The Movie Apology Tour & Beast Wars Anniversary?

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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, we're here. We're not waiting.

Well, yeah, we're not waiting. Especially after

like 4 ,500 pieces of content in 17 years. Holy

Nikes. Oh boy, I'm tired. Yeah, it's funny just

going across the network. And this episode, for

those that are listening, will be a little bit

of kind of a GCRN recap along with all things

Transformers. Yes. Yeah, it's been 17 years since

the network was founded. Yep. We're getting close

to the 18th anniversary of this very show. Yep.

In two months. and I would have never imagined

still doing all of this I've killed this show

three times and at this point I'm like yeah I've

tried and at this point I'm not getting getting

rid of it I'm just like okay I do enjoy it yeah

it's it's definitely one of my favorite franchises

still to this day so yeah Um, but yeah, that's,

that's kind of the thing that started me on the

3d printing road and on the customizing and kit

bashing and, uh, transformers figures. Yep. Yep.

Absolutely. Um, so yeah. Your thoughts, sir.

Oh God. How do you fit 17 years? 4 ,500 pieces

of content, and oh, boy. Yeah, 17 years. It's

been an amazing ride. Y 'all ain't going to get

rid of us just yet, so we got plenty more gas

in the tank. Maybe. I don't know. I don't know

if we're not too old to this stuff yet, but no,

it's been one hell of a ride. This show has been

the center of it. It's been the building block,

as it always should have been, and damn. We actually

do have an episode in the tank that's going to

be coming up later. It's a pullback crossover,

so you'll hear another episode after this, once

I actually get the damn thing edited. That'll

be coming up, I think, in two weeks, because

I have another episode of the pullback I have

to edit before it. You'll hear at least one more

episode of ATTF TPB crossover before the next

news episode. But yeah, no, 17 years, the geek

cast radio network. We've certainly come a long

way in that time. We've had, well, we're up to

version 18 point. seven or something or whatever

at this point it's definitely been no no i know

but i actually have i actually have a history

update there i know you do and i'm gonna let

you get to it in a minute because i know you're

gonna give that but my point in joking about

that is we have like 18 .7 updates there are

18 .7 versions of of the website and, and everything

else. And, uh, folks, before he gives his update,

um, I, I wish more web design people were like

Steve and how Steve does his stuff because man,

when they tried to relegate certain web design

choices to this area of web design is for this

specific thing and this area of web design is

for this specific thing and then we switch to

it and all of a sudden the website goes to hell

yeah take it away that being said you know what

i'm talking about i do So we've we've changed

themes multitude multitude of times over the

years. The original website. Was. Yeah, it was

a church website theme. That we had like on version

like the original site. Yeah. Which I I only

knew this because Twig. also used the same theme

they just heavily edited and snowball ran circles

around me as far as web design back in the day

and uh yeah so like this week in geek like their

version 2 .0 website the red that was like peak

of their website yep um anyways we used that

theme for a long time It was like two, three

years. And then we switched to this game. It

was like GameCraft or something, something like

that. I did find the theme again in my archives

because I was like, I want to go back to that

theme. Like, it was great. Like, yeah, even though

it wasn't, I just knew my way around it so I

could heavily hack it. And I liked the slider

on it, which is my main thing. And I didn't need

to know a lot of code. A lot of the stuff was

like just change the image that was in the placeholder

and it would modify everything. And so it was

super simple. And I found a way of upgrading

the slider for modern times. But at the same

time, it's all this stuff's like super old and

clunky. And it's like, if you don't keep up,

your site slows down. Google doesn't prioritize

it. I can see. Like we had the idea for like

GCR and live way back in the day, you know, the

blogs, the product and empire still existed.

And then there were multiple new versions of

it. And I think when I got to the point where

I was modifying it pretty extensively and had

the show art along the sides of the website and

it was the red and that was kind of like the

five year mark. And it was good. And then we

had like the content calendar. And then we moved

on to this other theme called Sahifa. Yeah. And

it was decent. And I was able to cobble and do

some different things with the menus with it.

And it wasn't bad. I just didn't always I just

didn't love how it turned out. And then we got

some other random theme and I can't remember

what the heck it was called thereafter around

like 2016. And that theme I thought was great.

I say thought was great. It was a cluster. So

I ended up going back to the Sahifa. There's

a trend here. Yes. I went back to the one I knew

worked. And I was able to get up and run it again.

I tweaked it and I made it a little closer to

the original version 3 .0. And then, uh, I went

to, it was some other version of that other site.

