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All things! Hello and welcome to All Things Transformers.
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I'm your host, Steve Megatron, and joining me
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in this adventure into the Transformers fandom
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is TFG1 Mike. Hello, I am here. I am still waiting,
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apparently. Yep. So, as everybody knows, we typically
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don't do episodes unless there's actually something
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to report or something to discuss. We don't just
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put out episodes for fun. Not that there hasn't
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been just random episodes out there, but yeah,
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this particular one, there's some new products,
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there's some new comics, and then there's the
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tease of an animated series. And so, yeah, let's
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jump right into it. Yes, but first, there will
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also be an episode after this. You don't know
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this yet, but I am going to be getting Patriot
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Prime on here. He went to TFCon Chicago this
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year, so we are going to have a convention attention
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on all things Transformers for TFCon recap from
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him. I already asked him when he was still at
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the convention. He's like, sure, I just don't
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know when that's going to be. Hopefully soon.
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But yeah, the first... big news kind of thing
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i almost missed this if google didn't actually
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point it out to me in my google feed but eric
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siebenailer is returning to or has returned to
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the transformers design team and again i know
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a lot of people listen to our podcast here but
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for those that this might be your first episode
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And for those that don't know, Eric is a Transformers
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design veteran, having worked on many fan favorite
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lines such as Cybertron Classics and Revenge
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of the Fallen. I don't know how Revenge of the
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Fallen is a fan favorite line, but it's perhaps
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best most famously known for his work in the
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animated Transformers animated toy line. See,
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animated and classics are the only things that
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matter to me. Like, yeah, I. cybertron was okay
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they were less bricks they were less bricks than
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the armada and energon lines yeah so okay i'll
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give them that revenge of the fallen yeah i mean
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there's a lot of moving parts there but it just
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looks like it just looks like uh a bunch of sheet
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metal stuck together yeah you know there is only
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when i watch that movie When we originally did
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a toy cat, we did a toy cast commentary for that
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movie. It was a running thing back when Optimus
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Scourge was still alive. It was me, him, Proto
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Man. I don't think it was a commentary. It was
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a theatrical reaction. We had all gone to see
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it. The only thing. out of the entire toy line
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that i wanted that i had at that time 2009 i
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was 29 years old oh god oh that was so long ago
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ow my 45 year old back is hurting just thinking
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about it uh but the only toy out of that entire
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toy line i wanted was the ravage toy because
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he had a purple eye and he was a black cat Now,
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in the movie, he kind of has a purple eye for
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like half of a second when he first lands from
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space, when he first gets ejected out of. That
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sounds wrong. When he first gets ejected out
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of Soundwave and he makes his descent down to
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Earth for half of a second, he has a purple eye.
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But luckily, the designers, Eric. I guess, took
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that and made that the design for the toy, meaning
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that that would be the only. I actually have.
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Oh, is it? I forget which cheat or I have a famous
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infamous photo. I'll see if I can find it. Dig
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it up for this post. I have that Revenge of the
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Fallen toy and I have a different Cheetor toy
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where Cheetor is riding Ravage. Cheetor's in
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robot mode. Ravage is in his cat mode, obviously.
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And Cheetor is riding Ravage like a horse kind
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of thing. But yeah, so Eric is reportedly now
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working on the Generations line along with Mark
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Mayer. And so it will be very interesting to
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see, yada, yada, yada, what they will be doing,
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especially with an animated anniversary coming
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up. Oh, that's right. 2007, 2008. Jesus, 2027,
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2028. Oh, my God. 20 years. I'm getting too old
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for this stuff. So that's what we got there.
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So Eric is now back at, Eric Steven Allen now
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back at Hasbro. If you look in the Discord chat,
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you will be seeing photos above the Soundwave
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thing of the Funko Pops. So I have the original
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Nemesis Prime Funko Pop. They are releasing a
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new wave of Funko Pops, finally, for... And I
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say finally, because I've complained about it
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before. I will never stop complaining about it
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until Funko figures it out or until I figure
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out how the Lang. I want to see that contract.
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I want to see the contract between Funko and
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Hasbro because it always feels like Funko just
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doesn't treat the Transformers license correctly.
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Not that they do bad things. Not that they make
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bad product with it. They don't release things
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like you go to Funko. You can hit every single
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Batman version and I get it. Batman's big seller.
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Don't get me wrong. Not trying to throw Batman
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under the bus here or anything because I'm going
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to throw a lot of things under the bus here.
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Every superhero. Batman, Iron Man, Superman,
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blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You can throw a
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rock and hit one. You can throw a rock and hit
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every My Hero Academia character, every Full
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Metal Alchemist, maybe not Full Metal Alchemist,
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but every anime character, you can throw a rock
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and you can hit an anime character Funko Pop.
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Oh, for sure. It's been a rare... Between Batman
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Beyond and Transformers, which are currently
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I've scaled back. I started collecting Funko
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Pops in 2017. I still have a lot of Funko Pops,
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but I don't have as nearly as much as I had almost
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10 years ago, eight years ago, nine years ago,
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whatever it is. Like, I just I'm curating my
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collection into the ones that I absolutely must
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have and want. I've also changed my collecting
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with the Funko Pops to what lines or what brands
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or what, whatever, like of the fandoms that I
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want. And obviously Transformers is number one.
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Batman Beyond is number two. They also treat
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Batman Beyond like it's junk sometimes, but recently
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they've been putting out new Batman Beyond stuff.
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Don't even get me started on the NYCC 2025 exclusive.
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That's a whole other thing for a whole different
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show. But they finally released a new wave of
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Transformers Funko Bobs that are coming soon.
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We have Springer, Cup, a new Nemesis Prime, and
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then we have Skywarp and Thundercracker. Now,
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I know. We all know. Skywarp and Thundercracker
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are essentially a color -coded copy trade switch
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and whatever with each other. However... If you
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watch the cartoon, if you look at any of their
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designs from any of their original toys, because
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most of Funko's stuff is based off the toy design,
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not the animation design. I think Springer here
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with his goofy ass grin. I think that's based
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off one of the like, whatever. Anyway, but Skywarp
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and Thundercracker, you look at any of their
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stuff. They have different facial expressions.
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They don't each have... They're not that much
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of a carbon copy of each other. They're only
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a color -coded copy of each other. Because they
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can switch the... Whatever. Just pop the heads
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off. One switches to the other. Whatever. My
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problem with this is they both have the same
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damn frowny face on them. And I'm sitting here
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thinking they're too... Like, Thundercracker
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is more... like what's the line oh uh i i think
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it's in the the revenge of bruticus or it's in
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one of the things where he's going up against
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Starscream. It was when Starscream wanted to
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take over the million times Starscream wanted
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to take over. Thundercracker got one up on over
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him. Hey, Starscream, I bet I look real geeky
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now, don't I, Starscream? He was really sarcastic.
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So I would want some sort of sarcastic grin or
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something on Thundercracker. And Skywarp, he's
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been a snarly... Don't give them the same facial
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expression just because you want to save 75 cents
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on sculpting. And I don't know what the sculpting
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cost is on a mouth for fun. Hell, that mouth
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would have been a painted on toothless grin 10
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years ago. Anyway, the Nemesis Prime. I sent
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you those photos. The photos are of the Nemesis
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Prime that I've had for years now. The original
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Nemesis Prime Funko Pop is your standard Optimus
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Prime body that they have used since day one.
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Every Optimus Prime looks like this. It's your
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standard 1984 body like if it was a real toy.
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And in one of these photos, I had combined originally
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when I got this from a friend of mine who had
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given it to me. we were in the midst of was it
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wasn't it was one of the earth rise or warfare
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it was the war for cybertron trilogy because
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that's where that if you look at the one image
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where you see my tv screen nemesis prime on the
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screen that's where that comes from is that is
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that show so like It was just a standard optimist
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body that Funko has used this whole time. But
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now they want to have him in this new pose thing.
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And Funko will do this every once in a while.
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They just did it with Hot Rod. I don't have the
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original Hot Rod. You know why I don't have the
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original Hot Rod? Because the original Hot Rod
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was no fucking trouble. And I'm sorry, that'll
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be the only one I use. But seriously, the original
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Hot Rod was an NFT. The new Hot Rod, the one
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with the Matrix, was available to the public,
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to anybody. Whatever. The point is, is that I
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looked at this, and I'm looking at it closely,
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and I even zoomed in on it, and I'm like, okay,
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there's nothing inherently wrong with this, but
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it just looks like he's Grandpa Evil Optimus
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trying to bust a bad dance move. Like the pose
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is wrong. I think, I think that's the only thing
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that's wrong with it. Everything. I love the
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colors. I love the way his eyes almost glow.
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I love the way his chest almost glows. I'm probably
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going to get it anyway. So I know I'm just yelling
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and screaming here for nothing, but I don't know.
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It is what it is. Springer looks cool. Cup looks
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cool. I almost thought. Cup was somebody else
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at first until I actually looked at it again
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and I was like, oh, Cup. Yay, Cup. So yeah, new
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Funko Pops coming out. I know you have zero thoughts
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on this considering I just spewed a mouthful.
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Well, and that's the benefit is some people may
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actually like these and that's fine. I do agree
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they're better than Mighty Mugs. However, I...
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I see so many of these in every store. Like they're
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just walls of these things. Like you could build
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a house with the amount that they, they have
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like on these aisles. And it's not like, I mean,
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I've seen, I've seen Dragon Ball Z. I've seen
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Dragon Ball, you know, GT, Super Transformers.
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I haven't seen any Beast Wars in person. But.
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I've seen so many. I mean, anime is like their
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bread and butter. Yeah. Outside of everything.
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No, it is. Anime and superheroes is where Funko
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makes its money. Yeah. And there's a lot that
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shell forms. And I imagine the ones that are
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actually popular are the ones that are never
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there. yeah and but that's the same with like
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transformers that's the same with i mean because
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if you go in the story you won't find a studio
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series 86 prime or or studio series 86 megatron
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or any of the the main leader characters that
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somebody would want you won't find those no you
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won't you might get lucky from time to time and
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see one but you'll never see more than that in
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that same in that same time period and so it's
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it's a common problem with everything they overproduce
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the ones that are kind of meh and then they underproduce
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the ones that everybody's going to buy the crap
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out of creating the supply and demand of it it's
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like why print the plastic crack that's not going
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to sell much and underproduce those and overproduce
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the ones that people actually want yeah it's
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very true but i mean that's just the logic of
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it but I, I don't have any ill will towards Funko.
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I know you don't. It's, it's not that I, you
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know, I, I personally don't like them because
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I don't like the giant heads and the little mini
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bodies. And I, I go for screen accurate aesthetics,
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which is why I have like the lightning collection
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of power Rangers, or I have the, the Bandai Dragon
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Ball super figures, or I have the studio series
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86. you know prime and scourge and then i have
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you know the war for cybertron you know g2 megatron
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j -axis optimus prime and then the plethora of
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beast wars figures that i've got so i mean it's
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also the same reason i have a couple of you know
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the marvel legends of like finally a wolverine
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and a toby mcguire you know spider -man and uh
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majority of those and then some of the btas batmans
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and you know there's a new kirk coming that won't
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be out until like fall of 2026 which is an entirely
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different issue but at least bbts has it yeah
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so the um And I mean, the funny thing is, is
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I mean, I get what you're saying about the big
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head and a little body and all that. But there
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really is a lot of detail that goes into this.
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And for me, and I've said this every time we
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talk about these things, it's just like I'm holding
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in my hand the NFT for Cheetor. And because they
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only made an NFT of him, I don't know if they'll
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hopefully next year, Funko will get off their
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asses and do more Beast Wars. like they did this
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year, finally. Because Cheetor was the first
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Beast Wars. The Cheetor NFT was the first Beast
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Wars, one they did. And then they finally did
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Megatron, Optimus, Blackarachnia, and Rhinox,
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I think, are the four, I think. The only way
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I would break my streak of not buying one is
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if they did Transmetal Beast Wars Megatron. Yeah.
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Or the Grand Mall. Good luck with that. Yeah.
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Good luck with that. It's just a head. Just a
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head. It's just a head. Yeah. But I mean, I've
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had so many different versions. I've had the
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different versions of Cheeto over the years and
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it's like, okay, I can just have, and this one
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is pretty much his season one look for the most
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part. Hopefully in the future they will do. Oh,
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there you go. Cyclonus falling off the thing.
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Wow. Great. Well, we just had a plane crash in
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the middle of Indiana. No, not really, folks.
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But technically, since Cyclonus is a plane. A
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Cybertronian jet. There you go. And yeah. But
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yeah, so yeah. And of course, not that I pay
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attention to TFW. comments but the first comment
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it looks like poor thundercracker and skywarp
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got something shoved up their tailpipes he's
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not wrong honestly he's not wrong or that person
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is not wrong oh god all right moving on to real
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toys transformers age of the primes uh mcm reveals
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official picks and pre -orders so we have all
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the pre -orders for um Deluxe Junkion Jalopy.
