TFCon LA 2023 Recap and Transformers News

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This is Optimus Prime and you are listening to

all things Transformers. Hello and welcome to

All Things Transformers. I'm your host, Steve

Megatron. Joining me in this episode of All Things

Transformers is TFG1 Mike and Lady Rek. Woohoo.

Yes, we are here and she is woohoo. Yeah. Woohoo.

Woohoo. Yep. Don't get me started. I don't want

to do it. Sounds like a cockatoo. Woohoo, woohoo,

woohoo. Oh god, you're Woody the Woodpecker.

Great. I have been reduced to a bird. Oh boy.

We are here. We have six top stories. Some we

can talk about, others we will just kind of like

give our opinion and move on. First up, we've

got... Apparently, back on March 20th, there

was an interview with Jason Avalos on Transformers

Rise of the Beasts. Fellow Transformers enthusiast

Alfonso Nation, never heard of that guy, got

to speak. I've never heard of him. I've never

heard of either one of them, so it's kind of

interesting. So you got to speak with Jason Avalos,

who portrays a security guard at the supposed

museum where it is presumed a big action sequence

would take place. People can't hear me hanging

my head in shame of even having to read those

lines. Hey, wait, so are we talking about the

next movie? Are we talking about a review of

another movie? Probably. I don't know. Okay,

more museum people, ahoy. Yes, but sadly, the

greatest part of the museum ahoy movies is no

longer with us. May you rest in peace, Teddy

Roosevelt. Robin Williams, oh boy. So Mr. Avalos

highlights the kindness of director Stephen Capel

Jr. and the fast -paced shooting schedule. He

also notes that the film is a proper sequel.

To 2018's bumblebee He teases that the fans are

in for some crazy surprises that they will not

be ready for and he is lucky to be a part of

the surprise And there's a full there's a full

video YouTube interview. It's 26 minutes long.

I did not watch it I figured TFW would just you

know get the main highlights and write them in

the article like they did Amy are you excited

for rise of the beasts? I am not excited for

Rise of the Beast. As mundane as I could possibly

say, I am not surprised. I am not enthusiastic

for this movie. Okay, we have been here before

and I know like, oh, well, Bumblebee is so much

better. It's like, yes, you're right. We were

very lucky. But after having so many sequels

and having all of the hype build up and then

all the crushing disappointment afterwards. I've

just I I have Gone the way that I've gone most

movies except bumblebee. I was a little bit more

excited for You know what? I just I can't be

bothered at this point because I know they're

going to I've already been seeing a few things

that I'm like, yeah Okay, why does the why does

the why does optimus primal have to be so huge?

I guess you know Like good gorillas are not normally

that size If you go back to Beast Wars, not that

he was like in the same size as Optimus Prime,

but yeah, okay, all right. They're gonna do what

they're gonna do. And I'd rather just be walking

to the theater, have no expectations, even have

low expectations and be surprised, like I was

with Bumblebee, or just be like, okay, face palm

the whole time and go, I want my two hours back.

What else can you do, right? Go back and watch

Beast Wars and say, oh, back in the day when

it was actually really, really great writing.

Yeah. We just came off of the winter of Bayham

where Steve and I went through all of the live

action films. And the sad thing is, as we kept

going through them, we both kept saying, really?

I don't hate it as much as I used to. Honestly,

I have watched all of them. I probably have watched

the first two the most. I went back and watched

and I literally have watched them a lot. The

first two probably the most and then it just

kind of tapers off from there. I have gone back

and recently saw Dark of the Moon. Sam never

got any less annoying. And I really hate everything

about Sam to be fair. And then I went on and

did, you know, Cade Yeager, which is not so bad,

but I really did not like the last night either.

So those last two ones just don't. I can watch

everything else, but Dark of the Moon and last

night just not that just so much. No cringe.

All right, Steve, Rise of the Beasts? I mean,

you kind of already know my opinion of it, but

especially when Iacon online did their panel,

I went on a tirade that I had to edit because

I went on too long about how they were going

to ruin it. Well, I understand their constant

need to make it look like Michael Bay stuff.

I wish that they would evolve them a little bit

more and move beyond that and make the beast

actually look like beasts or have some kind of

a semblance of the original character instead

of whatever it is that we're getting in the toys

and the graphics. I don't mind the hybrid. I

think their studio series are their main release.

I'm not really sure which, but the one at least

looks like an amalgam of kind of the original

with like a transmetal with a beast machine spin

like for some of them. Like they don't totally

look out of sorts. And then the ones that they

chose are totally out of sorts. And I'm not enthused

with the voice cast other than David Sobolev.

Oh, David's awesome. David's definitely, anything

that he's in, I'll go watch. Yeah. And that's

pretty much the main thing I have here is I'm

excited for David Soboloff. I'm not excited for

the rest of the cast. I really wanted them to

go in a different direction with this and they're

not. I feel like it's going to be almost a rehash

of the first Transformers movie in a different

way or the second one. I don't get the vibe that

we're going to get something amazing and unique.

I wish that they would have just kind of not

made this film. It's bad enough we had the version

called War for Cybertron that was just as bad

and at least they got the visuals right. or for

the most part there for modern CGI. What's funny

is they talk how bad CGI was back then. I still

prefer it over the modern stuff because it seems

like the new stuff is just lazy or not as polished

in certain lighting. I can see what you're saying

with that. Yeah. Well, I don't even know. Now

that I know David Sabalov, I'm like, okay. Yeah,

that'll make me a little bit happier. He's playing

a Decepticon. and Rhinox. I don't know anything

else. I don't know anything else about the show.

I know that there, I've seen a couple of little,

you know, panels and that's pretty much it. And

a teaser video. I have not looked to see who's

actually writing. I have not seen if Bay is on

this or not. As far as I know. He's probably

on it as far as a producer, but he's not directing.

It's Stephen Capel Jr. directing the film. Okay.

