Transformers In 2025 Aerial Bots, Combaticons, and Trypticon, OH MY!

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Predacons, terrorize! Hello and welcome to All

Things Transformers. I'm your host, Steve Megatron,

and joining me on this adventure into the Transformers

fandom is TFG1 Mike. Lemon face, lion face, lemon

face, lion face. Nobody's going to get that joke.

Not even you are going to get that joke. Nope,

I'm not going to get that joke. Oh, God. Yeah,

anyway, it's a performance thing. But yes, we're

here. Not that performance. We're here. We're

no longer waiting. It is 2025. We are 41 years

removed from Transformers debut. We are 40 years

away from year two of that line and that cartoon

because the 1985 set of toys was amazing. How

was your Christmas since we didn't do it? Technically,

Transformers 1, the DVD commentary, was our Christmas

episode. Pretty good. I mean, I worked a lot

of my time off. And then, yeah, I spent the better

part of it trying to just get a bunch of other

stuff done. Got vehicle fixed prior to. Got my

printer back up and running. However, it promptly

took a dump on me. Oh, no. So I had the the print

head got gummed up with the filament. And I don't

know if it's because it like obtained moisture.

I don't know if it's because this kind just doesn't

play well. So anyways, it completely fused like

I could not get the hot end off of the heating

element, like could not take it off. It had fused

to it. So your printer became a fusor. Yeah,

it became a fusor, all right. Nothing was coming

out of it. That's not good. So I tried to fix

it. I ended up having to snap that part off.

I got it off, like, all the way, but then the

threads were destroyed. And so then I had to

buy a new hot end. I bought it with the fan and

all the other stuff because in my irritation,

I cut the cord to something that needed to stay

plugged in because I had bought just an upgrade

for the keating element. And I was going to reuse

everything else, but I couldn't get it back through

the corded thing into the underside. So I got

it all in there, got it all rewired, managed

to print something with it. somewhat good. Um,

wasn't terrible, but it wasn't great either,

but it was the smoothest print I'd had in age.

And then I moved it from where I was working

on it, which was in my living room, uh, on a

table there. And I moved it into my office and

that's where the issues started up again. Oh

no. And I messed with it for about two and a

half hours one night. And then I eventually was

like, don't care. Done. So I listed that printer

and I bought a new one. But I got to wait for

the new one to show up and it's supposed to be

very automated. It's supposed to be six times

faster than what I have. It's enclosed so it

shouldn't have as much of the heating issues.

It has like an AI detection with a camera so

it will detect if it's going to go into spaghetti

mode and then it will abandon the print. without

me having to babysit it yep which is nice and

then yeah so i'm waiting for that to show up

and it it can actually print four colors at a

time as long as i set it up in the software so

i can do multi -color prints once i get that

set up it's an established brand it's like any

cubic uh cobra oh brah um and then uh it's supposed

to it's it's basically like a Bamboo Lab version

kind of knockoff of their mid -grade enclosed

printer and so yeah I'm hoping this fixes all

the issues and I should be able to just remotely

send crap to the device from my phone from an

app if I have it or send it from other devices

wirelessly like it's yeah the one I have right

now it's every time I go to use it it's a headache

and When it worked, it worked great. When it

didn't work, it didn't work. Yeah. Because I

have a lot of brittle prints that are sitting

here in unfinished land, like I was trying to

print the Beast Machine Megatron in the cloak.

Yep. I got as far as his pedestal, and then part

of it snapped off because the... I don't know

if it wasn't filled in right. I don't know. But

I'm going to have to end up reprinting that whole

stupid thing that I got. that I got started,

a lot of it didn't really print properly anyway,

so I was going to have to do this, but I was

just going to super glue it all together. Yeah.

And just deal. Yeah. Because, I mean, ultimately

it's going on display. It doesn't matter if it

moves. Yeah, I mean, yeah. So, same token with,

I was looking at, and this is not Transformers

related, but I, because I've had Dragon Ball

Z, Dragon Ball Super, all of those figurines.

I decided I wanted to make a version of Vegeta

from Dragon Ball GT, which is technically not

canon. But it's anyways, there's a base form

of him that he's not wearing the armor and looks

kind of normal and cool. And so I was going to

cobble together multiple figures to create that,

which would have been fun. However, I looked

on 3D printer stuff because I was like, I don't

know. I don't really want to spend it. And then

I tried to cobble the two figures I have now

that would have worked. And there's a missing

gap where the waist joint would have connected.

So it's not going to work. So I was like, do

I want to get two $30 figures just to cobble

them together in the hopes that they work? Or

do I want to save my money and figure something

else out? Yeah, so I looked and I'm like, again,

it's going to be something that doesn't move.

