Transformers Toy and Comic News Roundup

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So this is Transformers. We are here. And it

has been about a week since our last news episode.

And what I said on there is more relevant now

than when I said it before. We release an episode

to catch up on the news. And as soon as we release

it, more impressive news hits. We're usually

a few weeks behind, folks. Excuse me, sorry,

I talk. Okay, hold on. I'm drunk. What is wrong

with him? What is wrong with him, indeed? Yes.

Waspinator not sure. Waspinator, I'm gonna give

you a swift kick in the... So we are here to

talk Transformers news and we have images from

Takara Tomy pre -orders for August 2022, Transformers

Studio Series and Legacy. And we actually, like,

like I said, we have images and images are awesome.

And I know these have been out for a while, but

we have images of. Studio series, Autobot spike

in the exo suit, exo suit, Autobot spike, this

thing. I love the quote unquote robot mode, but

the alternate mode is just weird to me. Well,

yeah, cause it's like. Hey, Spike is able to

bend his arms behind his back and not break them.

You know what the funny thing is? Okay, so looking

at this picture, and I'm hopefully going to put

this in the poster. I'll at least link the article

in the episode post on the website. The first

image we see of him in robot mode where the flames

are on the left side and his head's on the right

side. You look at the legs of the thing, and

it's like he's in an R2 -D2 body. It's like somehow

they hollowed out an R2 -D2 or any R2 unit and

put Spike inside of it. But the legs, the way

in the transformation, the way they look, they

remind me of R2's legs. when he falls down. But

no, I love it in bot mode. I think it's great.

I think it's cool. I think it's awesome. We also

get RC as well from the Bumblebee movie RC. This

looks awesome. Let me put it this way. After

however many years of Michael Bay movies, I will

tolerate these because they at least look like

Assemblance of what they should, you know, they

look like robots. It's not a bunch of kibble.

You look at the Mechel Bay stuff, they're all

silver and they all look like crap. It looks

like somebody put a, you know, puked sheet metal

together in wires and that's what they got. Whereas

this stuff actually has a cohesive form and I

can get behind it. Like if I get the modernizing

it, making it more movie -centric, yes, okay.

At least these are in the ballpark. Yeah, yeah.

I mean, they are the designs from the Bumblebee

movie. And the first thing I look at when I see

the giant wheels on RC in the front, I'm like,

ooh, it's kind of like Batman Tumbler wheels

a little bit. And that's fine. I don't have a

problem with this at all. Even her face. Like,

I wish her... I remember I was joking about this,

that the face wasn't that great. It still isn't

amazing, but it looks... Better ish in these

images I Guess and then you get ironhide man

and ironhide looks badass. I I do like this ironhide

Yeah, I almost want this damn toy. I almost want

him too. I don't I'm not fond of the face But

I feel like if you could get your hands on Any

of the ones that have come out in the last five

years? You could pop the head. Yeah, but I really

I really enjoy the the blue chest I enjoy the

I know he's the same build as ratchet yeah the

the feet kind of remind me of the chrome dome

from Titans return but the the rest of it it's

it's I like how bulky is I like how he's very

similar I like that his cannon has a spot on

on vehicle mode uh the I don't know if if I was

tempted to get any of the movie figures this

would be one of them Oh, absolutely. And then

there's Junk Heap. Junkyard? Is it Junk Heap

or Junkyard? Whatever. I don't know. What is

it listed as? It is Junk Heap. S -88 Junk Heap,

Transformers, the movie, 1986. Okay. This thing...

Again, there is, to my knowledge, and I could

be wrong about... You know, comic, you know,

old comics, not IDW, but older, you know, Marvel,

Dreamwave, whatever. Junk Heap never had any

fiction. It isn't like he was Rettgar's right

-hand junkie on and he was like, it isn't like

he's, um, oh, who's the Jabba Nobaba. Like, you

know, the guard that tells Jabba in, you know,

in Jedi that Luke, you know, young Jedi is here,

blah, blah, blah. Yeah. You know, it isn't like

he's that kind of... Yeah. Yeah, there you go.

