Radio Free Cybertron episode 993 opens with Brian’s favorite reveal of the week: the 2027 Titan has been outed as Age of Extinction Scorn, kicking off a five-year run of Bayverse Dinobots that the panel debated with equal parts dread and relief. Flame Toys lit up GMHS 2026 in Shanghai with a wall of prototypes — Kuro Kara Kuri Shattered Glass figures, a Dai Atlas, and Furai Model versions of IDW Tarn and more — while Western preorders opened for Missing Link Ratchet, Gigastorm, and Overgear Optimus Prime. A fresh in-hand gallery finally showed Bruticus fully combined and won Brian over, even as Don held firm on the mismatched olive-drab Onslaught arm panels, and unreleased “LOL Legion” Robots in Disguise 2015 renders surfaced with Sideswipe in bunny slippers. Don carried What We Got with a lavender Shockwave, a Target two-for-one Astrotrain, X-Transbots Camshaft, and a giant Quantum Heroes dinosaur combiner, while John DeLuna opened a Hot Wheels GT Scorcher and Brian scored a boxed G1 Deftwing. History on the Fives looked back ten years to IDW’s first Hasbro shared-universe announcement — which the crew agreed changed very little.

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2027 Titan Listing Found — Age of Extinction Scorn

Brian led with his pick of the week: the 2027 Titan reveal confirms Age of Extinction Scorn, the start of a planned five-year run of Bayverse Dinobots. The panel split between admiration for the commitment and weariness at the size class. Brian welcomed the line precisely because it lets him skip it, Don questioned the recolor potential across five movie Dinobots, and Matt and Rob landed on a practical truth — nothing else obvious needs that price point right now, so the slot is well spent. A Metroplex-via-HasLab tangent followed, with the crew agreeing a HasLab campaign would suit a definitive Metroplex better than another compromised Titan-class mold. Source: TFW2005

Flame Toys Lights Up GMHS 2026 With Kuro Kara Kuri, Furai Model, and More

Flame Toys brought a wall of prototypes to GMHS 2026, the Global Miniature Arts and Toy Show in Shanghai. Highlights included Kuro Kara Kuri Shattered Glass Long Arm and Shattered Glass Ultra Magnus — which Brian and Don both initially mistook for Super Primal Prime — plus Shattered Glass IDW Cyclonus, a Dai Atlas, and Furai Model kits of IDW Tarn and a Galvatron Convoy. Rob noted the Furai Model Tarn gives fans a far more affordable route to the character than the earlier Kuro Kara Kuri figure, and singled out the new Shattered Glass skull-face option. Source: TFW2005

Hot Pre-Order Alert: Missing Link Ratchet, Gigastorm, and Overgear Optimus Prime

Western preorders opened for Missing Link Ratchet, Gigastorm, and Overgear Optimus Prime. Brian preordered Ratchet during the weekend’s There Goes My Money recording and flagged the oddity that Ratchet undercut Ironhide on price. Diecast caved on Gigastorm now that the US order went live at a lower price, calling out the flip-up nose horn that hides little bombs. Don talked himself toward Overgear Optimus Prime after the transformation video sold him on it, describing the truck-armor look as far cleaner in motion than the Cyberverse-style stills suggested. Source: TFW2005

Age of the Primes Onslaught: Additional In-Hand Images of Bruticus Combined

A new in-hand gallery showed Bruticus fully combined, and Brian reversed course — the short-leg look that bothered him in renders largely disappeared in real materials. Matt claimed the win, Rob credited bent elbows and the way the leg robots compress, and the group agreed Onslaught himself looks big, beefy, and brutal. Don’s lone holdout: the olive-drab Onslaught panels on the arms clash with Blastoff and Vortex, and he floated third-party covers as a fix. Vortex, Blastoff, and Brawl have shipped; Onslaught is arriving now; Swindle remains the wait. Source: TFW2005

Unreleased Robots in Disguise 2015 Legion Class Renders Surface

Renders of unreleased Robots in Disguise 2015 Legion Class figures surfaced — the so-called “LOL Legion,” a goofy-accessory subset featuring Clampdown, Thunderhoof, Strongarm, and Sideswipe. Rob clocked Sideswipe’s bunny slippers, Don spotted Strongarm’s chef’s hat and pie, and the panel lit up for Clampdown’s crab look. Brian argued Strongarm should be a core Transformers character by now, and the table wanted more Thunderhoof. Source: TFW2005

Dr Wu DW-E72 Sixfaced Wolf: Micromaster-Scale Sixshot Color Renders

Dr Wu revealed a Micromaster-scale Sixshot with swords, and Brian noted the tease spread fast across the Discord, Bluesky, and TFW. Don, a self-described Dr Wu fan trying not to fall down that rabbit hole, flagged the remold potential — a Greatshot variant, or even a deep-cut Shadow Morrow from Brave. Source: TFW2005

What We Got This Week

Don picked up Age of the Primes Shockwave in the lavender deco, drawn by its new compatibility with Bruticus, and grabbed Astrotrain through a Target buy-one-get-one deal — the pair together for about sixty-five dollars. He praised the Shockwave deco enough to consider selling his Siege version. He also covered X-Transbots Camshaft, the last of their Omnibot homages, calling the transformation the best of the group despite a chest that doesn’t lock in tightly. Outside Transformers proper, Don brought his first Tobot — the Young Toys “Hook and Jab,” a symmetrical boxing combiner with a head-swap gimmick — and the giant Quantum Heroes Dynoster, a four-piece dinosaur combiner he picked up on Amazon Prime Day for $79.99, down from $99.99, and recommended highly.

Diecast had nothing in Transformers this week.

Matt had nothing in Transformers this week.

Rob Clay had nothing in Transformers this week.

John DeLuna opened GT Scorcher, one of the Wave 2 Hot Wheels Transformers Collaboration figures and the general-release counterpart to the Target-exclusive red Twin Mill. He found it surprisingly small out of the package but, side by side with Twin Mill, essentially identical in mass and plastic. He liked the clever transformation, the light piping, and the proportions, while admitting the Hot Wheels novelty has worn off a bit by Wave 2.

Brian added more IKEA Billy bookcases — two full-size and one half-height — in an attempt to build a Dinobot shelf, only to find he doesn’t have enough G1 or G2 Dinobots to fill it (counting only G1-mold figures, including Diaclone and knockoffs). He also scored a boxed G1 Deftwing from Artfire 2000, a “lightformer” with a large light-piping gun, complete with an unused, untouched sticker sheet — a figure he’d kept in the back of his head since first spotting it.

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