Transformers 40th Anniversary and 2027 Toy Updates

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Hi, this is Jim Meskimen, and you are listening
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to the Geekcast Radio Network. Hello and welcome
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to All Things Transformers. I'm your host, Steve
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Megatron, and joining me on this adventure into
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the Transformers fandom is TFG1 Mike. You know,
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there was this one time where there was only
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a dark awakening, and there was a zombie Optimus
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Prime after they killed him 40 years ago. I just
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watched that. I was like trying to explain it
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to my kids. I was like, you know that Prime came
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back once before the return of Optimus Prime.
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And I was like, Zombie Prime. Revived by the
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Quintessons. It's a Quintesson trap. Do not believe
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them. Yes, exactly. Yeah, so it was an interesting
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episode, to say the least. It was like a bait
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and switch, too, I'm sure, for the kids of the
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80s, watching that go down. Being like, oh, they
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brought Optimus back, and then they're like,
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ha ha ha, he's a zombie, he's not actually alive.
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Yeah, no. Exactly. And people wonder why I'm
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not into zombies nowadays, because zombies ruined,
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well, Technically, fake tentacle robots ruined
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Optimus Prime for me by turning him into a zombie
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when I was a kid. There you go. That's why I
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don't like zombies now. Although I am very interested
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in this new Optimus Prime awakening clip, which
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begs to wonder if this is like a post -death
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scenario. or he's like in the other side of the
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matrix if it's like a what else you know an else
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world type story or you know it it'll be interesting
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to see where they go with this i think it's meant
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to before mr cullen passed away i think it was
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meant as A teaser for something. I think that's
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what it is. Now that he is no longer with us,
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I think it is meant as a standalone 12 minute
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short of the way it's stuck in my head. And I'm
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probably going to send you the audio because
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I can't do it justice. But all is I have in my
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head is. Well then Joker, I guess I get to do
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the thing. I, you know, I, I guess I get to do,
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you know, I, I get to go out by being, but like
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all I have stuck in my head is the end of a crisis
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on infinite earths where Joker and Batman are
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going up against each other for one final time.
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And it's Mark and it's, I go out being Batman.
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Yeah. And it's, it's him punching the timeline.
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It's him punching the Joker and it's Mark and
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it's Kevin. And it's Kevin Conroy's final voice
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performance as Batman. That's all I have in my
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head when I think about whatever this 12 -minute
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short is going to be. And I'm glad that Hasbro
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has finally revealed what this is going to be,
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because I'm so happy I was so wrong as to what
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this... Because my buddy Mike Seibert of the
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Mike Seibert Radio podcast and Two Mics Too Furious
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and all the stuff that he does. I'm glad. The
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trailer that we saw, the amazing trailer that
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they did for the 40th anniversary back in theaters.
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one shall stand one the way they the way they
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re -edited and redid the trailer for the 40th
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that is one of the best re -edits of a trailer
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i have ever seen and how they did so good but
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the ending to that trailer is oh but it's kind
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of like it's like a duke scene from gi joe where
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it's like well is he alive Yeah, but it is, but
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it's one of those things where at the end of
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it, it's kind of like, but wait one more, just
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one more thing. It's kind of like a, the kind
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of like pull the Steve jobs on us, even though
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Steve jobs hasn't been with us for years now
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anyway, but it's kind of like a, like an Apple
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product end video thing, but wait, there's just
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one more thing kind of thing. And you're right.
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They kind of, but the way they did it and the
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way what they showed it. All it reminded me of
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was, oh, let me guess, that's an advertisement
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for a new Robosyn sleep mode Optimus Prime or
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a dead Optimus Prime for a new $1 ,000, $3 ,000
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Robosyn gray Optimus Prime figure that no one's
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going to be able to afford. You know, the super
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robotic Robosyn figures, etc. Because really,
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that's what I thought. I thought it was an advertisement
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for some new figure of that caliber of Robosyn
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caliber. I just thought it was an advertisement.
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And I can safely say now that we know more about
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what this 12 minute, it's going to be a 12 minute
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short, supposedly either continuing on or continuing
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the adventure. Of course, continuing the adventure
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was before Peter had passed on. You know, I'm
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glad that Hasbro finally revealed details of
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what it actually is. And I'm kind of glad that
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it's the way that Hasbro is currently marketing.
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It is come out to theaters September 17th. I
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think it's 17th to the 21st. I don't have that
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information in front of me, but I'm the 24th.
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Okay. But, yeah, I mean, I got I got tickets
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for the 20th. Cool, cool. But the way they're
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marketing it is come out to see Transformers
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the movie for the 40th anniversary in theaters
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and make sure you stay after the movie to see
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the 12 minute short Optimus Prime Awakening.
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So they are marketing it as. Come to see the
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movie in theaters if you haven't before for its
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40th anniversary and stay for the event that
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is Optimus Prime Awakening. They are not marketing
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it as come to see Transformers the movie plus
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the new ending to the movie Optimus Prime Awakening.
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They are marketing it as Come see the movie which
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you know and love and have known and loved for
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the past 40 years. And this new thing which is
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separate from what you've known for the past
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40 years. So it's almost like you're getting
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two shows for the price of one. True. I mean,
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I'm just excited to be able to see it in theater
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to begin with. Absolutely. And, you know. When
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I say this, I don't say this to be a Debbie Downer
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or a Decepticon Downer. I've already had my theatrical
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experience with the movie. I had it for the 35th
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anniversary. I'm good. I've got the pre -order.
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I'm assuming the 12 -minute short Optimus Awakening
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will be on the physical media sets. Again, I
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will reference because we three mics talk all
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the time in our group chat. Cybert pointed out
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that we all hope that Hasbro only puts Optimus
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Prime Awakening on the physical media releases
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and does not put it on. Like, it's fine to put
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this this like. 35 second clip. of the thing
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on their YouTube channel, do not put the 12 minute
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short on your YouTube channel. Put this on the
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release of the movie for people to buy the physical
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media. Don't put it on your YouTube channel for
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people to watch it because I think that defeats
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the purpose of having people go to see it in
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theaters. Now me, I, I already pre -ordered the
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40th anniversary set. Because I can't get to
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the theater kind of thing. So I'm already buying
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the 40th anniversary set anyway. But I'm assuming
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this will be a bonus feature on there. It will.
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But I don't think that Hasbro should put Optimus
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Prime Awakening on their YouTube channel, even
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for premium members. Like, even if you pay for
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YouTube premium, I don't think this should be
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on YouTube at all. I agree with you. Should not
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be. Because, you know, it's going to happen even
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if it is on YouTube for premium members exclusively.
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Even as a premium member, you can still hit that
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download button and you could go put it else.
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Not that you should. Don't do that. That's wrong.
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but you know what i mean there are people out
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there that would do that that like we don't i
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don't want this thing even though i'm sure people
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will do this because you know it's how the way
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the world of the internet works i want this thing
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to be on exclusive discs only like if you want
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to see optimus prime awakening if you're able
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to do so Get your ass out of the house and go
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to the theater. If you're not able to do so,
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like me, wait until November when the physical
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media release releases. But yeah, the 35 second
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clip. Very cool. I'm not exactly sure why this
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is in the clip. This will be in the show notes,
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folks. Not exactly sure why Bumblebee is wearing
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a Decepticon symbol. Shattered glass. Yeah, yeah.
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Galva Bumblebee. Galva bug. Wow. All righty then.
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He's got the horns of Galvatron. Yeah, yeah,
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yeah. Yeah, that's true. It's very true. And
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then to... That's, uh, yeah, to, uh, piggyback
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off of this, uh, we got a one, two punch of 40th
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anniversary movie things before we move into
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the 2027 info, but, uh, the, um, 40th anniversary
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early world premiere. Thanks to board members,
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LRJ 2007 and Drew ski. along with some Reddit
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user, whatever, whatever, a couple of Reddit
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users. Images and information about the recent
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Transformers, the movie 40th anniversary early
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world premiere. This was a limited event organized
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by Hasbro Collider. Oh, so Hasbro's in bed with
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Valnet. Yay. And again, who? Yeah, that's why
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my sarcasm. Yay. Of course, who isn't in bed
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with Val Nant? We aren't, thank God. Well, I
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mean, a lot of people used to be in bed with
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them, but... Yeah, no. They used to do porn.