Yeah, this junk heap is just a junk heap. I don't

care. The motorcycle mode looks cool. The robot

mode, I don't really like it. I don't really

care about it because there is nothing about

this character anywhere. So... And then we get

Sludge. Poor Mr. Looney Tunes, and... They are

killing it with these Dinobots. I cannot wait

to see Swoop. I am so excited to see Swoop. But

Sludge looks amazing. Too bad Snarl wasn't in

the movie. He was. He was? For like half of a

second. Yeah. He's in one of the... I think it's

when the ship comes down. I don't know. I thought

he was. I don't think he is. Oh, man. Not that

this is a horrible thing, but instead of editing

podcasts, I might watch the movie after we finish

recording. Yeah, because he's not in it. It says,

why was Snarl not in Transformers the movie?

Oh, man. I mean, still, I still think they should

do a Snarl. I think they should just to go with

it. Yeah, absolutely, yeah. Yeah, they just decided

not to use him. It had to do with toy sales.

Probably, I guess. But no, this sludge looks...

Again, like I've said in the past few episodes

the last year or so, what they are doing currently

in the modern day... I would have killed to have

these 40 years ago. These are amazing. You look

at that. It's the third picture in with him in

dino mode turning to the right. And I know there

isn't a tongue in there, but it kind of looks

with the way his mouth is. It kind of looks like

he's like sticky, but man, it looks so good.

And then you get kicked back. And I am not, like,

I had the old Insecticons and they were kind

of cool, but I'll be excited to see a bombshell.

That's the one I'll be excited to see. But Kickback

looks pretty friggin' cool too. Yeah, I was never

a fan of the Insecticons or some of the more

obscure, like I always liked the main group,

no matter what, so. but to piggyback on your

thoughts of the the old toys from yesteryear

yeah the stuff they make now is far superior

design wise it may not be in some aspects of

like durability right but it's it's definitely

superior design wise because I Whether I get

third -party transmetal characters or third -party

regulars or I get the kingdom or I get the thrilling

30 even They're pretty freaking good Yeah, absolutely

So just to round out this story folks for studio

series We have exosuit spike RC from the bumblebee

movie iron hide from the bumblebee movie Yes,

yes, Studio Series 86 Junk Heap and Studio 86

Dino Bot Sludge. And then from the new legacy

line, we have the Kickback and the RC from Transformers

Prime. Moving on over to Nendoroid? Nendoroid?

Nendoroid? Yeah, Nendoroid, Nendo. No, it's Nendoroid.

Yeah, Nendoroid. Anyway. Yeah, so we have this

new thing from them. It's a new Starscream figure.

I think Proto Man said something on one of his,

on his video of this is like, oh, move over Funko

Pop. Here comes Nenodroid. Well, and it's almost,

it kind of reminds me how Mighty Mugs was, did

it first and then Funko and then now this. Yeah.

But the only thing that's nicer about these is

they're fully articulated. They're designed,

they're basically chibi versions of their other

version. I do like the image that they use towards

the end where Starscream is standing on top of

Megatron and he's got the screaming face. It

looks like they come with two different faces.

Yeah, they come with two different faces and

that's interesting. Now, what's funny about these,

the only way you'd see me get something like

this is if it was Beast Wars Megatron. I know

But they'll never get there. So just like just

like the the red the robot enhanced design Yeah,

I hear down the pipe. They're gonna have a Beast

Wars Megatron in his dinosaur mode, which is

good because then I can just turn the other one

into a dinosaur and Then I could just have that

one is the robot mode Yeah Coming up next we

have TF con Los Angeles 2022 exclusive TF con

Los Angeles is coming up Upon us. We have mastermind

creations reformatted r -46 a vexel From Moneon

or whatever I'm only bringing this up because

I When I first saw the head sculpt of this figure.