I don't remember what theme it was. It was something

different. I was trying out and that didn't last

long. And then I ended up going with, uh, this

theme called Janna. Yep. Which was made by the

same people that did the Sahifa. and it worked

great like i got that in 2017 2018 kept that

for years yeah uh got it pretty uh pretty customized

got a lot of stuff in it like i moved away from

all of their little templated stuff um and then

i think it got to the point it was like the blue

the blue header or whatever on the top of the

site and it had a bunch of different grid crap

and uh anyways we we had just done like a top

100 around that time then i got i kept that until

about 2024 yeah 2023 maybe uh and we got some

i don't even have like screenshots of the one

theme because it was so bad yeah it was really

bad it was so bad in between the the jana one

and the one we have now I bought that one. And

this is this is the thing that kills me with

these stupid themes. I paid. I literally did

what I was supposed to do. Yeah, I paid for the

theme. The Janna one originally. I tested it

with a bootleg. Yeah. And I was like, OK, this

is going to work. And so I bought it. It was

Chill News. That was the one that I said sucked.

Okay. That was the one. I'm going through my

stuff. That's why I couldn't find it. So Chill

News has not... Oh, they've actually updated

February 2026. I just don't like how it looks

anymore. Yeah, it sucks. Anyways, I still own

my copy, so I can download the newest version.

It's just I don't have any use for it. No. the

jana one i bought like i said back then but they

updated their last update was in april which

you know every month or a couple of months is

fine yeah but when they go like beyond six months

without an update yeah there's a question yeah

and i bought this other one for when i was trying

to start a home business like this kulu one and

uh that one updated even this year And I use

that one for my personal site now. Megaphone

was the one that that we bought. Yeah. In 2023.

And they were like, oh, the audio player that

always works. And, you know, no matter where,

because I was looking for that feature on the

website, I was like, I want it to work across

pages. Yep, I remember that. And they were like,

it works with all these different plugins and

it does, you know, it removes, like it was supposed

to be like a smart plugin and it was supposed

to help organize the hosts and the guests and

it was supposed to help organize the shows. It

didn't do any of that. It barely worked for like

our setup. Like it didn't work with Spreaker

very well. It didn't work with how we were set

up or what we were trying to do. Like it wasn't

made for a network. It was made for like, yeah,

I got a show. Yeah, it was made for the and this

is no disrespect to podcasters who just have

one show, but it was made for single show podcast.

That's what that was made for. And that's great.

That's awesome. That ain't us. No. And it did

work, but they haven't updated since 2023. Oh,

God. Still, which is why. I really heavily looked

into, okay, what do I do from here? You know,

uh, and they've come out with new, that company

has come out with new, uh, podcast themes, but

again, they haven't done anything since 2023

really. And so like, I, I lost kind of respect

for using them. Whereas the Jonna one, I was

like, Oh, I mean, It's one of the most popular

ones on ThemeForest. I mean, it's got 25 ,000

sales. And a 4 .8 review system. And they're

pretty responsive to any issues and have great

documentation and templates and everything else.

A lot of variety, a lot of stuff you can play

with. Very easy to use configuration stuff. I

had to relearn how to use it recently, but I'll

get into that in a minute. Um, and then we went

to WP, uh, WP caster pro recently, or like back

in, uh, 2023 or 2024. And they haven't updated

since May of 2025. Jeez. Which is the theme we're

on right now. And I'm like, okay. Um, I like

it. Like, I like a lot of the features. I like

that you can toggle stuff, you know, drop down

seasons, series. It's got built in search engine.

It's got, you know, all this different stuff

and you can toggle everything to it. But it also

requires. Again, to do things how we want to

do it. It kind of required different sets of

plugins and. different features that they didn't

have and some of them they added in and some

of them they didn't again not made for a network

they had the non -stop music player which i've

given up on uh at this point i'm just like uh

i just want something that works that i control

and i don't have to pay somebody every time something

breaks yeah um and the site i don't know if people

notice this it glitches out a lot at the start

uh where it just gets massive yeah uh and that

drives me nuts like absolutely nuts because i'm

like it should not do this it takes me about

10 times of hitting f5 before i get a normal

version of the main page where it's not like

artwork isn't 10 times too big or yeah no it's

but it is what it is So saying all that, I'm

just going to tease. I am building a new website.

I am building it from scratch. I am porting over

as much as I can from the current site. However,

this new site is so lean structurally and plugin

-wise. I'm using half the plugins that I use

in the current site because I got tired of crap

plugins and I've started developing my own. Yeah.

