Toy Fair 2026: SS86 Matrix Role Play & Age of the Primes Reveal

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Welcome to All Things Transformers. I'm your

host, Steve Megatron, and joining me on this

adventure into the Transformers fandom is TFG1

Mike. I have been shattered. There is no more

glass. I almost, when you said shat, I was like,

that will shat commercial. Have you seen that?

No, I don't think so. He transports in, it's

a Raisin Bran commercial for like... That they're

playing right now. Yeah. And he's like, we'll

chat. We'll chat. We'll chat. Yeah. And then

he's like, he's like, we'll chat. We'll chat.

And then he's like, we'll head on my car. Almost

like the, like, I just shipped my man. Oh no.

From the Kmart blue light special days. Like

I was just like, this is great. I'm like, I like

it. And plus he was like having fun with it too.

But. They were transporting him and stuff. It

was quite funny. Hilarious. Oh, boy. So this

is the first or so. Listen, we've done more episodes

so far this year. Yeah, we've done like one or

two this year. Yeah. Okay. I couldn't remember.

It's been so long. But yeah, so Toy Fair happened.

yeah i hadn't seen a whole heck of a lot come

out of it other than things that i was kind of

expecting anyway what were okay what were you

expecting because i i didn't pay attention to

it either and then i caught the recap and i'm

like oh really okay to to be honest like I knew

they were going to do more Studio Series 86 crap.

Right, yeah. Did Beast Wars get any love for

its 30th anniversary? Nope. Not yet. Yeah, well.

We've got a few more months. They're on an apology

tour for the movie. They're like, we don't really...

Beast Wars is not on our radar right now. And

it's like 25 years since Red. Yeah. And it's

that's why BotCon is like smattered with Beast

Wars, G1 and RID actors. Yep. Which I would have

loved to have gone. However, it's smack in the

middle of my vacation that I'm taking with my

family. And then on top of that, it's in L .A.

If it were. Yeah. Like I wish they were in like

Denver because I would have been like, I don't

really care. I'm going. But they're always in

Chicago or, yeah, or in LA. Yeah, because I don't

think BotCon's doing anything. Or TFCon, that's

what I meant. Yeah, TFCon. I don't think BotCon's

doing a damn thing for being the official convention

of Transformers. They used to be the official.

Yeah, they used to be. They are having a BotCon

in July. in july matrixes grow there yeah so

they they've got a uh speaking of botcon since

we're on that subject yeah july 10th through

the 12th at the renaissance schomburg convention

center and then they've got like a a botcon box

which looks like a pile of garbage uh it's like

those stupid loot crates An exclusive Yellow

Park Versus set. Souvenir pin. Badge and lanyard.

T -shirt. Comic. Metal cardboard bot. Or card

bot toy. Blocky's kits. BotCon Legacy Fiction

Bundle. BotCon Legacy Exclusive Toy. Mystery

item. Let's see. If I still lived in Chicago,

that would be cool. But yeah, no. Yeah, and they've

got Neil Ross going. That's the only guest they

have announced so far. Yeah. TFCon is where it's

at anyway. I mean, honestly, TFCon cares more

about it all around. They care more about the

brand. They care more about the voice actors

and the people that were working on the stuff

and whatever. BotCon don't care. They just don't.

They got Sue Blue going. Okay. They're kind of

the old hat, second fiddle. TFCon came in and

swooped and stole their thunder while they were

out of commission. Yeah. Pretty much. I do think

that TFCon is run better. Yeah, absolutely. Out

of the two that I went to, I did go to TFCon

in Mississauga, Ontario, and then I went to TFCon,

or not TFCon, but I went to BotCon in Chicago.

So yeah, they're going to have the original,

you know, a lot of original actors for everything

on there, and then there's a ton of sponsors.