I was like, if I buy a flesh tone filament, I

could print the layers with the head and the

hands and, you know, that portion in that filament.

I could also just print the rest of it in its

colors or paint it if I have to print it all

in one color. and i think i could do the same

job uh and i've seen like about eight different

nice 3d prints that might work for this so i'm

gonna try that and see what happens and then

uh if nothing else i've got a display item uh

i am gonna probably reprint my power morpher

once i get the new printer and that but i want

to do beast machines mechatron something terrible

Yeah, so that's what I've been up to other than

brandishing new ideas for video content since

our YouTube channel has kind of slowly dwindled

off as the podcasts have finished uploading.

Well, there you go. That just means we have to

create more podcasts. Yes, and video content.

Well, yeah, but yeah. But yeah, Christmas was

fine for me. I kind of am in hibernate mode still.

Getting into Transformers stuff, we've got nine

things, and it's not going to take us all night

to go through all nine of these, because some

of these are just, hey, this happened. One of

those, I'll actually skip over the Wave 1 Transformers

Age of the Primes for a second, just to mention

since we're talking about Christmas. David Cade

did his annual Christmas greeting. That, and

I'm like, oh, wow. David's always inventive when

he does his Christmas greetings. Unfortunately,

I think Gary Chuck is not doing, or he wasn't

doing so well. He had some sort of cancer diagnosis.

I forget what it was. There was something going

on. Yeah, he's got a cancer diagnosis. Yeah.

Gary, please, keep fighting, man. We need you

here. Keep fighting. Fight the good fight on

that, you know, kicking that cancer butt. But,

yeah, I saw David. Did you see the David Kaye

video? Have you watched that? No, I haven't had

a chance to watch it, which, yeah, I know. I'm

like, but I haven't, like, it's just, it's been

an interesting couple of weeks. Just been swamped

in general. We're six days into 2025, folks,

and we both feel like we could use a long winter's

nap. Because, oh boy, the end of 2024 was crazy.

All right, so getting into the Wave 1 thing,

can I just say I wish they would finally just

say... And maybe this is more of an issue that

I have with TFW than it is anything else, but

like... So we're going to talk about the Transformers

Age of the Primes Wave 1. Which includes your

Voyagers, your Deluxes, your this, your that,

whatever, whatever, whatever. We're now getting

into the whole thing of Hasbro having various

other names for larger size figures. So usually,

how it has been for the last at least 15 and

a half, 16 years of you and I doing this show,

it's, what's the time, Core Class, Deluxe Class,

which is your standard mid -size figure, not

mid -size, but it's your standard thing. Voyager's

a little bigger. And then there was Leader and

this, that, and everything else. A couple years

ago, they introduced the Commander class, which

is like your super Leader class kind of thing.

And now they have Titan class. And I'm just like,

okay. What's besides, obviously, price, because

yikes. You know, we're going to go through these.

We have images. That's the only reason why we're

going to go through this wave one is because

there is actual box art. And inbox images of

these things. But man, I wish they would get

their sizing redone or re -whatever. Silverbolt

is one of the commander classes. So they're doing

the aerial bots. We've got Air Raid and Slingshot.

So we get three of the five aerial bots. The

funny thing is, because they're doing this Age

of the Primes thing, and it's, oh, it's the Age

of the Primes, and everybody's included in this

thing. And I get to Fugitive Waspinator, and

I'm like, that's an animated Bumblebee repaint

into the Fugitive Waspinator from Animated. Wasp

or whatever. And I'm like, ooh, that's cool.

I want it for the car mode. That's the only reason

why I would want that figure. Not because the

bot mode doesn't look cool. It looks amazing.

But literally, I loved when they did certain

repaints of Bumblebee's animated design. Like

Bumblebee, I never had the animated Bumblebee.

What I had was the Elite Guard Bumblebee, which

is basically the Bumblebee figure, except he's

black and gold instead of, because he's supposed

to have the stealth look. when he became an elite

guard member. But I love this Wasp. I can hear

Waspinator coming out of this animated Wasp design.

We've got Solus Prime. I like her alt mode. We've

got the Generation 2 Grimlock. So, Blue Grimlock.

What do you think of Blue Dinosaur? Blue Dinosaur

versus Purple Dinosaur. There's no Megatron in

this listing, but... I'm indifferent. It's just

a repaint. Just another effing repaint, man.

Just a bunch of repaints. Megatronus the Fallen,

so we get that. What do you think of Megatronus?

I can't even talk tonight, folks. Megatronus.

