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Hello and welcome to... All Things Transformers,
I'm your host, Steve Megatron, joined by TFG1
Mike. Hello, I'm here. Yes, he is. So, jumping
right into it, this episode is a news roundup.
However, there's a lot of toy discussion for
those that are the toy enthusiasts. Yes. Especially
those that like Transformers. Studio Series 86
Optimus Prime, which we'll discuss more in depth
later. Yep. And then, yeah, so lots of toys.
So we're going to get into it first thing with
the Transformers Cyber World, which I'm not too
familiar with this line. Oh, it's new, I think.
And. I don't know. Looking at this and reading
their description, I get it. And I understand
the... So, wait. Is this two separate things,
or is this the same thing? See, the way they...
They've got too many lines going, so it makes
it really difficult to know what's going on.
So, for those that may be listening, I don't
know how many of our... Every time I see the
word chomp, I know there's a specific company...
No, no, I'm being serious. There's a specific
company out there that makes chomp figures. And
they are these figures that are... I forget what
the name of the company is off the top of my
head. Of course, me, I'm going to do something
stupid here in the middle of the podcast and
see what the company is. It's Abominable Toys.
So Abominable Toys makes these things called
Chomps. And they're these kind of cute. They're
not cutesy cutesy. They're not Funko Pops. They're
not Mighty Mugs. They're not. But they're. kind
of, they're not really that similar to those,
but they're, I don't know, they're not transforming,
I'll tell you that. But they're trying to figure
a way to explain this to you. Here, let me, I've
already got the link pulled up here so you can
see it, and I'll throw it here in Discord. So
this is what I think of when I hear the word
chomp and it's right there in the discord chat
in our little thing there. So if you can see
that, let me know. Okay. So that's what I think.
They look weird. Yeah. So they're, you know,
they're, they're kind of disfigured, cute little
toy things. So when I see on, and I'm not complaining
about TFW 2005 and how the. The person who wrote
this up wrote this, but I am kind of complaining
about that. But the way this is written up says,
Thanks to board member DigitalBrave3, we have
our first in -hand images of the new Transformers
Cyberworld Chomp and Battle Grimlock. Okay, now
read that again, folks. Listen to that again.
The new Transformers Cyberworld Chomp. and battle
grimlock cyber world chomp sounds like its own
thing and battle world and battle grimlock sounds
like two different things right so then why is
there only one thing pictured here as far as
i can tell it's just grimlock that's pictured
here right yeah i'm cycling through these pictures
it's just there's nothing that says chomp on
any of it it just says changes to dino yeah um
So what's the deal here? Like cyber world chomp.
Um, so I, I think it's a thing of the writing
of the article. That's the problem. It's not
Hasbro or the, and that's a typical issue. Unfortunately,
sadly. Yeah. But I, what I did notice from, from
the majority of this, I, for one, I looked at
it and I'm like, Oh, you could easily kit bash
that into a Megatron. Of course you could. Well,
because, I mean, he's got the tail arm and then
he's got the, you know, the dinosaur head. And
so I was like, oh, there we are. You're right.
I'm like, you could make a kind of, you know,
almost IDW Megatron, you know, with the kind
of cybernetic metal metallic look. And I was
looking at it and people were like, no, it's
those that have it. on the boards were like it's
pretty solid yeah and it looks cool as hell it
does look cool and i get where they're probably
getting the the chomp aspect because it looks
like that they take almost like a core class
figure to sit on it you know on his his head
with the uh or right on his back like almost
like a wheelie yeah and you know use the machine
gun tail and whatever but I mean don't get me
wrong it looks like cheap plastic if you look
at them on the back like the back side and the
back of the legs but if you look at them from
the front yeah I mean you can tell it's cheap
plastic but I mean with a good paint job you
could easily mask that and it looks I mean, it
looks pretty cool, like pretty stylized. I mean,
I know it's a kid's toy. It's probably the size
of like the old T -Rex Optimus Prime from Rescue
Bots is kind of what it reminds me of, but a
little bit more articulated and just better design.
But it looks kind of neat. And the only reason
I brought it up is, you know, one, it looks like
it could be repainted as a Beast Megatron pretty
easily. And then two, it just it looks pretty
solid for one of the cheaper kids toys. Yeah.
Yeah, it looks like they're like the way this
line is going to look, the way the Transformers
Cyberworld line is going to look, at least just
based on this. It looks like they're giving kids
more than just what we had in the last. 15, 16
years for kids. So, yeah, it's very cool. It
looks like it goes for around 30 bucks. Oh, which
I mean, Grimlock generally goes high dollar anyway.
I mean, yeah, he does, but it's kind of a lot
for that. Yeah, I'm thinking it's based off of
size. Oh, absolutely. Cause if you look at the
nine inch, yeah, he's nine inches. So, um, but
it looks like it's coming out anytime between
now and July. Uh, yeah, the, the, the cyber world
toys, um, it looks like we're going to get, you
know, a prime, we're going to get a, um, or like
a prime that can ride on his back. We're going
to get a star scream. We're going to get a bumblebee.
