Transformers Animated Ratchet and Iron Man 2 War Machine Mighty Mugg

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over 1 ,000 items I am your host Steve John Mike

and joining me is general techno. Hello. Hello

there. Are you sir? I'm doing all right. I'm

doing all right spent like four hours wiring

up a Circuit board today this afternoon, but

it's all right. Why are you playing with wires?

It's for my project course, so oh, okay. There's

an educational component to this Yes Like to

you know again, I did it in episode 51 I'll do

it again in this episode since this is the first

episode you've been in since 50 I'd like to congratulate

the winner of the Recon Ravage you gave away

right off the top of my head. I don't know exactly.

I don't remember exactly who won it, but congratulations

to them. We will probably do another contest

at some point. I don't know exactly when. Indeed,

that Ravage is one awesome figure. You know,

it'd be nice if we can get a connection to Hasbro

Canada or Hasbro America. Yeah, that'd be pretty

hard to do I think but that would be nice Yeah,

it'd be nice What's been going on with you other

than playing with wires for education? Not much

I just got home today, and this is a really nice

surprise I got I got home and as I get up to

the house I look and see that there's a package

wedged in the door cool, which I mean First,

I mean, I was expecting something, but not so

soon. And I also was kind of surprised that they

just left it there, probably just because the

weather's been so nice the last while. But yeah,

and it's a package that I was expecting from

Malunas over on Twitter, who's a mutual friend.

And yeah, it's a couple of animated figures that

I'm pretty excited about having in hand now.

And not just that, but... I went to unbox them

and everything. I was like, okay, I'll just film

this for posterity and stuff, just for fun. Pull

them out, and now I'd mentioned to him, like,

when he got the figures, I was like, yeah, go

ahead and take them out and stuff for the box,

just to have fun with them. They're toys, after

all, and I'm going to be unboxing them anyway.

But he'd repackaged them in the boxes, and on

the inside of the card, in front of each toy,

he'd put his own art that he'd drawn of the character

that was in the box. That's the art of our Sea

and Ratchet that he drew up and that was a really

awesome surprise and it's chronicled for posterity

on YouTube, my reaction to this. There you go,

that's awesome. Yeah, there's not too much going

on with me. I guess my podcasting skills are

all over the internet now outside of our own

network shows. I was recently, well of course

by the time episode 52 airs, everybody will already

have known this, but I was recently on Radio

Free Cybertron and Soundwave, so that was a really

cool experience. Let's see, what else? I just

recorded a Beast Unleashed episode 6 with Steve

Phillips and Michael Wilson. Thank God that episode

was not as dark as episode 5. Oh my God. Huh?

Which episode of Beast Wars, if I might ask?

The Trigger two -parter for episode 6. Oh, that

one. That's the one where Blackarachnia gets

all powered up. Yeah. But no, episode five of

Beast Unleashed, that... I don't know, that show,

it's... I'm really... I think that's the show

that I'm having the most fun doing. And it's

the one that is pretty much gone downhill the

entire... ever since we started it. Almost every

episode has some sort of wacky, weird... Hilarity

something or other I don't know It's just one

of those things where you know you get myself

Steve Megatron and Michael Wilson on the same

record and Shits just bound to happen Still if

it's a fun show to record oh no it is but it's

just some of the stuff that I mean some of the

tangents that like I mean You know, normally

when you and I do episodes, just the two of us,

for Toycast, it's, I would say, maybe 30, 40

minutes long. When Michael and I do episodes

for Toycast, they go an hour, hour 15. Because

we get off all these tangents, like in, just,

you know, last week in episode 51. We ended the

show talking about wrestling. Sure, I guess at

least the tangents when I get off are generally

toy related, so. Yeah, yeah. So yeah. Why don't

you go first, sir? Who are you going to be talking

about? I'm going to be talking about the Transformers

animated Toys R Us exclusive Ratchet figure.

As I mentioned, I just got this today. I'm actually

just transforming this now for the first time

as I speak, actually. I've got it most of the

way. But anyway... Just to fill in, he's one

of the final Transformers animated figures that

Hasbro's getting out there. They basically had

announced all these and said we were going to

get these out somehow. And it came out that this

was going to be a Toys R Us exclusive, which

made a lot of people unhappy. And initially I

was like, okay, no big deal, no big deal. And

then I found out we got We're Getting Ravaged

instead as a Toys R Us exclusive, which, though

it's nice, it also meant that in all likelihood

we weren't going to be getting this guy. So I

made arrangements to get him, and get him I did.