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Yeah, exactly. And along with Fathom Entertainment
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in California. So what this... Obviously, it's
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an early world premiere screening. Limited event.
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The screening had some rules for the guests.
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First, no spoiler embargo. Oh, that's interesting.
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Second, they got to watch it early. In exchange,
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had to consent to being filmed to do post -screen
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interviews so that they can use the footage on
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social media. Guests were able to watch the new
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Optimus Prime Awakening short film as well. The
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short animation is 3D, but looked like 2D. So
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that's freaking... As much as I like the story
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of the Spider -Verse films, I hate the Spider
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-Verse films for doing this whole 2D, 3D combo
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of animation. That's the one thing I don't like
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about Optimus Prime Awakening. is in the animation.
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Most of it looks 3D, but the effects of it, like
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when Soundwave shoots at him and the blasts hit
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Optimus, the smoke effects are all 2D smoke.
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That's just ugly. Don't do that. Pick 2D or 3D
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and stick with it. There was a Q &A with the
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director of the event, too. The director of the
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short film said, This was a labor of love spearheaded
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by Zeb Foreman of Hasbro Films. Some Studio Series
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Deluxe toys were given away to the audience,
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to the attendants, one figure per person, including
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Kranix, Sunstreaker, Windcharger, and Wheeljack,
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for example. Optimus Prime Awakening official
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posters were also given away. So, yeah, very,
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very cool. Anyone who lives out there in the
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sunburnt state of California who got to got to
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attend the early premiere of Transformers, the
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Transformers, the movie. There you go. So, yeah,
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this. This this particular. Part of the movie
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stuff. Mm hmm. I'm excited for the disc. Yep.
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Because of, you know, various Q &As, various,
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you know, the clip. But I also have the 20th
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anniversary DVD and the 35th anniversary Blu
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-ray. Yeah, I've got the... I've turned away
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from the microphone because I'm trying to find
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the dang thing, which... Should be easy enough
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because it's the fifth one down and it's still
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in it. Yeah, I have the 4K Ultra Blu -ray. Which
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one is this? The year is 2005. 4K Restoration.
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I don't even know which one this is. This is
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the one with the... Yeah, I mean, I have the
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4K Ultra HD and the Blu -ray. Two discs set.
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Yep. From five years ago. But I remember buying
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the 20th anniversary version at like Kmart. Oh,
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yeah. 20 years ago. Yeah. I bought this and it
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had two discs. It had the theatrical and the
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full version. And I don't know if you know this.
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They had you remember the Scramble City commercials?
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Oh, yeah. Yep. So we tried to get, like, I think,
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and I'd have to go back and look, the Scramble
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City episode. I want to say that was our fan
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dub. Yeah. I think it was. Which, if it was,
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and I'd have to go back and look at the disc,
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if it was, I was in it. Yeah. Very cool. So.
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I just watched Scrambled City, the episode, the
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fandom earlier with my kids. And they were like,
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wait, you were in this? And I was like, yeah.
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Yeah. I was like, I played Blades and I played
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Superion in it. So, yeah. I don't know. I'm excited
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to see this, even though this will be like third
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time's a charm, like triple dipping. yeah i'm
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kind of done after this i'm a little irritated
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that they keep re -releasing it like this like
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every five years um like i get the 20th anniversary
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get like 40th you know 35th i was kind of like
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is this really necessary but i mean i get it
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technology and stuff changes really the only
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reason i want this is because of the awakening
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clip yeah I don't like, I feel like the 35th
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anniversary is perfect. Like you got the 4k restoration,
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you got, you know, uh, some of the, the musical
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stuff, you got the documentary, you got the looking
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back, you got all these people that are doing
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commentary on it. And I, I really don't know
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how much you could really improve upon it, but
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yeah. I'm looking forward to it strictly from
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the reason of I want the clip with it. And I
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love the cover artwork compared to, you know,
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with the prime. Yeah. Like I like the cover artwork
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out of the three. So the cover artwork. Is, I
00:18:39.819 --> 00:18:46.039
don't know. I'm one of those types of people
00:18:46.039 --> 00:18:49.180
that I will specifically for Transformers the
00:18:49.180 --> 00:18:55.579
movie. I didn't on this one be on the 30th or
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35th or whatever version. Or maybe I did. I don't
00:19:02.519 --> 00:19:04.920
remember. Did I buy multiple versions of this?
00:19:05.319 --> 00:19:10.299
I probably did because I got the posters. Um,
00:19:10.299 --> 00:19:13.839
yeah, I did. I bought the steel books. So I bought
00:19:13.839 --> 00:19:16.819
this multiple, the, the shout fact, well, it's,
00:19:16.819 --> 00:19:19.299
it's shout factory this time too, because they
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have the, they have the stuff. They have the
00:19:22.380 --> 00:19:25.940
touch as, as the kids say, 40 years ago. Uh,
00:19:26.220 --> 00:19:31.559
but, uh, I usually buy steel books for the most
00:19:31.559 --> 00:19:36.500
part when I can. And the thing with Transformers
00:19:36.500 --> 00:19:40.779
the movie 35th anniversary is Shout Factory offered,
00:19:41.079 --> 00:19:44.200
oh, if you buy the steelbook, you get this poster.
00:19:44.259 --> 00:19:47.220
If you buy the regular edition, you get this
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poster. So people can't see this because it's
00:19:50.579 --> 00:19:57.380
an audio podcast. But on my wall is the poster.
00:19:58.569 --> 00:20:02.650
of one of these covers and then the steelbook
00:20:02.650 --> 00:20:08.710
had a poster of rodimus opening the matrix yeah
00:20:08.710 --> 00:20:12.029
because that was the cover of the steelbook the
00:20:12.029 --> 00:20:16.210
steelbook was rodimus opening the matrix the
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thing about the 40th anniversary is that Again,
00:20:22.100 --> 00:20:26.759
as much as I love, just like, and again, I echo
00:20:26.759 --> 00:20:32.900
my buddy Mike Seibert. He has, like this dude,
00:20:32.920 --> 00:20:37.279
almost more than me. He lives, breathes, eats,
00:20:37.440 --> 00:20:41.440
drinks, sleeps Transformers the movie. It's his
00:20:41.440 --> 00:20:47.259
drug of choice. If the dude did drugs, his drug
00:20:47.259 --> 00:20:49.299
would be Transformers the movie, anything and
00:20:49.299 --> 00:20:53.720
everything. And I say that with love and with
00:20:53.720 --> 00:20:56.619
factual accuracy, and he'll tell you the same
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thing. So he leaned in to the curve on the apology
00:21:03.759 --> 00:21:07.900
before Peter passed away with the apology tour
00:21:07.900 --> 00:21:11.140
marketing. Full tongue in cheek, all the way
00:21:11.140 --> 00:21:14.980
in, into the skid, into the curve, all the way.
00:21:15.400 --> 00:21:20.940
I have the poster, the apology tour poster. I,
00:21:20.940 --> 00:21:23.940
you know, so when they revealed that the steel
00:21:23.940 --> 00:21:28.099
book 4k edition of the 40th was going to be,
00:21:28.140 --> 00:21:31.660
the cover was going to be the apology tour poster.
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Everybody was like, okay, cool. Awesome. That's
00:21:35.759 --> 00:21:39.259
great. Peter Cullen passes away. They should.
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And Mike wasn't thinking this. He, he was more,
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okay. It hurts, but it kind of still makes sense
00:21:47.920 --> 00:21:51.089
with what they've already done. Don't change
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it. Use it to honor him, but they're still going
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to change it now. And I think if I have this
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right, I think the art is still currently not
00:22:05.589 --> 00:22:11.450
final. And what is there on Amazon is the, I
00:22:11.450 --> 00:22:14.250
don't want to say it's a, it's a placeholder.
00:22:14.349 --> 00:22:17.609
It's the placeholder art. And it still says art,
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not final. So we don't, I think they pivoted
00:22:21.160 --> 00:22:23.420
though, because the original one was of his,
00:22:23.480 --> 00:22:26.579
you know, dead corpse. Yeah. That's what I'm
00:22:26.579 --> 00:22:29.359
saying. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I, yeah, that's
00:22:29.359 --> 00:22:33.140
what I'm saying. They are pivoting, but we don't
00:22:33.140 --> 00:22:37.960
still know what the pivot to is going to be.
