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On this episode of TransMissions we have some Devastating news from the New York Toy Fair 2015! Also on this episode we review IDW’s Transformers MTMTE #37 and we discuss the US premiere of the animated Transformers: Robots In Disguise cartoon series. All this and much more, on this episode of TransMissions.
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Hey could not get here this morning. .hmmm I wonder what happened. ..boy I’m backlogged!
I was wondering if the Transformers Dreamworks comics are as bad as I’ve heard. I really love the cover art. But I was also wondering how the interior art compares to the cover art. I’ve come close several times to ordering some from ebay but never pulled the trigger
Kass, You might be able to find some old Trade paperbacks of the books. It would be just a little cheaper then hunting for the comic books themselves. I do find a good comic book hunt to be enjoyable. Maybe you can find them on the online comic stores? Good luck
Kass, i found them to be another piece of the transformers lore that was worth having, mind you every good story has its ups and downs.now mind you there not as good story telling as idw does now, but without dream wave having them first who knows how it would have played out, my main regret is that they never did the reference guides for energon, i really enjoyed the armada ones that they did a great deal, and the comic was not half bad as well..i guess it depends on how you find them at what price and maybe buy just one trade see if you like it and go from there. in the end i found it to be just one facet to the many faceted transformers universe diamond that it is, just dip your toe in a smidge and go from there.you like it great, if not well you did not go into the deep end.
I am not buying the idea you guy put forth that people will be seeing their Giant and Hercules figures now that Hasbro announced that Combiner Wars Devastator. It’s pretty clearly inferior in design, and while it may stop people from buying new Hercules and Giant figures, most people with them will not sell their superior toys for an oversized under-articulated robot.
Did you guys see that there is a thread on TFW2005 devoted to people making digibash’s of Combiner Wars figures into new characters. Some amazing ideas on that thread: http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-toy-discussion/995908-combiner-wars-generations-2015-predictions.html
I agree, I’m not sure if we’ll see a “wave” of giant and Hercules figs out in the market but it might happen to be a little ripple out there…time will tell as always.
So I’m the one that leaves the most feed back on here,huh?
FLIPPIN COOL!
I think I’m going to name the “feedback bomber”” demon of dissertation
I hope Daryl’s prediction is right. I’d love to get Hercules for a bargain. I like the Hasbro Dev…especially the price, but an annoying trait I’m noticing on the CW combiners is all the add-on parts required to make the giant bots.
The more likely reason people will sell their Hercules is the pretty good KO of Hercules hitting the market now. You can get a boxed set of all 6 members for less than one TFC Hercules member robot. Of course people might also buy that KO instead of CW Devastator.
Hey, speaking of Titan Class toys, anyone else never see a Metroplex in a local store, like EVER? If Devastator is distributed as badly, a lot of us may skip it.
I saw Metroplex a couple times at TRU.
Hey guys, Bert the Stormtrooper here.
I regards to the topic of show segments being too short or too long or too whatever… Let me start by saying that ultimately, this is your show to put together as you see fit. You guys are the ones that have to put out a product that you are happy with. I don’t think it’s really our place to tell you how to produce your show….. unless you ask, which you did.
That being said, I personally like the show the way it is. I don’t particularly care for the comics section since I don’t keep up with them, but you the conveniently placed time markers in the show notes let me know exactly where to skip over to when I listen, so I have absolutely nothing to gripe about.
If I were going to make any suggestions, it would be to maybe take all the content you record and split it into two shows that you release twice a week; one comic-centric show and one toy-centric show. That way whoever doesn’t want to listen to one show or the other doesn’t have to, and you’ll up your download numbers too.
So there you go, that’s my suggestion for maybe helping out some of the less pleased listeners. Again the only reason I’m even making a suggestion is because Yoshi specifically asked for one. Ultimately you’ll never be able to please everyone and the show you’re doing now is great as is!
Talk to you soon!
Later
Bert the Stormtrooper
Very well said Bert.
I don’t always pay attention to the comic section since I’m not currently reading them. However I will be picking up the first couple issues of the Combiner Wars. I will be looking forward to hear what the guys have to say about those.
Great to hear Jeremy back on the show.
