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Sentinel Online. Now loading all things Transformers.
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Hello and welcome to All Things Transformers.
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I'm your host, Steve Megatron. And joining me
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on this adventure into the Transformers fandom
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is TFG1 Mike. Hello, we're here. We're not waiting.
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Well, yeah, we're not waiting. Especially after
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like 4 ,500 pieces of content in 17 years. Holy
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Nikes. Oh boy, I'm tired. Yeah, it's funny just
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going across the network. And this episode, for
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those that are listening, will be a little bit
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of kind of a GCRN recap along with all things
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Transformers. Yes. Yeah, it's been 17 years since
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the network was founded. Yep. We're getting close
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to the 18th anniversary of this very show. Yep.
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In two months. and I would have never imagined
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still doing all of this I've killed this show
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three times and at this point I'm like yeah I've
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tried and at this point I'm not getting getting
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rid of it I'm just like okay I do enjoy it yeah
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it's it's definitely one of my favorite franchises
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still to this day so yeah Um, but yeah, that's,
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that's kind of the thing that started me on the
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3d printing road and on the customizing and kit
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bashing and, uh, transformers figures. Yep. Yep.
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Absolutely. Um, so yeah. Your thoughts, sir.
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Oh God. How do you fit 17 years? 4 ,500 pieces
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of content, and oh, boy. Yeah, 17 years. It's
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been an amazing ride. Y 'all ain't going to get
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rid of us just yet, so we got plenty more gas
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in the tank. Maybe. I don't know. I don't know
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if we're not too old to this stuff yet, but no,
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it's been one hell of a ride. This show has been
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the center of it. It's been the building block,
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as it always should have been, and damn. We actually
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do have an episode in the tank that's going to
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be coming up later. It's a pullback crossover,
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so you'll hear another episode after this, once
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I actually get the damn thing edited. That'll
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be coming up, I think, in two weeks, because
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I have another episode of the pullback I have
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to edit before it. You'll hear at least one more
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episode of ATTF TPB crossover before the next
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news episode. But yeah, no, 17 years, the geek
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cast radio network. We've certainly come a long
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way in that time. We've had, well, we're up to
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version 18 point. seven or something or whatever
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at this point it's definitely been no no i know
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but i actually have i actually have a history
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update there i know you do and i'm gonna let
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you get to it in a minute because i know you're
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gonna give that but my point in joking about
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that is we have like 18 .7 updates there are
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18 .7 versions of of the website and, and everything
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else. And, uh, folks, before he gives his update,
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um, I, I wish more web design people were like
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Steve and how Steve does his stuff because man,
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when they tried to relegate certain web design
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choices to this area of web design is for this
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specific thing and this area of web design is
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for this specific thing and then we switch to
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it and all of a sudden the website goes to hell
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yeah take it away that being said you know what
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i'm talking about i do So we've we've changed
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themes multitude multitude of times over the
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years. The original website. Was. Yeah, it was
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a church website theme. That we had like on version
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like the original site. Yeah. Which I I only
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knew this because Twig. also used the same theme
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they just heavily edited and snowball ran circles
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around me as far as web design back in the day
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and uh yeah so like this week in geek like their
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version 2 .0 website the red that was like peak
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of their website yep um anyways we used that
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theme for a long time It was like two, three
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years. And then we switched to this game. It
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was like GameCraft or something, something like
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that. I did find the theme again in my archives
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because I was like, I want to go back to that
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theme. Like, it was great. Like, yeah, even though
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it wasn't, I just knew my way around it so I
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could heavily hack it. And I liked the slider
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on it, which is my main thing. And I didn't need
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to know a lot of code. A lot of the stuff was
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like just change the image that was in the placeholder
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and it would modify everything. And so it was
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super simple. And I found a way of upgrading
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the slider for modern times. But at the same
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time, it's all this stuff's like super old and
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clunky. And it's like, if you don't keep up,
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your site slows down. Google doesn't prioritize
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it. I can see. Like we had the idea for like
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GCR and live way back in the day, you know, the
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blogs, the product and empire still existed.
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And then there were multiple new versions of
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it. And I think when I got to the point where
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I was modifying it pretty extensively and had
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the show art along the sides of the website and
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it was the red and that was kind of like the
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five year mark. And it was good. And then we
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had like the content calendar. And then we moved
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on to this other theme called Sahifa. Yeah. And
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it was decent. And I was able to cobble and do
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some different things with the menus with it.
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And it wasn't bad. I just didn't always I just
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didn't love how it turned out. And then we got
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some other random theme and I can't remember
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what the heck it was called thereafter around
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like 2016. And that theme I thought was great.
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I say thought was great. It was a cluster. So
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I ended up going back to the Sahifa. There's
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a trend here. Yes. I went back to the one I knew
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worked. And I was able to get up and run it again.
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I tweaked it and I made it a little closer to
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the original version 3 .0. And then, uh, I went
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to, it was some other version of that other site.
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I don't remember what theme it was. It was something
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different. I was trying out and that didn't last
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long. And then I ended up going with, uh, this
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theme called Janna. Yep. Which was made by the
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same people that did the Sahifa. and it worked
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great like i got that in 2017 2018 kept that
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for years yeah uh got it pretty uh pretty customized
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got a lot of stuff in it like i moved away from
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all of their little templated stuff um and then
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i think it got to the point it was like the blue
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the blue header or whatever on the top of the
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site and it had a bunch of different grid crap
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and uh anyways we we had just done like a top
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100 around that time then i got i kept that until
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about 2024 yeah 2023 maybe uh and we got some
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i don't even have like screenshots of the one
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theme because it was so bad yeah it was really
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bad it was so bad in between the the jana one
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and the one we have now I bought that one. And
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this is this is the thing that kills me with
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these stupid themes. I paid. I literally did
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what I was supposed to do. Yeah, I paid for the
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theme. The Janna one originally. I tested it
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with a bootleg. Yeah. And I was like, OK, this
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is going to work. And so I bought it. It was
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Chill News. That was the one that I said sucked.
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Okay. That was the one. I'm going through my
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stuff. That's why I couldn't find it. So Chill
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News has not... Oh, they've actually updated
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February 2026. I just don't like how it looks
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anymore. Yeah, it sucks. Anyways, I still own
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my copy, so I can download the newest version.
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It's just I don't have any use for it. No. the
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jana one i bought like i said back then but they
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updated their last update was in april which
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you know every month or a couple of months is
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fine yeah but when they go like beyond six months
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without an update yeah there's a question yeah
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and i bought this other one for when i was trying
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to start a home business like this kulu one and
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uh that one updated even this year And I use
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that one for my personal site now. Megaphone
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was the one that that we bought. Yeah. In 2023.
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And they were like, oh, the audio player that
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always works. And, you know, no matter where,
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because I was looking for that feature on the
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website, I was like, I want it to work across
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pages. Yep, I remember that. And they were like,
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it works with all these different plugins and
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it does, you know, it removes, like it was supposed
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to be like a smart plugin and it was supposed
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to help organize the hosts and the guests and
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it was supposed to help organize the shows. It
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didn't do any of that. It barely worked for like
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our setup. Like it didn't work with Spreaker
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very well. It didn't work with how we were set
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up or what we were trying to do. Like it wasn't
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made for a network. It was made for like, yeah,
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I got a show. Yeah, it was made for the and this
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is no disrespect to podcasters who just have
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one show, but it was made for single show podcast.
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That's what that was made for. And that's great.
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That's awesome. That ain't us. No. And it did
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work, but they haven't updated since 2023. Oh,
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God. Still, which is why. I really heavily looked
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into, okay, what do I do from here? You know,
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uh, and they've come out with new, that company
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has come out with new, uh, podcast themes, but
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again, they haven't done anything since 2023
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really. And so like, I, I lost kind of respect
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for using them. Whereas the Jonna one, I was
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like, Oh, I mean, It's one of the most popular
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ones on ThemeForest. I mean, it's got 25 ,000
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sales. And a 4 .8 review system. And they're
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pretty responsive to any issues and have great
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documentation and templates and everything else.
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A lot of variety, a lot of stuff you can play
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with. Very easy to use configuration stuff. I
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had to relearn how to use it recently, but I'll
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get into that in a minute. Um, and then we went
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to WP, uh, WP caster pro recently, or like back
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in, uh, 2023 or 2024. And they haven't updated
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since May of 2025. Jeez. Which is the theme we're
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on right now. And I'm like, okay. Um, I like
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it. Like, I like a lot of the features. I like
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that you can toggle stuff, you know, drop down
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seasons, series. It's got built in search engine.
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It's got, you know, all this different stuff
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and you can toggle everything to it. But it also
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requires. Again, to do things how we want to
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do it. It kind of required different sets of
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plugins and. different features that they didn't
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have and some of them they added in and some
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of them they didn't again not made for a network
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they had the non -stop music player which i've
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given up on uh at this point i'm just like uh
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i just want something that works that i control
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and i don't have to pay somebody every time something
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breaks yeah um and the site i don't know if people
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notice this it glitches out a lot at the start
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uh where it just gets massive yeah uh and that
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drives me nuts like absolutely nuts because i'm
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like it should not do this it takes me about
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10 times of hitting f5 before i get a normal
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version of the main page where it's not like
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artwork isn't 10 times too big or yeah no it's
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but it is what it is So saying all that, I'm
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just going to tease. I am building a new website.
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I am building it from scratch. I am porting over
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as much as I can from the current site. However,
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this new site is so lean structurally and plugin
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-wise. I'm using half the plugins that I use
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in the current site because I got tired of crap
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plugins and I've started developing my own. Yeah.
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And I've been troubleshooting them. I've been
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building them. I've been working on some of these
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plugins for going on three months. Some of them
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less time than that. Some of them actually are
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active currently on the current site. I've just
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upgraded them and merged them into other plugins
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that I'm developing. That being said, I'm trying
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to get away from a lot of the subscription stuff.
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I'm trying to get away from. Things where I continually
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have to pay for. I'm also trying to get things
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that just work. I'm also trying to do things
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because back when we started the site, I had
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to hand code everything. Nothing was automated.
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Nothing. RSS feeds were even hand coded. Nowadays,
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none of that's coded manually. I can go in and
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do things if I need to. I don't have the time
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I used to have some somehow I had the time. I
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don't know how I just did. Yeah. Nowadays, I
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have kids. I have job. I have like evenings where
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I'm like, I'm too tired and I just need things
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to work. And so. When people are like, it's not
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doing this, it's blah, blah, blah. I'm like.
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Like the current theme omitted. a ton of podcasts
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because there was overlap between series. Yeah.
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Which was a royal pain. And so the new the new
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site's got a brand new podcast system, never
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been seen, never been done before. It's got a
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brand new YouTube import system. It's got a brand
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new our geek meter is its own plug in. which
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integrates. I also have an IMDB thing. I also
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have like there's there's a ton. So we'll also
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be able to review like when we're reviewing like
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the next Transformers show or a Transformers
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movie or, you know, like an M wire where we had
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all these different, you know, where we rate
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them on the podcast. We can also rate them on
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the actual post of what our rating was in the
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podcast. So that shows up. Nice. So it can be
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searched for and everything else. So like this,
00:18:07.099 --> 00:18:09.140
this website is super lean. Like I said, it's
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super forward thinking. I'm super excited. I'm
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rebuilding all of the backend, which is taking
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forever because I didn't realize some pages haven't
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been updated in five years. Yeah. That's longer.
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Yeah. So I'm, I'm literally going from like going
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page by page. It sucks. um yeah but in the long
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run you're gonna have something that you're really
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gonna love and you're really gonna be proud of
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that you went through and did all that work oh
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100 so so i'm also using some ai for help in
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this endeavor like i'm it's more so the plug
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-in side like i'm just like this is what i want
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this is how it needs to function this is what
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i i need it to do and then it develops those
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aspects with me and um yeah i've gotten very
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granular with features and trying not to overcomplicate
00:19:04.029 --> 00:19:11.009
anything but i want what i want um because then
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i get to focus on the fun part which is organization
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and creation i want i want to do the content
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the creative stuff i like that part yeah i like
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that part yeah so enough with the site which
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i'm going to debut at some point this year uh
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we're we're getting very close on some features
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that i'm excited about. Got to get some other
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things troubleshot first and then rebuild the
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homepage. And once I rebuild the homepage, I
00:19:39.359 --> 00:19:42.779
should be in good, good standing to get this
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sucker out. So I'm I'm geeked. So getting into
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the Transformers stuff, since that's what you're
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actually here for. Yes. Transformers. Oh, sorry.
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Oh, no, go for it. Sorry. You said you wanted
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to get into it. Transformers, the apology tour.
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The Transformers, the movie, 1986, back in theaters.
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The official Transformers Facebook and Instagram
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accounts have just, and this news is old, folks.
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This is back in May, so we're old. We always
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get to this stuff late. But yeah, September 17th.
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uh in theaters transformers the movie the apology
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tour i love that they are leaning into this i
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think this is some of the best marketing hasbro
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has ever done when it comes to transformers the
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apology tour this is so cool this is so fun uh
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because you asked a lot uh transmission received
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You can register your email on Fathom Events
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website to be notified when tickets are on sale.
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I actually went over to the Fathom Events website
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before we did the recording, not tonight, but
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I've checked and they're not on sale or not like
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I was checking to see in my area. Here's the
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thing about this event. I love that they're doing
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this for the 40th anniversary of the movie. I
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only want the poster. So in the article in this
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on in the news article here, if you click on
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the image, they are, I guess, for a limited time
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giving away. I think the Transformers, the movie,
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the you know, this this giant poster here. I
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think they're giving it away. I could be wrong
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about that. So if I'm wrong, I'm wrong. But like,
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I want that damn poster like. That's the only
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thing I want about this, because I saw the movie
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for the 35th anniversary of it when it was in
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theaters for the limited time event. I don't
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need to see Transformers the movie again in theaters
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for the 40th. Again, for those that have never
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seen it, that's awesome. That's amazing. That's
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great. But the fact that they're doing this 40th
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anniversary apology tour poster, give me that.
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I want it. I don't care what I have to pay for
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it. If I have to pay somebody for it. And yes,
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I am serious. So anyone out there that ends up
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with an extra one, let me know because I want
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it. It has to go with the rest of my Transformers
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posters that you can't see because my camera
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is not on. I depending on I hope it's in our
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theater here. Yeah, no, absolutely. Because you'll
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take your kids. I 100 % will. Yeah. And I didn't
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get to see it when it was in theater last time.
