Beast Wars News and 3D Printed Transformers Accessories

This episode of All Things Transformers was recorded

Monday, February 8th, 2021. You'll have to excuse

us with how late we are in talking about this

stuff. We know that the Beast Alliance thing

has kinda sorta been confirmed, but still. I

hope you enjoy this episode of All Things Transformers.

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Transformers. I'm your host, Steve Megatron,

and joining me in this adventure into Transformers

is TFG1 Mike. Hello, I am here. He is here. He

is waiting. That's right. For what? We don't

know. I'm waiting for actual news about a Beast

Wars movie. Oh, you mean not the... Yeah. Okay,

so you posted this on the all things transformers

Facebook page and then you mentioned it to me

and I'm like Rumor really rumor. Ah They sigh

I want actual news and I mean this this really

flashes me back to 2010 2011 when we were so

fed up with Transformers dark of the moon or

whatever. Whatever movie was, I think it was

dark of the moon at the 2011. Yeah. Whatever.

Anyway, but like, Oh, filming location is outside

Steve's back door in Flint where the robots can't

drink the water or whatever. Like, you know what

I mean? Like that was a news item was filming

location. Here it is. Go stock them. Oh yeah.

And I always wanted us to avoid that kind of

stuff. Talking about that kind of stuff on this

show because it's just okay. They're filming

in Detroit. Great. Detroit is Motor City. They're

filming in Los Angeles. Great. Los Angeles. There's

everybody drives there. Nobody takes public transportation

in Los Angeles. They're filming in Abu Dhabi

or Dubai or okay. Great. Then that means they're

going to be doing some sort of desert scene.

Great. So take it away. So anyways, there's this

site called the Illuminati, which honestly, I

swear, I swear it's another, we got this covered.

It has to be. And hence why I didn't even want

to talk about this as soon as I saw the name

of the website. So and the fact that I think

they're just trying to make themselves credible.

So they're reporting on something that Deadline

had last November. Oh, Deadline had it in November

of 2020. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Well, it says, now

listen, it says Transformers Creed 2 director

Steven Cable Jr. is tapped to direct next installment

Paramount and Hasbro franchise. I remember reading

this on Deadline, actually. Yes. I remember reading

it too. However, it doesn't say which active

project is in development. So because obviously

there's an animated Transformers prequel And

then there's a live -action continuation of Bumblebee

So what they're trying on the microphone, yes,

so what they're trying to say is that This is

going to be another Transformers film. There

has been nothing said about a Beast Wars officially

or or Beast Alliance, which is just pulled out

of their rear. The graphics, I mean, they're

using basically Times New Roman for Beast Alliance

and then the original G1 logo. Hey, you leave

Times New Roman alone. Well, regardless of that,

they're their own source, which tells me that

they're BS, just like we got this covered. Because

whenever you click on a link, it goes right back

to theirs. So they give their poor uh rendition

of what they think Beast Wars was uh and then

they say I'm I'm so not nice I know uh so anyways

they're saying that the our sources within the

studio have also provided us with the context

for the new science fiction adventure Transformers

Beast Alliance takes place in the Bumblebee timeline

will be set in the 1990s the film will have the

flavor of a heist film that will span from Brooklyn

to South America So, okay, okay, alright, you

just farted on it, so that's your... No, no,

no. Hold on, hold on. Okay. You farted on it.

My immediate reaction to it was, oh, so it's

Fast and the Furious with Transformers. I live

my life a quarter mile at a time. Well, that's

just prime. Because, seriously, what that line

basically says is the entirety of the Fast French,

the Fast Saga. I mean they go to all various

cities and they're all in these muscle cars and

other souped up, you know, tuner cars and things

like that. In the last one, not in the last one,

in the seventh one, in Furious 7, they actually

take a bunch of supercars and they drive them

out of a high -rise in Dubai and have them crash

into another high -rise in Dubai. so basically

you could have optimus prime standing right there

just kind of like alley -oop like yeah as soon

as i read that line i'm like oh it's fast and

furious with transformers great see and if somebody

is only into transformers and not fast and furious

they wouldn't know that and so they would think

that it's legit news um luckily i'm into both

and i know this is not legit news yeah even my

cat said that's crap she's going down here. It's

a crap. It's a crap, as Michael Wilkin would

say. It's a crap. Cybertron .com does a very

well -rounded way of grounding this entire thing.