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We got, that's what he's called. I don't know.
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Don't blame me. Blame the people that named the
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thing. Quick Strike, Blast Off, Quintus Prime,
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Sure Shot, Animated Rekgar, Brawl, Amalgamous
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Prime, Big Convoy, Razor Claw. uh class combaticon
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brawl class uh deluxe oh uh quick strike all
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right okay okay okay so yeah so we have all these
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um these look good yeah so i i like sure shot
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i just remember him from the power master comics
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and from season three I like Rekgar. He looks
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like Rekgar. Big Convoy looks cool. Razorclaw,
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that's from the Transformers Unlimited line.
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Shortly after Beast Wars and Beast Machines and
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they just repainted Tigerhawk. You have Brawl
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and Blast Off, which are part of the... Combaticons.
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Combaticons become Bruticus. They look really
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good. Yeah, Blastoff looks amazing. You got your
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buddy there. You got your buddy. You got the
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Quickstrike. Got Quickstrike, which he's a deluxe
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finally. Finally, yeah. He looks good. What's
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funny is he has the 5mm port in him. In the mouth
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and in the claw. And that's what she said. But
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he actually he actually looks show accurate,
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which I'm quite surprised. And then they did
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the the kind of transmetally glaze that that
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he has. And it fits really well. And looks really
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nice. And. I know I don't have like I don't have
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Tiger Hawk. I don't have Silverbolt. Yeah. It
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was more so like I just made the decision. I
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was like, I don't really care. Yeah. On either
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one of them. And it was more so like, who did
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I like as characters? I probably will get Quickstrike.
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Yeah. Because I enjoyed him much more than Scorponok.
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And I did, I think, I think I offloaded my Scorponok
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a while back. Oh, wow. Just because I hate Scorponok
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in Beast Wars. I liked Quickstrike. Yeah. the
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fact that he's finally a deluxe figure and the
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original had that translucent plastic that broke
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and i i came close they had two different uh
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knockoff like trans art did one and another company
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did one and they were you know they were show
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accurate one of them was better than the other
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and they did the same thing with transmittal
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to dino pod one was show you know that one was
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trans art one was another company and the other
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company tended to have poor quality control same
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thing with the quick strike I even, I mean, for
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the price, I was kind of like, I'll just wait
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until Hasbro eventually comes with one. Cause
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I don't love the character enough for that. Yeah.
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But I, I'm not against it. Like I, I'm waiting
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for more trans metals from Hasbro to be honest.
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I, I want some that are smaller. Like, cause
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a lot of the, the knockoffs like transmittal
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to Dinobot 10 inches tall. and i'm like like
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i've got i've got masterpiece you know beast
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megatron i've got masterpiece uh transmetal megatron
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they're each at the nine and ten inch tall like
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they are actually like an inch and a half taller
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than optimal optimus yeah which seems like a
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travesty yeah and And I, yeah, I mean, just for
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that reason, I'm like, I really don't want them
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any bigger than necessary. And so this one I
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would probably get, and I'm just kind of waiting.
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I'm hoping they come back out with a new Transmetal
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Optimus Primal and Transmetal Megatron and Transmetal
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Tarantulas, just because the originals were,
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they each had their issues. Tarantulas didn't
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quite look like Tarantulas, and then Megatron
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had the gold plastic syndrome, and then Primal,
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his face was goofy. So, I mean, I wouldn't be
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lying if I didn't say I wouldn't pick those up
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if Hasbro came out with them. Right, yeah. So
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I'm excited for Quickstrike here, and he looks
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like he's got some decent poseability there with
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the snake head, which it looks like they just
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preserved a lot of the same movements that the
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original toy had. Yeah. And just added new articulation
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for the ankle joints and fix the colors, fix
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the head, uh, took away the see -through plastic.
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Uh, the colors are much better. So I'm, I'm excited
00:24:02.950 --> 00:24:07.089
for it. Um, yeah, it looks really good. I like
00:24:07.089 --> 00:24:09.309
the combat icons too. They just look cool. Yeah.
00:24:10.089 --> 00:24:13.910
I've always liked blast off. He's always both
00:24:13.910 --> 00:24:16.210
of these here. Blast off and brawl. Both look
00:24:16.210 --> 00:24:18.960
cool. Yeah, my two favorite of the Combaticons
00:24:18.960 --> 00:24:21.420
have always been Blastoff and Swindle. Swindle's
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not here, obviously, but I've always liked those
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two the best. And then we get to... Sunwave in
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a chair. Yeah. He'd look much better in the chair
00:24:37.279 --> 00:24:39.700
you made, because that chair, I don't know what
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they were thinking. I don't know what they were
00:24:41.880 --> 00:24:46.859
thinking. Studio Series 86 Leader Class Soundwave.
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Oh, boy. This has turned me off since day one.
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And I am like, I nearly killed. Almost like I
00:24:59.119 --> 00:25:03.359
did with Optimus Prime, probably. I nearly killed
00:25:03.359 --> 00:25:06.220
my best friend, Jonathan Bond. When we were kids
00:25:06.220 --> 00:25:08.819
for his sound wave, I had, I've told this story
00:25:08.819 --> 00:25:11.599
before I had blaster. He had sound wave. He wouldn't
00:25:11.599 --> 00:25:16.599
even let me look at the damn thing. Like I understand
00:25:16.599 --> 00:25:19.440
not letting, you know, your best friend touch
00:25:19.440 --> 00:25:22.400
your toys when you're kids. I get it. That's
00:25:22.400 --> 00:25:24.839
fine. Whatever you play with your toys, I'll
00:25:24.839 --> 00:25:27.819
play with mine, but not even let me look at the
00:25:27.819 --> 00:25:30.259
damn thing. Like, give me a break over here,
00:25:30.380 --> 00:25:35.980
boy. But they put this, I. Put it in the discord
00:25:35.980 --> 00:25:38.700
for you to see the one picture that I'm going
00:25:38.700 --> 00:25:42.420
to specifically call out. And the only reason
00:25:42.420 --> 00:25:44.440
out of all the sound wave stuff they're doing
00:25:44.440 --> 00:25:46.059
this year, and I don't know what they're doing
00:25:46.059 --> 00:25:47.940
for next year, but out of all the sound wave
00:25:47.940 --> 00:25:50.740
stuff they've done in 2025, the only sound wave
00:25:50.740 --> 00:25:53.380
thing I want right now is I want somebody to
00:25:53.380 --> 00:25:56.019
build me the Lego sound wave, put in the sound
00:25:56.019 --> 00:25:58.900
brick, have it in cassette mode. And that's it.
00:25:59.319 --> 00:26:02.750
That's all I need. Cause I just want that. that
00:26:02.750 --> 00:26:05.450
sound break in for the transform sound for sound
00:26:05.450 --> 00:26:10.690
wave. But so the one photo where it has him in
00:26:10.690 --> 00:26:14.769
cassette mode up against whatever other, I thought
00:26:14.769 --> 00:26:17.150
that was the original eighties version. I'm looking
00:26:17.150 --> 00:26:19.430
at it more closely. It doesn't look like the
00:26:19.430 --> 00:26:21.950
original eighties version, but it's close enough
00:26:21.950 --> 00:26:26.210
to the original eighties version of sound wave.
00:26:26.490 --> 00:26:32.430
And here's my problem. His entire waist is Navy.
00:26:32.750 --> 00:26:35.269
No, it's not Navy blue. Cause it's not dark enough.
00:26:35.309 --> 00:26:37.970
That's the problem. The blue isn't dark enough,
00:26:37.990 --> 00:26:42.529
but also the problem is around his butt. Like
00:26:42.529 --> 00:26:45.829
they moved. Why did they, why did they do that?
00:26:47.950 --> 00:26:50.609
See, that's weird. I'm looking at both these
00:26:50.609 --> 00:26:52.950
things and I'm like, There's something off here.
00:26:52.990 --> 00:26:56.390
They did something in this toy design that is
00:26:56.390 --> 00:27:00.329
just so strange to me and so weird that's throwing
00:27:00.329 --> 00:27:02.829
off the rest of the design besides the fact of
00:27:02.829 --> 00:27:04.630
the coloring. You could change the coloring.
00:27:04.890 --> 00:27:08.750
You could repaint anything. But it's just like,
00:27:08.849 --> 00:27:15.289
okay, everyone's heard Steve's discussion on
00:27:15.289 --> 00:27:20.539
Optimus' head. Give him a new head, make it a
00:27:20.539 --> 00:27:22.640
movie head, make his eyes glow, all that good
00:27:22.640 --> 00:27:29.279
stuff. This is my version of that. Make SS -86
00:27:29.279 --> 00:27:32.240
Soundwave look like he looked in the animation.
00:27:32.299 --> 00:27:40.779
He doesn't have a bolder blue. It's a dark...
00:27:40.779 --> 00:27:44.880
The only area he has that bold blue is on the
00:27:44.880 --> 00:27:48.940
sides of the silver. They didn't paint that.
00:27:48.960 --> 00:27:51.200
You want to talk about an unpainted flipping
00:27:51.200 --> 00:27:53.700
toy. See, I said flipping and not the other word.
00:27:54.500 --> 00:27:58.279
This is an unpainted toy to me. This toy dessert.
00:27:58.400 --> 00:28:02.200
And they even, Oh my God. The first frigging
00:28:02.200 --> 00:28:06.559
image. They even show it next to the toy design
00:28:06.559 --> 00:28:10.160
or the, the original animated design from G1.
00:28:11.059 --> 00:28:15.059
The G1 design is not the same color as the toy.
00:28:16.079 --> 00:28:19.579
Are you kidding me? How do you people burp this
00:28:19.579 --> 00:28:23.299
up? Yeah, see, look, I can even get a Phineas
00:28:23.299 --> 00:28:25.619
and Ferb reference into a Transformers episode.
00:28:27.200 --> 00:28:30.339
Seriously, how do you how do you fuck this up,
00:28:30.420 --> 00:28:37.380
Hasbro? This is crazy. You have you can look
00:28:37.380 --> 00:28:40.259
at the cartoon. You can see what dark blue color
00:28:40.259 --> 00:28:47.269
he is. And yet you give us this. And again, I
00:28:47.269 --> 00:28:51.789
get it. I could spend the 80 bucks or whatever
00:28:51.789 --> 00:28:53.390
the hell this thing is going to cost. I don't
00:28:53.390 --> 00:28:57.250
even know. I could spend the money. I could buy
00:28:57.250 --> 00:28:59.329
it. I could mail it to you, give you a bunch
00:28:59.329 --> 00:29:01.069
of money, have you repaint it to make it look
00:29:01.069 --> 00:29:03.930
like that. That's not the point. I shouldn't
00:29:03.930 --> 00:29:07.950
have to do that. If I'm spending whatever the
00:29:07.950 --> 00:29:11.210
MSRP is on this thing, what is the MSRP on this
00:29:11.210 --> 00:29:12.769
thing? I don't even remember off the top of my
00:29:12.769 --> 00:29:16.279
head. if I'm spending any amount of money on
00:29:16.279 --> 00:29:23.019
a SS 86 leader class, I want it to look, and
00:29:23.019 --> 00:29:26.559
you're actively saying this is studio series
00:29:26.559 --> 00:29:29.859
86. This is to celebrate blah, blah, blah, blah,
00:29:29.880 --> 00:29:33.339
blah. I don't remember sound wave looking ocean
00:29:33.339 --> 00:29:38.490
blue. In the 1986 movie, I remember him looking
00:29:38.490 --> 00:29:42.710
dark navy blue in the movie, and thank God you
00:29:42.710 --> 00:29:45.069
got the red eyes instead of the yellow eyes on
00:29:45.069 --> 00:29:47.529
this, or else I would have been going off even
00:29:47.529 --> 00:29:58.849
more. Yeah, I don't... They... It's so stupid.
00:29:59.829 --> 00:30:03.380
The... The... I think it was prime versus prime.