Don't get me wrong, I like the figure. I know

it's a retool of Megatron. It looks cool. It's

got a different deco to the chest and to the

whole... If it weren't for the fact that it's

another one of these type of canon, you know...

Yeah, it was a different tank, yeah. Yeah, I

mean, don't get me wrong, I love the design of

the figure, especially in Robot, because I'm

like, oh, that would make a nice pre -Beast Megatron

that they could retool, even though it's not

the miniature version. It would be something...

It would look fitting. Yeah. Almost like an IDW

Megatron. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Which, I think,

didn't they do IDW Megatron? I think they did

at one point or another. They didn't make one.

Really? No. I thought they did. Not Beast Megatron.

No, no, no. I'm talking about IDW Megatron. I

know they didn't make a Beast Megatron. Oh, yeah.

I'm pretty sure that was like a... Yeah. That

fire... Yeah, it was like a model kit. It wasn't...

Okay. I remember IDW Megatron when IDW still

had the license to the comics and they revealed

his alt mode. That was by far... Out of any of

the tank versions Megatron has ever been, that

was the coolest. At the time when they had it.

Up next is Star Optimus Prime. Star Convoy. It's

a Japanese version. Yeah, the 13 Star Convoy

Optimus Prime. This is... I don't know. I like

it, but that's because I like that design. In

that universe, though, They had him merge with

like diatlas and some others and he actually

fought the super Megatron in this body. Okay.

So that's why I care about it. Yeah. They made

a super Megatron years ago, a triple changer.

Yeah. And, uh, but it was with the, uh, war for

Cybertron or not work for Cybertron battle or

power of the primes. Gotcha. Yeah. I like his...

I like the trailer. This is so stupid. I like

the trailer because it reminds me of Power Master

Optimus Prime's trailer. I don't necessarily

like the front part of the vehicle mode. The

upper part of it. That's a little... I mean,

I get it. It's where it's there because of the

guns, but it is what it is. At first, I thought

this next one was a, uh... What's his name? Sentinel

Prime. Because blue legs, white body, whatever.

But apparently this is Red Alert. Why Red Alert's

blue is beyond me? Okay. Well, this Red Alert

is from Robots in Disguise. Or not Robots in

Disguise. He's from Armada, I think. Oh, that.

Okay, yeah, that's right. I remember that now.

Yeah. I like the alt mode. It's funny with a

lot of these listings that we have for this story,

folks. I like some of the alt modes more than

the actual bot modes. Same thing with Prima Prime

here. That is a cool alt mode. Yeah, it's basically,

it kind of reminds me of like Hup or... Yeah,

I like this figure, but it's more so because...

there's the capability of turning this into the

IDW pre beast. Yep. Yeah, absolutely. And, uh,

the Lux class retail prices are now up to 25

bucks per figure ages, eight and up, man. Yeah.

What were Deluxe's 15 years ago? Eight 99. Well,

they were like 12 something, but still. Okay.

Yeah. Yeah. Also, I was trying to find pictures,

and maybe it's in a separate story that I didn't

grab, but they list here the next Transformers

collaborative thing, Transformers X Sonic the

Hedgehog wingtail and blue booster action figures.

Have you seen these things? No. Oh, my God. All

right. Well, let me send you the link, because

apparently in the story link with the wave one,

there's a link there that says, here, look at

the extra blah, blah, blah. Holy crap. Why? Why

what? The stupid things. Oh, so this is a previous.

Okay. Well. Alright, well, I'm seeing more images

of that Optimus. I'm kind of liking him a little

bit more. That red alert still looks like Sentinel

to me. Uh, but these Sonic figures are at the

bottom of the thing? Past all the images with

the kids and the toys, I guess? Uh, wait. I don't

see the Sonic images at all in this. Huh. Why

would TFW2005 .com, what the hell are you doing,

link into a story that... Oh, here they are.

I think. Transformers sound like the Hedgehog.

They ugly. It's funny, too. I also follow certain

things in the TFW forums. And I think... We'll

get an announcement later this year of a masterpiece

Tarantulas and Waspinator. Nice, that would be

cool. So, I like the car mode and the airplane

mode. I don't like the robot mode on this new

collaborative thing they're doing. It's too weird.

Doesn't work. I don't know. It's like they took,

um... Granted, Blades from Robots in Disguise

and... Was it Robots in Disguise 2015? No, Rescue

Bots. There's a helicopter. There's an orange

helicopter on there called Blades. The Tails

figure here, it's like they took Blades, made

him an airplane, and somehow mashed the yellowness

of Tails. in this. And the whole point of the

Sonic character of Tails, the whole reason why

he's called Tails, he has two tails. Oh, duh.