For the event, whereas like BotCon doesn't have

diddly squat. No. So. Yeah, I'm. I'm excited

for what they're doing with it. I wish I could

go, but yeah, it's just not in the cards for

me this year. Yeah, especially with it being

in L .A., I would have loved to have met all

the Beast Wars cast. And they're reasonably priced

for their autograph stuff. yeah absolutely they

are like uh gary david or like you know 40 bucks

or uh walker's like 100 but it's freaking walker

um yeah that was the other thing that was so

crazy that i noticed with the advertising for

tf con it was like Peter Cullen and Frank Welker

autograph opportunities together. There are a

hundred bucks. And I'm like, no, no, no. I, I

understand that. But like, I didn't realize this

year they got them both together at like, I knew

the convention was in LA, but I didn't think

they were going to get both Optimus and Megatron

together. At the same TFCon. And then I remembered,

all right, it's the 40th anniversary of the movie.

As long as the convention's in LA, of course

they're going to get Optimus and Megatron at

the same damn TFCon. And I'm not complaining

about that. I'm not complaining about it. I think

it's awesome. I think it's great. Oh, no, I agree

with you. Yeah, if I could afford 200 bucks.

i mean if i could afford any of it to go out

there sure great fine awesome whatever i think

it's awesome i think it's amazing but when i

saw that photo of the two of them together and

then the optimist and the mega how they did the

promotion for the the social media stuff like

wait a minute like i literally did a double take

i almost did a triple take i'm like oh oh literally

i did that i'm like oh great i'm i'm jim allen

grunting now uh because i was like wait oh okay

so that's what they're doing uh i'll never go

to conventions never i just i can't leave my

house anyway but yeah no tf con's where it's

at folks um vodka is not exactly like i'm on

the vodka premium whatever It's not as expensive

as I thought it was going to be. Some $89 for

the premium box. I thought it would be more expensive

than that, but it is what it is. But I ain't

going to BotCon. I just remember when they had

actually good stuff. Oh, yeah. And now we're

sitting here with like, well, that sucks. My

biggest problem with this BotCon image that they

have on their website, the BotCon box thing,

I need to look at the actual image here and see

what it actually entails because I don't know

what it entails. So let me take a look at this

really quick. Like the box contents. I don't,

I can't see the thing open. Damn it. Oh, if this

image doesn't open in two seconds, ah, it takes

forever. Well, that's what I was reading. Yeah.

Like, I don't wait a minute. What? Oh. are you

kidding me you read i know you read this earlier

but botcon exclusive yolo park versus set so

you're telling me that botcon set is now wrong

i'm not trap on yolo park yolo park is fine they're

cool i've got a couple of them which I need to

send to you anyway, because I just don't care.

But anyway, the point is, like, we've gone from

having amazing BotCon fully -tooled, transformable

figures and this, that, and the other thing to

YOLO Park figures as BotCon exclusives. Oh, f***.

Yeah. F the hell off. Get the f***. out of here

botcon you suck tf con forever botcon will never

be the same botcon's a joke botcon is officially

at joke status in my personal opinion at this

point they cannot recover from this and again

i don't blame yolo park at all great for yolo

park if they can get people to buy this shit

from botcon And when I say this shit, I mean

the BotCon packaging stuff, not their specific

toys. Again, I don't blame Yolo Park, but you

know, that's nope. Not a thing. That's unfortunate.

That's very unfortunate. Oh, my God. wow wow

you guys how far you have fallen botcon how far

you have fallen oh so yeah those are the conventions

we have folks go to tfcon instead of botcon make

good choices go to tfcon because tfcon like for

years like literally since When did we start

toy cast 2010? I think it was 2010, 2009, 2010,

somewhere around there. I forget when I started

toy cast off the top of my head, but literally

it was like at the beginning of the geek cast

radio network. When we started toy cast, it was

at least within the first year. One of the things

we did was I reached out or maybe he reached

out to me. I forget, or no, it was because he

was one of the founding members of toy cast was.

