Some cheap Transformers candy contains lead, and Rob is keeping his sealed. Transformers 3 heads to Washington, D.C., and Transformers Prime adds cast. Brian loses power mid-show, so the crew carries on without him.
Archives for 2010
Radio Free Cybertron – August 4th 2010
Masterpiece Rodimus Prime is finally revealed, but the $200 preorder price stings. Masterpiece Grimlock hits US stores, and Transformers 3 teases a mystery fire truck. A UK guest previews AutoAssembly 2010, Europe’s biggest Transformers convention.
Radio Free Cybertron – July 28 2010: Better with Video
Radio Free Cybertron goes live with video. Figure King images tease Masterpiece Rodimus, IDW’s Comic-Con panel promises a Punch/Counterpunch miniseries, and a second Seacons deco surfaces. The crew also shares toys they repurpose as other characters.
Radio Free Cybertron – July 21st 2010: Transformers Prime from SDCC!
Jack from TFormers calls in from San Diego Comic-Con with a first-hand report on the Transformers Prime panel, where Peter Cullen and a Frank Welker video stole the show. A gold-toned Predaking reissue, $1 RPMs at Dollar Tree and Punch-Counterpunch delays round out the news.
Radio Free Cybertron – July 14th 2010!
Transformers 3 set photos show Optimus Prime’s new trailer and a NASCAR Transformer. BotCon 2011’s hotel is already sold out, and San Diego Comic-Con promises Transformers Prime footage. LadyWreck joins to talk IDW comics, and Chris McFeely explains his Annotated AllSpark Almanac II.
Radio Free Cybertron – July 7th 2010: Post-Botcon Death Edition
BotCon 2010 is over, and Toys R Us shelves are suddenly full of Power Core Combiners and Generations figures a month early. Ironhide1975 calls War for Cybertron the most Transformers-feeling game he’s played. Plus reviews of Drift, Seaspray, Thrust and the Hall of Fame recap.
Radio Free Cybertron – 06/30/2010 Botcon! Botcon! Botcon!
RFC’s BotCon 2010 recap covers Generations Scourge, Thunderwing and Skullgrin, Legends Optimus and Megatron, Transtech Cheetor and Dinobot’s Hall of Fame win. Plus Jim Sorenson and Bill Forster on AllSpark Almanac II and Jose Delbo on drawing Marvel’s G1 comic.
RFC Saturday post-show live from Botcon!
Hasbro’s BotCon 2010 design panel was G1-a-palooza: Legends Gun Megatron, a treaded Generations Perceptor, Jazz with door speakers and Megatronus of the Thirteen. Headmaster Don finally gets his Arcee, and Stan Bush leads a Hasbro karaoke night.
Radio Free Cybertron – 06/25/10
Transformers Generations Wave 1 hits Toys R Us, and Takara rolls out event-only repaints like G2 Dreadwing and Smokescreen. Ender says War for Cybertron is pure Sunbow and blasts the Exodus novel’s silent Bumblebee. The crew predicts Hasbro’s BotCon reveals.
Radio Free Cybertron – 06/16/10
Generations Dion is out and falling apart in JD’s hands. John DeLuna gets Punch/Counterpunch, the crew tries the War for Cybertron demo, and Stan Bush backs RFC’s Project Awesome. Then it’s a crash course in BotCon 2010 etiquette.