Year-End Wrap-Up with Toy Picks and Listener Voicemails

Cliffjumper, commence countdown! Five, four,

three, two, one! And welcome to the 25th episode

of Transformers Toycast brought to you by the

GeekCast Radio Network. I am TFD1Mike, your host,

and I am joined by PeekoncourtMichael. Hello.

Hey, how's it going? It's going. How are you?

Doing well. Yeah? Yeah, I'd say so. Yeah. I mean,

I could complain, but I'm not gonna. Yeah, it

won't help. Yeah. No one's gonna listen to me

complain. uh... where you've been up to i think

the last episode we had you on was twenty two

twenty three uh... i don't remember uh... sadly

my life has become consumed by a video game called

Borderlands yes i'd play it all the time and

when i'm not playing it i'm thinking about playing

it oh god i know it's kinda sad oh jeez it's

a great game though i'm really diggin it Did

you see the um Malunas sent me a tweet with a

link and just he just wrote after it hmm The

link went to a story about Zynga and Mafia Wars

and the fact that they're scamming people or

doing something to scam people I don't know Did

you happen to see that at all? I've heard about

it I play Mafia Wars a lot on Facebook. Yeah,

I I don't really know anything about the story

itself. I think what had happened is Zynga had,

not Mafia Wars, but had a different game called

Pottery Barn or something like that, or something

weird. And one of the things they were doing

was sending links to people for third party vendors.

Right. And people were saying, hey, wait a minute,

I'm playing this free game, and I'm trying to

have fun here, and you're sending me spam that

I can't run away from. Yeah, that's basically

what the story is. Yes. I don't know. I mean,

honestly, it's their game. It's kind of like

Twitter. I'm on Twitter. I really like Twitter.

If every hundredth tweet was an ad, would I complain?

Eh, probably a little bit. But would I ignore

it? Yeah, just ignore it and keep using Twitter.

Yeah. Yeah, I read the article and I watched

the little video that the link had gone to, and

I'm like, okay. Apparently the gist of it that

I can get is what you just said, but also they

were trying to generate revenue. First of all,

how the hell do you generate revenue from a free

game on Facebook? Outside of the fact that they

can charge you for the rewards points, which

that's a choice that people would make when they

want to buy it. So how the hell are they going

to create revenue for something that's free?

Well, there's two ways they could do it. They

could put ads on their space, which I think to

a certain extent Facebook won't allow them to

do. Because Facebook has ads on their own. part

of the page. Right. And that content portion

that the games lives on is supposedly ad free.

Right. So I mean they can put ads that will link

to themselves and say hey look at this new feature

we have click here you know but they can't say

hey buy this something or another. Amazon's got

a deal for you click over here. But I think there's

some type of rule with with the Facebook that

won't allow them to do that but I Don't know

how they got around it for the other deal, but

they you know they've they've agreed not to do

it now from what I've read yeah Well, that's

good. I guess um Let's see I was him now. They're

being very cool about it. Yeah, I don't think

they want to lose any users exactly I was in

Rite Aid the other day and My mom had to drop

off a prescription I was like, all right, well,

I'll just, do you need anything? I'm like, I

don't know, I'll just come in and look around.

So, go in, and I look around, and of course,

I've been in this Rite Aid before, and the majority

of what they have in there is either, you know,

like medical supplies, or shampoo, it's, you

know, or holiday stuff, and then they have like

two whole aisles dedicated to nothing but alcohol

and liquor. Sweet. They have a very miniscule

toy aisle that's on the other like when you go

down the aisle left hand right hand side left

hand side with some toys and then the right hand

side was like diapers and a whole bunch of you

know baby stuff So I looked to the left and I'm

just kind of looking and I see some like Power

Rangers Action figures and some spider -man stuff

and all of a sudden I see some transformers universe

stuff. I see two deluxes. I saw tank or and prowl

To the left of that at the very end of the aisle

There was some revenge of the fallen. I don't

know if they were they were very very small I'm

not sure if it was a legends class or what it

was. It wasn't deluxe is I know it was not deluxe

is So I'm assuming it was legends But right -aid

wanted 17 like 1699 1799 for these universe deluxes

for the prowl and the tank or I'm like well Maybe

if I had the money, but I didn't have Mike's

and bring my money with me at the time, but I'm

like wait I'm probably could have gotten those

at Walmart when they were still at Walmart or

target for like 10 or 12 bucks I'm like I'm like

why okay? First of all drugstores as we all know

are expensive On anything it doesn't matter what

it is. They're expensive. I mean that they'll

charge you You know a dollar 49 for a 20 ounce

bottle of pop You know I mean, that's just the

way that they run But I'm looking at it looking

I'm like oh my god Why? But I just found it very

weird that I found Transformers figures even

just deluxe class stuff and the older ones yeah,

yeah I mean, you know, it's a Rite Aid and whatever.

