Hasbro sues DC over a Bumblebee toy, and the crew backs Hasbro’s trademark claim. Kapow Toys cease and desist rumors swirl, and The Last Knight ends its run near $604 million. Plus the Dark Glass controversy at 19.
Archives for August 2017
Radio Free Cybertron #533: God Bomber is Dead
MakeToys cancels its Galaxy Meteor Starscream, and the crew argues over who is to blame. HasCon passes drop as much as 50 percent on Groupon. Plus Bumblebee starts filming and Rob reviews the SDCC Optimus Prime exclusives.
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
The SDCC 2017 exclusives hit Hasbro Toy Shop and vanish fast, but Don lands a Primitive Skateboarding Optimus Prime. TakaraTomy cancels several Legends reissues and brings back Metroplex for $260. Plus Slugslinger’s wave 6 and a Black Jinrai upgrade.
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?
Hasbro reveals Transformers Cyberverse, a new animated series for 2018, with Rescue Bots Academy to follow. MP-40 Targetmaster Hot Rod brings Firebolt, and HasCon adds Susan Blu and Stan Bush. Plus Diecast’s 11-pound Terminus Giganticus.
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!