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Welcome to All Things Transformers, I'm your host Steve Megatron. Joining
me on this adventure into the Transformers fandom
is TFG1 Mike. I am here, and I don't know if
I want to be waiting or not, because yikes, folks,
yikes. Oh, and I'm glad we weren't recording
earlier, because some of the outtakes, folks,
this is going to come into play later when we
get to the topic, but... I literally sat here
at my desk before we started recording. This
is why everyone remembers fans. Basically, I've
turned into an adult fan zone. This is why I
hate machines. This is why I hate real toys.
Tune in later to hear that story. How the hell
have you been? Well, I have a nice conversation
about Prime. later but uh i'm excited for some
of these stories about some of the figures coming
up yes yes we're finally getting some that people
have been really looking forward to so yeah without
further ado uh before we get to the figure talk
we should get to a piece of information that
is awesome. That was updated by, uh, Candace
and Tora on X on Twitter and Facebook and everywhere.
Yep. Yep. Uh, as some may have known, Gary chalk
was, uh, fighting a battle with cancer, uh, lymphoma
to be more specific. and she posted that he wrapped
up his chemo and other stuff a week or so ago,
and so far so good, and he's enduring some side
effects, but things are optimistic. Could be
months before he's back to normal, but yeah,
he seems to be on the other side of it, which
is awesome news for anybody who knows Gary, and
of course Gary himself, and yeah, that's awesome
news. Yeah, it's very, very cool. Very good to
hear. Absolutely love it. Nothing more than we
love around here than good news because it's
really tough when we get bad news, whether it's
the Transformers world or any of the other worlds
that we, you know, these people that bring characters
to life for us or that have brought characters
to life for us or that have touched our lives.
You know, we talk about all kinds of people,
Gary and everybody. You know, it's like if something
happens to them, it's like, oh, my God. You know,
not only do we feel bad because as humans, you
know, you should have sympathy and empathy and
all that and everything else. But it's like.
the dude has done so much not just as optimus
primal as you know in beast wars but he's done
other characters and other things and everything
else but for us specifically it's mainly because
of you know optimus primal in beast wars and
beast machines and and things like that and gary's
just an awesome dude we've had the chance to
interview gary i think you've talked to him once
for beast unleashed and i've talked to him twice
once for beast unleashed and once when Neil and
I were doing pixels in the animation because
we had him on because he was Grounder in one
of the Sonic cartoons. But yes, Gary, awesome
job on chemo and getting that cancer's ass kicked
and all that good stuff. So continued speedy
recovery and all that good stuff. Yep, yep, yep.
So moving on to... The next piece of news that
we have is Transformers Studio Series Leader
Class G1 Megatron. And we finally get stock photos
and inbox photos. Yep. So I combine these two
stories because one is from June 4th. The other
is from June 10th. They're six days apart, but
they're for the same figure. I wasn't going to
have us like, here's the stock photos of it.
And you see Megatron in robot and alt mode, which
he is a tank. He's not a gun. He was never going
to be a gun. Not here in the US anyway. And I
wasn't going to be like, oh, well, here's the,
I said this to you right before we hit record.
I'm like, here's the. Here's the reveal. And
then come back to us, you know, in three stories,
folks, when we can actually, no, we're just going
to roll it all into one. The, I think what I
like about the, other than whoever is doing the,
the box reveal for, oh boy. Okay. Yeah. The box
itself looks really good. I think that looks
cool, but Megatron himself, man, they did a really
good job with this, I think. I am very impressed.
One, I'm glad that he's the leader class figure
price point. I'm glad that he scales well with
the other ones. I love the... snippet from the
movie at the top of the back of the box with
the figure and then the front of the box the
artwork that's kind of faded in there and then
um you get the nice purple background from his
ship yep and then um you get to the the actual
figure and if i didn't know he turned into a
tank yeah i would not know that he turned into
a tank And they did such a superb job. Yeah.
Like, obviously, they had to have creative vision
to recreate the wheel, as it were, with his transformation.
Yeah. Because obviously he can't turn into a
gun. However, the robot mode looks like they
peeled him right out of the film. Yeah, pretty
much. Yeah. and then you look at the the transformation
and how they you know i mean they did a really
good job for the sense that like everything is
folding upon folding upon folding out of part
and then they take the the original back gun
piece and shove it into the the fusion cannon
and then they um they have his uh the original
g1 version on next to it and then he has the
sword on the side and i mean this is this is
a beautiful figure yeah it came out so good there's
a couple of minor paint issues but i mean it's
very very minuscule it's not anything i would
like gawk at like the head sculpt is perfect
yeah the head sculpt is amazing Okay, and you've
talked about this at length over the last X number
of months and years and whatever. Lately, Hasbro
has skimped on paint. They have. We've talked
about this. You've said on the podcast, I can't
even point to a... Look, folks, you're listening
to the sound of my voice. Go back to any other
episode and find Steve talking about paint apps
or lack thereof. I guarantee you he's mentioned
it. So you know how on YouTube, especially with
SEO and everything else and people wanting to
do keywords and everything else, and if you're
on a... on a youtube live stream if we were doing
this live on youtube right now and i wanted to
make sure the algorithm hit everything i said
i would be like look nintendo switch 2 wait 10
seconds nintendo switch 2 like you know what
i mean like it's one of those things where any
of our previous episodes i would say over the
last year of you talking about how you've been
doing your your 3d printing and how you've been
talking about doing your, the stuff that you
do with your figures when you buy them and you
have to, because you want them to be better than
what they are, which is frankly sad. The fact
that we're paying so much money for these figures
and we still feel like the paint apps are lacking.
And my point is to say that, yeah, you're right.
