Transformers News and December 2021 Comic Solicits

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and welcome to Altered Geek Appballs. So let's

cut through the signal noise, shall we? I haven't

done an APTF in a while, so it's... Ladies and

gentlemen, let me just say this right now. Steve

and I always conflict over numbering episodes

or whatever else, and I always end up screwing

some of the numbers up. So does he. It's a thing

podcasters do. But holy crap, it's very rare

that I forget which show I'm doing. Well, I forget

because they both start with all. All turd and

all turd, all things. They both have that that

same basic start. So when I get into it, the

initial run is I want to go with. Altered geek.

Oh yes, hello and welcome to all things Transformers.

Here we'll be talking with TFG1 Mike and Steve

Megatron. Awesome, thank you Megatron for that

introduction. Yes, we are here. I'm still not

fully recovered from the 100 hours of work that

the top 100 Transformers characters countdown

put me through, but I'm getting there. the top

100 apocalypse yeah pretty much oh boy i will

never record a top 100 again in the middle of

summer fall whatever i am only recording top

100s when it's below 60 degrees yeah i mean it

wasn't terrible per se You have central air I

don't and yeah, well, I mean there's still I

mean there's that but there's there's also the

fact that Just Yeah, it's yeah It's summer is

typically busy for everyone. Well, yes. No credit

my fall my fall sucks In general like every year

as far as busyness Just for just being swamped

with everything Yeah, and this is why and I don't

know this is why with the top 100 We kind of

left it off a few weeks for HTTF and we're kind

of playing catch -up with the news So any of

the news that we're talking about or giving our

opinions on tonight folks is the old it's old

news. We are not We had in ever since I joined

you for HTTF episode a nine no nine because eight

was the one you that I did solo because I dumped

the co -host. Yeah. So I've always said we're

not newsbreakers. You want to talk about something

that's stressful in podcasting or doing video

production or whatever is trying to keep your

button and your nose to the ground on what is

going on in any news. Well, to be fair, a lot

of franchises are Unless you're one of those

those geek sites that are just like up to the

minute. Mm -hmm. You're behind. Oh, yeah So I

try to stick with just topics and content that

I care about Mm -hmm, or that I love it. That's

not like oh rumor mail of the day Yeah, no, I

I refuse I think we did in the last three or

four episodes that we've done news. I think we've

done one rumor mill thing But that was to do

with your beloved, not that I don't beloved it,

but your beloved Beast Wars things. Yeah. So.

So, yes. It's important. Yes. Yes, it is. Which

it just celebrated its 25th anniversary. I saw

Gary Chuck on the day, I think it was September

18th or 19th or one of those. No, it's September

16th. That's what it is. It's a day. Wow. It's

X number of years after G1 aired originally and

it's a day before the G1 introvert wow okay anyway

so maybe I'll if I find that video I'll link

it in the in the in the post we're gonna start

with some movie and TV news tonight and I'm only

mentioning this one in passing because frankly

while it's great to have this information it's

kind of boring unless they're gonna tell us you

know why these changes, what it means for Transformers

for these changes. So all of the news except

for one thing tonight comes from the AllSpark,

AllSpark .com. Paramount Pictures officially

announces it's restructuring. ViacomCBS announces

leadership transition at Paramount Pictures.