I mean, it's a drugstore. Honestly, I wasn't

really expecting to find actual, like, you know,

toys that I would, you know, buy. Because, like,

when you go into, like, the dollar store and

stuff like that, it's all, like, kiddie toys

and stuff. You know, I mean, it's not like, you

know, they're not going to have, like, a whole

aisle of Transformers. It would be nice, but

they won't do that. That's not entirely true.

Like, the dollar store, dollar general. Dollar

tree one of those yeah every year. They have

a set of six universe toys and they're not a

dollar granted, but they're like five bucks each

and they're basic size toys and they're like

repaints from the the energon line or the The

I don't want to say our motto, but you get the

idea small smaller ones. Yeah, and they're they're

They're not even repaints, to be honest. They're

just the regular toy in a universe bubble. Universe

packaging. I used to get those every year and

hunt down a couple different stores to hunt them

all down. It occurred to me it's just not worth

it. It's the same damn toy, it's just in a different

package. Right, exactly. So I got rid of all

mine. I used to have all sorts of fun hunting

those down. But like I said, dollar store, you

can get them there. Yeah. We were also looking

in the Christmas aisle because mom wanted to

get a jump on. Last year, when we did Christmas

at her apartment, we got a tree and she wanted

white lights. I've never liked white lights.

I was raised with colored lights. White lights

makes the tree look like it's on fire. You know,

it makes it look like the cat from Christmas

Vacation is still chewing on the wire. You know,

I don't know, it just, I don't know, it just,

I've never liked the white, just white, plain

white lights. Now, the lights don't have to blink.

I don't care. As long as they're colored lights,

the blue, red, green, whatever, orange, yellow,

whatever colors they come in. You know, blinking

lights are alright, but I don't necessarily need

the blinking, because, you know, obviously, just...

whatever. So we're in the Christmas aisle, looking

around, looking around. Mom points to this thing,

this is, you know, M &M's does red and green

candies every year. They have for, since I was

alive, I assume probably before then, there was

a tin in there. And it's, I actually got it,

it comes with a bag of red and green M &M's inside

of it, but it looks like a book. It's called

2009 M &M an M &M's Holiday Tale M &M's Christmas

Mix. How Red Saved Christmas. And it's like this

tin type of thing. I don't know if you can hear

that on the microphone. It's just a tin. You

open it up and inside is a, well, not now, but

there was a bag of red and green M &M's that

you could empty out and it would hold it as a

container, but there's a story of how red saved

Christmas. And I thought that was really cool.