All right. My big takeaway from this is I don't

really care who the director is. It's the writing.

Yeah. Absolutely. All right. Moving on to something

we enjoy, which is toys. Yay. We have the Transformers

Legacy Evolution Generation 2 universe Toxitron

Jazz and Cloud Cover official in -hand images.

I love that Toxitron. I know it's just the G2

Laser Prime. I don't care. Those Toxitron colors

are amazing. Well, they have to milk it. Well,

yeah. Hello. It is has, bro. Yeah. This is the

first time I've actually seen these images. And

I have to say, you're right. I kind of like the

Toxitron. It's not a bad. I don't I don't hate

any of them, to be honest, but I like G2. Yeah,

very, very neon. Yes, very neon, very almost

black, not, not black and white, black light

a little bit sometimes. Amy, what do you think

is, I think this is the first time that we've

had you on since this probably happened. The

windowless boxes with just a little wire holding

the figures inside where kids can just run into

the stores and rip them out of the, out of the

packaging. That's dangerous, for one. Yeah, obviously.

Yeah, that's an interesting take on how to put

transformers in there. Yeah, because I'm looking

at the G2 Autobot Jazz packaging. The wire is

just across his head. It's not even a wire. Yeah,

no, it's not. It's like really tightly wound.

paper. That's what they've been doing for a little

while already, but there's no keeping it in there.

I mean, have they had problems with people stealing

these? A couple of times, I think. Yeah, with

the heads being stolen. Oh yeah, that's what

it was. Yeah, people would steal the heads. Yeah,

bulkhead, because his head actually folds into

his chest. A lot of the stories have been pushing

bulkhead's head down. Sorry. Bulkhead is essentially

the modern day version of Ironhide and Ratchet.

Those toys had no heads. Okay, then. Well, I

hope that they fix this problem, but you know,

maybe they won't. Maybe it'll just be like the

thing now. They'll have to, you know, the onus

will be on the stores to find glass cases and

you'll have to go and ask a person to... Can

I get a transformer, please? Wow. OK. Well, there

you go. Steve, thoughts on these these three

figures specifically before we move on? Well,

there's one that there's not an image for, and

that's Grimlock. Mm hmm. And he's going to have

a G2 color palette, too. Yeah. But no, I'm kind

of excited for it. I like them. Not enough to

buy them, but I like them. For me, if I was buying

anything but Funko, I would buy that Toxitron

in a heartbeat because I loved it when they did

the BotCon set for the Stunticon job back in

2011, because that animated Optimus Prime Voyager

-class mold was used. Which I have. I have that

set. Ah, Toxitron. That green and, you know,

there's only two robots in my entire 43 years

on this planet that I absolutely love green and

purple with, and that's obviously Toxitron and

Devastator. That is affirmative. All right, up

next we have Agoramodel's Optimus Prime details.

38 -inch die -cast model kit. So you gotta build

your own Optimus Prime, folks. You know, I don't

hate it. I don't hate it either. I love it. This

is the thing. I've really gotten into customs

and painting and building my own figures of sorts.

I bought a model kit of the Enterprise at Walmart

for five bucks because it was on clearance. I'm

working on that right now. Oh man. So I'm not

going to read every single detail in here, but

this is very important to know. This, this thing,

and I'll get Amy's reaction to the pictures and

we can discuss how he looks and everything else

in a moment. This thing is, this is cool. This

is the way things should be done available since

it's a model kit and you have to build it available

as a 12 month subscription box. No, I like it.

Cause you don't have to like spend 1700 to 2500

dollars all at once for an auto converting piece

of crap. I was not prepared. Allowing you to

build and complete this museum quality model

within 12 months at the time of launch, customers

will subscribe to a 12 month plan, receiving

one box of model parts to build each month for

12 months. That's one contains pack one contains

more than 85 pieces. That's going to be a huge

figure. It's it's freaking big. Like I yeah,

I mean, I love the detail. I just I don't know

where I would even put it. Yeah. Amy. This is

actually really nice looking, to be fair. Absolutely.

Yeah. It's like it's really slick looking and

I don't know. I guess I can understand where

you're coming from, Mike, with you saying, oh

yeah, one box of parts a month will arrive for

12 months. Yeah, if you want to save it for the

time, you can do all of it all at once after

a year. I don't know. I've got mixed feelings

on that. I could see where it could be both good

and not so good. But you could also build it

over the 12 months. I'm looking at one of the

pictures here. where it's just his head with

the circuits and the windows. Oh, okay. I need

to click on that thing. Okay, sorry. I'm coming

through these still. It's okay. Yeah, it's right

after the OP Paintwork Insta. So it's Optimus

Prime pack one, parts 41. Oh, I see it now. Oh,

wow. That's funny. I can just imagine the people

making pictures of this. I'm probably going to

make this the banner for the featured banner

on geekcastradio .com for this episode because

I love this so much. Yeah, that is kind of funny.

Yeah. You know, better power to whoever does

this because it's, you know, if you take the

time to do it, great. It's going to be a fantastic

build. It's going to be a pricey build, but it's

going to be great. Hey, Unicron, anyone? Come

on, right? How many people bought that thing?

Yeah. And in person, I will say he is very impressive.

I don't have it. Just, you know, just to let

you know, you've seen it. Yeah, I've seen it.