It says, fact number one, Steven Capel Jr. Creed

II is the director of the next Transformers movie,

whatever it may be. Fact number two, Joe B. Harold,

also working on the Disney Plus Initiative Obi

-Wan Kenobi show, is handling script duties.

Fact number three the movie is set for a release

in 2022 this could easily change but this is

what they're saying at the moment and Everything

else is a rumor and fault still proven true.

I Don't talk about this logo though. I Actually

want you to make this logo the logo of the pot

art for this podcast only because I think they

could improve on this, and I know you can improve

on this as a graphic artist. I know, but what

I'm saying is, looking at what this says, Transformers

Beast Alliance. Okay, first of all, if you're

gonna do a Beast Wars, Beast Machines, anything,

it needs to be a little bit more bestial. You

can have the Transformers Generation 1 logo,

like you have here. But it should have claw marks

through it whether it's Dinobots claws whether

it's Megatron's claws whomever's claws like if

it's Beast Alliance, it needs to be more beast

and Not just G1 with Times New Roman even though

I love that font So, yeah, please and thank you

Or maybe I should put my own version of it hey

Do what you want. I'm just saying, I just like

seeing a really, really clean transform, like

transformers font logo thing. Like I, this is

honestly, this is the cleanest I've ever seen.

The original eighties transformers font logo,

as far as an image goes. Cause most of the time

it's too small or it's, you know, it's. Cluttered

by other things or it goes by too fast or whatever

No, I get it So so anyways, obviously the title

is not going to be that even if it is true I

Have been ever since I caught wind of that stupid

cheater picture that was flying around towards

the end of January, I incorporated that into

my panel at Iacon. Yes, Iacon Online, which was

January 30th and 31st, 2021, all virtual all

the time till all are one. It was it was. And

what's funny to me is, you know, I'm sitting

there in my soapbox, you know, having a jolly

to good time. As people were saying the minute

my panel comes up and I'm reading from the screenshots

of the discord channel because They wiped the

discord channel after the convention like a week

after right just because you know, there's no

point having it After right right, but you got

the screenshots beforehand. So yeah, yeah, I

got the ones that pertaining to my my panel I

was able to tune in thankfully during that part

I wasn't see I would pre -recorded it because

I wasn't sure if I was gonna have time plus I

have this time constraint issue where I Felt

more comfortable editing down So So anyways,

the first comment goes beast wars like exclamation

exclamation over and over And then people were

going, I hope I get to catch this panel. You

know, somebody else is like, it's great so far.

I just started watching Beast Wars and I already

love it. And somebody else yells possession because

I was talking about the G1 references. Right.

Because I basically laid it out in layman's terms

for people that may not know anything about it.

Right. And then I talked about every other franchise.

Right. You laid it out like. someone brand new

coming to the franchise which is the way you

should lay it out to anyone brand new coming

to the franchise you should not. Going to save

all this is megatron and beast wars was better

than g one or whatever kind of Sean Connery voice

you want to give megatron but it's you know one

of those things where you go in with it where

you present the panel as if no one knows what

it is and here is my. Knowledge of this thing

that is so cool that I think people will like

and here's the other thing It is 2021 we are

in the 25th anniversary of Beast Wars everybody

that was born from 1990 to 1996 is now old enough

to have their own jobs to have graduated college

get their own jobs make their own money and They

grew up watching the cartoon maybe or even people

a little older like yourself or like myself.

I was 16 when Beast Wars happened. But it was

one of those things where we are now entering

a time where Beast Wars is 25 almost 30 years

old. Just like when G1 was 30 years old and everybody

that grew up with it wanted to rediscover it.

Oh, and I agree. And that was the point of the

panel was why Beast Wars matters 25 years later.