There's a few paint. things here that are me
once you said that i'm like my first response
was gonna be yeah but you can fix that and i
know you will but it's one of those things where
overall though just looking at this it looks
pretty damn good and i don't know and i'm gonna
switch over to the to the to the box because
i was just looking at the figure thing but yeah
the box looks so good I just wish the box images
were, and maybe we'll get better box images,
but in the, in the future beyond this June 10th
story, hopefully, because some of the, two of
these box images are more of a wider shot and
you actually see the person with the box. Like,
no, I just want to see every angle of the box
and see the whole box up close. And I don't.
no offense to the person but i don't care about
seeing the person kind of thing my only thing
is i don't see okay technically he didn't have
okay well it's supposed to be ss86 it's supposed
to be a movie he didn't have the energy mace
in the movie did he okay i was gonna say i don't
see the energy mace that would be my only gripe
with ss86 megatron but since it's not accurate
to the movie and he didn't have it in the movie
it doesn't matter So I just talked myself out
of that folks, but, uh, but yeah, no, uh, this
thing looks amazing. It looks great. I, you're
right. Yeah. Yeah. Any, any, uh, yeah, absolutely.
Well, this will look perfect with my studio series,
86 Optimus prime. Yep. Uh, Which I'll talk more
about that later. So that will mean I will have
my G1 Optimus and Megatron and my G2 Optimus
and Megatron. Yep, yep. And J -Axis. But I've
customized all the G2s. You kind of had to, though.
So my G2 Prime is War for Cybertron Netflix Prime.
Right. And so he didn't come with a trailer.
and I customized the paint job and then added
a G2 prime Autobot symbol, repainted the entire
figure, like full detail, everything. And then
I added his, um, his guns from his G2 trailer.
Cause they're like bigger cannons. And then I
gave him the jet pack from like G1 just cause
it fit. I'm like, Oh, why not? Um, and he's,
um sizing wise he is shorter and smaller than
the studio series prime um but he scales well
with like j -axis which was g2 and then the g2
megatron tank which again i customized that because
he has you know the the chest piece that attaches
and then he has the over the shoulder cannon
which i 3d printed and then um so now i have
those and then once this megatron comes i'll
have G1 Prime and Megatron and then I can kind
of recreate their battle plus I have a third
party Prime head of course you do coming with
that lights up and it's from the movie whereas
so I figured out what I mean we were discussing
it last time a lot of the issue is this Prime
head more so fits like previous like toys or
the comic type aesthetic or like almost like
like g1 g1 yeah i i had said i think it was the
last episode or maybe it was after maybe i said
this off air when we were doing because sometimes
lately folks we just hop on camera either before
or after the recording of the podcast and we
do like behind the scenes stuff and i i showed
you and you showed me and i was like dude you
know what they did it's season one head versus
movie head and i showed you the difference between
the funko pop versions of optimus prime kind
of thing and you're like oh my god you're right
And that's kind of what they did with the SS
86 prime head that they have on him of what you
can buy in the store is it's probably a season
one version of Optimus Prime's head and not the
movie versions. Now I will say that, yeah, there
are a few aesthetics missing, uh, paint wise,
but it's very minuscule. And then seeing it in
hand, It is better than what I expected. Um,
but again, the head, I mean, there's nothing
inherently wrong with it. Uh, but I do feel like
it's, it doesn't fit. It looks more, do you remember,
uh, when they did the, the Transformers, the
movie anniversary DVD thing, and then they had
the, the renewed art or for the, uh, IDW or not.
idw shout factory season uh transformers generation
one season one yeah that's what this prime looks
like yeah for the head and so and so i i was
like well i you know i'd like the actual aesthetic
from the movie this megatron i don't see changing
anything which is rare yeah um i mean yeah i
could paint the feet to make them the darker
gray but uh honestly like i don't like the upper
torso looks perfect yeah so upper torso is great
so i'm just like i think i'll let it pass on
this one like it it looks good enough i mean
um my studio series 86 prime is third party um
so he has no autobot symbol on him so i put one
of my reprolabel autobot symbols that i had nice
on his on his arms and then i'm waiting for the
new head and then other than that it's it doesn't
come with the trailer it's kind of the key component
yeah which to be honest they had the entire thing
for the leader pricing yeah instead of commander
i would have went that route yeah but that's
neither here nor there but um but yeah this megatron
is going to be stellar uh i've never seen studio
series 86 prime in the store i am anticipating
there will be the same story with this guy oh
i'm sure yeah i've rarely seen any of the primes
in in the store yeah so i'm wondering so my only
question is with the with the reveal of the the
reveal story studio series the official stock
images Why there isn't a stock image of the Starscream
thing next to him. So in that story, it shows
five images of Megatron and then one image of
Starscream holding Megatron as a gun. What I
would have liked to have seen is another image
of the Starscream next to the Megatron to see
the size difference of those two things. Cause
I don't know what size that Starscream is. And
I, I don't think it's core class, but, and did
they get rid of core class? Yes. Oh shit. Yeah.
They got rid of that a while ago. So it's just
a locks. It's Voyager. Commander in Titan. Okay.
That's right. Huh? Hmm. Hmm. But that's Studio
Series SS86 Megatron coming soon. I don't know
when, when, but coming soon. I know they say
on a couple of the Japan sites it's supposed
to be like November in Japan. So that means highly
likely. After Christmas. it'll be after christmas
it'll probably be at the beginning of next year
which is fine yeah um i mean i've waited 30 years
or whatever it is 25 years you know yeah since
since the the film i mean it's it's oh god if
we waited since the film that means it's 40 years
because 40 years is next year oh yeah that's
right i'll be turning 40 yes you'll be turning
yes yes You'll be turning 40 next week as of
the recording of this podcast. No, I turned 39.
What? I turned 39. That's right, that's right.
Yeah, next year's 40. Next year's 40, that's
right. Just get that man a cow and name it Norman,
folks. Yeah. It's an old Billy Crystal joke.
You know that this year, this podcast will have
been around... What's the anniversary date this
year? August 9th. Yeah, but... August 8th. 17
years. Yeah, 17 years, yep. That's crazy. I started
this show when I was 22. Yep. You so old. i sold
you sold all right up next we got uh skybounds
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So, yeah, this is coming for compendium format.