I've seen it. I've had a chance to kind of, you

know, help pick them up and put them because

I had a friend that took them to one of the TF

cons last year. So He's very impressive, but

you know this this figure yeah, this is if yeah,

I really don't build stuff to be honest So I

probably won't get it, but yeah, I will be watching

people who have it like hey So the pricing for

this the first pack is $75 packs 2 through 11

are 150 each So it is very very pricey You'll

that's that's not like there's no denying that

but Let's just do a little math here in the in

the all things transformers blah blah blah blah

blah Where's the I want to know what the the

whole cost is right up front if they're only

telling us box one two and three Or is that box

two all the way up? Okay, yeah, this is okay,

so This is what I can say from what I, so 74

.99 for the first box and $150 for each additional

box is what I'm understanding where it says pack

two plus in total, not counting any tax or anything

like that or whatever, not counting shipping

for each of the two boxes or the each of the

12 boxes. $1 ,724 and 88 cents is what I come

up with because if you say other words You're

gonna be one of those people that if you decide

to get this you want to make sure you have that

a thousand first Because if you get all the way

up to six and then all of a sudden can't buy

the next two boxes You're gonna be a sad sad

person a sad sad sucker Yeah OK, so from from

me with that, let's just say not again, not counting

tax, not counting whatever shipping might be

for each box, but that price tag for this museum

like statuesque thing that just you can pose

it. It can open its chest. It has a matrix. It

has his gun. It has his axe. All that stuff for

just. above $1700. This to me is worth more than

what the Robosen auto converting one does. Because

that thing has batteries, it's gonna end up,

the electronics in it are gonna go shot at some

point over the years if you ever bought that

thing. So I don't know, I still love the look

of this. Like this model kit thing. One more

detail. Optimus Prime will come in a whopping

38 inches tall when complete. That's 11 inches

taller than the HasLab Unicron that we mentioned

already. That's a big figure. Yes, it is. I can't

lie. It will be a toddler. Yeah. It will be huge.

Yep. That's what she said. I mean, people that

were talking, you know, the fun figures, the

fun photos that we were seeing online where,

you know, people were putting it in a baby stroller.

This will be the toddler walking next to it.

Yeah, pretty much. And the fact that the very

first image in the article, and again, folks,

all the links will be in the show notes. of him

standing there with the little bendy pose with

his rifle pointed up and his finger basically

calling his shot. Like he's a baseball player.

Like, okay, Optimus, we get it. No, he's, he's

doing, he's like, I'm going to shoot that bird

over there. They should have put like a two year

old right up next, right alongside it. So you

could actually compare how big this thing is

going to be. Anybody's little two -year -old.

Just go for it, man. Pretty much, yeah. All right.

Regardless of the price, we still think it's

absolutely cool. It is cool. Yeah, it's very

pricey and all that. But yeah, we do think it's

very, very cool. Alright moving on rise of the

beasts Japanese release date voice cast and trailer

announced The only reason why I am bringing this

up is because I actually saw this Purdo man was

talking about this because they well he talks

about all the stuff just like we all do but I

noticed this because He had told us and this

article tells us as well Both of the original

Optimus Prime and Optimus Primal Japanese voice

actors are reprising their respective roles.

Japanese fans will be really happy. Because Japan

loves their fans and America doesn't. Fair enough.

Yes. Yeah, so I thought that was very, very,

very cool. Very awesome that they're they're

getting to do that. That's great. Why are you

playing with your toys, Steve? Yes. Excellent.

In any case, are you building your custom still?

Anyway, still building that, but I need 3D printed

parts. It would be a proper podcast that has,

you know, the talks about like news and toys

and bits if there wasn't somebody in the background

transforming something. Probably, you know. All

right. Up next, officially licensed Transformers

Rise of the Beasts. Rise of the Beasts puzzles.

These new puzzles made for New Zealand based.

Holzen limited puzzle and games company featured

two different rise of the beast character collages.

We can spot optimus prime bubble be scourge optimus

primal rhinox air razor and cheat or they will

be available in three hundred and four hundred

and sixty pieces and planned only for availability

in the australian and new zealand market at the

moment. I only bring this up briefly because

you guys are both parents. I'm not, but if these

came to the States, would you have your kids

do one of these puzzles? I might be interested

just because as a, during the pandemic, I went

puzzle crazy because when there wasn't anything

new to watch on Netflix and all of that, you

know, the streaming services, we resorted to

putting puzzles together. I know it's sad, but.

I've never like I've never been against puzzles,

but you know at the time I was looking to see

if I could find some really good transformer

ones and there was like nothing on the market

even on eBay there was like Yeah, no, I was looking

for like like something that like what if the

artists like old -school artists back in the

day it made me had done because I'd seen some

pretty cool like Figaroa Wands that I thought

oh that would be that poster would be great as

a puzzle in that. Yeah Yeah, I thought there's

got to be somebody out there that thought puzzles

were cool back then right to nothing so We did

we did a lot of puzzles too, but Yeah, I this

isn't something I get my kid just because they

don't have the attention span yeah, absolutely

it was The three hundred and four sixty, three

hundred and four sixty pieces. Yeah, I don't

know. We'll see. We'll see. If it comes to the

to America, maybe. I don't know. I'm almost all

puzzled out at this point. I don't have any more

room for puzzles. I will see how it goes. It

also depends on whether or not I actually like

the movie, which let's be fair. We've already

discussed that. Yeah, no, no, no, I know. But

I'm just saying like it's a. Yes, even though

it's a Rise of the Beasts puzzle, it's a Transformers

puzzle. I don't remember the last time we had

one of, like, the last Transformers -themed game

puzzle thing I can think of is when they re -skinned

Monopoly for Transformers and then they did it

for Beast Wars too. Ooh, that reminds me, I have

to get Steve to the Monopoly Beast Wars game.

All right, file that away for later. Alrighty

then. Final story, what Steve is most looking

forward to here. New Takara Tomei pre -orders

for August 2023. Legacy Studio Series, Rise of

the Beasts and Eternal Beast Showdown 2 -pack.

Optimus Primal and Megatron. I really like this

because they have masterpiece paint jobs. Like

Primal, I can't really tell, to be honest. I

can tell in the robot mode. I can't tell in the

gorilla mode. The face is different, but I can't

really tell in the robot mode as much except

for the katanas that he's got in the hands. But

the Megatron is heads and tails different from

the War for Cybertron one we got. I have that

one and I had to get a... a toy hacks just to

make it look halfway decent. Granted, I got him

the minute he came out. There was no wait time.

