BotCon 3 Toy Picks and Discussion

Warners! welcome to Transformers Toycast brought

to you by the GeekCaster network this is episode

13 all BotCon part 3 I am TFG1 Mike and today

I am joined by Optimus Scourge hello sir hey

how you doing I'm doing pretty well and Lupus

Convoy of TFW hello hey how's it going it's going

how are you guys what are you guys been up to

this week how about you Lupus we haven't heard

from you in a little while I am fighting with

my past school and current school to get records

transferred for my nursing degree program No,

and it's getting to be crunch time and nobody

seems to know where any paperwork is And other

than that I am I'm going through this phase of

getting transformers from people but being so

busy with work and school that They're just kind

of sitting there for days on end going, let us

out, let us out. Yeah, I know how you feel. What

about you, Gary? How you been? What have you

been up to? Not too too much. I already have

a jet fire, but I saw a couple of jet fires at

retail today at Walmart, so they're starting

to hit this area, which is good. Haven't really

gotten too much. I picked up a Because of the

sale at Toys R Us for GI Joe, you get a $10 gift

card with a $30 purchase. And they just so happened

to have the helicopter that comes with the wild

bill. And I was really looking forward to that.

Didn't even know it would be out yet. And I saw

that and an Elite Viper. So I grabbed that to

get the gift card. And then I ended up getting.

Human Alliance side -swipe, which is pretty much

the only transformer I've gotten, but I haven't

opened them yet. Like Lupus, he's sitting there,

you know. Oh no, mine's out now. He came out

today. I haven't opened them, so I can't really

comment on how good he is, other than to say

what I've heard from hearsay and reviews, but

I haven't opened them, so I don't know. But he

looks awesome in the box. He looks great in vehicle

mode. In robot mode, he... He's got very good

points and he's got some really bad points does

he suffered the Standability problem of the deluxe

you know what no the the deluxe the deluxe had

straight -up wheels for feet they actually added

some small toes that you can option to have in

there by flipping a panel upside down and it's

got Some drop -down heel spurs as well. Yeah

I remember reading his bio in the Club Mag this

month and saying he roller skates more than walks.

Yep. Pretty cool. A roller skating transformer.

I don't think I've ever seen that before. Well,

no. The way he moves is more like roller skating

because he actually rolls on his wheels instead

of having feet. So he rolls. Every time I see

that, though, it harkens back to transtech and

the design sketches we saw for Cheetor. Yeah,

I've been keeping busy as usual We haven't had

as many releases as we did about a month ago

There was like a two -week period where our podcasting

network had 14 releases The TFG1 podcast is over

My main focus now is on movie we can review and

tune cast which Those have become my two main

shows that I am focused on. I currently, over

this past week, I've gotten all the information

for all the way up to episode 33, I believe,

of MWIRE. So as far as each film's background

and all that stuff. So that's what I've been

focusing on. I haven't picked up anything as

far as toys goes, because there really isn't

anything out there that I really want to pick

up. I guess we can mention the fact that Voyager,

TFA Voyager, Thundercracker and Blackouter are

out and apparently, according to the news on

TFW and several other places, these are the last

animated molds to be released. That's what I've

read. I mean, I know that Rodimus and RC and

all that is coming out, but we're gonna get it

We're gonna get it. Well, no, I mean, but but

I mean everybody says it's not gonna be released

under animated It's gonna be released. No, it

won't it won't be released under animated. It

can't be I Don't know. I mean the stores that

I go to they still stock animated No, but I mean

I mean just for new stock I mean, it's just like

the same things going on with GI Joe They're

putting out characters that are your target exclusives

like a Cobra eel It's a 25th Cobra Eel, not a

movie Cobra Eel, but it's in movie packaging.

