Sentinel Online. Now loading all things Transformers. Welcome to All Things Transformers, I'm your host Steve Megatron. Joining me on this adventure into the Transformers fandom is TFG1 Mike. I am here, and I don't know if I want to be waiting or not, because yikes, folks, yikes. Oh, and I'm glad we weren't recording earlier, because some of the outtakes, folks, this is going to come into play later when we get to the topic, but... I literally sat here
at my desk before we started recording. This is why everyone remembers fans. Basically, I've turned into an adult fan zone. This is why I hate machines. This is why I hate real toys. Tune in later to hear that story. How the hell have you been? Well, I have a nice conversation
about Prime. later but uh i'm excited for some of these stories about some of the figures coming up yes yes we're finally getting some that people have been really looking forward to so yeah without further ado uh before we get to the figure talk we should get to a piece of information that is awesome. That was updated by, uh, Candace and Tora on X on Twitter and Facebook and everywhere. Yep. Yep. Uh, as some may have known, Gary chalk was, uh, fighting a battle with cancer, uh, lymphoma
to be more specific. and she posted that he wrapped up his chemo and other stuff a week or so ago, and so far so good, and he's enduring some side effects, but things are optimistic. Could be months before he's back to normal, but yeah, he seems to be on the other side of it, which is awesome news for anybody who knows Gary, and of course Gary himself, and yeah, that's awesome news. Yeah, it's very, very cool. Very good to
hear. Absolutely love it. Nothing more than we love around here than good news because it's really tough when we get bad news, whether it's the Transformers world or any of the other worlds that we, you know, these people that bring characters to life for us or that have brought characters to life for us or that have touched our lives. You know, we talk about all kinds of people, Gary and everybody. You know, it's like if something
happens to them, it's like, oh, my God. You know, not only do we feel bad because as humans, you know, you should have sympathy and empathy and all that and everything else. But it's like.
the dude has done so much not just as optimus primal as you know in beast wars but he's done other characters and other things and everything else but for us specifically it's mainly because of you know optimus primal in beast wars and beast machines and and things like that and gary's just an awesome dude we've had the chance to interview gary i think you've talked to him once for beast unleashed and i've talked to him twice once for beast unleashed and once when Neil and
I were doing pixels in the animation because we had him on because he was Grounder in one of the Sonic cartoons. But yes, Gary, awesome job on chemo and getting that cancer's ass kicked and all that good stuff. So continued speedy recovery and all that good stuff. Yep, yep, yep. So moving on to... The next piece of news that we have is Transformers Studio Series Leader Class G1 Megatron. And we finally get stock photos and inbox photos. Yep. So I combine these two
stories because one is from June 4th. The other is from June 10th. They're six days apart, but they're for the same figure. I wasn't going to have us like, here's the stock photos of it. And you see Megatron in robot and alt mode, which he is a tank. He's not a gun. He was never going to be a gun. Not here in the US anyway. And I wasn't going to be like, oh, well, here's the, I said this to you right before we hit record.
I'm like, here's the. Here's the reveal. And then come back to us, you know, in three stories, folks, when we can actually, no, we're just going to roll it all into one. The, I think what I like about the, other than whoever is doing the, the box reveal for, oh boy. Okay. Yeah. The box itself looks really good. I think that looks cool, but Megatron himself, man, they did a really good job with this, I think. I am very impressed. One, I'm glad that he's the leader class figure
price point. I'm glad that he scales well with the other ones. I love the... snippet from the movie at the top of the back of the box with the figure and then the front of the box the artwork that's kind of faded in there and then um you get the nice purple background from his ship yep and then um you get to the the actual figure and if i didn't know he turned into a tank yeah i would not know that he turned into a tank And they did such a superb job. Yeah.
Like, obviously, they had to have creative vision to recreate the wheel, as it were, with his transformation. Yeah. Because obviously he can't turn into a gun. However, the robot mode looks like they peeled him right out of the film. Yeah, pretty
much. Yeah. and then you look at the the transformation and how they you know i mean they did a really good job for the sense that like everything is folding upon folding upon folding out of part and then they take the the original back gun piece and shove it into the the fusion cannon and then they um they have his uh the original g1 version on next to it and then he has the sword on the side and i mean this is this is a beautiful figure yeah it came out so good there's
a couple of minor paint issues but i mean it's very very minuscule it's not anything i would like gawk at like the head sculpt is perfect yeah the head sculpt is amazing Okay, and you've talked about this at length over the last X number of months and years and whatever. Lately, Hasbro has skimped on paint. They have. We've talked about this. You've said on the podcast, I can't even point to a... Look, folks, you're listening
to the sound of my voice. Go back to any other episode and find Steve talking about paint apps or lack thereof. I guarantee you he's mentioned
it. So you know how on YouTube, especially with SEO and everything else and people wanting to do keywords and everything else, and if you're on a... on a youtube live stream if we were doing this live on youtube right now and i wanted to make sure the algorithm hit everything i said i would be like look nintendo switch 2 wait 10 seconds nintendo switch 2 like you know what i mean like it's one of those things where any of our previous episodes i would say over the
last year of you talking about how you've been doing your your 3d printing and how you've been talking about doing your, the stuff that you do with your figures when you buy them and you have to, because you want them to be better than what they are, which is frankly sad. The fact that we're paying so much money for these figures and we still feel like the paint apps are lacking. And my point is to say that, yeah, you're right.