I knew that they were eventually going to go

on sale. Eventually, I had a feeling that Takara

was going to do this. But I love the masterpiece

paint job, like the level of detail. And then

that scowly face that they purposely didn't let

us see. And it leaked at one point when T -Rex

was coming out. And everybody's going, I wonder

if they're going to re -release Megatron. Well,

here we go. So I love this color palette. Yeah,

that grape face shininess is awesome. They even

put the shoulder Pieces on there those that they

kind of hang down because the the toy hacks has

one of those too But it would just seem kind

of a weird choice to not put them there Yeah,

and a lot of things and the colors are proper.

I don't I don't know. I just really like it Yeah,

if I was insane I would get all the versions

of Megatron beast Megatron, but I'm not Well,

you are your wife won't let you Amy thoughts

on the beast stuff or any of the other fee I

forgot there were other figures like we've already

we in past episodes We've talked about animated

prowl, but thoughts on any of this stuff Actually,

yeah, I was just gonna say I I do like the office

primal and the Megatron them and you're right

The Megatron does look just really nice I was

ecstatic when I saw the pictures drop of this.

It looks almost straight out of like Beast Wars

if you're looking for like the poor man masterpiece.

Yeah, it really does look really great. I mean,

flipping just flipping through the pictures and

it's just like, wow, that's actually, that's

pretty cool. pretty on right on what I expect.

I hope. Well, we'll see as reviewers get a hold

of this, like what they really think. Maybe they'll

be like, yeah, this is like if you want the best,

this looks pretty good. I mean, I've seen some

Beast Wars Megatron, but this like the pictures

look really great on this. I have no opinions

on the rest of them other than are they all masterpiece

or wait, no, just the one. No, it's just the

Megatron and the Optimus Primal. I wish that

they didn't bundle them as a two -pack. Because

I have Masterpiece Primal. I have no ambition

for another Primal. I want the Megatron, but

I do have the Masterpiece one on its way. Or

you know what? You could just give the Optimus

Primal to your little... Another you know, just

influence another generation of Transformers

fans. Oh, they they have their own I when the

reissue primal came out My my youngest wanted

that my oldest wanted He's got like a number

of the the core class and then the Tigatron The

new one so I will say that the that the cheetor

that I'm seeing here looks like the worst possible.

The paint job is just not great. I went and got

myself a knockoff Cheetor masterpiece. It looks

too fleshy to me. The color is just completely

off and it makes me want to go, ooh, that's Cheetor.

Well, Megatron looks like a hit. Cheetor, not

so much. Yeah. At least animated prowl is kicking

ninja ass. Yeah So there is that yes That face

on skyquake doesn't look right to me. I Mean,

it doesn't it's right, but it just doesn't look

right, you know, you know, you know, they're

gonna repaint that as As machine wars Starscream.

Oh, yeah Absolutely. Yeah, the cheater figure

looks... It seems like every trailer or teaser

spot I see for the movie, it makes it seem like

he's much darker than this. Like they went with

a lighter tan beige mauve or whatever color he's

supposed to be. Cheetah colored. That's just

not cheater. Cheetah colored. That looks like...

Like I said, it looks flesh -toned and that doesn't

really relate. I don't think I've ever seen a

transformer that's been flesh -toned that worked

great. Yeah, no. It's crazy. Just crazy. I still

love the scourge alt mode. That truck looks so

good. And yeah that's all we got for the news,

anything Steve you want to say about the news

or Amy, either of you? No. Yeah. No? Looks great,

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on all things Transformers and Lady Rek, you

went to TFCon LA. I did. Did you go for the entire

weekend? I went for the whole weekend, yes. Okay.

I was there, present. Well, mostly present. Oh

no! Yeah, I've heard those after parties at TFCon

get a little wild. They weren't too bad, yeah.

It depends on how much alcohol you consume, which

I did not, so it's all good. But you know you

do realize if you're the ones that are drinking

the alcohol that late It means that the next

morning is gonna be really rough. Oh, yeah, especially

if you have a you know a Table or are selling

a whole lot of toys I'm not looking at any of

those people that like, you know had the big

displays or anything I'm not naming names. You

will not hear it from me If you want to know

the dirt, you can message me on Twitter. It was

very unfair, ladies and gentlemen. Oh wait, that's

a different convention. Oh boy. So TFCon LA.

When did this happen again? I don't have their

website pulled up. When was this again? This

was what, April? No, this is March. No, it was

March. Right. So it's been, oh well. Don't know

when this Podcast is going out going up as soon

as I get it edited. Okay, so it was two weeks

ago, basically Okay, so the weekend of the the

10th 11th and the 12th of March That's right.

Yep. That's right. I remember that now. Yeah

So what was your plan in going this time around?

Well, I've gone to a lot of conventions But I've

never gone and met Peter Cullen because I just

haven't done it yet. I mean, I've been going

for over a decade, like since 2020, 10, I think,

yeah, 2020, 10, it was the first convention that

I went to. And then the next year after that

was 2020. Yeah. And at the 2020 11 one, he was

there. And then I think there was another one

that I went to that he was also there at. But

that was way back when I was like, oh, you have

to pay like seventy five dollars to go meet a

voice actor. And I was so new on the scene, I

thought, oh, maybe not this year. Then I just

kind of rolled over to the next year and the

next year after that and I was like Eventually,

you know, I was like, you know what? I probably

should like eventually do that, right? And then

I was planning on going to TF nation in 2020

What happened in 2020? We all know pandemic happened

in 2020 I had just bought all of my hotel And

I had just put down money on a plane ticket.

Like, I'd say four days before we shut down.

Oh, man. Oh, crap. And I was hoping to meet Peter

Cullen at TF Nation in 2020, August 2020. And

we all know how that went. So. I kind of was

on the fence about going to TFCon this year.

