WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.200 Sentinel Online. Now loading all things Transformers. 00:00:27.879 --> 00:00:30.579 Welcome to All Things Transformers. I'm your 00:00:30.579 --> 00:00:32.979 host, Steve Megatron, and joining me on this 00:00:32.979 --> 00:00:35.960 adventure into the Transformers fandom is TFG1 00:00:35.960 --> 00:00:41.539 Mike. Holy crap, folks. It is literally, when 00:00:41.539 --> 00:00:45.079 we're recording this, it's probably five days 00:00:45.079 --> 00:00:49.280 away from my 46th birthday. Holy crap. This old 00:00:49.280 --> 00:00:56.179 man. so old i'm older than the transformers themselves 00:00:56.179 --> 00:01:04.319 oh god well it is a new year we this is our first 00:01:04.319 --> 00:01:07.500 episode of the new year actually i think because 00:01:07.500 --> 00:01:11.219 we have not i don't think we did one uh we did 00:01:11.219 --> 00:01:14.019 we did an attf but i don't or maybe it was just 00:01:14.019 --> 00:01:16.819 AG. I don't know. One of, one of the two. I think 00:01:16.819 --> 00:01:18.959 we just did an AG. I don't think we've done. 00:01:18.980 --> 00:01:21.459 I'm clicking. I'm clicking. I'm moving as fast 00:01:21.459 --> 00:01:25.060 as I can here. i'm working here i'm working here 00:01:25.060 --> 00:01:27.959 i'm working here i'm working over here geekcastradio 00:01:27.959 --> 00:01:31.280 .com unleash the geek in you uh comics tf con 00:01:31.280 --> 00:01:33.680 guests and all that episode was in november wow 00:01:33.680 --> 00:01:36.420 we haven't done one since november no this is 00:01:36.420 --> 00:01:39.700 the first episode of 2026 welcome to the 40th 00:01:39.700 --> 00:01:43.359 anniversary of transformers the movie and the 00:01:43.359 --> 00:01:46.719 30th anniversary of beast wars ladies and gentlemen 00:01:46.719 --> 00:01:50.359 we have got plans for 2026 and you're not going 00:01:50.359 --> 00:01:55.359 to know about them until they release oh come 00:01:55.359 --> 00:02:01.659 on you can do better than that yes there you 00:02:01.659 --> 00:02:05.519 go yeah yeah so the first the first thing we 00:02:05.519 --> 00:02:08.680 have up here i mean a lot of this is just mostly 00:02:08.680 --> 00:02:11.919 toy news uh yeah we got we got three stories 00:02:11.919 --> 00:02:14.099 tonight i wanted to keep it simple i kind of 00:02:14.099 --> 00:02:15.979 wanted to keep it like a 20 minute blitz kind 00:02:15.979 --> 00:02:20.319 of thing and there wasn't really anything Between 00:02:20.319 --> 00:02:26.300 the November episode and now, there wasn't anything 00:02:26.300 --> 00:02:29.180 that just knocked my socks off. There wasn't, 00:02:29.180 --> 00:02:31.759 like, I still haven't gotten the Beast Wars Funko 00:02:31.759 --> 00:02:34.199 Pops yet. I'm still waiting on getting those. 00:02:34.300 --> 00:02:37.500 I need to get those and whatever. There hasn't 00:02:37.500 --> 00:02:45.300 been any new, like, I got the Thundercracker. 00:02:45.319 --> 00:02:47.780 I got the Skywarp and the Thundercracker Funko 00:02:47.780 --> 00:02:50.759 Pops. from that set and i got springer out of 00:02:50.759 --> 00:02:52.879 that new generation one set i haven't gotten 00:02:52.879 --> 00:02:55.439 cup yet and i'm not getting that new nemesis 00:02:55.439 --> 00:02:58.340 prime because the old one is better but i haven't 00:02:58.340 --> 00:03:00.960 gotten the beast wars pops yet and there just 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:06.020 isn't anything like oh my god we have to talk 00:03:06.020 --> 00:03:09.280 about this oh my god this is going to shatter 00:03:09.280 --> 00:03:14.759 the glass of the transformers world glass that's 00:03:14.759 --> 00:03:25.020 right So, before we get into the figures that 00:03:25.020 --> 00:03:26.319 I know we're going to talk about and probably 00:03:26.319 --> 00:03:38.199 rant about, I did get a knockoff Megatron. It's 00:03:38.199 --> 00:03:43.500 actually really nice. Yeah. It looks just like 00:03:43.500 --> 00:03:47.699 the official. Yep. Same colors, same everything 00:03:47.699 --> 00:03:50.520 comes with all the gear that the regular one 00:03:50.520 --> 00:03:54.219 does. What's funny is I have him in prime because 00:03:54.219 --> 00:03:58.240 I rearranged how they all my autobots and maximal 