It does not say a price, but I'm sure because
it's compendium, it'll be something like 40,
50 bucks. But compendiums are always good for
investment, I believe, because you're getting
just listen to what I just read off for what
you're getting. You're getting so much in one
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you transformers uk issues 9 through 21 29 to
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or compendiums or whatever that's coming uh in
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and the amazon pre -order is available now so
people can check that out and here's where the
take uh probably the longest we're not going
to go through all of this but um tfw 2005 interviewed
hesbro toy designer mark mayer aka mark clonus
on instagram I tried watching, and we will get
to the actual, the recap of the stream recap.
I'm actually going to move the stream recap up
closer to this interview thing because it makes
more sense to do so. So the stream recap we'll
talk about next. I tried watching that stream
recap and as much as I like Mark, I don't know.
But anyway, they, they interviewed him and they
asked him about a bunch of stuff. And all of
these questions were like, this interview was
done June 6th. So this was done before the live
stream was done. And they asked him about specific
generations. They asked him about age of the
primes. They asked him about just a bunch of
stuff. And we're not going to go through all
of this because I think going through all of
this is just crazy. Y 'all can go over to TFW
2005 and read this for yourself. But what I did
like about this was they. They asked him about
Primus and doing that, and they asked him about
a Unicron reissue or a whole new Unicron for
the anniversary. And before I even looked at
his answer for that, I'm like, a whole new Unicron
for the anniversary? Like, the original one wasn't
enough already? Before I even read the man's
answer, I'm sitting here thinking this person,
whoever asked him this question, I'm like, do
you not know that that nearly broke the company?
And that's literally what his answer is. Unicron
broke our lead engineer the first time around.
I'd love to revisit it. It's such an iconic piece,
but I'm not sure it's in the cards just yet.
um there was a beast where's the beast wars question
i sent you uh there was specific generation questions
um yeah there's uh there's one about like super
megatron to go with the star star convoy yeah
um he's like sure why not i love me some megs
and yeah um and then uh Yeah, then we get we
get some other different questions about Titans
and commanders and. Asking about like Star Optimus
again and like TFA Omega Supreme and he was mentioning
about doing it as a Titan. Yep. And then certainly
interest in making updates of toy only characters
like Polar Claw and. banzai tron um this is of
course just trying to make everything fit as
the challenge um are there any plans for beast
wars anniversary next year and what would you
like to make for it personally i'd like to include
some of the weirder obscure beast wars guys like
injector as well as some of the less obscure
ones like depth charge etc so stay tuned the
vac metal metallics are a challenge in production
nowadays still scratching my head on those i
find it interesting that they don't know how
to do it anymore like and i say this with the
utmost respect because like you look at like
star trek badges yep they have vac metal i mean
because they they chip they peel you look at
third party transformers and beast were specifically
and somehow the trans metals have this flawless
vac metal on them and i sit here and i go Why
can't Hasbro do it? I mean, I get it. It's probably
a massive cost because I realize the process
of it. I've watched enough YouTube videos on
people that have done their own vac metal. There's
a definite process that they have to do to these
figures and to the certain components. When they've
3D printed them, for instance, they'll put them,
sand them down, get them perfect, get them...
you know kind of a a certain paint level and
then they attach this like special paint that
adheres to metal in certain circumstances they
soak it and then they you know it's cured with
you know an electrical thing current and metal
and then it adheres to it and then it's it cures
and then you know so on and so forth so i get
the issue and i have like i've seen old beast
wars toys that still have the back metal on them
and look fine and then there's other ones where
they just peeled and flaked horribly um so i
mean i get that it's a challenge in production
but i wonder if it's a cost issue and so they're
weighing how can we paint this in a way that
makes it look metallic without actually being
metallic so it holds up longer yep isn't there
a metallic paint now that makes it i don't know
makes it well metallic paint would make it look
metallic but like isn't there a good enough metallic
paint that isn't so expensive these days so like
i've like i've just done like with my transmittal
2 megatron the the wings i painted it with gold
paint like and it gives it somewhat of a metallic
look it's not 100 there but it's it looks better
than that see -through crap that was on them
And then I used this, it's almost like a glaze
or like, like they have, um, red metallic flake
is what it's called. Right. And I used that on,
uh, my Transmetal 2 Megatron. And he, I mean,
he's glossy, which I feel like if they just added
gloss to some of the spots that are supposed
to be metallic, that would fix some of the problem.
But I feel like there's ways that they could
kind of shirk it and give it that shine without
necessarily making it the transmetal, you know,
vacuum, you know, vacuum metallic. I don't know.
I would like to see them try it again, especially
if they were like, hey, let's make an updated
Transmetal Megatron. Yeah. You know, because,
I mean, that one is like the bane of everyone's
existence of the original figure. Yeah. It wasn't
terrible, but the scaling on it was horrid. Like,
it was not scaled very well with even the Optimus
Primal of that generation. of transmittal and
and then on top of it like i mean inferno dwarfed
over him and they were kind of head to head and
you know dinobot even dwarfed over him and it's
it's kind of like you know there was that and
then he also had the issue with the uh gold plastic
syndrome of the gps or in his case it actually
wasn't gold plastic it was the brown plastic
yeah which was super brittle and it just over
the years like whatever that plastic was they
use it just dried up and it would stop working
with the hinges and then it would just seize
up and it would snap off and i've had numerous
ones of those uh i've i've had four of them over
the years of that particular figure the takara
one didn't break but it also was like 200 and
then it's like okay so i can either get a takara
one which is marginally better looking than the
Hasbro one, which was the one that broke or I
can get a third party, which is show accurate.
And so that's where I would like to see like
Hasbro do like kind of a show accurate, you know,
like leader class transmittal Megatron. Yeah.
to kind of go with their Transmetal 2. I mean,
I'm not knocking their Transmetal 2 one. Yeah,
no, no, no, I know. And I hated the face sculpt.