Who cares? We're going to open it up and have

the same thing anyway. I don't care what the

package looks like just as long as they come

out. Really, I really don't. No, and I agree

with that, and that's fine. I just don't want

to see TFA -style toys released under Revenge

of the Fallen. I mean, I wouldn't care if it

was released under Universe or 25th Anniversary.

saying or what will you know something like that

uh... it would fit under universe looks it wouldn't

be the first time i'd love to see it under universe

i said i would second that that would definitely

be all right with me yeah i mean i completely

agree with that i just don't want to see it under

the revenge of the fallen card is if that's but

if that's the only way it's gonna come out i

will buy it i mean you know Agree with that but

still saying I would buy it would no matter You

know a black box that you can't see it. I'll

still buy it. Give me RC, you know Oh, yeah,

oh, yeah One thing I did forget to mention that

I did get this week was RC. I got I haven't opened

that either And I got one for my wife's small

RC collection of about four or five and a couple

of busts Yeah, I guess I don't know if If I've

mentioned this to lupus or not after like the

first or first or second time he guested with

us He had mentioned it on Twitter and Seth Buzzard

said something to him about it something about

being a traitor. What is that all? Apparently

I'm only supposed to be on the TFW podcast in

his viewpoint and I Challenged him by saying

well, what are you gonna do when? When I make

my own podcast, he goes, is it going to be competition?

I'm not sure. I could care less about competition.

I am not in podcasting. You start podcasting

wars with people. It's all about having fun.

I mean, let's leave it at that. Oh, yeah. No

doubt. And I even, after I saw that, I went under

the Toycast Twitter. that I have and I messaged

Seth and I said hey look anytime any of you guys

want to come on and talk about toys that's fine

so I mean if he wants to he wants to if he doesn't

he doesn't I'm sure it was all in jest cause

he likes to give me a hard time constantly offense

to it at all but and that's fine but you know

I just don't want people out there thinking that

you know I'm trying to start podcasting wars

with them cause I'm not I really don't even care

but um... so i think that this is all bought

on part three i think we're going to swing to

go in your order so uh... gary you can go then

i'll go and then uh... with this you can go because

we're each talking about oh seven or eight no

nine okay take it away up to the scourge uh...

i'm gonna be talking about o 'connell seven exclusive

uh... is actually in and uh... he wasn't in the

box that he was in an ad on and uh... that's

hover He's a mini bought from G1 as you may know

we've redone to be like the classics He was originally

armor hide in the Cybertron line he does come

with the cyber key You put the cyber key in his

back and his chest which is the cab of the truck

He's a flat nose semi truck with like a crane

attachment to him which becomes his gun as well

You push the cyber key in his back and his chest

flips open and he has like bombardments of missiles

in there. So for a small guy, he's got like two

sets of four, eight missiles that look like they

can just launch right at you. So he's armed to

the teeth for a little guy. And I kind of picked

him because he gets to know love. I think it

was a great G1 homage. The original toy, I think

my kids had. I didn't really have it. I remember

having Huffer as a kid and I thought this was

a great update the toy in itself is very simple

very easy to transform You know a scout scout

size very small Fits in very well with the classic

shelf, you know, and he's not too expensive on

the secondary market Which is really good because

he's not like, you know Alpha try on $200 or

something like that. You could probably pick

this guy up for like I'm not sure I'm not gonna

say exactly because I don't know but I'm sure

he's much much cheaper because he's not as desirable

but For me, I really like I mean, he's got decent

articulation obviously ball joints and stuff

He's a limited At the hip with articulation he

can't really bend one way but for the most part

he's pretty good the only knock on him I'd say

was his knees are a little loose and sometimes

it's a little tricky to get him to stand right

once you get him he's all set and another cool

feature about this guy is that his crane or his

gun, whichever you're using it in, can hold the

cyber key. And I wish more figures in the Cybertron

line had a place to store the cyber key, because

I know I'm not alone when I say that I like it

and dislike it at the same time. Sometimes you

don't want to see it, or you want to use the

feature but you don't want a cyber key, or you

don't want the feature to be open in vehicle

mode, but you don't have a place for the cyber

key. Just to butt in real quick, the only other

figure that I know of from any series that could

hold onto their key. I think what is Weird Wolf

from that same year of Bakon, he had a little

hip spot. That's the only one I can think of

off the top of my head. Yeah, he's actually in

my shelf. I'll have to check on that later. The

crane does not do any kind of telescoping thing.

It does have like a little hook on the end of

it that moves. I imagine you could tow another

little like you could tow Rodimus with this little

guy or something, but I always liked Huffer in

the G1, and this is a great little toy, and you

could probably pick him up cheap on eBay. I mean,

because he's not part of the box set, he's just

a little scout. I'm sure you could get him for

a decent price. I don't happen to know exactly

how much offhand, but I mean, he's small, compact,

great G1 homage, and as always, like we've said

before, the BotCon paint apps are just great.

