The Transformers: Fall of Cybertron demo is out on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, leading this August 2, 2012 Radio Free Cybertron. Brian Kilby hosts with Exvee, Rob Clay and John DeLuna, and Peter Van’s TFormers.com News Desk covers Takara’s Arms Micron Jet Vehicon and Toys R Us’ China import Power Dive. The crew asks what G1 even means anymore. Aimee and Nicole review Rescue Bots, Brian reviews Regeneration One issue 82, and Transformers Rewind revisits Web World.
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TFormers.com News Desk
Peter Van reports that the Fall of Cybertron demo is out on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, with two single-player missions, multiplayer and a look at character customization. High Moon Studios is already tweaking balance and banning cheaters based on GameStop preview feedback. Takara’s Arms Micron AM-16 Jet Vehicon may be a Takara exclusive, since its copyright stamp lists only Tomy, as with AM-12 Breakdown. Takara has announced Asia Premium Series AP-501 Striker Optimus Prime, a Revenge of the Fallen leader remold due in late September or early October. A Generations China import Voyager Power Dive, a Highbrow redeco with a new head, reaches Toys R Us in October. Mastermind Creations shows new looks at its Hearts of Steel Starscream. TFC’s Photron is up for pre-order at $124.99, and the first two figures of TFC’s Project Uranus Superion homage are out. [Source: TFormers.com]
Transformers Prime Moves to Friday Nights
Transformers Prime moves to Friday nights, with new episodes starting August 24. Exvee notes that Dish Network has moved The Hub into its Top 200 package, putting it on par with DirecTV. [Source: not found]
RFC Android Apps
RFC now has three Android apps on Google Play: Radio Free Cybertron, a TFRadio.net video app and a Fanboy Versus app. Superhero Time, Screen View and New Soundwave apps are coming.
Brian’s Beef With FedEx
Brian got his Hasbro Toy Shop SDCC Cliffjumper without trouble, but FedEx required an in-person signature for the HISS Tank. After three attempts, the driver tore up his signed note. FedEx offered pickup at a facility an hour away, open only during his work hours or Saturday mornings. A week of emails, calls and a canned Twitter reply later, Hasbro Toy Shop is now working with FedEx. Exvee jokes that the HISS Tank will be back on Hasbro Toy Shop in a couple of weeks.
Fall of Cybertron Demo Impressions
Rob has mostly played the multiplayer, which feels very much like War for Cybertron. He wishes the demo showed off more of what’s new. Brian calls the single-player campaign okay, a Gears of War clone, though Chris Triplett reminded him how far Transformers games have come. Rob will review Mystery of Convoy for Review a Bad Game Day on August 8. The crew calls the Armada game good for what it is and the PlayStation 2 G1 game awful. They say Fall of Cybertron is basically The War Within as a video game.
What Does G1 Even Mean Anymore?
Brian says Classics, Generations, Masterpiece and Asian exclusives have redone G1 so many times that he no longer knows what the term means. One host defines G1 as the fiction and toys from about 1984 to 1991, with everything since being adaptations. The crew notes Transformers has rarely gone dormant. They also discuss Japan’s Encore reissues, from Predaking and Sixshot to Bruticus, and wish for Encore Overlord, Star Saber, Metrotitan and the Throttlebots.
Rescue Center: You’ve Been Squelched
Aimee and Nicole review the Rescue Bots episode You’ve Been Squelched, which they call Rescue Bots meets The Blob meets Flubber. Doc Greene’s space goo absorbs squirrels, Mr. Petty Paws, Chase and the Chief. Graham weighs an offer from a school for brainiacs. One reviewer is crushed that Cody gets a hoverboard while real life still has none. They praise Chase’s best lines, the lesson on direct and alternating current, and the soundtrack.
Comic News: Regeneration One Issue 82
Brian is at best neutral on Regeneration One issue 82. His main problem is that it is a separate continuity whose characters, such as Kup and Ultra Magnus, look like their IDW counterparts, so the stories blur together. He finds Simon Furman’s writing stiff and melodramatic, especially Megatron’s dialogue. He likes the homages to the original U.S. comic, especially the last page, and will keep buying. He says More Than Meets the Eye is far better.
Transformers Rewind: Web World
Brian’s favorite episode, the Season 3 Web World, sends Galvatron to the asylum planet Torkulon for therapy at Cyclonus’ urging. Every treatment fails, and Galvatron’s madness infects the living planet’s network when it tries to lobotomize him. The crew notes it was written by Len Wein, co-creator of Wolverine and Swamp Thing. They praise it as a real character piece on Galvatron’s insanity. Next week’s Rewind is City of Steel, which Brian calls the worst Transformers episode, worse than Carnage in C-Minor.
Help RFC Hit 1,000 Facebook Likes
Brian asks listeners to like RFC at facebook.com/tfradio to reach 1,000 fans by the end of August. John DeLuna notes that Brian is joining New Soundwave as a co-host.
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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