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Yeah, OK. I really, really want to see this one
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in theater just because it's an experience. And
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absolutely. Yep. I think that it's great that
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they're re -releasing it. I think that this is
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something very cool. Absolutely. I'm definitely
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going to be down for. Checking this out when.
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When it comes to the theater, I just I'm hoping
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that it comes to something that I have locally.
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Typically. They have. Yeah. But again, I don't
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know. It's like Fathom's website doesn't even
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list it. I mean, it lists it, but it doesn't
00:23:36.369 --> 00:23:41.049
have it as. available to see when it'll be available
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like it's there it's just not you just can't
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look any any area up yet yeah it just says uh
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uh enter with your email to be notified when
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tickets are on sale yeah it's not yeah i'm sure
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that'll happen probably closer to maybe august
00:24:03.630 --> 00:24:11.759
maybe maybe late july I don't know yet. But yeah,
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I'm super excited for this. Looking forward to
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it. Yep. And then we have Age of the Primes Sentinel
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Prime Artifact Pack First Look. So Sentinel Prime,
00:24:33.460 --> 00:24:39.859
he looks like he's a retool of... That female
00:24:39.859 --> 00:24:47.240
Decepticon tank. Oh, OK. Can't remember her name
00:24:47.240 --> 00:24:51.680
right now, but. Oh, yeah, I don't remember either.
00:24:51.779 --> 00:24:58.460
With the Decepticon face. Yeah. Oh. No, it's
00:24:58.460 --> 00:25:02.400
not coming to me. But what I do like about this
00:25:02.400 --> 00:25:06.259
is the golden disc thing. That's cool. The shield.
00:25:06.750 --> 00:25:09.910
The shield? Oh, it's a shield. Jesus. It's a
00:25:09.910 --> 00:25:12.690
shield, and it's empty, so he can put the Matrix
00:25:12.690 --> 00:25:14.829
in it. He can put all of the different Primes
00:25:14.829 --> 00:25:18.309
weapons. Although, with them all attached, it
00:25:18.309 --> 00:25:22.250
looks stupid. Yeah, that does look a little dumb.
00:25:22.250 --> 00:25:26.630
It looks 100 % stupid. I like the Covenant of
00:25:26.630 --> 00:25:31.789
Primus. Yeah. I like that. I like the Matrix
00:25:31.789 --> 00:25:37.329
being in there. I like the Matrix sword. yeah
00:25:37.329 --> 00:25:40.289
uh but otherwise i don't care for the rest of
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the weapons but i think it's it's kind of neat
00:25:42.329 --> 00:25:45.750
though that it says what prime had what gear
00:25:45.750 --> 00:25:49.069
and then you can stick it to it yeah that is
00:25:49.069 --> 00:25:55.549
very cool but god the alt mode on this thing
00:25:55.549 --> 00:25:59.349
it's just ugly It is ugly because I was looking
00:25:59.349 --> 00:26:01.930
at it. I was like, because I've continually looked.
00:26:02.009 --> 00:26:04.390
I'm like, if there was ever a better figure to
00:26:04.390 --> 00:26:07.170
do my pre beast Megatron, like I'm always on
00:26:07.170 --> 00:26:10.670
the lookout. Yeah, because like the feet on this
00:26:10.670 --> 00:26:13.829
do, you know, become the front of it like that
00:26:13.829 --> 00:26:16.930
Megatron. However, the rest of it looks but ugly
00:26:16.930 --> 00:26:20.210
and doesn't smooth out. It just looks. Yeah,
00:26:20.269 --> 00:26:22.349
I mean, his robot mode is pretty solid. Like
00:26:22.349 --> 00:26:24.769
I like the robot mode, but yeah, the robot was
00:26:24.769 --> 00:26:30.549
good. Yeah. yeah yeah the the vehicle mode for
00:26:30.549 --> 00:26:35.089
this it looks like a combination snowmobile meets
00:26:35.089 --> 00:26:39.670
trash compactor like the ass end of this thing
00:26:39.670 --> 00:26:42.630
like they put the shield on the back like a spare
00:26:42.630 --> 00:26:46.529
tire and then the rest of it looks like a garbage
00:26:46.529 --> 00:26:49.750
truck meanwhile the front end of the thing looks
00:26:49.750 --> 00:26:56.079
like a snowmobile like Like, why would I want
00:26:56.079 --> 00:26:59.279
this in my collection? Like I said, just give
00:26:59.279 --> 00:27:01.700
me the shield. Like, I don't even need the rest
00:27:01.700 --> 00:27:04.380
of the artifacts. I just want the shield. Maybe
00:27:04.380 --> 00:27:07.039
the matrix for the center of the shield. But,
00:27:07.140 --> 00:27:11.440
like, yeah, I don't know about this thing. I
00:27:11.440 --> 00:27:18.519
don't. Let me see. Does not give a price on this,
00:27:18.700 --> 00:27:20.920
but I'm sure we'll find that out much later.
00:27:21.630 --> 00:27:24.750
And again, folks, this news is old. We know this
00:27:24.750 --> 00:27:29.869
article was May 18th of this year, but this is
00:27:29.869 --> 00:27:35.809
what it is. Up next, we have the Age of the Primes
00:27:35.809 --> 00:27:40.390
Generation Selects Autobot 3 -Pack Mirage Ironhide
00:27:40.390 --> 00:27:43.970
and Blue Streak in -hand images. They look good.
00:27:46.569 --> 00:27:50.730
So these, I think, correct me if I'm wrong, these
00:27:50.730 --> 00:27:56.119
are retools or repaints of the ones that were
00:27:56.119 --> 00:27:59.319
released for Studio Series. Hasbro China just
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livestreamed their official... Okay, I can't
00:28:02.680 --> 00:28:05.839
pronounce any of that. New Transformers Age of
00:28:05.839 --> 00:28:12.299
the Progeners. Unboxing of these. Multipack.
00:28:12.599 --> 00:28:15.700
Closer look at these re -releases with improved
00:28:15.700 --> 00:28:21.259
deco. Mirage features some retools. And yeah,
00:28:21.359 --> 00:28:24.299
so these are re -releases, but they still look
00:28:24.299 --> 00:28:28.500
good. Well, they still look cool. Let me put
00:28:28.500 --> 00:28:30.519
it this way. I wanted the Ironhide, but I also
00:28:30.519 --> 00:28:36.980
didn't want to spend $40. I got lucky when I
00:28:36.980 --> 00:28:41.700
was in Florida. Yeah. I went to, because we had
00:28:41.700 --> 00:28:43.579
to go grocery shopping for something. We needed
00:28:43.579 --> 00:28:45.859
something, and we ended up stopping in an Ollie's.
00:28:46.579 --> 00:28:49.089
Right. which we don't have out in Colorado. We
00:28:49.089 --> 00:28:51.289
had one in Michigan, but it was crap. Like, it
00:28:51.289 --> 00:28:56.329
was just junk. This one was halfway decent in
00:28:56.329 --> 00:29:02.329
Florida, but they had the Beast Wars Flip Transform
00:29:02.329 --> 00:29:07.309
Terrorsaur on clearance for $9. Okay. And they
00:29:07.309 --> 00:29:13.589
had the Core Class Studio Series 86 Ironhide.
00:29:14.569 --> 00:29:19.849
Ah, I gotcha. Five dollars. My God. I picked
00:29:19.849 --> 00:29:22.829
him up. I was like, don't I was like, don't care
00:29:22.829 --> 00:29:25.049
what you think. I'm getting. Yeah. Yeah. And
00:29:25.049 --> 00:29:27.430
now I have a little figure to go against my little
00:29:27.430 --> 00:29:31.930
star screen. But I can do both voices. So that's
00:29:31.930 --> 00:29:34.950
kind of. There you go. Fun for me. I'm like,
00:29:34.950 --> 00:29:38.069
I can do the voice of the little guy. But yeah,
00:29:38.170 --> 00:29:41.970
I think these are cool. I mean, I don't. I don't
00:29:41.970 --> 00:29:44.779
collect a lot of. G1 figures like Beast Wars
00:29:44.779 --> 00:29:47.700
is kind of my jam, but I will get the occasional
00:29:47.700 --> 00:29:57.680
G1 like. 86 Megatron and Prime. Yeah. But. But
00:29:57.680 --> 00:30:00.900
no, I mean, I think I like these three packs,
00:30:01.019 --> 00:30:03.259
but I also don't because it's kind of like, what
00:30:03.259 --> 00:30:07.039
if I only want one? Yeah, that's the problem.
00:30:09.319 --> 00:30:11.440
Like, I don't see I don't see Mirage selling
00:30:11.440 --> 00:30:14.980
that well by himself or Blue Streak. Ironhide,
00:30:15.019 --> 00:30:24.059
I do. Yeah. Yeah, Ironhide definitely would sell
00:30:24.059 --> 00:30:26.819
well by himself, especially since he actually
00:30:26.819 --> 00:30:30.799
has a head now. Oh, yeah. But yeah, these are
00:30:30.799 --> 00:30:34.299
these are still cool. I don't care. Like. I mean,
00:30:34.299 --> 00:30:35.900
if I saw my clearance, I would definitely pick
00:30:35.900 --> 00:30:39.079
them up, but I never see most these. multi -packs
00:30:39.079 --> 00:30:46.740
since um this is why i hate tfw sometimes they're
00:30:46.740 --> 00:30:50.460
like oh look we can finally reveal this i should
00:30:50.460 --> 00:30:52.220
have just put this at the beginning with this
00:30:52.220 --> 00:30:56.000
news story the pre -orders for all this stuff
00:30:56.000 --> 00:31:06.680
um i'm just trying to find the the the price
00:31:06.680 --> 00:31:17.789
for Some of the Legends 3 -pack. And the Sentinel
00:31:17.789 --> 00:31:28.150
thing. The 3 -pack is at Big Bad Toy Store for...
00:31:28.150 --> 00:31:32.900
If it'll load. Oh, wow, really? Their link didn't
00:31:32.900 --> 00:31:35.420
even go to the actual thing. It just went to
00:31:35.420 --> 00:31:40.019
Big Bad Toy Store's main page. That's dumb. Well,
00:31:40.160 --> 00:31:42.319
sorry, folks. Can't give you that information
00:31:42.319 --> 00:31:48.319
because it didn't even work properly. Anyway,
00:31:48.640 --> 00:31:59.329
that's dumb. All right, moving on. Oh, yeah,
00:31:59.470 --> 00:32:03.829
more about the Apology Tour, the album and the
00:32:03.829 --> 00:32:08.910
stuff, the soundtrack reformatted edition. I
00:32:08.910 --> 00:32:11.309
love that they're doing this for merchandising.
00:32:11.309 --> 00:32:13.690
I love that they're doing it as a CD. I love
00:32:13.690 --> 00:32:17.230
they're doing it as a LP record. I love they're
00:32:17.230 --> 00:32:19.450
doing it as a cassette. And I love that there's
00:32:19.450 --> 00:32:21.309
a T -shirt, even though I know there's not going
00:32:21.309 --> 00:32:23.390
to be a T -shirt that's going to fit me because
00:32:23.390 --> 00:32:27.210
I need like a 6 or a 7XL. That's fine. I love
00:32:27.210 --> 00:32:29.650
that they're doing it. At this point, I just
00:32:29.650 --> 00:32:32.890
want the digital to hit Spotify or whatever so
00:32:32.890 --> 00:32:37.049
I can at least listen to it. Because I'm curious
00:32:37.049 --> 00:32:40.910
more than anything else. I kind of heard the
00:32:40.910 --> 00:32:43.950
Knights of Unicron featuring Stan Bush digital
00:32:43.950 --> 00:32:48.049
edition for the touch. I didn't really listen
00:32:48.049 --> 00:32:50.329
to it, listen to it because I want the whole
00:32:50.329 --> 00:32:53.970
album to be released on digital so I can listen
00:32:53.970 --> 00:32:57.630
to the whole album. But what this is, is the
00:32:57.630 --> 00:33:03.079
original Transformers, the movie 1986. 10 song
00:33:03.079 --> 00:33:07.220
album. It's not anything else other than that.
00:33:07.279 --> 00:33:11.039
It's just the original album that was released
00:33:11.039 --> 00:33:14.660
with the movie. It's not Vince DeCola's score
00:33:14.660 --> 00:33:17.420
or, you know, the full score from the film. It's
00:33:17.420 --> 00:33:20.759
just the original soundtrack album. So you got
00:33:20.759 --> 00:33:24.119
The Touch, Instruments of Destruction, Death
00:33:24.119 --> 00:33:27.299
of Optimus Prime, Dare. Nothing's going to stand
00:33:27.299 --> 00:33:31.180
in our way. Transformers theme, escape, hunger,
00:33:31.400 --> 00:33:34.299
Autobot Decepticon battle, and dare to be stupid.
00:33:34.700 --> 00:33:39.220
And this is all done by Knights of Unicron. They
00:33:39.220 --> 00:33:43.259
do have some featured artists with the Knights
00:33:43.259 --> 00:33:46.940
of Unicron on specific tracks and things like
00:33:46.940 --> 00:33:51.279
that. Again, I think all the stuff they're doing
00:33:51.279 --> 00:33:54.279
for the 40th anniversary of the movie is awesome.
00:33:55.990 --> 00:33:59.190
Absolutely. I'm in all support of it. It's just
00:33:59.190 --> 00:34:01.869
I'm not going back to see the movie in theaters
00:34:01.869 --> 00:34:06.690
because I already saw it. But, you know, everything
00:34:06.690 --> 00:34:10.429
else I'm in full support of. It's just for me,
00:34:10.610 --> 00:34:15.869
I just need to hear the songs digitally. I don't
00:34:15.869 --> 00:34:18.690
need a physical copy because, I mean, I do have
00:34:18.690 --> 00:34:25.440
a CD player over there. That's fine. uh all the
00:34:25.440 --> 00:34:30.800
i do love all the all the pre -ordered uh um
00:34:30.800 --> 00:34:36.780
vinyls i do love all of them how they're all
00:34:36.780 --> 00:34:39.539
different and i think the target one is the is
00:34:39.539 --> 00:34:43.619
the uh decepticon purple vinyl i think i would
00:34:43.619 --> 00:34:47.800
only buy that just because it's decepticon purple
00:34:47.800 --> 00:34:51.780
and just to have it as a As a display piece,
00:34:51.900 --> 00:34:54.039
even though I don't have a record player. Yeah,
00:34:54.119 --> 00:34:59.340
the target one is Decepticon Purple for the record
00:34:59.340 --> 00:35:06.739
itself. It's $30. Now, I do wish they did more
00:35:06.739 --> 00:35:11.340
with Beast Wars. Yes, that's the other thing
00:35:11.340 --> 00:35:14.679
that's been coming up this year. They are, they
00:35:14.679 --> 00:35:22.039
as in Hasbro, have basically... Seemingly, they're
00:35:22.039 --> 00:35:28.360
all in on the movie 40th promotion, and we're
00:35:28.360 --> 00:35:34.179
already at June. We're six months into the year,
00:35:34.219 --> 00:35:42.320
and there's nothing for Beasties. The year's
00:35:42.320 --> 00:35:45.360
half over, and there's nothing for the 30th anniversary
00:35:45.360 --> 00:35:48.820
for Beasties whatsoever. Or at least that we
00:35:48.820 --> 00:35:51.840
know of. Well, so far, that's what I'm saying.