Right. And so some of the other comments, somebody

says, happy to hear someone repping the Beast

Wars legends because I, of course, didn't just

touch on Beast Wars from America. I touched on

the Japanese stuff, too. All of it. Yeah. And

I didn't. pertain to know as much as I know about

the American version, but I did bring it up that

it was another continuation and another basically

timeline. They were talking about some of the

legend stuff that I brought up and then somebody

else goes, man's going off and I'm laughing so

hard. I agree with him 100%. I'm just amused.

Because I was somebody says yeah, I felt that

this was mostly a soapbox time and they put that's

cool, though And somebody says they they were

they were excited when rampage and depth charge

showed up because I I played that video That

that CG one, right? It came out a few years ago.

Somebody was messing around with it So I was

I was basically laying out what I thought the

movie should actually be and I said, you know

those those whatever amalgamations of the CG

models of primal and Cheetor for the live -action

were just utter dog snot, you know, and I said

no disrespect to the guys that did the art for

them I said but if you're trying to do Beast

Wars Use the aesthetic you've already created

with Godzilla King Kong, you know, why make them

overly complicated? Make them look like animals

and then use the prime one studios Versions of

the characters were there a little bit more you

know beast. Be still you know when you can see

like the hair texture you can see you know it's

more. More defined than the beast wars cartoon

was twenty five years ago i said you know why

why mess with perfection with it when you you

have the blueprint just make it. You know darken

the tones make it look a little bit more realistic

but you you have it all there why screw it. And

so somebody else says, uh, uh, cause I says,

yeah, soap box and why we needed Beast Wars and

still do somebody says you speak the truth and

we hear you. And somebody else is like, I'm really

enjoying this. You are speaking the truth. 2021

Beast Wars Renaissance. I speak it into existence.

Uh, and then somebody else says you're really

knowledgeable and you lay it out for even people

who didn't really follow Beast Wars stuff. And

then I got a bunch of yes. Yes. And people saying

such a good panel. Look at all these correct

opinions on Beast Wars. And they're like the

Twitch channel and chatter enjoying themselves.

I wish I would have caught that. I think if you

watch the replay, I think you can see it, but

probably I'll have to check that. Somebody says

I will always love G1, but Beast Wars was really

good and I hope they get some new and excellent

stuff to us. You know, and they're like excited

to see new stuff coming. But yeah, it was just,

uh, it was, it was funny. Just the amount of,

of love the panel got, which I was, I was on

pins and needles. I'm like, I hope people enjoy

my, my soap box and I don't sound like a blubbering

idiot. Uh, and it went over well and I was quite

pleased. And so, uh, but I talked about, you

know, the toys and how we're, we're getting this

Renaissance 25 years later, we're getting. You

know brand new toys third party toys masterpiece

toys you know kingdom we're getting even now

they're talking about reissuing the trans metal

figures. That would be cool which i would love

because honestly the one key thing about trans

metals first the original toys trans metals.

With the exception of like their sizing and their

scale and you know some. Some of the chrome issues

or metallic paint issues that flaked or a couple

of cheap plastics that got brittle and broke

like Transmetal Megatron. Overall, they were

pretty show accurate for what they were. Right.

Yeah. And they still hold up. And so a lot of

people are like, yeah, just release them. And

what's crazy about it is you can't find a Transmetal

Megatron for under a hundred dollars on eBay.

Oh, no. Because it's so coveted because it was

so good, because it was show accurate. Again,

it was because Hasbro was trying to do this thing

where, okay, we have this show, we have these

toys. The toys look like the show, the show looks

like the toys. We have to make sure that we get

this into kids' hands. And again, I was 16, you

were 10. Yeah, you were 10. 10 year old you probably

wanted every single one of these once you saw

them on the screen. 16 year old me really wasn't

into it kind of a thing at the time because I

was growing up out of the toy thing, but you

know, much, you know, I remember when I was collecting

toys from 2005 to 2011, I got a bunch of Beast

Wars stuff in my collection at the time. I didn't

get everything. I only got like a few various

things. But I remember, uh, Michael will our

good buddy michael wilson peak encore michael

who does the beast unleashed podcast with us

and stuff uh he sent me he he had a duplicate

of optimal optimus and i'm like yeah i want that

he just sent it to me i was like oh cool so i

had optimal optimus for the first time ever in

my life nice and it was just like oh i'm watching

season three episode one optimal situation. And

I'm like, if I have to pick specifically an optimist

episode out of the entire Beast Wars run, not

Beast Machines, but Beast Wars, honestly, optimal

situation is my favorite one. I could see that.

