Me Grimlock not podcaster, me Grimlock King!
Hey everybody, this is Dan Gilbazan, voice of
G1 Bumblebee, and you're listening to All Things
Transformers! All right, so this will be episode
442. All Things Transformers is the answer to
everything. That is affirmative. 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. Hello,
how are you? Oh, it could be better. This is
the first podcast I've done in a couple weeks
because I'm sick as a dog. Yeah. I've been sick
as a dog since Halloween of last year. Off and
on, off and on. Mostly on. I don't understand
it. It's just a thing. We are here. We are no
longer waiting. I forgot that we actually did
an episode. Of this podcast this year already.
Because I went back. Because I had to go back
to make sure I had the numbering right. Because
I want to make sure we keep the numbering right.
Because we're on our way to 500 episodes. Of
this podcast. And I was like. Oh right. We already
did episode 441. Whoops. Time to change that.
So yeah. This is episode 442. This is going to
be a. Short. News episode. Because. they're really
there's news but there's not like look folks
we've been doing this for 16 17 2000 years 2005
years i don't know the year was 2005 i don't
know we've been doing this a long ass fucking
time and oh boy that's gonna really help with
the youtube sensors whoops But it's one of those
things where we've been doing this a long time,
and we use TFW as the main source because we
just have been using them as the main source
because they're the easiest source to use. And
half of their quote -unquote news is boy listings
that don't have pictures. It's a nothing burger.
Yeah, it's a nothing burger. It's a nothing but
burger. Burger bot. I sometimes use Cybertron
and T -Formers. Yeah, I like using T -Formers.
I've tried using all spark. I've tried using
Cybertron and I T formers is probably the one
I would use the most out of all of the other
ones. If I know, I agree with you. They seem
to keep more up to date, but they're like, they've
got that. Yeah. That you news international type
thing or whatever it is. It, I don't know. They
just seem more in tune with it than the others.
Yeah. So, I crawled through about three pages
of TFW stuff. And out of three pages, I found
five things. One of them is very depressing because
it's a death in the Transformers community. And
that's the first thing we will talk about here
in a moment. Just to get it, not to get it out
of the way, but to get the sadness, you know.
To bring light to it. Yeah, exactly. Uh, and
I will edit this episode as fast as I possibly
can to make sure we don't have, uh, you know,
this news beat so far in the future kind of thing
where it's already too far back in the past.
Cause you know, those seeds, you can't bury them.
No. Um, but, uh, so we got that and then we got,
uh, four other stories. And my thought was, Oh,
Let's do a less is more thing. Two of them are
comic solicitations, which one of them really
isn't even a comic solicitation, because getting
comic solicitations from TFW is kinda silly,
I guess. It kinda ties in, but whatever, anyway.
And then the one that's kinda more interesting,
that's kinda gonna spark, I think, a little bit
of discussion is the Hasbro unveiling the new
strategy, Playing to Win. Oh boy. So that's what's
going on in this episode. And unfortunately,
folks, starting off on the sad note here, Transformers
writer and producer Roberto Orsi has passed away.
From the TFW article here, posted February 25th,
2025, we unfortunately have some sad news tonight.
It has been reported by Deadline that Transformers
writer and producer Roberto Orsi has passed away.
Roberto Bob Gaston Orsi, a writer and producer
who worked on some of the biggest action -adventure,
sci -fi movies and television shows from the
first two decades of the century, died at his
home in Los Angeles today, February 25th, after
a battle with kidney disease. He was 51. Orsi
worked on both Transformers and Revenge of the
Fallen films as a writer, while producing Transformers
Prime TV series. He also worked on Star Trek
2009 with Alex Kurtzman. I mean... If you've
listened to this podcast for any time length,
folks, you've heard Steve and I talk about Kurtzman
and Orsi and Kurtzman. We've intentionally or
unintentionally mixed up their names all the
time because in the past, not now, not today,
not in this episode, but in the past, we've made
fun of them. Well, I didn't per se make fun of
Orsi. It was Kurtzman that I haven't. distaste
for yeah and i still have a distaste for kurtzman
but at least he's getting the heck out of the
way in regards to letting people that actually
know what they're doing produce track yep but
yeah it's i mean not that orsi has done much
of anything that's recognizable or you really
haven't heard his name since he parted ways with
kurtzman yeah And maybe this, who knows how long
he's been suffering with the kidney disease.