00:35:52.039 --> 00:35:54.960
The year's half over, and so far, from what I
00:35:54.960 --> 00:36:02.599
can tell, Beasties ain't got nothing. They did
00:36:02.599 --> 00:36:07.840
show off in -hand images of the Sentinel. I did
00:36:07.840 --> 00:36:11.960
want to bring that up, because it does show in
00:36:11.960 --> 00:36:15.480
-hand images of the Golden Disk thing. That's
00:36:15.480 --> 00:36:17.699
the only reason why I wanted to bring it up is
00:36:17.699 --> 00:36:20.340
to see the, because I don't really care about
00:36:20.340 --> 00:36:23.820
seeing the snow plow in hand. The robot mode
00:36:23.820 --> 00:36:27.219
does look really cool, but man, that golden disc
00:36:27.219 --> 00:36:33.159
looks cool. It looks really cool. I'm just waiting
00:36:33.159 --> 00:36:36.380
for somebody to have a 3D print available. Yeah,
00:36:36.480 --> 00:36:45.190
exactly. And it will. Yeah, and it will. that's
00:36:45.190 --> 00:36:49.789
funny yeah and then uh and then of course we
00:36:49.789 --> 00:37:04.489
have we have uh ceo yeah the ceo talking about
00:37:04.489 --> 00:37:08.730
video game initiative which it's it's kind of
00:37:08.730 --> 00:37:13.309
funny because they have these huge ambitions
00:37:13.309 --> 00:37:15.929
around games and yet they canceled transformers
00:37:15.929 --> 00:37:21.449
reactivate it was a snake eyes game it's like
00:37:21.449 --> 00:37:28.010
okay are you figuring out that maybe it wasn't
00:37:28.010 --> 00:37:32.210
a great idea on some of the stuff like i don't
00:37:32.210 --> 00:37:36.949
know like i i still enjoy the older transformers
00:37:36.949 --> 00:37:39.150
games you know i look at the playstation 2 we
00:37:39.150 --> 00:37:42.300
had uh the transformers armada game which was
00:37:42.300 --> 00:37:46.920
probably one of my favorite games outside of
00:37:46.920 --> 00:37:51.079
War for Cybertron. Oh, yeah, absolutely. I loved
00:37:51.079 --> 00:37:54.179
that game. It was difficult, but I loved that
00:37:54.179 --> 00:37:56.760
game. And the Beast Wars game was atrocious,
00:37:56.820 --> 00:37:58.820
but it was great when you played online on the
00:37:58.820 --> 00:38:03.300
MSN Gaming Zone four -player deathmatch. I was
00:38:03.300 --> 00:38:07.440
good at that. But because the game was so terrible
00:38:07.440 --> 00:38:11.360
and it was on dial -up, I was really good at
00:38:11.360 --> 00:38:16.460
it. Cause lag was an awesome thing for me. Cause
00:38:16.460 --> 00:38:20.820
I had a 56 K modem and mine actually went 56
00:38:20.820 --> 00:38:27.300
K. But yeah, I don't know. Like the, the stuff
00:38:27.300 --> 00:38:29.019
I was seeing for the reactivate looked really
00:38:29.019 --> 00:38:31.800
good and I was kind of hoping for it. I, you
00:38:31.800 --> 00:38:35.280
know, we have reported on like stuff about steam
00:38:35.280 --> 00:38:37.440
or some of these other sources possibly getting
00:38:37.440 --> 00:38:40.800
access to the war for cyber trying games again.
00:38:41.530 --> 00:38:46.070
Yeah. Because there's no way to get them at the
00:38:46.070 --> 00:38:53.929
moment. But yeah, I don't know. I think they
00:38:53.929 --> 00:38:59.530
need to figure out where their focus is. Yep.
00:38:59.610 --> 00:39:02.030
Because even some of their toys, like I mean,
00:39:02.050 --> 00:39:05.130
and I've said this for years, they overproduce
00:39:05.130 --> 00:39:10.369
stuff that is shelf warmers. and they underproduce
00:39:10.369 --> 00:39:12.170
the stuff that's going to actually sell off the
00:39:12.170 --> 00:39:17.690
shelf. Yep, pretty much. The crossover is only
00:39:17.690 --> 00:39:20.690
hit for people that want that stuff. Like, I'm
00:39:20.690 --> 00:39:24.230
only interested in that frequency because transformed
00:39:24.230 --> 00:39:27.670
into robot mode, he looks almost like my Ultimis
00:39:27.670 --> 00:39:33.489
Prime mascot. Yep. And in that initiative, I'm
00:39:33.489 --> 00:39:37.389
all for it. But... Like I don't care about stranger
00:39:37.389 --> 00:39:40.409
things at all. I just, the design fits really
00:39:40.409 --> 00:39:46.789
well with my initiative there. Uh, so yeah, I
00:39:46.789 --> 00:39:51.110
don't know. I, um, it'll be interesting to see
00:39:51.110 --> 00:39:55.130
what they do, but I, I don't, I don't foresee
00:39:55.130 --> 00:40:01.349
anything good coming out of it. Um, now I, I
00:40:01.349 --> 00:40:03.309
will say, cause there has been some beast war
00:40:03.309 --> 00:40:06.789
stuff. Uh, just, we didn't, Put it in our...
00:40:06.789 --> 00:40:12.329
I got it. The Yolo Park Megatron and Blackarachnia.
00:40:13.309 --> 00:40:16.590
We'll get to that one in a minute. The Takara
00:40:16.590 --> 00:40:21.170
New Legends has Beast Wars 2 Galvatron. Ah, okay.
00:40:21.690 --> 00:40:24.090
It's an entirely new mold. It looks just like
00:40:24.090 --> 00:40:27.329
him. It's a pretty awesome figure, actually.
00:40:29.070 --> 00:40:31.969
They dropped images to that. They're also going
00:40:31.969 --> 00:40:35.000
to be releasing... more Beast Wars 2 figures,
00:40:35.159 --> 00:40:40.900
one of them being Megastorm. And if you are not
00:40:40.900 --> 00:40:43.260
familiar with Megastorm, he's supposed to be
00:40:43.260 --> 00:40:47.559
the brother of Gigastorm or Galvatron in this.
00:40:48.219 --> 00:40:55.659
Beast Wars 2 Galvatron. He's basically G2 or
00:40:55.659 --> 00:41:00.349
a G2 Megatron, like the tank. right right which
00:41:00.349 --> 00:41:02.929
means we're gonna get a proper g2 megatron tank
00:41:02.929 --> 00:41:09.949
nice instead of like i mean i i took the uh forget
00:41:09.949 --> 00:41:11.650
what it was called at the time they were the
00:41:11.650 --> 00:41:17.090
they weren't legends they were something else
00:41:17.090 --> 00:41:20.969
universe line i don't know uh it was a world
00:41:20.969 --> 00:41:24.369
for cybertron repaint of g1 megatron into g2
00:41:24.369 --> 00:41:30.059
megatron and in order to make him comic accurate
00:41:30.059 --> 00:41:34.019
i 3d printed his shoulder holster i bought the
00:41:34.019 --> 00:41:38.739
chest plate on ebay and then did all the little
00:41:38.739 --> 00:41:42.880
3d print add -ons and some decal packs and now
00:41:42.880 --> 00:41:47.300
he looks like g2 megatron uh may not get that
00:41:47.300 --> 00:41:51.780
when it comes out but we'll we'll see uh there
00:41:51.780 --> 00:41:54.980
was also the mpg line uh drop that they're doing
00:41:54.980 --> 00:42:02.039
a dark designs rhinox Oh, interesting. The silver
00:42:02.039 --> 00:42:06.019
for the for the chest and for the head. And it
00:42:06.019 --> 00:42:08.559
looks like the show like they repainted him.
00:42:09.639 --> 00:42:11.719
Because they call him Decepticon version, even
00:42:11.719 --> 00:42:14.360
though he's Predacon. But right. Yeah, this dark
00:42:14.360 --> 00:42:16.179
designs Rhinox. So he comes with all the stuff,
00:42:16.260 --> 00:42:18.440
but then it's got the mutant face attached to
00:42:18.440 --> 00:42:22.440
the head. Nice. So it opens up so you can cover
00:42:22.440 --> 00:42:24.639
it up, too. But all the inverted colors that
00:42:24.639 --> 00:42:28.250
are there for the Predacon version. are on this
00:42:28.250 --> 00:42:30.789
figure and it, it looks pretty stinking neat.
00:42:31.489 --> 00:42:35.289
Um, just what they decided to go with on it.
00:42:35.489 --> 00:42:38.750
So, uh, I don't own the trend. I don't own the,
00:42:38.750 --> 00:42:44.469
uh, the masterpiece one of, of Rhinox. I've got
00:42:44.469 --> 00:42:49.730
a number of them. I've got like a primal and
00:42:49.730 --> 00:42:54.130
Cheetor and Megatron. Uh, and I've got rat trap
00:42:54.130 --> 00:42:59.780
on the way. Uh, for masterpiece uh and then i've
00:42:59.780 --> 00:43:03.659
got the knockoff like transmittal rat trap primal
00:43:03.659 --> 00:43:10.000
and megatron for masterpiece but rhinox isn't
00:43:10.000 --> 00:43:14.800
one like i've got the uh thrilling 30 right yeah
00:43:14.800 --> 00:43:18.139
so like i don't really feel the need for it yeah
00:43:18.139 --> 00:43:22.860
but uh yeah i i think this is cool though i i
00:43:24.449 --> 00:43:27.630
If you're trying to complete the set, this is
00:43:27.630 --> 00:43:29.769
another way to do a repaint and legitimately
00:43:29.769 --> 00:43:32.409
actually make it something that people might
00:43:32.409 --> 00:43:39.090
want. Yep. So. Excited for that. And then Robot
00:43:39.090 --> 00:43:44.210
Toys has been doing a lot of masterpiece. Some
00:43:44.210 --> 00:43:46.190
of them legend scale, some of the masterpiece
00:43:46.190 --> 00:43:50.849
scale, but they did a Waspinator one. They call
00:43:50.849 --> 00:43:55.940
him Beedrill. Oh, God. And which is a Pokemon
00:43:55.940 --> 00:44:01.960
name. Yeah. But what's cool about him is, I mean,
00:44:01.960 --> 00:44:04.920
he's not 100 % accurate. Like the joints are
00:44:04.920 --> 00:44:07.960
kind of goofy. And at some point, Hasbro will
00:44:07.960 --> 00:44:14.099
tackle it. But it's got the translucent eyes
00:44:14.099 --> 00:44:19.159
on the head of Waspinator in both beast and robot
00:44:19.159 --> 00:44:24.750
mode. It's also got the translucent wings. It's
00:44:24.750 --> 00:44:29.750
got a nice metallic look to it. Very posable.
00:44:29.889 --> 00:44:34.829
He's got all his little gear. And then you can
00:44:34.829 --> 00:44:39.070
actually pop off his hands and his head and have
00:44:39.070 --> 00:44:41.929
it so that his hand drags the head along. Oh,
00:44:41.989 --> 00:44:45.969
wow. Like like in the show. And he scales with
00:44:45.969 --> 00:44:51.360
the robot toys. Scorponok. Which to scale, they
00:44:51.360 --> 00:44:54.280
do scale well with the Masterpiece Megatron.
00:44:54.739 --> 00:44:59.139
Oh, very cool. Now he is bigger than the Deluxe
00:44:59.139 --> 00:45:01.219
Class Tarantulas because they have a shot of
00:45:01.219 --> 00:45:05.119
him in the promo stuff of Waspinator shooting
00:45:05.119 --> 00:45:07.380
Tarantulas and he's holding Tarantulas with his
00:45:07.380 --> 00:45:12.940
other hand and he's tiny. Oh no. So I was half
00:45:12.940 --> 00:45:14.619
tempted for this because I'm like, I really love
00:45:14.619 --> 00:45:16.659
Waspinator, but again, I have the Thrilling 30
00:45:16.659 --> 00:45:19.780
and I repainted it and I'm like. I don't want
00:45:19.780 --> 00:45:24.860
to spend $150. $50, I would have definitely gone
00:45:24.860 --> 00:45:28.880
this direction and purchased it, which is the
00:45:28.880 --> 00:45:31.900
only reason I got a knockoff rat trap coming,
00:45:32.000 --> 00:45:36.280
which is the only reason I'm getting them. $150
00:45:36.280 --> 00:45:39.500
for a rat trap just seemed ridiculous when you
00:45:39.500 --> 00:45:44.960
could get Cheetor for like $80. Man, some of
00:45:44.960 --> 00:45:47.860
these prices, man, just... i'm like where do
00:45:47.860 --> 00:45:50.800
they get them like like yeah i can understand
00:45:50.800 --> 00:45:53.579
some of them like primal was 130 when i bought
00:45:53.579 --> 00:45:58.539
them like originally in 2016 yeah and i was like
00:45:58.539 --> 00:46:02.059
okay i get it megatron was like 300 or something
00:46:02.059 --> 00:46:07.760
and like 280 and so i was like so i got the knockoff
00:46:07.760 --> 00:46:13.500
for like 90 I would gladly buy the official,
00:46:13.639 --> 00:46:16.059
except it also did not have the voice of David
00:46:16.059 --> 00:46:24.079
Kaye in the figure. Moving from these into the
00:46:24.079 --> 00:46:29.260
Yolo Park, Optimus Primal and Dinobot have already
00:46:29.260 --> 00:46:33.219
been released and come out. Now we have Blackarachnia
00:46:33.219 --> 00:46:41.429
and Megatron. Good old grapeface. it's funny
00:46:41.429 --> 00:46:43.530
because i'm looking at these and i'm like okay
00:46:43.530 --> 00:46:47.250
he's pretty similar to the masterpiece uh -huh
00:46:47.250 --> 00:46:50.769
like pretty stinking similar i like that you
00:46:50.769 --> 00:46:53.849
can pop off the panels uh the other thing i was
00:46:53.849 --> 00:46:56.769
kind of looking at is uh aside from the fact
00:46:56.769 --> 00:46:59.630
you can pop the panels off is is i'm going okay
00:46:59.630 --> 00:47:03.030
but if he's not masterpiece scale because i don't
00:47:03.030 --> 00:47:08.840
know what scale these are um it's It's a fun
00:47:08.840 --> 00:47:18.780
little display piece. Plus, I would want to own
00:47:18.780 --> 00:47:25.480
it because it's Megatron. Yeah. My brief pause
00:47:25.480 --> 00:47:28.300
was because I'm looking up the Yolo Park Primal
00:47:28.300 --> 00:47:30.940
and Dinobot. They're both 7 .87 inches tall,
00:47:31.059 --> 00:47:36.079
so I'm assuming Megatron might be about 9. Yeah.