I just, you know, I've got so much going on.

I mean, March has been pretty crazy. And I just

thought, oh, I just want to weekend off. But

then three weeks before it actually went down,

they said that Peter Cullen was coming. And I

was like, crap, I don't know if I can get a hotel

room. So I thought, you know what, I should probably

do that because I'm not saying this, but I am

kind of saying this, like he's getting up there,

you know, and although we, I think in some ways

we kind of hope that he's just immortal and will

live forever. Yeah, that's not going to happen.

So I was like, you know what? If he's there this

year, I should probably do it. And so I had a

friend that had actually contacted me a couple

months prior to this saying that she was going

to go. And if I decided to go, that she would

split hotel costs. And luckily, when I reached

out to her, they had another bed spot. available.

I was like, yeah, this is my year. That's why

I went. I didn't go for pretty much anything

else. I went just to meet Peter Cullen. It was

on my brain the whole weekend. Yeah, absolutely.

I did. What was it like? Out of and I understand.

So this is what happened. So TF Con had wrapped

up like their hotel like batch that they have

closed a week before they even announced Peter

Con was going to be there. And I've been at other

conventions where he has been at where. Like

there wasn't like a huge media frenzy, but. He's

also that was before like, you know, he'd done

seven movies and had voiced everything that he's

voiced just in the modern era right now. Like

not just G1 stuff, but like all the stuff he's

done since 2010. That list is really long. He

is really, you know. And so I would say like

so he didn't show up until the Sunday. Which

is fine because you know, that's a long day of

work for him meeting people and I went ahead

and went with the the VIP pass So I was gonna

do the photo and then the autograph And I thought

the the convention handled it fantastically.

It was like They had it down to an art which

was funny because the night before they were

like, uh, we don't know how it's gonna go We

hope it goes. Well, I was like, oh my gosh but

no no it It really went well. He, like I didn't

really, I was such a basket case on Sunday. I

literally didn't even get into the convention

hall until like noon. But I wasn't, my time for

getting in line for the video, or for the audio.

For the photo op wasn't until like 115. So I

was like, okay. All right I was so nervous that

whole weekend because I'm like I really over

thought this but you know what he's let's you

know for me he was just the one guy that I was

like I'll eventually meet him. I know I will

but I was kind of like it's the same thing that

I had when I met Nick Roach and James Roberts

and Derek J Wyatt all at one convention. I just

like totally like I'm gonna I'm gonna fangirl,

I know I am. And he's probably the only one that

I probably would, him and Frank. So I'm like,

okay. It's a good thing Frank wasn't there. What

was that? I said, it's a good thing Frank wasn't

there. Yeah, it would have been cool if Frank

Welker had been there. But just yeah, and I say

Frank Welker because there's a little bit more

to the story. Okay. So The actual time of like

so to the build -up to that, of course, I was

talking to all my friends and you know people

and the night before like, you know, we were

hanging out in the bar area and whatnot and When

you go to TF con and you go with TF nation Like

the voice actors and the people that are actually

like working in in the industry if they want

to go down and hang out with fans They can yep

There's no media, there's no security, it's just

like, if they want to hang out and hang out with

fans, they can. And I'll tell you, it's really

cool that they do that. It's super fun. It's

just one of those things. And no, they don't

tell me they can't. I mean, I'm sure that Peter

Cullen could do that too randomly. He would not

be able to do that for very long because... you

know, if anybody in the public found out that

he's like sitting at the bar hanging out, I'm

sure that would be a problem. But for everybody

else, it's not a problem. Frank DeToro, Jason

Marnuca, like see all of the IDW artists that

were there, like they just hang out. And sometimes

we get other, you know, sometimes we randomly

get other people too. It just depends on who

they're, who they're talking with and whether

or not they want to go hang out with a bunch

of fans and. get drunk or even just hang out,

but it happens. So I had kind of been talking

to a couple other people. I hung out with Jim

Sorensen and then I hung out with a couple other

people and I had been kind of basically telling

everybody that I was going to go see Peter tomorrow.

I haven't done it yet. Same thing that I'm saying

right now. You know, I can't wait. I'm super

nervous, though. I don't know what to do or what

to say. And, you know, they're like, oh, so I

happen to mention, like, as the night was winding

down on Saturday, Frank Totoro was there and

he was asked me what I was looking forward to

doing at the at the convention so far. And I

told him and he's like, he was so sweet. He was

like the sweetest sweet. I love Frank. He's so

fun. He remembers me from a couple. like years

ago before he started voicing anything and that

was like that floored me because I was like I

didn't think he remembered me but he totally

remembered me and I was like oh my gosh now it's

even worse because like you know he's voicing

Starscream and I was like Starscream remembers

me and I'm just like okay this is not This is

really super secret fun fact about lady rec folks.

She's not the biggest Starscream fan. No, I'm

not, but I am a Frank to tour. I'll tell you

that. Yeah, yeah. He's awesome. And to be fair,

he does voice a really great Starscream to be

fair. He does. Yeah. I mean, Chris Lada, you

know, old school. Yes. But I don't think I have

like like his his Starscream is just as close

or if not better. And I know I say that with,

you know, some people have to go like blasphemy.

Well, I have a top three, like Lada, obviously

Lada is in a league of his own, but I have a

top three Starscream voice actor list for myself

and they all vary. So that like, I'm going to

cheat. Like Steve usually cheats, like I'm not

putting them in number order, but these are my

three, Frank Todaro, Steve Bloom, and specifically

to animated Tom Kenny, but the G1 versions of

Starscream. It's a tie between Frank and Steve

Bloom. Gotcha. Yeah. I have met, I have met Steve

Bloom as well. And he's super sweet as well.