There's a few paint. things here that are me once you said that i'm like my first response was gonna be yeah but you can fix that and i know you will but it's one of those things where overall though just looking at this it looks pretty damn good and i don't know and i'm gonna switch over to the to the to the box because i was just looking at the figure thing but yeah the box looks so good I just wish the box images were, and maybe we'll get better box images,
but in the, in the future beyond this June 10th story, hopefully, because some of the, two of these box images are more of a wider shot and you actually see the person with the box. Like, no, I just want to see every angle of the box and see the whole box up close. And I don't.
no offense to the person but i don't care about seeing the person kind of thing my only thing is i don't see okay technically he didn't have okay well it's supposed to be ss86 it's supposed to be a movie he didn't have the energy mace in the movie did he okay i was gonna say i don't see the energy mace that would be my only gripe with ss86 megatron but since it's not accurate to the movie and he didn't have it in the movie it doesn't matter So I just talked myself out
of that folks, but, uh, but yeah, no, uh, this thing looks amazing. It looks great. I, you're right. Yeah. Yeah. Any, any, uh, yeah, absolutely. Well, this will look perfect with my studio series, 86 Optimus prime. Yep. Uh, Which I'll talk more about that later. So that will mean I will have my G1 Optimus and Megatron and my G2 Optimus and Megatron. Yep, yep. And J -Axis. But I've customized all the G2s. You kind of had to, though. So my G2 Prime is War for Cybertron Netflix Prime.
Right. And so he didn't come with a trailer. and I customized the paint job and then added a G2 prime Autobot symbol, repainted the entire figure, like full detail, everything. And then I added his, um, his guns from his G2 trailer. Cause they're like bigger cannons. And then I gave him the jet pack from like G1 just cause
it fit. I'm like, Oh, why not? Um, and he's, um sizing wise he is shorter and smaller than the studio series prime um but he scales well with like j -axis which was g2 and then the g2 megatron tank which again i customized that because he has you know the the chest piece that attaches and then he has the over the shoulder cannon which i 3d printed and then um so now i have those and then once this megatron comes i'll have G1 Prime and Megatron and then I can kind
of recreate their battle plus I have a third party Prime head of course you do coming with that lights up and it's from the movie whereas so I figured out what I mean we were discussing it last time a lot of the issue is this Prime head more so fits like previous like toys or the comic type aesthetic or like almost like like g1 g1 yeah i i had said i think it was the last episode or maybe it was after maybe i said this off air when we were doing because sometimes
lately folks we just hop on camera either before or after the recording of the podcast and we do like behind the scenes stuff and i i showed you and you showed me and i was like dude you know what they did it's season one head versus movie head and i showed you the difference between the funko pop versions of optimus prime kind of thing and you're like oh my god you're right And that's kind of what they did with the SS 86 prime head that they have on him of what you
can buy in the store is it's probably a season one version of Optimus Prime's head and not the movie versions. Now I will say that, yeah, there are a few aesthetics missing, uh, paint wise, but it's very minuscule. And then seeing it in hand, It is better than what I expected. Um, but again, the head, I mean, there's nothing inherently wrong with it. Uh, but I do feel like
it's, it doesn't fit. It looks more, do you remember, uh, when they did the, the Transformers, the movie anniversary DVD thing, and then they had the, the renewed art or for the, uh, IDW or not.
idw shout factory season uh transformers generation one season one yeah that's what this prime looks like yeah for the head and so and so i i was like well i you know i'd like the actual aesthetic from the movie this megatron i don't see changing anything which is rare yeah um i mean yeah i could paint the feet to make them the darker gray but uh honestly like i don't like the upper torso looks perfect yeah so upper torso is great so i'm just like i think i'll let it pass on
this one like it it looks good enough i mean um my studio series 86 prime is third party um so he has no autobot symbol on him so i put one of my reprolabel autobot symbols that i had nice on his on his arms and then i'm waiting for the new head and then other than that it's it doesn't come with the trailer it's kind of the key component yeah which to be honest they had the entire thing for the leader pricing yeah instead of commander i would have went that route yeah but that's
neither here nor there but um but yeah this megatron is going to be stellar uh i've never seen studio series 86 prime in the store i am anticipating there will be the same story with this guy oh i'm sure yeah i've rarely seen any of the primes in in the store yeah so i'm wondering so my only question is with the with the reveal of the the reveal story studio series the official stock images Why there isn't a stock image of the Starscream
thing next to him. So in that story, it shows five images of Megatron and then one image of Starscream holding Megatron as a gun. What I would have liked to have seen is another image of the Starscream next to the Megatron to see the size difference of those two things. Cause I don't know what size that Starscream is. And I, I don't think it's core class, but, and did they get rid of core class? Yes. Oh shit. Yeah. They got rid of that a while ago. So it's just
a locks. It's Voyager. Commander in Titan. Okay. That's right. Huh? Hmm. Hmm. But that's Studio Series SS86 Megatron coming soon. I don't know when, when, but coming soon. I know they say on a couple of the Japan sites it's supposed to be like November in Japan. So that means highly
likely. After Christmas. it'll be after christmas it'll probably be at the beginning of next year which is fine yeah um i mean i've waited 30 years or whatever it is 25 years you know yeah since since the the film i mean it's it's oh god if we waited since the film that means it's 40 years because 40 years is next year oh yeah that's right i'll be turning 40 yes you'll be turning yes yes You'll be turning 40 next week as of the recording of this podcast. No, I turned 39.