He's very detailed. Doesn't have a ton of paint

apps, but the grill and the front of the truck

very nicely detailed Great paint job on the face

nicely detailed face with red eyes and a little

bit of orange on the top of the helmet Even the

windshield is like painted silver I mean they

really kind of you know that they go all out

when they do the paint apps with bot contours

That's what I love about them You know, even

the arms are like detailed to look like they've

been blackwashed or not blackwashed. Like a wash

on them like silver detailing is just very nice

for such a small figure to have a lot of detail

and it's a little fun little guy. And with that,

I'll pass it on to the next. Yes, I am going

to go next. I, you know, even though Toycast

is meant to just be us, you know, sitting around

discussing toys. I tend to do research on some

just by going to YouTube and watching reviews

and I had to rewatch Pia's review of gold bug

because I just wanted to rewatch it because I

was I was thinking something I knew he had a

cyber key gimmick but and this is shattered glass

gold bug from the 08 set know about it so I went

back and watched his review and something occurred

to me that that didn't occur to me before when

I first got him gold bug even though he was a

remold of Cybertron hotshot reminds me of the

G1 hot rod transformation just the way he looks

the fact that his cyber key gimmick brings out

two blue wings I love his car mode don't think

that they should have used yellow on the car

or actually on the whole toy because It's supposed

to look like gold paint, but to me it looks more

yellow And I wish that they would have gotten

more detail on that. I will say on his on his

front hood here Where the engine would be it

if you put it in the in the light, right? It

kind of looks like it's gold especially with

the The the spoiler type thing on here His robot

mode is amazing. I took pictures of it a while

ago, and I realized if you pose him a certain

way you can get him into a squatting position

Don't ask me how I figured that out, but his

on mine. I guess I guess the one on mine his

legs are so Loose or some I don't know if they're

just loose or what the deal is but he just wouldn't

um... he wouldn't pose right and I just said

okay well I'll go with the bendy legs and I did

and he ended up being posed that way Can give

you a little insight if you'd like sorry to butt

in but um, he was repainted so many times He

was you know, he was used in Japan In a few colors.

He came out here in blue and then red is a xylian

I mean the mold got a lot of use. So by the time

bachon got it Thousands and thousands of them

had been made. So that's probably could be a

reason. Oh No, no that mold looks incredible

in red by the way for a hot rod fan Just let

you know Cybertron. Oh, yeah, go check it out

Well there was two different versions of that.

There was the Japanese DVD exclusive and then

the US version that we got. Yeah, I'm not going

to tell him about the Japanese version though

because that'll just make his head rattle when

he sees how much that goes for. So speaking of

things, prices that things go for, I did a little

searching for Huffer and he goes in between $36

if you can find them for that cheap to $99 by

himself still packaged. That's packaged yeah

Yeah, that is kind of pricey, but I guess I guess

that's why I picked him I mean he is kind of

popular if you you know if you like the old one

so but anyways no yeah The I'm sitting here transforming

gold bug as we speak, but the amazing thing about

him The amazing thing about him is the way that

they did his heel spurs I have never you know

I just you know everybody knows I I have not

been a collector for many many years I just got

into it a couple years ago, and I just you know

talked about you know found out about transformers

with heel spurs a while ago and It just amazes

me how the BotCon toys and I mean I know that

they're all remold of existing molds but I have

never owned another mold of this toy and it just

amazes me what the difference they did with and

I know it wasn't BotCon it was the original mold

with his hill spurs because it's not a flip out

heel it's the back of his car it's the wing of

the back of his car part of the wing, the part

that doesn't flip around and turn around to become

his hot rod -like wing thing. It's his... Spoiler?

Well, I guess it's part of his spoiler. I actually

like to keep his feet together. I don't like

to separate them just because mine stands up

better that way because the bending at the knee

joint, it's just horrible on my toy. I can't

get him to stand up straight and he ends up...