Um, he's awesome. Uh, but Frank has been like

at every TF con of convention in the last three

years, like ever since he's been voicing stuff

and he's like, he's like one of the fans like

him and like, I'm not kidding. They're just like

they want to go hang out and and like just chill

Jason Maranuka wasn't even on the guest list

He showed up specifically just to hang out at

the bar on Thursday, Friday and Saturday night

not Thursday Friday Saturday and Sunday. He was

there just to be there with Frank And and I think

he brought his wife, too so it's like just to

come and hang out with fans, so You know, he

wasn't even on the guest list. He just showed

up for that. He didn't even come during the,

I think he might've came on Sunday. I don't remember.

But yeah, they're just like these, these guys

are just like, they come to hang out with fans.

Cause like that's where it's at is to not just

to, you know, to, you know, be at the convention,

but just to hang out with the people afterwards.

Cause you know, we're fun. What can I say? Yeah,

absolutely. So he told, so Frank told me, he

said, because he could tell I was kind of nervous

and he gave me a hug and he's like, okay, tomorrow

before you go see Peter, come to my table and

see me. And I was like, okay. So I did. And like,

you know, he gave me a little pep talking to

such a sweetheart. I'm just like, oh my gosh.

And of course, afterwards, I gushed and said,

I thank you so much to him afterwards. It was

so weird because I thought, I know I was like,

I mean, looking back on it now, I'm like, I really

was just a basket case the whole weekend, just

thinking, you know, really nervous about meeting

Peter. And it wasn't that big of a deal. And

yes, I did say some, I did. So I took, when I

went in there for the photo op, like he was super

awesome. I said, thank you afterwards. And he

was like, oh, thank you. I like live off of every

little thing that came out of his mouth in my

direction. Sorry, I'm a little bit over the top

fan here with this. But then when I went and

got, I had a photo that when I went to TF Nation

a couple years ago, I think it was 2015, 2013,

something like that. The convention, they had

a semi truck there that was, I wouldn't say it

was one of the movie ones, but it was. I think

it was like one that they'd gotten authorization

to make it look just like Optimus Prime. Yeah,

it's a, it's a, it's one of those, it's kind

of like the, the Knight Rider cars for kit. They

have like, like they're obviously not going to

put the hero cars in a Carl Casper custom auto

show, but They have you know touring cars and

I'm sure that that truck was one of the touring

trucks So it had come over to go to one of the

other not the not the Transformers convention

but one of the comic -con conventions that they

have over in the UK and The guy that I guess

was the dealer or not the dealer but the handler

of the of the truck They one of the guys that

was running or helping out on staff at TF nation

was able to get him to, hey, bring it over to

our convention, because he had just done another

one. And so because he was friends with the guy,

he got to drive in him. And I don't think he

actually got to drive the Optus Prime, but they

definitely did the bumblebee and the barricade

that year, too. So he didn't know that I was

a huge fan, but he was like, hey, you want to

see something cool? And I was like, sure. So

I go outside and of course the cars had come

in and they had set them all up and all that.

He says, hey, you want to go sit in one? And

I was like, are you kidding? Yes. And so, yeah.

So I went in there and I got a chance to take

some pictures and he took a couple pictures of

me in it. And yeah, so I printed out one of those

because I was like, you know, after I'd had all

the pictures and I got to see them, I was like,

oh, these look great. And I thought, you know

what, if I could get, if I have an idea in mind

of what I would have Peter Cohn sign, I'd have

him sign one of those. So of course I scrambled

the last three weeks just before TFCon to find

them, to print them, to have them with me, which

I did. And it wasn't like a, oh yeah. Yeah, so

it was a little bit of a, It was a frenzy. I'll

say that because the place that I usually print

stuff at doesn't print anymore and so I had I

found this out and then I had to Yeah, it was

it was it was a bit of a mess and I was really

really worried at first that I wasn't gonna get

the photo done and I thought there's no way I

could do this without that photo anyhow, so I

got it got it signed and The whole time I'm thinking,

what do I say to him? What do I say to him? Because

there's so many things that I want to say to

Peter Cohen. Let me tell you. But just as I was

getting up to the table and I was thinking, you

know, there's just not gonna be enough time.

I can't say anything and I'm like, okay. And

that's really what it came down to is that I

just wanted to say like all the things and there

will never be enough time in the world to do

that. So I said, okay, this is your 30 second

pitch. What do you say? And I'm like, Man. So

I literally just told him, you are an inspiration

to me. Because that's the thing that popped in

my head at the last minute. And I was like, that

really kind of does summarize everything I've

ever wanted to say to the guy. So I thought,

OK. And you know what? He didn't say anything.

He just put his hand across his chest like he

was like, you know, we salute the flag and we're

like, you know, show respect. And that's what

he did. It was just like. It just about put me

over the edge and I was about crying when I walked

out of there because I did the same thing back

and I just thought, you're such a sweetheart.

There's not much that's going to happen. I'd

say most of the people that probably showed up

to get the photo op and the autograph that day,

I did not recognize any of those faces. I had

not seen them on the floor. They weren't fans

that I'd say that I rub shoulders with often.

Those were all people from outside of the convention

that showed up to get that. And then one of the

things that I did with the VIP thing is I also

got like a, there's a special sitting area for

his panel. Well, I've never actually, I only

attended one panel other than this one for Peter

Cullen, which was way back one of my first conventions

in 2011. um and they didn't vet questions back

then yeah so you got a couple of those ones that

were like uh huh to ask the really stupid questions

where everybody in the audience is like, really?

Grown? Why are you asking him of that? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Why is Optimus Prime blue in this

one episode of the cartoon series where you voice

the character? What do you think? Is Megatron

Galvatron or is Megatron not like, like, yeah.

Yeah, TFCon, Proto Man, Daniel and all of the

team members that work over at TFCon, they do

very well on vetting the questions because every

panel that they've put on YouTube that I've watched

of the Peter Cullen panels over the years, they're

like, okay, you're going to have like 30 seconds,

45 seconds, ask your question. He'll tell a story

or an answer and then you go sit at like you

walk up you ask your question. You don't leave

You can still stand there while he's answering

it But essentially you walk up you ask your question

you leave like you don't dilly -dally This is

Peter Cullen and TF cons attendance is I want

to say I don't even know like in the thousands

Maybe more. I don't know. There's a lot of people.