Yeah. But overall, like, the structure was there.
And, like, they did great with Silverbolt. They
did great with Tigerhawk. They did great with,
you know, the work for Cybertron, like Dinobot
and Rattrap and Primal. But then you had outliers
like Cheetor and Rattrap. that were or in rhinox
that were kind of like meh and we got a good
tiger tron and a good air razor i mean so i mean
there were there were hits and misses in both
lines and i i just would like to see what they
do with you know depth charge for one because
i have the original depth charge which is technically
not mine it's my son's he just well and i say
that because like he's like i don't want to store
it he's like i know you like it so it can be
in your shelf but when i want to use it i want
to use it and i'm like no it's fair game yeah
and um but i would like to see when it's proportionately
yeah but also that way it's something you all
share now it's it's something that you know if
he ever wants like he knows it's there he knows
he can go to dad and say oh dad by the way i
want to put this character in acid yeah Not saying
I want to, I want to, I want to put this on my
own shelf. Like, okay. Yeah. Like it's here.
Yeah. I'm not saying he's going to come in there
and say, Hey, I want to give this thing an, a
real acid bath, but like, you know how kids,
at least kids in our day used to, we used to
pretend all the time to put toys in acid, quote
unquote, acid baths. Like, you know, get some
boiling water and just boil it, boil star streams
arm off or something or whatever. hey look folks
i'm i'm from a generation where we actually use
our imaginations i'm sorry maybe i've just watched
too much forensic files i don't know but yeah
uh so there there is that on the horizon uh they
said could we see any kind of exclusive line
for the beast wars anniversary and he says we
will see yeah and then they kind of go into other
you know bunch of other stuff yeah well and then
they said are you interested in doing a more
accurate g2 megatron he's like yes i love all
megatrons megatrons yes and that made me go these
machines yes these machines yeah and then i i
love later somebody asked the question somebody
asked the question what about beast machines
blah blah and his answer is well are we talking
machine wars if we're talking machine wars let's
talk so because his his thing is machine wars
so because you know funny enough machine wars
for anybody that doesn't know what it is it's
basically the like the g2 cyber jets and then
a bunch of specific g2 figures and g1 figures
from the tail end of the line that were european
only releases and they repurposed them and called
he repainted them gave you know like star scream
is another character and and that you know and
they have bodies that don't necessarily resemble
them uh and they're they're in this line called
machine wars which had a very similar aesthetic
to beast wars but it was machines and there was
a kb toys exclusive line and i my brothers and
i all had figures from it and like megatron was
a jet and like a small um basic size jet that
was the flip transform which is how a lot of
them were like thundercracker skywarp and megaplex
and megatron were all that way and then you had
like hubcap and hoist that were the flip transform
and mirage and prowl which were race cars and
they were flip transform then you had um sandstorm
which was a helicopter and you had optimus prime
that was like thunder clash in g2 and then um
starscream was a giant black jet um which i had
and then soundwave was like a tank um no cassettes
just a tank uh with a shoulder cannon and uh
but no the line was great like i loved it i loved
the premise of it and i always wanted a show
for it but or a comic and yeah honestly i i would
i would eat that up i don't know so that's the
thing skybound if you're listening hopefully
you're listening but if you're listening why
don't we have a machine wars like you could do
like i understand you get to create the whole
mythos from the ground up like there's nothing
yeah exactly because there isn't anything existing
and you don't have to worry about anything you
could use whatever you wanted to use that's that's
my point exactly Like there isn't anything you
have to pull from. And I would think doing it
in a comic form would be much easier than having
to get an animated show greenlit or a live action
movie greenlit, whatever. Yeah. So, I mean, I
would, I would, like I said, I would eat that
up. I would, I would be super, I would be super
stoked for a comic of it or. um a show or just
re -envisioned updated figures um it just yeah
i i would i would love it yeah that would be
cool all right what's next next we have the stream
recap oh the stream recap all right so We're
not really going to talk. We're not really going
to talk. We're going to talk about the stream
recap, but we're going to talk about what the,
um, we're going to talk about age of the primes
wave three plus exclusives first look. Cause
the stream recap is essentially the, those two
things are exactly the same damn thing. So in
the, in that other story link with the, the wave
three has all of the images from the stream recap
for the most part. As far as I can tell, because
they're all the same damn images, as far as I
can tell. But the stream recap. Okay, boys and
girls, it's time to sit down. It's time to put
some earplugs in and get ready because I'm about
to go on a rant. Do people not know English anymore?
And I'm not talking about kids who need to learn
it. In school. Talking about actual adults. And
it can't be me. It can't be. I read this four
times. And I'm like, what are you talking about?
The title of the story. Transformers June 25
stream recap. Full stop. I don't need to read
anything else. The rest of the title is Aerial
Bots, Primes, Revenge of the Fallen, Decepticon
Pack, and more. But that first half. Transformers,
June 25, stream recap. And I'm sitting here thinking,
okay, maybe someone from England wrote this.
Maybe this was blah, blah, blah. I looked at
my calendar twice, and I'm like, it's not even
June 25 yet. And I'm sitting here thinking. Oh,
you mean June 2025. Do you people not know how
to fucking write titles? Really? Seriously? You've
been in this shit for 25 fucking years. Are you
fucking kidding me? Oh my God. My head hurts.
Like literally I sat here. getting the news stories
ready for us to do this podcast i sat here for
20 minutes reading this title trying to make
sense i'm like oh that's what they mean and then
i figured it was somebody maybe just joined the
team of staff writers or whatever and i'm like
no it's the guy that runs the freaking website
that's ran the freaking website for the last
20 i'm like oh my god it's the head guy that's
doing this news article holy crap Oh, boy. Yeah,
my brain broke. So looking through this article,
it's basically just all the links for everything.
