WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.660 Me Grimlock not podcaster, me Grimlock King! 00:00:04.040 --> 00:00:06.540 Hey everybody, this is Dan Gilbazan, voice of 00:00:06.540 --> 00:00:09.179 G1 Bumblebee, and you're listening to All Things 00:00:09.179 --> 00:00:37.229 Transformers! All right, so this will be episode 00:00:37.229 --> 00:00:41.710 442. All Things Transformers is the answer to 00:00:41.710 --> 00:00:45.810 everything. That is affirmative. Hello and welcome 00:00:45.810 --> 00:00:49.210 to All Things Transformers. I'm your host, Steve 00:00:49.210 --> 00:00:51.130 Megatron, and joining me on this adventure into 00:00:51.130 --> 00:00:54.350 the Transformers fandom is TFG1 Mike. Hello, 00:00:54.429 --> 00:00:58.109 how are you? Oh, it could be better. This is 00:00:58.109 --> 00:01:00.429 the first podcast I've done in a couple weeks 00:01:00.429 --> 00:01:04.920 because I'm sick as a dog. Yeah. I've been sick 00:01:04.920 --> 00:01:11.420 as a dog since Halloween of last year. Off and 00:01:11.420 --> 00:01:15.180 on, off and on. Mostly on. I don't understand 00:01:15.180 --> 00:01:20.280 it. It's just a thing. We are here. We are no 00:01:20.280 --> 00:01:23.000 longer waiting. I forgot that we actually did 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:26.189 an episode. Of this podcast this year already. 00:01:26.609 --> 00:01:28.510 Because I went back. Because I had to go back 00:01:28.510 --> 00:01:30.409 to make sure I had the numbering right. Because 00:01:30.409 --> 00:01:32.469 I want to make sure we keep the numbering right. 00:01:32.569 --> 00:01:35.250 Because we're on our way to 500 episodes. Of 00:01:35.250 --> 00:01:38.950 this podcast. And I was like. Oh right. We already 00:01:38.950 --> 00:01:41.930 did episode 441. Whoops. Time to change that. 00:01:44.590 --> 00:01:47.849 So yeah. This is episode 442. This is going to 00:01:47.849 --> 00:01:54.689 be a. Short. News episode. Because. they're really 00:01:54.689 --> 00:01:59.189 there's news but there's not like look folks 00:01:59.189 --> 00:02:05.890 we've been doing this for 16 17 2000 years 2005 00:02:05.890 --> 00:02:09.689 years i don't know the year was 2005 i don't 00:02:09.689 --> 00:02:11.210 know we've been doing this a long ass fucking 00:02:11.210 --> 00:02:15.669 time and oh boy that's gonna really help with 00:02:15.669 --> 00:02:19.819 the youtube sensors whoops But it's one of those 00:02:19.819 --> 00:02:22.000 things where we've been doing this a long time, 00:02:22.159 --> 00:02:28.360 and we use TFW as the main source because we 00:02:28.360 --> 00:02:30.400 just have been using them as the main source 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:33.800 because they're the easiest source to use. And 00:02:33.800 --> 00:02:41.180 half of their quote -unquote news is boy listings 00:02:41.180 --> 00:02:45.460 that don't have pictures. It's a nothing burger. 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:50.740 Yeah, it's a nothing burger. It's a nothing but 00:02:50.740 --> 00:02:55.819 burger. Burger bot. I sometimes use Cybertron 00:02:55.819 --> 00:03:00.719 and T -Formers. Yeah, I like using T -Formers. 00:03:01.520 --> 00:03:04.000 I've tried using all spark. I've tried using 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:07.979 Cybertron and I T formers is probably the one 00:03:07.979 --> 00:03:11.000 I would use the most out of all of the other 00:03:11.000 --> 00:03:13.280 ones. If I know, I agree with you. They seem 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:15.319 to keep more up to date, but they're like, they've 00:03:15.319 --> 00:03:20.060 got that. Yeah. That you news international type 00:03:20.060 --> 00:03:22.560 thing or whatever it is. It, I don't know. They 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:27.560 just seem more in tune with it than the others. 00:03:28.120 --> 00:03:33.800 Yeah. So, I crawled through about three pages 00:03:33.800 --> 00:03:38.539 of TFW stuff. And out of three pages, I found 00:03:38.539 --> 00:03:43.860 five things. One of them is very depressing because 00:03:43.860 --> 00:03:47.020 it's a death in the Transformers community. And 00:03:47.020 --> 00:03:49.020 that's the first thing we will talk about here 00:03:49.020 --> 00:03:52.240 in a moment. Just to get it, not to get it out 00:03:52.240 --> 00:03:55.960 of the way, but to get the sadness, you know. 00:03:56.039 --> 00:03:59.969 To bring light to it. Yeah, exactly. Uh, and 00:03:59.969 --> 00:04:02.370 I will edit this episode as fast as I possibly 00:04:02.370 --> 00:04:05.750 can to make sure we don't have, uh, you know, 00:04:05.750 --> 00:04:09.870 this news beat so far in the future kind of thing 00:04:09.870 --> 00:04:12.189 where it's already too far back in the past. 00:04:12.210 --> 00:04:15.550 Cause you know, those seeds, you can't bury them. 00:04:16.129 --> 00:04:21.850 No. Um, but, uh, so we got that and then we got, 00:04:21.930 --> 00:04:27.790 uh, four other stories. And my thought was, Oh, 00:04:28.319 --> 00:04:31.459 Let's do a less is more thing. Two of them are 00:04:31.459 --> 00:04:33.660 comic solicitations, which one of them really 00:04:33.660 --> 00:04:36.160 isn't even a comic solicitation, because getting 00:04:36.160 --> 00:04:39.740 comic solicitations from TFW is kinda silly, 00:04:39.899 --> 00:04:42.399 I guess. It kinda ties in, but whatever, anyway. 00:04:42.779 --> 00:04:45.819 And then the one that's kinda more interesting, 00:04:45.959 --> 00:04:48.199 that's kinda gonna spark, I think, a little bit 00:04:48.199 --> 00:04:51.060 of discussion is the Hasbro unveiling the new 00:04:51.060 --> 00:04:59.610 strategy, Playing to Win. Oh boy. So that's what's 00:04:59.610 --> 00:05:02.970 going on in this episode. And unfortunately, 00:05:03.230 --> 00:05:09.750 folks, starting off on the sad note here, Transformers 00:05:09.750 --> 00:05:13.970 writer and producer Roberto Orsi has passed away. 00:05:14.970 --> 00:05:19.310 From the TFW article here, posted February 25th, 00:05:19.310 --> 00:05:23.209 2025, we unfortunately have some sad news tonight. 00:05:23.310 --> 00:05:26.269 It has been reported by Deadline that Transformers 00:05:26.269 --> 00:05:29.129 writer and producer Roberto Orsi has passed away. 00:05:30.290 --> 00:05:33.790 Roberto Bob Gaston Orsi, a writer and producer 00:05:33.790 --> 00:05:36.569 who worked on some of the biggest action -adventure, 00:05:36.629 --> 00:05:39.310 sci -fi movies and television shows from the 00:05:39.310 --> 00:05:42.420 first two decades of the century, died at his 00:05:42.420 --> 00:05:45.300 home in Los Angeles today, February 25th, after 00:05:45.300 --> 00:05:49.339 a battle with kidney disease. He was 51. Orsi 00:05:49.339 --> 00:05:51.860 worked on both Transformers and Revenge of the 00:05:51.860 --> 00:05:55.579 Fallen films as a writer, while producing Transformers 00:05:55.579 --> 00:05:58.600 Prime TV series. He also worked on Star Trek 00:05:58.600 --> 00:06:06.069 2009 with Alex Kurtzman. I mean... If you've 00:06:06.069 --> 00:06:08.149 listened to this podcast for any time length, 00:06:08.290 --> 00:06:11.509 folks, you've heard Steve and I talk about Kurtzman 00:06:11.509 --> 00:06:17.290 and Orsi and Kurtzman. We've intentionally or 00:06:17.290 --> 00:06:19.129 unintentionally mixed up their names all the 00:06:19.129 --> 00:06:23.810 time because in the past, not now, not today, 00:06:23.889 --> 00:06:25.870 not in this episode, but in the past, we've made 00:06:25.870 --> 00:06:30.189 fun of them. Well, I didn't per se make fun of 00:06:30.189 --> 00:06:35.779 Orsi. It was Kurtzman that I haven't. distaste 00:06:35.779 --> 00:06:38.680 for yeah and i still have a distaste for kurtzman 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:40.920 but at least he's getting the heck out of the 00:06:40.920 --> 00:06:44.139 way in regards to letting people that actually 00:06:44.139 --> 00:06:47.939 know what they're doing produce track yep but 00:06:47.939 --> 00:06:51.819 yeah it's i mean not that orsi has done much 00:06:51.819 --> 00:06:55.079 of anything that's recognizable or you really 00:06:55.079 --> 00:06:57.120 haven't heard his name since he parted ways with 00:06:57.120 --> 00:07:02.899 kurtzman yeah And maybe this, who knows how long 00:07:02.899 --> 00:07:05.180 he's been suffering with the kidney disease. 