Maybe it's just been, you know, a slow battle.
And unfortunately, you know, it got him and it
sucks. It just sucks all around. May the man
rest in peace. Transformers Prime was awesome.
Love that show. You know wreckers don't call
for backup. They call for cleanup. So, I thought
Toy Fair already happened, but apparently Toy
Fair hasn't happened yet this year. No, I concur.
Man, it's February. I feel like 2025 is like
halfway over. I don't know. December? In January,
we're like some of the, December of 24, January
of 25, some of the longest months. And February
is coming up with a close second here. But apparently,
I'm going to be getting a Transformers Cyberworld
YouTube series and toy line this July. In July,
peas grow there. Just basic, generic information
at this time. Ahead of the New York Toy Fair
2025, CFW 2005 has received reliable word that
Transformers Cyberworld YouTube series and its
toy line is set to release this July. While specific
date is not mentioned at the moment, Hasbro is
said to make an official announcement really
soon. See, folks, this is why we cut back on
news episodes. Because this is... It boils down
to we, in the end, don't really care. I mean,
I'm curious. I'm very curious. I'm curious what
they're going to do, but in the grand scheme,
I don't... I don't... I don't know. This is what
I'm saying. Like, for us, when we do, when I
would do press releases for IDW, IDW sends me
a full, like, when I did the, as of this recording,
Joe Reed and I just recorded the TMNT Reborn
Volume 5, Mystic Sister, which includes, it's
the story arc about when they reintroduced Venus
into the Turtles book. I remember when that press
release came in my email, when they were going
to reintroduce Venus, when the, after 24 years,
they were going to bring Venus back into the
TMNT fold and they were going to do this whole
new storyline. And actually the greatest thing
about the, and I know this is transformers and
not turtles, but the point is, is that. IEW takes
care of the Turtles characters. They give shots
to characters that may not have gotten a shot
or may not have gotten a chance in the past kind
of thing. And I remember getting that press release
and it gave detail by detail by detail. She's
going to do this, this, and this, and she's going
to start appearing here. And it was a full press
release. Like, this technically, okay, it's not...
This news story here that they have on TFW 2005,
it's not technically a rumor, but it almost could
be considered a rumor. You shouldn't put news
out there unless you absolutely have all the
information. End of story. Well, I'm looking
forward to seeing some of the figures for this
new Cyberworld YouTube series and toy line. In
any case, just from the promotional photo, Bumblebee
looks interesting. Prime looks pretty similar
but interesting. Almost with a G2 aesthetic.
Like a hero Optimus Prime. Grimlock looks interesting.
And then you get what looks like a Megatron with
a bull transformation. Like the face looks like
a Megatron. Yeah. At first... I'm glad you said
Megatron before I said Unicron, because at first
I thought it was friggin' Unicron. Well, the
face in the helmet looks like Megatron with the
horns on it, so it could be like a Galvatron.
Oh, God. Yeah, you're not wrong. It could be
Horneatron. Oh, boy. I mean, you never know.
You never know. So, yes, coming in May of 2025,
we have the Skybound Void Rivals solicitations
for Void Rivals issue number 19. The reason why
I'm not saying Transformers is because Void Rivals
is not a Transformers book. Void Rivals is an
Energon Universe book from Skybound Entertainment
and Image Comics. There are Transformers characters
that appear in Void Rivals. but it is not a specific
Transformers book. However, TFW 2005 has the
article listed as Skybound Transformers comic
solicitations May 2025. And I sat here thinking,
oh, okay, so we're going to get both the Void
Rivals issue and the Transformers issue. No,
it's just the Void Rivals issue. And I'm sitting
here thinking, why wouldn't you just say it's
the Void Rivals? Y 'all need better people at
writing your news stories. Sorry, not sorry.
Anyway, Void Rivals issue number 19 arrives in
May, jump -starting the third story arc of the
space opera. Void Rivals number 19 serves as
a... Okay, and I talked to Jesse about this,
Matrix Prime, on his show, another comic review.
This is the stupidest, and this is not... I cannot
blame the TFW person writing this. This is copy
that was sent to them from... This is Skybound's
fault. This is Image Comics' fault. Jumpstarting...
