, Airazor, and Rattrap and

Dinobot from this group because I have a Masterpiece

Cheetor, I have a Masterpiece Primal, and I have

the Thrilling 30 Rhinox. And I have Masterpiece

Rattrap now, too, which scales much nicer. But

I repainted Airazor and Dinobot because there

was a lot of elements on them that were not accurate.

But, yeah. I don't know. I like that they finally

did what they should have done with these. If

you didn't buy the first go -around of these,

this is probably the way to go. But if you've

already bought them, I don't know if it's enough

to purchase them again. They do look much nicer.

Depending on the mode. some of them look better

in robot and some look better in beast but yeah

i i think that these these are i think they're

fine for what they are now what doesn't look

fine is the mattel creations hot wheel transformer

bumblebee behind the scenes you know stuff like

yeah so i grabbed this looks terrible yeah i

grabbed the behind the scenes thing for this

because All the other articles were just, hey,

it's been announced. Hey, it's this. Hey, it's

that. And when I saw the announcement of it,

the first thing that popped out to me was, okay,

if I were to get this as a loyal Generation 1

Bumblebee fan, I would only leave this in Volkswagen

mode. I would not transform this. And I'm probably

going to get a little vulgar here. So you may

have to bleep or you may not have to bleep. I'm

just warning you ahead of time. And the reason

why I'm going to get a little vulgar here is

because when I first saw this, my first thought

was, and again, maybe it's just me and my vulgar

head. Why does his hood have to be so large?

What's he hiding between his legs? Like, I don't

know. It just, it looks weird. The proportions

of that hood in robot mode. It's kind of like

junk in the trunk, but in the front kind of thing.

Like it just, it looks, the robot mode looks

freaking weird to me. I don't like the robot

mode. It looks terrible. It looks bad. It makes

the original toy look beautiful. Yeah. The car

mode is great because it's, it's, it's Mattel

creations. Hot wheel. It's hot wheels. Of course,

the car mode is going to look great because it's

freaking hot wheels. The car, I have nothing.

Like if I was just going to buy this for the

car mode, I wouldn't have a bad thing to say

about it. If it didn't transform, if it was just,

hey, look, we're going to give you a Volkswagen

generation one Bumblebee with an Autobot logo

on its hood. Great. Awesome. Cool. Love it. But

it transforms into this really weird and his

head sculpt, his face sculpt. He looks like he's

constipated. Oh, yeah. Bumblebee doesn't look

like he's having a good time. Yeah, I get kind

of what they're trying to go for. It looks, it

reminds me, you know, you remember those old

Choose Your Own Adventure Transformers books?

Yep. It looks like one of the Bumblebees from

the cover of one of that. Legitimately, it looks

like that. How? Why would they even do this?

Hot Wheel Transformer Collection collaboration

thing where it transforms and they use the original

base and then they took inspiration from the

animated version. They took 300 hours of work

and yet it still looks so bad. Yeah. like why

why choose figures that already are established

just create something new with it yeah because

these look terrible okay okay i had to go to

the because i i like i said i sent you the the

behind the scenes link i had to go to the announcement

link The official Mattel Creations website have

been updated with the full official reveal of

new Mattel Creations Hot Wheels Moloid. Well,

we are having technical difficulties tonight,

folks. Yikes. Yes, we are. This will be a fun

edit. No, it won't. This will be an edit point

for you. I'm going to put in an edit point right

here. Click, click, clickety click. I'm going

to restart that. I'm going to restart that whole

thing where I say I found the other link. I went

to the other link. So weird. Yeah. Saturday night,

apparently at 1110 Eastern Time does not like

us. This is what happens when, you know, podcasters

that normally don't record on Saturday nights

record on Saturday nights. All right. Edit, edit,

edit, edit, edit. So I went and I found the other

link for Hot Wheels Bumblebee because I wanted

to get the actual information for it. The official

Mattel Creations website. has been updated with

the full official reveal of the new Mattel Creations

Hot Wheels Transformers Bumblebee. This new die

-cast transformable figure will be up for pre

-order since September 17th. Well, it's not even

close to September 17th yet, but it will be soon.

For $65. 300 hours of work. $65 MSRP for the

ugliest face sculpt in Bumblebee, Generation

1 Bumblebee history. I can think of plenty other

things, whether they be real life things, whether

they be, you know, responsibility things in life,

or whether they be fun things in life to spend

$65 on than a transformable Hot Wheel Bumblebee.

Yeah. Any other. Figure we've talked about tonight,

any other figure we've talked about in the last.

17 years, 18 years of this podcast. Honestly.