We're going to get Scorponok, a couple of Dinobots,
and it looks like a horrible, looks almost like
a G1 Megatron face on it. Nice. There's another
article on T -Formers that has the Cyberworld
official images. Very cool. And I think it's
going to be a new YouTube series, too. Yeah,
that's what it is. but I find it interesting.
They went with Scorponok is the, uh, big bad
for this. And, uh, technically they have a, a
cyber changer Megatron, but he turns into, he's
got the G2 colors and, uh, he, uh, he looks like,
uh, like one of those auto cannon. And I put
it in the chat for you, but, um, it's it's got
like an auto like almost anti -air type thing
i think the prices are a little steep for everything
i mean this is 25 bucks for this thing this megatron
um but he's a seven inch figure but it doesn't
it looks like a brick uh i i like the idea of
where they're going with this i mean they've
they've got different characters and some of
them don't have names yet um as far as this article
is concerned uh but uh yeah i mean there's there's
a lot of options here for for kids and you know
some i i my kids probably wouldn't care about
any of this just because of the designs and whatnot
but it looks like that some of them are going
to get options to change forms throughout it
because like the bull looks like megatron and
you know you get sky bite you got majority of
other characters looks like prime can sit in
you know on grimlock's jaw and use them as like
a exosuit nice that's cool so yeah i mean these
these are kind of neat i mean i i i like the
gimmick idea that's on these they it's it's different
yeah um So, I mean, I'll give them kudos on that.
That's kind of cool. Absolutely. So moving on
to the blockies, I know you've seen these too.
What is your interest level on these? I will
buy these if I can buy them on eBay fully built.
That's my biggest issue with these. I am not
a model kit assembler because I physically cannot
assemble them. That's my only problem. Other
than that, I love them. The pictures, like, seriously,
scrolling through the pictures, Soundwave looks
great. Grimlock looks great. Skywarp, Hot Rod,
Rodimus, whatever we're called. I don't even
know what they're calling them in this. Whatever.
Shattered Glass Optimus Prime, I'm there all
day. It's a purple Optimus Prime, hell yes. Shockwave
looks amazing. Megatron looks great. Where I
initially came to the Blocky's line was they
did Autobot Megatron from the AEW comics, and
I scoured eBay looking for a built version of
this. And then a Patreon thing I used to do,
and I sometimes will go back to and do, someone
actually sent me them. And I had to give it away
to one of the grandmothers here in my apartment
complex to give to one of her grandchildren because
I could not frigging build the dang things. Because
they come. I didn't realize. I guess I should
have realized. I guess I should have looked a
little harder at it that they were model kits
that you needed to build. And I was like, oh,
dang it. I love the concept. I didn't know that.
Yeah. You have to build them yourself. They don't
just come the way that the photos show them.
You have to actually assemble them yourself,
which is great for those who can do that. That's
amazing for me. Like I said, if I can find them
on eBay and they're already built, I'll get them.
But other than that, I like looking at them.
They're cool. I think it's a great design. I
think the G1 designs for them are awesome. I
think they look great. I think they look cool.
We have two blockies stories. This is the Galaxy
version Defender Wave 3. This is the Heavy Metal
War full reveal. So we have, as I mentioned,
Shattered Glass Optimus Prime, Jazz, Hot Rod,
Grimlock, Soundwave, Skywarp, Brilliant Megatron,
and Glittering Shockwave. There is a vehicle
for Shattered Glass Optimus Prime. Mix Master,
Scrapper, and Long Haul. And the chase figures
include Metallic Grimlock, Metallic Soundwave,
Six Ravage, Special Galaxy Type Grimlock, and
Special Galaxy Type Soundwave. Now this is interesting
to me because I thought you had to build and
then unbuild, but apparently the vehicles are
separate builds. That's cool. Because I did not
want to have to get a shattered glass Optimus
prime, build them as a robot, take him apart
and build them as a vehicle. I'm glad the vehicle
builds are separate. I mean, they look kind of
cool for like that old chibi type. Yeah. But
so like, if you're looking, I know, I know years
ago, this, this dates me. Remember the, the old
figures that came out, they were like, an inch
and a half, two inches tall that were the, like
that kind of PVC plastic that had like the very
cheap plastic, but they have very good paint
decos. And, um, they had like the prime and power
master prime and like talking about robot heroes.
They weren't robot heroes. They were, I'm going
to have to find a picture of, I used to have
some of these and they, They didn't transform.
They were very similar to this. They weren't
like chibi, though. They were like accurate sizing,
but they were like really tiny figures. And the
arms and the legs could pop off and the head
could rotate. Yeah. And that was about it. And
so that's what these remind me of, although they
remind me more of a more articulated version
of it, but better in some ways. Yeah. And then
the second part of the Blockies stories is that
Galaxy version Wave 7 Transformers 1 official
images. So these are all characters from Transformers
1. These seem to be larger than the Blockies
that we just talked about. Yeah, these seem like
they put more effort into them. Not saying that
the other ones are bad. I do like that. They
did a really good job with them. I don't have
anything against those figures. They are pretty
cool. These are more... Honestly, I prefer these
blockies over the transforming figures we got
for the line. Yeah. These have so much better
paint decos and just... and design to them, I
genuinely, like if I was going to get any of
the Transformers 1, these would be it. Yeah.
