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Now loading All Things Transformers. 00:00:05.559 --> 00:00:30.019 Oh, and welcome to... things transformers i'm 00:00:30.019 --> 00:00:32.479 your host steve megatron and joining me on this 00:00:32.479 --> 00:00:35.219 adventure into the transformers fandom is tfg1 00:00:35.219 --> 00:00:39.179 mike i'm mad as hell i'm not gonna take it anymore 00:00:39.179 --> 00:00:43.840 i like that quote it's better than daring to 00:00:43.840 --> 00:00:56.810 be stupid um oh wait i mean this is what do and 00:00:56.810 --> 00:01:01.390 do not trust my google feed at times is the google 00:01:01.390 --> 00:01:05.950 feed it on phones on the google phones is like 00:01:05.950 --> 00:01:10.629 trust but verified like you always have to verify 00:01:10.629 --> 00:01:16.409 it and okay image comics i trust them disney 00:01:16.409 --> 00:01:19.170 i don't necessarily trust them but it is what 00:01:19.170 --> 00:01:23.799 it is uh Okay, that's an ad for Five Below. Android 00:01:23.799 --> 00:01:27.519 Police, I trust them. Combook .com, that's kind 00:01:27.519 --> 00:01:32.500 of sketchy. Yahoo, okay, fine. But the point 00:01:32.500 --> 00:01:36.959 is, if I scroll down far enough on my Google 00:01:36.959 --> 00:01:40.099 feed on my Pixel 7 Pro, I know I'm going to run 00:01:40.099 --> 00:01:44.140 into a website where it's going to be something. 00:01:45.370 --> 00:01:49.430 That I don't trust or I've never heard of. Kind 00:01:49.430 --> 00:01:51.909 of like how a certain website never had anything 00:01:51.909 --> 00:01:56.750 covered. Because, you know, they ain't got that 00:01:56.750 --> 00:02:02.689 covered. Yeah. Not factually anyway. True. And 00:02:02.689 --> 00:02:13.379 I came across this. In the last two weeks. I 00:02:13.379 --> 00:02:17.300 don't remember without going to our website and 00:02:17.300 --> 00:02:20.000 checking when the last episode was, because I 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:22.539 know somebody asked us recently, I forget where 00:02:22.539 --> 00:02:25.199 might've been on our Facebook page might've been 00:02:25.199 --> 00:02:27.159 on Twitter. I don't know. Asked us when the next 00:02:27.159 --> 00:02:32.020 episode of this podcast was going to be. I forget 00:02:32.020 --> 00:02:35.379 when the last one was. I think it was sometime 00:02:35.379 --> 00:02:38.419 in August. I think it might've been August 5th 00:02:38.419 --> 00:02:43.620 or August 8th or August. It was sometime after 00:02:43.620 --> 00:02:47.520 the anniversary of the show because we did 17 00:02:47.520 --> 00:02:49.699 years of all things Transformers. I know that 00:02:49.699 --> 00:02:52.819 was the part of the title of the last episode 00:02:52.819 --> 00:02:56.159 of the podcast. The point is, what are you sucking 00:02:56.159 --> 00:03:01.379 on? Vapes? Nothing. Okay, that was weird. That 00:03:01.379 --> 00:03:07.280 was a weird noise. It reminds me of the old basement 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:11.900 days in Michigan. Oh, boy. Anyway, no, seriously, 00:03:12.039 --> 00:03:18.139 you remember those days, right? Yes. Okay. Sadly. 00:03:18.360 --> 00:03:22.159 Okay, good. Heaven forbid we forget our roots 00:03:22.159 --> 00:03:29.060 and where we came from, folks. So, anyway, the 00:03:29.060 --> 00:03:33.080 last two weeks, when I've looked through my Google 00:03:33.080 --> 00:03:40.939 feed, I've just been... kind of like disgruntled 00:03:40.939 --> 00:03:44.740 and dejected and discouraged with some of the 00:03:44.740 --> 00:03:49.659 stuff one of them was the fact that whatever 00:03:49.659 --> 00:03:52.120 website it was i don't even i can't even give 00:03:52.120 --> 00:03:54.780 credit but it was a website that basically basically 00:03:54.780 --> 00:03:59.819 gave a headline of a disney plus story of disney 00:03:59.819 --> 00:04:04.939 plus doing away with something this era of disney 00:04:04.939 --> 00:04:10.199 is ending that was part of the headline seven 00:04:10.199 --> 00:04:16.079 and a half paragraphs into the story i get to 00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:18.319 the point of what the point of the headline was 00:04:18.319 --> 00:04:24.139 the start of the story was in 2019 disney and 00:04:24.139 --> 00:04:26.980 i get it you have to write some of these websites 00:04:26.980 --> 00:04:29.699 have to write these stories like no one has ever 00:04:29.699 --> 00:04:33.699 read the story no one knows the history of disney 00:04:33.699 --> 00:04:38.399 plus etc etc etc but if you have a pulse if you 00:04:38.399 --> 00:04:40.300 live in a place with an internet connection if 00:04:40.300 --> 00:04:43.220 you don't live in bum freak nowhere in the middle 00:04:43.220 --> 00:04:45.379 of the place where you don't get an internet 00:04:45.379 --> 00:04:49.800 connection i get it whatever but like oh my god 00:04:49.800 --> 00:04:54.420 don't bury write a story where you have that 00:04:54.420 --> 00:04:57.980 kind of a title that should be the answer to 00:04:57.980 --> 00:05:02.540 the title of the story like what everyone wants 00:05:02.540 --> 00:05:05.379 to know like the answer to the title of the story 00:05:05.379 --> 00:05:08.079 give us that in the first paragraph and then 00:05:08.079 --> 00:05:12.060 go into the history like don't have us read seven 00:05:12.060 --> 00:05:15.079 and a half paragraphs to get us to the point 00:05:15.079 --> 00:05:18.300 and the point of the story was the kind of how 00:05:18.300 --> 00:05:20.959 a story that i'll talk about on a different show 00:05:20.959 --> 00:05:25.519 later that we do here at the geek cast radio 00:05:25.519 --> 00:05:29.379 network uh the same kind of story but it was 00:05:29.379 --> 00:05:33.720 about hulu but anyway the point is is that stories 00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:36.980 make my head hurt and this first story that we're 00:05:36.980 --> 00:05:39.379 not really gonna spend all that amount of time 00:05:39.379 --> 00:05:47.139 on is it makes my head hurt because how does 00:05:47.139 --> 00:05:52.079 cbr get these people to write these stories like 00:05:52.079 --> 00:05:57.860 so i will say valnet is crap um yeah so i don't 00:05:57.860 --> 00:06:01.220 know how these guys are staying employed other 00:06:01.220 --> 00:06:03.920 than it's just lowest common denominator articles 00:06:03.920 --> 00:06:11.120 and they i mean i think they're 500 word slop 00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:14.399 i think that's what it is They're paid a flat 00:06:14.399 --> 00:06:20.220 of like $15 to $20 freelance per article. And 00:06:20.220 --> 00:06:23.779 I've applied to write for them before. And they 00:06:23.779 --> 00:06:29.939 have a pretty crappy track record as far as like 00:06:29.939 --> 00:06:35.579 writing for them. They do have, at least on paper, 00:06:35.740 --> 00:06:39.100 it looks like that they're... you know like this 00:06:39.100 --> 00:06:41.060 individual that wrote a bunch of transformers 00:06:41.060 --> 00:06:43.540 material and it's like i know a bunch about transformers 00:06:43.540 --> 00:06:45.879 and that's my expertise or whatever on this you 00:06:45.879 --> 00:06:48.540 know but it looks more like he's good at communications 00:06:48.540 --> 00:06:50.720 creative writing and then like freelance writer 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:54.600 and marketing yeah that's what his yeah which 00:06:54.600 --> 00:06:57.620 i'm not gonna name drop because i'm not gonna 00:06:57.620 --> 00:07:01.680 be that person but at the same time i've looked 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:04.040 i've looked at the majority of the guys articles 00:07:04.040 --> 00:07:09.759 and they're all they're all touches on g1 transformers 00:07:09.759 --> 00:07:13.759 whenever he brings it up and you know i i was 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:16.480 just i'm going through like pages and pages and 00:07:16.480 --> 00:07:20.459 pages of his crap uh and he's written a plethora 00:07:20.459 --> 00:07:26.399 like there's it looks like he has to write six 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:31.759 or seven articles per day oh my god uh and that's 00:07:31.759 --> 00:07:33.459 probably the only reason that they make money 00:07:33.459 --> 00:07:36.230 the more crap you churn out the more money you 00:07:36.230 --> 00:07:40.329 make and you know the busier they keep you yep 00:07:40.329 --> 00:07:48.730 and i i've i've been looking at the majority 00:07:48.730 --> 00:07:53.430 of his stuff and he more i mean it depends on 00:07:53.430 --> 00:07:58.569 superheroes but he keeps going back to g1 yeah 00:07:58.569 --> 00:08:02.029 on a lot of his stuff or like uh he'll he'll 00:08:02.029 --> 00:08:07.089 do some anime uh some of his things i do agree 00:08:07.089 --> 00:08:10.189 with like he's got you know one for august where 00:08:10.189 --> 00:08:12.350 it's like sorry transformers fans michael bay's 00:08:12.350 --> 00:08:15.089 return will kill the transformers franchise yeah 00:08:15.089 --> 00:08:22.129 uh but then there's other articles where it's 00:08:22.129 --> 00:08:30.610 yeah they're they're talking about bugling yeah 00:08:30.610 --> 00:08:34.750 well he kind of