It's only like eight or nine dollars. at writing

no i mean it's a cool coli you know christmas

collectible thing and you know uh... you know

i i i that that that is interesting uh... i i

do think the christmas collectible things but

uh... question that i and my wife actually ask

ourselves before we buy uh... you can see items

like this is uh... will this item and up in a

garage sale next summer and if the answer is

yes that we put it back on the show See, not,

not with this I don't think. Because, uh, granted

it can't be spun. Well see, but the whole point

of it is you can put it away with your Christmas

stuff and yeah, granted it is a, I'm sure they're

gonna have another one next year that says 2010,

granted this says 2009, but it's a tin just like

any other tin. So you can wash it out. You can

put it away with your Christmas stuff. No! You

know what I mean. You can put it in with your

Christmas stuff when you put your Christmas stuff

away. And you can bring it out next year. You

know, some of the stuff that you're saying, you

know, will this end up in your... Yeah, there

is some Christmas stuff that I would say that

is like that, but for Christ sakes, man, it's

M &M's and it's red. Come on. Red's cool. He

fainted at the sight of Santa. Come on. to each

their own I mean you know I'm not gonna you know

force this down people's throats unless I go

buy like six or seven of them and send them to

people as their gifts this year you know which

I may end up doing but it's very very cool so

yes what other general chat things would you

like to talk about do we have anything else we

want to bring up as I said majority of my free

time has been spent up by this game so I could

talk about it for another hour no game for you

so I believe we are going to take a break you're

going to hear the voicemails that people did

send in I believe we have eight of them which

the final one will actually be yours seeing as

how yours is the only not to say that it wasn't

the only interesting one but it was pretty funny

and it was yeah you pretty much uh pretty much

through the idea back in my face in that voicemail

um sorry so wait for the best one yeah exactly

so we will be right back Hey, this is Stupid869

from Twitter. I'm here to review Transformers

Animated Activators Bumblebee. He's a nice little

yellow car. He's pretty much show actor, except

for his back bumpers that have giant hinges on

them for his arm transformation. For his transformation,

you just press the red siren on top and he pops

up. All you gotta do is just fiddle with his

arms and legs and he's pretty much all set. His

robot modes... not quite show accurate because

of his arms they're pretty much molded into the

side panels of his car but um he's a fun little

toy um i didn't think i would like him because

it is activator but i just can't put him down

this is general techno here with his favorite

toy of all time pick for transformers now i couldn't

really pick a favorite toy because there's so

many that are up there but one of the ones that's

up there very very high on my list is the Masterpiece

Starscream mold. I have both the Hasbro color

G1 Starscream and the Hasbro Masterpiece Skywarp

colors on this and I have to say that both look

phenomenally amazing. Jet mode is great, very

sleek, has all kinds of neat bits that fold out

and such, opening cockpit, The jet engine areas

and stuff. Robot mode is very G1 accurate as

well. The only negative is the hip kibble, but

you can position that so that it actually looks

pretty cool the way it's positioned. The decos

are great on both figures. They're both very

sturdy and if you have Starscream, if you buy

the coronation set add -on, he just looks phenomenal

with that. I recommend the Skywarp mold since

it's out right now to anyone who wants it. General

Techno signing off. This is Malinus with the

review of Skids and Mudflap, reviewed by Skids

and Mudflap. Yeah, but I... I don't... You don't

know nothing. Yes, I do. You don't know nothing

about marketing. You know, I'm just gonna...

I don't understand. You know, I'm just gonna...

Yeah, they're small too. I can crush this with

my fingers. And then, sort of thing. Oh, look

at that. That's cute. Yeah, you know what? I'm

gonna... I'm gonna say this is an awesome toy.

I'm gonna say this is an awesome toy. Yeah, it

is. Yeah. Later. Hi, I'm calling for the Toycast.

I'm calling for my favorite Transformer. My name's

Ram2D. And my favorite Transformer is G1 Trax.

And he's my favorite because he's a 1980s Corvette,

which has always been one of my favorite cars.

And he was also one of the few flying Autobots.

And he could fly in car mode especially. So it's

pretty cool, and his robot form is pretty awesome.

So that's it. Thanks. Bye. turns into a Dome

Zero car, what more could I ask for? It's also

a hot rod. Hey everybody, this is Steve Megatron

Phillips calling to you again from a great Geekcast

radio network. Yes, I almost flubbed that. Anyways,

this is for Toycast episode 25. I'm going to

talk about my quite possibly favorite Transformers

figure of all time. uh... you know it's not megatron

like my voice my uh... voices or my uh... screen

name uh... it would be the g one masterpiece

optimist prime granted i got up when he first

came out cost like seventy bucks in the store

but i love this figure because it's got some

diecast in it like the old -school transport

toys uh... he's he's fully articulated it actually

looks so accurate as well as comic In robot as

well as in truck He comes with the matrix of

leadership with of course the light up feature

inside his chest and as well as his His cannon

which is basically his trademark weapon The the

only downfall to this figure is his smokestacks

are not accurately sized but He is a great figure

nonetheless and I would recommend this to anybody

if you do not have it As a thing to get anyways,

this is Steve Megatron Phillips signing off Hi,

this is Michael Wilson also known as for kind

court Michael Occasional guest host on Geekcast

radio network. I wanted to call in to toy cast

and leave my vote for the favorite my personal

favorite transformer uh... might be a transformer

is uh... uh... well i read the comes around this

time so it'd be hot rod and brothers prime uh...

uh... okay to like you care to ask what would

be hot rod well this time and that was fine a

whole lot of your district uh... might like to

return for what we have to be hot rod but it

was prime office prime and megatron uh... and

probably Okay, yeah narrowing it down just to

one is kind of yeah, you get the idea. Okay.

Thanks. Yeah We are back on transformers toycast

like to thank everybody who sent in voicemails

I greatly appreciate it wasn't exactly the full

idea that I had but hey at least we got some

voicemails You know, and I'm not not trying to

complain about it. You know, I thank everybody

who sent in their their reviews and Yeah, maybe

we can do that again for next couple episodes

or whatever, you know, in the future. Okay, so

since you wanted to review something small, you

can go first. Oh, okay. I'm just throwing you

under the bus right now. Throw me directly under

the bus. Yes. As the host of the show and being

a true gentleman, you should have gone first,

but... No, no, no. Fine, though. Yeah, basically,

I wanted to make this quick. So we drug out the

smallest and oldest transformer that I have,

which is a Generation 1 Bumblebee. The one that

I have, and I'm surprised that I don't have more

than one. I love thinking about it. But the one

that I have is actually from 1985 as opposed

to 1984. He's got a rub sign on his chest as

opposed to the Autobot insignia. The ones from

84 had a little red insignia and from 85 and

86 they actually came with a rub sign. Yeah,

I always had the ones with the rub sign too when

I did have Bumblebee. I don't have them anymore,

but yeah, I never had ones with the insignia.