And I gotta say, he's a pretty cool figure. I

mean, he's... Like in robot first of all in robot

mode I'll just talk about this because what he's

that's what he's packaged in he's a really good

representation of his Younger Cybertronian that

counterparts. I mean it's pretty good Do you

think the Hasbro toy does I forget what his name

is he's on the commentary? for the two episodes

on season 2's DVD of TFA, Eric something or other.

Eric Siebenhaler? Yeah, do you think he basically

just took Derek Wyatt's animation design and

modeled it into that toy? I mean, easy ways to

just ask Wyatt how that worked, but I would guess

that because the design was... given that was

such a late toy wouldn't surprise me if the design

was made with I mean all the designs that they've

made have been made in such a way that it's possible

to make toys out of them I mean they that's what

happens when you have a bunch of transformers

fans and art and the collaborative process which

they keep saying it was a very two -way street

in terms of developing character designs so I

mean I'm sure that they knew was feasibly transformable

plus given it is a pre It's his earlier mode.

I mean they there's some similarities in the

transformation scheme and stuff. I Don't like

a lot of the Cybertronian modes though. I honestly

don't That's just I mean you you can continue.

I'll elaborate in a minute, but that's just Yeah,

anyway, so you've got this so you've got a figure.

That's pretty well engineered overall and Yeah

ratchet in a robot mode. He looks really good

He's got the same type of look that he has. He's

got a smile and an unbroken crest. Like, this

is Ratchet before he got broken physically and

psychologically by the war. By lockdown. Well,

also oil slick if you go off the comics, so.

But that's me. Because the comics are canon.

Marty Eisenberg did write them, so. Yeah, no,

that's fine. But anyway, so yeah, he got broken

by the war and... Disillusion, but this is him

before that even though it's the same alt mode.

He hadn't transform and roll out I guess the

Cybertronian version of assault mode, but he

looks really good He doesn't have the beat. He

doesn't have the guts for one like it's a lot

more flush than it then he is Earth mode toy

and he's got bare stance He's got these shock

paddle accessories, which it comes across more

that they had to give him something weapon -wise

and It fits ratchet though to be fair. I like

it a lot better than the stupid magnets that

are on the original toy. Which, yeah I don't

like those magnets. I keep his accessories in

a bag and I actually have the Unicron .com upgrade

kit which I got last year and I just give him

those magnets. And those look a lot better than

the ones he came with. Yeah, exactly. You keep

those folded back and then you just clip these

in. the unicron .com ones in and the bonus is

since they clip in around the spring then it

keeps the other ones from automatically popping

out as well but anyway so yeah so he looks pretty

good in his alt mode there were a few paint splotches

on the face but I mean really quality control

I don't really mind given he's an exclusive that's

in a country other than my own I'm just happy

to get the figure because it's nothing that's

really major. Anyway, one thing I have to say

as well that I like a lot more than the regular

Ratchet is the way the backpack is done is a

lot more accurate to the show than on the original

toy because you know how he's got more of a backpack

on his animation model and that it hangs over

his back a bit? on the original deluxe toy it

didn't it wasn't able to do that the backpack

from the front view or anything it didn't really

look all that accurate but this one the look

of a backpack like he's he's essentially his

animation model very much so on this and it shows

the only real thing that takes away maybe is

the fact that his front treads are stored in

his chest but that doesn't really take away or

detract or anything i mean they had to put them

somewhere and it actually fills them out really

well Like he's solid all he's pretty solo around

or anything and all And yeah transformation I

transformed him while you were taught doing the

first bit here and I was listening and Yeah,

I like his transformation as well. It's different

than the original ratchets like it's very different

in how each I guess there's some similarities

and that the arms still go in the back In the

back of the truck like this in a similar way

only they fold up a bit differently now and the

legs The legs are transformed differently as

well in that they don't quite become the back

of the They don't quite become the back but yeah,

they everything it all looks pretty good though

and Yeah, I mean it looks like his TV shows vehicle

mode I have to say The only real discrepancies

that I see are that first of all, there's the

fact that he's got a blue windshield and not

a black one, but that's just because they use

blue light piping. And I mean, yeah, I don't

really begrudge them for that. That's really

easy to change if I want to anyway, just with

some marker. Markers or something. And the other

discrepancy is, and this one's just a really

nitpicky cosmetic one, is that on the sides of

his alt mode, they put the made up emergency

logo that Hasbro's been using on their ratchets

since the movie line. They put that on the sides,

even though he doesn't actually have that in

his Cybertronian mode. But that really doesn't

take away. It's just red stuck over the black.