goes off in these weird tangents 00:08:34.750 --> 00:08:39.149 of things and talks about things that aren't 00:08:39.149 --> 00:08:42.570 even part of it like one of them's like latest 00:08:42.570 --> 00:08:44.710 transformers release adds a new dino bot to the 00:08:44.710 --> 00:08:48.789 g1 team but it's it buries the lead and it's 00:08:48.789 --> 00:08:51.490 basically talking about the new age toys figure 00:08:51.490 --> 00:08:56.049 um without explicitly like saying that's what 00:08:56.049 --> 00:09:00.899 it does but then there's like not a it's He goes 00:09:00.899 --> 00:09:02.679 from that, and then he goes into talking about, 00:09:02.700 --> 00:09:04.659 you know, the Dinobots, and then goes into talking 00:09:04.659 --> 00:09:07.720 about Transformers Fall of Cybertron video game. 00:09:09.220 --> 00:09:13.279 And then, you know, Volcanicus with Big Bad Toy 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:17.539 Store. Right. It's all over the place. And then 00:09:17.539 --> 00:09:25.690 we get things like... there there's you know 00:09:25.690 --> 00:09:27.889 transformers goes back to the future with surprise 00:09:27.889 --> 00:09:31.389 us 40th anniversary release no they released 00:09:31.389 --> 00:09:34.070 they released that figure gigawatt years ago 00:09:34.070 --> 00:09:39.450 it's not surprising they released it years ago 00:09:39.450 --> 00:09:43.149 yeah just like some of the other earthrise figures 00:09:43.149 --> 00:09:45.289 that came out you know he's got a bunch of earthrise 00:09:45.289 --> 00:09:49.110 toys listed you know sunstreaker and and ramjet 00:09:49.110 --> 00:09:55.049 uh earth rust i'm sorry and it's i don't know 00:09:55.049 --> 00:09:58.789 i'm just so i'm not impressed with a lot of the 00:09:58.789 --> 00:10:02.210 stuff i mean there's you know returns to g1 returns 00:10:02.210 --> 00:10:05.029 to g1 returns to g1 these seem to be like the 00:10:05.029 --> 00:10:08.850 trend with his uh with his articles is returning 00:10:08.850 --> 00:10:12.110 to g1 it's like dude g1 never left yeah exactly 00:10:12.110 --> 00:10:16.610 they've been rebooting g1 for years yeah like 00:10:16.610 --> 00:10:19.929 literally for years it's not even that they're 00:10:19.929 --> 00:10:25.330 rebooting it because they haven't really when 00:10:25.330 --> 00:10:27.649 it comes to the toys specifically because that's 00:10:27.649 --> 00:10:29.309 what this article is and we're not even going 00:10:29.309 --> 00:10:30.970 to really get into this article we're just going 00:10:30.970 --> 00:10:34.509 to talk about the the headline thing and we're 00:10:34.509 --> 00:10:36.470 like we're going to actually go to a transformers 00:10:36.470 --> 00:10:40.769 website uh and discuss this but basically the 00:10:40.769 --> 00:10:44.210 article i found was nearly 40 years later transformers 00:10:44.210 --> 00:10:47.029 returns to g1 with a new release for its most 00:10:47.029 --> 00:10:50.289 aided autobot and it's basically him talking 00:10:50.289 --> 00:10:54.500 about them releasing a new outback and a new 00:10:54.500 --> 00:10:58.480 wheelie and the wheelie is based on the g1 toy 00:10:58.480 --> 00:11:04.639 design version of of wheelie but i saw that headline 00:11:04.639 --> 00:11:11.629 and i'm like transformers returns to g1 It's 00:11:11.629 --> 00:11:17.769 never freaking left G1 in 41 years. G1 is the 00:11:17.769 --> 00:11:21.289 backbone. It's always been the backbone. It's 00:11:21.289 --> 00:11:25.610 what Hasbro leans on the most. It's what makes 00:11:25.610 --> 00:11:28.470 them... Maybe I should or should not say this. 00:11:28.669 --> 00:11:33.309 The most money. It's what gets most fanboys coming 00:11:33.309 --> 00:11:38.590 back most of the time. Granted, Beast Wars is 00:11:38.590 --> 00:11:42.679 the... the guardian savior of of the overall 00:11:42.679 --> 00:11:44.820 franchise because without beast wars in 1996 00:11:44.820 --> 00:11:47.980 there would not be what we have now today in 00:11:47.980 --> 00:11:53.419 2025 without beast wars but it just when i saw 00:11:53.419 --> 00:11:58.179 this i'm like okay comicbookresources .com who 00:11:58.179 --> 00:12:01.600 would have you hired to write this slop because 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:16.149 that's not even an accurate title like yeah no 00:12:16.149 --> 00:12:25.769 like i don't know like i hit maybe four articles 00:12:25.769 --> 00:12:29.389 every seven years on comic book resources that 00:12:30.009 --> 00:12:33.029 And I'm exaggerating there, but maybe like seriously, 00:12:33.029 --> 00:12:40.230 four articles on CBR that maybe I like. It's 00:12:40.230 --> 00:12:45.929 very rare. And it just, I don't know, man. I 00:12:45.929 --> 00:12:49.700 don't know. I don't go to obviously we're not 00:12:49.700 --> 00:12:51.759 going to come up with resources for Transformers 00:12:51.759 --> 00:12:53.899 articles. We're not going there for Transformers 00:12:53.899 --> 00:12:56.879 news, but it just and again, this popped up in 00:12:56.879 --> 00:12:59.860 my Google feed. I guarantee you these articles, 00:12:59.980 --> 00:13:02.860 these types of articles on this website specifically 00:13:02.860 --> 00:13:05.940 are being written for the person that is not 00:13:05.940 --> 00:13:09.200 that does not know about Transformers news websites. 00:13:09.340 --> 00:13:11.679 This is for the general public. This is for the 00:13:11.679 --> 00:13:14.899 person that knows nothing about Transformers 00:13:14.899 --> 00:13:19.110 kind of thing. But it's just. so infuriating 00:13:19.110 --> 00:13:22.850 as a transformers fan as a transformers person 00:13:22.850 --> 00:13:27.610 to see this and it's like do you not have a clue 00:13:27.610 --> 00:13:32.789 what in the hell you're talking about like really 00:13:32.789 --> 00:13:42.490 i i don't know i don't know mr bothan like i 00:13:42.490 --> 00:13:48.960 don't know But anyway, yeah, articles titling, 00:13:48.960 --> 00:13:53.039 just come on, people, do better. The actual news 00:13:53.039 --> 00:13:57.539 starts out with Hasbro applying for the Transformation 00:13:57.539 --> 00:14:04.580 Sound Trademark. Boy, I'm glad they did that. 00:14:06.679 --> 00:14:10.139 So the latest filing with the United States Patent 00:14:10.139 --> 00:14:13.559 and Trademark Office stands out as particularly... 00:14:15.189 --> 00:14:19.870 unusual compared to the typical submissions yeah 00:14:19.870 --> 00:14:23.090 it's a sound effect yeah it's the sound effect 00:14:23.090 --> 00:14:28.590 for trademark official trade yep yep yep yep 00:14:28.590 --> 00:14:34.210 yep hey i love that they're doing it though because 00:14:34.990 --> 00:14:37.450 if they didn't do it, somebody would come across 00:14:37.450 --> 00:14:40.429 and steal it and try to say it was theirs. And 00:14:40.429 --> 00:14:43.309 even though everybody and their uncle should 00:14:43.309 --> 00:14:45.970 know that that's the transformer sound effect. 00:14:47.289 --> 00:14:50.129 Well, I'm kind of surprised in a sense, because 00:14:50.129 --> 00:14:53.809 you would think they would have done this ages 00:14:53.809 --> 00:15:02.889 ago. Like I. I just recently trademarked Geekcast 00:15:02.889 --> 00:15:08.850 Radio Network and altered geek. And it's for 00:15:08.850 --> 00:15:11.070 a conglomerate like them, it's not expensive. 00:15:11.269 --> 00:15:15.289 For someone like me, it is. Yeah. So I'm surprised 00:15:15.289 --> 00:15:17.830 it took them this long to get the transformation 00:15:17.830 --> 00:15:22.470 sound trademarked. Yeah, I'm surprised this isn't 00:15:22.470 --> 00:15:28.169 Hasbro renews the trademark. for the transformation 00:15:28.169 --> 00:15:31.490 sound not applies or yeah this is a an application 00:15:31.490 --> 00:15:37.970 for it that's crazy so they literally they make 00:15:37.970 --> 00:15:41.629 you they make you register for everything oh 00:15:41.629 --> 00:15:45.889 yeah like you you literally have to pay if you 00:15:45.889 --> 00:15:50.009 want like an image trademarked if you want the 00:15:50.009 --> 00:15:53.149 information the title the sound effect you know 00:15:53.149 --> 00:15:57.850 whatever So I'm surprised that it's taken this 00:15:57.850 --> 00:16:00.610 long, but I think good on them because otherwise, 00:16:00.830 --> 00:16:03.649 you know, monster energy drinks will steal it. 00:16:05.450 --> 00:16:08.710 Yes. I'm not bitter. You're a, you're a bitter. 00:16:10.049 --> 00:16:12.970 Yes. You're, you're, you're bitter. Although 00:16:12.970 --> 00:16:15.049 I did find out that they don't actually own it. 00:16:15.789 --> 00:16:20.990 Oh, that's nice. Yeah, I, I did. They, I think 00:16:20.990 --> 00:16:23.370 it was registered. And then I think that something 00:16:23.370 --> 00:16:26.059 came up. where they thought it was going to be 00:16:26.059 --> 00:16:33.080 oh yeah um yeah so they own the domain which 00:16:33.080 --> 00:16:38.120 is why i which is why i don't let go of yes of 00:16:38.120 --> 00:16:40.759 all things transformers .com and things like 00:16:40.759 --> 00:16:46.820 that because i'm like but they they do have i 00:16:46.820 --> 00:16:49.299 mean they still have the bus the the beast unleashed 00:16:49.299 --> 00:16:52.960 you know monster variety pack or whatever in 00:16:52.960 --> 00:16:56.740 which it's it's six percent liquor um they still 00:16:56.740 --> 00:16:59.320 have it and it still looks like the beast wars 00:16:59.320 --> 00:17:02.379 logo or it looks like the beast unleashed i mean 00:17:02.379 --> 00:17:04.279 they even took the unleashed the beast in you 00:17:04.279 --> 00:17:10.700 oh you bastards yeah it says tm which means they 00:17:10.700 --> 00:17:13.640 don't own it right yeah it would have an r with 00:17:13.640 --> 00:17:19.299 a circle around it if they owned it yeah uh But 00:17:19.299 --> 00:17:22.519 yeah, so, so there's that, but I've, I've started 00:17:22.519 --> 00:17:25.420 to see it just called the beast on a lot of their 00:17:25.420 --> 00:17:28.259 newer marketing and the unleashed part has been 00:17:28.259 --> 00:17:35.920 dropped. Yay. So yeah. Yeah. Hmm. Interesting. 