00:07:05.300 --> 00:07:10.459 Maybe it's just been, you know, a slow battle. 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:14.300 And unfortunately, you know, it got him and it 00:07:14.300 --> 00:07:19.600 sucks. It just sucks all around. May the man 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:23.300 rest in peace. Transformers Prime was awesome. 00:07:23.819 --> 00:07:32.370 Love that show. You know wreckers don't call 00:07:32.370 --> 00:07:38.810 for backup. They call for cleanup. So, I thought 00:07:38.810 --> 00:07:42.050 Toy Fair already happened, but apparently Toy 00:07:42.050 --> 00:07:46.709 Fair hasn't happened yet this year. No, I concur. 00:07:47.149 --> 00:07:50.810 Man, it's February. I feel like 2025 is like 00:07:50.810 --> 00:08:00.920 halfway over. I don't know. December? In January, 00:08:01.180 --> 00:08:04.139 we're like some of the, December of 24, January 00:08:04.139 --> 00:08:10.339 of 25, some of the longest months. And February 00:08:10.339 --> 00:08:14.480 is coming up with a close second here. But apparently, 00:08:14.959 --> 00:08:20.360 I'm going to be getting a Transformers Cyberworld 00:08:20.360 --> 00:08:26.480 YouTube series and toy line this July. In July, 00:08:27.000 --> 00:08:32.970 peas grow there. Just basic, generic information 00:08:32.970 --> 00:08:36.750 at this time. Ahead of the New York Toy Fair 00:08:36.750 --> 00:08:42.429 2025, CFW 2005 has received reliable word that 00:08:42.429 --> 00:08:46.090 Transformers Cyberworld YouTube series and its 00:08:46.090 --> 00:08:49.750 toy line is set to release this July. While specific 00:08:49.750 --> 00:08:52.750 date is not mentioned at the moment, Hasbro is 00:08:52.750 --> 00:08:55.169 said to make an official announcement really 00:08:55.169 --> 00:09:02.049 soon. See, folks, this is why we cut back on 00:09:02.049 --> 00:09:06.710 news episodes. Because this is... It boils down 00:09:06.710 --> 00:09:10.690 to we, in the end, don't really care. I mean, 00:09:10.730 --> 00:09:13.110 I'm curious. I'm very curious. I'm curious what 00:09:13.110 --> 00:09:16.730 they're going to do, but in the grand scheme, 00:09:17.049 --> 00:09:25.750 I don't... I don't... I don't know. This is what 00:09:25.750 --> 00:09:31.289 I'm saying. Like, for us, when we do, when I 00:09:31.289 --> 00:09:34.909 would do press releases for IDW, IDW sends me 00:09:34.909 --> 00:09:39.590 a full, like, when I did the, as of this recording, 00:09:39.750 --> 00:09:44.490 Joe Reed and I just recorded the TMNT Reborn 00:09:44.490 --> 00:09:48.169 Volume 5, Mystic Sister, which includes, it's 00:09:48.169 --> 00:09:51.250 the story arc about when they reintroduced Venus 00:09:51.250 --> 00:09:55.539 into the Turtles book. I remember when that press 00:09:55.539 --> 00:09:58.200 release came in my email, when they were going 00:09:58.200 --> 00:10:01.320 to reintroduce Venus, when the, after 24 years, 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:04.039 they were going to bring Venus back into the 00:10:04.039 --> 00:10:06.600 TMNT fold and they were going to do this whole 00:10:06.600 --> 00:10:10.159 new storyline. And actually the greatest thing 00:10:10.159 --> 00:10:12.039 about the, and I know this is transformers and 00:10:12.039 --> 00:10:15.610 not turtles, but the point is, is that. IEW takes 00:10:15.610 --> 00:10:19.509 care of the Turtles characters. They give shots 00:10:19.509 --> 00:10:21.809 to characters that may not have gotten a shot 00:10:21.809 --> 00:10:24.049 or may not have gotten a chance in the past kind 00:10:24.049 --> 00:10:27.570 of thing. And I remember getting that press release 00:10:27.570 --> 00:10:30.870 and it gave detail by detail by detail. She's 00:10:30.870 --> 00:10:33.250 going to do this, this, and this, and she's going 00:10:33.250 --> 00:10:37.870 to start appearing here. And it was a full press 00:10:37.870 --> 00:10:41.870 release. Like, this technically, okay, it's not... 00:10:42.110 --> 00:10:46.029 This news story here that they have on TFW 2005, 00:10:46.289 --> 00:10:49.590 it's not technically a rumor, but it almost could 00:10:49.590 --> 00:10:55.929 be considered a rumor. You shouldn't put news 00:10:55.929 --> 00:10:58.549 out there unless you absolutely have all the 00:10:58.549 --> 00:11:03.769 information. End of story. Well, I'm looking 00:11:03.769 --> 00:11:06.330 forward to seeing some of the figures for this 00:11:06.330 --> 00:11:13.019 new Cyberworld YouTube series and toy line. In 00:11:13.019 --> 00:11:16.320 any case, just from the promotional photo, Bumblebee 00:11:16.320 --> 00:11:18.500 looks interesting. Prime looks pretty similar 00:11:18.500 --> 00:11:22.500 but interesting. Almost with a G2 aesthetic. 00:11:22.700 --> 00:11:27.039 Like a hero Optimus Prime. Grimlock looks interesting. 00:11:27.480 --> 00:11:30.620 And then you get what looks like a Megatron with 00:11:30.620 --> 00:11:35.820 a bull transformation. Like the face looks like 00:11:35.820 --> 00:11:45.179 a Megatron. Yeah. At first... I'm glad you said 00:11:45.179 --> 00:11:48.000 Megatron before I said Unicron, because at first 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:51.539 I thought it was friggin' Unicron. Well, the 00:11:51.539 --> 00:11:53.700 face in the helmet looks like Megatron with the 00:11:53.700 --> 00:11:55.799 horns on it, so it could be like a Galvatron. 00:11:56.500 --> 00:12:00.500 Oh, God. Yeah, you're not wrong. It could be 00:12:00.500 --> 00:12:07.000 Horneatron. Oh, boy. I mean, you never know. 00:12:07.480 --> 00:12:16.159 You never know. So, yes, coming in May of 2025, 00:12:16.399 --> 00:12:21.299 we have the Skybound Void Rivals solicitations 00:12:21.299 --> 00:12:24.620 for Void Rivals issue number 19. The reason why 00:12:24.620 --> 00:12:28.659 I'm not saying Transformers is because Void Rivals 00:12:28.659 --> 00:12:31.460 is not a Transformers book. Void Rivals is an 00:12:31.460 --> 00:12:33.879 Energon Universe book from Skybound Entertainment 00:12:33.879 --> 00:12:36.919 and Image Comics. There are Transformers characters 00:12:36.919 --> 00:12:41.399 that appear in Void Rivals. but it is not a specific 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:47.259 Transformers book. However, TFW 2005 has the 00:12:47.259 --> 00:12:50.059 article listed as Skybound Transformers comic 00:12:50.059 --> 00:12:53.919 solicitations May 2025. And I sat here thinking, 00:12:54.139 --> 00:12:57.200 oh, okay, so we're going to get both the Void 00:12:57.200 --> 00:13:01.379 Rivals issue and the Transformers issue. No, 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:03.759 it's just the Void Rivals issue. And I'm sitting 00:13:03.759 --> 00:13:07.799 here thinking, why wouldn't you just say it's 00:13:07.799 --> 00:13:14.240 the Void Rivals? Y 'all need better people at 00:13:14.240 --> 00:13:16.840 writing your news stories. Sorry, not sorry. 00:13:17.019 --> 00:13:20.840 Anyway, Void Rivals issue number 19 arrives in 00:13:20.840 --> 00:13:23.860 May, jump -starting the third story arc of the 00:13:23.860 --> 00:13:26.399 space opera. Void Rivals number 19 serves as 00:13:26.399 --> 00:13:29.559 a... Okay, and I talked to Jesse about this, 00:13:29.559 --> 00:13:32.200 Matrix Prime, on his show, another comic review. 