What? I turned 39. That's right, that's right. Yeah, next year's 40. Next year's 40, that's right. Just get that man a cow and name it Norman, folks. Yeah. It's an old Billy Crystal joke. You know that this year, this podcast will have been around... What's the anniversary date this year? August 9th. Yeah, but... August 8th. 17 years. Yeah, 17 years, yep. That's crazy. I started
this show when I was 22. Yep. You so old. i sold you sold all right up next we got uh skybounds transformers uk compendium book one available for amazon pre -order skybounds the transformers uk compendium book one scheduled for february 2026 release is now available amazon pre -order The end of the iconic original era of Transformers is here. The looming threat of Unicron is ever present as both Decepticons and Autobots spread their forces across the galaxy in search of their
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Macchio. Why is the Karate Kid writing Transformers books? Why, why, why? Jose Delvo is on illustrations, Jim Fern, Jeff Senior, and a bunch of other people. So, yeah, this is coming for compendium format. It does not say a price, but I'm sure because it's compendium, it'll be something like 40, 50 bucks. But compendiums are always good for investment, I believe, because you're getting just listen to what I just read off for what
you're getting. You're getting so much in one place at one time instead of having to buy individually.
you transformers uk issues 9 through 21 29 to 32 41 to 50 etc etc etc you're getting it all in one place for one price so i will always always support people buying trade paperbacks or hardcovers or compendiums or whatever that's coming uh in in february of 2026 is when that will be available and the amazon pre -order is available now so people can check that out and here's where the take uh probably the longest we're not going to go through all of this but um tfw 2005 interviewed
hesbro toy designer mark mayer aka mark clonus on instagram I tried watching, and we will get to the actual, the recap of the stream recap. I'm actually going to move the stream recap up closer to this interview thing because it makes more sense to do so. So the stream recap we'll talk about next. I tried watching that stream recap and as much as I like Mark, I don't know. But anyway, they, they interviewed him and they
asked him about a bunch of stuff. And all of these questions were like, this interview was done June 6th. So this was done before the live stream was done. And they asked him about specific generations. They asked him about age of the primes. They asked him about just a bunch of stuff. And we're not going to go through all of this because I think going through all of this is just crazy. Y 'all can go over to TFW 2005 and read this for yourself. But what I did
like about this was they. They asked him about Primus and doing that, and they asked him about a Unicron reissue or a whole new Unicron for the anniversary. And before I even looked at his answer for that, I'm like, a whole new Unicron for the anniversary? Like, the original one wasn't enough already? Before I even read the man's answer, I'm sitting here thinking this person, whoever asked him this question, I'm like, do you not know that that nearly broke the company?
And that's literally what his answer is. Unicron broke our lead engineer the first time around. I'd love to revisit it. It's such an iconic piece, but I'm not sure it's in the cards just yet.
um there was a beast where's the beast wars question i sent you uh there was specific generation questions um yeah there's uh there's one about like super megatron to go with the star star convoy yeah um he's like sure why not i love me some megs and yeah um and then uh Yeah, then we get we get some other different questions about Titans and commanders and. Asking about like Star Optimus again and like TFA Omega Supreme and he was mentioning
about doing it as a Titan. Yep. And then certainly interest in making updates of toy only characters
like Polar Claw and. banzai tron um this is of course just trying to make everything fit as the challenge um are there any plans for beast wars anniversary next year and what would you like to make for it personally i'd like to include some of the weirder obscure beast wars guys like injector as well as some of the less obscure ones like depth charge etc so stay tuned the vac metal metallics are a challenge in production nowadays still scratching my head on those i
find it interesting that they don't know how to do it anymore like and i say this with the utmost respect because like you look at like star trek badges yep they have vac metal i mean because they they chip they peel you look at third party transformers and beast were specifically and somehow the trans metals have this flawless vac metal on them and i sit here and i go Why can't Hasbro do it? I mean, I get it. It's probably a massive cost because I realize the process
of it. I've watched enough YouTube videos on people that have done their own vac metal. There's a definite process that they have to do to these
figures and to the certain components. When they've 3D printed them, for instance, they'll put them, sand them down, get them perfect, get them... you know kind of a a certain paint level and then they attach this like special paint that adheres to metal in certain circumstances they soak it and then they you know it's cured with you know an electrical thing current and metal and then it adheres to it and then it's it cures and then you know so on and so forth so i get
the issue and i have like i've seen old beast wars toys that still have the back metal on them and look fine and then there's other ones where they just peeled and flaked horribly um so i mean i get that it's a challenge in production but i wonder if it's a cost issue and so they're weighing how can we paint this in a way that makes it look metallic without actually being metallic so it holds up longer yep isn't there a metallic paint now that makes it i don't know
makes it well metallic paint would make it look metallic but like isn't there a good enough metallic paint that isn't so expensive these days so like i've like i've just done like with my transmittal 2 megatron the the wings i painted it with gold paint like and it gives it somewhat of a metallic look it's not 100 there but it's it looks better than that see -through crap that was on them And then I used this, it's almost like a glaze or like, like they have, um, red metallic flake
is what it's called. Right. And I used that on, uh, my Transmetal 2 Megatron. And he, I mean, he's glossy, which I feel like if they just added gloss to some of the spots that are supposed to be metallic, that would fix some of the problem. But I feel like there's ways that they could kind of shirk it and give it that shine without necessarily making it the transmetal, you know, vacuum, you know, vacuum metallic. I don't know.
I would like to see them try it again, especially if they were like, hey, let's make an updated Transmetal Megatron. Yeah. You know, because, I mean, that one is like the bane of everyone's existence of the original figure. Yeah. It wasn't terrible, but the scaling on it was horrid. Like, it was not scaled very well with even the Optimus
Primal of that generation. of transmittal and and then on top of it like i mean inferno dwarfed over him and they were kind of head to head and you know dinobot even dwarfed over him and it's it's kind of like you know there was that and then he also had the issue with the uh gold plastic syndrome of the gps or in his case it actually wasn't gold plastic it was the brown plastic yeah which was super brittle and it just over the years like whatever that plastic was they
use it just dried up and it would stop working with the hinges and then it would just seize up and it would snap off and i've had numerous ones of those uh i've i've had four of them over the years of that particular figure the takara one didn't break but it also was like 200 and then it's like okay so i can either get a takara one which is marginally better looking than the Hasbro one, which was the one that broke or I can get a third party, which is show accurate.