00:47:36.650 --> 00:47:40.289
Just for height purposes. But yeah, I do like
00:47:40.289 --> 00:47:44.789
the fact that these are model kits. Yep. And
00:47:44.789 --> 00:47:47.789
they're very articulated. You can pose them.
00:47:47.849 --> 00:47:49.329
You can do all kinds of stuff with them. They
00:47:49.329 --> 00:47:52.570
have diecasts, PVC and, you know, the ABS. They
00:47:52.570 --> 00:47:56.869
have accessories. They have all these these cool
00:47:56.869 --> 00:48:01.610
little points, you know, alternate faces, extra,
00:48:01.769 --> 00:48:04.690
you know, components. Well, now wait a minute
00:48:04.690 --> 00:48:10.010
here. So these are the next installments in Yolo
00:48:10.010 --> 00:48:14.230
Park's AMK Beast Wars line. This is the AMK line.
00:48:14.489 --> 00:48:17.909
This is not the AMK Pro line. So the difference
00:48:17.909 --> 00:48:22.070
is there is no diecast or LEDs in the AMK line.
00:48:22.070 --> 00:48:24.329
That's what the BTS has. They don't have LED.
00:48:24.429 --> 00:48:28.769
It says there's small amount of diecast. Oh,
00:48:28.769 --> 00:48:32.750
okay. Well, this on TFW says there's no die cast
00:48:32.750 --> 00:48:35.269
in them at all. I'm reading from BBTS and they
00:48:35.269 --> 00:48:38.809
get it directly from the source. TFW is not always
00:48:38.809 --> 00:48:45.949
accurate. No, no, no. Just... Okay. Yeah. And
00:48:45.949 --> 00:48:47.710
I know that it's MK and they don't come with
00:48:47.710 --> 00:48:51.309
a lot of the features I don't expect fully light
00:48:51.309 --> 00:48:55.349
up or any of that crap. But it does say like
00:48:55.349 --> 00:48:57.610
Dinobot, for instance, comes with, you know,
00:48:57.980 --> 00:49:01.360
two faces alternate pair of eyes shield sword
00:49:01.360 --> 00:49:05.159
and spear and primal comes with like two interchangeable
00:49:05.159 --> 00:49:09.179
hands two alternate faces and two swords so yeah
00:49:09.179 --> 00:49:14.039
i'll be interested to see what uh megatron comes
00:49:14.039 --> 00:49:16.000
with i mean it looks like it comes with an extra
00:49:16.000 --> 00:49:21.219
hand with a toothbrush uh yeah a lot of his gear
00:49:21.219 --> 00:49:26.750
comes off yep I mean, I'm probably going to get
00:49:26.750 --> 00:49:31.469
it just, I mean, I think it, I'm probably going
00:49:31.469 --> 00:49:33.010
to get it. I'm not, I'm not going to lie. And
00:49:33.010 --> 00:49:35.809
if for 40 bucks to like build a, a model kit
00:49:35.809 --> 00:49:40.050
of Megatron, I'm yeah. Yeah. Honestly, it'll
00:49:40.050 --> 00:49:42.170
probably end up on my floating wall behind me.
00:49:42.690 --> 00:49:47.090
Yup. Um, my floating display wall, it'll probably
00:49:47.090 --> 00:49:49.269
end up there. Cause I've got a number of Megatrons
00:49:49.269 --> 00:49:51.710
in my cabinet, you know, beast machines and beast
00:49:51.710 --> 00:49:55.389
wars pre beast. Yup. Um, all kinds of stuff so
00:49:55.389 --> 00:49:59.250
i'm i'm a huge megatron fan obviously uh the
00:49:59.250 --> 00:50:01.730
black arachnia is tempting too because one i
00:50:01.730 --> 00:50:03.309
get rid of the war for cybertron one because
00:50:03.309 --> 00:50:07.110
it just looked chintzy yeah uh and i don't have
00:50:07.110 --> 00:50:12.010
one now to go with the rest of my my stuff and
00:50:12.010 --> 00:50:17.210
uh and it always bothered me because like now
00:50:17.210 --> 00:50:20.110
of course you can buy the the big predacon set
00:50:20.110 --> 00:50:24.030
with all of them and they're show accurate I
00:50:24.030 --> 00:50:27.670
don't care to transform these so it doesn't bother
00:50:27.670 --> 00:50:32.409
me that they don't transform yeah and it is show
00:50:32.409 --> 00:50:37.909
accurate so it's like is what it is you know
00:50:37.909 --> 00:50:46.230
but yeah I'm super excited for these can't wait
00:50:46.230 --> 00:50:49.690
to see when they you know drop information and
00:50:49.690 --> 00:50:53.159
when they're coming out Yeah, I thought they
00:50:53.159 --> 00:50:55.199
would have done that already, but I guess not.
00:50:55.880 --> 00:50:59.059
It's probably coming. Probably. I don't think
00:50:59.059 --> 00:51:03.500
we're that far off at this point. Comic -Con
00:51:03.500 --> 00:51:07.960
is next month already, so. That's crazy. SDCC,
00:51:08.099 --> 00:51:14.800
baby. 2026. Holy crap. Holy crap, it's 2026.
00:51:15.219 --> 00:51:19.519
All right. And to. Close out the show, we've
00:51:19.519 --> 00:51:24.300
got Skybound Entertainment, Transformers, comic
00:51:24.300 --> 00:51:29.159
solicitations. So, coming up next week, June
00:51:29.159 --> 00:51:34.099
10th, we've got Transformers number 33, Optimus'
00:51:34.239 --> 00:51:37.900
new Nautobot team, because they are Nautobots,
00:51:37.900 --> 00:51:41.219
according to Alita 1, because they were no longer
00:51:41.219 --> 00:51:44.619
gonna be Autobots if they didn't follow her to
00:51:44.619 --> 00:51:48.469
Cybertron, so... New team of Autobots remain
00:51:48.469 --> 00:51:52.889
on Earth under Optimus' leadership, but can they
00:51:52.889 --> 00:51:56.090
come together after a battle between Optimus
00:51:56.090 --> 00:52:00.230
and Alita? So that's what's coming up this month.
00:52:00.610 --> 00:52:07.670
In July, comics grow there. Who is Dr. Henry
00:52:07.670 --> 00:52:11.750
Archivale? Optimus' team must help General Flag
00:52:11.750 --> 00:52:15.210
with a new mission that brings them face -to
00:52:15.210 --> 00:52:18.840
-face with the man. who may have discovered a
00:52:18.840 --> 00:52:22.539
way for humanity to fight back against Autobot
00:52:22.539 --> 00:52:25.480
and Decepticon alike. That'll be released July
00:52:25.480 --> 00:52:32.500
8th for Transformers number 34. And then in August,
00:52:32.760 --> 00:52:39.119
on August 12th, just a few days past the 40th
00:52:39.119 --> 00:52:43.460
anniversary of the film, We have Transformers
00:52:43.460 --> 00:52:47.920
number 35, Wheeljack, toils away on secret projects
00:52:47.920 --> 00:52:52.619
in his lab inside the Cybertronian Shard, unaware
00:52:52.619 --> 00:52:56.320
of the utter chaos unfolding as the remaining
00:52:56.320 --> 00:52:59.539
Autobots defend against an all -out assault from
00:52:59.539 --> 00:53:03.599
the Decepticons. Dun, dun, dun. Now, that's just
00:53:03.599 --> 00:53:06.219
the Skybound Energon Universe stuff. We also
00:53:06.219 --> 00:53:14.739
have issue... No, we have issues one that just
00:53:14.739 --> 00:53:19.900
came out of the movie adaptation. We have issue
00:53:19.900 --> 00:53:22.719
two that's coming out in July and then issue
00:53:22.719 --> 00:53:25.659
three will be coming out in August. But the trade
00:53:25.659 --> 00:53:28.940
paperback collecting all three issues of the
00:53:28.940 --> 00:53:33.860
40th anniversary edition of the movie comic will
00:53:33.860 --> 00:53:38.079
be collected in trade on August 12th. So that's
00:53:38.079 --> 00:53:42.440
what I'm waiting on. I'm not covering the individual
00:53:42.440 --> 00:53:46.760
issues. I'm going to cover the trade. So that's
00:53:46.760 --> 00:53:54.960
what's going on in comics news for the Transformers
00:53:54.960 --> 00:54:02.519
comics. There you go, folks. Yep, yep, yep. So
00:54:02.519 --> 00:54:09.679
I'm interested, honestly, to hear what People
00:54:09.679 --> 00:54:15.900
are. Excited for with. The Transformers stuff
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coming up this year, like some of the toys, is
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it some of the MK line? Is it the comics? Is
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it the 40th anniversary? It's. It's it's definitely
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not a boring year with Transformers. Oh, no,
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definitely not. Definitely not. Yeah. So I think
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that about rounds out this episode of things.
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Transformers. Do you have anything that you want
00:54:49.980 --> 00:54:55.679
to plug as far as Transformers content? It's
00:54:55.679 --> 00:54:58.820
not my own stuff, but I will plug my buddy Mike
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Seibert and his program. Mike Seibert radio program.
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He is doing. A series called the 40 for 40. And
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he is going through the, his favorite movie of
00:55:12.420 --> 00:55:16.699
all time is Transformers. The movie he's going
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through it section by section, scene by scene,
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not minute by minute or anything like that, but
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he's going through and he's doing various bits
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and it's going to take him all year long to do
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this. And I just find it fascinating that he's
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doing this and it's just a fun listen. He's bringing
00:55:37.750 --> 00:55:42.030
in, he's comparing like what the script, what
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the previous versions of the Flint Dilley and
00:55:44.630 --> 00:55:47.610
the Ron Freeman scripts were to what the actual
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movie is. He's playing recordings from the Lady
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Bird books, whatever the hell. No, seriously,
00:55:55.030 --> 00:55:58.699
dude, like. we know what the movie is like we've
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known what the movie is for 40 years and i love
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the movie just as much as anyone else does but
00:56:06.860 --> 00:56:11.320
like he loves the movie like i've never seen
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anyone love this movie and he loves every aspect
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of it and i love learning about it through him
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and i had never heard these lit like the closest
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i came to an alternate version of transformers
00:56:27.059 --> 00:56:31.179
the movie was wheelie the wild boy of quintesson
00:56:31.179 --> 00:56:34.599
the the the book the light the the the storybook
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thing that i did with you on this show once a
00:56:37.769 --> 00:56:41.170
couple years ago go search out that episode folks
00:56:41.170 --> 00:56:45.010
it's on the podcast somewhere here uh but like
00:56:45.010 --> 00:56:47.909
that was the closest alternative version i knew
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of and obviously i knew there were multiple versions
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of the script wherever else but like It's very
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interesting listening to him go through this
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and listening to how he's experiencing it and
00:57:01.690 --> 00:57:04.610
the emotional ups and downs that he goes through
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as he's doing this. And I think we just finished.
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Unusual allies that that part of the movie, I
00:57:16.730 --> 00:57:20.090
think I don't remember. I don't have my phone
00:57:20.090 --> 00:57:23.650
out here. It's on the it's. On the charger in
00:57:23.650 --> 00:57:28.510
my bedroom, I'll have to get it for next time.
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But yeah, go check out Mike's Cybert radio program.
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He's an awesome dude. He also does Two Mics,
00:57:35.050 --> 00:57:37.469
Two Furious with his buddy Michael Andrews, where
00:57:37.469 --> 00:57:40.309
they reviewed all of Transformers Animated, just
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like we did back in the day on Transformation
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Animation. But yeah, I love that guy. He's awesome.
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So there you go, folks. There's other promotion
00:57:51.300 --> 00:57:54.579
besides our own stuff that we've done here on
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the Geekcast Radio Network for the past 17 years.
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4 ,500 episodes. It's insane. Over 40 shows in
00:58:05.280 --> 00:58:10.820
17 years. We've got something for everybody.
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We really do. I'm going to make it a lot easier
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in the new site, too. Yes, obviously. yes there'll
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be ways to find it trust me yes um so yeah you
00:58:25.670 --> 00:58:28.050
get a podcast you get a podcast and you get a
00:58:28.050 --> 00:58:29.909
you get a podcast yeah there's actually going
00:58:29.909 --> 00:58:32.889
to be a nice little transformers hub yes yes
00:58:32.889 --> 00:58:36.429
there is uh like basically it won't get canceled
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yeah a subsection of transformers on the website
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so it'll be fun yes there'll be bots there uh
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and cons too Yes. Thank you as always for listening
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to all things Transformers. Until next time.
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Transform and transcend. Yes. You can also roll
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out if you prefer. Yes.
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Sentinel Online. Now loading all things Transformers.
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Hello and welcome to All Things Transformers.
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I'm your host, Steve Megatron. And joining me
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on this adventure into the Transformers fandom
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is TFG1 Mike. Hello, we're here. We're not waiting.
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Well, yeah, we're not waiting. Especially after
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like 4 ,500 pieces of content in 17 years. Holy
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Nikes. Oh boy, I'm tired. Yeah, it's funny just
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going across the network. And this episode, for
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those that are listening, will be a little bit
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of kind of a GCRN recap along with all things
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Transformers. Yes. Yeah, it's been 17 years since
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the network was founded. Yep. We're getting close
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to the 18th anniversary of this very show. Yep.
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In two months. and I would have never imagined
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still doing all of this I've killed this show
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three times and at this point I'm like yeah I've
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tried and at this point I'm not getting getting
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rid of it I'm just like okay I do enjoy it yeah
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it's it's definitely one of my favorite franchises
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still to this day so yeah Um, but yeah, that's,
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that's kind of the thing that started me on the
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3d printing road and on the customizing and kit
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bashing and, uh, transformers figures. Yep. Yep.