Just listen to the words that are coming out
of my mouth. Jumpstarting the third story arc...
Pause for dramatic effect. Of the space opera
Void Rivals, number 19 serves as a... Stand -alone!
Pause for dramatic effect. So we have story arc,
third story arc, stand -alone, scuxoid epic.
So... So those are those annoying creatures in
Season 3 of G1 that tried to kill Rodimus Prime.
Yes, okay, yes, but you haven't read Void Rivals
yet. I've... tried to convince you, and I know
you will at some point as I get to the books.
My thing about it is, I hate universe mixing.
I know. I know you do. Just give me Transformers
proper and just leave it alone. Okay, they're
doing that, but they're also doing Energon universe.
It's this whole thing. I hate the universal stuff.
That's why I loved the Beast Wars comic so much.
It was a standalone. So, but I'm telling you,
man, it's not bad because Void Rival. Let me
just finish this. I just don't like the way that
Skybound and Image wrote this out because it's
the wrong way to advertise that your third story
arc starts with a standalone. They're doing really
weird things with it. If they were going to do
this, they should have said starting. They should
have just if this was just a standalone epic.
Yep. They, I mean, why call it, I mean, Marvel
did this crap all the time. Yeah. I mean, as
we remember when we reviewed parts of it. Yeah.
They would jump stories all the time. Yeah. The
third story arc should have started in issue
20. This should just be a standalone by itself.
Well, this could have easily have been a, like
one of those annuals. Yep. Like a double -thick
annual that just covered it, boom, done, move
on. So, to continue, the breakout fan favorite
of the Energon universe takes center stage. Who
is Skuxoid? What is Skuxoid? This issue answers
all of your burning questions and more, plus
the first appearance of Wreckgar and the Junkions.
Okay, so I will defend Void Rivals to you. I
understand you don't like universe mixing, but
here's the thing. It is its own story. It has
developed its own original, unique characters
in the Zertonians and the Angorians. Those are
the two races that are fighting over the Sacred
Ring. However, there are Transformers characters
that show up throughout, briefly throughout the
thing. It's a nice little taste tester for those
that may... I think of it as, like, you have
the Transformers book that's the main book that's
on Earth that Daniel Warren Johnson is writing,
and this is the Transformers out in space kind
of thing. I think you'd like it. But I understand.
It's just, it is what it is. So that's coming
in May. The issue 19 for Void Rivals will hit
comic book shops May 28, 2025. And then here
we go. Transformers number 20 is scheduled for
May 14. What's next for Optimus Prime? The Autobots
revive a group of allies who can change the tide
of their war with the Decepticons, but they don't
know who or what is coming for them. This issue
features key first appearances of fan -favorite
characters from the worlds of Transformers and
G .I. Joe. It looks like Megatron comes back,
too, with one arm. Yeah, well, that's the whole
thing. Yeah, that's the whole thing. I'm guessing
Prime won't get his own arm back. Hopefully.
Hopefully. But yeah, so that's the comics. There
will be no war today, Optimus Prime. You have
earned Galvatron's respect. The wisdom of the
ages, it's lost. No. not lost. We're all a little
wiser now. But the Matrix is empty. It's up to
all of us to fill it again. With the wisdom we
accumulate from this moment on, Autobots, transform
and roll out! And the final story here is something
that was... published this year, but it's about
a story from last year. So Hasbro unveils new
strategy, playing to win. So this is a story
about their fourth quarter and 2024 full year
financial call. I know everyone just tuned out
of this entire podcast, but trust me, folks,
this is going to be a thing that we need to talk
about. Yeah, because it boils down to CEO Chris
Cox basically changing Hasbro's entire strategy
from basically producing everything to outsourcing.
And so he's he's playing into the fact that they
have all these licenses, they have all these
franchises, and he's going to leverage them in
games and licensing them out like Magic the Gathering,
Monopoly, Dungeons and Dragons. Like there's
going to be a. I actually watched the Dungeons
and Dragons movie with Chris Pine. Yeah. Not
bad. I watched it and I've never played Dungeons
and Dragons, but it honestly was very fun and
interesting and I enjoyed it. I did not expect
to enjoy it. And I went in with very low expectations
and I was like, I would watch a sequel with the
same cast. Yeah. Like they played it very well.
and played off each other well. And Chris Pine
was great, especially for somebody that knows
nothing about it. It got me interested. Yeah.