Yeah, these look very cool. That shockwave is
amazing. I like the Megatrons, obviously. Obviously.
Especially the metallic one. Yeah. But yeah,
these are cool. Yep, yep, yep. Absolutely. And
then moving on, we have the... This is one of
the other series going on presently on Takara
Tomy's YouTube channel. They have Transformers
Wild King. Yep. Which is... a cg animated transformer
show that's airing i want to say they're airing
like weekly or bi -weekly or something but they've
got a lot of transformers content on there so
it's kind of hard to keep track of what goes
where yeah um but yeah they they've it looks
like they've only got five episodes and it looks
like the sixth one or something should be coming
out soon uh but we get we get a multitude of
different characters here and I know we've lightly
touched on the figures before because this was
in March. Yeah. I'm waiting hopefully for a dub.
Yeah. Of this or at least a subtitle. I do like
that they have Prime and Megatron's head are
pretty spot on and then they have some of the
other design aspects that are similar and then
they basically made Prime and Megatron into combiners.
Yeah. Of course, Megatron's turning into a tank.
Of course. Yeah. But I don't know. I mean, some
of these are pretty neat. They kind of remind
me of, in a way, like Big Lots Transformers.
Very much so. Like back in the day. They very
much look like that. Yeah. And then you get like
a T -Rex character, which turns into something.
God, you could repaint that as you -know -who.
Yep. I'm looking at the one image of just the
T -Rex just by himself in the T -Rex mode. Or
just leave him as the T -Rex and repaint him.
Uh -huh. Don't even use the... Yeah, and then
just 3D print a new head. Uh -huh. Yeah. But
yeah, I find it interesting anyway. It's nothing
I would probably collect, but... No, not for
us. I'm sure it's for other people who are watching
the thing, and I have no interest in... Like
you said, unless there are subtitles or unless
there's going to be an English dub done, I have
no... And honestly, I don't want... I don't know.
That Optimus just... That truck mode is just
too weird. That doesn't look like... So his...
Not visor. The windshield. The windshield. My
brain doesn't function anymore, folks. It looks
like a piece of gold plastic. It doesn't look
like a windshield, because I've never seen a
windshield that color. Looks like Bumblebee pissed
inside his cab. Not kidding. I am Optimus Prime.
We have had humans inside the cab, drunk and
running wild. That's right. Why you gotta do
that for, Sam? Come on, Sam, you're better than
that. It was Sam's mom, remember? She was on
the reefer. She was on the reefer. She's eating
them brownies. Yep. No, I agree, though. Like,
this and the cyber world, I think... I mean,
these are obviously not marketed towards us.
They're marketed towards kids and, like, the
playability and the combiner. They're neat for
what they are. Yeah. And again, folks, you know,
we get it. Not everything is for everybody, but...
I would go more towards the cyber world than
I would towards the wild King stuff. I, I concur.
And although, although these are more articulated,
so I don't know, like that's, that's where it
kills me. I'm saying just by the look of it.
Yeah. I understand our articulation. Yes, I agree.
But cyber world gives me that G2 vibe. Yeah.
And then, you know, this this gives me like a
G1 that got mixed into a beast world somewhere.
Like, yeah, I mean, they're not they're not bad.
I but I digress here. So, you know, the Shizuka
Hobby Show 2025 displayed. There's a number of
articles we have on this as it's quite interesting.
We have. The Devastator figures, all separate.
Yep. And then we have a new Optimus Prime, the
generation style. Yeah. With some metallic. I
mean, he looks cool. I still have, and this is
on me, I still have a soft spot for MP01. Yep.
Even though he wasn't 100 % accurate, I still...
that to me was like the epitome of cool and i
got him for 60 bucks when he came out because
he was at target yep um but no i mean this one's
neat too and it's it's more of a stylized version
updated prime for today's era and i i get that
um and then we get the the heart of steel optimus
prime and uh starscream yes which I wasn't a
huge fan of that comic line. No. But it is cool
to see Studio Series 86 Devastator and seeing
the Age of the Primes, Trypticon and Skybite
and yeah, just multitude of different figures.
And these are more so meant for us than the other
ones. Oh yeah, absolutely. Yeah, it's nice seeing
them all there together. It does look like a
cool display. Yeah, that Trypticon. Oh, boy.
Yeah, he's a beastie. He's a beastie. He is.
It'd be cool to see the Devastator, though. I've
got a huge one for combiners, but it looks epic.
There was nothing like... seeing that for the
first time oh no there was nothing like in 84
85 seeing them do that for the first time in
that say what you will about however many origins
devastator and the constructor cons had in the
generation one cartoon series every time they
did the combination and obviously specifically
in Transformers the movie, seeing them do it
inside Astro Train, but more specifically when
they did it in Autobot City to, you know, Constructicons,
unite! And all that. Just absolutely love it.
And we've been waiting 40 -something years for
a full -on masterpiece. Ever since that damn
gift set in, like I said, 84, 85, whenever the
gift set came out for the six Constructicons
to make Devastator back in the old days, we have
been waiting for a Masterpiece Constructicon
set ever since then, and they're finally giving
it to us. You or I may not have that Masterpiece
figure, but we still can look at it and appreciate
it and say, They finally did it. They finally
gave it to us. And it is amazing and awesome
and so damn cool. It's kind of about time. Yep.
