Episode #044 – TRANSFORMERS SPECIAL

WARNING: THIS EPISODE IS OVER 4 HOURS LONG! Seriously, it really actually is. This week, our hosts Luke Ski & Carrie Dahlby, along with special guests Jered “Mr. Tuesday” Perez, Ben “BreakMan Z” Bruinooge, and Josh “Mr. Dahlby” Rasey discuss the history of the TransFormers, from the original 1984 cartoon & toy line through to today, literally, as we give our instant review of the film “TransFormers: Dark Of The Moon”. Our regular segments (News of the Stupid, Comments, and the usual pluggery) have all been postponed until the next episode, but we do have comedy tracks and other TF-related songs by Black Lab, the great Luke Ski with the Nick Atoms, Whimsical Will, Tony Bacala featuring the Malachi Brothers, and Stan Bush. So, you’re allowed to skip this episode if you have no interest in listening to 5 grown-ass adults spend 4+ hours talking about the 27 year history of a toy line and cartoon/film franchise about alien robots originally marketed to 10-year-old boys.

Episode length: 4:18:46

14 thoughts on Episode #044 – TRANSFORMERS SPECIAL

  1. 4+ hours of Bad Rapport focusing on the Transformers franchise… Ecstasy times Infinity squared!!!

  2. I have this on my iPod but I don’t know if I’m gonna listen to it. The length is a major concern but also, I never really cared for Transformers. Even when I was in the age group it was marketed towards; I was a little kid in the 80s. I was really more of a Ninja Turtles fan. Hopefully the new TMNT movie that’s coming soon, featuring Sean Astin as one of the voices of the Turtles, will do the franchise more justice than the 2005 movie. Not that that was bad, I enjoyed it, but I’d also be the first to admit it was a really flawed film.

  3. Arkle, as far as I know, Sean Astin is only doing voices for the new TMNT cartoon for Nickelodeon, not any upcoming feature film.

  4. Ok let’s start with series lists parenthesis means japanese only series and asteric means coming/came to dvd for the japanese series and an “at” symbol for american series not on dvd. in order: Transfomers, “Scramble City OVA (taking place between season 2 and the movie)*1”, the Movie, “HeadMasters*”, “MasterForce*”, “Victory*”, “Zone OVA”, Beast Wars, “Beast Wars II”, “Beast Wars II the Movie”, “Beast Wars Neo”, Beast Machines (shoulda never been), Robots in Disguise@, Armada, Energon, Cybertron, Animated (s1, s2, s3@) then Prime. there were specials such as “Robot Masters” 2-3: 5-7 min eps, Primeval Dawn@, theft of the Golden disk 2pts@ (botcon exclusive showing the prequel to Beast wars showing the maximals and predicons were vehicles), and the designs for a lost 3rd part to the beast saga called Transtech transformers, but was cancelled because of the poor response to BM. transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Transtech now for the bayformers: Welker chose not to be megatron thus the new actor. if you can find the excluslive bonus disk for the first film, it gives the origins of when/how bumblebee, megatron, and the decepticons arrival to earth. welker did agree to voice soundwave after the rave reviews on the first. and provided his voice for the prequel. rumor is Speilburg’s directing #4, so go figure. little toy trivia luke: there is a toy of human alliance charicter “Spike Witwicky” and with bumblebee is Sam witwicky, could it be sam is the younger brother and spike was in the military? (insert belch here) Luke, you said you had Unicron? if it was before the 2003 version it’s worth A LOT! all info I found stated that the 86 one was a prototype only. http://www.unicron.com/mainpage/unicron/g1unicronprototype3.jpg http://www.unicron.com/mainpage/unicron/g1unicronprototype2.jpg was this the one you had? Luke, I did find a site to order the missing stuff for the most part, but you should find some in the dealers rooms at cons, just ask the ones selling series not currently on dvd, but make sure to check the disks before purchase. you were curious of my age before? it’s 38. i had a birthday on the 18th of june. you can youtube the theft and robot masters, since both are dubbed by tfcog.com hmm, is this feedback 4 hours long yet? my fav beast wars episode is Code of Hero which I sent you. see it so you see why. laster all.

  5. It was a great pleasure to be a part of this episode and I’m glad to have given Luke the Black Lab track to play. I think it should be noted that when we saw Transformers 3, it was in 3D–mainly due to the fact this was the closest time Carrie could join us for the film. The 3D was alright, but I’d rather see this again in regular 2D if given the opportunity. Maybe it’s just me.

  6. 32BG iPod Touch – $312

    High Speed Internet connection $40

    Gas burned while commuting and listening to podcast – $50

    Succumbing to the urges to break out the DVD of the 1986 movie to watch for the first time in forever-n-a-day, and getting to see my 6 month old daughter totally transfixed by the title-sequence – Priceless.

  7. Normally for me, the longer the LCBR, the better and would not mind future extended length episodes on other subjects.

    However, being someone who only knows about Transformers history from the song The Ballad of Optimus Prime, I was not planning on listening.