00:17:36.059 --> 00:17:38.559 Anyways, anyway, I think it's great that Hasbro 00:17:38.559 --> 00:17:43.200 is doing this and, uh, absolutely. Uh, it, it 00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:45.559 definitely is deserved. It's, it's a long time 00:17:45.559 --> 00:17:51.890 coming. Yeah. 100%. All right. So apparently 00:17:51.890 --> 00:17:55.430 we have a Devastator Appreciation. Share your 00:17:55.430 --> 00:18:00.349 picks and thoughts. This is apparently they're 00:18:00.349 --> 00:18:03.750 trying out something new. This was posted on 00:18:03.750 --> 00:18:08.950 October 3rd. This is not breaking news, but rather 00:18:08.950 --> 00:18:12.210 a way to highlight some recent cool toys. Yada, 00:18:12.210 --> 00:18:18.069 yada, yada. So basically this is just an image 00:18:18.069 --> 00:18:24.190 drop for TFW 2005 where various people have dropped 00:18:24.190 --> 00:18:27.990 various images of Devastator with other Transformers 00:18:27.990 --> 00:18:31.750 within the line kind of thing of him with other 00:18:31.750 --> 00:18:37.789 Decepticons, just other shots of him. We're only 00:18:37.789 --> 00:18:39.589 going to talk about this for half a second only 00:18:39.589 --> 00:18:42.809 because it's just photos, but it just shows you 00:18:42.809 --> 00:18:47.799 the scale of him. The new commander class, leader 00:18:47.799 --> 00:18:51.940 class, super superior. The new Devastator guy. 00:18:54.720 --> 00:18:58.000 He looks great next to all the other Decepticons. 00:18:59.180 --> 00:19:07.359 He looks awesome. I love this shot. Yeah. Of 00:19:07.359 --> 00:19:10.859 all these figures. Yeah. Looks so good. Yeah. 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:14.920 I mean, you can tell some of these are not. yeah 00:19:14.920 --> 00:19:18.940 series 86 which is unfortunate yeah but like 00:19:18.940 --> 00:19:23.859 like blitzwing looks fine enough yeah uh the 00:19:23.859 --> 00:19:28.599 jets look horribly out of place yeah they do 00:19:28.599 --> 00:19:32.859 um the insecticons look fine the jets are are 00:19:32.859 --> 00:19:35.000 the biggest outliers like it's like you couldn't 00:19:35.000 --> 00:19:37.619 come together and have the studio series 86 versions 00:19:37.619 --> 00:19:44.450 of these guys uh well I mean, these are fan images, 00:19:44.609 --> 00:19:46.670 so I don't know. I know, but I'm just saying 00:19:46.670 --> 00:19:48.950 like, I mean, it's, it's a great shot regardless. 00:19:49.029 --> 00:19:55.289 Yeah. Uh, I love the Megatron. Yes. That's even 00:19:55.289 --> 00:19:58.029 without like a repro labels or toy hacks or whatever. 00:19:58.230 --> 00:20:03.569 It's, it looks way better than the prime did. 00:20:03.690 --> 00:20:09.609 Yeah. So, yeah, I, I love the shot and, uh, devastator 00:20:09.609 --> 00:20:11.670 is pretty cool i love that they're remastering 00:20:11.670 --> 00:20:14.190 all of these combiners finally and giving them 00:20:14.190 --> 00:20:18.250 a proper deco yep for the studio series line 00:20:18.250 --> 00:20:22.569 and it's so cool yeah they just it just looks 00:20:22.569 --> 00:20:25.609 epic uh and they look like they're not as clunky 00:20:25.609 --> 00:20:29.450 as the the war for cyber or the um not war for 00:20:29.450 --> 00:20:33.670 cybertron but the uh fall of cybertron no it's 00:20:33.670 --> 00:20:38.240 the the machinima series oh the prime wars trilogy 00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:41.099 the prime wars combined wars they don't look 00:20:41.099 --> 00:20:43.299 as clunky as those figures like because my son 00:20:43.299 --> 00:20:47.680 has the defensor yep and it's it's definitely 00:20:47.680 --> 00:20:50.279 better than the original toys but it's it's very 00:20:50.279 --> 00:20:55.759 clunky looking and kind of feeling so these these 00:20:55.759 --> 00:20:59.740 look a lot better i think with the anniversaries 00:20:59.740 --> 00:21:05.920 that have come up between 2024 and 2026 now that's 00:21:05.920 --> 00:21:10.079 coming, I think they've finally hit their stride. 00:21:10.279 --> 00:21:13.240 I think that they've finally got to the point 00:21:13.240 --> 00:21:18.700 of, especially with Studio Series 86, I think 00:21:18.700 --> 00:21:21.299 that they've finally gotten to the point of, 00:21:21.420 --> 00:21:26.500 hey, let's actually do these right. Again, going 00:21:26.500 --> 00:21:31.420 back to G1 is the bread and butter of why G1 00:21:31.420 --> 00:21:37.000 has never gone away. They want us to have and 00:21:37.000 --> 00:21:39.559 they want to make for us. And you can listen 00:21:39.559 --> 00:21:42.839 to Evan and Mark and everybody else on the design 00:21:42.839 --> 00:21:46.460 team. They want to make for us the best versions 00:21:46.460 --> 00:21:49.279 of these classic characters that they can make 00:21:49.279 --> 00:21:52.000 for us. And that Devastator is freaking amazing. 00:21:52.359 --> 00:21:56.380 Even if even the six individual pieces, all of 00:21:56.380 --> 00:21:59.519 those characters, every video review, every video 00:21:59.519 --> 00:22:02.299 I've seen on YouTube of the individual Constructicons, 00:22:02.440 --> 00:22:05.720 they all look great. Every single one of them. 00:22:06.500 --> 00:22:12.680 So, yeah. Absolutely love it. I only brought 00:22:12.680 --> 00:22:17.980 the Wonderfest Shanghai 2025 Takara Tomy T -Spark 00:22:17.980 --> 00:22:22.759 booth images up because it's got images of Missing 00:22:22.759 --> 00:22:27.380 Link, Nemesis Prime, Ultra Magnus, MPG -16 Nucleon 00:22:27.380 --> 00:22:32.799 Quest Convoy. Atomos Machinima Predaking and 00:22:32.799 --> 00:22:39.160 MPG -17 style Gen Optimus Prime. The only thing 00:22:39.160 --> 00:22:42.319 I was really curious about was how they were 00:22:42.319 --> 00:22:46.579 going to do Nemesis. Ultra Magnus looks cool. 00:22:47.900 --> 00:22:55.000 He kind of looks like the old Generation 1 one. 00:22:55.500 --> 00:22:58.819 It's a re -release. Oh, it's a re -release. Okay, 00:22:58.880 --> 00:23:02.299 well. nemesis prime is just essentially i think 00:23:02.299 --> 00:23:05.579 a repaint of the other one that they did yeah 00:23:05.579 --> 00:23:09.480 it's it's a repaint of the old original g1 toy 00:23:09.480 --> 00:23:13.140 of of optimus prime however this is the uh the 00:23:13.140 --> 00:23:17.380 more articulated version yep with the hands that 00:23:17.380 --> 00:23:19.819 fold into the wrist and he he's got ankle joints 00:23:19.819 --> 00:23:25.740 and uh i still like is is much i mean i used 00:23:25.740 --> 00:23:28.400 to have the original g1 prime like the original 00:23:28.400 --> 00:23:34.640 original and had i ever seen it uh this this 00:23:34.640 --> 00:23:37.119 newer version in the store i probably would have 00:23:37.119 --> 00:23:40.680 picked it up uh like it's not one that i just 00:23:40.680 --> 00:23:43.519 have to have it was just if i was like if i'd 00:23:43.519 --> 00:23:45.279 seen it i probably would have picked it up i 00:23:45.279 --> 00:23:47.660 see a ton of the uh transformers devastation 00:23:47.660 --> 00:23:50.700 deluxe optimus prime everywhere like nobody wants 00:23:50.700 --> 00:23:55.279 it but this one i know this you know not this 00:23:55.680 --> 00:23:57.740 color of it but the the other one i'd never seen 00:23:57.740 --> 00:24:01.660 it in the store oddly enough and i think it's 00:24:01.660 --> 00:24:04.319 just kind of neat that they they gave it the 00:24:04.319 --> 00:24:09.000 nemesis because i guarantee it's not metal oh 00:24:09.000 --> 00:24:11.900 it doesn't look metal unfortunately well the 00:24:11.900 --> 00:24:15.079 the legs and the you know the exhaust piece and 00:24:15.079 --> 00:24:18.160 then the the grill and the bumper it's not yeah 00:24:18.160 --> 00:24:21.519 it's vac metal yeah so it's like why can't you 00:24:21.519 --> 00:24:27.269 give us transmetals buddy i mean i'm being for 00:24:27.269 --> 00:24:30.230 real like i know you if you could put vac metal 00:24:30.230 --> 00:24:31.990 on this stuff because i know it's not diecast 00:24:31.990 --> 00:24:34.450 yeah no there's no way it's diecast because the 00:24:34.450 --> 00:24:36.569 original toy was pretty much all diecast and 00:24:36.569 --> 00:24:41.049 this is not diecast so if they can do vac metal 00:24:41.049 --> 00:24:46.509 on a 24 toy there's no reason why we aren't getting 00:24:46.509 --> 00:24:52.579 beast wars updated figures with vac metal I'm 00:24:52.579 --> 00:24:55.480 just saying. Poor Steve, he wants his VAC medal. 