Generations Selects Super Megatron goes up for preorder, the first toy ever of the Battlestars villain, and it can also become Ultra Megatron. Target reveals exclusive Earthrise Seekers and Decepticon Clones two-packs for July, and Pulse ships the last Seacons before Unicron. The crew shares the Transformers on their eBay saved searches, from BotCon ’94 G2 Breakdown to Battle Gaia and Guard City. Brian adds a G1 Raiden, a G2 Galvatron watch and a boxed Transmetal 2 Megatron.
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The show has a new TeePublic shop at tfradio.net/shirt, with John’s new Massey Attack design. John notes all shop proceeds go back into the show. Brian is easing off the Full Time Toy Detectives Patreon push until the pandemic passes, though the News Desk and Toy Detectives continue.
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Generations Selects Super Megatron’s Ultra Modes Revealed
TakaraTomy’s Generations Selects Super Megatron is up for preorder, with Hasbro Pulse and TFSource also taking orders. Brian is beyond excited, since he first read about Battlestars in the mid-90s and Super Megatron never got a toy. Chris says his research found no prior merchandise at all. Parts swap to make a rough Ultra Megatron, plus an Omega mode with a flip-around face. One host calls it a remold of Titans Return Galvatron, reworked on the level of the Seacons. Doug Dillon’s translations of the webcomic are up at BWTF. The crew still hopes TakaraTomy’s Armada Optimus Prime, shown at Winter Wonderfest last year, comes out. [Source: TFRadio]
Target Exclusive Earthrise Seekers Two-Pack and Decepticon Clones Two-Pack
Both two-packs are due at Target in July. The Seekers look as good as expected, and the Clones look close to the TakaraTomy releases. One host notes the Clones pack’s $24.99 SRP supports the idea that Legends no longer work at $10, which is part of why Micromasters arrived with Siege. The crew expects the Seekers to be hard to find. [Source: TFRadio]
Hasbro Pulse Ships Nautilator and Seawing
Nautilator and Seawing ship from Pulse next week, and the final Seacons are still due at the end of the month. One host notes FedEx notices often arrive before Pulse’s own emails. [Source: not found]
Movie Masterpiece Announcement Coming Monday
Hasbro’s official Weibo page teased a Movie Masterpiece announcement, almost certainly Starscream. Brian would buy a Movie Masterpiece Dark of the Moon Megatron. Another host would like Que, which was hard to find as a deluxe, and the crew also suggests Ratchet, Hound, Ironhide and Mudflap and Skids. [Source: not found]
FansToys FT-41 Sheridan Shipping
One host reports FansToys’ FT-41 Sheridan, its Warpath, is reaching retailers at about Voyager size. Don is curious about its engineering but on the fence. [Source: not found]
What’s on Your Saved Search
Brian wants to finish the 1985 St. Louis test-market Happy Meal Transformers set and hopes to someday own BotCon ’94 G2 Breakdown. He also watches for the 1980s Kabaya Rodimus, the Club’s Marissa Faireborn Afterburner and the Micron Legend MD-06 Shockwave. Battle Gaia, Guard City, the Transformers: The Movie soundtrack cassette, the View-Master set and a second Tyco Transformers Mustang round out his list. Matt’s grails are also Battle Gaia and Guard City, plus G2 Devastator and the G2 Superions. Diecast mostly watches Taobao, with an eye on G2 oddities like the Cyberjets.
Don hunts carded GoBots for the card art. He would pick Battle Gaia over Guard City as a Bruticus fan, and he wants a reissued Double Evil to match his Thunderclash, which another host happens to have sealed. Rob browses Diaclone, Microchange and knockoffs for fun, including a scaled-down Combiner Wars Devastator. Another host warns it has fragile tabs. Chris occasionally hunts old BotCon pieces, once landing G2 Clench for $30, and still wants Unite Warriors Megatronia.
What We Got This Week
Brian
Brian got Transformers View-Master reels, two Turtlers and Gulf, and a Rescue Bots Academy flip racer. He also got Universe Blaster and the Malofilm VHS of The Transformers: The Movie, the first thing he ever ordered online. Smaller pickups include a Dollar Tree paint poster and Find Your Fate Junior books. From a seller on Twitter he got the Henkei Coneheads. A complete Abominus came with a Hun-Gurrr box still bearing a $9.99 Child World price tag. He also got the Nezha figure, a mint Transmetal 2 Megatron, a G2 Galvatron watch he has wanted since 1997 and a G1 Raiden, which he calls a horrible toy he has always wanted.
Diecast
Diecast also got Nezha and found it stands straighter with its rear windows slightly open. Its small human figure stores inside like Ultra Magnus’ Minimus. He also received the TFCon Orlando exclusive, a Shattered Glass-style Ravage. A clear NewAge figure arrived with a regular-colored coronation set, and he got Ocular Max’s upgrade kit for Assaultus.
Don
Don found Cyberverse at Walmart for the first time in ages and got Super7 ReAction Megatron for its classic card art.
Chris
Chris had nothing this week.
Matt
Matt had nothing this week.
Rob
Rob had nothing this week.
John
John had nothing this week.
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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