And I've been troubleshooting them. I've been

building them. I've been working on some of these

plugins for going on three months. Some of them

less time than that. Some of them actually are

active currently on the current site. I've just

upgraded them and merged them into other plugins

that I'm developing. That being said, I'm trying

to get away from a lot of the subscription stuff.

I'm trying to get away from. Things where I continually

have to pay for. I'm also trying to get things

that just work. I'm also trying to do things

because back when we started the site, I had

to hand code everything. Nothing was automated.

Nothing. RSS feeds were even hand coded. Nowadays,

none of that's coded manually. I can go in and

do things if I need to. I don't have the time

I used to have some somehow I had the time. I

don't know how I just did. Yeah. Nowadays, I

have kids. I have job. I have like evenings where

I'm like, I'm too tired and I just need things

to work. And so. When people are like, it's not

doing this, it's blah, blah, blah. I'm like.

Like the current theme omitted. a ton of podcasts

because there was overlap between series. Yeah.

Which was a royal pain. And so the new the new

site's got a brand new podcast system, never

been seen, never been done before. It's got a

brand new YouTube import system. It's got a brand

new our geek meter is its own plug in. which

integrates. I also have an IMDB thing. I also

have like there's there's a ton. So we'll also

be able to review like when we're reviewing like

the next Transformers show or a Transformers

movie or, you know, like an M wire where we had

all these different, you know, where we rate

them on the podcast. We can also rate them on

the actual post of what our rating was in the

podcast. So that shows up. Nice. So it can be

searched for and everything else. So like this,

this website is super lean. Like I said, it's

super forward thinking. I'm super excited. I'm

rebuilding all of the backend, which is taking

forever because I didn't realize some pages haven't

been updated in five years. Yeah. That's longer.

Yeah. So I'm, I'm literally going from like going

page by page. It sucks. um yeah but in the long

run you're gonna have something that you're really

gonna love and you're really gonna be proud of

that you went through and did all that work oh

100 so so i'm also using some ai for help in

this endeavor like i'm it's more so the plug

-in side like i'm just like this is what i want

this is how it needs to function this is what

i i need it to do and then it develops those

aspects with me and um yeah i've gotten very

granular with features and trying not to overcomplicate

anything but i want what i want um because then

i get to focus on the fun part which is organization

and creation i want i want to do the content

the creative stuff i like that part yeah i like

that part yeah so enough with the site which

i'm going to debut at some point this year uh

we're we're getting very close on some features

that i'm excited about. Got to get some other

things troubleshot first and then rebuild the

homepage. And once I rebuild the homepage, I

should be in good, good standing to get this

sucker out. So I'm I'm geeked. So getting into

the Transformers stuff, since that's what you're

actually here for. Yes. Transformers. Oh, sorry.

Oh, no, go for it. Sorry. You said you wanted

to get into it. Transformers, the apology tour.

The Transformers, the movie, 1986, back in theaters.

The official Transformers Facebook and Instagram

accounts have just, and this news is old, folks.

This is back in May, so we're old. We always

get to this stuff late. But yeah, September 17th.

uh in theaters transformers the movie the apology

tour i love that they are leaning into this i

think this is some of the best marketing hasbro

has ever done when it comes to transformers the

apology tour this is so cool this is so fun uh

because you asked a lot uh transmission received

You can register your email on Fathom Events

website to be notified when tickets are on sale.

I actually went over to the Fathom Events website

before we did the recording, not tonight, but

I've checked and they're not on sale or not like

I was checking to see in my area. Here's the

thing about this event. I love that they're doing

this for the 40th anniversary of the movie. I

only want the poster. So in the article in this

on in the news article here, if you click on

the image, they are, I guess, for a limited time

giving away. I think the Transformers, the movie,

the you know, this this giant poster here. I

think they're giving it away. I could be wrong

about that. So if I'm wrong, I'm wrong. But like,

I want that damn poster like. That's the only

thing I want about this, because I saw the movie

for the 35th anniversary of it when it was in

theaters for the limited time event. I don't

need to see Transformers the movie again in theaters

for the 40th. Again, for those that have never

seen it, that's awesome. That's amazing. That's

great. But the fact that they're doing this 40th

anniversary apology tour poster, give me that.