uh proto man we brought proto man along with

us uh was when optimus scourge was still alive

when gary clark was still alive he's like hey

let me let's have proto man come on because you

know i do all this stuff with tf con and everything

else i was like oh okay cool and we had proto

man on for several of the early episodes and

everything else and proto man and i share a very

unique uh well maybe it's not very shared interest

in a certain character you might know him you

know hot rod radimus prime etc yeah the best

autobot leader ever etc etc etc i said the best

autobot leader ever i didn't say the best maximal

leader ever a huge difference uh and uh so ever

since then i've all and i can tried to reach

out to proto man and i say hey Do you want to

do a TFCon pre -show? Do you want to do a post

-show? How do you want to do this? So those early

years of ToyCast from, I think, 2010 to 2013,

every year we would do a TFCon pre -show and

post -show for the Canada show because that's

the one that he had a big hand in. We didn't

do one for the USA show because I don't even

think they had the USA show at the time. so but

yeah no absolutely tf con far superior at least

this year so yeah all right well yeah but look

man botcon has really seriously botcon hadn't

been a thing for me in 10 years 2016 in louisville

kentucky was the final original botcon ever since

then It hadn't been a thing. No, I agree with

you. And every time anyone talks about BotCon

this, BotCon that, and I'm like, BotCon who?

Like, that thing died 10 years ago. All right.

Up next, we got the Transformers Toy Fair stuff.

I sent you an image of my Autobot Megatron that

my good buddy Brad built for me and sent to me.

Essentially a gift. uh and because that was really

the only one i wanted like because i don't do

these like i can't build these things these are

buckies or model kits so these are blockies transformers

and i got too fat of fingers i can only use one

hand hell i can barely use that hand now after

the ulnar nerve and carpal tunnel surgery i had

last year but anyway But we got Blockies shown

off at New York Toy Fair this year. We got Arcee,

Mirage, Bombshell, a bunch of others. So we got

all of that, and they look so darn cool. Absolutely

love them. We got Optimus with the axe. We got

a Cheetor there. We got Astrotrain. and oh i

might want to i might have to have brad get me

this one just give me both of them actually we

got in beast mode and in robot beast wars megatron

that that beast mode with the fire out his mouth

man uh and i know you hate these because they're

blind boxed i thought there was a way to get

them though i thought there was a way to get

them where they weren't blind boxed i don't think

so i think that they're all in the second box

really yeah because the i'll have to ask brad

because the the megatron and the the primal are

cool um yeah absolutely and the jet fire and

the jet fire look tiny unicron Well, they can

get the Megatron with the chair in there. I already

assumed that he hasn't replied to me, but I already

messaged Brad. And I'm like, Megatron in chair,

please. Whenever you can, let me know. I don't

know if he with the gun. I think there's a shockwave

that's translucent on his. He's holding them.

He's holding them. Yeah. Yeah, that is very cool.

very cool very cool very cool so yeah i like

these blocks because again like the point of

me sending you the the image of my autobot megatron

and my core class sound blaster is like yes these

are going to take up like your top shelves like

the top of your shelf not the very top like oh

my god but like they're tiny they're they're

not I don't know. It's not like a normal size,

like a leader class or a Voyager class. They're

desk formers to me. There's something I could

put on my desk. Literally, I've had that Sound

Blaster on the very front of my monitor, the

stand, the base, the spine, the arm, whatever.

You know what I'm talking about, right? the leg

of the monitor i've had that sound that even

though that's core class sound blaster it's a

blocky i've had that sound blaster sitting back

there for the last four years that i've lived

in this apartment it's a tiny little thing that

i can hi sound blaster whatever it's a tiny little

thing in the background same thing with blocky's

megatron i've had him sitting on various positions

on my desk like It's not even... It's just a

funny little thing. Yeah, the only one I would

like is the robot mode primal. Megatron. Megatron,

yeah. I don't care about the beast mode. It just

looks like a crappy dinosaur toy. Stop it! It

does. I mean, I can print the flame thing and

I can throw it in the robot mode. Me, it's the

robot mode head. So. Yeah. But yeah, I think

they're neat. Like, I don't dislike them. I think

that. They're kind of cool for what they are.

Yeah. That bombshell, man, that bombshell looks

crazy good. Oh, man, I didn't see the trypticon.

Holy crap. But that purple Megatron, like, wow,

just freaking wow. Yeah, the Translucent Megatron

and then the Beast Megatron are probably my favorite

two out of that group. Yep, yep, yep. Absolutely,

absolutely. They're so tiny. Yep. They're so

tiny. It would literally just sit on my desk

and that's fine. Like, I would just have it at

work. Yep, yep. That's all you need. I have a

Warp Cybertron Megatron on my credenza at work.

So there you go. There you go. There you go.