00:13:32.440 --> 00:13:36.009 This is the stupidest, and this is not... I cannot 00:13:36.009 --> 00:13:39.730 blame the TFW person writing this. This is copy 00:13:39.730 --> 00:13:43.669 that was sent to them from... This is Skybound's 00:13:43.669 --> 00:13:47.549 fault. This is Image Comics' fault. Jumpstarting... 00:13:47.549 --> 00:13:50.970 Just listen to the words that are coming out 00:13:50.970 --> 00:13:55.190 of my mouth. Jumpstarting the third story arc... 00:13:55.190 --> 00:13:59.029 Pause for dramatic effect. Of the space opera 00:13:59.029 --> 00:14:04.940 Void Rivals, number 19 serves as a... Stand -alone! 00:14:05.320 --> 00:14:08.820 Pause for dramatic effect. So we have story arc, 00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:14.659 third story arc, stand -alone, scuxoid epic. 00:14:15.899 --> 00:14:21.440 So... So those are those annoying creatures in 00:14:21.440 --> 00:14:24.980 Season 3 of G1 that tried to kill Rodimus Prime. 00:14:25.320 --> 00:14:29.840 Yes, okay, yes, but you haven't read Void Rivals 00:14:29.840 --> 00:14:32.779 yet. I've... tried to convince you, and I know 00:14:32.779 --> 00:14:34.840 you will at some point as I get to the books. 00:14:34.919 --> 00:14:37.620 My thing about it is, I hate universe mixing. 00:14:38.080 --> 00:14:42.960 I know. I know you do. Just give me Transformers 00:14:42.960 --> 00:14:46.580 proper and just leave it alone. Okay, they're 00:14:46.580 --> 00:14:49.980 doing that, but they're also doing Energon universe. 00:14:50.120 --> 00:14:53.480 It's this whole thing. I hate the universal stuff. 00:14:54.320 --> 00:14:57.299 That's why I loved the Beast Wars comic so much. 00:14:57.440 --> 00:15:04.000 It was a standalone. So, but I'm telling you, 00:15:04.019 --> 00:15:08.600 man, it's not bad because Void Rival. Let me 00:15:08.600 --> 00:15:11.899 just finish this. I just don't like the way that 00:15:11.899 --> 00:15:15.240 Skybound and Image wrote this out because it's 00:15:15.240 --> 00:15:19.860 the wrong way to advertise that your third story 00:15:19.860 --> 00:15:23.460 arc starts with a standalone. They're doing really 00:15:23.460 --> 00:15:26.279 weird things with it. If they were going to do 00:15:26.279 --> 00:15:29.000 this, they should have said starting. They should 00:15:29.000 --> 00:15:31.080 have just if this was just a standalone epic. 00:15:31.710 --> 00:15:39.350 Yep. They, I mean, why call it, I mean, Marvel 00:15:39.350 --> 00:15:41.950 did this crap all the time. Yeah. I mean, as 00:15:41.950 --> 00:15:45.149 we remember when we reviewed parts of it. Yeah. 00:15:45.289 --> 00:15:48.970 They would jump stories all the time. Yeah. The 00:15:48.970 --> 00:15:50.970 third story arc should have started in issue 00:15:50.970 --> 00:15:54.070 20. This should just be a standalone by itself. 00:15:54.370 --> 00:15:57.389 Well, this could have easily have been a, like 00:15:57.389 --> 00:16:01.460 one of those annuals. Yep. Like a double -thick 00:16:01.460 --> 00:16:05.279 annual that just covered it, boom, done, move 00:16:05.279 --> 00:16:11.460 on. So, to continue, the breakout fan favorite 00:16:11.460 --> 00:16:13.899 of the Energon universe takes center stage. Who 00:16:13.899 --> 00:16:17.159 is Skuxoid? What is Skuxoid? This issue answers 00:16:17.159 --> 00:16:19.759 all of your burning questions and more, plus 00:16:19.759 --> 00:16:23.139 the first appearance of Wreckgar and the Junkions. 00:16:24.750 --> 00:16:29.009 Okay, so I will defend Void Rivals to you. I 00:16:29.009 --> 00:16:31.669 understand you don't like universe mixing, but 00:16:31.669 --> 00:16:37.529 here's the thing. It is its own story. It has 00:16:37.529 --> 00:16:41.590 developed its own original, unique characters 00:16:41.590 --> 00:16:45.809 in the Zertonians and the Angorians. Those are 00:16:45.809 --> 00:16:48.450 the two races that are fighting over the Sacred 00:16:48.450 --> 00:16:52.799 Ring. However, there are Transformers characters 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:57.639 that show up throughout, briefly throughout the 00:16:57.639 --> 00:17:01.519 thing. It's a nice little taste tester for those 00:17:01.519 --> 00:17:06.180 that may... I think of it as, like, you have 00:17:06.180 --> 00:17:09.059 the Transformers book that's the main book that's 00:17:09.059 --> 00:17:11.759 on Earth that Daniel Warren Johnson is writing, 00:17:11.859 --> 00:17:14.700 and this is the Transformers out in space kind 00:17:14.700 --> 00:17:19.220 of thing. I think you'd like it. But I understand. 00:17:19.740 --> 00:17:22.680 It's just, it is what it is. So that's coming 00:17:22.680 --> 00:17:27.599 in May. The issue 19 for Void Rivals will hit 00:17:27.599 --> 00:17:33.180 comic book shops May 28, 2025. And then here 00:17:33.180 --> 00:17:37.519 we go. Transformers number 20 is scheduled for 00:17:37.519 --> 00:17:43.359 May 14. What's next for Optimus Prime? The Autobots 00:17:43.359 --> 00:17:46.599 revive a group of allies who can change the tide 00:17:46.599 --> 00:17:49.920 of their war with the Decepticons, but they don't 00:17:49.920 --> 00:17:53.859 know who or what is coming for them. This issue 00:17:53.859 --> 00:17:57.420 features key first appearances of fan -favorite 00:17:57.420 --> 00:18:00.339 characters from the worlds of Transformers and 00:18:00.339 --> 00:18:06.000 G .I. Joe. It looks like Megatron comes back, 00:18:06.059 --> 00:18:09.809 too, with one arm. Yeah, well, that's the whole 00:18:09.809 --> 00:18:13.750 thing. Yeah, that's the whole thing. I'm guessing 00:18:13.750 --> 00:18:16.529 Prime won't get his own arm back. Hopefully. 00:18:20.329 --> 00:18:25.990 Hopefully. But yeah, so that's the comics. There 00:18:25.990 --> 00:18:29.369 will be no war today, Optimus Prime. You have 00:18:29.369 --> 00:18:33.849 earned Galvatron's respect. The wisdom of the 00:18:33.849 --> 00:18:39.000 ages, it's lost. No. not lost. We're all a little 00:18:39.000 --> 00:18:43.039 wiser now. But the Matrix is empty. It's up to 00:18:43.039 --> 00:18:46.500 all of us to fill it again. With the wisdom we 00:18:46.500 --> 00:18:50.920 accumulate from this moment on, Autobots, transform 00:18:50.920 --> 00:18:59.440 and roll out! And the final story here is something 00:18:59.440 --> 00:19:02.170 that was... published this year, but it's about 00:19:02.170 --> 00:19:05.890 a story from last year. So Hasbro unveils new 00:19:05.890 --> 00:19:10.750 strategy, playing to win. So this is a story 00:19:10.750 --> 00:19:14.849 about their fourth quarter and 2024 full year 00:19:14.849 --> 00:19:18.630 financial call. I know everyone just tuned out 00:19:18.630 --> 00:19:21.089 of this entire podcast, but trust me, folks, 00:19:21.269 --> 00:19:24.650 this is going to be a thing that we need to talk 00:19:24.650 --> 00:19:28.509 about. Yeah, because it boils down to CEO Chris 00:19:28.509 --> 00:19:32.049 Cox basically changing Hasbro's entire strategy 00:19:32.049 --> 00:19:36.369 from basically producing everything to outsourcing. 