00:30:03.480 --> 00:30:05.279
I think is who has the credit on this from the
00:30:05.279 --> 00:30:07.599
YouTube channel in the, I'm not looking at the
00:30:07.599 --> 00:30:10.819
story. I'm just looking at the photos. Uh, but,
00:30:10.920 --> 00:30:14.140
uh, the prime, no, I just want to make sure I
00:30:14.140 --> 00:30:17.079
have this credit, right? Uh, prime versus prime
00:30:17.079 --> 00:30:20.579
on YouTube. Yeah. So prime versus prime, the
00:30:20.579 --> 00:30:23.200
photos that they grabbed from his YouTube video
00:30:23.200 --> 00:30:28.190
or whatever, uh, he does a. side -by -side comparison
00:30:28.190 --> 00:30:31.049
with a different sound wave the other sound wave
00:30:31.049 --> 00:30:34.829
has the proper colors the other one that he's
00:30:34.829 --> 00:30:38.890
comparing it to in the in the in the modes has
00:30:38.890 --> 00:30:43.509
the proper damn color like how how do you hasbro
00:30:43.509 --> 00:30:47.009
how why why would you do this hasbro i just put
00:30:47.009 --> 00:30:49.710
it there in the chat when you look at laser beak
00:30:49.710 --> 00:30:54.750
too he doesn't have the right like the right
00:30:54.750 --> 00:30:57.789
colors or like the wings don't bend the same
00:30:57.789 --> 00:31:01.930
yeah no although i don't know if it's the proper
00:31:01.930 --> 00:31:04.930
one or not or if it's a different version i mean
00:31:04.930 --> 00:31:11.349
i i don't know i'm looking at laser beacon buzzsaw
00:31:11.349 --> 00:31:16.029
now buzzsaw just looks like again okay you talk
00:31:16.029 --> 00:31:18.130
about carbon copies of each other we just talked
00:31:18.130 --> 00:31:21.470
about how thundercracker and skywarper are color
00:31:21.470 --> 00:31:25.839
-coded switch buzzsaw and laser beak are essentially
00:31:25.839 --> 00:31:29.019
the same damn thing just painted different colors
00:31:29.019 --> 00:31:32.740
they never really differentiated their their
00:31:32.740 --> 00:31:36.079
identities in the cartoon so buzzsaw should not
00:31:36.079 --> 00:31:41.680
look like a very stiff boomerang and laser beak
00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:44.579
shouldn't i don't laser beak looks better to
00:31:44.579 --> 00:31:51.380
me than buzzsaw does at least in yeah Oh, wait,
00:31:51.579 --> 00:31:57.059
what? Wait. Oh, no, you're right. The laser beak
00:31:57.059 --> 00:31:59.559
that I'm looking at is the comparison he's doing.
00:31:59.619 --> 00:32:04.559
Are you kidding me? What are they doing? No.
00:32:05.720 --> 00:32:08.420
Yeah. So apparently something looks off with
00:32:08.420 --> 00:32:11.319
Soundwave, too. I think. Yeah. Yeah. There's
00:32:11.319 --> 00:32:13.700
some paint decor that's missing. And I mean,
00:32:13.700 --> 00:32:17.240
aside from the blue being too vibrant and not
00:32:17.240 --> 00:32:20.829
as muted. Yeah. It. There's something off, like
00:32:20.829 --> 00:32:23.930
there's something missing. Yeah. I think Ravage
00:32:23.930 --> 00:32:26.529
is the only thing that's semi sort of accurate
00:32:26.529 --> 00:32:30.890
to the design of Ravage. I would concur. You
00:32:30.890 --> 00:32:34.829
know, I think that's the only, and I'm not spending
00:32:34.829 --> 00:32:38.569
whatever, like I said, 70, 80, 90, $100, whatever
00:32:38.569 --> 00:32:41.130
this is going to end up costing. I'm not spending
00:32:41.130 --> 00:32:45.950
this just to get a cassette transformer of Ravage.
00:32:46.289 --> 00:32:49.670
He'll probably be commander class. No, he is.
00:32:49.789 --> 00:32:53.569
He's SS86. Well, he's leader class. He's SS86
00:32:53.569 --> 00:32:57.630
leader class, I think. I think. Maybe he's...
00:32:57.630 --> 00:33:00.490
I don't know what he is. Oh, he's leader class.
00:33:00.910 --> 00:33:04.410
Never mind. I just confirmed my own. Okay, good.
00:33:04.829 --> 00:33:07.450
But yeah, he's... I mean, it comes with Ravaged
00:33:07.450 --> 00:33:10.430
Laserbeak and Buzzsaw. That's awesome. That's
00:33:10.430 --> 00:33:13.450
cool. That's great. They already released the
00:33:13.450 --> 00:33:16.049
Rumble and whatever else. Hopefully those fit.
00:33:16.849 --> 00:33:19.400
They're supposed to. They're supposed to. I think
00:33:19.400 --> 00:33:22.059
so. Yeah. I think they pre -planned this and
00:33:22.059 --> 00:33:25.160
I love all. And again, I have no, my God, you
00:33:25.160 --> 00:33:29.079
gotta be kidding. I love all of the articulation
00:33:29.079 --> 00:33:32.859
and all of the upside downness that he gets to
00:33:32.859 --> 00:33:37.440
do. That's great. That's awesome. Still doesn't
00:33:37.440 --> 00:33:39.440
help the fact that he's wrong. Fucking color.
00:33:40.640 --> 00:33:50.099
Sorry. I can't do it. I can't. It's like. Okay.
00:33:50.099 --> 00:33:52.539
Oh, and then everyone else was like, he shouldn't
00:33:52.539 --> 00:33:54.799
be taller than... It's kind of like how you're
00:33:54.799 --> 00:33:57.519
talking about your 10 -inch Dinobot there, your
00:33:57.519 --> 00:34:00.460
Dinobot 2 or whatever, your Transmetal Dinobot.
00:34:00.779 --> 00:34:02.940
And I'm sitting here thinking, Dinobot shouldn't
00:34:02.940 --> 00:34:09.320
be taller than Beast Wars Megatron. Oh, man,
00:34:09.519 --> 00:34:13.639
that hurts my... Seeing him next to Galvatron
00:34:13.639 --> 00:34:17.150
in the wrong colors. Oh, that hurts me. That
00:34:17.150 --> 00:34:22.469
just hurts me so much. Oh, God. I mean, looking
00:34:22.469 --> 00:34:28.150
at all of these, Hasbro's notorious for not putting
00:34:28.150 --> 00:34:33.030
enough effort into the color. I mean, I'm looking
00:34:33.030 --> 00:34:37.010
at the Optimus Prime next to him. He looks off.
00:34:37.329 --> 00:34:41.570
Prime does, and so does Soundwave. There's something...
00:34:42.039 --> 00:34:44.519
And it's gotta be the color. It's gotta be the
00:34:44.519 --> 00:34:47.719
color. Like how bright, like the candy color.
00:34:48.019 --> 00:34:51.739
Yeah. Like it's not, it's not deep enough. Like
00:34:51.739 --> 00:34:55.519
you look at Megatron other than his feet. Yeah.
00:34:56.039 --> 00:34:58.480
And like part of the, you know, the lower part
00:34:58.480 --> 00:35:00.800
of the stomach, you know, the, the sides of it,
00:35:00.840 --> 00:35:05.139
he looks pretty much spot on. Yeah. Looking at
00:35:05.139 --> 00:35:09.440
Galvatron looks pretty much spot on. Yeah. Starscream.
00:35:10.280 --> 00:35:13.659
Yeah. That's got to be the War for Cybertron
00:35:13.659 --> 00:35:17.440
one. Probably. It doesn't look like regular Starscream.
00:35:18.800 --> 00:35:23.400
It's more textured. And then you get Blaster.
00:35:23.420 --> 00:35:28.139
He looks good. You get even the other Soundwave
00:35:28.139 --> 00:35:32.579
from War for Cybertron. I think if you had a
00:35:32.579 --> 00:35:37.039
blue between these two, you would be fine. And
00:35:37.039 --> 00:35:39.730
I think also there's... There's definitely some
00:35:39.730 --> 00:35:42.909
details missing, and I can't pinpoint my finger
00:35:42.909 --> 00:35:44.510
on it, because obviously the War for Cybertron
00:35:44.510 --> 00:35:48.510
one has a lot more textures in it than this.
00:35:48.929 --> 00:35:51.030
But it feels like there's something missing.
00:35:51.110 --> 00:35:55.650
And then you get Shockwave, you get Devastation
00:35:55.650 --> 00:35:58.809
Prime, which again, just looks way too bright.
00:35:59.789 --> 00:36:03.170
Bumblebee looks fine. And then you see him in
00:36:03.170 --> 00:36:09.739
his cassette mode. He ran his, uh, his tape player
00:36:09.739 --> 00:36:12.039
player mode compared to blaster. And he just
00:36:12.039 --> 00:36:15.280
looks weird. He looks weird. Yeah. And again,
00:36:15.280 --> 00:36:18.900
he looks animation similar. Yeah. He looks animation
00:36:18.900 --> 00:36:21.659
similar. He's not animation accurate. Again,
00:36:21.760 --> 00:36:26.739
you have the designs, you have the cartoon, uh,
00:36:27.059 --> 00:36:31.460
just copy paste. Like how hard do you get that
00:36:31.460 --> 00:36:34.800
blue? Even showing the, the little image of the
00:36:34.800 --> 00:36:39.130
animation piece next to him. You can see the
00:36:39.130 --> 00:36:42.929
difference. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, no, that's
00:36:42.929 --> 00:36:45.469
the point. I'm like, so what happened? Yeah,
00:36:45.510 --> 00:36:47.829
exactly. That's been my whole point for the last
00:36:47.829 --> 00:36:50.130
however long we've been talking about this. That's
00:36:50.130 --> 00:36:51.989
my whole point. What in the hell has happened
00:36:51.989 --> 00:36:55.469
to this? Because the War for Cybertron one looks
00:36:55.469 --> 00:37:01.369
closer in cassette mode even. Yeah, absolutely.
00:37:02.469 --> 00:37:06.809
Yeah. The War for Cybertron one. actually looks
00:37:06.809 --> 00:37:09.750
like sound wave like i almost thought it was
00:37:09.750 --> 00:37:12.030
generation one sound wave for half of a second
00:37:12.030 --> 00:37:14.070
even though i know it's not but literally when
00:37:14.070 --> 00:37:15.969
i was looking at those two tape decks side by
00:37:15.969 --> 00:37:17.989
side earlier today when i got the story i was
00:37:17.989 --> 00:37:22.530
like oh oh it's the it's the it's the more modern
00:37:22.530 --> 00:37:24.469
one okay but at least the color on the other
00:37:24.469 --> 00:37:30.750
one is is right i'm not no i was i was this close
00:37:30.750 --> 00:37:34.670
i was so i was gonna pull the trigger on this
00:37:36.460 --> 00:37:40.260
when they first announced it i was like oh cool
00:37:40.260 --> 00:37:44.280
yay and they have like just like with optimus
00:37:44.280 --> 00:37:47.079
don't they have like two other sound wave things
00:37:47.079 --> 00:37:51.039
that they're doing right now like maybe i don't
00:37:51.039 --> 00:37:54.139
i don't know i don't remember i forget they've
00:37:54.139 --> 00:38:00.300
got that's another as a topic for a whole another
00:38:00.300 --> 00:38:05.710
episode but Does Hasbro have too much going on
00:38:05.710 --> 00:38:08.710
in the oven that they can't focus in on what
00:38:08.710 --> 00:38:12.050
really matters? Like, paint detail and design
00:38:12.050 --> 00:38:17.010
detail of a leader class figure? Like, if this
00:38:17.010 --> 00:38:19.329
is supposed to be their leader class for this
00:38:19.329 --> 00:38:23.030
year or next year or whenever the hell. Like,
00:38:23.070 --> 00:38:30.690
I don't know, man. Just, no. I can't. I won't
00:38:30.690 --> 00:38:34.139
be getting. Almost wanted to, but nope. Can't
00:38:34.139 --> 00:38:41.179
do it. Can't do it. Moving on. Moving on to the
00:38:41.179 --> 00:38:45.019
comics. Skybound. Yes, that's right. Skybound
00:38:45.019 --> 00:38:49.739
coming up November 12th of this year, 2025. We're
00:38:49.739 --> 00:38:52.079
getting two releases from Skybound. We are getting
00:38:52.079 --> 00:38:56.340
number 26 and we are getting collection trade
00:38:56.340 --> 00:39:02.559
paperback volume four. So number 26. is if it'll
00:39:02.559 --> 00:39:06.719
open open damn it open uh this is the second
00:39:06.719 --> 00:39:12.360
uh issue into the robert kirkman and dan mora
00:39:12.360 --> 00:39:14.940
era as they are shaking up the energon universe
00:39:14.940 --> 00:39:19.780
optimist optimist crime wow optimist crime yeah
00:39:19.780 --> 00:39:22.469
optimist crime that's right It's a crime they
00:39:22.469 --> 00:39:25.250
can't get that Soundwave paint right. Optimus
00:39:25.250 --> 00:39:27.829
Prime betrayed. The Autobots' newest hope may
00:39:27.829 --> 00:39:30.710
turn out to be their downfall. Most shocking
00:39:30.710 --> 00:39:34.409
Transformers stories continue here. So that's
00:39:34.409 --> 00:39:36.530
coming out November 12th. Also coming out November
00:39:36.530 --> 00:39:42.090
12th is the Volume 4 trade paperback, which collects
00:39:42.090 --> 00:39:48.989
issues 19 to 24 and the Transformers story from
00:39:48.989 --> 00:39:53.889
the... energon universe special 2025 so in this
00:39:53.889 --> 00:39:57.630
one megatron has returned to lead the decepticons
00:39:57.630 --> 00:40:00.210
and only optimus prime may be able to stop him
00:40:00.210 --> 00:40:02.750
the war between the autobots and decepticons
00:40:02.750 --> 00:40:05.530
has been all leading to the shocking conclusion
00:40:05.530 --> 00:40:08.489
that no one would see coming we saw it coming
00:40:08.489 --> 00:40:11.889
folks trust me we did uh critically acclaimed
00:40:11.889 --> 00:40:16.429
team of daniel warren johnson blah blah And Jorge
00:40:16.429 --> 00:40:18.829
Corona, break all the rules in this brand new
00:40:18.829 --> 00:40:22.650
volume of the Eisner Award winning series. So
00:40:22.650 --> 00:40:27.030
that's coming up on the November 12th. And then
00:40:27.030 --> 00:40:31.869
in December, on December 10th, right before Christmas,
00:40:31.929 --> 00:40:36.150
we get Transformers number 27. And guess what,
00:40:36.210 --> 00:40:39.869
folks? Soundwave's on the cover. And he actually
00:40:39.869 --> 00:40:45.599
has the right colors and everything. Megatron
00:40:45.599 --> 00:40:48.300
strikes back. The Decepticons make their move
00:40:48.300 --> 00:40:51.360
to rescue one of their most powerful members
00:40:51.360 --> 00:40:55.780
from the Autobots. Dun, dun, dun. So that's what's
00:40:55.780 --> 00:40:57.559
coming up at the end of the year to close out
00:40:57.559 --> 00:41:01.420
the year for Skybound for Transformers. So very
00:41:01.420 --> 00:41:05.840
excited for that. It's been two years since that
00:41:05.840 --> 00:41:08.639
started and all that. So that's what's going
00:41:08.639 --> 00:41:11.780
on there. at least for the comic side of it.