All right, folks, we're going to drop dead. I

can talk. I thought you were going to say we're

going to drop dead. It's over, Prime. It's over,

Prime. Are we jumping into more toys? Are we

jumping into the comics? Jump into the comics.

I was trying to go in order. We are going to

cover the G .I. Joe stuff because it actually

does have to do with Transformers. So we do have

to cover some of the G .I. Joe comics because

it's got Transformers in it. Transformers arriving

March 11th, 2026. We got Transformers number

30. This has Alita 1 on the cover. End of story

arc. Who will lead the Autobots? It's Optimus

Prime versus Alita 1. And the future of the Autobots

hangs in the balance. One shall stand and one,

you know the rest. Oh boy. This arc has been...

It's been good, but it's been slow going. So

this arc, issues 25 to 30, this is the first

time that it's been Robert Kirkman picking up

the writing because Daniel Warren Johnson's arc

stopped at issue 24 and he left the book, thank

God, actually. I've liked this arc to this point.

Issue 29 just came out recently. I think it was

February 11th or 12th, something like that. But

I'm curious to see and actually be able to read

how this one ends. And I think sometimes some

of the variant covers, like there's a variant

cover that's listed here. That would be better.

The one that I like is the Megatron one with

Rumble and Ravage. I think that would have been

better than the Alita 1 cover, even though Alita

is the main core part of the story. But it is

what it is. And then in April for Transformers.

We will get... Where is it? In April, we will

get Transformers 31, which is the new story arc.

The secret of Megatron revealed. Megatron has

a vision that will change the course of his life,

and no one in the Energon universe is safe. So

this is coming out April 8th. And this is, I

think, continuing the. Even though the story

arc, this is kind of continuing the Megatron

one -shotted kind of stories. So they started

this back in issue 19, where they kind of have.

A one shot Megatron story thing where they're

trying to give you his origin. So instead of

doing a separate Megatron mini series where it's

his origin and do it in five issues, they're

mixing it into the skybound under images, doing

weird things with how they release the comic.

Like they'll do. Issues 12 to 17, and that'll

be a story arc. And then issue 18 will be a specific

individual issue to whatever. And it's really,

really strange. So that's coming in April. Also

coming in April is Volume 5, which is the Collected

Edition 4. It's the Collected Edition. April

28th sees the release of the collected edition

for this arc. Funny enough. So the arc I just

mentioned issues 25 to 30. We'll see that. And

everybody was up in arms because what did they

name this trade paperback? transformers trade

paperback volume 5 generation 1 everybody was

up in a everybody's like oh my god how dare you

name it that oh my god oh my god look at the

fucking cover people sorry look at the cover

the cover is optimus prime in alt mode in robot

mode it's his giant head on the cover Look at

the bottom of the cover. It's Optimus Prime in

alt mode with his other Autobots, and then it's

Starscream and the Jets in his, like, chest windshield.

Like, it emotes Generation 1. Like, get over

it, people. Just get over it. And then also coming,

April's Loaded, because that same day you get...

Transformers Deluxe Edition Hardcover Book Volume

2. This collects Transformers 13 to 24, and then

the stories from the Energon Universe Special

2024 and 2025. So the Free Conflict Day issues

from 2024 and 2025, if you want the hardcover

editions, which I do highly recommend. I don't

have any of these yet, but... I've heard from

people who have these and they absolutely love

them as a collected edition, like full on display

pieces. And you get literally everything like

in it. It's, it's awesome. It's great. It's fun.

It's fun. So it's very, very awesome for that.

And like I said, really quick with, with GI Joe.

Make sure that I have the right thing here. Are

we past? Yes, I think we are. Where are we on

that? Literally, as we're recording this today,

we had the release of G .I. Joe number 19. G

.I. Joe number 19 begins Joe versus Transformer.

The secret is out. When Duke discovers that Clutch

has been hiding the Autobot Hound from the Joes,

can anyone stop him from putting down Hound permanently?

