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This is Megatron, leader of the Predacons, and
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Predacons, terrorize! Hello and welcome to All
Things Transformers. I'm your host, Steve Megatron,
and joining me on this adventure into the Transformers
fandom is TFG1 Mike. Lemon face, lion face, lemon
face, lion face. Nobody's going to get that joke.
Not even you are going to get that joke. Nope,
I'm not going to get that joke. Oh, God. Yeah,
anyway, it's a performance thing. But yes, we're
here. Not that performance. We're here. We're
no longer waiting. It is 2025. We are 41 years
removed from Transformers debut. We are 40 years
away from year two of that line and that cartoon
because the 1985 set of toys was amazing. How
was your Christmas since we didn't do it? Technically,
Transformers 1, the DVD commentary, was our Christmas
episode. Pretty good. I mean, I worked a lot
of my time off. And then, yeah, I spent the better
part of it trying to just get a bunch of other
stuff done. Got vehicle fixed prior to. Got my
printer back up and running. However, it promptly
took a dump on me. Oh, no. So I had the the print
head got gummed up with the filament. And I don't
know if it's because it like obtained moisture.
I don't know if it's because this kind just doesn't
play well. So anyways, it completely fused like
I could not get the hot end off of the heating
element, like could not take it off. It had fused
to it. So your printer became a fusor. Yeah,
it became a fusor, all right. Nothing was coming
out of it. That's not good. So I tried to fix
it. I ended up having to snap that part off.
I got it off, like, all the way, but then the
threads were destroyed. And so then I had to
buy a new hot end. I bought it with the fan and
all the other stuff because in my irritation,
I cut the cord to something that needed to stay
plugged in because I had bought just an upgrade
for the keating element. And I was going to reuse
everything else, but I couldn't get it back through
the corded thing into the underside. So I got
it all in there, got it all rewired, managed
to print something with it. somewhat good. Um,
wasn't terrible, but it wasn't great either,
but it was the smoothest print I'd had in age.
And then I moved it from where I was working
on it, which was in my living room, uh, on a
table there. And I moved it into my office and
that's where the issues started up again. Oh
no. And I messed with it for about two and a
half hours one night. And then I eventually was
like, don't care. Done. So I listed that printer
and I bought a new one. But I got to wait for
the new one to show up and it's supposed to be
very automated. It's supposed to be six times
faster than what I have. It's enclosed so it
shouldn't have as much of the heating issues.
It has like an AI detection with a camera so
it will detect if it's going to go into spaghetti
mode and then it will abandon the print. without
me having to babysit it yep which is nice and
then yeah so i'm waiting for that to show up
and it it can actually print four colors at a
time as long as i set it up in the software so
i can do multi -color prints once i get that
set up it's an established brand it's like any
cubic uh cobra oh brah um and then uh it's supposed
to it's it's basically like a Bamboo Lab version
kind of knockoff of their mid -grade enclosed
printer and so yeah I'm hoping this fixes all
the issues and I should be able to just remotely
send crap to the device from my phone from an
app if I have it or send it from other devices
wirelessly like it's yeah the one I have right
now it's every time I go to use it it's a headache
and When it worked, it worked great. When it
didn't work, it didn't work. Yeah. Because I
have a lot of brittle prints that are sitting
here in unfinished land, like I was trying to
print the Beast Machine Megatron in the cloak.
Yep. I got as far as his pedestal, and then part
of it snapped off because the... I don't know
if it wasn't filled in right. I don't know. But
I'm going to have to end up reprinting that whole
stupid thing that I got. that I got started,
a lot of it didn't really print properly anyway,
so I was going to have to do this, but I was
just going to super glue it all together. Yeah.
And just deal. Yeah. Because, I mean, ultimately
it's going on display. It doesn't matter if it
moves. Yeah, I mean, yeah. So, same token with,
I was looking at, and this is not Transformers
related, but I, because I've had Dragon Ball
Z, Dragon Ball Super, all of those figurines.
I decided I wanted to make a version of Vegeta
from Dragon Ball GT, which is technically not
canon. But it's anyways, there's a base form
of him that he's not wearing the armor and looks
kind of normal and cool. And so I was going to
cobble together multiple figures to create that,
which would have been fun. However, I looked
on 3D printer stuff because I was like, I don't
know. I don't really want to spend it. And then
I tried to cobble the two figures I have now
that would have worked. And there's a missing
gap where the waist joint would have connected.
So it's not going to work. So I was like, do
I want to get two $30 figures just to cobble
them together in the hopes that they work? Or
do I want to save my money and figure something
else out? Yeah, so I looked and I'm like, again,
it's going to be something that doesn't move.
