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The Seibertron.com Twincast / Podcast is here to discuss the recent Toyfair 2025 reveals. Discussion starts with Age of the Primes Onyx Prime and Alchemist Prime before Vortex rounds out the mass retail releases. Studio Series is up next with reveals of Ramhorn with Perceptor and Ratbat. Devastation troop builders and Walmart exclusives conclude the Generations chat, then Cyberworld gets the crew talking about upcoming kid friendly toys. Forthcoming Hot Wheels Collaborative releases are up next for inspection to finish up the Toy Fair impressions. Missing Link Arcee and a listener question about Combiners are up next before Bragging Rights brings the show to a close.

The team has their mission from the resurrected Optimus Prime himself! But they still have a long journey ahead to get off the planet and save Perceptor. What are they going to do?  We want to hear your feedback! Post a comment here or email feedback for Empire Of Rust directly to rust@transmissionspodcast.com! Want some TransMissions swag? Check out our online shop, powered by TeePublic! Like what we’re doing and want to help make our podcast even better? If you already support us, thank you! If you enjoy Empire of Rust, please rate us and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, and Spotify! These ratings greatly help podcasts become more discoverable to other people using those services and is an easy way to help out our show. What is the Empire Of Rust Podcast? TransMissions Podcast Network presents: the world’s first and only Transformers RPG actual play podcast! Conceived, developed,… Continue reading The post Empire Of Rust Special – Hate Plague Episode 4 appeared first on TransMissions Podcast Network.

The team has their mission from the resurrected Optimus Prime himself! But they still have a long journey ahead to get off the planet and save Perceptor. What are they going to do?  We want to hear your feedback! Post a comment here or email feedback for Empire Of Rust directly to rust@transmissionspodcast.com! Want some TransMissions swag? Check out our online shop, powered by TeePublic! Like what we’re doing and want to help make our podcast even better? If you already support us, thank you! If you enjoy Empire of Rust, please rate us and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, and Spotify! These ratings greatly help podcasts become more discoverable to other people using those services and is an easy way to help out our show. What is the Empire Of Rust Podcast? TransMissions Podcast Network presents: the world’s first and only Transformers RPG actual play podcast! Conceived, developed,… Continue reading The post Empire Of Rust Special – Hate Plague Episode 4 appeared first on TransMissions Podcast Network.

Paul Eiding played Ambassador Loquel on the seventh season Star Trek TNG episode, "Liaisons," but if you grew up in the 80s and 90s, you know him better as Perceptor from "Transformers," Colonel Roy Campbell in the Metal Gear Solid video game series, and Grandpa Max Tennyson in "Ben 10," among hundreds of other voiceover roles in cartoons, anime, and games. Besides telling us about his time in Trek, Paul explains how his time in the army led him towards acting, being a clown and improv performer, what he learned from Dudley Riggs' Brave New Workshop, and how a chance meeting with Gordon Hunt changed the course of his career and brought him into the world of animation. Plus, his time with Betty White on "The Golden Girls," "Martial Law" with Sammo Hung, delivering the line in the 1986 Transformers movie that broke a generation of kids' hearts, his unusual time working on the "Toxic Crusaders" cartoon, the most meaningful role he ever played, and performing with Anna Nicole Smith in "Skyscraper." Watch "Frank and Emmet" here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwWQ4gvDkRE&ab_channel=OmeletoPlease subscribe to our brand new YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@trekuntold . There, you will see all the old episodes of this show, as well as new episodes and all of our other content, including shorts and some other fun things planned for the future.Visit my Amazon shop to check out tons of Trek products andother things I enjoy - https://www.amazon.com/shop/thefightnerd View the Teespring store for Trek Untold gear & apparel- https://my-store-9204078.creator-spring.com Support Trek Untold by becoming a Patreon at Patreon.com/TrekUntold.Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast and leave a rating if you like us!Follow Trek Untold on Social MediaInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/trekuntoldTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/trekuntoldFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/trekuntoldFollow Nerd News Today on Social MediaTwitter: Twitter.com/NerdNews2Day Instagram: Instagram.com/NerdNewsToday Facebook: Facebook.com/NerdNewsTodayTrek Untold is sponsored by Treksphere.com, powered by the RAGE Works Podcast Network, and affiliated with Nerd News Today.

Paul Eiding played Ambassador Loquel on the seventh season Star Trek TNG episode, "Liaisons," but if you grew up in the 80s and 90s, you know him better as Perceptor from "Transformers," Colonel Roy Campbell in the Metal Gear Solid video game series, and Grandpa Max Tennyson in "Ben 10," among hundreds of other voiceover roles in cartoons, anime, and games. Besides telling us about his time in Trek, Paul explains how his time in the army led him towards acting, being a clown and improv performer, what he learned from Dudley Riggs' Brave New Workshop, and how a chance meeting with Gordon Hunt changed the course of his career and brought him into the world of animation. Plus, his time with Betty White on "The Golden Girls," "Martial Law" with Sammo Hung, delivering the line in the 1986 Transformers movie that broke a generation of kids' hearts, his unusual time working on the "Toxic Crusaders" cartoon, the most meaningful role he ever played, and performing with Anna Nicole Smith in "Skyscraper." Watch "Frank and Emmet" here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwWQ4gvDkRE&ab_channel=OmeletoPlease subscribe to our brand new YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@trekuntold . There, you will see all the old episodes of this show, as well as new episodes and all of our other content, including shorts and some other fun things planned for the future.Visit my Amazon shop to check out tons of Trek products andother things I enjoy - https://www.amazon.com/shop/thefightnerd View the Teespring store for Trek Untold gear & apparel- https://my-store-9204078.creator-spring.com Support Trek Untold by becoming a Patreon at Patreon.com/TrekUntold.Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast and leave a rating if you like us!Follow Trek Untold on Social MediaInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/trekuntoldTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/trekuntoldFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/trekuntoldFollow Nerd News Today on Social MediaTwitter: Twitter.com/NerdNews2Day Instagram: Instagram.com/NerdNewsToday Facebook: Facebook.com/NerdNewsTodayTrek Untold is sponsored by Treksphere.com, powered by the RAGE Works Podcast Network, and affiliated with Nerd News Today.

All Hail Unicron: Episode 666 INTRODUCTION   Anybody Get Anything? Movie/Show News    Third party: First look at TransArt's MP Crocodile Hunter killa https://www.facebook.com/DaimChocReports/posts/pfbid0Xm2thTFwFBKLHj3ptGZBkz2KR8PqUscXoU68hVzPjUiZjCG5jH8uMwDnJmuPUV3kl First look at Unique Toys' MP Buttflap and Skidmarks https://news.tfw2005.com/2024/02/10/unique-toys-masterpiece-scale-rotb-skids-mudflap-prototypes-504011 IronFactory Jallguar from their Legends Liokaiser set https://news.tfw2005.com/2024/02/09/iron-factory-if-ex-68-legends-scale-jallguar-color-prototype-images-503926 ii   New third party company Chang Tiao reveals their Core Class Megatron https://news.tfw2005.com/2024/02/09/chang-tiao-ct-01-core-class-megatron-gray-prototype-503937 Magic Square is coming in hot with Dinobot prototypes https://news.tfw2005.com/2024/02/12/magic-square-legends-scale-g1-grimlock-gray-prototype-504102 https://news.tfw2005.com/2024/02/12/magic-square-legends-scale-g1-sludge-gray-prototype-504097 Dr Wuuuuuuu has a Perceptor, Grapple, and repaints coming https://news.tfw2005.com/2024/02/14/dr-wu-dw-e27-black-mirror-dw-e28-crane-hook-micromasters-scale-magnificus-grapple-color-images-504200 https://news.tfw2005.com/2024/02/13/dr-wu-dw-e25-microscope-dw-e26-grapple-micromasters-scale-perceptor-hauler-color-images-504154 Fans Hobby's Armada line continues with a Starscream prototype-503937 https://news.tfw2005.com/2024/02/19/fans-hobby-mb-28-armada-starscream-first-prototype-504460 Run, Ronnie, Run! https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/x-transbots-ratchet-and-ironhide.1254812/ Official: Comic versions of Leader Grimlock and "Leader" Shockwave. https://news.tfw2005.com/2024/02/06/transformers-generations-comic-book-shockwave-and-grimlock-figures-revealed-503645   Legacy United Leader Sandstorm https://news.tfw2005.com/2024/02/06/transformers-legacy-united-leader-sandstorm-revealed-503643   40th Anniversary stuff and things https://news.tfw2005.com/2024/02/06/503681-503681   Another pre-yellowed repaint of a Masterpiece Trainbot is coming https://news.tfw2005.com/2024/02/08/transformers-masterpiece-mpg-07-trainbot-yamabuki-official-reveal-503870   Flame Toys Ultra Magnus and Starscream https://news.tfw2005.com/2024/02/11/flame-toys-kuro-kara-kuri-ultra-magnus-starscream-color-prototypes-images-504037 Discussion:   Questions:   Email your questions to: Hailunicroncast@gmail.com    Special Shoutouts: Dustmightz for providing the beats for the theme song! Check the Realm of Collectors on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/groups/realmofcollectors   Everyone who followed us from Shattered Cast Uncut, we are grateful to each and everyone of you for joining us on this journey!   Hosts: T2RX6 http://www.youtube.com/user/T2rx6 Rich “Preordered” H. Oscar Alonso https://www.youtube.com/user/oscarnjboy Robert Duyjuy-sabado-gigante  