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:01.360 stand in the cabinet. Right. I move the stasis 00:04:01.360 --> 00:04:05.740 pod down with the maximals and I move the autobots 00:04:05.740 --> 00:04:08.599 and Decepticons around and I put Megatron and 00:04:08.599 --> 00:04:12.780 prime side by side while they sit. Like they're 00:04:12.780 --> 00:04:18.259 truly leader class. Whereas a lot of the War 00:04:18.259 --> 00:04:21.480 for Cybertron said they were and they were not. 00:04:21.519 --> 00:04:25.620 They were Voyager class. So all of the like the 00:04:25.620 --> 00:04:30.920 G2 Megatron, the War for Cybertron, Optimus Prime, 00:04:31.160 --> 00:04:34.379 they're the same height as J -Axis, which is 00:04:34.379 --> 00:04:38.800 a Voyager. Right. So these these leader class 00:04:38.800 --> 00:04:42.339 commander class Megatron and Optimus Prime actually 00:04:42.339 --> 00:04:46.589 sit like a whole head taller. And they look awesome. 00:04:48.829 --> 00:04:54.129 So I got the knockoff of it because it was kind 00:04:54.129 --> 00:04:59.050 of multifaceted here. I got it because I wanted 00:04:59.050 --> 00:05:03.709 the figure, but I also didn't want the $60 price 00:05:03.709 --> 00:05:07.600 tag or the weight. i literally more of the waiting 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:09.720 thing because i was gonna get this for you and 00:05:09.720 --> 00:05:12.899 then you're like no no no i i'd rather have the 00:05:12.899 --> 00:05:15.139 kirk that's coming out in december i'm like okay 00:05:15.139 --> 00:05:18.420 fine yeah or like the uh the stranger things 00:05:18.420 --> 00:05:22.759 van that i'm gonna yep modify to ultimis yep 00:05:22.759 --> 00:05:28.680 um so i i was like you know i'll get this and 00:05:28.680 --> 00:05:32.790 it's it was the same price as my prime came from 00:05:32.790 --> 00:05:35.350 china it got here pretty quick i was still i 00:05:35.350 --> 00:05:38.329 still had my megatron pre -ordered on bbts in 00:05:38.329 --> 00:05:41.829 case something heaven forbid happened yep and 00:05:41.829 --> 00:05:45.209 when it arrived i canceled it i was like okay 00:05:45.209 --> 00:05:47.490 i mean the only difference is is it doesn't come 00:05:47.490 --> 00:05:51.509 with a decepticon symbol yeah and i have repro 00:05:51.509 --> 00:05:55.509 labels or toy hacks labels that yeah i just repurposed 00:05:55.509 --> 00:05:58.910 yeah you can get those yeah yeah so i i have 00:05:58.910 --> 00:06:03.139 a ton of them sitting around Because they came 00:06:03.139 --> 00:06:08.040 with like BBTS orders or they came with. The 00:06:08.040 --> 00:06:14.779 other transfer shows the store. Yep. So anyways, 00:06:14.899 --> 00:06:21.040 I had a bunch of them and. So I. I think the 00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:23.420 figure is pretty stellar. I have not transformed 00:06:23.420 --> 00:06:25.680 either of them to know how difficult they are. 00:06:26.199 --> 00:06:29.040 Right. But I don't have any intention of ever 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:35.459 doing so. Yeah, you're buying these for display 00:06:35.459 --> 00:06:40.899 in robot mode. You did not buy these for playtime. 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:48.300 You did not buy these to, and again, Megatron 00:06:48.300 --> 00:06:55.199 tank. It's kind of cool. It's kind of okay, but 00:06:55.199 --> 00:07:00.300 Megatron really isn't a tank to us. He never 00:07:00.300 --> 00:07:04.519 has been. He never will be. So that's one good 00:07:04.519 --> 00:07:08.639 thing about having Transformers packaged in robot 00:07:08.639 --> 00:07:12.279 mode. You already now have the mode that you 00:07:12.279 --> 00:07:15.980 want it in, and you're never going to play with 00:07:15.980 --> 00:07:19.360 it again other than to display it, move it, pose 00:07:19.360 --> 00:07:24.959 it the way you want in robot mode. Yeah. I mean, 00:07:24.959 --> 00:07:28.839 especially Optimus. Optimus. Put him in what 00:07:28.839 --> 00:07:32.860 mode? Did yours come with the trailer or no? 00:07:33.540 --> 00:07:38.959 My Optimus? Yeah. No. Okay. I could have got 00:07:38.959 --> 00:07:42.500 the other knockoff of Prime for the same, like 00:07:42.500 --> 00:07:46.540 for like 50. And he would have come with even 00:07:46.540 --> 00:07:51.740 the IDW arm. Right. Or like the Starscream head. 00:07:51.860 --> 00:07:53.699 Like it would have had a lot more stuff with 00:07:53.699 --> 00:07:56.860 it. Right. I had no intention of ever getting 00:07:56.860 --> 00:07:58.779 the trailer because I'm like, okay, it's going 00:07:58.779 --> 00:08:02.560 to eat space on my shelf. I already have shelf 00:08:02.560 --> 00:08:05.579 space, and so I opted to not get that version. 