00:24:55.799 --> 00:24:59.640 Well, I would like to see them, with the anniversary, 00:24:59.640 --> 00:25:03.779 revisit Transmetal Megatron, because we've gotten 00:25:03.779 --> 00:25:06.720 Transmetal 2, we've gotten, you know, base with 00:25:06.720 --> 00:25:09.460 the Kingdom. We've gotten the same thing with, 00:25:09.539 --> 00:25:13.940 you know, Optimus Primal, and then Optimal Optimus 00:25:13.940 --> 00:25:18.200 in the Prime Wars trilogy. And that did not have... 00:25:18.410 --> 00:25:21.549 vac metal or any kind of but they were experimenting 00:25:21.549 --> 00:25:25.750 with bringing optimal optimus back so then that 00:25:25.750 --> 00:25:29.430 leaves the base transmittal of primal and megatron 00:25:29.430 --> 00:25:34.130 as another logical jump into it just like depth 00:25:34.130 --> 00:25:39.829 charge and rampage yep and honestly those would 00:25:39.829 --> 00:25:43.089 be kind of cool i mean we've got some of the 00:25:43.089 --> 00:25:45.970 fusors from the show we've got some of the other 00:25:45.970 --> 00:25:47.869 figures we just need the rest of the trans metals 00:25:47.869 --> 00:25:52.230 uh to join you know the anniversary of beast 00:25:52.230 --> 00:25:58.410 wars and uh yeah so and then we get to that that 00:25:58.410 --> 00:26:01.950 mpg 17 optimus prime and that looks kind of cool 00:26:01.950 --> 00:26:05.569 yeah it does it reminds me of the original masterpiece 00:26:05.569 --> 00:26:10.869 along with like tying in features from the modern 00:26:12.450 --> 00:26:14.990 figures that we have like the ankle joints and 00:26:14.990 --> 00:26:17.910 the you know the the five millimeter pegs on 00:26:17.910 --> 00:26:21.069 the sides of the arm and uh it's got some of 00:26:21.069 --> 00:26:24.710 the movie aesthetic with the uh the hand swords 00:26:24.710 --> 00:26:31.970 yeah i mean it's it's neat i i like it for what 00:26:31.970 --> 00:26:34.990 it is like a modern interpretation however i 00:26:34.990 --> 00:26:39.269 have studio series 86 optimus prime and that 00:26:39.269 --> 00:26:45.140 fills the void So I do like the Power Master 00:26:45.140 --> 00:26:47.079 figure, though, even though it's Nemesis Power 00:26:47.079 --> 00:26:51.839 Master Prime. Yeah, I love this. I love this 00:26:51.839 --> 00:26:54.720 version of Prime from G1. Like when I had the 00:26:54.720 --> 00:26:58.759 comics of Marvel, I loved Power Master Prime 00:26:58.759 --> 00:27:00.880 to the point that I made my own out of Lego. 00:27:01.400 --> 00:27:04.500 My brother had the actual figure and I thought 00:27:04.500 --> 00:27:06.799 it looked clunky and like brick like. I mean, 00:27:06.819 --> 00:27:09.480 I liked it, but it was way too clunky for me. 00:27:10.400 --> 00:27:12.640 So I made my own out of Lego and I felt it looked 00:27:12.640 --> 00:27:15.160 better because I based it off a comic design. 00:27:16.880 --> 00:27:20.859 Nice. So, but yeah, I love this design. I love 00:27:20.859 --> 00:27:24.720 the fact that they've done it better. I mean, 00:27:24.740 --> 00:27:27.000 this is a masterpiece, so it's better than the, 00:27:27.000 --> 00:27:32.160 uh, the prime wars version, you know, but yeah. 00:27:34.079 --> 00:27:41.069 Yeah. And, uh, Coming up, we got the last three 00:27:41.069 --> 00:27:45.430 months of the year for Transformers comics. And, 00:27:45.470 --> 00:27:51.410 yeah, there you go. I'll have to, I don't know. 00:27:51.430 --> 00:27:55.390 Ezra will be like, where's my $5? Uh -huh. Every 00:27:55.390 --> 00:27:58.309 time I hear it. Uh -huh. Yeah, exactly. He'll 00:27:58.309 --> 00:28:02.309 have to stop using it. Uh -huh. Well, you know. 00:28:05.319 --> 00:28:12.559 If only. Oh, boy. God, I hope not. Jesus. Oh, 00:28:12.680 --> 00:28:17.660 that hurts my head. They will. I know. Bastards. 00:28:19.920 --> 00:28:24.140 All right. So we got the comics for, like I said, 00:28:24.200 --> 00:28:28.539 October, November, and December for Transformers 00:28:28.539 --> 00:28:33.160 literally coming up this. Well, whenever you 00:28:33.160 --> 00:28:35.240 find folks are hearing this, but October 8th, 00:28:35.240 --> 00:28:38.140 we're recording this October 6th. So two days 00:28:38.140 --> 00:28:41.500 away, we are entering the new story arc with 00:28:41.500 --> 00:28:44.880 Robert Kirkman taking over the writing. Thank 00:28:44.880 --> 00:28:51.619 freaking God. Daniel Warren Johnson. Thank God 00:28:51.619 --> 00:28:54.720 he's gone. He never comes back to Transformers 00:28:54.720 --> 00:28:58.109 writing, at least not in this era. And Dan Mora 00:28:58.109 --> 00:29:02.210 with the art. So we got an oversized anniversary 00:29:02.210 --> 00:29:05.630 issue. The Energon universe will never be the 00:29:05.630 --> 00:29:08.329 same, and the Autobots and Decepticons kick off 00:29:08.329 --> 00:29:10.769 the most surprising new chapter in their war 00:29:10.769 --> 00:29:13.849 on Earth. Optimus Prime and the remaining Autobots 00:29:13.849 --> 00:29:16.910 must join forces with unlikely allies to protect 00:29:16.910 --> 00:29:20.089 their adopted planet, but Prime's next challenge 00:29:20.089 --> 00:29:22.930 lies closer to home than he ever imagined, and 00:29:22.930 --> 00:29:27.039 what is the fate of the Decepticons? So there's 00:29:27.039 --> 00:29:33.980 that. And then coming up in November for issue 00:29:33.980 --> 00:29:41.259 26, this is coming out November 12th. We've got 00:29:41.259 --> 00:29:45.400 Optimus Prime betrayed. The Autobots' newest 00:29:45.400 --> 00:29:49.579 hope may turn out to be their downfall. The most 00:29:49.579 --> 00:29:54.730 shocking Transformers story continues here. And 00:29:54.730 --> 00:29:58.029 then to close out 2025 for Transformers from 00:29:58.029 --> 00:30:00.950 Skybound Entertainment slash Image Comics, December 00:30:00.950 --> 00:30:05.230 10th, 2025, right before Christmas. This issue 00:30:05.230 --> 00:30:09.690 has Soundwave on the cover of it as the main 00:30:09.690 --> 00:30:13.230 cover. So that's cool as hell. Megatron strikes 00:30:13.230 --> 00:30:17.029 back. The Decepticons make their move to rescue 00:30:17.029 --> 00:30:21.049 one of their most powerful members from the Autobots. 00:30:21.230 --> 00:30:28.690 Dun, dun, dun. So that's the comics for the end 00:30:28.690 --> 00:30:32.950 of the year for Transformers. So there you go, 00:30:33.049 --> 00:30:39.930 folks. That's all she wrote on the comics. But, 00:30:39.970 --> 00:30:44.390 yeah. No, I'm, you know, Jesse, Matrix Prime, 00:30:44.569 --> 00:30:47.089 myself, and Ryan the Uneven Flow Merkley, we've 00:30:47.089 --> 00:30:51.380 been doing two years. of comics over on the another 00:30:51.380 --> 00:30:55.279 comic review podcast that jesse started up and 00:30:55.279 --> 00:30:58.859 uh it's been one hell of a ride in the energon 00:30:58.859 --> 00:31:03.980 universe and up until the writing change coming 00:31:03.980 --> 00:31:06.799 up this month with robert kirkman taking over 00:31:06.799 --> 00:31:11.140 i faded fast on daniel warren johnson as a writer 00:31:11.140 --> 00:31:13.660 i had never read his stuff before transformers 00:31:13.660 --> 00:31:16.880 was the first thing he wrote that i read And 00:31:16.880 --> 00:31:19.400 he's written other stuff in the past, like he 00:31:19.400 --> 00:31:21.700 did a series called Do a Powerbomb, which is 00:31:21.700 --> 00:31:23.599 a wrestling comic and a bunch of other things. 00:31:23.680 --> 00:31:25.599 But I had never read that stuff. I hadn't even 00:31:25.599 --> 00:31:29.180 heard of him until I read the Transformers stuff. 00:31:30.220 --> 00:31:33.160 But we've been doing the Energon Universe stuff 00:31:33.160 --> 00:31:37.539 over there on another comic review podcast. for 00:31:37.539 --> 00:31:40.299 two years and what a ride it's been. But, uh, 00:31:40.380 --> 00:31:43.319 yeah, I'm very, very excited to see this, this 00:31:43.319 --> 00:31:46.660 new arc, this new series and with Robert Kirkman, 00:31:46.680 --> 00:31:50.160 cause Kirkman writes void rivals. So very, very 00:31:50.160 --> 00:31:55.960 cool to, uh, to see that, uh, happen. And then 00:31:55.960 --> 00:32:01.019 we get to quote unquote, the most hated Autobot 00:32:01.019 --> 00:32:07.059 in the universe. Retro Deluxe Wheelie and Outback 00:32:07.059 --> 00:32:14.640 Revealed. Again, like I mentioned earlier when 00:32:14.640 --> 00:32:18.759 we were talking about the other article, I had 00:32:18.759 --> 00:32:21.480 to keep looking at this wheelie toy, and I had 00:32:21.480 --> 00:32:24.180 to keep, I'm like, why does his face look so 00:32:24.180 --> 00:32:26.599 wrong? And then I read the article, I'm like, 00:32:26.640 --> 00:32:29.880 oh, right, it's based on the toy design. It's 00:32:29.880 --> 00:32:32.299 not based on the movie design. I like the alt 00:32:32.299 --> 00:32:37.109 mode. The alt mode's fine. His face color just 00:32:37.109 --> 00:32:42.970 needs a different color. Like his face is like, 00:32:43.069 --> 00:32:48.089 and it's so weird. So in the, in the box, his 00:32:48.089 --> 00:32:54.990 it's. So in these retro figures, they use the 00:32:54.990 --> 00:33:00.019 original box art on these things. Yeah. And then 00:33:00.019 --> 00:33:02.779 they update the new modern version of the figure 00:33:02.779 --> 00:33:05.960 and repaint it to look like that original figure. 