Some Men of Steel are actually MONKEY! Case and Jmike are joined by Derek Van Dyke to talk about what is undoubtedly the "Optimal Optimus" (as well as "Code of Hero" because we are not monsters).   Transcript (Subject to error) 00:00 Case Aiken Season one has a couple, like, events that feel like this should be the season finale. Like the floating island one. Yeah. And then it's like, oh, no, we're just gonna keep going. 00:07 Derek Van Dyke Season one just did a lot of great, like, mini story arcs leading up to. Yeah. Watching Beast wars, like, out of order on syndication, over the air was. 00:17 Jmike Folson Yeah, that would have messed with you. 00:18 Derek Van Dyke Yeah, because it's like every other week there's some season finale, and you're like, what is happening? 00:40 Case Aiken Hey, everyone, and welcome back to the Men of Steel podcast. I am an optimal case Aiken, and as always, I am joined by my rat trap, J. Mike Falson. 00:51 Jmike Folson I gotta be rat trap, though. Why couldn't it be Cheetor? 00:53 Case Aiken Oh. 00:54 Jmike Folson Anyway, hey, welcome back, everybody. 00:55 Case Aiken I mean, honestly, you're probably the rhinox of the team. 01:01 Derek Van Dyke A higher compliment you cannot give. 01:05 Case Aiken Well, and there's the peacemaker right there. So that's the tiger Tron, Derek Van. 01:09 Derek Van Dyke Dyke, although I do not have nearly as deep and dulcite of tones as Tigatron's voice actor. 01:16 Case Aiken What's his name? Blue Mankuma. 01:18 Derek Van Dyke Beautiful, beautiful voice. 01:20 Case Aiken An incredible voice. So we're not going to mince words here. I tried to do a bit and it didn't quite work. But you know what? We're going to maximize this effort here. Today we're talking about maximize Transformers, Beast wars, and specifically, we're going to talk about Optimus Primal and how I would argue that he is a Superman analog. And before we started recording, Derek and I were talking about how probably of any Transformers character, especially any Beast wars character, Optimus prime is the best example of a Superman type character in the series. 01:50 Derek Van Dyke And that also, I think that primal specifically is probably the best version of Optimus to make that analog with in terms of the ways that Primal is a unique character from G, one Optimus, or, like, prime or Energon or any of those other versions of Optimus Primal, very much stands out in that regard to me. 02:11 Case Aiken Yeah. I mean, so much so that in the episode victory, there is a direct, like, it's a bird, it's a plane. It's exactly. I mean, we're all 90s babies here. This seemed kind of like an appropriate little session of just, like, nostalgia and looking at a thing that definitely, even if the metaphor is forced, it is the heroic archetype that we try to talk about on this piece, where a character has the power of action and does his or her best to make the world a better place, regardless of threats and regardless of the ability to do more in a way that would be harmful to others and trying to avoid those types of situations. So we picked out a bunch of episodes from the first season to really focus on for this. But we'll talk about the series as a whole. 02:56 Case Aiken We'll talk about some of the other characters. We're obviously going to talk about code of Hero because we're not monsters on this podcast. And that has to be discussed if we're talking about beast wars. But we are going to try to frame the conversation mostly about Optimus Primal, who is just goddamn awesome. And I think a good place to start, then, before we actually get into the episodes, is just how Optimus Primal is not Optimus prime. They're very similar characters. They are obviously both the leader types for the group. But for one thing, Optimus Primal isn't just the biggest fucking dude in the room. 03:28 Jmike Folson Always. 03:30 Derek Van Dyke Yeah, he's interestingly, like, perfect middle size. Rhinox and Dinobot are bigger than, like, several characters. Outsize him in stature, so he's not the big guy of the team like Optimus traditionally is. 03:45 Case Aiken Right? I mean, Skyfire aside, or Omega supreme or any of the other really weird ones out there, Optimus prime was always sort of positioned as being the biggest one. And some of that is japanese toy convention of having the leader types always be the biggest action figure, which is true for the Optimus primal gorilla figure. Although of course, for those of us from the 90s who remember when the Beast wars toys first came out, Optimus Primal was a bat. 04:09 Derek Van Dyke Oh God. That's right. I forgot that the first toy was a bat. Wow. 04:15 Case Aiken Yeah. And Megatron was a crocodile. 04:17 Derek Van Dyke I don't think I ever saw the megatron crocodile. 04:20 Case Aiken Yeah, well, and then they got phased out and they put out. Right, right. 04:23 Derek Van Dyke And then we got the ones that. 04:24 Case Aiken Are the monkey nut truck version of Optimus. While the figure was the biggest. There's a little bit of a weirdness when you look at Rhinox. Like, depending on the shot, rhinox is clearly bigger in beast form, but sometimes a little bigger. A little. Maybe not quite as tall, but wider in terms of sizing. It's still early. 04:40 Derek Van Dyke They don't always make him, like, way taller than everyone else. Rhinox is the big guy because he's also just wide and stock. He's built like a linebacker. 04:49 Case Aiken Yeah. Meanwhile, Dinobot is definitely the tallest of at least the season one maximals, and just is one of the biggest of the show, just generally speaking, which continues to be useful for him even when he does not get some of the upgrades that the others do. But yeah, no, Optimus, he's not the biggest one in the room. He is pretty tough, and he is actually pretty capable. One of the big differences that they make in Beast wars versus g one transformers is that they can't all fly explicitly whatever the hell was going on in the more than meets the eye pilot. And then in later episodes where it's like, oh, I guess we forgot how to fly. Optimus Primal is the unique one on the early team. He's the flyer for the group to. 05:27 Derek Van Dyke The point that's a huge advantage for the enemy team, the predacons, because they have multiple flyers, and we've just got Optimus on the good guy's side. And since he's also the commander, it's risky to have him flying around on basic scout duty. 05:42 Case Aiken Right. Scouting, you would think, would go to the flyer. He's also not the heaviest heavy, but he's a heavy on the team. They make a very big point early in the pilot of, like, in terms of COVID fire, Optimus can move faster to a location, but he's also going to be a better person to lay down suppressing fire in a situation. You kind of need him to be able to move into those spots. And so what that means is that Optimus primal in Beast wars is a generalist for the majority of the show. Yeah. 06:09 Jmike Folson Mid tier character. 06:10 Case Aiken That's a niche that a Superman type often falls into when they actually scale the power levels accordingly for a team, as opposed to having the big fluctuations of a full on Superman in the group. Because Optimus is durable as hell. He's strong as hell. He can fly, and he's got firepower, but he's not necessarily the top for any of them. He's the red mage on the team, which, if you're seeing everyone as having stats that get spread out and some people focus on some, the Superman type is going to be. Yeah, fast, strong, durable, good up close. 06:39 Derek Van Dyke Good from afar, good at thinking out a plan while not necessarily being, like, the master tactician. Like you said, a little bit of everything. 06:46 Jmike Folson Yeah, I thought that was because this iteration, like, when the first episode, they clearly say they're explorers. 06:52 Case Aiken Yes. 06:52 Jmike Folson So I was like, okay, they're not, like, beefy types that we're used to seeing. So I thought that kind of got explained away right there. I was like, okay, they're just doing their thing, and this optimist is just like, copernicus, Galileo. 07:03 Derek Van Dyke Yeah, well, and that's kind of a good point too, that this optimist is not a definitive military leader with a ton of experience. This is a scientist and a man of peace, and he has doubts. I think that, like, g one Optimus, who was really the only other version of Optimus that existed at the time that beast wars came out, right? 07:27 Case Aiken I think, yeah, I mean, there's g two Optimus toys and comics, but there hadn't really been, like, a mainstream transformers. 07:34 Jmike Folson I remember Megatron saying throughout these episodes is that at this point in the Transformers timeline, the Autobots had won the war. The Autobots had won the war. And the predicons, decepticons were underneath them. Now, I don't know how that figured out and everything else. 07:49 Case Aiken Well, it's a weird part, and I'll go into it, because I watched these to death back when I actually got them dvd. I watched these back in the day. Initially, I taped these off of vcrs and rewatched it, but I bought the dvds and I listened to the commentary tracks a ton. So I have some input from that which I did not get a chance to re listen to. So I'm only going touch on it a little bit. It's a weird series of a show in that it is technically in continuity with the original Transformers show in a way that is different from all the other transformers stuff that has come since. There has been a ton of Transformers material of all types, including additional versions of Beast wars characters and so forth. 08:23 Case Aiken What we're saying, though, is at the time when this came out, there was Peter Cullen as Optimus prime, and now we're getting Gary Chalk as Optimus Primal and setting those two up as different characters. 08:35 Derek Van Dyke Yes, and spoilers for a late 90s animated series. But it's both a sequel and prequel to the original transformers as opposed to a reimagining. And I just think that's also so interesting because to me, gen one Optimus is not a lot of a character. He's cool, right? But because it's Peter Cullen, and he just has some raw lines to lay down. But to me, it's the more dynamic personality of primal, of being somebody who does have doubts, being somebody who does fail more, somebody who is a boy scout, but also kind of aware of the ways that holds them back sometimes and has to struggle with that, I think makes him a more interesting character for actually engaging with the question of what it means to be a leader. 09:26 Case Aiken What it means to be a hero. 09:28 Derek Van Dyke Even sometimes, if you don't want to be, but just because you're the one. 09:32 Case Aiken Who is best able to be, right? I mean, he was the leader of a scientific exploration vessel and all of a sudden had to do a police action against war criminals. And it's stuck in this situation where in a Dino riders style pilot sequence, they transport back in time and crash land on ancient Earth and have to contend with weird histories and all that. I think this also goes for the fact that the supporting cast is so strong. And part of that is that this is a mid to late 90s CGI cartoon wherein they couldn't have that many characters. Like the original Transformers had, like, a fuck ton of characters, especially, oh, my God, we can't keep track of. And on purpose, like, to the point where they just start introducing characters. They don't need to be like, oh, here's the new guy. 10:16 Case Aiken It's just like, this guy's always been here, right? Like, you know, Perceptor, the microscope guy. You know him, right? He's been in all these episodes somewhere. 10:25 Derek Van Dyke He was just off screen. 10:26 Case Aiken Yeah, no, he was down in the science lab doing science stuff. And this episode has science stuff. So here's Perceptor. You know the guy. And so with Beast wars, the show had a very small roster. It's five characters on each side initially, where they make up for the fact that they don't have the virtue of Transformers properties in general, which is that you like the ones that you think is cool, and then you have so many that everyone's going to find one that they think is cool, and you keep going. In this case, they had to be like, here's the distinct personalities for the five that we can animate on each side. 11:00 Derek Van Dyke Yeah, here's the personalities they have. Here are the skills that they have, how all of this stuff informs each other, and then how those characters have to change over the course of the episodes. Because Beast wars is really good about having characters start at one place and then have to change and grow, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse, as events affect them and stick with them in a way that was kind of rare for a lot of animation of the time. You have a lot of these animated shows of the time, and especially the original Transformers. Right? Where the point was, like, we have our episode plot of the week, and at the end, everything's going to go back to the status quo, right? And Beast wars really threw that out. 11:42 Case Aiken The window, for one thing. We have such dynamic supporting cast members like Rattrap and Dinobot on the hero side, where Rattrap is insubordinate, a coward, super competent, and a prick. Like, it's great, that whole combination right there. And then you have Dinobot, who was a reformed bad guy, and anyone who knows me knows that I am a sucker for reformed bad guy. No, like, Anubis is my favorite character on Ronan Warriors, Dinobot is one of my favorite characters. Piccolo is my favorite dragon Ball Z character. The honorable bad guy who realized the errors of his way and has reformed in ways that are logically consistent and not just because we needed a heel face turn for the sake of the plot, is so fucking good. And Dinobot is that. 12:31 Case Aiken And again, we're going to talk about code of hero, because we have to talk about code of hero. It's so goddamn good. But that means that right from the get go, we've got people who are arguing against Optimus Primal. Rattrap, who is on his team, who was part of his crew, asks him if he's up to the task constantly because the mission is different. First episode all the time. Like, Rattrap refuses a direct order, and so Optimus Primal has to put himself in danger. And then later is like, here is why I did this thing. Here's why I explained it this way, and I asked you to do it because it made more sense that way. And instead, we did it this way, and now we're hurt, and we're not in a good position where we can actually easily fix ourselves. Things are bad. 13:13 Case Aiken And then Ratchup still is giving him shit. It's not like a one time, and then it's fine. Every single time afterwards, he's giving him crap until eventually he finally learns to trust him. 13:23 Jmike Folson Optimus had to tell him early on. He's like, I'm not going to put you in positions and things that I wouldn't do myself, so you're going to have to trust me. And Raptrap's like, man, whatever. 13:34 Case Aiken Sure, Optimus. And that's such a good line. 13:37 Derek Van Dyke Better you than me. 13:39 Case Aiken That honestly has stuck with me in terms of my management style so much more, probably more than it's, like, healthy in some regards, where I'll throw myself out there to work on a project where I'm like, I probably should have been focusing on the macro. There have been plenty of times where it's like, oh, yeah, this project that needed to be done by the end of the month. I'm now cramming to finish because were in the weeds about something else somewhere earlier in the month kind of thing. But I think that's such a great aspect of his character. He is completely prepared to lead from the front, to take the hits, to do all that, even if he sees the best way to do it is this. And that's the plan I'm going to go with. 14:13 Case Aiken But when something doesn't work, when circumstances change, he'll get out there. There's no problem with that. And it's not for glory. It's not for honor. It's not for anything like that. This is the best plan. And does it make the most sense for me to be there? Yes. No. But it's never out of cowardice. It's never even self preservation from the standpoint of, like, well, I'm the commander. I have to survive so I can keep making new plans. Like, when the plan fails to make a new plan type character. No, he's not that. He just is aware that he's also pretty well equipped to do a bunch of different jobs because he's the red mage on the right. Yeah. 14:47 Derek Van Dyke And especially bringing up rat Trap and the way that rat trap kind of does not respect Optimus's authority at first. 14:55 Case Aiken Can we just pause before we go further on a discussion of rat Trap? And let's just say for anyone who has not watched the show, rat Trap is Rocket Raccoon. 15:03 Derek Van Dyke Yeah, I mean, that's a great point of comparison for modern audiences, like, to. 15:08 Case Aiken The point where I'm wondering if when they kind of rebooted rocket raccoon to be the character that he is in the comics, if they were looking at, like, they're that close. Yeah, we're all going to die, right? That's his catchphrase. We're all going to die. 15:22 Derek Van Dyke God, Scott McNeil is just so good as half the cast of this show. Yeah, but, like Rattrap, it's a great example of. One of the most powerful aspects of Optimus Primal, to me, is the effect that he has on the rest of the cast. Rat Trap is somebody who starts off as very cowardly, very insubordinate, and obviously, he's always going to be the team loudmouth and the team cynic. But over the course of especially that first season, you really watch rat trap, like, one step at a time. Have to learn from Optimus's example and from Cheetor some. But in that case, it's still indirectly Optimus, because Cheetor adores Optimus and is trying to do everything he can to mirror that behavior, sometimes to overly enthusiastic. 16:12 Derek Van Dyke But, like, it's that drags rat trap into being more of a team player, being more heroic, putting himself at risk more when he's the best person for a job you can watch over the course of that first season, how much he changes. And that's entirely Optimus's influence as a leader. 16:33 Case Aiken Yeah, that's the best part about Optimus, which is that the team becomes better because of his presence there. He inspires people to better, which is exactly the kind of thing we talk about on this show and why the archetype of, like, a hero who is doing their best is important. 16:51 Derek Van Dyke Yeah, it's not enough to be the leader and be like the jack of all trades. You also have to be a little bit the Paladin. Right? Like, you have to be somebody who, it's not just the actions that you take, but how you empower the people around you to better, to teach young and impressionable Cheetor to think a little bit more ahead, to teach rat trap to be kind of braver, to be an example for Dinobot to clash against. Right. Which is so fascinating because Dinobot never fully takes on Optimus's ideals. But I think especially by code of Hero, we'll get to it. You do see how much he has learned by his time with the maximals. 17:33 Case Aiken Why don't we actually dig into the episodes that we wanted to talk about? The ones that we highlighted specifically were the two part pilot BSors, episode ten, guerrilla warfare episode twelve, victory episode 24 before the storm, which is really just the first part of the three part finale, and then the two part finale of season one, which is other voices, and then Code of hero, because again, we're not monsters here. Yeah. So talking about beast wars, the Pilot, I emailed you guys when I was watching it because right from the get go. Oh my God, this show is so good at economy of storytelling. 18:06 Derek Van Dyke Yes. 18:06 Case Aiken We've got the whole transwarp. We've come through time and space and we're having this whole fight over this weird alien world. And we set up elements about all the different characters on the ship. We set up like, it's an exploration vessel, not a battle cruiser. Like all those little bits right there. We set up the proto forms, which is such an ingenious little element of like. Yeah. Now we know we're going to want to introduce characters more over the course of the season, at least. How do we do that? Here is an element that will work, but we don't have to worry about it right now. 18:37 Derek Van Dyke Here's a massive number of ticking time bombs for new characters that we can introduce as many as we want whenever we want down the road. But they're not here now, right? 18:46 Jmike Folson They're floating in space. 18:47 Derek Van Dyke Yeah, they're just sleeping. 18:50 Case Aiken There's the whole inner John situation that is on the planet in season one, where their robot forms are unable to function for prolonged periods of time in the environment. And so that they have to turn into animals as a way of basically, like, Terminator style clothing themselves in meat as a way to bypass a thing. And that's a really fun exposition bit that they set up very quickly. They bring up the great War, which, according to the commentary tracks, they didn't fucking know what that meant. They didn't know they were necessarily talking about the original transformers at the time. That all came later. And the fact that it fit so smoothly is incredible. 19:24 Derek Van Dyke Sometimes you get lucky. Sometimes you say the phrase the Clone wars, and you figure it out later. 