Podcasts about merklynn

This time on the Couch: The batteries in Mike, James, and Shée's iPads die, so they resort to reading 1987's Visionaries no. 1 instead! In the future, on a planet that's totally not Earth, a horrible apocalypse has ended the age of science/nerds and ushered in the return of the age of magic/uberchads! Bored magician Merklynn promises a bunch of self-proclaimed knights awesome powers and HUGE gains if they complete a series of vague challenges! That awesome power? Creatine! Oh, wait, sorry: That should've read "awesome powder."

Before we race ahead to the next season of Robots in Disguise, we're taking a detour back to 1987 with a lesser-known Hasbro series, Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light! When a catastrophic solar alignment causes all the technology on the world of Prysmos to stop working, humanity falls into a new dark age -- until the mysterious wizard Merklynn offers to teach magic to any bold enough to brave the path to his mountain shrine! Will the heroic Leoric be able to bring this new hope back to the city of New Valarak, or will the evil warlord Darkstorm get it first? Or will they BOTH get it because Merklynn is actually a Chaotic Neutral asshole? How many new characters can we fit into a roll call? Why does this show look so GOOD? And... why a MOLLUSK? Join us this week for the first episode of Visionaries, "The Age of Magic Begins"!

When something comes up and we can’t record, it’s comforting to rely on our dense back catalog of solid bangers. So the next few weeks will be a curated gallery of our favorite mistakes, starting with Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light. Enjoy!————————-Sometimes a show comes along that unites us in our desire to utterly and completely destroy it, and this time it’s 1987’s Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light. Join Merklynn the Centrist Wizard as he foists powers upon the ruling class in return for vague favors. Chaos, naturally, ensues.This week on Saturday Morning Tuesdays:Dirty nuts, clean nuts, you know I’ve had my share • No sooner is Merklynn done with his 20 minute explanation of the show than the Spectral Knights immediately disappoint us with their poor judgement • The eternal tale of a man and his trapdoor into our hearts • The power discrepancy between heroes and villains demands a balance patchToday’s Episode Sponsor: Dad’s Old Big Box of Cables™THIS WEEK'S EPISODESVisionaries Episode 1, “The Age of Magic Begins”Visionaries Episode 2, “The Dark Hand of Treachery”The Hosts: Andrew Eric Davison, Austin Bridges, Rory VoieAudio Production: Andrew Eric Davison

It's episode 2 already and we're wondering what Merklynn is up to and which animals we would have as our 'totems'. Jamie asks if you turned into a shark and had someone in your mouth would they be inside you? We ask this and many other important questions about the Knights of the Magical Light.

Sometimes a show comes along that unites us in our desire to utterly and completely destroy it, and this time it’s 1987’s Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light. Join Merklynn the Centrist Wizard as he foists powers upon the ruling class in return for vague favors. Chaos, naturally, ensues.This week on Saturday Morning Tuesdays:Dirty nuts, clean nuts, you know I’ve had my share • No sooner is Merklynn done with his 20 minute explanation of the show than the Spectral Knights immediately disappoint us with their poor judgement • The eternal tale of a man and his trapdoor into our hearts • The power discrepancy between heroes and villains demands a balance patchToday’s Episode Sponsor: Dad’s Old Big Box of Cables™THIS WEEK'S EPISODESVisionaries Episode 1, “The Age of Magic Begins”Visionaries Episode 2, “The Dark Hand of Treachery”The Boys: Andrew Eric Davison (Seattle), Austin Bridges (Portland), Rory Voie (Seattle)Audio Production: Andrew Eric Davison (Seattle)

Daniel and Callum kick things off with a look at what could have been with Aubrey Sitterson's Patreon-exclusive scripts and outline for the unpublished issues of Scarlett's Strike Force. In the comics, the Transformers and Spectral Knights play their final gamble against Merklynn and the Darkling Lords in Transformers vs. Visionaries #4. Finally, the guys take another look at the story of Rom and Fy-Laa in the one-shot ROM: Tales of the Solstar Order, as well as speculating about the future of our favorite Wraithslayer! Timecodes: 0:00 - Introduction 01:55 - Scarlett's Strike Force #4 Script/Series Outline 20:00 - Transformers vs. Visionaries #4 Discussion 44:30 - ROM: Tales of the Solstar Order 1:13:13 - Next Week's Comics 1:14:43 - Outroduction Featured music: Opening - Action Man Ending Theme Ending - Rom the Space Knight Commercial (This episode was recorded back in April)

In the latest episode of the Seibertron.com Twincast Podcast, "Madman's Paradise", the latest Transformers Generations Power of the Primes products continue to warrant discussion. With packaging artwork and tech spec card art recently revealed online through unofficial channels, the cast analyzes what they can with this new information. Additional material surfacing indicates the possibility for new Movie toys that may be on the horizon. A premium looking Megatron and Brawl using designs from past Transformers live action movie installments, as well as a potential design for a Movie Masterpiece Barricade are all discussed. With that news, and with the toy now reaching more markets across the United States, a short review of Movie Masterpiece Bumblebee occurs. After that, the latest releases from IDW Publishing are critiqued, beginning with the latest issue of Optimus Prime as well as the First Strike event tie-in for that same series. First Strike itself has just wrapped, so the cast gives their opinions on the final two issues and the questionable twist at the end of the main story. Time is given to the final pages of First Strike, which revealed the long awaited and much speculated return of iconic Transformers villain Unicron. The episode ends with a round of "Bragging Rights" where each cast member mentions their most recent Transformers toy acquisitions.

Put on your muscle shirt, break out your best evil laugh, and prepare for an epic Smashtoberfest confrontation between ancient mummies and skeleton demons...as only 1980s cartoon shows can deliver! By popular demand, the Smash Fiction crew takes on yet another of the most hotly-debated questions in all the multiverse: Who would win in a fight between He-Man's iconically-voiced purple-and-blue nemesis, Skeletor, and the bandage-wrapped bane of Third Earth, Mumm-Ra? The two classically evil fiends square off in the tower of Merklynn (you know, from that Visionaries show -- oh wait, the Mulkerins are the only people who actually remember that was a thing) and are prepared to resort to any and all tactics that will allow them to walk off with the wizard's fabled treasure (not to mention some great rolls on the magic item tables). Will Skeletor's  Havoc Staff, endless arsenal of verbose insults, and defunct but still inspirational Facebook page be enough to prove him the true master of the universe? Or will Mumm-Ra call upon the ancient spirits of evil for one final, unbeatable transformation sequence, and do to Skeletor what he did to the Thundercats in that one DC comic book we should all have agreed never to talk about? Also, Miles lays the smackdown on the Eternian political system, Dan and Colin make a ridiculous amount of D&D references, Liz does the best Skeletor impression, Kit's Lightning Round is as insane as it is predictable, and Brett Van Donsel provides some seriously spooky intro music (with an assist from wwww.incompetech.com).