They announced that leadership change at Paramount

Pictures is effective immediately. Jim Gianopoulos,

chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures, will

transition oversight of Paramount to Brian Robbins,

who has been appointed president and CEO of the

studio in addition to maintaining his current

responsibilities leading Nickelodeon. will serve

in an advisory role at Paramount through the

end of the year to help the transition. The funny

thing with this is somebody else was supposed

to be primed to take over and then because of

the merger and all the other various things going

on, this individual got passed up. For the promotion

and these people came right in we're like, well,

we're gonna appoint so -and -so to be president

and CEO and Person was like great. I resign The

other person because they got snubbed on the

promotion which I would to like I yeah find that

very very Horrible thing to happen I can't remember

where I read it. I think it was like Twitter

or something a couple days ago I didn't I didn't

quite catch all of the details. But yeah, this

this is Yeah, it's it's especially when the person

that was primed to take over was the one that

was handling all of Hasbro's properties. Mm -hmm

and Granted I don't know. I don't know what to

think about it. Like Paramount's not made like

a decent movie in years Like I to be honest they

really haven't I feel like every franchise that

they've got their hands on, every film that they've

put out has sucked gradually more and more as

time has gone on. So I don't know. It could only

get better or it could only get worse. There's

no middle ground there. Right, yeah. I'm not

I'm not all that hopeful with rise of the bees

to be honest It's Michael Bay the cars, you know,

oh we got in buggy Bumblebee as a Camaro like

that makes so much sense And then they've leaked

the fact that you know, we're gonna have for

this particular scene that was being shot in

Peru with dune buggy bumblebee or off -road Camaro

Bumblebee. They're gonna have Wheeljack, Cheetor,

RC, Rhinox, Mirage, and Optimus Prime. Which

again, I don't have any... I'm gonna see the

movie. I'm not gonna see it in theater. I have

no ambition or to pay early access. I have no

ambition for that either. So when it does drop,

I'm just gonna wait. So we haven't talked about

this affair, but next year I have a plan of And

if you don't want to be involved with it, you

don't have to be but I would like to go back

at some point and revisit the movies from the

beginning and the only reason why I'm saying

this is because I was listening Well Kind of

but not really I don't know like I agree with

you I'm not ever since the big V hit and It keeps

coming back because whatever we're not gonna

get into that but ever since the virus hit and

all that I have Unless I absolutely had need

something at the grocery store or what I think

the only Non -essential item that I have bought

in a store Out in the public was my GameStop

exclusive Funko Pop jumbo size 10 inch sound

wave figure with opening cassette cassette door

with with cassettes. That's the only like entertainment.

That's the only fun. Yeah, you say that I when

the pandemic hit, you know, I was kind of looking

back at things that I enjoyed from. from a time

ago. When you're secluded to your house 24 -7,

I had to find things to keep entertained and

in good spirits. Among those was I started looking

into Transformers toys again because I heard

of the War for Cybertron trilogy and everything

else because it dropped the summer of. When and

then of course getting back involved, you know

doing the doing the panel doing the you know

The the earth rise when it dropped review and

everything else and then of course You know learning.

Oh, there's new Beast Wars toys coming in the

form of Kingdom, you know different like, you

know new packaging same product Yeah, it was

loser because like the toys are actually like

they look good Just the quality control sucks,

but that's not neither here nor there. So when

that, when that whole thing happens, so since

2021 is his hit, I've been on like this hardcore

like Transformers binge and I started the year

with one toy. I probably have close to 30. Yep.

And the year is not done. I just picked up Scorponok

only because I just happened to see it at a Target

and I was like, well, I'm only actually spending

$10. So I didn't really care, even though, you

know, we'll get to the reissue stuff later. But

I'm still waiting for the Kingdom Terrorsaur,

the Kingdom Tigatron and the War for Cybertron

Covert Agent Ravage, which funny enough, has

already started dropping in EB games in Canada.

Oh, wow, that's awesome. So as soon as that covert

agent ravage starts hitting here, I am going

to pick that up. I am going to pick up. Although

I see BBTS do a preorder, I'll probably snipe

it there first. Yeah. And then and then if I

cannot find it in the store for any of these,

then I'll just. I'll sit with BBTS, but if not,

I will pick them up in the store and just cancel

my pre -order like I've done previously. But

yeah, so those three are left for this year for

figures, and then we've got Legacy with a new

Inferno toy, and Ranchal is coming, which I'm

excited for. But otherwise, yeah, I feel like

Transformers has saved my sanity, plus it gave

me a new hobby of painting. Yes, yes, you're

doing some custom stuff now, too So that's very

cool going back really quickly to this rise of

the beasts monster truck bumblebee or Off -road

bumblebee or whatever. I think this looks cool

except I wish it was a Not necessarily photoshopped

but a better shot like I know they don't want

to give it away. I know they don't want to give

the plot away or whatever kind of thing. But

as far as the car goes, I just wish the picture

was a little bit better than what is here. So

I'm a little curious why the driver is wearing

a mask by himself. I don't probably because the

cameras like like a foot away from him and you're

supposed to stay anyway. You're exempt when you're

on studio time. Oh, Lord. Tell that to all the

studios that shut down last year. Yeah, that's

because, you know. Anyway, so Rise of the Beasts,

Optimus Prime rolling out in Brooklyn. I seem

to remember we talked about this before, and

that's fine. I just wanted to bring it up again

really quickly because I was getting Rise of

the Beasts news to see what was new and whatever.