Yeah, there's a lot of people there. Yeah But

they with the yeah, so they they had the convention

set up the way that they did but I'd say here

Colin was the Was the the attraction and I think

they you know, I don't know I'm not gonna assume

anybody but back in the day like in the last

couple years the media frenzy around Colin has

been extreme like people like fans finding out

he's gonna be somewhere and they go to the airport.

One of the girls I talked to at TFCon, they had

that problem. She's like, yeah, I was the one

that was driving him from the airport when this

happened. And she was like, it was super stressful,

because you're like, he's stressed. I'm stressed

he doesn't like to be around the you know and

you're you're driving in the car with somebody

that you look up to and he's like super ticked

and you're like Better things could happen. I

was like, oh, I'm so sorry that happened to you

She's like, well it happened, but you know, it's

really taught them really quick that they had

to up their game with him And that was a while

ago. So that was like, I'd say pre pandemic,

maybe after. I'm not sure. I remember there was

a news report out going that there was a whole

bunch of paparazzi after him or whatever. And

I think that might've been it. But the whole

point is like with Cullen, they have to kind

of. do a little bit more than they do with other

guests. Oh, absolutely. And rightfully so. If

you were one of the VIPs, you got to submit as

many questions as you wanted, but they had to

be vetted. Yeah, absolutely. Every single question

has to be checked in those instances, whether

you're a VIP or not. You have to come to these

things. Knowing you're going to see the man,

the myth, the legend, and knowing that you have

a short amount of time to ask him. I don't want

to say the right question, but a question that

number one, he's going to be fine with answering.

And number two, if maybe if you're, you know,

an old school fan like we are, maybe ask him

something that he hasn't like. I remember, uh,

recently in one of the videos, I don't think

it was one of the things with, uh, with I think

he and Frank Welker did something where he's

like, uh, yeah, I was, you know, I was in this

thing called mighty man and yuck. I was mighty

man and Frank was yuck. You know, and I had never

heard that before. Cause I've never heard of

mighty man and yuck. So as much as I know about

Peter Cullen's voice acting between optimist

prime and he did the voice of car and night rider

and he's done other things. I never knew that.

So like. If you're going to a convention and

you're a lifelong fan, like we are on this podcast

and on every Transformers podcast, find a question

that number one will get approved. Number two,

that is going to be an interesting thing for

him to, I love hearing him tell the story of

his brother, of his brother Larry and all that

and everything else. I love hearing his story.

I forget which. which TFCon panel it is, but

every time I watch it, every time TFCon uploads

a video, whether it's the full panel or whether

it's clips from the panel, I cry every time.

As much as I say, Rodimus rules, Optimus drools,

that still doesn't take away from the fact that

I love Peter Cullen because of Optimus Prime.

So now, anything else you want to say about TFCon

LA 2023? Oh, sorry, I haven't finished yet. Oh,

OK. Well, so I went to the panel, obviously,

you know, panel was great. They vetted all the

questions. I will say this, Maycat, who was has

done a lot of stuff for Transformers recently.

She's one of the right. She did write some of

the episodes for Earthspark. I met her a couple

of years ago. So I when I hear her name, I'm

like, I just. you know, focus on that just because

she's amazing. I love her. She's great. She submitted

like three really great questions and almost

all of them got cleared for questions, but she

wasn't there. So every single time they said,

oh, it's by May, blah, blah, blah. And I was

like, oh my gosh, I was like, that's so great.

Anyhow, she did ask some really, really great

questions, but Larry was definitely there. And

I say that because You know Cullen has said that

Larry has been his inspiration for mm -hmm for

Optimus Prime and so he definitely brought that

and I will say I've I've seen a lot of clips

that like what you're talking about and I've

been it's been a couple years since I've actually

been to a panel where he was on it was a really

good panel and I got some lots of deep thoughts

Which I I actually wrote notes because I wanted

to remember everything that he was saying at

the time But one of the yeah, just it was just

really really great I had a great experience

and Yeah, it was really good and then and that

was all the interaction that I really had with

them to be honest Okay, so one of the last things

I want to say because this really bothered me

and I didn't say anything I probably should have

but as the You know, they finished up the panel

They go ahead and escort him out and they you

know to have everybody stay there because they

don't want you know media frenzy There were two

things that did happen that I don't know if actually

really happened I kind of kind of hoped after

I got my photo op and my autograph they had some

of the cars show up and they had guy has a custom

iron hide like movie custom iron hide as What

is the name of that the? the top kick GMC truck

like legit legit it was awesome and I Looked

around said hey because I know some of the guys

hanging out were with some of the owners of the

car So I was like, hey me and Heather because

Heather was there. We spent some time with Ironhide.

We found the owner and I asked a ton of questions

and we geeked out over Ironhide. I'm not kidding.

It was so funny because here he's talking about

like all like he's talking to other guy fans

that are out there talking to him about the cars

and then he has these two geeky girls coming

up to him and two geeky women and we go up to

him and he's like, hey, I really like your Ironhide.

Is there any way that I could potentially like

open the door and look inside. And he's like,

Hey, you want us? I was like, Oh, yeah, sure.