00:22:38.140 --> 00:22:42.420
That's the, that's the issue. Well, if you check
00:22:42.420 --> 00:22:48.400
the DVD version of it on Amazon. It is a finalized
00:22:48.400 --> 00:22:51.940
cover art. It's the 4K Steelbook edition that
00:22:51.940 --> 00:22:55.079
doesn't have it finalized. Yeah, that's what
00:22:55.079 --> 00:22:57.759
I'm saying. The 4K doesn't have a finalized art.
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DVD, let me look. I'm trying to click it. It
00:23:02.599 --> 00:23:10.039
won't let me click it. Stupid Amazon. Well...
00:23:13.359 --> 00:23:18.039
At least on Amazon here, it shows the 20th anniversary
00:23:18.039 --> 00:23:24.279
version. That's sad. Oh, you see the 20th anniversary?
00:23:24.759 --> 00:23:28.900
Yeah. Yeah, I have that. Yeah, I know you do.
00:23:30.960 --> 00:23:34.799
The Blu -ray shows some weird Transformers the
00:23:34.799 --> 00:23:38.940
movie Blu -ray, which is... That's not it. Yeah,
00:23:38.980 --> 00:23:42.259
I know that's not it. I don't know what that
00:23:42.259 --> 00:23:43.700
is. Cause they're not going to do a separate
00:23:43.700 --> 00:23:45.980
Blu -ray. I think it's just 4k and Blu -ray.
00:23:46.240 --> 00:23:51.700
Yeah. Let me, let me look. There's a second.
00:23:51.759 --> 00:23:56.480
Yeah. Both, both DVD versions that I just clicked
00:23:56.480 --> 00:24:02.720
on. Yeah. Both DVD versions show the 20th anniversary
00:24:02.720 --> 00:24:08.640
version. So they haven't, they haven't even figured
00:24:08.640 --> 00:24:15.339
it out yet. or they haven't updated it yet so
00:24:15.339 --> 00:24:22.720
i don't know uh but again still looking forward
00:24:22.720 --> 00:24:29.299
to it and we will do a full uh film reaction
00:24:29.299 --> 00:24:36.160
once you uh get out of theaters uh once you go
00:24:36.160 --> 00:24:42.619
see it which will be in a couple of which is
00:24:42.619 --> 00:24:44.920
why i was surprised we even did this episode
00:24:44.920 --> 00:24:50.440
but yeah next week so um i'm excited to go see
00:24:50.440 --> 00:24:53.700
it to be honest yeah september you got your tickets
00:24:53.700 --> 00:25:00.440
for the 20th right yeah yeah so 30 showing yep
00:25:00.440 --> 00:25:05.839
yep yep yeah so we uh we might have to do a monday
00:25:05.839 --> 00:25:10.549
episode or a tuesday episode next because i want
00:25:10.549 --> 00:25:14.130
that immediate raw reaction oh i don't think
00:25:14.130 --> 00:25:17.869
i'll soon forget i'm not saying you would but
00:25:17.869 --> 00:25:25.789
we old man i get it we old we old all right let's
00:25:25.789 --> 00:25:30.130
see here we got uh okay we got these uh 2020
00:25:30.130 --> 00:25:36.329
new 2027 info found yes Cybertron, TM1 Megatron,
00:25:36.349 --> 00:25:40.769
exclusives, and more. The only reason why we're
00:25:40.769 --> 00:25:44.150
even bringing this up, because there are no,
00:25:44.210 --> 00:25:47.029
right now, yeah, these are just listings. There
00:25:47.029 --> 00:25:53.690
are no photos other than the gamer edition looking
00:25:53.690 --> 00:25:57.349
one photo there. The only one I'm discussing.
00:25:57.670 --> 00:26:01.240
I don't care about any of the other ones. But
00:26:01.240 --> 00:26:06.279
you wanted to talk about the TM1, Stragen Leader
00:26:06.279 --> 00:26:12.900
TM1 Megatron. Speak. Yeah, so, I mean, I'm excited
00:26:12.900 --> 00:26:18.420
for this particular figure because, one, it's
00:26:18.420 --> 00:26:25.539
30th anniversary of Beast Wars. But, two, it's
00:26:25.539 --> 00:26:27.559
about dang time. We got some transmetals, man.
00:26:28.180 --> 00:26:31.599
Like. We've gotten Diffusors with Quickstrike
00:26:31.599 --> 00:26:35.720
and Silverbolt. We've gotten Transmetal 2 Dragon
00:26:35.720 --> 00:26:38.700
Megatron, which they botched the head, which
00:26:38.700 --> 00:26:40.799
is why a third party had to come out with a better
00:26:40.799 --> 00:26:45.420
edition of it. And then we haven't really gotten
00:26:45.420 --> 00:26:49.619
anything Beast Wars other than Season 1. And
00:26:49.619 --> 00:26:55.240
to me, this is like a sign that they're at least
00:26:55.240 --> 00:26:59.940
dipping their toes. And I think they're starting
00:26:59.940 --> 00:27:03.299
with Transmetal One Megatron for the sole purpose
00:27:03.299 --> 00:27:06.240
that the original had gold plastic syndrome.
00:27:07.039 --> 00:27:11.559
Yep. And the other one was so blasted brittle
00:27:11.559 --> 00:27:15.859
that I actually saw on TFW about three months
00:27:15.859 --> 00:27:20.640
ago. Somebody created a 3D print of all of the
00:27:20.640 --> 00:27:24.940
parts that shatter. Oh, no. Like, and it looked
00:27:24.940 --> 00:27:27.779
good. I was quite surprised. I looked at it,
00:27:27.819 --> 00:27:32.240
and I was like, okay, this has promise. I was
00:27:32.240 --> 00:27:37.759
tempted enough to find a broken Megatron for
00:27:37.759 --> 00:27:40.420
as cheap as I could get one. I didn't buy it.
00:27:40.819 --> 00:27:43.380
I bid on a few, but they ended up going beyond
00:27:43.380 --> 00:27:45.539
what I was willing to pay. I was like, I'll pay
00:27:45.539 --> 00:27:48.940
like $15, maybe $20 for it shipped, just so I
00:27:48.940 --> 00:27:50.819
can 3D print the components and then put it back
00:27:50.819 --> 00:27:53.579
together. Just so I can say, oh, I've got a Transmetal
00:27:53.579 --> 00:27:58.099
One, Hasbro, you know, trans metal Megatron.
00:27:58.160 --> 00:28:01.039
Yeah, I have the trans art trans metal Megatron.
00:28:01.079 --> 00:28:03.920
Don't get me wrong. I love that figure. Yeah,
00:28:04.000 --> 00:28:07.960
but you want probably the pinnacle, the favorite
00:28:07.960 --> 00:28:11.400
figure of my entire collection. Like I loved
00:28:11.400 --> 00:28:14.859
that figure as a kid, but it was so small by
00:28:14.859 --> 00:28:19.019
comparison. Like now it's scaling wise. The original,
00:28:19.140 --> 00:28:25.029
you know, mega trans metal Megatron. was perfectly
00:28:25.029 --> 00:28:27.730
scaled to optimal optimus based on the show.
00:28:28.069 --> 00:28:32.250
Yeah. This other one, the trans art one is like
00:28:32.250 --> 00:28:35.029
10 inches tall. So like all of them are there.
00:28:35.190 --> 00:28:37.910
He's, he's bigger than optimal almost, which
00:28:37.910 --> 00:28:41.549
is kind of a travesty. So like I, I've always
00:28:41.549 --> 00:28:44.390
wanted another one of this Megatron and I've
00:28:44.390 --> 00:28:47.950
owned four of those trans metal Megatrons over
00:28:47.950 --> 00:28:51.250
the years and they all broke every single one
00:28:51.250 --> 00:28:54.369
of them. No matter how much I tried to salvage
00:28:54.369 --> 00:28:59.009
them, they did not survive. So that being said,
00:28:59.130 --> 00:29:03.769
I am super stoked for this. The only thing that
00:29:03.769 --> 00:29:07.490
I hope that they can do with this is turn it
00:29:07.490 --> 00:29:11.950
into a true Transmetal. The Transmetal 2 Megatron,
00:29:12.089 --> 00:29:16.130
as much as I liked having the figure, the paint
00:29:16.130 --> 00:29:19.990
decor on that thing was atrocious. The face sculpt.