Yeah, well the rub sign still works which is

kind of cool. Yeah, oh yeah. basically a small

super deformed Volkswagen bug you think a bumblebee

and you think oh Volkswagen you know because

that's what he was on the cartoon but he's kind

of water or like somebody took a Volkswagen and

just kind of squished it down a little bit with

their fingers you know he was made with those

proportions in mind by Takara because he was

originally part of their penny racer line in

fact The bumblebee toy doesn't have it in there,

but the The original penny racers had a little

pullback motor that was in the back. There's

a room in here for that, but you can't really

have that that way because it's legs would there's

I should say is is the wheels shoulders wouldn't

engage These transforms unlike a penny racer.

Well, you remember penny racers, don't you? Yeah

Had a little penny that you stuck in the back.

Yeah, and then pull them and watch them slide

And I don't think they did as well in America

as they did in Japan. Well what we had here I

think that kind of took the same concept was

the pull back and let go cars Yeah, I don't know

what they're you know they they made them for

all kinds of things The I think what were the

damn names of the two transformers, and I can't

stand from g1 Topspin and twin -twist, they were

one of those where if it's in vehicle mode, you

take it on your kitchen floor or whatever, as

long as it's not carpet, you pull it back, let

it go, and it'll go five or six feet or whatever.

Same thing. Not even that far. That's generous.

Yeah, and then at the end of their run, they

flip. Yeah. Metal chargers, metal chargers. But

yeah, so, you know Bumblebee's yellow He's got

a little you know little head face and the his

face kind of looks like bumblebee's got the little

horns But he actually has a face mask kind of

like Alvinus Prime and it wouldn't be until years

later like 2004 that Takara would re -release

him with a with a face that looked like his cartoon

version He looks a little different there's a

little sticker on the back of his head. It was

supposed to look like a spare tire. I never liked

that sticker. The sticker always wore off of

my toys. Because I had like six or seven of those,

honestly. Because I would always go through them

with the sticker. As soon as the sticker rubbed

off, I gave the toy to my friends. I said, OK,

that's it. No, seriously. I had a lot of G1 Bumblebee

when I was younger. Wow. I never had one, and

I was excited to get this one. I had to look

for a while to get mine because the Bumblebee

and the Cliffjumper were, I want to say there's

one more, but they were two of the very, very

few, yeah, the Bumblebee, Cliffjumper, and Hubcap

came out in 85 or 86, I forget, but were the

only ones that had rubber tires. And the rubber

tends to crack. Tires fall off and yeah, it took

me a while to find One that I really like because

you know all the rest of them didn't have any

tires Mm -hmm. He's a little tire say Dunlop

It's an actual tire brand. It's kind of yes.

Yes. Yeah, but yeah mine he's uh His arms are

a little loose. They slide out a little little

too quickly But his legs are strong. He stands

up He looks kind of you know, he's in good shape.

He's good You know, a little wear here and there.

But, uh, you know, there's basically no paint

on him. He's just yellow plastic. Yellow and

black plastic. Yeah, there wasn't a lot of paint,

I don't think, on toys back in G1. I don't know.

I mean, you know, I've got G1 Optimus here with

me, and he looks like he's majority of plastic.

It doesn't look like it's a lot of paint. Yeah.

Well, yeah, so that's, uh... That's basically

it for him. He was reissued as a keychain in

2001. And I actually got that one. And I got

the, actually, I think him and Cliffjumper and

Braun, oh, and Gears, I think, all were turned

into keychains. And they took their bumper and

retooled it. So you had a little loop on one

side that a keychain could, or a chain could

actually attach to. And that was neat. Those

are somewhere in the closet. I never bothered

to open those. I mean, it's not like I'm actually

going to put them on my keychain. And I got enough

crap in my pocket. I don't need a bumblebee in

there, too. Yeah. And breaking and, you know.

So, yeah, in fact, I think when I met Dan Gilvezan,

I had him sign mine. Oh, really? The keychain

package, you mean? Yeah, yeah. That's cool. Yes.

Somewhere in the closet, there's a, you know,

keychain bumblebee signed by dan gilbertson very

very cool yeah it's kind of neat and so yeah

i i dig them uh now that i think about it i should

probably you know try to find myself a a 1984

one with a sticker on the chest when i'm better

shaped than this one wonder how much those go

for now though i have no idea you know i got

a g2 bumblebee uh which is basically the same

thing except Instead of yellow, he's got like

a gold paint. He's gold colored. Literally like

reflective, right? Yeah, that's gold bug. No,

it's not. No, G2. Wait. G2 is a G1 Bumblebee

painted gold. Right, but I could have sworn that

they're... It's gold pearl. Right, but I thought

that that was the G1 gold bug when the show...

Changed him from bumblebee to gold bug didn't

they release a g1 figure of gold bug the same

as the G didn't they do? Gold bug is actually

a complete different figure. He's he's bigger.