I was like, if I buy a flesh tone filament, I
could print the layers with the head and the
hands and, you know, that portion in that filament.
I could also just print the rest of it in its
colors or paint it if I have to print it all
in one color. and i think i could do the same
job uh and i've seen like about eight different
nice 3d prints that might work for this so i'm
gonna try that and see what happens and then
uh if nothing else i've got a display item uh
i am gonna probably reprint my power morpher
once i get the new printer and that but i want
to do beast machines mechatron something terrible
Yeah, so that's what I've been up to other than
brandishing new ideas for video content since
our YouTube channel has kind of slowly dwindled
off as the podcasts have finished uploading.
Well, there you go. That just means we have to
create more podcasts. Yes, and video content.
Well, yeah, but yeah. But yeah, Christmas was
fine for me. I kind of am in hibernate mode still.
Getting into Transformers stuff, we've got nine
things, and it's not going to take us all night
to go through all nine of these, because some
of these are just, hey, this happened. One of
those, I'll actually skip over the Wave 1 Transformers
Age of the Primes for a second, just to mention
since we're talking about Christmas. David Cade
did his annual Christmas greeting. That, and
I'm like, oh, wow. David's always inventive when
he does his Christmas greetings. Unfortunately,
I think Gary Chuck is not doing, or he wasn't
doing so well. He had some sort of cancer diagnosis.
I forget what it was. There was something going
on. Yeah, he's got a cancer diagnosis. Yeah.
Gary, please, keep fighting, man. We need you
here. Keep fighting. Fight the good fight on
that, you know, kicking that cancer butt. But,
yeah, I saw David. Did you see the David Kaye
video? Have you watched that? No, I haven't had
a chance to watch it, which, yeah, I know. I'm
like, but I haven't, like, it's just, it's been
an interesting couple of weeks. Just been swamped
in general. We're six days into 2025, folks,
and we both feel like we could use a long winter's
nap. Because, oh boy, the end of 2024 was crazy.
All right, so getting into the Wave 1 thing,
can I just say I wish they would finally just
say... And maybe this is more of an issue that
I have with TFW than it is anything else, but
like... So we're going to talk about the Transformers
Age of the Primes Wave 1. Which includes your
Voyagers, your Deluxes, your this, your that,
whatever, whatever, whatever. We're now getting
into the whole thing of Hasbro having various
other names for larger size figures. So usually,
how it has been for the last at least 15 and
a half, 16 years of you and I doing this show,
it's, what's the time, Core Class, Deluxe Class,
which is your standard mid -size figure, not
mid -size, but it's your standard thing. Voyager's
a little bigger. And then there was Leader and
this, that, and everything else. A couple years
ago, they introduced the Commander class, which
is like your super Leader class kind of thing.
And now they have Titan class. And I'm just like,
okay. What's besides, obviously, price, because
yikes. You know, we're going to go through these.
We have images. That's the only reason why we're
going to go through this wave one is because
there is actual box art. And inbox images of
these things. But man, I wish they would get
their sizing redone or re -whatever. Silverbolt
is one of the commander classes. So they're doing
the aerial bots. We've got Air Raid and Slingshot.
So we get three of the five aerial bots. The
funny thing is, because they're doing this Age
of the Primes thing, and it's, oh, it's the Age
of the Primes, and everybody's included in this
thing. And I get to Fugitive Waspinator, and
I'm like, that's an animated Bumblebee repaint
into the Fugitive Waspinator from Animated. Wasp
or whatever. And I'm like, ooh, that's cool.
I want it for the car mode. That's the only reason
why I would want that figure. Not because the
bot mode doesn't look cool. It looks amazing.
But literally, I loved when they did certain
repaints of Bumblebee's animated design. Like
Bumblebee, I never had the animated Bumblebee.
What I had was the Elite Guard Bumblebee, which
is basically the Bumblebee figure, except he's
black and gold instead of, because he's supposed
to have the stealth look. when he became an elite
guard member. But I love this Wasp. I can hear
Waspinator coming out of this animated Wasp design.
We've got Solus Prime. I like her alt mode. We've
got the Generation 2 Grimlock. So, Blue Grimlock.
What do you think of Blue Dinosaur? Blue Dinosaur
versus Purple Dinosaur. There's no Megatron in
this listing, but... I'm indifferent. It's just
a repaint. Just another effing repaint, man.
Just a bunch of repaints. Megatronus the Fallen,
so we get that. What do you think of Megatronus?
I can't even talk tonight, folks. Megatronus.