00:08:05.819 --> 00:08:10.420 However, had I wanted it, I probably still would 00:08:10.420 --> 00:08:12.540 have gone that route of the knockoff version 00:08:12.540 --> 00:08:16.139 that came with it and gotten all the other perks. 00:08:16.810 --> 00:08:18.589 Yeah, exactly. Well, that's what I'm trying to 00:08:18.589 --> 00:08:21.430 say is that even if you got the trailer version, 00:08:21.610 --> 00:08:24.170 the full trailer version, you're still going 00:08:24.170 --> 00:08:27.370 to want Optimus in robot mode and have the trailer 00:08:27.370 --> 00:08:34.669 open as the base or as the stand -up recharge 00:08:34.669 --> 00:08:38.429 chamber thing or whatever the hell it is used 00:08:38.429 --> 00:08:42.070 for or whatever kind of thing. Like, I don't 00:08:42.070 --> 00:08:49.980 know, man. I just never... What are we at now? 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:54.820 It's 40 years for the movie. 42 years. Oh, God. 00:08:54.899 --> 00:08:59.220 42 years ago. Boy, 84 was 42 years. 42 years 00:08:59.220 --> 00:09:03.000 ago in 84, when the original Optimus came out, 00:09:03.059 --> 00:09:07.059 I didn't get one until probably late 86, early 00:09:07.059 --> 00:09:14.279 87. And as a kid, I would want to transform Optimus 00:09:14.279 --> 00:09:18.220 Prime. When I got back into Transformers in 2006, 00:09:18.659 --> 00:09:24.860 when I was 26, 27, 28, right before I started 00:09:24.860 --> 00:09:27.960 podcasting, and I started collecting Transformers 00:09:27.960 --> 00:09:33.980 as a 20 -something adult, yeah, I kind of wanted 00:09:33.980 --> 00:09:38.100 to still transform them. Now, like I said, I'm 00:09:38.100 --> 00:09:42.200 five days away from my 46th birthday. Give me 00:09:42.200 --> 00:09:48.779 the stuff in robot mode. Very rarely do I care 00:09:48.779 --> 00:09:52.480 about alt modes these days. Very, very rarely. 00:09:52.700 --> 00:09:56.240 Give me it in robot mode. Let me pose it the 00:09:56.240 --> 00:10:00.419 way I want to pose it. And that's that for me 00:10:00.419 --> 00:10:03.659 when it comes to a lot of the Transformers figures. 00:10:05.820 --> 00:10:11.179 Generation 1 Astrotrain is an exception because 00:10:11.179 --> 00:10:17.480 he's so easy to transform. Generation One Soundwave 00:10:17.480 --> 00:10:23.360 is sometimes an exception because he's so easy 00:10:23.360 --> 00:10:27.879 to... I don't know. I'm here to have him displayed. 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:31.080 I'm not here to fiddle -faddle with him all the 00:10:31.080 --> 00:10:36.879 time. No, and I agree with you. I'm just to the 00:10:36.879 --> 00:10:45.340 point now that I... I'm just, I want them displayed, 00:10:45.679 --> 00:10:51.700 but I also want them posable. Yeah. And I do 00:10:51.700 --> 00:10:54.120 want the option to transform them. If I'm like, 00:10:54.139 --> 00:10:56.080 Hey, I'm bored of how they look. I want to do 00:10:56.080 --> 00:10:59.159 something different. Yeah. Majority of them. 00:10:59.179 --> 00:11:01.399 I'm never going to ever touch. Like I've, I've 00:11:01.399 --> 00:11:03.899 transformed like even the war for Cybertron stuff. 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:05.840 I've transformed them a handful of times, like 00:11:05.840 --> 00:11:08.519 all of them. And then I've kind of never done 00:11:08.519 --> 00:11:15.710 it again. And then. So these two were like. These 00:11:15.710 --> 00:11:23.570 and my Transmetal. Megatron and. Masterpiece 00:11:23.570 --> 00:11:26.309 Megatron, like both those masterpieces, I've 00:11:26.309 --> 00:11:30.029 never transformed. Right, because I just I'm 00:11:30.029 --> 00:11:32.409 like, it's not something I want to mess with. 00:11:33.470 --> 00:11:36.389 Even when I had the dragon Transmetal to Megatron 00:11:36.389 --> 00:11:40.649 masterpiece, I was like, no, not not doing it. 