I love the look of this optimus. I really do

from what I've seen. I'm excited that they finally

went back to like his old look Instead of I mean,

yeah, they did they spruce it up a little bit

Yeah, I mean that's to be expected. They put

the the cage in front of them and stuff but on

a whole like I am Far more enthused with what

they've started doing with prime since the bumblebee

movie So, you know, having this continue in that

realm, I love the design of Prime. Yep. Absolutely.

Moving into some TV and cartoon stuff. Can you

believe it's been 20 years since 2001's Transformers

Robots in Disguise? You want to know what's funny

about it? You still can't get it. You cannot

find it anywhere. You can find a channel on YouTube

that has them. But other than that, there is

nowhere to buy this series or to stream it. This

is the one series that is totally neutered from

anywhere on the net. Just for nostalgia's sake,

I wanted to go back and see if it was as horrible

as I remembered. And it's not. Okay, so here

it takes some of the premise of some of the Beast

Wars stuff and some of the original g1 and kind

of meshes it and In that regard I'm fine with

it and it's not as bad as what I remembered is

as a Teenager but yeah, it's it's definitely

better than the Unicron trilogy Well anything's

better than the Unicron trilogy even even power

of the primes anyway, so Transformers robots

in disguise 2001 20th anniversary What's funny

about this news happening now is that I am 100

hours after the top 100 and I actually like I've

never had like the one care. There are a lot

of human characters in that show that that kind

of irk me like the screaming lady that that that

but the side burden wants to get with her car,

but it's a real car. It's not a, you know who

I'm talking about? The brunette who was always

screaming. There's her, there's Ty. I hate Ty,

I've always hated Ty. So the point, my point

in saying this is that when I was doing work

for the top 100 Transformers characters countdown,

which people can hear all, I'm just gonna round

it up and say 11 hours and 30 minutes of. of

completed published audio, I actually went back

and I grabbed some stuff from Robots in Disguise,

mainly the intro and outro, and mainly one of

the better transition sounds. So, you know, hey,

happy anniversary to those that love this series.

More power to you. I'm glad you enjoy it. I don't

know if I will ever go back and try to watch

it myself. And again, like you've already said,

unless Shout Factory puts out a actual DVD set

of it or puts it on digital or whoever, whatever

Hasbro wants to do with that kind of thing. Speaking

of full episodes online, we can now watch...

All 98 episodes of the Transformers generation

one cartoon on the Hasbro pulse YouTube channel

legally Without charging us so yay So what you're

telling me is is they've made it easier for people

to take Probably yes YouTube downloaders like

yes. Yes. Yes, but again seriously, but I'm but

you know with having it access to it on YouTube

It kind of takes away the reason for it. Yeah.

I mean, it's first of all, it's 2021. Shout Factory

has put out multiple DVD sets of this series.

2B TV has all of it. So, you know, it's fine.

It's a big deal. You know, I think it's great.

I think it's for those people that love binging

YouTube and that love Transformers that want

to binge the original Transformers series. I

think it's great. Have you know to be and and

and DVD sets that I can just like you have DVD

sets you can go to Well, see I don't have the

g1 DVD sets. Okay, I never got the complete set

Mm -hmm. So I just had like rips that my brother

gave me years ago, right? Yeah, like years ago

like early 2000s back, you know those days. Yeah,

so the quality is terrible and yeah honesty like

I If I watched it more, I would probably buy

the DVD sets. Yeah. But for how infrequent I

watch it, 2B is just fine. Yeah. I mean, I love

that it's on 2B and 2B is more than fine for

me now. When Shout Factory was originally putting

out the DVD sets, when they were putting out

the Matrix set as a DVD collector at the time,

I wanted it so badly. But right now, over the

last I would say five years or more at least

eight years since the pull bag started I Want

my shit online and I know that's that's that's

hard to do sometimes with rights and whatever

else But they've done it. So, you know, it is

what it is. I'm glad that it's on YouTube I'm

glad people can have access to it even though

to be is free as well. There's I mean to be is

essentially YouTube but for TV shows only it's

not you know creator own cut it's not like P

odd doing a review of something or it's not like

Transmissions putting out one of their podcasts

on youtubers like us putting one of our podcasts

on it's just television shows And there are some

ads and whatever Anyway moving on over to toy

news. We've got an article for me and an article

for you first up for me Transformers Generations

Shattered Glass Collection Jetfire in -hand images.