He ain't got two tails as this airplane. He got

one tail. So, yeah, no. No, thank you. Really

quick before we move on, as I'm seeing more of

this Optimus, I do like the robot mode more than

anything else. I'll say now that I'm seeing more

of the robot mode. That alt mode, like I said,

the trailer reminds me of Power Master Optimus

Prime, and there's just too much going on with

that trailer. In the alt mode, not in the battle

station mode. The battle station mode, fine,

you can have whatever you want going on there,

but that's a little much. No, I get it. Yeah,

I just like the figure, the design. Yeah, absolutely.

All right, folks. Moving on, we've got, because

I was actively seeing if there was anything for

you, because we've always said, oh, they're not

doing anything with Beast Wars lately. They're

not doing this, they're not doing that. We have

upcoming Wonderfest 2025 exclusive Beast Wars

Optimus Primal and Rattrap Garage kits. Coming

to us via Twitter slash ex -users, this person

and that person, because I can't pronounce those

names whatsoever, we have renders and images

of two new upcoming Wonderfest 2025 exclusive

Beast Wars Optimus Primal and Rattrap garage

kits. Both fans have got official permission

to sell Beast Wars Optimus Primal, Rattrap, Beast

Mode, and Optimus Primal Shield, seen in the

cartoon garage kits, assembly scale model kits

most commonly cast. and polyurethane resin. During

the Wonder Festival 2025 event on February 9th,

2025. Hey, my 45th birthday. Yay. In Japan. The

license only allows these kits to be sold at

the convention in Japan. Won't be available in

any retail or online store after that. So the

license only allows these to be sold at the show.

And these are supposed to be model kits? Okay,

I'm looking at the Optimus and I can kind of

see how they are where the lower part of his

arm and the upper part of his arm where his shoulder...

Okay, I can kind of see that. It's like those

old 90s toys where they literally, you know,

you can rotate the wrists and the arms. It's

like if you had the old genie figure. You know,

from the 90s. For Aladdin. Yeah. That's basically

what these are. Yeah. And, um, I don't know many

people that are going to get, I mean, you can

try to find them on secondary market, I guess,

but I, that's just weird to me. I honestly don't.

feel the need to get these? No! Well, I, when

I saw the story before, I mean, I read the story

before we did the show, and my reaction is kind

of authentic, but not. I'm kind of putting on

a show a little bit here, but it's a little crazy,

and it's only those two. Like, out of all the

characters, like, okay, yeah, like, do Optimus

and Megatron? I don't have anything against Rattrap.

Rattrap's cool. Maybe if you had a license for

a second wave or something. I don't know. This

really isn't even a wave. It's two figures and

a shield. Well, and I think, honestly, I think

it's going to be one of those things. Like, the

shield? You can already buy that from Funbee

Studios. Like, the 3D print file? Yeah. And then

have it printed yourself. Yeah. So there's really

not a case for getting this? Yeah. No, not really.

Not at all. Moving on, I gotta say, I wasn't

that interested before, but I am now. You better

watch out, Funko, because Blockies is coming

for you. There's always another one to knock

off the previous one. Yeah, yeah, I know. Locky's

Transformers Galaxy Version Wave 6 full lineup

and in -hand images via Weebo users, that person

and that person. I can not rab in some other

language that I can't speak. In him, images of

new Blocky's Transformers Galaxy Version Wave

6. This new wave of small, chibi, and easy -to

-build model kits consists of the following characters

from different universes. IDW Megatron, IDW Optimus,

G1 Sunstreaker, Shattered Glass Ratchet, G1 Kickback,

Dirge, Wheeljack, Swoop Dino Mode, Swoop Robot

Mode, and IDW Optimus Prime Forcefield Mode,

Blue Redecco Chase. The only one out of this

that I want. Because I'm looking at this Optimus

Prime and I'm like, was IDW Optimus that? Literally,

I thought this was like, um, uh, no, no. It's

War for Cybertron. Is it really? Yeah, it's the,

it's the old War for Cybertron design of Prime.

No, it's not. He had windows on him. No. This

one is from the old War for Cybertron comics.

Oh, the comics. Okay. I thought you meant the

video game. I was like, um... No. Okay. No, they've

already made that figure. Yeah, that's what I

thought. But really, the main star in this for

me is the Megatron. But I've been looking at

the other Blockies that are on the Blockies website

and where else you can buy these things, and

I'm like, ooh, I want that one. Ooh, I want that

one. Ooh, I want that one. But that Megatron

with the Autobot logo on it, because during part

of the IDW run, he becomes an Autobot. It was

the only way to save Cybertron at the time. I

like the swoop. I probably wouldn't buy the swoop,

but I like it. I think it's cool. The Chase Optimus

looks... Optimus just looks weird all blue. I

mean, it's a nice homage to when they had an

animation error in Season 1 of Generation 1 when

he was all blue. But yeah, the only reason why

I'm even talking about this story is that IDW

Megatron, because that looks badass. Any thoughts?