And then they've just got screen caps from the
livestream event with Nate and Mark from Hasbro.
And most of their screen caps are... some of
the pictures from like some of the product pictures
and things like that and some of the ones where
like there's one with nate and mark uh with with
alpha try on which is kind of cool i find it
weird and interesting that part of this if you
start at the beginning of it where it has you
know they start with oh transformers pulse fan
stream june 10th blah blah and then you get the
transformers And then you get Nate and Mark together.
And then the fourth or fifth picture is before
the first product shot of the Aerialbots here.
It's just Nate with this scrunched up look on
his face. Why would you put that in your news
store? That's not an image you need to... I think
it's because it says pre -orders start at 1pm.
Yeah, but... like okay fine but if your screenshot
like i and i watch this point where where he's
talking about that i could have gotten a better
screenshot to make sure the man's face wasn't
looking like he was passing gas i don't know
dude i'm not making fun of nate i'm not making
fun of him i'm making fun of the fact that these
people at tfw 2005 don't know how to do their
job um but we're gonna skip over this because
i just can't look at this title anymore just
no but going into the wave three and looking
at what wave three includes we have Voyager Alpha
Trion, Deluxe Micronus Prime, Leader Onyx Prime,
Deluxe Fireflight, Deluxe Skydive, Voyager Flatline,
Deluxe Venom, and Sandstorm versus Slugslinger
Tupac. So, what do you like the best? Alpha Trion.
Oh, hands down. And the Autobots, or Aerialbots.
Aerialbots, yep. Hands down. Like the rest of
it, I don't care. Yep. Because Flatline is a
redeco of a Transformers Armada character. And
nobody gives a shit about Transformers Armada,
stupid minicons. And then Sandstorm is a redeco
from Thrilling 30. Because I recognize the toy
because I looked at it as like, oh, would this
work for Megatron? No, no. And then the other
one, I think, is a redeco from around the same
time. Yeah. And honestly, like I. I'm excited
for the aerial bots just because they're finally
going to get an update. Yeah, that's better than
the Combiner Wars one. Absolutely. And then Alpha
Triangle is cool. Plus, I mean, I know he's a
redeco of Scourge. yeah but that's okay like
it's a heavy to read echo because like there's
enough that's different but um i don't know i
i like the figure and then i like the fact he
doesn't have this crap on it like the uh the
part of the the wings on his back yep i was looking
at it i was like oh the feet they work good i
was like this actually would have been a good
figure for you know my beast megatron And then
I would have got the Covenant of Primus too.
Somebody's going to have a 3D printed that at
some point and then I'll just print it. Yeah,
exactly. I really like the figure. I won't be
buying it, but I do really like the design. I
think it's weird that his Autobot symbol can
be removed. question mark well i think he did
that during like the part where prime oh that's
right like when when they they did the back in
time thing yep yep yep yep in in season three
yeah i just the reason why i think it's weird
is because when it is removed like there's not
like it That part of his stomach, it just looks
weird without it. Like maybe have a hidden rub
sign back there or something. Like, I don't know.
It just looks weird. That photo of him with it
removed looks, I don't know, whatever. Anyway,
but yeah, Alpha Trion and then the Aerial Bots.
Oh, the Aerial Bots looks so good. yeah fire
flight and we get skydive so very very awesome
for those and yeah the rest of it's like and
i'm like this flat line at first i thought at
first i thought it was uh what the run amok uh
run about run amok one of the two whichever the
black one is i forget if it's run about or run
amok but uh the twins from from from rebirth
uh but yeah flat movie toys still don't it still
don't interest me whatsoever and then no vending
or venom whatever i do like the slug slinger
uh sandstorm i like when they do two packs like
that because again it's season three interesting
What would be more interesting? Oh, I see. The
Mini -Con can fit in the... Okay. Because Sandstorm
has his capture cage for his helicopter thing.
I was like, oh, it'd be kind of cool if... Yeah,
Slugslinger's too big for that, but there's a
Mini -Con that's in this. I forget what the name
of the Mini -Con is, but there's a Mini -Con
in this thing, so... Very cool, very cool. But
yeah, this is all about Alpha Tryout. Hopefully
this will be the end -all, be -all version of
Alpha Trion. Oh, for sure. I mean, it's more
like A3. It's not actually Alpha Trion. Is it
really, though? Yeah, the body is A3. Yeah, but...
That's why the Autobot symbol comes out. He doesn't
have the wings. He doesn't have, like... Okay,
okay. Like, there's a different look to the head.
Like, this is A3. They're just calling him Alpha
Trion because that's really who he turns into.
Yeah. Maybe I need to watch forever is a long
time coming after the show tonight again, because
I remember a three being like, I don't remember
his mustache being so white. I remember it being
a lot darker because he was younger at the time,
but there you go. Hey, there you go. Missing
paint. Yep. Do we know? So I think it was probably
in the other story. I was going to say, do we
know what a price point on this guy is? Yeah,
I'll look at that later. He'll be a Voyager class.
Yeah. And then so we got that. and then we get
to the 25th anniversary party tfw 2005 tf con
chicago so tfw 2005 25th anniversary party october
25th 2025 tf tf con chicago save the date and
join us as we celebrate the 25th anniversary
of tfw 2005 .com dedicated room, bar, food, goodie
bag, door prizes, music, photo ops, special guests,
and more. Okay, so a goodie bag for all attendees
featuring GFW swag and maybe some other stuff,
definitely including a t -shirt, a bar station
provided by hotel, beer, liquor, etc. Food, not
a full meal. Music by a dedicated DJ playing
TF -themed tracks all night. Photo op station
with backdrop lights. Possible special guests
stopping through. Door prizes at end of evening.
This will be a ticketed event, not looking to
profit, just recoup some of the costs for putting
it all together. Once we figure it all out, whether
it's going to happen, the cost, TFCon will offer
the ticket as an add -on to their tickets for
the event. We welcome input over in the discussion
thread on the TFW 2005 boards until then. But
for now, save the date Saturday, October 25th,
2025, and make your plans to see you all there.