I loved the fact that they took Primal and they

made him look like a mix between like a prime

And made him bigger and then gave him basically

a season one had almost back right and made a

more metallic again instead of just a beast and

yeah i i love that design to the point that.

When my parents were were separated i had to

optimal optimus is to optimus primal transmedals

and two transmedal megatron. At both houses like

one at each house and I I mean I they're long

gone now most of them either a broke or I sold

them years ago some of them as much as three

years ago and I'm kicking myself for it now,

but Especially because they're like worth double

what I sold them for three years ago. Yeah Specifically

the dragons. Yeah. Yeah Well, and I sold I sold

some of them because they were not show accurate

and I had this feeling that within a couple of

years, we were going to get show accurate stuff.

Right. And I was like, you know, I like this

toy. I like it for nostalgia and for the fact

that I know that I bought it. But I didn't love

it for the fact that it was not show accurate.

And that irritates the crap out of me when it

comes to toys. You know, some of them, I'm like,

I'll do it anyway. Some of them, I'm because

like, no matter what way you go about it, unless

you buy Masterpiece Cheetor, They all suck. Not

a one looks just like him. And so that I mean,

unless you're getting transmetal, but the rest

of them don't even resemble his his season one

look point in case Netflix, you know, the kingdom

cheetor, it looks better than the thrilling 30

version. Oh, wow. And the 10th anniversary version.

Again, you know, has one is. It still sucks by

comparison. I would rather have the 96 one still

oh wow because they don't a lot of the robot

form I just find annoying and they're even it's

to the point now because like Hasbro comes out

with a Netflix version and The whatever the trilogy

named version is right and the Netflix version

they doctor them up so that they look actually

show accurate by color because if you have the

kingdom line sheet or He has light blue in spots

and his yellow is more yellow than gold and the

eyes on the cat are orange and If you wait for

the Netflix version, which is coming around June

Although some reports have been that he's appeared

recently. He's got the dark blue like the show.

He's got the dark like he's got the goldish color

from the show. He's got, you know, the green

eyes on the cat. You know, so I mean, it's it,

you know, they it's still not show accurate,

but it's it's better. So I mean, yeah, I am enjoying

what they're doing with them anyway. Like Megatron,

I hands down, the kingdom is as close to Masterpiece

as you can get without spending the money. Mm

-hmm and same thing with black arachnia or Rad

traps are kind of a little bit here or there.

I think the thrilling 30 did them better. But

Yeah, again, I got rid of a lot of these kind

of stupidly but So again looking on eBay there's

people are just price butchering everything of

Beast Wars if you can find them They want an

obscene amount of money. For any of them, you

know, even terrorists or you know, you would

have paid six bucks for back in the day. They're

like anywhere from like 20 to 50 tarantulas.

You're talking anywhere like the transmetal tarantulas.

Mind you, anywhere from 45 missing a part or

two through to like $400. Jesus. So because I

was like, man, I really like tarantulas, the

transmetal, there was really nothing wrong with

him. Like he's pretty spot on. But I mean, you

can find primals, but he's missing either his

gun or some of the other parts. Right. But but

again, for the price of the masterpiece or not

the masterpiece, but the Transmetal Optimus Primal.

I can buy a third party Trans Art Optimus Primal

that's masterpiece scale, lights up and has changing

faces. And the head poses like in beast mode,

the head actually moves. Oh, wow. Very cool.

So so like for an extra 40 bucks, you can get

one that works. Yeah. So yeah, I mean, it's so

I mean, it's kind of a weird time to be a Beast

Wars collector. I think it goes back to what

I was saying earlier, this is the time for the

Beast Wars anniversaries just like it was time

for the G1 anniversaries and prices are going

to be insane for those older more vintage figures

that people might still want and I just wanna

see what Hasbro does now with the beast line.