And I'm probably not going to touch that. I'm

going to be reprolabeling over his other faction

symbol though, simply because the fact that I

don't like the silver and gold faction symbols.

I'd rather have my good old uh red classic ones

yeah but yeah the vehicle mode is very solid

he pegs together really well and as people have

said on other podcasts and stuff just in reviews

this he's got a lot of holes in him and stuff

but if you actually look at a picture of the

animation model he's actually really accurate

to it like this is pretty much what ratchet looks

like and i really hope that we get an iron hide

out of this mole and I know I'd heard mentioned

on another podcast as well this was the TFW one

I believe that they were wondering about the

feasibility of Ironhide just simply because of

the fact that well he's another red Ratchet's

got a lot of red on him and Ironhide's red but

in animated I noticed Ironhide's more of an orange

so he's actually gonna stand out on the shelf

yeah Ironhide in animated was orange yeah so

he's actually gonna stand out pretty well and

with that new head I think that we're going to

see him in some form simply because we know they

tool the head for him in the mold itself. So

it's no extra effort for Hasbro to make an ironhide

version of the mold. And we have Eric Siebenahler

to thank for that as well. He's the one that

got that ironhide head done, I believe. Would

they also do a silver repaint of ironhide though?

I can't see them doing that, no. Maybe is yeah,

I can see that maybe because there's no way that

you could actually do like it showed in the show

where he are He he he armors up. There's no way

you could do that on a toy Like come to come

to think this just occurs to me now I suppose

that if anyone does something like that It'll

be someone in Japan that does that to the toy

because they're getting iron. They'll probably

get iron hide as well, right? No, I know that

but I'm saying it's over iron hide Honestly,

that would be a really good e hobby release for

instance or even a lucky draw, right? but what

I'm saying is as far as being because the whole

point of animated was that I Between the cartoon

and the toys they were extremely cartoon accurate

for the most part And what I'm saying is going

from the orange to the silver as he did in the

cartoon There's no way that you could do that

with one toy, so you would have to have just

a silver Repaint yes, yes you would and if anyone

does that that's going to be the Japanese I can

iron hides a popular character. You know would

be really awesome what I Just thought of this

instead of silver paint Chrome him out Yeah,

that's the entire figure Repaint it and don't

even repaint. Just chrome it Yeah, the whole

thing in silver chrome. That's what a lucky draw

is essentially That's why I said like a lucky

draw or e hobby like yeah, if e hobby did it

I would expect it to be chromed completely. So

I'm I'm curious He could even look good if Takara

does a lot of chroming like they would probably

chrome his chest for instance And that would

actually look pretty good. Yeah You have anything

else to say about Ratchet? Uh, nothing much.

I mean, he's a great figure, and he's got his...

Also, he's got his War Wound as well. It's kind

of an animation model inconsistency when you

think about it. The X across his chest, you mean?

No, I don't... No, not the X across his chest.

I mean, it's slightly different, I guess. I mean

the War Wound on the side of his arm. Oh. He's

got that there, but by the same token that also

means that in theory I should be able to plug

the EMP into him, which I'll probably go ahead

and do because I don't normally keep it with

lockdown. I like to put it on Ratchet instead.

Yeah. But yeah, he's a good figure. Neat transformation.

I'm impressed by this guy. And if you can get

your hands on him, then yeah, get your hands

on him in RC. I still have to actually... get

my RC out of the box and start fiddling around

with it and then raving about how great RC is.

But there's been a lot of that and Ratchet has

gotten a lot less love in podcasts and stuff.

So I figured I'd talk about Ratchet instead.

Yeah. You know, I had a thought and I'm surprised.