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Absolutely. Um, so yeah. Your thoughts, sir.
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Oh God. How do you fit 17 years? 4 ,500 pieces
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of content, and oh, boy. Yeah, 17 years. It's
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been an amazing ride. Y 'all ain't going to get
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rid of us just yet, so we got plenty more gas
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in the tank. Maybe. I don't know. I don't know
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if we're not too old to this stuff yet, but no,
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it's been one hell of a ride. This show has been
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the center of it. It's been the building block,
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as it always should have been, and damn. We actually
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do have an episode in the tank that's going to
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be coming up later. It's a pullback crossover,
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so you'll hear another episode after this, once
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I actually get the damn thing edited. That'll
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be coming up, I think, in two weeks, because
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I have another episode of the pullback I have
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to edit before it. You'll hear at least one more
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episode of ATTF TPB crossover before the next
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news episode. But yeah, no, 17 years, the geek
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cast radio network. We've certainly come a long
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way in that time. We've had, well, we're up to
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version 18 point. seven or something or whatever
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at this point it's definitely been no no i know
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but i actually have i actually have a history
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update there i know you do and i'm gonna let
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you get to it in a minute because i know you're
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gonna give that but my point in joking about
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that is we have like 18 .7 updates there are
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18 .7 versions of of the website and, and everything
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else. And, uh, folks, before he gives his update,
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um, I, I wish more web design people were like
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Steve and how Steve does his stuff because man,
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when they tried to relegate certain web design
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choices to this area of web design is for this
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specific thing and this area of web design is
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for this specific thing and then we switch to
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it and all of a sudden the website goes to hell
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yeah take it away that being said you know what
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i'm talking about i do So we've we've changed
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themes multitude multitude of times over the
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years. The original website. Was. Yeah, it was
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a church website theme. That we had like on version
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like the original site. Yeah. Which I I only
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knew this because Twig. also used the same theme
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they just heavily edited and snowball ran circles
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around me as far as web design back in the day
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and uh yeah so like this week in geek like their
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version 2 .0 website the red that was like peak
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of their website yep um anyways we used that
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theme for a long time It was like two, three
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years. And then we switched to this game. It
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was like GameCraft or something, something like
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that. I did find the theme again in my archives
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because I was like, I want to go back to that
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theme. Like, it was great. Like, yeah, even though
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it wasn't, I just knew my way around it so I
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could heavily hack it. And I liked the slider
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on it, which is my main thing. And I didn't need
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to know a lot of code. A lot of the stuff was
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like just change the image that was in the placeholder
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and it would modify everything. And so it was
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super simple. And I found a way of upgrading
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the slider for modern times. But at the same
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time, it's all this stuff's like super old and
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clunky. And it's like, if you don't keep up,
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your site slows down. Google doesn't prioritize
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it. I can see. Like we had the idea for like
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GCR and live way back in the day, you know, the
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blogs, the product and empire still existed.
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And then there were multiple new versions of
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it. And I think when I got to the point where
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I was modifying it pretty extensively and had
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the show art along the sides of the website and
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it was the red and that was kind of like the
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five year mark. And it was good. And then we
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had like the content calendar. And then we moved
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on to this other theme called Sahifa. Yeah. And
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it was decent. And I was able to cobble and do
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some different things with the menus with it.
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And it wasn't bad. I just didn't always I just
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didn't love how it turned out. And then we got
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some other random theme and I can't remember
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what the heck it was called thereafter around
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like 2016. And that theme I thought was great.
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I say thought was great. It was a cluster. So
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I ended up going back to the Sahifa. There's
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a trend here. Yes. I went back to the one I knew
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worked. And I was able to get up and run it again.
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I tweaked it and I made it a little closer to
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the original version 3 .0. And then, uh, I went
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to, it was some other version of that other site.
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I don't remember what theme it was. It was something
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different. I was trying out and that didn't last
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long. And then I ended up going with, uh, this
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theme called Janna. Yep. Which was made by the
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same people that did the Sahifa. and it worked
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great like i got that in 2017 2018 kept that
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for years yeah uh got it pretty uh pretty customized
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got a lot of stuff in it like i moved away from
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all of their little templated stuff um and then
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i think it got to the point it was like the blue
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the blue header or whatever on the top of the
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site and it had a bunch of different grid crap
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and uh anyways we we had just done like a top
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100 around that time then i got i kept that until
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about 2024 yeah 2023 maybe uh and we got some
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i don't even have like screenshots of the one
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theme because it was so bad yeah it was really
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bad it was so bad in between the the jana one
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and the one we have now I bought that one. And
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this is this is the thing that kills me with
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these stupid themes. I paid. I literally did
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what I was supposed to do. Yeah, I paid for the
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theme. The Janna one originally. I tested it
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with a bootleg. Yeah. And I was like, OK, this
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is going to work. And so I bought it. It was
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Chill News. That was the one that I said sucked.
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Okay. That was the one. I'm going through my
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stuff. That's why I couldn't find it. So Chill
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News has not... Oh, they've actually updated
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February 2026. I just don't like how it looks
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anymore. Yeah, it sucks. Anyways, I still own
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my copy, so I can download the newest version.
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It's just I don't have any use for it. No. the
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jana one i bought like i said back then but they
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updated their last update was in april which
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you know every month or a couple of months is
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fine yeah but when they go like beyond six months
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without an update yeah there's a question yeah
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and i bought this other one for when i was trying
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to start a home business like this kulu one and
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uh that one updated even this year And I use
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that one for my personal site now. Megaphone
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was the one that that we bought. Yeah. In 2023.
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And they were like, oh, the audio player that
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always works. And, you know, no matter where,
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because I was looking for that feature on the
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website, I was like, I want it to work across
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pages. Yep, I remember that. And they were like,
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it works with all these different plugins and
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it does, you know, it removes, like it was supposed
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to be like a smart plugin and it was supposed
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to help organize the hosts and the guests and
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it was supposed to help organize the shows. It
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didn't do any of that. It barely worked for like
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our setup. Like it didn't work with Spreaker
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very well. It didn't work with how we were set
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up or what we were trying to do. Like it wasn't
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made for a network. It was made for like, yeah,
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I got a show. Yeah, it was made for the and this
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is no disrespect to podcasters who just have
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one show, but it was made for single show podcast.
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That's what that was made for. And that's great.
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That's awesome. That ain't us. No. And it did
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work, but they haven't updated since 2023. Oh,
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God. Still, which is why. I really heavily looked
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into, okay, what do I do from here? You know,
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uh, and they've come out with new, that company
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has come out with new, uh, podcast themes, but
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again, they haven't done anything since 2023
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really. And so like, I, I lost kind of respect
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for using them. Whereas the Jonna one, I was
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like, Oh, I mean, It's one of the most popular
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ones on ThemeForest. I mean, it's got 25 ,000
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sales. And a 4 .8 review system. And they're
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pretty responsive to any issues and have great
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documentation and templates and everything else.
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A lot of variety, a lot of stuff you can play
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with. Very easy to use configuration stuff. I
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had to relearn how to use it recently, but I'll
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get into that in a minute. Um, and then we went
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to WP, uh, WP caster pro recently, or like back
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in, uh, 2023 or 2024. And they haven't updated
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since May of 2025. Jeez. Which is the theme we're
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on right now. And I'm like, okay. Um, I like
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it. Like, I like a lot of the features. I like
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that you can toggle stuff, you know, drop down
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seasons, series. It's got built in search engine.
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It's got, you know, all this different stuff
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and you can toggle everything to it. But it also
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requires. Again, to do things how we want to
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do it. It kind of required different sets of
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plugins and. different features that they didn't
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have and some of them they added in and some
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of them they didn't again not made for a network
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they had the non -stop music player which i've
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given up on uh at this point i'm just like uh
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i just want something that works that i control
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and i don't have to pay somebody every time something
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breaks yeah um and the site i don't know if people
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notice this it glitches out a lot at the start
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uh where it just gets massive yeah uh and that
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drives me nuts like absolutely nuts because i'm
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like it should not do this it takes me about
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10 times of hitting f5 before i get a normal
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version of the main page where it's not like
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artwork isn't 10 times too big or yeah no it's
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but it is what it is So saying all that, I'm
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just going to tease. I am building a new website.
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I am building it from scratch. I am porting over
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as much as I can from the current site. However,
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this new site is so lean structurally and plugin
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-wise. I'm using half the plugins that I use
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in the current site because I got tired of crap
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plugins and I've started developing my own. Yeah.
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And I've been troubleshooting them. I've been
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building them. I've been working on some of these
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plugins for going on three months. Some of them
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less time than that. Some of them actually are
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active currently on the current site. I've just
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upgraded them and merged them into other plugins
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that I'm developing. That being said, I'm trying
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to get away from a lot of the subscription stuff.
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I'm trying to get away from. Things where I continually
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have to pay for. I'm also trying to get things
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that just work. I'm also trying to do things
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because back when we started the site, I had
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to hand code everything. Nothing was automated.
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Nothing. RSS feeds were even hand coded. Nowadays,
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none of that's coded manually. I can go in and
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do things if I need to. I don't have the time
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I used to have some somehow I had the time. I
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don't know how I just did. Yeah. Nowadays, I
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have kids. I have job. I have like evenings where
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I'm like, I'm too tired and I just need things
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to work. And so. When people are like, it's not
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doing this, it's blah, blah, blah. I'm like.
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Like the current theme omitted. a ton of podcasts
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because there was overlap between series. Yeah.
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Which was a royal pain. And so the new the new
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site's got a brand new podcast system, never
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been seen, never been done before. It's got a
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brand new YouTube import system. It's got a brand
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new our geek meter is its own plug in. which
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integrates. I also have an IMDB thing. I also
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have like there's there's a ton. So we'll also
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be able to review like when we're reviewing like
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the next Transformers show or a Transformers
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movie or, you know, like an M wire where we had
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all these different, you know, where we rate
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them on the podcast. We can also rate them on
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the actual post of what our rating was in the
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podcast. So that shows up. Nice. So it can be
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searched for and everything else. So like this,
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this website is super lean. Like I said, it's
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super forward thinking. I'm super excited. I'm
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rebuilding all of the backend, which is taking
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forever because I didn't realize some pages haven't
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been updated in five years. Yeah. That's longer.
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Yeah. So I'm, I'm literally going from like going
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page by page. It sucks. um yeah but in the long
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run you're gonna have something that you're really
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gonna love and you're really gonna be proud of
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that you went through and did all that work oh
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100 so so i'm also using some ai for help in
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this endeavor like i'm it's more so the plug
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-in side like i'm just like this is what i want
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this is how it needs to function this is what
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i i need it to do and then it develops those
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aspects with me and um yeah i've gotten very
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granular with features and trying not to overcomplicate
00:19:04.029 --> 00:19:11.009
anything but i want what i want um because then
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i get to focus on the fun part which is organization
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and creation i want i want to do the content
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the creative stuff i like that part yeah i like
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that part yeah so enough with the site which
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i'm going to debut at some point this year uh
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we're we're getting very close on some features
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that i'm excited about. Got to get some other
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things troubleshot first and then rebuild the
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homepage. And once I rebuild the homepage, I
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should be in good, good standing to get this
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sucker out. So I'm I'm geeked. So getting into
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the Transformers stuff, since that's what you're
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actually here for. Yes. Transformers. Oh, sorry.
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Oh, no, go for it. Sorry. You said you wanted
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to get into it. Transformers, the apology tour.
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The Transformers, the movie, 1986, back in theaters.
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The official Transformers Facebook and Instagram
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accounts have just, and this news is old, folks.
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This is back in May, so we're old. We always
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get to this stuff late. But yeah, September 17th.
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uh in theaters transformers the movie the apology
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tour i love that they are leaning into this i
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think this is some of the best marketing hasbro
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has ever done when it comes to transformers the
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apology tour this is so cool this is so fun uh
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because you asked a lot uh transmission received
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You can register your email on Fathom Events
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website to be notified when tickets are on sale.
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I actually went over to the Fathom Events website
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before we did the recording, not tonight, but
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I've checked and they're not on sale or not like
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I was checking to see in my area. Here's the
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thing about this event. I love that they're doing
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this for the 40th anniversary of the movie. I
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only want the poster. So in the article in this
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on in the news article here, if you click on
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the image, they are, I guess, for a limited time
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giving away. I think the Transformers, the movie,
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the you know, this this giant poster here. I
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think they're giving it away. I could be wrong
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about that. So if I'm wrong, I'm wrong. But like,
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I want that damn poster like. That's the only
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thing I want about this, because I saw the movie
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for the 35th anniversary of it when it was in
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theaters for the limited time event. I don't
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need to see Transformers the movie again in theaters
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for the 40th. Again, for those that have never
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seen it, that's awesome. That's amazing. That's
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great. But the fact that they're doing this 40th
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anniversary apology tour poster, give me that.
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I want it. I don't care what I have to pay for
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it. If I have to pay somebody for it. And yes,
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I am serious. So anyone out there that ends up
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with an extra one, let me know because I want
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it. It has to go with the rest of my Transformers
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posters that you can't see because my camera
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is not on. I depending on I hope it's in our
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theater here. Yeah, no, absolutely. Because you'll
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take your kids. I 100 % will. Yeah. And I didn't
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get to see it when it was in theater last time.
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Yeah, OK. I really, really want to see this one
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in theater just because it's an experience. And
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absolutely. Yep. I think that it's great that
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they're re -releasing it. I think that this is
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something very cool. Absolutely. I'm definitely
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going to be down for. Checking this out when.
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When it comes to the theater, I just I'm hoping
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that it comes to something that I have locally.
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Typically. They have. Yeah. But again, I don't
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know. It's like Fathom's website doesn't even
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list it. I mean, it lists it, but it doesn't
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have it as. available to see when it'll be available
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like it's there it's just not you just can't
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look any any area up yet yeah it just says uh
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uh enter with your email to be notified when
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tickets are on sale yeah it's not yeah i'm sure
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that'll happen probably closer to maybe august
00:24:03.630 --> 00:24:11.759
maybe maybe late july I don't know yet. But yeah,
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I'm super excited for this. Looking forward to
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it. Yep. And then we have Age of the Primes Sentinel
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Prime Artifact Pack First Look. So Sentinel Prime,
00:24:33.460 --> 00:24:39.859
he looks like he's a retool of... That female
00:24:39.859 --> 00:24:47.240
Decepticon tank. Oh, OK. Can't remember her name
00:24:47.240 --> 00:24:51.680
right now, but. Oh, yeah, I don't remember either.