Like right now, I'm actually having to put him

in the squatting position, unfortunately, to

stand up correctly. But just the way that they

did that for the heels is so cool. Him in robot

mode, I do like. The blue head is actually really

awesome. It doesn't take away from the other

ones. And again, it's almost like the G1 head

with the faceplate instead of the regular bumblebee

mouth. So I do like him the only thing I don't

have for him is I don't have his missile I have

his missile launcher, but I don't have the blue

missile that goes with them for some odd reason

I don't know where it is. It's somewhere It's

kind of like last or well last episode was the

it's kind of episode 12 where or episode Whatever,

I don't even know what the hell the last episode

that we we talked about con toys where Ben lost

his Springer missile. At least he found it. He

found it right after the podcast and I think

his wife found it under the bed or something.

Well he found it behind the desk or something

yeah I don't know. Overall I really like this

guy he is a really cool car and as I've said

before I love the idea of Autobot car seekers.

I think that's so awesome. I like that better

than Decepticon Jetseekers. That may be blasphemy,

but that's just the way I feel about it. And

again, just going by Pia's review and just transforming

it now myself, I feel like this was a straight

homage to Hot Rod's transformation from G1, because

it's basically the exact same transformation,

even though it was from Cybertron's hot shot

I would recommend people get this if you can

find it at a decent price again we all know how

how BotCon toys are for aftermarket value and

stuff and I do have to agree with Pio when he

said in his review the only thing he didn't really

like was the fact that the windows when you move

his arms down the door windows and stuff you

really those aren't foldable and they kind of

overlap the actual hand position but other than

that I really enjoy the figure especially now

that I found out about the the cyber key gimmick

and this is a little blue wings out that's kind

of cool so that's my spiel on BotCon 08 shattered

ice gold bug I guess we can go on to lupus what

are you going to be talking about sir? I'm going

to be covering the 09 Leo Zak figure that came

out. He was the attendee figure for the convention.

He is based off of the Energon Starscream mold,

and actually, because that mold wasn't repainted

to death, it holds up pretty well, even though

this was a repaint of another figure in the set,

which was Skyquake, I believe. Blue and white

jet, and it looks like... Honestly, you would

never see a jet in these colors, but It's it's

teal blue pearlescent white a little bit of yellow

and Dark violet in there He's got a big teal

Gun and sword that both combined to this giant

like meat cleaver What's a strange weapon it

is and it like it barely fits in both of his

hands He really has to struggle to get it in

Transformation sequence is exactly like the Beast

Wars 2 Generation 2 smoke screen, I believe,

and the Beast Wars 2 or Neo star screen. It is

lots of fun to transform. I love the fact that

the characterization of it is directly ripped

out of an anime, like he's a living anime character.

They they explained why he couldn't use his weapons

without actually shouting the name like something

out of robots in disguise The fact it allows

melodrama It the details on some of the paint

is Amazing for a botcom toy. I mean they even

painted the intakes of his His head to look make

it look more like ears like the original g1 character

If you have the opportunity to pick it up, he's

going He's at the first plateau of a bot con

price. It's still like You can find them for

about 50 to 100 dollars So if at this point you

can still get him for fairly cheap, I would highly

suggest picking them up Not really much else

to say about him he's got his wings do become

secondary weapon blasters That kind of flip up

and over and they're spring with a little missiles

that'll easily get lost if you shoot them at

your cat Yeah, I mean It's a solid figure deluxe

size Yeah, and this little baby was a birthday

gift for me from my honey, and it was just like

Yay, I'm not gonna pay attention to anything

else for two weeks If you get the opportunity

to pick them up he is color wise and character

wise leaps and bounds above the uh... the original

release from energon which is saying a lot considering

it's an energon toy but uh... yeah it's pretty

solid pick it up yeah going uh... really quick

going back to gold bug and that sounds awesome

uh... for leo zack again i wasn't a big fan of

the 09 set but anyway i didn't realize and i

was thinking to myself i didn't remember that

that gold bug was a part of the box set I thought

he was an add -on or another exclusive because

all last week in preparation for this I had him

in robot mode standing next to Sharon Glass Rodimus.

I'm like, wow, Rodimus is a real midget next

to Goldbug. What is going on? I went in my display

room and I looked at him. I looked at the box.