00:29:20.460 --> 00:29:23.700
was Robots in Disguise Beast Megatron. Yeah,
00:29:23.700 --> 00:29:29.039
it was. And I had to source a mask, like a faceplate,
00:29:29.160 --> 00:29:34.799
on eBay to replace it to have something that
00:29:34.799 --> 00:29:39.400
looked like actual Transmetal 2 Megatron because
00:29:39.400 --> 00:29:42.440
the original face looked nothing like it. And
00:29:42.440 --> 00:29:46.140
then I repainted the entire figure to give it
00:29:46.140 --> 00:29:50.170
almost like a shiny paint coat. So it's not like
00:29:50.170 --> 00:29:54.430
vac metal, but it's not, not vac metal, but it
00:29:54.430 --> 00:29:56.970
also shines when the light hits it. And so like,
00:29:56.990 --> 00:29:59.789
I have all of that shine to it. So I, I almost
00:29:59.789 --> 00:30:03.269
hope that if Hasbro does not do the vac metal,
00:30:03.390 --> 00:30:08.569
give us some very shiny, you know, purpley paint
00:30:08.569 --> 00:30:13.250
for that, you know, reflective paint for, for
00:30:13.250 --> 00:30:15.829
the transmittal aspects of this figure. Like,
00:30:15.829 --> 00:30:18.450
give us something and then and then give it the
00:30:18.450 --> 00:30:20.329
engineering that it probably should have had
00:30:20.329 --> 00:30:22.750
from the start. Give us a proper face sculpt.
00:30:22.829 --> 00:30:25.890
Give us proper, you know, if we can get Studio
00:30:25.890 --> 00:30:28.670
Series 86 Megatron and Optimus Prime that look
00:30:28.670 --> 00:30:31.369
like they came right out of the cartoon. Yeah,
00:30:31.410 --> 00:30:34.730
movie. There's no reason nowadays that we can't
00:30:34.730 --> 00:30:36.369
get a beast figure that looks like it came out
00:30:36.369 --> 00:30:39.990
of the cartoon, too. And so I hope my hope with
00:30:39.990 --> 00:30:43.470
this is and I feel like they've. been wanting
00:30:43.470 --> 00:30:45.289
to dip their toe into this particular figure
00:30:45.289 --> 00:30:48.549
for a while just based on what's been said over
00:30:48.549 --> 00:30:51.990
the years but i feel like this is the one that
00:30:51.990 --> 00:30:54.029
they're starting off with the strongest because
00:30:54.029 --> 00:30:56.970
people have have been clamoring for this one
00:30:56.970 --> 00:30:59.730
specifically with the gold plastic syndrome and
00:30:59.730 --> 00:31:01.630
i think you know being that some of the guys
00:31:01.630 --> 00:31:05.730
developing these are collectors too yep they're
00:31:05.730 --> 00:31:09.130
very aware that there is the gold plastic syndrome
00:31:09.130 --> 00:31:11.289
and so they i feel like this is kind of like
00:31:11.579 --> 00:31:13.359
themselves giving them the figure that they want
00:31:13.359 --> 00:31:18.619
to so i i 110 will be purchasing one of these
00:31:18.619 --> 00:31:24.279
when it comes out uh i'm i'm super stoked uh
00:31:24.279 --> 00:31:30.079
the the leader class although like some of them
00:31:30.079 --> 00:31:37.420
are borderline voyager class or sometimes deluxe,
00:31:37.420 --> 00:31:38.859
depending on which ones they are. I hope this
00:31:38.859 --> 00:31:45.519
is a true leader class sized figure. Yeah. Yeah.
00:31:47.039 --> 00:31:53.279
Because it does say Trojan leader TM1 Megatron.
00:31:53.339 --> 00:32:04.779
I don't know. The generations line leaders. Like.
00:32:05.230 --> 00:32:07.890
I mean, we're all generations figures. I mean,
00:32:07.890 --> 00:32:12.430
even the studio series. Yeah, I know. I understand.
00:32:12.750 --> 00:32:19.230
But like, OK, so I have a photo that keeps popping
00:32:19.230 --> 00:32:21.829
up because of Facebook memories and everything
00:32:21.829 --> 00:32:27.349
else. But like. Remember Optimal Optimus, the
00:32:27.349 --> 00:32:31.109
original Optimal Optimus. Yeah, I forget what
00:32:31.109 --> 00:32:35.519
ultra figure, not ultra supreme. yeah yeah yeah
00:32:35.519 --> 00:32:40.559
yeah that to me supreme back in the day that's
00:32:40.559 --> 00:32:44.339
what a leader class figure should be i know it
00:32:44.339 --> 00:32:47.900
would be price point oh my god i need to put
00:32:47.900 --> 00:32:53.200
it how that's a down payment on a house but these
00:32:53.200 --> 00:32:56.420
days especially in this market but like that
00:32:56.420 --> 00:32:59.910
size of figure That like, and I know you want
00:32:59.910 --> 00:33:03.029
it to scale into, you know, which we're going
00:33:03.029 --> 00:33:05.009
to talk about here in a minute when I, when we
00:33:05.009 --> 00:33:08.190
talk about the seven pack in hand images, we're
00:33:08.190 --> 00:33:10.529
going to talk more about this in a second, but
00:33:10.529 --> 00:33:15.630
I'm looking at my kingdom leader class Galvatron.
00:33:16.529 --> 00:33:22.690
Cause I have the, um, reformatted all purple
00:33:22.690 --> 00:33:29.339
version of, of that version of Galvatron. And
00:33:29.339 --> 00:33:38.059
he looks fine as a leader class figure for today's
00:33:38.059 --> 00:33:40.480
age. I forget when that originally came out a
00:33:40.480 --> 00:33:43.920
couple of years ago to maybe 23, I think, or
00:33:43.920 --> 00:33:47.960
22. I forget originally when the kingdom Galvatron
00:33:47.960 --> 00:33:54.160
mold came out, but I don't know. I just, I'm
00:33:54.160 --> 00:34:02.289
wondering like, How, like, Transformers Generations,
00:34:02.289 --> 00:34:07.009
specifically since we're talking about this,
00:34:07.210 --> 00:34:11.269
like, all of these other listings are, because
00:34:11.269 --> 00:34:14.829
this is 2027 listings, so you can't do, there
00:34:14.829 --> 00:34:18.250
are Studio Series 86, poof, gone, because it's
00:34:18.250 --> 00:34:22.289
no longer 86. It's no longer 40 years. So it's
00:34:22.289 --> 00:34:27.900
just now Studio Series. plainly deluxe and they've
00:34:27.900 --> 00:34:30.599
distinguished them because you know we're not
00:34:30.599 --> 00:34:32.000
going to talk about any of the rest of these
00:34:32.000 --> 00:34:34.659
because specifically we were here to talk about
00:34:34.659 --> 00:34:38.579
tm1 but we've got idw bumblebee based on the
00:34:38.579 --> 00:34:41.480
all hail megatron design of the character we've
00:34:41.480 --> 00:34:45.619
got tf1 bumblebee which gamble on which version
00:34:45.619 --> 00:34:49.619
of tf1 bumblebee is that the 2010 camaro is that
00:34:49.619 --> 00:34:52.500
the beat -up old volkswagen yeah it doesn't really
00:34:52.500 --> 00:34:55.780
say yeah no but that that's my point is it doesn't
00:34:55.780 --> 00:35:00.139
say but i'm saying it's tf1 then we got tf4 crosshairs
00:35:00.139 --> 00:35:04.800
we got uh fall of fall of cybertron jetfire we
00:35:04.800 --> 00:35:07.179
get fall of cybertron optimus prime fall of cybertron
00:35:07.179 --> 00:35:13.670
megatron but all of these listings here Trojan
00:35:13.670 --> 00:35:19.550
studio series. There is no other specific designation
00:35:19.550 --> 00:35:28.269
because 2027, 1987, unless you're going to do,
00:35:28.369 --> 00:35:31.110
unless you're going to give us 40 years of jump
00:35:31.110 --> 00:35:35.829
starters. Ooh, an updating of twin twist and,
00:35:35.909 --> 00:35:40.650
and, and, Oh, Oh, what was his name? Twin twist
00:35:40.650 --> 00:35:46.269
and jump jet. No. What was the, anyway, but the
00:35:46.269 --> 00:35:51.269
point is like 1987 was the end of generation
00:35:51.269 --> 00:35:55.250
one's cartoon, even though the toys continued
00:35:55.250 --> 00:35:58.909
on, even though the comic continued on, but essentially
00:35:58.909 --> 00:36:02.269
87 was the end of the cartoon series. There really
00:36:02.269 --> 00:36:07.909
isn't anything to. have a studio series year
00:36:07.909 --> 00:36:12.230
marker celebration of blah, blah, blah, blah,
00:36:12.269 --> 00:36:17.250
blah. So now we have to figure out what else
00:36:17.250 --> 00:36:19.250
are we going to be celebrating? And which is
00:36:19.250 --> 00:36:22.429
why they're just using Trojan studio series,
00:36:22.550 --> 00:36:28.630
which I'm not even sure why they're still using
00:36:28.630 --> 00:36:32.650
studio series. Cause like the rest of this is.