Don't get me wrong, I like the figure. I know
it's a retool of Megatron. It looks cool. It's
got a different deco to the chest and to the
whole... If it weren't for the fact that it's
another one of these type of canon, you know...
Yeah, it was a different tank, yeah. Yeah, I
mean, don't get me wrong, I love the design of
the figure, especially in Robot, because I'm
like, oh, that would make a nice pre -Beast Megatron
that they could retool, even though it's not
the miniature version. It would be something...
It would look fitting. Yeah. Almost like an IDW
Megatron. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Which, I think,
didn't they do IDW Megatron? I think they did
at one point or another. They didn't make one.
Really? No. I thought they did. Not Beast Megatron.
No, no, no. I'm talking about IDW Megatron. I
know they didn't make a Beast Megatron. Oh, yeah.
I'm pretty sure that was like a... Yeah. That
fire... Yeah, it was like a model kit. It wasn't...
Okay. I remember IDW Megatron when IDW still
had the license to the comics and they revealed
his alt mode. That was by far... Out of any of
the tank versions Megatron has ever been, that
was the coolest. At the time when they had it.
Up next is Star Optimus Prime. Star Convoy. It's
a Japanese version. Yeah, the 13 Star Convoy
Optimus Prime. This is... I don't know. I like
it, but that's because I like that design. In
that universe, though, They had him merge with
like diatlas and some others and he actually
fought the super Megatron in this body. Okay.
So that's why I care about it. Yeah. They made
a super Megatron years ago, a triple changer.
Yeah. And, uh, but it was with the, uh, war for
Cybertron or not work for Cybertron battle or
power of the primes. Gotcha. Yeah. I like his...
I like the trailer. This is so stupid. I like
the trailer because it reminds me of Power Master
Optimus Prime's trailer. I don't necessarily
like the front part of the vehicle mode. The
upper part of it. That's a little... I mean,
I get it. It's where it's there because of the
guns, but it is what it is. At first, I thought
this next one was a, uh... What's his name? Sentinel
Prime. Because blue legs, white body, whatever.
But apparently this is Red Alert. Why Red Alert's
blue is beyond me? Okay. Well, this Red Alert
is from Robots in Disguise. Or not Robots in
Disguise. He's from Armada, I think. Oh, that.
Okay, yeah, that's right. I remember that now.
Yeah. I like the alt mode. It's funny with a
lot of these listings that we have for this story,
folks. I like some of the alt modes more than
the actual bot modes. Same thing with Prima Prime
here. That is a cool alt mode. Yeah, it's basically,
it kind of reminds me of like Hup or... Yeah,
I like this figure, but it's more so because...
there's the capability of turning this into the
IDW pre beast. Yep. Yeah, absolutely. And, uh,
the Lux class retail prices are now up to 25
bucks per figure ages, eight and up, man. Yeah.
What were Deluxe's 15 years ago? Eight 99. Well,
they were like 12 something, but still. Okay.
Yeah. Yeah. Also, I was trying to find pictures,
and maybe it's in a separate story that I didn't
grab, but they list here the next Transformers
collaborative thing, Transformers X Sonic the
Hedgehog wingtail and blue booster action figures.
Have you seen these things? No. Oh, my God. All
right. Well, let me send you the link, because
apparently in the story link with the wave one,
there's a link there that says, here, look at
the extra blah, blah, blah. Holy crap. Why? Why
what? The stupid things. Oh, so this is a previous.
Okay. Well. Alright, well, I'm seeing more images
of that Optimus. I'm kind of liking him a little
bit more. That red alert still looks like Sentinel
to me. Uh, but these Sonic figures are at the
bottom of the thing? Past all the images with
the kids and the toys, I guess? Uh, wait. I don't
see the Sonic images at all in this. Huh. Why
would TFW2005 .com, what the hell are you doing,
link into a story that... Oh, here they are.
I think. Transformers sound like the Hedgehog.
They ugly. It's funny, too. I also follow certain
things in the TFW forums. And I think... We'll
get an announcement later this year of a masterpiece
Tarantulas and Waspinator. Nice, that would be
cool. So, I like the car mode and the airplane
mode. I don't like the robot mode on this new
collaborative thing they're doing. It's too weird.
Doesn't work. I don't know. It's like they took,
um... Granted, Blades from Robots in Disguise
and... Was it Robots in Disguise 2015? No, Rescue
Bots. There's a helicopter. There's an orange
helicopter on there called Blades. The Tails
figure here, it's like they took Blades, made
him an airplane, and somehow mashed the yellowness
of Tails. in this. And the whole point of the
Sonic character of Tails, the whole reason why
he's called Tails, he has two tails. Oh, duh.