I wanna see how they're gonna do show accurate

to the old show, show accurate to the new show,

whatever kind of thing. That's where my interest

lies is seeing what they do nowadays with the

toy technology that they have. Because back then,

toys were good, but like you just said, Kingdom

Megatron almost beats Or comes close to Masterpiece

Megatron for two -thirds the price of what Masterpiece

Megatron actually is kind of thing Oh, I know

and and it's crazy too. Like it's and and he's

not I mean, he's a couple inches shorter, but

he's still taller than Masterpiece Optimus Primal

as he should be yeah, but I mean like even You

know comparing him to The original ultra he's

still a head taller. Oh wow I honestly love the

figure. The figure is awesome by comparison.

I did repaint mine in the 90s or early 2000s

and tried to make them show accurate, but some

of the plastic got brittle on them and some of

the stuff just looked crappy because you're doing

it yourself. dying for these transmetal figures.

So I'm going to wait till Hasbro does something

or just watch and see what happens because like

somebody mentioned, you know, when these kingdom

toys come out, either a they'll be better than

the originals, in which case people will dump

their old stock. Not everyone, the people that

are completionists won't. But the people that

are just like, oh, I need money to buy these.

They'll dump the old stuff. And honestly, I've

debated getting the Thrilling 30 Rhinox and I

have the Kingdom Rat Trap. But if I could get

the Thrilling 30 Rat Trap again, I probably would.

I have the Thrilling 30 Waspinator. They still

sell them at BBTS. Oh, very cool. So I got them

there. And even though I bought them years ago

and then I sold them, I bought them for like

eight bucks at a flea market and I paid 20 for

them new. But it came with the comic this time.

So that was that was cool. And it's got a it's

Waspinator, like actually in the comic, which

I was like, oh, that's neat. But yes, I mean,

and I have the I have the studio series 86 Scourge.

I have Kingdom Cheetor in Blackarachnia now.

I'm waiting for Eraser and Dinobot. Part of me

wants like the masterpiece, but I know that's

never going to happen for my budget. So Kingdom

is as close as I'm coming to a lot of them. Although

the Optimus and Megatron like the Transmetal

stuff, I'm probably going to splurge. Well, more

so like I probably will wait on the Transmetal

third party Optimus Primal unless they get a

third party Transmetal Megatron. Right. And then

I'll have to get it because I'll need it to match.

But other than that, I'm. Well, I have Masterpiece

Primal, which is sick because I paid $119 for

him in 2016 when he came out. He goes for $299

new. Wow. Masterpiece Optimus Primal came out

in 2016? Oh my god. Yeah. Then they had Cheetor,

Dinobot, Megatron, and then Tigatron. Yeah, the

the third party stuff. They've got Transmetal

Optimus Primal, Transmetal Cheetor and Transmetal

or Transmutate. And then they've got Ravage from

season two. Which that's tempting, because he's

only like 60. Very cool. But I don't care enough.

So I'm like I like season one and then I like

certain Transmetals. And so like when it comes

to the Transmetals, I'm like the leaders. That's

all I care about. Unless it's like depth charge

or rat trap or tarantulas, but only because there's

a nostalgia for the original toy Exactly. Well

in rat trap to be fair Wasn't quite sure accurate

his wheels didn't flip upside down and stuff.

So anyways, I've gone off on a tangent, but the

the the price butchering is just insane watching

people Destroy budgets over the original stuff.

Yeah And it just, it's just so crazy. Like that's

why I try my best to stay off of eBay. I think

the last eBay purchase I made was 2017. And before

that it was like 2011. I just, I try to avoid,

if it all costs, if I can get something somewhere

else, I will. Yeah, that's kind of my method.

I've been watching TF source and BBTS and I'm

kind of to that boat of if I can find it somewhere

else, I'd prefer it. I don't particularly like

eBay because you never know what you're getting.

And yes, I've sold a bunch of crap on there before.

But again, you just you don't know. And plus,

people are just scalping. All I can say is I'm

very glad, very glad that the Transformers toy

market has not hit wish .com because wish .com

is by far the ultimate worst never know what

you're going to get thing. There's so many felt

like I recently, and this has nothing to do with

Transformers. Sadly, it's a tangent folks. I've

been recently watching Mr. Who's the boss on

YouTube. He, his name is Aaron. Uh, he's a He's

the UK's leading tech phone reviewer person.

