Blokees Champion Class CC28 Optimus Prime leads this week’s Transformers preorders on There Goes My Money, and he brought Megatron’s arm. Diecast hosts with Brian out this week. Don Ferguson, Exvee, David, Spider-Bob and Alpha Magnus round out the panel.

The preorder window ran October 18 to November 1, 2026. Prices are in U.S. dollars, before shipping and tax. Yen conversions are approximate.

Transformers Preorders

TakaraTomy Wild King W

• Wild King W Energy Beast Abyssrain (Flame Ver.): about $17.45 (¥2,750 at ¥157.57 per dollar, Nov 1, 2026) at Takara Tomy Mall, due December 2026. It’s a redeco of the regular Abyssrain. Everyone loves Wild King. Nobody can find it, and Suruga-ya prices keep climbing.
• Wild King W Energy Beast Aeroblaze: about $17.45 (¥2,750 at ¥157.57 per dollar, Nov 1, 2026), due December 2026. Diecast sees Rise of the Beasts Airazor. Exvee traces the wings-as-legs trick back to Energon Divebomb. Don still wants to know why Hasbro Pulse hasn’t brought the line over.

DNA Design

• DNA Design DK-100B Gear Master Liokaiser Upgrade Kit: $52.99 at The Chosen Prime, due April 2027. It’s built for the combined HasLab Liokaiser: a midsection adapter that sidelines Jallguar, a bigger head, articulated hands and Deathcobra cannon barrels. Exvee calls it the classic DNA kit, two or three good pieces padded out. The panel passes.

01-Studio

• 01-Studio 01S05B Mud Dino Combiner: $189.99 at TFSource, due March 2027. Nobody likes the look. Exvee thinks the odd dino mode is there so it can partial into Snarl. Spider-Bob points out Mud is “dum” spelled backwards.
• 01-Studio 01S01H Cell (Metallic Limited Edition): $429.99 at The Chosen Prime, due June to July 2027. Diecast calls it the best Unicron outside the HasLab.

NewAge

• NewAge H77 Doyle (Legends Class Prowl): $68.99 at BigBadToyStore, due December 2026. Don says $70 is a hard pill for Legends class and suggests comparing a rival Legends Prowl first. Exvee likes how the car shell collapses around the chest at this scale.

Blokees

• Blokees Champion Class CC28 Optimus Prime (Energon Universe): $27.99 at BigBadToyStore, due November 2026. Diecast already built his and calls it phenomenal. You get his regular arm, Megatron’s arm and a ripped-off stump. Exvee compares Champion Class to S.H.Figuarts grade.

Robosen

• Robosen Flagship Megatron Auto-Converting Robot: $1,499.00 at Entertainment Earth, due December 2026. Diecast owns the Optimus. Megatron is still a no.

What We Got This Week

Don Ferguson

• Don Ferguson picks up the DX Tobot Sonic from Amazon. He also grabs the Blokees Action Edition G1 Megatron at GameStop for about $32 with a reward coupon.

Spider-Bob

• Spider-Bob brings G1 Pretender Bomb-Burst, G1 Doublecross and Pretender Catilla.
• A care package from Shawn adds a reissue Blaster, Twincast, a yellow-eyed Soundwave, the watermelon G2 Mirage, Roadhog, a reissue Perceptor, Cloud Cover, a tiger-stripe G2 Grimlock, a Matrix and a Super7 Megatron in its VHS clamshell.
• He also lands a set of vintage Transformers pillowcases and Target’s giant Optimus Prime.

David

• David gets the Transformers: The Movie hardcover from Target for about $17 after discounts. He also grabs the last pack in a Blokees Defenders wave 8 case: the metallic Star Convoy.

Alpha Magnus

• Alpha Magnus finally builds his Blokees Classic Class movie figures: Optimus Prime, Optimus Primal, Megatron and the hybrid-style Optimus.

Exvee

• Exvee gets a Nexus Prime from a Discord listener, autographed box and all, plus the Blokees Unicron head blind box and a stack of Dynamite Transformers trading cards from another listener.
• He pulls Planet Mode Unicron from Blokees Galaxy wave 9 and finds two $10 Junkion Jalopies at TJ Maxx and Marshalls.

Diecast

• Diecast builds Blokees Shining Cybertron in planet mode, with Metroplex and Trypticon fighting on top. He also picks up the Ocular Max Ultio cassette.

Elf on a Shelfwarmer

Radio Free Cybertron’s 15th annual Elf on a Shelfwarmer drive is on. Toys for Tots boxes are showing up this month, so buy a shelfwarmer and drop it in. Snap a photo and tag #elfonashelfwarmer. No box nearby? The Amazon wishlist at tfradio.net/elf ships to Brian, who drops it off. We get no referral fees from any Elf on a Shelfwarmer links. This is just for the kids.

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