And so that's where I would like to see like Hasbro do like kind of a show accurate, you know, like leader class transmittal Megatron. Yeah. to kind of go with their Transmetal 2. I mean, I'm not knocking their Transmetal 2 one. Yeah, no, no, no, I know. And I hated the face sculpt. Yeah. But overall, like, the structure was there. And, like, they did great with Silverbolt. They did great with Tigerhawk. They did great with, you know, the work for Cybertron, like Dinobot
and Rattrap and Primal. But then you had outliers
like Cheetor and Rattrap. that were or in rhinox that were kind of like meh and we got a good tiger tron and a good air razor i mean so i mean there were there were hits and misses in both lines and i i just would like to see what they do with you know depth charge for one because i have the original depth charge which is technically not mine it's my son's he just well and i say that because like he's like i don't want to store it he's like i know you like it so it can be
in your shelf but when i want to use it i want to use it and i'm like no it's fair game yeah and um but i would like to see when it's proportionately yeah but also that way it's something you all share now it's it's something that you know if he ever wants like he knows it's there he knows he can go to dad and say oh dad by the way i want to put this character in acid yeah Not saying I want to, I want to, I want to put this on my own shelf. Like, okay. Yeah. Like it's here.
Yeah. I'm not saying he's going to come in there and say, Hey, I want to give this thing an, a real acid bath, but like, you know how kids, at least kids in our day used to, we used to pretend all the time to put toys in acid, quote unquote, acid baths. Like, you know, get some boiling water and just boil it, boil star streams
arm off or something or whatever. hey look folks i'm i'm from a generation where we actually use our imaginations i'm sorry maybe i've just watched too much forensic files i don't know but yeah uh so there there is that on the horizon uh they said could we see any kind of exclusive line for the beast wars anniversary and he says we will see yeah and then they kind of go into other you know bunch of other stuff yeah well and then they said are you interested in doing a more
accurate g2 megatron he's like yes i love all megatrons megatrons yes and that made me go these machines yes these machines yeah and then i i love later somebody asked the question somebody asked the question what about beast machines blah blah and his answer is well are we talking machine wars if we're talking machine wars let's talk so because his his thing is machine wars so because you know funny enough machine wars for anybody that doesn't know what it is it's
basically the like the g2 cyber jets and then a bunch of specific g2 figures and g1 figures from the tail end of the line that were european only releases and they repurposed them and called he repainted them gave you know like star scream is another character and and that you know and they have bodies that don't necessarily resemble them uh and they're they're in this line called machine wars which had a very similar aesthetic to beast wars but it was machines and there was
a kb toys exclusive line and i my brothers and i all had figures from it and like megatron was a jet and like a small um basic size jet that was the flip transform which is how a lot of them were like thundercracker skywarp and megaplex and megatron were all that way and then you had like hubcap and hoist that were the flip transform and mirage and prowl which were race cars and they were flip transform then you had um sandstorm which was a helicopter and you had optimus prime
that was like thunder clash in g2 and then um starscream was a giant black jet um which i had and then soundwave was like a tank um no cassettes just a tank uh with a shoulder cannon and uh but no the line was great like i loved it i loved the premise of it and i always wanted a show for it but or a comic and yeah honestly i i would i would eat that up i don't know so that's the thing skybound if you're listening hopefully you're listening but if you're listening why
don't we have a machine wars like you could do like i understand you get to create the whole mythos from the ground up like there's nothing yeah exactly because there isn't anything existing and you don't have to worry about anything you could use whatever you wanted to use that's that's my point exactly Like there isn't anything you have to pull from. And I would think doing it in a comic form would be much easier than having to get an animated show greenlit or a live action
movie greenlit, whatever. Yeah. So, I mean, I would, I would, like I said, I would eat that up. I would, I would be super, I would be super stoked for a comic of it or. um a show or just re -envisioned updated figures um it just yeah i i would i would love it yeah that would be cool all right what's next next we have the stream recap oh the stream recap all right so We're not really going to talk. We're not really going
to talk. We're going to talk about the stream recap, but we're going to talk about what the, um, we're going to talk about age of the primes wave three plus exclusives first look. Cause the stream recap is essentially the, those two things are exactly the same damn thing. So in the, in that other story link with the, the wave three has all of the images from the stream recap for the most part. As far as I can tell, because they're all the same damn images, as far as I
can tell. But the stream recap. Okay, boys and girls, it's time to sit down. It's time to put some earplugs in and get ready because I'm about to go on a rant. Do people not know English anymore? And I'm not talking about kids who need to learn it. In school. Talking about actual adults. And it can't be me. It can't be. I read this four times. And I'm like, what are you talking about? The title of the story. Transformers June 25 stream recap. Full stop. I don't need to read
anything else. The rest of the title is Aerial Bots, Primes, Revenge of the Fallen, Decepticon Pack, and more. But that first half. Transformers, June 25, stream recap. And I'm sitting here thinking, okay, maybe someone from England wrote this. Maybe this was blah, blah, blah. I looked at my calendar twice, and I'm like, it's not even June 25 yet. And I'm sitting here thinking. Oh, you mean June 2025. Do you people not know how to fucking write titles? Really? Seriously? You've
been in this shit for 25 fucking years. Are you fucking kidding me? Oh my God. My head hurts.