00:19:36.509 --> 00:19:39.029 And so he's he's playing into the fact that they 00:19:39.029 --> 00:19:40.930 have all these licenses, they have all these 00:19:40.930 --> 00:19:44.509 franchises, and he's going to leverage them in 00:19:44.509 --> 00:19:48.789 games and licensing them out like Magic the Gathering, 00:19:48.789 --> 00:19:50.869 Monopoly, Dungeons and Dragons. Like there's 00:19:50.869 --> 00:19:53.650 going to be a. I actually watched the Dungeons 00:19:53.650 --> 00:19:57.430 and Dragons movie with Chris Pine. Yeah. Not 00:19:57.430 --> 00:20:02.410 bad. I watched it and I've never played Dungeons 00:20:02.410 --> 00:20:05.349 and Dragons, but it honestly was very fun and 00:20:05.349 --> 00:20:08.569 interesting and I enjoyed it. I did not expect 00:20:08.569 --> 00:20:12.410 to enjoy it. And I went in with very low expectations 00:20:12.410 --> 00:20:16.589 and I was like, I would watch a sequel with the 00:20:16.589 --> 00:20:19.849 same cast. Yeah. Like they played it very well. 00:20:20.319 --> 00:20:22.579 and played off each other well. And Chris Pine 00:20:22.579 --> 00:20:24.779 was great, especially for somebody that knows 00:20:24.779 --> 00:20:27.779 nothing about it. It got me interested. Yeah. 00:20:28.180 --> 00:20:32.339 But they basically unveiled this new strategic 00:20:32.339 --> 00:20:35.000 plan that will take them through 2027, kind of 00:20:35.000 --> 00:20:37.579 focusing on, you know, building its audience 00:20:37.579 --> 00:20:44.839 and fueling play with, you know, engagement partnerships, 00:20:45.079 --> 00:20:49.799 marginal, you know, improvements in profit. and 00:20:49.799 --> 00:20:53.539 a lot of cost savings. So they're going to exit 00:20:53.539 --> 00:20:56.299 the non -core businesses. Obviously, they sold 00:20:56.299 --> 00:20:59.339 E1 Entertainment, and they're investing in digital 00:20:59.339 --> 00:21:02.319 gaming, collaborations, and brand expansions 00:21:02.319 --> 00:21:04.740 into things like themed hotels, cruise ships, 00:21:05.000 --> 00:21:09.339 quick service restaurants, which, I mean, if 00:21:09.339 --> 00:21:11.299 they're licensing it, that's one thing, but I 00:21:11.299 --> 00:21:16.470 don't believe that's a great option. But they're 00:21:16.470 --> 00:21:18.829 modernizing their operations supply chain and 00:21:18.829 --> 00:21:22.430 using AI -driven enhancements to fuel innovation. 00:21:23.390 --> 00:21:26.569 I wonder what the AI part of it's concerning. 00:21:26.930 --> 00:21:30.289 I wonder if it's just business operations because 00:21:30.289 --> 00:21:33.109 a lot of companies do this. I just hope it's 00:21:33.109 --> 00:21:40.430 not in replacing employees. Artistic part. I 00:21:40.430 --> 00:21:43.390 feel like statistically in helping manage some 00:21:43.390 --> 00:21:47.019 of the data, and you know finding where they 00:21:47.019 --> 00:21:49.799 need to cut using the ai because i mean we do 00:21:49.799 --> 00:21:53.740 that even that's it's it's kind of a a normal 00:21:53.740 --> 00:21:56.440 thing that that people do it's it's to enhance 00:21:56.440 --> 00:22:01.119 the where do i look you know kind of kind of 00:22:01.119 --> 00:22:05.660 areas so they're they're kind of looking to adjust 00:22:05.660 --> 00:22:08.039 their their debt that they kind of accumulated 00:22:08.039 --> 00:22:14.849 by overproducing during covid and So he's obviously 00:22:14.849 --> 00:22:17.410 placating to the fact that, you know, play is 00:22:17.410 --> 00:22:21.210 a universal human need and strong basis for business 00:22:21.210 --> 00:22:24.349 that has purpose to endure. And, you know, I 00:22:24.349 --> 00:22:26.410 didn't know Hasbro has been around 164 years, 00:22:26.529 --> 00:22:30.589 but it's interesting nonetheless. He's basically 00:22:30.589 --> 00:22:32.210 saying, you know, they're saying that the play 00:22:32.210 --> 00:22:35.230 to win focuses our teams on Hasbro's core strengths 00:22:35.230 --> 00:22:36.930 while continuing to transform the organization. 00:22:38.029 --> 00:22:41.049 and drive operational excellence with the strategy 00:22:41.049 --> 00:22:43.009 they expect to emerge as one of the most profitable 00:22:43.009 --> 00:22:45.589 toy and game companies globally, powered by a 00:22:45.589 --> 00:22:47.970 phenomenal set of diverse and multi -generational 00:22:47.970 --> 00:22:52.230 franchises. So they're doing this return to growth 00:22:52.230 --> 00:22:56.950 with it by kind of pivoting on everything. I 00:22:56.950 --> 00:22:59.130 mean, I'm excited to see what comes out of the 00:22:59.130 --> 00:23:01.630 Power Rangers stuff with Playmates that they've 00:23:01.630 --> 00:23:06.569 licensed to them. I'm not super... I'm glad that 00:23:06.569 --> 00:23:09.029 they dumped the E1 Entertainment because that 00:23:09.029 --> 00:23:13.809 dumped $600 million of cost that they honestly 00:23:13.809 --> 00:23:19.210 didn't need in the first place. And then they're 00:23:19.210 --> 00:23:24.890 basically having a more diversified palette of 00:23:24.890 --> 00:23:30.109 where they're being at, focusing on the profitable 00:23:30.109 --> 00:23:34.819 franchises. Aging up, which includes increasing 00:23:34.819 --> 00:23:37.299 the play and collectible appeal for fans age 00:23:37.299 --> 00:23:40.480 13 and above, because obviously kids below 13 00:23:40.480 --> 00:23:45.500 don't give a rip. I've looked at all of the toy 00:23:45.500 --> 00:23:48.539 stores. I have literally gone to every Walmart 00:23:48.539 --> 00:23:54.019 and Target and all the different stores that 00:23:54.019 --> 00:23:57.440 have toys around here. The Hasbro stuff is all 00:23:57.440 --> 00:24:01.390 on clearance. They're dumping it. Like it's, 00:24:01.390 --> 00:24:04.470 it's none of it's selling. Like the, the DC stuff 00:24:04.470 --> 00:24:07.250 is selling or not selling. Like all, almost all 00:24:07.250 --> 00:24:09.210 the toy aisle with the action figure stuff is 00:24:09.210 --> 00:24:11.950 on clearance everywhere around me. Uh, cause 00:24:11.950 --> 00:24:13.990 I've, I've toyed with it. I'm like, Oh, I could 00:24:13.990 --> 00:24:16.769 get this McFarlane Batman, you know, from the 00:24:16.769 --> 00:24:19.670 animated series stuff for half the price. And 00:24:19.670 --> 00:24:22.769 I'm like, but I don't care. Cause I already have 00:24:22.769 --> 00:24:26.210 the one I wanted. And, and so like, there's some 00:24:26.210 --> 00:24:28.309 of the transformers and I'm like, all the ones 00:24:28.309 --> 00:24:31.240 that they have on clearance are like, the earth 00:24:31.240 --> 00:24:35.240 spark or from transformers one or some of the 00:24:35.240 --> 00:24:37.980 legacy stuff that i didn't really care for so 00:24:37.980 --> 00:24:41.339 i'm like i'm not incentivized to buy them and 00:24:41.339 --> 00:24:45.819 same token like i'm seeing all these other licensed 00:24:45.819 --> 00:24:47.640 transformer things in the store and i'm like 00:24:47.640 --> 00:24:52.519 they're utter crap but that's a different story 00:24:52.519 --> 00:24:59.279 for a different day um i i'm i'm in kind of Hasbro's 00:24:59.279 --> 00:25:02.039 Court and producing more collectible things for 00:25:02.039 --> 00:25:04.259 the adults because honestly we're the ones buying 00:25:04.259 --> 00:25:07.720 it like the masterpiece figures or the legacy 00:25:07.720 --> 00:25:10.180 figures that kind of are placating to our childhood 00:25:10.180 --> 00:25:17.940 I'm not sure who the Heart of Steel kind of 1900s 00:25:17.940 --> 00:25:20.240 Transformers are placating to because they did 00:25:20.240 --> 00:25:22.920 like literally four issues and it was kind of 00:25:22.920 --> 00:25:28.690 a blip but eh To each their own, I guess. I'm 00:25:28.690 --> 00:25:32.849 not interested in those whatsoever, but I would 00:25:32.849 --> 00:25:34.890 love to see some of the pre -Beast Beast Wars 00:25:34.890 --> 00:25:42.690 characters produced as one of their lineups to 00:25:42.690 --> 00:25:45.529 kind of tie into Beast Wars next anniversary 00:25:45.529 --> 00:25:49.509 date next year. Yeah, absolutely. Next year is 00:25:49.509 --> 00:25:55.000 30 years of Beast Wars. which I'll get into something 00:25:55.000 --> 00:25:57.079 Beast Wars related or Beast Machines related 00:25:57.079 --> 00:26:00.619 at the end of this. Oh boy. And then they're 00:26:00.619 --> 00:26:03.720 doing the Everyone Plays, kind of including everybody, 00:26:03.980 --> 00:26:06.680 digital and direct, building video game services 00:26:06.680 --> 00:26:09.460 and e -commerce capabilities, and then partner 00:26:09.460 --> 00:26:15.180 scaling with driving profit with retail and licensing 00:26:15.180 --> 00:26:20.359 partnerships. Yeah, so they're just kind of... 00:26:21.619 --> 00:26:24.019 diversifying in a lot of ways and kind of refocusing 00:26:24.019 --> 00:26:26.079 on their, their IPs and their games and their 00:26:26.079 --> 00:26:30.119 toys and kind of partnering up with different 00:26:30.119 --> 00:26:33.079 places, you know, Netflix, Universal, Disney, 00:26:33.220 --> 00:26:36.019 Mattel, like it's weird seeing two toy companies 00:26:36.019 --> 00:26:38.180 play nice. I mean, we're getting Hot Wheel themed 00:26:38.180 --> 00:26:42.200 Transformers. I still have not seen an Optimus 00:26:42.200 --> 00:26:44.740 Prime in store. They have like eight variations 00:26:44.740 --> 00:26:49.259 of them. Yep. Uh, I would be happy to just find 00:26:49.259 --> 00:26:53.240 one. Yeah. That's slightly or mostly accurate. 