I know RC didn't get a whole lot of time in the

cartoon. But I'm actually very surprised that

Derek or Marty or any of them Didn't reference

her x -ray vision from the movie and I think

it would have been extremely cool if they did

and if they Made it into the toy with light changing

light change light pipe change eyes Where it

goes from blue to the red like she did in the

in the 86 movie. That would have been awesome

Well, they can't really do color -changing light

piping though. Not really easily anyway Well,

they are color -changing light eyes on the universe

cheetah or it doesn't have to be like right,

but you know what I'm saying though Yes, yes,

I do. Yeah, and also I figure that this is probably

worth mentioning Because I was actually listening

to a bit of that commentary just today. Actually,

this is fresh on my head And with Hot Rod, they

actually did homage his x -ray eyes in a toy.

In which toy? That was the Kiss Play slash Alternators

Hot Rod of all modes. That was the Mirage mode

only. They gave it a new head for Hot Rod. And

they actually put a visor in there that folds

down over his eyes. Oh, cool. So like it folds

out and it's like in the movie where he's got

his x -ray vision. I don't know if the... I'm

not sure off the top of my head if they had it

on the US release that was the SDCC exclusive,

but I know that kiss play did that So the Japanese

perverted Japanese toys are good for something

All right, I am going to be everybody knows from

episode 45 to 49 episode 45 to 50 I did a whole

bunch of robot heroes talk well, I've run out

of robot heroes, so it's back to the mighty mugs

and One of the reasons why I talk about mighty

mugs when Michael wasn't Wilson isn't around

is because he doesn't like them I don't know

how you can't like these things granted. They

don't transform. They don't do anything They're

not supposed to but just described why people

don't like yeah, I know but still they The they're

still made of 100 % recycled awesome. So anyway

I put a vote up on Twitter before we started

recording this of between Baroness Ghost Rider

Venom or war machine and everybody was telling

me either war machine or Venom Somebody asked

me to do all four in one show is like no that

defeats the purpose of the show And my reaction

essentially was you keep hyping war machine talk

about oh, yeah, no dude war machine is War machine

is if I only had to have to if somebody told

me I I can only choose two mighty mugs to have

and I couldn't have anymore I would pick War

Machine and G1 Shockwave, because in my honest

opinion, they are the two best ones ever, so

far out of any of the ones that have been made.

War Machine is made, he is part of the, he's

a Toys R Us exclusive, he is part of the Iron

Man 2 line. Now normally Marvel, the Marvel mugs,

Hasbro markets them obviously as Marvel. like

with Iron Man and Wolverine and they're all Marvel

stuff. Every box of the Marvel one says Marvel

on it. With the War Machine Toys R Us exclusive

and the Iron Man Mark 6 armor exclusive, they

are deeming it under the Iron Man 2 movie toy

line. uh... which is a very awesome i think i

don't really want the mark six armor for iron

man i actually want uh... the comic con version

from a couple years ago so mark six is that the

suitcase armor no uh... the mark six no i don't

think so i i'm not sure i'm not that up -to -date

on iron man's uh... mark armor there i know the

suitcase armor is uh... the one that was in the

the trailer but no So War Machine, he is mainly

a very dark gray with a lot of silver. He comes

with, it is very rare for a Mighty Mug to come

with two accessories. Well... I mean Starscream's

wings not what's standing. I mean you really

can't count them as far as weapons I wouldn't

count those well They are accessories because

you don't have to have them on the figure But

what I would consider having more accessories

to be something like jazz would be an example

of two accessories Because he's got the doors

plus the gun Yeah, but the doors are molded onto

the figure though. Yes, but they're in addition

to the base Mighty Mugs mold so they're extras

So I would count them as an accessory Okay, well,

you know I think the only other one I have that

has come with two actual weapons was Snake Eyes

from the G .I. Joe line. He comes with a sword

and a gun. But War Machine comes with his missile

launcher and a gatling gun that both peg into

his shoulders. A lot of people have asked me,

well, are the weapons, you know, wouldn't it

be cool to interchange the weapons between the

Mighty Mugs? Like say you want to put Megatron's

fusion cannon on War Machine. Well, I believe

it was Michael Wilson that brought that up. Only

one problem is the holes are a different size,

so they won't exactly fit correctly. They will

fit, but just barely. I really don't care to

mix and match weapons with these. The whole point

of Mighty Mugs is to have them specific to the

character. And I do not display War Machine without

his weapons on his shoulders because it looks

like he has two large holes in his arms and it

just looks weird. Plus that's not War Machine.