Like literally I sat here. getting the news stories ready for us to do this podcast i sat here for 20 minutes reading this title trying to make sense i'm like oh that's what they mean and then i figured it was somebody maybe just joined the team of staff writers or whatever and i'm like no it's the guy that runs the freaking website that's ran the freaking website for the last 20 i'm like oh my god it's the head guy that's doing this news article holy crap Oh, boy. Yeah,
my brain broke. So looking through this article, it's basically just all the links for everything. And then they've just got screen caps from the livestream event with Nate and Mark from Hasbro.
And most of their screen caps are... some of the pictures from like some of the product pictures and things like that and some of the ones where like there's one with nate and mark uh with with alpha try on which is kind of cool i find it weird and interesting that part of this if you start at the beginning of it where it has you know they start with oh transformers pulse fan stream june 10th blah blah and then you get the transformers And then you get Nate and Mark together.
And then the fourth or fifth picture is before the first product shot of the Aerialbots here. It's just Nate with this scrunched up look on his face. Why would you put that in your news store? That's not an image you need to... I think it's because it says pre -orders start at 1pm.
Yeah, but... like okay fine but if your screenshot like i and i watch this point where where he's talking about that i could have gotten a better screenshot to make sure the man's face wasn't looking like he was passing gas i don't know dude i'm not making fun of nate i'm not making fun of him i'm making fun of the fact that these people at tfw 2005 don't know how to do their job um but we're gonna skip over this because i just can't look at this title anymore just
no but going into the wave three and looking at what wave three includes we have Voyager Alpha Trion, Deluxe Micronus Prime, Leader Onyx Prime, Deluxe Fireflight, Deluxe Skydive, Voyager Flatline, Deluxe Venom, and Sandstorm versus Slugslinger Tupac. So, what do you like the best? Alpha Trion. Oh, hands down. And the Autobots, or Aerialbots. Aerialbots, yep. Hands down. Like the rest of it, I don't care. Yep. Because Flatline is a
redeco of a Transformers Armada character. And nobody gives a shit about Transformers Armada, stupid minicons. And then Sandstorm is a redeco from Thrilling 30. Because I recognize the toy because I looked at it as like, oh, would this work for Megatron? No, no. And then the other one, I think, is a redeco from around the same time. Yeah. And honestly, like I. I'm excited for the aerial bots just because they're finally going to get an update. Yeah, that's better than
the Combiner Wars one. Absolutely. And then Alpha Triangle is cool. Plus, I mean, I know he's a
redeco of Scourge. yeah but that's okay like it's a heavy to read echo because like there's enough that's different but um i don't know i i like the figure and then i like the fact he doesn't have this crap on it like the uh the part of the the wings on his back yep i was looking at it i was like oh the feet they work good i was like this actually would have been a good figure for you know my beast megatron And then I would have got the Covenant of Primus too.
Somebody's going to have a 3D printed that at some point and then I'll just print it. Yeah, exactly. I really like the figure. I won't be buying it, but I do really like the design. I think it's weird that his Autobot symbol can
be removed. question mark well i think he did that during like the part where prime oh that's right like when when they they did the back in time thing yep yep yep yep in in season three yeah i just the reason why i think it's weird is because when it is removed like there's not like it That part of his stomach, it just looks weird without it. Like maybe have a hidden rub sign back there or something. Like, I don't know. It just looks weird. That photo of him with it
removed looks, I don't know, whatever. Anyway, but yeah, Alpha Trion and then the Aerial Bots.
Oh, the Aerial Bots looks so good. yeah fire flight and we get skydive so very very awesome for those and yeah the rest of it's like and i'm like this flat line at first i thought at first i thought it was uh what the run amok uh run about run amok one of the two whichever the black one is i forget if it's run about or run amok but uh the twins from from from rebirth uh but yeah flat movie toys still don't it still don't interest me whatsoever and then no vending
or venom whatever i do like the slug slinger uh sandstorm i like when they do two packs like that because again it's season three interesting What would be more interesting? Oh, I see. The Mini -Con can fit in the... Okay. Because Sandstorm has his capture cage for his helicopter thing. I was like, oh, it'd be kind of cool if... Yeah, Slugslinger's too big for that, but there's a Mini -Con that's in this. I forget what the name of the Mini -Con is, but there's a Mini -Con
in this thing, so... Very cool, very cool. But yeah, this is all about Alpha Tryout. Hopefully this will be the end -all, be -all version of Alpha Trion. Oh, for sure. I mean, it's more like A3. It's not actually Alpha Trion. Is it really, though? Yeah, the body is A3. Yeah, but... That's why the Autobot symbol comes out. He doesn't have the wings. He doesn't have, like... Okay, okay. Like, there's a different look to the head.