He's a throttle bot. He's one of those Oh, that's

right. That's right. That's right. Yeah, I I

own the throttle bots. I don't like Just don't

think they're very good toys. They're they're

Yeah, they're worse than jump starters at least

jump starters would pop up and either fall over

or do something at the end of the run these just

yeah these are just bad toys yeah no pose ability

they don't have any external weaponry just yeah

the throttle bots just sucked ass but gold bug

was a throttle bot and then for g2 as an apology

Right? They said, we'll compromise with you.

We'll give you the G1 toy, but we're going to

paint them gold. So I've got that one, and these

are really nice shape, with good tires and such.

But that one actually did not have the rub sign.

They went back to the sticker. You come to think

of it, mine doesn't have a sticker. All right,

yeah, I'm looking at my G2 shelf now, and I don't

see a sticker. on Cliffjumper or Bumblebee. I

say gold but not because he's gold. Cliffjumper

2 is another one of those that they repainted

in the metallic color. He's still red though.

Yeah, so that might be a good idea. Go back and

look for a 1984 Bumblebee as opposed to the 85

that I got now. Yeah. Yeah. Well. So are you

done talking about do you want Bumblebee? Yeah,

yeah. Okay. No, I didn't want to didn't know

if you had any final thoughts or whatever. Well,

yeah. Not really, aside from the utter and horrible

lack of posibility. You know, I mean you can

you can move his arms forward. Yeah, that's about

it. And that, yeah, I actually moved them now

and I'm thinking I'm gonna break them. Just hold

your arms flat at your side, Bumblebee, and keep

them there until the end of time. and the toy

that i will be talking about in this episode

in this final episode of the year we will be

coming back in late january of two thousand ten

uh... is the very extremely rare find in this

area for me i talked about this a couple other

times just about finding him was the tf a Christmas

animated Voyager class optimus prime the earth

mode optimus And I gotta say, I love this figure.

This is just an awesome figure. I need to find

another one so I can have him in vehicle mode.

Actually, I need to find two more because I'm

gonna be giving this one away at some point unless

I can find the two... I have one of the headlights

here, but I can't find the other one because

I think it's behind my desk. When I went to transform

him, and I brought the gray part for the headlights

down to his legs where it's supposed to be, and

you're supposed to fold the... you're supposed

to move the the the headlight parts the the bumper

parts back you know from being up or whatever

yeah one of them broke off and it went behind

my desk and my desk is like a six foot by nine

foot wooden cherry piece of stuff here and uh

yeah so it's behind there so i just did screw

it and i and i popped off the other headlight

i've got the other headlight actually it's in

my hand right now but um you know Overall this

awesome figure. I think it's a great updating

of the you know obviously it's animated style

It's not exactly the g1 truck Obviously because

he comes with that that axe trailer thing that

they thought could look like a trailer But it's

really just an axe on his back with the water

squirter What I guess that's what they thought

I don't know whatever so you got me curious now

i'm going to have to pull mine out um... let

me see what do you mean curious about the trailer?

uh... yeah i've got mine in my transformers animated

shelf and i thought i would pull it out to look

at it yeah cause it it's supposed to look like

the firetruck trailer that they show in the show

but it really isn't it's just an axe and then

the squirt gun that's on the back of him One

thing I don't like about the animated line is

the fact that they use silver and gold Autobot

and Decepticon logos. I just don't like that.

I don't know, I just, whatever. So picky. Red

and purple, that's what the damn color should

be. Red and purple, damn it. But anyway, a hum.

One thing I noticed about this figure as I have

him here on my desk and normally over the last

week I've had him actually on my computer tower

and Looking at him from a distance. It almost

looks like he has Mega Man legs And I'm talking

about the blue part of the legs below the knee

they just for some odd reason they remind me

of Mega Man legs. I don't know why Not really

sure Okay, um I like the fact that you that his

hands plug into the black piece on the on the

arm Because I don't know it's just it's just

cool. It's it's a nice way of saying hey We're

kind of throwing back to the g1 thing where you

had to actually plug the hands into the into

the headlights But we're not really because they

just kind of stick into his arm there, which

I thought that was really cool And then of course

on the back of him He has the room for like if

you want to store the axe on the back of him

is kind of like a jetpack I don't really do that

actually I think the axe when I first took it

off of him I did get it fixed, but it broke into

like a million pieces like all the all the all

the separate parts You know the wings popped

off the the red piece popped off. It was like

us screwed up really do this or just throw in

the box of extra parts no luck with this picture

here exactly uh... i well i look i really do

enjoy these tours beast machines and i like the

fact that they took a different direction with

optimist primal having no faceplate other than

his optimal optimist body had one at one point

i think uh... but I really don't like the fact

that TFA Optimus has a face and a faceplate.

I don't know, it just doesn't translate well

for me. He has this faceplate that you can either

have it up or down. I like that. I don't know.