I'm like, wait, is that justice lords Batman?

Kind of looks like that like but I also think

of it. I'm like It's optimus primal before he

got his beast form. Yep Yeah, I Will say though

that I like literally this could be a Batman

transformer because the way the head looks and

Then the way that alt mode looks in the one image

of it flying through the city. It looks like

a light blue light black batwing kind of thing,

but. It's cool. I like it. I think it's fun.

I think it's awesome. I wish I could go to TFCon

now that I'm technically closer to LA than ever

before, but sadly, I cannot. I do know Lady Rek

is going, so maybe I will convince her to do

some reporting for us at the convention, and

maybe we can do an episode all about TFCon, because

we used to do those things, folks. We used to

do them on Toycast, convention, pre -shows, and

post -shows, so maybe we can do that on... ATTF

up next is something that hurts my head and it

really hurts my heart. So I am not into the NFT

thing at all. Just not. I don't care if it's

Transformers. I don't care if it's Knight Rider.

I don't like NFTs at all. I want a physical thing.

So we have transformers Crossover with funco

nft collection series 1 announced the nft market

is sure growing and kind of Whatever You know,

it seems we have some nft transformers products

coming from funco just revealed the new Transformers

X Funco NFT Collection Volume 1. These are animated

digital tokens featuring Funco Pop Transformers

characters. Sale will start this Tuesday, March

15th at 11 a .m. Pacific Time via the Digital

Funco website. There are two different digital

pop packs. The standard pack is five digital

pops for $9 .99 USD and the premium pack is 15

digital pop for $30 USD. Each digital token is

classified as a common, uncommon, rare, epic,

legendary, and grail, according to their rarity.

There are also some exclusive limited physical

Funko Pop Transformers figures that you can redeem

if you get the legendary or grail tokens, or

if you complete all of the series. More information

via digital Funko website, yadda yadda yadda.

You could get the following characters. Optimus

Prime Gold with Matrix, Devastator, Hot Rod,

Rumble, Black and Red, Side Swipe, or Freddy

Funko as Bumblebee. Look here, Funko. I love

you, Funko. I do. But this is fucking stupid.

I'm sorry. You're going to limit a Hot Rod Funko

Pop That doesn't exist to be a digital. Oh, I

mean technically they say you can get a physical

Thing of the very like if you get the right tokens

you can get a physical version of no But this

is this is like microtransaction gambling like

in a video game Yeah, this is like getting a

loot box in Star Trek online and never actually

getting the ship you're trying to get Like it's

yeah, cuz when they say grail epic Yeah, let

me tell you something the amount of times I've

opened a Phoenix box Which those those are free

but it takes you a long time to earn them with

dilithium in Star Trek online and I know this

is transformers, but Just run with me here. They

They have the the common then they have like

uncommon then they have like They they go up

to like five different scales The highest I've

ever gotten is that mid -level scale. Never gotten

above it. And then lock boxes, I've won something

that I actually wanted once. And I think I opened

like 50 of them. It's basically micro transaction

gambling. Like you're never going to end up like

most people unless they dump a bunch of money

aren't going to end up with these things. Yeah.

And the thing is this also goes towards polluting

the planet. Yep. Because you're buying these

packs and everything else and the costs and this.

Look, I love the design of these. Like I'm actually

looking at the optimus prime, the actual fit,

like the physical fun co -op that you could potentially

get. Come on, Funko. God damn it. Like, seriously,

this is ridiculous. The Funko market is already

ridiculous. I can look up several figures that

I want right now, even though they are released

but sold out if they're exclusive to places or

whatever. And they're like double the price of

like, I can go on Target right now and buy a

94 Spider -Man from the animated series for like,

12 bucks, but if I go on eBay looking for it,

it's going to be like 30 bucks or 40 bucks or

whatever. And that's fine. That's secondary market.