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:44.299 came in robot it's staying in robot yeah yeah 00:11:44.299 --> 00:11:47.820 exactly uh the more complicated it is the more 00:11:47.820 --> 00:11:50.299 i'm like no i'm good i'm i'm old i don't i don't 00:11:50.299 --> 00:11:52.759 care now i just i just want a display piece and 00:11:52.759 --> 00:12:00.080 uh so yeah i'm it's kind of funny that hasbro 00:12:00.080 --> 00:12:03.519 sold these you know optimus prime and mechatron 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:09.450 and now we're getting to the point of their demise 00:12:09.450 --> 00:12:14.970 versions yes okay so i hasbro does this all the 00:12:14.970 --> 00:12:19.570 time and the way they used to do it was i think 00:12:19.570 --> 00:12:24.350 cooler so you take um even though it was more 00:12:24.350 --> 00:12:30.610 expensive back in the day you take mp10 which 00:12:30.610 --> 00:12:34.370 was, or you take MPO one or MPO for take MPO 00:12:34.370 --> 00:12:37.149 four. Okay. Cause MPO four was optimist with 00:12:37.149 --> 00:12:40.850 the trailer. You take MPO four and you turn them 00:12:40.850 --> 00:12:47.970 into MPO four B MPO four B or MP 10 B without 00:12:47.970 --> 00:12:52.789 the trailer or whatever is usually optimist gray 00:12:52.789 --> 00:12:56.330 or optimist black or whatever. And it's not to 00:12:56.330 --> 00:12:59.269 turn them into nemesis prime is to show that. 00:12:59.769 --> 00:13:02.409 Hey, look, kids, Optimus went gray. That means 00:13:02.409 --> 00:13:06.909 Optimus is dead. Now they're doing even more 00:13:06.909 --> 00:13:10.769 sadistic stuff. I almost said the other S word, 00:13:10.830 --> 00:13:15.649 but I didn't say it because I know. Anyway, they're 00:13:15.649 --> 00:13:18.350 doing even more sadistic stuff where you actually 00:13:18.350 --> 00:13:21.830 have a hole in his stomach where you can put 00:13:21.830 --> 00:13:26.169 the steak in there to recreate the death seat. 00:13:28.330 --> 00:13:32.149 i understand teaching children about death this 00:13:32.149 --> 00:13:34.789 this is how i learned about death when i was 00:13:34.789 --> 00:13:40.909 six years old 40 years ago but damn this is what 00:13:40.909 --> 00:13:46.370 they're selling to adults in 2026 the really 00:13:46.370 --> 00:13:51.470 and what's so crazy to me and i know i don't 00:13:51.470 --> 00:13:55.250 know if you are going to do a specific special 00:13:56.440 --> 00:13:59.419 podcast art for this episode but please if you 00:13:59.419 --> 00:14:03.720 do make it that image because that is so stupid 00:14:03.720 --> 00:14:08.980 so i can understand it from two vantage points 00:14:08.980 --> 00:14:12.259 for this if you want the battle damage version 00:14:12.259 --> 00:14:15.860 of prime and megatron where they're having their 00:14:15.860 --> 00:14:18.559 last holdout battle or you want to do the autobot 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:22.740 city battle yeah i could understand it like i 00:14:22.740 --> 00:14:26.090 i really could yeah i still don't love the head 00:14:26.090 --> 00:14:28.409 sculpt of prime because it still doesn't look 00:14:28.409 --> 00:14:34.230 it's still not the correct one yeah and i you 00:14:34.230 --> 00:14:36.429 know you get megatron with the scowl and you 00:14:36.429 --> 00:14:38.269 know he's got the chest damage i mean all they 00:14:38.269 --> 00:14:44.269 did for megatron was really change the head yeah 00:14:44.269 --> 00:14:47.809 and the chest plate and then prime they just 00:14:47.809 --> 00:14:50.470 put some cracking on the the glass change the 00:14:50.470 --> 00:14:53.590 head and then change like part of the waist yeah 00:14:53.590 --> 00:15:08.129 and then put a stick in him yeah but like i don't 00:15:08.129 --> 00:15:14.629 know dude like i okay so i sent you the the um 00:15:16.779 --> 00:15:19.879 the truck image here in our little discord chat 00:15:19.879 --> 00:15:24.220 with the, with the thing in his, in his grill. 