00:33:06.519 --> 00:33:10.680 Yeah. And I mean, I've seen a few of these retros. 00:33:10.680 --> 00:33:12.880 I've seen the bumblebee. I've seen gears. I've 00:33:12.880 --> 00:33:18.519 seen brawn. Yeah. And I'm like, I mean, I don't 00:33:18.519 --> 00:33:21.920 care. I mean, they're kind of neat, but nothing 00:33:21.920 --> 00:33:26.240 I'm like, I just have to have. The prime is about 00:33:26.240 --> 00:33:30.119 my only exception on this, but. I mean, Outback 00:33:30.119 --> 00:33:32.980 looks great. Outback looks fine. He doesn't. 00:33:32.980 --> 00:33:36.079 Yeah, I mean, but he's not actually, you know, 00:33:36.079 --> 00:33:42.299 he's not actually. Yeah, I mean, he looks he 00:33:42.299 --> 00:33:45.099 looks good. I'll give him that. Like, he doesn't 00:33:45.099 --> 00:33:50.640 look like crap. But again, like, I don't. It's 00:33:50.640 --> 00:33:52.519 kind of like, who are you marketing these to? 00:33:53.960 --> 00:33:57.619 yeah exactly because they've been shelf warming 00:33:57.619 --> 00:34:01.400 yeah just like anything movie related anything 00:34:01.400 --> 00:34:03.779 movie related they've put out for studio series 00:34:03.779 --> 00:34:06.940 or any of that stuff it's it's shelf warm uh 00:34:06.940 --> 00:34:10.980 they're the only thing still on the shelf like 00:34:10.980 --> 00:34:12.900 the earth spark stuff's long gone because they 00:34:12.900 --> 00:34:15.380 just they dumped and purged that somewhere because 00:34:15.380 --> 00:34:17.860 it it was there one day and it was gone the next 00:34:17.860 --> 00:34:20.619 like it was they did not want it and then five 00:34:20.619 --> 00:34:24.280 below it's not even at five below i think it's 00:34:24.280 --> 00:34:26.519 at ollie's they ship it across the country they're 00:34:26.519 --> 00:34:31.300 like all right get rid of it in bulk uh yeah 00:34:31.300 --> 00:34:38.340 i mean i'm i'm happy that they're you know trying 00:34:38.340 --> 00:34:40.820 something different but at the same time it's 00:34:40.820 --> 00:34:44.159 like why don't you produce more optimus prime 00:34:44.159 --> 00:34:46.699 that people actually want to buy or produce more 00:34:46.699 --> 00:34:50.340 megatron or you know some of the other characters 00:34:50.340 --> 00:34:53.070 that don't seem to stay on the shelf very long 00:34:53.070 --> 00:34:57.090 or instead of giving us you know for every case 00:34:57.090 --> 00:34:59.969 of you know miscellaneous you get like 20 of 00:34:59.969 --> 00:35:02.550 the uh devastation optimus primes in there and 00:35:02.550 --> 00:35:04.690 they just shelf warm like i've not seen those 00:35:04.690 --> 00:35:07.630 things move and i was tempted like for a brief 00:35:07.630 --> 00:35:09.730 second to be like oh i can have one in you know 00:35:09.730 --> 00:35:12.730 vehicle mode or i could repaint it because it 00:35:12.730 --> 00:35:15.170 looks like crap anyway And then I was like, you 00:35:15.170 --> 00:35:17.130 know, it just looks like cheap plastic. And I 00:35:17.130 --> 00:35:19.369 don't know if I want to waste my time or, or, 00:35:19.369 --> 00:35:21.590 or hard earned money. Like, I'm like, I would 00:35:21.590 --> 00:35:24.869 rather, I would rather buy another, you know, 00:35:24.869 --> 00:35:28.030 like knockoff Optimus studio series, 86 Optimus 00:35:28.030 --> 00:35:32.210 prime. Yep. And repaint that or just buy one 00:35:32.210 --> 00:35:33.989 that's already repainted. Cause you can buy the 00:35:33.989 --> 00:35:36.110 nemesis version and you can buy the ultra Magnus 00:35:36.110 --> 00:35:39.969 version for the same price. Yeah. And it comes 00:35:39.969 --> 00:35:47.039 in robot mode. Exactly. Or how about this? Like, 00:35:47.039 --> 00:35:52.579 okay, we all love the nostalgia now of the 86 00:35:52.579 --> 00:35:58.000 toy line. You can, I don't know. I'm not going 00:35:58.000 --> 00:36:00.019 to sit here and try to go on eBay and search 00:36:00.019 --> 00:36:03.980 1986 Transformers wheelie. But I'm pretty sure 00:36:03.980 --> 00:36:07.340 you can go on eBay and find the 1986 or whatever 00:36:07.340 --> 00:36:14.429 wheelie at a semi -decent price. How about instead 00:36:14.429 --> 00:36:18.570 of doing toy colors, you actually do movie colors? 00:36:18.610 --> 00:36:21.510 So my biggest problem with this is not the fact 00:36:21.510 --> 00:36:23.769 that he's in toy colors. My biggest problem with 00:36:23.769 --> 00:36:28.889 this specific photo that TFW 2005 has done up 00:36:28.889 --> 00:36:35.090 for this, this, well, the photo that they have 00:36:35.090 --> 00:36:40.360 here for the packaging stuff here is the. is 00:36:40.360 --> 00:36:43.420 the it's a blown up version of the the photo 00:36:43.420 --> 00:36:46.519 that's below but the photo that they used for 00:36:46.519 --> 00:36:51.760 their featured image if you look at the toy packaging 00:36:51.760 --> 00:36:56.699 i'm like where the hell is his face like literally 00:36:56.699 --> 00:36:59.619 i had to and look folks i get it i'm legally 00:36:59.619 --> 00:37:02.639 blind but seriously most transformers packaging 00:37:02.639 --> 00:37:06.090 i can tell where the damn faces are But, like, 00:37:06.110 --> 00:37:09.250 his face is so damn orange and then the yellow. 00:37:09.449 --> 00:37:12.929 But, like, I was like, who the hell does he think 00:37:12.929 --> 00:37:15.429 he is? Kool -Aid man over here? Like, where the 00:37:15.429 --> 00:37:17.550 hell is his face? Then you look at the figure 00:37:17.550 --> 00:37:20.530 in the box. It's a slightly different color orange. 00:37:20.690 --> 00:37:22.750 Then you look at the figure that's outside the 00:37:22.750 --> 00:37:25.469 box. It's a slightly different color. It's the 00:37:25.469 --> 00:37:28.789 same color orange, but it's in a different. Just 00:37:28.789 --> 00:37:34.389 give me cartoon accuracy. Give me show accuracy. 00:37:34.570 --> 00:37:40.110 I don't give two rat traps asses about toy accuracy 00:37:40.110 --> 00:37:44.349 when it comes to Generation 1 colors. Don't care. 00:37:44.550 --> 00:37:49.170 I want show accuracy. Like I said, toy accuracy 00:37:49.170 --> 00:37:54.230 when it comes to Outback here looks cool, looks 00:37:54.230 --> 00:37:57.670 awesome, looks great. Actually looks really good 00:37:57.670 --> 00:38:02.519 because he isn't a piece of burnt... oh god i'm 00:38:02.519 --> 00:38:07.619 gonna get it for this i and i and i'm a fan of 00:38:07.619 --> 00:38:11.420 of candy corn but that photo on the back of the 00:38:11.420 --> 00:38:13.619 but not the back of the box but behind the card 00:38:13.619 --> 00:38:16.980 here the behind the blister pack here really 00:38:16.980 --> 00:38:20.639 looks like a crappy piece of candy corn that 00:38:20.639 --> 00:38:25.840 you found on the ground in that photo on the 00:38:25.840 --> 00:38:30.130 card back That's what he looks like. That's what 00:38:30.130 --> 00:38:33.829 that photo looks like. He looks like a piece 00:38:33.829 --> 00:38:35.829 of candy corn. Ain't nobody picking up off the 00:38:35.829 --> 00:38:41.730 street. Do better. God, it hurts. I got to close 00:38:41.730 --> 00:38:49.969 that tab. Hurts my eyes more than that. So yeah, 00:38:50.010 --> 00:38:56.170 that's coming to stores to ruin this. ruin people's 00:38:56.170 --> 00:38:58.429 lives i probably won't even see it in the store 00:38:58.429 --> 00:39:01.989 to be honest if you do take a picture seriously 00:39:01.989 --> 00:39:05.349 i'm curious what it's going to look like in in 00:39:05.349 --> 00:39:08.250 person because if it looks as bad as it looks 00:39:08.250 --> 00:39:13.110 like in these product shots god hasbro do better 00:39:13.110 --> 00:39:20.659 yeah okay so then we have the um The new promotional 00:39:20.659 --> 00:39:24.420 image for MPG -19 Soundwave and Laserbeak. This 00:39:24.420 --> 00:39:26.800 is just a new promotional image for this thing. 00:39:27.900 --> 00:39:30.179 That's really all the story is, is that it's 00:39:30.179 --> 00:39:34.139 a new promotional image for it. How many Soundwaves 00:39:34.139 --> 00:39:36.900 are they doing this year? Too many. Isn't there 00:39:36.900 --> 00:39:42.400 like seven of them or something? Like, we got 00:39:42.400 --> 00:39:44.980 the LEGO Soundwave that came out or that's coming 00:39:44.980 --> 00:39:49.829 out. We got this. We got something else. I don't 00:39:49.829 --> 00:39:56.550 even know what the something else is. But yeah, 00:39:56.630 --> 00:39:59.750 so it's just a new like this is like a one and 00:39:59.750 --> 00:40:04.849 done nothing. It comes out new item comes out 00:40:04.849 --> 00:40:10.269 literally in two days. Boy, but yeah, that's 00:40:10.269 --> 00:40:17.190 that's all I had for for news there for for for 00:40:17.929 --> 00:40:23.150 for the actual news stuff so we have the msrp 00:40:23.150 --> 00:40:36.170 prices yes that's the topic oh boy oh god so 00:40:36.170 --> 00:40:40.010 it's funny that i searched and like you sent 00:40:40.010 --> 00:40:43.409 this to me and it's on cyber sabertron cybertron 00:40:43.409 --> 00:40:48.130 .com and i'm like is this anywhere else Because 00:40:48.130 --> 00:40:52.630 literally, I searched through like 17 pages on 00:40:52.630 --> 00:41:02.030 TFW and couldn't find it anywhere. So I guess 00:41:02.030 --> 00:41:04.650 Cybertron has got the exclusive for the news 00:41:04.650 --> 00:41:09.329 here. It's actually hit Transformers Slag Podcast. 