00:41:11.840 --> 00:41:15.000
But there is news, even more news, out of the
00:41:15.000 --> 00:41:19.980
Energon universe because apparently, finally,
00:41:20.059 --> 00:41:23.559
I've been following this story to keep up with
00:41:23.559 --> 00:41:25.639
it, but I haven't wanted to actually report on
00:41:25.639 --> 00:41:28.119
it until there was actually news to say about
00:41:28.119 --> 00:41:32.179
it because we don't do rumors around here. No,
00:41:32.179 --> 00:41:35.260
we don't. The Energon Universe adult animated
00:41:35.260 --> 00:41:40.059
series based on the comics from Hasbro and Skybound
00:41:40.059 --> 00:41:43.420
with Joe Henderson as showrunner is hitting the
00:41:43.420 --> 00:41:46.960
TV marketplace. I'm going to read as much of
00:41:46.960 --> 00:41:49.619
this as I possibly can without screwing it up,
00:41:49.659 --> 00:41:53.579
but you never know, folks. Exclusive Robert Kirkman
00:41:53.579 --> 00:41:56.360
Skybound Entertainment has teamed with Hasbro
00:41:56.360 --> 00:41:59.880
Entertainment to produce Energon Universe, an
00:41:59.880 --> 00:42:03.679
adult animated series based on the comics of
00:42:03.679 --> 00:42:10.719
the same name. Created by Kirkman, Joe Henderson,
00:42:11.079 --> 00:42:14.280
who worked on Lucifer, is attached to write the
00:42:14.280 --> 00:42:17.699
adaptation and serve as showrunner on the series.
00:42:17.880 --> 00:42:22.139
An epic crossover. of G .I. Joe Transformers
00:42:22.139 --> 00:42:25.360
and Void Rivals mythology, which is expected
00:42:25.360 --> 00:42:29.000
to be taken out to buyers shortly. Despite featuring
00:42:29.000 --> 00:42:31.460
the family -friendly Hasbro characters G .I.
00:42:31.480 --> 00:42:33.920
Joe and Transformers, the Energon Universe series
00:42:33.920 --> 00:42:38.019
will be broad with adult sensibility in the vein
00:42:38.019 --> 00:42:42.019
of Kirkman's gritty animated series Invincible,
00:42:42.159 --> 00:42:44.820
based on his comic, which has been a hit for
00:42:44.820 --> 00:42:47.420
Prime Video, renewed for Season 5, ahead of its
00:42:47.420 --> 00:42:51.780
Season 4 premiere, yadda yadda yadda. So two
00:42:51.780 --> 00:42:53.940
years in, Energon Universe has become one of
00:42:53.940 --> 00:42:56.340
Hasbro's best -selling comic book lines ever,
00:42:56.440 --> 00:43:00.139
with over 7 million combined units sold worldwide.
00:43:02.179 --> 00:43:07.500
So, yeah, we'll have to see what happens. Yeah.
00:43:10.519 --> 00:43:13.739
It's going to be interesting to see what happens
00:43:13.739 --> 00:43:22.059
with that, because you never know. I just hope
00:43:22.059 --> 00:43:25.780
Netflix doesn't get it because they up last time.
00:43:26.820 --> 00:43:30.320
Well, that was Hasbro. I know it was Hasbro,
00:43:30.360 --> 00:43:32.739
but I'm just saying. Hasbro had too much to say.
00:43:33.000 --> 00:43:39.059
Yeah, I know. But, you know, it's going to be
00:43:39.059 --> 00:43:42.980
interesting to see what they do with this. It's
00:43:42.980 --> 00:43:45.440
going to be really cool. And I know you haven't
00:43:45.440 --> 00:43:55.429
read most of it yet, but. It's really good. Like,
00:43:55.429 --> 00:43:59.650
it's the only thing. The Skybound comics are
00:43:59.650 --> 00:44:03.909
really the only thing that I am in on currently
00:44:03.909 --> 00:44:06.469
with Transformers outside of the Funko Pops,
00:44:06.550 --> 00:44:09.690
but that's toys. But, like, as far as media goes,
00:44:10.010 --> 00:44:18.989
like... Like... I keep wanting to check out the
00:44:18.989 --> 00:44:22.309
cyber world stuff, but I don't know. It's actually
00:44:22.309 --> 00:44:24.389
not been too bad. I mean, they have a limited
00:44:24.389 --> 00:44:29.130
voice actors. Uh, I, I've been watching it with
00:44:29.130 --> 00:44:31.650
the kids and they, they're like, eh, it's kind
00:44:31.650 --> 00:44:39.809
of neat. Cool. So. Very cool. Very cool. Um,
00:44:39.929 --> 00:44:43.690
but yeah, that's, uh, that's all I got. I was
00:44:43.690 --> 00:44:46.440
going to say, I'm excited for the. this energon
00:44:46.440 --> 00:44:50.199
universe to see where it goes you know tv show
00:44:50.199 --> 00:44:52.440
yeah me too just to kind of see what they do
00:44:52.440 --> 00:44:57.159
with it yeah i'm just really curious to see because
00:44:57.159 --> 00:45:01.000
i don't think they're i mean i'm crossing my
00:45:01.000 --> 00:45:04.679
fingers but i highly doubt that they're gonna
00:45:04.679 --> 00:45:07.639
get peter back i wish they would but i don't
00:45:07.639 --> 00:45:10.380
think i in reality i don't think cullen is gonna
00:45:10.380 --> 00:45:14.710
come back I wish you would for this because I
00:45:14.710 --> 00:45:18.650
think it is deserved for him to come back for
00:45:18.650 --> 00:45:22.110
this. But if he's decided he wants to retire,
00:45:22.130 --> 00:45:23.929
and I don't know that there hasn't been a news
00:45:23.929 --> 00:45:26.929
story, so I'm just assuming here, folks, I'm
00:45:26.929 --> 00:45:32.409
using my ass. If he's decided he wants to retire
00:45:32.409 --> 00:45:36.789
or if he's done with it or whatever, I respect
00:45:36.789 --> 00:45:41.989
that. I mean, the man is given. 41 flipping years
00:45:41.989 --> 00:45:48.969
to this brand you know and but i would love to
00:45:48.969 --> 00:45:55.789
have anybody that's still alive that was in the
00:45:55.789 --> 00:46:00.809
original to come back you got you know judd nelson
00:46:00.809 --> 00:46:05.190
for for hot rod you got neil ross for springer
00:46:05.190 --> 00:46:11.199
you got peter for optimus you got frank for whatever
00:46:11.199 --> 00:46:17.519
frank can do uh you know if it works it works
00:46:17.519 --> 00:46:19.420
if it doesn't it doesn't we'll see what happens
00:46:19.420 --> 00:46:24.000
i just hope whoever that honestly if they can't
00:46:24.000 --> 00:46:26.420
get if they can't get peter cullen to do the
00:46:26.420 --> 00:46:32.360
optimist thing get john bailey like i mean he's
00:46:32.360 --> 00:46:34.820
the next obvious choice and he's the only obvious
00:46:34.820 --> 00:46:39.289
choice in my head oh i agree with you He's really
00:46:39.289 --> 00:46:45.090
the only option at this point. I don't see them
00:46:45.090 --> 00:46:47.690
bringing back anybody from G1 just because of
00:46:47.690 --> 00:46:50.650
their advanced age. I don't see them. Yeah, I
00:46:50.650 --> 00:46:54.889
know. And I think they'll go for a more gruff.
00:46:56.170 --> 00:46:58.909
Hopefully not to the point that the War for Cybertron
00:46:58.909 --> 00:47:03.309
trilogy did. No. Well, just because the series
00:47:03.309 --> 00:47:05.309
is dark and gritty doesn't mean the voice acting
00:47:05.309 --> 00:47:09.840
has to be. I'm fine. Like, bring back Frank for
00:47:09.840 --> 00:47:15.940
Starscream. Jason Marnosha, I guess, is fine
00:47:15.940 --> 00:47:23.659
as Megatron. Yep. As for the rest of them, bring
00:47:23.659 --> 00:47:27.039
back some of the actors that were in the Prime
00:47:27.039 --> 00:47:33.300
Wars trilogy. Okay. Because the voice acting
00:47:33.300 --> 00:47:38.199
was on point for that. Yeah. the animation and
00:47:38.199 --> 00:47:41.619
the story was crap yeah i agree with that but
00:47:41.619 --> 00:47:47.760
i mean mostly crap mostly the the war for cybertron
00:47:47.760 --> 00:47:52.099
it was rushed but again that was a hasbro thing
00:47:52.099 --> 00:47:55.579
with with netflix and then the voice acting and
00:47:55.579 --> 00:47:58.639
voice direction was garbage yeah so i think that
00:47:58.639 --> 00:48:02.099
about wraps this episode up yeah i think so too
00:48:02.099 --> 00:48:07.800
we got uh The six full stories. I added in the
00:48:07.800 --> 00:48:09.460
Eric story because it wasn't in there before.
00:48:09.579 --> 00:48:14.619
And I'm like, I am GFG on Mike. I am no Michael
00:48:14.619 --> 00:48:18.059
Bay. I don't leave my Constructicons with a six
00:48:18.059 --> 00:48:21.800
legs notwithstanding. I don't build my Constructicons
00:48:21.800 --> 00:48:23.940
with only five parts. There are going to be six
00:48:23.940 --> 00:48:27.500
parts there. Because I didn't have the Eric C.
00:48:27.619 --> 00:48:32.239
Bonella story in there at first. But, yeah, Eric,
00:48:32.340 --> 00:48:34.659
welcome back to the design team. Looking forward
00:48:34.659 --> 00:48:37.579
to seeing what you do in the future with Generations
00:48:37.579 --> 00:48:40.719
and all that good stuff. And, yeah, every time
00:48:40.719 --> 00:48:44.079
that they do, which we're recording this on 1027,
00:48:44.239 --> 00:48:47.500
folks. I'm surprised they didn't do a 1027 event
00:48:47.500 --> 00:48:52.000
because they always like doing 1027 event stuff.
00:48:52.119 --> 00:48:55.800
But they did just come off of, was it New York?
00:48:56.139 --> 00:48:59.280
No, TFCon. Well, I don't know if they, I don't
00:48:59.280 --> 00:49:01.380
know, think Hasbro. I don't know what Hasbro
00:49:01.380 --> 00:49:04.900
is doing these days. We did just come off of
00:49:04.900 --> 00:49:09.920
TFCon Chicago. And like I said, most likely the
00:49:09.920 --> 00:49:11.599
next episode, I'm going to get Patriot Prime
00:49:11.599 --> 00:49:14.239
on here and he's going to give us all the juicy
00:49:14.239 --> 00:49:17.639
details of his experience of going to TFCon Chicago.
00:49:19.719 --> 00:49:23.849
Hopefully. So thank you as always for listening
00:49:23.849 --> 00:49:26.210
to all things Transformers. I've been your host
00:49:26.210 --> 00:49:28.769
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Sentinel Online. Now loading all things Transformers.
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All things! Hello and welcome to All Things Transformers.