So I like that it's going to be a ticketed add
-on to the TFCon tickets. Like it's not going
to be something where you have to go separately
to... tfw 2005 and order through them because
it is at tf con 2025 in chicago that you can
do it through tf con if you want to do you know
the whatever i really the only thing about this
is i wish optimus scourge was here for this i
can hell i would buy ticket no seriously dude
i would buy tickets for this in a heartbeat for
me for him for proto man for whomever uh which
i wouldn't need to buy tickets for proto man
since he kind of works for tf con and all that
but like seriously like i look at this and i'm
thinking man how much gary did for tfw 2005 and
all the early podcasts that I did with Gary on
toy cast and everything else. And it's like,
damn it. Cause he's been gone 2011, 2025 long
ass time. Uh, so, but yeah, 25th anniversary
for TF con. So that's coming up in October. Very,
very cool. Very, very awesome. And then we get
the age of the primes four pack ultra Magnus
bumper, horrible. And this is prime. So ultra
Magnus redeco of legacy G prime bumper studio
series, 86 bumblebee mold with a new head, horrible
partial retool of, uh, TR. What the fuck is TR?
Is it terrible or something? TR skull smasher.
What the hell? I don't know. I don't know. I
like the ultra Magnus. Yeah. Just because I actually
did that with a G one prime back in the day.
Yep. Um, but yeah. Yeah. The ultra Magnus looks
great. And then that, that animated nemesis prom
again, another reason why I wish. Optimus Scourge
would freaking love this. When this was first
announced, I didn't even look at it on TFW 2005.
Again, I saw Proto Man's video over on his YouTube
channel, and I was like, as soon as I saw him
talk about it, my first comment was, I don't
think I said fuck, but I'm going to say fuck
here. I said, fuck, I wish Gary was here for
this, because he would have loved this. gary
well optimus scourge was that's part of that's
where his name came from optimus prime and scourge
he loved black optimus repaints and gary would
have loved animated optimus and animated nemesis
uh this looks so good like this looks so good
i might even buy one myself oh man it looks so
cool um but honestly that's the ultra magnus
and the nemesis are really the only two i really
care about out of the four pack the other two
that g1 bumper what the hell i know a lot of
people have been talking about bumper lately
and i'm sitting here thinking oh god i gotta
do research and figure out why people are talking
about this but i've heard of the the figures
the different characters i just don't yeah i
don't have an affinity for him like i don't i
don't care yeah um but uh yeah i'm i i like the
ultra magnus it's about my limit there but yeah
yeah yeah that's understandable and it looks
really good Like, I wish we saw... I don't think
we saw... Well, these are all behind the scenes
from Mark on Instagram photos of this. Have we
seen that in alt mode? We know it's just a white
Optimus Prime cab, but... Man, that blue axe
really kicks your axe. Because, uh, damn. i i
yeah no that's that's very very cool very awesome
man that nemesis oh boy that's that's good and
that is a new battle map uh that they're gonna
reuse at some point for him oh for sure yeah
and i like the i like that body sculpt for the
tfa optimus oh yeah it's great um i just i mean
i i like animated it's just not that's the prime
i'm interested in so it's not one i would pick
up but i do really like that design yeah absolutely
so i do think it's funny though that they gave
a little bit more paint deco detail to the nemesis
version yeah well you kind of have to i mean
because mainly he's black and yeah you have to
because And his face is covered, so you don't
have the expressive mouth. Because I'm looking
at the two faces here, and I'm like, huh, interesting,
yeah. And the interesting thing with the image
between, basically it's the last image of the
two of them up close looking at each other. His
windows, Nemesis's windows, translucent see -through
than Optimus's are. Optimus's windows are more
blackout than translucent see -through. At least
in this photo. So, yeah, but looks cool. Very,
very cool. And then we got. Oh, it's just not
last up, but it's just all videos of everything
we've already talked about. So the Sandstorm,
the Insecticon, the Aerial Bots, the Micron,
the Alpha Trion. It's a story with all the video,
all this and everything else. And it does have
the... All the links to the stuff to buy the
various toys that we've already talked about.
And I was looking through here to see if they
had the one for the Nemesis, but they don't.
Off I try. Let's go to the only store that matters,
Big Bad. Yes, I'm human. I'm not a robot. I'm
human, damn it. I'm human. I'm more human than
human. Seriously, really? Alpha Tria. Oh, that's
not bad. Yeah, you're getting it. I don't know
when you're getting it, but you're getting it.
I'd rather wait and get the Studio Series Megatron.
November. You're getting it. Shut up. You're
getting it. Next story. All right. Coming up
next, we get to finally to end this episode,
at least the news section of this episode. On
a depressing note, Paramount confirms no plans
for Transformers 2. So there will not be a Transformers
1 sequel. Reports are coming in that director
Josh Cooley has confirmed that Paramount currently
has no plans for a sequel to Transformers 1.
This can likely be attributed to its unfortunate
box office underperformance. With this, and the
fact that the Transformers G .I. Joe crossover
movie has had no updates, the future of Transformers
movies at Paramount in general is looking shaky
at best. that's sad i mean it wasn't it wasn't
my favorite movie like but it was better than
anything that the bavers gave us yeah i i would
have easily taken uh another film or two out
of this franchise absolutely and when i say franchise
i mean they're like this rendition of the film
series yeah yeah yeah yeah absolutely And the
thing of it is, is, like, why not... I don't
know. Why not just do something that, you know...
Okay, so we've talked about this for years. We've
talked about it on Geekcast Radio. We've talked
about it on... A movie we can review at the time
when we're doing MWire. Sometimes we talk about
it on Studio 2009 now with movies and things
like that. Why not? There are certain movies
that underperform at the box office, but they
are huge hits with physical media release or
at least nowadays with whatever, like streaming.