00:41:09.949 --> 00:41:12.909 Oh, I'm sure that Proto Man would cover this. 00:41:12.969 --> 00:41:15.389 Absolutely, he would. Most definitely. It's pretty 00:41:15.389 --> 00:41:18.349 much on everything for his and some other YouTube 00:41:18.349 --> 00:41:27.809 channel. However, yeah. I think this is going 00:41:27.809 --> 00:41:35.650 to kill the brand. You think it's going to DOA 00:41:35.650 --> 00:41:38.909 it, huh? I think so. I think people are going 00:41:38.909 --> 00:41:43.360 to be like, alright, that's enough. part of its 00:41:43.360 --> 00:41:46.159 tariffs part of it is the fact that they can't 00:41:46.159 --> 00:41:48.280 get the product here part of it is the fact that 00:41:48.280 --> 00:41:50.739 quality has gone down while price has gone massively 00:41:50.739 --> 00:41:56.539 up yeah but it's only for the united states that 00:41:56.539 --> 00:41:58.380 the prices are going up it's gone up everywhere 00:41:58.380 --> 00:42:01.039 else over the span of you know last 10 15 years 00:42:01.039 --> 00:42:04.219 it's just we're joining the rest of them yeah 00:42:04.219 --> 00:42:11.559 um so yeah anything you know any existing pre 00:42:11.559 --> 00:42:14.699 -orders pre -tariff are being honored in most 00:42:14.699 --> 00:42:18.539 places new pre -orders are being raised in cost 00:42:18.539 --> 00:42:24.539 to cover the tariffs and so um some of them are 00:42:24.539 --> 00:42:27.360 even canceling pre -orders because there's no 00:42:27.360 --> 00:42:31.239 way to make it financially feasible yeah and 00:42:31.239 --> 00:42:35.780 because there's not you know there's a lot of 00:42:35.780 --> 00:42:39.130 uncertainty and then you know a lot of companies 00:42:39.130 --> 00:42:44.449 do not want to be stuck with it so i could see 00:42:44.449 --> 00:42:46.110 it either going to the store and jacking the 00:42:46.110 --> 00:42:48.449 price up i mean the toy stores are pretty dismal 00:42:48.449 --> 00:42:50.389 anyway and like i check them every time i go 00:42:50.389 --> 00:42:53.210 to walmart or you know target or whatever and 00:42:53.210 --> 00:42:59.550 they're pretty uh pretty pathetic but again i 00:42:59.550 --> 00:43:04.690 don't know like it's just kind of waiting to 00:43:04.690 --> 00:43:09.280 see what happens i guess so Yeah, it's definitely 00:43:09.280 --> 00:43:13.760 a wait and see game. The problem is, is that 00:43:13.760 --> 00:43:23.619 they have, so there's so many like size classes. 00:43:23.940 --> 00:43:28.199 That's the problem. Like you don't have, like 00:43:28.199 --> 00:43:36.829 we used to have like, what was it? Okay, I'm 00:43:36.829 --> 00:43:41.210 just going to say, I know there were more than 00:43:41.210 --> 00:43:46.849 this, but for a simple example, Deluxe, Voyager, 00:43:46.849 --> 00:43:55.429 and Leader. Deluxes were kind of like your Insecticons, 00:43:55.429 --> 00:43:59.389 you know, you're kind of like your Bumblebee 00:43:59.389 --> 00:44:02.070 or whatever. Your Voyagers were a little bit 00:44:02.070 --> 00:44:05.179 bigger. Your leader classes were kind of like 00:44:05.179 --> 00:44:09.380 your Optimus, your Megatron, your big guys, your 00:44:09.380 --> 00:44:20.559 most important people. Now we have... Deluxe, 00:44:20.559 --> 00:44:30.199 Voyager, Leader, Commander, Titan, and I don't 00:44:30.199 --> 00:44:33.099 know what else is in between. On either side 00:44:33.099 --> 00:44:34.980 of those, if there's something before Deluxe, 00:44:34.980 --> 00:44:38.960 if there's something after Titan, I don't know. 00:44:38.980 --> 00:44:41.199 So they technically got rid of the size class 00:44:41.199 --> 00:44:44.179 smaller because we had Core. Right, right. I 00:44:44.179 --> 00:44:46.320 know they got rid of Core class. Yeah, I know 00:44:46.320 --> 00:44:49.840 they got rid of Core class. So we have Deluxe, 00:44:49.840 --> 00:44:54.619 which is now the price of... They're going from 00:44:54.619 --> 00:45:02.340 the... The $34 mark or the Voyager, I'm sorry, 00:45:02.460 --> 00:45:12.760 the Voyager has gone from $34 to $42. And. Yeah. 00:45:14.320 --> 00:45:17.559 And they're basically all size classes are going 00:45:17.559 --> 00:45:25.099 up 23%. Yeah. So we're going to see. We're going 00:45:25.099 --> 00:45:28.309 to see a lot higher prices, unfortunately. I'm 00:45:28.309 --> 00:45:31.809 so glad I don't buy Transformers anymore unless 00:45:31.809 --> 00:45:41.210 I absolutely want the damn thing. The last Transformer 00:45:41.210 --> 00:45:49.010 I bought was the reformatted Kingdom Galvatron, 00:45:49.269 --> 00:45:53.789 which is basically the purple version of the 00:45:53.789 --> 00:46:03.179 Kingdom Leader Class Galvatron. I still love 00:46:03.179 --> 00:46:06.400 the brand. I will always love the brand. I will 00:46:06.400 --> 00:46:11.900 always love the franchise. But I've said this 00:46:11.900 --> 00:46:14.420 a thousand times on this podcast in the last 00:46:14.420 --> 00:46:20.039 seven and a half to nine years we've been doing 00:46:20.039 --> 00:46:28.820 this. Ever since I sold my toy collection in 00:46:28.820 --> 00:46:32.219 2011 or 2012, whenever it was that I sold it, 00:46:32.239 --> 00:46:39.239 and I was out, done, I haven't wanted to, like, 00:46:39.380 --> 00:46:44.539 I have very few non -funco pop versions of things, 00:46:44.639 --> 00:46:48.179 and the few things that I do have, either I've 00:46:48.179 --> 00:46:52.420 absolutely had to have them, or people have gotten 00:46:52.420 --> 00:46:58.150 them for me. I have kingdom Ronimus. Thank you, 00:46:58.150 --> 00:47:01.670 Alex. You know who you are. He got that for me. 00:47:01.809 --> 00:47:05.949 So Alex, you rock. But it's one of those things 00:47:05.949 --> 00:47:10.170 where it's like, I can look at like all the stuff 00:47:10.170 --> 00:47:12.130 that we're going to eventually, there was a news 00:47:12.130 --> 00:47:15.789 story that I didn't put in the, in the show notes 00:47:15.789 --> 00:47:20.030 because you know how I am, unless we have images 00:47:20.030 --> 00:47:22.389 to discuss these things, I'm not discussing. 00:47:24.599 --> 00:47:27.900 I can't sit here and go through a list of upcoming 00:47:27.900 --> 00:47:31.019 product unless I have images to go with that 00:47:31.019 --> 00:47:33.900 product. And there was a news story about upcoming 00:47:33.900 --> 00:47:40.619 waves of whatever. I don't know what waves of 00:47:40.619 --> 00:47:43.019 whatever it was for transformers, but unless 00:47:43.019 --> 00:47:47.500 I have images, I'm not doing it. So, but there, 00:47:47.519 --> 00:47:49.920 there's going to be pictures coming in at some 00:47:49.920 --> 00:47:54.800 point at whatever next Hasbro. 1027 or whatever 00:47:54.800 --> 00:47:58.840 event they do where we'll end up discussing stuff. 00:48:01.219 --> 00:48:05.440 And I can, like right now, this Alpha Trion image 00:48:05.440 --> 00:48:11.900 that's up here for this article, he looks great. 00:48:12.000 --> 00:48:16.179 He looks cool. I don't need him. I have no compunction 00:48:16.179 --> 00:48:25.300 of needing that toy. But he looks great. I would 00:48:25.300 --> 00:48:29.159 never pay the prices that are being asked for 00:48:29.159 --> 00:48:33.039 that toy. There have been quite a few I've looked 00:48:33.039 --> 00:48:35.239 at over the last couple years, and I've been 00:48:35.239 --> 00:48:38.360 like, oh, that'd be cool to have. And then I 00:48:38.360 --> 00:48:45.059 look at them again, and I'm like, price. It just 00:48:45.059 --> 00:48:50.260 doesn't compute. I'm like, I just can't do it. 00:48:50.739 --> 00:49:03.019 Nope. Yeah, I'm really hoping that we can get 00:49:03.019 --> 00:49:04.940 on the other side of this and we can rebound 00:49:04.940 --> 00:49:09.619 from all of this crap. Yeah. But the prices are 00:49:09.619 --> 00:49:12.820 never going down. Oh, no. Why would they ever 00:49:12.820 --> 00:49:15.840 go down? Oh, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, 00:49:15.880 --> 00:49:17.500 no, no. We're going to get to a point where. 00:49:18.329 --> 00:49:22.989 A deluxe is going to be $50. A Voyager is going 00:49:22.989 --> 00:49:27.389 to be $60. A leader class is going to be $80. 00:49:27.389 --> 00:49:33.670 And a commander class is going to be $100. Why 00:49:33.670 --> 00:49:37.650 would they ever go down? But Hasbro, please do 00:49:37.650 --> 00:49:41.210 me a favor. Please, for the love of God, get 00:49:41.210 --> 00:49:45.889 out of the crossover game. Well, it's good money 00:49:45.889 --> 00:49:49.980 for them. Is it really? Yeah, because they're 00:49:49.980 --> 00:49:52.639 doing the Masters of the Universe Transformers 00:49:52.639 --> 00:49:55.000 crossover. They're doing, you know, they've done 00:49:55.000 --> 00:49:57.679 G .I. Joe and, you know, Masters. They've done 00:49:57.679 --> 00:50:00.579 because, I mean, Mattel only has that, you know, 00:50:00.579 --> 00:50:03.280 the Masters line. Hasbro has pretty much everything 00:50:03.280 --> 00:50:06.820 else. The Hot Wheels, I think, is great because 00:50:06.820 --> 00:50:08.559 there's a lot of opportunity with Transformers 00:50:08.559 --> 00:50:13.179 to that. I have one of those Optimus Primes. 