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I'm your host, Steve Megatron, and joining me
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in this adventure into the Transformers fandom
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is TFG1 Mike. Hello, I am here. I am still waiting,
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apparently. Yep. So, as everybody knows, we typically
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don't do episodes unless there's actually something
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to report or something to discuss. We don't just
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put out episodes for fun. Not that there hasn't
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been just random episodes out there, but yeah,
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this particular one, there's some new products,
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there's some new comics, and then there's the
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tease of an animated series. And so, yeah, let's
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jump right into it. Yes, but first, there will
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also be an episode after this. You don't know
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this yet, but I am going to be getting Patriot
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Prime on here. He went to TFCon Chicago this
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year, so we are going to have a convention attention
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on all things Transformers for TFCon recap from
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him. I already asked him when he was still at
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the convention. He's like, sure, I just don't
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know when that's going to be. Hopefully soon.
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But yeah, the first... big news kind of thing
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i almost missed this if google didn't actually
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point it out to me in my google feed but eric
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siebenailer is returning to or has returned to
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the transformers design team and again i know
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a lot of people listen to our podcast here but
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for those that this might be your first episode
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And for those that don't know, Eric is a Transformers
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design veteran, having worked on many fan favorite
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lines such as Cybertron Classics and Revenge
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of the Fallen. I don't know how Revenge of the
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Fallen is a fan favorite line, but it's perhaps
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best most famously known for his work in the
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animated Transformers animated toy line. See,
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animated and classics are the only things that
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matter to me. Like, yeah, I. cybertron was okay
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they were less bricks they were less bricks than
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the armada and energon lines yeah so okay i'll
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give them that revenge of the fallen yeah i mean
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there's a lot of moving parts there but it just
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looks like it just looks like uh a bunch of sheet
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metal stuck together yeah you know there is only
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when i watch that movie When we originally did
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a toy cat, we did a toy cast commentary for that
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movie. It was a running thing back when Optimus
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Scourge was still alive. It was me, him, Proto
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Man. I don't think it was a commentary. It was
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a theatrical reaction. We had all gone to see
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it. The only thing. out of the entire toy line
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that i wanted that i had at that time 2009 i
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was 29 years old oh god oh that was so long ago
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ow my 45 year old back is hurting just thinking
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about it uh but the only toy out of that entire
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toy line i wanted was the ravage toy because
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he had a purple eye and he was a black cat Now,
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in the movie, he kind of has a purple eye for
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like half of a second when he first lands from
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space, when he first gets ejected out of. That
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sounds wrong. When he first gets ejected out
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of Soundwave and he makes his descent down to
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Earth for half of a second, he has a purple eye.
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But luckily, the designers, Eric. I guess, took
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that and made that the design for the toy, meaning
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that that would be the only. I actually have.
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Oh, is it? I forget which cheat or I have a famous
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infamous photo. I'll see if I can find it. Dig
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it up for this post. I have that Revenge of the
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Fallen toy and I have a different Cheetor toy
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where Cheetor is riding Ravage. Cheetor's in
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robot mode. Ravage is in his cat mode, obviously.
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And Cheetor is riding Ravage like a horse kind
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of thing. But yeah, so Eric is reportedly now
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working on the Generations line along with Mark
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Mayer. And so it will be very interesting to
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see, yada, yada, yada, what they will be doing,
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especially with an animated anniversary coming
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up. Oh, that's right. 2007, 2008. Jesus, 2027,
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2028. Oh, my God. 20 years. I'm getting too old
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for this stuff. So that's what we got there.
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So Eric is now back at, Eric Steven Allen now
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back at Hasbro. If you look in the Discord chat,
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you will be seeing photos above the Soundwave
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thing of the Funko Pops. So I have the original
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Nemesis Prime Funko Pop. They are releasing a
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new wave of Funko Pops, finally, for... And I
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say finally, because I've complained about it
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before. I will never stop complaining about it
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until Funko figures it out or until I figure
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out how the Lang. I want to see that contract.
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I want to see the contract between Funko and
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Hasbro because it always feels like Funko just
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doesn't treat the Transformers license correctly.
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Not that they do bad things. Not that they make
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bad product with it. They don't release things
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like you go to Funko. You can hit every single
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Batman version and I get it. Batman's big seller.
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Don't get me wrong. Not trying to throw Batman
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under the bus here or anything because I'm going
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to throw a lot of things under the bus here.
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Every superhero. Batman, Iron Man, Superman,
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blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You can throw a
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rock and hit one. You can throw a rock and hit
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every My Hero Academia character, every Full
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Metal Alchemist, maybe not Full Metal Alchemist,
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but every anime character, you can throw a rock
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and you can hit an anime character Funko Pop.
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Oh, for sure. It's been a rare... Between Batman
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Beyond and Transformers, which are currently
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I've scaled back. I started collecting Funko
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Pops in 2017. I still have a lot of Funko Pops,
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but I don't have as nearly as much as I had almost
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10 years ago, eight years ago, nine years ago,
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whatever it is. Like, I just I'm curating my
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collection into the ones that I absolutely must
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have and want. I've also changed my collecting
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with the Funko Pops to what lines or what brands
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or what, whatever, like of the fandoms that I
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want. And obviously Transformers is number one.
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Batman Beyond is number two. They also treat
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Batman Beyond like it's junk sometimes, but recently
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they've been putting out new Batman Beyond stuff.
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Don't even get me started on the NYCC 2025 exclusive.
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That's a whole other thing for a whole different
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show. But they finally released a new wave of
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Transformers Funko Bobs that are coming soon.
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We have Springer, Cup, a new Nemesis Prime, and
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then we have Skywarp and Thundercracker. Now,
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I know. We all know. Skywarp and Thundercracker
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are essentially a color -coded copy trade switch
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and whatever with each other. However... If you
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watch the cartoon, if you look at any of their
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designs from any of their original toys, because
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most of Funko's stuff is based off the toy design,
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not the animation design. I think Springer here
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with his goofy ass grin. I think that's based
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off one of the like, whatever. Anyway, but Skywarp
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and Thundercracker, you look at any of their
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stuff. They have different facial expressions.
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They don't each have... They're not that much
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of a carbon copy of each other. They're only
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a color -coded copy of each other. Because they
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can switch the... Whatever. Just pop the heads
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off. One switches to the other. Whatever. My
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problem with this is they both have the same
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damn frowny face on them. And I'm sitting here
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thinking they're too... Like, Thundercracker
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is more... like what's the line oh uh i i think
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it's in the the revenge of bruticus or it's in
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one of the things where he's going up against
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Starscream. It was when Starscream wanted to
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take over the million times Starscream wanted
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to take over. Thundercracker got one up on over
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him. Hey, Starscream, I bet I look real geeky
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now, don't I, Starscream? He was really sarcastic.
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So I would want some sort of sarcastic grin or
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something on Thundercracker. And Skywarp, he's
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been a snarly... Don't give them the same facial
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expression just because you want to save 75 cents
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on sculpting. And I don't know what the sculpting
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cost is on a mouth for fun. Hell, that mouth
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would have been a painted on toothless grin 10
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years ago. Anyway, the Nemesis Prime. I sent
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you those photos. The photos are of the Nemesis
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Prime that I've had for years now. The original
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Nemesis Prime Funko Pop is your standard Optimus
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Prime body that they have used since day one.
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Every Optimus Prime looks like this. It's your
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standard 1984 body like if it was a real toy.
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And in one of these photos, I had combined originally
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when I got this from a friend of mine who had
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given it to me. we were in the midst of was it
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wasn't it was one of the earth rise or warfare
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it was the war for cybertron trilogy because
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that's where that if you look at the one image
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where you see my tv screen nemesis prime on the
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screen that's where that comes from is that is
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that show so like It was just a standard optimist
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body that Funko has used this whole time. But
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now they want to have him in this new pose thing.
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And Funko will do this every once in a while.
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They just did it with Hot Rod. I don't have the
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original Hot Rod. You know why I don't have the
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original Hot Rod? Because the original Hot Rod
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was no fucking trouble. And I'm sorry, that'll
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be the only one I use. But seriously, the original
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Hot Rod was an NFT. The new Hot Rod, the one
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with the Matrix, was available to the public,
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to anybody. Whatever. The point is, is that I
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looked at this, and I'm looking at it closely,
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and I even zoomed in on it, and I'm like, okay,
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there's nothing inherently wrong with this, but
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it just looks like he's Grandpa Evil Optimus
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trying to bust a bad dance move. Like the pose
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is wrong. I think, I think that's the only thing
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that's wrong with it. Everything. I love the
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colors. I love the way his eyes almost glow.
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I love the way his chest almost glows. I'm probably
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going to get it anyway. So I know I'm just yelling
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and screaming here for nothing, but I don't know.
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It is what it is. Springer looks cool. Cup looks
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cool. I almost thought. Cup was somebody else
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at first until I actually looked at it again
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and I was like, oh, Cup. Yay, Cup. So yeah, new
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Funko Pops coming out. I know you have zero thoughts
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on this considering I just spewed a mouthful.
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Well, and that's the benefit is some people may
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actually like these and that's fine. I do agree
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they're better than Mighty Mugs. However, I...
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I see so many of these in every store. Like they're
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just walls of these things. Like you could build
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a house with the amount that they, they have
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like on these aisles. And it's not like, I mean,
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I've seen, I've seen Dragon Ball Z. I've seen
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Dragon Ball, you know, GT, Super Transformers.
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I haven't seen any Beast Wars in person. But.
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I've seen so many. I mean, anime is like their
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bread and butter. Yeah. Outside of everything.
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No, it is. Anime and superheroes is where Funko
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makes its money. Yeah. And there's a lot that
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shell forms. And I imagine the ones that are
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actually popular are the ones that are never
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there. yeah and but that's the same with like
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transformers that's the same with i mean because
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if you go in the story you won't find a studio
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series 86 prime or or studio series 86 megatron
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or any of the the main leader characters that
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somebody would want you won't find those no you
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won't you might get lucky from time to time and
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see one but you'll never see more than that in
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that same in that same time period and so it's
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it's a common problem with everything they overproduce
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the ones that are kind of meh and then they underproduce
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the ones that everybody's going to buy the crap
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out of creating the supply and demand of it it's
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like why print the plastic crack that's not going
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to sell much and underproduce those and overproduce
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the ones that people actually want yeah it's
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very true but i mean that's just the logic of
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it but I, I don't have any ill will towards Funko.
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I know you don't. It's, it's not that I, you
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know, I, I personally don't like them because
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I don't like the giant heads and the little mini
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bodies. And I, I go for screen accurate aesthetics,
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which is why I have like the lightning collection
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of power Rangers, or I have the, the Bandai Dragon
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Ball super figures, or I have the studio series
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86. you know prime and scourge and then i have
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you know the war for cybertron you know g2 megatron
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j -axis optimus prime and then the plethora of
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beast wars figures that i've got so i mean it's
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also the same reason i have a couple of you know
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the marvel legends of like finally a wolverine
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and a toby mcguire you know spider -man and uh
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majority of those and then some of the btas batmans
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and you know there's a new kirk coming that won't
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be out until like fall of 2026 which is an entirely
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different issue but at least bbts has it yeah
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so the um And I mean, the funny thing is, is
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I mean, I get what you're saying about the big
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head and a little body and all that. But there
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really is a lot of detail that goes into this.
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And for me, and I've said this every time we
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talk about these things, it's just like I'm holding
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in my hand the NFT for Cheetor. And because they
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only made an NFT of him, I don't know if they'll
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hopefully next year, Funko will get off their
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asses and do more Beast Wars. like they did this
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year, finally. Because Cheetor was the first
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Beast Wars. The Cheetor NFT was the first Beast
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Wars, one they did. And then they finally did
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Megatron, Optimus, Blackarachnia, and Rhinox,
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I think, are the four, I think. The only way
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I would break my streak of not buying one is
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if they did Transmetal Beast Wars Megatron. Yeah.
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Or the Grand Mall. Good luck with that. Yeah.
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Good luck with that. It's just a head. Just a
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head. It's just a head. Yeah. But I mean, I've
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had so many different versions. I've had the
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different versions of Cheeto over the years and
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it's like, okay, I can just have, and this one
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is pretty much his season one look for the most
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part. Hopefully in the future they will do. Oh,
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there you go. Cyclonus falling off the thing.
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Wow. Great. Well, we just had a plane crash in
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the middle of Indiana. No, not really, folks.
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But technically, since Cyclonus is a plane. A
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Cybertronian jet. There you go. And yeah. But
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yeah, so yeah. And of course, not that I pay
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attention to TFW. comments but the first comment
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it looks like poor thundercracker and skywarp
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got something shoved up their tailpipes he's
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not wrong honestly he's not wrong or that person
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is not wrong oh god all right moving on to real
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toys transformers age of the primes uh mcm reveals
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official picks and pre -orders so we have all
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the pre -orders for um Deluxe Junkion Jalopy.
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We got, that's what he's called. I don't know.