To be perfectly fair. Yep. Well, that's what
anniversaries are for, don't you know? But yeah,
the. The prime has me the most enthused, but
again, it's not something I would. jump at because
it's not my prime, but we'll get to my prime
later. The other thing that kind of stood out
to me about this whole hobby show, aside from
the official release stuff, was the fact that
Transformers is doing so many crossovers now.
We've had crossovers with Power Rangers, Ninja
Turtles, and Back to the Future, Knight Rider.
Ghostbusters. Yep. And so now we're getting into
anime. Yep. So they're having one with Neon Genesis
Evangelion, which I'm not 100 % familiar with
most of these that are being mentioned, just
because I don't frequent them. I don't know what
it's being turned into. But there's one for that.
that I am just lightly touching on. There's one
for Zoids. Yep. And Zoids, Diaclone, and Transformers,
and it's Shield D Prime is what they're calling
it. And it's kind of cool. It turns into like
a Zoids -type character. It's Optimus Prime,
and he's almost like, I mean, you get all the
metallic stuff on him, but then they've given
him a lot of influence from Prime. But then he's
got the soldier part that can go in the chest
and into the head of the beast. Yep. So he turns
into kind of the like a saber -toothed tiger
almost type thing, which I believe he did in
Masterforce as well. After he stopped being convoy.
But that one looks kind of neat. For what it
is. And then there's another one with Macross.
Yeah. It looks like Prime's got a guitar. Yes.
And he turns into a jet. Yeah, it's the Takara
Tomy Synergex Series Macross 7 crossover with
Transformers Basara Convoy Grey Prototype. So.
Yeah, it's kind of neat to see all these different
variations, even though they're totally unrelated.
I mean, it makes sense. If you can turn it into
a Transformer, it just makes it that much more
cool. Absolutely. And then moving on somewhat
out of toys until we get to the next part. is
the Transformers Eternal War mobile game. Did
you watch the trailer for this? No, I didn't
even realize there was a trailer until I scrolled
down. So, I mean, regardless, it's it's it's
pretty cool what it what it looks like. And I
just I wish that we got. access yeah the closed
beta for australia and new zealand uh started
recently yep yep because the the visuals for
it are spectacular the cgi is great it just it
makes me look at it and go why can't we have
this as a series yeah it almost looks like the
war for cybertron stuff yeah considering what
mobile phones can do with gaming now yeah this
is amazing Holy crap. Wow. And it's G1 characters.
They're going to have more of the nostalgia there.
I hope there's another trailer coming because
17 seconds is too damn short. I know. It was
good, wasn't it? Yeah. And it's only in select
territories right now. Yeah. Like I mentioned,
Australia and New Zealand is the open, the closed
beta currently. Yeah, and then it's being extended
to other territories, Denmark, Finland, Iceland,
Norway, Sweden, Singapore, and the Philippines,
and it's only available on Android devices at
the moment. Yes! Which is a first, because 90
% of the time, everything is Apple first. But
see, that's the thing with this is that there's
no way Apple would. That's why that this is Android
only is because it's Transformers. It's robots.
It's guns. It's the Apple doesn't want guns on
its platform. I don't know if they have the other
game Earth Wars. I wonder if that's on iOS. I
think it is. I'm not sure. But, yeah, no, like,
bring this to the, like, why didn't Hasbro or
whomever is, I forget who is doing this. And
it doesn't say, I don't think it, does it say
who is actually producing this? Anyway, yeah,
they should have brought this to the U .S. And,
like, along with, like, like the. I understand
the first closed beta test was for Australia
and New Zealand, but when they, you know, more
territories, the U .S. should have been the first
to come. Like, you could also do it in Denmark,
Finland, Iceland, and all that, but, you know,
bring it to the U .S. as well. Come on, people.
Especially since it's Android only. Like, for
now. well yeah for now it's it says for now which
means it'll take a lot longer to get approved
over there but earth earth wars is on ios oh
it is okay yeah so but yeah i mean the graphics
in it look look pretty cool uh you've you've
got all these different ways of doing challenges
you can have the teams it's like it almost took
earth wars upgraded it and then also kind of
mixed it with the Forge to Fight. It turned it
into kind of an RPG, like almost a Final Fantasy
thing, but with Transformers. So it looks neat.
Yeah. Yeah, it does. It looks very cool. And
like I said, that trailer was, like, I get it.
It's a teaser trailer, and it teased us enough,
but 17 seconds for a teaser trailer? Like, 30
seconds, please. Like, at least 30 seconds. Come
on. For a teaser trailer. But, yeah. Moving into
the realm of comic books, we've got Skybound's
Energon Universe second anniversary cover artwork.
Skybound updates your June pull list with a preview
of Connecting Energon Universe second anniversary
variant covers. In celebration of the second
anniversary of the Energon Universe, this June,
fan favorite Energon Universe cover artist Jason
Howard from Super Dinosaur and Annalisa Leone
from Invincible Universe Battle Beast will be
drawing three... Mural Anniversary covers that
spotlight the beloved characters from G .I. Joe,
Transformers, and Void Rivals, including the
recently revealed Hound, Wheelie, and Matt Tracker.