On the one hand, I think I like him with a mouth

because he's more expressive and he can smile

and yell at people. You can do more with him

emotionally, rather than just have him stare

really hard at you. And yet, at the same time,

when he goes into battle, the faceplate comes

up, and he's G1 Prime. He can kick anybody's

ass because he's G1 Prime. And then, mouthplate

comes down, and hey, he's David Kay again. uh...

yeah actually the characters and uh... i'm actually

comparing him now to the g one optimus the only

thing that and i'm not sure i would have to go

back and watch the cartoon and see if this was

in there but the only thing the toy design as

far as the head does not have is the gray the

silver uh... thing in the front of his head you

know i'm talking about in between his ears right

above his eyes. Oh, the crest? Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

That's the only thing that the animated version

does not have. Yeah, I guess. Well, he doesn't.

Well, no, I mean, he's got something. Well, yeah.

Up there, but it's not like a crest. Yeah, it's

not. It's colored differently. Yeah, it's just

blue and then there's yellow and stuff, so. His

light piping actually sucks a lot. I can get

it to work. I mean I can get it to work somewhat,

but... I'm looking at him directly under my light.

He looks good. I mean, it's not like a glare,

but it's... No, yeah. It's not bad. I really

like his windshield. Yeah, his windshield is

awesome because it has the... It's like etched.

Yeah, it's etched with some sort of... It might

be... I guess you could consider it some sort

of Cybertronian writing on it, or some sort of

Cy... Yeah, circuit board or several turning

lines again going back to the axe People that

are a fan of this figure by itself without the

weapons that it comes with are gonna have to

either find an individual weapon of the battle

two -pack battle damaged optimus or the Cybertron

mode optimus for a cartoon accurate axe type

because yeah the axe that came with this guy

is not Cartoon accurate what so freaking ever

No, not really It looks like you found a small

plane. Yeah, exactly You know I'm I'm gonna feel

really bad about saying this But it's been a

while since I've had him in vehicle mode and

I noticed on his back He's got a little gear

that twists when you move his waist Yeah, and

I'm thinking that gear has got to do something

cool in vehicle mode because it doesn't do anything

in robot mode You know what it is? That's the

gear, because he's gravity transformed. That's

the gear, I believe that gear is to, from vehicle

to robot, that's how his legs automatically transform

around and then you just click the waist into

place. So it won't move, I think that's what

that's for. Yeah, because I mean, he still swivels

at the waist. Yes, he does, a little bit. He's

got a decent degree of articulation. Yes. I like

his feet. It looks like he's got boots. Yeah,

and the cool thing about the feet is you can

actually pose them a little bit. Like if you

want to have him stand on his tip toes or whatever.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I like that they're

slanted inwards so that he can spread his legs

and his feet are still planted flat on the ground.

Yep. And the other thing is you can turn his,

because he has articulation at below the knee,

right at his shin, so you can actually turn the

foot. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He's kind of got like the

kung fu action grip at the knee level. Yep. So

they kind of rotate. That's neat. Yeah. I didn't

know that before. Nice. Well, I mean, honestly,

I think I pulled him out of the package and transformed

him and then put him on the shelf. Yeah, the

only thing I don't really like about him for

some odd reason, if you look at his, like, if

you look at him in robot mode after you have

his head pulled up and the whole cab thing, you

know, the whole cab part where it hides his head,

if you have that down or you have his head up,

on his shoulders, it's a different color red.

It's a brighter red than what is on his actual,

um... Yeah. yeah i don't like that that seems

weird it's just a little distracting i guess

here no it's not terrible but uh... i gotta say

uh... this has got to be the best updating if

you really want to consider an update of the

g one point uh... in the animated style this

is probably the best that they're going to get

uh... yeah have you seen the uh... uh... What

do they call it? Rollout Command Optimus Prime?

Yeah, I don't like that one too much. Yeah. I

mean, I've got one. Yeah. It's almost the exact

same except bigger. Yeah. I like the Voyager

size. I honestly wish a lot more Voyagers would

exist. Yeah. Like if you had Blur in a Voyager

mode. I understand, as I've said before, I understand

Deluxe. You know, it's that lower... not the

lowest price point, but it's that more manageable

$10, $11, $12, $14 price point, and then Voyagers

are the $20 price point, and then leaders are

the $30, $40 price point. I get that, but for

some odd reason, I think a lot of the animated

figures would look better as larger sizes, like

Voyager or some leaders. I know Rollout Command

Optimus Prime is almost like having a leader.

Figure of optimus, but I just wish that they

would have done a leader optimus cost more than

a leader Okay, well Let's see what I'm saying

though. Yeah, I'm almost arguing that that rollout

command optimus would have been a little bit

of a waste You know he's kind of kind of in Kind

of a supreme cheetor ish type of a waste Yeah,

he's really big, but what the hell did you do

you know? You know, he stands there. Well, Supreme

Shooter doesn't even stand there. God, it's hard

as hell making that guy stand. You know what?