I want it. I don't care what I have to pay for

it. If I have to pay somebody for it. And yes,

I am serious. So anyone out there that ends up

with an extra one, let me know because I want

it. It has to go with the rest of my Transformers

posters that you can't see because my camera

is not on. I depending on I hope it's in our

theater here. Yeah, no, absolutely. Because you'll

take your kids. I 100 % will. Yeah. And I didn't

get to see it when it was in theater last time.

Yeah, OK. I really, really want to see this one

in theater just because it's an experience. And

absolutely. Yep. I think that it's great that

they're re -releasing it. I think that this is

something very cool. Absolutely. I'm definitely

going to be down for. Checking this out when.

When it comes to the theater, I just I'm hoping

that it comes to something that I have locally.

Typically. They have. Yeah. But again, I don't

know. It's like Fathom's website doesn't even

list it. I mean, it lists it, but it doesn't

have it as. available to see when it'll be available

like it's there it's just not you just can't

look any any area up yet yeah it just says uh

uh enter with your email to be notified when

tickets are on sale yeah it's not yeah i'm sure

that'll happen probably closer to maybe august

maybe maybe late july I don't know yet. But yeah,

I'm super excited for this. Looking forward to

it. Yep. And then we have Age of the Primes Sentinel

Prime Artifact Pack First Look. So Sentinel Prime,

he looks like he's a retool of... That female

Decepticon tank. Oh, OK. Can't remember her name

right now, but. Oh, yeah, I don't remember either.

With the Decepticon face. Yeah. Oh. No, it's

not coming to me. But what I do like about this

is the golden disc thing. That's cool. The shield.

The shield? Oh, it's a shield. Jesus. It's a

shield, and it's empty, so he can put the Matrix

in it. He can put all of the different Primes

weapons. Although, with them all attached, it

looks stupid. Yeah, that does look a little dumb.

It looks 100 % stupid. I like the Covenant of

Primus. Yeah. I like that. I like the Matrix

being in there. I like the Matrix sword. yeah

uh but otherwise i don't care for the rest of

the weapons but i think it's it's kind of neat

though that it says what prime had what gear

and then you can stick it to it yeah that is

very cool but god the alt mode on this thing

it's just ugly It is ugly because I was looking

at it. I was like, because I've continually looked.

I'm like, if there was ever a better figure to

do my pre beast Megatron, like I'm always on

the lookout. Yeah, because like the feet on this

do, you know, become the front of it like that

Megatron. However, the rest of it looks but ugly

and doesn't smooth out. It just looks. Yeah,

I mean, his robot mode is pretty solid. Like

I like the robot mode, but yeah, the robot was

good. Yeah. yeah yeah the the vehicle mode for

this it looks like a combination snowmobile meets

trash compactor like the ass end of this thing

like they put the shield on the back like a spare

tire and then the rest of it looks like a garbage

truck meanwhile the front end of the thing looks

like a snowmobile like Like, why would I want

this in my collection? Like I said, just give

me the shield. Like, I don't even need the rest

of the artifacts. I just want the shield. Maybe

the matrix for the center of the shield. But,

like, yeah, I don't know about this thing. I

don't. Let me see. Does not give a price on this,

but I'm sure we'll find that out much later.

And again, folks, this news is old. We know this

article was May 18th of this year, but this is

what it is. Up next, we have the Age of the Primes

Generation Selects Autobot 3 -Pack Mirage Ironhide

and Blue Streak in -hand images. They look good.

So these, I think, correct me if I'm wrong, these

are retools or repaints of the ones that were

released for Studio Series. Hasbro China just

livestreamed their official... Okay, I can't

pronounce any of that. New Transformers Age of

the Progeners. Unboxing of these. Multipack.

Closer look at these re -releases with improved

deco. Mirage features some retools. And yeah,

so these are re -releases, but they still look

good. Well, they still look cool. Let me put

it this way. I wanted the Ironhide, but I also

didn't want to spend $40. I got lucky when I

was in Florida. Yeah. I went to, because we had

to go grocery shopping for something. We needed

something, and we ended up stopping in an Ollie's.

Right. which we don't have out in Colorado. We

had one in Michigan, but it was crap. Like, it

was just junk. This one was halfway decent in

Florida, but they had the Beast Wars Flip Transform

Terrorsaur on clearance for $9. Okay. And they

had the Core Class Studio Series 86 Ironhide.