These will be available as open -to -order variant
covers for Transformers No. 21 out June 11, 2025,
G .I. Joe No. 8 out June 18, and Void Rivals
No. 20 out June 25, 2025, each connecting set.
Features a full color and black and white variant
cover. So, yeah. This looks cool as hell. And,
yeah, I just absolutely love it. I think it's
great. I'm very much looking forward to this.
I don't know if I would get the full connectings.
I mean, obviously, I'm not getting the physical
copies, unfortunately, but if they had sold this
as a specific print, separately i would get this
but i gotta tell you i really i should never
scroll past any tfw article after the additional
images oh my god i forgot how much of a toxicity
the tfw comment sections are oh my god look I
know I've had brain damage my whole life, folks,
but man, two seconds reading the comments under
this post. And it gives you brain damage. I really
felt like my personality chip was removed. And
I really felt like Gears, like, if you guys don't
give me my personality chip, Megatron's in rough
shape on these graphics. I genuinely do want
to read it from the start of this line. I had
zero... When I started reading IDW after I read
it, you know, after reading Marvel and then DreamWorks
or Dreamwave, I had attempted IDW. And other
than their spotlights and their Beast Wars content,
I really didn't like them. Yeah. In any of it.
Like, I just it just didn't grasp me. It didn't
pull my attention. This. just based on what I've
heard and some of the stuff I've noticed and
I've read on seems like it could be fun. And
so like, I almost want to like dig my heels into
the first, you know, we're gonna, because we're
going to do it in trade. Like we always do. So
for those that don't know, and this is me going
to be self -promoting for other things. Jesse
Early, a .k .a. Matrix Prime. Y 'all know him.
TFWire back in the day. He started up his own
comic book podcast, another comic review. He's
got me and he's got Ryan the Uneven Flow Merkley
doing stuff. And it's mainly me and Jesse doing
the Energon Universe. But we started an Energon
Universe podcast where we're reviewing everything
in the Energon Universe. Ryan basically comes
on and talks Transformers with us on the Transformers
issues. And we're about to record issue 20 of
the series. And we've been recording issue by
issue. So for you and I, if you wanted to do
it, you and I, we can do it by trade. So that
way you don't have to worry about single issue,
single issue, single issue. And we're here. That
would be cool. For the next infinite whatever.
So we can do the trades in the pull bag and that'll
be fine once I get Joe Reed caught up on turtles
and whatever. So whatever, we'll figure it out.
But anyway, what I can tell you is if you want
any kind of spoiler, go listen to any of the
Another Comic Review episodes of the Transformers
stuff and you'll hear our opinions there. I got
to tell you, I was brand new to Daniel Warren
Johnson's writing. He wrote Do a Powerbomb. He
wrote some other stuff. But I was brand new to
him as a writer. And I liked his take. I thought
it was interesting. I thought it was cool. But
after the 18th issue, I was like, okay, I can't
wait until the 25th or 26th issue. When they're
going to switch writers and have somebody else
come on the book because I'm so done with this
guy. Wasn't that it was bad writing. It was just
that I was ready for the story to end and move
on kind of thing. Yeah, I can get that. It's
not bad. It's just that the story started for
me just started to drag. And the problem is with
how. skybound entertainment under image comics
how they did certain things where specifically
what they did was they took so we all know most
of us know issue one through five or issue one
through six that's usually a full story arc And
then you have issues 7 through 12. That's a full
story arc of comics. And then you have 13 to
18 and blah, blah, blah. So that way you have
six issues per trade paperback when it becomes
collected. Well, Skybound, in their infinite
wisdom, decided to do a Starscream origin of
what happened to Starscream in issues 13 and
14. Why? You'll figure it out when we get to
it in the trades. But it's one of those things
where the second story arc ended. And then the
third story arc picked up. But it picked up with
the origin of Starscream. But that's not where
we left the... Like, it just completely picks
up. And they're doing that even more now with
how the... It's weird how they're doing it. Instead
of doing a separate one -shots or spotlights
like IDW used to do, they're putting it into
the main book, and it's so stupid. So that's
my other big gripe about Skybound with Transformers.
Other than that, for the most part, it's been
mostly good. I've enjoyed most of it. We'll see.
I don't want to detract you. I want us to have...
I mean, hell, you and I have talked each other
into worse things. True. We've done worse things
on this network in the last 16 years. But yeah,
we'll do that in trade. We could start doing
it whenever because Volume 1 and Volume 2 are
already out. So we could do a... ATTF, TPB crossover,
whatever. But yeah, so that's the June solicitations
for Void Rivals and Transformers for these Energon
Universe second anniversary is coming up and
they're doing this connecting cover, which is
very, very cool. And then the last thing I have
is going back to Toys for the News, which is
possible. Possible! First look at Age of the
Primes Alpha Trion's alt mode. OK, so he's a
ship. I'm kind of excited for it. Yeah. I also
was looking at it. I'm like, oh, the alt mode
kind of works for my Megatron. Of course, it
all comes back to Megatron. Well, it almost works
for the one that I. made out of Galvatron. Yeah.