00:24:51.779 --> 00:24:58.460
With the Decepticon face. Yeah. Oh. No, it's
00:24:58.460 --> 00:25:02.400
not coming to me. But what I do like about this
00:25:02.400 --> 00:25:06.259
is the golden disc thing. That's cool. The shield.
00:25:06.750 --> 00:25:09.910
The shield? Oh, it's a shield. Jesus. It's a
00:25:09.910 --> 00:25:12.690
shield, and it's empty, so he can put the Matrix
00:25:12.690 --> 00:25:14.829
in it. He can put all of the different Primes
00:25:14.829 --> 00:25:18.309
weapons. Although, with them all attached, it
00:25:18.309 --> 00:25:22.250
looks stupid. Yeah, that does look a little dumb.
00:25:22.250 --> 00:25:26.630
It looks 100 % stupid. I like the Covenant of
00:25:26.630 --> 00:25:31.789
Primus. Yeah. I like that. I like the Matrix
00:25:31.789 --> 00:25:37.329
being in there. I like the Matrix sword. yeah
00:25:37.329 --> 00:25:40.289
uh but otherwise i don't care for the rest of
00:25:40.289 --> 00:25:42.329
the weapons but i think it's it's kind of neat
00:25:42.329 --> 00:25:45.750
though that it says what prime had what gear
00:25:45.750 --> 00:25:49.069
and then you can stick it to it yeah that is
00:25:49.069 --> 00:25:55.549
very cool but god the alt mode on this thing
00:25:55.549 --> 00:25:59.349
it's just ugly It is ugly because I was looking
00:25:59.349 --> 00:26:01.930
at it. I was like, because I've continually looked.
00:26:02.009 --> 00:26:04.390
I'm like, if there was ever a better figure to
00:26:04.390 --> 00:26:07.170
do my pre beast Megatron, like I'm always on
00:26:07.170 --> 00:26:10.670
the lookout. Yeah, because like the feet on this
00:26:10.670 --> 00:26:13.829
do, you know, become the front of it like that
00:26:13.829 --> 00:26:16.930
Megatron. However, the rest of it looks but ugly
00:26:16.930 --> 00:26:20.210
and doesn't smooth out. It just looks. Yeah,
00:26:20.269 --> 00:26:22.349
I mean, his robot mode is pretty solid. Like
00:26:22.349 --> 00:26:24.769
I like the robot mode, but yeah, the robot was
00:26:24.769 --> 00:26:30.549
good. Yeah. yeah yeah the the vehicle mode for
00:26:30.549 --> 00:26:35.089
this it looks like a combination snowmobile meets
00:26:35.089 --> 00:26:39.670
trash compactor like the ass end of this thing
00:26:39.670 --> 00:26:42.630
like they put the shield on the back like a spare
00:26:42.630 --> 00:26:46.529
tire and then the rest of it looks like a garbage
00:26:46.529 --> 00:26:49.750
truck meanwhile the front end of the thing looks
00:26:49.750 --> 00:26:56.079
like a snowmobile like Like, why would I want
00:26:56.079 --> 00:26:59.279
this in my collection? Like I said, just give
00:26:59.279 --> 00:27:01.700
me the shield. Like, I don't even need the rest
00:27:01.700 --> 00:27:04.380
of the artifacts. I just want the shield. Maybe
00:27:04.380 --> 00:27:07.039
the matrix for the center of the shield. But,
00:27:07.140 --> 00:27:11.440
like, yeah, I don't know about this thing. I
00:27:11.440 --> 00:27:18.519
don't. Let me see. Does not give a price on this,
00:27:18.700 --> 00:27:20.920
but I'm sure we'll find that out much later.
00:27:21.630 --> 00:27:24.750
And again, folks, this news is old. We know this
00:27:24.750 --> 00:27:29.869
article was May 18th of this year, but this is
00:27:29.869 --> 00:27:35.809
what it is. Up next, we have the Age of the Primes
00:27:35.809 --> 00:27:40.390
Generation Selects Autobot 3 -Pack Mirage Ironhide
00:27:40.390 --> 00:27:43.970
and Blue Streak in -hand images. They look good.
00:27:46.569 --> 00:27:50.730
So these, I think, correct me if I'm wrong, these
00:27:50.730 --> 00:27:56.119
are retools or repaints of the ones that were
00:27:56.119 --> 00:27:59.319
released for Studio Series. Hasbro China just
00:27:59.319 --> 00:28:02.680
livestreamed their official... Okay, I can't
00:28:02.680 --> 00:28:05.839
pronounce any of that. New Transformers Age of
00:28:05.839 --> 00:28:12.299
the Progeners. Unboxing of these. Multipack.
00:28:12.599 --> 00:28:15.700
Closer look at these re -releases with improved
00:28:15.700 --> 00:28:21.259
deco. Mirage features some retools. And yeah,
00:28:21.359 --> 00:28:24.299
so these are re -releases, but they still look
00:28:24.299 --> 00:28:28.500
good. Well, they still look cool. Let me put
00:28:28.500 --> 00:28:30.519
it this way. I wanted the Ironhide, but I also
00:28:30.519 --> 00:28:36.980
didn't want to spend $40. I got lucky when I
00:28:36.980 --> 00:28:41.700
was in Florida. Yeah. I went to, because we had
00:28:41.700 --> 00:28:43.579
to go grocery shopping for something. We needed
00:28:43.579 --> 00:28:45.859
something, and we ended up stopping in an Ollie's.
00:28:46.579 --> 00:28:49.089
Right. which we don't have out in Colorado. We
00:28:49.089 --> 00:28:51.289
had one in Michigan, but it was crap. Like, it
00:28:51.289 --> 00:28:56.329
was just junk. This one was halfway decent in
00:28:56.329 --> 00:29:02.329
Florida, but they had the Beast Wars Flip Transform
00:29:02.329 --> 00:29:07.309
Terrorsaur on clearance for $9. Okay. And they
00:29:07.309 --> 00:29:13.589
had the Core Class Studio Series 86 Ironhide.
00:29:14.569 --> 00:29:19.849
Ah, I gotcha. Five dollars. My God. I picked
00:29:19.849 --> 00:29:22.829
him up. I was like, don't I was like, don't care
00:29:22.829 --> 00:29:25.049
what you think. I'm getting. Yeah. Yeah. And
00:29:25.049 --> 00:29:27.430
now I have a little figure to go against my little
00:29:27.430 --> 00:29:31.930
star screen. But I can do both voices. So that's
00:29:31.930 --> 00:29:34.950
kind of. There you go. Fun for me. I'm like,
00:29:34.950 --> 00:29:38.069
I can do the voice of the little guy. But yeah,
00:29:38.170 --> 00:29:41.970
I think these are cool. I mean, I don't. I don't
00:29:41.970 --> 00:29:44.779
collect a lot of. G1 figures like Beast Wars
00:29:44.779 --> 00:29:47.700
is kind of my jam, but I will get the occasional
00:29:47.700 --> 00:29:57.680
G1 like. 86 Megatron and Prime. Yeah. But. But
00:29:57.680 --> 00:30:00.900
no, I mean, I think I like these three packs,
00:30:01.019 --> 00:30:03.259
but I also don't because it's kind of like, what
00:30:03.259 --> 00:30:07.039
if I only want one? Yeah, that's the problem.
00:30:09.319 --> 00:30:11.440
Like, I don't see I don't see Mirage selling
00:30:11.440 --> 00:30:14.980
that well by himself or Blue Streak. Ironhide,
00:30:15.019 --> 00:30:24.059
I do. Yeah. Yeah, Ironhide definitely would sell
00:30:24.059 --> 00:30:26.819
well by himself, especially since he actually
00:30:26.819 --> 00:30:30.799
has a head now. Oh, yeah. But yeah, these are
00:30:30.799 --> 00:30:34.299
these are still cool. I don't care. Like. I mean,
00:30:34.299 --> 00:30:35.900
if I saw my clearance, I would definitely pick
00:30:35.900 --> 00:30:39.079
them up, but I never see most these. multi -packs
00:30:39.079 --> 00:30:46.740
since um this is why i hate tfw sometimes they're
00:30:46.740 --> 00:30:50.460
like oh look we can finally reveal this i should
00:30:50.460 --> 00:30:52.220
have just put this at the beginning with this
00:30:52.220 --> 00:30:56.000
news story the pre -orders for all this stuff
00:30:56.000 --> 00:31:06.680
um i'm just trying to find the the the price
00:31:06.680 --> 00:31:17.789
for Some of the Legends 3 -pack. And the Sentinel
00:31:17.789 --> 00:31:28.150
thing. The 3 -pack is at Big Bad Toy Store for...
00:31:28.150 --> 00:31:32.900
If it'll load. Oh, wow, really? Their link didn't
00:31:32.900 --> 00:31:35.420
even go to the actual thing. It just went to
00:31:35.420 --> 00:31:40.019
Big Bad Toy Store's main page. That's dumb. Well,
00:31:40.160 --> 00:31:42.319
sorry, folks. Can't give you that information
00:31:42.319 --> 00:31:48.319
because it didn't even work properly. Anyway,
00:31:48.640 --> 00:31:59.329
that's dumb. All right, moving on. Oh, yeah,
00:31:59.470 --> 00:32:03.829
more about the Apology Tour, the album and the
00:32:03.829 --> 00:32:08.910
stuff, the soundtrack reformatted edition. I
00:32:08.910 --> 00:32:11.309
love that they're doing this for merchandising.
00:32:11.309 --> 00:32:13.690
I love that they're doing it as a CD. I love
00:32:13.690 --> 00:32:17.230
they're doing it as a LP record. I love they're
00:32:17.230 --> 00:32:19.450
doing it as a cassette. And I love that there's
00:32:19.450 --> 00:32:21.309
a T -shirt, even though I know there's not going
00:32:21.309 --> 00:32:23.390
to be a T -shirt that's going to fit me because
00:32:23.390 --> 00:32:27.210
I need like a 6 or a 7XL. That's fine. I love
00:32:27.210 --> 00:32:29.650
that they're doing it. At this point, I just
00:32:29.650 --> 00:32:32.890
want the digital to hit Spotify or whatever so
00:32:32.890 --> 00:32:37.049
I can at least listen to it. Because I'm curious
00:32:37.049 --> 00:32:40.910
more than anything else. I kind of heard the
00:32:40.910 --> 00:32:43.950
Knights of Unicron featuring Stan Bush digital
00:32:43.950 --> 00:32:48.049
edition for the touch. I didn't really listen
00:32:48.049 --> 00:32:50.329
to it, listen to it because I want the whole
00:32:50.329 --> 00:32:53.970
album to be released on digital so I can listen
00:32:53.970 --> 00:32:57.630
to the whole album. But what this is, is the
00:32:57.630 --> 00:33:03.079
original Transformers, the movie 1986. 10 song
00:33:03.079 --> 00:33:07.220
album. It's not anything else other than that.
00:33:07.279 --> 00:33:11.039
It's just the original album that was released
00:33:11.039 --> 00:33:14.660
with the movie. It's not Vince DeCola's score
00:33:14.660 --> 00:33:17.420
or, you know, the full score from the film. It's
00:33:17.420 --> 00:33:20.759
just the original soundtrack album. So you got
00:33:20.759 --> 00:33:24.119
The Touch, Instruments of Destruction, Death
00:33:24.119 --> 00:33:27.299
of Optimus Prime, Dare. Nothing's going to stand
00:33:27.299 --> 00:33:31.180
in our way. Transformers theme, escape, hunger,
00:33:31.400 --> 00:33:34.299
Autobot Decepticon battle, and dare to be stupid.
00:33:34.700 --> 00:33:39.220
And this is all done by Knights of Unicron. They
00:33:39.220 --> 00:33:43.259
do have some featured artists with the Knights
00:33:43.259 --> 00:33:46.940
of Unicron on specific tracks and things like
00:33:46.940 --> 00:33:51.279
that. Again, I think all the stuff they're doing
00:33:51.279 --> 00:33:54.279
for the 40th anniversary of the movie is awesome.
00:33:55.990 --> 00:33:59.190
Absolutely. I'm in all support of it. It's just
00:33:59.190 --> 00:34:01.869
I'm not going back to see the movie in theaters
00:34:01.869 --> 00:34:06.690
because I already saw it. But, you know, everything
00:34:06.690 --> 00:34:10.429
else I'm in full support of. It's just for me,
00:34:10.610 --> 00:34:15.869
I just need to hear the songs digitally. I don't
00:34:15.869 --> 00:34:18.690
need a physical copy because, I mean, I do have
00:34:18.690 --> 00:34:25.440
a CD player over there. That's fine. uh all the
00:34:25.440 --> 00:34:30.800
i do love all the all the pre -ordered uh um
00:34:30.800 --> 00:34:36.780
vinyls i do love all of them how they're all
00:34:36.780 --> 00:34:39.539
different and i think the target one is the is
00:34:39.539 --> 00:34:43.619
the uh decepticon purple vinyl i think i would
00:34:43.619 --> 00:34:47.800
only buy that just because it's decepticon purple
00:34:47.800 --> 00:34:51.780
and just to have it as a As a display piece,
00:34:51.900 --> 00:34:54.039
even though I don't have a record player. Yeah,
00:34:54.119 --> 00:34:59.340
the target one is Decepticon Purple for the record
00:34:59.340 --> 00:35:06.739
itself. It's $30. Now, I do wish they did more
00:35:06.739 --> 00:35:11.340
with Beast Wars. Yes, that's the other thing
00:35:11.340 --> 00:35:14.679
that's been coming up this year. They are, they
00:35:14.679 --> 00:35:22.039
as in Hasbro, have basically... Seemingly, they're
00:35:22.039 --> 00:35:28.360
all in on the movie 40th promotion, and we're
00:35:28.360 --> 00:35:34.179
already at June. We're six months into the year,
00:35:34.219 --> 00:35:42.320
and there's nothing for Beasties. The year's
00:35:42.320 --> 00:35:45.360
half over, and there's nothing for the 30th anniversary
00:35:45.360 --> 00:35:48.820
for Beasties whatsoever. Or at least that we
00:35:48.820 --> 00:35:51.840
know of. Well, so far, that's what I'm saying.