00:36:33.239 --> 00:36:37.260
Like Megatron himself, tri -gen leader TM1 Megatron.
00:36:37.320 --> 00:36:39.559
You don't even need Studio Series for Megatron.
00:36:39.900 --> 00:36:42.559
It's just tri -gen leader and then leader new
00:36:42.559 --> 00:36:45.199
prime blue Onyx retool. I'm not even trying to
00:36:45.199 --> 00:36:48.480
get into the rest of these. I'm just trying to
00:36:48.480 --> 00:37:19.380
legislate. Yeah. So maybe... Hello? Yeah. Yeah?
00:37:20.900 --> 00:37:23.340
Did I break up or something? Yeah, it cut out.
00:37:23.480 --> 00:37:25.039
It may have recorded it, though. I don't know.
00:37:25.719 --> 00:37:28.460
Oh, great. So I just went on a tirade for nothing.
00:37:29.280 --> 00:37:33.079
Maybe. Did you hear any of it? I heard part of
00:37:33.079 --> 00:37:38.460
it. Okay, I went on a tirade about Hasbro's hellish
00:37:38.460 --> 00:37:41.559
brand naming. Yeah, I heard about part of that.
00:37:41.719 --> 00:37:45.570
It's just... Yeah, about that it's kind of pointless
00:37:45.570 --> 00:37:49.110
to go into the Studio Series. Yeah, like, it
00:37:49.110 --> 00:37:52.949
just is. I don't know. You want me to summarize
00:37:52.949 --> 00:38:02.550
it for you? Sure. Okay. So, edit point. What's
00:38:02.550 --> 00:38:05.449
Hasbro going to do in 1987? Why are they still
00:38:05.449 --> 00:38:13.380
using Studio Series if they still have... Try
00:38:13.380 --> 00:38:17.199
Jen leader TM one Megatron. Great. That's awesome.
00:38:17.340 --> 00:38:20.219
But then they have leader new prime blue Onyx.
00:38:20.360 --> 00:38:25.000
And then I don't know. It just, there's nothing
00:38:25.000 --> 00:38:28.420
to celebrate in 1987. It was the end of the cartoon.
00:38:29.079 --> 00:38:32.739
The comic was still going on. The toys were still
00:38:32.739 --> 00:38:37.019
going on. Unless you're going to do the, a new
00:38:37.019 --> 00:38:39.119
version of the jumpstart or I don't know, dude,
00:38:39.239 --> 00:38:43.070
it just. Hasbro and their hellish branding just
00:38:43.070 --> 00:38:50.849
gives me a headache. But TM1, yay, tri -gen leader
00:38:50.849 --> 00:38:54.610
TM1 Megatron. Hopefully he'll pair nicely with,
00:38:54.769 --> 00:38:59.210
I think this was one or two or might have been
00:38:59.210 --> 00:39:02.190
longer than that months ago when we got first
00:39:02.190 --> 00:39:08.039
packaging reveal of the Beast Wars 7 pack. We
00:39:08.039 --> 00:39:11.900
now have in -hand images of the Beast Wars 7
00:39:11.900 --> 00:39:16.440
pack. So how tall do you really want them to
00:39:16.440 --> 00:39:23.019
be once you see these images? I mean, I would
00:39:23.019 --> 00:39:27.420
like Transmetal Megatron to be, you know, in
00:39:27.420 --> 00:39:31.719
scale with Generation 1 Megatron, or, you know,
00:39:31.739 --> 00:39:36.460
G1 Megatron and Optimus Prime. Because, like,
00:39:36.480 --> 00:39:41.360
I feel like none of these Beast Wars characters
00:39:41.360 --> 00:39:47.460
were leader class. No. They were all, you know,
00:39:47.480 --> 00:39:51.019
except for Megatron. Like, Beast Megatron. He
00:39:51.019 --> 00:39:52.760
was the only leader class. Like, everybody else
00:39:52.760 --> 00:40:00.019
was Deluxe, Core, or Voyager. Yep. And, like,
00:40:00.099 --> 00:40:03.739
I felt like Cheetor was too small. Rattrap was
00:40:03.739 --> 00:40:07.699
too small. The others were pretty much right
00:40:07.699 --> 00:40:16.760
on. But, again, like, I love that they finally
00:40:16.760 --> 00:40:18.579
gave them the paint job they should have gotten.
00:40:19.159 --> 00:40:22.760
Yes. For these. Because, like, I mean, just looking
00:40:22.760 --> 00:40:27.239
at them, I really like the decor that they finally
00:40:27.239 --> 00:40:30.519
did that should have been on them from the start.
00:40:30.699 --> 00:40:35.940
Because I repainted all of mine. Now, mind you,
00:40:35.980 --> 00:40:40.239
I only had Tigatron, Airazor, and Rattrap and
00:40:40.239 --> 00:40:43.599
Dinobot from this group because I have a Masterpiece
00:40:43.599 --> 00:40:46.199
Cheetor, I have a Masterpiece Primal, and I have
00:40:46.199 --> 00:40:52.500
the Thrilling 30 Rhinox. And I have Masterpiece
00:40:52.500 --> 00:40:57.019
Rattrap now, too, which scales much nicer. But
00:40:57.019 --> 00:41:01.039
I repainted Airazor and Dinobot because there
00:41:01.039 --> 00:41:03.360
was a lot of elements on them that were not accurate.
00:41:06.589 --> 00:41:10.269
But, yeah. I don't know. I like that they finally
00:41:10.269 --> 00:41:12.449
did what they should have done with these. If
00:41:12.449 --> 00:41:14.829
you didn't buy the first go -around of these,
00:41:15.030 --> 00:41:17.010
this is probably the way to go. But if you've
00:41:17.010 --> 00:41:19.349
already bought them, I don't know if it's enough
00:41:19.349 --> 00:41:30.050
to purchase them again. They do look much nicer.
00:41:33.409 --> 00:41:36.440
Depending on the mode. some of them look better
00:41:36.440 --> 00:41:42.880
in robot and some look better in beast but yeah
00:41:42.880 --> 00:41:46.800
i i think that these these are i think they're
00:41:46.800 --> 00:41:48.900
fine for what they are now what doesn't look
00:41:48.900 --> 00:41:53.960
fine is the mattel creations hot wheel transformer
00:41:53.960 --> 00:41:57.340
bumblebee behind the scenes you know stuff like
00:41:57.340 --> 00:42:00.239
yeah so i grabbed this looks terrible yeah i
00:42:00.239 --> 00:42:02.380
grabbed the behind the scenes thing for this
00:42:02.380 --> 00:42:05.920
because All the other articles were just, hey,
00:42:05.980 --> 00:42:08.260
it's been announced. Hey, it's this. Hey, it's
00:42:08.260 --> 00:42:12.300
that. And when I saw the announcement of it,
00:42:12.340 --> 00:42:16.000
the first thing that popped out to me was, okay,
00:42:16.059 --> 00:42:20.320
if I were to get this as a loyal Generation 1
00:42:20.320 --> 00:42:24.619
Bumblebee fan, I would only leave this in Volkswagen
00:42:24.619 --> 00:42:30.860
mode. I would not transform this. And I'm probably
00:42:30.860 --> 00:42:33.179
going to get a little vulgar here. So you may
00:42:33.179 --> 00:42:35.480
have to bleep or you may not have to bleep. I'm
00:42:35.480 --> 00:42:37.960
just warning you ahead of time. And the reason
00:42:37.960 --> 00:42:40.260
why I'm going to get a little vulgar here is
00:42:40.260 --> 00:42:43.699
because when I first saw this, my first thought
00:42:43.699 --> 00:42:47.400
was, and again, maybe it's just me and my vulgar
00:42:47.400 --> 00:42:52.300
head. Why does his hood have to be so large?