Because then I could have him transform. Yep.
And it would bury things in just right. And so,
yeah, I was like, oh, this could work. This could
actually function properly. I mean, if nothing
else, I could just replace the legs so that it
does that, which is what the days of future past
Megatron does however you never know Hasbro may
in their infinite wisdom decide to actually make
the official figure because I mean I've I've
been I've noticed as I pick up certain figures
the companies tend to make them. Yeah. So like,
for instance, the Captain Kirk from Star Trek
Generations. Yeah. They announced from the cell
company that they're making them. Oh, nice. And
I had just kit bashed one. so yeah so you like
i said you never know you never know so i'm i'm
hoping that uh asbro actually makes one so i
probably won't get it but i i always look because
i'm like oh this this could work Uh, cause it's
like, if the price is right, it's like, I could
turn J axis into the same figure, like doing
that, but there's parts of them that doesn't
work. And I was like, well, I could get a vector
prime, but then again, it's similar issue. So
it's, it's like, I'll just kind of leave it and
then see what happens. Uh, it's kind of like
I got, uh, the armored Cobra commander from the
Deke series. Yeah. And now Hasbro's like, oh,
we're going to make a G .I. Joe declassified,
you know, fully articulated, normal sized. And
I was like, dang, you bastards. Yeah. I'm like,
well, I mean. It didn't I mean, it was like eight
bucks to get. So, I mean, it wasn't that bad,
but I'm like, I can get the tall one. And then
I have the good one. And that's the one that's
always like kind of rung with me. So, like, it's
cool. Yeah. But, yeah, getting into kind of the
last topic and the meat of it, I know we've,
at least I have, battered the Studio Series Optimus
Prime pretty consistently. Yes, yes, you have.
I've not been nice about it. No, no, you haven't.
And I do give Hasbro kudos for the figure. It
is warranted. It is needed. And I've heard just
based on some leaks that have kind of come out
that the new Studio Series 86 Megatron will be
new and not a retool. Yep. And they figured out
a way to completely hide the tank aspects and
make him look like he did in the movie. But he
still transforms to a tank. I gotcha. So I'll
be interested to see what they do with it. Just
because, again, it's that. But this Prime, like
we mentioned in a previous episode when we were
kind of dogging it, more so me, like you were
like, oh, this is great. You know, we finally
get to do a series Optimus Prime and he looks
like the movie. And then I was like, well, it
looks like cheap plastic. They didn't go all
out in the paint, you know. I mean, from a certain
angle, they went all out in the paint. But I
mean, yeah, on closer inspection, they could
have done a little bit better. But for what it
is and for the price point that it is like, and
we're going to get into this over price point,
but just looking at BBTS specifically, $90. They
could have put a little bit more into the paint,
but what for the paint that's here? I guess it's
not that, like, I don't know. But again, we've
been waiting, what, 40 years for this? 41 years
for this? I mean, technically, you know, whatever.
I don't know. When I first saw this, when we
first did the initial episode a couple months
ago, or however the hell long ago it's been,
last year, when we did that episode, I was excited
for this because of the images that they showed
us and because of some of the stuff. And I've
since seen some in -hand images and other things.
And I still like it. I still think it's cool.
I still would love to have this. Do I want it
right now? No, not really. But I still like the
Hasbro version that they've given us because
I don't think they're going to give us anything.
I don't think they're going to do anything more.
No, and I agree with you. I don't see them doing
anything else. I think this is the best version
that we're ever going to get in our lifetime.
Well, unless Takara Tomy does a premium finish
in like a year or two. Yes, but I'm saying like,
and again, we've talked about this for All Things
Transformers, August 9th, 2008. 2025 17 years
we've talked about this for 17 damn years yes
obviously hasbro does what they do and yes obviously
takara will do usually the takara version is
either metallic or glitter or flocked or glow
in the dark or whatever yes obviously there but
you get my point though but like For us here
in the U .S. to go out to Walmart or Target or
BBTS or wherever to get this right now, to have
a Transformers the Movie Optimus Prime in your
hands right now for $90, this is the best we're
going to get. And for the best that we're going
to get right now, it's pretty damn good. There
are a few nitpicks, but overall... You know,
it's what we've been waiting for since we were
six years old and you were a gleam in your mother's
eye. I mean, I and again, I'm not trying to knock
on it. I do like the figure. I think it's it's
a marvel of. Engineering. I do legitimately think
that it's cool. However, however. I've got the
DNA designs one pulled up first. Yes. Yeah. So
DNA designs. These are these are typically. They
end up running about. Forty bucks, usually. Which
is a bit much for this, but. That's typically...
I mean, they're like $30, $40. We'll end up seeing
what it actually costs because it's a pre -order
right now. But they do have a replacement Optimus
Prime head. They have a replacement back cover
for his semi -cab. And then they have the Walther
P38, Megatron, a couple of extra pieces, and
then they've got the arm and fusion cannon, so
you can make the current Optimus Prime from the
comics. Yep. Which is neat. Which, that is kind
of cool, but that's fine for making the arm from
the comics, but I stop. I like the head though.