…so much Combiner Wars stuff. Guess I should have seen this coming. Not to be negative, but it is amazing how hard and fast this event has come about. I am excited and nervous about how this comic book/toy cross media event will turn out.
I agree with burt,it’s your show, you make it how you see fit.i thinks the eps are fine as they are.if people don’t like them as they are fast forward to a part they do like,or don’t download them if you dislike it so much..if I hear about that last choice ill…dislike you…so there!
I have a bit of time on my hand this after noon/evening potentially so I might warm up the feed back bomber with that time,I’ll do my best not to write too much…
I don’t think you would belive me..can’t belive I typed that …i don’t belive it as well.
I guess I broke it again,this is from my phone,not from the laptop…oh boy
laptop test folks
Ep 90
Yosh is the left leg, yakko the right arm, c beast is the head,where is big c going to be the torso?, and you’re a member short..i “just so happen to” know a volunteer…I don’t know if i..ahem I mean “they” would be comfortable being that… but they’ll jump on the opportunity!!!
TOYS:
• Provider, what a WEAK name, go with supplier or something like that..what a PUNK name!
• The new 3p party insecticons seem ok, but are they really needed?
• New “titan” devastater and the constructicons, do they really need to be that tall?
• re issue trypticon would be nice
• road rage from mp tracks will likely happen, SHE shared the e hobby release (I believe) from the g 1 mold of tracks
• WHY does MP bumble bee need a jetpack if the autobots can already fly..wait ,why don’t they fly anymore anyway?
• Im glad slingshot and wildrider are both in combiner wars after all, both here and overseas, but will that “play out in the fiction”? I sure hope so…fingers crossed. THOUGH I would like to see him as the harrier jump jet he was so ill gander at a 3 p fig if they make one
• I don’t buy figs too often, but if that GNAW is going to look like I want it to, oh by the inferno ill get one!!!
• Yoshi the “g-1 purist” in your words what does this mean to you?
COMIC REVIEW:
• 2 comic reviews AWW, HECK YEAH!!
• Beginning banter was great
• The remains of ramjet and thrust big c not the molds, they would be small indeed
• Busters a gile or did she got to jake to get fixed?
• Prowls haves no “f@cks left”huh,but he tells people to get out of the way,hes having more “mood swings”than a park..or is it a ploy?hmmmm
• A SECOND REVIEW, DUCK YEAH!!!
• Female cybertronians thing again, ill like how big c and the comics are eluding to that they may have been more common in the past, I really like that idea,but why?did something wipe them out?
TV SHOW NEWS:
NA
MOVIE NEWS:
NA
TRIPS TO THE STORE:
• To brag about huh, big c?
• Yoshis..ahem..”bragging erection” and his lack of memory, im gonna catch him on that last one someday!
• C beast…STOP BAD MOUTHING VOLTRON, YO!!!
• Barry, let us be real for a moment, you should have sung ”can’t get enough of your love baby”..maybe the pipes were a little low for that day
TRANSFORMING POP CULTURE:
NA
FEEDBACK:
(My favorite part, of course)
Mystic marvels I like your style, BIG UPS TO YOU MY MAN,!!, now to find a way to top it…pondering….im SO green eyed!!!
I have the beast wars fighting game still, I just wish someone would put out a good TF rpg game someday in the vein of final fantasy or something of the like/nature
Currently in your opinion which of the source materials are the most commonly used for us fans nowadays for the fiction, or has the most influence currently to the fiction we have to us now ex:
G 1 cartoon OR the Marvel g 1 comic?
I put these two on the same line because they were the main stays for their time and are sorta the “Past to future blueprint” if you will for us fans whom are now in the future, AND from time to time they did..MIRROR…one another in certain events, EX:primes death, the matrix is a object, etc and marvel worked with sunbow..and in which do you feel had the most character development? ex marvel went as far as the pretenders, the cartoon did not.
Re tool vs re shell?
I have noticed that combiners wars are a split 3 or 4 original molds for a “first set” so to speak of, but then are re tooled/ re shelled ones to look different, but if the TF is the same EX; 75-80% of the micromasters shared the same tf, then how does the budget play on that /the final cost is it plastic vs tf/# of parts?
What are now currently the names of the size classes now?, im kinda lost with it now.