00:26:53.339 --> 00:26:56.240 I've seen bumblebee. I just didn't care. Yeah. 00:26:56.380 --> 00:26:58.400 And I don't care about ultra magnets. I just 00:26:58.400 --> 00:27:00.680 like literally want one optimus prime. So if 00:27:00.680 --> 00:27:03.059 I actually saw when I would pick it up, I still 00:27:03.059 --> 00:27:07.759 have the, the, uh, thunder roller hot wheel car 00:27:07.759 --> 00:27:11.359 from way back when they go for like 30 bucks 00:27:11.359 --> 00:27:15.460 now. Oh, wow. Yeah. Mine's still in mint condition 00:27:15.460 --> 00:27:19.640 on my shelf, but I don't know if they misquoted 00:27:19.640 --> 00:27:23.619 him or if he said something wrong here, but where 00:27:23.619 --> 00:27:26.920 you read earlier, Chris Cox, Hasbro's CEO, said, 00:27:27.140 --> 00:27:30.799 Play is a universal human need and a strong basis 00:27:30.799 --> 00:27:35.000 for business that has purpose to endure, as Hasbro 00:27:35.000 --> 00:27:39.259 has proved over the last 164 years. You don't 00:27:39.259 --> 00:27:41.200 know the company. You must not know the company 00:27:41.200 --> 00:27:43.779 that you're the CEO of, sir. It's only been in 00:27:43.779 --> 00:27:49.519 business since... Fuckin' 1923! The Hassenfeld 00:27:49.519 --> 00:27:53.819 Brothers started Hasbro, or whatever, it was 00:27:53.819 --> 00:27:57.460 the Hassenfeld Brothers in 1923. There is no 00:27:57.460 --> 00:28:03.920 Hasbro before 1923. So how can it be 164 years 00:28:03.920 --> 00:28:11.200 is 1861 from 2025? Like, it's only 123 years 00:28:11.200 --> 00:28:15.710 that it's been around. Like, What the hell, dude? 00:28:16.650 --> 00:28:22.390 Get your facts straight, Chris Cox. Sorry. I'm 00:28:22.390 --> 00:28:31.750 going to ask AI. Let's go. I mean, it's right 00:28:31.750 --> 00:28:34.269 there on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is better than 00:28:34.269 --> 00:28:39.190 AI anyway. I assume you're asking the AI. I am. 00:28:39.769 --> 00:28:44.369 No, Hasbro is not 164 years old. Hasbro was founded... 00:28:44.640 --> 00:28:48.140 Just like you said, 1923. Yeah. It does use that 00:28:48.140 --> 00:28:50.059 Wikipedia article, but it's funny that there's 00:28:50.059 --> 00:28:52.900 nothing to back up them being older. They're 00:28:52.900 --> 00:28:55.160 101 years old. So like, I don't know where the 00:28:55.160 --> 00:28:57.019 heck he's getting 64 unless they're talking about 00:28:57.019 --> 00:28:58.920 all the companies they swallowed up and add in 00:28:58.920 --> 00:29:02.119 their combined time. Yeah. I mean that, I mean 00:29:02.119 --> 00:29:05.059 that could probably be it. That's probably where 00:29:05.059 --> 00:29:09.440 he's getting it. But like just Hasbro as itself. 00:29:10.930 --> 00:29:14.170 And okay, sure, I said 102 years old because 00:29:14.170 --> 00:29:17.450 I was counting the whole of 2025 and I wasn't 00:29:17.450 --> 00:29:19.670 counting the actual, like it's not December 6th 00:29:19.670 --> 00:29:24.849 yet. Sorry. So 101, 102, it's still same damn 00:29:24.849 --> 00:29:29.680 thing. But here's hoping they do some good things. 00:29:29.759 --> 00:29:31.720 Here's hoping they do some interesting things 00:29:31.720 --> 00:29:35.720 this year. I did just see the new, which I have 00:29:35.720 --> 00:29:39.039 on pre -order for release next month from Amazon. 00:29:39.460 --> 00:29:43.299 I saw somebody with in -hand images and in -hand 00:29:43.299 --> 00:29:48.539 display spin -a -roonie of the Funko Pop Hot 00:29:48.539 --> 00:29:51.559 Rod with Matrix, Cyclonus, and Omega Supreme 00:29:51.559 --> 00:29:55.119 Funko Pops. They look really cool out of box. 00:29:56.490 --> 00:29:58.849 That's going to be cool to get those next month 00:29:58.849 --> 00:30:01.069 once the Amazon pre -order comes through for 00:30:01.069 --> 00:30:06.490 me. But yeah, I'm trying to think. Other than 00:30:06.490 --> 00:30:11.349 the fact that it's actually been 20 years since 00:30:11.349 --> 00:30:15.869 the year is 2005, I don't think there's any major 00:30:15.869 --> 00:30:21.569 Transformers anniversary this year. I don't think 00:30:21.569 --> 00:30:24.339 so. No, I don't think so. I mean, if you want 00:30:24.339 --> 00:30:28.039 to get technical and say the second year of the 00:30:28.039 --> 00:30:31.039 brand, because 1985 was a big year with introducing 00:30:31.039 --> 00:30:33.740 all the other characters in 1985, but that's 00:30:33.740 --> 00:30:37.660 not technically. But yeah, no. So it's going 00:30:37.660 --> 00:30:39.519 to be an interesting year to see what Hasbro 00:30:39.519 --> 00:30:42.140 comes up with and what they release and what 00:30:42.140 --> 00:30:46.339 they do. Sucks that Reactivate got canceled. 00:30:46.400 --> 00:30:48.339 I know we talked about that a couple episodes 00:30:48.339 --> 00:30:51.180 ago, but it sucks that that got canceled. I know. 00:30:51.480 --> 00:30:55.259 I was still looking forward to that. Yeah. It's 00:30:55.259 --> 00:30:56.880 going to be interesting to see what other... 00:30:56.880 --> 00:30:59.779 Because I know part of this statement says that 00:30:59.779 --> 00:31:01.420 they're going to go into some of the video game 00:31:01.420 --> 00:31:03.460 stuff and they're going to go into gaming. It's 00:31:03.460 --> 00:31:05.019 going to be interesting to see what kind of games 00:31:05.019 --> 00:31:08.859 they do try to attempt to make. So, anything 00:31:08.859 --> 00:31:13.200 else for you, sir? Now that I have my new 3D 00:31:13.200 --> 00:31:17.779 printer, I've been having a blast. Yay! You know, 00:31:17.839 --> 00:31:22.410 things actually print. I've seen so much back 00:31:22.410 --> 00:31:29.049 and forth from people on that, and a lot of people 00:31:29.049 --> 00:31:31.250 that have this printer, they're like, well, it 00:31:31.250 --> 00:31:34.710 doesn't totally print right. And I'm like, what 00:31:34.710 --> 00:31:37.049 are you doing? Because I literally took the thing 00:31:37.049 --> 00:31:38.890 out of the box, I assembled it, I put it together, 00:31:39.049 --> 00:31:41.670 I put the filament in. This sucker's printed 00:31:41.670 --> 00:31:44.509 no problem. And if there's been an error, it's 00:31:44.509 --> 00:31:48.680 because I'm an idiot. They make the software 00:31:48.680 --> 00:31:51.500 so stupid simple. They have an advanced tab, 00:31:51.640 --> 00:31:54.359 and then they have a stupid tab, which is the 00:31:54.359 --> 00:32:06.900 simplified. And they made it super easy to get 00:32:06.900 --> 00:32:14.940 the files set up for this printer. You synchronize 00:32:14.940 --> 00:32:16.480 it. The only thing I don't love about software 00:32:16.480 --> 00:32:20.920 is every time it times out, you have to re -log 00:32:20.920 --> 00:32:24.400 in to remote send something to the printer. The 00:32:24.400 --> 00:32:28.359 app is not currently set up where I can slice 00:32:28.359 --> 00:32:32.319 the file or prepare it, is what slice means, 00:32:32.519 --> 00:32:35.799 on my phone and have it sent to the printer wirelessly. 