Ah, I gotcha. Five dollars. My God. I picked

him up. I was like, don't I was like, don't care

what you think. I'm getting. Yeah. Yeah. And

now I have a little figure to go against my little

star screen. But I can do both voices. So that's

kind of. There you go. Fun for me. I'm like,

I can do the voice of the little guy. But yeah,

I think these are cool. I mean, I don't. I don't

collect a lot of. G1 figures like Beast Wars

is kind of my jam, but I will get the occasional

G1 like. 86 Megatron and Prime. Yeah. But. But

no, I mean, I think I like these three packs,

but I also don't because it's kind of like, what

if I only want one? Yeah, that's the problem.

Like, I don't see I don't see Mirage selling

that well by himself or Blue Streak. Ironhide,

I do. Yeah. Yeah, Ironhide definitely would sell

well by himself, especially since he actually

has a head now. Oh, yeah. But yeah, these are

these are still cool. I don't care. Like. I mean,

if I saw my clearance, I would definitely pick

them up, but I never see most these. multi -packs

since um this is why i hate tfw sometimes they're

like oh look we can finally reveal this i should

have just put this at the beginning with this

news story the pre -orders for all this stuff

um i'm just trying to find the the the price

for Some of the Legends 3 -pack. And the Sentinel

thing. The 3 -pack is at Big Bad Toy Store for...

If it'll load. Oh, wow, really? Their link didn't

even go to the actual thing. It just went to

Big Bad Toy Store's main page. That's dumb. Well,

sorry, folks. Can't give you that information

because it didn't even work properly. Anyway,

that's dumb. All right, moving on. Oh, yeah,

more about the Apology Tour, the album and the

stuff, the soundtrack reformatted edition. I

love that they're doing this for merchandising.

I love that they're doing it as a CD. I love

they're doing it as a LP record. I love they're

doing it as a cassette. And I love that there's

a T -shirt, even though I know there's not going

to be a T -shirt that's going to fit me because

I need like a 6 or a 7XL. That's fine. I love

that they're doing it. At this point, I just

want the digital to hit Spotify or whatever so

I can at least listen to it. Because I'm curious

more than anything else. I kind of heard the

Knights of Unicron featuring Stan Bush digital

edition for the touch. I didn't really listen

to it, listen to it because I want the whole

album to be released on digital so I can listen

to the whole album. But what this is, is the

original Transformers, the movie 1986. 10 song

album. It's not anything else other than that.

It's just the original album that was released

with the movie. It's not Vince DeCola's score

or, you know, the full score from the film. It's

just the original soundtrack album. So you got

The Touch, Instruments of Destruction, Death

of Optimus Prime, Dare. Nothing's going to stand

in our way. Transformers theme, escape, hunger,

Autobot Decepticon battle, and dare to be stupid.

And this is all done by Knights of Unicron. They

do have some featured artists with the Knights

of Unicron on specific tracks and things like

that. Again, I think all the stuff they're doing

for the 40th anniversary of the movie is awesome.

Absolutely. I'm in all support of it. It's just

I'm not going back to see the movie in theaters

because I already saw it. But, you know, everything

else I'm in full support of. It's just for me,

I just need to hear the songs digitally. I don't

need a physical copy because, I mean, I do have

a CD player over there. That's fine. uh all the

i do love all the all the pre -ordered uh um

vinyls i do love all of them how they're all

different and i think the target one is the is

the uh decepticon purple vinyl i think i would

only buy that just because it's decepticon purple

and just to have it as a As a display piece,

even though I don't have a record player. Yeah,

the target one is Decepticon Purple for the record

itself. It's $30. Now, I do wish they did more

with Beast Wars. Yes, that's the other thing

that's been coming up this year. They are, they

as in Hasbro, have basically... Seemingly, they're

all in on the movie 40th promotion, and we're

already at June. We're six months into the year,

and there's nothing for Beasties. The year's

half over, and there's nothing for the 30th anniversary

for Beasties whatsoever. Or at least that we

know of. Well, so far, that's what I'm saying.