19:30 Case Aiken You know what I mean? We introduce all these characters. We set up all that, and then we start setting up their capabilities very quickly. 19:38 Derek Van Dyke Right. 19:38 Case Aiken When they leave the ship for the first time, we start seeing the zooming in eye effect that Optimus Primal has, even in ape form, which I think is such a great way of one reminding everyone they're robots and they can do XYZ. I always thought that their augmented reality vision stuff was, like, one of the coolest secret abilities that they had, as opposed to the really obvious, like, I have a gun that comes out of my ape arm kind of thing. Yeah, no, they're still robots here. And just to continue the comparison with Superman. Yeah, he's got supervision on top of flight, and he's a robot. Yeah. 20:11 Derek Van Dyke Every character gets moments that are, like, establishing the most important pieces of their personality at the start of the show. Right. Like, rat trap is going to be cynical and cowardly from the get go. Rhinox is going to be the Peacekeeper and also the big guy who's like, nope, you know what? I don't care if there's a rock I can break through that know Cheetor is going to run off on his own when everyone says, stop, wait, he's already gone. 20:40 Case Aiken Right. And then establish that the communications are limited because of the environment that they're in, so they can't just, like, radio everywhere. 20:47 Derek Van Dyke The energon is such a brilliant little piece of plot BS in Beast wars, because the way that they've made the energon out to be in this, it is a resource that they desperately need and can fight over in however many episodes they feel like. It is the reason the bad guys are there, which makes it accidentally the reason the good guys are there. It is a limiting factor. Right. Because it is incredibly dangerous and forces them to arbitrarily whenever the plot demands it. Right? Oh, there's so much energon. We've got to stay in Beast form. Right? Like, it can be a limiter for the plot of the episode, which is used to great effect many times. 21:29 Derek Van Dyke And then finding out new weird things and ways that it interacts with a lightning strike or a certain piece of technology gives them the ability to bs in the plot. For a bottle episode, it's one singular element that really makes the show kind of by how it gets to both be the prize and the hazard. Yeah, if that makes sense. 21:54 Jmike Folson I feel like later on, they kind of forgot about a lot of the energon stuff they set up. 21:58 Case Aiken Yeah, because at first they're like, oh. 22:00 Jmike Folson We can't be in our robot forms for more than, like, two minutes. And by season two, they're having full on guerrilla warfare out there for hours at a time, like killing each other. And like, oh, wait, the season two. 22:14 Case Aiken They deliberately say all the energon because it's unstable energon, as opposed to what we had seen in OG transformers, where it's like, here's just cubes of stuff that soundwave emitted from his chest that can soar up the coal energy from this furnace or whatever. They make a point that it is different. It's unstable. It's dangerous, and there's so much of it and that the season one finale destroys most of it and transforms what's there into a stable version that does not affect them. 22:42 Jmike Folson Energon cubes. 22:43 Derek Van Dyke Unless you're, like, right up on it. 22:45 Jmike Folson Right. 22:45 Case Aiken Really, the split between season one and two is like a complete, like, we're just like, wiping the floor with all the status quo that we had set up in season one so that we can get away with doing a much weirder season two. And I like a lot of season two, but it loses some of the vibrancy of the first season. It's way more deserts and it's way more like battleground vistas as a. 23:04 Derek Van Dyke Just mesas and stuff. 23:05 Case Aiken Yeah, exactly. 23:06 Derek Van Dyke As far as the eye can see. 23:07 Jmike Folson So what you're saying is you don't like silverbolt? Shame on you, Casey. 23:10 Case Aiken I actually like silverbolt. But you know what? If fucking Silverbolt showed up in season one, he'd be interesting showing up in season two, right when they're showing up, like, being like, here's transmetals and here's all this other stuff going on, and here's Jesus fucking gorilla, man. Like, Silverbolt gets lost in the gouache at that point. 23:26 Derek Van Dyke He's just here to be very beautiful and stupid. 23:32 Case Aiken I mean, yes. So, like, the pilot does a lot of great stuff here. We set up the stakes. We establish, like, yeah, at first it's four on five as far as teams go, because dinobot, very quickly, you think he might be like the starscream of the team gets into a fight with Megatron. I love it where it's like leadership takes cunning and cleverness as well. Wouldn't you say? So Scorponok, like, just shoots him away. 23:55 Derek Van Dyke I do like, also, the pilot is the only time Scorponok is ever a threat. Very quickly becomes the butt monkey of the enemy team. 24:07 Case Aiken I mean, is he the worst butt monkey? It's hard to really say. 24:11 Derek Van Dyke Look, nobody out. Butt monkeys. Waspinator. 24:14 Jmike Folson Hey, we put some respect. 24:20 Case Aiken Secret best characters, the same. God, we love some of these characters. And some of these best characters are all voiced by the same person. 24:33 Derek Van Dyke Yeah, I know, right? I do love how they have a completely unsubtle like, yeah, this is the actual starscream in pterosaur. To the point of, like, he just sounds, looks, acts like everything like him gets possessed by Starscream. 24:48 Case Aiken In an episode. 24:50 Derek Van Dyke Waspinator gets possessed by Starscream. That's right. 24:53 Case Aiken When Starscream shows up in that. Not exactly a deep cut, but the fact that the Starscream ghost thing had been set up already, it's like, oh, that's fun. 25:02 Derek Van Dyke Yeah. 25:02 Case Aiken And also, as one of my favorite lines in the show, which is when black Arachnia betrays starscream and says, are all your dreams in Technicolor? But getting back to the pilot, so we've got this power imbalance, which I think is really fun. We also established that they are not that fucking big. Like, it's not Transformers OG style, where it's like, yeah, he's a truck that turns into a robot, but what if he's even bigger than that truck? What if the microscope guy is as big as the truck guy? What if the boombox is four stories tall? 25:33 Derek Van Dyke What if the bad guy turns into a regular handgun? 25:37 Case Aiken At least it made sense with G two when they turned him into a tank. 25:40 Derek Van Dyke Yeah, but, yeah, all the transformers are like, roughly analogous to human size. I think they're mostly a little bigger than your average person if you scale them against the pre humans in later seasons. But they're like six to 10ft tall, not 18ft 45. 26:00 Case Aiken Yeah, we know that Cheetor is the same size as a regular cheetah because of direct comparison there, we know that rat trap is very big. For a rat. But it appears that Optimus Primal is about the right size for a gorilla, which means that he's big for a person, but not terrifyingly big. And rhinox actually seems kind of small. And actually, Megatron seems kind of small for a T Rex. 26:20 Derek Van Dyke I mean, again, getting into the arachnids, I've never seen a tarantula that size. And if I ever did, I would die on. 26:30 Jmike Folson Snap my own neck. 26:32 Derek Van Dyke I'm out. 26:35 Case Aiken And what a roster of villains. We talked about terror sore being just the starscream. Like, he's there for that role. We've got Waspinator as the bumbling ally that we like, and we've got Scorponok as the bumbling ally that we don't like in terms of the bad guys, but fucking tarantulas, man. 26:52 Derek Van Dyke Fucking tarantulas. And it's crazy to go back to the first few episodes of the show and realize, like, a, they hadn't quite nailed down how much Waspinator was going to suck, and they hadn't quite nailed down what they wanted to do with tarantulas yet. Right. It takes a few episodes for them to really be like, actually, tarantulas is going to be the smart guy. 27:11 Case Aiken Well, they, right off the bat, say that he's the only one who has the skill to break down the giant rock of inner John that they find. And then the next episode is the web episode where he captures and tortures Cheetor. So I think at the very least, they were like, he's going to be the scary spider, right? 27:26 Derek Van Dyke Yeah, yeah. That's why they gave him the. It's. It's perfect. But the amount to which tarantulas becomes a capital p problem, I don't know that they had really planned out at that point. 27:40 Case Aiken No. And that's fair. This show is so good at. Yes. Ending in a way, once you know how little they knew what they were doing in the pilot, it fits so goddamn well. When you get to the end of season one and you see all the machinations of tarantulas and Megatron and how it plays out and all that. That's all really good. And you get to the shit at the end of season two where it's like, oh, man, it's g one transformers. And they're all there. But they didn't know shit about transformers when they made the show. They didn't know what they were doing. They were told, make a fucking show with these toys. These are the reboot guys. 28:19 Derek Van Dyke Yeah. Even the pilot is a perfect example of how they. Yes. And did from the beginning. Because I think you look at the pilot episodes compared to the third episode, and you see that within the pilot, there is so much more of transforming has to come with the full. 28:37 Case Aiken Yeah, they have, like, an activation mode. 28:39 Derek Van Dyke Or Cheetor maximize and then lengthy transformation sequence. And from as early as episode three, they're like, okay, we can cut down on the dramatic yelling at the sky and then stock footage. That's not the tone that's working for us. Let's minimize that a bit. I think it's interesting to see how much more expositional dialogue is in that first episode or two in a way that works great. Like you said, to set up, like, economy of storytelling, to set the stage in one or two episodes. But the format of dialogue changes so much by the third episode. 29:14 Case Aiken Yeah, I mean, obviously, it's kind of nice in the first episode to have them all do individually their activation codes where they say their full name and then what team they're on. If they say maximize or terrorize and go through that, also establish that it's just a code word that they can just change because Dynobot does it, which is a nice detail there. That's fun. That's power rangers for you. 29:34 Derek Van Dyke Changes his tattoo. 29:38 Case Aiken It's the 90s. We were suckers for it then. I'm still a sucker for it now. But you don't need to do that going forward. And eventually we get an episode where they full on are just like, oh, no. They're all in sync with their animal selves. Now. The call of the wild episode where they all regress to their animal forms and then, like, tiger Tron gets them stoned and, like, no, man, you just need to vibe with your animal self. But that does allow for really cool moves, like rat trap, like rolling as a rat and then standing up as a robot and shooting things. All those kind of maneuvers that really come into play in the second half of the season, which also goes for what kind of choreography can they do in the early episodes, if you're really paying attention? 30:14 Case Aiken Even some of the shots where it's like a different angle, it's still the model in the same motion. They can move the camera around, but the gunfire motions are oftentimes the same animation. Just like, move which angle that they're looking at the model from. And that's because this is a 90s CGI show. This is the reboot studio. This is the show that the reboot studio did right after reboot. Yeah, I was going to say to. 30:34 Derek Van Dyke Clarify for a lot of folks who don't. There was a show called reboot. 30:38 Case Aiken That is not the recent show called Reboot. 30:41 Derek Van Dyke Yeah, there's a CGI show called Reboot before this. This is not a studio that does reboots. It's a capital r reboot. I remember nothing about reboot, to be honest. 30:52 Case Aiken Reboot is great, but this came out between season two and three. And so season one and two of reboot is rough, particularly season one. 31:01 Derek Van Dyke It looks rougher to look back at, for sure. I think part of it, too, is that because beast wars, the designs are robots and toy animals, they don't have to look as off putting as, like, we made blue people. 31:15 Case Aiken Right. 31:15 Derek Van Dyke You know what I mean? 31:17 Case Aiken And even that was choices that were made to get around the fact that it was Tron as a tv show. It was set inside of a computer so that they didn't have to be that realistic because it was a tv budget CGI show, which at the time was really difficult to do. Side note, there is a call out to reboot, which is one of the catchphrases for the main character, which is there's just no pleasing some people. Optimus Primal says to rat trap at one point in the pilot. 31:40 Derek Van Dyke Yeah, I remember that line. 31:43 Case Aiken But the point is, this is the show that they pick up after that before they come back for the amazing season three and the lackluster season four of reboot. Season three of reboot, one of the best things you can ever watch. I will continue to sing its praises forever. It's fantastic, but this show is very clearly part of this phase of a group of people learning to work with their budgets and using the restrictions of the medium that they're working in to jumpstart creativity. We have such a defined, cool supporting cast in the show because they only have the resources to make five models for each side. We've got ten characters total, and we have a pretty clear idea of what they're able to do in all cases. 32:24 Derek Van Dyke Yeah, well, and that's why, again, new characters come in at a semi steady pace, but paced out, it takes a bit for Tigatron to show up, and then it takes a bit for black arachni to show up, and then it's eraser and then Inferno. Right. 32:40 Case Aiken And there's a reason why the first two that come in, I mean, also this kind of ties into the toys, which is that they're palette swaps. Like, yes, they have design changes, but a lot of the foundations for the models are based on the same characters. Tiger Tron is Cheetor. 32:55 Derek Van Dyke They're clone characters. 32:56 Case Aiken Yeah, exactly. Yeah. 32:57 Derek Van Dyke Down to the same rifle with the brain in the back of the gun for some reason. 33:01 Case Aiken It's a marthroy situation. Yeah. And black arachnia with tarantulas. And it's great there because. Oh, my. Like, what two wonderful characters did they spawn from this whole thing? Yeah. 33:13 Derek Van Dyke Holy shit. Those two being at each other's throats the entire time is just. 33:18 Case Aiken Yeah, just great details. But we don't get them until later. And they're fun additions, but they have to pick and choose their battles for when they bring a new character in who's going to be important, and yada, yada in the pilot, right off the bat, it's like, all right, well, here's, like, a little first confrontation. There's, like, a little pit and a rock, and we can establish some character stuff. And they do really good stuff because this is where Rattrap refuses to jump into battle. And we get, like, rhinox being, like, the big tough. Like, they need cover fire. 33:45 Case Aiken So I'm picking you up, and this is a whole groot rock and raccoon situation right here, where he's holding Rattrap, who's firing in one hand, using Cheetor's gun in the other, because they didn't really want to show off his Uzi as his main weapon in the pilot. 33:56 Derek Van Dyke Yeah, the chain gun with a buzzsaw blade on it for some reason. 34:01 Case Aiken Buzsaw blade within three. It's so weird. 34:08 Derek Van Dyke He never once used that thing to hit him. 34:11 Case Aiken No, but he does shoot some people at point blank rage several times. 34:14 Derek Van Dyke He sure perforates some folks with it. That's for sure. 34:18 Case Aiken Is so great. And we will mention beast machines at the end of this. But there is a reason why I hate beast machines. 34:24 Derek Van Dyke There's no human being who loves beast. I cannot believe that's possible. 34:30 Case Aiken So we get, like, this wonderful confrontation between them that sets up all this character stuff. We set up the efficacy of the Predacons, and then the first episode of the two part pilot ends with, well, now we've got to have a battle for victory between Dinobot and Optimus Primal, which is nice to set up. I love Dinobot. I love him having this, like, well, I need honor. Like, I can't just beat you with treachery. I wouldn't have earned leadership there. And that's such a good way of setting up. He's going to work here because he's the bad guy, but he's lawful evil. And you guys are fighting chaotic evil right now. Yeah. And he's powerful. 35:06 Case Aiken He's got those fucking eye beams and he's big and he's got a weird tail spin blade thingy, which, thank God, in code of hero, he uses as like a helicopter device. Yes, man, dinobot. So here's a weird thing. I love the Megatron design in season one. I think it's really cool. I love the Trex head as the arm. I feel like it's a great shout out to the g one transformers, where Megatron, weirdly, it's the scope of the gun, but it acts as a blaster that's on his arm. I feel like it works very well there. I always thought it was weird though, that they didn't just use the Grimlock design. And then I realized that Dinobot is Grimlock. And in fact, there is an alternate color toy of dinobot that is called Grimlock. 35:47 Derek Van Dyke Oh, I didn't know they did have Beast Wars. Grimlock. 35:50 Case Aiken Never in the actual series. Yeah. But if you look at his transformation sequence, it has actually the same positioning that's going on where the head goes down to the chest, the legs extend out from the chest and are not part of the main body. And that the legs of the dinosaur form slide up and become the upper torso arms. 36:08 Derek Van Dyke Okay. 36:09 Case Aiken And then the tail splits open. And on grimlock, it splits open and becomes like part of his back. In this case, it becomes a separate spinny weapon thing with his spine being his sword. 36:19 Derek Van Dyke Yeah. Or something. 36:21 Case Aiken That's the extension of the spine. 36:23 Derek Van Dyke Yeah. It's one long thing. One long spaghetti noodle. Right. 36:28 Case Aiken So there is some weird headcanon of like. Well, but maybe Dinobot is the descendant. The point is that they went with this very tried and true design for the character to be then this weird villainous lancer character. 36:44 Derek Van Dyke Yeah. 36:44 Case Aiken In a five man band. That sort of makes the most sense. Right. Because then, yeah, he was effectively the. 36:50 Derek Van Dyke Number two on the predicon side. And then he defects. And because the maximals just do not have that same explicit sort of hierarchy structure, it's like, okay, well, I'm not the leader. What am I? And it's like, here's the guy. Here's one of the boys now. And clearly he struggles forever to figure out how he is supposed to work as a soldier, as somebody who believes in hierarchies, as somebody who believes in a chain of command. Again, like there's science. This is not a military that he has joined. 37:24 Case Aiken Yeah. And it's like a small crew. It's not the starship Enterprise. Like, yeah, we've got rhinox. He's really good at scanning shit. And Rattrap's really good at fixing machines and making bombs. 37:35 Derek Van Dyke He's sort of the engineer. 37:36 Case Aiken Again, Rattrap is just fucking rocket raccoon. 37:40 Derek Van Dyke Technician, demolitions expert, snarky little guy, and I love it. 37:48 Case Aiken It's definitely not plagiarism in terms of rat trap, and it's archetypal, but it's just so well done here. Yeah. 37:53 Derek Van Dyke It's a defining version of that archetype for me. 37:57 Case Aiken We have this wonderful face off between the two of them where we get to establish Dinobot's credentials as being honorable, and we also get to see Optimus primal showing that. Yeah. In addition to having guns that come out of his body and rockets and guns that come out of his arms, he also has swords. He has, like, dual scimitars. Yeah. 38:17 Derek Van Dyke Like a copesh or something. 38:19 Case Aiken He is very capable. And then we establish, like, all right, well, the predacons show up, and they fuck up the whole thing, and then they blow up a mountain. It's like, oh, there's a big energon thing, and they both have to separately go to it. And again, economy of storytelling, or at least, like, seeding what's out there, they're like, this is a really weird world with, like, two moons and all this other shit. Also, that's fucking Stonehenge right there. That definitely was not put here by a thing we've seen so far. 38:41 Derek Van Dyke And I love, too, how it kind of confuses you of, like, okay, well, we've landed on earth, clearly, because there's earth animals and there's Stonehenge, but there are two moons that they call attention to. And the geography and landscape is still very alien and full of energon in a way that it is not by transformers g one time or just the modern day. And I love how they even use the pilot to set up things that will be the focus of several episodes separately down the road, and then many of which will loop back around for the season finale. 