He ain't got two tails as this airplane. He got
one tail. So, yeah, no. No, thank you. Really
quick before we move on, as I'm seeing more of
this Optimus, I do like the robot mode more than
anything else. I'll say now that I'm seeing more
of the robot mode. That alt mode, like I said,
the trailer reminds me of Power Master Optimus
Prime, and there's just too much going on with
that trailer. In the alt mode, not in the battle
station mode. The battle station mode, fine,
you can have whatever you want going on there,
but that's a little much. No, I get it. Yeah,
I just like the figure, the design. Yeah, absolutely.
All right, folks. Moving on, we've got, because
I was actively seeing if there was anything for
you, because we've always said, oh, they're not
doing anything with Beast Wars lately. They're
not doing this, they're not doing that. We have
upcoming Wonderfest 2025 exclusive Beast Wars
Optimus Primal and Rattrap Garage kits. Coming
to us via Twitter slash ex -users, this person
and that person, because I can't pronounce those
names whatsoever, we have renders and images
of two new upcoming Wonderfest 2025 exclusive
Beast Wars Optimus Primal and Rattrap garage
kits. Both fans have got official permission
to sell Beast Wars Optimus Primal, Rattrap, Beast
Mode, and Optimus Primal Shield, seen in the
cartoon garage kits, assembly scale model kits
most commonly cast. and polyurethane resin. During
the Wonder Festival 2025 event on February 9th,
2025. Hey, my 45th birthday. Yay. In Japan. The
license only allows these kits to be sold at
the convention in Japan. Won't be available in
any retail or online store after that. So the
license only allows these to be sold at the show.
And these are supposed to be model kits? Okay,
I'm looking at the Optimus and I can kind of
see how they are where the lower part of his
arm and the upper part of his arm where his shoulder...
Okay, I can kind of see that. It's like those
old 90s toys where they literally, you know,
you can rotate the wrists and the arms. It's
like if you had the old genie figure. You know,
from the 90s. For Aladdin. Yeah. That's basically
what these are. Yeah. And, um, I don't know many
people that are going to get, I mean, you can
try to find them on secondary market, I guess,
but I, that's just weird to me. I honestly don't.
feel the need to get these? No! Well, I, when
I saw the story before, I mean, I read the story
before we did the show, and my reaction is kind
of authentic, but not. I'm kind of putting on
a show a little bit here, but it's a little crazy,
and it's only those two. Like, out of all the
characters, like, okay, yeah, like, do Optimus
and Megatron? I don't have anything against Rattrap.
Rattrap's cool. Maybe if you had a license for
a second wave or something. I don't know. This
really isn't even a wave. It's two figures and
a shield. Well, and I think, honestly, I think
it's going to be one of those things. Like, the
shield? You can already buy that from Funbee
Studios. Like, the 3D print file? Yeah. And then
have it printed yourself. Yeah. So there's really
not a case for getting this? Yeah. No, not really.
Not at all. Moving on, I gotta say, I wasn't
that interested before, but I am now. You better
watch out, Funko, because Blockies is coming
for you. There's always another one to knock
off the previous one. Yeah, yeah, I know. Locky's
Transformers Galaxy Version Wave 6 full lineup
and in -hand images via Weebo users, that person
and that person. I can not rab in some other
language that I can't speak. In him, images of
new Blocky's Transformers Galaxy Version Wave
6. This new wave of small, chibi, and easy -to
-build model kits consists of the following characters
from different universes. IDW Megatron, IDW Optimus,
G1 Sunstreaker, Shattered Glass Ratchet, G1 Kickback,
Dirge, Wheeljack, Swoop Dino Mode, Swoop Robot
Mode, and IDW Optimus Prime Forcefield Mode,
Blue Redecco Chase. The only one out of this
that I want. Because I'm looking at this Optimus
Prime and I'm like, was IDW Optimus that? Literally,
I thought this was like, um, uh, no, no. It's
War for Cybertron. Is it really? Yeah, it's the,
it's the old War for Cybertron design of Prime.
No, it's not. He had windows on him. No. This
one is from the old War for Cybertron comics.
Oh, the comics. Okay. I thought you meant the
video game. I was like, um... No. Okay. No, they've
already made that figure. Yeah, that's what I
thought. But really, the main star in this for
me is the Megatron. But I've been looking at
the other Blockies that are on the Blockies website
and where else you can buy these things, and
I'm like, ooh, I want that one. Ooh, I want that
one. Ooh, I want that one. But that Megatron
with the Autobot logo on it, because during part
of the IDW run, he becomes an Autobot. It was
the only way to save Cybertron at the time. I
like the swoop. I probably wouldn't buy the swoop,
but I like it. I think it's cool. The Chase Optimus
looks... Optimus just looks weird all blue. I
mean, it's a nice homage to when they had an
animation error in Season 1 of Generation 1 when
he was all blue. But yeah, the only reason why
I'm even talking about this story is that IDW
Megatron, because that looks badass. Any thoughts?