Dun, dun, dun. I literally just got this comic

this morning. I have not read it yet. But it

has been coming because Clutch and Hound have

been working in tandem behind the scenes and

behind Duke's back and all of this and all of

that and everything else. And then... The only

other one I will read from this is coming next

month in March, where Optimus Prime and Duke

meet for the first time. What does this mean

for the future of the Energon universe? Dun,

dun, dun. So the thing with this is G .I. Joe

and Transformers. Cobra Commander found the Energon,

and they've been experimenting with it, and they've

been doing weird things with it and things like

that, and all of this and all of that, and it's

supposed to all tie in. Also, within the G .I.

Joe universe, we've seen the introduction of

Miles Mayhem from Mask. We've also seen the introduction,

but we haven't seen anything further. The introduction

of Matt Tracker from Mask. And we've heard from

Robert Kirkman over at Skybound that at some

point in the future, Mask will fully be introduced,

whether that's in G .I. Joe or they get their

actual own comic book series themselves. I'm

hoping that's the case. But Mask will be introduced

fully. We've actually already seen Venom fly

off in his Switchblade copter. They don't actually

call it the Switchblade. They call it something

else, which I think is silly. They should have

just called it the Switchblade. But anyway, but

yeah, so that's the comics. That's what's going

on in the Energon universe. Back to the toys.

Toy Fair, Hasbro booth. Part 1. Oh boy, there's

lots here. Hasbro Booth Part 1. What do we got

over here? There literally was a lot with this.

So much. So this is the Studio Series and Age

of the Primes figures. We get, who is it? Bruticus,

right? Yeah, that's ridiculous. Shockwave on

his shoulder. Yeah, I thought that was kind of

cool. They're like, oh, he's got a fusion cannon

on his shoulder. That's more than a fusion cannon.

That's like a, it's like a whole thing. Well,

we got movie. That is movie Grimlock, right?

In that first set there. Yes. Right. It's from

the. Okay. Okay. It's not from the word for it's

from the last night or whatever. Well, yeah,

that's what I thought. So we got movie Grimlock.

very cool very cool movie megatron very cool

very cool okay too many pictures of the feet

and we don't need all that guys they like feet

we don't need tfw 4chan thank you uh yeah we

got yeah that's a good one we got brudicus with

the fusion cannon of shockwave on his shoulder

that is that is very cool Gotta stop with the

crotch shots. We got Swindle. Swindle looks great.

Mm -hmm. Swindle looks really cool, actually.

Yeah, he does. What is this Optimus Prime in

Starscream? Why is Optimus playing hockey? So

the previous picture, it's got Samurai, Bumblebee,

and Megatron, and Samurai, Optimus, and Starscream.

Okay, that's what it is. I just couldn't read

the... See that? Yeah. Took these photos. Okay.

I'm not even trying to fully have my face meshed

up against my screen. I can barely read the Age

of the Samurai thing there. But you can't even

read any text on the card with Optimus and Starscream.

No, it's washed out. It's the angle. Yeah. It's

a timeline thing. I was looking at it and I was

going, you know, I would love them to do a timelines

and hit some errors that they haven't in some

time. Some old BotCon stuff. I mean, I like the

fact that it's a samurai thing. It's something

different. It's something we don't get very often.

I think it's cool that they did a samurai thing.

That's fine. whatever it's something different

and new and it's not the same old here's do you

i mean it is a g1 optimus kind of but it's a

samurai it's optimus is a samurai i think that's

cool but i i just want better fucking photographs

uh okay more of of um shockwave on brudica's

shoulder how many shots of this do you need apparently

they don't have enough Okay, they aren't all

the same. I thought for a second they were repeating.

But we got new Optimus here with a chainsaw Bumblebee?

Wait, no, that's not right. Okay, it's just a

chainsaw accessory. And then Bumblebee. Bumblebee

looks good. He's got all kinds of guns all over

him. I don't know if I like this Optimus alt

mode, though. That looks weird to me. It does

look really weird. It looks weird. It looks like

Prime forgot how to transform, and he's like,

hey, I got this energon cutter. Yeah, like, what

the hell? Kind of reminds me of Prime. Can you

transform? I'll try. And I know I'm doing a piss

poor Peter Cullen. That's kind of the point.

Ratchet. Oh, this is it. This is Deluxe Age of

the Prime. Not might be Deluxe. This is Age of

the Prime's animated Ratchet. He looks good.