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Don't blame me. Blame the people that named the
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thing. Quick Strike, Blast Off, Quintus Prime,
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Sure Shot, Animated Rekgar, Brawl, Amalgamous
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Prime, Big Convoy, Razor Claw. uh class combaticon
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brawl class uh deluxe oh uh quick strike all
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right okay okay okay so yeah so we have all these
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um these look good yeah so i i like sure shot
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i just remember him from the power master comics
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and from season three I like Rekgar. He looks
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like Rekgar. Big Convoy looks cool. Razorclaw,
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that's from the Transformers Unlimited line.
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Shortly after Beast Wars and Beast Machines and
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they just repainted Tigerhawk. You have Brawl
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and Blast Off, which are part of the... Combaticons.
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Combaticons become Bruticus. They look really
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good. Yeah, Blastoff looks amazing. You got your
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buddy there. You got your buddy. You got the
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Quickstrike. Got Quickstrike, which he's a deluxe
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finally. Finally, yeah. He looks good. What's
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funny is he has the 5mm port in him. In the mouth
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and in the claw. And that's what she said. But
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he actually he actually looks show accurate,
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which I'm quite surprised. And then they did
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the the kind of transmetally glaze that that
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he has. And it fits really well. And looks really
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nice. And. I know I don't have like I don't have
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Tiger Hawk. I don't have Silverbolt. Yeah. It
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was more so like I just made the decision. I
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was like, I don't really care. Yeah. On either
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one of them. And it was more so like, who did
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I like as characters? I probably will get Quickstrike.
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Yeah. Because I enjoyed him much more than Scorponok.
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And I did, I think, I think I offloaded my Scorponok
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a while back. Oh, wow. Just because I hate Scorponok
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in Beast Wars. I liked Quickstrike. Yeah. the
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fact that he's finally a deluxe figure and the
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original had that translucent plastic that broke
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and i i came close they had two different uh
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knockoff like trans art did one and another company
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did one and they were you know they were show
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accurate one of them was better than the other
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and they did the same thing with transmittal
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to dino pod one was show you know that one was
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trans art one was another company and the other
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company tended to have poor quality control same
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thing with the quick strike I even, I mean, for
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the price, I was kind of like, I'll just wait
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until Hasbro eventually comes with one. Cause
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I don't love the character enough for that. Yeah.
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But I, I'm not against it. Like I, I'm waiting
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for more trans metals from Hasbro to be honest.
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I, I want some that are smaller. Like, cause
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a lot of the, the knockoffs like transmittal
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to Dinobot 10 inches tall. and i'm like like
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i've got i've got masterpiece you know beast
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megatron i've got masterpiece uh transmetal megatron
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they're each at the nine and ten inch tall like
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they are actually like an inch and a half taller
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than optimal optimus yeah which seems like a
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travesty yeah and And I, yeah, I mean, just for
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that reason, I'm like, I really don't want them
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any bigger than necessary. And so this one I
00:23:01.789 --> 00:23:03.630
would probably get, and I'm just kind of waiting.
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I'm hoping they come back out with a new Transmetal
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Optimus Primal and Transmetal Megatron and Transmetal
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Tarantulas, just because the originals were,
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they each had their issues. Tarantulas didn't
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quite look like Tarantulas, and then Megatron
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had the gold plastic syndrome, and then Primal,
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his face was goofy. So, I mean, I wouldn't be
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lying if I didn't say I wouldn't pick those up
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if Hasbro came out with them. Right, yeah. So
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I'm excited for Quickstrike here, and he looks
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like he's got some decent poseability there with
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the snake head, which it looks like they just
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preserved a lot of the same movements that the
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original toy had. Yeah. And just added new articulation
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for the ankle joints and fix the colors, fix
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the head, uh, took away the see -through plastic.
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Uh, the colors are much better. So I'm, I'm excited
00:24:02.950 --> 00:24:07.089
for it. Um, yeah, it looks really good. I like
00:24:07.089 --> 00:24:09.309
the combat icons too. They just look cool. Yeah.
00:24:10.089 --> 00:24:13.910
I've always liked blast off. He's always both
00:24:13.910 --> 00:24:16.210
of these here. Blast off and brawl. Both look
00:24:16.210 --> 00:24:18.960
cool. Yeah, my two favorite of the Combaticons
00:24:18.960 --> 00:24:21.420
have always been Blastoff and Swindle. Swindle's
00:24:21.420 --> 00:24:25.240
not here, obviously, but I've always liked those
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two the best. And then we get to... Sunwave in
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a chair. Yeah. He'd look much better in the chair
00:24:37.279 --> 00:24:39.700
you made, because that chair, I don't know what
00:24:39.700 --> 00:24:41.880
they were thinking. I don't know what they were
00:24:41.880 --> 00:24:46.859
thinking. Studio Series 86 Leader Class Soundwave.
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Oh, boy. This has turned me off since day one.
00:24:54.880 --> 00:24:59.119
And I am like, I nearly killed. Almost like I
00:24:59.119 --> 00:25:03.359
did with Optimus Prime, probably. I nearly killed
00:25:03.359 --> 00:25:06.220
my best friend, Jonathan Bond. When we were kids
00:25:06.220 --> 00:25:08.819
for his sound wave, I had, I've told this story
00:25:08.819 --> 00:25:11.599
before I had blaster. He had sound wave. He wouldn't
00:25:11.599 --> 00:25:16.599
even let me look at the damn thing. Like I understand
00:25:16.599 --> 00:25:19.440
not letting, you know, your best friend touch
00:25:19.440 --> 00:25:22.400
your toys when you're kids. I get it. That's
00:25:22.400 --> 00:25:24.839
fine. Whatever you play with your toys, I'll
00:25:24.839 --> 00:25:27.819
play with mine, but not even let me look at the
00:25:27.819 --> 00:25:30.259
damn thing. Like, give me a break over here,
00:25:30.380 --> 00:25:35.980
boy. But they put this, I. Put it in the discord
00:25:35.980 --> 00:25:38.700
for you to see the one picture that I'm going
00:25:38.700 --> 00:25:42.420
to specifically call out. And the only reason
00:25:42.420 --> 00:25:44.440
out of all the sound wave stuff they're doing
00:25:44.440 --> 00:25:46.059
this year, and I don't know what they're doing
00:25:46.059 --> 00:25:47.940
for next year, but out of all the sound wave
00:25:47.940 --> 00:25:50.740
stuff they've done in 2025, the only sound wave
00:25:50.740 --> 00:25:53.380
thing I want right now is I want somebody to
00:25:53.380 --> 00:25:56.019
build me the Lego sound wave, put in the sound
00:25:56.019 --> 00:25:58.900
brick, have it in cassette mode. And that's it.
00:25:59.319 --> 00:26:02.750
That's all I need. Cause I just want that. that
00:26:02.750 --> 00:26:05.450
sound break in for the transform sound for sound
00:26:05.450 --> 00:26:10.690
wave. But so the one photo where it has him in
00:26:10.690 --> 00:26:14.769
cassette mode up against whatever other, I thought
00:26:14.769 --> 00:26:17.150
that was the original eighties version. I'm looking
00:26:17.150 --> 00:26:19.430
at it more closely. It doesn't look like the
00:26:19.430 --> 00:26:21.950
original eighties version, but it's close enough
00:26:21.950 --> 00:26:26.210
to the original eighties version of sound wave.
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And here's my problem. His entire waist is Navy.
00:26:32.750 --> 00:26:35.269
No, it's not Navy blue. Cause it's not dark enough.
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That's the problem. The blue isn't dark enough,
00:26:37.990 --> 00:26:42.529
but also the problem is around his butt. Like
00:26:42.529 --> 00:26:45.829
they moved. Why did they, why did they do that?
00:26:47.950 --> 00:26:50.609
See, that's weird. I'm looking at both these
00:26:50.609 --> 00:26:52.950
things and I'm like, There's something off here.
00:26:52.990 --> 00:26:56.390
They did something in this toy design that is
00:26:56.390 --> 00:27:00.329
just so strange to me and so weird that's throwing
00:27:00.329 --> 00:27:02.829
off the rest of the design besides the fact of
00:27:02.829 --> 00:27:04.630
the coloring. You could change the coloring.
00:27:04.890 --> 00:27:08.750
You could repaint anything. But it's just like,
00:27:08.849 --> 00:27:15.289
okay, everyone's heard Steve's discussion on
00:27:15.289 --> 00:27:20.539
Optimus' head. Give him a new head, make it a
00:27:20.539 --> 00:27:22.640
movie head, make his eyes glow, all that good
00:27:22.640 --> 00:27:29.279
stuff. This is my version of that. Make SS -86
00:27:29.279 --> 00:27:32.240
Soundwave look like he looked in the animation.
00:27:32.299 --> 00:27:40.779
He doesn't have a bolder blue. It's a dark...
00:27:40.779 --> 00:27:44.880
The only area he has that bold blue is on the
00:27:44.880 --> 00:27:48.940
sides of the silver. They didn't paint that.
00:27:48.960 --> 00:27:51.200
You want to talk about an unpainted flipping
00:27:51.200 --> 00:27:53.700
toy. See, I said flipping and not the other word.
00:27:54.500 --> 00:27:58.279
This is an unpainted toy to me. This toy dessert.
00:27:58.400 --> 00:28:02.200
And they even, Oh my God. The first frigging
00:28:02.200 --> 00:28:06.559
image. They even show it next to the toy design
00:28:06.559 --> 00:28:10.160
or the, the original animated design from G1.
00:28:11.059 --> 00:28:15.059
The G1 design is not the same color as the toy.
00:28:16.079 --> 00:28:19.579
Are you kidding me? How do you people burp this
00:28:19.579 --> 00:28:23.299
up? Yeah, see, look, I can even get a Phineas
00:28:23.299 --> 00:28:25.619
and Ferb reference into a Transformers episode.
00:28:27.200 --> 00:28:30.339
Seriously, how do you how do you fuck this up,
00:28:30.420 --> 00:28:37.380
Hasbro? This is crazy. You have you can look
00:28:37.380 --> 00:28:40.259
at the cartoon. You can see what dark blue color
00:28:40.259 --> 00:28:47.269
he is. And yet you give us this. And again, I
00:28:47.269 --> 00:28:51.789
get it. I could spend the 80 bucks or whatever
00:28:51.789 --> 00:28:53.390
the hell this thing is going to cost. I don't
00:28:53.390 --> 00:28:57.250
even know. I could spend the money. I could buy
00:28:57.250 --> 00:28:59.329
it. I could mail it to you, give you a bunch
00:28:59.329 --> 00:29:01.069
of money, have you repaint it to make it look
00:29:01.069 --> 00:29:03.930
like that. That's not the point. I shouldn't
00:29:03.930 --> 00:29:07.950
have to do that. If I'm spending whatever the
00:29:07.950 --> 00:29:11.210
MSRP is on this thing, what is the MSRP on this
00:29:11.210 --> 00:29:12.769
thing? I don't even remember off the top of my
00:29:12.769 --> 00:29:16.279
head. if I'm spending any amount of money on
00:29:16.279 --> 00:29:23.019
a SS 86 leader class, I want it to look, and
00:29:23.019 --> 00:29:26.559
you're actively saying this is studio series
00:29:26.559 --> 00:29:29.859
86. This is to celebrate blah, blah, blah, blah,
00:29:29.880 --> 00:29:33.339
blah. I don't remember sound wave looking ocean
00:29:33.339 --> 00:29:38.490
blue. In the 1986 movie, I remember him looking
00:29:38.490 --> 00:29:42.710
dark navy blue in the movie, and thank God you
00:29:42.710 --> 00:29:45.069
got the red eyes instead of the yellow eyes on
00:29:45.069 --> 00:29:47.529
this, or else I would have been going off even
00:29:47.529 --> 00:29:58.849
more. Yeah, I don't... They... It's so stupid.
00:29:59.829 --> 00:30:03.380
The... The... I think it was prime versus prime.