THE TIMES THE WORD SCALE WAS USED: at least twice
Ep 91
SURPRISE Rapid fire on big c, LOVED IT LOVED IT LOVED IT!!!!
TOYS:
• The not beachcomber sounds/looks ok, but I don’t know about the gun, next to first aid BC was WAY easy going and would not hurt a fly in the show, comic im not sure, he may bust up some heads or something
• The iron hide and starscream shapeshift test shots look good, but I bet BIG $$$$ for there size and #
• The toyworld throttlebots are done, (was thinking of you c beast when I read/heard this one),but I do tend to wonder was them combining a afterthought, or was it planned all along?
• Yoshs choice on the 3p reflectors, I wonder whom he ll choose? His REFECTOR ROMANCE indeed!!
• The 3p astrotrains seem ok but come on folks can you not think of other names that are better than devilstar? Really!?
• “Yoshi pure” hmmm…why does to me sound like a lubricant?
• Ultra metal magnus,ehhhh, if it has the outer armor that would be neat
• The invisible man model, I like the cut aways that were in the tf ultimate guide books back a few years ago
• The machine robo figs look ok, not gonna get them, but look good, hasbro has rights to the “gobots”names , not the images to them from the show /machine robo
• Not too keen on the new devastater, looks good, but that height, I don’t think hes going to SCALE with the others too well
• Big c its pronounced “SABER tron”, the japan way of saying cybertron I guess..i don’t know why but eh
• The rumor of the CW optimus prime and cyclonus, I do HOPE it plays in the fiction, IDW is now that main “fiction driving force” now for selling the toys, I hope it plays out in there fiction
COMIC REVIEW:
• The starsaber bio, the NA audience has limited exposure to him stay for the dvds here of late, again the “IDW fiction” plays a part of that I don’t see anyone that loves starsaber going with that, or at least looking at that and saying(in there Yoshi voice) WTF??!!
• YOSH DID NOT SAY A THIG ABOUT THE GUEST ARTIST, well he is know for his..ahem “big anatomy” parts on female tfs..i just cant belive is slipped by him like that maybe “it was the lubricant that slipped from yoshis hand”, it sure is not gonna stay it!!..more reps that a formula 1 racer…..
love ya yosh!!
TV SHOW NEWS:
• Shout tv, I don’t know about this one, might take a look though
• TF are not real, WWWWTTTTFFFF, no I don’t believe it, not for one second!!, yosh you start your podcast but at the other end of the spectrum ,”the bingo and nuns” podcast.. I might be visiting the smelting pool for that one….oh boy….oh boy….
• The myth buster bit, I don’t know, it seemed to me from what ive heard it would be like a james bond thing to me
MOVIE NEWS:
NA
TRIPS TO THE STORE:
• The interior conflict contest going on with c beast and yosh..the fun it has to be and yet to be had
• C beast is rationing out, what, you want the kids to back up the tears??!!
• C beast wins, again even with Yoshi!!and a 3p fig as well? he hit the jackpot
• The “Yoshi hand job” and the purr bit, I bet that last one comes in useful for him in certain..things..not gonna say but it aids him I bet
• Yoshi emotional gift, you did good c beast, you did good by him.
• BIG C IS NOT COMIC STRONG, “im gonna stop buying mulit covers”…yeah right! I knew it would not happen..your comic cover fu is NOT strong!!
TRANSFORMING POP CULTURE:
NA
FEEDBACK:
Im slacking for once…maybe..
THE TIMES THE WORD SCALE WAS USED: twice again I believe?
Ep 92
Before I write this one, I want to say I have been really torn up about Leonard Nimoys passing, I was like for me losing a lifelong hero you looked up too, and he crossed the transformers universe TWICE, he was something of a idol for me.i know that the end comes to us all and I accept it, but it make it event no easier to deal with non the less.
Let us all take a moment for him memory for him and his family..
….
May he rest in peace.
…. he lived long and prospered….
As I stop crying now..
NY ToyFair 2015 News!
As I look into other ways to help the show I will look into the patreon support, I don’t wish to deal with the devil that is known to me as paypal but if I must dine with them, I will bring a long spoon!!!
The rapid fire ambush strikes again per yosh, awesome!!