00:32:36.279 --> 00:32:41.240 I can remotely look at my printer printing from 00:32:41.240 --> 00:32:44.619 my phone. so i can check on it like if i'm upstairs 00:32:44.619 --> 00:32:46.759 i'm like i don't want to walk downstairs and 00:32:46.759 --> 00:32:48.500 i can check on it i wish i could shut it off 00:32:48.500 --> 00:32:51.839 remotely yeah um but they don't they don't currently 00:32:51.839 --> 00:32:56.859 support that i think that's coming but um but 00:32:56.859 --> 00:32:59.420 overall i love this printer it's super easy to 00:32:59.420 --> 00:33:04.400 use i've printed uh i've printed 54 hours worth 00:33:04.400 --> 00:33:10.200 on it it prints 300 millimeters a second compared 00:33:10.200 --> 00:33:14.640 to or a minute or whatever compared to my old 00:33:14.640 --> 00:33:17.680 printer, which was 100. Yeah. So it's already 00:33:17.680 --> 00:33:20.119 three times as fast, and I can turn on, like, 00:33:20.119 --> 00:33:21.960 there's a sport mode, and you can turn it on, 00:33:21.980 --> 00:33:26.099 make it go 600. Nice. I haven't done the 600 00:33:26.099 --> 00:33:28.380 yet, because I don't exactly know how to do it. 00:33:29.099 --> 00:33:31.660 But the 300 seems sufficient for me, and I'm 00:33:31.660 --> 00:33:35.039 perfectly happy with it. I printed something 00:33:35.039 --> 00:33:38.000 I'd been trying to print on my old printer before 00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:41.410 it crapped out on me last year. and all of the 00:33:41.410 --> 00:33:45.269 parts were super brittle when I printed them 00:33:45.269 --> 00:33:48.670 last year. Like, super brittle. I tried printing 00:33:48.670 --> 00:33:53.349 Beast Machines Megatron, and it was a 3D print 00:33:53.349 --> 00:33:59.970 kit file that I bought, and the quality on it's 00:33:59.970 --> 00:34:02.109 not too bad, actually. It comes out pretty well. 00:34:03.630 --> 00:34:07.430 I tried to print it with my gray filament, but 00:34:07.430 --> 00:34:10.659 because it's been sitting for so long, only it 00:34:10.659 --> 00:34:13.179 was my first big roll of filament that i bought 00:34:13.179 --> 00:34:16.360 uh it's gotten to the point where it's kind of 00:34:16.360 --> 00:34:20.219 gotten brittle and old and probably needs to 00:34:20.219 --> 00:34:22.639 be thrown out but it's still good for like basic 00:34:22.639 --> 00:34:26.719 stuff i was thankful i got my starships printed 00:34:26.719 --> 00:34:28.900 with it last year before it kind of got crappy 00:34:28.900 --> 00:34:35.639 um but it um it works for some stuff i did some 00:34:35.639 --> 00:34:38.719 of the smaller components with that color and 00:34:38.719 --> 00:34:42.059 then i I printed the rest in like purple and 00:34:42.059 --> 00:34:45.360 black and then I'll paint accordingly to kind 00:34:45.360 --> 00:34:48.000 of color match to the show as best I can or just 00:34:48.000 --> 00:34:50.380 kind of create my own amalgamation of Beast Machines 00:34:50.380 --> 00:34:56.219 Megatron. And I have the entire figure assembled 00:34:56.219 --> 00:34:58.360 sitting on my desk. I just have to finish painting 00:34:58.360 --> 00:35:00.519 and I started painting it one night while I was 00:35:00.519 --> 00:35:03.360 not feeling good. But I have the entirety of 00:35:03.360 --> 00:35:06.920 it. It looks nice. I've got sections of it done. 00:35:07.019 --> 00:35:08.420 I've got to finish it, and then I've got to go 00:35:08.420 --> 00:35:10.960 back to my Dragon Megatron, which technically 00:35:10.960 --> 00:35:18.119 I could print a half of this Beast Machines Megatron, 00:35:18.179 --> 00:35:20.739 and I could convert my Transmetal 2 Dragon into 00:35:20.739 --> 00:35:26.860 it. But I didn't. I had all the parts printed 00:35:26.860 --> 00:35:30.480 pretty quick. I've spent the last couple days 00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:35.840 printing risers and pedestals for some of my 00:35:35.840 --> 00:35:38.039 figures on my shelf because they looked like 00:35:38.039 --> 00:35:42.440 a mess before. Well, I had all these Star Trek 00:35:42.440 --> 00:35:45.880 figures and I printed these smaller like hexagon 00:35:45.880 --> 00:35:49.840 pedestals that I could combine together so that 00:35:49.840 --> 00:35:52.139 the back row stands up a little higher than the 00:35:52.139 --> 00:35:55.159 bottom row and they're at three different levels 00:35:55.159 --> 00:35:58.659 and so I printed that, put with my Star Trek 00:35:58.659 --> 00:36:00.159 figures so I could have them all on the shelf 00:36:00.159 --> 00:36:02.719 and then my Dragon Ball Z stuff kind of blew 00:36:02.719 --> 00:36:06.690 out of control. You couldn't see anybody's face. 00:36:06.849 --> 00:36:10.269 It just looked horrible. So I printed this really 00:36:10.269 --> 00:36:13.349 tall riser, and then I had this wood block that 00:36:13.349 --> 00:36:16.550 I previously had in there for the back row, and 00:36:16.550 --> 00:36:21.469 I put that in front of it, and then I put this 00:36:21.469 --> 00:36:27.380 other... well for that i just kind of had all 00:36:27.380 --> 00:36:29.960 of them in front of it but it i i organized them 00:36:29.960 --> 00:36:32.500 by height and certain classifications so i took 00:36:32.500 --> 00:36:34.860 a new picture of that and then my marvel stuff 00:36:34.860 --> 00:36:39.539 um because i signed up for like i think it was 00:36:39.539 --> 00:36:42.280 like a master collector or some or fan fan home 00:36:42.280 --> 00:36:44.159 or something like that and i got like the iron 00:36:44.159 --> 00:36:48.900 man head in a case and i have iron man standing 00:36:48.900 --> 00:36:52.579 on it like and i printed these uh pedestals for 00:36:52.579 --> 00:36:58.679 the their superhero helmets to go in. So like, 00:36:58.739 --> 00:37:02.559 so like instead of Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man, 00:37:02.639 --> 00:37:04.659 like you can see his face, but then in front 00:37:04.659 --> 00:37:06.739 of him, I have like a pedestal with the helmet 00:37:06.739 --> 00:37:10.000 mounted on it. Nice. So he doesn't have to hold 00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:12.619 it. So I move it. He doesn't drop it. Cause that's 00:37:12.619 --> 00:37:15.179 what was happening. And then, uh, I had printed 00:37:15.179 --> 00:37:17.360 a larger version of the hexagon thing, which 00:37:17.360 --> 00:37:18.800 originally I was going to use for the Dragon 00:37:18.800 --> 00:37:20.599 Ball Z stuff. But I was like, I have way too 00:37:20.599 --> 00:37:26.110 many characters for that to work. And so what 00:37:26.110 --> 00:37:31.409 I did with that is I put that in front of the 00:37:31.409 --> 00:37:36.869 Iron Man piece and my other Marvel characters 00:37:36.869 --> 00:37:40.510 I have are the Tobey Maguire Spider -Man. So 00:37:40.510 --> 00:37:43.369 I put him on the highest riser because he's short. 00:37:43.809 --> 00:37:48.650 And then I put the head thing on it for his helmet. 