00:42:52.940 --> 00:42:56.710
What's he hiding between his legs? Like, I don't
00:42:56.710 --> 00:43:00.429
know. It just, it looks weird. The proportions
00:43:00.429 --> 00:43:05.329
of that hood in robot mode. It's kind of like
00:43:05.329 --> 00:43:08.429
junk in the trunk, but in the front kind of thing.
00:43:08.469 --> 00:43:12.510
Like it just, it looks, the robot mode looks
00:43:12.510 --> 00:43:16.929
freaking weird to me. I don't like the robot
00:43:16.929 --> 00:43:26.230
mode. It looks terrible. It looks bad. It makes
00:43:26.230 --> 00:43:29.690
the original toy look beautiful. Yeah. The car
00:43:29.690 --> 00:43:37.349
mode is great because it's, it's, it's Mattel
00:43:37.349 --> 00:43:40.750
creations. Hot wheel. It's hot wheels. Of course,
00:43:40.750 --> 00:43:42.570
the car mode is going to look great because it's
00:43:42.570 --> 00:43:45.489
freaking hot wheels. The car, I have nothing.
00:43:45.530 --> 00:43:47.590
Like if I was just going to buy this for the
00:43:47.590 --> 00:43:50.170
car mode, I wouldn't have a bad thing to say
00:43:50.170 --> 00:43:53.070
about it. If it didn't transform, if it was just,
00:43:53.150 --> 00:43:55.389
hey, look, we're going to give you a Volkswagen
00:43:55.389 --> 00:43:58.710
generation one Bumblebee with an Autobot logo
00:43:58.710 --> 00:44:06.130
on its hood. Great. Awesome. Cool. Love it. But
00:44:06.130 --> 00:44:11.530
it transforms into this really weird and his
00:44:11.530 --> 00:44:16.869
head sculpt, his face sculpt. He looks like he's
00:44:16.869 --> 00:44:21.880
constipated. Oh, yeah. Bumblebee doesn't look
00:44:21.880 --> 00:44:33.179
like he's having a good time. Yeah, I get kind
00:44:33.179 --> 00:44:35.079
of what they're trying to go for. It looks, it
00:44:35.079 --> 00:44:39.159
reminds me, you know, you remember those old
00:44:39.159 --> 00:44:43.500
Choose Your Own Adventure Transformers books?
00:44:43.880 --> 00:44:46.199
Yep. It looks like one of the Bumblebees from
00:44:46.199 --> 00:44:50.469
the cover of one of that. Legitimately, it looks
00:44:50.469 --> 00:44:59.449
like that. How? Why would they even do this?
00:45:00.150 --> 00:45:02.789
Hot Wheel Transformer Collection collaboration
00:45:02.789 --> 00:45:06.690
thing where it transforms and they use the original
00:45:06.690 --> 00:45:09.949
base and then they took inspiration from the
00:45:09.949 --> 00:45:12.909
animated version. They took 300 hours of work
00:45:12.909 --> 00:45:19.440
and yet it still looks so bad. Yeah. like why
00:45:19.440 --> 00:45:23.340
why choose figures that already are established
00:45:23.340 --> 00:45:28.320
just create something new with it yeah because
00:45:28.320 --> 00:45:33.019
these look terrible okay okay i had to go to
00:45:33.019 --> 00:45:36.380
the because i i like i said i sent you the the
00:45:36.380 --> 00:45:39.860
behind the scenes link i had to go to the announcement
00:45:39.860 --> 00:45:43.349
link The official Mattel Creations website have
00:45:43.349 --> 00:45:46.269
been updated with the full official reveal of
00:45:46.269 --> 00:46:27.199
new Mattel Creations Hot Wheels Moloid. Well,
00:46:27.199 --> 00:46:29.280
we are having technical difficulties tonight,
00:46:29.400 --> 00:46:32.340
folks. Yikes. Yes, we are. This will be a fun
00:46:32.340 --> 00:46:35.719
edit. No, it won't. This will be an edit point
00:46:35.719 --> 00:46:37.880
for you. I'm going to put in an edit point right
00:46:37.880 --> 00:46:41.139
here. Click, click, clickety click. I'm going
00:46:41.139 --> 00:46:43.119
to restart that. I'm going to restart that whole
00:46:43.119 --> 00:46:46.760
thing where I say I found the other link. I went
00:46:46.760 --> 00:46:50.760
to the other link. So weird. Yeah. Saturday night,
00:46:50.900 --> 00:46:55.719
apparently at 1110 Eastern Time does not like
00:46:55.719 --> 00:46:59.639
us. This is what happens when, you know, podcasters
00:46:59.639 --> 00:47:01.519
that normally don't record on Saturday nights
00:47:01.519 --> 00:47:06.659
record on Saturday nights. All right. Edit, edit,
00:47:06.699 --> 00:47:10.739
edit, edit, edit. So I went and I found the other
00:47:10.739 --> 00:47:14.099
link for Hot Wheels Bumblebee because I wanted
00:47:14.099 --> 00:47:18.139
to get the actual information for it. The official
00:47:18.139 --> 00:47:22.139
Mattel Creations website. has been updated with
00:47:22.139 --> 00:47:25.300
the full official reveal of the new Mattel Creations
00:47:25.300 --> 00:47:28.739
Hot Wheels Transformers Bumblebee. This new die
00:47:28.739 --> 00:47:31.599
-cast transformable figure will be up for pre
00:47:31.599 --> 00:47:36.440
-order since September 17th. Well, it's not even
00:47:36.440 --> 00:47:40.039
close to September 17th yet, but it will be soon.
00:47:41.320 --> 00:47:52.739
For $65. 300 hours of work. $65 MSRP for the
00:47:52.739 --> 00:47:55.420
ugliest face sculpt in Bumblebee, Generation
00:47:55.420 --> 00:48:00.440
1 Bumblebee history. I can think of plenty other
00:48:00.440 --> 00:48:03.380
things, whether they be real life things, whether
00:48:03.380 --> 00:48:07.599
they be, you know, responsibility things in life,
00:48:07.739 --> 00:48:10.400
or whether they be fun things in life to spend
00:48:10.400 --> 00:48:14.699
$65 on than a transformable Hot Wheel Bumblebee.
00:48:16.219 --> 00:48:26.480
Yeah. Any other. Figure we've talked about tonight,
00:48:26.619 --> 00:48:28.599
any other figure we've talked about in the last.
00:48:29.519 --> 00:48:34.920
17 years, 18 years of this podcast. Honestly.
00:48:36.619 --> 00:48:42.739
Like I like and I cannot justify spending $65
00:48:42.739 --> 00:48:50.840
just to get the. The alt mode for this one. Normally,
00:48:50.880 --> 00:48:54.159
I would justify somehow just getting a transformer
00:48:54.159 --> 00:48:57.420
figure for just the alt mode. Can't do it here.
00:48:57.599 --> 00:49:01.139
Not going to do it. Isn't going to happen. Not
00:49:01.139 --> 00:49:04.460
going to do it. Not going to do it. Not at all.