Guess not. Catchphrase. So these blockies, any

thoughts, sir? Well, aside from Optimus Prime

being from the War for Cybertron comics and then

Megatron being from the IDW universe, I honestly

don't hate these. They actually look cooler than

the RED figures. And they look better than those.

They sold something else by Hasbro and they were

like four to five dollars. They were like very

low detailed and they barely moved or had barely

any posability. These actually have posability.

They actually look halfway decent. Like they're

not, you know, they're not expensive figures.

They're about the size of like your old school

basic figure and about the same price point.

They just don't transform, which honestly, I

don't really transform any of mine in any more

anyway. Like I like the capability being built

in still in case I'm like, Oh, I want to mess

with it. But I mean, I've got these ones in the

cabinet and I've not pulled them out in six months

to do anything with them. Um, so, so again, like

that's where like the model type thing is more

fitting. Yeah. I do like these two figures, uh,

the optimist and the Megatron. I've looked at

them in the store. Like, I honestly have looked

at them. I'm like, you know, I wouldn't mind.

Yeah. Of the right figures or the right characters

for me. Yeah, the right characters, yeah. And

I've looked at the old, you know, the other Optimus

Prime, and I see we've got some Shattered Glass

stuff in here, and, you know, I'm not... I would

sooner buy these over Funkos. And it's not...

I don't hate Funko's the way I hated Mighty Mugs.

Yeah. But the same, but the same token, like,

if I, like, they have the Transformers 1 figures,

they have, you know, the rollout, they have,

you know, all these different versions of the

characters. The Transformers 1's figures don't

really entice me outside of the Megatron. Yeah.

The original, Blockies, the Optimus Prime looks

cool. And the original Megatron and some of the

other ones. I don't know. I've almost pulled

the trigger on them. I've not. But that's because

I have limited funds and I have limited shelf

space. And so to me, it's like where do I draw

the line? But like I said, some of these are

really cool. I haven't found one yet that I would

100 % jump to. I do like the Megatrons and the

Optimuses across the board. And they can do some

cool poses. Yeah, they can. And if honestly you

were trying to have the entire lineup of G1 characters

or some of the other ones, they have a metallic

Optimus Prime. yeah as a part of the initial

i that one is tempting yeah if i ever saw it

yep um just because it's like i could have a

real g1 prime and it's not stupid expensive they're

like five bucks at walmart so yeah yeah i don't

know i i like these because they're they're like

almost a chibi without being corny yep Now, correct

me if I'm wrong, because I'm looking at the,

what's the, which Insecticon is this? Kickback.

I'm looking at the Kickback, and I'm looking

at the Swoop. Now, there are two images here

where it shows Kickback in robot mode on a stand,

but it also shows an alternate mode. These aren't

supposed to transform, right? The alternate mode

is just a separate figure, right? Am I wrong

in this? As far as I know, they're not supposed

to. However, looking at his knees, they almost

look that way. See, this is... Okay, let me look

up here in this article again. This new wave

of small... Well, this one, they do. Like, Swoop

transforms. Okay. Swoop transforms, and so does...

I don't think all of them do. No, not all of

them, but some of them do. Because originally

I was like, ooh, Swoop as a Pteranodon or whatever

he is, I would kind of like that, having Swoop

in alt mode without having to transform him.

But yeah, the way that these look, some of them

are, I guess, transformable. They're still very,

very cool. I mean, I'm almost all in on these.

But really, for me, it's that IDW Megatron, man.

It's just that era of where... We all know Megatron,

the Decepticon leader. We've known him for 41

years. What they did in IDW to him and changing

just the way that they wrote that, it was so

cool. And just having that would be just so awesome.

And so far, even though the earlier waves are

showing up here in the U .S., this Wave 6 is

only available in China at point of recording.

So hopefully Wave 6 gets to the U .S. soon. Agreed.

Because I'm not importing. I don't import. I

like Hot Rod, but I don't do sleek, sexy imports

with toys. We're not talking about Trypticon

that much. I only have the Trypticon story here

because of the fact that I watched this livestream

with them, and I was trying to figure out why

they weren't going to make their Age of the Primes

Titan Trypticon, why they weren't going to make

it fully cartoon accurate. And the only reason

that it's not is because of the pinkish car now.