00:30:03.480 --> 00:30:05.279
I think is who has the credit on this from the
00:30:05.279 --> 00:30:07.599
YouTube channel in the, I'm not looking at the
00:30:07.599 --> 00:30:10.819
story. I'm just looking at the photos. Uh, but,
00:30:10.920 --> 00:30:14.140
uh, the prime, no, I just want to make sure I
00:30:14.140 --> 00:30:17.079
have this credit, right? Uh, prime versus prime
00:30:17.079 --> 00:30:20.579
on YouTube. Yeah. So prime versus prime, the
00:30:20.579 --> 00:30:23.200
photos that they grabbed from his YouTube video
00:30:23.200 --> 00:30:28.190
or whatever, uh, he does a. side -by -side comparison
00:30:28.190 --> 00:30:31.049
with a different sound wave the other sound wave
00:30:31.049 --> 00:30:34.829
has the proper colors the other one that he's
00:30:34.829 --> 00:30:38.890
comparing it to in the in the in the modes has
00:30:38.890 --> 00:30:43.509
the proper damn color like how how do you hasbro
00:30:43.509 --> 00:30:47.009
how why why would you do this hasbro i just put
00:30:47.009 --> 00:30:49.710
it there in the chat when you look at laser beak
00:30:49.710 --> 00:30:54.750
too he doesn't have the right like the right
00:30:54.750 --> 00:30:57.789
colors or like the wings don't bend the same
00:30:57.789 --> 00:31:01.930
yeah no although i don't know if it's the proper
00:31:01.930 --> 00:31:04.930
one or not or if it's a different version i mean
00:31:04.930 --> 00:31:11.349
i i don't know i'm looking at laser beacon buzzsaw
00:31:11.349 --> 00:31:16.029
now buzzsaw just looks like again okay you talk
00:31:16.029 --> 00:31:18.130
about carbon copies of each other we just talked
00:31:18.130 --> 00:31:21.470
about how thundercracker and skywarper are color
00:31:21.470 --> 00:31:25.839
-coded switch buzzsaw and laser beak are essentially
00:31:25.839 --> 00:31:29.019
the same damn thing just painted different colors
00:31:29.019 --> 00:31:32.740
they never really differentiated their their
00:31:32.740 --> 00:31:36.079
identities in the cartoon so buzzsaw should not
00:31:36.079 --> 00:31:41.680
look like a very stiff boomerang and laser beak
00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:44.579
shouldn't i don't laser beak looks better to
00:31:44.579 --> 00:31:51.380
me than buzzsaw does at least in yeah Oh, wait,
00:31:51.579 --> 00:31:57.059
what? Wait. Oh, no, you're right. The laser beak
00:31:57.059 --> 00:31:59.559
that I'm looking at is the comparison he's doing.
00:31:59.619 --> 00:32:04.559
Are you kidding me? What are they doing? No.
00:32:05.720 --> 00:32:08.420
Yeah. So apparently something looks off with
00:32:08.420 --> 00:32:11.319
Soundwave, too. I think. Yeah. Yeah. There's
00:32:11.319 --> 00:32:13.700
some paint decor that's missing. And I mean,
00:32:13.700 --> 00:32:17.240
aside from the blue being too vibrant and not
00:32:17.240 --> 00:32:20.829
as muted. Yeah. It. There's something off, like
00:32:20.829 --> 00:32:23.930
there's something missing. Yeah. I think Ravage
00:32:23.930 --> 00:32:26.529
is the only thing that's semi sort of accurate
00:32:26.529 --> 00:32:30.890
to the design of Ravage. I would concur. You
00:32:30.890 --> 00:32:34.829
know, I think that's the only, and I'm not spending
00:32:34.829 --> 00:32:38.569
whatever, like I said, 70, 80, 90, $100, whatever
00:32:38.569 --> 00:32:41.130
this is going to end up costing. I'm not spending
00:32:41.130 --> 00:32:45.950
this just to get a cassette transformer of Ravage.
00:32:46.289 --> 00:32:49.670
He'll probably be commander class. No, he is.
00:32:49.789 --> 00:32:53.569
He's SS86. Well, he's leader class. He's SS86
00:32:53.569 --> 00:32:57.630
leader class, I think. I think. Maybe he's...
00:32:57.630 --> 00:33:00.490
I don't know what he is. Oh, he's leader class.
00:33:00.910 --> 00:33:04.410
Never mind. I just confirmed my own. Okay, good.
00:33:04.829 --> 00:33:07.450
But yeah, he's... I mean, it comes with Ravaged
00:33:07.450 --> 00:33:10.430
Laserbeak and Buzzsaw. That's awesome. That's
00:33:10.430 --> 00:33:13.450
cool. That's great. They already released the
00:33:13.450 --> 00:33:16.049
Rumble and whatever else. Hopefully those fit.
00:33:16.849 --> 00:33:19.400
They're supposed to. They're supposed to. I think
00:33:19.400 --> 00:33:22.059
so. Yeah. I think they pre -planned this and
00:33:22.059 --> 00:33:25.160
I love all. And again, I have no, my God, you
00:33:25.160 --> 00:33:29.079
gotta be kidding. I love all of the articulation
00:33:29.079 --> 00:33:32.859
and all of the upside downness that he gets to
00:33:32.859 --> 00:33:37.440
do. That's great. That's awesome. Still doesn't
00:33:37.440 --> 00:33:39.440
help the fact that he's wrong. Fucking color.
00:33:40.640 --> 00:33:50.099
Sorry. I can't do it. I can't. It's like. Okay.
00:33:50.099 --> 00:33:52.539
Oh, and then everyone else was like, he shouldn't
00:33:52.539 --> 00:33:54.799
be taller than... It's kind of like how you're
00:33:54.799 --> 00:33:57.519
talking about your 10 -inch Dinobot there, your
00:33:57.519 --> 00:34:00.460
Dinobot 2 or whatever, your Transmetal Dinobot.
00:34:00.779 --> 00:34:02.940
And I'm sitting here thinking, Dinobot shouldn't
00:34:02.940 --> 00:34:09.320
be taller than Beast Wars Megatron. Oh, man,
00:34:09.519 --> 00:34:13.639
that hurts my... Seeing him next to Galvatron
00:34:13.639 --> 00:34:17.150
in the wrong colors. Oh, that hurts me. That
00:34:17.150 --> 00:34:22.469
just hurts me so much. Oh, God. I mean, looking
00:34:22.469 --> 00:34:28.150
at all of these, Hasbro's notorious for not putting
00:34:28.150 --> 00:34:33.030
enough effort into the color. I mean, I'm looking
00:34:33.030 --> 00:34:37.010
at the Optimus Prime next to him. He looks off.
00:34:37.329 --> 00:34:41.570
Prime does, and so does Soundwave. There's something...
00:34:42.039 --> 00:34:44.519
And it's gotta be the color. It's gotta be the
00:34:44.519 --> 00:34:47.719
color. Like how bright, like the candy color.
00:34:48.019 --> 00:34:51.739
Yeah. Like it's not, it's not deep enough. Like
00:34:51.739 --> 00:34:55.519
you look at Megatron other than his feet. Yeah.
00:34:56.039 --> 00:34:58.480
And like part of the, you know, the lower part
00:34:58.480 --> 00:35:00.800
of the stomach, you know, the, the sides of it,
00:35:00.840 --> 00:35:05.139
he looks pretty much spot on. Yeah. Looking at
00:35:05.139 --> 00:35:09.440
Galvatron looks pretty much spot on. Yeah. Starscream.
00:35:10.280 --> 00:35:13.659
Yeah. That's got to be the War for Cybertron
00:35:13.659 --> 00:35:17.440
one. Probably. It doesn't look like regular Starscream.
00:35:18.800 --> 00:35:23.400
It's more textured. And then you get Blaster.
00:35:23.420 --> 00:35:28.139
He looks good. You get even the other Soundwave
00:35:28.139 --> 00:35:32.579
from War for Cybertron. I think if you had a
00:35:32.579 --> 00:35:37.039
blue between these two, you would be fine. And
00:35:37.039 --> 00:35:39.730
I think also there's... There's definitely some
00:35:39.730 --> 00:35:42.909
details missing, and I can't pinpoint my finger
00:35:42.909 --> 00:35:44.510
on it, because obviously the War for Cybertron
00:35:44.510 --> 00:35:48.510
one has a lot more textures in it than this.
00:35:48.929 --> 00:35:51.030
But it feels like there's something missing.
00:35:51.110 --> 00:35:55.650
And then you get Shockwave, you get Devastation
00:35:55.650 --> 00:35:58.809
Prime, which again, just looks way too bright.
00:35:59.789 --> 00:36:03.170
Bumblebee looks fine. And then you see him in
00:36:03.170 --> 00:36:09.739
his cassette mode. He ran his, uh, his tape player
00:36:09.739 --> 00:36:12.039
player mode compared to blaster. And he just
00:36:12.039 --> 00:36:15.280
looks weird. He looks weird. Yeah. And again,
00:36:15.280 --> 00:36:18.900
he looks animation similar. Yeah. He looks animation
00:36:18.900 --> 00:36:21.659
similar. He's not animation accurate. Again,
00:36:21.760 --> 00:36:26.739
you have the designs, you have the cartoon, uh,
00:36:27.059 --> 00:36:31.460
just copy paste. Like how hard do you get that
00:36:31.460 --> 00:36:34.800
blue? Even showing the, the little image of the
00:36:34.800 --> 00:36:39.130
animation piece next to him. You can see the
00:36:39.130 --> 00:36:42.929
difference. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, no, that's
00:36:42.929 --> 00:36:45.469
the point. I'm like, so what happened? Yeah,
00:36:45.510 --> 00:36:47.829
exactly. That's been my whole point for the last
00:36:47.829 --> 00:36:50.130
however long we've been talking about this. That's
00:36:50.130 --> 00:36:51.989
my whole point. What in the hell has happened
00:36:51.989 --> 00:36:55.469
to this? Because the War for Cybertron one looks
00:36:55.469 --> 00:37:01.369
closer in cassette mode even. Yeah, absolutely.
00:37:02.469 --> 00:37:06.809
Yeah. The War for Cybertron one. actually looks
00:37:06.809 --> 00:37:09.750
like sound wave like i almost thought it was
00:37:09.750 --> 00:37:12.030
generation one sound wave for half of a second
00:37:12.030 --> 00:37:14.070
even though i know it's not but literally when
00:37:14.070 --> 00:37:15.969
i was looking at those two tape decks side by
00:37:15.969 --> 00:37:17.989
side earlier today when i got the story i was
00:37:17.989 --> 00:37:22.530
like oh oh it's the it's the it's the more modern
00:37:22.530 --> 00:37:24.469
one okay but at least the color on the other
00:37:24.469 --> 00:37:30.750
one is is right i'm not no i was i was this close
00:37:30.750 --> 00:37:34.670
i was so i was gonna pull the trigger on this
00:37:36.460 --> 00:37:40.260
when they first announced it i was like oh cool
00:37:40.260 --> 00:37:44.280
yay and they have like just like with optimus
00:37:44.280 --> 00:37:47.079
don't they have like two other sound wave things
00:37:47.079 --> 00:37:51.039
that they're doing right now like maybe i don't
00:37:51.039 --> 00:37:54.139
i don't know i don't remember i forget they've
00:37:54.139 --> 00:38:00.300
got that's another as a topic for a whole another
00:38:00.300 --> 00:38:05.710
episode but Does Hasbro have too much going on
00:38:05.710 --> 00:38:08.710
in the oven that they can't focus in on what
00:38:08.710 --> 00:38:12.050
really matters? Like, paint detail and design
00:38:12.050 --> 00:38:17.010
detail of a leader class figure? Like, if this
00:38:17.010 --> 00:38:19.329
is supposed to be their leader class for this
00:38:19.329 --> 00:38:23.030
year or next year or whenever the hell. Like,
00:38:23.070 --> 00:38:30.690
I don't know, man. Just, no. I can't. I won't
00:38:30.690 --> 00:38:34.139
be getting. Almost wanted to, but nope. Can't
00:38:34.139 --> 00:38:41.179
do it. Can't do it. Moving on. Moving on to the
00:38:41.179 --> 00:38:45.019
comics. Skybound. Yes, that's right. Skybound
00:38:45.019 --> 00:38:49.739
coming up November 12th of this year, 2025. We're
00:38:49.739 --> 00:38:52.079
getting two releases from Skybound. We are getting
00:38:52.079 --> 00:38:56.340
number 26 and we are getting collection trade
00:38:56.340 --> 00:39:02.559
paperback volume four. So number 26. is if it'll
00:39:02.559 --> 00:39:06.719
open open damn it open uh this is the second
00:39:06.719 --> 00:39:12.360
uh issue into the robert kirkman and dan mora
00:39:12.360 --> 00:39:14.940
era as they are shaking up the energon universe
00:39:14.940 --> 00:39:19.780
optimist optimist crime wow optimist crime yeah
00:39:19.780 --> 00:39:22.469
optimist crime that's right It's a crime they
00:39:22.469 --> 00:39:25.250
can't get that Soundwave paint right. Optimus
00:39:25.250 --> 00:39:27.829
Prime betrayed. The Autobots' newest hope may
00:39:27.829 --> 00:39:30.710
turn out to be their downfall. Most shocking
00:39:30.710 --> 00:39:34.409
Transformers stories continue here. So that's
00:39:34.409 --> 00:39:36.530
coming out November 12th. Also coming out November
00:39:36.530 --> 00:39:42.090
12th is the Volume 4 trade paperback, which collects
00:39:42.090 --> 00:39:48.989
issues 19 to 24 and the Transformers story from
00:39:48.989 --> 00:39:53.889
the... energon universe special 2025 so in this
00:39:53.889 --> 00:39:57.630
one megatron has returned to lead the decepticons
00:39:57.630 --> 00:40:00.210
and only optimus prime may be able to stop him
00:40:00.210 --> 00:40:02.750
the war between the autobots and decepticons
00:40:02.750 --> 00:40:05.530
has been all leading to the shocking conclusion
00:40:05.530 --> 00:40:08.489
that no one would see coming we saw it coming
00:40:08.489 --> 00:40:11.889
folks trust me we did uh critically acclaimed
00:40:11.889 --> 00:40:16.429
team of daniel warren johnson blah blah And Jorge
00:40:16.429 --> 00:40:18.829
Corona, break all the rules in this brand new
00:40:18.829 --> 00:40:22.650
volume of the Eisner Award winning series. So
00:40:22.650 --> 00:40:27.030
that's coming up on the November 12th. And then
00:40:27.030 --> 00:40:31.869
in December, on December 10th, right before Christmas,
00:40:31.929 --> 00:40:36.150
we get Transformers number 27. And guess what,
00:40:36.210 --> 00:40:39.869
folks? Soundwave's on the cover. And he actually
00:40:39.869 --> 00:40:45.599
has the right colors and everything. Megatron
00:40:45.599 --> 00:40:48.300
strikes back. The Decepticons make their move
00:40:48.300 --> 00:40:51.360
to rescue one of their most powerful members
00:40:51.360 --> 00:40:55.780
from the Autobots. Dun, dun, dun. So that's what's
00:40:55.780 --> 00:40:57.559
coming up at the end of the year to close out
00:40:57.559 --> 00:41:01.420
the year for Skybound for Transformers. So very
00:41:01.420 --> 00:41:05.840
excited for that. It's been two years since that
00:41:05.840 --> 00:41:08.639
started and all that. So that's what's going
00:41:08.639 --> 00:41:11.780
on there. at least for the comic side of it.