Yeah, he looks good. And they even got the broken

crest. Very cool. Very cool. And then who is

this? This is. God. I can't see his. Who's after

Ratchet? I can't... I'm not looking at... Oh,

wait. I don't know who this guy is. Let me look

in the thing here. Deluxe TF1 Orion Packs, Devastation,

Wave 5, TF1 Cliffsjumper, Powerglide, Animated

Ratchet, TF1 Smoke Screen, and Swerve. Maybe...

No, it's not... Maybe... No... Who is that? Huh.

I have no idea. I think... Is it Swerve? No.

Is it Swerve? Really? It is. I think it is Swerve.

Yeah, maybe. I don't know. If we're wrong, folks...

The point is, I didn't know who it was by looking

at it because it was not readily... Yeah. Yeah.

What is the deal with power gliding this ugly

ass mask? What's the deal with that stuff? Did

he use that in an episode? I don't remember.

I feel like we've seen some of these photos already.

Well, we have. Yeah. Recently. Yeah. Yeah. So

and this is. When I first saw the, I think this

is the Leech Maximo guy, the green one, the green

ugly thing. Yes. When I first saw him, I'm like,

what in the hell kind of alt mode is that? Because

I'm like, that's ugly as hell. Who the hell would

want that alt mode in their collection? Because

it's, it's ugly as hell. Yes, that is Leech.

Okay, good. I was right. Oh, my God. That alt

mode is disgusting. I get it. It's a different

character. It's not a truck. It's not a plane.

It's not a gun. It's not a dinosaur. It looks

like a creature from under the sea. It looks

like something King Triton spit up or something.

I don't know. It's just really weird. We get

sideways from Armada, and we get Nexus Prime,

and then we get a lot of the Bruticus, and then

we get the Optimus Prime, and back on damaged.

No. Take it back. Send it back. Send it back.

Don't nobody want... Lacey, I don't want that.

why i don't want optimus damn it why i don't

want a damaged optimus prime is what if i want

to keep optimus in his alt mode and i know i

can just buy the other one that isn't damaged

which is what i would probably do anyway but

like why would you want a damaged optimus prime

have him in alt mode and have a a stick Hanging

out is bump. No. Oh, Mr. Optimus Prime, you've

been in a car accident. Call on Star today, Optimus

Prime. Like, hello, I'm Optimus Prime. I've been

in a car accident. We'll be right there, Mr.

O 'Prime. No, no, don't stop. Here we go. Let's

go fishing. Studio Series 86 Hot Rod. Yeah, it

looked like he was peeing on the image for a

second. No, it's not. From the smaller image,

it looked like he was peeing on Scourge. Wait,

oh yeah, no. Leaking lubricants. Leaking lubricants.

Yeah, no, that's not what's going on there. And

then, yeah, we got Scourge. But he could be.

We got Scourge, we got Hound. And the, oh boy,

the one we've all been waiting for. Spare me

this mockery of justice. Kranix. Feed him. Feed

him to the Sharktacons. Feed him to the Sharktacons.

There you go. Finally, after 40 years, we get

a Kranix. He looks awesome. He looks so cool.

I don't care about his alt mode that much, but

the robot mode looks so good. Damn. And then

there's Sunstreaker and Wheeljack and whatever.

More Shockwave. Skywarp. Oh, and I did read somewhere

or I saw somewhere that everyone's like, Oh,

we got Skywarp and we got Thundercracker. What

about Starscream? Which is something I've been

saying since Thundercracker and Skywarp were

announced. Yes, I saw somewhere recently, last

couple of days, that yes, they are. I think it

was in the fan stream. Yes, they're probably

going to do Starscream later this year at some

point. What are they going to do? Release Burned

Feet? I don't know. I mean, as long as it had

a crown on them, I guess they could do that.

Speaking of a re -release or an update or a new

toy that we really kind of didn't need this version

of other than one mode. Studio Series 86. astro

train i don't know what this thing because i

haven't looked at the pre -orders i don't know

what this thing is me i don't know what the charge

is for this thing i have no idea what the cost

is going to be for studio series 86 astro train

but the only reason why i would buy it and i'm

not buying it is the train mode because the shuttle

mode looks like ass i don't like the shuttle

mode at all And the robot mode is just stupid.