That's fine. And then he's like, Hey, you want

to sit in it? And I was like, Oh, really? Could

we do that? And I'm telling you, this guy was

just like, you guys are strange women. But it

was like, my weapons specialist iron hide. You

feeling lucky punk? Just kidding. I just wanted

to show him my cannons. But it was like, And

then we started asking him about some of the

custom stuff he's done. And let me tell you,

he's done some he's done more above and beyond

on this iron hide. Just pimped it out in a huge

way. And Heather is like, I want to get one of

these some days. So he's telling her like giving

her tips on how to buy. And I'm just like, oh

my gosh, this is just so, these are the little

things that you can do at some of the Transformers

conventions. If you just have enough guts to

go up and ask questions, you might actually find

that the people that you're talking with or that

bring stuff there are just as much of a fan as

you, or they're really cool to work with other

fans. So you just gotta ask questions and be

polite and be really grateful and all that. And

people will do nice things for you. And that

can add to your convention in a way that no other

convention can do. I just wanted to show him

my cannons. This looks like a cool place to kick

it. But he was kind of hoping that when Peter

Cullen left, because he has some audio stuff

on the Ironhide, he was showing us and we were

just laughing and geeking out over it. And he's

showing us all the fun little things that he

probably wouldn't show anybody else. Right. And

he was kind of hoping that when Peter left that

he'd walk out the door and that he would play

clips from Ironhide just to see what he would

react to. I don't know if he did because I wasn't

there to see it because I was in a panel waiting

for him to leave, but I hope it did. And I'm

going to ask him next year because he said he's

going to be there next year. So I'm kind of cross

my fingers. It was a great experience for that

guy. You know, that guy needs to get with the

TFCon staff and see if they can bribe Jess to

just be laying in the truck bed and just do the

Yeah. I could imagine that. It's amazing. That

would be fun. Oh, boy. That would be so fun.

But yeah, their plan is because he has a custom

iron hide that looks just like him. They also

have a bumblebee, a barricade and a prowl that

look really great. And he's kind of hoping next

year because he tried to do it for this year,

but he couldn't get it done. they all have audio

like, like he plays a thing on his phone and

he can get them to all talk, like do different

voiceovers and stuff like that, that from the

movies. And he's hoping next year that he's got

it figured out where he can actually have them

all like talk to each other. And I was like,

that is awesome. If you can find a way to do

that, I can tell you right now, I will be here

to listen and hear that. And he was like, yeah,

we'll see what we can do. But it was just like,

it's really cool. It was really cool. So that

just kind of added to my whole convention. And

there are other little things that happened that

were just really, really great. So I mean, I'm

only giving you the top, top highlights, but

the whole weekend was really great. And I knew

even going in that I was going to have a fun

time, even though I wasn't planning on going.

But now I'm like, you know, Maybe every year

that I know because it's within driving distance

for me. I live in Phoenix. It's a six hour drive

to LA Maybe I should just make sure that anytime

I know that there's an LA TF con just go ahead

and reserve and Make sure that you're prepared

and if I decide, you know two or three weeks

before that I can't go at least I'm already set

to go Yeah, that's not like, you know, like I

said, I'll drive because that's nothing six hour

drive. I'll do that That was pretty much it.

Those were the good memories I have. There's

more, but those are the ones that I'd say were

the best highlights. Now that I've talked your

ear off. Oh, stop. Well, it all began about nine

million years ago. That's very cool. That's very

awesome. Like I said earlier, I love watching

the panels. the TF con uploads to their YouTube

channel. I can't do conventions anymore. I just

physically cannot do them. I physically and mentally

like it's a lot. It's it's bad enough. I'm in

the grocery store saying get, you know, mumbling

to myself. Don't touch me. Don't touch me. Don't

touch me. Get away from me. Stay in your own

space. This aisle is like seven feet wide. You

don't have to be right in front, you know, and

please hurry up, you old lady. Hurry. You know,

like, Pick a let, pick a lettuce, a head of lettuce

and go. Yeah. I just don't have the temperament

for it anymore. Hence why I love it when conventions

do the video recordings of the panels and the

whatevers. And I get to see them on you. Like

I said earlier, every, every Peter Cullen panel

I've seen, I cry at because it's just, it's,

he's just the man. Same thing with Frank. Like,

you know, for, you know, Welker stories, same

thing. I think the best. Frank Todaro panel was

at one of the TF cons where it was him, Marnotia,

and Bailey. Optimus Prime, Megatron, Starscream,

all three of them were on a panel at one of the

TF cons. And yeah, absolutely love that. All

right, folks, any final thoughts? Amy, anything

you want to say before I run through the closing?

Well, I was going to say one more thing, but

it's kind of more of a downer than an upper,

so I was like, yeah. Oh, no. Yeah, just say no.

I'm not gonna. I'll tell you afterwards. It doesn't

need to be in the show. Okay. Because I want

positive vibes out there. And yeah, yeah. All

right, Steve, any final thoughts and anything

you want to say before we head into the month

of Autobotly April? No, other than when you were

mentioning the top kick, my dad actually used

to work at the plant that it was built in. Nice.

Nice. Because when the first film came out, he

was working and he sent me a picture and he was

like, hey, look what I got. He sent me pictures

of it and that was at the same time I was covering

the event at the Sector 7 trailer. at the movie

theater. He's sending me pictures for the top

kick while I was doing that during 2007's release.

I was like, yes. That is cool. It's a very impressive

truck. I'll say that. It is. I think I might

have seen one in the past. comparing that to

the semi truck, I can see why he's the weapons

dude now. He has to be beefy enough to be able

to keep up with Optimus Prime, and that truck

is beefy. Oh yeah, it's huge. Really beefy. So

seeing it in person and actually going up and

standing on it and going, oh God, this is great.

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, no, that's so cool, so

cool. Alright folks, I think that's going to

do it for us here on All Things Transformers.

Coming up, as I mentioned, over the next month

in April, Steve and I have at least two Autobotly

April episodes that will cross over with the

pull bag where we cover the Marvel U .S. run

from the 80s. And yeah, that's what's gonna happen

in April, who knows what's gonna happen in May,

and then Rise of the Beasts is out in theaters

in June, June 9th, 2023. Get excited, those beasts

are gonna be rising somewhere. Boy, what a lot

of yeast those beasts are. All right. Talk about

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