There are certain movies out there where they
didn't find their... their success in theaters,
but they're a huge hit after the fact. Why couldn't
Transformers 1 be one of those movies where people
find it? And again, like we said when we did
that Transformers 1 episode, I think this is
perfect for showing this to people who are not
trans... This is a way to get people into Transformers.
If they don't know anything about it and you
want them to come in fresh with a fresh perspective,
Transformers 1 was a fresh perspective. Oh, totally.
Transformers 1 is something that doesn't have
the 41 years of baggage. It sets up so many things
and it works on so many levels and you don't
have to worry about anything else. I don't know.
But, okay, sure. You know, I guess Paramount
just doesn't like money. Apparently not. That's
not... But that's all she wrote, folks. That's
all I got. Yeah, so... Yeah, I mean, I kind of
talked about the Prime thing early, but... Well,
no, it's fine. I mean, whatever. For me, I got
to talk. I got to go on mute. Talk for a minute.
Talk about your Prime thing. Talk about your
no trailer. So I, as we talked about in the last
episode of all things Transformers with the various
Primes, there's the official one. There's various
knockoff ones. There's very 30 third party ones.
There's the. Third party knockoff one that has
the trailer and the Starscream parts and the.
The new comics Megatron arm that can attach and
transform into it, and then they have a battle
damaged piece that can be replaced on the side
of Prime and. They also have like a part with
his battle damaged head sculpt. But ultimately.
And it comes with the trailer and everything
else. I chose not to do that one because that
one was like the same cost as the full Hasbro
Studio Series one. I mean, it came with a lot
more stuff, but one, it was it was a cost thing.
And then two, it was like, I don't really want
the trailer. Now, if they would have had. as
i mentioned before if they would have had the
studio series 86 prime for the same price that
they used to sell the warfare cybertron prime
of you know the the leader class instead of bumping
them to commander i would have just bit the bullet
and gotten that one um just so that it was 100
authentic and it was you know but it ultimately
was a price decision and i was like well for
that i could buy a third party masterpiece Optimus
Prime I could buy. And then the rumor mill started
of the Studio Series 86 Prime without trailer.
And for like 20, 25. And I was like, well, for
me, that's like a hands down because all I wanted
was the Prime. I don't have the space like the
real estate. If I got rid of the stasis pod,
I would have it. But that's not an option because
I've waited 30 years to print that thing. or
to have one and so i was it was like okay i'm
i'm excited i have you know the prime from my
childhood finally and uh and then getting the
megatron will complete that and yeah so i mean
i'll i'll have all the beast figures that i care
to get and all the g1 g2 and unless um hasbro
comes out with some machine war stuff or a beast
machines, dragon Megatron or, um, in the cloak.
I still want that display piece. Damn it. Which
one? You know, which one? The display piece they
had at the one of the convention Megatron on
the, in the ship and the displayed, he's splayed
out. I want that. I want that Megatron. oh by
the way happy early uh try on christmas it'll
be there in november i'm not kidding i just got
the email thankfully thankfully big bad toy store
is one of the only places that doesn't charge
up front yep oh i know i i use them for a lot
um rules well they're also my um they're they're
like the security uh it's like it's like how
can i hold my hold my uh transformers easier
it's like oh bbts because then if i find it in
the wild then it's like i can cancel it but yep
absolutely but no i've i've got uh as soon as
the uh 86 megatron i'm i'm hoping to see when
that takes effect because that's the one i'm
like like okay they they sold me once once the
prime came out i was like okay well you can't
have prime without megatron so yeah kind of like
primal and megatron it's like okay they got me
yep they got you yeah and then for me folks i
have sent me i had mentioned this a while ago
i I don't do model kits. I don't do well with
them. I can't do it with my hands and with cerebral
palsy and things like that. And as much as I
like the idea of blockies, it sends me into convulsions.
Kind of like bullet points send me into convulsions.
Numbers only. No bullet points. But a friend
of ours, I had mentioned that when Blocky's came
out with their, I don't know what version, what
does the card say here? It says Blocky's Transformers
or anything. about specific no it doesn't none
of the card it might say instructions the instructions
are in the bag on the other side of the room
uh the idw megatron and our good buddy brad oh
yeah by the way you're something in the mail
in the next couple of days and i'm like what
did you how did you get my address what are you
talking about i don't give people my address
so i finally have uh Megatron and he is very
very cool but god damn this is why I only collect
Funko Pops folks trying to get his gun in so
it just attaches to his arm like it's supposed
to obviously it just has a little hook and a
little whatever but getting it to hook in and
getting it to stay hooked in and getting his
legs to stay where they need to stay and getting
his other arm like this is why i don't do the
these toys with all this articulation and having
to move things this is why i like funko pops
where they just stand there and do nothing that's
the point and i'm not trying to sound like an
ingrate thank you so much brad i absolutely love
it it is awesome but like all day today i'm like
This thing has fallen over, like, literally 75
times. And I'm like, oh, God. Like I said earlier
in the podcast, this is why I hate machines.
Just like Fan Zone from Animated. But it is very,
very cool. I can't wait to actually get it on
my actual shelf and not on my desk where my...
I can't knock on this too much, but my up, my
riser thing that I have my monitor on the air,
whatever, because that's the other problem. Having
things displayed on this, especially toys with
feet that the feet want to fall through the little
holes that are on this thing for air. It's like,
oh, crap, whatever. The interesting thing is
he does. And I've got pictures of this, and I'll
send this to you so you can see it, and maybe
I'll put it in the post, or maybe you can put
it in the post or whatever. If you pose him,
if you get his feet just right, I can actually
have him stand on any of the Megatron Funko Pops,
because I have two of the Megatron Funko Pops.