But they basically unveiled this new strategic
plan that will take them through 2027, kind of
focusing on, you know, building its audience
and fueling play with, you know, engagement partnerships,
marginal, you know, improvements in profit. and
a lot of cost savings. So they're going to exit
the non -core businesses. Obviously, they sold
E1 Entertainment, and they're investing in digital
gaming, collaborations, and brand expansions
into things like themed hotels, cruise ships,
quick service restaurants, which, I mean, if
they're licensing it, that's one thing, but I
don't believe that's a great option. But they're
modernizing their operations supply chain and
using AI -driven enhancements to fuel innovation.
I wonder what the AI part of it's concerning.
I wonder if it's just business operations because
a lot of companies do this. I just hope it's
not in replacing employees. Artistic part. I
feel like statistically in helping manage some
of the data, and you know finding where they
need to cut using the ai because i mean we do
that even that's it's it's kind of a a normal
thing that that people do it's it's to enhance
the where do i look you know kind of kind of
areas so they're they're kind of looking to adjust
their their debt that they kind of accumulated
by overproducing during covid and So he's obviously
placating to the fact that, you know, play is
a universal human need and strong basis for business
that has purpose to endure. And, you know, I
didn't know Hasbro has been around 164 years,
but it's interesting nonetheless. He's basically
saying, you know, they're saying that the play
to win focuses our teams on Hasbro's core strengths
while continuing to transform the organization.
and drive operational excellence with the strategy
they expect to emerge as one of the most profitable
toy and game companies globally, powered by a
phenomenal set of diverse and multi -generational
franchises. So they're doing this return to growth
with it by kind of pivoting on everything. I
mean, I'm excited to see what comes out of the
Power Rangers stuff with Playmates that they've
licensed to them. I'm not super... I'm glad that
they dumped the E1 Entertainment because that
dumped $600 million of cost that they honestly
didn't need in the first place. And then they're
basically having a more diversified palette of
where they're being at, focusing on the profitable
franchises. Aging up, which includes increasing
the play and collectible appeal for fans age
13 and above, because obviously kids below 13
don't give a rip. I've looked at all of the toy
stores. I have literally gone to every Walmart
and Target and all the different stores that
have toys around here. The Hasbro stuff is all
on clearance. They're dumping it. Like it's,
it's none of it's selling. Like the, the DC stuff
is selling or not selling. Like all, almost all
the toy aisle with the action figure stuff is
on clearance everywhere around me. Uh, cause
I've, I've toyed with it. I'm like, Oh, I could
get this McFarlane Batman, you know, from the
animated series stuff for half the price. And
I'm like, but I don't care. Cause I already have
the one I wanted. And, and so like, there's some
of the transformers and I'm like, all the ones
that they have on clearance are like, the earth
spark or from transformers one or some of the
legacy stuff that i didn't really care for so
i'm like i'm not incentivized to buy them and
same token like i'm seeing all these other licensed
transformer things in the store and i'm like
they're utter crap but that's a different story
for a different day um i i'm i'm in kind of Hasbro's
Court and producing more collectible things for
the adults because honestly we're the ones buying
it like the masterpiece figures or the legacy
figures that kind of are placating to our childhood
I'm not sure who the Heart of Steel kind of 1900s
Transformers are placating to because they did
like literally four issues and it was kind of
a blip but eh To each their own, I guess. I'm
not interested in those whatsoever, but I would
love to see some of the pre -Beast Beast Wars
characters produced as one of their lineups to
kind of tie into Beast Wars next anniversary
date next year. Yeah, absolutely. Next year is
30 years of Beast Wars. which I'll get into something
Beast Wars related or Beast Machines related
at the end of this. Oh boy. And then they're
doing the Everyone Plays, kind of including everybody,
digital and direct, building video game services
and e -commerce capabilities, and then partner
scaling with driving profit with retail and licensing
partnerships. Yeah, so they're just kind of...
diversifying in a lot of ways and kind of refocusing
on their, their IPs and their games and their
toys and kind of partnering up with different
places, you know, Netflix, Universal, Disney,
Mattel, like it's weird seeing two toy companies
play nice. I mean, we're getting Hot Wheel themed
Transformers. I still have not seen an Optimus
Prime in store. They have like eight variations
of them. Yep. Uh, I would be happy to just find
one. Yeah. That's slightly or mostly accurate.
