WTF @ TFW Podcast Episode 191 Now Online

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"What Mechanical Copies of Kaiju We Got This Week"?

Christmas in June in March!

Good job guys! You got the podcast out 4 months early!

Surely this is some kind of record??!!

Sneaky. Very sneaky.

I respect you guys more now.

Downloading commenced....

Record timing. I salute you.

Downloading now.

YAAAAAAAAY! I'll listen tomorrow. It's late.

Just finished Prime to find a new podcast. I tip my hat to you good people.

OOOOOOOOOyeah!

I want to apolagize to the fandom:

I used my black toyotasatsu magic to finally bring botcon to texas, and the biggest shitstorm ever goes down that threatens the status quo of the universe

i'm sorry

Do Shapeways products for "Transformers: Prime", Count?

Hey, I think that Wheelie from Jazz would be his Wheelimus Prime mode!

In your week hiatus I needed some toy podcast goodness. Remembering all the references to "high end" from shows past I listened to preorder66. Without naming names, someone on that podcast sounds like Steve Buscemi

YESSS downloading now!

The Episode is UP?!?

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what da fuck wrong with yo face Garrus?

Yet another sneaky move Vanjy, downloading has begun

June came so fast!

Guys, Kup is obviously an Ironhide redeco. It looks so much like the Cyberverse toy, and it's Wave 5, while we haven't seen Wave 4 yet. Ironhide must be in Wave 4.

Yes, we know.

I feel stupid now.

It's hard to express every thought, planned or otherwise, when you record a 2-3 hour conversation, especially when those involved are taking turns speaking. Hell, sometimes I pick apart our own recordings after the fact or even realized I got something wrong seconds after we hit the stop button on the recording.

Why am I listening to men collecting panties and stockings, ew

thanks for promoting my twitter, Vangelus!

Hey land base, where did u hear the beast wars movie thing, I hadn't heard that and I can't find that

Speaking as someone who hasn't finished even Mass Effect 1 that intermission had me saying "huh... ummm... woah... WOAH".

Quick question: if I have yet to play any of the Mass Effect games and want to remain as spoiler-free as possible, should I skip the intermission on this one?

It's not a big deal.

You should totally become a supporter & get your name changed to WangBaseRed.


Also, live action Beast Wars? That shit's gonna be real? Like, I don't keep up on all the news & whatnot like some of you guys, but damn. I honestly thought that was some sort of wanwank joke & pretty much tuned it out on those grounds.

So looking at the time index this episode is apparently over 3 1/2 hours long? Sweet. That'll make my Monday all the better. I love listening to you guys while I'm working, and a 3+ hour podcast will easily last me the entire day since I'm constantly forced to stop-and-go.

Dunno if it's ever been brought up, but if you tighten the shoulder screws on Bot Shots it makes the gimmick work so much better.
My Barricade was on a hair trigger ass hair trigger that made transofrming into vehicle mode kinda frustrating. But after tightening the screws, he works just as good as Bumblebee if not better.

'05 it was hurricane remnants, '12 its a shit storm. We can't catch a break!

Beast wars thing was a hypothetical question I thought up after seeing planet of the apes in theatres.
That should be a sign on how long it took to show up in the podcast.
I'm thinking of making a profile pic that says wang based red

Hhahah makes sense. I just recall hearing about it at least once before listening to the Podcast, so I thought it might've been legit news. I don't pay much attention to non-toy news, so yeah.

... and yeah, that avatar could be cool. You could even put a red Power Ranger in it or something, or I dunno. Either way, I think you should rock the soon be meme.

It's has Garrus and it's before the final mission and after his loyalty mission... so, yeah skip it

I had a super hair trigger Optimus Botshot (the one that came with the trailer) and my normal Optimus is fine after much head scratching I realised it was the tab behind his head that was the problem a bit of wiggling later and now he's solid too.