I don't like it. And the head sculpt is the best

part of the robot mode. But that train mode looks

good. I was going to say, they've made better,

you know, Astro Trains over the years. Absolutely,

they have. But that train mode, though, with

the smoky pipe thing, with the smoky steam thing

coming out of the... The front right there. That's

purchasable enough alone just for that to have

a updated purple accurate train that would essentially

go next to my original G1 version. Sure. Fine.

Great. But at the same time, I don't want to

buy it just for that. Like I can't justify it.

I don't care what price it is just for that.

Cause I wouldn't. This, this specific toy, I

would never take out a train mode and my generation

one optimist optimist. What the hell am I talking

about? Astro train. I transformed that thing

at least once every three months. Sometimes like

it's a fiddle toy for me. Sometimes not all the

time, but like I'll transform it between its

three modes. every couple of months i still put

it back in train mode where it belongs i like

the train mode the best because it's all purple

but this like if this was a slightly dark like

again they need to go back and look at the animation

model that's the other thing with this this is

too light of a purpose like they need to if they

want toy accuracy fine go back to the generation

one toy and look at that. Literally it's, it's

dark purple. It ain't this light, but yeah, so

that's, um, that'd be a Hasbro, uh, toy fair

part booth part one. What are you, you have any

other thoughts on this one? No, I mean, I kind

of expected all this. I'm just a little bummed

that we didn't get anything, you know, for all

the other anniversary. type stuff yeah they're

really leaning into the uh the g1 stuff because

sadly unfortunately that's what makes them the

money i mean yay we still have all the stuff

but yeah uh the hesbro booth part two is the

cyber world reveals I asked, so when I made this

script up, I made it up originally for a recording

that I'll be a guest on another night. And I

asked my other buddies and I said, do we really

care about this stuff? Cause I wasn't sure. Cause

I've never watched the cyber world toy. I've

never watched the cyber world cartoon thing.

And I'm looking at these and I'm like, What are

these? What? I don't understand. I have no knowledge.

Like, okay, there's Shockwave with a red chest.

Okay. There's not enough purple on that Shockwave

for me. I don't know who the yellow and green

guy is. I don't know. Yeah. That one kind of

looks like Bombshell, but I don't know. You have

any knowledge of these ones at all? Because,

like, I'm ready to just blow past this. I've

watched Cyberverse, or Cyberworld, not Cyberverse.

I'm a little behind. I haven't gotten past episode

12, so I have no idea. Like, I didn't know that

Shockwave appears or Arachnid. I did know. Like

I didn't know shot or sound wave showed up either,

like the bug guy, the insecticon guy I knew was

there because he's been in there for a while

and some of the other guys. But yeah, I don't

I haven't really followed it all that closely.

It's been pretty decent what I've seen of it,

but it's not. It's not like the greatest. Transformers

show. Yeah. And the photo after the last car

picture photo, I don't know if that's supposed

to be Bumblebee or who that's supposed to be.

We get a Energon Surge, Cyberworld, Energon Surge.

And then we get a photo of a giant shelf. And

this giant shelf has Transformers the movie.

It has other things. And is that a giant Unicron

pillow? It's like the very last photo before

they reset to the first photo. It's a giant Unicron

pillow. Who the hell would want to sleep on a

giant Unicron pillow? No, just no. Well, if you

bet, you're going to get the cards. Yeah, yeah,

yeah. All right. All right, Mr. Vinen. Yep. I

said that to somebody the other day. They're

like, what bull, what horns? And I'm like, okay,

clearly you have not watched The Breakfast Club.

And then the final story that I have. Oh, wait,

that's the video. Whoops. That's not the right

thing. How did that? Wait, what? Wait a minute.

Oh, well. I thought I pulled up the, okay. All

right. Well, we're just going to do the behind

the scenes then. Cause that's the, that's the,

um, TFW link I have pulled up. We can't do the,

the, the YouTube video. So they announced the

first, well, at least for the 40th anniversary,

apology tour. The first Transformers roleplay

toy for the next year here. We have the Studio

Series 86 Roleplay Matrix. Did you watch that

stream? No. I can't stand any of the streams

with these guys because it's just hype crap.

