A Transformers Prime video game is coming to the Wii, DS and 3DS this fall on this February 22, 2012 Radio Free Cybertron. The crew also covers Encore Twincast and Soundblaster with obscure new cassettes, and Fall of Cybertron dropping co-op for deeper multiplayer. Exvee reviews Bot Shots Starscream, and Aimee gives IDW’s Robots in Disguise #2 a 9 out of 10. The crew then debates the Transformers Prime season two opener, Orion Pax Part 1.
Brian is joined by Exvee, Rob Clay, Peter Van and Nicole Hill. JD and John DeLuna are out, and Aimee sends a recorded review before joining late.
News
Transformers Prime Video Game Announced
A preview on the Transformers Prime Blu-ray set reveals a Prime video game for the Wii, DS and 3DS this fall. The developer is NowPro, best known for Beyblade games. The crew sets expectations accordingly and pitches a Bot Shots game instead. [Source: not found]
Encore Twincast and Soundblaster Bring Obscure Cassettes
Pictures are out of Encore 22, Twincast, due this month as a mass release. He comes with Stripes, an orange Ravage named for a Blaster cassette from an early Transformers: The Movie script draft. His other cassette comes from the Hungarian Transformers comic. Encore Soundblaster comes with Wingthing, a Ratbat recolor of Soundwave’s Action Master partner, and Enemy. Brian plans to buy both. [Source: not found]
Josh Duhamel Not Returning for Transformers 4
Josh Duhamel says he hasn’t been called for Transformers 4 and assumes the human cast won’t return. The crew notes the long-running Jason Statham rumor. [Source: not found]
Fall of Cybertron Drops Co-op
Peter reports that Fall of Cybertron is dropping co-op for a stronger single-player campaign and more extensive multiplayer. Characters will get specific abilities, such as Optimus Prime directing Metroplex to attack. Grimlock will have no gun, only melee and fire breath. Peter will reserve judgment until he plays it. [Source: TFormers.com]
TF BBQ with Rob Springer: Power Core Combiners in Japan
Rob Springer responds to word that Takara may bring Power Core Combiners to Japan. He thinks the line failed in the US for lack of story and pricey five-packs. Takara could sell the commanders alone and the drones and Minicons as blind packs, which sell well in Japan. Unthemed drones would let kids mix and match combiners.
Comic News: Robots in Disguise #2
Aimee reports that solicits are out for More Than Meets the Eye #5 and Robots in Disguise #5, with great covers. Trades of Robots in Disguise and Autocracy arrive in July 2012. John Barber focuses Robots in Disguise #2 on Starscream, with an assassination plot, another death and the reveal of the shadowy figure from issue one. Aimee gives it a 9 out of 10.
Review: Bot Shots Starscream
Exvee’s figurereviews.com review covers Bot Shots Starscream, a super-deformed F-22 with big wheels and a spring transformation triggered by ramming it into something. The robot mode is a game piece, not an action figure. The game is rock, paper, scissors with sword, blaster and fist, with ties going to the higher number. At about $4, Exvee calls it addictive.
Brian loves his Bot Shots Sentinel Prime, even after breaking its spring during the show. He compares the line to Spy Changers and wishes they had pullback motors. He opens his Transformers Prime Wheeljack on air but won’t transform it without the instructions.
Review: Transformers Prime, Orion Pax Part 1
The season two opener splits the crew. Peter loves it, especially Soundwave opening the space bridge and Starscream’s return. Aimee liked it and says her kids are hooked. Brian calls the show well made but two-dimensional, with little nuance in the characters, and ranks it in the top five series while wanting better. One host calls it soulless, and the Autobots falling apart without Prime strikes the crew as forced. Another host answers that Animated took a season to win fans over too. Rob says the season one Blu-ray set looks stunning in HD, though the crew notes HD doesn’t add characters. The crew wonders whether Hasbro’s planning hamstrings the writers.
Wrap-Up
Superhero Time hit its 100th episode, and the live special is on the TFRadio Network YouTube channel. Nicole Hill reviews comics on Fanboy Versus and hosts The Random Fandom.
Radio Free Cybertron is the world's first and oldest toy and action figure podcast — broadcasting from the heart of the Transformers fan community since October 1999. What started as a scrappy fan show has grown into an institution, with nearly 1,000 episodes and over 25 years of coverage. Every week, host Brian Kilby and the RFC crew dig into the latest Transformers news, toy reveals, collecting, and everything hitting shelves from Hasbro, Takara, and beyond. No fluff, no hype — just informed, passionate collectors who have been doing this longer than anyone else on the planet. The original. The longest running. Till all are one.
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