As to Stickers In general I'm not a fan I prefer paint - that is why I get annoyed when Takara don't do as much with the Encores as they could. but what they do is at least a help and as such I'd always recommend them over the originals as at least a Encoure Trailbreaker or Ironhide won't peel as easily.

For me the concern with ratchet is if his front grill is still moulded or not - hopefully in package pictures should clear this up easily.

I can see no choice but to use the Bee stickers as I don't think I'b be easily be able to hand paint those stripes - areas of red on Ratchet that are red stickers, or the missing silver on Optimus's shins I can easily paint instead though.

I'd not feel to disappointed about the stickers as I'd in general i'd only use a few of them. But it's probably going to be a shame with Knockout as he'd have been nice to have in the proper deco rather than the red on red the Hasbro one has.

I can see Takara Jackie being a pain too - I'd only be buying them for the Microns though - and no I'd not feel disappointed or suicidal for owning Microns as I like them just as much now as I did in the early 00's from Micron Legend toys.

I can't see why with Cliff and Bee they needed to add such crazy ports in the first place unless they were worried they'd crack during a drop test with out reinforcement if it was just a hole in the body work like RID cliff has already.

I'm not sure yet what I think of the reinforcements added to Soundwave it might be a good or a bad thing - still not sure - I'm not even sure I want to buy Soundwave twice though.

I do feel that without the Micron the unique selling point of Takara toys will be gone as the metallic paint was a good chunk of what made them cool and most of them no longer have it. RID Bee in a painted golden finish like the Premium Movie Bee toy had would have been really nice for example.

Perhaps Takara can issue the Hasbro versions of the moulds with a premium deco as part of their convention toy releases instead of the usual Black or clear repaints. Such as a shiny aluminium silver RID Voyager Megatron for example.

I might be a bit cynical about it but i'm still quite interested to see what they do with the later releases like Dreadwing/Skyquake & Knockout/Breakdown.

And as was said Skywarp does indeed look very nice.

No, it's purely theoretical. "WangBaseRed" even said as much as part of his listener question.

That the only thing you took out of a ridiculous discussion like that is, "ZOMG BEAST WARS MOVIE 4REALZ???" is hilarious.

Well, it wasn't the "only" thing I took away from the discussion, but I think its safe to say that I had a very entertaining 30 minutes or whatever it was before you guys broke the bad (or good, depending) news haha. Thinking back, I almost wish someone had trolled my tail about it so that I could've looked like a fool all over the boards instead of just in this topic, as I honestly must have missed part of his question while laughing at the name thing.

Listened to. Great episode, though we were all fooled greatly.

Relating to the discussion, I personally don't mind Rumble's shoulder pads. Like Deluxe Knockout, Rumble is most likely misstransformed.

Also, was there ever a discussion on the FoC figures that were shown? Like Jazz and Shockwave?

I also like the extra long podcasts. Thanks. Who pays for the bandwidth?

That listener question broke something in your brains, and it was glorious.

Exact same thing here, love the full day of listening to the podcast.

As for the stickers... I agree, I am not really a fan of them. But as for the concern about them coming off, I personally on my KREO sets just painted a nice coat of my wife's nail polish glossy clear coat and that really did a good job. Especially on the stickers that had to wrap around weird shapes. I just pulled the clear coat well past the edges of the stickers and got a really nice seal to protect them and seal them down.

Coon-tosh as in the coon-tosh brothers.
Can't freaking wait for those!!!! I just hope they arent too small.

I kinda agree with Seth Buzzard if SH MonsterArts does Kiryu aka Mechagodzilla 3 that would be badass.

Historical significance of Sideswipe:

In the episode "City of Steel," He jumped Starscream and told him "Say uncle or I'll shove your nosecone into your exhaust." Which makes him the first Autobot to threaten to sadomize a Decepticon with his own head.

Not to hijack this thread, but please DO name names. I've got some money riding on this one...

I will report on the effect of the 3rd party stuff in the dealer room, as I will be helping at one of the dealer tables there.