00:35:52.039 --> 00:35:54.960
The year's half over, and so far, from what I
00:35:54.960 --> 00:36:02.599
can tell, Beasties ain't got nothing. They did
00:36:02.599 --> 00:36:07.840
show off in -hand images of the Sentinel. I did
00:36:07.840 --> 00:36:11.960
want to bring that up, because it does show in
00:36:11.960 --> 00:36:15.480
-hand images of the Golden Disk thing. That's
00:36:15.480 --> 00:36:17.699
the only reason why I wanted to bring it up is
00:36:17.699 --> 00:36:20.340
to see the, because I don't really care about
00:36:20.340 --> 00:36:23.820
seeing the snow plow in hand. The robot mode
00:36:23.820 --> 00:36:27.219
does look really cool, but man, that golden disc
00:36:27.219 --> 00:36:33.159
looks cool. It looks really cool. I'm just waiting
00:36:33.159 --> 00:36:36.380
for somebody to have a 3D print available. Yeah,
00:36:36.480 --> 00:36:45.190
exactly. And it will. Yeah, and it will. that's
00:36:45.190 --> 00:36:49.789
funny yeah and then uh and then of course we
00:36:49.789 --> 00:37:04.489
have we have uh ceo yeah the ceo talking about
00:37:04.489 --> 00:37:08.730
video game initiative which it's it's kind of
00:37:08.730 --> 00:37:13.309
funny because they have these huge ambitions
00:37:13.309 --> 00:37:15.929
around games and yet they canceled transformers
00:37:15.929 --> 00:37:21.449
reactivate it was a snake eyes game it's like
00:37:21.449 --> 00:37:28.010
okay are you figuring out that maybe it wasn't
00:37:28.010 --> 00:37:32.210
a great idea on some of the stuff like i don't
00:37:32.210 --> 00:37:36.949
know like i i still enjoy the older transformers
00:37:36.949 --> 00:37:39.150
games you know i look at the playstation 2 we
00:37:39.150 --> 00:37:42.300
had uh the transformers armada game which was
00:37:42.300 --> 00:37:46.920
probably one of my favorite games outside of
00:37:46.920 --> 00:37:51.079
War for Cybertron. Oh, yeah, absolutely. I loved
00:37:51.079 --> 00:37:54.179
that game. It was difficult, but I loved that
00:37:54.179 --> 00:37:56.760
game. And the Beast Wars game was atrocious,
00:37:56.820 --> 00:37:58.820
but it was great when you played online on the
00:37:58.820 --> 00:38:03.300
MSN Gaming Zone four -player deathmatch. I was
00:38:03.300 --> 00:38:07.440
good at that. But because the game was so terrible
00:38:07.440 --> 00:38:11.360
and it was on dial -up, I was really good at
00:38:11.360 --> 00:38:16.460
it. Cause lag was an awesome thing for me. Cause
00:38:16.460 --> 00:38:20.820
I had a 56 K modem and mine actually went 56
00:38:20.820 --> 00:38:27.300
K. But yeah, I don't know. Like the, the stuff
00:38:27.300 --> 00:38:29.019
I was seeing for the reactivate looked really
00:38:29.019 --> 00:38:31.800
good and I was kind of hoping for it. I, you
00:38:31.800 --> 00:38:35.280
know, we have reported on like stuff about steam
00:38:35.280 --> 00:38:37.440
or some of these other sources possibly getting
00:38:37.440 --> 00:38:40.800
access to the war for cyber trying games again.
00:38:41.530 --> 00:38:46.070
Yeah. Because there's no way to get them at the
00:38:46.070 --> 00:38:53.929
moment. But yeah, I don't know. I think they
00:38:53.929 --> 00:38:59.530
need to figure out where their focus is. Yep.
00:38:59.610 --> 00:39:02.030
Because even some of their toys, like I mean,
00:39:02.050 --> 00:39:05.130
and I've said this for years, they overproduce
00:39:05.130 --> 00:39:10.369
stuff that is shelf warmers. and they underproduce
00:39:10.369 --> 00:39:12.170
the stuff that's going to actually sell off the
00:39:12.170 --> 00:39:17.690
shelf. Yep, pretty much. The crossover is only
00:39:17.690 --> 00:39:20.690
hit for people that want that stuff. Like, I'm
00:39:20.690 --> 00:39:24.230
only interested in that frequency because transformed
00:39:24.230 --> 00:39:27.670
into robot mode, he looks almost like my Ultimis
00:39:27.670 --> 00:39:33.489
Prime mascot. Yep. And in that initiative, I'm
00:39:33.489 --> 00:39:37.389
all for it. But... Like I don't care about stranger
00:39:37.389 --> 00:39:40.409
things at all. I just, the design fits really
00:39:40.409 --> 00:39:46.789
well with my initiative there. Uh, so yeah, I
00:39:46.789 --> 00:39:51.110
don't know. I, um, it'll be interesting to see
00:39:51.110 --> 00:39:55.130
what they do, but I, I don't, I don't foresee
00:39:55.130 --> 00:40:01.349
anything good coming out of it. Um, now I, I
00:40:01.349 --> 00:40:03.309
will say, cause there has been some beast war
00:40:03.309 --> 00:40:06.789
stuff. Uh, just, we didn't, Put it in our...
00:40:06.789 --> 00:40:12.329
I got it. The Yolo Park Megatron and Blackarachnia.
00:40:13.309 --> 00:40:16.590
We'll get to that one in a minute. The Takara
00:40:16.590 --> 00:40:21.170
New Legends has Beast Wars 2 Galvatron. Ah, okay.
00:40:21.690 --> 00:40:24.090
It's an entirely new mold. It looks just like
00:40:24.090 --> 00:40:27.329
him. It's a pretty awesome figure, actually.
00:40:29.070 --> 00:40:31.969
They dropped images to that. They're also going
00:40:31.969 --> 00:40:35.000
to be releasing... more Beast Wars 2 figures,
00:40:35.159 --> 00:40:40.900
one of them being Megastorm. And if you are not
00:40:40.900 --> 00:40:43.260
familiar with Megastorm, he's supposed to be
00:40:43.260 --> 00:40:47.559
the brother of Gigastorm or Galvatron in this.
00:40:48.219 --> 00:40:55.659
Beast Wars 2 Galvatron. He's basically G2 or
00:40:55.659 --> 00:41:00.349
a G2 Megatron, like the tank. right right which
00:41:00.349 --> 00:41:02.929
means we're gonna get a proper g2 megatron tank
00:41:02.929 --> 00:41:09.949
nice instead of like i mean i i took the uh forget
00:41:09.949 --> 00:41:11.650
what it was called at the time they were the
00:41:11.650 --> 00:41:17.090
they weren't legends they were something else
00:41:17.090 --> 00:41:20.969
universe line i don't know uh it was a world
00:41:20.969 --> 00:41:24.369
for cybertron repaint of g1 megatron into g2
00:41:24.369 --> 00:41:30.059
megatron and in order to make him comic accurate
00:41:30.059 --> 00:41:34.019
i 3d printed his shoulder holster i bought the
00:41:34.019 --> 00:41:38.739
chest plate on ebay and then did all the little
00:41:38.739 --> 00:41:42.880
3d print add -ons and some decal packs and now
00:41:42.880 --> 00:41:47.300
he looks like g2 megatron uh may not get that
00:41:47.300 --> 00:41:51.780
when it comes out but we'll we'll see uh there
00:41:51.780 --> 00:41:54.980
was also the mpg line uh drop that they're doing
00:41:54.980 --> 00:42:02.039
a dark designs rhinox Oh, interesting. The silver
00:42:02.039 --> 00:42:06.019
for the for the chest and for the head. And it
00:42:06.019 --> 00:42:08.559
looks like the show like they repainted him.
00:42:09.639 --> 00:42:11.719
Because they call him Decepticon version, even
00:42:11.719 --> 00:42:14.360
though he's Predacon. But right. Yeah, this dark
00:42:14.360 --> 00:42:16.179
designs Rhinox. So he comes with all the stuff,
00:42:16.260 --> 00:42:18.440
but then it's got the mutant face attached to
00:42:18.440 --> 00:42:22.440
the head. Nice. So it opens up so you can cover
00:42:22.440 --> 00:42:24.639
it up, too. But all the inverted colors that
00:42:24.639 --> 00:42:28.250
are there for the Predacon version. are on this
00:42:28.250 --> 00:42:30.789
figure and it, it looks pretty stinking neat.
00:42:31.489 --> 00:42:35.289
Um, just what they decided to go with on it.
00:42:35.489 --> 00:42:38.750
So, uh, I don't own the trend. I don't own the,
00:42:38.750 --> 00:42:44.469
uh, the masterpiece one of, of Rhinox. I've got
00:42:44.469 --> 00:42:49.730
a number of them. I've got like a primal and
00:42:49.730 --> 00:42:54.130
Cheetor and Megatron. Uh, and I've got rat trap
00:42:54.130 --> 00:42:59.780
on the way. Uh, for masterpiece uh and then i've
00:42:59.780 --> 00:43:03.659
got the knockoff like transmittal rat trap primal
00:43:03.659 --> 00:43:10.000
and megatron for masterpiece but rhinox isn't
00:43:10.000 --> 00:43:14.800
one like i've got the uh thrilling 30 right yeah
00:43:14.800 --> 00:43:18.139
so like i don't really feel the need for it yeah
00:43:18.139 --> 00:43:22.860
but uh yeah i i think this is cool though i i
00:43:24.449 --> 00:43:27.630
If you're trying to complete the set, this is
00:43:27.630 --> 00:43:29.769
another way to do a repaint and legitimately
00:43:29.769 --> 00:43:32.409
actually make it something that people might
00:43:32.409 --> 00:43:39.090
want. Yep. So. Excited for that. And then Robot
00:43:39.090 --> 00:43:44.210
Toys has been doing a lot of masterpiece. Some
00:43:44.210 --> 00:43:46.190
of them legend scale, some of the masterpiece
00:43:46.190 --> 00:43:50.849
scale, but they did a Waspinator one. They call
00:43:50.849 --> 00:43:55.940
him Beedrill. Oh, God. And which is a Pokemon
00:43:55.940 --> 00:44:01.960
name. Yeah. But what's cool about him is, I mean,
00:44:01.960 --> 00:44:04.920
he's not 100 % accurate. Like the joints are
00:44:04.920 --> 00:44:07.960
kind of goofy. And at some point, Hasbro will
00:44:07.960 --> 00:44:14.099
tackle it. But it's got the translucent eyes
00:44:14.099 --> 00:44:19.159
on the head of Waspinator in both beast and robot
00:44:19.159 --> 00:44:24.750
mode. It's also got the translucent wings. It's
00:44:24.750 --> 00:44:29.750
got a nice metallic look to it. Very posable.
00:44:29.889 --> 00:44:34.829
He's got all his little gear. And then you can
00:44:34.829 --> 00:44:39.070
actually pop off his hands and his head and have
00:44:39.070 --> 00:44:41.929
it so that his hand drags the head along. Oh,
00:44:41.989 --> 00:44:45.969
wow. Like like in the show. And he scales with
00:44:45.969 --> 00:44:51.360
the robot toys. Scorponok. Which to scale, they
00:44:51.360 --> 00:44:54.280
do scale well with the Masterpiece Megatron.
00:44:54.739 --> 00:44:59.139
Oh, very cool. Now he is bigger than the Deluxe
00:44:59.139 --> 00:45:01.219
Class Tarantulas because they have a shot of
00:45:01.219 --> 00:45:05.119
him in the promo stuff of Waspinator shooting
00:45:05.119 --> 00:45:07.380
Tarantulas and he's holding Tarantulas with his
00:45:07.380 --> 00:45:12.940
other hand and he's tiny. Oh no. So I was half
00:45:12.940 --> 00:45:14.619
tempted for this because I'm like, I really love
00:45:14.619 --> 00:45:16.659
Waspinator, but again, I have the Thrilling 30
00:45:16.659 --> 00:45:19.780
and I repainted it and I'm like. I don't want
00:45:19.780 --> 00:45:24.860
to spend $150. $50, I would have definitely gone
00:45:24.860 --> 00:45:28.880
this direction and purchased it, which is the
00:45:28.880 --> 00:45:31.900
only reason I got a knockoff rat trap coming,
00:45:32.000 --> 00:45:36.280
which is the only reason I'm getting them. $150
00:45:36.280 --> 00:45:39.500
for a rat trap just seemed ridiculous when you
00:45:39.500 --> 00:45:44.960
could get Cheetor for like $80. Man, some of
00:45:44.960 --> 00:45:47.860
these prices, man, just... i'm like where do
00:45:47.860 --> 00:45:50.800
they get them like like yeah i can understand
00:45:50.800 --> 00:45:53.579
some of them like primal was 130 when i bought
00:45:53.579 --> 00:45:58.539
them like originally in 2016 yeah and i was like
00:45:58.539 --> 00:46:02.059
okay i get it megatron was like 300 or something
00:46:02.059 --> 00:46:07.760
and like 280 and so i was like so i got the knockoff
00:46:07.760 --> 00:46:13.500
for like 90 I would gladly buy the official,
00:46:13.639 --> 00:46:16.059
except it also did not have the voice of David
00:46:16.059 --> 00:46:24.079
Kaye in the figure. Moving from these into the
00:46:24.079 --> 00:46:29.260
Yolo Park, Optimus Primal and Dinobot have already
00:46:29.260 --> 00:46:33.219
been released and come out. Now we have Blackarachnia
00:46:33.219 --> 00:46:41.429
and Megatron. Good old grapeface. it's funny
00:46:41.429 --> 00:46:43.530
because i'm looking at these and i'm like okay
00:46:43.530 --> 00:46:47.250
he's pretty similar to the masterpiece uh -huh
00:46:47.250 --> 00:46:50.769
like pretty stinking similar i like that you
00:46:50.769 --> 00:46:53.849
can pop off the panels uh the other thing i was
00:46:53.849 --> 00:46:56.769
kind of looking at is uh aside from the fact
00:46:56.769 --> 00:46:59.630
you can pop the panels off is is i'm going okay
00:46:59.630 --> 00:47:03.030
but if he's not masterpiece scale because i don't
00:47:03.030 --> 00:47:08.840
know what scale these are um it's It's a fun
00:47:08.840 --> 00:47:18.780
little display piece. Plus, I would want to own
00:47:18.780 --> 00:47:25.480
it because it's Megatron. Yeah. My brief pause
00:47:25.480 --> 00:47:28.300
was because I'm looking up the Yolo Park Primal
00:47:28.300 --> 00:47:30.940
and Dinobot. They're both 7 .87 inches tall,
00:47:31.059 --> 00:47:36.079
so I'm assuming Megatron might be about 9. Yeah.
00:47:36.650 --> 00:47:40.289
Just for height purposes. But yeah, I do like
00:47:40.289 --> 00:47:44.789
the fact that these are model kits. Yep. And
00:47:44.789 --> 00:47:47.789
they're very articulated. You can pose them.