The head is for me is where it's at because that
looks like the 86 head as opposed to the one
that's coming with the 86. Like if you're, if
you're looking at the difference, it, the, just
the head design is different. Yeah. Like they
could have almost taken the one that went on
the, uh, forget which version of it it's like
target prime okay um they could have almost taken
the head off of that like the christmas prime
or target prime like taking that head and used
it because it had the right articulation to it
but yeah i don't know i'm i'm a little torn this
this does make it interesting and give you options
if you're not happy with it. Um, just like I
wasn't happy with my legacy Megatron and I got
a third party head and put it on there because
they had robots in disguise, beast Megatron.
Right. So, so I get where fans are coming from.
And some of these scenarios, it's like, all right,
well, we, you know, it'd be nice to have the
correct head. Yeah. But no, this is kind of neat,
just having it as an option and then having the
current Skybound Optimus arm as an option as
well. Yeah. I think that's now going to be a
new thing with every Optimus that they ever make
at this point, because all of these third -party
versions that you've linked me to, I think almost
all of them. Except for one. Except for one,
except for the TF Direct one, all have the Megatron
arm with fusion cannon, which I'm not complaining
about. I'm just stating the thing that I think
that's now going to be a thing because they did
that in Skybound. The only thing I think is super
weird is the next comparison here, which is the...
Fourth party MD -005 SS -86 Optimus Prime with
trailer. So it looks really cool. The trailer,
the Megatron arm with the gun with the purple
effect out of the blast effect looks cool. Everything
about this looks really cool up until you get
down to the fifth picture. i'm like wait when
does optimus come with wings and i looked at
the head and i'm like no just no well it's funny
that they didn't use this wasn't this in the
cartoon yes there was a it's a prime i think
it's a prime problem is the episode that that
Starscream dressed up as Optimus, which is a
nice homage, but I wasn't looking at the head
at first. I was looking at the wings, and I'm
like, wait, why does Optimus Prime have wings?
And then I look, oh, right. Interesting. So you've
got him as Starscream and Megatron. Huh. Interesting.
So, yeah, I mean, that one's cool. And then they
have the damaged Optimus Prime from the movie.
Yep. Where he's been gouged in the side and it's
got the crippled face. Yep. Which I thought that
was kind of neat. What's funny about it is, again,
the attention to detail to the head. Yeah. I
think I could get behind the Hasbro one. even
with its miscolorings of some of the stuff or
lack thereof, if they had the proper head. Yeah.
I think that's where it really throws me. I think
I could get over the rest of it. Because, I mean,
I don't know if I would go to the effort of repainting
him just because it's, you know, prime. Right.
But I think what really throws me is the head.
I think that's the key. issue for me of where
i i had to draw the line yeah um but this this
looks cool and then they have a couple of different
chest plates like they have one that's clear
and then they have the although it could be a
different production shot um because then they
have like an air conditioner on the back of prime's
cab in one of the shots and then if you scroll
down like further it looks like I mean, he's
got all the different blast effects. He's got
different glass. He's got different damage pieces,
different heads. So it looks like it comes with
a regular head of Prime and then it comes with
the damaged head of Prime and then the actual
head that came with the figure. So you can do
all of the above. And if you want the trailer
and this does have the import costs. associated
with it. However, it it's going to be about the
same price as the studio series. Yeah. Like he's
going to be roughly 90. So it's an option. for
people that are not happy with it and it looks
like they did a little bit better in some of
the paint deco but i mean again it's still that
kind of bright color it's not that much different
it's like do you want the accessories or don't
you that's kind of where it boils down yep um
and then and then we get to like the new age
yep over at the chosen prime yep which which
good i was gonna say like he's got A little bit
closer of a head that comes with it. I mean,
because it's a totally different sculpt. It's
not using the 86 mold or anything. Yeah. And
he's got the Megatron arm. He's got the damage
head. He's got darker paint in different in different
articulations. He transforms to he's got the
Matrix. He's got, you know, the Megatron hands
and then the prime hands and. blue energon axe
and then he's got the the damaged face optimus
prime yep uh 100 bucks for this uh price does
not include tariff surcharge yeah i think i think
july 25th 2025 i think it's cool but i think
for for the price i i think you're better off
with either the the 86 prime like the actual
legit version or you're better off with the other
version that comes with you know the star screen
components yeah i like this overall aesthetic
yeah as far as like it just looks clean yeah
it looks cleaner it looks better it like it's
shiny without having to have a oh this is a Target
exclusive shiny chrome Optimus Prime with a shiny
chrome Megatron arm, blah, blah, blah. I like
the way this looks more as far as the way the
figure is, but... Yeah, no. And then this last
one, I don't know about this. First of all, there's
only one picture. That's a problem for me. And
oh, that's Autobot symbol on the. Yeah, there's
only one. There's only one photo for now because
it's still a production still. OK. The plan with
this is they're going to actually have die cast.