Like I like and I cannot justify spending $65

just to get the. The alt mode for this one. Normally,

I would justify somehow just getting a transformer

figure for just the alt mode. Can't do it here.

Not going to do it. Isn't going to happen. Not

going to do it. Not going to do it. Not at all.

Not going to do it. Nope, nope, nope. Isn't going

to happen. Speaking of things that are worth

spending your money on. We have the latest line

of the Transformers Funko Pops. So my buddy,

the pop analyst over on Instagram. Also, Disc

Trackers on Instagram. Disc Trackers is the main

source that I usually keep up with. Revealed

the. Pop toys, pop retro toys. Transformers,

the movie Funko Pops. We've got Optimus Prime

in the jumping movie pose. We've got Grimlock

in dinosaur mode. We've got Prowl, Wheeljack,

and Mirage. Now, I was not sure which Optimus

this was going to be. They've done a lot of Optimus

Prime over the years since they've had the Transformer

license. They've got him in... movie metallic

colors they've got them in generation one cartoon

colors they've got nemesis prime they've they've

done optimus many many times over the years and

when the listings were first announced of oh

optimus prime it was just optimus prime no parentheses

no like no nothing Same thing for Grimlock. I

didn't know what Grimlock was going to be. I

didn't know. I'm like, okay, so I already have

Grimlock in robot mode. He was a convention exclusive

from, I think it was Emerald City. a couple of

years ago. And I thought to myself, okay, well,

the only thing they can do with Grimlock is put

him in dinosaur mode. That's going to be interesting

as a Funko Pop. And that's exactly what they

did. I kind of wish they would have taken it

one step further and actually put his apron on

him because that would have been really cool.

That would have been a really cool, cool callback,

but they didn't. That's fine that they didn't.

Do that. And then we have Prowl, Wheeljack, and

Mirage. Three figures we have not gotten to this

point. So three brand new figures. Okay, I should

say, technically, they are five brand new figures,

four brand new, and then Optimus Prime jumping.

I mean, it is a new Optimus Prime. It's the jump

pose from the movie. But again, it's another.

optimus prime with then four brand new figures

that we've never gotten before so but no i love

these i i think they're great um and we do have

which again i know i've mentioned him a lot in

this episode but my you know ding the bell mike

sybert he's gonna hate me for that reference

and he knows exactly why Yeah, that's the reference

I usually give him. But anytime he mentions our

other buddy, Anthony Bercali from TFU .info,

every time he mentions that guy, he actually

plays a ding. And it gets to me. But Mike has

to buy anything with the Transformers the movie

logo on it. So when I sent him these, he's like,

damn it. like well you gotta buy it the logo's

on it it has the logo it has the has the 86 font

but uh but yeah no very very cool very excited

for those and uh and yeah so there's that uh

this uh before we get to the comics this last

uh bit of thing I'm already excluded from this

because they only have clothing up to 4XL, so

I can't fit any of this stuff. But I don't know.

Transformers X Rucking Fotten. Yes, you heard

that right, folks. There is a clothing company

out there called Rucking Fotten. I had to read

it like four times to myself when I got the news

earlier today to make sure I got the thing right.

Because I'm like, wait a minute, I better say

this right so I don't screw it up on the show.

But they have a Transformers the movie collaboration

with Autobot logo, Transformers the movie stuff.

They've got an Optimus Prime shirt. They've got

a Megatron shirt. They've got a Transformers

the movie poster shirt. They've got a Rodimus

shirt where Galvatron is shooting in his chest

and he's holding the Matrix up. Like I said,

this stuff only goes up to 4XL, but I do think

it's cool. I do really think it is cool. Yeah.

I like some of these. It's definitely playing

off of the Over the Pond graphics. Some of these

I remember seeing on early internet days because

I remember drawing a Rodimus Prime. Oddly enough,

we had to do an art class, had to draw a picture

of a self -portrait. Yep. I didn't do that. I

took like a little picture that was about like

a three by two that I printed off the internet

of Rodimus Prime. And I drew it on a, like a

one and a half, like 18 inch by like 24 inch

piece of paper. And I was like, yeah, this is

me. And I had like a picture of Rodimus Prime

just like as a joke. So that's what this reminds

me of. I kind of like the hats a little bit as

well as like the specifically the prime where

he's like slanted over like from Transformers

the movie but I don't know if I would care enough

about any of these to buy it okay so remember

earlier when I said about the bumblebee and the

$65 Transformers the movie the touch 50 by 60

inch woven tapestry throw blanket. Limited edition.