That's the way toy whatever, but this is the

first time that I am seeing these actual physical

Funko pops in the boxes, not just the digital

cards that you can get. And so far they have

released. Optimus Prime in various things, whether

he's got his gun, whether he's a regular size,

three inch, four inch, five inch Funko, or whether

he's a jumbo size. So they've released all kinds

of Optimus Prime versions because hello, it's

Optimus Prime. You're going to release various

things. They've released a Starscream. They've

released Soundwave stuff. They've released Bumblebees.

They've released Jazz. They've released Shockwave.

And the most recent one that was exclusive to,

I believe, Toytokyo was Traxx. Traxx was the

last one that I knew to be coming out as a regular

Funko wave that I could go to any store and buy.

And then they have the Transformers X Funko NFTs.

And this just pisses me off because I would love

like, look, Devastator. Look at that thing. It

looks awesome to me. I mean, it's, you know,

it's Funko. It is what it is. It's a little,

you know, super deformed thing, but the gold

Optimus Prime with Matrix. That's awesome because

I could say, hey, this is even though the Golden

Lagoon episode did not have the Matrix. But again,

you know, the Hot Rod breaks my heart that it's

a Funko pop digital thing in order to get a physical

figure of my favorite fucking character. Are

you kidding me? And then you have Rumble, you

know, Rumble is red, Frenzy is blue, yada, yada,

yada, and then Side Swipe. And then another Freddie,

you know, you have Freddie Funko dressing up

as Bumblebee, which is fine. Freddie Funko is

their mascot. I understand that. He dresses up

as all kinds of things. I think the only Freddie,

the actual only Freddie Funko I've ever wanted

was the New York Comic -Con Freddie as NYPD officer.

He was dressed up as a New York Police Department

officer. but come on man the only way I can get

a physical funko pop of hot rod is to go through

this and I know at some point these physical

pops are going to be on the secondary market

and that's fine but Transformers is one of the

biggest franchises one of the biggest franchises

Give us another wave of figures, even if they

do it as Walmart exclusive, Target exclusive,

whatever, or if they just do it as common. Please

don't do this digital bullshit. And again, I

cannot stress enough our good buddy Mikey over

at Moonbase 2 podcast. He has a whole thread

on Twitter about the whole environmental Uh,

effects of these NFT things. And please folks,

as much as I say, I want these physical Funko

pops do not, do not get into NFTs because it's

just, we're already sinking this planet as it

is. We don't need to put like, we don't need

to be Homer Simpson, you know, revving up the

silo back into the, into the, into Lake Springfield

and, you know, For those that don't know, NFT

is non -fungible token. It's on the Ethereum

blockchain, kind of like cryptocurrencies. Cryptocurrencies

aren't great for the environment either. No.

Granted, neither is printing money and leaving

it everywhere. True. But an NFT is basically

created, minted from digital objects that represent

both tangible and intangible items, including

like art, GIFs, videos, and sports highlights,

collectibles, virtual avatars, video game skins,

designer things, music, even tweets. And so basically

they're like physical collectors, items only

digital. So instead of actually getting You know

an oil painting to hang on the wall the buyer

gets a digital file instead. I can download digital

files for free Why would I pay for you? You can

create digital files for you know, you know I

mean like, you know You create all the art that

we use here at the ucast radio network everything

else. I could turn those into NFTs I mean, yeah,

but I mean why? like I honestly like somebody

like they're even saying like Like Charmin's

dubbed, you know their NFTs NFTP non fungible

toilet paper Yeah, and you know the NAND cat

from the 2011 you know 11 GIF with the cat with

a pop -tart body sold for about 600 ,000 in February

like who pays this crap? It's it's not even real

like I could see if you wanted to buy a comic

like, you know, yes Okay, it's not a streaming

thing. Like you're buying a digital comic to

not have the space That makes sense. Having a

digital picture. I download the digital pictures

all day long for free. And honestly, I'm not

going to buy a digital version of Beast Wars

Megatron or Galvatron or any of the other Beast

Wars characters because I'd rather own the toy

or I'd rather own the printed art. Or you know,

just something like that because I mean I could

like I said, I can download the pictures What

does it matter? Like I'm not gonna distribute

them, but it's it's still It's I don't know.