00:41:11.840 --> 00:41:15.000
But there is news, even more news, out of the
00:41:15.000 --> 00:41:19.980
Energon universe because apparently, finally,
00:41:20.059 --> 00:41:23.559
I've been following this story to keep up with
00:41:23.559 --> 00:41:25.639
it, but I haven't wanted to actually report on
00:41:25.639 --> 00:41:28.119
it until there was actually news to say about
00:41:28.119 --> 00:41:32.179
it because we don't do rumors around here. No,
00:41:32.179 --> 00:41:35.260
we don't. The Energon Universe adult animated
00:41:35.260 --> 00:41:40.059
series based on the comics from Hasbro and Skybound
00:41:40.059 --> 00:41:43.420
with Joe Henderson as showrunner is hitting the
00:41:43.420 --> 00:41:46.960
TV marketplace. I'm going to read as much of
00:41:46.960 --> 00:41:49.619
this as I possibly can without screwing it up,
00:41:49.659 --> 00:41:53.579
but you never know, folks. Exclusive Robert Kirkman
00:41:53.579 --> 00:41:56.360
Skybound Entertainment has teamed with Hasbro
00:41:56.360 --> 00:41:59.880
Entertainment to produce Energon Universe, an
00:41:59.880 --> 00:42:03.679
adult animated series based on the comics of
00:42:03.679 --> 00:42:10.719
the same name. Created by Kirkman, Joe Henderson,
00:42:11.079 --> 00:42:14.280
who worked on Lucifer, is attached to write the
00:42:14.280 --> 00:42:17.699
adaptation and serve as showrunner on the series.
00:42:17.880 --> 00:42:22.139
An epic crossover. of G .I. Joe Transformers
00:42:22.139 --> 00:42:25.360
and Void Rivals mythology, which is expected
00:42:25.360 --> 00:42:29.000
to be taken out to buyers shortly. Despite featuring
00:42:29.000 --> 00:42:31.460
the family -friendly Hasbro characters G .I.
00:42:31.480 --> 00:42:33.920
Joe and Transformers, the Energon Universe series
00:42:33.920 --> 00:42:38.019
will be broad with adult sensibility in the vein
00:42:38.019 --> 00:42:42.019
of Kirkman's gritty animated series Invincible,
00:42:42.159 --> 00:42:44.820
based on his comic, which has been a hit for
00:42:44.820 --> 00:42:47.420
Prime Video, renewed for Season 5, ahead of its
00:42:47.420 --> 00:42:51.780
Season 4 premiere, yadda yadda yadda. So two
00:42:51.780 --> 00:42:53.940
years in, Energon Universe has become one of
00:42:53.940 --> 00:42:56.340
Hasbro's best -selling comic book lines ever,
00:42:56.440 --> 00:43:00.139
with over 7 million combined units sold worldwide.
00:43:02.179 --> 00:43:07.500
So, yeah, we'll have to see what happens. Yeah.
00:43:10.519 --> 00:43:13.739
It's going to be interesting to see what happens
00:43:13.739 --> 00:43:22.059
with that, because you never know. I just hope
00:43:22.059 --> 00:43:25.780
Netflix doesn't get it because they up last time.
00:43:26.820 --> 00:43:30.320
Well, that was Hasbro. I know it was Hasbro,
00:43:30.360 --> 00:43:32.739
but I'm just saying. Hasbro had too much to say.
00:43:33.000 --> 00:43:39.059
Yeah, I know. But, you know, it's going to be
00:43:39.059 --> 00:43:42.980
interesting to see what they do with this. It's
00:43:42.980 --> 00:43:45.440
going to be really cool. And I know you haven't
00:43:45.440 --> 00:43:55.429
read most of it yet, but. It's really good. Like,
00:43:55.429 --> 00:43:59.650
it's the only thing. The Skybound comics are
00:43:59.650 --> 00:44:03.909
really the only thing that I am in on currently
00:44:03.909 --> 00:44:06.469
with Transformers outside of the Funko Pops,
00:44:06.550 --> 00:44:09.690
but that's toys. But, like, as far as media goes,
00:44:10.010 --> 00:44:18.989
like... Like... I keep wanting to check out the
00:44:18.989 --> 00:44:22.309
cyber world stuff, but I don't know. It's actually
00:44:22.309 --> 00:44:24.389
not been too bad. I mean, they have a limited
00:44:24.389 --> 00:44:29.130
voice actors. Uh, I, I've been watching it with
00:44:29.130 --> 00:44:31.650
the kids and they, they're like, eh, it's kind
00:44:31.650 --> 00:44:39.809
of neat. Cool. So. Very cool. Very cool. Um,
00:44:39.929 --> 00:44:43.690
but yeah, that's, uh, that's all I got. I was
00:44:43.690 --> 00:44:46.440
going to say, I'm excited for the. this energon
00:44:46.440 --> 00:44:50.199
universe to see where it goes you know tv show
00:44:50.199 --> 00:44:52.440
yeah me too just to kind of see what they do
00:44:52.440 --> 00:44:57.159
with it yeah i'm just really curious to see because
00:44:57.159 --> 00:45:01.000
i don't think they're i mean i'm crossing my
00:45:01.000 --> 00:45:04.679
fingers but i highly doubt that they're gonna
00:45:04.679 --> 00:45:07.639
get peter back i wish they would but i don't
00:45:07.639 --> 00:45:10.380
think i in reality i don't think cullen is gonna
00:45:10.380 --> 00:45:14.710
come back I wish you would for this because I
00:45:14.710 --> 00:45:18.650
think it is deserved for him to come back for
00:45:18.650 --> 00:45:22.110
this. But if he's decided he wants to retire,
00:45:22.130 --> 00:45:23.929
and I don't know that there hasn't been a news
00:45:23.929 --> 00:45:26.929
story, so I'm just assuming here, folks, I'm
00:45:26.929 --> 00:45:32.409
using my ass. If he's decided he wants to retire
00:45:32.409 --> 00:45:36.789
or if he's done with it or whatever, I respect
00:45:36.789 --> 00:45:41.989
that. I mean, the man is given. 41 flipping years
00:45:41.989 --> 00:45:48.969
to this brand you know and but i would love to
00:45:48.969 --> 00:45:55.789
have anybody that's still alive that was in the
00:45:55.789 --> 00:46:00.809
original to come back you got you know judd nelson
00:46:00.809 --> 00:46:05.190
for for hot rod you got neil ross for springer
00:46:05.190 --> 00:46:11.199
you got peter for optimus you got frank for whatever
00:46:11.199 --> 00:46:17.519
frank can do uh you know if it works it works
00:46:17.519 --> 00:46:19.420
if it doesn't it doesn't we'll see what happens
00:46:19.420 --> 00:46:24.000
i just hope whoever that honestly if they can't
00:46:24.000 --> 00:46:26.420
get if they can't get peter cullen to do the
00:46:26.420 --> 00:46:32.360
optimist thing get john bailey like i mean he's
00:46:32.360 --> 00:46:34.820
the next obvious choice and he's the only obvious
00:46:34.820 --> 00:46:39.289
choice in my head oh i agree with you He's really
00:46:39.289 --> 00:46:45.090
the only option at this point. I don't see them
00:46:45.090 --> 00:46:47.690
bringing back anybody from G1 just because of
00:46:47.690 --> 00:46:50.650
their advanced age. I don't see them. Yeah, I
00:46:50.650 --> 00:46:54.889
know. And I think they'll go for a more gruff.
00:46:56.170 --> 00:46:58.909
Hopefully not to the point that the War for Cybertron
00:46:58.909 --> 00:47:03.309
trilogy did. No. Well, just because the series
00:47:03.309 --> 00:47:05.309
is dark and gritty doesn't mean the voice acting
00:47:05.309 --> 00:47:09.840
has to be. I'm fine. Like, bring back Frank for
00:47:09.840 --> 00:47:15.940
Starscream. Jason Marnosha, I guess, is fine
00:47:15.940 --> 00:47:23.659
as Megatron. Yep. As for the rest of them, bring
00:47:23.659 --> 00:47:27.039
back some of the actors that were in the Prime
00:47:27.039 --> 00:47:33.300
Wars trilogy. Okay. Because the voice acting
00:47:33.300 --> 00:47:38.199
was on point for that. Yeah. the animation and
00:47:38.199 --> 00:47:41.619
the story was crap yeah i agree with that but
00:47:41.619 --> 00:47:47.760
i mean mostly crap mostly the the war for cybertron
00:47:47.760 --> 00:47:52.099
it was rushed but again that was a hasbro thing
00:47:52.099 --> 00:47:55.579
with with netflix and then the voice acting and
00:47:55.579 --> 00:47:58.639
voice direction was garbage yeah so i think that
00:47:58.639 --> 00:48:02.099
about wraps this episode up yeah i think so too
00:48:02.099 --> 00:48:07.800
we got uh The six full stories. I added in the
00:48:07.800 --> 00:48:09.460
Eric story because it wasn't in there before.
00:48:09.579 --> 00:48:14.619
And I'm like, I am GFG on Mike. I am no Michael
00:48:14.619 --> 00:48:18.059
Bay. I don't leave my Constructicons with a six
00:48:18.059 --> 00:48:21.800
legs notwithstanding. I don't build my Constructicons
00:48:21.800 --> 00:48:23.940
with only five parts. There are going to be six
00:48:23.940 --> 00:48:27.500
parts there. Because I didn't have the Eric C.
00:48:27.619 --> 00:48:32.239
Bonella story in there at first. But, yeah, Eric,
00:48:32.340 --> 00:48:34.659
welcome back to the design team. Looking forward
00:48:34.659 --> 00:48:37.579
to seeing what you do in the future with Generations
00:48:37.579 --> 00:48:40.719
and all that good stuff. And, yeah, every time
00:48:40.719 --> 00:48:44.079
that they do, which we're recording this on 1027,
00:48:44.239 --> 00:48:47.500
folks. I'm surprised they didn't do a 1027 event
00:48:47.500 --> 00:48:52.000
because they always like doing 1027 event stuff.
00:48:52.119 --> 00:48:55.800
But they did just come off of, was it New York?
00:48:56.139 --> 00:48:59.280
No, TFCon. Well, I don't know if they, I don't
00:48:59.280 --> 00:49:01.380
know, think Hasbro. I don't know what Hasbro
00:49:01.380 --> 00:49:04.900
is doing these days. We did just come off of
00:49:04.900 --> 00:49:09.920
TFCon Chicago. And like I said, most likely the
00:49:09.920 --> 00:49:11.599
next episode, I'm going to get Patriot Prime
00:49:11.599 --> 00:49:14.239
on here and he's going to give us all the juicy
00:49:14.239 --> 00:49:17.639
details of his experience of going to TFCon Chicago.
00:49:19.719 --> 00:49:23.849
Hopefully. So thank you as always for listening
00:49:23.849 --> 00:49:26.210
to all things Transformers. I've been your host
00:49:26.210 --> 00:49:28.769
along with TFG and Mike. You can, of course,
00:49:28.789 --> 00:49:32.789
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00:49:35.449 --> 00:49:38.610
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00:49:38.710 --> 00:49:40.650
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00:49:44.269 --> 00:49:50.699
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