ElevenLabs is licensing Hasbro’s Transformers characters for commercial AI voice use — and the RFC crew is not entirely sold on it. Also this week: Siege Greenlight is back and up for pre-order, Missing Link Ratchet pre-orders open Friday, and Matt finally has his Haslab Liokaiser. Episode 990 is a full one.
Radio Free Cybertron 989 – Hasbro Files the “Makits” Trademark — What Does It Mean?
Hasbro has filed a trademark for “Hasbro Makits,” a new in-house model kit line — and the RFC crew has a lot of thoughts about what that could mean for Blokees, Yolopark, and the future of Transformers collecting. Plus, the Liokaiser HasLab arrives for most of the team, and Brian declares it his favorite HasLab ever.
Radio Free Cybertron 987 – Stern Warning: Brian’s Collection Must Get Smaller So His G1 Transformers Pinball Machine Can Get Bigger
The Shizuoka Hobby Show brought a flood of reveals — Gigastorm, Beast Wars II Galvatron, Missing Link Ratchet and Ironhide, and more — but the real bombshell was Stern Pinball announcing a G1 Transformers machine with a transforming Optimus Prime on the limited edition. Also, Don’s Metal Cardbot haul might be the most enthusiastic What We Got in recent memory. Episode 987 has a lot going on.
History on the Fives: The Lost Episodes – 1: More than We Missed, Part 1
The crew of History on the Fives works through five weeks of Transformers history spanning January 1st through February 7th, covering anniversaries from 1923 all the way to 2023. Along the way: the death of G1 composer Ichiro Mizuki, and the passing of voice actor Milt Jamin. The panel digs into the G2 Dreadwing and Smokejumper Japan exclusive, the UK Marvel Legacy of Unicron storyline, the Headmasters finale two-parter and the consultant who killed Ultra Magnus, and the first recorded fandom use of the term “G1.” On the comics side, the IDW license expiration gets its first airing and the Target: 2006 trade paperback sparks a discussion of how the UK Marvel comic kept the story moving between US issues. Toy releases covered include the Downtown comedy duo Cerebros set, the Encore Devastator anime color version, and a full slate of Takara Tomy January 2013 releases. The episode closes on Beast Wars and the February Headmasters entries.
Masterpiece Lio Convoy Gets Redecoed! What’s His Name Again?
Sadly it’s definitely not “Dark Ember” which would make the most sense.
Radio Free Cybertron 729 – On assignment in Micronesia
This week: Someone got the manifest on this ark wrong, the bird has been paired up with a car. Not sure how that’s going to turn out.
Radio Free Cybertron – 11/26/99
Opening The usual rundown of the show. Kilby thinks BW2 Galvatron is nifty. News From Earth New Beast Machines episode reminder, info about a new Botcon cd pressing, and BM toys available for preorder. RFC news includes lots of positive feedback and volunteers. The link exchange is plugged. News From Cybertron Túrin reports of bad…
Radio Free Cybertron – 11/12/99
Opening We’re welcomed to the first official RFC and things get started right away with the news. News Takara releases BW Ravage, and rumors of BW II coming to the US get little support. Toyfare covers Beast Machines and the BW metals game is getting released on the Playstation. New on the RFC Website Fanfic…