It's so it's so asinine. I can't even wrap my

head around it like the whole mental mentality

behind this NFT craze of that people are like,

oh I gotta have it. It's like it for example

You remember when you used to do the stickers

the digital stickers for watching shows? Yep,

get glue. Yep, same thing Yeah, just the precursor

to the NFTs and whereas you physically watch

the show You got a reward of a sticker now. They're

like trade your money for the sticker. Yeah exactly

like it's like At least it was free before, you

know, and you're like, eh, it's kind of cool.

You know, it's, it's, it's neat or whatever.

So that was the, and I know this is more of an

altered geek or geek cast or the other thing

with talking about get glue, but where it's talking

about this whole conversation with these NFTs

and Funko and transformers. The cool thing about

get glue was if you watched a show, if you checked

in with the show, it was all about appointment

television and watching the show as it happened.

And you checked in as it happens because you

only could get the sticker. During the show when

the show was airing at that time. Now there are

other shows that were on get glue and other TVs

like older shows. Like if you watched 10 episodes

of insert show name here, you could get a marathon

sticker. And then if you built up so many stickers

at the end of the month, they would say here.

Would you like to blah blah blah quote unquote

it wasn't cash in but I'm gonna use that term

Would you like to cash in we will send you free

physical stickers of? Your digital images that

you got and it's like I just like the digital

images I still have all my all the get glue stickers

I sent away for but I didn't pay for any of those

they have those to me for free and this is just

dumb and everybody's talking about the environment

rightly so talking about the environment and

how it destroys you In order to get a legendary

or grail or whatever the highest one is you probably

have to buy so many of these and with the premium

pack 15 digital pop at 30 bucks a pop a 30 bucks

per pack that's ridiculous I would rather buy

an actual physical funko pop for 30 dot. Like,

okay, perfect example. I can go on eBay right

now. I am on my eBay summary cause I was looking

at it the other day and this actually ties in.

So I had a watched item or something. I was watching,

uh, I was watching the, uh, funko pop jumbo number

71 retro toys, transformers, optimus prime, 10

inch Walmart exclusive. This is a physical Funko

Pop. I've actually seen it in the store. I actually

have a picture somewhere of this in the store.

So I know this exists. I can buy this for $30

and it is a 10 inch super large version of Optimus

with his gun versus spending $30 on a 15 card

pack of no fucking tokens. Not fucking today,

I don't know I I don't know It just it makes

me so mad because I thought funko was I don't

want to say better than this I know everyone

kind of bags on funko and that's fine. That's

there but seriously the fact that they're doing

this to Whatever, not realizing the environment.

Maybe they know about the environmental impact

and they don't care. I don't think Funko is that

kind of company that would not care. But I mean,

come on, they're promoting this like, like it's

the next big craze. I cannot get into this stuff.

I just can't. As much as I would love to have

a Funko pop hot rod figure. perfectly fine not

having it if it's gonna you know eventually destroy

the environment anyway moving on we have that

was TF2 and Mike's rants for for this time around

I don't rent a lot on all things transformers

I really don't but this just it is two things

that I absolutely love and I don't even know

if I want to support the come either company

Hasbro or Funko Well, I remember when they first

brought it up Hasbro doing it on the various

message boards people were were Rightly upset.