Like, why couldn't they just reuse the purple

car? It's the same thing. First look at upcoming

Transformers Age of the Primes Titan Trypticon.

This is a re -release of Titans Return Trypticon.

Titans Return Trypticon, all they had to do with

this is just repaint him the darker color. They

didn't have to do anything else with it, but

yet we're getting the darker color with a pinkish

car part thing instead of purple the way it was

in the show. I don't know. I don't really care.

If you're trying to sell me on we're going to

have everything cartoon accurate, this one kind

of failed. Sorry, Evan and Mark and... Ben and

everybody on the Hasbro team, but not for whatever

the price a Titan class is. Hell no. Any thoughts?

No, I mean, I don't get into all these giant

versions of the characters. And honestly, I don't

need a re -release of something from Titans Return

as Age of the Prime. It just kind of seems...

Like, oh, we had this mold sitting around. Let's

re -release it. You know they're going to charge

it like $50 to $100 more. Oh, of course. Absolutely.

They're like, oh, we're going to get some more

fun out of this. It's like, dude, we don't care

anymore. Give us something new. Yep, absolutely.

We've got... I'm moving around here a little

bit because the last two stories, we're going

to kind of fly. We're going to give a little

bit more to... Well, the last one is just a fly

-by -night, but the... The one -eyed mood ram.

Mark Clonus, Mark from the Hasbro design team,

shared behind -the -scenes images of Age of the

Primes commander class Silverbolt. I love that

we live in an age where these designers, as long

as a figure has already been announced or has

been teased or previewed or whatever, that we

can go on Instagram or wherever they have their

behind -the -scenes accounts of what they're

working on, and we can see how... things are

going to look. I love that. And that's the only

reason why we're even looking at this, is to

see these Aerialbots kind of, you know, in action.

And, man, it was... These combiner teams, I know

you're not that big on the whole combiner team

thing, but... All these, between Devastator,

and Bruticus, and the Superion, and the Aerobots,

and the Combaticons, and the Constructicons,

it's like, all of this is so cool, because I

remember, I had Silverbolt, and, I had, did I

have all the, Silverbolt, Air Raid, Skydive,

I forget the other, too. I had at least, I know

I had Silverbolt and I think I had Air Raid or

Skydive. I think Air Raid originally was voiced

by Rob Paulson in the cartoon, so I probably

had him. What do you think of the behind the

scenes of Silverbolt here with the others? And

we're talking about the Age of the Primes. Yeah,

the behind the scenes. So, for one, I loved the

I love how solid these look. And when I say that,

I mean my kid has the old Power of the Primes

Superion. Or not Superion, Defensor. And the

way those things are designed are such utter

garbage. And I say that because the way the hinges

work, the way that they kind of snap together.

Whereas Silverbolt here has the framing so you

can still kind of build them without his buddies.

The framing is there that you more or less attach

the other figures to. Whereas in the old figures

they're kind of held together by like you flip

the head inside the chest and then they're a

peg to attach to the shoulders or the legs or

whatever. And it just seems very brittle and

cheap. And these seem very like solid, very like,

you know, crunch together, like very well thought

out. And in that regard, I, I do like where they

went with it. Yeah. Seeing him next to, I think

that's motor master in the first, in one of the

first images of him with the other bots, he picks

up motor master. I love this. I think this is

super cool. Like I said, I had the original 80s

version of Silverbolt as a kid, and man, the

one where he's picking him up, just the way that

Mark has Silverbolt posed, where he's on his

tiptoe and his heel spur for his right leg, and

just the, man, how did he get that to? The things

we'll never know, folks. The things we'll never

know. That's just amazing to me. That's why I

love a lot of the toy photography stuff is because

people like Mark who work at Hasbro or even people

who are in the fandom like Sixo from Triple Takeover

Toy Cast. Sixo does amazing photography, and

I would love to interview him one of these days

about his toy photography. But yeah, Mark did

an amazing job with his behind -the -scenes look

of the Commander Silverbolt. Speaking of things

you don't like, here we go. They're coming. Funko

Digital Pop Transformers Wave 2 in -hand images.

So the one image that is here... Because there

is only one image. I've seen 360 shots of Cheetor

on Instagram from a different account. But this

is from Distrackers. Distrackers is the quote

-unquote number one account to share hacks, leaks,

whatever. The Pop Analyst is the other one that

is listed here. Pop Analyst, I kind of know him,

but I don't know him that well. But he's the

one I saw the 360 on Cheetor with. So, this wave

includes G1 Ultra Magnus Blitzwing and RC, Beast

Wars Cheetor, and then G1 King Starscream Metallic.

It also includes a Freddy Funko as Grimlock Metallic.