Guess not. Catchphrase. So these blockies, any
thoughts, sir? Well, aside from Optimus Prime
being from the War for Cybertron comics and then
Megatron being from the IDW universe, I honestly
don't hate these. They actually look cooler than
the RED figures. And they look better than those.
They sold something else by Hasbro and they were
like four to five dollars. They were like very
low detailed and they barely moved or had barely
any posability. These actually have posability.
They actually look halfway decent. Like they're
not, you know, they're not expensive figures.
They're about the size of like your old school
basic figure and about the same price point.
They just don't transform, which honestly, I
don't really transform any of mine in any more
anyway. Like I like the capability being built
in still in case I'm like, Oh, I want to mess
with it. But I mean, I've got these ones in the
cabinet and I've not pulled them out in six months
to do anything with them. Um, so, so again, like
that's where like the model type thing is more
fitting. Yeah. I do like these two figures, uh,
the optimist and the Megatron. I've looked at
them in the store. Like, I honestly have looked
at them. I'm like, you know, I wouldn't mind.
Yeah. Of the right figures or the right characters
for me. Yeah, the right characters, yeah. And
I've looked at the old, you know, the other Optimus
Prime, and I see we've got some Shattered Glass
stuff in here, and, you know, I'm not... I would
sooner buy these over Funkos. And it's not...
I don't hate Funko's the way I hated Mighty Mugs.
Yeah. But the same, but the same token, like,
if I, like, they have the Transformers 1 figures,
they have, you know, the rollout, they have,
you know, all these different versions of the
characters. The Transformers 1's figures don't
really entice me outside of the Megatron. Yeah.
The original, Blockies, the Optimus Prime looks
cool. And the original Megatron and some of the
other ones. I don't know. I've almost pulled
the trigger on them. I've not. But that's because
I have limited funds and I have limited shelf
space. And so to me, it's like where do I draw
the line? But like I said, some of these are
really cool. I haven't found one yet that I would
100 % jump to. I do like the Megatrons and the
Optimuses across the board. And they can do some
cool poses. Yeah, they can. And if honestly you
were trying to have the entire lineup of G1 characters
or some of the other ones, they have a metallic
Optimus Prime. yeah as a part of the initial
i that one is tempting yeah if i ever saw it
yep um just because it's like i could have a
real g1 prime and it's not stupid expensive they're
like five bucks at walmart so yeah yeah i don't
know i i like these because they're they're like
almost a chibi without being corny yep Now, correct
me if I'm wrong, because I'm looking at the,
what's the, which Insecticon is this? Kickback.
I'm looking at the Kickback, and I'm looking
at the Swoop. Now, there are two images here
where it shows Kickback in robot mode on a stand,
but it also shows an alternate mode. These aren't
supposed to transform, right? The alternate mode
is just a separate figure, right? Am I wrong
in this? As far as I know, they're not supposed
to. However, looking at his knees, they almost
look that way. See, this is... Okay, let me look
up here in this article again. This new wave
of small... Well, this one, they do. Like, Swoop
transforms. Okay. Swoop transforms, and so does...
I don't think all of them do. No, not all of
them, but some of them do. Because originally
I was like, ooh, Swoop as a Pteranodon or whatever
he is, I would kind of like that, having Swoop
in alt mode without having to transform him.
But yeah, the way that these look, some of them
are, I guess, transformable. They're still very,
very cool. I mean, I'm almost all in on these.
But really, for me, it's that IDW Megatron, man.
It's just that era of where... We all know Megatron,
the Decepticon leader. We've known him for 41
years. What they did in IDW to him and changing
just the way that they wrote that, it was so
cool. And just having that would be just so awesome.
And so far, even though the earlier waves are
showing up here in the U .S., this Wave 6 is
only available in China at point of recording.
So hopefully Wave 6 gets to the U .S. soon. Agreed.
Because I'm not importing. I don't import. I
like Hot Rod, but I don't do sleek, sexy imports
with toys. We're not talking about Trypticon
that much. I only have the Trypticon story here
because of the fact that I watched this livestream
with them, and I was trying to figure out why
they weren't going to make their Age of the Primes
Titan Trypticon, why they weren't going to make
it fully cartoon accurate. And the only reason
that it's not is because of the pinkish car now.