I'm like, oh, that's why he's a different size

class. Duh. Overall, for the majority, none of

us can really say too many bad things about the

BotCon toys as far as the details that go into

them. I was actually looking for a secondary

Shattered Glass Optimus, and there was only one

on eBay that I found that was at auction, and

I think the final price for it was like $152

.50 plus whatever shipping was, which was amazing

to me even though I didn't get him. uh... but

uh... i wish i could go every year and get the

sets and the exclusives but you know again that

depends on locations and you can get the non

-attending package that's true but you know as

we've all known that you know majority of the

stuff that happens at the convention on the majority

of the exclusives that are convention exclusives

are sometimes cooler than the actual box set

definitely this year especially i want to touch

on your your pick mike uh... if you like that

that gold bug and you like hot rod hot shot is

good at energon but the exilion one the red one

really brings hot rod i mean If you like Gold

Bug, you can get him cheap too. It's a Cybertron

toy, mass release, you know what I mean? I would

highly suggest picking that up. I know this is

a BotCon episode, but it's the same toy. It's

just so nice and red, so nice. Such a hot rod

homage, you know? Before we had classics hot

rod, that was like the homage we got, you know?

Oh, yeah. Because he was blue, and then when

they repainted him red as Exilion, the blue one

went straight to the kids, and I had the red

one, you know? There was a lot of people that...

took both of them and swapped out the clear plastic

and the wings so you had the yellow from the

original hot shot in the Exilion so you had that

perfect, perfect hot shot. Nice. I mean it's

not so much that I want a Hot Rod version of

this toy, it just, now that I've re -watched

that YouTube review and I've actually paid more

attention to the transformation, it reminds me

so much of G1 Hot Rod but I will check that out.

Yeah, and he is unbelievably posable with his

legs. He is just so much fun that toy that mold

in any Oh, yeah, any of any version of that mold

I just couldn't believe it when I when I opened

them up. Yeah, unbelievable toy. Yeah Oh, yeah,

very very much. So actually my next goal is outside

of whenever TFA Rodimus minor comes out. My next

goal is to get One either one of each or two

of each of either the nk Rodimus or the US Rodimus

because I want those toys The classics Rodimus

the classics one. Yeah. Oh, it's the great mold

Yes, very much only because to go up against

shattered glass Rodimus What you thought about

the fans project protector armor for that mold

see I've only seen the image where it's it's

clear plastic or it's it hasn't been finalized

it had it's not like you can go we've seen the

resin picture something right uh... yes the resin

picture and i i really can't form an opinion

about that because when it's show i saw a picture

of it the resin armor with the uh... the uh...

the u .s. uh... hot rod the u .s. rodimus version

and i just i can't see it yet Once they eventually

get you know colors finalized and stuff like

that, and they show the actual armor for him

I'm sure it'll be awesome. Oh, no doubt. I'm

trying to pretend it doesn't exist because I'm

going, oh my god, when I see that in color, I

know I'm going to buy it. But my god, I'm trying

to pretend like it don't exist because trying

to cut back with no job, you know? But yeah,

I'm sure that's going to look really cool. When

I saw that today on Twitter, I saw the picture

from TFW. And I went, oh my god. Because I think

Proto Man put up a link, like I have to get three

or four of these. It was like. well it is what

it is like you know getting like five or six

but you know the other thing is you know as far

as wanting armor add -ons you know now that i

have nemesis prime i want the shadow commander

armor it's just it did it just sucks you know

after buying some toys that that that they've

made armor for especially that you know the fans

project stuff it's like oh god i want that now

so what are you going to do when they have a

erotimus shattered glass version that comes out

for the armor i mean you're probably going to

be drooling and like yeah they're going to have

a black the black trailer with with purple flames

well see here's how i think well this is just

me um i'm hoping if they do do a trailer and

it and it will be the purple flames but i'm hoping

that The purple flame will take up a majority

of the sides of each side of the trailer and

just have the black on the top and the bottom

and stuff like that. But that's just me. I'm

actually hoping... Oh, you know they're going

to do it. You know they're going to do it. They

did it with City Commander. What, three different

versions? Yeah, City... Or if you want to count

the TFCon exclusive. Yeah, City Shadow and Power

Commander. I'm actually hoping that they do one

for Shattered Glass Optimus and do it all purple.

Oh, that'd be nice. Take the paint app from Shattered

Glass Optimus and do it entirely in that color.

And then have it border in black. And then for

the tail lights, use the green that's on there.

