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Welcome to Australian Transformers Weekly, your first stop and your last best hope for Transformers news in Australia.
This is episode 130, we are recording live on November 10th, 2017
In this episode we’ll be talking about
Opening credits (8bit Transformers Theme)
What have you been up to this week?
00:08:10 Put Your Bot To Work Day https://tccaus.wordpress.com/competitions/take-your-bot-to-work-day/
Put your bot to work day is a current competition run by TCCA. Each Wednesday in the TCCA Facebook group there’s a post for the week’s competition. Submit your “bot in the real world pic” for a chance to win some great prizes.
NEWS
00:12:21 The First Trailer for Machinima’s Titans Return is now online featuring Metroplex and trypticon going at each other. Prime, megatron and windblade are back along with a couple Combiners. Any positives?
Confidence level?
What would have to happen to make this a must-see?
00:20:38 Power Of the Primes in Packaging news
Wave 1 of power of the primes is getting boxed up ahead of thier 2018 release.
First up This week we have images of Voyager Grimlock.
00:26:11 We have also seen wave 1 Legends in package for the first time. Windcharger, slash and beachcomber will be hitting international stores shortly, and we should expect to see them by February.
What’s your feeling on Power of the Primes?
00:34:14 Takara Masterpiece News
Takara MP-41 Masterpiece Dinobot has hit retail pre orders this week upsetting fans with an expected 28,000 yen price tag which is about $245 USD. One local retailer has it up for $269 so Dinobot is looking to be the most expensive MP beastwars figure, and in the MP10 area price-wise. So it's now got Collectors wondering the figures scale, or accessory count that would make the figure more expensive than Megatron.
How much is too much for a Masterpiece figure?
00:39:38 Blind bagged toys fans are rejoicing this week at the news that Kid Robot, already known to Transformers fans for their vinyl figures, are bringing out a new series of blind-bagged figures based on IDW’s Transformers vs GI Joe comic series.
http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/11/03/transformers-vs-g-joe-collection-kidrobot-hasbro-353094
00:42:19 Paramount has been relying on Chinese investment from a company called HuaHua to finance a lot of their recent movies. That deal is now over, sources say, citing poor returns on investment for recent pictures including Transformers: The Last Knight.
http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/11/09/paramount-pictures-loses-huahua-media-film-financing-deal-353298
Other news
00:47:13 A new statue manufacturer has popped up in China called Titanium Alloy. Their first statue is a Fall of Cybertron Optimus Prime measuring 30 inches tall. Unsure if it's licences yet as there's no logos on it but we know hasbro usually allow statue makers to make their products.
00:53:42 Unique Toys has shown off its new Bruticus Combiner at SGC 2017. (Image 15 or 21)
This figure was to be Toyworld’s Bruticus but the designers jumped ship and took their designs with them, so now for unique toys to not have to pay for engineering and design the bots are approx $60 each.
More of a parts former since thighs aren't part of onslaughts transformation.
00:58:02 Also seen were magic Square g1 Legends figures. New company on the block and they are making g1 Legends class figures.(last image 60)
01:11:39 NEW ACQUISITIONS
Brad: nil
Max: Custom Titans Return Blurr, G1 Quickswitch, Transformers Animated Activators Dirge.
Jason: Nitro Thunder Zeus Wing
01:20:04 TCCA BUSINESS
01:21:39 OUTRO
End Credits (added in post)
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