Like, why couldn't they just reuse the purple
car? It's the same thing. First look at upcoming
Transformers Age of the Primes Titan Trypticon.
This is a re -release of Titans Return Trypticon.
Titans Return Trypticon, all they had to do with
this is just repaint him the darker color. They
didn't have to do anything else with it, but
yet we're getting the darker color with a pinkish
car part thing instead of purple the way it was
in the show. I don't know. I don't really care.
If you're trying to sell me on we're going to
have everything cartoon accurate, this one kind
of failed. Sorry, Evan and Mark and... Ben and
everybody on the Hasbro team, but not for whatever
the price a Titan class is. Hell no. Any thoughts?
No, I mean, I don't get into all these giant
versions of the characters. And honestly, I don't
need a re -release of something from Titans Return
as Age of the Prime. It just kind of seems...
Like, oh, we had this mold sitting around. Let's
re -release it. You know they're going to charge
it like $50 to $100 more. Oh, of course. Absolutely.
They're like, oh, we're going to get some more
fun out of this. It's like, dude, we don't care
anymore. Give us something new. Yep, absolutely.
We've got... I'm moving around here a little
bit because the last two stories, we're going
to kind of fly. We're going to give a little
bit more to... Well, the last one is just a fly
-by -night, but the... The one -eyed mood ram.
Mark Clonus, Mark from the Hasbro design team,
shared behind -the -scenes images of Age of the
Primes commander class Silverbolt. I love that
we live in an age where these designers, as long
as a figure has already been announced or has
been teased or previewed or whatever, that we
can go on Instagram or wherever they have their
behind -the -scenes accounts of what they're
working on, and we can see how... things are
going to look. I love that. And that's the only
reason why we're even looking at this, is to
see these Aerialbots kind of, you know, in action.
And, man, it was... These combiner teams, I know
you're not that big on the whole combiner team
thing, but... All these, between Devastator,
and Bruticus, and the Superion, and the Aerobots,
and the Combaticons, and the Constructicons,
it's like, all of this is so cool, because I
remember, I had Silverbolt, and, I had, did I
have all the, Silverbolt, Air Raid, Skydive,
I forget the other, too. I had at least, I know
I had Silverbolt and I think I had Air Raid or
Skydive. I think Air Raid originally was voiced
by Rob Paulson in the cartoon, so I probably
had him. What do you think of the behind the
scenes of Silverbolt here with the others? And
we're talking about the Age of the Primes. Yeah,
the behind the scenes. So, for one, I loved the
I love how solid these look. And when I say that,
I mean my kid has the old Power of the Primes
Superion. Or not Superion, Defensor. And the
way those things are designed are such utter
garbage. And I say that because the way the hinges
work, the way that they kind of snap together.
Whereas Silverbolt here has the framing so you
can still kind of build them without his buddies.
The framing is there that you more or less attach
the other figures to. Whereas in the old figures
they're kind of held together by like you flip
the head inside the chest and then they're a
peg to attach to the shoulders or the legs or
whatever. And it just seems very brittle and
cheap. And these seem very like solid, very like,
you know, crunch together, like very well thought
out. And in that regard, I, I do like where they
went with it. Yeah. Seeing him next to, I think
that's motor master in the first, in one of the
first images of him with the other bots, he picks
up motor master. I love this. I think this is
super cool. Like I said, I had the original 80s
version of Silverbolt as a kid, and man, the
one where he's picking him up, just the way that
Mark has Silverbolt posed, where he's on his
tiptoe and his heel spur for his right leg, and
just the, man, how did he get that to? The things
we'll never know, folks. The things we'll never
know. That's just amazing to me. That's why I
love a lot of the toy photography stuff is because
people like Mark who work at Hasbro or even people
who are in the fandom like Sixo from Triple Takeover
Toy Cast. Sixo does amazing photography, and
I would love to interview him one of these days
about his toy photography. But yeah, Mark did
an amazing job with his behind -the -scenes look
of the Commander Silverbolt. Speaking of things
you don't like, here we go. They're coming. Funko
Digital Pop Transformers Wave 2 in -hand images.
So the one image that is here... Because there
is only one image. I've seen 360 shots of Cheetor
on Instagram from a different account. But this
is from Distrackers. Distrackers is the quote
-unquote number one account to share hacks, leaks,
whatever. The Pop Analyst is the other one that
is listed here. Pop Analyst, I kind of know him,
but I don't know him that well. But he's the
one I saw the 360 on Cheetor with. So, this wave
includes G1 Ultra Magnus Blitzwing and RC, Beast
Wars Cheetor, and then G1 King Starscream Metallic.
It also includes a Freddy Funko as Grimlock Metallic.