I am a fan of shattered glass. I will always

be a fan of shattered glass. And any time you

put any robot, Autobot, Decepticon, Maximal Predacon

in black and purple, I am all for it and right

there with you. And Jetfire looks amazing. Yeah,

I won't deny that he does look great as a shattered

glass now what I would love to see and this is

just like weird Beast or shattered glass That

would be just because I just want to see the

stark differences I mean, yeah, we settle there.

We get a difference of what cheetor would look

like but as far as the others like I mean, yeah,

we got nemesis primal, but on a whole like I'm

kind of curious to see how Some of it would be

look. Mm hmm. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. I do love

that they have the on Jetfire here, they have

obviously the evil Autobot purple symbol, but

he can also switch it to the heroic red Decepticon

symbol. I love that that's there. Because he

switched sides. Right. However, though. I just

don't - I think the red just doesn't look right

or it - because the rest of the figure is so

black, purple, and green, the red sticks out

like a sore M &M to me. I don't know. Otherwise,

though, if I had this toy, I would be keeping

it in Shattered Glass Purple Autobot. Well, yeah,

naturally you would I mean you're you're a huge

fan of the color purple like I like red So the

red resonates better with me all right, or if

I have like Like altered geeks colors with like

orange and blue which funny enough that might

be what my office looks like Gotta get a giant

like glow like print out of vinyl stickers of

all the logos for the podcast and drape them

across the room. But that's awesome. That would

be very cool. Yes, it would. So, yeah, we've

got the first look at Transformers Beast Wars

Vintage Scorponok. And I mean, I should have

known this was coming, you know, with them doing

the vintage Cheetor, Rattrap, Primal and Megatron,

although they're it's like a hundred and fifty

percent markup mm -hmm maybe two hundred percent

depending on the figure because like back in

the day the original primal and in Megatron was

$20 and now they're like 50 and Cheetor was was

999 and now he's 2299 and rat trap was 599 and

now he's 2299 so Yeah, I mean I and I've heard

that they had to reconstruct the mold for that

which okay, I guess but the the the whole Vintage

thing I get it and I love the fact that they

they gave Megatron a little bit better Coloring

to kind of fit with his Beast Wars aesthetic

because like he had these weird Colorations on

certain parts of his body and they they recolored

it just to kind of give it a little bit Amplified

look and they did that with this Scorpanoc as

well instead of being black. He's gray and Some

of the stuff that was read before is now purple

or now the shaded colors some of the stuff that

was like bright purple is that kind of off like

Dusted purple. So if you don't have the current

Scorpanoc for this line This one actually looks

like the show by comparison To the well, I mean

just how he looks in beast mode how he looks

in robot mode actually looks better than the

the kingdom Figure the kingdom figure to be honest.

He's way too short Right to scale Like he's you

have to buy leg extenders on eBay and I just

can't bring myself to spend $12 on leg extenders.

So I'm gonna live with it, but Especially when

some of the old figures like the old tarantulas

are up to scale either, but I'm not a big scale

freak, but I would have preferred to have had

the original Scorponok and then just pop the

kingdom head on in this instance. But I did read,

too, that we're supposed to get a reissue of

Tarantulas, despite him getting a kingdom figure,

a reissue of Pterosaur, a reissue of Canine,

which is an odd choice. of a figure considering

he's not even in the show. I feel like there's

more love for Polar Claw than K -9, but I guess

to each their own. Yeah, I guess I don't know

I don't I remember I know of polar claw. I've

never heard of canine So I yeah polar claw was

he he was kind of the one that we went opposite

of Scorponok because he had Instead of the cyber

be that launched from one of his beast limbs

he launched a bat a cyber and I don't know. He

was a pretty cool toy. I would have liked to

have seen that And I guess that almost made it

to Kingdom, but it got shifted in order to do

Rhinox. Interesting. So, yeah, well, as far as

like the some of the engineering and then Tigertron

actually beat them out, too. So it was yeah,

it was really weird how they had that whole thing

done. But yeah, I don't know. I'm I'm fine with

the issues and then them, you know, updating

some of the look. I'm waiting for the Transmetal

reissues. Yes, yes, you are. Because I and at

this point like I think that if they could just

redo the head sculpt of the Transmetal Megatron.