Personally... I know there are a lot of people

in the Funko community that I'm friends with

that love Freddy Funko dressed up as other characters

and things like that. I hate Freddy Funko dressed

up as other fictional characters. I don't mind

if he's dressed up as a policeman or a fireman

or if he's at the beach or if he's doing something,

but if you put a Batman costume on him, I'm like,

nope, don't care. And the Transformers Freddy

Funko's... Disgusting. However, but... Yeah,

I don't care for this character at all when they

do that. Yeah, no, no, no. But the Ultra Magnus,

Blitzwing, Cheetor, and King Starscream, I'm

actually getting from a buddy of mine, because

he was lucky enough, and this is why we're going

to talk about this, but he was lucky enough to

pull all of these. I'm getting the Ultra Magnus,

Blitzwing, and Arcee, and Cheetor from him. I

have to find somebody that I can get a King Starscream

from because, oh boy, King Starscream's aftermarket

price is not cheap because he is the grail of

the set. But I kind of love how these look. I

love how everybody's complaining about Ultra

Magnus' lips and his face and how it kind of

looks like Overlord's lips and face and whatever

else. And I'm like, do you not remember Ultra

Magnus from G1? He was a stoic, heroic -like

person who always had a chip on his shoulder,

who always wanted to follow the rules, who didn't

want to break the rules for anything. So him

having this kind of frowny look on his face kind

of makes sense, at least to me. And that Cheetor

is some hot stuff. I love that Cheetor. I can't

wait to do this, to get these for my buddy. And

I've already, luckily, I saved up my money last

year and I've already paid him. Basically, I'm

just waiting for them to be shipped on my birthday

next month. So, I don't read. Like, we read news

stories from TFW 2005. I haven't been on the

TFW boards in years. And I don't read the comments

on the news stories. But because it's Funko,

and I was curious to see what people were saying.

One person on New Year's Eve said, I'm still

not 100 % sure how you get these things, but

I think it's pretty lame how they're locking

physical merch behind a stupid digital tokens

or NFT crap or whatever. I was kind of tempted

by that Cheetor. It goes on to say, somebody

quoted somebody else saying, Funko doesn't operate

in a vacuum. Hasbro signed off on this and fully

supports it. If you look at who largely has IPs

tied to these NFT waves, it's almost entirely

Warner Brothers and Hasbro properties. Not saying

that makes it right. I dislike this style of

FOMO release. But if I were throwing stones,

Hasbro gets as much of the blame as anyone because

they can easily say, no, we don't want to be

a part of this. They are just as bad as Funko

here for not only taking part, but also doing

over and over and over again. If Hasbro could

have figured out the NFT grift, they 100 % would

have done this with their own figures. And then

somebody replies to this person, says, one hand,

yes, on the other hand, Hasbro probably wouldn't

be pushing Funko to do this if Funko hadn't brought

the idea to them in the first place, which is

very true. Funko back then did bring certain

ideas to people. It's just, like, I don't do

the, like, thankfully we've got leaks and listings

and other things. Not listings, but we've got

leaks of potential Transformers Funko Pops that

are going to come out this year. I've heard,

like, supposedly there's supposed to be a hot

rod with Matrix. Again, that is a huge rumor.

It's not super confirmed, but it's usually accurate.

But all of the rumors have said that they are...

It hasn't revealed what the exclusivity is, but

none of the rumors have said NFT. I'm hoping

in the year of 2025, Funko and Hasbro... Stop

putting Transformers Funko Pops behind the NFT

wall and just put... You can make them convention

exclusives. You can make them store exclusives.

You can make them regular pops. It's fine. It's

whatever. But at least let us buy the damn things.

Yeah, I agree with you. And that's my spiel on

that. But yeah, I'm really looking forward to

getting Cheetor because, like I said, Cheetor

is... This is very, very cool. I saw a 360. I

took a screenshot and showed somewhere. They

were like, is that an actual toy? And I'm like,

yeah. And? It's like, oh, my God. Some people,

man. I just don't understand. I don't understand

this human race we live in. Alright, and finally

up tonight, last story, we got the Transformers

Skybound March 2025 solicitations. I was not

going to go through January, February. If you

guys want to hear January, February, go listen

to another comic review with Jesse Early, myself,

and The Uneven Flow. But coming in March, Transformers

number 18, Void Rivals number 18, and the previously

announced Transformers Deluxe Edition Book 1

hardcover are included in the latest Previews

World things, and I understand how comics work,

folks. I've been doing the pullback for 12 years

this coming March, so I get it, how previews

work, but you cannot imagine how many times I've

heard with these upcoming issues. Autobots vs.