Personally... I know there are a lot of people
in the Funko community that I'm friends with
that love Freddy Funko dressed up as other characters
and things like that. I hate Freddy Funko dressed
up as other fictional characters. I don't mind
if he's dressed up as a policeman or a fireman
or if he's at the beach or if he's doing something,
but if you put a Batman costume on him, I'm like,
nope, don't care. And the Transformers Freddy
Funko's... Disgusting. However, but... Yeah,
I don't care for this character at all when they
do that. Yeah, no, no, no. But the Ultra Magnus,
Blitzwing, Cheetor, and King Starscream, I'm
actually getting from a buddy of mine, because
he was lucky enough, and this is why we're going
to talk about this, but he was lucky enough to
pull all of these. I'm getting the Ultra Magnus,
Blitzwing, and Arcee, and Cheetor from him. I
have to find somebody that I can get a King Starscream
from because, oh boy, King Starscream's aftermarket
price is not cheap because he is the grail of
the set. But I kind of love how these look. I
love how everybody's complaining about Ultra
Magnus' lips and his face and how it kind of
looks like Overlord's lips and face and whatever
else. And I'm like, do you not remember Ultra
Magnus from G1? He was a stoic, heroic -like
person who always had a chip on his shoulder,
who always wanted to follow the rules, who didn't
want to break the rules for anything. So him
having this kind of frowny look on his face kind
of makes sense, at least to me. And that Cheetor
is some hot stuff. I love that Cheetor. I can't
wait to do this, to get these for my buddy. And
I've already, luckily, I saved up my money last
year and I've already paid him. Basically, I'm
just waiting for them to be shipped on my birthday
next month. So, I don't read. Like, we read news
stories from TFW 2005. I haven't been on the
TFW boards in years. And I don't read the comments
on the news stories. But because it's Funko,
and I was curious to see what people were saying.
One person on New Year's Eve said, I'm still
not 100 % sure how you get these things, but
I think it's pretty lame how they're locking
physical merch behind a stupid digital tokens
or NFT crap or whatever. I was kind of tempted
by that Cheetor. It goes on to say, somebody
quoted somebody else saying, Funko doesn't operate
in a vacuum. Hasbro signed off on this and fully
supports it. If you look at who largely has IPs
tied to these NFT waves, it's almost entirely
Warner Brothers and Hasbro properties. Not saying
that makes it right. I dislike this style of
FOMO release. But if I were throwing stones,
Hasbro gets as much of the blame as anyone because
they can easily say, no, we don't want to be
a part of this. They are just as bad as Funko
here for not only taking part, but also doing
over and over and over again. If Hasbro could
have figured out the NFT grift, they 100 % would
have done this with their own figures. And then
somebody replies to this person, says, one hand,
yes, on the other hand, Hasbro probably wouldn't
be pushing Funko to do this if Funko hadn't brought
the idea to them in the first place, which is
very true. Funko back then did bring certain
ideas to people. It's just, like, I don't do
the, like, thankfully we've got leaks and listings
and other things. Not listings, but we've got
leaks of potential Transformers Funko Pops that
are going to come out this year. I've heard,
like, supposedly there's supposed to be a hot
rod with Matrix. Again, that is a huge rumor.
It's not super confirmed, but it's usually accurate.
But all of the rumors have said that they are...
It hasn't revealed what the exclusivity is, but
none of the rumors have said NFT. I'm hoping
in the year of 2025, Funko and Hasbro... Stop
putting Transformers Funko Pops behind the NFT
wall and just put... You can make them convention
exclusives. You can make them store exclusives.
You can make them regular pops. It's fine. It's
whatever. But at least let us buy the damn things.
Yeah, I agree with you. And that's my spiel on
that. But yeah, I'm really looking forward to
getting Cheetor because, like I said, Cheetor
is... This is very, very cool. I saw a 360. I
took a screenshot and showed somewhere. They
were like, is that an actual toy? And I'm like,
yeah. And? It's like, oh, my God. Some people,
man. I just don't understand. I don't understand
this human race we live in. Alright, and finally
up tonight, last story, we got the Transformers
Skybound March 2025 solicitations. I was not
going to go through January, February. If you
guys want to hear January, February, go listen
to another comic review with Jesse Early, myself,
and The Uneven Flow. But coming in March, Transformers
number 18, Void Rivals number 18, and the previously
announced Transformers Deluxe Edition Book 1
hardcover are included in the latest Previews
World things, and I understand how comics work,
folks. I've been doing the pullback for 12 years
this coming March, so I get it, how previews
work, but you cannot imagine how many times I've
heard with these upcoming issues. Autobots vs.