Just show me the news. well so the the news is

is that we're getting a transformers the matrix

uh role play toy that is backed by double s but

it also is backed by usb it's light up you can

it comes apart like it does in the movie it has

finger holes and all of these guys now you've

seen the streams before right so you've seen

evan you've seen mark okay so each of them have

obviously because they're both different humans

they have different size hands So they, on the

stream, they each put their fingers in the finger

holes. God, that sounds weird to say, but they

each, so the point is, my point is, is that they

made the finger holes in the matrix universal

so that everyone's fingers, kids and adults,

they will fit in order to light our darkest hour.

And I don't know where it was. I don't think

it was on Twitter. I think it was on Facebook

or maybe it was on Instagram. I was probably

on Facebook because Facebook seems to be. Oh,

it was on Facebook because it was in a Facebook

group that I'm not actually in. But apparently

Facebook allows you to make comments on groups

that you're not actually in. This makes no sense

to me whatsoever. Yes, I know I want to air,

but just let me go. So. I made a comment about

this on Facebook. Somebody was like, oh, $125.

It's too expensive. I'm not buying that. Blah,

blah, blah. I already bought the Transformers

1 version of this. I don't need to buy this one.

Oh, well, I already pre -ordered it. I didn't

buy the other one. I'm good with this. I love

1986. I'm cool. And because it's AA batteries.

With power, with power backup, I'm good. Somebody

commented back to me, oh, but didn't they say

it was USB? Yes, it's USB. Of course it's mother

USB. Do you not know that even though it's USB,

USB still has, like, I still can plug a USB into

my lamp. My lamp is still. That's still electricity.

That's still power. Somebody is short of a couple

of gigawatts over there in whatever Transformers

group that was. Because Jesus H. Mother Christ.

Are you kidding me? Like, seriously? Do people

not know how power works? You can't just plug

in USB. Even if I plug in the USB matrix to my

computer, my computer still plugged into the

wall. You're still drawing power from my eyes

starting to twitch. Oh, my God. Seriously, dude,

like house. All as I said was, yay, it's double

A batteries and it is power backup. Or it's electricity

backup. Or it has power. It also has power as

a backup. And then I'm like, oh, but isn't it

USB? You can't see this, but my eyes are rolling

so hard in the back of my head. Do people not?

And this is where Mike got into, you know, Hot

Rod and somehow. hot rod let mike crash out because

yikes and i hate that term absolutely hate like

just let me give me my 1986 temper tantrum fit

whatever why do we have to have a new term for

fits or crap or uh the temper tantrums or whatever

why do we why do we have to call it a crash out

anyway the matrix yay role play $125. It'll be

here in July, at least according to Amazon. I

think it's pretty cool. It's not something I'm

going to physically purchase because, one, I

don't have space, and two, it's just not something

I'm going to go after. Yeah. But it is pretty

stinking cool. Yep. I mean, like... so the way

that they were showing this off and they've shown

it off outside of the, the actual fan stream.

So you don't have to like fast forward through

the fan stream to find the section where they

showed it off and whatever else. So it has whatever

turn on sounds and whatever, but basically when

you open it, just like at the end of the movie,

And I'm going to do this poorly, because I know

you're not going to insert the clip, which is

fine. It's a pity you Autobots die so easily,

or I might have a sense of satisfaction now.

Clink. Yoink. Arise, Rodimus Prime. Optimus?

Question mark? And then a certain song will play.

And that's what happens when you open it up.

You hear, literally, they got the recording from

the old Scotty Brothers record, probably. It's

not a new recording. It's the original recording

of the Touch. So when you open this thing up,

it plays the Touch. Kind of cool, though. Yeah.

No. And again, for $125, you get a... electronic

filled battery operated power backed matrix that

opens it also comes with the stand you can leave

it on the stand you can leave it on the stand

lit up so you don't actually have to open it

you can just leave leave it on there as a light

up feature for your room like You don't have

to even leave it lit up. You can turn it off,

like whatever. It's a nice piece. It's an amazing

piece to have, especially since it's the 40th

anniversary of the movie. Okay, I'm done. Show

over. I'm good. Last topic that I had. Thank

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