This week: The crew dives into toys, tangents, and Transformers news. We have Walmart’s new reset, the awesome new Wild King figure, “Dramatic Capture” set, and the much-anticipated Missing Link Ultra Magnus. All that and more on Radio Free Cybertron 950!

News

• Activate Your Alt Mode: Alt mode type winner is Sea. Voting underway through August 28th to choose from Speedboat, Submarine, Creature, or Hoverboat. As of writing the show notes, Creature has a commanding lead at 60%, with Submarine following next at 33%. Hovercraft and Speedboat bring up a distant rear at 4% and 3% respectively.
• No Pulsecon this year, and possibly no 1027 according to a report out of Fan Expo
• Post services in Japan and multiple other countries suspend most package acceptance for mail to the US
• Finally a new large Wild King toy: WKEX-01 World Dragnus
• Dramatic Capture Decepticons Part 2: Skywarp and The Insecticons
• Missing Link Ultra Magnus, to the surprise of no one
• EHobby finally does an acrylic standee worth buying. Dammit. 
• Photos of 40th Anniversary Selection Lio Convoy which evidently finally did get released
• In hand images of Target AOTP 4 pack
• And that brings us to the wide spectrum of licensed goods:
  • Transformers-branded fruit pouches and chocolate cereal at Dollar Tree
  • Fairy Tail Parfume to offer several “Transformers-inspired” fragrances. Yes, really. Licensed Transformers perfumes. In Japan at least.

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