The year's half over, and so far, from what I

can tell, Beasties ain't got nothing. They did

show off in -hand images of the Sentinel. I did

want to bring that up, because it does show in

-hand images of the Golden Disk thing. That's

the only reason why I wanted to bring it up is

to see the, because I don't really care about

seeing the snow plow in hand. The robot mode

does look really cool, but man, that golden disc

looks cool. It looks really cool. I'm just waiting

for somebody to have a 3D print available. Yeah,

exactly. And it will. Yeah, and it will. that's

funny yeah and then uh and then of course we

have we have uh ceo yeah the ceo talking about

video game initiative which it's it's kind of

funny because they have these huge ambitions

around games and yet they canceled transformers

reactivate it was a snake eyes game it's like

okay are you figuring out that maybe it wasn't

a great idea on some of the stuff like i don't

know like i i still enjoy the older transformers

games you know i look at the playstation 2 we

had uh the transformers armada game which was

probably one of my favorite games outside of

War for Cybertron. Oh, yeah, absolutely. I loved

that game. It was difficult, but I loved that

game. And the Beast Wars game was atrocious,

but it was great when you played online on the

MSN Gaming Zone four -player deathmatch. I was

good at that. But because the game was so terrible

and it was on dial -up, I was really good at

it. Cause lag was an awesome thing for me. Cause

I had a 56 K modem and mine actually went 56

K. But yeah, I don't know. Like the, the stuff

I was seeing for the reactivate looked really

good and I was kind of hoping for it. I, you

know, we have reported on like stuff about steam

or some of these other sources possibly getting

access to the war for cyber trying games again.

Yeah. Because there's no way to get them at the

moment. But yeah, I don't know. I think they

need to figure out where their focus is. Yep.

Because even some of their toys, like I mean,

and I've said this for years, they overproduce

stuff that is shelf warmers. and they underproduce

the stuff that's going to actually sell off the

shelf. Yep, pretty much. The crossover is only

hit for people that want that stuff. Like, I'm

only interested in that frequency because transformed

into robot mode, he looks almost like my Ultimis

Prime mascot. Yep. And in that initiative, I'm

all for it. But... Like I don't care about stranger

things at all. I just, the design fits really

well with my initiative there. Uh, so yeah, I

don't know. I, um, it'll be interesting to see

what they do, but I, I don't, I don't foresee

anything good coming out of it. Um, now I, I

will say, cause there has been some beast war

stuff. Uh, just, we didn't, Put it in our...

I got it. The Yolo Park Megatron and Blackarachnia.

We'll get to that one in a minute. The Takara

New Legends has Beast Wars 2 Galvatron. Ah, okay.

It's an entirely new mold. It looks just like

him. It's a pretty awesome figure, actually.

They dropped images to that. They're also going

to be releasing... more Beast Wars 2 figures,

one of them being Megastorm. And if you are not

familiar with Megastorm, he's supposed to be

the brother of Gigastorm or Galvatron in this.

Beast Wars 2 Galvatron. He's basically G2 or

a G2 Megatron, like the tank. right right which

means we're gonna get a proper g2 megatron tank

nice instead of like i mean i i took the uh forget

what it was called at the time they were the

they weren't legends they were something else

universe line i don't know uh it was a world

for cybertron repaint of g1 megatron into g2

megatron and in order to make him comic accurate

i 3d printed his shoulder holster i bought the

chest plate on ebay and then did all the little

3d print add -ons and some decal packs and now

he looks like g2 megatron uh may not get that

when it comes out but we'll we'll see uh there

was also the mpg line uh drop that they're doing

a dark designs rhinox Oh, interesting. The silver

for the for the chest and for the head. And it

looks like the show like they repainted him.

Because they call him Decepticon version, even

though he's Predacon. But right. Yeah, this dark

designs Rhinox. So he comes with all the stuff,

but then it's got the mutant face attached to

the head. Nice. So it opens up so you can cover

it up, too. But all the inverted colors that

are there for the Predacon version. are on this

figure and it, it looks pretty stinking neat.

Um, just what they decided to go with on it.

So, uh, I don't own the trend. I don't own the,

uh, the masterpiece one of, of Rhinox. I've got

a number of them. I've got like a primal and

Cheetor and Megatron. Uh, and I've got rat trap

on the way. Uh, for masterpiece uh and then i've

got the knockoff like transmittal rat trap primal

and megatron for masterpiece but rhinox isn't

one like i've got the uh thrilling 30 right yeah

so like i don't really feel the need for it yeah

but uh yeah i i think this is cool though i i

If you're trying to complete the set, this is

another way to do a repaint and legitimately

actually make it something that people might

want. Yep. So. Excited for that. And then Robot

Toys has been doing a lot of masterpiece. Some

of them legend scale, some of the masterpiece

scale, but they did a Waspinator one. They call

him Beedrill. Oh, God. And which is a Pokemon

name. Yeah. But what's cool about him is, I mean,

he's not 100 % accurate. Like the joints are

kind of goofy. And at some point, Hasbro will

tackle it. But it's got the translucent eyes

on the head of Waspinator in both beast and robot

mode. It's also got the translucent wings. It's

got a nice metallic look to it. Very posable.