OK, so like the smokestacks, the grill, the gas
canisters, the wheels. And then so they're actually
going to. have the rest of the effort that's
not put in with the others um it's in that regard
like it's i'm not knocking them like as far as
like again it's still a knockoff of what hasbro
did and ultimately hasbro did great i just feel
like they could have done more yeah um it's just
when i saw this photo when i looked down closer
at the cab i was like huh what's high q do oh
that's an autobot symbol whoops yeah yeah that's
just that's just then thrown the graphic i know
it's a graphic i was like wait a minute what
oh that's not what i thought it was but yeah
i mean this one appeals to me for a variety of
reasons um one it has diecast two it's cheaper
three it doesn't have a trailer Which is why
it's cheaper. So, I mean, I'm more interested
in this one. He's also a third of the cost. There
you go. So, it's like $30. So, I'm like, oh,
so for $30, I can get Studio Series 86 Prime,
get the aesthetics I want. and not have a lot
of the same you know yeah i mean either way i'm
gonna end up running into the issue with the
um with the paint decos being off or you know
not being dark enough or something to that degree
which again like i said i can deal with that
it's and i think i would deal with the prime
like i would I would go a hundred percent still
for the legit prime. If it didn't come with the
trailer. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's, I mean, that's
the only reason I didn't get laser Optimus prime.
And that was one I I'd wanted since childhood,
like back when KB toys was open. Uh, and I've
almost picked it up on eBay, but again, like
I just, I didn't, I it's more so I don't want
to store the trailer. I don't have room for it.
And when it, when it boils down to it, it's like,
I don't, I don't, I'm not opposed to the trailer.
I just, I don't want to have to store the trailer.
And that's, I think that's where my beef with
some of these new primes come in. And that's
the other thing, like the, the Netflix prime
with came without the trailer. And I was like,
this is why i'm getting it like i saved 25 and
now it's it's like hasbro's like oh we're gonna
we're gonna sell extra plastic it's like you're
you're the same company that'll sell you know
toxitron and you know nemesis prime and everything
else different paint decos but you won't you
won't sell them without the trailer and try and
make another cash grab without printing extra
stuff It's like, okay, where does this logically
make sense? But everybody wants a trailer. I
think, too, there's a point where you can only
have so many Optimus Prime trailers for however
many figures have come out. And I think that's
where my beef is. I would be more apt to get
a trailer. I didn't have to buy multiple to get
different versions of Prime. So the way I look
at it is every... Okay, so if there are a multitude
of Optima... Optimae. Optimae. Yeah, Optimae.
So if there are a multitude of Optimae, so you've
got our Optimus, Generation 1 Optimus. You've
got G2 Laser Prime, which is a completely different
deco and design. You've got Pepsi Prime. You've
got Christmas Prime. You've got Shattered Glass
Optimus. You've got whatever other color you
can think of. So just those primes that I mentioned.
Optimus Prime is traditional Generation 1, red,
blue, white, gray, whatever, the one we always
know, shattered glasses, purple, black, blah,
blah, blah. Pepsi Prime is Pepsi colors, so blue,
red, silver, let's say. Christmas Prime is the
Christmas colors, red, white, blue, snow, whatever.
Those to me, the trailers should, and I think
they are. all different colors they're not all
the same it might be the same trailer painted
differently but it's because to me it's all painted
differently even though it's the same trailer
it's different it's not i don't know maybe i'm
wrong i could whatever but like to me it's it's
different because it matches those primes like
you're not going to take the christmas prime
trailer and match him up to ss86 You're not going
to take the Shattered Glass trailer. I don't
even think Shattered Glass Prime even has a trailer
on any of the versions that he's ever. I could
be wrong again. Folks, correct me in the comments,
geekcastradio .com. But it's one of those things
where if Shattered Glass Prime ever did have
a trailer, I'm sure it would be some sort of
black, purple, gray, whatever. You're not going
to match that black, purple, gray trailer up
with the Pepsi Prime. cab, so I don't know. I
mean, I understand why you don't want a trailer,
but it's like, for me, if I want a actual Generation
1 has to be animation accurate to the movie or
to the show, the Hasbro version is the version.
Because it's everything all in one. Especially
since they include Because it's the movie, the
fire stands, the fire effects of him blowing
himself up when they shoot him to transform.
And really, you don't really have to store that
trailer. You could do what they did in one of
the photos where he's standing up and the trailer
is standing up. You could have somebody else
in the med bay. You could have Prime off fighting
Beast Wars Megatron. You could have Waspinator
in the medical bay of Prime's trailer standing
up. So it's technically not really storing it.
It's using it. I don't know. True. I mean, I
can kind of see both perspectives of, you know,
wanting it and not wanting it. Well, I mean,
how many years have we gone without Prime's trailer?
Like, I mean, Prime's trailer in Toys disappears
as much as Prime's trailer did in the cartoon.
So I get it. I understand why you don't want
it. I'm just saying there is a point of if you
really want. The full on experience of having
the genuine article that looks ripped. It's like
that old thing with Law and Order Special Victims
Unit ripped from the headlines, ripped from the
movie. The best version currently ripped from
the movie is Hasbro's version. True. Yeah. So,
I mean, like what I was just. Most of the discussion
was you have options. You do lots of options.
You do. This one will probably be mine, though.
Yeah. Eventually. Yep, yep, yep. So I think that
about wraps this episode of all things Transformers
up. Yep. We are getting ever closer to that 16th
anniversary of the Geekcast Radio Network and
then the 17th anniversary of all things Transformers
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