39:16 Case Aiken Yeah. And then the pilot kind of concludes with a big five on five battle in the energon field. So they can't transform because it's too dangerous. And we get. 39:25 Derek Van Dyke You get to watch the aminels fight. 39:27 Case Aiken I mean, some really, like, right off the bat, they are okay with reminding people, like, yeah, no, a t. Rex would be really, like, there's a shot, and they use it. In the opening credits of Megatron trying to bite Optimus Primal's neck. 39:41 Jmike Folson Oh, yeah. 39:41 Case Aiken And you're like, yeah, no, that's real bad. And side note, a gorilla would not have been able to survive. We gorillas are strong compared to us gorillas are not strong compared to Tyrannosaurus rexes. 39:54 Derek Van Dyke Right. There's a mass difference. Know. 39:57 Case Aiken But he's also a small T Rex. 39:59 Derek Van Dyke Yeah, but also just the way that, like, coming into that sequence, like, megatron, like, stomping in and the fact that it shakes the camera as he strides in ahead of the rest of his crew. It's very like, yes. Okay. Yep. You're selling that. This guy's big. Like, way bigger than everyone else on the field. 40:18 Case Aiken Right. But we also got a Mario 64 styled Optimus primal spinning it. 40:24 Jmike Folson Optimus swinging around, which I have to. 40:26 Case Aiken Imagine is just easy to animate because they're not really moving. You just spin the model around. 40:32 Derek Van Dyke But it's so good. It's so good to watch a gorilla swing a T Rex around. Right. And just yeet him there. Well, and also you get to see, like, rat trap. Do whatever rat trap does to tarantulas. That counts as an attack. 40:47 Case Aiken I don't know. 40:47 Derek Van Dyke It kind of seems like he tickles them. 40:49 Case Aiken I'm not really sure what it is. 40:50 Derek Van Dyke He goes, that's not even close to the sound. I give up. 40:56 Case Aiken Yeah, I mean, the pairing is okay, but as we pointed out, there's two flyers on the predicon side already. And it's not really, like a one to one kind of comparison right there. But it is close enough that it would fit any of the myriad two opposed army kind of tv shows that we had grown up on. At this point. If you could pair. 41:19 Derek Van Dyke Yeah, you could pair any of them off against any of the others. But I do like how the predicons and the maximals do not have clear analogs between each other. You don't have the clear cut good and bad version of the archetypes. You have pretty different dynamics on each team. 41:39 Case Aiken Yeah. Like, season one especially has just, like, very clear, different characters there. And then as we start adding people, they usually come in pairs. So that kind of puts them as opposite each other. Like, Tiger John and Black Arachnia are the first two that come in, and then Airazor and Inferno are the next two that come in for those fill in the slot of like, well, were missing this thing on our team. And then we get the fusors, where we get quickstrike and Silverbolt at the same time. Yeah. 42:08 Derek Van Dyke It's interesting to think of each character that gets added. And like, what is it that they're adding to each team? Right. And with Tigatron, we get the heroic character who can't be relied on to always be part of the super 6th. 42:22 Case Aiken Ranger when he shows up. 42:23 Derek Van Dyke Yes, the heroes get a one up, but it's not a one up that counts. And then Black Arachnia shows up. But Black Arachnia is even more double timing than pterosaur and tarantulas are. So it kind of doesn't fully count for the Predacons. And then we get Air razor and Inferno, who both do kind of fill out. But like, Inferno gives the predacons even more firepower. Air Razor gives the maximals another flyer they desperately needed. 42:52 Case Aiken But when Inferno joins, he's also a flyer in addition to being a heavy. 42:57 Derek Van Dyke Completely unreliable, no, he's reliable. 43:00 Case Aiken He's just. He's an idiot, though. 43:03 Derek Van Dyke Reliably going to fuck up everything in. 43:05 Case Aiken Front of him for better and for worse. Like, if you tell him, follow them, he will dig a hole underground below the level of a force field to make sure that he gets there because he's going to do his job. He's going to live up to the demands of his queen. For the colony, for the royalty. For the royalty. Yes, my queen, I do. She wouldn't call me that. But the pilot does his job is what I'm trying to say here. It's not an intensely complicated story that happens, but it sets up the first season so well. 43:39 Jmike Folson We will call these the beast War. He said the thing. 43:43 Case Aiken He said the thing. 43:44 Derek Van Dyke It's definitely cornier than the rest of the show, but it does a miraculous job of doing so much setup in just the first half of the pilot. You could do a writing class using that as an example of setting the foundation for what's to come. Most tv shows do not do that well. 44:03 Case Aiken Yeah, like, you know, the stakes. You know, everything that pops up after this point is introduced in the pilot. You have a clear idea of all of the characters, even if some of them end up being more of a fuck up than they are set up in this episode, and some of them end up being more of a fucking asshole than they are set up in this episode, they do a pretty good job of making sure you're aware of what are the players and what are they like. And God damn it, we haven't talked about Megatron that much yet. We got to talk about Megatron a little bit because his whole talking to himself thing and talking to his T. Rex hand especially is so good. 44:38 Jmike Folson Yeah, that got interesting. 44:39 Derek Van Dyke Later on, he gives it a rubber ducky. 44:41 Case Aiken Yeah. 44:41 Jmike Folson Because at times it looks like the arm is sentient and it's like looking back at him and communicating with him. But he's also kind of doing his. 44:51 Case Aiken He's not well, he's also doing the. 44:52 Jmike Folson Whole Dr. Claw thing where he's like. 44:54 Case Aiken Rubbing the arm, pets it like a cat. 44:56 Derek Van Dyke Yeah. 44:59 Jmike Folson Oh, yes. 45:01 Case Aiken I think in terms of setting up how different he is from, like, g one Megatron. He's fucking insane. He talks to his hand for the majority of season one. 45:10 Derek Van Dyke Yes, he's crazy, but he's crazy like a fox. 45:13 Case Aiken Yes. 45:14 Derek Van Dyke Because he is genuinely incredibly cunning. He is usually one step ahead, if not several steps ahead of Optimus and everybody on his side who is trying to murder him and take his place. Because that's the dynamic of the Predacons is like, most of them think they'd do a better job than him, and all of them are wrong. 45:34 Case Aiken Yeah. That's such a fun dynamic of the Predacons in general, where unlike in the original transformers, where it's two opposing sides and this is the army, that's like, kind of in the winning position. Like, the Decepticons have Cybertron mostly under control at the start of the series and pretty much cements their hold over the course of it. And so Megatron is the leader of this army. And while there's starscream, the majority of the people are like, people in the army with him. The Predacons in this are all criminals. And by that I mean there are predacons on Cybertron and they have their own governing body. Sorry. We're recording this in 2023. And you can probably make some weird comparisons to geopolitical stuff going on right now. But suffice it to say they are a subsidiary state with the maximals being the dominant power. 46:19 Case Aiken But the maximals are the good guys and kind of nice. And the Predacons are kind of like, well, we're working with them and we would like to not be doing this, but right now we've got our government and whatnot. And Megatron is a terrorist and he has criminals working with him that all have their own goals. And they're all criminals amongst the predacons. 46:38 Derek Van Dyke Yes, because there's a major plot point of the actual predicon leadership wanting him fucking taken care of. Because his actions destabilize the peace that they are currently in. And it's like, look, we don't like the maximals either, but we have our plans, and we're operating within the realm of politics, and you are operating within the realm of car bombing. You know what I mean? And we cannot have this. 47:05 Case Aiken Right. And that's a really interesting dynamic for these characters. You have to assume that some of that comes from the fact that this is a 90s show as opposed to an 80s show. The original show. Yeah, you could probably make a cold war parallel. And this is like the end of history. Everything is technically fine. We're at peace with everyone. But, oh, hey, there might be these terrorists out there. It's pre 911, but it's not pre the concept of terrorism. 47:30 Derek Van Dyke I mean, look, diehard existed before, you know what I mean? 47:35 Case Aiken And I also don't want to assign too much thought about the larger state of the world, but it is the zeitgeist that the show comes out of. 47:42 Derek Van Dyke Right. I think it gives us, like, a really interesting squad of villains in that regard. And I think to this day, it makes the Beast Wars Megatron the most memorable and version of Megatron out there. 47:57 Case Aiken Yes. Why do you always talk to yourself? 48:01 Jmike Folson His best and biased impersonation. 48:03 Derek Van Dyke I don't talk to myself. 48:04 Case Aiken I'm not intelligent conversation. It's not until episode ten that we really get a real optimus focused episode, and that is guerrilla warfare. And I love several things about this episode. For one thing, while it is a goofy as fuck, like, we learn something about this plant and it becomes, like, important for later element, which is very much a part of early beast wars. Like the first half of season one has a lot of these kind of like the natural world. We're studying these things, blah, blah. We get one, an incredible use of the biology of the different species that we're in, which is that we see that the dinosaurs have issues when shit gets attached to their neck. 48:42 Derek Van Dyke Oh, yeah. 48:43 Case Aiken Like the way dinobots tiny arms when it's happening is so good. We get some fun uses of Optimus primal, being a giant gorilla in that when he has to move a boulder, he uses his foot to move a stone to shift. Things like those are fun. Right there. We get Scorponok attempting to be the mad scientist archetype that he was intended to be, but then everyone immediately remembering that he's a giant fuck up in everything he does. 49:11 Derek Van Dyke Yes. And we get Optimus with the limiters removed. 49:17 Case Aiken And this is actually the thing that I really wanted to get to when I was saying, like, well, Optimus has the power of action to do a lot more than he necessarily does in the majority of the show, like, he's typically one of the strongest members of the team until he's definitely the strongest member of the team. 49:33 Derek Van Dyke Right. 49:33 Case Aiken The fact of the matter is, he could probably go into a bloody fight and kill a lot of people or lead a lot of people into a situation like that. But he's not about murdering people. He's about apprehending people who stole something. Like the death penalty is actually not what is required of that. He has restraint all the time up until he doesn't hear when a giant fly attaches to his chest and really fucks with his central nervous system. Yeah. 49:59 Jmike Folson Isn't the kryptonite. 50:00 Derek Van Dyke Yeah, well, and it's like, it's a great look. Everybody knows the famous world of cardboard speech with Superman. And that kind of applies here as it's the reminder that Optimus is holding back, because from his concept of morality, he is not supposed to be killing if he can avoid it, that's not what he is here to do. He is not comfortable with that. But also in terms of, like, he puts himself greatly at danger by going full berserker rage, and his team can't afford to lose him. So he could probably take out. As the episode establishes, most of the predacons single handedly die in the process, but then his team is left without him, and then where are they? It's multiple ways in which there's that recognition of, like, this is why I hold back. 50:49 Derek Van Dyke This is why I am not the ace on the team. 50:52 Case Aiken Yeah. When he is taken off the team, they fuck up trying to be like him, where we have to negotiate, and what they do is they spoil everything. They're like, here's a heads up that Optimus is coming your way. He's out of his mind. You can expect him anytime in the next hour. 51:07 Jmike Folson Perhaps only Optimus can think like Optimus. 51:10 Case Aiken Yeah, no way. So, yeah, I mean, he takes on tarantulas and he takes his anchor thingy. That is like, such a toyetic element. I remember, actually, that toy. It's like a spring loaded, like, grappling hook that fires off, and he uses the other end of it, which is sharp, to impale him against the wall. 51:25 Derek Van Dyke It's brutal. This episode goes hard. 51:28 Case Aiken Tanks. Like, all of these shots throughout these, which is such a Superman sequence of him just like, walking through gunfire to go into this whole fight. Fantastic stuff there. I mean, we're reminded, like, oh, yeah, big, scary, flying super monkey is kind of a scary thing. 51:43 Derek Van Dyke Yeah, it's fitting making him a gorilla because it's like, just like a gorilla. Right? We tend to not remember, oh, yeah, those things can rip your arm. 51:53 Case Aiken Yeah. It's a gentle giant situation. Yes. 51:55 Derek Van Dyke And be happy when they're being a gentle giant. Like, that's much preferred. Do the alternatives. 52:02 Case Aiken But in this episode, he decides to stop monkeying around and just truck on through everyone. And at the very end, we get the callback to the first part where it's like, oh, just shit. Attached to his neck. But in this case, it's Megatron, and he's got even smaller arms he can't even reach. It's a fun episode. I mean, it's not the deepest episode. It's like, well, what if he went angry and bad? And wouldn't that be bad? And I think it's good for this point in the show. It's ten episodes in. To remind us, like, yeah, no, the leader could be, like, a more aggressive Rob Liefeld style character, and that would be a problem because X, Y and Z and X, Y and Z here is like, he would probably die. You guys would probably die. The amount of devastation isn't worth it. 52:43 Case Aiken Like, the collateral damage, death, they are fighting, but they can be rebuilt. Most of the characters here take really bad punishment over time, and that doesn't kill them because they're robots. The rules are a little different. The rules get laid out over the course of the series for, like, what is a fatal kind of thing. But the death penalty is not just an automatic thing here. And that kind of incident is a big deal. Like, when a character actually dies. Dies. That is taken as a very serious thing, but it's also always on the table. 53:14 Derek Van Dyke This is a great example of a sort of a bottle episode. 53:17 Case Aiken Great. 53:17 Derek Van Dyke Like, first half of season. One example of we have a plot that wraps itself up by the end that doesn't drastically change the status quo and is informed by and also tells us more about certain characters. One of the things that does happen is there's a lot of collateral damage to equipment and bases, and that's the sort of thing beast wars makes a huge point of keeping you abreast of that. Damage to the ships matters because eventually these things have to get fixed and fly off. And you can put a somewhat damaged robot in the tank, and they will slowly recover over time if it's not a fatal injury. But when something gets broke, it's broken. When a door or a side of the ship gets blown out, now you've got a side of the ship that needs to get repaired. Resources are limited. 54:05 Derek Van Dyke Manpower is limited. That stuff matters. 54:08 Case Aiken And by this point in the series, we had seen a bunch of these kind of gimmicky episodes. Like, I think we had already had the teleporter episode at this point, the chain of command episode where Optimus is taken away and Ratchet has to lead. All the stuff that we kind of need to do just to be like, yep, this is the show we're dealing with here, but this is just a fun episode in terms of being like, we really need to establish what the leader is capable of and why is he not doing some of those things. Yeah, and I think you make a great point in terms of the damage to equipment. While the show has a status quo, more or less in season one, there are big shifts. 54:42 Case Aiken And when things happen that damage the two ships, that does have lasting impact in terms of the capabilities of the group, even while they are becoming more effective in their warfare, in developing new technology to fight with each other. 54:55 Derek Van Dyke But yeah, guerrilla warfare. Great. First half of season one episode, the pilot gives us the hero. We get to see Optimus continue to be just the leader in the background of several episodes leading up to that. And then we get to see, okay, no, he can rip ass in the right circumstances, but also here's why he does not. 55:15 Case Aiken Yeah, so moving on to. It's sort of the midseason finale, which is victory. I remember seeing this episode a lot, which I feel like the block probably ended somewhere about here. It's episode twelve. There's no actual victory. It's a fake out episode. It does do a really good job of setting up a recurring theme, which is that every time the maximals think that they have figured out espionage, they are reminded that the predacons are way better at espionage than they are, which I love because every time it's like, yeah, we figured out how to spy on their camera system. It's like, it's a good thing we figured out they're spying and now we have like fake information being fed to them. Right? Yeah. That's really great. 55:52 Jmike Folson Yes. 55:55 Case Aiken We open with. Were you guys deep Space Nine fans? There's an episode called the Pale moonlight, which is seen as like one of the better episodes of Star Trek in general, wherein there's kind of a similar thing where via deception, they are using a fake prerecorded sequence to mess with people in it. And in that scenario it's like way more fucked up than this. But it's still a scenario of the predacons have figured out that the maximals have been able to hardwire a feed from their security cameras. And so they pretend to die. 56:23 Derek Van Dyke Yeah, they stage, like, a fake rebellion and fight that leads to a horrible accident that kills them all, right? 56:29 Case Aiken Which, knowing going into the episode, it's like, okay, they're really playing it up in it all. But on the same token, pterosaur is a piece of shit who has betrayed Megatron multiple times at this point and continues to betray him because he is just fucking scream. The show knows that we're transformers fans. 56:47 Derek Van Dyke Starscream, but less intelligent, to be clear. 56:50 Case Aiken So much worse. Which is why they bring in real starscream, just to be like, oh, better Starscream here. 56:56 Derek Van Dyke Yeah. 56:56 Case Aiken And a reason why Pterosaur does not make it into season. You know, it's plausible. The only part that really threw me is that Scorpinok is on the side of pterosaur in that sequence. 57:06 Derek Van Dyke That should have been the giveaway, I think, to a lot of people. 57:09 Case Aiken Right. 57:09 Derek Van Dyke Because Scorponok's main defining trait for most of season one is that he's the one who stays loyal to Megatron. Unquestionably. Which probably also like the fact that Inferno comes in and is just that, but funnier is probably why Scorponok gets written off. 57:25 Case Aiken Right? Yeah, we're not going to talk that much about Inferno here, but I actually really like Inferno. He's a giant fuck up, but in a way that I really adore. 57:33 Derek Van Dyke Oh, incredibly funny. 57:37 Case Aiken But yeah. So they stage this fake death and then abandoned their base. And apparently black arachnia has developed some kind of tech that hides the signature from their sparks so that no one can actually identify that they are still alive and allow the maximals to raid their base, take all the stuff they would need to get their ship able to fly again, with the intent of then attacking the maximals and stealing the ship and flying off of it. I do have questions about how that all works based on the timeline that we see in this episode. But the big focus, and while Optimus is part of it, the big focus of this episode is Dinobot being like, well, if I go back to Cybertron, I am a criminal who was part of a massive theft of one of the great relics of our world. 58:21 Case Aiken And I left, and you guys pursued me and I was a turncoat and joined you when you pursued me. I have nothing to go home to. 58:29 Derek Van Dyke You're all going home. And I'm going to prison, right? 58:33 Jmike Folson Forever. 58:35 Case Aiken And it's an interesting moment because he decides to stay. And they are like, well, we got to get the ship going. We're going to go. And he's like, I'm going to conquer this world. It's like, well, that's kind of fucked up. I don't think that's a good idea. It's like, well, yeah, I'll probably die eventually. That won't be tomorrow. 58:50 Derek Van Dyke Yeah. 58:

Hva er innsikt og hvorfor er dette så viktig før man drar i gang prosjekter? I denne episoden av Subscription Talks Norge snakker Jon Erik Ofstad, sammen med kollega Nadia Storhaug om innsikt i kunder og marked, og hvorfor dette er grunnmuren til all utvikling. Med oss i studio har vi hatt med Leif Henrik Husom, daglig leder i Perceptor, som har lang erfaring med design, implementering og bruk av markedsanalyse, samt forbrukerinnsikt. God lytting!

Stuart Webb and Steven Alexander look at the G1 #Transformers episodes "Cosmic Rust" and "Starscream's Brigade!" In Cosmic Rust, Perceptor faces his arch-enemy, The Stunticons give Megatron the brush-off and Stuart declares that we can no longer mock the science of the show! In Starscream's Brigade, Jazz and Cliffjumper get in trouble with the Combaticons, Starscream has dark plans for Jazz and Cliffjumper, and Wheeljack invents the matter duplicator, winning the war and everything forever! Featuring! Jazz and Cliffjumper! Brawl, Blast-off, Vortex, Swindle and Onslaught! Jazz and Cliffjumper! And Professor "Brian Cox" Perceptor!

The Twincast team discusses upcoming Japanese Transformers Masterpiece reveals beginning with MP-58 Hoist and the last piece of the Raiden trainbot combiner, MPG-06 Kaen. Takara Tomy's exclusive version of Optimus Primal and the creative JAXA Sora-Q tie-in, Lunar Cruiser Prime, are discussed next. In addition, recent reveals of the Dilophocon & JP12 Jurassic Park Crossover set receive some side-eye remarks, and everyone unanimously agrees that Legacy Evolution Shadowstriker is a huge miss on a multitude of levels. The continuation of Transformers' upcoming 40th birthday celebration comes next with the cast sharing their favorites from 1985. As usual, the episode concludes with the recurring Bragging Rights segment where the cast talks about their latest toy and merchandise acquisitions.

Megatron is Patient Zero! Cosmic Rust sweeps through the Transformers and Perceptor's anti-corrosion solution is the only thing to save them! Also, there's a giant bug statue super weapon. That's a little odd. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/michael-schwartz3/support

Steven and Jason look back at the Transformers Cartoon from 1985! We're back in New York where you can't drive more than three blocks before getting car-jacked. Is Tracks the first robot to actually manage a disguise? Why is Tracks the only Autobot car that can fly? Who is the most evil bully in the Universe? And will Optimus Prime and company finally get flushed away? Featuring Inferno! Tracks! Seaspray! Cosmos! Giant green aliens! And maybe Smokescreen if you really pay attention! Covers the episodes of G1 Transformers, "Make Tracks" and "Child's Play"

The Seibertron.com Twincast / Podcast begins episode 320 with a discussion about the just-revealed Studio Series Gamer Edition sub-line featuring figures from Activision's War for Cybertron videogame of years past, including Voyager Class Optimus Prime and Deluxe Class Bumblebee and Barricade. Recent leaks and official reveals of repainted toys take up the bulk of the airtime next, starting with Takara's upcoming Beast Wars set with a re-decoed Kingdom Optimus Primal and Megatron. A leaked image of a reissue Thundercracker leads in to discussion of other rumored G1 reissues before the discussion shifts to the soon-to-release Titan Guardian Robot from the Generations Selects line. A brief look at an upcoming new Tow-Line figure leaked through a video review closes out the discussion topics, then Bragging Rights wraps up the episode in the usual fashion.

A new Macross toyline pays homage to G1 Jetfire, Transformers merchandising is in full swing with everything from cheap erasers to high end gaming chairs, and it looks like Perceptor might be the latest bot to turn to the dark side in Shattered Glass. All this and much, much more on this episode of TransMissions! Order our TransMissions Exclusive Cover Variant of IDW’s Transformers Till All Are One #1! Want some TransMissions swag? Check out our online shop, powered by TeePublic! Like what we’re doing and want to help make our podcast even better? Become a Donatreon and support us on Patreon or PayPal! If you already support us, thank you! Show Notes: Show Start [00:00:00] Intro [00:00:34] Welcome guest host Dr. Pants – Check out his website nerdstrodamus.com! [YouTube Channel] Check out the uncut version of Empire Of Rust Episode 84 – The Custobot is Always Right exclusive to Donatreons… Continue reading The post Episode 502 – Magnified Perception appeared first on TransMissions Podcast Network.