00:50:14.829 --> 00:50:16.570 for the hot wheel and they're going to re -release 00:50:16.570 --> 00:50:18.590 it next year with doubling the amount that go 00:50:18.590 --> 00:50:20.829 into stores which means i'll get one that i can 00:50:20.829 --> 00:50:24.769 open because my kids well my kids found me one 00:50:24.769 --> 00:50:26.469 and i've got it in the box and it's pinned to 00:50:26.469 --> 00:50:30.389 my wall with a you know thumbtack yeah and they 00:50:30.389 --> 00:50:32.690 found it like just randomly at a store and i've 00:50:32.690 --> 00:50:34.789 been looking for it for i don't know six months 00:50:34.789 --> 00:50:40.550 and uh so i mean in those instances like i'm 00:50:40.550 --> 00:50:42.610 excited for it i mean mattel even got to make 00:50:42.610 --> 00:50:45.409 their own you know basically masterpiece tiny 00:50:45.409 --> 00:50:48.050 version of transformable optimus prime of the 00:50:48.050 --> 00:50:51.829 original g184 figure yeah and you know it's all 00:50:51.829 --> 00:50:54.110 die cast and everything but it was stupid expensive 00:50:54.110 --> 00:50:56.630 and so it was like i'm you know i'm gonna like 00:50:56.630 --> 00:50:58.949 it but i'm not gonna pay for it and i've never 00:50:58.949 --> 00:51:03.369 seen it at the store and then you know they've 00:51:03.369 --> 00:51:06.369 got all the the card game and all that kind of 00:51:06.369 --> 00:51:10.210 stuff crossover stuff right now too i i think 00:51:10.210 --> 00:51:15.130 that it's They're trying to capitalize on the 00:51:15.130 --> 00:51:17.349 synergy between the two toy companies and what 00:51:17.349 --> 00:51:19.969 they can offer separately and by combining with 00:51:19.969 --> 00:51:23.710 the things that they have individually. Rather 00:51:23.710 --> 00:51:27.090 than, you know, because there's certain things 00:51:27.090 --> 00:51:29.050 that they each have that the other does not. 00:51:29.510 --> 00:51:32.110 And so they're able to kind of piggyback off 00:51:32.110 --> 00:51:35.369 each other. So it's a win -win for both. But 00:51:35.369 --> 00:51:38.469 He -Man Optimus Prime is ugly as hell. Oh, I 00:51:38.469 --> 00:51:40.710 agree. Like any crossover with Masters of the 00:51:40.710 --> 00:51:43.809 Universe is crap. I've seen so many different 00:51:43.809 --> 00:51:46.030 variations of mixtures of them that I'm just 00:51:46.030 --> 00:51:50.570 like, no, no. I mean, Skeletron was kind of cool. 00:51:50.610 --> 00:51:57.309 He was kind of OK, but still no. I don't know. 00:51:57.349 --> 00:52:03.320 They just didn't. I don't know. There's a huge 00:52:03.320 --> 00:52:07.019 difference in the crossovers that Hasbro does 00:52:07.019 --> 00:52:13.960 or whatever. Like with Gigawatt, that's an original 00:52:13.960 --> 00:52:17.960 character that they did. Same thing with Ectotron. 00:52:18.000 --> 00:52:20.260 That was an original character that they did 00:52:20.260 --> 00:52:22.619 that they made a Transformer out of Ghostbuster 00:52:22.619 --> 00:52:26.239 car or the Back to the Future car. Same thing 00:52:26.239 --> 00:52:29.480 with Agent Knight, even though that name is stupid. 00:52:30.170 --> 00:52:34.030 With the Knight Rider, with Kit Carr, for Knight 00:52:34.030 --> 00:52:39.469 Rider. But I don't know, man. Just whatever. 00:52:39.750 --> 00:52:42.269 And I'm not even going to bring up Funko Pop 00:52:42.269 --> 00:52:48.010 stuff because I've seen listings. I've seen names 00:52:48.010 --> 00:52:52.929 of supposed Funko Pops that they're supposedly 00:52:52.929 --> 00:52:56.670 supposed to be doing. But I ain't even saying 00:52:56.670 --> 00:53:01.389 jack all about that. again until i actually see 00:53:01.389 --> 00:53:05.050 actual photos of funko actually making these 00:53:05.050 --> 00:53:09.989 things so i i say it before and i'll say it again 00:53:09.989 --> 00:53:14.289 you know they can make as many various vert like 00:53:14.289 --> 00:53:17.630 they did a the most recent transformers thing 00:53:17.630 --> 00:53:26.510 funko has done is an optimus prime game uh cover 00:53:26.510 --> 00:53:29.809 thing with magic the gathering so it was an optimus 00:53:29.809 --> 00:53:32.429 transformers magic the gathering crossover thing 00:53:32.429 --> 00:53:36.989 and it's a it's similar to how they did the comic 00:53:36.989 --> 00:53:39.489 covers that that funko does and stuff like that 00:53:39.489 --> 00:53:43.590 so it's a pop in a box with a game cover behind 00:53:43.590 --> 00:53:47.010 it so it's an optimus prime funko pop in a box 00:53:47.010 --> 00:53:50.570 okay fine but i'm not buying that because it's 00:53:50.570 --> 00:53:52.710 magic the gathering and i have no interest in 00:53:52.710 --> 00:53:56.409 that And my first thought when I saw that was, 00:53:56.630 --> 00:54:01.369 OK, why aren't you doing other Funko Pop characters 00:54:01.369 --> 00:54:03.590 of Transformers characters that we haven't had 00:54:03.590 --> 00:54:06.489 yet? Like Thundercracker, like Sky. We've only 00:54:06.489 --> 00:54:09.849 ever gotten Starscream. We've gotten Starscream 00:54:09.849 --> 00:54:12.110 in two versions. We've got regular Starscream, 00:54:12.230 --> 00:54:14.949 which I have over on my shelf somewhere. We've 00:54:14.949 --> 00:54:17.909 gotten King Starscream, which is an NFT pop. 00:54:19.400 --> 00:54:21.920 So we've gotten two versions of Starscream. We've 00:54:21.920 --> 00:54:24.880 never gotten the other two main Seekers, Thundercracker 00:54:24.880 --> 00:54:27.739 and Skywarp, blah, blah, blah. Well, guess what 00:54:27.739 --> 00:54:30.539 names I've seen in the listings that I, or what 00:54:30.539 --> 00:54:33.980 names I've seen on the list that I've seen? Thundercracker 00:54:33.980 --> 00:54:37.780 and Skywarp. But again, I'm not gonna really 00:54:37.780 --> 00:54:41.179 fully, other than mentioning them now, I ain't 00:54:41.179 --> 00:54:44.500 saying jack all about it until I see actual photos 00:54:44.500 --> 00:54:48.230 or until Funko reveals it because... I don't 00:54:48.230 --> 00:54:49.809 know if they're ever going to make them. I don't 00:54:49.809 --> 00:54:51.690 know if it's ever going to happen because it 00:54:51.690 --> 00:54:55.570 just seems like Funko just drags their feet with 00:54:55.570 --> 00:54:57.809 the Transformers license and they put out something 00:54:57.809 --> 00:55:02.869 so damn obscure as Optimus Prime with a Magic 00:55:02.869 --> 00:55:11.610 the Gathering game cover. It's so stupid. So 00:55:11.610 --> 00:55:20.280 stupid. Agreed. stupid frustrating and just as 00:55:20.280 --> 00:55:26.860 much as i said earlier i still love the brand 00:55:26.860 --> 00:55:29.579 i still love the franchise i still love what 00:55:29.579 --> 00:55:32.179 i love about the franchise like we love the cartoons 00:55:32.179 --> 00:55:34.800 that we love about it and whatever because those 00:55:34.800 --> 00:55:36.739 are in the past and their history and we can 00:55:36.739 --> 00:55:39.699 watch them whenever the hell we want to wherever 00:55:39.699 --> 00:55:42.099 the hell we want to on whatever pieces of media 00:55:42.099 --> 00:55:46.789 etc etc etc But the rest of the parts of the 00:55:46.789 --> 00:55:50.309 franchise that frustrate us make us just shake 00:55:50.309 --> 00:55:55.469 our head, make our eyes twitch and just go. You 00:55:55.469 --> 00:56:00.309 notice, folks, I'm using all the tricks in my 00:56:00.309 --> 00:56:04.389 book here in my bag not to curse because I would 00:56:04.389 --> 00:56:09.269 just lay down a curse laden rant about some of 00:56:09.269 --> 00:56:13.940 this stuff. And I'm trying not to do that. Yeah, 00:56:13.960 --> 00:56:15.840 prices are going to go up. Prices are going to 00:56:15.840 --> 00:56:19.500 go up so high that they're going to price themselves 00:56:19.500 --> 00:56:22.219 out of anyone being able to buy their products, 00:56:22.460 --> 00:56:28.940 which is not good. And again, this should be 00:56:28.940 --> 00:56:32.000 something like we've mentioned this before thousands 00:56:32.000 --> 00:56:36.579 of times. Hasbro has two markets, the kid market 00:56:36.579 --> 00:56:39.619 and the adult market. They have to get the kid 00:56:39.619 --> 00:56:47.489 market back. And I don't know how they're going 00:56:47.489 --> 00:56:50.710 to do that. They're not. Because honestly, kids 00:56:50.710 --> 00:56:55.429 don't play with toys. Yeah, true. They're essentially 00:56:55.429 --> 00:56:58.170 marketing to us at this point because we're the 00:56:58.170 --> 00:57:01.090 ones that are buying the stuff. Kids nowadays 00:57:01.090 --> 00:57:03.630 don't play with this stuff. Like, yeah, you can 00:57:03.630 --> 00:57:08.110 expose them to it. They might care. But the minute 00:57:08.110 --> 00:57:12.960 they touch a tablet, it's game over. Like my 00:57:12.960 --> 00:57:15.739 kids do not play with toys. They had Transformers 00:57:15.739 --> 00:57:22.019 figures for a while. But again, they do not care. 00:57:22.260 --> 00:57:24.500 They do not use toys anymore. Like they have 00:57:24.500 --> 00:57:27.980 Transformers. And your boys are 12 and... 10 00:57:27.980 --> 00:57:32.139 and 12. Okay. So they're not even at the point 00:57:32.139 --> 00:57:35.500 of really fully aging out. They're like right 00:57:35.500 --> 00:57:36.780 