Yeah, that's all it really needs that figure

is like pristine if it didn't shatter because

of brittle plastic, but Yeah, I I would love

to get my hands on one. That's not junk. Yeah

and then I would repaint it and do what I did

with this one, but But yeah, so there's a lot

of great toys coming in addition to the fact

that a new Waspinator and Shadow Panther are

out. Yeah, going over to gaming news really quick

before we get into comics. Hasbro opens brand

new division to develop triple A game titles

now hiring so. Wizards of the Coast Division

of Hasbro has started a new digital games division

called New Raleigh Durham Studio. That's a mouthful.

Okay, sure. Name your studio whatever you want

to name it, I guess, that will develop AAA game

titles based on Hasbro properties. NRD Studio

will also be led by game industry veterans From

companies like WB Games and others for their

first project, they will be doing a GI Joe set

as a third -person action adventure game. The

studio is now hiring for various positions that

you can find linked below. Be sure to discuss

this in the boards and whatever else. And they're

looking for an art director, lead animator, lead

game designer, and technical director. Do they

need a Chris Lada sound -alike? It says nothing

about voice actors. I know. I know. I hope that

they do go the Arkham route with this. Yes. Because

I feel like it would have such massive potential.

Well, a third -person shooter GI Joe gate? Folks,

let me tell you. I've mentioned this before in

the last 13 years of this podcast. I made a choice

when I was five or six years old. I chose Transformers.

I saw G .I. Joe real American hero episodes.

I like those characters, but I have never actually

seen the whole series through. I don't dislike

that cartoon. I don't dislike the G .I. Joe franchise.

I am just, I am not Mike Irizarry and the What's

on Joe Mind crew level of love for G .I. Joe.

I enjoy what I've seen of it, but I'm not as

invested in it as I am with Transformers. However,

I think it's awesome because I don't remember

the last time we had a G .I. Joe game. And now

that I've said that, whoever is listening to

this that is like, well, it happened in blah,

blah, blah. And that's fine. That's great. That's

awesome. Show it to me. I'll watch it. If we've

even ever had a GI Joe video game, I don't know,

I don't remember. I'm sure because it's the movies

we've had something, but I think this is really

cool. I think this is going to be interesting.

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Download and listen today. I suppose I still

can't say something about Transformers, can I?

Good, no. What about sports? Yeah, that's alright.

Yeah, I at first when I was reading this I was

like, what are they gonna make another card game

but With with a video game of it. I could see

this. I could see this going well. I honestly

I would be a big fan of a new Transformers game

that you know High Moon Studios was the last

one to do a decent Transformers game. Mm -hmm.

And then before that was the Transformers armada

game on the PlayStation 2 Yep. Which was, to

be honest, that was really good. Yes, it was.

But War for Cybertron games were better in a

different way. But I definitely would love to

see something in those realms again for Transformers

and for G .I. Joe for that matter. Absolutely.

Alright folks, it's comics time. Yay. These are

the December 2021 solicits. These are all things

that are coming out in December. Some will be

advanced solicits because they're trades which

are not coming out until 2022. First up we have

Transformers number 38 written by Brian Ruckley,

art by Anna Malkova. Darkness, once gazed upon

as a rescue mission to Iacon as RC Windblade

Chromia and Smokescreen link up with two long

-lost allies left in the city. Their goal? To

rescue a captured Autobot General, but things

are never easy when Swindle's involved. Very,

very cool. Beast Wars Number 11. Written by Eric

Burnham. Art by Josh Burcham. Maximals Strike

Back Part 2! The throwdown kicks into high gear

as the mighty Maximals tangle with the treacherous

Predacons. Optimus Primal vs. Skuld! Razorbeast

vs. Pterosaur! Dinobot vs. Megatron! Don't miss

the massive midpoint of this three -part battle

royale. We have not been keeping up with the

miniseries that they are doing called Transformers

King Grimlock, but here is the fifth issue of

five, written by Steve Orlando, art by Augustin

Padilla. The epic conclusion to King Grimlock.