A new Macross toyline pays homage to G1 Jetfire, Transformers merchandising is in full swing with everything from cheap erasers to high end gaming chairs, and it looks like Perceptor might be the latest bot to turn to the dark side in Shattered Glass. All this and much, much more on this episode of TransMissions! Order our TransMissions Exclusive Cover Variant of IDW’s Transformers Till All Are One #1! Want some TransMissions swag? Check out our online shop, powered by TeePublic! Like what we’re doing and want to help make our podcast even better? Become a Donatreon and support us on Patreon or PayPal! If you already support us, thank you! Show Notes: Show Start [00:00:00] Intro [00:00:34] Welcome guest host Dr. Pants – Check out his website nerdstrodamus.com! [YouTube Channel] Check out the uncut version of Empire Of Rust Episode 84 – The Custobot is Always Right exclusive to Donatreons… Continue reading The post Episode 502 – Magnified Perception appeared first on TransMissions Podcast Network.

Scourge acquires the Matrix of Leadership, Perceptor becomes a robot doll, Rodimus Prime quits as Autobot leader and Blurr has a back spasm. Join us as we discuss Season 3 episodes 27 & 28 of Transformers Season 3! Chapter Points - 00:00 Intro, 04:57 Season 3 Ep 27 "The Burden Hardest to Bear" discussion, 49:25 Season 3 Ep 28 "The Face of Nijika" discussion, 1:21:07 Outro, next podcast preview.

It's time to go to another world... one the QUINTESSONS thought they had safely locked away, until GALVATRON managed to find it hidden behind a giant disc in space. We meet the ZIMOJINS, whose development has been stunted ever since the QUINTESSONS turned off the stars in their corner of the galaxy! Yeah, it's a big high-minded science fiction story airing in place of our beloved robot fights. But we do get to see PERCEPTOR as a GEISHA! Wait, HUH??? http://FourMillionYearsLater.com https://www.teepublic.com/user/fourmillionyearslater SHIRTS! STICKERS! TAPESTRIES! CELL PHONE CASES! BABY ONESIES! Befriend the FOUR MILLION YEARS LATER page on Facebook! Jerzy's comics for sale at INDYPLANET Jerzy's Patreon Jerzy's RSS Feed of all his goings on! Closing theme by Nick Mehalick : https://soundcloud.com/nicholas-mehalick/tranformative Please email us! FourMillionYearsLater@gmail.com And review us at your favorite podcatcher! Please? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/4myl/message

I saw the trailer. It's fair. 0:08 - The internet just couldn't wait to spoil a Rescue Rangers character cameo (don't worry, I don't spoil it because I'm considerate like that) 18:35 - Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is double featuring with a movie that I've already seen and didn't particularly like 26:07 - Disney dropped the first trailer for She-Hulk and I have OPINIONS!!! 40:38 - I beat another copyright claim. Yay me! 43:32 - Remember the possibilities teased at the end of Predator 2? 32 years later, they're making good on them! If you missed Saturday's live broadcast of Molehill Mountain, you can watch the video replay on YouTube.  Alternatively, you can catch audio versions of the show on iTunes. Molehill Mountain streams live at 7p PST every Saturday night! Credits: Molehill Mountain is hosted by Andrew Eisen.  Music in the show includes “Albino” by Brian Boyko. It is in the public domain and free to use. Molehill Mountain logo by Scott Hepting. Chat Transcript: 7:00 PMSily Chicken3421​hey andrew how is your night 7:01 PMSheekago​Hi all 7:01 PMPhyre Lite​hello everyone 7:02 PMSheekago​WTF. That must be the dumbest friend in the world 7:04 PMSheekago​oh ok 7:04 PMSheekago​whew 7:05 PMSheekago​I've been meaning to watch that movie. I loved Roger Rabbit movie 7:06 PMCafeFox​hey 7:06 PMSheekago​hey cafefox 7:06 PMCafeFox​I thought Rescue Rangers was great. few things were odd choices.. 7:07 PMCafeFox​hey sheekago 7:07 PMSheekago​OMG I hate when they do that. I got angry at IGN for put a spoiler on IG a few times 7:08 PMCafeFox​IGNs the worst with that 7:09 PMSheekago​If there'd be any cameo Transformer, it'd be Perceptor in microscope form being used by Gadget or something 7:10 PMSheekago​Wait, Gadget was an inventor not a scientist... NM 7:11 PMCafeFox​could have sworn I saw a transformer in it somewhere 7:11 PMSheekago​Cafefox, maybe it's MEgatron in gun form? 7:13 PMSheekago​So do all the voice actors return to reprise their roles? 7:16 PMSheekago​Disney is going to have a task force to take out people who violate their copyright 7:17 PMCafeFox​gadget yes, monty might have been a sound alike 7:20 PMCafeFox​there was a scene that was actually 2d animated, shows that they could have done all of it that way 7:21 PMCafeFox​molehill mountain of madness 7:27 PMSheekago​They want to be "FIRST" in reporting. They don't care that it means spoiling it for people. 7:28 PMCafeFox​exactly sheekago 7:33 PMSheekago​ The Angry Green Giant 7:39 PMSheekago​I wonder if Matt Murdock or Jeri Hogarth will cameo since they're also lawyers in the Marvel tv shows 7:47 PMSheekago​It's more like Danny Glover earned the other Predators' respect. 7:48 PMSheekago​Predator vs dinosaurs! 7:51 PMSheekago​It's akin to drugging a rabbit and killing it with an uzi. 7:57 PMSheekago​Get some pink marshmallows. If he starts to frustrate you, just tear into a pink marshmallow 7:57 PMPhyre Lite​char the pink marshmallow! 7:58 PMSheekago​have a great night 7:58 PMPhyre Lite​goodnight! 7:58 PMCafeFox​night 🌙 7:58 PMSheekago​LOL 7:59 PMCafeFox​wait what 7:59 PMPhyre Lite​even if you don't have any...buy some and wash them! 7:59 PMCafeFox​Andrew uses it, I knew it lol 7:59 PMSheekago​LOL Phyre Lite

Welcome to Australian Transformers Weekly, bringing you Transformers news from around the world and across Australia.   This is episode 254 We are recording live on Friday April 15th, 2022.   In this episode we will be discussing…. Legacy figures continue to roll out Robosen Prime gets backup (and our wallets get ready to hurt); and We finally get a look at Hasbro's newest combiner … sort of All of that is coming up in this week's episode - after this!   WELCOME   Hosts introduction Jason Max Alan   00:06:58 New Releases: Local Releases: SS 86 Perceptor has been turning up more consistently on Amazon AU and can be found in store at EB / Zing Titan Ark price is still fluctuating on Amazon AU Legacy Wave 1 release brought forward   Overseas Releases: Legacy Beasts Nightprowler, Sandstorm, Buzzsaw Legacy Buzzworthy Bumblebee Autobot Silverstreak Legacy Leader Laser Optimus Prime Legacy Leader Galvatron   News: Transformers Legacy Wave 2 Official Pics and Pre-Orders Live! https://news.tfw2005.com/2022/04/12/transformers-legacy-wave-2-official-pics-and-pre-orders-live-453589   Robosen's Optimus Prime Transformer robot truck gets an auto-converting trailer https://www.engadget.com/transformers-optimus-prime-robot-truck-gets-a-transforming-trailer-to-go-with-it-103523411.html    News in brief: Transformers Optimus Prime 2022 Hallmark Keepsake Ornament: Official Description, Listing and Photos https://news.tfw2005.com/2022/04/14/transformers-optimus-prime-2022-hallmark-keepsake-ornament-official-description-listing-and-photos-453983    Ultimetal Rodimus + Galvatron https://news.tfw2005.com/2022/04/13/action-toys-ultimetal-rodimus-prime-and-galvatron-official-images-release-date-453914    Movie News: First Look At Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts Optimus Prime CGI Render https://news.tfw2005.com/2022/04/12/first-look-at-transformers-rise-of-the-beasts-optimus-prime-cgi-render-453559 NEW ACQUISITIONS   Jason: Flame Toys Rodimus, Iron Factory Magnus + Jetfire (& unboxed some things) Max: Big Firebird Arcee repaint Alan: XTB Andras & Savant   OUTRO Thank you for listening! And if you're watching along with the live record, thanks for checking us out.   To find out more about these stories, you'll find the links to them all and more in the show notes.   Want to get in touch with us? Please do! We love listener feedback. Our official site is on Podbean: transformersweekly.podbean.com  Facebook page is called Australian Transformers Weekly; and We're all in the Transformers Collectors Club Australia group on Facebook.   If you're not already subscribed, you can find the podcast on your podcatcher of choice. The RSS feed link is on the website and in the show notes - https://transformersweekly.podbean.com/feed   This podcast is a production of Transformers Collectors Club Australia. TCCA is a registered club in Victoria, run by volunteers donating their time, effort, energy (and money) to make it better for everyone. Our goal is to build the Australian Transformers collecting community by engaging fans around the country. We make content like this podcast, attend live in-person events like Oz Comic Con, and we run Facebook largest dedicated Australian Transformers discussion and sales communities. You can find more information about the benefits of TCCA membership and how to show your support for what we do at transformerscca.com    OFFWORLD TCCA is Transformers Collectors Club Australia on Facebook and “transformerscca” on Twitter. Jason is on Twitter at-jm-77 Bradley is on Twitch at-groovy-guy-gaming And check out Brad's Budget Adventure Show on YouTube https://youtube.com/channel/UCSpo6Tz9LMdkoolLnzycCJQ   That's all from us. We'll be back with more Transformers news soon.   END CREDITS

The cast discusses their new pickups

The cast discusses their new pickups

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Noel catches up with Paul Eiding, the very talent actor is probably best known for voicing Colonel Roy Campbell in the Metal Gear video game series and the Autobot, Perceptor, in the first Transformers animated show and The Transformers: The Movie. On screen, Paul has starred in The Charmings, guest starred on The Golden Girls, Star Trek TNG, Picket Fences to name a few.

The Twincast delves into what may be coming in the (as of this recording) imminent Hasbro Transformers Fan Friday and says "Let's Say Go!" Could it be Victory Saber, Dino King, or Road Caesar? You already know it's Victory Saber by now, but listen in to hear some entertaining last minute thoughts anyhow. The Cyberverse Adventures Dinobots Unite toyline gets a major upswing with the leaked reveal of Deluxe Dinobot Slag, or Slug depending on your perspective. TakaraTomy is not forgotten with discussion about an upcoming Masterpiece Cliffjumper and Shouki from the upcoming Trainbots Raiden release. Commander Class Rodimus Prime from War for Cybertron Kingdom gets a spotlight as well as the unexpected Puffer minibot reveal, expected in the Golden Disc Amazon exclusive sublimn. End the show with some bragging rights featuring your favorite Autobot Ark and then call it a day!

This episode, MEGATRON catches a bad case of Cosmic Rust, necessitating the kidnapping of PERCEPTOR to fix him up! Will a gracious MEGATRON end his war with the AUTOBOTS in exchange for his life? SPOILER ALERT, HE DOESN'T. Frank Welker gives one heckuva performance as the formerly invulverable merciless MEGATRON experiences a sickness he can't defeat! All this and the final appearance of SPARKPLUG, ever! http://FourMillionYearsLater.com https://www.teepublic.com/user/fourmillionyearslater SHIRTS! STICKERS! TAPESTRIES! CELL PHONE CASES! BABY ONESIES! Befriend the FOUR MILLION YEARS LATER page on Facebook! Jerzy's comics for sale at INDYPLANET Jerzy's Patreon Jerzy's RSS Feed of all his goings on! Closing theme by Nick Mehalick : https://soundcloud.com/nicholas-mehalick/tranformative Please email us! FourMillionYearsLater@gmail.com And review us at your favorite podcatcher! Please? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/4myl/message

The gang rings in the New Year as only they could, by recording their funniest and worst episode so far. No one is safe. Run while you can. On this episode, the R.I.G. crew tries to cover the second half of the Dino-Bot Island arc, but winds up discussing the show’s many blandly hot humans instead. David dreams up a date night farce starring Beachcomber, Perceptor and Chip Chase, Boy Genius, Gege threatens to put Peppa Pig behind bars once and for all, and Jordan asks the all-important question, ‘Who CAN’T fly?’ All this, plus David introduces a brand-new segment called “W.T.T.F.” where Jordan is forced to guess the ways in which various robot toys transform. Does that sound fun to you? Then listen to this episode! We’ll do our best to post episodes in the new year whenever we can. Show your support for the show by leaving your five-star reviews in the podcast app of your choice. Follow the show @RobotsIntoGuys to stay abreast of the newest and best in gay robot programming. Thank you!!

Episode 263 of the Seibertron.com Twincast Podcast begins with discussion of the just-revealed Studio Series Starscream, an upcoming Voyager Class toy based on the character's appearance in the Bumblebee Movie. After brief mention of another upcoming Studio Series Camaro Bumblebee, the discussion moves on to other toys in the form of the Golden Lagoon redecos. These reissues were listed for preorder for the American market for the first time this past week despite having been released overseas two years ago, so the team chats about the why and wherefore of these re-releases of Convoy, Soundwave, Beachcomber and more in their Electrum plated golden colors. Recently released Generations toys are discussed next, with a litany of Deluxe Class figures discussed including: Runamuck, Fasttrack, Sunstreaker, Trailbreaker, Prowl, Ironhide, Bluestreak, Smokescreen, and Tigertrack. Rumors of potential repaints in the forthcoming Generations Kingdom line lead into speculation about Victory Leo inspired by the recently published Transformers Galaxies #11. Some members of the cast share their disappointment with the Transformers '84: Secrets and Lies series' fourth and final issue, then a long episode concludes with the recurring Bragging Rights segment.

Episode 97, and we bring you our Halloween Special 2020! And who better to join us than Jack Dyson of Space Jam who brings a wealth of the darker side of synth (evil cackle) and the return of Beckett and a radio debut of his brand new Halloween funk track, 'Jackin' The Box' (howling at the moon)! We talk scary movies, the return of live gigs in 2021 (we erm hope), and spin a whole host of new scary submissions! You're not going to want to miss this! Music from Beckett, Aftermour, Perceptor, Decade Defector, Mike Templar, Tom Selilca, NeverMann, Runaway Droid and Tarot Blood, Pretty Glass Folk and loads more. Be very afraid....