Like, this is A3. They're just calling him Alpha Trion because that's really who he turns into. Yeah. Maybe I need to watch forever is a long time coming after the show tonight again, because I remember a three being like, I don't remember his mustache being so white. I remember it being a lot darker because he was younger at the time, but there you go. Hey, there you go. Missing paint. Yep. Do we know? So I think it was probably in the other story. I was going to say, do we
know what a price point on this guy is? Yeah, I'll look at that later. He'll be a Voyager class. Yeah. And then so we got that. and then we get to the 25th anniversary party tfw 2005 tf con chicago so tfw 2005 25th anniversary party october 25th 2025 tf tf con chicago save the date and join us as we celebrate the 25th anniversary of tfw 2005 .com dedicated room, bar, food, goodie bag, door prizes, music, photo ops, special guests,
and more. Okay, so a goodie bag for all attendees featuring GFW swag and maybe some other stuff, definitely including a t -shirt, a bar station provided by hotel, beer, liquor, etc. Food, not a full meal. Music by a dedicated DJ playing TF -themed tracks all night. Photo op station with backdrop lights. Possible special guests stopping through. Door prizes at end of evening. This will be a ticketed event, not looking to profit, just recoup some of the costs for putting
it all together. Once we figure it all out, whether it's going to happen, the cost, TFCon will offer the ticket as an add -on to their tickets for the event. We welcome input over in the discussion thread on the TFW 2005 boards until then. But for now, save the date Saturday, October 25th, 2025, and make your plans to see you all there. So I like that it's going to be a ticketed add
-on to the TFCon tickets. Like it's not going to be something where you have to go separately to... tfw 2005 and order through them because it is at tf con 2025 in chicago that you can do it through tf con if you want to do you know the whatever i really the only thing about this is i wish optimus scourge was here for this i can hell i would buy ticket no seriously dude i would buy tickets for this in a heartbeat for me for him for proto man for whomever uh which
i wouldn't need to buy tickets for proto man since he kind of works for tf con and all that but like seriously like i look at this and i'm thinking man how much gary did for tfw 2005 and all the early podcasts that I did with Gary on toy cast and everything else. And it's like, damn it. Cause he's been gone 2011, 2025 long ass time. Uh, so, but yeah, 25th anniversary for TF con. So that's coming up in October. Very,
very cool. Very, very awesome. And then we get the age of the primes four pack ultra Magnus bumper, horrible. And this is prime. So ultra Magnus redeco of legacy G prime bumper studio series, 86 bumblebee mold with a new head, horrible partial retool of, uh, TR. What the fuck is TR? Is it terrible or something? TR skull smasher. What the hell? I don't know. I don't know. I like the ultra Magnus. Yeah. Just because I actually did that with a G one prime back in the day.
Yep. Um, but yeah. Yeah. The ultra Magnus looks great. And then that, that animated nemesis prom again, another reason why I wish. Optimus Scourge would freaking love this. When this was first announced, I didn't even look at it on TFW 2005. Again, I saw Proto Man's video over on his YouTube channel, and I was like, as soon as I saw him talk about it, my first comment was, I don't think I said fuck, but I'm going to say fuck here. I said, fuck, I wish Gary was here for
this, because he would have loved this. gary well optimus scourge was that's part of that's where his name came from optimus prime and scourge he loved black optimus repaints and gary would have loved animated optimus and animated nemesis uh this looks so good like this looks so good i might even buy one myself oh man it looks so cool um but honestly that's the ultra magnus and the nemesis are really the only two i really care about out of the four pack the other two
that g1 bumper what the hell i know a lot of people have been talking about bumper lately and i'm sitting here thinking oh god i gotta do research and figure out why people are talking about this but i've heard of the the figures the different characters i just don't yeah i don't have an affinity for him like i don't i don't care yeah um but uh yeah i'm i i like the ultra magnus it's about my limit there but yeah yeah yeah that's understandable and it looks
really good Like, I wish we saw... I don't think we saw... Well, these are all behind the scenes from Mark on Instagram photos of this. Have we seen that in alt mode? We know it's just a white Optimus Prime cab, but... Man, that blue axe
really kicks your axe. Because, uh, damn. i i yeah no that's that's very very cool very awesome man that nemesis oh boy that's that's good and that is a new battle map uh that they're gonna reuse at some point for him oh for sure yeah and i like the i like that body sculpt for the tfa optimus oh yeah it's great um i just i mean i i like animated it's just not that's the prime i'm interested in so it's not one i would pick up but i do really like that design yeah absolutely
so i do think it's funny though that they gave a little bit more paint deco detail to the nemesis version yeah well you kind of have to i mean because mainly he's black and yeah you have to because And his face is covered, so you don't have the expressive mouth. Because I'm looking at the two faces here, and I'm like, huh, interesting, yeah. And the interesting thing with the image between, basically it's the last image of the
two of them up close looking at each other. His windows, Nemesis's windows, translucent see -through than Optimus's are. Optimus's windows are more blackout than translucent see -through. At least in this photo. So, yeah, but looks cool. Very, very cool. And then we got. Oh, it's just not last up, but it's just all videos of everything we've already talked about. So the Sandstorm, the Insecticon, the Aerial Bots, the Micron, the Alpha Trion. It's a story with all the video,
all this and everything else. And it does have the... All the links to the stuff to buy the various toys that we've already talked about. And I was looking through here to see if they had the one for the Nemesis, but they don't. Off I try. Let's go to the only store that matters, Big Bad. Yes, I'm human. I'm not a robot. I'm human, damn it. I'm human. I'm more human than human. Seriously, really? Alpha Tria. Oh, that's
not bad. Yeah, you're getting it. I don't know when you're getting it, but you're getting it. I'd rather wait and get the Studio Series Megatron. November. You're getting it. Shut up. You're getting it. Next story. All right. Coming up next, we get to finally to end this episode, at least the news section of this episode. On a depressing note, Paramount confirms no plans for Transformers 2. So there will not be a Transformers
1 sequel. Reports are coming in that director Josh Cooley has confirmed that Paramount currently has no plans for a sequel to Transformers 1. This can likely be attributed to its unfortunate box office underperformance. With this, and the fact that the Transformers G .I. Joe crossover movie has had no updates, the future of Transformers movies at Paramount in general is looking shaky
at best. that's sad i mean it wasn't it wasn't my favorite movie like but it was better than anything that the bavers gave us yeah i i would have easily taken uh another film or two out of this franchise absolutely and when i say franchise i mean they're like this rendition of the film series yeah yeah yeah yeah absolutely And the thing of it is, is, like, why not... I don't know. Why not just do something that, you know... Okay, so we've talked about this for years. We've
talked about it on Geekcast Radio. We've talked about it on... A movie we can review at the time when we're doing MWire. Sometimes we talk about it on Studio 2009 now with movies and things like that. Why not? There are certain movies that underperform at the box office, but they are huge hits with physical media release or at least nowadays with whatever, like streaming. There are certain movies out there where they didn't find their... their success in theaters,
but they're a huge hit after the fact. Why couldn't Transformers 1 be one of those movies where people find it? And again, like we said when we did that Transformers 1 episode, I think this is perfect for showing this to people who are not trans... This is a way to get people into Transformers. If they don't know anything about it and you want them to come in fresh with a fresh perspective, Transformers 1 was a fresh perspective. Oh, totally. Transformers 1 is something that doesn't have
the 41 years of baggage. It sets up so many things and it works on so many levels and you don't have to worry about anything else. I don't know. But, okay, sure. You know, I guess Paramount just doesn't like money. Apparently not. That's not... But that's all she wrote, folks. That's all I got. Yeah, so... Yeah, I mean, I kind of talked about the Prime thing early, but... Well, no, it's fine. I mean, whatever. For me, I got to talk. I got to go on mute. Talk for a minute.