00:15:24.980 --> 00:15:27.799 Here's the robot mode version where he's damaged 00:15:27.799 --> 00:15:30.500 and he's holding it. Like I get it. If you want 00:15:30.500 --> 00:15:32.759 to have that on your shelf where he's damaged, 00:15:32.960 --> 00:15:40.600 but man, I just, this is taking me back to when 00:15:40.600 --> 00:15:48.940 I was six years old and I like, just like dan 00:15:48.940 --> 00:15:52.500 you know optimus no do not grieve soon i shall 00:15:52.500 --> 00:15:56.299 be one with the may like no like why would you 00:15:56.299 --> 00:16:00.279 and again these are the exact same figures as 00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:02.759 the ones they already released they're just damaged 00:16:02.759 --> 00:16:07.620 versions of them like this is just hasbro you 00:16:07.620 --> 00:16:11.200 already bought the other ones buy these too i 00:16:11.200 --> 00:16:18.610 don't know i i audience People comment on the 00:16:18.610 --> 00:16:21.309 episode post on geekastradio .com and let us 00:16:21.309 --> 00:16:28.190 know who's buying this. Who wants to recreate 00:16:28.190 --> 00:16:31.450 the death scene, the battle scene between in 00:16:31.450 --> 00:16:34.690 toy form between Megatron and Optimus when you 00:16:34.690 --> 00:16:38.409 can just pop your DVD in the DVD player and watch 00:16:38.409 --> 00:16:45.710 the scene over and over and over again. Like, 00:16:45.710 --> 00:16:50.049 I don't know who wants to have this on their 00:16:50.049 --> 00:16:57.750 shelf in toy form. I don't know. I mean, I. Again, 00:16:57.929 --> 00:17:04.430 I can see people wanting it. So, I mean, I don't 00:17:04.430 --> 00:17:10.480 have anything against it. but i mean in the long 00:17:10.480 --> 00:17:12.180 run people are gonna buy what they want to buy 00:17:12.180 --> 00:17:14.359 and hasbro is gonna do what they're gonna do 00:17:14.359 --> 00:17:17.039 because they're hasbro and whatever but and we 00:17:17.039 --> 00:17:19.740 know that they do this stuff all the time they 00:17:19.740 --> 00:17:22.640 want us to double dip and double buy and whatever 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:37.299 but it's like i just don't know like oh Hasbro, 00:17:37.380 --> 00:17:42.619 you crazy. And then we head on down to Yolo Park 00:17:42.619 --> 00:17:47.700 with their Transformers AMK series, Beast Wars, 00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:51.140 Optimus Primal, and Dinobot, the color prototypes. 00:17:51.579 --> 00:17:55.700 Coming to them via Yolo Park's social media accounts, 00:17:55.859 --> 00:17:59.019 they have shared the first looks at the color 00:17:59.019 --> 00:18:02.799 prototypes of their new Transformers AMK series. 00:18:03.450 --> 00:18:05.990 Beast Wars, Optimus Primal, and Dinobot, which 00:18:05.990 --> 00:18:09.009 were on display at the Toy Fair Germany event. 00:18:11.450 --> 00:18:16.190 So we have two photos here from this, a more 00:18:16.190 --> 00:18:18.950 wider shot where you see two other bots. The 00:18:18.950 --> 00:18:23.509 two other bots are movie figures, but the close 00:18:23.509 --> 00:18:27.410 -up is of Optimus Primal and Dinobot. I like 00:18:27.410 --> 00:18:31.849 the Yolo Park stuff. I think it's cool. I really 00:18:31.849 --> 00:18:36.549 do because it's just the robots. Like you don't 00:18:36.549 --> 00:18:40.730 have to do anything with them. That's what Yolo 00:18:40.730 --> 00:18:44.650 Park does the best. Along with some other companies 00:18:44.650 --> 00:18:46.390 that do this kind of stuff. What do you think 00:18:46.390 --> 00:18:51.269 of these? I mean, I'm a fan. Yeah, I really am. 00:18:51.650 --> 00:18:55.349 I think it's kind of neat what they're doing 00:18:55.349 --> 00:19:02.279 with these. However, like. I question primals 00:19:02.279 --> 00:19:04.380 a little bit just because the shoulder pads look 00:19:04.380 --> 00:19:09.119 really janky and. The head, I mean, the rest 00:19:09.119 --> 00:19:12.359 of it looks. Pretty much like the masterpiece 00:19:12.359 --> 00:19:15.519 figure. Yeah, because I mean, I have the masterpiece 00:19:15.519 --> 00:19:18.920 and then Dinobot obviously is not fully colored 00:19:18.920 --> 00:19:22.519 yet. Yeah, not yet. And I know these are prototypes 00:19:22.519 --> 00:19:24.799 like I get it. So there's going to be some stuff 00:19:24.799 --> 00:19:29.720 that's off. I I love the Dinobot just from the 00:19:29.720 --> 00:19:32.240 fact that I don't have a masterpiece of him. 00:19:33.740 --> 00:19:38.339 And so like he's kind of tempting, however. It 