We are thunderstruck!!! Dinobot Island…mysterious energy readings!! The new character floodgates are open!! Powerglide, Perceptor, Blaster, Tracks, Red Alert...and many more!! Bunglbee’s ding in the caboose!! Stop these Dinobot Dumbasses!! Mitt Romney’s yellow-stained Jesus pajamas!! More room for, “Big Sludge!” The tops in air-rescue talent is on its way!! Dinobots are illiterate!?!? Voice Actors! In the Real World!! Rate the scheme!! Iconic Moments!! Real Missouri bullshit!!!

Teammate and Energon Invitational winner Dan Arnold join the Tech Talk team of Scott and Vince to discuss the process of creating his Invitational winning character: the powerful Titan Master Perceptor (and Head Convex). Stay tuned for part B when we all discuss the strategy of using Perceptor (likely to be updated as more is revealed in this exciting set!) Want some advice from the best players in the game? Want to learn from the Energon Invitational winner? Want some help preparing for the next Organized Play season? Looking to succeed on the PPG Tour? Join us on Patreon for exclusive behind the scenes access to pick our brains on deep strategy in the Transformers TCG and improve your game! https://www.patreon.com/VectorSigmaInfo Looking for some singles? Check us out at : https://shop.tcgplayer.com/sellerfeed... Feel free to use our affiliate code for TCGPlayer at: https://bit.ly/35ljJjd

Teammate and Energon Invitational winner Dan Arnold join the Tech Talk team of Scott and Vince to discuss the strategy behind his Invitational winning character: the powerful Titan Master Perceptor (and Head Convex).Part A was about the creative Process, this is about the strategy of this obviously powerful character! Want some advice from the best players in the game? Want to learn from the Energon Invitational winner? Want some help preparing for the next Organized Play season? Looking to succeed on the PPG Tour? Join us on Patreon for exclusive behind the scenes access to pick our brains on deep strategy in the Transformers TCG and improve your game! https://www.patreon.com/VectorSigmaInfo Looking for some singles? Check us out at : https://shop.tcgplayer.com/sellerfeed... Feel free to use our affiliate code for TCGPlayer at: https://bit.ly/35ljJjd

A washed-up podcaster teams up with The Whiskey Pickler, a one time contributor to Horrorhound Magazine and a Cool Principal to protect young children from a sudden outbreak of zombies. On Episode 393 of Trick or Treat Radio discuss Little Monsters, this Hulu exclusive horror comedy from Australia stars Lupita Nyong'o and is directed by Abe Forsythe! We also go off into some weird places as we discuss why MZ is pissed about the Coronavirus, how mozzarella sticks make everything better, and just how important Teddy McGiggle is! So grab your ukulele, “One, two, three, look at me” and strap on as we navigate the zombie apocalypse together on the world's most dangerous podcast!Stuff we talk about: Read between the lines, read between the scenes?, peel back the curtain, mixed metaphors, skypegoat, G.O.A.T. or goat?, Putting the Sac in Cul De Sac, WooSox redux, Smokin’ Behind the Scenes, renaming sports teams, Pubix Cube, Warriors come out and play, XFL, lingerie football, everything is baby, having lil’ in your name, Ravenshadow’s nicknames, the Guardian of Gout, the shocker, Pee Wee Herman, Mookie Betts, Bobby Valentine, Boston Red Sox, Coronavirus, Contagion, Bat Boy, Ares’ plan, Transformers manufacturing delays, Perceptor, MZ running for president, pubix zirconian, Kurando Mitsutake’s Karate Kale, BomboRadio, Pubi, Roku, Voices, Ryan Reynolds, how much mozzarella sticks improves things, Little Monsters, Lupita Nyong’o, Abe Forsythe, Robocop Returns, the rock and the roll, Darth Vader, Teddy McGiggle, Josh Gad, fight escalation, Taylor Swift, Black Panther, Halle Berry, Storm, Miss Caroline & Dave vs. Ravenshadow’s bad habits, zombies phoning it in, Come to Daddy, Ant Timpson, and The Whiskey Pickler.Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trickortreatradioSend Email/Voicemail: mailto:podcast@trickortreatradio.comVisit our website: http://trickortreatradio.comStart your own podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=386Use our Amazon link: http://amzn.to/2CTdZzKFB Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/trickortreatradioTwitter: http://twitter.com/TrickTreatRadioFacebook: http://facebook.com/TrickOrTreatRadioYouTube: http://youtube.com/TheDeaditesTVInstagram: http://instagram.com/TrickorTreatRadioSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/trickortreatradio)

Welcome back for an all new episode of Totally Radical Cartoon Podcast. We are a family, I fight for them, And they fight for me. As close as we can be, High in the mountain, Or deep in the sea. This week, Randy and Phil look at an episode of Bionic Six.A strange man calling himself the "Perceptor" declares a one-man war on technology. His sabotage of Professor Sharp's newest aircraft brings him to the attention of Bionic-1. However, when the team discovers that the professor is covering for the vigilante, they realize there is more than meets the eye about the Perceptor.

01. Navid Afghah - The Temple of Wooden Figures 02. Marcel Dettmann - Apron (The Rhythm Remix) 03. Takaaki Itoh - Pointer (Original Mix) 04. Overbrook - War Is Over 05. Andrew T Dorn - Lovely Death (Felix Bernhardt Remix) 06. AVE VAN DAM - Forgiven 07. Marla Singer - Nightmares (Original Mix) 08. Marcel Dettmann - Rush 09. Abstrakt - Cristalli Ionici (Original Mix) 10. Murat Ugurlu, Alex MilLenium - Molecular (Alex MilLenium Remix) 11. Sebastian Kramer - Obelisk 12. Sebastian Kramer - Razor 13. Osse - Fall From Grace (VIL remix) 14. Infiniti - Techno Por Favor 15. Planetary Assault Systems - Give It Up 16. ALPI - 127 17. Aleja Sanchez, Ricardo Garduno - Louder Than Storms 18. Perceptor, TZ Project - Predigra (Original Mix) 19. Andrew Lahiff - The Secrets Of The Stars 20. Chicane - Windbreaks 21. JГіhann JГіhannsson - Rise

When Brawn, Perceptor, and Bumblebee shrink themselves down and enter a super-powerful Megatron to stop him, Brawn learns that Perceptor is a valuable part of the team. Find Paul and John on Twitter.

Aidan & Ilan find out what Kup and Perceptor were doing before the Wreckers, we twist up Combiner Wars Megatron and struggle with Reveal the Shield Perceptor, and get hyped with us for Studio Series Crankcase, a repainted Crowbar.

Caught up with one of our best comic con friends, Paul Eiding, to chat about his latest projects!! Chatted about his voice acting role as Reflux in Incredibles 2, working with his family and theatre friends to make massively viral videos (and fund raise for LA park conservation projects!), and the highs and lows of his venture into the world of comic book writing on Blastosaurus, with New Zealand artist, Richard Fairgray. We also spoke briefly about his voice acting role as Perceptor in the original Transformers cartoons, as Grandpa Max on Ben 10, and his work in video games such as Snake from Metal Gear Solid, the 'Vault-Tec' guy from Fallout, the 'arrow to the knee' guy from Skyrim, the 'construct additional pylons' guy from Starcraft etc etc etc (too many to mention in one pod!). Forgot to chat about his role as Pa Kent in upcoming DC animated movie The Death of Superman... oops, hopefully he will let us call him back another time soon!! Was lovely to catch up, and we very much appreciated Paul taking time out of his busy schedule to chat to us about all his exciting creative projects!!  Paul's IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0251646/ Paul's Twitter: https://twitter.com/4pauleiding?lang=en Paul's Official Fan Page (ATTN: viral videos posted here): https://www.facebook.com/officialpauleiding/ Ask at your local (Aussie) comic book shop about adding the latest Blastosaurus Comics to your pull list... http://www.acecomics.com.au/blastosaurus-0 A prequel issue of the all-new series that was New Zealand's top-selling indy comic for the last 10 years! The story set up the full series and gives readers insights into the unique relationship between a mutant triceratops and two little kids. Together they battle and befriend an octopus and a ghost, save a man and everyone in Freak Out City from a newly opened alien portal. It's just another day in the life of our detective hero, Blastosaurus! (Credits: (W) Richard Fairgray, Paul Eiding (A/CA) Richard Fairgray ) - Previews World May 2018 Blastosaurus Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Blastosaurus/ TriceraTalk Podcast: http://triceratalk.richardfairgray.com/podcast/index.php/2018/06/28/episode001/ San Diego Comic Con News - Publisher Exclusive Variants: http://www.comicsbeat.com/sdcc-18-golden-apple-comics-announces-free-con-exclusive-variants-releases-signing-schedule/ Listen to our interview with Paul Eiding below right NOW, or find us on the iTunes Podcast app! If you enjoyed the episode, come chat with us over at the Most Popular Podcast facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/501943196826833/ OR join us for our monthly Pop Culture Meetup (for trivia & a group podcast!) at 5pm, Fri 20 July @ Brisbane Square Library: https://www.facebook.com/events/520711041664258/ Thanks for tuning in ~DrPM & ABx

Dare to Be Stupid!!! Aaron needs more talking practice!! Here come the Motorcycle Maniacs! Geronimo!!! Wreck-Gar returns with his gun-nipples!! Nazi Gynoids!! Phil Spector!! Run, Perceptor, Run!! It’s a Road Warrior race on Junkeon!! Weird Al and solidarity with Coolio!! Script Deviations: Gibbering Junk-Rock War-Cry!! Ultra Magnus... he loved existence!!!

The Dinobots meet evil incarnate, and Perceptor looks for a search engine. - Transformers: Power of the Primes

Ryan...the John Larroquette doppelganger! Caleb...the white Arsenio Hall! International Shout Outs! Autobots...run away!! Daniel: D is for Deserted! D is for DIY!! D is for drive!!! Perceptor...a human riding a dog! Voice actors: Don Messick as Scavenger! Script Deviations: Perceptor gets a kill! Springer..."Scatter, and follow me!" WAY TO GOOOOO!!!

The hot stays hot and the cool stays cool!!! ALF, crack and heroin! Kenny Loggins! Unicron gives Galvatron a migraine!! Perceptor bores the crew! The planet of junk is in this vicinity!! More Dicola talk!! Script Deviations: Magnitude Zeta, and “Let’s get us gone while tha gonnin’ is good! Yeow!!!”

TRIGGER WARNING: Everything, just everything. We will make fun of every bad thing that has ever happened. You have been warned. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=3899307 Visit us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/GoodMorningCybertron/ Check out our Twitter: https://twitter.com/gmcybertron Hakan's Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUs5yj1-T2V3h9xeLa_nkIw Chayse's Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmdXeBV0HfQGcU7TdEcuq_g Xavier's Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/rave1X Email us at goodmorning.cybertron@yahoo.com SHOW NOTES FOR EPISODE 374 1. Intro A. Buy Blunghole's Booklet, Building A Massive Transformers Collection http://www.amazon.com/dp/B018DE8J5M B. The Junked Transformers B/S/T https://www.facebook.com/groups/1972050076359282/ C. Sponsor http://sirtoys.com/?a=16 2. News A. Machinima Titans Return Episode 7 https://www.go90.com/videos/37rr2B0WBM6 B. Transformers Video Games Delisted From Steam And PSN http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/12/21/transformers-video-games-delisted-steam-psn-355752 C. Bumblebee Movie Wrap Gift http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/12/22/bumblebee-movie-movie-wrap-gift-355766 D. New Promo Image From Bumblebee Movie http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/12/23/new-promo-image-bumblebee-movie-statement-director-355801 E. Toys Alliance Mega Action Megatron Delayed http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/12/20/toys-alliance-mega-action-megatron-delayed-final-product-images-355674 F. Power Of The Primes Commercial http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/12/22/transformers-power-primes-commercial-355779 G. Takara Tomy Cassettebot VS Cassettetron http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/12/22/takara-tomy-masterpiece-mp-15-16-e-cassettebot-vs-cassettetron-set-hand-images-355773 H. MP-39 Sunstreaker Packaging, Collectible Coin And In-Hand Images http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/12/20/takara-masterpiece-mp-39-sunstreaker-packaging-collectible-coin-hand-images-355639#images I. Takara Legends Slugslinger, Perceptor, Bumblebee and Octane http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/12/24/hand-images-takara-legends-slugslinger-perceptor-bumblebee-octane-355831 J. Power Of The Primes Product Reveal And Fan-Play Event In Australia http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/12/18/power-primes-product-reveal-fan-play-event-australia-355580 3. Looky What I Found 4. Reinforcements From Cybertron 5. Listener Questions From Perci Would you be interested if some third party company attempted an idw accurate sky reign and galvatronus? I’ve always thought they were interesting designs and would love to see them done proper, thanks for receiving! 6. Thanks

In this episode Brian and Daniel breakdown 2 episodes of Tranformers: Titans Return.       Desperate Actions -  Optimus takes back what was his, while Megatron finds a fight instead of answers.                  Run For Our Lives - As Titan and super-Combiner clash, Optimus leaves the future in Perceptor's hands and Fortress Maximus arises.       For more Daniel be sure to download Something Something Nostalgia and for more Brian check out Pop Culture Leftovers

Join the latest Seibertron.com Twincast / Podcast Mainframes episode for an in depth review and analysis of Lost Light #11: "The Plotter's Club (Part 2): Filling in the Blanks". We dive deep into Getaway's personality, character flaws, and ambitions as we attempt to conclude why he's doing what he's doing, and how he is justifying the actions he's taken and what his end goals really are. We also look at other crew members including Atomizer, Perceptor, Riptide, and Thunderclash, and determine their role in the mutiny and analyze their reactions to Getaway's increasingly unhinged behavior. Additionally, we work the history of Getaway's time before and on board the Lost Light, and how characters such as Tyrest, Froid, and Sunder may or may not be preying on his tendencies. In addition, we slot the issue into a modern, real world context and examine Getaway's actions through the lens of modern authoritarianism and information manipulation. Is he a parallel to one or more modern political figures? Lastly, we take a look how many of the threads in Lost Light may be coming together to see Rodimus and company's return to the ship and a preparation for the upcoming Unicron cross over event.