I've seen bumblebee. I just didn't care. Yeah.
And I don't care about ultra magnets. I just
like literally want one optimus prime. So if
I actually saw when I would pick it up, I still
have the, the, uh, thunder roller hot wheel car
from way back when they go for like 30 bucks
now. Oh, wow. Yeah. Mine's still in mint condition
on my shelf, but I don't know if they misquoted
him or if he said something wrong here, but where
you read earlier, Chris Cox, Hasbro's CEO, said,
Play is a universal human need and a strong basis
for business that has purpose to endure, as Hasbro
has proved over the last 164 years. You don't
know the company. You must not know the company
that you're the CEO of, sir. It's only been in
business since... Fuckin' 1923! The Hassenfeld
Brothers started Hasbro, or whatever, it was
the Hassenfeld Brothers in 1923. There is no
Hasbro before 1923. So how can it be 164 years
is 1861 from 2025? Like, it's only 123 years
that it's been around. Like, What the hell, dude?
Get your facts straight, Chris Cox. Sorry. I'm
going to ask AI. Let's go. I mean, it's right
there on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is better than
AI anyway. I assume you're asking the AI. I am.
No, Hasbro is not 164 years old. Hasbro was founded...
Just like you said, 1923. Yeah. It does use that
Wikipedia article, but it's funny that there's
nothing to back up them being older. They're
101 years old. So like, I don't know where the
heck he's getting 64 unless they're talking about
all the companies they swallowed up and add in
their combined time. Yeah. I mean that, I mean
that could probably be it. That's probably where
he's getting it. But like just Hasbro as itself.
And okay, sure, I said 102 years old because
I was counting the whole of 2025 and I wasn't
counting the actual, like it's not December 6th
yet. Sorry. So 101, 102, it's still same damn
thing. But here's hoping they do some good things.
Here's hoping they do some interesting things
this year. I did just see the new, which I have
on pre -order for release next month from Amazon.
I saw somebody with in -hand images and in -hand
display spin -a -roonie of the Funko Pop Hot
Rod with Matrix, Cyclonus, and Omega Supreme
Funko Pops. They look really cool out of box.
That's going to be cool to get those next month
once the Amazon pre -order comes through for
me. But yeah, I'm trying to think. Other than
the fact that it's actually been 20 years since
the year is 2005, I don't think there's any major
Transformers anniversary this year. I don't think
so. No, I don't think so. I mean, if you want
to get technical and say the second year of the
brand, because 1985 was a big year with introducing
all the other characters in 1985, but that's
not technically. But yeah, no. So it's going
to be an interesting year to see what Hasbro
comes up with and what they release and what
they do. Sucks that Reactivate got canceled.
I know we talked about that a couple episodes
ago, but it sucks that that got canceled. I know.
I was still looking forward to that. Yeah. It's
going to be interesting to see what other...
Because I know part of this statement says that
they're going to go into some of the video game
stuff and they're going to go into gaming. It's
going to be interesting to see what kind of games
they do try to attempt to make. So, anything
else for you, sir? Now that I have my new 3D
printer, I've been having a blast. Yay! You know,
things actually print. I've seen so much back
and forth from people on that, and a lot of people
that have this printer, they're like, well, it
doesn't totally print right. And I'm like, what
are you doing? Because I literally took the thing
out of the box, I assembled it, I put it together,
I put the filament in. This sucker's printed
no problem. And if there's been an error, it's
because I'm an idiot. They make the software
so stupid simple. They have an advanced tab,
and then they have a stupid tab, which is the
simplified. And they made it super easy to get
the files set up for this printer. You synchronize
it. The only thing I don't love about software
is every time it times out, you have to re -log
in to remote send something to the printer. The
app is not currently set up where I can slice
the file or prepare it, is what slice means,
on my phone and have it sent to the printer wirelessly.