And I absolutely love the guy. I've loved why

I've watched so many of his videos recently,

ever since Samsung announced the Galaxy S21 Ultra.

And he's done a couple of videos where somebody

has sponsored his video and given him whatever

to go onto wish .com and buy a bunch of fake

phones to see how close and how accurate they

actually are. To the real thing and it like oh,

I'm so glad that transformers toy market has

not has not Devolved into wish comm yeah, that's

the one thing I got to say about the transformers

market is It's it's surprisingly held its value

yeah, and I can't say that I'm disappointed buy

the toys because they just. They just I mean,

one, they hold together to their original stuff

and then three, like I honestly enjoy playing

with them because they're Beast Wars. Right.

And the kids think it's cool. They're like, oh,

it's beasts. So, I mean, yeah, I don't know.

I'll be happy when I start seeing some of these.

You know, new trans metals hopefully come back

out and be reissued. And I hope that Hasbro fixes

their problems. With the original toys, as far

as the the the chrome and the metal paint flaking

off and some of the cheap plastic like that,

I would take this honestly in the vein that they

did for the 10th anniversary or the thrilling

30 and slightly remold them. and make them better

because if they're going to charge the same price

that they did the last year, you know, with the

current toys, not what they used to charge, they

might as well re -engineer some of it, you know,

give us a better Megatron head on the transmetal,

fix the plastic that's brittle. Because, again,

that could be the difference between somebody

buying third party or somebody buying the official.

Mm -hmm, because they're never gonna hit trans

medals for the the masterpiece. They still have

quite a few left to go in season one So it's

a good six or seven years down the road probably

most likely at least Yeah, so I mean I'm happy

for some of this. I'm I'm happy for some of the

third party stuff But you know something that's

not third party, but something that's kind of

original I caught wind of this on one of the

Beast Wars groups that I was in, and Fun Bee

Studios has 3D printing of some of... They just

create stuff for G1. They create stuff for Kingdom,

for Siege, for various lines, for Beast Wars.

So they 3D printed a hunting rifle for War for

Cybertron, Kingdom, Megatron. Cool. Similar to

Call of the Wild. Yep. They 3D printed it so

it fits that toy right and they also 3D print

things that Hasbro in their cheapness decided

not to incorporate into the toys such as if you

look at some of the legs of some of the figures

they're hollow. So you can see all of the pieces

that are glued together in the leg right and

so they create covers. Very cool that are 3d

printed to fit in those slots And so even when

it transforms it doesn't inhibit, you know your

transformation it just plugs the holes, right?

Which tells me that Hasbro cheaped out on you

know, a little bit of plastic to get it in production

But yeah, I mean it's they did it with Megatron

they did it with Cheetor they also have Cheetor's

plasma rifle With the brain looking thing on

it you know and yeah they made that. But what

i found really interesting was when i was checking

out their website they made like the. They made

like the maximal cr chamber they made the repair

arms that go in the cr chamber they made the

maximal shield. That primal held when he came

from, you know coming in the fuse wars part two.