00:19:38.339 --> 00:19:40.880 these these I could see being really nice if 00:19:40.880 --> 00:19:43.740 like, say, you wanted to transform your masterpiece 00:19:43.740 --> 00:19:47.359 figures. Yeah. And then have this as their battle 00:19:47.359 --> 00:19:54.319 mode. Right. Yeah. And so like I am. I'm very 00:19:54.319 --> 00:19:56.380 interested in the beast Megatron that's coming 00:19:56.380 --> 00:20:00.660 out. Yeah. For that sake alone, just because 00:20:00.660 --> 00:20:03.599 I'm like, oh, I could transform my, my masterpiece 00:20:03.599 --> 00:20:09.940 Megatron. Yep. And then have that as the, yeah. 00:20:11.180 --> 00:20:14.039 What I like about this, even though it's a prototype, 00:20:14.200 --> 00:20:16.259 you're absolutely right. The shoulders are, oh, 00:20:16.359 --> 00:20:19.119 they're all off. Like, yeah, they're right. They're 00:20:19.119 --> 00:20:22.019 really weird. Yeah, the right one is angled wrong. 00:20:22.140 --> 00:20:25.940 The left one is is like they're not even I know 00:20:25.940 --> 00:20:29.559 they're attached, but they're so far from his 00:20:29.559 --> 00:20:33.299 body. I'm like that. That's crazy. But what I 00:20:33.299 --> 00:20:37.579 love is the head sculpt. It's not the true. It's 00:20:37.579 --> 00:20:41.259 the Optimus Prime. It's not the primal. It's 00:20:41.259 --> 00:20:44.569 not a split mask. It's the prime mask. Well, 00:20:44.609 --> 00:20:48.609 it's his flight mode mask. Right. I understand, 00:20:48.789 --> 00:20:52.650 but I'm saying that, yeah, I'm so used to seeing 00:20:52.650 --> 00:20:59.930 Optimus Primal with the not flight mask. So those 00:20:59.930 --> 00:21:04.710 are coming. Good remarks that these are not final 00:21:04.710 --> 00:21:09.390 products and some changes could be made in the 00:21:09.390 --> 00:21:18.109 future. Does not give a date at this time. And 00:21:18.109 --> 00:21:22.549 then apparently I missed a Transformers Age of 00:21:22.549 --> 00:21:24.849 the Primes fan stream. I don't know how I missed 00:21:24.849 --> 00:21:27.710 it, but I missed it. This happened yesterday, 00:21:27.990 --> 00:21:32.269 February 3rd, 2026. They went over a bunch of 00:21:32.269 --> 00:21:39.250 stuff. They went over. Transformers. Age of the 00:21:39.250 --> 00:21:42.769 Primes Deluxe Class Autobot Powerglide, Deluxe 00:21:42.769 --> 00:21:47.250 Class Swerve, Deluxe Class Cliffjumper from Prime, 00:21:47.630 --> 00:21:51.650 Deluxe Class Smokescreen from Prime, Autobot 00:21:51.650 --> 00:21:55.450 Ratchet from Animated, Voyager Class the 13 Nexus 00:21:55.450 --> 00:22:01.289 Prime, and Leader Class the 13 Liege Maximo. 00:22:02.109 --> 00:22:05.670 So we're going to start here. What do you think 00:22:05.670 --> 00:22:11.289 of this? uh first image the new kind of banner 00:22:11.289 --> 00:22:14.609 here with optimus and megatron soundwave bumblebee 00:22:14.609 --> 00:22:20.730 jetfire what do you think of that art yeah okay 00:22:20.730 --> 00:22:24.289 it's okay i mean it's i've i've seen better like 00:22:24.289 --> 00:22:27.710 this is just weird cell shading and cheap animation 00:22:27.710 --> 00:22:30.410 art like i don't love it compared to like stuff 00:22:30.410 --> 00:22:33.589 we've gotten in the past yeah kind of reminds 00:22:33.589 --> 00:22:36.440 me of g1 I kind of wish that they would, like, 00:22:36.500 --> 00:22:39.880 I know the whole red Transformers thing is the 00:22:39.880 --> 00:22:42.000 whole Autobot thing, and they want to obviously 00:22:42.000 --> 00:22:44.940 promote the good guys first and whatever else, 00:22:45.019 --> 00:22:48.940 but I wish they would mix it up a bit and, I 00:22:48.940 --> 00:22:52.160 don't know, go purple for a while. So we got 00:22:52.160 --> 00:22:56.099 Evan, Mark, and Nate that were at the stream 00:22:56.099 --> 00:22:59.519 doing the promotion. So Evan and Mark are the 00:22:59.519 --> 00:23:02.859 designers, and Nate is one of the marketing teams. 00:23:04.039 --> 00:23:08.819 So we got prime cliff jumper. Can you smell what 00:23:08.819 --> 00:23:13.720 cliff jumper is cooking? Well, cause the rock 00:23:13.720 --> 00:23:17.460 voiced cliff jumper in the one episode he was 00:23:17.460 --> 00:23:19.480 in because he got killed off at the beginning 00:23:19.480 --> 00:23:26.240 of the series. Um, these all look great. I don't 00:23:26.240 --> 00:23:30.099 have any issues with any of these, that power 00:23:30.099 --> 00:23:32.619 glide though. I wish he came with an Astoria. 