Grimlock faces off against his greatest opponent

yet, the Sun God of... Oh, wow. I need to start

reading the series. The Sun God of Minonia. Holy

crap, Solitron. Wow. One G1 episode I never really,

really watched, and I know TV's Mr. Neill has

it in his truncated G1 continuity season 3 playlist,

but Menonio was the thing that Daniel and Grimlock

fell into. I wanna say in fight or flee? No,

no, that's the sandstone. Anyway. But wow, that's

awesome. Anyway, but first, he'll have to get

past Solitron's newest acolyte, his own former

student, Arko. It's the battle for not just the

kingdom, but the whole world. And then we have

the fifth of five for Shattered Glass, written

by Danny Lor, art by Guido Guidi. In issue five,

Jetfire's loyalties are tested when Goldbug asks

him to commit the ultimate sacrifice in the name

of the Autobots. His decision results in a Cybertron

shattering event and an epic conclusion to shards.

And then the last one we have, I believe, no,

we get two more. Let's see, we have Transformers

The IDW Collection, phase three, volume two.

this collects Transformers total are one issues

9 through 12 Transformers Optimus Prime issues

1 through 6 and Transformers lost light issues

1 through 7 the only reason why I'm bringing

this up is because I love what I didn't I know

IDW has been in trouble lately because of finances

and things like that and Leaving diamond and

all that that you know drama But I have always

loved the IDW collection books because they put

them in recommended reading order, you know,

they put them in story order. So they're hardcover,

big, big, you know, collection, you know, you

can put it on the shelf and enjoy it or you can

pick it up and, you know, break your wrist trying

to read it. I love it though, because I love

that they're doing this in story order and that

is so cool. And the last one we have is Another

mini -series that are doing Transformers Wreckers

Tread and Circuits number three of four written

by David Marriott, art by Jack Lawrence. The

race is on, the speedy of 500 has begun and the

Wreckers are doing their best to keep up with

the finest racers from across Velocitron. But

following an explosion, it's mayhem on the track

as an assault is launched on the race. Can the

wreckers maintain their cover and take down their

foes, or will they both be wrecked and ruled?

Don't ever look at the at the comments folks.

I have to remember that don't ever look at the

comments this last story part of it I those the

solicitations I just read I got directly from

IDW server because they give them out every month

to those of us who are on their their press server

I Wanted to see if one of the transformers websites

had the covers at least some of the covers for

each of these these releases that are coming

and the one place I found them is TFW2005 .com.

Don't ever look at the comments, folks, because

they are like, I can critique covers and I can

not like covers, but people on this link that

will be in the show notes in our post, ooh, man,

it looks like children are drawing these or kids

can do better than that. I'm like, really, seriously?

Oh, that's all right, in the... In a discord

that I'm in people were critiquing Josh birch

I'm doing the Beast Wars stuff and we're complaining

about it and In saying that no, it's not very

good, but I like it's like it's a different style

like get over it They'll change people periodically.

Anyway, like yeah And then they're saying that

the current drawer of the Beast Wars stuff is

boring. So I'm like it's either not unique enough

for it's boring like it's I Don't know. I like

the I like the Megatron cover for issue 38. I

like the sound wave Optimus Prime I like the

sound wave Optimus Prime cover more for issue

38 of Transformers There are three Beast Wars

covers shown here. We have skulled which I think

looks awesome and I can't wait for issue 11 to

see more of her story, like we've been saying

on this podcast, as well as the pull bag in Beast

Unleashed. I love this gold cover, but I really

dig the Optimus Prime character head cover. I

believe it's cover B. I really dig cover B. And

then the retailer incentive cover. He was a rat

trap. sitting in a, what looks like a Decepticon

logo chair. That is awesome. What do you think

of these covers? Do you have a favorite from

any of these? Well, of course I like the Beast

Wars stuff. But no, I mean, I like the, I like

the covers of Megatron on the the initial one

with where it looks like he's squashing Magnus.

