BotCon 2010 is over, and Toys R Us shelves are suddenly full of Power Core Combiners and Generations figures a month early. Ironhide1975 calls War for Cybertron the most Transformers-feeling game he’s played. Plus reviews of Drift, Seaspray, Thrust and the Hall of Fame recap.
Radio Free Cybertron – 06/30/2010 Botcon! Botcon! Botcon!
RFC’s BotCon 2010 recap covers Generations Scourge, Thunderwing and Skullgrin, Legends Optimus and Megatron, Transtech Cheetor and Dinobot’s Hall of Fame win. Plus Jim Sorenson and Bill Forster on AllSpark Almanac II and Jose Delbo on drawing Marvel’s G1 comic.
Radio Free Cybertron – 06/25/10
Transformers Generations Wave 1 hits Toys R Us, and Takara rolls out event-only repaints like G2 Dreadwing and Smokescreen. Ender says War for Cybertron is pure Sunbow and blasts the Exodus novel’s silent Bumblebee. The crew predicts Hasbro’s BotCon reveals.
Radio Free Cybertron – 06/16/10
Generations Dion is out and falling apart in JD’s hands. John DeLuna gets Punch/Counterpunch, the crew tries the War for Cybertron demo, and Stan Bush backs RFC’s Project Awesome. Then it’s a crash course in BotCon 2010 etiquette.
Radio Free Cybertron – 06/09/10
Transformers 3 set photos show the new female lead in a bathrobe. Jack of TFormers.com gets the inside story on War for Cybertron for Nintendo DS. Ender rips IDW’s Transformers Ongoing #8, and Project Awesome targets Stan Bush.
Radio Free Cybertron – June 2nd 2010
BotCon 2010’s Rapido gets a brand-new head, and the crew calls it pure love. New Seacons surface and Takara’s 2010 Unicron goes full Transformers: The Movie. The crew shares a BotCon survival guide, from budgets to deodorant.
Radio Free Cybertron – May 26th 2010
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley replaces Megan Fox in Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and Club magazine 33 shows War for Cybertron Soundwave. The crew picks winners in the RFC May giveaway, then debates which combiner team members deserve solo toys.
Radio Free Cybertron – 05/19/10 (aka Ender’s Waterloo)
Ender takes the host chair as BotCon 2010 registration finally opens online without crashing. Toys R Us briefly lists Masterpiece Grimlock at $59.99, and Peter Cullen is confirmed as Optimus Prime in the new Transformers Prime cartoon. Megan Fox is out of Transformers 3.
Radio Free Cybertron – 05/12/10
The Transformers Hall of Fame names Peter Cullen and Bob Budiansky, and the fan vote’s radio buttons don’t work. Punch-Counterpunch and Clench pictures surface, and Pat Lee resurfaces at Newsarama. The live crew then picks the humans for a Hall of Fame and a Hall of Lame.
Radio Free Cybertron – 04/28/10
Masterpiece Convoy Sleep Mode, a BotCon 2010 Streetstar and War for Cybertron’s new Warpath and Barricade lead a live RFC. Plus a Del Rey origin novel, first looks at Drift, and how much limited runs drive what collectors pay.