00:23:33.390 --> 00:23:37.150 I wish that was his accessory, an Astoria figure. 00:23:37.329 --> 00:23:40.589 That would be so cool. Instead of the mask that 00:23:40.589 --> 00:23:45.970 he comes with, give him an Astoria. That would 00:23:45.970 --> 00:23:54.650 be fun. Any that stick out to you? I like the 00:23:54.650 --> 00:23:57.609 Ratchet. Yeah, animated Ratchet looks really 00:23:57.609 --> 00:24:04.160 good. Cliffjumper looks okay. The smoke screen. 00:24:06.460 --> 00:24:12.119 I mean, he's kind of what I expect. Yeah. Yeah, 00:24:14.740 --> 00:24:16.839 the power glide, it's I mean, you're getting 00:24:16.839 --> 00:24:21.400 basically a G1 power glide. Yep. Which I'm not 00:24:21.400 --> 00:24:23.500 a huge fan of him anyway, so it doesn't really 00:24:23.500 --> 00:24:30.049 impact me whatsoever. obviously it goes over 00:24:30.049 --> 00:24:31.809 my head cause I'm not aware of like where the 00:24:31.809 --> 00:24:34.769 mask thing comes in. Yeah. I wasn't aware of 00:24:34.769 --> 00:24:37.470 that either. Like I know power glide, but I don't 00:24:37.470 --> 00:24:41.730 know where the mask thing comes in. It, yeah, 00:24:41.769 --> 00:24:44.650 it's just weird. So, um, but ratchet ratchet 00:24:44.650 --> 00:24:47.890 is pretty cool. If you know, to go with that 00:24:47.890 --> 00:24:52.029 Optimus prime that we got a couple, like last 00:24:52.029 --> 00:24:55.910 year or the year before. Um, so he's very, very 00:24:55.910 --> 00:25:04.170 fitting and up to date. And then we get. You 00:25:04.170 --> 00:25:07.650 said Swerve is the other Autobot, the yeah, the 00:25:07.650 --> 00:25:12.730 little car. Yeah. Yeah, I I've not paid attention 00:25:12.730 --> 00:25:15.569 too much to the little microbot, so I wasn't 00:25:15.569 --> 00:25:22.549 aware of him either. And then we get the. The 00:25:22.549 --> 00:25:31.269 guy that's the airplane. Yep. It's Nexus. Yeah. 00:25:31.390 --> 00:25:34.549 Nexus Prime. Yeah. I'm like, I swear they're 00:25:34.549 --> 00:25:36.609 just slap on names and just put prime at the 00:25:36.609 --> 00:25:40.009 end. And they're like, OK, we got a prime. It 00:25:40.009 --> 00:25:43.509 looks kind of neat. Like I comes with his own 00:25:43.509 --> 00:25:45.710 little matrix. He's got the little backpack of 00:25:45.710 --> 00:25:48.190 the, you know, the almost the Starscream ish 00:25:48.190 --> 00:25:52.390 thing on the back with the wings and. Kind of 00:25:52.390 --> 00:25:55.190 looks interesting. They're definitely planning, 00:25:55.410 --> 00:25:59.259 you know. Big combiner type thing with them. 00:26:01.019 --> 00:26:05.039 And they they show him is that is that Silverbolt 00:26:05.039 --> 00:26:07.640 that they have him tied to or guy links because 00:26:07.640 --> 00:26:10.440 I didn't watch the. No, I didn't watch it either. 00:26:11.059 --> 00:26:14.099 Who do they have him tied to? It looks like Silverbolt. 00:26:14.220 --> 00:26:17.960 Yeah, that looks like Silverbolt. And then they've 00:26:17.960 --> 00:26:19.880 got a special in the Matrix. They get a special 00:26:19.880 --> 00:26:29.670 logo in it. Yeah, and. Then we're getting Liege 00:26:29.670 --> 00:26:32.650 Maximo, which originally was like a G2 thing. 00:26:33.250 --> 00:26:40.309 Yep. Super creepy. Very. Definitely looks like 00:26:40.309 --> 00:26:43.329 something that like a like a Unicron or like 00:26:43.329 --> 00:26:47.789 a techno organic thing. Yeah, but I mean, you 00:26:47.789 --> 00:26:51.470 straight out of the G2 comics. Yeah. When I saw 00:26:51.470 --> 00:26:54.049 his alt mode, I was like, what in the hell kind 00:26:54.049 --> 00:27:01.100 of? Oh, he's some kind of spaceship. OK. But 00:27:01.100 --> 00:27:05.319 that's that's actually who like. Like all the 00:27:05.319 --> 00:27:09.619 G2 Decepticons kind of hail to. Yeah, like J 00:27:09.619 --> 00:27:12.940 -Axis and all those kind of guys. Yep, definitely 00:27:12.940 --> 00:27:15.799 has the G2 vibe because all the little coils 00:27:15.799 --> 00:27:18.920 and wires and stuff that go through different 00:27:18.920 --> 00:27:27.059 parts. I'm not I'm not like