He's got all his little gear. And then you can

actually pop off his hands and his head and have

it so that his hand drags the head along. Oh,

wow. Like like in the show. And he scales with

the robot toys. Scorponok. Which to scale, they

do scale well with the Masterpiece Megatron.

Oh, very cool. Now he is bigger than the Deluxe

Class Tarantulas because they have a shot of

him in the promo stuff of Waspinator shooting

Tarantulas and he's holding Tarantulas with his

other hand and he's tiny. Oh no. So I was half

tempted for this because I'm like, I really love

Waspinator, but again, I have the Thrilling 30

and I repainted it and I'm like. I don't want

to spend $150. $50, I would have definitely gone

this direction and purchased it, which is the

only reason I got a knockoff rat trap coming,

which is the only reason I'm getting them. $150

for a rat trap just seemed ridiculous when you

could get Cheetor for like $80. Man, some of

these prices, man, just... i'm like where do

they get them like like yeah i can understand

some of them like primal was 130 when i bought

them like originally in 2016 yeah and i was like

okay i get it megatron was like 300 or something

and like 280 and so i was like so i got the knockoff

for like 90 I would gladly buy the official,

except it also did not have the voice of David

Kaye in the figure. Moving from these into the

Yolo Park, Optimus Primal and Dinobot have already

been released and come out. Now we have Blackarachnia

and Megatron. Good old grapeface. it's funny

because i'm looking at these and i'm like okay

he's pretty similar to the masterpiece uh -huh

like pretty stinking similar i like that you

can pop off the panels uh the other thing i was

kind of looking at is uh aside from the fact

you can pop the panels off is is i'm going okay

but if he's not masterpiece scale because i don't

know what scale these are um it's It's a fun

little display piece. Plus, I would want to own

it because it's Megatron. Yeah. My brief pause

was because I'm looking up the Yolo Park Primal

and Dinobot. They're both 7 .87 inches tall,

so I'm assuming Megatron might be about 9. Yeah.

Just for height purposes. But yeah, I do like

the fact that these are model kits. Yep. And

they're very articulated. You can pose them.

You can do all kinds of stuff with them. They

have diecasts, PVC and, you know, the ABS. They

have accessories. They have all these these cool

little points, you know, alternate faces, extra,

you know, components. Well, now wait a minute

here. So these are the next installments in Yolo

Park's AMK Beast Wars line. This is the AMK line.

This is not the AMK Pro line. So the difference

is there is no diecast or LEDs in the AMK line.

That's what the BTS has. They don't have LED.

It says there's small amount of diecast. Oh,

okay. Well, this on TFW says there's no die cast

in them at all. I'm reading from BBTS and they

get it directly from the source. TFW is not always

accurate. No, no, no. Just... Okay. Yeah. And

I know that it's MK and they don't come with

a lot of the features I don't expect fully light

up or any of that crap. But it does say like

Dinobot, for instance, comes with, you know,

two faces alternate pair of eyes shield sword

and spear and primal comes with like two interchangeable

hands two alternate faces and two swords so yeah

i'll be interested to see what uh megatron comes

with i mean it looks like it comes with an extra

hand with a toothbrush uh yeah a lot of his gear

comes off yep I mean, I'm probably going to get

it just, I mean, I think it, I'm probably going

to get it. I'm not, I'm not going to lie. And

if for 40 bucks to like build a, a model kit

of Megatron, I'm yeah. Yeah. Honestly, it'll

probably end up on my floating wall behind me.

Yup. Um, my floating display wall, it'll probably

end up there. Cause I've got a number of Megatrons

in my cabinet, you know, beast machines and beast

wars pre beast. Yup. Um, all kinds of stuff so

i'm i'm a huge megatron fan obviously uh the

black arachnia is tempting too because one i

get rid of the war for cybertron one because

it just looked chintzy yeah uh and i don't have

one now to go with the rest of my my stuff and

uh and it always bothered me because like now

of course you can buy the the big predacon set

with all of them and they're show accurate I

don't care to transform these so it doesn't bother

me that they don't transform yeah and it is show

accurate so it's like is what it is you know

but yeah I'm super excited for these can't wait

to see when they you know drop information and

when they're coming out Yeah, I thought they

would have done that already, but I guess not.

It's probably coming. Probably. I don't think

we're that far off at this point. Comic -Con

is next month already, so. That's crazy. SDCC,

baby. 2026. Holy crap. Holy crap, it's 2026.

