WTF @ TFW - 246 - April 4 2013



It's a lego night as Vangelus and Aaron share a bond in this episode of WTF@TFW, while Omegus lives in his own monster-hunting playland.

00:00:00 - Opening
00:00:23 - Intro
00:05:22 - Spotlight: Trailcutter Commentary

00:14:02 - New Pic Picks

00:30:16 - Dick Gautier to attend TFcon 2013

00:33:08 - Listener Question from titandiego2
01:08:53 - Intermission
01:10:58 - What We Got This Week
01:23:52 - What Monster Hunter Omegus Played This Week
02:19:13 - Ending and Outro

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A part of me doesn't like that Lego needs to have the "girl's version" in order to sell to girls. A building block has no gender. Beyond that though? It is one of their top selling brands so that must mean they're onto something. Being a City, Space, and Modular person the the e doesn't hit any of my triggers.

 

so excited to see this and download it before my commute today... and then i totally thought of something i wanted to say while driving, got to work and promptly forgot what i wanted to say...

EDIT: I REMEMBERED! I was gonna say they should repaint Dreadwing into Waspinator colors (just the same way that Starscream should be done in Terrorsaur colors, like a Cheetimus Prime made ) and they should have Dreadwing show up and just die, every single episode. I would totally buy both of those toys if they were done as Beast Wars characters.

Also, Matt Frank was at Botcon last year, he made that super awesome print of Grimlock eating the Insecticons. http://thetransformers.tumblr.com/post/21387720058/matt-frank-art-botcon-2012-exclusive-print

 

They do have some neat sets and I do understand the business and social aspects that lead to the Friends line. I just guess I have an altruistic wish I guess that there wasn't a need to have boy's toys and girl's toys, and instead just have toys. *shrugs* No big deal in the end though.

Just seems odd that they'd go to a dead character instead of a different character.

 

Cliffjumper got a lot of toys specifically so it would enhance the shock factor of his death.

With BH Dreadwing? Not so much.

 

Evidently, yes.

 

Episode 247 spoiler:

Spoiler

You get no mentions

 

The timing of BH Dreadwing and his being an entirely new tooling makes it a very different case IMO.

 

You know another terrible re-imagining? Armada Sideswipe.

and speaking of Armada Sideswipe, he was the repaint in the Kmart set with Crystal Widow, he was named Oil Slick. the other BIAB set was Smokescreen vs Ransack (Hoist repaint)