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It's Toy Fair 2013 time with Vangelus, Gogdog, and Seth Buzzard!

You can download and comment on it here: WTF @ TFW - Episode 239

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This is a personal appeal on behalf of a great friend and a long-time member of TFW2005. Aaron / aksmth, WTF@TFW podcaster, veteran newsie and moderator as well as a truly good guy who played a marathon of video games for charity needs your help. His beloved AndyRoo (that cute fellow to the left) is in a dire situation. After a night of unusual and excessive urination, a nerve-wracking animal doctor visit revealed the one diagnosis any pet owner fears: AndyRoo has a cancerous tumor near his anus.

The good news? it is treatable.

The bad news? It could cost upwards of 7,000 dollars. The consultation, the surgery, the vet space...all of this on top of continued radiation/chemo is going to be a very expensive venture, one that Aaron needs some help with.

That's where we, the members of TFW, Aaron's extended fandom family, come in. Now is our time to help Aaron and AndyRoo in their hour of need. Whatever you can spare - no matter how small - will help AndyRoo get back on his paws and lift the burden from Aaron's shoulders.

Click here to find out more and help WTF@TFW's Aaron.

The week before Toy Fair, and it's VIP time here at WTF@TFW. Vangelus and Omegus balk at Aaron's new status as a fancy man. What happened to change the status quo so violently? Tune in and find out.

You can download and comment on it here: WTF @ TFW - Episode 238

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An ailing Seth Buzzard is joined by Vangelus and GogDog as they ride their Metal Gears over the horizon.

You can download and comment on it here: WTF @ TFW - Episode 237

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Literally drowning in news from the previous couple of days, Vangelus holds tightly onto Aaron and Omegus Prime to stay afloat and still mention Dredd for one more week.

You can download and comment on it here: WTF @ TFW - Episode 236

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It's a papercraft week full of papercraft and Metron with Vangelus, Gogdog, and Seth Buzzard.

You can download and comment on it here: WTF @ TFW - Episode 235

If you use iTunes and regularly subscribe to podcasts, you can add us to your player and have the software download each episode automatically each time we update. To do that, and give us a reviews on iTunes, click here: Transformers Podcast on iTunes.

Within 24 hours of 2013, Vangelus felt a scratch in his throat. In episode 234 of WTF@TFW, Aaron and Omegus Prime can only shield themselves from his fully-blossomed baby virus, until Tommy Kennedy can save them.

You can download and comment on it here: WTF @ TFW - Episode 234

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With a flash report from within the first 24 hours of 2013, it's up to Vangelus, GogDog, and Seth Buzzard to talk about Transformers in a recording before anybody else this year!

You can download and comment on it here: WTF @ TFW - Episode 233

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Another two weeks have come and gone, which means it's time for another TFW2005 Creative Spotlight! This will be the final catch-all spotlight for some time, as starting in two weeks we will be bringing back spotlights based not on particular customs, but rather spotlighting the individual customizer and TFW2005 boards members themselves.

Until then, check out these fantastic creative pieces taken from TFW2005's Radicons and Fan Art subforums!

Radicons Customs:

Xaviercal's Masterpiece Tigertrack and Sunstreaker
grimlockprime's Darksyde Megatron from Prime Voyager Ultra Magnus
azdragon58's Masterpiece Action Master Thundercracker
lhandlott's Razorclaw from Prime Thundertron
Unicron9's Beast Wars Inferno
Naztok's Masterforce Buster and Hydra

Fan-Art and Digibashes:

Jarl's "Infiltration Protocols", (AKA The Vehicon-Job) BotCon Set Idea
Shinobi Rendar's TF Prime Jazz design
bokuman's FOC Terrorcons (Disclaimer: Creations are still ongoing)
Blitz.'s Tux

Check back in two weeks, as the TFW2005 Creative Spotlights are going to be changed up in a brand new format! Until then, be sure to keep it here on TFW2005 for all the latest Transformers news.

As is traditional, with the arrival of the New Year we have taken a moment to look back on the last year and gather some thoughts on our favorite new toy releases of 2012. 2012 was a mixed bag of a year for Transformers, with highs including the excellent comics from IDW and the Fall of Cybertron game from High Moon Studios. Transformers Prime continued with its divisive second season and as it turns out the toy line was equally divisive from the moment it launched early in 2012.

Then along came a spider. And by that we mean Transformers Prime Airachnid, who receives this special (dis)honorable mention.

On the other side, the Generations line returned to shelves featuring Transformers Fall of Cybertron based designs and while this too proved divisive - with many bewailing the measures taken to reduce costs, and other celebrating the fact that we got so many of these toys in the first place, not least our first true five member combiner in years, and our first update to Shockwave since the Shockblasts of the mid 2000s. The Collector-focused Masterpiece series also continued to impress, with the new Masterpiece Optimus Prime being released in the US to much collector acclaim and Takara-Tomy also continuing to expand the line with releases such as Red Alert and Sideswipe.

With that little retrospective of the year said and done, join us as our staff reflect on their favorite Transformers toys of 2012.

It's time to close out 2012 with Vangelus, Aaron, and Omegus Prime(?) in the 232 of WTF. Clouder and beef, what else would you want?

You can download and comment on it here: WTF @ TFW - Episode 232

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Join the tres fantastico artist Emiliano Santalucia for a chat about his work on Transformers past and present, and a spettacolo di varietà of other topics!

You can download and comment on it here: WTF @ TFW - Supplemental 40

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Arms Micron Charts show a path through the Vangelus gateway, leading on to the Gogdog nebula, and taking us on a German journey into the Seth Buzzard solar system.

You can download and comment on it here: WTF @ TFW - Episode 231

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More light-up features, more Emiliano Santalucia, more calculus, more Genesis, more more more! Vangelus and Aaron and Omegus will try to bring you more.

You can download and comment on it here: WTF @ TFW - Episode 230

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Brought to you by the fine folks of Nagoya, another WTF recording episode arrives with Vangelus, Gogdog, and Seth Buzzard here to talk about wonderful happy things. That would've happened if it weren't for Aaron. Thanks Aaron. Thanks.

You can download and comment on it here: WTF @ TFW - Episode 229

If you use iTunes and regularly subscribe to podcasts, you can add us to your player and have the software download each episode automatically each time we update. To do that, and give us a reviews on iTunes, click here: Transformers Podcast on iTunes.