All right. And to. Close out the show, we've

got Skybound Entertainment, Transformers, comic

solicitations. So, coming up next week, June

10th, we've got Transformers number 33, Optimus'

new Nautobot team, because they are Nautobots,

according to Alita 1, because they were no longer

gonna be Autobots if they didn't follow her to

Cybertron, so... New team of Autobots remain

on Earth under Optimus' leadership, but can they

come together after a battle between Optimus

and Alita? So that's what's coming up this month.

In July, comics grow there. Who is Dr. Henry

Archivale? Optimus' team must help General Flag

with a new mission that brings them face -to

-face with the man. who may have discovered a

way for humanity to fight back against Autobot

and Decepticon alike. That'll be released July

8th for Transformers number 34. And then in August,

on August 12th, just a few days past the 40th

anniversary of the film, We have Transformers

number 35, Wheeljack, toils away on secret projects

in his lab inside the Cybertronian Shard, unaware

of the utter chaos unfolding as the remaining

Autobots defend against an all -out assault from

the Decepticons. Dun, dun, dun. Now, that's just

the Skybound Energon Universe stuff. We also

have issue... No, we have issues one that just

came out of the movie adaptation. We have issue

two that's coming out in July and then issue

three will be coming out in August. But the trade

paperback collecting all three issues of the

40th anniversary edition of the movie comic will

be collected in trade on August 12th. So that's

what I'm waiting on. I'm not covering the individual

issues. I'm going to cover the trade. So that's

what's going on in comics news for the Transformers

comics. There you go, folks. Yep, yep, yep. So

I'm interested, honestly, to hear what People

are. Excited for with. The Transformers stuff

coming up this year, like some of the toys, is

it some of the MK line? Is it the comics? Is

it the 40th anniversary? It's. It's it's definitely

not a boring year with Transformers. Oh, no,

definitely not. Definitely not. Yeah. So I think

that about rounds out this episode of things.

Transformers. Do you have anything that you want

to plug as far as Transformers content? It's

not my own stuff, but I will plug my buddy Mike

Seibert and his program. Mike Seibert radio program.

He is doing. A series called the 40 for 40. And

he is going through the, his favorite movie of

all time is Transformers. The movie he's going

through it section by section, scene by scene,

not minute by minute or anything like that, but

he's going through and he's doing various bits

and it's going to take him all year long to do

this. And I just find it fascinating that he's

doing this and it's just a fun listen. He's bringing

in, he's comparing like what the script, what

the previous versions of the Flint Dilley and

the Ron Freeman scripts were to what the actual

movie is. He's playing recordings from the Lady

Bird books, whatever the hell. No, seriously,

dude, like. we know what the movie is like we've

known what the movie is for 40 years and i love

the movie just as much as anyone else does but

like he loves the movie like i've never seen

anyone love this movie and he loves every aspect

of it and i love learning about it through him

and i had never heard these lit like the closest

i came to an alternate version of transformers

the movie was wheelie the wild boy of quintesson

the the the book the light the the the storybook

thing that i did with you on this show once a

couple years ago go search out that episode folks

it's on the podcast somewhere here uh but like

that was the closest alternative version i knew

of and obviously i knew there were multiple versions

of the script wherever else but like It's very

interesting listening to him go through this

and listening to how he's experiencing it and

the emotional ups and downs that he goes through

as he's doing this. And I think we just finished.

Unusual allies that that part of the movie, I

think I don't remember. I don't have my phone

out here. It's on the it's. On the charger in

my bedroom, I'll have to get it for next time.

But yeah, go check out Mike's Cybert radio program.

He's an awesome dude. He also does Two Mics,

Two Furious with his buddy Michael Andrews, where

they reviewed all of Transformers Animated, just

like we did back in the day on Transformation

Animation. But yeah, I love that guy. He's awesome.

So there you go, folks. There's other promotion

besides our own stuff that we've done here on

the Geekcast Radio Network for the past 17 years.

4 ,500 episodes. It's insane. Over 40 shows in

17 years. We've got something for everybody.

We really do. I'm going to make it a lot easier

in the new site, too. Yes, obviously. yes there'll

be ways to find it trust me yes um so yeah you

get a podcast you get a podcast and you get a

you get a podcast yeah there's actually going

to be a nice little transformers hub yes yes

there is uh like basically it won't get canceled

yeah a subsection of transformers on the website

so it'll be fun yes there'll be bots there uh

and cons too Yes. Thank you as always for listening

to all things Transformers. Until next time.

Transform and transcend. Yes. You can also roll

out if you prefer. Yes.