This week on Radio Free Cybertron: We observe the 19th anniversary of the Dark Glass controversy, and reminisce a bit about the early online fandom. Hasbro sues DC over their infringement of the Bumblebee trademark, we share our perspective. Apparently action has been taken against an online retailer in respect to a third party toy,…
Archives for August 2017
Radio Free Cybertron #533: God Bomber is Dead
This week on Radio Free we’re fast approaching Hascon, and Hasbro has offered up tickets at a fairly steep discount to entice prospective con-goers to make some last minute decisions. We’re somewhat divided on the Maketoys Galaxy Meteor cancellation that occurred this week. Since announcing NOT Cybertron’s Starscream cancellation, they’ve since stated that they will…
There Goes My Money 028: Overlorded
On There Goes My Money: Guess what went up for Preorder AFTER Takara-Tomy’s Overlord? If you guessed Hasbro’s Overlord, well, yeah. That’s it, actually.
Being Awesome 116: If this be error and upon me pro’d
This week in awesome: Rob looks back at a childhood bully who had a weird fascination with Iron Maiden’s ‘Can I play with madness’ before playing with madness himself and taking a double shot of the Q&A pool liquid. Anybody else feel dizzy?
Radio Free Cybertron – 532: The Dropped Call of the Primitives
This week on RFC: The SDCC exclusives hit Hasbro Toy Shop. Did you get yours? We’re guessing not. With little fanfare, The Last Knight comes home next month. Titans Returns Slugslinger has hit Australian retail, Metroplex is being reissued in Japan, Perfect Effect’s Black Jinrai upgrade for the SDCC Primitive Skateboarding Prime looks phenomenal, and…
What’s Happened to the Headmasters? Preview
What’s Happened to the Headmasters is an exploration of Headmasters, Masterforce, and Victory through the lens of the Omni Productions dubs. If you want to know more about Japanese Transformers fiction, and you don’t mind that Blaster is called Billy, or that Blurr is called Wally, then this is the podcast for you! The first…
Being Awesome with Rob Springer 115: Bullet Points Club
This week in awesome: Rob takes a moment to talk about seeing Transformers the movie (not that one, the other one) in 1986 before taking time to reflect on Charticon (4 years ago, yo) and the TF commercial website he was going to make pre-Youtube. Q&A wants to know about 3P toys and Rob would…
There Goes My Money 027: You’re in luck!
On There Goes My Money: Did you miss out on Generations Metroplex and are willing to spend a lot of money for it? Well, you’re in luck! That, this week’s pre-orders, and more on There Goes My Money!
Radio Free Cybertron – 531: Is it like Dragonball Super, but with Transformers?
This week on RFC: The recent Hasbro Press and Investor presentation hinted at a new Transformers series coming in 2018. We dig into that and let you know what to expect. We get our first look at Takara Tomy’s Overlord, and it’s oddly underwhelming. We also talk about the upcoming Masterpiece Targetmaster Hot Rod and…
RFC Extra – 035: A Destroy, Erase, Improve perspective on Power of the Primes
On this RFC Extra, Anthony from TFU.info reprises his classic Radio Free Cybertron segment Destroy, Erase, Improve to share his insights on Power of the Primes!