I can remotely look at my printer printing from
my phone. so i can check on it like if i'm upstairs
i'm like i don't want to walk downstairs and
i can check on it i wish i could shut it off
remotely yeah um but they don't they don't currently
support that i think that's coming but um but
overall i love this printer it's super easy to
use i've printed uh i've printed 54 hours worth
on it it prints 300 millimeters a second compared
to or a minute or whatever compared to my old
printer, which was 100. Yeah. So it's already
three times as fast, and I can turn on, like,
there's a sport mode, and you can turn it on,
make it go 600. Nice. I haven't done the 600
yet, because I don't exactly know how to do it.
But the 300 seems sufficient for me, and I'm
perfectly happy with it. I printed something
I'd been trying to print on my old printer before
it crapped out on me last year. and all of the
parts were super brittle when I printed them
last year. Like, super brittle. I tried printing
Beast Machines Megatron, and it was a 3D print
kit file that I bought, and the quality on it's
not too bad, actually. It comes out pretty well.
I tried to print it with my gray filament, but
because it's been sitting for so long, only it
was my first big roll of filament that i bought
uh it's gotten to the point where it's kind of
gotten brittle and old and probably needs to
be thrown out but it's still good for like basic
stuff i was thankful i got my starships printed
with it last year before it kind of got crappy
um but it um it works for some stuff i did some
of the smaller components with that color and
then i I printed the rest in like purple and
black and then I'll paint accordingly to kind
of color match to the show as best I can or just
kind of create my own amalgamation of Beast Machines
Megatron. And I have the entire figure assembled
sitting on my desk. I just have to finish painting
and I started painting it one night while I was
not feeling good. But I have the entirety of
it. It looks nice. I've got sections of it done.
I've got to finish it, and then I've got to go
back to my Dragon Megatron, which technically
I could print a half of this Beast Machines Megatron,
and I could convert my Transmetal 2 Dragon into
it. But I didn't. I had all the parts printed
pretty quick. I've spent the last couple days
printing risers and pedestals for some of my
figures on my shelf because they looked like
a mess before. Well, I had all these Star Trek
figures and I printed these smaller like hexagon
pedestals that I could combine together so that
the back row stands up a little higher than the
bottom row and they're at three different levels
and so I printed that, put with my Star Trek
figures so I could have them all on the shelf
and then my Dragon Ball Z stuff kind of blew
out of control. You couldn't see anybody's face.
It just looked horrible. So I printed this really
tall riser, and then I had this wood block that
I previously had in there for the back row, and
I put that in front of it, and then I put this
other... well for that i just kind of had all
of them in front of it but it i i organized them
by height and certain classifications so i took
a new picture of that and then my marvel stuff
um because i signed up for like i think it was
like a master collector or some or fan fan home
or something like that and i got like the iron
man head in a case and i have iron man standing
on it like and i printed these uh pedestals for
the their superhero helmets to go in. So like,
so like instead of Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man,
like you can see his face, but then in front
of him, I have like a pedestal with the helmet
mounted on it. Nice. So he doesn't have to hold
it. So I move it. He doesn't drop it. Cause that's
what was happening. And then, uh, I had printed
a larger version of the hexagon thing, which
originally I was going to use for the Dragon
Ball Z stuff. But I was like, I have way too
many characters for that to work. And so what
I did with that is I put that in front of the
Iron Man piece and my other Marvel characters
I have are the Tobey Maguire Spider -Man. So
I put him on the highest riser because he's short.
And then I put the head thing on it for his helmet.
So it's just his face. And then I have the Hugh
Jackman Wolverine next to him from the Deadpool
and Wolverine, uh, did the same thing for his
mask. And then I have, um, black widow in the
front. And then I have captain America on, on
the same side as Spidey kind of fits with, uh,
you know, in civil war where like there's the
Spider -Man captain America thing. Um, And then
I have Ant -Man in front of Wolverine. So it's
kind of like, I've got my little mini Avengers
there, like my own version of the squad. So,
yeah, I've been having fun with my printer. And
I'm looking forward to some Transformers stuff
I might try printing soon. There was a Power
Master Optimus Prime somebody had created a while
back. And I've always liked the comic. Power
Master Prime. So I might try and print that.
I used to have the real thing. That toy was trash.
My brother had it. No, it wasn't. It was not
trash. That toy was amazing. Well, it was cool
for what it could do, but it was highly inaccurate.