00:37:49.309 --> 00:37:51.469 So it's just his face. And then I have the Hugh 00:37:51.469 --> 00:37:54.269 Jackman Wolverine next to him from the Deadpool 00:37:54.269 --> 00:37:57.389 and Wolverine, uh, did the same thing for his 00:37:57.389 --> 00:38:00.969 mask. And then I have, um, black widow in the 00:38:00.969 --> 00:38:03.630 front. And then I have captain America on, on 00:38:03.630 --> 00:38:07.230 the same side as Spidey kind of fits with, uh, 00:38:07.289 --> 00:38:11.190 you know, in civil war where like there's the 00:38:11.190 --> 00:38:14.670 Spider -Man captain America thing. Um, And then 00:38:14.670 --> 00:38:17.190 I have Ant -Man in front of Wolverine. So it's 00:38:17.190 --> 00:38:19.030 kind of like, I've got my little mini Avengers 00:38:19.030 --> 00:38:22.329 there, like my own version of the squad. So, 00:38:22.329 --> 00:38:26.849 yeah, I've been having fun with my printer. And 00:38:26.849 --> 00:38:30.050 I'm looking forward to some Transformers stuff 00:38:30.050 --> 00:38:35.210 I might try printing soon. There was a Power 00:38:35.210 --> 00:38:37.349 Master Optimus Prime somebody had created a while 00:38:37.349 --> 00:38:43.800 back. And I've always liked the comic. Power 00:38:43.800 --> 00:38:46.420 Master Prime. So I might try and print that. 00:38:46.960 --> 00:38:53.079 I used to have the real thing. That toy was trash. 00:38:53.440 --> 00:38:57.079 My brother had it. No, it wasn't. It was not 00:38:57.079 --> 00:39:00.619 trash. That toy was amazing. Well, it was cool 00:39:00.619 --> 00:39:02.719 for what it could do, but it was highly inaccurate. 00:39:03.099 --> 00:39:06.960 I would love a modern version of it. Okay, yeah, 00:39:07.199 --> 00:39:10.860 it was... Okay, highly inaccurate to what? To 00:39:10.860 --> 00:39:16.360 what the Season 5 Tommy thing was? No, I'm not 00:39:16.360 --> 00:39:18.260 even talking about that show. I'm just saying 00:39:18.260 --> 00:39:22.780 he was just a big brick. Well, yeah. That's what 00:39:22.780 --> 00:39:25.179 I don't like about it. It's not that I hated 00:39:25.179 --> 00:39:28.400 the figure. My brother had it. I just don't like 00:39:28.400 --> 00:39:31.639 the big brick, solid brick figures that don't 00:39:31.639 --> 00:39:35.059 really move. It was great for what it could do 00:39:35.059 --> 00:39:37.880 at the time. I just like the functionality of 00:39:37.880 --> 00:39:41.320 the modern figures. That's more so what I'm getting 00:39:41.320 --> 00:39:46.659 at. It's not like he was G1 Megatron or Galvatron 00:39:46.659 --> 00:39:52.460 bad. I would definitely take that Masterpiece 00:39:52.460 --> 00:39:58.199 Prime over the other two. But yeah, that was... 00:39:58.460 --> 00:40:00.280 That was what I was getting at with that, is, 00:40:00.300 --> 00:40:02.480 like, I would rather own a modern interpretation 00:40:02.480 --> 00:40:06.679 of it that's not saying, like, you know, back 00:40:06.679 --> 00:40:11.619 in the day where I had Transmetal 2 Megatron, 00:40:11.619 --> 00:40:21.000 you know, from Beast Wars, and where I had Transmetal 00:40:21.000 --> 00:40:25.780 2 Megatron, and that figure was genuinely decent 00:40:25.780 --> 00:40:29.000 for what it was, was it... very accurate no but 00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:35.360 it was a fun toy yeah um i like the legacy one 00:40:35.360 --> 00:40:39.000 i just hated the head which i replaced but i 00:40:39.000 --> 00:40:41.199 also have a way to replace the face if i don't 00:40:41.199 --> 00:40:43.219 like this one at any given point i actually had 00:40:43.219 --> 00:40:45.940 an extra printed beast machines megatron helmet 00:40:45.940 --> 00:40:50.219 that covers the head and i was like i wonder 00:40:50.219 --> 00:40:53.460 if this will fit legacy prime or megatron and 00:40:53.460 --> 00:40:55.860 i put it on his head and i'm like Now he just 00:40:55.860 --> 00:40:58.420 looks freaky on the shelf like he's looking at 00:40:58.420 --> 00:41:01.460 me. It's a dragon body and he's got that menacing 00:41:01.460 --> 00:41:10.619 helmet on his head. He just looks evil. I did 00:41:10.619 --> 00:41:15.760 print you some Transformers stuff. Yes, you did. 00:41:16.159 --> 00:41:21.079 Which you will be getting soon. So much? I'm 00:41:21.079 --> 00:41:24.039 sure you'll be posting about those once you get 00:41:24.039 --> 00:41:29.150 them. Yeah, absolutely. He's 88. Oh, man, we 00:41:29.150 --> 00:41:31.250 are a couple of years away from the 40th anniversary 00:41:31.250 --> 00:41:34.250 of Power Master Optimus Prime. Now I'm looking 00:41:34.250 --> 00:41:37.530 at him on TFWiki right now. He still looks like 00:41:37.530 --> 00:41:41.090 he doesn't look that much. OK, the only bricky 00:41:41.090 --> 00:41:47.110 thing that he. Here, look at this. Hold on. Oh, 00:41:47.170 --> 00:41:50.250 yeah, I'll pull him up to you. I already got 00:41:50.250 --> 00:41:51.550 it. I already got it. I already got it. There 00:41:51.550 --> 00:41:54.550 you go. Right there. Boom. There you go. Power 00:41:54.550 --> 00:41:57.570 Master Optimus. Come on, load. Open, damn it, 00:41:57.570 --> 00:42:02.150 open. Where'd you post it? In Discord. In the 00:42:02.150 --> 00:42:06.050 chat there. If not there, I can put it in Facebook. 00:42:06.650 --> 00:42:10.170 A new Optimus Prime is here. I'll transform Optimus. 00:42:10.489 --> 00:42:14.590 Power Master Optimus Prime. Greatest leader of 00:42:14.590 --> 00:42:18.739 his time. It's great to be back. Now Optimus 00:42:18.739 --> 00:42:21.500 Prime is back as a Power Master. He only transforms 00:42:21.500 --> 00:42:24.139 when his Nebulon becomes his engine. Power Master 00:42:24.139 --> 00:42:27.400 Optimus Prime. Look, Optimus is transforming 00:42:27.400 --> 00:42:31.500 into a super robot. Power Master Transformers. 00:42:31.519 --> 00:42:36.599 They've got the power to survive. Put it in two 00:42:36.599 --> 00:42:40.599 places. Ah, I found it. He's not that much of 00:42:40.599 --> 00:42:44.840 a brick. It's the legs. And he just looks blocky. 00:42:45.289 --> 00:42:48.329 Okay, yeah, he looks blocky. The only brick thing 00:42:48.329 --> 00:42:52.389 I see on him is honestly the giant cab sitting 00:42:52.389 --> 00:42:56.210 that makes up his chest in the giant robot form. 00:42:56.409 --> 00:43:02.289 The actual truck form... The biggest problem 00:43:02.289 --> 00:43:07.550 I had with this toy was how skimpy and shrimpy 00:43:07.550 --> 00:43:12.849 the cab form is. Because the point of this is 00:43:12.849 --> 00:43:18.719 the base... And it's also the big bot power master 00:43:18.719 --> 00:43:22.420 everything with the giant head and the giant 00:43:22.420 --> 00:43:26.780 guns. The whole point is the truck mode, the 00:43:26.780 --> 00:43:31.179 base mode, and the bot mode. Like the little 00:43:31.179 --> 00:43:36.380 Haikyuu, I think. His little target master there. 00:43:36.800 --> 00:43:40.500 Okay, sure, fine. And his little truck version 00:43:40.500 --> 00:43:44.909 mode. Eh, it is what it is. But, like, I loved 00:43:44.909 --> 00:43:47.489 this thing for the overall truck mode, the base 00:43:47.489 --> 00:43:50.349 mode, and the big bot mode. Oh, man, I don't 00:43:50.349 --> 00:43:52.650 even want to look at eBay to see what one of 00:43:52.650 --> 00:43:55.269 these things complete goes for these days. I 00:43:55.269 --> 00:44:00.570 bet it's like $200, $300, $400. Yeah, I still 00:44:00.570 --> 00:44:03.730 love that thing, though. It still looks great. 00:44:04.989 --> 00:44:07.190 Just looking at this picture again, it still 00:44:07.190 --> 00:44:11.210 fucking looks great. And they created it. Wasn't 00:44:11.210 --> 00:44:14.050 it a new one for Power Master or the Power of 00:44:14.050 --> 00:44:17.969 the Primes? I think? Maybe? I'm not sure. I'm 00:44:17.969 --> 00:44:21.389 pretty sure it was that line. It could have. 00:44:21.690 --> 00:44:25.650 I'm pretty sure it was. Yeah, they did. I'm going 00:44:25.650 --> 00:44:27.550 to have a lot of editing to do with this episode. 00:44:27.670 --> 00:44:31.429 Yay, folks! Behind the scenes of us looking for 00:44:31.429 --> 00:44:35.449 shit that we can't find. Transformers Retro Synergy. 00:44:35.449 --> 00:44:39.320 What the hell? Synergex? When the... Zoids and 00:44:39.320 --> 00:44:45.420 Diaclone? Don't swap the cons. Mixed Mashers. 