Mm -hmm They've made the the Predacon base floating

platforms that various beasts get around on The

Predacon healing vat that everybody seems to

fall under Megatron takes his bubble bath And

then they have the stasis pods Which you can

get neither masterpiece size or standard Yeah

it's all very very cool stuff folks. It's stuff

that I wanted as a kid but they never would build

like Hasbro was too cheap to come out with it

at the time I'm like if turtles can come out

with an entire sewer you know in a turtle van

and a blimp and you know all this other stuff

I'm like I can't Hasbro do this why can't they

come out with some of the maximal base and Predacon

base I'm like where's Megatron's chair? You know

where you have to realize with specifically to

the turtle blimp if i'm remembering correctly

please listeners don't land based me if i'm forgetting

this i had the blimp the turtle blimp was basically

just a balloon for the blimp wasn't it was not

really. It but it had the plastic thing that

attached to it right right but the blimp part

of it itself it wasn't like it wasn't like they

molded a play it wasn't like today where they

could 3d print the blimp and mold it into an

action figure to be an actual vehicle it was

yeah but think about it this way if you if you

had that blimp you could put helium in it and

it would fly yeah that's true so Yeah, I don't

know. It's more so the fact that you look at

Batman, you look at Ninja Turtles, they had play

sets. You look at Transformers, they don't. I

would have paid for a stasis pod as a kid. I

would have paid for the healing vat. Well, as

an adult, you can now get a 3D printed version

from Fun Bay. Yes, you can. Yeah, so you can

you can actually buy the 3d printable files from

their website and They they show you how many

pieces these things come in and then To have

them 3d printed it's not expensive to have Or

not 3d printed to get the 3d 3d files. It's not

expensive to have them 3d printed. It is it's

expensive. Yes Because they sent me their website

information from these two studios that that

print their stuff. And. I was like. I was in

shock how much some of it cost. I wasn't printed.

I was not honestly in shock. So, yeah. I was

a little scared to say the least. Okay, so how

much does it cost from FunBeat to get the 3D

printed files for the CR chamber and the VAT?

Oh, the 3D printed files are only $10 for the

CR chamber, $10 for the VAT, $10 for the stasis

pod. Okay. So you spend, let's say, 30 bucks

to get these files. Yes. I'm sure I can find

somebody in the 3D printing universe to be able

to 3D print these for you. I know one guy, I

don't know what he would charge you for materials,

but you know. I know how much they cost unpainted.

It's astronomical, folks. Yeah, the stasis pod,

just for the basic one, it's like 80. It's 85

or $90 just for the to be 3D printed without

paint. OK, so it's for the standard one, not

the masterpiece. OK, right. Standard stasis pod,

Beast Wars. Non -paint is $85. What is it with

paint? I think it's a hundred and eighty five

or 150 something. Well, there's a huge difference

between 150 and 185 Well, I know I well I am

trying to find their website as is but isn't

it just fun be calm Well, they don't directly

print them. Oh, they send it. Okay, it's they

have two different retailers that they deal with

directly And one of them in America doesn't have

like all of them listed the other one uh does

and they they're in australia so they give um

they give a little bit more information but i

know that the masterpiece stasis pods like 265

like complete yeah that's yeah and i was like

you'd rather have the toys than the 3d printed

materials currently yeah currently like i i would

rather have The Megatrons and the yes, you know

the transmetals and yeah stuff like that. Yeah

over having the equipment, but that's not to

say that I don't like them because I I would

rather get a stasis pot over the CR chamber or

the the tank uh -huh so that Tells you what I'm

I'm thinking mentally on that but right I Mean

like I said at the beginning when we started

talking about this. It's very cool It's very

awesome. I think it's great that they offer it

to people. It just has to fall in line with your

finances to the point of you already have all

the figures that you want and you can now. You

know save up or spend money on their items. That's

the that's the key thing here is like I said

a second ago would you rather actually have the

toys first or have this stuff first without any

toys you want to get the toys first and then

next year you can go to these people and say

hey I have. money for whichever, you know, whichever

one you want first. Yeah, it'd definitely be

the stasis pod. I think I'd ditch the rest of

them in lieu of that. But that'd be cool, though.

Yeah, stasis pod, maybe the maximal shield. Yeah,

because that's at least the shield can't be more

than 30. And even if it's not, I could paint

that. Oh, boy. Anyways, I couldn't help but bring

it up because this is just epic for a fan to

sit there and build these. It just adds that

much more to the collection there. Absolutely

it does and it is so very cool. Again, it's a

part of Transformers that I'm sure, just like

you found it, I'm sure other people have already

found it and talked about it kind of thing, but

we haven't had a chance to talk about it on this

podcast yet. And it's not like it's not cool.

It's not like it's fake news. It's not like it's

a website that's trying to scam you out of $265

for a piece of paper. Oh, no. No, no, no. I'm

just saying, like, this is a good thing. This

funbee thing or whatever it's called. Where the

website is, I forget off the top of my head.