Yeah about the whole NFT thing. They're like

They're like, oh and the one hand we love the

environment we you know global warming blah blah

blah whether you believe in it or not is irrelevant,

but the the the fact is is that They're also

like They're doing the NFT thing. But what people

fail to realize is toys plastic comes from oil

Yeah, so It's yeah, if there's no oil, there's

no toys. Yep So we have Transformers legacy wave

one voyagers are out in the UK retail stores

one of the board members over at Transformers

2005, gave us a setting of new Transformers Legacy

Wave 1 Voyagers. Blaster and Eject, Kingdom re

-release, and Bulkhead were spotted. So basically,

this is a re -release of the Kingdom figure Blaster,

and then the new figure for Bulkhead. Cool. I

like them. I won't be picking them up, but I

like them. I prefer the Kingdom packaging for

Blaster. Only because I think it was cooler But

this It's still the same toy. I know it's I know

it's gonna have Delvatron come out in legacy

2 and it's just a repack Yeah, yeah, I know I

understand that but I'm just I'm more so looking

at the packages here Is it just me or is there

no window? There's not there. Okay, at least

it doesn't look that way Yeah, it does not look

that way to me at all. But you know, that's cool

that they're out in UK retail. That's awesome.

They'll probably be hitting over here at some

point. And then Wave 4 Core Class Hot Rod is

out in Canada. I've seen it here in Colorado.

Really? Yep. Why haven't you bought it for me

then yet? What the hell's wrong with you? Tiny

Hot Rod? I'm just kidding. But yeah, no, this

is awesome. Very cool. My son wants this one.

He likes the little core class figures. Yeah,

I mean the core class stuff is cool. And honestly,

they're not that badly detailed. And for their

size, I don't mind them. I have Soundwave. My

son gave me Starscream because he decided he

didn't want it anymore and gave it to me for

Christmas. Well, it was kind of beneficial because

he knew I wanted Starscream anyway, but I don't

want to spend 50 bucks on the one that's out

in stores now with his coronation and everything

else. Would I want it? Yes. Do I need it? No.

From my G1 characters, I'd much prefer to have

the core figures for the space because the Beast

Wars is where my... my ultimate alliance goes

to but But I I still like the sound wave transforms

just like the original toy Yep, and Starscream

does some kind of a weird, you know mimicry of

his stuff as well and transforms interestingly

in it. It's very much like the original too.

So I mean some of the some of the dynamics there

from the original stuff it makes it into these

core figures because They can and then they're

they're shrunk down Absolutely It's it's it's

so fun. It's so cool. It's so interesting Alright

folks, I think we're gonna take a quick break

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talk about some comics here in all things transformers.

I have got several listings That are available

for Amazon pre -order So we've got IDW transformers

beast wars volume 3 Issues 13 to 17 and the 2022

annual are in this collection It's the showdown

you've been waiting for, just not the one you

expected. Will Maximal and Predacon Alliance

be enough to defeat the new enemy that threatens

both teams? And we have an art cover here. It

is of Optimus Primal. Very cool, very cool for

volume 3. That is awesome. So there's that one.

Then we have... IW Transformers 2019 comic series

issue 41. This is a Wan Samu retail incentive

variant cover artwork of some bot. I don't know

which bot that is. I can't tell from the back

and they're facing off against whatever big bad

is coming the Transformers way. Then we have

IDW collection phase 3 volume 3 is also available

Transformers the IDW collection begins the third

volume of its final phase containing these titles

revolutionaries issues 5 to 8 by Barbara and

others and then we have Transformers lost light

issues 8 to 12 by James Roberts and all the other

creative people on there Optimus Prime issues

7 to 10 And then Transformers Annual 2017 by

Barber written by Barber and Transformers Salvation

by Barber. And yeah, it's a image of Cup on this

one for volume three. I like the Transformers

IDW collections because as I mentioned, they

collect all these various comics, but how IDW

does their... The IDW collection thing is they

do it in story order. So it doesn't matter what

series it is They align the books in the story

order that they should go Kind of thing. So we

got that that is very cool something I'm really

interested and excited for is the IDW transformers

last bought standing The complete four -issue

transformers last bought standing series is due

for trade paperback release on October 25th In

the meantime, grab your Amazon pre -order and

then sound off. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The war for

Cybertron is over. But when a self -exiled hero

awakens to a world under invasion, he realizes

the war from Cybertron will never end. And this

is, you know, we've seen stuff like this before,

like the last this standing, the last that standing.