Decepticons vs. this spoiler, whatever the spoiler

is supposed to be. I'm like, hurry up. Tell us

who the third faction or third rival is here.

Is it G .I. Joe? Is it the Void Rivals characters?

Is it somebody completely different? Like, just

tell us. But Autobots vs. Decepticons vs. blah

blah blah is already devastating Seattle, but

none of them are prepared for how it will end.

And then for the Void Rivals number 18, at long

last, Zerta. So, again, I will say to you, sir,

check out Void Rivals. I know the trades are

out right now, so you can get the Volume 1 trade.

Just check out that first five issue. You might

like it, you might not. But they do have, I do

love how Skybound is doing the hardcover volumes

for Transformers and the rest of their series

that they're covering in the Energon universe.

So that's coming for comics. And that's it for

our little show tonight, folks. I think, unless

you got anything else. Well, I mean, I don't

really have a whole lot. I'm kind of hoping we

get, like, I've heard rumors, at least for the

Funko, that they're going to have an Optimus

Primal and Megatron. I'm hoping this year we

get, from Hasbro, a Transmetal Megatron. Yes.

That would be cool. I'm assuming we'll get a

quick strike. Aye. Have we already gotten one

of those? I mean, we always get one of those.

No. Really? No. I swear we got a quick strike

already. No, we didn't. Huh. Interesting. Yeah,

but yeah, and the rumors that are out there,

like I said, there are a number of really good

accounts that are usually... Look, folks, say

what you will about some of the social medias

out there. Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

That's Facebook. I always go to Facebook first,

I go to Instagram second, and I go to Twitter

last, because... There's always been a dumpster

fire, whether it's a poor person or it's never

going to change. But it's one of those things

where on Instagram, at least, I get to see the

things because it's this, whatever. And a lot

of the Funko community, people who do Funko news

and try to break the, not break, but try to break

the news with leaks, whatever else, most of the

time, they're... 90 % correct. And I did see

on that list that there supposedly is an Optimus

Primal, but just like half the time when we see

news items that don't have pictures to go along

with it, like the Wave 1, if that Wave 1 article

didn't have those pictures because of the Hasbro

1027 event or 1227 event or whatever the hell

it was, we wouldn't have talked about any of

that because I'm not talking about stuff that

I can't see. And like I said, huge rumor with

the hot rod with Matrix, with the potential.

I can't wait to see a Beast Wars Megatron Funko

Pop. Honestly, that Cheetor looks so damn good.

If they can nail Cheetor's bot mode in a Funko

Pop form, I can't wait to see what they do with

Megatron. It's going to be awesome. And you're

going to have like six of them. One. Because

I will send all six to you. One. Oh, crap. Yeah,

I mean, it's going to be interesting to see what

they come out with this year across the board.

I still haven't seen the Hot Wheels Optimus Prime.

Really? No, I haven't seen it in the store. Oh,

okay, in the store. I was like, I'm sure it's

online somewhere. They have an Optimus Prime

without the trailer. Yes, yes, yes. Part of the

Hot Wheels basic line in 2025. So I imagine once

I see that, I'm going to have it. I don't want

the Mattel Transformable Optimus Prime just because

I can't afford that. It's stupid expensive. But

having just the just the they have like an off

-road it's or track fleet which is like the ten

dollar one that's prime with this trailer i haven't

seen that and i guess that was supposed to be

released in like july of last year i never saw

that in the store like some people were like

i've seen it at target i'm like well good for

you my targets suck they never restock anything

like they're always empty and then they have

the you know just the regular optimus prime no

trailer which i would put on my Because I have

the Batmobile from the animated series Hot Wheel

Cars, and I've collected every color variation

of the animated series one. I still have one

that's unopened. Nice. But yeah, the Optimus

Prime, yeah, I would pick that up in a heartbeat

and probably have two, one for opening and one

for not. I still have the old Thunder Roller

Hot Wheel Car. Very cool. Semi -trailer. your

semi truck from, you know, the nineties that

they don't sell anymore. So yeah, I'm, yeah.

I'm interested to see what they do. Yeah, absolutely.

I like hot wheels though. Yeah. The only hot

wheels cars I have is kit. I have one in package

and out of package for the super pursuit mode

kit. He has the out of package one sits right

here on my desk next to, Optimus Prime, R2 -D2,

Stay Puft, Mini Marshmallow, Batman. But I think

that's going to do it for us, folks. I concur.

So, thank you all for listening to All Things

Transformers. We have been Steve and Mike. So,

until next time, let us know what you would like

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And roll out. Transform and roll out. Autobots,

roll out. Yes. I wish to speak to my lawyer.