Well, and they have, they do have some free 3D

printable files, like they've got Teletran 1,

they've got, you know, the ARC crew seats, they've

got the Autobot ARC med bay, they've got Starscream's

crown. You know, they've got, they've got add

-ons for people, an ARC monument or. The Cybertronian

sound wave lamp the arm communicator for for

sound wave You know the horn blasters the Metro

plexus transforming cog, so I mean they've got

all kinds of stuff Metro plexus transforming

cog somebody took my eyes They give out that

they've got the golden disk and they've got war

for Cybertron cheat orders gap fillers. Oh very

cool So I mean, yeah, I mean there's just it's

neat to see what they have I'll have to once

I find oh, yeah, they also have Megatron's rubber

ducky and toothbrush for the For the word for

Cybertron figures. Yep Yeah, so anyways, I I

once I find the the links to the the other site

I'll I'll post them in the the website Very cool,

very cool. All right, and it's time to talk comics

from IDW. I have the April 2021 solicitations.

These are marked for February. So obviously these

are books that are going to come out in April.

We have several titles for the Transformers brand

for IDW. First up, My Little Pony Transformers

2 number one. It was last year that they had

released the first My Little Pony Transformers

crossover miniseries that they did. This is going

to be another four issue miniseries written by

James Asmus and Sam Maggs with art by Jack Lawrence,

KCW Collar, Colors by Tony Fleeks. While using

a modified space bridge to bring magic to Cybertron,

the Decepticons end up unleashing a more powerful

evil from Equestria than they ever could have

imagined. Looks like the only way out of this

one is to team up. More ponies, more bots, and

more magical mayhem as two worlds collide in

the return of this hit crossover event. Transformers

number 30 Written by Brian Ruckley, art by Anna

Malkova, and colors by Stefanos Simun? Warworld,

we are not meant to be darkness. Optimus Prime

does not wish to fight, but knows he must by

his side leading his army as one of Cybertron's

former greatest generals and former inmate of

the White Tower, Pyra Magna. The two may not

see eye to eye, but for the Autobots to survive

and stand up to the Decepticons, they must work

together. But first, they must get out of Iacon

alive. Both of these books are a $3 .99 cover

price. And we got one more. No, we got two more

here. Two more. Transformers Beast Wars number

three. Now, if you guys listen to the last episode

of All Things Transformers, crossing over with

the beast unleashed in the pull bag, you'll know

that I... Kind of read this off of Comixology

as well, but written by Eric Burnham, art and

colors by Josh Bircham. Unbeknownst to the Maximals,

the Predacons have taken their first prisoner.

As Megatron and Tarantulas run their interrogation,

dissent stirs in the Predacon ranks. Who'll give

first, the dissatisfied Dinobot or the captured

Maximal? The Beast Wars rage on. And then finally

is Transformers Escape number five of five. This

is written by Brian Ruckley with art by Beth

McGuire Smith, art and colors. The arcs are prepped

and ready, or should be. With thousands of lives

on the line, Hound, Wheeljack, Glyph, Tapout,

Road Rage and the rest have to fend off a swarm

of enemies, threatening to sabotage the launch

and a traitor in their midst in the thrilling

conclusion. Very cool, very cool. I was kind

of wondering how I was gonna do Autobotly April

and Autobotly August in 2021. I kind of know

how I'm doing Autobotly April, but I was kind

of wondering how I was gonna do Autobotly August

this year to figure out, because I like us reading

this stuff in trade, not single issues kind of

thing. Obviously with Beast Wars, we're doing

single issues, which is fine. And then I thought

to myself, oh, I've done some of the Transformers

crossovers, but I haven't done it. a lot of them

yet. Like we haven't done Transformers Ghostbusters,

Transformers Back to the Future hasn't released

in trade yet. Transformers My Little Pony number

one, the first series just came out in trade,

I think, or was about to. So it might be Transformers

Crossover Autobotly August this year. I don't

know. But that's what's going on in comics for

this time around. What else you got, sir? Not

much While I was discovering I found that they're

also making like the maximal axel on bridge chairs,

but very cool but yeah the I'm quite excited

for all the the new things coming in transformers

this year. Yes That's your line yeah, I know

Oh my god. Alright. Is there anything else we

need to talk about or are we going to get the

heck out of here? We're going to get the heck

out of here. Alright. Transform and transcend

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