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Welcome to Australian Transformers Weekly, bringing you Transformers news from around the world and across Australia.

This is episode 234. 

We are recording live on Friday, April 30th, 2021.

In this episode we’ll be talking about

• Shattered glass tyrants,
• Final images of masterpiece skids,
• More movie news,
• And we discuss the new price rise on plastic 
• All that and much more coming up….

All this and more is coming up in this week’s episode - after this!

Notable things that happened this week?

NEWS

00:06:24 Shattered Glass Megatron announced

https://www.facebook.com/ToyReel/photos/pcb.1025989961141715/1025989544475090/

Worth revisiting the rumour list from a few weeks ago:

TRA GEN SHATTERED GLASS 1 (DELUXE GOLD BUG (WFC S CLIFFJUMPERREDECO - CLOSED ECOMM PACKAGING)

TRA GEN SHATTERED GLASS 2 (DELUXE BLURR REDECO - CLOSED ECOMM PACKAGING)

TRA GEN SHATTERED GLASS VOYAGER STARSCREAM

TRA GEN SHATTERED GLASS VOYAGER MEGATRON

TRA GEN SHATTERED GLASS COMMANDER JETFIRE (WFC S JETFIRE REDECO - CLOSED ECOMM PACKAGING)

00:20:34 Takara Tomy Transformers Masterpiece MP-53 Skids New Official In-Hand Images

https://news.tfw2005.com/2021/04/28/takara-tomy-transformers-masterpiece-mp-53-skids-new-official-in-hand-images-432605

00:32:16 Something called Ruckus Rally.

https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/first-image-of-art-for-upcoming-transformers-botbots-vehicles/45884/ 

… are you still into BotBots? Were you ever…?

00:38:25 Transformers 7 rumoured to star Dominique Fishback

https://news.tfw2005.com/2021/04/29/dominique-fishback-lands-lead-role-in-transformers-7-432755 

… and apparently isn’t anything to do with Lorenzo DiBonaventura. Article points out this is a Skydance production (directed by Steven Caple Jr)

00:45:44 THE MAIN DISCUSSION 

Hasbro To Raise Toy Prices Due To Raw Material Costs

https://news.tfw2005.com/2021/04/27/hasbro-to-raise-toy-prices-due-to-raw-material-costs-432594

Of course prices go up - raw materials prices go up constantly.

Whats a reasonable price?

When was the last price rise in Australia? (Kmart is still 29/50/90)

Masterpiece prices went up … and sort of came back down.

How much have you spent on your collection?

… and do you feel like that’s too much?

01:NEW ACQUISITIONS  

Jason: 

Bradley:

Brad: unicron, 

OUTRO

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That’s all from us. We’ll be back with more Transformers news soon.

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