$64 .99. I'll put my $65 to this blanket over

that bumblebee. Because it's just the movie poster

without the lettering on. It's just the movie

poster art of them firing up at Unicron. uh,

as a blanket. Like that's cool. That's, that's

cool. Oh boy. Then we, then we go over to comics,

the world of comics. Yes. The world of comics.

So we got November and we kind of started, but

not really have December. I don't know what's

going on. With December, because I saw on Instagram

and TFW has the Instagram thing, but they don't

have the. We've got the images, but we don't

have the actual information. So in November.

We get and I did not have this automatically

pulled up, which I should have. Oh, there. Oh,

here we go. In November, we get Transformers

38, written by Robert Kirkman, art done by Jason

Howard, Mike Spicer. Who or what has emerged

from Megatron's cocoon? Sorry, Autobots, you're

not going to like it. And then in December, the

Energon Universe edition scheduled for December

arrivals include Transformers 39. Void Rivals

37, G .I. Joe 29, and Mask number 7. So there

are no actual discussion things here. It's just

the fact that they and DFW 2005 just grabbed

what Skybound and Image put out on Instagram

and stuff. Because December for Skybound is anime

month. So all of the covers for all of the comics

are anime -inspired. So coming November 2nd will

be Mask. Transformers 39 with, I believe that's

Elite. I can't see. It's in black and white.

Will be coming December 9th. G .I. Joe is December

16th. Void Rivals is December 23rd, right before

Christmas. So, yeah, we don't actively have the,

which is, I guarantee you, I say this all the

time to Jesse when we do another comic review.

As soon as we read solicitations, if they are

available, if the next, like if we're close,

like we just read solicitations at the end of

August, one of our episodes. I said, I said,

as soon, whatever month we're missing. As soon

as we finish hitting that record and we hit the

stop button, 40 minutes later, a day later, two

days later after we've done the record, what's

going to pop up? The month we were missing for

solicitations. Same thing here, folks. As soon

as Steve and I hit the stop button on this record,

I guarantee you it's a Saturday night right now.

I guarantee you either Sunday or Monday or Tuesday

or Wednesday or whatever the next week. The solicitations

for December 2026, the actual information is

going to come out. But we do have the covers

for anime December. Or the Skybound books. Oh,

and then there's there's that, you know, looking

at the solicitations, I think that Transformers

38, I think that cover looks like G2 Megatron.

Yeah, what I'm wondering about the Transformers

38 in November is on Bleeding Cool, and I'm pretty

sure this is how Skybound sent this to them.

Why is cover A and cover F the exact same cover?

No idea. So cover A is... This is the very top

one, the big one. And then if you look down all

the way at the bottom, right under it, all the

way over to the right cover F the very, very

small one, it's the exact say who screwed that

up. And you're probably right. He is. Cause again,

Megatron is under some sort of cocoon. He's under

some sort of, you know, transformation because

he's been he's been out of commission for for

issues and like we haven't had Megatron in the

book for I when was his last 31 30 like we just

reviewed actually we're about to well again to

date this show tomorrow night Sunday night we're

going to be reviewing 35 and 36 is a double shot,

which is the final two issues of the current

arc. So this is issue 38. So this is the second

issue of the next arc. Megatron has not been

seen since, I want to say, issue 30, the end

of the previous arc. Because issue 31 was one

of his origin stories, one of his origin story

chapters. So yeah, it's going to be very interesting

to see what Megatron, which version design of

Megatron pops out of whatever butterfly, caterpillar,

cocoon he's been in all this time. Yeah, I'll

be interested to see what they do just on that

front, just because I'm a huge fan of G2, and

I know that we're getting some Machine Wars Optimus

Prime coming in the near future, too. Yeah, I

think so. And a new G2 Megatron. whatever they

can bring into the comics means that eventually

we'll see it in the toy. Yeah. So. Yeah. So I

think that's, I think that's everything, right?

Yeah, that's pretty much everything. Yeah. So

let us know what you guys are hoping for, for

Transformers, for some of their reveals this,

either this fall or this winter. some of the

things you're looking forward to, some of the

things that you are not. The Transformers, the

movie, if you're going to see it or not, just

let us know in the comments or on the website,

thegcrn .com. Look for this episode post. Anything

else before we close out? I think that's it.

Just tune in next time for the Steve Megatron

live, not live, but reaction to Transformers

the movie in theaters September 17th. That's

when it's in theaters. That's not when he's going

to see it, but you get the point, folks. You

get the point. Yes. Well, well, well, it is time

to end the podcast. Yes. So until next time,

transform and sin. Yes. Yes.