This week we have more Takara Legends figures on the way, G1 Predaking is hitting the shelves again and theres some nice third party bots on the way   Opening credits (8bit Transformers Theme) OPENINGWelcome to Australian Transformers Weekly, your first choice for transformers news in Australia This is episode 115 Recorded live on 14th July, 2017 This week your hosts are: JasonBradMikey00:06:11 Take Your Bot To Work DayTake your bot to work day has been relaunched with a competition by TCCA. Each Wednesday in the TCCA Facebook group there’s a post for the week’s competition. Submit your “bot in the real world pic” for a chance to win some great prizes. This week's winner is: Rob Kindleysidehttps://tccaus.wordpress.com/competitions/take-your-bot-to-work-day/ THIS WEEKS NEWS00:10:17 G1 Predaking Reissue Preorder Listinghttp://news.tfw2005.com/2017/07/10/g1-predaking-reissue-preorder-listing-343602?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook 00:17:07 SDCC Exclusives Gift Set 00:25:56 Takara Legends Bumblebee, Slugslinger, Perceptor, And Octane New Imageshttp://news.tfw2005.com/2017/07/11/takara-legends-bumblebee-slugslinger-perceptor-octane-new-images-343708?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook 00:31:54 X-Transbots Masterpiece-Styled Stunticons – Flipout (Wildrider) and Crackup (Breakdown) – Renders and Prototypehttp://news.tfw2005.com/2017/07/08/x-transbots-masterpiece-styled-stunticons-flipout-wildrider-crackup-breakdown-renders-prototype-343434?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook 00:35:21 Open Play Spring unofficial Springer figure final release shots. 00:47:14 Unique Toys Palm Series – New Grey Prototypes Revealedhttp://news.tfw2005.com/2017/07/12/unique-toys-palm-series-new-grey-prototypes-revealed-343786?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook 00:52:26 Transformers: The Last Knight Concept Art – Canopy, Drift, Mohawk And Morehttp://news.tfw2005.com/2017/07/08/transformers-last-knight-concept-art-canopy-drift-mohawk-343472?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook 01:05:20 Transformers: The Last Knight Third Weekend Final Numbershttp://news.tfw2005.com/2017/07/11/transformers-last-knight-third-weekend-final-numbers-343701?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook 01:09:05 Transformers: The Last Knight Limited Edition Score 2-CD Set At La La Land Recordshttp://news.tfw2005.com/2017/07/12/transformers-last-knight-limited-edition-score-2-cd-set-la-la-land-records-343812?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook 01:12:11 NEW ACQUISITIONS Jason: Magna Convoy, Dirge, Backland, BrawnyBrad: Mikey: TR Broadside, MP Legendary Leader Convoy & FT Scoria 01:31:39 TCCA CLUB EVENTS-Congratulations to Brad Towner For winning the 2500 member giveaway. We had 284 Members participate, our biggest yet. I caved and also gave away a set of g1 playing cards to Adam Bolt and Duy Hua. Congrats guys.https://tccaus.wordpress.com/2017/07/14/2500-social-member-givaway-winners/ -Nerdmania is next weekend. -Membership Fees now due. Check the link below for full details. Members only giveaway in August OUTROThank you for listening, Australian Transformers Weekly is produced by Transformers Collectors Club Australia.You can find the TCCA website is www.transformerscca.com You can also find the podcast on iTunes, Alexia and Tune in Radio so please head over there and give us a review - the rss feed link is on the website and in the show notes.https://Transformersweekly.podbean.com/feed   End Credits (added in post)    

The Boys are Back!! Aaron has mush-mouth! Tapes attack Perceptor! Eject fights Frenzy! Ravage fights Rewind! Ramhorn fights Ratbat! Perceptor scratches his head! Autobots shoot the big gun! Blur gets shot at because he’s . . . annoying? Arcee drags dead Autobodies!! RIP Windcharger and Wheeljack!! The “gang” comes together to push! Floro Dery, why have designed this monstrosity?! No voice actors!? Script deviations!! “Do you think we got through to Prime!?!” All this, plus a special visit from our friends Starscream and Astrotrain as the APDC Team covers 16:01-17:00 of Transformers: The Movie.

TOYS OF SUMMER: “Giant tape decks, tiny airplanes and whatever that Sharkticon was supposed to be.” (1984): Its the heat of the summer so Tim is heading down to the local beach with a bucket full of his favorite toys. Now that’s a scenario that would never happen but still serves as a segue-way into today’s topic, those Kafka-esque bots and cons from Hasbro, THE TRANSFORMERS. So roll out with Tim and special guest MICHAEL ROOHR as they geek out over names like Hubcap, Gears and Pipes. 00:00:00 - PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - “A toast to Cybertron” 00:00:35 - SHARING THE MIKE - geeking out on G1 Transformers / “main theme from “Challenge Of The GoBots” 00:03:04 - FIRST ENCOUNTERS- Mike meets Megatron and gives Huffer a good home 00:08:10 - COMMERCIAL DRAW - Tim loves ads and packaging 00:16:10 - MAKIN’ TRACKS - trying to talk cars 00:23:08 - TECH SPEC SPECTRUM - least favorite toy / most favorite toy 00:31:32 - ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORMASTER MAINTENANCE - that transforming component 00:36:55 - A BOY AND HIS GNAW - Plastic totems and why these toys matter 00:47:31 - DIE-CAST VALUES - getting choked up over Optimus Prime 00:53:55 - CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catchphrase / “Dare”Watch nearly 40 minutes of the sweet sales-scented advertising the convinced 9 year-old you you just HAD to have these particular Transformers HERE.Hear George Popadopolis shill some some capitalistic phrasing over the likes of Perceptor and Blitzwing HEREAnd see some of the Transformers host Tim Blevins never wanted HERE, HERE and HERE. The use of audio and video clips linked from YOUTUBE are for educational purposes and without the expressed permission of their legal holding companies. All rights remain with with their original distributor.This episode of 20TH CENTURY POPCAST was recorded by ZENCASTR, a high fidelity podcast recording platform that records multiple guests from multiple zip-codes all as if they were in the same room. Log on for studio quality recordings NOW! (exclamation point also provided by ZENCASTR)MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY’S EPISODE:“Love Theme From Challenge Of The Go-Bots”” composed by Hoyt Curtain for the 1984 Hanna-Barbara magnum opus CHALLENGE OF THE GOBOTS.“Dare” performed by Stan Bush from my 1986 cassette copy of the original motion picture soundtrack to TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE.The use of these songs are for entertainment purposes and without the expressed permission of the recording artist.Subscribe to 20TH CENTURY POPCAST! on ITUNES and GOOGLE PLAY or stream it at www.20popcast.com.Like, share and reminisce with 20TH CENTURY POPCAST! on FACEBOOK.Contact the show with any questions, suggestions or possible topics at 20popcast@gmail.com, #20popcast on Twitter and the POP TALK section of www.20popcast.comFollow ROBERT CANNING @rhcanning on TWITTER. Read his web-comic at EXAGGERATEDLIFE.wordpress.com and his music blog at superultramegamix.wordpress.com. Follow TIM BLEVINS @subcultist on TWITTER and as SUBCULTISTon INSTAGRAM.20TH CENTURY POPCAST! will return next week with RETRO SHOCK.

Well here we go, episode 100. after some new movie figure news and possibly the best tf cosplay ever seen, we discuss how our collecting has changed over the last two years. show notes Opening credits added in edit (Podcast Intro)Tribute to the guests of Off The Shelf past and Present. 00:08:30 OPENINGHello and welcome to Off The Shelf, the Voice of Transformers Collector Club Australia. This is episode 100 Recorded live on March 25th, 2017 INTRODUCTIONSBrad James Knobknocker (Mikey)Max TinyBill (who is ½ way to shitfaced right now)Captain Jack SparrowJJ’s it’s a warehouse, JJ’s. >>>What have you been up to this week?Ballerinas and cocaine. 00:21:00 CLUB & COMMUNITY NEWSThis week:Paid and Proud Member count: 154 Facebook Member count: 2198 +11 from last week It's the final week of the march Donation drive, full info is on the website. Competition is open to everyone in Australia so empty those gold coins out of your piggy bank and donate now. 00:22:28 TYBTWDTake your bot to work day has been relaunched with a competition. Each Wednesday look for the post on the group and submit your bot in the real world pic for a chance to win some great prizes. Congratulations to this week's winnerScott Messom for your photo of Perceptor at work.https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1814010905525918&set=gm.716695045157768&type=3&theater Your Photo will go up on the site and your in the draw for the end of year giveaway. NEWSHASBRO00:25:31 One More Transformers The Last Knight Figure Revealedhttp://news.tfw2005.com/2017/03/17/one-transformers-lask-knight-figure-revealed-335485?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook 00:32:36 Transformers: Hearts Of Steel Soundwave And Scourge Concept Sketcheshttp://news.tfw2005.com/2017/03/21/transformers-hearts-steel-soundwave-scourge-concept-sketches-335872?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook 00:40:01 Official Transformers Pet Costumes Revealedhttp://news.tfw2005.com/2017/03/21/official-transformers-pet-costumes-revealed-335876?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook TAKARA00:45:57 New Images of Takara Legends Dinosaurer (Trypticon)http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/03/22/new-images-takara-legends-dinosaurer-trypticon-336007?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook 3rd PARTY and KONil OTHER STUFFNil Movie News:00:53:55 Transformers: The Last Knight IMAX Posterhttp://news.tfw2005.com/2017/03/22/transformers-last-knight-imax-poster-336061?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook 01:00:41 8 Motion Posters for TF: TLK Revealed; First Look at Cogmanhttp://news.tfw2005.com/2017/03/22/8-motion-posters-tf-tlk-revealed-first-look-cogman-336025?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook 01:12:23 The Main Discussion. We've been on the air for 2 years now, how has your collecting changed over the years? Are you focusing on certain lines? Any lines your opinion changed on? Listener input:Facebook inputhttps://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1813478592245816&set=gm.716003031893636&type=3&theater 01:51:37 NEW ACQUISITIONS Brad: Jason: Max: 07 movie nightwatch prime, MMC Kultur, mech ideas gauntlet and piston.Mikey: Custom Metroplex, X-Transbots Eligos, FansToys GrinderBill: Encore Metroplex. 02:01:30 OUTROThank you for listening, Off The Shelf is the podcast for Transformers Collectors Club Australia.The TCCA website is www.transformerscca.com - there you’ll find links to our Facebook discussion group, the sales group, the YouTube channel and Twitter page and of course, this podcast! You can also find the podcast on iTunes, so please head over there and give us a review - the link is on the website and in the show notes.https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/off-the-shelf-the-voice-of-tcca/id979454342 End Credits (added in post)      

Episode 157 of the Seibertron.com Twincast Podcast is all about the latest Transformers brand toy products announced and revealed at New York Comic Con 2016. A conversation about the tease and partial reveal of the next Generations Titan Class figure, Trypticon, kicks off the show. After that, upcoming Leader Class, Deluxe Class, Voyager Class, and Titan Master figures from Generations Titans Return are analyzed. Almost every Generations figure revealed at the show is talked about in detail with early speculation on potential future figures included. Robots in Disguise products from the new Combiner Force subline continue the conversation after that. Additionally, early reveals of Takara's reissue toys commemorating the tenth anniversary of the first live action Transformers movie have surfaced, and this topic wraps up discussion related to current events. The show concludes with multinational bragging rights.

This week we have a childhood hero of ours, Mr. Paul Eiding is another actor who has been the voice of several generations as an actor for Hanna Barbara on several projects as well as being Perceptor for G1 Transformers and Grandpa Max in all the incarnations of Ben 10.We found a lot of wisdom and love for his craft in our chat and we hope you all take something great from it as well.

http://haulfen.com/tfa/tfanonymus_episode_26.mp3The trio is back, about half through JAKEMAN decided to turn up so listen as the three podvcasters talk about the transformers!Show NotesToy Stuff1) Target Exclusives Animated Sunstorm & Animated G1 deco Shockwavehttp://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/a...m-packs-166332/2) New images of Henkei Ratchethttp://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/c...-images-166327/3) Color pics of Masterpiece Grimlockhttp://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/g...inferno-166320/4) Official Collectors Club Heatwave combiner revealedhttp://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/c...evealed-166310/5) prototype pics of Alternity Megatronhttp://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/a...egatron-166306/Fan Custom Stuff6) New City Commander Custom Add-On Head By SGCollecthttp://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/g...collect-166326/7) Prototype Custom Masterpiece-02 Ultra Magnus Trailerhttp://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/g...trailer-166311/8) custom universe Roadbuster/Dirge pieces & Custom voyager Animated Prime Axe by Natobothttp://www.natobot.com/index.htmlAnimated Stuff9) Images of Transformers Animated Wheeljack & Perceptorhttp://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/a...rceptor-166334/bonus: Animated Tech Specs revealedComic Stuff10) IDW Transformers Animated Arrival #6 preview pagehttp://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/c...ew-page-166339/11) Transformers ROTF Alliance #2 Alex Milne coverhttp://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/c...evealed-166343/12) 10 Dino Days + Maximum Dinobots 5 Page Preveiwhttp://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/c...ristmas-166313/http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/c...preview-166341/Movie Stuff13) Movie reshoots & movie trailer rumorhttp://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/t...-rumors-166319/14) Images of ROTF Megatron & Ravagehttp://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/t...-ravage-166342/