You pull on the back of his neck and he goes,

rawr! And his claws shoot out if you move his

arm a certain way. He's got a gimmick, but still,

it's not enough to really pay 50 bucks for. Yeah,

I think I received mine as a gift. Otherwise,

I probably would have waited until it went on

clearance. even without the gravity transformation

part like where you you know i have to you you

know after you pull his his truck piece up and

then press the little button on the back to get

the legs to turn around even without that this

was the easiest figure out of the entire animated

line for me to transform yeah i mean outside

of you know the action stuff you know that stuff

kind of breaking but I was able to put it back

together outside of that this is the easiest

transformation I've done and this is still classified

as level three advanced conversion as far as

what's on the package actually the box for this

is the only animated box I've saved but I was

actually able to save that I didn't have to tear

it to shreds I really, really enjoy this guy.

He's a great figure. One of the things about

the animated line I was looking at and all the

ones that I have, of course I have doubles of

everything, car mode and robot mode. The animated

line is extremely bright in color. Oh yeah, yeah,

very colorful. Because I had him, the Voyager

Optimus, on my shelf. I actually, the only place

I could put him until I actually, you know, get

Floating shelves are here in the living room

to put all the figures on I had to I had to basically

Make sure that shockwave Purple wave wasn't going

to actually fall over And I actually had optimists

standing in front of him because it was the only

place I could put him on my shelf at the time

So yeah Overall great figure if you can find

him pick him up. I'm sure by now. You're gonna

have to resort to Amazon or eBay Unfortunately,

I again there was just a super super rare fine

for me at Walmart one weekend I didn't even I

actually I did three I know this is gonna sound

weird. I did three died I basically did a triple

take because I did like I did like three double

takes I'm like what wait what no That but yeah,

but what the okay? That's mine because it was

the only one there there was nobody else in the

aisle other than myself in the way that was restocking

like star wars figures uh... you know uh... you

know what i was gonna say i i like about this

figure too is that uh... the voyager size puts

him in the uh... uh... let's say a cartoon accurate

size along with the the uh... the other blocks

figures right so i mean when he stands next to

Jazz or he stands next to Let's say I want to

say I don't want to say leader bulkhead, but

yeah, most likely leader or he stands next to

Prowl he he looks like he's the right height

Exactly. It's actually funny when I first before

I really started getting into the animated line

I would watch YouTube reviews of different figures

and this is one that I watched from Spada who

does on the TF wire podcast And Spada was like,

oh, because originally he didn't pull the legs

all the way up or all the way down to make him

fight that he's supposed to be. He's like, oh,

well, this is kind of a small figure for a Voyager.

And then he put his hand on the leg. He's like,

oh, wait. Oops, stupid me. I didn't pull the

legs all the way down. And then he pulled the

legs all the way down. He's like, oh, that's

much better. Yeah, that's what a Voyager is supposed

to look like. you know when he went when his

legs are are just pushed up to like your home

almost off the desk uh... uh... it's funny i

don't know if you've seen the picture i put on

twitter or facebook uh... actually your your

wife is he commented on my face book uh... one

time i was having problems when i first got this

figure he ended up in a full -on split I took

a picture of it with my phone, and I said hey

kids look. It's optimus prime in the 70s doing

the splits It's on it's in my Facebook She told

me about it. She's like why is your friend posting

shit like this? Well, it's cuz it did I've never

had a transformer do that It's a testament to

his posability You know, I'm surprised that I

didn't get his leg all the way up above his head.

Oh, wow Hey kids, I'm hoping Oh my god, you have

no idea what I just did with this figure. Shit,

there it goes! No, wait, come on. Stand up, you

bastard. Okay, there we go. Okay, no! Don't fall

over. You fall over, I will kick you in the...

Anyway. Yeah, I gotta take a picture of this.

This is holy crap. I cannot believe I just did

this. This is a testament of what his poseability

is like. Is he doing the crane? Has he like,

got one foot up and he's like... Yeah, well,

it's actually I was thinking of more of those

yoga people who can pull their foot up over their

head and basically put it in their own mouth

But that's what I was thinking of and it just

ended up being that his is his right foot was

all the way being Behind him up on his back.

So yeah, I I took a picture of that and I will

send it to you Yes. So do we have any other thoughts

on Mr. Voyager Optimus Prime here? No, awesome

figure. I would highly recommend getting one.

Especially if you're one of those people who

collect all of the Optimus Prime figures. There

are some, hey. No, I know. I can't get his voice

started. Now I can't put him back, he's broken!

I gotta get another one anyways, so it doesn't

matter. You better go back to the Walmart and

hide it somewhere. So it was defective? Exactly.

Stick it somewhere where it... Well, I mean,

because if they still have some, they're probably

not gonna last very long. No, he was the only

one there that was... Because those Voyagers

are a bigger box than the Deluxes, obviously.

