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Sunday Apr 08, 2018
Sunday Apr 08, 2018
Welcome to Australian Transformers Weekly, your last best hope for Transformers news in Australia.
This is episode 148, we are recording live on April 6th, 2018
In this episode we’ll be talking about
- More Optimus Prime figures than you can shake a Matrix at
- Inhand images of Power of the Primes Predacons,
- The end of the IDW comics universe
- And we’ll run a betting pool for how long we’ll have to wait for all the figures Fans Toys just revealed
- An much much more coming up after this...
Cut to Intro:
Opening credits (8bit Transformers Theme)
What have you been up to this week?
Jason: Barcelona! Paris!
00:13:51 Bot Shots Weekly
https://tccaus.wordpress.com/competitions/bot-shots-weekly-is-now-live/?frame-nonce=34a4a2583c
The newest weekly competition in the TCCA Facebook group. Bot Shots Weekly is the successor to put Your Bot to work and follows the same idea. But now we have weekly winners that go into a monthly draw for a prize. Those monthly winners go into a hat for a yearly prize. Full T’s n C’s are on the web site at the link provided.
This weeks winner is: Allen Chang
Last weeks winner was Alan Jones.
And the monthly winner for march is…..Alan Jones.
NEWS
00:16:18 Studio Series hits Australia
https://www.facebook.com/groups/transformerscca/permalink/909212112572726/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/transformerscca/permalink/911951218965482/
Prime:https://www.facebook.com/groups/transformerscca/permalink/910057979154806/
00:25:59 Power of the Primes Nemesis Prime Revealed
- Revealed by TF Russia
00:28:13 Power Of The Primes Predacons In-Hand Images from Takara
- Expected September
- Also in the same reveal - octopunch, battletrap
TFW2005’s Power of the Primes Alpha Trion with Landmine Gallery
00:33:13 Unicron will bring an end to the current IDW comics universe
- Culmination to 10 years of comics
- Can be hard to bring on new readers 10 years into a franchise
- Don’t let the things you love go on into oblivion; end them on a high
- Whats next? Not sure.
“TRANSFORMERS: UNICRON is a grand finale to the past 12 years of TRANSFORMERS comics at IDW and to really celebrate that and to celebrate the people who have made it such an amazing ride, we’re getting some amazing, beloved artists to contribute to what I’m sure will be our biggest—literally—TRANSFORMERS story ever,” said David Mariotte, Associate Editor. “This is an event years in the making and one that only works because of the years fans and creators have invested in the comic.”
The action kicks off on Free Comic Book Day, May 5th, with the #0 issue,
Other news
00:39:06 X2 Toys Giga Raiden Prototype Images (G1 Optimus Prime)
00:41:21 DX9 Dutch (Legends Scaled G1 Optimus Prime) Color Prototype Gallery
00:44:34 DX9 X34B Plissken (Legends Scaled Nemesis Prime / Black Convoy) Color Prototype
00:45:34 TFC Toys S.T. Commander (Rolling Thunder Optimus)
Here come the fans toys headmasters!
00:48:26 Fans Toys Dracula – Color Images
00:49:18 Fans Toys FT-26 Chomp (MP Skullcruncher) Prototype Images
00:50:07 Fans Toys FT-28 Hydra (Masterpiece scaled Sixshot) Test Shot
00:52:06 NEW ACQUISITIONS
Brad: dx9 war in pocket snarl and slag
Jason: a whole load of stuff
John: rodimus and friend
01:14:46 TCCA BUSINESS
- Members giveaway time!
094QLD Daniel Worsley
082WA Shannon O’Brian
- Monday the April Donation Drive goes live. Stay tuned for more info.
01:17:12 OUTRO
- Thank you for listening! And if you’re watching along with the live record, thanks for checking us out.
- To find out more about these stories, you’ll find the links to them all and more in the show notes Posted to the Transformers Weekly Facebook page and the Podbean site.
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- Australian Transformers Weekly is a production of Transformers Collectors Club Australia. The club is registered and incorporated in Victoria. TCCA is run by volunteers who donate their time and money to make the club better for everyone. Our goal is to connect Transformers fans around the country and we do it by engaging the collecting community.
- You can find more information at www.transformerscca.com
- Thank you for listening, we’ll be back with more Transformers news next week.
End Credits (added in post)
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