Just take all those colors, all those main colors,

the purple, the black, and the green, and just

do it up like that. That would be so awesome.

You may very well get what you wish for, because

all companies have to get the most out of their

molds. So to repaint it is nothing. You're just

talking paint apps. They already have the molds.

Plastic is very cheap. All the money is in the

engineering. Also, it may even happen still.

I know they have a lot on their platter to do

right now, but in between stuff, I could see

that. I could see them tipping a couple out just

so that they can get some extra revenue in for

their other huge projects that they're working

on. Yeah, what I would see them doing is just

like doing some Photoshop pictures of it and

seeing what kind of fan reaction they get from

a few sites, you know, like they usually do.

Yeah. Because, I mean, let's face it, that's

how everybody tests out their fan -made stuff

now. They post it on the message boards wherever

it is, anywhere, any message board, you know,

transformer -related. And, you know, they see

what people say. Even after we saw the You know

and I keep going back to TF aeronymous even after

we saw a dog dogs pictures of that From BotCon

of the actual toy when the when I first saw the

Photoshop image. Yeah, the colors are off Yeah,

the car mode is mistransformed with the engine

not showing in the Autobot symbol showing I still

the Photoshop image makes me want that toy even

more because it just it just looks so cool Doesn't

it? Yes There was a there was a comic shop nearby

that had a Not a classics, but a hang cave Rodimus

and I kind of kicked myself now for not picking

it up Just knowing someone might need it. It

was like 30 bucks, you know, which is pretty

much what they cost shipped anyway knew But yeah,

I I never picked it up and I kind of regretted

that it went next time went back It was gone

along with the rest of them. They had mirage

as well. I don't I think I have I only have one

hanky, and that's Red Alert. I got the missile

launcher on him from the Gears of War set, the

chrome missile launcher. I ended up painting

my Mirage missile launcher because it was orange,

so I had to paint it. I painted it anime style

with a black and then a white missile. It came

out alright. After I found out about the wings

on gold bug and I had him back in car mode I

made a tweet on Twitter I said okay who needs

g1 tracks when I can have shattered glass gold

bug flying me around all the time because it's

just so cool because again I hadn't I hadn't

known that about the about the figure and I'm

like and I when I first got him I was looking

at him like why is there a hole in the back of

his spoiler here where and I just didn't realize

about you know the cyber keys and and all this

and that and everything else I just didn't didn't

register with me and after I found that out and

I had him in car mode for about the rest of the

majority of the rest of this week I'm like oh

yeah I would definitely fly in that who needs

airplanes when you have shatter glass gold bug

but yeah uh... you know we can go on and on and

on about you know what what we would like to

see and you know that that that would be super

awesome if they did that with uh... excuse me

with uh... shatter glass rotimus or shatter glass

optimus i would love that that that would just

be so awesome to get a yeah we could sit here

all day and do that i know The what we'd like

to get yeah, exactly Would you like to get this

week? Yes, really? like to get everything Yes,

that would be so nice even though I know that's

not gonna happen anymore the You know I've I've

kind of started getting into the classics only

because of seeing these other molds like nemesis

and cheddar glass erotimus and stuff like that

I Think the only classics toy that really disappoints

me is astro train Because I just don't like the

way his robot mode is I don't know it Maybe because

I'm hung up on the g1 version, and I don't that's

Yeah, I was gonna say that's the other one that

I have a hank a of is the yes train. I hate the

white one Really, it's great. It's anime astro

train only classics. Yeah. Yeah, I don't take

them off the shelf He's a sucky toy, but some

people like them, but I really do like them.

I like both versions The only reason why I don't

like him is because I made him into a Japanese

Super Bullet train I wish they would have kept

the you know American style train type of deal

like Like the old steam locomotive? Yeah, like

the G1 toy was. So yeah, I don't know. Do we

have anything else we would like to pine over

or discuss? No, I've already covered what I was

going to say about your choice. If you can't

afford the gold bug, there's plenty of other

options. You can get Cybertron Hot Shot in blue,

or Exilion if you can find them. And Lupus could

probably tell you the Japanese names. Exilion?

That's pretty much it. Well, what was he else?