Yeah I like the one with prime and sound wave

I like the one with all the beasts in the jungle

with that kind of that that hue behind them It's

just kind of this nice natural look rat trap

lounging. You can tell that's birchum Yeah, which

I I still like it. I don't care. Yeah. Yeah,

that's awesome, but And then the Shattered Glass

with the Shattered Glass Megatron, which is basically

Orpher Cybertron mixed with Energon Megatron

to get that. And then the Wreckers issue three.

Yeah. But the the second cover, the one with

the auto with them transformed into robot mode.

Yes. But that's also because the the the guy

that's in the middle. I can't remember his name.

His his official name Yeah, but he's They used

him. He was a g2 toy that they repurposed his

machine wars optimus prime mm -hmm and I just

like the design and the characterization. I would

have loved to have seen a machine wars comic

Hey, you never know man. I that that is kind

of my pipe dream here because I thoroughly enjoyed

The machine wars toys like they they gave me

the the level of quality I was expecting since

having Beast Wars at the time and But getting

it the g1 packaging like almost it was it was

it was kind of a neat concept and I wish they

would have ran with it because Just the designs

like Megatron was a jet and then he had a clone

which was kind of the decoy and then you know

Starscreams is like conglomerate like huge mega

jet and I don't know I just love the whole premise

of it so I would have loved to have seen it become

actual media yeah yeah I mean it would have been

really cool if we had machine wars for me I always

like trans tech I don't know why but ever since

I saw Say what you will about the man. I still

like him I still would love to interview him

one of these days Derek J. Wyeth's designs on

animated. I still love his Reuse of blur as Cheetor

and the Cheetor trans tech design for an all

that looks so cool Well, I didn't mind Derek's

versions the original ones we were supposed to

get I was not a fan Yeah, that's true So yeah,

I mean we're we're plugging away here at all

things transformers next episode is our 250th

episode and I don't have any plans yet, and I

don't know if you have any plans, but I want

to do something I want to I don't know I just

want to 250 episodes I mean there have been plenty

of times where the show was gonna head into oblivion

so and it just you know Like the indestructible

spark that Starscream is, you know, it just keeps

coming back and I want to do more Transformer

Origins episodes in the future. Obviously we

have the comics with the Beast Wars comic and

things like that that we'll be doing. So yeah,

I'm just having a blast trying to catch up on

everything. I'm about to... Start as of this

recording by the time this goes up. I will be

in the middle of it I'm about to start editing

episode 113 of toy cast which is my own Origins

in toy collection story. I told Karen earlier

today again as of this recording September 27

2021 I said I'm really dreading episode editing

episode 113 of toy cast. She goes why I said

because it's My buddy Josh, who is one of the

new co -hosts with me over on Toycast, he is

interviewing me like I interviewed you, Steve,

for Toycast Origins. I'm like, I know my story.

Why do I want to listen to my own damn story

while I'm like, oh, but that's my process. I

have to listen to every second of audio to make

sure it's just right. I will say, though, episode

112 of Toycast. With Rodimus Primal, I loved

recording that with him getting his origins and

toy collections I did not remove every single

um and ah and whatever I I just couldn't What

are you looking forward to in Transformers currently?

Oh, I'm looking forward to the toys I That and

seeing what they come up with for the next series,

but ultimately I I'm looking forward to the toys.

I I'm waiting to get my hands on on Tigatron

and That's that's kind of my my main go -to right

now Yeah, any of our Canadian listeners if we

have any listeners in Canada, I'm poor so if

anyone wants to send me a covert agent ravage

for review covert agent ravage A true service.

Granted the review. My cat just meowed at me.

She's like, she's like, I am covert agent Ravage.

That's funny. She's giving me a dirty look for

that one. He does not like me pretending to be

a Russian cat. Oh, man, that's that's so crazy.

Anything else you want to bring up before we

get the heck out of here? Nope, just like I said

just excited for the toys and I mean obviously

the comics too and you know eventually some some

good media again, but overall like I I still

have nostalgia I can fall back upon Yes, the

one thing I want and I hope any anybody at at

Hasbro who is on the Transformers teams whatever

teams, you know, I have to talk to whomever.

If I have to start commenting on the fan first

Fridays or whatever, what I really, really want

is a Beast Wars and Beast Machines score release.

