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 984 – Rook Is (Probably) Not The Rook You Want
Age of Evolution replaces Age of the Primes with Animated Lugnut, Energon Scorponok and G2 Megatron. Flame Toys’ Cyclonus meets a third-party IDW Ultra Magnus. Don falls for an ox-and-cart Optimus Prime.
The RFC Mini-cast – 020: Toy hunting!
John hit six Toys R Us stores in under 24 hours chasing Combiner Wars Devastator and came home empty-handed. Brian Kilby joins to talk toy hunting then and now: pre-orders, Big Bad Toy Store, flea market finds and why Don still hunts.
Radio Free Cybertron – 12/02/2001
RFC turns two with a look back at its earliest shows. BotCon returns to Fort Wayne with a $150 exclusive Unicron statue, and Takara reissues Sixshot. Goldimus Prime gives Robots in Disguise Landfill an 8.
Radio Free Cybertron – 11/13/01
The Allspark changes hands, and Brian warns the new owners are banning users. Goldimus Prime reviews Robots in Disguise Hightower, Chris McFeely reviews a bootleg Ruination, and Brian reviews Cybertronian Volumes 2 and 3.