And most people know this. I, you know, I didn't

really pay any attention to this. But I looked

at it, and at first I saw two Cybertron Megatrons,

and I saw two Grimlocks. And then all of a sudden

I look down in the very front of the shelf, and

it's like Optimus Prime staring me in the face.

I'm like, it's kind of like, uh, have you seen

the Simpsons movie? Yeah. Kind of like in church

when the light comes down on grandpa's head with

the oh You know that that that heavenly yeah,

there was a light shining down on this figure

and said by me It's a good find I tend to see

a lot I don't say a lot, but I'm gonna say like

two or three of the Grimlocks. They're so warming

the shelves I'm hoping those will sell Once they

start releasing some more of the of the you know

the long -lost Animated toys, but you know you

always see like Grimlock and Cybertron mode Megatron

I see a lot of the Cybertron mode Megatron, and

I also see a lot. Yeah Not even oh, I don't see

I very rarely see the atomic lug nut I see the

regular lug nut yeah Yeah, no, I've never seen

blitzway in my area I actually went to a store

I got mine and I went to a Walmart and there

was a girl there who had her boyfriend climbing

up on top of the the Shelves to look way up high

on the top shelf to see if they had any blitzwing

and he's like And I'm like, oh my god. And I

said, what'd you find? Because I saw they were

digging up where the Transformers were, way up

out of reach, right? Yeah. And she's like, we

found a Blood Swing. And I was like, oh, that's

a good figure. Yeah, you'll dig him. And she's

like, he's my favorite. Like, man, kids nowadays,

you know? Well, not only kids, five -year -old

men as well. Yeah. You know, going into it. Exactly.

Into boxes that are left out on the floor taking

air anything and everything he can get his little

groovy hands on I Just find it very I found that

blog post very funny. That's all I'm saying You

know I will always call you on that because it

is just the funniest thing in the world to me

at the time and I'm like Oh, it was actually

right. It was probably right before we actually

like started talking and became friends or whatever

you know it was like I didn't really know you

you just ended up as one of my Twitter followers

somehow and I was like what in the hell did he

do and I started reading him like no he did not

no oh yeah he did he went in the back and he

looked in boxes I know you didn't go in the back

They were on they were right there in the aisle

at the end of the aisle and Well, it was like

a big cart and they were just chock full of cases

of Transformers and It was too tempting to pass

up. It's not like I is that like I dressed up

as an employee You know, it's actually funny

how many people have walked up to me when I'm

walking through Target and asking me if I'm an

employee. No, seriously. And I don't even have

their dress code on. I wear a lot of dark colors.

I don't really wear red a lot. But I didn't even

have a red shirt on that day. But I had my Boyz

Heaven ID on. And I guess it kind of looked like

a Target ID to this lady. And I was like, no,

I don't really work here. But And she was like

hanging around electronics, you know, like what

are you looking at? I just asked what are you

looking for? And she's like, oh, I'm looking

for this. Oh, try over there. But I don't know.

But you have no idea how many times I've been

confused as a target employee to the store that

I've applied to since I was probably 18 or 19

that has refused me employment every single time.

That's terrible. See now, I graduated from Indiana

University where the colors are Red and and well

white crimson and cream, right? So I really really

dig my red polo shirts So when I wander in there

and you know, either jeans or khakis polo shirt

Everybody's looking at me coming down the aisle.

Yeah Yeah, and I don't do it on purpose. Yes,

you do. Don't lie. No, I don't do it on purpose.

You do it so you can find open boxes of transformers

and steal all the ones that you want. Get all

the good stuff. Don't lie. That would have been

funny if I would have been dressed up as a target

employee and wandering around and actually putting

shit back on the shelf. Like, I think this goes

here. But no, that wasn't the case. It's a good

story, though. Yeah, it is. So before we go into

the closing, I think, hopefully if this works,

I'm going to play this. You're a persistent little

Autobot. My name is Optimus Prime! It's funny

too because in the end, Megatron actually calls

him by name. And he says, ah, you do know my

name, don't you? I think that, you know... Because

originally David Kaye went in there expecting

not really expecting but thinking that they were

gonna look for him as The Megatron because he's

played Megatron He had at that time when they

first started, you know doing stuff for the animated

show. He had played Megatron for ten years As

he started Beast Wars and he ended in the Unicron

trilogy and Cybertron And then he got Optimus

Prime obviously. Oh yes, I'm not saying that

he did very well, especially in the, I think

it was in game part one when he got his jet pack,

when he's learning to fly, he's like, he used

two different Megatron sayings from Beast Wars,

he's like, I think it was a yes and something

else, and even though it's in the Optimus Prime

voice, you just know it's from the Beast Wars

Megatron. you just know that's what he was inflecting

there yeah so alright well I think we're going

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