Yes. Talk to Lowland Records. Talk to whomever

you have to talk to. I don't know. Unfortunately,

it's mainframe. Okay, but I'm just saying you

know, they're not very friendly Yeah, well, they

dumped a lot of their files. So I they should

talk to Bob Buckley Yeah, look here sport it

Right exactly Bob Buckley. We would love to have

him on the show. Look here folks if they can

find long -lost Superman 78 things to put in

a dvd really a bonus dvd feature or a long lost

reel to reel you know uh copy of whatever they

could i'm you know files may be lost on mainframes

end but i would think bob buckley creating the

score doing the scores i would think he would

want to hold on to that like i i don't know i

don't know the man whatever i'm just saying after

going through the top 100 Transformers characters

countdown and listening to All of the Beast Wars

audio the Beast Machines audio. I'm like I want

this music outside of this show Mm -hmm. Oh,

I yeah, I I would listen to that Absolutely.

Oh That was the other interesting thing I wanted

to bring up. Thank you so much for reminding

me you didn't but you did there was Off to find

the video I Found thanks to the triple takeover

podcast I found a Transformers 2007 transformers

the bay movies mm -hmm in sound only okay The

Sound of Transformers, I have the video right

here. Basically, they've taken various clips

of all of the films, I believe. This was done

up, it's done by Art of the Film on YouTube.

And it was, I just want to click on this really

quickly, it was put on YouTube March 12th of

2016. So they don't have all the films, but they

have a number of them. but it's basically watching

various scenes of the movies with just the sound

effects. No vocals, no music, no nothing. And

you know how I am. One of these days I'm not

gonna be able to podcast because I'm gonna be

so damn deaf. I will literally lose my hearing

because I love putting on my JVC headphones and

turning. it up to like 94, 96 percent on the

volume and just listening to stuff listening

to this was so friggin cool and I will definitely

be embedding this in the post so people can check

this out this is so cool say what you will about

the bay films I don't care folks this was freaking

cool yes all right so where can the people find

you online sir Well, they can find me on the

Twitters, at SCP -21. Don't you have another

one you want to promote too? At all things TFV3.

That's for the show, but don't you have another

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you voice actor you. Oh yes, my other Twitter.

My one for voice acting. I'm trying to help you!

Yes, I know I know yep, it's at Steve Phillips

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I'm so start writing that in the outro every

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Like I said coming up next I want to do something

fun I want to you know I want us to you know

celebrate 250 episodes the show Kind of thing

and I don't know what that's gonna be yet. I'm

not sure Maybe we'll be in a seven -hour recording

session with proto man telling his all things

Transformers origin story. I don't know. I haven't

talked to the man yet The other thing we should

bring up since this is going to be released soon

ish is that We're in the midst of another Transformers

film in theater, with the 35th anniversary of

Transformers the movie being in a, you know,

Fanda, not Fandom. Is it Fandom? I don't know.

It's one of these, you know, one -night -only

deals in theaters kind of thing, and they're

showing the 35th anniversary version that Shout

Factory put out, so... People have been going

to that. I've seen like the Hollywood premiere

version where both Stan Bush and Vince DiCola

showed up, Dan Gilvizan showed up, a bunch of

other people showed up. So I'm very happy that

people are getting to see the 35th anniversary

version on the big screen. I saw the 30th anniversary

version. Like we said at the beginning of the

show, I'm not a movie theater goer anymore. I

would much rather just click on it. at home and

watch it on my own time. You got any advice for

the listeners tonight, Megatron? No. Just watch

Beast Wars. And remember, when you make your

top 100 list, keep me on it. Oh yeah, you'll

be on it at number 99. Ha ha ha. Yeah, and then

Rodimus dies of cosmic rust at 100. At least

he made it. Okay, so I think we talked about

this in part six in the wrap of the Top 100,

but I am really surprised, really surprised that

Wheelie did not make it. I am too. That was odd.

I was really confused why he didn't make it,

because everybody's like... oh well wheelie is

our friend we have to behave for wheelie and

have wheelie and everything and you know wheelie

wheelie wheelie and it's wheelie wheelie bad

you just happy what i just was wheelie happy

he wasn't there okay on that note folks transformer

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