Talk about your Prime thing. Talk about your no trailer. So I, as we talked about in the last episode of all things Transformers with the various Primes, there's the official one. There's various knockoff ones. There's very 30 third party ones. There's the. Third party knockoff one that has the trailer and the Starscream parts and the. The new comics Megatron arm that can attach and transform into it, and then they have a battle damaged piece that can be replaced on the side
of Prime and. They also have like a part with his battle damaged head sculpt. But ultimately. And it comes with the trailer and everything else. I chose not to do that one because that one was like the same cost as the full Hasbro Studio Series one. I mean, it came with a lot more stuff, but one, it was it was a cost thing. And then two, it was like, I don't really want
the trailer. Now, if they would have had. as i mentioned before if they would have had the studio series 86 prime for the same price that they used to sell the warfare cybertron prime of you know the the leader class instead of bumping them to commander i would have just bit the bullet and gotten that one um just so that it was 100 authentic and it was you know but it ultimately was a price decision and i was like well for that i could buy a third party masterpiece Optimus
Prime I could buy. And then the rumor mill started of the Studio Series 86 Prime without trailer. And for like 20, 25. And I was like, well, for me, that's like a hands down because all I wanted was the Prime. I don't have the space like the real estate. If I got rid of the stasis pod, I would have it. But that's not an option because
I've waited 30 years to print that thing. or to have one and so i was it was like okay i'm i'm excited i have you know the prime from my childhood finally and uh and then getting the megatron will complete that and yeah so i mean i'll i'll have all the beast figures that i care to get and all the g1 g2 and unless um hasbro comes out with some machine war stuff or a beast machines, dragon Megatron or, um, in the cloak. I still want that display piece. Damn it. Which
one? You know, which one? The display piece they had at the one of the convention Megatron on the, in the ship and the displayed, he's splayed
out. I want that. I want that Megatron. oh by the way happy early uh try on christmas it'll be there in november i'm not kidding i just got the email thankfully thankfully big bad toy store is one of the only places that doesn't charge up front yep oh i know i i use them for a lot um rules well they're also my um they're they're like the security uh it's like it's like how can i hold my hold my uh transformers easier it's like oh bbts because then if i find it in
the wild then it's like i can cancel it but yep absolutely but no i've i've got uh as soon as the uh 86 megatron i'm i'm hoping to see when that takes effect because that's the one i'm like like okay they they sold me once once the prime came out i was like okay well you can't have prime without megatron so yeah kind of like primal and megatron it's like okay they got me yep they got you yeah and then for me folks i have sent me i had mentioned this a while ago
i I don't do model kits. I don't do well with them. I can't do it with my hands and with cerebral palsy and things like that. And as much as I like the idea of blockies, it sends me into convulsions. Kind of like bullet points send me into convulsions. Numbers only. No bullet points. But a friend of ours, I had mentioned that when Blocky's came out with their, I don't know what version, what does the card say here? It says Blocky's Transformers
or anything. about specific no it doesn't none of the card it might say instructions the instructions are in the bag on the other side of the room uh the idw megatron and our good buddy brad oh yeah by the way you're something in the mail in the next couple of days and i'm like what did you how did you get my address what are you talking about i don't give people my address so i finally have uh Megatron and he is very very cool but god damn this is why I only collect
Funko Pops folks trying to get his gun in so it just attaches to his arm like it's supposed to obviously it just has a little hook and a little whatever but getting it to hook in and getting it to stay hooked in and getting his legs to stay where they need to stay and getting his other arm like this is why i don't do the these toys with all this articulation and having to move things this is why i like funko pops where they just stand there and do nothing that's
the point and i'm not trying to sound like an ingrate thank you so much brad i absolutely love it it is awesome but like all day today i'm like This thing has fallen over, like, literally 75 times. And I'm like, oh, God. Like I said earlier in the podcast, this is why I hate machines. Just like Fan Zone from Animated. But it is very,
very cool. I can't wait to actually get it on my actual shelf and not on my desk where my... I can't knock on this too much, but my up, my riser thing that I have my monitor on the air, whatever, because that's the other problem. Having things displayed on this, especially toys with feet that the feet want to fall through the little holes that are on this thing for air. It's like, oh, crap, whatever. The interesting thing is
he does. And I've got pictures of this, and I'll send this to you so you can see it, and maybe I'll put it in the post, or maybe you can put it in the post or whatever. If you pose him, if you get his feet just right, I can actually have him stand on any of the Megatron Funko Pops, because I have two of the Megatron Funko Pops. I have the one with him with the gun. from the Optimus and Megatron Metallic 2 pack that they recently released, or I have the one from Season
1 with the mace. Nice. Blocky's Megatron, Autobot Megatron from IDW, can actually stand on Buckethead Megatron's head because Buckethead Megatron Funko Pop head is so big. So I've got a couple of photos of that that I took in the middle of the show.
but uh but that's my recent pickup and i'm not really picking up a lot of stuff anymore like funko isn't releasing like i don't know what the hell funko's doing i really don't like oh okay so i guess we can talk about this it's transformers related and it's ugly as shit it really is what is it have you ever seen the um jumbo chan Figures that they've done. You probably haven't seen these. Probably not. Let's see. If I can find this. Really quick. If I can spell correctly.