War Machine is all about extra weapons. True.

Like I said before, he's mainly... I would say

black, dark gray, silver, and white. The only

part where he has white is his eyelids. They

painted this thing very, very well. He just looks

so superimposing, I think. Just very, very well

done. So, yeah. Overall, you know, and the good

thing about this, the one thing I was worried

about him, and I think I mentioned it in the

video that I did a while ago on YouTube. I'm

not sure. You know, with these weapons on his

shoulders. I think I mentioned this to you a

while ago. We were doing some off -air chat or

something, I think when I first got him. Because

his weapons are on his shoulders and the mighty

monk's heads are so large, obviously, a lot of

the other ones like Optimus Prime and Megatron

and Soundwave and everything else, if you move

their arm up, like say you have the weapon in

his hand, and you move his arm up to his... To

where is where his head is the weapon will kind

of get in the way and you can't really move on

arm all the way up Well with war machines weapons

in his shoulder holes His head still there's

plenty of clearance room to move his head 365

degree or 360 degrees 365 what the hell? So I

mean they really really went to a lot of detail

with this one as far as making sure there was

enough head clearance for his head to turn all

the way around. Just overall a very, very great

toy. Sweet. Yep. What else do we want to talk

about? Well, I just finished opening my and transforming

my RC. Good. She's a neat figure, I have to say.

I'm not going to say much about her other than

it's definitely, it's Definitely RC. I'm gonna

be doing some paint touch -ups on her for sure.

I know that. Like the face, for instance. I want

to add some black detailing to that so that it'll

really pop. This is a really good RC figure.

If you're a G1 fan, for instance, get this RC

because it's the closest thing to a G1 RC we're

going to get any time soon. It's the only thing

to a G1 RC we're ever gonna get. Closest only,

same thing. No, it's not closest, it is the only.

Closest only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.

And curling. No. What do you mean, closest to

the house? Closest to the buttons? Oh wow. Okay

then. What, I like curling. I like my curling.

Uh huh, that's a Canadian sport. I'm not denying

that. Not denying that at all. Although quick

quick note. This was actually brought up on another

podcast Again, I think this was dog dog on TFW

who brought this up that she had that RC she

actually has a Tramp stamp just based off of

where her faction symbol ends up in Her windshield

ends up in robot mode. Yeah, it ends up being

her ass. And a couple of people actually brought

it up on their videos. I think Piyog did it in

his video. There's actually a couple ways I noticed

to... No, I know. It was TJ on his video that

did it first, I think. OK. That may well be.

Yeah, it looks like there's a couple of ways

to arrange it, though. So I'm still playing around

with this. So I mean, it looks like it's overall,

though, it's pretty good, though. So I have to

say. Like I'm not sure what the actual way to

put how the actual Method to put it on her back

is but okay you fold it down like that because

there's a couple ways There's one way you can

put it where it's less of a skirt sort of thing

so and looking at it I think I actually like

that better so Huh a particular way than what

the instructions show, but that's me So is there

anything else you want to talk about? Nothing

I can think of. I mean also included in this

package I got a bunch of the armada era minicons

like the sky boom shield the sky boom shield

star saber and the Requiem blaster teams So given

I've never had any armada. I've got very few

armada era molds and toys, so it'll be interesting

looking at these Just from a retrospective perspective

I think the only Armada one I might actually

have, unless I'm wrong. I think it might be a

knock -off of the Deluxe Optimus Prime mold.

I think that might be the only Armada toy I have.

Just because I wasn't in the Transformers during

Armada, so... Yeah. I wasn't either. Armada sucks.

It's interesting, because I've actually got...

I've got a few RID... of the bigger RID toys.

I've got some even which I've gotten after the

fact. I've got a bunch of the energon toys I've

got a whole bunch of Cybertron, but I've got

like I can't don't think I have any armada before

this so it's interesting really I Think our mod

is the only generation that I don't have toys

from so Well machine wars. I don't have anything

from that but wouldn't want anything from it.

I don't know that I'd want that Starscream But

that's partly because of the Transformers Redemption

CGI series that Draven from TFW has done. Oh,

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