Decepticons vs. this spoiler, whatever the spoiler
is supposed to be. I'm like, hurry up. Tell us
who the third faction or third rival is here.
Is it G .I. Joe? Is it the Void Rivals characters?
Is it somebody completely different? Like, just
tell us. But Autobots vs. Decepticons vs. blah
blah blah is already devastating Seattle, but
none of them are prepared for how it will end.
And then for the Void Rivals number 18, at long
last, Zerta. So, again, I will say to you, sir,
check out Void Rivals. I know the trades are
out right now, so you can get the Volume 1 trade.
Just check out that first five issue. You might
like it, you might not. But they do have, I do
love how Skybound is doing the hardcover volumes
for Transformers and the rest of their series
that they're covering in the Energon universe.
So that's coming for comics. And that's it for
our little show tonight, folks. I think, unless
you got anything else. Well, I mean, I don't
really have a whole lot. I'm kind of hoping we
get, like, I've heard rumors, at least for the
Funko, that they're going to have an Optimus
Primal and Megatron. I'm hoping this year we
get, from Hasbro, a Transmetal Megatron. Yes.
That would be cool. I'm assuming we'll get a
quick strike. Aye. Have we already gotten one
of those? I mean, we always get one of those.
No. Really? No. I swear we got a quick strike
already. No, we didn't. Huh. Interesting. Yeah,
but yeah, and the rumors that are out there,
like I said, there are a number of really good
accounts that are usually... Look, folks, say
what you will about some of the social medias
out there. Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
That's Facebook. I always go to Facebook first,
I go to Instagram second, and I go to Twitter
last, because... There's always been a dumpster
fire, whether it's a poor person or it's never
going to change. But it's one of those things
where on Instagram, at least, I get to see the
things because it's this, whatever. And a lot
of the Funko community, people who do Funko news
and try to break the, not break, but try to break
the news with leaks, whatever else, most of the
time, they're... 90 % correct. And I did see
on that list that there supposedly is an Optimus
Primal, but just like half the time when we see
news items that don't have pictures to go along
with it, like the Wave 1, if that Wave 1 article
didn't have those pictures because of the Hasbro
1027 event or 1227 event or whatever the hell
it was, we wouldn't have talked about any of
that because I'm not talking about stuff that
I can't see. And like I said, huge rumor with
the hot rod with Matrix, with the potential.
I can't wait to see a Beast Wars Megatron Funko
Pop. Honestly, that Cheetor looks so damn good.
If they can nail Cheetor's bot mode in a Funko
Pop form, I can't wait to see what they do with
Megatron. It's going to be awesome. And you're
going to have like six of them. One. Because
I will send all six to you. One. Oh, crap. Yeah,
I mean, it's going to be interesting to see what
they come out with this year across the board.
I still haven't seen the Hot Wheels Optimus Prime.
Really? No, I haven't seen it in the store. Oh,
okay, in the store. I was like, I'm sure it's
online somewhere. They have an Optimus Prime
without the trailer. Yes, yes, yes. Part of the
Hot Wheels basic line in 2025. So I imagine once
I see that, I'm going to have it. I don't want
the Mattel Transformable Optimus Prime just because
I can't afford that. It's stupid expensive. But
having just the just the they have like an off
-road it's or track fleet which is like the ten
dollar one that's prime with this trailer i haven't
seen that and i guess that was supposed to be
released in like july of last year i never saw
that in the store like some people were like
i've seen it at target i'm like well good for
you my targets suck they never restock anything
like they're always empty and then they have
the you know just the regular optimus prime no
trailer which i would put on my Because I have
the Batmobile from the animated series Hot Wheel
Cars, and I've collected every color variation
of the animated series one. I still have one
that's unopened. Nice. But yeah, the Optimus
Prime, yeah, I would pick that up in a heartbeat
and probably have two, one for opening and one
for not. I still have the old Thunder Roller
Hot Wheel Car. Very cool. Semi -trailer. your
semi truck from, you know, the nineties that
they don't sell anymore. So yeah, I'm, yeah.
I'm interested to see what they do. Yeah, absolutely.
I like hot wheels though. Yeah. The only hot
wheels cars I have is kit. I have one in package
and out of package for the super pursuit mode
kit. He has the out of package one sits right
here on my desk next to, Optimus Prime, R2 -D2,
Stay Puft, Mini Marshmallow, Batman. But I think
that's going to do it for us, folks. I concur.
So, thank you all for listening to All Things
Transformers. We have been Steve and Mike. So,
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And roll out. Transform and roll out. Autobots,
roll out. Yes. I wish to speak to my lawyer.