I don't even know if TFW. Did a story on this. Yes they did. I'm going to send this to you really
quickly. In the Facebook. in z facebook in z facebook so you can at least look at it while we're doing this and we're not uh we're not gonna edit any of this i think i've seen these but i yeah i'm sure you have but you have oh it's a funko yeah it's it is funko but like go ahead this is worse than typical like funko's like i would rather have regular funko's than this garbage yeah it's bad it's so bad and the worst thing is like okay so this i guess i i guess
this is a japanese thing because jumbo chan i guess it's a japanese again folks i'm illiterate I'm ignorant. I'm whatever. It's inspired by... Okay. And they've done other versions of this. They've done their mascot. Freddy Funko is one of these types of figures and things like that. But it's supposed to be very Japanese looking, I think. But... But the pop analyst who I follow on Instagram first debuted this kind of thing,
and this was done back on June 2nd. It's a 14 -inch retro -inspired hard vinyl Optimus Prime figure. It will be limited to 1 ,200 units with a certificate of authenticity. This new figure will be available for $250 USD via Funko's website.
as of june 13th so it's already been available i don't know if it's sold out i don't think it has it did it did sell out unless they just marked it as sold out but um building hype early i don't know but i mean june 13th has already passed but i wanted to since i took the leap to funko's website i want to see if there's other really your website only has the really funko seriously i just searched jumbo chan on their website and the only thing that pops up is the optimus prime
i wanted to see if the other figures would pop up but no just to show you the difference of but imagine this with like human like it's and i'm sitting here thinking Why do we need this? And especially, like, I get it. It's a 14 -inch figure. Okay, I understand that. But it's ugly. It's ugly as all sin. I don't need. No. It's
no. Just no, don't, and stop. but uh but that was something that like and my my thinking is bunco what are you doing with the transformers license because outside of the the um the optimus and megatron two -pack outside of the oh i know what they released they released the um The Cyclonus, Hot Rod with Matrix, which I still need to get those two, and the Omega Supreme. Those are the only three that they recently released that I don't have yet. I don't even know if I want the
Omega Supreme because it looks really bad. I don't know. Here's what the original Jumbo Chun Funko figures looked like. That's just their
mascot, Freddy Funko. I put it in Facebook. uh but yeah no i looked at that and i'm like seriously really that's that's what you're doing with the transformer's license really like could we do anything else with the transformer's license like actually give us things we want and again i will be getting i will getting the um the hot rod with matrix and the cyclonus but i don't know what else they're gonna like So they did this big push cut, not big push, but they did
this big thing where they released the ultra. So the, the lay, Oh, that's what it was. It was an NFT wave. No wonder they buried it in NFTs. They did the NFT wave with ultra Magnus, RC, Cheetor and Blitzwing. So you got three G one figures in a beast horse figure in there. And I talked about those on the previous, on previous episodes of the podcast. Then you got the line where they did the Optimus and Megatron Metallic
2 -pack, which I think is a games topic. I'm looking at a table because I bought two of those, one in -box and one out -of -box. That's why that Megatron that you'll see in the photo that I send you later is out -of -box is because I have another one in -box. Because, you know, folks, as Transformers collectors, we need one
out -of -box and one in -box. whether it transforms or not so there was that and then like i said they released these other ones and now i don't know what they're gonna do like every um every funko announcement so far this year so far i have not seen other than this funko jumbo chan i have not seen any new Funko Pop Transformers. Other than what I've already mentioned. So, yeah, I don't know. I don't know what they're going to do. Yeah, I don't like it. I don't like it
either. I don't like these stupid figures. I'm waiting to see. Didn't they say they're going to have a Beast Megatron? That was a rumor. That was an announcement. Rumor, rumor, rumor, rumor. They started with Sheetor with NFTs. I'm hoping that Beast Megatron and Beast Optimus Primal and all that stuff would be mass retail release and not like if they do it as a store exclusive, like I said, Amazon, Hot Topic, GameStop, whatever. Fine. If they do it as a con exclusive, okay,
fine. Those are sometimes a little harder to get, but they're so hard to get. But, I mean, I don't know. Looking on here and so far, the only ones that are that, yeah. So, yeah. I don't know. Yeah, the newest ones to be released are the Like I mentioned, the Cyclonus, the Omega Supreme, and the Hot Rod with Matrix. So, yeah. But yeah, Blocky's IDW Megatron. Awesome. Thank you so much, Brad, for that. Yeah. So, very,
very awesome. uh what else we got are we uh are we dying over here i think we're tapped out i think we i think we kind of talked about everything we wanted to talk about yep yep i don't think there's anything else like and i say this now and of course i'm gonna kick myself in the morning most likely if my foot could actually reach my own ass which it can't thankfully because if that could happen well then i would be exercising really really hard yeah yeah I don't think there's
anything major, major, major that's going to hit between now and the next time we do news. I don't know. I don't know. So, yeah. So thank you guys for joining us for all things Transformers. I've been your host, Steve Megatron with TFG and Mike. And you can, of course, interact with the episode post on geekcastradio .com, on Facebook and various other social platforms. And stay tuned to all things geeky on geekcastradio .com. So until next time, transform and transcend. Yes.