I would love a modern version of it. Okay, yeah,
it was... Okay, highly inaccurate to what? To
what the Season 5 Tommy thing was? No, I'm not
even talking about that show. I'm just saying
he was just a big brick. Well, yeah. That's what
I don't like about it. It's not that I hated
the figure. My brother had it. I just don't like
the big brick, solid brick figures that don't
really move. It was great for what it could do
at the time. I just like the functionality of
the modern figures. That's more so what I'm getting
at. It's not like he was G1 Megatron or Galvatron
bad. I would definitely take that Masterpiece
Prime over the other two. But yeah, that was...
That was what I was getting at with that, is,
like, I would rather own a modern interpretation
of it that's not saying, like, you know, back
in the day where I had Transmetal 2 Megatron,
you know, from Beast Wars, and where I had Transmetal
2 Megatron, and that figure was genuinely decent
for what it was, was it... very accurate no but
it was a fun toy yeah um i like the legacy one
i just hated the head which i replaced but i
also have a way to replace the face if i don't
like this one at any given point i actually had
an extra printed beast machines megatron helmet
that covers the head and i was like i wonder
if this will fit legacy prime or megatron and
i put it on his head and i'm like Now he just
looks freaky on the shelf like he's looking at
me. It's a dragon body and he's got that menacing
helmet on his head. He just looks evil. I did
print you some Transformers stuff. Yes, you did.
Which you will be getting soon. So much? I'm
sure you'll be posting about those once you get
them. Yeah, absolutely. He's 88. Oh, man, we
are a couple of years away from the 40th anniversary
of Power Master Optimus Prime. Now I'm looking
at him on TFWiki right now. He still looks like
he doesn't look that much. OK, the only bricky
thing that he. Here, look at this. Hold on. Oh,
yeah, I'll pull him up to you. I already got
it. I already got it. I already got it. There
you go. Right there. Boom. There you go. Power
Master Optimus. Come on, load. Open, damn it,
open. Where'd you post it? In Discord. In the
chat there. If not there, I can put it in Facebook.
A new Optimus Prime is here. I'll transform Optimus.
Power Master Optimus Prime. Greatest leader of
his time. It's great to be back. Now Optimus
Prime is back as a Power Master. He only transforms
when his Nebulon becomes his engine. Power Master
Optimus Prime. Look, Optimus is transforming
into a super robot. Power Master Transformers.
They've got the power to survive. Put it in two
places. Ah, I found it. He's not that much of
a brick. It's the legs. And he just looks blocky.
Okay, yeah, he looks blocky. The only brick thing
I see on him is honestly the giant cab sitting
that makes up his chest in the giant robot form.
The actual truck form... The biggest problem
I had with this toy was how skimpy and shrimpy
the cab form is. Because the point of this is
the base... And it's also the big bot power master
everything with the giant head and the giant
guns. The whole point is the truck mode, the
base mode, and the bot mode. Like the little
Haikyuu, I think. His little target master there.
Okay, sure, fine. And his little truck version
mode. Eh, it is what it is. But, like, I loved
this thing for the overall truck mode, the base
mode, and the big bot mode. Oh, man, I don't
even want to look at eBay to see what one of
these things complete goes for these days. I
bet it's like $200, $300, $400. Yeah, I still
love that thing, though. It still looks great.
Just looking at this picture again, it still
fucking looks great. And they created it. Wasn't
it a new one for Power Master or the Power of
the Primes? I think? Maybe? I'm not sure. I'm
pretty sure it was that line. It could have.
I'm pretty sure it was. Yeah, they did. I'm going
to have a lot of editing to do with this episode.
Yay, folks! Behind the scenes of us looking for
shit that we can't find. Transformers Retro Synergy.
What the hell? Synergex? When the... Zoids and
Diaclone? Don't swap the cons. Mixed Mashers.
Where is the timeline? It was Titans Return.
Oh, Titans Return. Unite Warriors. Where the
hell is Titans Return? Beast Wars. Titanium Series.
Classics. I did. Seriously? I sent it in the
Discord. Okay, good. Up here. Where'd you send
it? In the Discord chat. No, you didn't. Yes,
I did. No, it's Facebook. Sorry. Oh. Oh, wow.