at that sweet spot of where they... They haven't 00:57:36.780 --> 00:57:40.320 cared in years. My oldest, he sold all of his 00:57:40.320 --> 00:57:43.550 stuff or gave it to his brother. Oh, wow. Like 00:57:43.550 --> 00:57:45.530 he didn't care anymore. Like he bought a bunch 00:57:45.530 --> 00:57:47.409 of stuff and then it's just kind of like, eh. 00:57:48.110 --> 00:57:54.610 Yeah. Wow. That's yeah. I'm just, I'm just saying 00:57:54.610 --> 00:57:57.550 like, it's, we're at this weird cusp where people, 00:57:57.610 --> 00:57:59.909 you know, especially modern generations, they, 00:57:59.989 --> 00:58:04.550 they're just like, I don't need this. They're 00:58:04.550 --> 00:58:07.289 like, I mean, my kids play outside and then when 00:58:07.289 --> 00:58:08.750 they don't play outside, they want to be on their 00:58:08.750 --> 00:58:12.059 tablet. So, I mean, it's just, yeah. they're, 00:58:12.059 --> 00:58:13.900 they're at this stage that they just, they don't 00:58:13.900 --> 00:58:16.840 want to play with toys. And if they have toys, 00:58:17.000 --> 00:58:18.860 they just are clutter in their room. And then 00:58:18.860 --> 00:58:20.780 it's like, okay, I need to get rid of this crap. 00:58:22.360 --> 00:58:27.360 Um, like I have, I bought the reissue of, you 00:58:27.360 --> 00:58:31.820 know, beast wars, you know, 96 ultra optimus 00:58:31.820 --> 00:58:35.539 primal from my oldest or from my youngest, uh, 00:58:35.659 --> 00:58:44.099 when it came out, it sits on my desk. not because 00:58:44.099 --> 00:58:46.920 i asked for it i mean yes i used to i used to 00:58:46.920 --> 00:58:49.320 own it i mean i have the masterpiece like what 00:58:49.320 --> 00:58:52.400 do i need it for but right right but i mean i 00:58:52.400 --> 00:58:55.239 have it on my desk because they don't want it 00:58:55.239 --> 00:58:59.619 and then the same thing goes for my oldest he 00:58:59.619 --> 00:59:06.679 had bought on ebay transmittal depth charge and 00:59:06.679 --> 00:59:11.940 it sits in my geek cabinet He also bought the 00:59:11.940 --> 00:59:18.400 Cybertronian Bumblebee transformation. It sits 00:59:18.400 --> 00:59:23.519 in my cabinet. Core Class Starscream sits in 00:59:23.519 --> 00:59:28.820 my cabinet. I'm not joking. There's figures in 00:59:28.820 --> 00:59:31.019 there that weren't originally mine but became 00:59:31.019 --> 00:59:32.840 mine because they just didn't want them anymore. 00:59:33.179 --> 00:59:37.460 I think we're at this stage though that unless 00:59:37.460 --> 00:59:42.019 Hasbro... figures out something with the brand 00:59:42.019 --> 00:59:48.860 i don't see it being a toy brand and that's where 00:59:48.860 --> 00:59:53.099 as much as i hate the dude for damaging the brand 00:59:53.099 --> 00:59:59.260 you know chris cox yeah he's not wrong about 00:59:59.260 --> 01:00:06.010 it becoming a gaming brand like it when you look 01:00:06.010 --> 01:00:08.849 at it kids are on digital devices if you want 01:00:08.849 --> 01:00:11.010 to capture the kids you need the digital devices 01:00:11.010 --> 01:00:14.230 if you don't have the the proper games or the 01:00:14.230 --> 01:00:18.170 proper media the toys are irrelevant yeah and 01:00:18.170 --> 01:00:20.429 if you hook them on the other two they're more 01:00:20.429 --> 01:00:23.929 likely to purchase us they already know they 01:00:23.929 --> 01:00:26.489 have in the bag so whatever they pump out we're 01:00:26.489 --> 01:00:31.690 more than likely going to want yep so it's like 01:00:31.690 --> 01:00:34.190 i mean me i'm not a completist i don't i don't 01:00:34.190 --> 01:00:36.329 care about that like yes beast wars it's very 01:00:36.329 --> 01:00:39.269 difficult for me to not be a completist for the 01:00:39.269 --> 01:00:43.510 show characters yeah but even then like i i have 01:00:43.510 --> 01:00:45.630 my specific favorites and i've you know little 01:00:45.630 --> 01:00:47.889 by little my cabinet has no room so i've been 01:00:47.889 --> 01:00:49.769 whittling down certain things and i'm like okay 01:00:49.769 --> 01:00:52.510 what did i used to have that i'm like what you 01:00:52.510 --> 01:00:55.309 know what actually matters what what doesn't 01:00:55.309 --> 01:01:00.000 what doesn't i'll get rid of and you know it's 01:01:00.000 --> 01:01:05.780 it's it's that scenario but i'm kind of i i'm 01:01:05.780 --> 01:01:09.820 also like just kind of almost done like i've 01:01:09.820 --> 01:01:13.019 got this like the last couple of you know like 01:01:13.019 --> 01:01:15.980 megatron i don't have a g1 megatron i have g2 01:01:15.980 --> 01:01:20.860 and i used to own g g2 megatron but not g1 like 01:01:20.860 --> 01:01:25.420 i've never owned a g1 megatron right and uh But 01:01:25.420 --> 01:01:27.480 I've had like Beast Wars and I've had like G1 01:01:27.480 --> 01:01:31.480 Primes and G2 Prime. And so I use my War for 01:01:31.480 --> 01:01:35.099 Cybertron as G2 Prime because he scales good 01:01:35.099 --> 01:01:38.820 with, you know, the G2 Megatron and the J -Axes. 01:01:40.739 --> 01:01:44.559 But yeah, I mean, it'll be interesting to see 01:01:44.559 --> 01:01:46.800 what happens, especially with Toys R Us coming 01:01:46.800 --> 01:01:50.920 back and select locations. I still don't believe 01:01:50.920 --> 01:01:54.730 that. Oh, they're putting one in 40 minutes for 01:01:54.730 --> 01:01:59.210 me. Well, they're being more strategic instead 01:01:59.210 --> 01:02:01.449 of putting them everywhere. They're going to 01:02:01.449 --> 01:02:05.989 put them in near major metropolitan areas. So 01:02:05.989 --> 01:02:08.570 it's going to be within a half an hour of, for 01:02:08.570 --> 01:02:10.349 me, it's going to be half an hour of Denver, 01:02:10.510 --> 01:02:15.550 which is 40 minutes from where I'm at. So it's 01:02:15.550 --> 01:02:18.969 actually before Denver. So I'm more likely to 01:02:18.969 --> 01:02:21.699 go check it out when I'm in that area. Because 01:02:21.699 --> 01:02:23.340 there's a lot of shopping stuff around there, 01:02:23.380 --> 01:02:25.059 a lot of collection shops and things like that. 01:02:25.199 --> 01:02:31.119 So they started coming back with pop -ups in 01:02:31.119 --> 01:02:34.739 Macy's and different places. And they're actually 01:02:34.739 --> 01:02:43.320 coming back with real full -blown stores. So 01:02:43.320 --> 01:02:45.400 I'll be interested to see how well this goes 01:02:45.400 --> 01:02:48.079 over. because they're they're planning on just 01:02:48.079 --> 01:02:50.619 doing kind of small like 30 stores are open you 01:02:50.619 --> 01:02:54.099 know plan to be opened right yeah um they have 01:02:54.099 --> 01:02:57.980 a pop -up in like you know like nashville and 01:02:57.980 --> 01:03:03.940 like some other places but um yeah it's all they 01:03:03.940 --> 01:03:07.960 had was canadian stores and so they're closing 01:03:07.960 --> 01:03:11.599 canadian stores and opening american ones oh 01:03:11.599 --> 01:03:16.719 no um They're saying that the Canadian version 01:03:16.719 --> 01:03:19.719 became a pale husk of what it once was, being 01:03:19.719 --> 01:03:21.920 very similar to what the Toys R Us in the US 01:03:21.920 --> 01:03:24.239 were at the end, overpriced with barely any new 01:03:24.239 --> 01:03:28.139 stock. I don't see it going very well unless 01:03:28.139 --> 01:03:32.900 they keep these very condensed and not trying 01:03:32.900 --> 01:03:38.139 to be the catch -all. Yeah. So if they try not 01:03:38.139 --> 01:03:42.730 to be the catch -all... and have like the video 01:03:42.730 --> 01:03:44.510 games and have all the other stuff like just 01:03:44.510 --> 01:03:48.429 strictly toys they might have a shot at survival 01:03:48.429 --> 01:03:54.630 yeah they might have a shot at survival but one 01:03:54.630 --> 01:03:59.090 will never know the world may never know well 01:03:59.090 --> 01:04:01.469 i'll check it out and report back when when they 01:04:01.469 --> 01:04:04.769 open one locally yeah i was gonna say i will 01:04:04.769 --> 01:04:07.190 not believe this until you you know actually 01:04:07.190 --> 01:04:09.889 go there with a video camera and film it because 01:04:10.699 --> 01:04:13.699 The last thing I think of Toys R Us is a box 01:04:13.699 --> 01:04:19.099 in a corner of Macy's. Yeah, I've never even 01:04:19.099 --> 01:04:22.099 seen one in Macy's. I know, I know. I've seen 01:04:22.099 --> 01:04:27.440 the KB toy things pop up in Kroger King Super 01:04:27.440 --> 01:04:31.000 thing before. Yeah. I still can't believe they 01:04:31.000 --> 01:04:32.880 tried to bring that back, too. I don't know. 01:04:33.019 --> 01:04:38.260 It's just amazing. The times we live in, folks, 01:04:38.380 --> 01:04:44.000 the times we live in. I miss the 80s. As do I. 01:04:44.179 --> 01:04:47.539 I miss the 80s. I miss the 90s. I miss when things 01:04:47.539 --> 01:04:57.679 actually mattered to people. But yeah, I think 01:04:57.679 --> 01:05:00.340 that about rounds out this episode of all things 01:05:00.340 --> 01:05:05.820 Transformers. So you can, of course. Get a hold 01:05:05.820 --> 01:05:08.159 of us in the following ways. You can comment 01:05:08.159 --> 01:05:10.960 on this episode post on the website, geekcastradio 01:05:10.960 --> 01:05:14.840 .com. 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