anti G2 like I do 00:27:27.059 --> 00:27:30.690 love G2. I would love to see them visit like 00:27:30.690 --> 00:27:35.250 Machine Wars. Like as far as like a redux of 00:27:35.250 --> 00:27:37.569 some of those things or do some old BotCon stuff 00:27:37.569 --> 00:27:41.150 and revive it. Yeah, like I think they've done 00:27:41.150 --> 00:27:45.170 over the years. But I and I really would love 00:27:45.170 --> 00:27:47.150 to see Beast Wars and Beast Machines get some 00:27:47.150 --> 00:27:50.609 love because like Transmetals and then like all 00:27:50.609 --> 00:27:52.390 of the Beast Machines figures have been like 00:27:52.390 --> 00:27:56.869 screwed. Yeah, over the years. Gotta have something 00:27:56.869 --> 00:27:59.470 up their sleeve for this year for Beast Wars. 00:28:00.069 --> 00:28:03.869 It's the 30th anniversary of the part of the 00:28:03.869 --> 00:28:09.269 franchise that saved the company, that saved 00:28:09.269 --> 00:28:14.509 the brand. I mean, Beast Wars brought it back. 00:28:15.890 --> 00:28:20.519 Like, come on, you guys. You've got to give us 00:28:20.519 --> 00:28:23.839 something. And I'm not saying this because I'm 00:28:23.839 --> 00:28:26.000 trying to be negative against the Yolo Park stuff 00:28:26.000 --> 00:28:27.880 that we just talked about a little while ago. 00:28:28.160 --> 00:28:30.640 You've got to give us something besides these 00:28:30.640 --> 00:28:36.720 Yolo Park releases. Like, you can't just... I 00:28:36.720 --> 00:28:43.000 don't know. I don't know what they're doing, 00:28:43.099 --> 00:28:49.960 but they've got to do something. Exactly. Gotta 00:28:49.960 --> 00:28:53.240 do something, you guys. Gotta catch them all. 00:28:53.339 --> 00:28:57.720 No. Yeah. Just put them in a bar. Put them in 00:28:57.720 --> 00:29:02.880 a ball. Catch them all. Transformer, I choose 00:29:02.880 --> 00:29:15.200 you. Astral train. Yeah. So I think that's it, 00:29:15.200 --> 00:29:18.680 though. Yeah, I think so. There's, like, not 00:29:18.680 --> 00:29:23.079 a ton. Yeah. I mean, there is. There's always 00:29:23.079 --> 00:29:26.519 a ton, but as far as Transformers. But there's 00:29:26.519 --> 00:29:29.720 nothing, like, really newsworthy, per se. Yeah, 00:29:29.720 --> 00:29:34.900 like, so the first major thing on the TFW2005 00:29:34.900 --> 00:29:38.400 .com website is that the panel we just talked 00:29:38.400 --> 00:29:45.750 about, like, that's the biggest news. So there's 00:29:45.750 --> 00:29:48.250 an update to the power glide thing where they 00:29:48.250 --> 00:29:51.109 show an image of where you can open up his heart 00:29:51.109 --> 00:29:54.329 chamber thing. And he has his little circuits. 00:29:54.410 --> 00:29:57.710 And so see, that's what I'm saying. Like, why? 00:29:57.829 --> 00:30:01.250 Why isn't there an Astoria little minifigure 00:30:01.250 --> 00:30:04.390 attached to him? Because if you're going to open 00:30:04.390 --> 00:30:06.630 up his chest and show that he has the heart, 00:30:06.730 --> 00:30:12.920 that's the Astoria episode. You bastards. Give 00:30:12.920 --> 00:30:18.099 him Astoria already. I skipped the Battersea 00:30:18.099 --> 00:30:21.039 Power Station meet and greet with Greg Berger 00:30:21.039 --> 00:30:24.460 event thing because Battersea Park is over in 00:30:24.460 --> 00:30:27.619 the UK and we don't have something that friggin' 00:30:27.619 --> 00:30:35.099 cool here in America. Unfortunately. So yeah, 00:30:35.220 --> 00:30:41.730 there's nothing really else that are... And I'm 00:30:41.730 --> 00:30:43.950 skipping the comics this time because there isn't 00:30:43.950 --> 00:30:46.369 any really new, because I think I went over the 00:30:46.369 --> 00:30:52.150 April solicitations last time. So you guys can 00:30:52.150 --> 00:30:54.410 go back to the November episode and listen to 00:30:54.410 --> 00:30:58.349 the April solicitations for that. I will say, 00:30:58.349 --> 00:31:02.710 though, that it is getting really good. If you're 00:31:02.710 --> 00:31:05.109 not reading the Skybound Entertainment Energon 00:31:05.109 --> 00:31:09.180 Universe comics. You need to be. It's getting 00:31:09.180 --> 00:31:18.799 so good. So yeah, that's what's going on. So 00:31:18.799 --> 00:31:21.839 yeah. 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