That's... No. Ew. The colors are still bad. Yeah,
the colors are still bad, and the... Oh, no.
Okay, you better end this podcast before I throw
up. It's not that bad. Oh, God, it's horrible.
No, it's not. I'll take 1988 over this any day.
I'm more looking forward to seeing the Power
Master one that they're doing a masterpiece of.
I hope that they do it justice. Because just
looking at the one that they've created, like
this is the Nucleon Black Prime. That I see in
the same window. Because I can't find a photo
of the other Prime. Okay. Nucleon? Well, it's
coming directly from Hasbro, so... Yeah, that's
true. Directly from Hasbro this year, or at some
point, whenever. Oh, now see, that's badass!
Yeah, that's... I want that. What's that releasing?
That's a pre -order right now. $264. Holy shit.
He's articulated. He's got knees, elbows, waist.
Yeah? Damn. yeah he's got the base mode like
it's okay that's what i look for when i look
for like a modern figure like yes the titans
return the power of the prime stuff was monstrously
trash but yes very much um outside of like the
optimal optimist that they came out with but
um but no like yeah this this setup of their
their super convoy You know, Power Master Prime
looks very nice. So they already did do a modern
version of the original. Yeah, I just can't find
it. No, no, no, but this is essentially it, except
this is a different repaint. This is the neon
Nuxilon whatever the hell. So they technically
have already done it. Yes. Well, technically
he's Super Jinrai. Fine, whatever. Yeah, they
gave him the Japanese name. That's fine. It is
what it is. But I'm saying that they technically
have already taken 1988 and updated it. Yes.
This is the exact, pretty much. Wow. That's,
yeah, damn. Show Z has it. Of course they do.
Show Z has it. Yeah, so you can see the full.
Mm -hmm. Yep. Now this. This, I would get my
hands on. If I could afford it, I would buy it.
It honors the original and it gives it that new
hotness. What you're saying is I like the old
and busted more. What, you? Yeah, me. I don't
know. I like the modern interpretation. I mean,
I get it. Of the masterpiece, not the Titans
Return. Oh, no. No, this is... Oh, wow. Oh, my
God. Yeah, this is... Holy crap. They... How
did they do that? Modern engineering? How the...
What? Who the... How did they do that? What,
make him look good? Well, there's that, but...
No, not that image. This one. They actually made
the cab version of... How did they make him look
that damn good? I know, that's hard to believe,
isn't it? Like, I literally want to go spend
money I don't even have. Like, how did they do
that? My God. Oh my God. Okay. All right. Magic
of photography. No, no, it's no, but it actually
has to fit or it wouldn't be there, but it's
just, it's just funny. Nonetheless. No, no, no.
But I'm saying like, look at the original cab,
the original, because that's the cab former.
It turns into the cab piece that fits into his
chest. This is a fully articulated robot. Okay?
Now, if you look at the original cab, he looks,
he doesn't, like, and I get it, it's 1988 versus
modern. I understand that. But that old cab robot
mode is just, like... It was just a, it was like,
please just put him inside the Power Master suit.
Yeah! It was like nothing. It was piddly as shit.
Yeah, I remember my brother having it, and I
was like, this is the stupidest Prime. I was
like, just fold him up and... Kevin. Yeah, of
course. I think he still has it, but I was like,
yeah, just fold up that Prime and throw him inside
the casing, because the rest of him sucks. Like,
he's gotta be inside the armor. Like I said,
1988 Power Master Optimus Prime, the original.
The three reasons why you want that toy. The
truck mode, the base mode, just for the base
to use for your other bots, and the full -on
big bot robot mode. Oh yeah, totally. You don't
even want it for the cab robot version. But man,
this new one, holy crap. Oh god. Wow. Damn. I
mean, even Alpha Q is articulated. Yeah. Wow.
He's shiny, too. Yeah, he's shiny. I looked at
this when it came out. I was like, oh. I bet
you did. Damn. Damn. Why are you going to taunt
us, Josie? Seriously, why are you going to taunt
us? Ow, my heart. My arm. Ow. I feel a sharp
pain. You better end this podcast before... So,
before Mike dies, thank you all for listening
to All Things Transformers. I've been your host,
Steve Megatron, with TFG and Mike. You can, of
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time, Transform! And roll out. Yes. I wish to
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