    The only reason I have any interest in the new movie was being in a hotel across the Chicago River while some of the scenes were being filmed and wanting to see the finished product. The previews on tv supplied that for me.

    As personally recommended I did listen to the last 45 minutes which had the movie review and did enjoy the conversation.

    I am not going to erase this episode and possibly listen to the whole thing the next time I am at work on a weekend when I can listen.

  8. I’m not really a Transformers fan, but I did enjoy your show. If nothing else, now I get more of the jokes from “Revenge of the Filmin’.”

    I was glad you didn’t get too much into the GoBots hate. The toys (early ones, at least) were pretty good, even if the show wasn’t.

    -just some random fan

  9. OK, Time for the Beast Wars history lesson. the prequels called theft of the golden disk takes place just before the events of the main series. The true leader of the predacons Cryotek sends Megatron to retrieve for him the golden disks which only he (supposedly)can decode showing the location of a large energon deposit. megatron along with his 2nd in command Scorpinok, Dinobot, and several others split into 2 teams to confuse the maximal defence force (MDF) from his mission. the first team was to shut down the powergrid, while megatron and dinobot retrieve the key to the 1st disk. note megatron becomes the g2 megatron tank and dinobot becomes a digger. during the heist megatron contacts his own hacker tarantulus to meet him at the hanger to decode the disks while he sets up another distraction via doublecrossing cryotek and send a false transmission that the maximals can track thus capturing Cryotek before he can doublecross megatron. next comes the main series opener. the MDF sends out a signal to any maximal ship in the area to try to stop the predicon ship from reaching it’s destination. the Akxalon captained by Optimus goes after the Darksyde while still hiding the secret maximal experiment Protoform-X. when the maximals started firing on the predacons in transwarp space thus causing both ships sent to an unknown time/space coordinates. the axalon sent all but the skeleton crew via stasis pods into space around the orbit of a 2 moon planet. after the crash landing, both teams discovered that the raw energon radiation can cause them to go into stasis lock without a special organic shell to protect them, thus the beast forms. after dinobot discovers this might not be the right planet, dinobot challenges megatron for leadership, but is defeated by a shot from behind via skorpinok. during the first season both sides vie for the crashed stasis pods for more troops on their side. they soon discover that they’re not the first race to land there. an alien race called the Vok were using the planet as a type of testing stage for finding sentient races. after several attempts by the preds abusing the alien tech for their own means the Vok decide to purge the planet of all life by a planetary weapon hidden as the second moon. the maximals hijack a transwarp modded pod. unfortunately Megatron hacked the system locking it to explode inside the Vokk weapon destroying both the cannon and optimus primal, but the combined rariation caused both factions nopt protected by regeneration chambers to mutate into a biocyber being where the beast forms and robot forms reverse. thus the base form has organic and beast form becomes mechanical.they also discover that they landed on primitive earth Ca. 20000 BCE. watch the series to discovewr more.

  10. I totally want to see some movie filmed in Tacoma now. Much like how any book set in Seattle automatically becomes more awesome because hey, I know that place.

    I can’t really say too much more about the podcast because I haven’t seen any Transformers anything except for bits and pieces of ones of the movies. And I remember nothing about it except there were robots and fight scenes. Which is kind of a no-brainer.

  11. Just happened to think of something to discuss. We mentioned Jem being back on the air on Hub and also there’s the Thundercats remake coming on Cartoon Network on July 29th. What other old-school cartoon would you like to see brought back in some form?

  12. And the ThunderCats reboot was pretty damned epic. Well, literally damned epic. Animation & voices by the folks behind Avatar: The Last Airbender (it seems to be at a glance, at least) with a Esclafowne/Lord of the Rings/Troy flair. I’m really looking forward to seeing where this goes.

  13. Literally just finished #44–I was putting off the last part of it until I had a chance to see Dark of the Moon, which I did this weekend. I’m writing this from work, so no time to really go into detail about my opinion of Dark of the Moon, so I’ll sum it up by saying I’m pretty much ambivalent about the film. It lacks much of the glaringly obvious problems which dragged down Revenge of the Fallen, and had plenty of fanboy joy moments, but there were several things that left me unsatisfied.

    One point from the Transformers special I wanted to address–the criticism of having humans in combat with the Autobots against the Decepticons, credited to Michael Bay’s apparent obsession with the military. Carrie raised a good point that the cost of CGI might be a factor in that, but I had another thought. I’m in no way denying Bay’s huge woody for anything military, but consider this: having discovered that sentient alien life not only exists, but is active on Earth, there’s no way that the United States government would let such beings, even ones that have actively allied themselves with humanity, operate without some kind of government-connected oversight. From a “realistic as we can make it, considering the premise” angle, I can accept the members of NEST (I believe that’s the correct acronym) tagging along with the Autobots, if only because their mission reports are likely going to whatever government agency has been assigned to, as they no doubt would put it, the “Transformer problem”.

    Running past break here, so will sign off and await episode 45!

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