No the hotshot the blue one? What was his? The

Japanese name was actually Xillian for the blue

one for the blue one The red repaint they did

yep, the red repaint was just red Xillian I wasn't

sure that's why I gave it to you Yeah, they've

done a lot of that toy is such a great toy like

I said That's probably why yours is loose because

they've used the mold so much and they did sell

a lot of them Yeah, you know that was a hard

to find toy when it came out so it's very popular

and the fact like you said that it has the Rodimus

transformation and with the with the cyber key

You know looks just like Rodimus. You know that's

what I fell in love with it's just just a great

toy, but anyway Oh, yeah, and I mean I think

it's and I will Think I twit peek the I think

I twit pick the pictures after I took them, but

I will I will repost them on Predacon Empire

and and twit that that that link when I actually

I thought it was really funny when when his When

he bends at the knees here, and I got him in

the squatting business. I'm like oh wow that

that's so cool I've never actually seen that

before a squatting transformer yeah, I'll have

to dig those pictures out and post them again

and And yeah, we can just go from there. One

thing that I really did like when I was taking

photos of that mold, if you could find a second

one of those hand cannons, and then pose them

holding onto two of them at once, just shooting

them gangster style, Lewis found that to be pretty

cool, especially these flanked by other robots.

Yes, and I do have to bring this up because I

was going to bring it up in the last episode

when we did All Bot Con Part 2. I actually tried

putting, as far as Gold Bug, I tried putting

his little missile launcher thing in his hand.

It would not fit. I couldn't get it in because

of the way his hands are. I don't know, maybe

I wasn't trying hard enough. And the other thing

is... For some odd reason, my shattered glass

optimus, which is in the other room, I only brought

nemesis out here to the computer. For some odd

reason, his disruptor can, the big gun that the

hood turns into, on shattered glass it will not

fit in either one of his hands, but the one for

nemesis fits fine in nemesis. But neither gun,

the nemesis gun or the shattered glass gun, will

fit in shattered glass optimus's hands and I

have no idea why. Mold degradation probably again.

I don't know. I have no idea. Do we have anything

else we would like to touch on before Lupus passes

out over there? I'm still awake, I'm still awake.

I think we should let him go to sleep. Yes, Steve,

would you like, before I go into the closing,

would you like to tell everybody about your project

that you're working on, Lupus? Which project

is this? Because I've got a couple of them going.

Is what you have up on your Skype. Oh That is

still kind of hush -hush. Oh, okay but it should

it's progressing very slowly and what it is is

a It's going to be a podcast novel that is going

to be taking a Voice some of the voices you might

hear in other podcasts in the fandom And it's

going to be a full voice cast novel. Hopefully

that's cool. That's very very cool. I guess we

can also mention before we close that the What

is it? What's the animated book that's coming

out the oh, yeah from Derek a delightful TDM

Derek J Wyatt's page Yeah, but what's the title

of the book is it it's transformers. Is it the

all spark almanac? Believe so yeah, yeah, yeah,

I think so. There's anime the all spark almanac

Derek J Wyatt posted on Twitter the other day

that he will be signing copies in California,

maybe you guys can go to his blog really quick

and give me the dates for that Signing copies

for it. I believe it's August 22nd and Somebody

replied to him on Twitter saying oh wow it's

coming out that soon, which I thought it was

already out. I didn't even know But apparently

the all -spark almanac is supposed to be this

end all be all information source for all things

transformers animated I think it's supposed to

have like 30 pages of full color photos or something

like that. I don't know somebody help me out.

I'm drowning over here well the the signing is

going to be At emerald nights in Burbank, California

between 2 and 3 p .m.. On Saturday August 22nd

Very very cool So I think we're gonna close out.

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the optimus underscore scourge and lupus it is

caminati style cam I and I T I s ty le We hope

you enjoyed this episode of transformers twicast.

I wish that you will join us next time for our

themed episode of Whatever we decide I don't

even know I this was it my my all bot con was

my big thought for Three episodes and now I'll

have something good for you. We might have a

giveaway coming up soon. Yeah, I I'm just not

sure usually when I do the episode titles, I

will pick Like I will take a name from each boy

like I episode where optimus curge and Pia and

I were on I think it was like so primatron or

something because it's a combination of all three

toys that we had talked about for now I am TFG1

Mike with Optimus Scourge and Lupus Convoy singing

the moral words of Optimus Prime transform and

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