00:47:47.849 --> 00:47:49.329
You can do all kinds of stuff with them. They
00:47:49.329 --> 00:47:52.570
have diecasts, PVC and, you know, the ABS. They
00:47:52.570 --> 00:47:56.869
have accessories. They have all these these cool
00:47:56.869 --> 00:48:01.610
little points, you know, alternate faces, extra,
00:48:01.769 --> 00:48:04.690
you know, components. Well, now wait a minute
00:48:04.690 --> 00:48:10.010
here. So these are the next installments in Yolo
00:48:10.010 --> 00:48:14.230
Park's AMK Beast Wars line. This is the AMK line.
00:48:14.489 --> 00:48:17.909
This is not the AMK Pro line. So the difference
00:48:17.909 --> 00:48:22.070
is there is no diecast or LEDs in the AMK line.
00:48:22.070 --> 00:48:24.329
That's what the BTS has. They don't have LED.
00:48:24.429 --> 00:48:28.769
It says there's small amount of diecast. Oh,
00:48:28.769 --> 00:48:32.750
okay. Well, this on TFW says there's no die cast
00:48:32.750 --> 00:48:35.269
in them at all. I'm reading from BBTS and they
00:48:35.269 --> 00:48:38.809
get it directly from the source. TFW is not always
00:48:38.809 --> 00:48:45.949
accurate. No, no, no. Just... Okay. Yeah. And
00:48:45.949 --> 00:48:47.710
I know that it's MK and they don't come with
00:48:47.710 --> 00:48:51.309
a lot of the features I don't expect fully light
00:48:51.309 --> 00:48:55.349
up or any of that crap. But it does say like
00:48:55.349 --> 00:48:57.610
Dinobot, for instance, comes with, you know,
00:48:57.980 --> 00:49:01.360
two faces alternate pair of eyes shield sword
00:49:01.360 --> 00:49:05.159
and spear and primal comes with like two interchangeable
00:49:05.159 --> 00:49:09.179
hands two alternate faces and two swords so yeah
00:49:09.179 --> 00:49:14.039
i'll be interested to see what uh megatron comes
00:49:14.039 --> 00:49:16.000
with i mean it looks like it comes with an extra
00:49:16.000 --> 00:49:21.219
hand with a toothbrush uh yeah a lot of his gear
00:49:21.219 --> 00:49:26.750
comes off yep I mean, I'm probably going to get
00:49:26.750 --> 00:49:31.469
it just, I mean, I think it, I'm probably going
00:49:31.469 --> 00:49:33.010
to get it. I'm not, I'm not going to lie. And
00:49:33.010 --> 00:49:35.809
if for 40 bucks to like build a, a model kit
00:49:35.809 --> 00:49:40.050
of Megatron, I'm yeah. Yeah. Honestly, it'll
00:49:40.050 --> 00:49:42.170
probably end up on my floating wall behind me.
00:49:42.690 --> 00:49:47.090
Yup. Um, my floating display wall, it'll probably
00:49:47.090 --> 00:49:49.269
end up there. Cause I've got a number of Megatrons
00:49:49.269 --> 00:49:51.710
in my cabinet, you know, beast machines and beast
00:49:51.710 --> 00:49:55.389
wars pre beast. Yup. Um, all kinds of stuff so
00:49:55.389 --> 00:49:59.250
i'm i'm a huge megatron fan obviously uh the
00:49:59.250 --> 00:50:01.730
black arachnia is tempting too because one i
00:50:01.730 --> 00:50:03.309
get rid of the war for cybertron one because
00:50:03.309 --> 00:50:07.110
it just looked chintzy yeah uh and i don't have
00:50:07.110 --> 00:50:12.010
one now to go with the rest of my my stuff and
00:50:12.010 --> 00:50:17.210
uh and it always bothered me because like now
00:50:17.210 --> 00:50:20.110
of course you can buy the the big predacon set
00:50:20.110 --> 00:50:24.030
with all of them and they're show accurate I
00:50:24.030 --> 00:50:27.670
don't care to transform these so it doesn't bother
00:50:27.670 --> 00:50:32.409
me that they don't transform yeah and it is show
00:50:32.409 --> 00:50:37.909
accurate so it's like is what it is you know
00:50:37.909 --> 00:50:46.230
but yeah I'm super excited for these can't wait
00:50:46.230 --> 00:50:49.690
to see when they you know drop information and
00:50:49.690 --> 00:50:53.159
when they're coming out Yeah, I thought they
00:50:53.159 --> 00:50:55.199
would have done that already, but I guess not.
00:50:55.880 --> 00:50:59.059
It's probably coming. Probably. I don't think
00:50:59.059 --> 00:51:03.500
we're that far off at this point. Comic -Con
00:51:03.500 --> 00:51:07.960
is next month already, so. That's crazy. SDCC,
00:51:08.099 --> 00:51:14.800
baby. 2026. Holy crap. Holy crap, it's 2026.
00:51:15.219 --> 00:51:19.519
All right. And to. Close out the show, we've
00:51:19.519 --> 00:51:24.300
got Skybound Entertainment, Transformers, comic
00:51:24.300 --> 00:51:29.159
solicitations. So, coming up next week, June
00:51:29.159 --> 00:51:34.099
10th, we've got Transformers number 33, Optimus'
00:51:34.239 --> 00:51:37.900
new Nautobot team, because they are Nautobots,
00:51:37.900 --> 00:51:41.219
according to Alita 1, because they were no longer
00:51:41.219 --> 00:51:44.619
gonna be Autobots if they didn't follow her to
00:51:44.619 --> 00:51:48.469
Cybertron, so... New team of Autobots remain
00:51:48.469 --> 00:51:52.889
on Earth under Optimus' leadership, but can they
00:51:52.889 --> 00:51:56.090
come together after a battle between Optimus
00:51:56.090 --> 00:52:00.230
and Alita? So that's what's coming up this month.
00:52:00.610 --> 00:52:07.670
In July, comics grow there. Who is Dr. Henry
00:52:07.670 --> 00:52:11.750
Archivale? Optimus' team must help General Flag
00:52:11.750 --> 00:52:15.210
with a new mission that brings them face -to
00:52:15.210 --> 00:52:18.840
-face with the man. who may have discovered a
00:52:18.840 --> 00:52:22.539
way for humanity to fight back against Autobot
00:52:22.539 --> 00:52:25.480
and Decepticon alike. That'll be released July
00:52:25.480 --> 00:52:32.500
8th for Transformers number 34. And then in August,
00:52:32.760 --> 00:52:39.119
on August 12th, just a few days past the 40th
00:52:39.119 --> 00:52:43.460
anniversary of the film, We have Transformers
00:52:43.460 --> 00:52:47.920
number 35, Wheeljack, toils away on secret projects
00:52:47.920 --> 00:52:52.619
in his lab inside the Cybertronian Shard, unaware
00:52:52.619 --> 00:52:56.320
of the utter chaos unfolding as the remaining
00:52:56.320 --> 00:52:59.539
Autobots defend against an all -out assault from
00:52:59.539 --> 00:53:03.599
the Decepticons. Dun, dun, dun. Now, that's just
00:53:03.599 --> 00:53:06.219
the Skybound Energon Universe stuff. We also
00:53:06.219 --> 00:53:14.739
have issue... No, we have issues one that just
00:53:14.739 --> 00:53:19.900
came out of the movie adaptation. We have issue
00:53:19.900 --> 00:53:22.719
two that's coming out in July and then issue
00:53:22.719 --> 00:53:25.659
three will be coming out in August. But the trade
00:53:25.659 --> 00:53:28.940
paperback collecting all three issues of the
00:53:28.940 --> 00:53:33.860
40th anniversary edition of the movie comic will
00:53:33.860 --> 00:53:38.079
be collected in trade on August 12th. So that's
00:53:38.079 --> 00:53:42.440
what I'm waiting on. I'm not covering the individual
00:53:42.440 --> 00:53:46.760
issues. I'm going to cover the trade. So that's
00:53:46.760 --> 00:53:54.960
what's going on in comics news for the Transformers
00:53:54.960 --> 00:54:02.519
comics. There you go, folks. Yep, yep, yep. So
00:54:02.519 --> 00:54:09.679
I'm interested, honestly, to hear what People
00:54:09.679 --> 00:54:15.900
are. Excited for with. The Transformers stuff
00:54:15.900 --> 00:54:19.119
coming up this year, like some of the toys, is
00:54:19.119 --> 00:54:23.719
it some of the MK line? Is it the comics? Is
00:54:23.719 --> 00:54:29.699
it the 40th anniversary? It's. It's it's definitely
00:54:29.699 --> 00:54:34.119
not a boring year with Transformers. Oh, no,
00:54:34.179 --> 00:54:42.760
definitely not. Definitely not. Yeah. So I think
00:54:42.760 --> 00:54:45.440
that about rounds out this episode of things.
00:54:46.159 --> 00:54:49.980
Transformers. Do you have anything that you want
00:54:49.980 --> 00:54:55.679
to plug as far as Transformers content? It's
00:54:55.679 --> 00:54:58.820
not my own stuff, but I will plug my buddy Mike
00:54:58.820 --> 00:55:03.199
Seibert and his program. Mike Seibert radio program.
00:55:03.300 --> 00:55:08.420
He is doing. A series called the 40 for 40. And
00:55:08.420 --> 00:55:12.420
he is going through the, his favorite movie of
00:55:12.420 --> 00:55:16.699
all time is Transformers. The movie he's going
00:55:16.699 --> 00:55:20.239
through it section by section, scene by scene,
00:55:20.360 --> 00:55:23.320
not minute by minute or anything like that, but
00:55:23.320 --> 00:55:27.079
he's going through and he's doing various bits
00:55:27.079 --> 00:55:29.599
and it's going to take him all year long to do
00:55:29.599 --> 00:55:33.650
this. And I just find it fascinating that he's
00:55:33.650 --> 00:55:37.750
doing this and it's just a fun listen. He's bringing
00:55:37.750 --> 00:55:42.030
in, he's comparing like what the script, what
00:55:42.030 --> 00:55:44.630
the previous versions of the Flint Dilley and
00:55:44.630 --> 00:55:47.610
the Ron Freeman scripts were to what the actual
00:55:47.610 --> 00:55:50.969
movie is. He's playing recordings from the Lady
00:55:50.969 --> 00:55:54.750
Bird books, whatever the hell. No, seriously,
00:55:55.030 --> 00:55:58.699
dude, like. we know what the movie is like we've
00:55:58.699 --> 00:56:02.800
known what the movie is for 40 years and i love
00:56:02.800 --> 00:56:06.860
the movie just as much as anyone else does but
00:56:06.860 --> 00:56:11.320
like he loves the movie like i've never seen
00:56:11.320 --> 00:56:14.960
anyone love this movie and he loves every aspect
00:56:14.960 --> 00:56:18.559
of it and i love learning about it through him
00:56:18.559 --> 00:56:22.840
and i had never heard these lit like the closest
00:56:22.840 --> 00:56:27.059
i came to an alternate version of transformers
00:56:27.059 --> 00:56:31.179
the movie was wheelie the wild boy of quintesson
00:56:31.179 --> 00:56:34.599
the the the book the light the the the storybook
00:56:34.599 --> 00:56:37.769
thing that i did with you on this show once a
00:56:37.769 --> 00:56:41.170
couple years ago go search out that episode folks
00:56:41.170 --> 00:56:45.010
it's on the podcast somewhere here uh but like
00:56:45.010 --> 00:56:47.909
that was the closest alternative version i knew
00:56:47.909 --> 00:56:50.570
of and obviously i knew there were multiple versions
00:56:50.570 --> 00:56:54.909
of the script wherever else but like It's very
00:56:54.909 --> 00:56:57.869
interesting listening to him go through this
00:56:57.869 --> 00:57:01.690
and listening to how he's experiencing it and
00:57:01.690 --> 00:57:04.610
the emotional ups and downs that he goes through
00:57:04.610 --> 00:57:08.210
as he's doing this. And I think we just finished.
00:57:12.489 --> 00:57:16.730
Unusual allies that that part of the movie, I
00:57:16.730 --> 00:57:20.090
think I don't remember. I don't have my phone
00:57:20.090 --> 00:57:23.650
out here. It's on the it's. On the charger in
00:57:23.650 --> 00:57:28.510
my bedroom, I'll have to get it for next time.
00:57:28.590 --> 00:57:31.150
But yeah, go check out Mike's Cybert radio program.
00:57:31.469 --> 00:57:35.030
He's an awesome dude. He also does Two Mics,
00:57:35.050 --> 00:57:37.469
Two Furious with his buddy Michael Andrews, where
00:57:37.469 --> 00:57:40.309
they reviewed all of Transformers Animated, just
00:57:40.309 --> 00:57:44.250
like we did back in the day on Transformation
00:57:44.250 --> 00:57:47.889
Animation. But yeah, I love that guy. He's awesome.
00:57:49.039 --> 00:57:51.300
So there you go, folks. There's other promotion
00:57:51.300 --> 00:57:54.579
besides our own stuff that we've done here on
00:57:54.579 --> 00:57:57.219
the Geekcast Radio Network for the past 17 years.
00:57:57.780 --> 00:58:05.280
4 ,500 episodes. It's insane. Over 40 shows in
00:58:05.280 --> 00:58:10.820
17 years. We've got something for everybody.
00:58:11.639 --> 00:58:15.800
We really do. I'm going to make it a lot easier
00:58:15.800 --> 00:58:19.449
in the new site, too. Yes, obviously. yes there'll
00:58:19.449 --> 00:58:25.670
be ways to find it trust me yes um so yeah you
00:58:25.670 --> 00:58:28.050
get a podcast you get a podcast and you get a
00:58:28.050 --> 00:58:29.909
you get a podcast yeah there's actually going
00:58:29.909 --> 00:58:32.889
to be a nice little transformers hub yes yes
00:58:32.889 --> 00:58:36.429
there is uh like basically it won't get canceled
00:58:36.429 --> 00:58:40.750
yeah a subsection of transformers on the website
00:58:40.750 --> 00:58:45.690
so it'll be fun yes there'll be bots there uh
00:58:45.690 --> 00:58:49.809
and cons too Yes. Thank you as always for listening
00:58:49.809 --> 00:58:53.190
to all things Transformers. Until next time.
00:58:53.949 --> 00:59:00.469
Transform and transcend. Yes. You can also roll
00:59:00.469 --> 00:59:05.150
out if you prefer. Yes.
