Takara’s Encore line is bringing back Soundblaster and Twincast, each with newly repainted cassette partners. On this October 5, 2011 Radio Free Cybertron, Brian Kilby returns, joined by JD, Aimee, Weevum and John DeLuna. They cover the fixed Masterpiece Rodimus reissue, Make Toys’ Devastator and Transformers Prime’s One Shall Rise, which puts Unicron at Earth’s core. Ender returns to the show for the first time in more than a year.
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Encore Soundblaster and Twincast Announced
Takara’s Encore line will reissue Soundblaster and Twincast for about $70 each. Soundblaster comes with Enemy and Wingthing, Soundwave’s Action Master partner. Twincast comes with Stripes, named in an early draft of Transformers: The Movie, and Nightstalker. Brian is really excited. [Source: TFormers]
Masterpiece Rodimus Reissue Includes U.S. Fixes
Takara’s Masterpiece Rodimus reissue appears to have all the fixes from the U.S. release, and the mainland Asia stock uses the modified elbow. Brian wishes he had waited. Another host finally forced his original into vehicle mode, no longer caring since a better release exists. One host is wary of buying MP-10 for the same reason. [Source: not found]
New York Comic Con Exclusives
The Transformers exclusives for New York Comic Con are a Bumblebee version of the San Diego Comic-Con Nerf gun and a set of Kaponk cups featuring Optimus Prime and Megatron. [Source: not found]
Shout! Factory Releases Beast Wars Seasons 2 and 3
Shout! Factory’s Beast Wars seasons two and three are out on DVD. One host wants them even though he already has the Rhino versions. [Source: not found]
Make Toys Details Its Devastator
Make Toys, an offshoot of Fans Project, will release its Devastator in two forms. First come three two-packs in G2 yellow and purple from December to February, at around $135 each. A boxed G1-color set follows in February. The crew says the gray prototype looks very G1 and not far off from Hercules. Make Toys also teased a Dreamwave-based The Fallen figure. [Source: not found]
Transformers Prime: One Shall Rise, Part 1
The episode reveals that Earth formed around Unicron, which explains why Earth keeps becoming the battleground. The crew notes his design recalls the Beast Wars Neo Unicron toy. They like Optimus Prime’s attempt to talk Unicron down and Unicron calling humans parasites. They defend the small rock Unicron as not his true form. Some hosts question why the kids are there at all. Aimee says June was right to want to take Jack home. John reports the chat liked the Unicron twist and found June’s scene believable.
Comics This Week
Aimee says ongoing #27 has enjoyable parts, but she worries it is still setting things up with one issue left in The Last Story on Earth. The Exiles novel is out in softcover, and she is giving away her extra copy through her Facebook page. She has also started an online petition asking High Moon Studios for a War for Cybertron art book. She says High Moon told her at BotCon they would consider it.
This Day in Transformers History
JD notes that Transformers: The Movie was released on VHS on October 5, 1999. The DVD followed shortly after; for one host, it was his second DVD, after X-Men.
RFC Twitter Theater: Halloween Hootenanny
Rob kicks off a month of Halloween clips with a 1985 Toys R Us Halloween commercial. He recalls dressing as Slag in second grade. He also notes Transformers Prime Bumblebee cutouts in Walmart’s Halloween aisles.
Ender Returns
Ender is back for the first time in more than a year and says he has embraced his role as a hater. He calls the five-part Transformers Prime pilot awful but says every episode since has been better. His main complaint is the committee-designed human cast. He says Agent Fowler could work if the show stopped snapping him back into being a jerk. He likes Clancy Brown as Silas, but says it’s just his Lex Luthor voice. Ender hasn’t seen Dark of the Moon and says he couldn’t care less. He calls Michael Bay a great action director with no feel for story. He says film school, not his fandom, is what makes him hate the movies.
Radio Free Cybertron is the world's first and oldest toy and action figure podcast — broadcasting from the heart of the Transformers fan community since October 1999. What started as a scrappy fan show has grown into an institution, with nearly 1,000 episodes and over 25 years of coverage. Every week, host Brian Kilby and the RFC crew dig into the latest Transformers news, toy reveals, collecting, and everything hitting shelves from Hasbro, Takara, and beyond. No fluff, no hype — just informed, passionate collectors who have been doing this longer than anyone else on the planet. The original. The longest running. Till all are one.