I have the one with him with the gun. from the
Optimus and Megatron Metallic 2 pack that they
recently released, or I have the one from Season
1 with the mace. Nice. Blocky's Megatron, Autobot
Megatron from IDW, can actually stand on Buckethead
Megatron's head because Buckethead Megatron Funko
Pop head is so big. So I've got a couple of photos
of that that I took in the middle of the show.
but uh but that's my recent pickup and i'm not
really picking up a lot of stuff anymore like
funko isn't releasing like i don't know what
the hell funko's doing i really don't like oh
okay so i guess we can talk about this it's transformers
related and it's ugly as shit it really is what
is it have you ever seen the um jumbo chan Figures
that they've done. You probably haven't seen
these. Probably not. Let's see. If I can find
this. Really quick. If I can spell correctly.
I don't even know if TFW. Did a story on this.
Yes they did. I'm going to send this to you really
quickly. In the Facebook. in z facebook in z
facebook so you can at least look at it while
we're doing this and we're not uh we're not gonna
edit any of this i think i've seen these but
i yeah i'm sure you have but you have oh it's
a funko yeah it's it is funko but like go ahead
this is worse than typical like funko's like
i would rather have regular funko's than this
garbage yeah it's bad it's so bad and the worst
thing is like okay so this i guess i i guess
this is a japanese thing because jumbo chan i
guess it's a japanese again folks i'm illiterate
I'm ignorant. I'm whatever. It's inspired by...
Okay. And they've done other versions of this.
They've done their mascot. Freddy Funko is one
of these types of figures and things like that.
But it's supposed to be very Japanese looking,
I think. But... But the pop analyst who I follow
on Instagram first debuted this kind of thing,
and this was done back on June 2nd. It's a 14
-inch retro -inspired hard vinyl Optimus Prime
figure. It will be limited to 1 ,200 units with
a certificate of authenticity. This new figure
will be available for $250 USD via Funko's website.
as of june 13th so it's already been available
i don't know if it's sold out i don't think it
has it did it did sell out unless they just marked
it as sold out but um building hype early i don't
know but i mean june 13th has already passed
but i wanted to since i took the leap to funko's
website i want to see if there's other really
your website only has the really funko seriously
i just searched jumbo chan on their website and
the only thing that pops up is the optimus prime
i wanted to see if the other figures would pop
up but no just to show you the difference of
but imagine this with like human like it's and
i'm sitting here thinking Why do we need this?
And especially, like, I get it. It's a 14 -inch
figure. Okay, I understand that. But it's ugly.
It's ugly as all sin. I don't need. No. It's
no. Just no, don't, and stop. but uh but that
was something that like and my my thinking is
bunco what are you doing with the transformers
license because outside of the the um the optimus
and megatron two -pack outside of the oh i know
what they released they released the um The Cyclonus,
Hot Rod with Matrix, which I still need to get
those two, and the Omega Supreme. Those are the
only three that they recently released that I
don't have yet. I don't even know if I want the
Omega Supreme because it looks really bad. I
don't know. Here's what the original Jumbo Chun
Funko figures looked like. That's just their
mascot, Freddy Funko. I put it in Facebook. uh
but yeah no i looked at that and i'm like seriously
really that's that's what you're doing with the
transformer's license really like could we do
anything else with the transformer's license
like actually give us things we want and again
i will be getting i will getting the um the hot
rod with matrix and the cyclonus but i don't
know what else they're gonna like So they did
this big push cut, not big push, but they did
this big thing where they released the ultra.
So the, the lay, Oh, that's what it was. It was
an NFT wave. No wonder they buried it in NFTs.
They did the NFT wave with ultra Magnus, RC,
Cheetor and Blitzwing. So you got three G one
figures in a beast horse figure in there. And
I talked about those on the previous, on previous
episodes of the podcast. Then you got the line
where they did the Optimus and Megatron Metallic
2 -pack, which I think is a games topic. I'm
looking at a table because I bought two of those,
one in -box and one out -of -box. That's why
that Megatron that you'll see in the photo that
I send you later is out -of -box is because I
have another one in -box. Because, you know,
folks, as Transformers collectors, we need one
out -of -box and one in -box. whether it transforms
or not so there was that and then like i said
they released these other ones and now i don't
know what they're gonna do like every um every
funko announcement so far this year so far i
have not seen other than this funko jumbo chan
i have not seen any new Funko Pop Transformers.
Other than what I've already mentioned. So, yeah,
I don't know. I don't know what they're going
to do. Yeah, I don't like it. I don't like it
either. I don't like these stupid figures. I'm
waiting to see. Didn't they say they're going
to have a Beast Megatron? That was a rumor. That
was an announcement. Rumor, rumor, rumor, rumor.
They started with Sheetor with NFTs. I'm hoping
that Beast Megatron and Beast Optimus Primal
and all that stuff would be mass retail release
and not like if they do it as a store exclusive,
like I said, Amazon, Hot Topic, GameStop, whatever.
Fine. If they do it as a con exclusive, okay,
fine. Those are sometimes a little harder to
get, but they're so hard to get. But, I mean,
I don't know. Looking on here and so far, the
only ones that are that, yeah. So, yeah. I don't
know. Yeah, the newest ones to be released are
the Like I mentioned, the Cyclonus, the Omega
Supreme, and the Hot Rod with Matrix. So, yeah.
But yeah, Blocky's IDW Megatron. Awesome. Thank
you so much, Brad, for that. Yeah. So, very,
very awesome. uh what else we got are we uh are
we dying over here i think we're tapped out i
think we i think we kind of talked about everything
we wanted to talk about yep yep i don't think
there's anything else like and i say this now
and of course i'm gonna kick myself in the morning
most likely if my foot could actually reach my
own ass which it can't thankfully because if
that could happen well then i would be exercising
really really hard yeah yeah I don't think there's
anything major, major, major that's going to
hit between now and the next time we do news.
I don't know. I don't know. So, yeah. So thank
you guys for joining us for all things Transformers.
I've been your host, Steve Megatron with TFG
and Mike. And you can, of course, interact with
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Yes.