TOYS:
• An all-female combiner would be nice I think, I WOULD look forward to it, I just would like to know why they look femal that’s all..sorry old habits and all…
• Cyclonus in CW fiction I hope
• Yosh waited on pic of the new constructicons. KUDOS SIR KUDOS!!..i don’t know if it was worth
it to me, but good on ya!
• I do wonder too big c if scrapper is coming back after all?
• Will there be 3p weapons for them , or do they come with their own like back in the day, and I wonder if the devy kibble can be used in the same manner as the orginals?.i do hate the hollowness to them though…
• tf fans can be happy… it is a rare event, but it does happen
• the ultra magnus fig, I like it, I don’t think all that highly of it, but it is pretty cool, and it IS an IDW ultra magnus c beast, not a gen 1 influenced fig, AGAIN the IDW continuity/reality is felt here.
• just when did legend become legion? And at what point? Just how may size classes are there??!! It hurts my head just keeping them in order, and then they go and change it AGAIN!!
• The tf rid mini cons/disk-torpedoes , (yes c beast I know you will find out why and all) but I hope it is used /explained somewhat in the show, as for me those are neat, but yes a niche market indeed
• Rubber elastic thief c beast huh? Ehh who cares..he’ll just shoot the mini cons/disk-torpedoes with them
COMIC REVIEW:
• Im glad that IDW and Hasbro are strong and going forward more
• GO MAIRGHREAD and the new ongoig windblade comic…not going into the new female though…nope not going to do it…
• I wish DW started/finished the energon guide/reference books, I REALLY liked the armada ones , and the comic series was not too bad as well
• I agree with yosh and c beast, own vs rent, I would myself would rather OWN than rent, at least I would have something in my hand vs always finding a computer / device..and even though im getting use to a computer device more,im like picard a good book in hand is NEVER beaten!
• I do how ever think renting a Netflix type service give you “better insight on whats out there to own, IF you can get it of course
• It MIGHT be cosmos, but you guys said nothing about rattrap in the comic, what gives?
• This time travel comic is like having back to the future and Dr who all wrapped up together , AND I LOVES ME SOME DR WHO!!!
• I truly wonder if brainstorm is a decepticon after all, hes not the first autobot to wear a decepticon symbol EX: punch
TV SHOW NEWS:
• I hope the time slot does not kill the show, and cartoon network of all things…
MOVIE NEWS:
NA
TRIPS TO THE STORE:
• BIG $$$$ guns c beast!!
• Weak comic cover fu big c does it again….da duh du dah wwwhhhaaa (sad trombone sound)
TRANSFORMING POP CULTURE:
NA
FEEDBACK:
• This podcast is just fine as it is, it could use a guest on ep 101 and perhaps and further eps in the future, ahem… but it is near as perfect as a tf podcast can get in my belief , you don’t like it, fast forward to something else that’s what the time indexes are for USE EM!! Let it evolve with the fan input to a point but don’t lose the essence of this great podcast. I think everything is fine, barr that guest on ep 101, further and all, but fine none the less!!
THE TIMES THE WORD SCALE WAS USED: again twice maybe, most likely me slacking on the count…
Did I break it again this time, big c?
I might have more to add later…
Wait…..the challenge this with yosh: I think that I have to listen to the ep again before I put my ducks in a row.im pretty sure about it ,but just on the safe side I gonna give a re listen
whhhooooo, ok im done for now………
nope im lying…. sorry
Ok I just listened to it, it was ep 86 when I asked to come on the 101 st ep with the clue to my screen name “1001” and well I can’t live that long in this current form well I would like to have that honor…HINT,HINT GUYS, im not getting any younger, come on already!! What do I have to do ..other than kidnapping c beast, yoshi?
WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO!!!????
The “Challenge part” was dinobot maximize challenging Yoshi I believe in total number of transformers comics owned ex:who owned the most, I typed to dino you need a list of what you have vs what Yoshi has. I don’t know how they came to this but in the end there helping each other complete what there missing,BUT I as a comic book fan as well would like a master list to come out from them (what’s out ,whats rare etc) and that way we as fans can gain comic book knowledge from them, and it’ll help fill our missing gaps in as well.
What do the fans thinks on this? i would like to know….
That was the beast machine’s ratrap btw