00:49:04.579 --> 00:49:08.239
Not going to do it. Nope, nope, nope. Isn't going
00:49:08.239 --> 00:49:13.900
to happen. Speaking of things that are worth
00:49:13.900 --> 00:49:20.280
spending your money on. We have the latest line
00:49:20.280 --> 00:49:26.760
of the Transformers Funko Pops. So my buddy,
00:49:26.800 --> 00:49:35.119
the pop analyst over on Instagram. Also, Disc
00:49:35.119 --> 00:49:38.599
Trackers on Instagram. Disc Trackers is the main
00:49:38.599 --> 00:49:43.039
source that I usually keep up with. Revealed
00:49:43.039 --> 00:49:49.280
the. Pop toys, pop retro toys. Transformers,
00:49:49.280 --> 00:49:52.699
the movie Funko Pops. We've got Optimus Prime
00:49:52.699 --> 00:49:55.619
in the jumping movie pose. We've got Grimlock
00:49:55.619 --> 00:49:58.480
in dinosaur mode. We've got Prowl, Wheeljack,
00:49:58.619 --> 00:50:03.760
and Mirage. Now, I was not sure which Optimus
00:50:03.760 --> 00:50:08.239
this was going to be. They've done a lot of Optimus
00:50:08.239 --> 00:50:11.239
Prime over the years since they've had the Transformer
00:50:11.239 --> 00:50:15.659
license. They've got him in... movie metallic
00:50:15.659 --> 00:50:18.380
colors they've got them in generation one cartoon
00:50:18.380 --> 00:50:22.159
colors they've got nemesis prime they've they've
00:50:22.159 --> 00:50:26.139
done optimus many many times over the years and
00:50:26.139 --> 00:50:29.619
when the listings were first announced of oh
00:50:29.619 --> 00:50:33.800
optimus prime it was just optimus prime no parentheses
00:50:33.800 --> 00:50:38.360
no like no nothing Same thing for Grimlock. I
00:50:38.360 --> 00:50:40.019
didn't know what Grimlock was going to be. I
00:50:40.019 --> 00:50:42.460
didn't know. I'm like, okay, so I already have
00:50:42.460 --> 00:50:45.360
Grimlock in robot mode. He was a convention exclusive
00:50:45.360 --> 00:50:49.559
from, I think it was Emerald City. a couple of
00:50:49.559 --> 00:50:52.440
years ago. And I thought to myself, okay, well,
00:50:52.539 --> 00:50:54.920
the only thing they can do with Grimlock is put
00:50:54.920 --> 00:50:57.619
him in dinosaur mode. That's going to be interesting
00:50:57.619 --> 00:51:00.119
as a Funko Pop. And that's exactly what they
00:51:00.119 --> 00:51:02.380
did. I kind of wish they would have taken it
00:51:02.380 --> 00:51:05.659
one step further and actually put his apron on
00:51:05.659 --> 00:51:07.739
him because that would have been really cool.
00:51:07.860 --> 00:51:11.219
That would have been a really cool, cool callback,
00:51:11.239 --> 00:51:13.719
but they didn't. That's fine that they didn't.
00:51:14.010 --> 00:51:17.030
Do that. And then we have Prowl, Wheeljack, and
00:51:17.030 --> 00:51:19.889
Mirage. Three figures we have not gotten to this
00:51:19.889 --> 00:51:26.769
point. So three brand new figures. Okay, I should
00:51:26.769 --> 00:51:31.230
say, technically, they are five brand new figures,
00:51:31.289 --> 00:51:34.329
four brand new, and then Optimus Prime jumping.
00:51:35.050 --> 00:51:38.550
I mean, it is a new Optimus Prime. It's the jump
00:51:38.550 --> 00:51:42.010
pose from the movie. But again, it's another.
00:51:42.869 --> 00:51:47.369
optimus prime with then four brand new figures
00:51:47.369 --> 00:51:51.730
that we've never gotten before so but no i love
00:51:51.730 --> 00:51:56.329
these i i think they're great um and we do have
00:51:56.329 --> 00:51:59.289
which again i know i've mentioned him a lot in
00:51:59.289 --> 00:52:02.130
this episode but my you know ding the bell mike
00:52:02.130 --> 00:52:05.150
sybert he's gonna hate me for that reference
00:52:05.150 --> 00:52:11.250
and he knows exactly why Yeah, that's the reference
00:52:11.250 --> 00:52:15.630
I usually give him. But anytime he mentions our
00:52:15.630 --> 00:52:18.789
other buddy, Anthony Bercali from TFU .info,
00:52:18.969 --> 00:52:22.489
every time he mentions that guy, he actually
00:52:22.489 --> 00:52:29.989
plays a ding. And it gets to me. But Mike has
00:52:29.989 --> 00:52:33.190
to buy anything with the Transformers the movie
00:52:33.190 --> 00:52:36.369
logo on it. So when I sent him these, he's like,
00:52:36.530 --> 00:52:41.079
damn it. like well you gotta buy it the logo's
00:52:41.079 --> 00:52:45.340
on it it has the logo it has the has the 86 font
00:52:45.340 --> 00:52:49.860
but uh but yeah no very very cool very excited
00:52:49.860 --> 00:52:55.739
for those and uh and yeah so there's that uh
00:52:55.739 --> 00:52:59.000
this uh before we get to the comics this last
00:52:59.000 --> 00:53:03.360
uh bit of thing I'm already excluded from this
00:53:03.360 --> 00:53:06.659
because they only have clothing up to 4XL, so
00:53:06.659 --> 00:53:13.340
I can't fit any of this stuff. But I don't know.
00:53:17.739 --> 00:53:22.320
Transformers X Rucking Fotten. Yes, you heard
00:53:22.320 --> 00:53:25.420
that right, folks. There is a clothing company
00:53:25.420 --> 00:53:30.030
out there called Rucking Fotten. I had to read
00:53:30.030 --> 00:53:33.769
it like four times to myself when I got the news
00:53:33.769 --> 00:53:37.869
earlier today to make sure I got the thing right.
00:53:38.050 --> 00:53:40.190
Because I'm like, wait a minute, I better say
00:53:40.190 --> 00:53:42.389
this right so I don't screw it up on the show.
00:53:43.889 --> 00:53:47.489
But they have a Transformers the movie collaboration
00:53:47.489 --> 00:53:51.750
with Autobot logo, Transformers the movie stuff.
00:53:52.570 --> 00:53:55.550
They've got an Optimus Prime shirt. They've got
00:53:55.550 --> 00:53:57.969
a Megatron shirt. They've got a Transformers
00:53:57.969 --> 00:54:01.670
the movie poster shirt. They've got a Rodimus
00:54:01.670 --> 00:54:04.130
shirt where Galvatron is shooting in his chest
00:54:04.130 --> 00:54:08.250
and he's holding the Matrix up. Like I said,
00:54:08.269 --> 00:54:11.769
this stuff only goes up to 4XL, but I do think
00:54:11.769 --> 00:54:20.769
it's cool. I do really think it is cool. Yeah.
00:54:23.719 --> 00:54:27.340
I like some of these. It's definitely playing
00:54:27.340 --> 00:54:35.019
off of the Over the Pond graphics. Some of these
00:54:35.019 --> 00:54:37.079
I remember seeing on early internet days because
00:54:37.079 --> 00:54:41.619
I remember drawing a Rodimus Prime. Oddly enough,
00:54:41.760 --> 00:54:47.860
we had to do an art class, had to draw a picture
00:54:47.860 --> 00:54:53.329
of a self -portrait. Yep. I didn't do that. I
00:54:53.329 --> 00:54:55.510
took like a little picture that was about like
00:54:55.510 --> 00:54:58.190
a three by two that I printed off the internet
00:54:58.190 --> 00:55:05.150
of Rodimus Prime. And I drew it on a, like a
00:55:05.150 --> 00:55:10.269
one and a half, like 18 inch by like 24 inch
00:55:10.269 --> 00:55:13.809
piece of paper. And I was like, yeah, this is
00:55:13.809 --> 00:55:16.190
me. And I had like a picture of Rodimus Prime
00:55:16.190 --> 00:55:20.449
just like as a joke. So that's what this reminds
00:55:20.449 --> 00:55:24.780
me of. I kind of like the hats a little bit as
00:55:24.780 --> 00:55:29.139
well as like the specifically the prime where
00:55:29.139 --> 00:55:31.280
he's like slanted over like from Transformers
00:55:31.280 --> 00:55:35.119
the movie but I don't know if I would care enough
00:55:35.119 --> 00:55:38.860
about any of these to buy it okay so remember
00:55:38.860 --> 00:55:41.599
earlier when I said about the bumblebee and the
00:55:41.599 --> 00:55:49.650
$65 Transformers the movie the touch 50 by 60
00:55:49.650 --> 00:55:55.090
inch woven tapestry throw blanket. Limited edition.
00:55:55.550 --> 00:56:00.349
$64 .99. I'll put my $65 to this blanket over
00:56:00.349 --> 00:56:08.909
that bumblebee. Because it's just the movie poster
00:56:08.909 --> 00:56:12.829
without the lettering on. It's just the movie
00:56:12.829 --> 00:56:16.880
poster art of them firing up at Unicron. uh,
00:56:16.980 --> 00:56:26.099
as a blanket. Like that's cool. That's, that's
00:56:26.099 --> 00:56:33.219
cool. Oh boy. Then we, then we go over to comics,
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the world of comics. Yes. The world of comics.