00:44:45.519 --> 00:44:49.579 Where is the timeline? It was Titans Return. 00:44:50.300 --> 00:44:55.860 Oh, Titans Return. Unite Warriors. Where the 00:44:55.860 --> 00:45:02.039 hell is Titans Return? Beast Wars. Titanium Series. 00:45:02.199 --> 00:45:14.579 Classics. I did. Seriously? I sent it in the 00:45:14.579 --> 00:45:20.900 Discord. Okay, good. Up here. Where'd you send 00:45:20.900 --> 00:45:26.400 it? In the Discord chat. No, you didn't. Yes, 00:45:26.400 --> 00:45:35.510 I did. No, it's Facebook. Sorry. Oh. Oh, wow. 00:45:36.369 --> 00:45:47.190 That's... No. Ew. The colors are still bad. Yeah, 00:45:47.210 --> 00:45:52.829 the colors are still bad, and the... Oh, no. 00:45:53.909 --> 00:45:57.090 Okay, you better end this podcast before I throw 00:45:57.090 --> 00:46:01.289 up. It's not that bad. Oh, God, it's horrible. 00:46:01.909 --> 00:46:05.849 No, it's not. I'll take 1988 over this any day. 00:46:06.050 --> 00:46:15.369 I'm more looking forward to seeing the Power 00:46:15.369 --> 00:46:18.849 Master one that they're doing a masterpiece of. 00:46:19.050 --> 00:46:23.550 I hope that they do it justice. Because just 00:46:23.550 --> 00:46:28.969 looking at the one that they've created, like 00:46:28.969 --> 00:46:32.900 this is the Nucleon Black Prime. That I see in 00:46:32.900 --> 00:46:36.760 the same window. Because I can't find a photo 00:46:36.760 --> 00:46:46.860 of the other Prime. Okay. Nucleon? Well, it's 00:46:46.860 --> 00:46:50.019 coming directly from Hasbro, so... Yeah, that's 00:46:50.019 --> 00:46:53.780 true. Directly from Hasbro this year, or at some 00:46:53.780 --> 00:46:58.000 point, whenever. Oh, now see, that's badass! 00:46:58.500 --> 00:47:05.800 Yeah, that's... I want that. What's that releasing? 00:47:08.880 --> 00:47:12.920 That's a pre -order right now. $264. Holy shit. 00:47:16.000 --> 00:47:22.920 He's articulated. He's got knees, elbows, waist. 00:47:23.760 --> 00:47:30.710 Yeah? Damn. yeah he's got the base mode like 00:47:30.710 --> 00:47:34.010 it's okay that's what i look for when i look 00:47:34.010 --> 00:47:38.570 for like a modern figure like yes the titans 00:47:38.570 --> 00:47:41.889 return the power of the prime stuff was monstrously 00:47:41.889 --> 00:47:45.769 trash but yes very much um outside of like the 00:47:45.769 --> 00:47:47.769 optimal optimist that they came out with but 00:47:47.769 --> 00:47:53.869 um but no like yeah this this setup of their 00:47:53.869 --> 00:47:57.809 their super convoy You know, Power Master Prime 00:47:57.809 --> 00:48:03.269 looks very nice. So they already did do a modern 00:48:03.269 --> 00:48:06.489 version of the original. Yeah, I just can't find 00:48:06.489 --> 00:48:09.989 it. No, no, no, but this is essentially it, except 00:48:09.989 --> 00:48:12.969 this is a different repaint. This is the neon 00:48:12.969 --> 00:48:15.789 Nuxilon whatever the hell. So they technically 00:48:15.789 --> 00:48:19.409 have already done it. Yes. Well, technically 00:48:19.409 --> 00:48:24.530 he's Super Jinrai. Fine, whatever. Yeah, they 00:48:24.530 --> 00:48:28.329 gave him the Japanese name. That's fine. It is 00:48:28.329 --> 00:48:31.809 what it is. But I'm saying that they technically 00:48:31.809 --> 00:48:36.170 have already taken 1988 and updated it. Yes. 00:48:36.349 --> 00:48:41.170 This is the exact, pretty much. Wow. That's, 00:48:41.170 --> 00:48:45.269 yeah, damn. Show Z has it. Of course they do. 00:48:45.409 --> 00:48:47.230 Show Z has it. Yeah, so you can see the full. 00:48:47.730 --> 00:48:52.719 Mm -hmm. Yep. Now this. This, I would get my 00:48:52.719 --> 00:48:56.480 hands on. If I could afford it, I would buy it. 00:48:56.960 --> 00:49:03.380 It honors the original and it gives it that new 00:49:03.380 --> 00:49:07.719 hotness. What you're saying is I like the old 00:49:07.719 --> 00:49:12.840 and busted more. What, you? Yeah, me. I don't 00:49:12.840 --> 00:49:17.519 know. I like the modern interpretation. I mean, 00:49:17.539 --> 00:49:20.840 I get it. Of the masterpiece, not the Titans 00:49:20.840 --> 00:49:28.420 Return. Oh, no. No, this is... Oh, wow. Oh, my 00:49:28.420 --> 00:49:34.920 God. Yeah, this is... Holy crap. They... How 00:49:34.920 --> 00:49:43.719 did they do that? Modern engineering? How the... 00:49:43.719 --> 00:49:49.780 What? Who the... How did they do that? What, 00:49:49.800 --> 00:49:53.519 make him look good? Well, there's that, but... 00:49:53.519 --> 00:50:00.400 No, not that image. This one. They actually made 00:50:00.400 --> 00:50:03.139 the cab version of... How did they make him look 00:50:03.139 --> 00:50:05.940 that damn good? I know, that's hard to believe, 00:50:06.000 --> 00:50:10.099 isn't it? Like, I literally want to go spend 00:50:10.099 --> 00:50:13.800 money I don't even have. Like, how did they do 00:50:13.800 --> 00:50:19.360 that? My God. Oh my God. Okay. All right. Magic 00:50:19.360 --> 00:50:23.820 of photography. No, no, it's no, but it actually 00:50:23.820 --> 00:50:27.239 has to fit or it wouldn't be there, but it's 00:50:27.239 --> 00:50:29.579 just, it's just funny. Nonetheless. No, no, no. 00:50:29.599 --> 00:50:34.059 But I'm saying like, look at the original cab, 00:50:34.199 --> 00:50:37.460 the original, because that's the cab former. 00:50:37.639 --> 00:50:40.619 It turns into the cab piece that fits into his 00:50:40.619 --> 00:50:45.380 chest. This is a fully articulated robot. Okay? 00:50:45.519 --> 00:50:51.300 Now, if you look at the original cab, he looks, 00:50:51.380 --> 00:50:55.059 he doesn't, like, and I get it, it's 1988 versus 00:50:55.059 --> 00:51:00.400 modern. I understand that. But that old cab robot 00:51:00.400 --> 00:51:04.980 mode is just, like... It was just a, it was like, 00:51:05.059 --> 00:51:07.099 please just put him inside the Power Master suit. 00:51:07.460 --> 00:51:11.460 Yeah! It was like nothing. It was piddly as shit. 00:51:12.480 --> 00:51:14.599 Yeah, I remember my brother having it, and I 00:51:14.599 --> 00:51:17.260 was like, this is the stupidest Prime. I was 00:51:17.260 --> 00:51:19.920 like, just fold him up and... Kevin. Yeah, of 00:51:19.920 --> 00:51:21.960 course. I think he still has it, but I was like, 00:51:22.019 --> 00:51:23.639 yeah, just fold up that Prime and throw him inside 00:51:23.639 --> 00:51:26.300 the casing, because the rest of him sucks. Like, 00:51:27.539 --> 00:51:30.690 he's gotta be inside the armor. Like I said, 00:51:30.909 --> 00:51:33.630 1988 Power Master Optimus Prime, the original. 00:51:33.849 --> 00:51:37.130 The three reasons why you want that toy. The 00:51:37.130 --> 00:51:40.289 truck mode, the base mode, just for the base 00:51:40.289 --> 00:51:43.469 to use for your other bots, and the full -on 00:51:43.469 --> 00:51:46.869 big bot robot mode. Oh yeah, totally. You don't 00:51:46.869 --> 00:51:51.469 even want it for the cab robot version. But man, 00:51:51.650 --> 00:51:59.079 this new one, holy crap. Oh god. Wow. Damn. I 00:51:59.079 --> 00:52:05.460 mean, even Alpha Q is articulated. Yeah. Wow. 00:52:06.920 --> 00:52:11.860 He's shiny, too. Yeah, he's shiny. I looked at 00:52:11.860 --> 00:52:16.820 this when it came out. I was like, oh. I bet 00:52:16.820 --> 00:52:23.059 you did. Damn. Damn. Why are you going to taunt 00:52:23.059 --> 00:52:25.860 us, Josie? Seriously, why are you going to taunt 00:52:25.860 --> 00:52:35.260 us? Ow, my heart. My arm. Ow. I feel a sharp 00:52:35.260 --> 00:52:38.199 pain. You better end this podcast before... So, 00:52:38.260 --> 00:52:41.760 before Mike dies, thank you all for listening 00:52:41.760 --> 00:52:44.159 to All Things Transformers. I've been your host, 00:52:44.219 --> 00:52:46.460 Steve Megatron, with TFG and Mike. 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