But I'm really excited for this. I cannot actually

wait to read this one because it looks really,

really interesting. And finally, we have IDW's

Transformers 2019 comic series, volume six, Wars

and the Amazon pre -order. This collects transformers

37 to 43 transformers war and numbers one through

four and transformers fate of Cybertron from

writer Brian Ruckley and artist Anna Malkova

Jack Lawrence and Andrew Griffith size up the

devastating cover artwork after the jump Yeah,

it's devastating Very cool. Love that cover actually

Like I said in the last In the last episode,

I have to catch up on the Brian Ruckley run.

So that's all the news we have for now. A lot

of comic stuff, even though I'm still kind of

with the whole Amazon comixology thing. I still

think it's great. I may try to get the physical

IDW collections, maybe. I don't know. I'm not

sure, but. very excited for whatever these last

few stories are going to be from IDW since as

we already know they will be losing the license

at the end of the year and the next iteration

wherever that ends up being will go I mean You

know, I always sound like a broken record when

I say this folks, but I'm excited for what the

Transformers has coming up for us minus that

whole NFT bullshit Uh, you know, from the new

cartoons that are coming from, you know, we get

the movie next year. That's fine. From the comics

to the toys, you know. Like I've said, man, it,

that kingdom reformatted Galvatron, the, the

commander class Rodimus. Hell, even some of these

ones we've talked about tonight. I'm like, Ooh,

I would love to have that kind of thing, you

know? So. very exciting times for Transformers

fans, I think. Yep, between the comics and the

toys. I mean, there's all kinds of awesomeness.

Yep, absolutely. And even the cartoons that are

going to come eventually. I mean, I'm still excited

to see those. So, you know, it is what it is.

Next time around. Oh, I was going to mention

this next time around. Now that I remembered

this, because I forgot it before. I last month

around my birthday in February I had went on

to eBay because I Something popped into my head

and I was like, ooh, I need to see if I can find

that See how much I would have to actually pay

for it. I basically paid like 20 bucks after

shipping most likely It is the old Transformers

book. I remember having this book. I remember

seeing it at the library in school in the eighties.

It's Wheely, the boy of Quintesson or Quintessa.

It's the old Wheely storybook. And I've thought

about this book for years now, and I just, I've

never actually went out and looked to see if

it was anywhere on eBay or wherever it was. Hopefully

next time around, I'll have a live review or

I don't know. That's going to be interesting

and fun. What do you got coming up for next time?

What are you planning on working on for the next

episode? I don't know. I mean, depending on,

and I talked about this on Altered Geek, but

depending on what figure piece comes next. I

would actually like to review the new optimal

optimus and being I just had the original optimal

optimus I I still have it fresh enough in my

mind that I feel like I could review both even

though I don't have the other one anymore and

Give the opinions and I know it's been out since

like December But it's still one of those things

that it's it's new enough and yeah, and and honestly,

I'm hoping I I've been digging into the third

party company a little bit too that The stores

that have up for pre -order the transmetal trans

art rat trap and Megatron should be getting color

images soon as well as their Should be getting

them in stock in their warehouses to Actually

sell them soon and pay full price and find out

all that info. So I'm I Have them both on pre

-order and I'm looking forward to to getting

my hands on those because those transmetal ones

are They took the original Hasbro model and they

one -upped it by matching the the production

model on the show Very cool. So I'm hoping that

soon. We'll have that info and then Also, like

I said, I'll share some progress on my custom

Megatron that I've been tweaking. Awesome, awesome.

Speaking of Megatron, I think you can take us

on out of here. Oh, I can, can I? Well, I'll

show those Maximals when I get back to Cybertron.

Yes. Ha ha ha ha ha. Yes. I wish to speak to

my lawyer.