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So we got November and we kind of started, but
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not really have December. I don't know what's
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going on. With December, because I saw on Instagram
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and TFW has the Instagram thing, but they don't
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have the. We've got the images, but we don't
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have the actual information. So in November.
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We get and I did not have this automatically
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pulled up, which I should have. Oh, there. Oh,
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here we go. In November, we get Transformers
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38, written by Robert Kirkman, art done by Jason
00:57:21.449 --> 00:57:26.190
Howard, Mike Spicer. Who or what has emerged
00:57:26.190 --> 00:57:30.389
from Megatron's cocoon? Sorry, Autobots, you're
00:57:30.389 --> 00:57:37.909
not going to like it. And then in December, the
00:57:37.909 --> 00:57:40.570
Energon Universe edition scheduled for December
00:57:40.570 --> 00:57:44.289
arrivals include Transformers 39. Void Rivals
00:57:44.289 --> 00:57:52.809
37, G .I. Joe 29, and Mask number 7. So there
00:57:52.809 --> 00:57:58.250
are no actual discussion things here. It's just
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the fact that they and DFW 2005 just grabbed
00:58:02.349 --> 00:58:05.670
what Skybound and Image put out on Instagram
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and stuff. Because December for Skybound is anime
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month. So all of the covers for all of the comics
00:58:15.090 --> 00:58:20.809
are anime -inspired. So coming November 2nd will
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be Mask. Transformers 39 with, I believe that's
00:58:26.150 --> 00:58:28.090
Elite. I can't see. It's in black and white.
00:58:28.769 --> 00:58:33.710
Will be coming December 9th. G .I. Joe is December
00:58:33.710 --> 00:58:37.969
16th. Void Rivals is December 23rd, right before
00:58:37.969 --> 00:58:42.989
Christmas. So, yeah, we don't actively have the,
00:58:43.170 --> 00:58:47.289
which is, I guarantee you, I say this all the
00:58:47.289 --> 00:58:49.610
time to Jesse when we do another comic review.
00:58:50.510 --> 00:58:53.329
As soon as we read solicitations, if they are
00:58:53.329 --> 00:58:57.409
available, if the next, like if we're close,
00:58:57.510 --> 00:59:00.449
like we just read solicitations at the end of
00:59:00.449 --> 00:59:03.949
August, one of our episodes. I said, I said,
00:59:03.949 --> 00:59:07.550
as soon, whatever month we're missing. As soon
00:59:07.550 --> 00:59:10.389
as we finish hitting that record and we hit the
00:59:10.389 --> 00:59:14.150
stop button, 40 minutes later, a day later, two
00:59:14.150 --> 00:59:17.289
days later after we've done the record, what's
00:59:17.289 --> 00:59:20.130
going to pop up? The month we were missing for
00:59:20.130 --> 00:59:23.530
solicitations. Same thing here, folks. As soon
00:59:23.530 --> 00:59:25.789
as Steve and I hit the stop button on this record,
00:59:25.949 --> 00:59:29.730
I guarantee you it's a Saturday night right now.
00:59:29.750 --> 00:59:33.010
I guarantee you either Sunday or Monday or Tuesday
00:59:33.010 --> 00:59:37.230
or Wednesday or whatever the next week. The solicitations
00:59:37.230 --> 00:59:41.789
for December 2026, the actual information is
00:59:41.789 --> 00:59:45.230
going to come out. But we do have the covers
00:59:45.230 --> 00:59:54.590
for anime December. Or the Skybound books. Oh,
00:59:54.710 --> 00:59:58.449
and then there's there's that, you know, looking
00:59:58.449 --> 01:00:01.349
at the solicitations, I think that Transformers
01:00:01.349 --> 01:00:03.969
38, I think that cover looks like G2 Megatron.
01:00:05.360 --> 01:00:10.179
Yeah, what I'm wondering about the Transformers
01:00:10.179 --> 01:00:16.820
38 in November is on Bleeding Cool, and I'm pretty
01:00:16.820 --> 01:00:21.099
sure this is how Skybound sent this to them.
01:00:21.539 --> 01:00:25.880
Why is cover A and cover F the exact same cover?
01:00:28.320 --> 01:00:32.860
No idea. So cover A is... This is the very top
01:00:32.860 --> 01:00:35.599
one, the big one. And then if you look down all
01:00:35.599 --> 01:00:37.900
the way at the bottom, right under it, all the
01:00:37.900 --> 01:00:41.019
way over to the right cover F the very, very
01:00:41.019 --> 01:00:44.400
small one, it's the exact say who screwed that
01:00:44.400 --> 01:00:54.019
up. And you're probably right. He is. Cause again,
01:00:54.099 --> 01:00:58.480
Megatron is under some sort of cocoon. He's under
01:00:58.480 --> 01:01:02.650
some sort of, you know, transformation because
01:01:02.650 --> 01:01:05.929
he's been he's been out of commission for for
01:01:05.929 --> 01:01:08.250
issues and like we haven't had Megatron in the
01:01:08.250 --> 01:01:17.010
book for I when was his last 31 30 like we just
01:01:17.010 --> 01:01:22.289
reviewed actually we're about to well again to
01:01:22.289 --> 01:01:25.369
date this show tomorrow night Sunday night we're
01:01:25.369 --> 01:01:30.239
going to be reviewing 35 and 36 is a double shot,
01:01:30.360 --> 01:01:34.739
which is the final two issues of the current
01:01:34.739 --> 01:01:41.260
arc. So this is issue 38. So this is the second
01:01:41.260 --> 01:01:45.619
issue of the next arc. Megatron has not been
01:01:45.619 --> 01:01:50.400
seen since, I want to say, issue 30, the end
01:01:50.400 --> 01:01:56.469
of the previous arc. Because issue 31 was one
01:01:56.469 --> 01:02:00.789
of his origin stories, one of his origin story
01:02:00.789 --> 01:02:05.010
chapters. So yeah, it's going to be very interesting
01:02:05.010 --> 01:02:10.190
to see what Megatron, which version design of
01:02:10.190 --> 01:02:15.610
Megatron pops out of whatever butterfly, caterpillar,
01:02:15.630 --> 01:02:23.050
cocoon he's been in all this time. Yeah, I'll
01:02:23.050 --> 01:02:26.030
be interested to see what they do just on that
01:02:26.030 --> 01:02:31.230
front, just because I'm a huge fan of G2, and
01:02:31.230 --> 01:02:40.590
I know that we're getting some Machine Wars Optimus
01:02:40.590 --> 01:02:45.429
Prime coming in the near future, too. Yeah, I
01:02:45.429 --> 01:02:50.219
think so. And a new G2 Megatron. whatever they
01:02:50.219 --> 01:02:52.519
can bring into the comics means that eventually
01:02:52.519 --> 01:03:03.320
we'll see it in the toy. Yeah. So. Yeah. So I
01:03:03.320 --> 01:03:05.000
think that's, I think that's everything, right?
01:03:05.280 --> 01:03:08.800
Yeah, that's pretty much everything. Yeah. So
01:03:08.800 --> 01:03:13.559
let us know what you guys are hoping for, for
01:03:13.559 --> 01:03:16.320
Transformers, for some of their reveals this,
01:03:16.400 --> 01:03:19.679
either this fall or this winter. some of the
01:03:19.679 --> 01:03:21.000
things you're looking forward to, some of the
01:03:21.000 --> 01:03:23.940
things that you are not. The Transformers, the
01:03:23.940 --> 01:03:26.199
movie, if you're going to see it or not, just
01:03:26.199 --> 01:03:27.940
let us know in the comments or on the website,
01:03:28.199 --> 01:03:33.059
thegcrn .com. Look for this episode post. Anything
01:03:33.059 --> 01:03:36.780
else before we close out? I think that's it.
01:03:36.900 --> 01:03:40.599
Just tune in next time for the Steve Megatron
01:03:40.599 --> 01:03:45.340
live, not live, but reaction to Transformers
01:03:45.340 --> 01:03:49.960
the movie in theaters September 17th. That's
01:03:49.960 --> 01:03:52.280
when it's in theaters. That's not when he's going
01:03:52.280 --> 01:03:55.099
to see it, but you get the point, folks. You
01:03:55.099 --> 01:04:00.219
get the point. Yes. Well, well, well, it is time
01:04:00.219 --> 01:04:06.989
to end the podcast. Yes. So until next time,
01:04:07.050 --> 01:04:14.349
transform and sin. Yes. Yes.